Lord Ratner

I get what you're saying, but I will agree with you only once his plans start failing. Right now it's hard to argue that he doesn't have the most effective first weeks of presidency, maybe of any president ever. That doesn't mean you have to agree with what he's accomplishing, but if you measure success by accomplishing the things you're setting out to do, he is absolutely crushing it in less than a month.

Yeah, but you can't shoot it folded. Well, more than once.

Might be a way to scare the arab nations into participating in the solution. Or, since this is the common sense administration, it might just be the first public acknowledgment of what we all know. There's no way to make it work with the Palestinians and Gaza.

So I guess we're going to take over Gaza. I got to admit, this new season of the Trump show has been *exciting* 😂🤣

Consider the LT instead (I have it). The slightly longer barrel is better for 300 blackout ballistics, and the gun is still really short overall. Also, with almost every suppressor that you're going to want to put on it, that extended mlok shroud won't actually fit any mlok nuts between the shroud and the suppressor. Better to just put a suppressor cover on the LT and have more options. There's a guy on Reddit who makes some pretty baller suppressor covers for a good price. SWaller89

Keeping the retirement age at 65 would be more beneficial to my career than extending it and keeping the LTD in play forever. It's an insurance policy. The older the people on it, the more expensive it is. Furthermore, long-term disability is to protect your earning capacity till retirement. I do not concur with the notion that retirement needs to extend beyond 65, therefore neither does the insurance for it. Airline pilots are obsessed with making LTD some sort of moral imperative. It's just actuarial. You can have a more generous system the lower the maximum age is. I have no sympathy for people who want to work past 65, and so I see no need to create a disability system for them. Are the extra earning years not enough? I am one vote, and like the old guys begging for an extension to the retirement age, voting directly against my interests, I am happy to vote against theirs.

Simple solution. Ltd ends at 65 no matter what.

They may end up on LTD, but this is not the case. I don't know if you're an airline guy or not, but the number of guys I hear raging against age 65 because it is a direct attack on their perception of their own status and money making ability. I think airline Management is suspiciously quiet on age 65 because they know, especially with the new contracts and generous LTD plans, that they are going to pay a fortune to 65, 66, and 67-year-olds who did not realize how weak their bodies had become. It'll be the widebody captains who don't have a real job anyways who stick around until they look like the crypt keeper 🤣😂

Investigators will have access to everything that was deleted. This is the internet, you can't make it go away in a day. But it does keep people like you and me from seeing it. And I am 100% okay with that. The chattering class can wait for the report. I have no problem with us having this discussion in this forum, but we do not have an inherent right to unlimited information just because we want to know earlier.

To be fair to the other side, it's not actually clear that he's using these solely as a negotiating tool. When the president talks about the wonders of President McKinley, the only way to interpret that is that the tariffs are part of a plan to fund the government. Now I happen to support that plan, but it certainly pours water over the argument that Trump is just trying to twist everybody's arm with tariffs. At a certain point, unless we want to that inflation run wild, increase income taxes, and all the other stuff that will be required to bring our debt under control, tariffs are a pretty great way to fund your government. There's a reason so many places use them.

If you're going to be using supersonic rounds, then it doesn't make a ton of sense to choose 300 blackout over 556. That's not to say 300 blackout isn't going to ruin someone's day, but the ballistics of 556 are more damaging in pretty much every configuration over any 300 black. Especially if you don't care about overpenetration, then then 556 is going to put the most damaging hole in the bad guy. 300 blackout is quiet, scary quiet, and not having to worry about deafening yourself while defending your home is one of the things I like about it. But 556 suppressed is still quiet enough that you probably aren't going to ruin your flying career defending your home, and you get all the benefits of the sheer ferocity of 556. If you absolutely need the shortest SBR, or want a hearing safe home defense gun, then 300 black makes sense. That's what I have. But if you're going to use super sonic ammo I'd probably stick with 556.

I love my Rattler, but you pay a big premium for MCX guns. If it's just for the collection I'd want something that looks like the original. The Zenith ZF-5 fits the bill

Nice try, Diddy.

The Sport of Kings claims another career. Starting to wonder if women in the military was really the force multiplier it was pitched as? 😂🤣

Boeing is just what the DOD would look like if it had financial and performance accountability. It's a perfect match.

Two things that should probably never be allowed in that airspace at night. Circling to another runway, and maintaining visual separation. It's hard enough to get eyes on the correct airplane landing at Tulsa at night. I can't think of any way to be absolutely certain you have the correct set of blinking lights in that airspace.

You are incorrect. Chat gpt absolutely has a web search capability. You are confusing the LLM with the many surrounding services that create a product you can use like ChatGPT or DeepSeek, including the phone or web app that acts as an interface between the LLM and the user. The app has all the same security risks any other app, such as TIK TOK, can have.

It is not open source, it's open weight.

Old people suck. It's an inescapable force of nature that as you get older you get shittier. All you can do is try to start the process from a better position and slow the rate of decent into self-absorbed entitlement. Some do a very poor job of this. Add a lifetime of irresponsible financial planning, and maybe even an identity that is too wrapped up in the fantasy of a 1960s style airline captain, you end up with guys do and say anything to cling to the job longer.

It's already a huge stretch to call anything related to J6 treason. No one was working for a foreign entity against our government, and no one was trying to replace one form of government with another. In fact the people involved (wrongly) believed they were defending our system and the integrity of our elections. The intent is a vital distinction. That doesn't mean it was rational or acceptable. It was a riot, and riots are almost always bad. This one certainly was. But that's not treason.

Okay I admit it, vertical landing is way cooler than I thought.

I think you're confusing being out of touch with reality with mounting a legal defense. I have a little knowledge of this topic...

I'd love to see what 5.7 could do compared to 9 mm through some more plausible self-defense scenarios, such as shooting through a car door or windshield. I remember when 357 Sig was being touted to the police because you could shoot right through a windshield and still neutralize a homicidal driver, but that's just another caliber that ended up sacrificed to the altar of 9 mm. I always liked Paul Harrell's videos, and he has a pretty good one on 5.7 showing that it is still going to fuck your day up if you get hit with it. Certainly to the point that I think it's reasonable to consider for carrying. But I don't think you can extend that argument to say that it is *better* or *as good* as the 9mm... Just like the guys who are carrying 1911s. Yeah, it's a gun and it'll work, but it's pretty hard to make an objective argument that a 45 ACP 1911 is a superior concealed carry weapon, unless you're just such a bad shot that you need the weight of a 1911 and feather trigger to hit the target, in which case, yeah, that would be your best option. I'm sure I'll piss someone off here who carries a 1911 with that statement 🤣😂. It is truly incredible what has been done with 9mm though.

A TCAS alert is not "common" to the point you ignore them, even in DCA. Or any airport in America. Or anywhere. Especially when you can see the converging altitudes. Now, I can understand the regional pilots continuing through a tcas alert because they heard that the other aircraft has them in sight. Especially when it's a slow-moving helicopter. And getting visual on the wrong aircraft in the ocean of bright lights, on nogs, is also completely predictable. So far I don't think this is on the pilots of either aircraft, but we'll see. But if the helicopter didn't have a display that shows the surrounding traffic, this is on the military. And anybody who is surprised by that has had their head in the sand forever. DCA has been pretending like their bullshit airspace arrangement is perfectly ok and no big deal for a long time. Sadly, this was bound to happen. Tragedies happen, and maybe there is a traffic display in the helicopter, but so far the Helo pilots over here opining do not believe there is one. Any -60 pilots know the answer? Drowning in ice water is a horrific way to go. I can't even fathom being one of the families right now.

Anyone remember the KCBM sim instructor who went on the news on the 90s saying that the air force was refusing to add TCAS to aircraft and it was a hazard... Right before a military plane crashed into an airliner over the ocean killing everyone? The military never learns... What a shitty day for aviation.