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You're totally right. The leaders of companies that are in direct competition with each other conspired to get a president elected who promised to raise their taxes. I totally believe your theory.

Nice diversion. I'm asking about the actual case that happened, which is apparently more nuanced than you originally claimed. You also never answered my question: if you were accused of a crime in a paper, would you want social media to advertise that? Would you want 'evidence' taken out of...

Okay, Biden's poor personal security practices notwithstanding... if you brought your laptop to a computer shop and the worker decided to disclose [shady shit] to social media that hadn't been vetted through a judicial review process that considered all the facts, would you be okay with social...

So in my quick searching of this, it looks like they banned the story based on the fact that it contained personal information obtained by hacking into someone's computer. Would you want Twitter / Facebook / whoever to suppress your PII and bank account information if it was stolen? That was...

I've seen plenty of NYP and Hunter Biden trash on my feed. What did they formally do to 'silence' these?

What did the actual leadership and employees of social media companies do to be an 'active participant with unchecked power?' What would you have done differently if you had a key leadership position at Facebook or Twitter? Many if not all states have a civics class in their high school curriculum.

Laser eye surgery is medically disqualifying for 6-12 months post-surgery. Meaning, if you're in the service then you can work that into a non-operational tour, but if you're coming into OCS with a ship date of mid 2021 then this is likely a non-starter at MEPS until all of your follow-ups are...

You need to drop this mentality that "I didn't do well on [thing], therefore it doesn't accurately measure [thing it's supposed to measure]." As Bill Parcels said: "You are what your record says you are."

The article links to the official Finnish educational standards page, which talks specifically about the importance of formal, standardized assessments. The idea that students can go to school and never have to do HW to reinforce learning and never have to take examinations to determine if they...

Finnish students have both HW and standardized tests.

Clearly you're a very hard worker, but to play devil's advocate: if the primary goal of college is to learn the material, which is measured by grades, why didn't you ever stop to prioritize and take some things off of your plate when it became clear that you were overloaded? How would this...

Interesting indeed. A little disappointing that the article stopped short of producing a 'what-if analysis.' As in, "what if the 2020-2021 flu season was going to be similar to historical averages, and if 60 / 80 / 100% of the delta in flu cases are counted as COVID cases, how does that adjust...

Anecdotal evidence or not, I think if research were out there that virtual learning was equally effective to in-residence learning for K-12 then our educational model in the U.S. would have started to shift a half a decade ago. The issue isn't bright college students or honor roll high school...

You clearly feel very strongly about this topic. You probably would get more productive headway toward changing policy by trying to organize your local community to be heard by your state officials instead of post-bombing airwarriors.com. They're the ones by-and-large making the decisions about...

Thanks I didn't know about that, but it still falls way short. The big box essential retailers and grocery stores have more than 500 employees, so they're not eligible. Fast food chain workers aren't eligible for the same reason. And if you're working at a local restaurant for tips, that $2.13...

NPS does some good stuff, but an MBA isn't it.

I mean, it won't happen overnight but it's possible. But more to the point - you don't think these multi-billion dollar companies have marketing and consumer research departments? You think they haven't analyzed for the demand for subscription, ad-free services? You're making comparisons...

Your point / analogy misses the entire difference between two different economic models for making money. People want free software and internet services. If companies charge for software and services, people will pirate them on a mass scale. This is possible because the items don't physically...

If that gets me free dental services then where do I sign up?

"Your data" =/= "your personal / sensitive data." The biggest threat to people's information on the internet is user carelessness. International terrorist groups successfully use social media to recruit and plan attacks. Sometimes we can breach this, sometimes we can't. You'd think that the...

That is the guidance. Except it's impossible for most people to execute because if they don't work then they don't get paid, especially most workers in essential businesses like big box retailers and grocery stores. Why we haven't passed any laws that require workers to get paid sick days...

That's pretty much exactly what's happening. In the NE where they do contact tracing, fewer than 1% of COVID-19 cases occur in public places where CDC guidelines are rigorously followed. People are having friends and family at their residence, aren't following the guidelines when doing so, and...

The strategic value of being hosted is logistics for forward deployed units. If we continue to get that at the cost of liberty off the pier, then I don't think there's going to be a lot of push back at the O-7 and above / elected politician level.

I think you're missing something here... All current big tech companies that provide 'free' services do so by guarding your personal data extremely closely. They don't sell your data, they sell access to targeted advertising to your specific web habits and interests. The moment someone can get...

It's the difference between being an island nation that is less than 1/10th the population of the US.

They haven't done anything remarkable; the virus just hasn't run its course in those nations.

Anyone who thought that the pandemic was going to be over in 15 days is an idiot. I don't know why you're so obsessed with that subset of the population. Politicians were talking in short terms just to get public buy-in. No one would have successfully implemented any COVID-19 controls by saying...

This site posts hospital beds in use. Of note, we're currently at about 118,000 people hospitalized with a capacity nation wide of about 250,000. Of course that nationwide number isn't very valuable since we're not going to fly a COVID patient from Wisconsin to Texas to get treatment...

Ultimately no one else's reputation is relevant when talking about our ability to conduct business with our international partners. I'd wager we're at least an FDA licensed vaccine and a mandatory vaccination for all DOD personnel away from being able to step foot into other countries on liberty...

When one of my COBs put dinq study during the normal work day, the crew damn near had an aneurysm. He didn't relent though. End result is no one actually went until the triad paid attention, not unlike when the there's a 2 hour PT/lunch block that sailors use to go to Applebee's if there's not a...

Oh I'm fully aware that this mindset exists and if I wasn't then AllAmerican75's post would have set me straight. That's why I said he was part of 'the problem'. 'The problem' referring to the ubiquitous mentality that 'if the Navy wants me to be in shape then the Navy has to give me time for...

CO's are responsible for fitness, yes, but nothing says that it has to occur during normal working hours. It also says that members should get 2.5 hours per week. A CO who musters everyone with the CFL at 0600 to do a 2 mile run, a few sets of pushups, and a few sets of planks every day and...

I think that you believe an excellent low is much faster than it actually is. Good thing that the Navy has alternate cardio options. So let's fix what's keeping them at work for 12 hours instead of buying into excuses on why it's too hard to PT for 2.5-3 hours a week. When you start whining...

Sailors always bitch about not being treated like adults. God forbid you wake up 30 minutes earlier and go for a morning run or something like any other full time working adult has to do. No, instead let's blame poor fitness on 'the man' and ominous GMT requirements. I think GMT is as much a...

Your attitude is part of the problem. We need to get to a point where it's not unreasonable to ask someone to use some of their personal time to maintain a minimum standard of physical fitness. Excellent low doesn't take a SEAL level of fitness, it just takes a normal, balanced exercise routine...

The PRT standards should be excellent low across the board. If you're going to say sailors don't need to be fit to do their I jobs I'll point to the Miami fire where out of shape sailors sucked down 30 min scba bottles in 15 minutes to the detriment of overall casualty response. This isn't to...

When I played lacrosse I could run a lap at around 50 seconds but I couldn't run 1.5 miles straight at the time. It was more mental boredom and pacing than anything else.

For reference: Casey Fury was indicted on two counts of arson (he attempted to light the ship on fire a second time, which is when he was caught). He plead guilty and received 17 years in prison and $400M in restitution that he'll never actually pay a dime of.

I'm going to come out and say it: If you want to be an astronaut then find a mentor and go full tilt into becoming an astronaut. That starts with getting your GPA up and applying for master's or doctoral programs, not OCS, and getting experience in the industry, not the Navy. It sounds like...

Yeah you just quoted me out of context and changed some key details. I never said that planks don't belong in a workout routine, nor did I say that I never see people do them. I said that I don't see people doing sets of 3-4 minutes, which would amount to 10-15 minutes of just a plank workout...

Look, strength training lasts longer than cardio when you stop. Either you're a genetic freak that can plank 7 minutes with no ab work whatsoever in your life, or the athletic activities you did in high school, college, and beyond were carrying you to a good plank in a similar fashion that my...

There are people who are part of the 3 mile a year club who still manage to run sub 1030 1.5 mi runs. I don't think that extrapolating this to the average sailor is valid. FWIW, good low is generally an easy target that I think most untrained people within height / weight standards (no rope and...

The good low is around 2 min for most people of service age. Probationary is just over a minute. I suspect this is actually going to wreck a lot of sailors' days if they don't practice...can't cheat on the planks as much as situps, it's done after pushups, and according to the instruction the...

The NY Post is practically a tabloid.

The Navy has taken over a dozen surveys on the matter. Enlisted sailors want a uniform that: -Can be worn every day including shipboard and off base so that they don't have to spend time changing multiple times a day. -Fits well. -Is easy to maintain. -Is comfortable to wear in all climates...

"I'll never understand the Navy's unwillingness to accept that casualties are a part of war." -Former Army Batallian XO with 3 combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan after seeing a joint brief where the Navy dominates a wargame scenario but loses a carrier in the process, thus prompting follow on...

'Scrapping' with the PRC is an understatement. Sure they can turtle up and make life difficult, but that has at least as much to do with geography as it does military capabilities. To even go into 'round 2' on equal footing the PRC would have to deliver a series of victories on par with the...

The reason it takes so long to build modern war equipment is that they're significantly more expensive complex. It takes 60,000 man hours to just bolt together the fuselage of a modern fighter. An M4 Sherman cost $500k in 2020 dollars; an M1 Abrams cost $4M. The other thing is that we live in...

It's 490, and SECDEF didn't say anything to indicate that 530 wasn't enough. Personally I think our force structure is fine and more ships just means more in theater 'requirements' from the COCOMs. Our Navy wasn't even close to that size at the onset of the war, nor was it even as big as our...