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Met a dude a few weeks ago. F-16 patch doing a PhD candidacy at one of our national laboratories to discern the necessary AI/ML advances that will be needed for the loyal wingman program. My guess is this change is included to get dudes like that to the top easier.

No, I don't know any state that has it. The term "paper abortion" comes from men's rights movements. They are trying to make parenthood a universally declinable right.

Look up the term "paper abortion." Basically advocating for the right of a father to give up all parental rights to a child as well as responsibilities if the mother decides to have the child.

Interesting he says specific degrees..... That makes me believe they will be weighing certain academic fields higher than others. Specifically, by the language in his letter, technological or STEM fields.

You're approaching this from a perspective that power companies have more leverage than they actually do in this situation. They are being forced to pay market rate for the power, which in many markets, as sole distributors and monopolies, they essentially establish. Not exactly familiar with California laws but if the distributor is allowed to set the rate they buy power there is probably additional business opportunity in CA to sell equipment that deprives the power company of additional power unless they pay a user defined rate. I'll have to look into that. Regardless, solar is at a pretty critical tech turning point and I think widespread adaption is going to happen in about 5-10 years. For one, power companies don't have the infrastructure to keep up with increasing power demands. So it makes sense that decentralized supply would be an overall benefit to development.

They should pay you because they are taking it. Its financial accounting 101. They took an asset, they generate a liability. It would be a handout if the power company was allowed to use excess energy for free. Unless there is something I'm misunderstanding about what you're saying here.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/30/afghan-soldier-asylum-texas-jail-taliban-border/ Here you go.... Afghan refugee caught crossing border illegally with group of Latin Americans. Latin Americans are released after claiming refugee status with no hearing or additional process. Afghan who fought and assisted US is imprisoned and denied an immediate hearing. My big problem is that both groups are wrong to cross illegally, but the law is not being equally applied. WTF?

The Afghan Adjustment Act failed to make it into the omnibus bill which was needed to provide a legal path to citizenship for the vast majority of people we evacuated. Without this, 10's of thousands of people evacuated will be deported back to Afghanistan in August of 23 when their temporary visas expire.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/man-with-wwi-explosive-lodged-in-his-rectum-sparks-bomb-scare-hospital-evacuation/amp/

Prozac that's a bunch of partisan bull and you know it. This isn't a case of "Elon Musk said this happened...." This is a case of "Elon Musk released an archive of direct correspondence between the DNC, FBI and Twitter board officers to journalist who then published it in its original form."

FBI probably already telling CNN anchors this is fake news and they need to discredit it.

Er.... Noone on Capital hill represents anyone here's values. Lol, they represent themselves. If you think otherwise you are as naive as anyone else. The "establishment" isn't designed for people like you Prozac. It is designed to reciprocate a mechanism of power to benefit certain individuals above all others.

Most people are partisans and don't actually care unless they can manipulate a story to support their political aims. That's the state our country has grown into. The truth no longer matters, rather "your own truth" matters and the truth you can successfully construct a narrative around is the only one of importance. Ironically, from reading the internal discussions, that is exactly the attitude that slowly allowed Twitter to spin off course into ignoring company policy and guidelines to support their own political biased. While we don't have access to the FBIs internal records I'm almost certain their conversations were similarly structured as they twisted and departed acceptable expectations of a politically neutral federal unit.

So like when we redefined the definition of vaccine right?

You think its stupid because you cant see the rational in it. (admittedly I cant either) You're projecting yourself and thinking "if I said that stuff it would be career suicide/awful/ruin my life/friends..." whatever.... The problem is, for all of this "stupid" stuff he says..... he keeps gaining track records of success, which implies he sees something we don't to all of this stupid crap he is saying. So if we are purely evaluating his competence, we have to 1.) identify what his goals are and 2.) track his record of success. So far I'm not sure anyone really knows what #1 is. So to say he is actually stupid is only ever a guess at this point. Because the man successfully won a presidency, has even now, a massive following, and continues to make millions of dollars with weird gimmicky business models. If we are so smart why are we not doing the same?

Didnt the WH also say the pandemic was over in a 60 minutes interview?

I mean.... I want to say he's stupid.... but..... https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/12/16/trump-nft-collection-sells-out-price-surges/

I have no idea where to even begin with this? Have you ever worked in a targeting cell? Like..... no man, you don't need to listen to a JAG, it is your decision..... but if you have that mindset, don't cry when interpol takes you into custody on vacation in France because you committed a war crime... I don't know what to tell you, lol. Your attitude comes off as "my job would be a whole lot easier if I could just break the law to do it." I mean, no shit man, that's everyone. That's why we have the laws. Because when we don't people break them and do worse stuff just to make their job slightly more easy. Ask SBF, dude thought managing a $30B crypto fund was super easy without laws or lawyers....

So I talked with a JAG friend of mine who worked in PACOM as an international lawyer. Her take was the Arms Export Control Act applies to goods and SERVICES rendered to foreign militaries, normally requires licensing. The US claims enormous jurisdiction over all US citizens in the matter, even those operating privately overseas.

I'm really curious how they are going to make the case for arms export control act. I've touched issues like this before but my understanding is the government would have to prove that he gave the Chinese materials that were protected as intellectual property tied to a very specific weapon system related to US inventory under the act. Doesnt necessarily need to be classified. That sounds like a reach since he certainly didn't teach the Chinese how to land on US carriers. But admittedly I'm not an expert on this topic. My experience before was discussing issues with foreign allies in Asia reselling technology we sold to them to other Asian partners, which is also a violation of the act. We try to hold allies accountable for that but most of them just pretend to care then don't care because they are their own country.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-us-marine-pilot-accused-conspiracy-training-chinese-pilots Well we have answers on whether Americans were involved now.

Today I learned what Chess-Boxing was.....

You aren't far off actually. A lot of the language around military resume writing advises to refer to commanders as "chief executives" etc.... It seems weird to us because a squadron is a small organization compared to the AF at large. But think of each echelon as a subsidiary company to much larger enterprise. A squadron commander is not CEO of Disney, but in a lot of ways they are equatable to a CEO of a small franchise business with 100-150 employees.

The media regards anyone who is appointed command as a senior executive. I'm not sure if that's the case here but there's a lot of eluding to it.

I 100% endorse this. We do not attribute enough responsibility of our country's history with slavery/racism to the British. That was not a system we instituted. It was a system they did, particularly one ultra powerful family did, to benefit their wealth and empire. They really should assume and take responsibility for the majority of the blame.