Hey, thanks for spelling “Colombia” correctly. It’s a pet peeve of mine.

As a Latino myself (born and raised), I can assure you that Afro-Latinos (my family members included) self-identify as Latinos not as black. Not to mention that vast majority of Latinos are not black.

Watching the game now. Part of me hopes he hits a dinger off Porcello. Just to see this dumpster fire continue burning. I say this as a Sox fan.

“Also, let’s not pretend like this guy isn’t completely roided out right now.”

“mostly because of the cultural crossover”

“Some people are both black and Latino.”

It’s race vs ethnicity. And in this case an unnecessary inclusion (assuming the only Latinos included in this stat are indeed black).

Sure, but then why not just say Black? The majority of Latinos are not Black (myself included).

Am Latino, never really even considered an HBCU when I was went to college. Just found it to be a strange association. Perhaps HBCUs also target Latinos as well and I just didn’t realize it.

It just seems like an unusual association to have with the HBCU Initiative.

Just curious, but why were Latinos included in that statistic?

“Usually ships within 1 to 2 months.”

“Usually ships within 1 to 2 months.”

“Now you are firmly under his thumb and at his personal mercy. This seems worse to me than leaving them in the Dept. of Ed.”

They’re already in theater (over 1,000 units), and available through the GSA Schedule. They’re about to start shipping their manpack versions as well.

This is correct. I happen to be very familiar with the company supplying these. The ones in the pictures above are already at least one generation old. They all work well with each other, but reliability and efficiencies have increased.

Unfortunately there are no economies of scale in nuclear propulsion. The supply chain is so heavily regulated that it’s a pretty straight line WRT to cost/unit. We also only have two suppliers, and one shipyard (for surface ships at least) that can do the install.

“75% of generator use with solar would reduce fuel consumption by 1.2%”

The problem with nuclear propulsion is two-fold. One is size. US Navy nuclear power plants aren’t really going to get any smaller (based on the latest A1B reactor). Unlike commercial nuclear reactor designs which have somewhat stagnated due to the beauracracy of approving a new design, naval propulsion has…

Russia has a single nuclear battle cruiser. We also had nuclear cruisers. They aren’t practical.

It’s not just about power capacity. These units are used to recharge the myriad of batteries soldiers have. 300W of continuous power is pretty significant. It’s not mean to replace all the generators, but rather supplement them. A 10% reduction in fuel consumption could mean half a dozen less dangerous fuel convoys…