A few weeks ago, I finally got thru to our conservative neighbors we have on my street... I asked them “what makes the US the most powerful nation in the world.” they immediately responded with “military.” I nodded, and asked them “military is powerful, but whats the most powerful? remember the phrase follow the…

USAID also offers informal insights and intelligence into countries we aren’t typically friendly with. Same as with NGOs - you can learn a lot from just mingling with the locals, which often leads to useful intelligence.

USAID was a form of soft power not unlike the diplomatic services. It was the US doing things that were, at first glance, “merely” charity and aid, but also gave us a lot of less obvious benefits. Once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot for short-term gain, but long-term losses. The world is more chaotic and less…

Yep, From the start of all the tariff talk I figured one of two things would happen. Either he would immediately forget about it after elected, or he would pretend he was going to impose them and claim he made some kind of negotiation victory with the other countries that isn’t real or something that already existed…

I was coming on to post this very thing, if I recall, the remaining Oceans (and their parts!) were purchased by a ride-sharing leasing company in NYC, so this may be one of the first of those cars to be hitting the road.

There are a few in my local area in San Diego that I occasionally see. Every time I see them I am disappointed they didnt succeed.

The whole e-tron naming is dumb. It made sense when there was only R8 e-tron. But then they started naming every EV e-tron. Then they made an actual Audi e-tron. But they renamed it to Q8 e-tron, which was a completely different vehicle from the actual Q8. And then everyone thought Q8 was a bigger Q7, which turned out…

And that’s IF Canada still sends its energy. They could just stop oil exports and the only place that has the type of oil we refine is Venezuela.

Fun Fact: Tariffs cause non-impacted products to raise their price because they can raise them and still be cheaper.

You’re right.

Except the far left is made up.  Bernie Sanders is barely left of center measured in other countries.  The Mainstream GOP is now far right.  The Dems have been center right on economic issues since Clinton, and, arguably, since Tip O’Neil.  The extreme left wants universal healthcare, universal college tuition,…

“Weren’t allowed to strike”

I’m a local. Some congress critter from flyover country is already trying to rename Dulles (IAD) to Trump.

I engage with ATC personnel dozens of times a year. While I don’t fly myself anymore, I ride right seat in a GA aircraft probably 100 hours/year, nearly always IFR, which means a lot of communication. On the ground, I design airport projects which interface with ATC rules, and often often have controllers as part of…

well, they ran out of Confederate generals to name shit after, so that was probably the next-best thing. Even though they would call Reagan a woke libtard at this point.

Naming an airport after the guy that fired 11,000 air traffic controllers is peak republican.

They’re interesting like NASA and DARPA products are interesting, and I’ll never get to use those either.

Watch JR Go - “Buy a shirt - not like this - do what you wanna do...”

hydrogen combustion. If we can figure that out, ICE power plants will live on.

Everything Doug DeMuro does.