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A sure fire way to destroy the next 2 days of your life. Getting old is bullshit. Disclaimer: No, I haven’t learned my lesson yet, and probably never will!

Lots of paths, some happy, some not so you’ll get mixed responses. I did 20+ yrs Active duty, enjoyed it enough to separate into reserves vs retire. I could have more money but feel I have plenty (just being disciplined, not smart, not lucky) a line # and I still get to fly fast, low/hi etc. so other than the USAF being a shitshow, it was well worth it. My social circle is now fairly hi end and the super wealthy people are more jealous of me than I am of them….money isn’t everything is what I learned. To me nothing can replace a day of flying fighters then drinking afternoon beers in the squadron bar like I’m 22 again. I do it again in a heartbeat. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

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.

We survived!

@Negatory Curious: What do you do for a living?

The YouTube algorithm offered some great advice on your topic to me today. Watch the clip below, especially the line starting at 5:06. Not saying you’re going to be shoveling shit In Louisiana, but…

Is the pretend pilot finally gone? [emoji898] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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.

Clearly you're not a herk crew member

That’s what winning at life sounds like. No need to “what if” anything. Forward not backwaters. Onward.

Just in case anyone else is reading this thread with the same question. I spent 20 years and 4 days active. 3 as mx, 6 as a boom and the remainder as a pliot. To me, the life experience I gained, good and bad, would not have been possible in any other profession. I saw the world and all of the different types of boobies. I slept inside F-16 intakes to keep out of my bosses' view. I was able to learn how to work in extreme conditions with people of all walks of life. I hurt bad guys and helped a few people having a bad day. I served my country in that shit hole we call the middle east. I can walk with my head high because I did some bad ass shit (things you can't do as a civilian) and I know most of the people I served with walked the walk as well. The AF and aviation isn’t for everyone, but for those of you with the love of flight and love for your countrymen, the AF is capable of providing a life built around this. It's far from a perfect military organization but it's the only place I know (along with the Navy, USMC and USA) where you can legally fire your weapons while flying lol.

Dude, I loved ASBC. As a prior E with 9 years AD under my belt, 6 of which were spent as a boom. ASBC gave me a chance to restart the liver after my stay at OTS. Lol. I taught my class what was important, binge drinking through the non flying bullshit TDYs lol.

50 years of bad doomsday climate predictions and the planet remains undefeated in proving those predictions wrong. Throwing an enthusiastic but completely wrong 15 year old into the loss column continues the Earth's perfect record.

Haven't heard anything about that.

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 :)

the globe isn't in danger. the climate change cultists are after a story as old as time.....money and power. greta is their instrument to get useful idiots like you to carry their water. the climate change cultists have distorted and doctored historical warming charts to fit their narrative. if COVID didn't teach you not to "TRUST THE EXPERTS" i'm afraid nothing will.

It says humanity would be wiped out if we did not "stop" fossil fuel usage by 2023. Well... we didn't. And we're not going to. Humanity has remained undefeated in the last 2 million years. You have my personal guarantee that you're going to be okay. No need for hysterics.

“You know how many foods are shaped like dicks? The best kinds!”

Huh? This is the exact article from the link in her Tweet, found in about 5 seconds. https://web.archive.org/web/20180501150731/https://gritpost.com/humans-extinct-climate-change/ Some brilliant highlights: A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. “The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero,” Anderson said, with 75 to 80 percent of permanent ice having melted already in the last 35 years. However, the bad news for humanity is that as long as Donald Trump is President of the United States, swift action to combat climate change seems unlikely prior to 2020 LOL. So Ridiculous. Why are you accusing anyone else of not being able to read?

It's a classic. I watched it at the movies the day before I went to OTS, my last day as SSgt Biff. Lol. I've also watched it at least 100 times since lol. I have a lot of free time when im not sitting around drawing dicks all day.

What a great movie Superbad was

I just spit my beverage out....

You seem to be taking this pretty hard. It wasn't my intention to upset you to the point that you quit the forum forever. Be that as it may, you're a full grown adult and only you are capable of deciding what you can and cannot handle. If you choose to come back, I look forward to exchanging ideas. If you go, it was a pleasure. All the best.

Nah, I kinda figured I'd try to get my point across but that in the end no one would change their minds and I probably should just bang my head against the countertop instead. I was right to have that suspicion! I'm truly beginning to view my entire ongoing participation in the forum here as not worth it. Why am I here debating with a bunch of people I've never met, who don't respect my opinions or share my values, and don't give a f anyways? It's a great question. Frankly I don't know what I'm getting out of talking to all you smelly assholes that I can't get by just talking in person to my squadron homies. Politics, flying, AF bitching, etc., it all gets discussed on shift and I've got plenty of years in uniform left to enjoy that back & forth. Good luck to you, have a great life.

So pull out your Republican Rolodex and hit up David Weiss and give him a piece of your mind. I am happy that any charges were brought at all, since I was told that could never happen. If you want to go to law school, become a U.S. attorney in the next 6-9 months and magically charge Hunter Biden so that it guarantees he goes to a federal pound me in the as prison, be my guest. I don’t give a single, solitary F about that guy and I don’t think any of my fellow liberal voters do either.

It went.....

I really don't know how you post this with a straight face, have you even looked at the facts. You made comments about the Trump appointed judge...that is NO the point. The vast majority of judges agree with plea deals and this likely will as well. This is about the DOJ who is violating their own rule sets and CLEARLY administering a two-tiered system if justice to protect a crackhead son of Biden. For 20 years DOJ has been operating off precedent called the Ashcroft Rule which provides very clear prosecution guidelines: First, it requires federal prosecutors generally to pursue "the most serious readily provable chargeable offense." Let me help you, that would be the FELONY gun charge Crackhead is going to avoid by pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. And in case you think they had room to maneuver and plead down...the rule goes on to say having pursued "the most serious readily provable offense" in accordance with the first part of the policy -- generally cannot drop down to more modest charges in order to secure a guilty plea. Rather, they must compel the defendant to either plead guilty to the most serious readily provable offense, or face trial. Look no further than Rapper Kodak Black who was just sentenced to 46 months in prison for the same crime that Biden’s son has been charged with. Bradford Cohen, Black’s Florida-based attorney who has handled many cases like this, decried “After 26 years, I have yet to have a plea in a case with an illegal possession of a weapon and tax evasion, that did not come with some kind of prison sentence. Indigents charged the same way would be getting jail time,” Cohen said. Even if you somehow find a way to hand-wave the felony gun charge, the two tier system is happening on the tax evasion charge as well. Look no further than my Jersey Boy Mike "the situation" Sorrentino, in January of 2018, he pleaded guilty to one count of evading taxes on $123,000 in income. He was sentenced to 8 months in federal prison. Hunter failed to pay taxes on $1.5 MILLION, more than ten times that of Sorrentino and he is gonna walk free. This is a complete embarrassment and that fact that Liberals are ok with it...and even defend it, is shameful.

We're all dead and this is a version of Hell. Lol

I did have a wing/cc once who said everyone who gets an incentive ride will shadow the entire 12 hr day prior for mission planning, etc. And on execution day would be there the entire 12 hr day. For all the time they couldn’t be with the pilots due to lack of vault access, they would shadow the SARMs, AFE, go out on the flight line with MX, etc. 2x 12 hr “average days” was a massive eye opener for everyone who went through.

And yet we know you'd be here pissing into your Cheerios if Jared kushner or Don Jr had been charged with a crime in such a way to ensure that they never face any consequences for it. I'm not trying to say that you are unique from the people here who defend Donald Trump ceaselessly, I'm saying you're exactly the same.

If you think that's bad, wait till you meet some of our navigators and WSOs...

My views on this have evolved a lot. Here's where I am now: Wealth inequality is irrelevant. That part I've always believed, but what matters, and what I didn't see before, is how the wealth disparity is produced. I think the people who make things are able to be as rich as possible without much consequence. Think Bill Gates, Bezos, Musk, Carnegie, Walton. Something about our connection to their products and services makes their immense wealth understandable. Plus, the creation of technology or a service that makes humans more productive (even as a second or third order effect) ultimately adds far more to the collective wealth of our society than the millions and billions that accrue to the founders/inventors. But the unleashing of modern banking since the 70's has been altogether different. You should not be able to make billions off financial engineering. At best, loans enable the above innovations, but the banking system has found a way to make as much or more than the industries they enable. Problem is, so much of modern financial markets are simply transfers of wealth between parties. It's gambling. Guess who's better at that game? It ain't you. Nothing demonstrated this better than the nauseatingly-ironically-named Robin Hood. Nothing more than a transfer of wealth from the retail investor (poor) to the banks and private equity managers (rich). And when the retail investor found a hole in the armor with GameStop, they shut it down. Disgusting. The third element is the unstoppable printing of money by the Fed. These made up dollars are vacuumed up by the top .1% of Americans at a stunning rate. So when the inflation hits from boosting the money supply, the already-rich are sitting on a greater share of the money, drastically reducing the impact of inflation on their purchasing power, while the commoners like us get crushed. This wealth is created by political access, favoritism, and shady banking practices. It is this type of wealth inequality that will destroy our society if we don't stop it, yet the pandemic wildly accelerated the problem. But it gets worse. The Republicans are still reflexively defensive of business from the communist movement of the left in the 50's and 60's. They haven't figured out that modern crony capitalism has two sides of business, the makers and the bankers. Until the find a way to escape the bankers, they will be useless. Tucker Carlson is the strongest voice against this new phenomenon, though he flails around the center of the problem at times. The Democrats are equally useless, because they are hell bent on attacking the makers while the bankers fund their campaigns and promote their ESG nonsense. In the war against crony capitalism, the Democrats have decided to attack the capitalists with the help of the cronies. Talk about missing the mark.

I've got a lot of thoughts here, but two quick ones: To answer your question about the nuclear family: Anti-family policies surrounding welfare (dads in low income families are incentivized to make children and leave the home), divorces has never been easier so families are split more often, abortion couldn't be more contentious and there is currently no policy that incentivizes men to have accountability in the baby-making process, in several states 'the state' in the form of schools and teachers unions are effectively trying to take over the moral instruction of children...to include the legal prosecution of parents if they 'mis-gender' their own 12 year old, there's a lot more. In short, the federal government should have absolutely no hand inside a family unit, yet they currently do. All of those policies are not tolerated or accepted, but celebrated and in some cases enforced by our current administration. Second: go to your stat source there: https://realtimeinequality.org/ and play around. You'll find that the Times did a wonderful job of zooming in on a very specific data set to tell a story that simply isn't true. Moreover, if you want to compare data, use the same time frame. You compare Jan 2021 to EOY 2022 directly to Trump's entire term. Not an apples to apples comparison. With stats like these, a long view of at least a decade, usually more, is the only way to get a real picture of the impact of policies.

The bourbon defense is always allowed around here 😂. Cheers!

Dumb and distorted. We have hit 1.0C, are going to hit 1.5C of warming shortly, and are well on our way to 4+. What does that mean? It means your children are gonna have much tougher lives. And the point of the quote was not that we would die in 5 years, but that there would be mass deaths in the future if fossil fuels were not significantly curtailed by 2023. But that’s standard for you, you just don’t know how to read. 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.