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1 hour ago, brabus said:
Nothing has changed - if you’re leaning on staying in regardlesss, then go for it. If you’re one foot out the door and this is what pulls you back in, you’re an idiot.
Exactly. One wonders the man-hours wasted in the halls of AFPC cooking up this latest crock of shit, that appeals to precisely no-one except those planning to stay in anyway.
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2 hours ago, Ant-man said:
Yep. The list of bases is broken down by core MWS, and they are essentially all the same format: ops bases for your aircraft, the FTU, or any UPT base. First come, first serve basis. That's how they get around the problem of appeasing everyone at once. Also, if you only do the BOP it's a four year commitment. Who is gonna trade a four year ADSC for two years at their base of choice?
And the craziest part is your BOP time hacks as soon as you sign the paper but the ADSC is tacked on the end after your UPT one expires.
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On 8/15/2023 at 11:23 AM, Ant-man said:
New bonus, including the Assignment of Preference option. Looks like scaling monetary options based on contract length OR Assignment of preference (with several caveats) OR both options that incurs a longer ADSC.
This base of preference option looks sketchy at best and predatory at worst.
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On 8/19/2023 at 7:57 PM, Lawman said:
The direct foreign exploitation of intel was worth 10 billion alone.
We are getting a brigade/division worth of casualty prevention in any future conflict based solely off knowing their playbook, dissecting equipment, and seeing the shortcomings of a lot of our own.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYou're not wrong. But remember Russia is likely doing the same as far as FME for our stuff. I would be extremely surprised if Russia doesn't get their hands on a patriot/himars/name your system at some point, and the longer the war drags on the more that likelihood approaches 100%.
There are lots of arguments for and against this war and I'm not getting into that but rather just want to point out FME goes both ways. And expecting Russia not to benefit as well when we're flooding Ukraine with western tech, with little to no oversight, would be very naive.
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13 minutes ago, brabus said:
Same for the left. It’s disheartening to see it happen on both sides. To the polling topic, we’re not too far down the road from a lot of polling showing a “red wave” in the midterms…it should have been a bloodbath for the Dems, until it wasn’t. The solution is we need candidates who are closer to center and able to actually let the other side speak while actually listening. Whether that person is slightly left or right of center almost doesn’t matter, we just don’t need more candidates who are massively pegged to one side of the spectrum - that’s exactly what we’ve been seeing for too long.
Agree on the polarization 100%. But I think the democrat base would pivot to support another candidate if Biden were to step aside. Sure the Dems are ideologically captured in some batshit positions but I don't see the same level of loyalty to an individual person like you do with the right base and trump. There are multiple good choices on the right who would easily beat Biden, but it'll never happen when you have 40% of the country ready to Thelma and Louise off the cliff with trump.
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1 hour ago, Blue said:
I don't want to interrupt anyone enjoying their daily dose of political rage-porn.
But I've kind of taken to ignoring any "news story" that begins with the following:
- Recent polls say...
- Studies show...
- Experts say...
Fair enough, lots of polling and the reporting on such polls is click bait-ey.
But I'm not sure how else you find out what people think if you don't ask them. Aggregating poll responses is one of the best ways to find out what Americans think as long as the errors are reasonably controlled for through sample size, demographic representation, and unbiased questions.
CBS/Yougov are a reasonably accurate poll source (B+ according to fivethirtyeight.) So a poll showing trust for any politician over one's own friends/family/religious leader, is a deeply troubling result.
You've got a huge portion of the Republican based captured basically beyond the point of no return. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out with most roads, unfortunately, leading to a democrat in the White House.
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https://www.axios.com/2023/08/21/trump-republican-2024-voters-poll
Respondents said they trust trump to tell them the truth more than family members or their religious leaders. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
This has moved past ideological capture and into full blown mental disorder.
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On 8/5/2023 at 4:38 AM, ClearedHot said:
One of the most important duties POTUS has is being the Commander in Chief, sending American troops into combat has to be a very difficult burden to bear. How you handle the aftermath of those tough decisions says a lot about your character. This video shares a disturbing example of how the current clown in chief handles that responsibility.
Honestly the Walter Reed presidential dog and pony shows are shameful no matter who's in office. Clearly this was poorly handled by Biden but I don't know if trump busting in would be any better. Two slightly different geriatric egomaniacs looking for a photo op.
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18 hours ago, ViperMan said:
By your logic nuclear submarines and M1 Abrams tanks are "jets". Turbine-powered does not equal jet.
Then I guess they're both jets.. especially if it would bother you more
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@Danger41
Not to split hairs here but the t-6 is a jet. Quite literally. It has a jet engine in it that has no mechanical linkage to the prop, and it even has exhaust stacks that make a small but non-zero amount of thrust.So stop being afraid of your douche canoe enjjpt IP and tell him to open the dash 1, learn his systems, and maybe just eat a whole dick.
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14 hours ago, Blue said:
Man, I'll go against the grain here......
Blues are military uniforms that you are required to maintain in serviceable condition. O's are required to maintain mess dress as well, I think the E's have something different (not required to own a mess dress, but "encouraged" for NCOs and above, as I recall).
A quarterly inspection of a required uniform doesn't strike me as overly intrusive. Annoying, sure. But not a hill to die on.
Like many of the annoying things that are unique to the military, the trick is in the implementation. A good boss will mandate the open ranks inspection on a Friday morning from 0900 - 0930. Designate a couple of sharp NCO's and O's to quickly go through the ranks, ding people appropriately for uniforms that aren't up to standards. Quick couple of words from the boss saying thanks for the effort, and everyone dismissed early to begin the weekend NLT 1000.
Good bosses will do something inline with the above. Meet the requirements of the order from above, while still being reasonable about the implementation.
Shitty bosses will have it be 0800 on a random Tuesday, with expectations for the rest of the duty day to continue uninterrupted, with no consideration for the underlying logistics (blues vs duty uniform, etc).
None of what you said is wrong but I lean more toward "treat people like adults until they give you a reason not to."
Periodic inspections are onerous and a waste of time unless you're specifically having dress and appearance issues in the unit. If dudes are coming in with dirty, torn up flight suits, unshaven, and with hair out of regs, then maybe it's time for a blues day. But only for those specific individuals and only for as long as it takes to fix the problem.
The uniform is a tool to teach attention to detail, unit cohesion, and pride in your appearance. Much like other silly things you get reamed for in boot camp, its importance wanes massively once you get real responsibilities. Years of training later into the fast jet business, dress and appearance should be a given. Not something you need to periodically spot check.
If you trust people to fly multi million dollar supersonic aircraft, you should trust that their uniforms are in order.. unless they specifically give you a reason to think otherwise.
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On 7/2/2023 at 8:29 PM, kaputt said:
Got a late start to watching the Tour De France, but was shocked to see that all the riders and staff for the race are being required to wear masks and apparently the riders are being tested every day and will be kicked out of the race if they pop for COVID.
JFC this idiocy will just not die even when you think it finally has.
If only they tested that meticulously for steroids, the sport might have a shred of credibility.. maybe even a fan base numbering in the many dozens
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2 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
In 2010 my son was excited to join the military and do badass stuff I was doing. By 2023 he is not joining, and instead on a pre-Med scholarship. None of his friends are joining. It's a tragic loss for our nation; he's a state champion athlete and top 2% scholar with no qualifying issues, whose dad was pushing him towards joining. But it's a shit deal to join after we wrecked a generation in IZ/AFG for nothing.
Our humiliating exist from wars which defined his youth was decisive. He thinks the government will send you to die and never let you win. He's not wrong.100%. On an individual job level the Air Force is amazing. Best flying and best camaraderie to be had anywhere.
But on an organizational level it's a shitshow.. wrapped in a dumpster fire.. inside a clown show.. all ultimately governed by our broken political system.
You know something is deeply fucked organizationally when they decide to cancel bonuses and pause PCSs and the first place people are finding it out is the front page of CNN.
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All this and some people still believed the "base of preference" nonsense.
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On 7/9/2023 at 1:28 PM, Clark Griswold said:
They LOVE affordable housing just not in their neighborhood:
D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing (msn.com)
Checked the political slant of the neighborhood, not a bit of red to be seen on the map...
Republicans don't hit on democrat NIMBY-ism nearly enough.
Bussing migrants sanctuary cities they ask to go to = cruel political stunt by evil Greg Abbott
Turning a blind eye to small Republican border towns with no resources as they get complete overrun = "what border crisis??"
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I think the meme pages hurt retention far more than recruiting. I doubt very much if high schoolers in droves are following viper driver memes and chuckling at ultra specific FLUG DCA jokes or complaints about morale shirts or FSS walk in hours.
What is hurting recruiting far more IMO is the left's constant push to make people ashamed of our country and our history.
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1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:
Smart words
100%. Limiting principles are the name of the game. I will be the first to admit HOAs and local governments can go way overboard with restrictive regulations. But that doesn't validate the "gubment can't tell me what to do on my property" argument.
and yes I will also acknowledge the government is ineffective in many ways, most notably in the war on drugs.. which has basically nothing to do with local level property code enforcement.
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2 hours ago, Standby said:
Is this the same government that allows squatters to pirate someone’s home, and then forces the owners to endure lengthy waiting periods before eviction action…oftentimes without further reprisal to the criminals? Or is it the other government that forces me to spend exorbitant amounts of money for a pool fence to prevent trespassing kids from drowning on my private property? Or perhaps it’s the other, other government that wants me to gain their permission before cutting down dead trees on my land?
Loud music, gunshots in residential, trash burning…maybe you should stop being a tight wad and move out of the slums.
Are these things that have happened to you or just a list of Fox News prime time gripes?
Regardless, thanks for validating my argument. The fact that you called it "the slums" is an overt admission that doing whatever you want on your property can have externalities and can make a whole area less nice. In an alternate reality we could have a nuanced discussion about which things the government should and shouldn't regulate on private property. No trash burning: probably makes sense. Overly specific pool fence laws: probably not.
But you already came up with the most genius solution.. just stop being poor! Wonder if poor people have thought of that..
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21 hours ago, Standby said:
See, fundamental difference…the government shouldn’t really have a say either.
?? How about noise ordinances. Would you be jazzed if your neighbor was discharging firearms outside all night? Or blasting music till 4am? or how about if they were burning trash in their front yard upwind of your home?
Yes HOAs suck because they tend to overstep, but the government absolutely has a role to restrict certain behaviors even on private property. Because unless you're on a ranch in rural Montana all the stuff I listed above will affect other people in a normal neighborhood.
I hope you don't have to experience truly sh!t neighbors. I have. And I assure you that after they blow you off in a face to face talk, you wouldn't hesitate to get the government involved.
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2 hours ago, uhhello said:
That's my point. How many humans do you think would have been strolling around after that? I should have specifically said human life I guess. My poorly worded point is in the end it doesn't really matter how 'green' we go, the human race is on a timeline. Well thought out regulation that protects our water, air, and land without fucking over economies and people is what we should be about. If developed nations are burning coal 20-40 years from now they fucked up.
Yeah it probably wasn't a great time immediately after that impact. But my point is that far more calamitous things have happened to earth than humans driving cars and flying planes, and it's still here supporting life. The earth has been far colder, far hotter, and far more polluted than it is now and supported life throughout.
So the notion that we're going to somehow irreparably break the earth or make it completely uninhabitable is just a cute case of humans having main character syndrome, and failing to understand how tiny and insignificant we are in the cosmic sense.
The other piece climate panic pushers fail to account for is how good humans are at adapting. Earths population grows every year, and climatologists tell us natural disasters are getting more severe and more frequent *citation needed.* But somehow we find that less and less people every year are killed by natural disasters when you adjust for population growth. Seems counterintuitive but that just shows how good we are at adapting to and mitigating problems.
As green technologies progress they will become cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, and will one day take the place of fossil fuels. I truly look forward to when that happens. But trying to force them into prime time use prematurely by outlawing energy forms that we still depend on is not the way to do it. Saddling our economy with restrictions while China still pisses in the pool is also not the way to do it.-
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5 hours ago, uhhello said:
The 'globe' def isn't in danger. It'll be here for a long time. Whether it'll be able to sustain life is up for debate 🙂
66 million years ago the earth got hit by a 6 mile wide meteor traveling 12 miles per second. It resulted in 600 mph winds, 300 foot mega tsunamis that obliterated global coastlines, threw 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere, which rained back down causing mass wildfires destroying 70% of forests on earth. The impact also caused an explosion the equivalent of 72 trillion tons of tnt which is more than all of the nuclear weapons currently on earth combined.
The earth is still here. Still supporting life.
But what's really going to determine the future of earth is whether you drive a F-150 or a Prius to work. 🤦🏻♂️
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14 hours ago, Negatory said:
Sorry that a kid is trying to reduce fossil fuel usage because of actual global warming, and that the right wing media has literally convinced you to hate her. It’s sad to look at. And I’m sure it’s hard for you to always be so mad about everything.
Also, it’s a typical pattern to have a fallacy on here, but it’s always worthwhile to point out: No one said we needed to disproportionally affect industrializing societies over already industrialized. In fact, the VAST majority of emissions are due to first world consumption and production (US, China, EU). So we could just cut YOUR (and people like your) emissions, and that would be the 90% solution. But you can throw out a totally unrelated point that we should all be able to roll coal in F350s because if we can’t it would hurt Africa. Bro, you (and your base) don’t give a fuck about Africa or the developing world.
She's the one who wants the total ban on fossil fuels. Not my idea dude. She's an ignorant rich child that doesn't understand the 2nd and 3rd order effects of what she's proposing.
Parts of the developing world still burn wood and dung for heat and would kill to have basic fossil fuel infrastructure. (Which would also be a green improvement.)
Again, It was her stated goal to eliminate fossil fuels in 5 years, not mine. This would be disastrous to the 3rd world and 1st world alike. Luckily we didn't do it, which might have something to do with it being literally impossible right now.
Green technologies are progressing but trying to force it down everyone's throat on an unrealistic timeline is how you get the Texas windmill freeze debacle or the California's rolling blackouts or Europe's disastrous dependence on Russian natural gas. This is her personal crusade and it is divorced from the realities of what our power grids demand and what green energy can supply right now. The Energy storage piece is another huge component to the green infrastructure that is not fully figured out yet.
But if you still don't think she's a spoiled, grandstanding, holier than thou, hypocritical climate influencer I'll offer up this.Instead of flying commercial from New York to Lisbon for a 2019 climate conference, she chartered a ride on a rich couple's racing catamaran across the Atlantic. Cool. Super green. Except for the part where they flew her boat captain commercial from Britain to New York prior to the voyage, later promising the flight would be offset with carbon credits. Which begs the question, why doesn't Greta just fly places and pay for carbon offsets?
why it's almost like it's one big publicity stunt
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Maybe someone could make a documentary about how much government money these rich people are costing the taxpayers to get rescued from their stupid rich people adventure.
Seriously how in the hell is my local beach "swim at your own risk" but we'll muster the whole coast guard in the futile task of looking for these billionaire a$$holes 2.5 miles under the ocean.
Unless these dudes took out a 10 billion insurance policy to repay the government there is no reason public funds should be used to look for these idiots. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
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12 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:
We survived!
My favorite part is the fastest way to kill off a massive part of the developing world would be to outlaw fossil fuels on a super aggressive timeline with no suitable replacement infrastructure. But that nuance is likely lost on the petulant professional complainer who grew up in Scandinavia driving mommy and daddy's electric polestar around.
Maybe, to get some perspective, instead of Gucci climate conferences in NYC and Lisbon she could sail her stupid f-ing catamaran to Somalia and see how well her fossil fuel plan is received.
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The Next President is...
in Squadron Bar
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I would actually really like to see the system work, the way it would work against you or me if we stored classified docs in our bathrooms and then bragged about it on tape.
Or next to an old corvette easily accessible to crackheads.
You've built up this vague "system" boogeyman as a sort of foil to trump where any threat to him is just another unjustified attack that he needs to vanquish. Have there been unjustified attacks? Of course. But trump has also dug his own hole in very historic and spectacular fashion.