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It’s financially non-sensical by a long shot to stay in and bypass years of seniority. You have to value certain intrinsic/non-monetary things far more. Nothing wrong with that, just stay in with eyes wide open and understand the long lasting ramifications of your decision as a young O-4. Spoiler: You can hit all those things in the guard, so really there actually is only one logical choice! I kid…sort of.

Out of likes today, but Merica, fuck yeah!

Always loved watching the ACs lay waste, very satisfying.

Old grumpy guys are bitching, everyone else is pretty much good with it. This likely passes handily. Of course everyone didn’t get everything they wanted, but I think the majority see good gains and far more pros than cons. There are always people who think negotiations means one side (pilots) must win 100% of every demand or else it’s a fail; why it’s a shock that some things are a company win is beyond me. It’s called negotiating, not winner takes all in combat to the death. Curious to see ALPA’s pros v cons papers.

That’s what I was thinking too, good to hear someone with way more crewed experience say that.

Mid-summer 2020 is a good line for enough data available to call with near 100% accurately everything that has happened and is “just now” coming up. Prior to that I’ll give anyone a pass, after that people were simply lacking critical thinking skills, too lazy to research beyond media headlines and “expert” talking points, prioritized emotions over logic, politically polarized to the point they’ll happily walk off the cliff if that’s what the party says to do, etc. For those who woke up late and acknowledged it, good for them. I hope they have the maturity to do a self-debrief and identify how they fucked up and what they can do next time to avoid the same mistake. Because there absolutely will be a next time.

One thing in that type of situation I don’t understand SOP-wise is how the FO can “never” say the word “abort.” It’s “say what you see.” Which I completely get 99% of the time. But in the event of an incursion and possibly killing hundreds of people, I feel like I would say abort and we can talk about it later. Takes too much time to say “AA is on our runway” and too much risk of getting a “huh?” from the CA. In such a time critical scenario, why would I ever be descriptive before directive. Curious what guys say who have done crewed flying longer than me.

The best times are when you arrive early from a short flight (BOS for ex), spend 50 min (longer than your flight time) taking laps because ramp is the most incompetent group of people on this planet, and 1/2 of the pax moss their connections. JFK is the worst. As to the DAL TA, looks like some pretty solid wins in QOL and pay. It’ll be good to see the pros/cons papers, but overall seems like way more wins than was expected. Of course that won’t stop disgruntled assholes from complaining and saying we didn’t get 100% of everything desired, therefore it’s a NO. I bet this passes very easily.

Those are all certainly at play, but follow the money and power; there are absolutely “elite” class members who are purposely pushing things a certain way via multiple lines of effort to increase one or both of those metrics for themselves and their class peers. It’s not really a conspiracy theory, as it’s written all over world history books as long as recorded history has existed. The problem is Americans are incredibly naive because they believe things like, “no way the US could ever have czars like Russia did,” or “no way our gov would do mass firearm confiscation as a precursor to the complete destruction of individual freedom…like has happened hundreds of times, every time, in history…hmmm.” Those things and everything else written in history can and will happen here if we let it. Americans need to stop being naive and lazy, else they are completely complicit in the destruction of our great country.

Agreed. And they can go fuck themselves on a registry. Only ones I own are my NFA items!

You have 120 days from the ruling to register an SBR without paying the tax. You can only register pistols that were in your possession at time of ruling. So reality is you’re limited by how many lowers you have currently; legally limited by how many of those lowers are currently set up as pistols. Here are the FAQs from the ATF: https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/docs/undefined/faqfinalrule2021r-08f-correctedpdf/download FAQ Final Rule 2021r-08f - Corrected.pdf

Too many things are passed off as coincidence; I don’t believe in coincidence much anymore. But I sure as fuck believe in widespread and constant incompetence!

Indeed. It’s funny how minds work when one can’t explain something, but only due to a lack of specific knowledge that they don’t know they don’t have, not because they’re dumb or aliens are taking over.

Wasn’t meant to be a spear, I’m honestly interested in learning. You’re right, I can’t directly compare the two, hence my question. Your generic answers makes it sound like it is pretty similar to mil ops, but doesn’t seem like that’s how at least this one went down.

What I’m trying to say is if you have ever had a background check/bought from an FFL, there is a paper trail of you being a gun owner. Now sure you may have lost that specific firearm, had it stolen, or sold it privately. But, they still know you’re a gun owner as a general statement. There is no hiding it unless 100% of firearms you’ve acquired over your lifetime have been private.

Guns are like any other investment, you should diversify! Thank you private sales and boat accidents.

Maybe multi-member districts, but the EC is critical to stop the coasts from running the entire country (which they basically are at the fed level) and fucking over everyone who doesn’t live in CA or NY.

@pawnman While I agree with the spirit of that cartoon, the reality is the gov knows every time you get a background check. It’s not a secret that M2 has hundreds of guns about to suffer a horrific boat accident. They know who has guns. I’m 100% against an official registry, but let’s not also be naive about the unofficial ways to know who owns guns in this country. If 10% of my stock is NFA, meh.

I know nothing about the specifics of how airbosses run air shows, so please excuse the following ignorance. Why are demos like this ran by a guy telling everyone what to do? In the mil we execute far more complex shit with far greater risks and way more aircraft, all without anyone directing our every move. We plan, brief, and execute with a decon plan. Seems the airboss directing things should be only as required to avoid an impending safety issue or gameplan about to go awry. The actual show execution should be done without airboss inject and IAW a plan that includes contracts and decon.

How do we create a viable 3rd party. Not one that just siphons votes, one that actually wins elections. I wish I had that answer.

And that’s the excuse you tell yourself to feel better. Despite this entire reply I disagree with, I will give credit to you changing your viewpoints over time. I am not including you personally (I know we had several back and forth in the past) in my above comment. In fact, you are the opposite of the people I described. To you’re overarching statement that it was pure guessing optimism with no info (paraphrasing), completely disagree. It was critical thinking based on observation, data (yes there was data that was rapidly coming out by summer, but it was suppressed heavily), and unemotional/logical thought process. Throughout the first 2 years tens of millions of people called it 100% time and again, they were labeled all sorts of things. No, it is not logical for you to argue all of them had no SA and just got lucky that they were completely right, it is logical they executed as stated above and everyone else made errors in judgement (trusted garbage lies, illogical arguments, etc.), thought processes, and allowed emotion to rule over logic. Zero stones cast at those who came around and acknowledged what had transpired.

Are you saying if registering as an individual, they won’t collect the tax stamp fee, but if registering as a trust they will? Edit: Just did some reading, and the answer is yes to my question above. I also think the trust has lost its luster for me (my current can in jail is individual purchase), so fuck it, thanks for the free SBR ATF!

@FLEA I remember summer 2020 talking about these aspects of Covid - it’s amazing how so many people said I (and others like me with critical thinking capability) we’re out to lunch, dangerous, etc. Complete silence from those same people who have been proven 100% wrong. I don’t hold grudges, so whatever, but I’ll still remember how some individuals in my life were horrendously wrong, shit on those who disagreed, and have made zero acknowledgment about it. Says something about their character.

The answer is because he’s a Democrat/not Trump.

Wow, didn’t realize it was 12 weeks. Totally agree, but I still feel like a CC can do the same thing. It’s “hard,” but it’s also the right thing to do in light of the fucktards in MSG world constant failures.