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Clearly not where you want to spend the night, but at least they put cots out. Seen plenty of people sleeping in chairs and on the floor. A cot is a huge step up from sleeping upright on an airport bench.

Coal gets an overly bad name due to mental images from the 60's of coal plants belching out black smoke. Modern coal plants are not that bad environmentally. Would be interesting to see a full life cycle comparison of the lithium mining, production, and disposal compared to coal. Obviously something of an apples to oranges comparison, but if it could be impartially quantified, I wouldn't be surprised to see coal win. Nuclear is better, but the left seems to dislike it for some reason despite the fact that it seems to be the only realistically cost effective and clean energy source.

Don't expect grown adults to significantly change their political views based on what someone posts on a message board. If you really think you're going to change someone's mind, you have too high of expectations for yoursel. You might get people to think about why they think a certain way and I think that is about as far as is reasonable to expect here. Otherwise, just stick with the General Discussion thread and help the younger guys. I started reading this and posting some questions over 20 years ago. This can be a valuable resource and help when guys have questions that they are either too afraid to ask in person or simply don't know who to ask. Don't quit because you didn't convince a bunch of people they were approaching political problems from the wrong viewpoint in an online discussion board. That's about as realistic as picking political fights on facecrack thinking you're actually going to change someone's mind.

The fact that more people don't recognize this is an obvious sign our society is dumb. What other investment system do you get out roughly what you put in after having 40+ years of investment growth? It is a government run pyramid scheme. If I were to go start an investment plan like this, I'd be thrown in prison, but since the government does it, suddenly it is so great that it is a vital part of our society. And it should be mandatory to have lived in a socialized medicine system for at least two years to be eligible to vote for such a system.

How many SAPR briefings have we had to listen to them tell us that sexual harassment is in the eye of the victim. Can't argue with this one, if she says she was harassed, she was harassed. Even if the boss just said 'good morning'....

The previous NCAA testosterone requirement for a male to compete as a female was to bring the testosterone levels down to or below 10 nmol/L. Problem is the normal range for women is .5-2.4 (https://www.healthline.com/health/low-testosterone/testosterone-levels-by-age#normal-testosterone-levels), so the biological male that was born with a biological propensity for larger muscle mass, larger bones, faster muscle movements could compete as a female, despite those previously mentioned advantages AND with still having 4-20 times the testosterone levels as the women he is competing against. How is that fair? Sports have rules for a reason and it is to make it a fair competition. To your second point, there are very few, if any, sports where women are better than men, so no one cares about a biological woman competing in as a man or even as a woman. Look at the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc. Do any of them have rules against a woman playing? Not that I know of. But there are none because when you get to that level of competition, you're talking the top .01% of athletes. There are no women in the top .01% for those sports. That's why Serena and Venus Williams, possibly two of the best female tennis players ever, both lost to a man that was ranked 102. Third, it is not hate. The left is quick to throw out 'hate' because 'hate' is bad and they only have emotional arguments. But, like calling someone racist, if you say it all the time it becomes meaningless. I don't hate these individuals, I feel sorry for them. 40% of transgender people have actively attempted suicide. They have a mental illness and our society has decided that it is better to play into their delusion than help them. If I was walking across a bridge and saw someone about to jump off, would it be hateful of me to tell them they shouldn't? Should I indulge their desire to kill themself and tell them I think they're brave or should I pull them back from the edge and get them help? Which of these actions is loving and which is hateful? These people are actively hurting themselves (and even worse, hurting children) and somehow it is 'hateful' of me to not give them my full support.

Stupid post bro. He wasn't saying this specific event had a sexual assault. He's saying the prosecution of the Marine is going to stop others from intervening in the future. There have been links in this thread to youtube videos of assaults and even rape on public transit with no intervention from bystanders. The reaction to this event is only going to increase that risk.

Multiple teenagers beat some NYC subway riders just a few days later and put some of them in the hospital. Zero charges filed. This Marine's "crime" fits the political narrative, so he's being charged. That's the one and only reason. Unfortunately, most people who could and would help bystanders in the future will be far more reluctant to do so now and it's hard to blame them. The cops are apparently only there (if/when they're there at all) to arrest people after the fact IF they think the politically minded DA will press charges.

Ah! Fingerprints... totally forgot to mail those. That explains it. Thanks for the link. (the link just has it sitting there with no approval nor disapproval, just remembered looking at the instructions again that I hadn't mailed the fingerprints in)

Is there anyway to track the Form 1 after submitting it? I'm hitting the 40 days they advertised and haven't heard anything.

Babylon Bee crushes it again: https://babylonbee.com/news/navy-somehow-even-gayer

On the Bud Light note, now that Bud seems to be slightly walking back on the woke stuff, they're getting boycotted from the other side as well (and most of the original boycotters haven't stopped). Let this be a lesson to businesses out there; stay out of politics. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bud-lights-dylan-mulvaney-controversy-deepens-chicago-gay-bars-roar-beer-makers-abandonment-cause#&_intcmp=fnhpbt9

I'm assuming this talk is a discussion about the erosion of officer privilege in the Air Force.

Also the "incriminating photo" is a close up of the serial number. Not too incriminating.

Sucks the "houseless" (nice that my spellcheck says that's not a word by the way) dude died, but he was not an innocent party. As others have said, actions have consequences. I feel far less sympathy towards him than I would have for some actually innocent girl that he may have assaulted a minute later. Funny thing about crazy people acting crazy; you never know when their behavior will go from very concerning to lethal. Sucks the Marine had to go through this, but also reassuring that we still have guys with the balls to intervene in a situation they see as dangerous. The Marine may have gone too far, but tough to judge without being in his shoes. Would have been worse if the "houseless" dude acting in an aggressive manner suddenly pulled a knife and killed someone when an obviously capable individual could have prevented it. Finally, the first report is always inaccurate. Was it a forearm across the throat hold or a sleeper hold? I would bet most of the witnesses don't remember (if they even knew the difference in the first place) and the reporter sure doesn't know the difference. Also, were there drugs in the dude's system? I bet this Marine has trained with that hold on fellow Marines in the MCMAP with no ill effects, so his previous experience likely told him he was simply subduing the "houseless" guy.

I don't have the defender, but I do have another vortex 6 moa red dot and I'm not impressed. Rather than a single dot, it is actually a ring of about 6-9 dots with a single dot in the middle. I bought it for an AR pistol and it is only OK. Assuming this is the same thing in a smaller frame, might be OK for a short range defensive pistol, but I don't know you'd extend your accurate range that much more than some quality after market iron sights.

Yes, unfortunately $345 is a good price for the LCP Max right now. I like it; shoots better than most pistols that small and holds more rounds. As I stated, I'm a fan of the crossbreed holsters. Similar to brabus, my oldest one is over a decade old and is holding up great. I've since bought 3-4 others for other guns. I'm also looking to move my CC pistol sights over to red dots. There's a reason they're basically the standard on ARs and it is because almost everyone is far faster and more accurate with them than with iron sights. Only real downside is the added size and battery issues. Leupold's Deltapoint Micro looks interesting if you go with a Glock or M&P. Would be nice if they figured out a way to mount the battery under the sight though, sticking out the back looks a little awkward.

Everything is a tradeoff, so depends on what you're willing to trade. Need it to stay relatively hidden wearing work out shorts? LCP Max. Live in the mountains and you wear a winter coat 8 months a year? I'd imagine a shoulder holster with the biggest gun you like to shoot would be fairly comfortable. Personally I like the LCP Max when I'm making a low threat trip to the store. Easy to throw in a pocket, put a truck key in there and it disappears. You can no kidding have it in the pocket of a workout shorts as long as you don't wear jarhead shorts. For a higher threat or normal clothes, the XDS 9mm is great. Paired with a crossbreed holster IWB it is comfortable enough that I'm not going to skip taking it, which is really the most important factor. A full auto cannon in the safe at home is useless when you're somewhere else.

Every day you show up to work past 20 years, you're working for $60K less since you'd get that $60K in retirement to just have a heart beat. If you think you might be done, you're probably done. Retiring as an O-6 at 30 years just doubled your retirement pay to $120K and you stand a chance to full up retire in your early 50's if you're good with money. But by then most peoples kids will have moved to college and you'll have missed much of their childhood with queep the boss 'needs tonight'.

Words matter. The original quote was 'Christians believe gay marriage is a sin' and the poll you quoted asks if gay marriage should be legal. I would imagine that a large percentage of Christians believe both to be true. I'll give you an easier example: I believe it is a sin to not worship God. I do not think it should be illegal in America to not worship God. They are not mutually exclusive.

If you're going to take the bonus, do so in the guard after you have a line number.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/bearded-man-smashes-womens-weightlighting-record-held-by-trans-lifter/news-story/f7e925cde26ffb394e0aed56db0cf42a Good on this dude showcasing how absurd the argument is. Crushes the record that was previously held by a tranny, who had previously crushed the record held by an actual woman. Then the tranny has the balls to cry about how unfair it was. Next you're going to have Olympic athletes going back to their high school to crush the high school records because they identify as a 17 year old.

I agree with @Danger41 that it is interesting that, for the most part, each generation has more knowledge available than the previous generation yet never seems to learn that we are always learning and much of what previous generations "knew for a fact" was in fact wrong. Go through a museum today and what strikes me even more than the vast amount of information available is the absolute absence of any humility. You will almost never see the terms "scientists think" or "evidence suggests". Theories are presented as irrefutable fact because science cannot be wrong. A generation ago, many considered the majority of the Old Testament to be complete fiction and even much of the historic figures and places of the New Testament to be fictional as well. Historians pointed to the absence of any King David, until the Tel Dan Inscription was discovered. Then more and more archeology discoveries proved Luke's description of people and places to be remarkably accurate, even places he never personally went to. People may be quick to dismiss the Bible has parables and fiction, but put just as much faith in unproven theories with considerable problems in them. For example, what actually caused the big bang? Something doesn't explode for no reason. How did life come from inanimate objects? Richard Dawkins, one of the smartest atheists of our time, answers that with ... aliens. But that only prolongs the question because then where did the aliens come from? To me, the atheist potion takes more faith than the Christian position. If I'm wrong, I've wasted time time and money. If the atheist is wrong, there is literally hell to pay for eternity. Perhaps we should start a thread on Christian apologetics in the Air Force.

As a Christian, yes, but that's not my point. China is built on a communist ideology. Converting China from a communist (and therefore atheist) ideology to a Christian one would undermine everything it is built on and likely make it collapse, especially if that was largely done in one person's lifetime. We are just doing the opposite (going from Christian to atheist). The United States surviving (at least in any form that even remotely resembles our current one) that quick transition as a country/culture/power seems unlikely.