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But, but, AI….waves hands.

Things are going great: https://apnews.com/article/musk-trump-spacex-dragon-capsule-e1fa0607a8e69bc2ad1677f5920b5f56

Wild. Just confirm again you have R2D2 on simulate, right?

Can you imagine

https://bsky.app/profile/nktpnd.bsky.social/post/3lorxf4bzec2o

A common thread of the gold wings job is that the point of the job is to go do stuff overseas, usually on a ship. A big part of that, while “home”, is to train to do those things in places away from home. That is going to make pet care impossible without help. Maybe drone operators in Creech...

I see we’re in the silly exercise of demanding your obligations as a clearance holder outweigh your obligations as a citizen. https://www.wsj.com/world/greenland-spying-us-intelligence-809c4ef2

So you collect name rank, service number and telephone number of service members but don’t identify yourself anywhere? Seems legit, Chen Biao

Oh, I’m quite aware of how impacts to PCS affect servicemembers. It happens all the time - for needs of the service, funding, decisions by leadership. Seeing it happen to the joes makes me an unsympathetic when leaders express entitlement to the next promotion or GO/FO consideration.

Oh no someone was late making O-6, how stressful and unfair.

Where have I heard this before? https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unauthorized-starlink-on-the-deck-of-a-us-warship-and-lied-about-it/

There’s no such thing as cool IFR…. oh

Technology companies already have vast overseas campuses and will expand them if the STEM funnel in the US continues to be inadequate. If you aren’t aware of Lincoln Labs you might want to stop opining about technology research in the US.

So…. It comes down paying wages and putting money into schools, not some dime store cultural analysis about the innate inferiority of the American worker? We knew how to do it, we clearly still do, but the MBA’s cheaped out on wages and infrastructure and we blame the workers for it.

Chinese are beating us because work ethic, they beat their kids to produce in STEM is a load of culture war horseshit. We played the same bullshit line when it came to Japanese auto manufacturing. If you had no idea what’s going on in the PRC, let me tell you, you know less than nothing after...

Really telegraphing that this is our last president huh

If not a Boeing product, who else is making 100k MTOW aluminum tubes with jet engines? Seems like that’s your problem. I’m sure POTUS could get us a good deal on some UAC planes if he’s unhappy with Boeing.

Closed when 33/15 is in use, not all the time. Did also recommend the creation of an alternate route instead of holding traffic while the runway is in use. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AIR2501.pdf

If we aren’t taxing Tom and Jane enough to cover the marginal cost of breakfast, we’re doing it wrong. You want to make them the villain because the callousness it takes to means test Kayliegh over a $2 breakfast is, dare i say it, un-Christian.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Hagan_Scotten_Resignation_Letter.pdf

Cool cool, so as just a private citizen he shouldn’t have access to federal offices and computer systems, right?

Please. DJT is nakedly monetizing the presidency through real estate, meme coin, and his shell social media company. Who’s reviewing the taxpayer dollars going to Elon’s companies? The optimal amount of fraud is nonzero: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/ Merchants...

If he could don’t you think one of the Heritage foundation lawyers would have already drafted the EO and put it on his desk?

Don’t be obtuse. That’s not what this is. These are the folks buying American grain with USAID dollars in Africa, competing with MSS folks doing the same. Whether or not the reporting chain goes through one agency or another, we’re petulantly leaving a soft power game and making warfighting...

I had some feelings on seeing those flight hour totals. A statement like this from the former CWO of aviation branch and who now seems to be involved in the investigation smells of circling the wagons.

I almost put my foot in my mouth myself but it looks like DCA has a separate UHF tower frequency for helos. https://www.airnav.com/airport/KDCA This is probably getting conflated with the mil/civil UHF/VHF.

I was an ASO, I know where you’re coming from. But it’s getting into the realm of hoarding information and protectiveness of the process that is rapidly being overcome by events. The public expects immediate remedial action in the face of the first domestic fatal commercial accident in 16...

In the vacuum there are a lot of worse takes filling the narrative. Waiting a year for the full report will only entrench the dumb takes. Juan Browne seems to bring at least credible experience to bear and is more measured than some other ahem, veteran commentators we can name. The AOPA air...

Your career progression is a hard conversation you need to have with your XO. Making TAC keeps some doors open, like flight school. Going to a b billet before you make TAC, I think likely means you don’t fly a gray aircraft ever again.

Couple of different things you’re entangling here. The community seems to be in a rough patch (haven’t heard that before). Yea, it seems unsafe to fly LLL with low proficiency and currency. What’s your DOSS got to say about it? If you don’t want to fly your TMS for whatever reason, fine...

While the profile is blocked and the link doesn’t work, you can still search posts by member.

Seem to have had some regulatory issues and turnover lately: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/fundamental-breakdown-how-usaa-landed-in-regulators-hot-seat

Went down a wikipedia rabbit hole and looks like ANG retired the type in January, and it was an Erickson job. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/erickson_air_crane/ Also, according to wikipedia FWIW, the loadmaster had flight controls with 10% authority. Wild. Edit: you can even watch...

Meritocratic is a bit of a model minority lens to look at it. You shouldn’t get promoted because you’re good at your current job. You should get promoted because you’re good at /shows promise in the next one. There’s some correlation between the two, but it does break down, especially crossing...

Yea, uh the Soviet Union was anything but nationalist. If you understood nothing about their ideology it still says so in the name! ”Who can say what a fascist is? But it’s definitely not us, it’s our enemies.”

1. On the ground job, welcome to the suck. Your day to day weapons system as an officer is paperwork. Doesn’t mean you can’t use it to good effect, but if you imagined different here’s your first clue. Also, your MOS isn’t just from planning to debrief. It’s also turning the many cranks it...

I‘m assuming it went both ways. There were only 3 D squadrons left in the late 2000’s and I think at least a few of the HMH’s transitioned from D to E in the 80’s, so there must have been plenty for the AF to canny before the Pave Low’s retired. In 2010 we were cannying the freshly retired Pave...

His family got some airtime on 60 minutes Australia credulously proclaiming his innocence, but I thought the segment did an ok job laying out the, hrm, questionable timeline.

Also, “easier” to get 2 hours of gas at altitude than try to lift it from the deck with the payload. If you’re maxing out your load capacity in a HOGE, you’re probably not going to be bringing much gas to the extraction.

https://www.twz.com/air/check-out-this-marine-ch-53k-carrying-an-f-35c-while-refueling-from-a-kc-130j

I found this a good resource to nerd out about why there’s a door-shaped hole there.

Divorced dads whose kids hate them and whose mom has to step in when they insist on cage fighting their rival?

Yea, but they’re handing over Fat Leonard too

Detailed write up: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7

Reading “Dream Machine” on Kodak’s recommendation and it opens with early inventors who pursued rotorcraft believing they would be safer than conventional aircraft. ….. Well done guys.

When the first reply is ”you can’t prevent 100% of sexual assault“ and the second is about “barracks bunnies” waving the flag of false reporting, maybe the OP is justified in having a chip What’s the safety culture in that community? Well, you can’t prevent 100% of crashes. I mean, those jokers...

Was opted in. PNA disappeared. Opted out. nope. Opted in. Nope.

It's not necessary now, and who knows what the industry will be like in 10 years. Focus on the next step and let the rest take care of itself. There are some gatekeepers you have to plan ahead for. E.g. a STEM degree for NPS or Astronaut Program. Your post-commitment plans will likely depend...

Math. I'd done some app dev (watched the Stanford online CS193P iPhone development classes that are top-notch) which helped with the application but only one or two CS classes. But once I got there I decided I wanted to start from advanced undergrad classes. So in reality it was a stealth CS...