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Neither did the last guy, or for that matter GW, but you didn’t see the press over-apologetically calling it a stutter every time they rambled off in noise. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’d argue the entire reason commanders want their troops vaccinated has nothing to due with actual risk to force and everything to do with the pain in the ass that is all the COVID mitigation’s and hurdles put in front of training and deployments. Likewise I’d say we could do far more good vaccinating dependents vs non deployed garrison forces. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I feel like blowing it up is the only reasonable thing to do with it now... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

This.... I can say I did meet an Oathkeeper/Alt-Right/whatever label crazy person actively serving in a position of senior influence during my time in the military. He was a CW4 and literally in a position to influence a lot and had a soapbox to do so from while he was presiding over young impressionable flight students to discuss constitutional authorities and other dreamed up nonsense during the Obama era. The difference between the BS being reported and reality was he didn’t last long. He was subsequently smashed in place when he decided to open his mouth on a monthly basis for what we that were willing to make sworn statements referred to as “Brant’s Rants.” Extremists do exist for sure, same as rapists, racists, creepy dudes that play with My little Ponies, and plenty of other weirdos. The problem is the media won’t report that we don’t tolerate them, just that they exist and therefore must be an epidemic. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Right but nationalism/brandish in the form of performance motor sports is something we’ve seen and celebrated before. (Ford vs Ferrari, NASCAR, etc) and this is really just a new version of that when I hear people talk about Tesla. You can celebrate it and it’s achievements in high performance bleeding edge tech, it isn’t anything beyond a PR campaign for the actual mass sale by other vehicles which share little with the buzz ship. Somebody will probably try to counter with “well they already sold out the cyber truck forever so there is a demand” and I’ll remind you that ostentatious buzz purchases of people with more money than sense happen in all markets for the new must have thing. Watch broke people find a way to own the newest phone and it’s like that is written in our DNA. We live in the influencer age after all. Every first year Challenger was sold before ever arriving to a dealership and that is hardly an amazing car. I think Tesla recognizes their marketshare cannot expand beyond a certain point and with GM saying they will go all electric in 14 years and other manufacturers taking on EV full heartedly at all trim levels they have to do something to force an influx in market participation. That’s why you see him actively switching messages from it’s totally workable to just own an EV to now saying “we don’t have the infrastructure” in more idealistic policy forums/discussions. I think he is hoping to draw attention from idealists with the power to make it happen and for serious billions bankrolled by the government in a future infrastructure bill. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wow you mean if I spend half the equity of my mortgage to purchase both the vehicle and an infrastructure that won’t move with me if I relocate, I can drive a car that isn’t big enough to suit my needs and charge it from the comfort of my home!?! What an opportunity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is a compact... crossover... barely. Look around you when you drive literally anywhere in Suburbia, or look behind you if you’re like me and have a pair of car seats. That is not a comparable vehicle size to the big burly 3rd row might be an option SUVs that America has been in love with since the mid 90s. That’s exactly what I’m talking about when I say I’m confused at exactly how Tesla is supposedly this revolutionary idea. It seems like they really want to just creat a buzz, and let a major manufacturer like GM or Ford do the heavy lifting of producing the mass of vehicles we actually buy, meanwhile Tesla will happily reap the benefits of being the go to source for infrastructure investment. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Bro that’s a risk regardless of vehicle. Going overseas with a stateside vehicle of any kind can incur all sorts of negatives like loss of warranty plans, issues with vehicle smog/safety requirements... There is a reason pretty much ever overseas installation has a known place everybody buys their beater car from. Also you damn sure don’t take anything nice to Korea. Personal advice I’d give anybody short for orders is don’t buy anything, particularly if there is a risk/desire to go OCONUS. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m still mind blown that Tesla hasn’t spent more time trying to attack the segment I think would make the most impact in wedging it’s self into American driveways. Crossover/SUV/minivan is what I need as a middle class household with the budget to afford an EV, not a luxury sedan or hyper powered space truck. And no the Model X absolutely does not qualify for this. I don’t need a battery powered Jeep Compass Where the heck is the Tesla model to take on the Honda Pilots of the world. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somewhere in Europe circa 1997: Euros: “We are building an Eagle killer... “ US: “Yeah we kinda did that a decade ago... and we gave you a chance to jump on it...” Seriously the Typhoon is the 4.5 gen fighter version of Tornado, a plane which literally did nothing as well as any of its peers except fly fat slow and stupid down a runway and get shot down in spectacular fashion. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Did you flip a switch in your house and the lights come on? Ok you know how that is like an expectation because you pay a bill... yeah that’s part of being a 1st world country. And no, you can’t choose to not be part of that. There have been court cases literally requiring property owners to reattach themselves to power/water/etc utilities. Turns out there is an actual category which makes something a public utility vs just another commercial business. If a private company wants to make themselves part of that enterprise, they have to meet certain expected capabilities. A lot of them are safety related like you can’t just kill people with crap wiring, others are expectation related like yes you have to pay overtime and maintain a grid of sufficient resilience we don’t see rolling blackouts because it snowed. Right now there is a war going on in legislation as to whether or not to categorize digital data exchange (ie the thing we are talking via) as a utility and that fight is ongoing. We long ago decided that sewage, water, electricity, etc were public utilities. So yes, the governmental oversight and the private companies responsible for designing and managing Texas electrical utilities absolutely have questions to answer here. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I mean... they seem to have no business billing me for them and if I saw fit to take myself off the grid, they will use the power of the courts to force my commitment to support them. Now that’s not to say the Mayor didn’t have a reasonable point even if messaging was totally bonkers. It shouldn’t be so easy for people to simply throw up their hands and wait for the rescue they expect to immediately take place. This seems to be a force of personal resilience that we have somehow abandoned in general. However there is reasonable expectation that the governing and private companies we grant sole operation of utilities to go managing that responsibility in good faith. That’s exactly why there are power companies being sued by people provided they can prove that bungling priority shows harm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think somebody is playing 3D chess with the X... Something along the lines of Boeing exec to Congress/SECAF: Now that you’ve established Boeing’s light grey 15X program to fix your light grey problem, how about a 15Y program doing similar to get some new build Strikes... We can use “off the shelf” and “interchangeability” so it will be “Low Cost/Low Risk” development. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s a nonsense talking point developed to generate outrage by people with no basis for comparison. Look just to give you an idea how dumb this idea that 400 hours and we give you a gun... the deputy program in my counties Sheriff department was 6 months working in the jail. You were ineligible for work as a road officer until you passed that hurdle, which was after you met the state required course provided at the collegiate level (most places have gone to this model instead of individual academy programs outside major cities). If you actually looked around plenty of guys had been working the jail for as much as 18 months because of a limited number of field training officers so intake was managed to avoid deluding the road training. After that time in the jail where one could find themselves permanently because they were deemed unfit for road work, you went to a field training probation period... that was typically another 6-8 months before you were certified for individual patrol. The city metro program was similar, with higher qualification standards for immediate hiring, so while you skipped the jail per say you also had to show more quality to even get in. So yeah as some have pointed to, this nonsense you can be a cop easier than you can be a hairdresser is just noise from the same people screaming all cops are bastards. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

“Greener Cement....” See the funny part here is Cement/concrete production is one of the most intensive single carbon related issues on our impact on the eco system so really it has almost no way to go but up. While this is better than “just bury the damn things” between all its other issues I would hardly call this the single fix to make wind power THE way forward some think it is. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are plenty of people that would argue the actual act of prostitution is without violence (or even with if it’s agreed upon) a “victimless crime.” Now any dive into the world looking at it from the point of exploitation and all the little resultant negatives that come with it would see there is a whole lot of 2nd/3rd order effects that would definitely equal victimization. Likewise when I lived in Washington a whole lot of vocal people wanted to get rid of the victimless act of drug use... forget all the property crime and other issues that resulted from it. Who is that junky hurting but themselves.... just ignore all those other issues. There is very little in the typically referenced events that would be actual “victimless crimes.” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So no.... You just want to be mad at a number you don’t understand then, but luckily you can find no lack of people telling your with little/no Context that it’s a bad number and you should be mad. While we are at it, I can’t believe there were over 300 fatal plane crashes in this country. Year after year we do nothing to change that... we should be doing more. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’d honestly say we as a society need to be asking these questions but hell wherever anybody stands in this jump in. Answer the question in dollars and let’s say % of current deaths reduced. It would be good to get a wide array of answers out in the forum only to show just how far apart (and in some cases backward) opinions are on a way forward. Having been both in the academic and physical ends of this discussion it’s always amazing to see people demand change, only to immediately withdraw any actual motivation or funding that would result in any. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

How many hours of training are you willing to fund as a taxpayer? What qualitative impact in fatalities do we need to see to call it a good ROI? These are the two immediate questions that come to mind with people screaming we have to do something about the “epidemic of improper police violence” as som have called it. You know what would actually translate better than most to immediately alleviating fear and stressors going into an encounter which will likely result to an officer employing greater force to include deadly force? Mandatory 2 officer patrol units, and more hours spent doing hand to hand combative/retention/ground drills. Both those are dead concepts the second you suggest them because while they do have an impact, they cost way more than anybody is willing to pay for a solution. Again, this is stuff that requires more and wider funding/Manning to achieve actual downstream results (more arrests/less fatal encounters), but that’s not what the mob is shouting for now is it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Are you willing to evaluate those from the wider optic of the number of times and conditions creating/resulting in the encounters? Police encounters isn’t the leading cause of black men under 40, its Homicide in general. So are police simply so out to kill that it’s causing a massive skew in numbers do they possibly exist by disproportionate representation in an environmental condition more likely to have a negative outcomes associated with all encounters, not just the ones with law enforcement. This is one of those arguments that quickly gets the race card played against it because encounters above certain points in the socio economic strata have a disproportionately “positive” outcome. Meanwhile below a particular point which is where the demographic population swaps you end up with a combination of higher number of violent/exigent circumstances creating the encounter as well as less tangible impact points like the fact that an officer who patrols in that environment carries more behavioral stressors than the guy patrolling in another area. Population densities in particular urban vs rural environment also means the areas of denser population involve more encounters per patrol hours from say rural areas... again skewing numbers towards minorities. BCJS has done some pretty exhaustive peer studies into this math, and while there is a disparity, it is not supportive of the idea there is some baked in “with whites you gotta try and de-escalate, but you can just shoot the black guys,” crap being peddled by the ACAB crowd. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Do you think there is currently an epidemic or Racist extremism or to borrow from 10 years ago predatory sexual conduct that is a systemic part of the military? Do you think they are either consciously or subconsciously baked into our population. Now of course both those ideas are pretty absurd (and currently being peddled to the mob), but those of us that have experience in the military know better. What we see is a narrative on those topics created through cherry picking of details and a steady diet of shock and outrage media pumped into a society full of echo chamber social media circles. Similarly the idea that police face no action for misconduct and that police unions are somehow more powerful than city legislatures and mayors is being peddled. Sorry dude, I watched cops get fired for misconduct. I know guys who never made it past the state certificate from the academy because no department would hire them (one in particular was the son of a Lt in that department). Is there room for improvement? Sure as with any field where the median salary is in the sub 50k range, same as it is for teachers or nurses or any other field. But anybody who has spent a week in the military should know damn well empty promises to study the problem and “mandatory training” will lead to nothing but hours expended on PowerPoint briefings so leadership can tell it’s constituency “we did something.” Unless you and a whole lot of others are prepared for a full reinvestment of serious capital and time vetting, equipping, and training a Law Enforcement enterprise demands for change are nothing more than shouting to feel better about a tree in a forest of greater societal issues. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Infinitely superior to both A-29 and AT-6 for the intended role... Ignored completely in our attempts to sell it for AVFID because it’s “just a crop duster with guns,” and not “fully aerobatic.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is a growing argument for Salt based nuclear reactors being the only available means of scaling up electrical generation and the country investing the most in it... is China. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Will report back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Speaking of vaccines... I’d advise anybody getting the series to deliberately plan the backside of those shots to not be busy. 1st shot didn’t do much, just a little muscle stiffness in my arm/neck which meant a poor nights sleep and a touch of hangover... 2nd shot put me solidly on my ass 6 hours after getting it, basically it’s the 24-36 hour flu without the nausea/vomiting. Needless to say if you told your wife you were gonna paint the bathroom that weekend or something, think about maybe putting something else on the schedule. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk