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CH, thanks for the link. The man is truly delusional. For example (from the link you provided): "Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin." and, "They’re the facts. Democrats didn’t cause this problem. Vladimir Putin did." It's actually insulting that he says the thing he does. He seems to think we're a nation of idiots and we don't remember inflation was at record high levels before Putin did anything. Hopefully, come November Biden and the Democrats will get a dose of reality.

90% of the time when someone talks about the OODA loop I want to put my head through a wall. So of course I looked at the link. Like a masochist. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

If confirmed, then scratch one ruskie corvette. The Ukrainians' asymmetric prowess on display. That's no onesie twosie tank loss now, that's a big toy vladimir just got summarily das boot'd. 😄

So let me get this straight…you want to fly nuclear-capable US bombers over Ukraine, directly into Russian IADS, and somehow HALO airdrop cargo from an internal weapons bay? Are you actually a member of the United States Air Force in some capacity? Please tell me no 🤞 My expert recommendation is to just put that stuff on trucks and drive it in from Poland but I’m just spitballing here…

Jesus man, what the hell kinda bars are you hanging out in? 😳

PT test + PT hours requirement have been waived due to COVID. Not sure if/when they're coming back but they don't have any of those requirements right now. Mask mandate was lifted just last week, but probably a good idea to bring some masks just in case.

it's important to remember that a lot of the century series fighters were designed for one thing and ended up doing another. we could easily find ourselves in the same situation if we're not much more deliberate and cautious. obviously, the conditions of needing to rapidly field aircraft, a lack of computing power and other problems of the era contributed, but it's still pretty damning. F-100: built as a replacement for the non-interceptor versions of the F-86, ended up doing CAS/BAI in RVN because it was too slow to fly in NVN, flew in the guard basically as a fast jet placeholder F-101: built as a both a tactical nuke delivery system and and interceptor, did both jobs but was most useful doing Tac Recce over NVN, flew in the guard as an interceptor for ADC but was basically a placeholder F-102: built as an interceptor, flew as an interceptor, did limited CAS/BAI F-104: build as an interceptor, impressive performance but lackluster in many other ways, became a lackluster, notionally multi-role aircraft like the F-100 F-105: built as a tactical nuke delivery, did the job, pressed into service dropping M-117s on innocent people, lot good people ended up dead or in hoa lo prision. F-106: built as an interceptor, flew as one, not utilized despite of it's obvious potential as an air superiority fighter, probably due to ADC owning them, lots of proprietary equipment like SAGE, and TAC being fulling in on the F-4 F-4: build to pick up the slack, essentially the genesis of multirole not telling anyone anything they don't already know, just reminding

Yes! And also to discover how much Merc/AMG is sandbagging.

It's the second headliner on fox right now just below western military base (just a few miles from Poland) being struck in Ukraine. I don't think the Democrats are ready to deal with another embassy attack though. Most dangerous job in the world must be the foreign service during a Democratic president.

According to Elon Musk on Twitter, Tesla car batteries are supposed to technically last for 300,000 to 500,000 miles, which is 1,500 battery cycles. That's between 22 and 37 years for the average car driver, who, according to the Department of Transportation, drives about 13,500 miles per year.Dec 3, 2021 those numbers are actually a bit low from the unbiased sources.

Seriously... And do you remember the address?

Apple pen 😂🤣 sounds like it’s perfectly reasonable for your boss to ask for justification

I did have a level 2 charger installed, yea. I went with the chargepoint flex home and it cost $700 on Amazon. Hired an electrician to hard-wire that in my garage on a dedicated 80amp breaker. He also ran a conduit to the other side of my garage to match where the EV is parked. That charger only pulls 48amps so it was a little overkill for future proofing. That all cost $1,000. I get about ~30 miles of range added per hour with the level 2 charger, so charging from 5%-80% would take 6 hours. I normally only have to charge for about 2-3 hours per day though and if I had variable electricity rates I’d take advantage and do that overnight, but my utility doesn’t do that so I just plug in right when I park and unplug when I leave again. All controllable in both the charger’s app or the car’s app/touchscreen. I just re-ran the numbers with current gas prices and my EV (VW ID.4 AWD) is now 8.4x more cost efficient per mile than my gas car (2010 VW GTI, 27mpg but requires premium). I paid $62 to put 2,774 of range on the EV in February via home charging and that same $62 now buys me one tank of gas and 330 miles of range on the gas car ☹️ With these numbers it would take me ~26 months of driving the EV to repay the cost of installing the charger based on lower per mileage costs alone, less if i drove even more (I already drove it a lot for 1 month!) or if gas prices continue to climb. Obviously there are other benefits in the equation on the side of the EV (brand new, faster, instant torque, steering assist, cool spaceship noises, etc.) but that’s the bottom line on costs and home charging based on my local electricity rates (which are very cheap in middle Tennessee FWIW). I could have done the level 2 charging infrastructure slightly cheaper but I wanted what I considered the best charger and I am not an electrician able to install myself. You can factor in level 1 charging (regular 3-prong plug ie no new infrastructure needed) and DC fast charging to the equation. Level 1 only was giving me ~3 miles per hour of range added which was not enough for all the driving I am doing and the frequency of turn time in the garage. I’ve done DC fast charging once and it was great, and free on the Electrify America network for the next 3 years for me, but there are not DC fast chargers located near where I idle (eg work, grocery stores, etc.) and I haven’t done a road trip yet to really test it out. Tesla is way ahead here with their supercharger network but there’s a lot of investment happening to build that out for non-Tesla EVs and to hopefully have Tesla let other EVs charge in their network too. Get an EV if you can find one, it’s been really great so far. I already have reservations on 2 more, another VW ID.4 AWD and an F-150 Lightning…still deciding on if I wanna hold out for the Ford or just double down on another ID.4 AWD that’s honestly been a 9.5/10 for me and what I need to do with it.

I sometimes wonder if they actually believe what they’re saying.

You might be surprised how many people believe Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

The first one was in a bar at Osan, second was at the Fireside in FWB. Maybe we need a 'crazy shit I've heard in bars thread'.

Teachers aren't the main problem with our education system from what I've seen. Teaching AFJROTC at a high school now and a heck of lot of parents don't care one iota about their kid's education or whether Sally studies or Johnny turns in his homework. There is only so much a teacher can do to make a student take the class seriously, take notes, study, do the homework, etc. The parents need to make Johnny or Sally do that. Rant switch off...

Wheeew! Thank you for correcting that. I thought I had been living in sin this whole time.

The latest from the nitwit in chief: "And, by the way, we can’t be — this is the United States of America. We can’t be the country where for a mom to get her kid on the Internet to be able to do their homework has to pull into a McDonald’s parking lot. I mean, for real, that’s what was happening. This law is going to put an end to all of that. It’s going to put people in a much different position to be able to determine their own — their own judgments about when to sell their cattle, when they should — I just — just — we’re going to change things." In case you think it is fake you can find the exact transcript here on Whitehouse.gov.

It is man love THURSDAY. Keep your abomination days straight.

There's currently a minor Wikipedia editing battle to give "Igor from Ukraine" status as a current operator of the Tor Missile System 😆 Here's a photo snip from a previous edit to the page...I for one stand with Igor ✊🇺🇦

Indeed. "China remains the pacing challenge." #AllTheBestBuzzWords

We still have China...