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  1. pawnman
    You are not required to accept continuation. Others on this board have used that fact after being passed over to get out of their pilot ADSCs. The GI Bill one may be more tricky...they can't force you to take continuation, but they may take back your transfer and not allow your dependents to use it.
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    Maybe...but we don't generally relieve flying squadron commanders after a "pilot error" Class A mishap. There's gotta be more to the story than a single iPad ingested by an engine off-station.
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    Oof. So they relieved a commander because some crew chief left their iPad in the inlet and the aircrew didn't spot it on the walk around?
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    I can confirm his stuff is awesome. Just phenomenonal quality for the price. Framed four together as part of a revitalization project for the ROTC detachment where I teach.
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    I love how she says "I don't know what a curfew means"...then proceeds to tell the crowd what a curfew means. And how she encouraged the rest of the crowd to break the curfew...then went home before the curfew kicked in. I'm cynical enough to think she wants the cops to arrest protestors to continue to fuel her race-baiting politics.
  6. pawnman
    Probably when covid made us overmanned.
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    We gotta be even more careful with our money. Our bonus options aren't as good as the pilots.
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    Because if you have a basic grasp of statistics, you can see what the data says.
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    Until we start forcing people to take the vaccine at gunpoint...yeah, let's keep vaccines that save more lives than they take available to the public. Not to mention pulling a vaccine due to six total cases of adverse reactions inspires a whole new level of fear in medical science.
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    I don't know if I could give you an exact number for my threshold...but it's definitely above the number that halted the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines. As an entering argument, I'd say if the vaccine has an adverse reaction rate lower than the fatality rate of the disease it protects against, that's probably a net win.
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    Over 6 people in millions. We'd halt all airline travel if we applied the same safety standards.
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    They won't be 160 IQ individuals...police departments have actually fought lawsuits so that they don't have to hire people who are "too smart".
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    Real estate, stock market, and grocery stored don't provide demand for dollars? The value of currency is based on government taking back some of the currency they issue? Gonna need you to explain that one in more detail.
  14. pawnman
    She'll get whatever the judge orders based on the totality of your income. Ducking out of AD before getting a retirement to covert it to a Reserve/ANG/DoD civilian retirement doesn't give you any special protection. It just means alimony won't be deducted automatically from your retirement check.
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    Baffling to me how military members, who would be willing to hang a soldier out to dry for this kind of mistake, somehow find a way to defend police who "accidently" shoot someone.
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    Inflation paired with record low housing inventory. Only something like 1 million homes available nationwide...lowest since the 80s. Too bad I sold my house last year...
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    Well, hell...let's make it fair and set all the tax rates to zero.
  18. pawnman
    Have we moved beyond the need for taxes as a source of revenue? Do they now solely exist to balance some perceived unfairness in the economic stratification of the country?
  19. pawnman
    Basically. It scraps all other federal taxes (income, capital gains, employment, etc) and replaces it with a universal national sales tax. Along with the proposal was the "pre-bate", or paying a monthly payment to low-income folks so they aren't crippled by the tax until tax return time.
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    Even if you took all the money from every billionaire...every last dollar from Bezos, Gates, and Musk, and ignoring the market inefficiencies in liquidating their stocks...you STILL wouldn't fund the government for a year. It's not a revenue problem. It's a spending problem.
  21. pawnman
    The people north of 7 figures are already paying all the taxes. The top 1% are paying more than the bottom 90%. https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2020-update/#:~:text=The top 1 percent paid,50 percent (4.0 percent).
  22. pawnman
    Can we prevent the spread by wearing masks?
  23. pawnman
    The ex being entitled to your money depends on the court order/alimony. The whole 10-year thing only means they can automatically get money allocated from your retirement. If you get a divorce at 9 years and 355 days, your ex can still be entitled to a portion of your retirement, it just won't be allocated automatically.
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    It's a pension. It's the same type of pension, just a lower percentage. Doing 20 and getting out will net you 40% of your base pay for life, instead of 50%. Otherwise, it's run exactly the same way as the legacy system.
  25. pawnman
    I mean...there's still a pension at 20 years.
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