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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

Brett327 said:
From your perch, what role does Congress play in the process? How about rescinding the EO in January 2028?

I know you've spoken about this before, but has this "effort" been going on behind the scenes for a while and is just now being made overtly public?
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I mean they can always choose to alter the funding profile but there are myriad consequences to doing that. Since this EO is fairly novel, I'm not sure how effective rescinding it would be. Regarding the last question, shack. We're not starting from square one.
 
sevenhelmet said:
That is... so stupid. When people wonder why we can't build anything anymore, this. This is why.

Not that I normally care, but out of pure masochistic curiosity, what's the Trumpian cartoon-world faux-logic behind this ridiculousness?
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The article that talked about this mentioned an exercise where the Ford class was supposed to demonstrate that it could do cyclic ops faster than a Nimitz...

Followed by "those results were never released."
 
Interesting problem the Navy has - usually its the other way: the disastrous choice to design and build the ship simultaneously and/or rely on a bunch of unproven technologies (Constellation, Zumwalt, LCS)
 
Spekkio said:
Laws in a democracy represent the collective morality of society.
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It is literally legal to stand on the side of a lake and watch a family drive a mini van into the water and watch them all drown and do nothing to help them.
 
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Spekkio said:
The article that talked about this mentioned an exercise where the Ford class was supposed to demonstrate that it could do cyclic ops faster than a Nimitz...

Followed by "those results were never released."
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"During the USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN-78) latest deployment, the Navy did a four-day carrier sortie generation test in February to prove the efficacy of the EMALS system that beat Nimitz-class rates, USNI News understands. The service has not released the data on the test."

Weird wording but they meant to imply it did beat the Nimitz-class rate.
 
Spekkio said:
Laws in a democracy represent the collective morality of society. They are not 'gutters.'

We give our elected officials broad legal deference because societies that routinely jail their political leadership - former or current - are almost always corrupt dictatorships.

The mechanism to hold an elected official accountable is to vote him or her out of office.
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No. If there’s one thing the Trump era proved, it’s that our whole system ran on convention, norms, and to some sense ethics. It was enforced mostly by honor and shame. The laws were only backstops.

Then we elected a man with neither honor nor shame and we’re reaping what we sowed.
 
phrogdriver said:
Then we elected a man with neither honor nor shame and we’re reaping what we sowed.
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Exactly. We’ve been slowly sliding into a period of what some call “slopulism” wherein the easy fix for a populist idea typically fails because it is focused on a hot issue and is implemented with very little thought. An easy target is Trump’s very aggressive push at snapping up illegal aliens, a popular (and populist) notion that he executed with such speed and cruelty that made it unpopular. He, of course, has executed a host of other similar ideas. But, he is not alone and this isn’t a single party issue. Take New York where the democratic majority are pushing a bill that would help with “affordability” by requiring a 10% discount for all self-checkout - an idea that will actually put thousands of people who work as cashiers out of a job. The platform for the DSA reads like Stalin fever dream, and lazy thinkers are buying into it.

This, I fear, is the new period we are entering. As elections get tighter (my entirely unscientific theory is that we won’t have another two term POTUS for at least the next three elections) politicians want quick and easy fixes to those ideas that are being talked about right now! The result will be sloppy, unguided, populism that applies a bandaid to sucking chest wound.
 
Griz882 said:
Take New York where the democratic majority are pushing a bill that would help with “affordability” by requiring a 10% discount for all self-checkout - an idea that will actually put thousands of people who work as cashiers out of a job.
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10% is enough of a hit that supermarkets will prefer cashiers, no?

There's an interesting argument being made to tax AI tokens for similar reasons, since interacting with humans requires paying payroll taxes, while interacting with ClaudeAI doesn't.
 
taxi1 said:
10% is enough of a hit that supermarkets will prefer cashiers, no?
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Grocery stores aren’t rare and profit margins in that business are very slim. This means that if grocery stores tried to respond to the New York bill by getting rid of self-checkout and using only human cashiers—in order to charge higher prices and make higher profits—other stores would undercut them by offering self-checkout with big discounts. Basically most consumers will steer toward the less expensive option (a store with more self-checkouts) forcing the all-human stores to shed humans for self-checkout.
 
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