That’s the new CCA (Combatant Craft Assault) in case anyone’s interested. Snazzy little boats. Here’s a recent article on the CCA.

“They will probably line the interior with a video wall that shows the scenery, or maybe a movie. (Probably a short movie.)“

Dude’s an obvious stain on earth’s underpants.

“it’s a bit inconvenient to always have to position your phone and look at it to unlock it.”

“You don’t pressure your allies, you work together with allies.”

Ideally, the US would pressure NATO allies to sanction Russia. The biggest hammer available is the EU buying oil and natural gas from other sources. It wouldn’t be easy or quick, but accelerating the adoption of alternative energy sources would make it easier for the EU to stop buying Russian oil and gas. It also…

I believe the PC term is now ‘less than identical”.

Who on earth is buying an iPad Pro and NOT getting a keyboard and/or pen? Remember, we’re talking about people doing work with this thing, not media consumption.  

Great summary, and thanks for highlighting the oft overlooked balancing that occurs in our bicameral system. The system has an incredible ability to homogenize what would otherwise be very polarized legislation. The downside is that often change comes about slowly, but that’s not always a bad thing.

“Because I mean shit, if you’re paying like a grand a month in insurance premiums I can assure you your taxes wouldn’t be that high.”

You’re missing how this works. It’s seasonal in that it’s only 6 months in each place. They then ship them to the other location for the second season. Same companies getting two seasons out of the year. They’re probably wrapping up the Salinas season right now. Then it’s off the Yuma to start the second one.

“I mean, owning a bunch of human beings that have to be housed and fed, even if you do so in a very poor manner, just isn’t as efficient as having a tractor and various other farming implements.”

“Could be a textured mannequin head, or something like a very complex latex mask with details down to pores... I really don’t know.”

“but we certainly didn’t give on fuck during the Rwanda genocide of the Hutus against the Tutsis.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but two years in and Windows Hello has yet to be hacked or spoofed. In fact they even experimented with identical twins and failed.

“it costs hundreds more.”

Fair enough. Still, there are plenty of military interventions within your lifetime that were noble.

“Wouldnt the burden of proof be on the government that a certain anomaly was a strong indicator of illegal activity?”

“Wait, I thought that was just a distraction from Clinton’s sex scandal.”

The surgery costs don’t seem like much if you think of a service member as a longtime employee. But many service members are in and out in 2-4 years. From that perspective you realize that’s a significant cost to an employer. BTW the cost to train a recruit is said to be about $72k. I have no issue with the hormone…