Estiar

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[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It sounds truthy enough, but there's nothing to validate it. It's equally possible (or rather I'm almost certain) that this is Russian propaganda designed to split the USA even more. I wouldn't pay much attention to this right now.

That said, he keeps playing into Russian talking points as if he were Dimitri Medvedev himself

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

The military has already been trying to "do more with less" This doesn't seem like a great idea when war with China is right around the corner. Especially with the mess that is navy procurement. It's actually a contrary to Republican policy goals to cut a lot of these employees. It seems to me like this hasn't been thought through at all. They could go for the furniture funds and end of year waste, but instead they're going to cut out some of the best talent.

Looks like the DoD will have lots of money for furniture and won't be able to target anything or fix anything. It's going to cause fatigue to many of our men and women in uniform.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I still don't quite understand where this space IADS is supposed to fit into national security. I suppose the idea is that the US could act with impunity against near peer nuclear powers, but that's just going to kick off another nuclear arms race. This seems like a really easy way to make self inflicted Kessler syndrome especially since space has been mainly a EW battlefield rather than kinetic.

Who knows what they've got cooking. The procurement won't be done for at least a decade or two, though I wonder what technology today can do that SDI couldn't in the 80s

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

170k isn't that much. My brother's 2 bedroom house is that much. This is basically the salary of two people. Also why do they have the authority to cancel these?

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. After this I'm wondering which of my VA benefits will actually remain. I've lost my confidence that the VA will provide me anything. I can't go to them for anything with regards to Gender Dysphoria, and I really don't know what I can do. No way I'll be able to get any VA disability (TBH I don't have a great case for that anyways) but now I can't trust my government at all now. I'm hoping that they'll still accept DEI for veterans, especially since apparently we're supposed to be good in society, but I still don't have any confidence.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Hi! Hope I can be of service for everyone out there who needs it

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Pee and blood tests, and lots of questions

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Poor reaper. She did a good job

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

High effort shitpost

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

This looks like a PETA ad

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

We have so many norms that the government follows. They aren't law, just something everyone agrees that a good president should do. Trump breaks every one of these norms when it suits him.

 

I gotta post something, so I'll post the mechanical calculator that the flight school wanted me to get. How it works is that you can set ratios in the dial and multiply them. In this picture, it's 60:10 (or 60:1.0) so I can take any number from the inner circle in minutes and find out how many hours that is equal to on the outer circle.

There are also other things on this calculator, including a wind vector calculator, and charts. Most pilots don't use these anymore, but they still wanted me to know how to use one

 

Rarity is the fashion pony. She'd do just about anything to be more glamorous. Poor Fluttershy gets betrayed

 

The thing in the middle is Queen Chrysalis. What I would give to be her right now

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