So why is it screwed. Why does it need to be several times larger than any other Navy.

weve got airbases all over the place as well. we dont need capabilities double or triple the size of the next most powerful country. we just need enough.

This. I think we’re long overdue for a dramatic downsizing. The South China Sea is not our job. Those multi billion dollar ships can all be sent to the bottom with relatively cheap and increasingly prolific ASMs.

A lot of these issues would be avoided if the relationship between the Department of Defense and Defense Contractors wasn’t so incestuous. You’ve got military leadership lining up favorable appropriations for their buddies at Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Raytheon, Boeing, Electric Boat etc, and in return, getting…

I don’t know that this article establishes clearly:

This article (or at least the headline) is really, really bad advice for anybody who lives in a city or suburb. Local governments have written laws explicitly addressing this. If you fail to mow your lawn and keep it at a reasonable length, the local municipal government will show up at your house and mow your lawn…

Or if you have any reason at all to use that space for recreation, and don’t want, among other things, Lyme disease.

I found all of those quite comfortable to use, aside from the hard texture on the N64 thumbstick making it a bit painful for extremely long play periods or for that early glut of games that made you spin the stick (original Mario Party, for example).

It’s so that each JoyCon can be used as a separate controller if needed. This way, each player gets a mini controller with a stick, 4 face buttons and 2 shoulder buttons.

There are lots of things that I’ll get skeptical on Nintendo for, but controller design isn’t one of them. I can’t think of a single piece of hardware they’ve put out that I’ve used and which felt actively uncomfortable to play with.

If they went ahead with the four-button “d-pad” design, I have to assume it feels…

I would feel bad for him if he didn’t come off as such an ego maniac. Even his jabs at old Top Gear weren’t fun like they could have been. And I felt like he was pandering to the audience throughout. He’s just not likeable. Clarkson was smug, but in that likeable way. Evans is smug in that I want to punch you way.