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One interesting thing I heard is that China is going to mandate all cars have an exterior, mechanical handle, so that would actually require Tesla to do a design change to sell their cars there. Better than being trapped inside after a crash and dying in a fire though. China is actually one of...

A lot of the activists treat nuclear ships/submarines as a 'nuclear weapon system' even if it has all conventional weapons, which is stupid for a number of reasons. In reality we've had weapon platforms capable of deploying nuclear weapons for a long time, we just don't have the actual...

Nuke subs are far more complicated then nuclear warheads; I'm sure they already have munitions and delivery platforms capable of it without going to submarines (probably also on conventional submarines). The nuclear part of submarines is just a big steam engine, after all, it just is a very...

Are they also arresting a 5 year old, using them as bait, and arresting their father before firing them off to a detention center, despite being legally there and with having no criminal record in the red states as well? Entering houses without warrants? Seizing random people? Or are the peopel...

We had to buy printed circuit boards out of Eastern Europe somewhat regularly to keep the 280s going to end of life, and for other things on different classes using very old digital controls. Supply chains are global, and it's probably impossible to buy anything that has no Chinese production...

Why are they in Minnesota anyway? There are other states with much larger illegal immigrants population, are they not there because they are mostly red? Wouldn't be surprised if Tim Walz being governor doesn't have something to do with it, as Trump seems to be petty enough to invade Greenland...

One thing I learned from spending time at NSS is that you get huge shifts in the skill sets required depending on what phases the ships are going through. Even in the NSS there are some layoffs, with ISI being fairly ruthless. The front end of building the hull, modules etc is really heavy on...

At this point, whatever he says is completely irrelevant and there is no point even working with him as he will just be against whatever someone suggests reflexively. Almost like he doesn't actually care about Canadians and just wants to be in power, and will do whatever he thinks gets him...

I've done that before with a CO's approval for a twice daily message, we just included a note in one that we would consolidate the twice daily update to the morning one. No one noticed for about 5 weeks at CJOC, but they also had no idea we were sitting off the coast of Syria within range of...

I also pointed out fast tracking some steps by combining them, or agreeing they weren't needed is allowed under the policy but we had to jump through all the hoops first to figure out that it wasn't required. Lord save me from people that want to help...

How exactly are they breaking into people's houses without a warrant, and then not even giving someone a minute to get dressed? Not just shit at their jobs, while breaking the law, but a bunch of heartless pricks. Waiting for someone to invoke some kind of castle defence on a warrantless home...

I've actually said that during the pilot, and pointed out that's what we did for the $4B AJISS (AOPS/JSS ISSC) contract, so our $30M procure/maintain contract would probably be okay. That didn't really work, so instead they added 2 years of work to it. To be fair they were the worker bees stuck...

Thanks, that's a good point, but in general Congress and the Senate are both spineless as well, and just ate the Presidential vetos on some very bipartisan bills so why would Cabinet feel anything other than unchecked? Plus all the adults in the room were fired, quit or never appointed so he's...

In the context of what he was trying to provoke it was remarkably restrained, especially someone wandering around doing Nazi salutes. I've been pushed about more getting on and off public transit then what he got FFS. I am okay though with normalizing punching out actual Nazis though, but it's...

That letter alone should be enough to consider the 25th amendment, if a lot of his rambling nonsense and other classic indicators of demensia weren't enough, but that would require a Congress with a spine and morals.

Missed about 25 pages on this thread, apologies if this is a re-post/repeat. Was curious about the anti-coersion legislation; here is a pretty good primer if anyone is interested. What is the EU anti-coercion 'bazooka' it could use against the US over Greenland? So not just tariffs, but...

Worth noting he actually had two black gentleman step in and escort him safely out of the area to prevent this being used as a point of escalation by ICE, and all things consdiered he didn't get much more than yelled and and shoved a round a bit. Someone did claim his chest rig as a trophy...

We're poaching people as well to fill new billets, and have been bleeding PGs for years so nice to have a reversal, but still doesn't do much when the contracts go over to PSPC. They haven't changed those thresholds yet AFAIK or otherwise redirected to the new defence procurement, so unless that...

That really depends on both the LCMM and the equipment; on the flipside have SAFd money to units to buy centrally managed equipment that we didn't have procurement bandwidth for. That was life safety equipment for firefighting, so followed up and made sure it was properly brought on charge with...

Cuts at PSPC go against actually growing defence, and PSPC is already a chokepoint. There are plenty of procurement officers that are in the buyout zone that are specifically not the people that you want to leave when we want to ramp up expensive and sometimes complex procurements, especially...