No joke. It’s not well remembered, but the Australian army helped us out during the Vietnam war. Here is a picture of an Australian Centurion in Vietnam

I’m pretty sure the tubes on the bow are LRDBLs (long-range drop-bear launchers)

HMAS Toowoomba

In fairness, any frigate that shoots spiders and snakes at their enemies is pretty badass.

It is as good and as just to tear down Confederate flags as it is to punch Nazis.

Looks like someone makes the bigass statue based on Hulkbuster’s cheap knockoff toys.

Like the Ukrainian forces had a chance against what Russia was ready to do. The correct term for what they did is called a strategic retreat. It doesn’t matter one whit whether some people welcomed them. Or some crossed over. It was still legally part of another country. They did not have a right to it. Sorry, but you…

“annex anything”

No, the photo isn’t fake. The unit depicted does have strong, confirmed links to the far right and Nazi sympathies but you’re looking at less than 20 men.

I guess my point is mostly that only in California would people working a job that requires no skill, no degree or technical school complain that they are only making 17 bucks an hour. In most places you would have people line up and gladly compete in cage matches to the death for that kind of job. To be clear I’m not…

At this point, they are expected to be unprofitable. They make very few cars, yet are designing another and building a factory for it.

I’m going to chime in here with a direct perspective with the full disclosure that I am in the “front office” or management side of this discussion. I am a manufacturing engineer at a large American non union manufacturing plant owned and operated by a company that does have union plants, so I have good exposure to…

The RT hack says what?

the value of the equity is tied to the stock price...

“This is an interesting take from Musk. As Jeremy Owens, the tech editor for Marketwatch, pointed out, Tesla subtracts stock compensation from its earning reports.”

Anti UAW ain’t necessarily anti-union. They seem pretty damn shady.

No. I am in the midwest, we have 2 Ford assembly plansy where I live and a Toyota Camry Plant within 65 miles. They start at $17 here...I know guys which have been hired there recently.

Long term unions retard the ability of top performers from rising due to seniority rules. I watched a state employee, a secretary “bump” a smart young programmer, a fellow state employee, out of his job when her job of 28 years was eliminated. He had some social issues that would have prevented him from getting along…

Crowd sourcing, war bonds, taxes .... same thing, except for the motivation to not speak Russian (again).

Drones have certainly moved front and enter to the modern battlefield. I remember the marvel in the PGW when we were using these for NGF support, now almost every in depth article about modern tactics includes drones.