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Its like they've somewhat adopted an agile methodology where they just keep putting a bunch of MVP's out, that generally fail, but they garner so much info off each failure that their next product is leaps and bounds ahead of the next. The real secret sauce here has to be their analytics methodology. I remember when CNN showed pictures of the Boeing cockpit side by side with the Dragon cockpit. While the Boeing cockpit looked like a traditional air and space design the dragon was next level. All large touch screens, streamlined displays and user friendly GUI's.

"Michael Guymon says keeping Davis-Monthan busy preserves jobs off the base when thousands of workers, military and civilian spend their government paychecks outside the DM gates. “There's an economy that is built off of individuals who are paid, and then there's spending money in the community."" Not sure why anyone should care?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/theories-possible-between-covid-shots-110000663.html

Man we've come full fucking circle.... https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/23/entertainment/lilo-and-stitch-live-action-colorism-cec/index.html None of these people bitched about the casting in the Little Mermaid..... but holy shit did they bitch about this....

In the top right of your browser, just hit incognito mode. It prevents your computer from story cookies and other files that mine data off your browser and send it back to the merchant site. More importantly, also prevents your wife from finding out you were surfing porn because you forgot to clear your history.

Was talking about this in another thread but generally consumer based pricing is becoming more common and will likely overtake static pricing over the next 5-10 years. In other words, if you make more money, you will likely pay more for an identical product to someone pays less money as algorithms get better about predicting consumer behavior and profile. This might sound like something you never do but we already it with airline tickets, insurance and education. You will pay more for an airline ticket if you logon to book with a Macbook then you would if you logon with a Dell or Acer.

Its also coming out now that a member of Biden's team approached, authored and pressured the "50 members of the intelligence community" to sign the letter that said the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation.

Definitely don't do it for the retirement benefits. Its chump change compared to what's out there on the outside. Your exit options will be significantly more limited as a 30 year O-6 as well, and you will have only 10-15 years your second career, the one that is going to be significantly more lucrative.

Nope. Waters great on this side of the pool friend. Pay is also. Im happier, my family is happier, my son is in a 100X better school than we ever could have had AD. Go find the life you always owed yourself and your family. You deserve it and congrats on the retirement.

This sounds shitty and inequitable.... but I realized socialized pricing is becoming the norm on the private commodities market. We already do it with airline ticketing and education. Mortgages honestly makes sense as a next step. You're going to pay it because at the end of the day you need a house and you are willing to pay more than others for it. If anything there's a shit ton of bank executives kicking themselves in the nuts right now for not thinking of this sooner. They were leaving a lot of money on the table. Just watched a really interesting presentation on this but in short, the way the consumer market is moving, over the next few decades, if you make more money, you will begin paying more for the same items other people pay less for. In other words, as digital markets become more and more dominant, they are going to use data collection to profile you, and individual pricing based on your personal demand will dictate your price. If you make more money or have higher demand, companies will be able to ID that you are wiling to pay more for an identical product someone else is getting at a much lower price. This sounds bonkers, and I wouldn't believe it on my own, but like I said--its already happening in education and airline ticketing. Not saying I agree with Biden here. Just saying if he didn't do it, the bank was certainly going to do it in the next decade.

Was at some AF school and we had a consultant in tech come talk to us. It was about 3-4 years ago when "innovation" was the Air Force buzz sauce. Dude just laughed and said the DoD is one of the least innovative enterprises on the planet. He talked about how innovation cost money, and Elon Musk will blow up a $30B rocket just to figure out why rockets blow up. The DoD is too conservative and isn't willing to do that. He basically said if you're not the type of person that can burn a $100 bill without even blinking, you aren't ready to innovate, and that's why private sector software, tech and space are moving so far beyond DoD capability. Thought he made some really good points about that.

Just got around to watching "Industry" on HBO and holy f*ck it's good--cant wait for season 3. Premise of the show basically follows an internship class on the trade floor at a fictional top tier investment bank in London. They have some of the highest highs and also some of the lowest lows--sex, parties, drugs, huge deal transactions. Apparently the show was written by two investment bankers who left the industry due to the toxicity and some people in the field have said its a pretty good representation of accuracy although like any TV show, a bit dramatized. The shows music is also excellent. I can't say enough about it. If a coke fueled mergers and acquisitions career was your future fall back plan for failing to get into UPT, you will definitely enjoy this.

Oh yeah this dude is a total dumbass.

Actually went to that site. The kid may honestly have a decent defense for entrapment because the site is fronted as a legitimate business. Its satire but if you're 21 and stupid (which he is) you might not pick up on that. Id get a decent lawyer if I was him.

More goodness from young A1C's in the ANG! https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/us/tennessee-air-national-guardsman-hitman-online-application/index.html

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/04/16/airman-charged-in-pentagon-intel-leak-regretted-joining-the-military/ Headline: Airman charged in Pentagon intel leak regretted joining the military LMAO.... Everyone on the amn/nco/SNCOs Facebook page about to get an investigation.

This bullshit: https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-major-ongoing-war-soldiers-212009976.html

Oh man, I really want to see that.... Guess I'll have to wait for drill next month.

There's about 100 MQ-9 sensor operators who should all be under investigation now lmao 🤣

This kid also gets the award for absolute dumbest reason to mishandle classified. Not because you're going to whistle blow a perceived ethical violation, not because you're a no shit spy (which is shitty but at least you have a motivation, money, power, whatever...) Not because you're a fast burner and thought you could get some work done on the weekend.... Like hell..... even Trump clearly had an agenda to drop some bomb shell leaks right into the election...... No..... you literally leaked a trove of sensitive information to impress a group of adolescent Call of Duty gamers..... how fucking moronic do you get.....

Of course he's not concerned about the consequence of the leaked information.... if we were concerned that mishandling TOP SECRET had grave consequences we would have more questions about the documents found in his Delaware offices and home..... What about the information found in Trump's home? Was that of great consequence? And if the information wasn't of great consequence should it even be labeled TOP SECRET since by definition TOP SECRET is information of exceptionally grave consequence to US National Security?

One of the bad things about civilian controlled military is you realize the people doing the controlling rarely lack qualification. If you look at how people like Kathleen Hicks get to their post, its clear that when they arrive they don't have nearly enough preparation on strategy, geo political climate, global security, etc... to really make informed decisions about how to appropriate money, etc... Unfortunately, this is a viable career path. And I've seen it quite a bit in the academic world, MPP students who apply for White House internships that 5-6 years later lead to undersecretary positions in most federal arms. These are people who have barely the work and life experience of a seasoned major, now managing general officer equivalents on how to run a military. If you want to go far in the DoD, masters degrees and PME are for schmucks. What you really need to do is get on board with a political candidate and let them appoint you to a Pentagon position. You work your way from there.

You are but I don't think most people feel the same. Like 99% of people are just thinking 1.) there's only a 1% or less chance my daughter is ever even in that situation and 2.) even if my daughter is in that situation, was she really competitive for an athletic scholarship anyway. You can see that now with the current media hype. The only people at the HS/Collegiate level getting any media attention are young women who actually had shots at financial incentives. For everyone else, people are simply asking "what are the damages?" in a very judicial sense of "no one is entitled a right to fair competition." I respect you're willing to go to bat for your daughter but just thinking of the local crop of parents in my child's own school 99% are of the mentality "how many summer camps can I get them into so i don't actually have to raise or watch them over the summer."

Jon Stewart nailed it in this interview. Hick's performance was so bad it's hit her Wikipedia profile: "On April 6, 2023, Kathleen Hicks and comedian and veteran advocate Jon Stewart spoke at the University of Chicago on the human impact of military service.[18] Many of the clips from this interview went viral due to her unable to maintain her composure."

I don't think its going to get any real traction until athletic scholarships (i.e. something of material value) are taken up. But right now women outnumber men 2-to-1 in college (and they don't seem to realize that) and at the same time transgenderism is so rare they aren't taking any opportunities in any scale that people are paying attention to.