pawnman
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9 hours ago, Grabby said:
Dude, the reason the few of you "moved on with" your lives instead of talking about that absolute fiasco after the fact, is because you were dead ing wrong after screaming at the top of your lungs of how righteous you were. Instead of admitting that your side was full of arrogant charlatans and trying to figure out how to ensure such a up doesn't occur in the near future, you high-tailed as fast as possible to save face.
You deserve to be "dunked" on. A lot. It was a massive stain on modern society with long-lasting detrimental 1st and 2nd order effects.
Also, are these dubious press outfits (who latch onto reports that further excoriate the people who demanded others get the vaccine) somehow worse than the ones who went off 24/7 for nearly 2 years about how the world was basically ending and everyone needed to trust the science?
GTFOH
70% of Americans got vaccinated and Omicron proved to be far less dangerous than the earlier variants.
We moved on for the same reason you don't see people who believe earth is round constantly picking fights online about it.
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2 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Getting back to Hunter Biden, how interesting that the night before the House Oversight Committee conducts interviews about the Hunter Biden Laptop and other issues, the FBI General Counsel sends a memo to FBI agent leading the investigation saying "don't answer questions".
Nothing to see here, just weirdo fringe bullshit, no lack of transparency...
I kinda expect "don't answer any questions" to be the default setting for all general counsel, in every organization, everywhere.
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43 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
You think it's hyperbole to say a forced vaccination campaign existed, yet you and I (along with millions of others) were both ordered to take the vaccine without proof it worked, at threat to our employment, and which data now shows was ineffective at preventing transmission. Then you say I should go to school, because presumably they can teach me statistics (although you don't elaborate on the relevance), and because school exists you won't engage in debate. Although you are engaged in debate...
I hope you aren't like this in real life.
There's a wide gulf between "federal mandate for all citizens to get vaccinated" and "SECDEF ordered military members to get vaccinated"
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On 7/17/2023 at 11:45 PM, Bergman said:
Dude, you are more full of shit than a Christmas goose.
Don’t hurt your arm grabbing for that whopping pay raise. $2-3k a month difference from 1 star to 4 star. YGBSM. That’s like…one extra premium pay day at the airline. Might have 2 hours of block time. This isn’t the flex you think it is.
I do agree about the bonus complaints. Not offering a bonus will save a lot of bros from themselves. Run fellas, run!!
It's all about the retirement pay.
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5 hours ago, bfargin said:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/17/23797379/mali-ml-typo-us-military-emails-leak
Another cyber/intelligence issue the DoD hasn’t addressed in spite of warnings (for years). It would appear my dad was correct, attention to detail is important.
Can't wait for the mandatory cyber training refresher for the rest of us.
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On 7/17/2023 at 8:06 AM, tac airlifter said:
Valid, we haven’t heard much from the pro-vax crowd lately. I wonder why that is?
Because most people got vaccinated, and it's not worth arguing with the holdouts. Along with the covid strains getting more mild, so there's a lot less urgency.
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21 hours ago, Sim said:
Isn't marijuana federally illegal? Isn't the Secret Service a federal agency and the White House federal property?
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22 minutes ago, Dogs-N-Guns said:
Update: O-6 select, retiring 1 Mar 24.
Congrats. Both on selection and retirement.
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4 hours ago, brabus said:
@pawnman Ah. Well GI bill still wins by a long shot over straight TA, but the TA diff is certainly a valid point.
Also, don’t be obtuse, you know I’m not insinuating the hypothetical dude is going to get a civ tank driving job. He’s going to have a resume with skill sets that far outpace the hammer swinger, all while likely making more money and having greater benefits. That’s the point.
But will he actually? I would say he's starting 4 years behind the guy who got into an actual apprentice program in a trade. Tank driving guy may have some intangibles (self-discipline, ability to suck it up, respect for authority), but he has no actual transferable skills from that job.
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On 7/8/2023 at 10:19 AM, General Chang said:
It’s time for the Air Force to cut loose any ideas of retention, drop the bonus to $0, and focus on growing our way forward. You only need one-two gray beards at the top to run a flying squadron. The rest can be O-3 and below. Higher risk? Sure, a little. Push people through UPT in 6-months, FTUs in 2 months, double the output, and GROW our AF out of the pilot shortage. Retention is a useless fight at this point. Drop the bonus to $0. We will be just fine.
Looks like they took your advice, Chang. That next star is in sight!
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16 hours ago, dream big said:
What’s with all the Chang hate? You all know he is trolling right?
Ironically, his trolling is just the same mentoring any O-6 or GO would give a young aviator.
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10 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
calling another poster on the site a cunt seems over the line no? doesn't hurt my feelings.
if wanting peace makes oneself a cunt then so be it
love seeing the keyboard tough guys
If you say so, Neville Chamberlain.
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On 7/10/2023 at 2:30 PM, brabus said:
@Blue I get your point, but there’s still awesome enlisted jobs and the things I referenced are just as applicable and valid if you do an apples to apples comparison. Drive tanks and blow shit up for 4 years vs. swing a hammer for 4 years. The mil guy did way cooler shit you can’t do anywhere else and walked away with GI Bill and a solid resume for post-mil work, while likely making more $/benefits. That’s one example.
Not much call for tank driving in the civilian world, though...
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On 7/10/2023 at 9:29 AM, brabus said:
How so? Not a snide question, I really am curious. The mil is free college (state school) plus books and living expenses (capped obviously). They beat that?
I grew up in a fairly well off area where the majority of my class went to college. And I’m fairly confident I have out-earned most of them to this day and now with the airlines am exponentially out-earning them at a rapid rate. Even the doctors I know aren’t out-earning me (when you take into account my zero debt and their mega shitload of debt still remaining today). The best part is I’d bet out class’ highest earner is a great blue collar dude who owns his own business and is killing it.
Point is the mil earning potential really is hard to beat unless you’re a young dude straight to the investment world with connections, or something like that.
They may not beat the GI Bill, but they beat tuition assistance. All three companies will pay 100% tuition to select schools with no annual cap. The military pays $4500 a year, in years where budget constraints don't turn it off early.
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18 hours ago, DirkDiggler said:
You know this is just Bashi’s troll account right?
All of Bashi's accounts are troll accounts.
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6 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
Wrong. Mods are we allowing this type of flaming on this site now?
You need to fill out one of these if you have a complaint.
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The problem is that the benefits don't look as good as companies are upping their own benefits. Target, Starbucks, and Taco Bell all have better tuition assistance than the military, for example.
Congress is going to have to recognize that military pay and benefits are not keeping pace, especially for what we ask people to do.
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5 hours ago, DirkDiggler said:
Pretty sure that sad cunt isn't an active duty military officer (at least not anymore), which is probably the best case scenario for everybody involved.
I sure hope not. That's gonna be a really interesting security investigation.
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12 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
no we moved NATO to the border of russia
you wouldn't like it if china violated the monroe doctrine and incorporated mexico into a chinese military alliance. same thing.
Who is "we"?
Countries on Russia's border felt threatened enough by Russia to ask if they could join NATO. We didn't force anyone to join. We didn't expand NATO by conquering territory and pushing out the local citizens. Democratic countries voluntarily decided to join.
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8 hours ago, gearhog said:
I didn't realize this. Did they live in trenches immediately after the Chernobyl disaster or 40 years later?
Why would Ukraine do this? Not sure. Maybe because as long as the war funding keeps flowing and the radiation doesn't reach Kiev, Zalensky doesn't care. Why does Zalensky do anything?
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1675540809406349319?s=20
Shit isn't hard to find, bro.
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8 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
But he’s the smartest guy Joe Biden knows?
Says quite a bit about his cabinet, right?
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10 hours ago, nsplayr said:
I'm a very climate/energy-oriented liberal here and I love nuclear. F all the NIMBYs and "greens" on my side of the aisle who fight against it.
From what I've seen we haven't built more due to A) inertia, B) insane regulation leading to insane costs to open a new plant, and C) a political alliance between fossil fuel companies & conservatives plus tree-hugging greens who are scared of radiation that basically caused A and B.
I'm enjoying the benefits of cheaper electricity living in the TVA service region where we have three working nuclear plants. I'd put a micro nuclear reactor in my garage if The Man would let me!
As a country we're decades behind, but the best time to start catching up is now. Small, modular reactors, molten salt reactors, push the boundaries with fusion research, do it all. All energy that is carbon-free is good energy at this point and energy abundance is the key to unlocking an awesome future.
Imagine electricity so abundant that it's not even worth it to meter it, imagine nearly unlimited fresh water due to desalination, minerals mined from asteroids and brought back to earth...all because of energy abundance...LFG.
TBH we kind of do. Not a vaccine, but the beginnings of a real cure: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361
Even short of a true cure, modern AIDS medication regimes put a ton of people in a place where HIV is no longer detectable in their blood. Hell of a win for modern medicine!
Yeah, about those desalination plants...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-rejects-plan-desalination-plant-2022-05-13/
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15 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
How about we hear about the crimes of BOTH families. If true then send them ALL to prison...in the same cell for all I care.
Hey, you and Nsplayer finally agree on something!
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5 hours ago, Clayton Bigsby said:
lol you think Trump actually gives two fucks about anything beyond himself
He even said he voted for Trump in his last two sentences.
No wonder this is the state of politics. People don't have the attention span for actual debate. They just see "X good, Y bad" and jump on it.
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Biden recalls IRR
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They can't maintain this matrix for people still in the service. What on earth makes you think they're capable of tracking thousands of veterans?