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She is saying there is no gatekeeper. This is expressly, and openly about controlling what is allowed. The only other explanation is DHS is launching a government funded version of super snopes, which seems unlikely to me. Congress has been tap dancing on the Harrison decision for awhile now. The disdain these people apparently hold for the common voter is disturbing.

The Pulitzer prize was established from an endowment set aside by Joseph Pulitzer, whose paper war with William Randolph Hearst established the concept of yellow journalism. Those same yellow journalists bragged about their ability to start a war (Spanish-American War, "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war" - Hearst). Walter Duranty flat out lied about the Holodomor in Ukraine, and defended Stalin's show trials. Disinformation isn't new. Historically it comes from "authoritative sources." The solution has never been to ignore the first amendment.

The only tax related source document I could find was on the RCID website. Lots of reference to ad valorem taxes. So I suspect the taxes breaks are property related.

It's full of political buzzwords, but the substance is mostly stuff they were probably doing anyways (investing in base schools, helping spouses get jobs, etc. etc) There's a bit of investing in STEM at HBCUs and the like, but whatever. So basically, standard response from the bureaucracy. Insert all the buzzwords into the current plan and claim to be doing the thing.

It's linked in the article you posted. Second link. https://media.defense.gov/2022/Apr/13/2002976515/-1/-1/0/DOD-EQUITY-ACTION-PLAN.PDF

Did any of you actually read the action plan?

The problem with solar and wind is one of time. Their peak production is not aligned with peak demand. There's also a square foot of land for production vs. population density problem if the suburban NIMBYs ever lose their fight. Although I suppose we could just turn the desert southwest into a giant solar farm and storage facility. The problem then is that the entire production system needs to be very oversized (expensive) or a storage system is needed. All the current storage technologies are not really suitable (huge and expensive), at least for now. The other option is dispatchable energy sources, natural gas currently plays that role in Texas. They ran into some issues with the big freeze, but that was mainly a system design problem not a fundamental problem with their concept. They use a lot of renewable energy. In the longer term, less reliance on oil/fossil for energy is a good thing for multiple reasons. Nuclear power production technology has been stagnant for a long time, and I'd be fine with some R&D grants/competitions/etc to get the technology caught up. nuclear good idea fairies: Fusion: obvious, but also may be a pipe dream Recycling reactors: something like 80% of the energy is still in spent fuel from legacy reactors, France does re-refine the spent fuel to reuse. Negative: produces plutonium as a by-product. New design fission reactors: goal of reducing proliferation concerns, improving safety Ramp-able reactors: current reactors can't ramp up and down quickly, and are only designed to completely shut down a limited number of times in their lifetime. Not sure if this is a pipe dream too.

What brabus said. As a wise man once said: "Never pass on the opportunity to instruct"

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

Regular is up to $5 in Vegas. And I get 13mpg. Driving to Cali in two weeks is gonna get pricey. Vidal Junction is up to $6.59 (it's in the middle of nowhere) Feel my pain!

Point of order: The first amendment protects the people from the government. Free speech is a concept, and as the bill of rights are only an enumeration of natural rights the conceptual framework can stand as a point of argumentation. One can argue that social media is effectively the public square based on how politicians and the press treat it. A conceptual argument for free speech would be applicable. God help us that the youtube comments without the youtube is now considered public discourse by people in positions of power........

People should read "The Law of Self Defense: A Guide for the Armed Citizen" It's by Andrew Branca, a lawyer that specializes in self defense. If you carry a weapon you MUST read it.

It's hard to stir up controversy when the Georgia law that was the only thing those three were attempting to stand on was changed before the trial even started, and everyone who looked at that case thought they were guilty as sin.

Once a member submits a religious exception request, their status should be changed to "admin refusal" and they are no longer bound to the current requirement timeline. The exception process from start to finish takes about 6 calendar months, including an opportunity to appeal AF surgeon general if denied at majcom level. Ref: AFI 52-201, 48-110 DoDI 1300.17 Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Mea culpa. 618% is what I should have wrote if I hadn't F'd up in excel.

About 6-9 months ago I was curious about this debate and dug into average annual pay on manual labor jobs in 1969 compared to the 2007. Those years didn't have any real significance, other than having data that was easy to grab. The average annual pay of all manual labor jobs had risen very slightly in real terms (43k to 44.5k). The average cost of healthcare had risen 5.5% to 22% of that annual pay. The median home value had risen from about 400% to 3500%. An average college degree has gone from 22% to about 100%. Average car cost had gone from 60 to 69%. Everything else stayed the same cost or got cheaper. So there is a real something in medical costs, home costs, and college costs. Any discussion about addressing those needs to actually look into the root cause of why the cost went up. Throwing government money around doesn't inherently do that.

I got the first back then and a booster 3ish years ago. The young'ins are also befuddled with the number of Anthrax shots I've had.

Her credentials sound like they're in line with the topic. However, she bit off on the polyethyleneglycol is anti-freeze thing. The poly part makes a big difference. Ethylene glycol kills your pets. Polyethyleneglycol is in your toothpaste. Different than injecting it, but it's not anti-freeze. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

I bet you're fun to be around.

So you're mad that more generals didn't resign in protest because you don't like the political decision that the elected president made?

harrumph!

deuce.

Nothing, but that wasn't what I or Negatory were talking about. Pay attention. Are they covering it up yet? Have we crossed that line? Beats me. News moves faster than the bureaucracy.

Any reason to believe that the process under a different administration, under a completely different operational scenario, after a massive explosion killed a bunch of people in a very public way? - I don't know. Big public failures like the VBIED at Abbey gate have resulted in relaxed ROE before (Blade 11). I would imagine the intel sources on the ground were a bit constrained as compared to a couple years ago. Does another VBIED escalate our withdraw more or less than a bad hellfire? What is the political/public/strategic impact of another attack and more dead Marines? Does that make it more likely that the NCA would end up pressured to "do something?" I do think that the operations surrounding the evacuation were not business as usual. For what it's worth I get the anger, I've picked up a lot of broken people there.

You don't know who signed off on the strike, or what the approval level was, or what the ROE was, or what the intel was, or anything really. You're looking at an outcome and demanding... something. What, a public debrief and root cause analysis? War is messy, innocent people die, mistakes are made, people do horrible things. This has always been. There is no fancy all knowing technology that will make it something else. There will never be a process that will satisfy a libertarian sense of due process prior to engagements. It will always be fucking terrible. The answer is to not engage in it when it isn't absolutely necessary. I'm not saying accountability and transparency isn't important, or that simple admission that a mistake was made (when a mistake was made) isn't the ethical thing to do. I'm saying the urge to cut off people's heads says something about the people demanding it as much as the act that draws the mob's ire.