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I mean, I'm "camping" in the left lane because I'm already passing everyone on the right. I also have no qualms about weaving when necessary because someone on the left is "only" doing 75. No, I'm not going to slow down to 70 in a 65 to move over because you want to go 100. But MD cops...

I remember being in a defensive driving course to lower my insurance back in my early 20s. For some reason a person admitted that the proper way to deal with a slow person in the left lane was to tailgate and flash high beams. The instructor's response: they're all just lanes. If you want to...

Yep. And there's been a war there that has spanned decades.

Russians aren't Muslim. It's that simple.

What is this animal called a "whale?" Are you sure you're not confusing it with a shark or a dolphin? I think you are...

States also can run deficits by selling municipal bonds. In fact, buying these funds in a brokerage is superior to a savings account because you only pay taxes on the portion of interest earned from your state. E.g. if the fund has 10% of its bonds coming from your state and you earned $1,000 in...

Yes. Your promotion should be reflected on your very next LES. If it's not, you need to call your detailer at PERS.

I, too, sometimes completely misread tone and throw jabs on the internet /s. Officer career progression / promotion mechanisms are not "in rate knowledge" for YNs and I've not met any who care to learn the details because they have more important things to do. They will gladly help you filing a...

Those moves weren't made to make China more powerful. Our good friend Winnie the Poo comes from a political family and spent almost a decade in exile. He's a Maoist consolidating his power against his political rivals.

Admin (meaning YNs / PSs) know almost nothing about officer promotions / career admin questions. The only thing they know is that they have to write a new name into the form letter accepting promotion when the admin O / XO asks them for one, and where to send the letter when it's signed.

Your promotion for O2 is effective the day after your two year anniversary of date of rank, which should be the day you graduated your commissioning program (or later if you wanted to reconsider / think about it for some reason). That's when you'll start getting O2 pay. As for putting on the...

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The risk to high debt : GDP ratio is inflation, not default. The federal reserve can borrow infinite securities from the US treasury to fund the federal government. That's what makes the federal government different than personal finances - imagine you could turn to your spouse and say "give me...

No, China isn't going to war with us. The issue is if they violate international treaties and test our resolve to enforce them. Also see: Saddam Hussein. I have $100 worth of US debt in my pocket. I have another $150k worth in various investment accounts. Businesses use U.S. debt instruments...

Idk, 15 years ago everything was revolving around CENTCOM IMO. The official "pivot to the Pacific" was a national strategy document written by the Obama administration in 2014 (iirc, maybe 2013). I can tell you that in my neck of the woods, the entire force training and certification process...

Wasn't meant to point fingers. More a commentary that we could elect the most pro-China President since Nixon (neither of the front runners are remotely this...) and they will face the hard reality of Xi's stubborness and will to achieve the 100 years plan. We can either back them into a corner...

Our national security strategy and economic policies toward China starting in 2017 are also pushing them that way. We've kind of reached the point of no return that won't change until Xi Jinping is no longer in charge.

A T-55. He was drafted into the Yom Kippur War after his older brother fled - the Egyptians required the eldest man to serve in the military. As a Christian (with the associated tattoos to mark him), he was more afraid of being killed by his Muslim "brothers in arms" than the Israelis. Luckily...

I'm friends with a retired Army LTC circa Vietnam era, and he mentions this as the reason why "fuck no I'd never join the Navy." True or not, he felt like his skill as a soldier impacted his survivability much more in the Army than his skill as a sailor would in the Navy. Also, my father in...

Most CMCAs will gladly defer to civilian justice because a GCM is a huge time suck on a lot of line officers' day jobs.

Musk has been a beneficiary of a sickening amount of U.S. taxpayer subsidies because of the environmental benefits of emissionless vehicles. Everything from EV tax credits to "free" charging networks. That, and a ridiculous amount of stock speculation in the 2010s.

Fairly universally, if your next set of orders are sea / operational duty orders, then there's going to be zero appetite to extend you ashore without extenuating circumstances. Doesn't matter who calls the detailer on your behalf. Doesn't matter if your resignation is already approved. Doesn't...

It doesn't matter. What matters to the President is that other countries don't enter the conflict, particularly states backed by Russia. He'll say / do whatever it takes to ensure that doesn't happen. And by "whatever it takes" I mean by whatever some skeletor-looking DOD beltway insider who's...

Irt Iraq: I think that our approach to Japan vis a vis WWII could lend insight here - we let Emperor Hirohito keep power to keep the populace in line. Granted, the President decided we were going to go for regime change, but that may have been the strategic blunder vice an occupation that kept...

Mirage, professionals can debate whether the more restrained US strategy in Iraq / Afghanistan or the scorched-earth Israeli strategy is better at winning over the "hearts and minds" of people (or whether Israel even cares about this objective at this point... I'd contend that Netanyahu believes...

Qualified in the Navy means you can perform tasks under close supervision.

I think that you should critically reflect upon why multiple people couldn't ascertain this from your posts on the issue. Certainly you do know that there were civilian casualties as a result of US military action against non-state enemy combatants and people didn't go to jail for it, right?

Hey man, did you forget what website you're on? You're not arguing with a cheetos eating 20 year old on reddit. You're arguing with actual military officers who have actually deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. What some 20-something year old aspiring journalist writing for the Financial Times...

Netanyahu is a primary actor in all this, but overly simplistic to say he deserves all the blame. For most of the 00s, Israel had a more liberal government that attempted to work a two state solution and the Palistinians responded by voting Hamas into power and ratcheting up a bombing campaign...

If Israel could ensure that Pk on Hamas = 1.0 and Pk on civilians = 0.0, it would. Unfortunately, Hamas thrives by hiding its militants in populous areas to win the messaging war on social media. The difference is that Hamas aims to have its Pk on civilians = 1.0, because it seeks to kill every...

No no no... you see, when someone repeats the slogan "from the river to the sea," it means that they support Palestine's existence as a nation and not the extermination of all Jews in the region. Why can't you understand? /s They cannot accept that these two things are 100% correlated. I feel...

Terrorism is a law enforcement problem. It cannot flourish on the scale of Hamas (or Isis, or Al Qaeda) without the local population and government being complicit in its operations. If the people of Palestine wanted Hamas to be gone, they'd be gone. When you understand that, you understand...

You have perhaps heard of the American Civil War?

So rotary in general is 3x more dangerous than fixed wing... and we should get mad at the media for highlighting this about ospreys but excluding other rotary platforms.... and somehow this makes ospreys more safer because no one is advertising other rotary class A mishaps... This is Donald...

FYI, "losing your dive certificate" refers to the expiration of URO-3 (unrestricted operations maintenance procedures), which mandates a sub conduct a CNO availability every 5 years. Now, the fact that Boise still is not seaworthy 5 years later absolutely is news... and also was the subject of...

I'll play your silly game... what are the actual numbers we should be comparing? And what is the flaw in pointing out that a platform that has 3x the average class A mishap rate among all platforms is relatively unsafe? That's like saying "driving an F-150 is less safe than other cars" and you...

Dodging the question here... The USAF's class A mishap rates for manned aviation over the last decade oscillates around 1 per 100k flight hours. The Navy's class A mishap rate is similar. If the Osprey's class A mishap is 3 per 100k flight hours, that's indeed 3x the average... not even...

And of course Congress decided to send those letters out of the goodness of its heart, and not because of recruiting shortfalls.

Without the massive government subsidies going to EVs - from R&D to paying consumers the fuel cost - Musk would have gone bankrupt around 2015. Especially when consumers in SOCAL would have to pay that $600-800/mo electric bill to charge them.

I hate how every President since JFK is voted into office by how well he looks and sounds in front of a camera vice the substance of his policies, with Trump being the extreme version of that phenomenon. The day Trump won the election.

"Those social programs" usually refer to Medicare and Social security, which actually make a profit. Then the SSA buys treasuries from the Secretary of treasury to fund discretionary spending shortfalls - intragovernment debt. (also the G fund in TSP). The idea here is that *sometime down the...

I'm sitting on the sidelines hoping that most of the Republicans run out of money because I think Haley can beat Trump or DeSantis in a 2-3 person race and restore some sanity to the election (assuming Trump isn't in prison / on house arrest by then), and I think she would have a really good...

It was a strategy of the Trump administration. The distinction is important because it comes from the Office of the Secretary of Defense working with the service chiefs.

Biden comes across as more "in charge" than Bush 43, who let his cabinet run amok (to the detriment of the United States). Yeah, sometimes he doesn't appear the best in front of a camera, but that doesn't mean anything in regards to how the government is or isn't functioning. Biden has had...

While I don't disagree... There are DHs, XO, and CO on the GRF that could fix the problem of restoring use of spaces to be in accordance with ships design drawings and could stomp out unauthorized locks on heads, but don't. Those people are not chief petty officers.

The bottom line is this: SECDEF Rumsfeld thought we should pursue regime change in Iraq, and President Bush 43 deferred most of his decisions to his cabinet. I think that SECDEF Rumsfeld had the information you are talking about and disregarded it, and Bush was too trusting of his cabinet. This...

Yes, I'm referencing "our point of view" since in context, my original comment is "Israel is proving the hawks why it was wise not to enter the conflict." Our international messaging is that we stand for the rule of law. It was the justification for Iraq and is the punch line for our foreign...

International law has changed since WWII. "Total War" is against international law. While Hamas or Israel might not particularly care about that, as an international policy we have generally stood on the side that international law and laws of armed conflict should be followed.

We used nukes on Japan so that we could beat the Russians to invastion. This is history 101.