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It’s no different than being in direct combat - after a bit you don’t trust any of “them”, you’re senses are numbed to atrocious things, and you use dark humor as a means to cope. Doesn’t mean you’re a sociopath, I think it’s a fairly normal human response, and to expect cops to be different is just like the jackasses who expect “warrior monks” in the military.

I’m going to be honest, I've never interacted with a SWO who wasn’t an idiot/completely clueless. I have interacted with sub guys who were great. My personal number of interactions is not statistically significant, but I know a lot Navy pilots and they support my limited-experience conclusion. Put that butter knife to good use!

Did you tell him he’s a slack jawed faggot and can go fuck himself? With all due respect of course…

Remains to be seen. CA is a massively corrupt dumpster fire - they have the best chance of any state at learning nothing and continuing business as usual. I hope that’s not the case, but I’m not holding my breath.

Yep. Wildfire industry is very contract heavy (lots of guys not on contract right now), airplanes in heavy MX, etc. (not an expert, just work on a small contract with the USFS, so have some insight into that world).

May start doing that this coming season, hopefully. Need to put that FAC(A) time to good use!

Aerial fire fighting is impressive work…I have been more challenged flying in those situations (huge mountains, winds, smoke/shitty vis) than any mil flying I’ve done in the same time period. The guys doing the actual drops are doing some very difficult flying. Multiple times I’ve thought about leaving the airlines for it, but in the end the QOL gap is just too expansive for me personally. But that flying is probably the best civ flying there is once out of the mil, if you’re willing to live that life.

Me too, as we’ll likely see some parts of the country (*cough* our political aligned strongholds *cough*) are more important than others. But, to be fair it hasn’t played out yet, so we’ll see…

Even more reason to push back. Unless they did fight it and I’m unaware, but from what I read and take from their public statement, they handed it over without any pushback. Either way doesn’t affect me, never had a gun safe and never will be in the market for one.

So is Biden giving every CA person affected $750, just have to go sign up at URL…or are they getting substantially more fed support than that? It will be interesting to see how this plays out relative to NC and TN.

True, but like you I am adamantly against any back door codes held by a manufacturer. Also, Liberty could have fought back at least a little (e.g. Apple), but they just handed it over after seeing the warrant. If in that situation - fuck the gov, they can deal with cutting open the safe. And this wasn’t a time-sensitive matter where the safe contents were life or death type stuff, it was just more J6-related bullshit.

Liberty is the company who gave the feds the code to open private citizen’s safes. Fuck them. But I’m glad that guy’s guns didn’t burn, so there’s that.

Doubt it has anything to do with access and mostly to do with minerals.

They are in both programs.

Copy on the input VIN, just an indirect reminder of that topic for me. Maybe I need another topic on this - seriously curious on what guys are doing for personal security on the web. If VPN isn’t the right thing for us regular guys, then what is?

@Smokin What’s with the rec to not use a VPN? I figure more encryption and creating a harder path to finding your internet travels is a good thing. Genuinely curious.

At what point in the bumper replacement process did you put a VIN in? Also, this is an example that really makes me want to VPN/encrypt my entire network, not just run the app on a phone while I’m on airport Wi-Fi or something like that.

OK, so how long does it take for one to understand the ropes? Impose reasonable term limits with that in mind. I say that number is 1-2 years. If you can’t figure it out in 2 years, you’re not smart enough to be in Congress. Set limits at 12 years, which means there’s plenty of congressman with 8+ years of experience to help lead, and teach, the process. It’s not rocket science.

Say no more

Holy shit that’s bad. What’s the RC?

You only need a 3rd class medical to fly as a student and once you get your PPL. Why are you trying to get a 1st class medical? HIMS (and whatever your specific, related situation is) isn’t going to look good, so if you do get an interview, be fully transparent, honest, and discuss how you’ve learned, become a better xyz, etc. PPL is subjective; some units hard require it while others will hire a guy with 1 hr of flight time. So it may not matter a ton, but it is guaranteed to help you in many ways, so certainly keep pressing towards that goal. You’re old to be starting this process - time is your worst enemy right now. If you’re going to take a shot, start getting apps together right now and throwing them in. Even if it sucks now, maybe you send in a much improved app a year or two later and that gets noticed. You never know unless you try.

Of course that’s possible, but you’re being a bit obtuse to think a sub 6 yr congressman (hell even a 10 year) could ever be anywhere near the level of Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, etc, even if they wanted to. And on that note, I still think many start with good intentions, it’s only after several to many years that most finally cave to the selfish desires fueled by money and power, at least to any meaningful amount. There are positive and negative outliers of course, but I think the majority wouldn’t have the time to become bought/make the kinds of plays necessary to become “the next Pelosi” if they were limited on time. Imagine a douchebag CC for 2 years (it sucks, but everyone gets through it and the next guy is awesome). Now imagine a douchebag CC who runs the show for the next 20 years without any possibility of being fired, no matter what they do. How’s that organization’s long term culture and productivity now? 100%. Love all your related points. These and term limits are not mutually exclusive. All of it matters and are ways to increase Congress’ effectiveness and decrease its shadiness.

Hypothetical, future Pelosi doesn’t exist when there are term limits and it’s illegal to trade individual stocks. More pay + limits + ban on stock trading may actually attract people who are willing to serve, are paid enough to not let income be a barrier, and the guardrails of limits and stock bans should mostly curb the Pelosi types. Understandably this is a tall order as we’re talking substantial changes to the system that the elite will fight tooth and nail. Put politics on the list of no fucking way for me and most normal people, but say, “come do this, you’ll be paid 1M/yr and you won’t do it for more than 4-6 years.” That would bring public office off the no fucking way list for a lot of people, especially if USERRA protected - can go right back to your other career once done through electoral defeat or term limit…as the founding fathers intended.