Lord Ratner

Similar, except we use a different bank entirely for overseas/safety accounts. Transfer money from fidelity --> overseas account when needed, and we never carry the cards for the Fidelity CMA. That way if I'm held at gunpoint there's nothing on me that indicates the existence of another account to withdraw from. Just the USAA accounts with <$1k in them. That said, I don't actually have a fear of the fidelity accounts getting accessed as a function of my CMA being breached, but we already had the USAA accounts, so using them in this manner was simple.

Could you explain the debit card fraud concern a bit more?

And we never wanted to. 🤣

Two years of memes and I have no idea what the fuck you people are saying.

Fidelity CMA with money market for the cash

You guys are arguing over whether or not she's a real Democrat or Republican as though we aren't in the middle of another generational transformation of the parties. There is no party ideology right now. Obama was the death of the Kennedy-to-Clinton Democratic party and Trump was the death of the Nixon-to-W.Bush Republican party. We have no idea what the next versions of the parties will look like, so how can we know who is a "real" member?

I found it easier to just pretend you had no idea the rule existed, or that you forgot. Playing dumb was a surprisingly powerful tool in an organization where the entire officer system was predicated on the officers voluntarily pushing themselves to the limit on the hopes of securing promotions. And in Bagram, my missing reflective belt was always wherever I was going. I kept one at the squadron and one in my room for the rare time an SNCO wanted to call my bluff and follow me to the destination. Drove them bonkers.

So many questions. Were they able to get visual on the missile? Did they just eject when they heard the warning, in an time that they had no expectation taking fire? Did the missile ship broadcast to bail out over guard? 😂🤣

That's the crux right there. It would be great to have a disruptor with operational experience. But we don't. I'm not a big Tulsi fan, but what we need right now are people willing to slaughter sacred cows, and the best people for that task are the ones who have been scorned by the priests of the old religion.

Agreed. Unfortunately Luigi-the-spoiled-assassin probably set back the attempt to get them deregulated by several years

Ok.

They are terrified of what's coming. Good.

They aren't. It looks that way when you catch two different intersecting orbits that illuminate and extinguish at the intersection point. I've seen it and it's completely trippy, but the giveaway is usually that it's repeating, which makes sense because the satellites are evenly spaced in their orbits. It doesn't take a lot of mental horsepower to debunk the "conspiracy." Alien spaceships have no need for headlights. And secret government programs that have functional anti-gravity propulsion systems aren't going to leave the nav lights on while they do donuts over population centers for fun.

Yep. No different than all the pilots talking about UFOs right now because they don't understand how starlink satellites reflect the sun back at us.