Can confirm from personal anecdote — when I had a startup, I (quickly, painfully) found that 3x was the only way I could get the bills paid.

Oh, the boeings—I know this show well.

Oh noes, my key demo is alienated.

You’re correct there — “China Cheap, US Expensive” is not the universal rule everyone thinks it is. Many things are better to make domestically for one reason or another (or a lot of reasons all together)—and they are. In fact, most OEMs of complicated products (cars, tech, etc) source, fabricate, and assemble…

OK, everybody stop, because you’re arguing over shit you clearly don’t understand, and it’s making bunny cry.

You need to know the component-level breakdown of that 24 hour figure before you can make an apples to apples comparison (pun!). If they’re including stuff like display module or battery fabrication and assembly, 24 man-hours sounds like a frickin’ miracle to me.

Well, he was part of the first crew to step back inside this thing after 17 years of being buried in the ice. And his buddy was on the C-130 that crashed during the salvage effort (I think the two of them actually switched flights that day but I’d have to ask).

As _drones pointed out — the armies weren’t really “for” each other, they were for the proxy wars, of which there were plenty. No practical endgame involved invading either side’s homeland (why? How? what then?)—but there were a plethora of smaller countries to subjugate and/or Truman Doctrine the shit out of (the…

My dad was flight crew on those C-130s, stationed down there (McMurdo I think) back in the ‘80s. Craziest stories.

The United States abandoned the SLAM/Flying Crowbar/Project Pluto system because, on some level, it was just too brutal, too cruel, too terrifying a weapon to contemplate, even at the height of the Cold War.

But seriously

As has been pointed out about a hundred other times under this article, most of “flyover country”—particularly the south (SE and SW, excluding TX) takes more federal money than it pays in. The math stubbornly stays the same even when we explain the good ol’ heartland self-reliant workin’-man’s-callous-hands values to…

“I don’t believe that small things can grow to affect big things” is the mentality that unravels most large organizations/systems/empires eventually, so at least we’re at par for the course.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense as long as you don’t understand how anything works or think about it for more than ten seconds.

NYC seems like the definition of “slow car fast” zone

FIGHT ME

UP IS DOWN
NIGHT IS DAY
CATS CHASING DOGS
KIAS PRICED LIKE MASERATIS
ANARCHY REIGNS

So...wait, is the story here really “Personal Not Interested In Movie, Does Not Watch, Internet Mad”?

...per pound.