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That's no problem, you are in the same boat as Cabinet, Treasury Board and most of the CAF outside the small team working on the fever dream while ignoring reality.

The number of self goals on the MARTECH trade management is mind blowing. If they can't justify spec 1 for them, no one in the RCN should get it. Not sure why I'm surprised when the response to the trade amalgamation was 'Fuck the stoker mafia, I choose COA 3 (the throwaway)', despite the RN...

Sure, but they somehow make insane amounts of money by buying things and stripping it of all it's actual wealth, leveraging things to siphon loans then taking advantage of US (and other countries) bankruptcy laws to minimize their exposure and still make some money selling off the carcass. He...

I love when people do something that results in a change of policy. Much smaller scale, but MEPM now issues ballcaps due to some rogue ones I got made up for the subsection (with some spares) in my last posting, because they wouldn't make unit ones. Small victory (also the ones I had made...

Does that actually work? The book was written by a guy that bankrupted casinos and generally fails at most things he does, and was riding on inherited real estate wealth. His current success is due to milking his cult followings as well as astonishing levels of open corruption and graft.

No one was tariffing the US, that's just complete lies. Depending on when you listened to him, he was putting on tarriffs because we were smuggling 'uge quantities of fentanyl (50 lbs), allowing illegal immigrants across (more are coming north from the US now), and now because his feelings are...

The commercial was for US voters during MLB world series, not Trump, or the Supreme Court, and was probably pretty effective on some, given Trump Barbara Streisand the shit out of it, and they can see Reagans full address quite easily, which also clearly argues against tariffs. Fortunately...

No one is contradicting the US government, just Trump personally, who is single handedly driving the US Gov policy by strong arming things, with Congress and the Senate being too neutered to do anything. He's an authoritarian child, and is ignoring US laws and international agreements (approved...

The goal is more varied trading, not just with China, but a consistent trading partner that actually adheres to international agreements is definitely better than when some geriatric toddler can have a temper tantrum and try and wipe out people's lives. Every single country will try and...

It was funny how many finally changed tunes when it impacted them. Noticed a few MAGA 2024 flags in the Pet area are now Canadian flags, and changed right around when the tariffs etc started to kick in.

Good to know he thinks the SCOTUS decision can be swayed by a tv ad during baseball.

You don't need to Canadianize anything, it's just the size of the contract and dollar value means all kinds of international trade agreements apply, which adds a lot of process. The dollar values also adds a lot of internal processes, which is likely most of the delay, but defence doesn't have...

I really wish they would apply the national security exemption more option, it's the normal procurement requirements and terms of international treaties around normal government procurement that add in a lot of delays and prescriptive procurement requirements that dont' really make sense for a...

Why not change most of the Maj and other Snr officer jobs pilots are doing to something else, and let them keep flying? I can see unit CO positions making sense, and a few other limited ones, but no reason pilots should be doing project management jobs (frequently poorly).

CDC hulls? Zero hulls in the next 5 to 10 years (possibly ever). Probably will have an initial River class going through IOC, plus the 2 JSSs rolling through IOC/FOC, while also likely having some CPFs self retire. Building more Orcas without design changes and with the same major equipment...

I absolutely hate this. We retired the MCDVs and kept this deathtrap? Hope some Admiral is happy.

If it's not already in the specs and design not happening, it's already overweight.

I haven't ever sailed on one, so have no idea, but from the design reviews I was on the concept seemed reasonable for the plant load. The hard part of that is whether or not you get anywhere near it in actual operation, especially when you have major demands like the upper deck heating elements...

I looked at the HRV, I wasn't really impressed by the car itself at that pricepoint or the financing. Hopefully she's liking the Bronco, a friend has one, seems like a fun car to drive. Had good luck with Mazdas, so was looking at the CX5 and CX30, as well as the Passat, but then I swang by...

Actually way less range compared to subs, because the power demand they are looking at it higher, without any of the reasons subs do it to be quieter, as the entire ship isn't submerged so you can minimize noise transmission a lot easier from engines on a surface ship. It's innovative I guess...