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I hope the maintainer hangs that LOR proudly on his wall. And to the guy who wrote it, you’re a douche.

I don’t think price control is the right answer, but I do think erasing the PBA position and reining in big pharma playing games with pricing (which seem illegal to me, but nobody challenges it, I don’t get it). Ultimately the best thing for people is to stop buying big pharma’s bullshit, literally and figuratively. They’re an evil industry with zero give-a-shit for anything beyond huge profits, people are generally better off without them and their products.

Fuck Pakistan. That is all.

The primary purpose the back seat will serve is intel, maintainers, etc. getting FAM flights. Good deal for those guys. For the AD side, the WSO mafia will win and they’ll put two dudes in a jet to get 1/2 the SA and capability…except for the 6.9% of the time crew composition that actually nails it, I’ll concede that does exist every once in a while.

Hollywood is absolute trash. Trump is fucking this one up - please by all means Hollywood scum, go elsewhere, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Valid, and it also describes 99% of the gov, regardless of political affiliation. The whole lot of congress is mostly rhetoric and nil action. It’s all about elections and not about getting shit done, whether R, D, or I.

That doesn’t do shit. They need to have all vehicles repo’d + jail time; and sure, revoke their license for the principle of it.

Yep, or in other states it’s just laziness…”oh they’re the incumbent? Sure, why not”

DUI/DWI penalties, especially for repeat offenders and first time offenders resulting in severe bodily harm/death, need to be multiple orders of magnitude worse. It is despicable how little punishment DUI offenders receive. Screw all the judges who just throw them back into the world with zero fucks given.

Honestly what you quoted made me go, “hmmm,” but after reading the entirety I’m all about 95% of it without hesitation. Like you though, I am skeptical of the obvious point you’re highlighting; the gov best tread very lightly. FWIW, my “5%” throw-shit-at-a-wall number is because I’m accounting for the overall theme of the message (I understand one could argue it’s literally more than 5%)

Anything less than life in prison is bullshit. I’d prefer immediate death - maybe general pop can help with that.

Probably an ATC routing thing like 4Fans mentioned. Direct (or close to it) would have avoided the entire western complex, so that’s not a factor.

With those resume highlights, a squadron would be real dumb to pass on interviewing you solely based on an 88 PCSM. I think you’ll be fine, at least on the scores front.

Since Trump took office (not all of them, just a few top ones): TSMC $100B Stargate $500B DAMAC $20B Eli Lilly $27B Apple $500B (after an additional 10% tariff on China) Hyundai $20B J&J $50B CMA GCM $20B GE $1B NVIDIA $500B (yesterday, even amid a potential further tariff increase on chips) Also FWIW, combined $1.1T in planned investments/trade increases with Saudi and India This is not an opinion on the tariffs at all, but saying investments are not being made/not in motion is straight up wrong. Saying tariffs are going to crush investments and businesses will want nothing to do with investing amidst tariffs has so far, been wrong. All the fear- mongering regarding the tariffs has so far panned out to be sky-is-falling bullshit, which is the main point I’m addressing. How will everything look in 4 years (hell even 18 mo), fuck if I know. But I do know right now, even amid Trump’s seemingly volatile economic gameplan, companies and domestic and foreign investors are more so running towards the US economy than away. Ultimately, I’m just glad we’re not continuing to execute the same shit we’ve always done - need to mix it up, stumble/learn/adapt, etc. to get to a more economically independent future. Maybe this will all pan out, maybe it’ll fail and we’ll have to adjust fires, but at least we’re trying to solve the problems instead of just defeatedly accepting the status quo.

Took me 3 sec on google, here’s the first three sources that came up: GE Aerospace Apple Industry Select And I’ll even show you my work for extra credit: Pretty surprised you’ve been living under that big of a rock and hadn’t heard about any of this, and apparently you were too lazy to google it yourself instead of trying to challenge me to prove the sky is blue.

You must have missed it, because multiple companies are doing exactly that, in addition to other related investments. Trillions invested, not just billions. Check news source.

You didn’t mesh well with this unit, but doesn’t mean you won’t mesh well with others. I wouldn’t put another thought into this unit, you’re wasting your time. That all said, recommend getting some very honest feedback from current coworkers, people you casually interact with, etc…not from your family or best friend. You need max honest feedback on how you’re perceived by those who casually know you, but not those who are emotionally attached to you like family or a best friend. Whatever feedback you get, take it to heart and act positively on it.

So far this year businesses have committed to ~ $1.5T over the next 4 years and that number goes to ~ $3T when you add in the 10 yr UAE commitment. This isn’t a disagreement with the overall premise of your post, but frankly I’m in wait-and-see mode because it is not the “sky is falling” scenario that people are screaming about. Though I do understand some of your points and the long term direction of big payoff (or free fall) is unclear.

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Consider if you go down this road and get hired by the ANG unit you are probably pushing your UPT date back considerably. I would also talk with your SQ/CC and tell him the whole story, see what he says. That conversation will tell you if pressing forward with the ANG application will be burning bridges or not. I don’t think you’re wrong to be considering this, but if you try to go this route and keep it a secret from your current unit, that can backfire hugely.

The boys are doing great work. Hope it keeps going well and everyone comes home safely.

Combat (strafe/show of force is flyby-ish) only nowadays…too bad.

Absolutely 100% agree. It should not be difficult to admit a mistake, learn from it, and perform better in the future.

@Banzai Nah, my credibility is just fine, but copy emotional, personal attack. I’ve seen PA commit far worse OPSEC mistakes than what was put on Signal by SecDef. Again, not a defense of him being a bonehead, but you are simply being a politically charged hack trying to make it substantially more than what it is (a fuck up, but not a “straight to jail/burn him at the stake!” fuck up). The problem with the CUI data is aggregate collection that can lead to compiled secret, and that’s the real concern with fuckery like the Signal incident. But you probably didn’t need that info because you’re smarter than the rest of us on how classified works… Have said multiple times it’s not fine (but you ignored that so you can make me a boogey man in your mind). Valid concern about what else could get out due to incompetence - but reality is you can just go ahead and discharge half the combat pilots in the AF, 69% of SOCOM, etc. right now if this level of reaction is “warranted” for this level of fuck up. The right thing to do is action that is commensurate with the fuck up instead of this “straight to jail!” attitude for everything (that people you don’t like do).