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I am not an expert on attack helicopter tactics, so for all I know, maybe there are scenarios where it would. But just seemed questionable to me.

Well I don't know about all these military drone concepts, but pizza delivery by drone is a pie-in-the-sky idea.

The Israelis learned this the hard way in the Yom Kippur war. They had become very reliant on their tank forces in their doctrine. So the Arab forces planning to attack them worked out ways to specifically neutralize this doctrine, and the Israelis suffered terribly for it.

What about supplying the chips and batteries? From what I've read, a big problem is a huge amount of our drone components come from China right now: LINK

They have a robot using AI at the BJs stores now:

The pilots were singing, "Here we go loop de loop, here we go loop de lie..."

The issue is larger and more complex than just being a small number of people, whether small in terms of the numbers of such trans athletes or the numbers of female athletes affected. For one, imagine if a couple of small colleges in rural Tennessee and Mississippi decided to reintroduce a form...

There was an article I had read some time ago about how after the 2014 Crimean invasion by Putin, the U.S. and NATO began working to replenish and rebuild a lot of capabilities. For example, previously, much of the vehicles and equipment located in Europe were old and leftover from the Cold War...

Yep, but I figure it is good to know.

So I was browsing Reddit in an HVAC forum and a guy posts a thread saying he removed a wall in his bathroom to re-tile the shower and found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/hvacadvice/s/DBlmbOw56m Basically that is venting carbon monoxide into his house (or at least the portion inside the wall)...

Conspiracy theory types always like to think they have some special, secret knowledge about things that no one else has, that only they see "the truth" and that everyone else is blind. I have also heard it called the "five-sided puzzle piece."

Yup, these past two weeks everyone in particular has become an expert on uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons manufacture:)

Also amazing was that apparently the particular bomb used was designed explicitly for the purpose of destroying the Fordow site. I have read a theory that a lot of the UFO sightings and belief among former military pilots about UFOs and so forth has been a purposely-driven conspiracy created by...

This mission was kind of like a real life version of Top Gun: Maverick, only this time with B2s.

Nope. But I can see the behavior of certain bureaucracies. Certain ones can be quite ideologically driven and/or arrogant depending on the bureaucracy and the subject (ex: environment, gun control, taxes).

I agree with those who said that even if the bombs don't work, we should still try. D-Day was about a 50/50 chance of succeeding but had to be done. Also we gain real world data about the bombs' actual capabilities against such a target, which is always good. As long as that regime exists, it...

Leavitt is married to a man 32 years her senior. DNI Tulsi Gabbard released a campaign-style video a couple weeks ago saying how close to nuclear war we are. Then Trump said "I don't care what she said" about Gabbard's having said before that the intelligence community has concluded Iran is not...

So you state this and "OscarMyers" likes it. I am being ganged up on by the hot dog people.

That isn't how I meant it. The criticisms Faded Float Coat makes are very legitimate. Just they IMO need to be viewed in the context of the previous administrations with their more "serious" people.

IMO they are doing a much better job than the prior administration.

One thing I don't get: Iran is saying, "We still have the enriched uranium!" I mean...:confused: Other than ego, why would they say that? Given how compromised they've been by Israeli intelligence and given what Trump just did, that just means the Israelis and U.S. will try to destroy or...

I've also read it was to keep the Chinese warned as they had to move a bunch of assets out of that area.

Something unique this time is the IAEA saying Iran having enriched uranium far beyond what was needed for a civilian program and also the leaders of France and Germany speaking out in support of Israel's actions, which makes me think the intelligence on this must've been really clear.

That is one of my favorite action movies though I don't think it is very well known.

The belief is Israel had a backup plan to take out the Fordow complex on their own if necessary but it would have involved ground forces and been more risky. I don't know if Israel could do regime change or not. Knocking out their nuclear program doesn't stop Iran's proxy wars (only heavily...

If they were as close to getting nuclear weapons as it appears, then I'd say bombing their nuclear facilities was the right call. "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" aren't just slogans, they are policies of that regime. I also think the Israelis, given their titanic intelligence...

My feelings on this are "WOO-HOO!," "Wow it worked!," "Team America - Fuck Yeah!" and "What happens now?"

IMO both are needed. People with only liberal arts and no technical knowledge can be utter morons of the highest order about certain things and the same for people with just technical knowledge but no liberal arts.

A lot of the schools don't teach cursive anymore, which has made it where the students can't write a conventional signature (they have to print their name). So on the form where it says "Print your name" and "Signature" they print their name for both.

My experience working in the machining industry is exactly what Spekkio outlines. It is VERY hard to find real training and yes you deal with a lot of drug addicts/alcoholics/racists/occasional criminals. Everyone wants super highly-skilled machinists but no one wants to train them, primarily...

Auto repair I can understand because you can end up having to work on a lot of old rusted out pieces of junk that are difficult to fix, and then there can be time pressure because the customer needs it done now.

The director is a former Navy SEAL I believe.

:::SPOILER ALERT::: Well that is one variant based on our current political situation. A lot could change in future decades though. Did you know the guy who murders the two Asian guys is Kirsten Dunst's husband? The actor scheduled to play the role was sick that day so since her husband is an...

Nope, will have to check it out.

A good one to watch is Civil War with Kirsten Dunst. It is about what a real civil war in modern day America would look like. It is not an action film, but has some very intense action scenes, and the final battle over Washington D.C. is super intense. I've read some say it has the best...

Did you notice how Cage and Jones started running a slight second before the explosions started occurring? :)

Would Iran even be able to really close the Strait of Hormuz? I would think the U.S. Navy would reopen it. Granted that would pull us directly into the conflict.

If Iran was on the verge of getting nuclear weapons as has been reported, and given Israel's being attacked by Iran's terrorism proxies and Iran itself, how is this response a failure of cooler heads? One could argue the stars were aligned to attack now. Oct 7 changed everything and that was...

Haven't the Chinese been having a lot of issues with their jet engines? Because jet engines can't easily be reverse-engineered, so they've had to build their own from scratch.

I'd think it is both. The Russians are imperialists themselves but they also are likely still paranoid about the West after WWII Germany. So while they probably do not fear NATO itself, the fear is a NATO or NATO-friendly democratic government or dictator-run country could at some point fall...

I am not defending Trump, and I agree, he is absurdly thin-skinned where you have to walk on eggshells when dealing with him.

On the debt and deficit, let's be real, the only thing that is going to make a serious dent in that is either some sizable tax increases and/or serious spending cuts. The vast majority of the budget is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defense. Cutting the other stuff is just window...

I've read a majority (or at least a huge number) of the combat arms ground troops in the U.S. military come from the southern states. I wonder if the same holds true with Germany, with a lot of their military coming from the East?

My understanding is that traditionally, east Germany (former Warsaw Pact Germany) has been extremely left-wing in its politics, i.e. not hardcore free market or anything.

The financial value of the shares. The ultimate goal of a company (done ethically of course) is to make money.

This is a major issue in proper management of businesses---management compensation. If the compensation is done wrongly, it will incentive short-term thinking on the part of the management, which is of course bad. Getting the management compensation issue right requires an ethical CEO and board...

One thing I've also read is Boeing HAD to change from how it originally was. It was extremely engineering-focused, which it could afford to be because of a lack of competition. The engineers cared strictly about designing world-class airplanes an not at all about controlling cost. But as...