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by greedo 4y ago
Rare? It's one of the most common fighters in the world. And the cost of the airframe is moot during a war. Ukraine needs them, has pilots capable of handling it, and can learn to maintain them as needed. But the US is holding back for
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by greedo 4y ago
No, this doesn't support the idea at all. They didn't take non-pilots and train them quickly on F-16s. They took experienced fighter pilots and ran them through a conversion course on the F-16. I would expect these pilots to have
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by greedo 4y ago
Handheld, dedicated digital cameras are most definitely a niche. Smartphone cameras have eaten up this photography segment.
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by greedo 4y ago
Is that the case? I remember being a huge fan of flight sims back in the Falcon 4.0 and EF2000 days. I imagined that by the time I was 50 that it would look incredible and be super performant with realistic combat scenarios. Reality turned
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by greedo 4y ago
The job of the DA isn't to support the police department. A DA needs to allocate resources towards cases that are significant to the community, aligned with the desires of the people who voted the DA into office. I have a boss who does
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by greedo 4y ago
I would recommend looking for a city that has a decent size college or university.
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by greedo 4y ago
The idea that police officers are in constant danger of coming home in a body bag is copaganda. Police work is one of the safer occupations. We don't idolize the guys/gals who pick up our trash, but they have higher death rates.
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by greedo 4y ago
"be undermined..." To cops, that means "DON'T QUESTION MAH AUTHORITAH!" Screw that. If cops policed their own ranks, getting rid of the "few bad apples" they claim are so rare, then perhaps they wouldn&#x2
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by greedo 4y ago
Russia has been continually threatening to use nuclear weapons and it hasn't affected anything. If Russia were to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, it would be a pariah for centuries, assuming it didn't lead to global thermonuclear
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by greedo 4y ago
Are there any realistic carbon sequestration methodologies (other than planting trees) that scale?
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by greedo 4y ago
I live in the central Plains. It's normal for many days between Dec 1 and Feb 1 to be below 32ºF, and not unusual at all to be subzero in the day time. Even prewiring the battery won't help as much as you imply. Sure Tesla may be
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by greedo 4y ago
Yeah, I considered a Model Y last year, but the range in winter for EVs is a non-starter for me. People don't realize how significant a drop in range occurs in cold weather.
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by greedo 4y ago
Portugal has barely hit the 2% goal for defense spending that NATO members are supposed to be targeting. So it's not like they'd be spending more to protect Ukraine.
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by greedo 4y ago
They know which seller you purchased it from, but they fulfill the order from a huge bucket of commingled inventory.
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by greedo 4y ago
It's a trivial bar to surpass. If sellers are willing to pay people to buy and give product reviews, there's no doubt they'd do the same to taint a competing seller.
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by greedo 4y ago
Regarding the Sea Apache, it really would have been a huge redesign. Deleting the 30mm Chain Gun, moving the landing gear to the wing stubs, adding a nose mounted radar, and Harpoon/Sidewinder capability. Now some of these requirements
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by greedo 4y ago
He might be talking about Belenko's defection with a MIG-25 to Hokkaido in the early 1970s. Though neither aircraft is really related to the other except in very basic visual sensibilities (twin engine, twin tail).
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by greedo 4y ago
You try flying an F-15 with 12 to 24 Slammers (and bags since you'll have so much drag. That's going to fly like a pig. Just because Boeing does some demo of it to sell more airframes doesn't mean it's going to be used t
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by greedo 4y ago
3) Flown by some of the best combat pilots in the world (at the time).
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by greedo 4y ago
The USN didn't need an air-superiority fighter when they were working on the F-111B, they needed a fleet defense fighter capable of lifting a huge radar and missile set. When the terrible engines in the B model gave them an out, they t
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by greedo 4y ago
Electric powered lawn mowers have been around since the early 1980s, largely replaced today by battery powered mowers.
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by greedo 4y ago
Wow, a Koch funded think tank wants to roll back regulations. Shocked...
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by greedo 4y ago
This is what happened when lotteries started spreading across the US. The proceeds were earmarked for schools, so naturally, the property tax rates (which pays for most school funding) was held in check, resulting in no actual increase in s
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by greedo 4y ago
The Pentagon is investigating using SpaceX's Starship for point to point travel...
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by greedo 4y ago
ATVs...
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by greedo 4y ago
Our Owner/operator was a former bicycle salesman who knew hot fries, and that was it. I wouldn't say he was hands off (he insisted that I violate civil rights/labor laws may he rot in hell), but he really didn't understa
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by greedo 4y ago
HU is still mandatory, though I didn't feel it was that challenging. A lot of rote memorization basically.
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by greedo 4y ago
I think the Atlantic is just assuming that since Reagan was an actor, who became California governor and then went on to the White House, so naturally, Arnold who follow this template. Also, the California governorship is not an effective m
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by greedo 4y ago
You should look up "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire."
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by greedo 4y ago
Shades of Walter White.

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