SurelySerious

But you’re still taking the time to do the function previously fulfilled by someone else instead of executing the mission because the computerized system has made it so that the leadership can do away with support. You’re proving his point. Re Foreflight: There’s definitely a reason airlines have a huge dispatch operation instead of each crew trying to hack out their own Foreflight flight plan. Sometimes the AF pulls this off right in the AOC, but almost exclusively during contingency ops.

Sending emails is just one example. Another is doing your DTS voucher instead of being able to have the squadron CSS just handle it, because we’ve got this great new system that “simplified” and made a task “more efficient “ so that we could get rid of the CSS, thereby taking more time away from you the actual producer of things in the Air Force. That’s his main argument: You’re now finance and IT and every other support agency as we have complained about ad nauseam on the forum.

Sounds familiar: Computers/Email decrease productivity when you account for getting rid of the staff that used to perform those tasks, thereby putting that work on the formerly supported members

I’m surprised we didn’t reach this level of bureaucratic efficiency years ago.

Just reminds me why I ran the per-hour math once as a Capt and have consciously not thought about it from that perspective since.

Almost as dizzying as keeping up with what the woke crowd decries, right?

Not true, “just the publisher electing to stop printing” was just the first action.

I got distracted earlier with how ridiculous the AF waiting until 2025 to fix this was, but what exactly is the database issue?

But we redesigned the PT uniform.

Wait, the T-6 isn’t RNAV certified anymore? Didn’t it used to be? T-38 is on hold for the foreseeable future. Are the AMC arms of the AF RNAV literate? It seems like the AF at-large is not, and I know why the CAF doesn’t care so much but for training purposes ground-based approaches are dwindling at a lot of the places the AF used to rely on.

Which the squadrons have been doing on their own for years already.

Uncanny.

Trump is doing his vindictive thing in a few of the other districts against those Republicans who voted for impeachment as well.

Especially when the standard of introducing a charge is lower under the UCMJ than civil criminal law.

Haha, yeah I forgot about some of those engineering problems. Bursting into flames? Don’t worry about that. I’m definitely intrigued by the re-start as Karma Revero, though.

True, however he may be just the leader at NIAID and just a guy in the task force, but in that light should he be the face of the task force briefing things everyday? He’s taken a role in doing so where he’s an implied authority with no real accountability. It’s super messy.

One that everyone forgets about in these discussions about EVs is the Fisker Karma. Technically they went bankrupt in 2013 and it’s a hybrid, but the brand is back. Karma has a gas engine generator for when you exceed the electric only range, but all the power to the wheels is from the electric motors. I thought that was a decently interesting one.

Tough spot, for sure, but then you question the effectiveness in the role as a senior advisor. But then you have to consider that an executive branch leader has to weigh many factors (generally speaking, separate from whether Trump did it appropriately) whereas a doctor advisor on public health is roughly always going to be incredibly conservative to doing everything to try saving as many people as possible without regard to other factors.

To be fair, effectiveness as a leader includes getting people to follow you. I digress.

When they keep losing games due to poor coaching, yes.

United grounds PW4000 powered 777s temporarily.

P&W statement that they’re working to revise inspection intervals for PW4000 engines. I bet. Must have missed when United Technologies merged into Raytheon.

These are all good considerations. One of their nuclear plants had a sensor freeze and shut it off from the grid; colder parts of the country have nuclear plants that continue to run during winter weather, so it seems cost-saving infrastructure shortcuts were taken in design which was the real limfac.