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Our acquisitions process is so broken I don't think it even matters what airframe they replace the e-3 with. Whichever way they go it'll be decades behind, billions over budget, and we'll order a quarter of the number we need.
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7 minutes ago, Hunter Rose said:
The fear of nuclear escalation will ALWAYS be there. However, at some point we'll have to face Russia and China and demonstrate where the line is. To me, Russia did us the favor by invading Ukraine. Now is the time to teach them a lesson. One that hopefully China pays attention to and learns at the same time. The West and the free world seem to be waking up to the fact that Russia and China are not our friends, and welcoming them into and allowing them to reap the benefits of the free world will do nothing to assuage them.
Put simpler: F@&k Russia, and F@&k China.
Ok so hypothetically we big dick on Russia to teach "them a lesson" and then they retaliate by letting some nukes loose. What would that accomplish exactly? Are we in a better position than we started?
Sometimes the thing you want to do and the thing that yields the best result are different. And right now the best result (for the US) is a strategically weakened but non-escalatory Russia.
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Considering they just tested an ICBM.. pretty sure they can get some nukes airborne. Obviously we are all happy to see Russia display massive incompetence, but that doesn't mean we can write off all of their nuclear capes because they can't effectively coordinate the ground invasion of a whole country.
While it sucks for Ukraine, the status quo (without escalation) is actually pretty good for us right now. Keep funneling weapons, chipping away at russias military/reputation/world standing all while milking this absolute intel goldmine.
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2 hours ago, Prozac said:
Cogent, solid argument. So how do you address editorial content without hauling Aunt Karen off to jail?
This is where you get into constitutional law and the exact difference between slander/libel and free speech. In this example Aunt Karen is a private person not acting in a professional or public capacity, so when she says "I hate Hillary and I think she eats babies," that would be constitutionally considered an opinion and protected by free speech.
Alternate scenario: Aunt Karen is a Fox News correspondent and she posts on FB "it is my professional journalistic opinion that Hillary eats babies." This would probably rise to defamation and Karen would be sueable for libel.
Either way, section 230 protects FB from liability so they should leave the posts alone and let the chips fall where they may.
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The biggest difference between a Twitter/Facebook and a Fox News is section 230. Fox is a publisher of content without section 230 protections and therefore liable and sue-able for things they say that are false, slanderous, or libelous. Any editorial style news organization falls under this category whether it be newspapers or cable news outlets.
Social media companies are not treated as publishers by section 230. They are given immunity from liability for third party posts on their platform. Meaning.. your aunt Karen can go off on qanon nonsense and Hillary eating babies without FB getting sued.
So my biggest problem is not really Twitter/FB being biased one way or the other. My problem is they're acting like an editorial organization when they've been given specific protections from the government to not be an editorial organization.
If Twitter wants to pick and choose which stories they ban/promote, then section 230 protections should be immediately revoked, and then Joe Rogan can sue the fuck out of them every time someone retweets a CNN horse dewormer story.
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9 hours ago, HossHarris said:
Pretty simple…somebody sued the federal govt and/or cDc and/or TSA and/or Dot and won.
Yeah I get that, I'm more confused how a single federal judge (there are 1700+) can overrule the executive branch thereby reversing nationwide policy. And if all we had to do was find a single federal judge who didn't like the rule and sue in that court why tf did it take this long.
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Happy to hear the mask news but i have to say I legit do not understand how federal judges work.
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47 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
We have two choices: hot garbage article that at least points to a real phenomenon (although lacking amplifying data to make it useful), or MSNBC / CNN propaganda repeating without question everything Fauci says and hiding conflicting information. Worth noting how many “hot garbage conspiracies” have turned out to be true, so although the article is admittedly not great we have a track record that shouldn’t be ignored. I wish there was a middle way, but those voices have been censored, and the censorship has come exclusively from the left. Good luck finding objective data, which should be easily available, on whether US military members had more, less or the same number of heart attacks in the past 18 months compared to the prior 18.
We have no idea if it's a real phenomenon beyond the normal rate because that number is never mentioned anywhere. This is literally the first question you should ask when someone is trying to alarm you about something. This is basic sample vs control middle school science. You can't make a meaningful conclusion from a data point that exists utterly without context.
There are very legitimate criticisms of the lefts handling of covid, but I don't think you fight hot garbage with more hot garbage.
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4 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
Agree. The insanity only ends when democrats are voted out.
Still administering the EUA vaccine at my base, no FDA approved vaccine anywhere to be found. And here’s a fun article about how many athletes are suffering heart attacks. I get it’s a bit sensational, but there is no objective reporting anymore.
Kept scrolling in that article looking for any mention of what the base rate of heart anomalies in athletes was before the vaccine.. no luck. Seems like an important data point to have if you're going to try to claim a sudden spike. Strangely, the article kept insinuating that it was zero prior to the vaccine which I think we both know is rather silly.
I don't disagree with you that the democrats are off their rocker over mandates and covid scare tactics, but this article is hot garbage.
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54 minutes ago, Muscle2002 said:
I found the attached on AFPC's public website as I was trying to find some info for a mentee (not related to promotion non-selection, thankfully). There are a handful of helpful inputs; however, this document contradicts itself many times and may reflect what's wrong with the Air Force.
I especially take umbrage with the part mentioning that officers should advocate for themselves to receive strats, awards, or be pushed for jobs.
Take a look. I'm interested to see what others think.
Conspicuously absent from that document is literally anything about primary job performance.
Basically if you want to get promoted, know how to make yourself look as good as possible on paper:
strats
additional duties
awards
squadron/group positions in the immediate orbit of the commander
and don't you dare fuck up the formatting
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It'll be interesting if this is tied back to Boeing. That 737max documentary was pretty damning in regards to their trends in corporate culture, quality control, and transparency.
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I would bet downgrades are pretty common in most communities. Not really something to be concerned about though unless you're consistently getting them or if multiple could rise to the level of a q2 or 3.
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4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Narration says two SU-25's were shot down but there is a lot going on here and you can't tell if the first explosion is an aircraft going down or #2 poorly executing a safe escape from his or lead's drop. Regardless, it is clear at least one SU-25 went down and the guy ejected out of the envelope. You can see his seat hit the dirt aft of the impact site.
The Frogfoot is a great attack aircraft, but the Ukrainians have forced them extremely low in the the AAA and MANPAD threat.
Yeah that first explosion doesn't look like a frog foot crash. Don't know what it is but the airplane that does go down leaves a much longer trail explosion and the fireball doesn't go nearly as high in the air. Also seen conflicting reports that these were Ukrainian frog feet(?) although it seems highly unlikely
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Refueled on the 46 many times and it's fantastic. Meanwhile the newest block update on the 135 has turned it into an autopilot-off shitshow.
From where I sit, the remaining airframes not qual'd to refuel on the 46 boils down to majcom risk aversion rather than actual aircraft capability.
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Going full renewable is a great long term goal.
But...
-it won't solve our near term geopolitical problems
-if we don't get buy-in from China it will have the equivalent effect on climate change of creating a "no pissing" section of the pool
-we need to completely re-think our power grid to include on-demand energy that can gap fill when renewables aren't generating
-if renewables are so economically competitive maybe the government could stop tampering with the marketplace through subsidies and incentives
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5 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
9/11 happened because AQ were assholes who wanted violence.
Ukraine invasion happening because Russia are assholes who want violence.
Brainstorming ways current & past policies could have slowed or prevented things has value to future policy decisions. But Russians are responsible for Russian behavior. I get your point and it’s fair, but you also have TDS. Recommend pointing your anger at Putin; Trump is not relevant in this moment… and likely not ever again.
Correct. Which is why the insinuations on here that trump would have somehow prevented this or that Biden is bungling it way worse than trump would have are complete nonsense.
FWIW this is going about as well as we could have hoped. No American troops in harms way, Ukraine putting up one hell of a fight, and Russia shining their ass in a massive way on the world stage. All while we collect reams of intel on it all.
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41 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
After watching this invasion, filtering out the trolls that are on Reddit/Twitter misinformation, I’m convinced that absent help from China and not lobbing nukes, Russia would severely get their asses beat by the U.S. in a conventional war. Their training is obviously shit and it sends a message that Russian commanders have such little faith in their conscript troops that they follow them around with mobile crematoriums once they’re killed.
Yeah it's telling when official casualty numbers have yet to be released by Russia for their side. That probably means: this is not going the way they wanted it to be going.
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15 hours ago, dream big said:
Are you trolling bro? If we had Trump, Russia would not be invading Ukraine right now. We’re you not around when ISIS went running for the hills immediately after 2017? Guess that doesn’t matter because mean tweets are triggering.
Playing an aggressive and ultimately pointless game of mud hut whack a mole in the Middle East is a far cry from having a coherent strategy to prevent aggression from a near peer superpower.
He bumbled his way through foreign policy just like Biden is right now with his only advantage being more erratic and unpredictable. But don't let that stop you from retconning trump into a tactical genius.
It so fun to watch political hacks co opt humanitarian disaster to shit on either the current or past administration. Whichever aligns with the beliefs they already had.
9/11 happens a year into bush's term.. all because of Clinton policies. Ukraine happens a year into Biden's term.. absolutely nothing to do with anything trump did.
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6 hours ago, Tank said:
If only we had trump back he'd be playing 4d chess.
And by 4d chess I mean being such an egotistical, erratic lunatic that he'd likely get roped into this pissing contest and we'd have Afghanistan 2: electric boogaloo, with near peer threat systems.
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Come on guys. Be better than this. Wild speculation about an aviation mishap involving our brothers and sisters is a shitty thing to do anytime. But it's especially shitty to co-opt that mishap to bolster your preexisting political biases.
Aviators in the room, ask yourself this:
Are these sources credible in any way?
Does that quote sound like anything you've ever heard on safety privileged mishap tapes before?
Of course not. Because no one blurts out verbose political/vaccine statements seconds before they eject from an airplane.
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@bennynovaThank you for your service in the relentless pursuit of truth. I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that the pilot took 69 personal ORM points because of cancel culture but his woke commander made him fly anyway.
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15 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
1. Have you actually seen the results of those trials or are we still waiting 75 years for the data to be released?
2. VAERS makes you more confident? Just because I’m dumb and I need help from young people with the Internet, could you please reassure me about the safety of these vaccines by comparing the number of C19 adverse reaction reports to vaccines of the past? I’m sure the numbers are extremely low and this vaccine tests favorably so if you could help me out with that I’d really appreciate it.
3. You trust the CDC, I assume because their guidance has been so consistent throughout this pandemic.except….
4. The CDC is recommending masks but the UK (what I believe is part of your vaunted international community) just abolished mask mandates. The entities you report as trustworthy are in conflict with each other, which means you hold conflicting ideas simultaneously. “Double think” is the official parlance for the phenomenon you are experiencing. By the way Africa doesn’t give a fuck about the vaccine and seems to be doing about as well as anyone.
5. of note on those billions of “safe and effective” doses: in less than a year the definition of “effective” changed from preventing acquisition of Covid to maybe, hopefully lessening the symptoms of Covid (although even that claim is an article of faith) and doing nothing to stop the spread. Whatever your current definition of “safe,” be prepared for that to change.
look I get it man, you are a believer. More power to you for being honest about your total indoctrination. However, the official narrative is crumbling whether you see it or not, so I wrote the above for those other people who might be lurkers wondering if the anecdotes they’ve seen are isolated incidents. To them I would say, believe your own experiences. This lie is falling apart, don’t give into the pressure of calling false things real and real things false.
We all went along with the “experts” 1-2 years ago partly because we had to and partly because our default setting was trust the experts. But suddenly gathering in crowds was OK as long as you were protesting for BLM but not OK to attend church. Then the lab leak conspiracy grew into the most likely origin, and the people who seemed surprised by Covid and certain the origins were natural turned out to have illegally funded experimentation in a communist Chinese military hospital. Then you got the vaccine, and got Covid afterwards like I did and wondered what the hell? Then you saw healthy young people getting heart attacks and thought that seems weird but you were assured it had nothing to do with anything and is totally anomalous. Then we took our masks off for a few months then we put them back on and it made zero difference in terms of the trajectory of the virus. Now they are telling you to get a booster or a second booster and plan to get boosters forever and plan to wear masks forever and you probably don’t like this world of vaccine passports and stewardesses shouting at you and do not see how the actions we have taken have made things better but everything is quantifiably worse. When you speak up or mention it people shout you down, call you a Trumper or a science denier and you feel like something about this entire thing just isn’t right. If this is you, don’t worry bro, the tide is turning.
You're right I'm just an indoctrinated blind believer.
I should adjust my expectations to be more realistic like you.. that government agencies should be perfectly consistent in their messaging across two administrations over 2+ years, that the international community will be in perfect policy lockstep as they all independently respond to a pandemic, and that medications must remain exactly as effective as they were originally even for variants of a virus that didn't exist when the medication was being developed.
Anything short of perfection on any of these topics is tantamount to a big government cover-up / conspiracy.
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13 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
THE TRIALS ARE RUN BY BIG PHARMA
Well if that's your big hang up just go ahead and avoid all medicines until the end of time. Because that statement holds true for every medicine that has ever entered your body.
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1 hour ago, jrizzell said:
I’m not arguing any of those issues. I’m pointing out that we have mNRA “vaccines” that are not even a year into usage, and has morphed from a two shot series, into three, or four required. All the while, the Pharma companies, have legal immunity over injuries related to the administration or use of their products to treat or protect against Covid, until 2024. We have ZERO data on the long term affects of these treatments. You might trust Pfizer and Moderna, I don’t.You're right to have a healthy level of distrust because the pharma companies definitely abused it in the past. But despite legal protections from the EUA, it's still in their financial interest to make a safe vaccine that works. I might not trust them but I trust the financial incentive.
There are multiple vaccine options on the market and if one is significantly less effective or safe than the others, word will get out and people will opt for a different shot or none at all.
This government-pharma conspiracy to brush adverse effects under the rug simply isn't materializing in the real world. J&J literally had that problem, and it was pulled from the market (some even argued prematurely) while they investigated the blood clot issue.
The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)
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Short of a meeting with the OG or WG/CC I will blow off literally anything early in the morning if I debriefed until 0230 the night before, including a sim. You aren't getting training value out of a sim on 4 hours of sleep and if you aren't calling uncle on that to your scheduling shop/DO you're part of the problem. This is exhibit a why people get burned out and leave the Air Force.
During normal home station ops there is absolutely no reason you shouldn't get 12 hrs at home at an absolute minimum every night. Pilot training schedulers somehow manage it every day because it's mandated in the syllabus, and I guarantee they have more flights and sims to schedule than anyone else.