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You'll never beat a dedicated pizza oven, but if you don't have the budget/space for a specific pizza oven, this Ninja-Engineer's-Fever-Dream seems like a pretty good middle ground. I had to dig to find a video I didn't hate, and failed, but I settled for a nice lady that I think Biff would kiss softly on the forehead before sneaking out of her apartment wearing a stolen "going out" thong from her hamper: Another: I don't have much pizza experience, but I'll try to make a pie once I get the stone in the mail and report back.

Which means it's going to be a great time. Just don't make it a long time.

I went with the Cal Flame G Series for my outdoor kitchen (highly recommend). Have the Ooni and Blackstone set up as well.

Picking countries and percentages for tariffs:

and F-16

Hopefully we continue to see high numbers of crossflow selects. By the time anyone from this board attends UPT I think itll be 100% IPT prior. To my understanding, IPT is being used to reduce the training load on limited aircraft and instructors at UPT thereby producing more pilots each year since there is no t-1 track after the shortened 6 syllabus. Hopefully this translates into a higher take rate to backfill billets. The board being moved up a month and a half could also be to coincide with the larger number of pilots expected to be produced, allowing for class dates earlier in 26, but that's me being optimistic.

Our politicians are garbage. What else is new?

I guess the glass half full viewpoint is in this instance the seat worked unlike a certain B-1 mishap a few years back.

Locking gas cap is critical when you're north of the line on the hot/crazy scale.

Last year when I was going to apply. My commander at the time said there’s rumblings that if you’re going to apply for UPT through the cross flow board that FY25 and FY26 are the years you want to apply to. So I’m assuming a good number of slots.

Has anyone heard any estimates or rumors about the number of slots for this year? I’ve heard from coworkers that USAFA Class of ‘26 will get about 110 more pilot slots than last year, and was reading an FY26 budget projection document the other day that called for an additional ~115 slots at UPT in FY26. I know they never seem to want to send unfilled USAFA slots to AFROTC to fill, so I’m curious if this could mean another high selection year for this board, especially if USAFA doesn’t fill all their slots.

Of course, there's Biden's false claims. Just posting for balance, of course: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/politics/fact-check-biden-pennsylvania-campaign-swing

Not really WTF, just Florida being Florida!

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