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    Do we need Cadets? Should they be military/uniformed? (split from Trump administration 2024-2028)

    "Many" is not a valid data point. Decisions should not be based on "everyone knows".
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    Sound of Bos'ns crying increasing.
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    Photos of the USS Abraham Lincoln arriving in Thailand. There's a little bit of paint work to be done.
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    In Washington or in Tehran?
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    Harry and Meghan step down as senior royals

    Harry & family are moving back to the UK. Apparently the chattering classes are up in arms - because Harry told his father, but not the rest of the Royal apparatus, so the story didn't get immediately leaked. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62ey03z9d1o
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    I wonder if doing TS and above work on your platforms means you need more enclosed spaces for your work.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Buy like you don't care about the price because you know you'll get it back several times over in billing it back to the government.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Isn't that the CRJ plant that they sold to Mitsubishi? Full circle?
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    Future Armour

    When the internal to the army warfare kicked off, and the rational plan to specialize within the infantry got derailed so every regiment would get their piece of the pie.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    So you're saying only Avi Lewis can beat him ;) ?
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    No, I'm assured that you can see Russia from your porch in Alaska.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Self employment implies individual innovation and entrepreneurial engagement, which long term is better for national fortunes than 20,000 more precarious fast food jobs. HOwever, that also requires national and provincial leadership to step up to support the innovation economy.
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    Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

    What if you blow .26? While carrying your service weapon? While driving your patrol vehicle? On duty? Seventeen year Georgian Bay OPP officer Christopher Prout was sentenced in court, following a joint submission, to a $3000 fine and a two year driving ban. With criminal proceedings...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Which does not provide sustained demand for the defence industrial base. While to me as an individual four thousand pickups sounds like a lot of trucks and a lot of money, on five years replacement cycle that's 800 per year, or about three off the line every working day.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    The quantities we buy are less than a month of production.
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    Ontario Government (Conservative majority), 2025-29

    My assumption is that development of the app was contracted out to a company that's either American or that leverages American datasets. If the app draws names from the US repository, then that's what you get. Sovereignty also implies use of sovereign data (and sovereign data storage).
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    Future Helicopters

    "Seems a waste not to repurpose them" is how we end up wit the most expensive fleet per hour of flight in the CAF. The CAF's unofficial motto appears to be the sunk cost fallacy.
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    EV's, Gas/Oil, and The Future- another swerve split from- JT Hints Boosting Canada’s Military Spending

    Six minutes: wander around where the thing you need used to be before they rearranged everything. Twenty-one minutes: search for a staff member to help. Three minutes: pick up what you need and pay for it.
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