The right stuff or the crazy brave?

derg said:
Are those still a thing? Man, they were everywhere along with 42”-waist ‘tactical pants’ and the ‘tactical’ carry-on backpack.

“Goin’ on an adventure in… Orlando, sir?”
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I can think of places I’d rather be, for sure. But safety isn’t the reason, especially near anywhere that the Mouse extracts revenue.
 
derg said:
Are those still a thing? Man, they were everywhere along with 42”-waist ‘tactical pants’ and the ‘tactical’ carry-on backpack.

“Goin’ on an adventure in… Orlando, sir?”
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For sure…I can’t tell you the number of overnights I was on with a dude wearing a shirt that makes him think he was an operator. Then I ask, “what you do in the military bud?” His response, “I flew tankers.”

Cool…can’t wait until you unprovoked start talking about tariffs and the jab.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I can think of places I’d rather be, for sure. But safety isn’t the reason, especially near anywhere that the Mouse extracts revenue.
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I mean, not to diminish the service of anyone that signs up for that job…but most that wear that crap…either didn’t serve or had jobs/deployments that were safer than the drive to downtown Disney.
 
jhugz said:
I mean, not to diminish the service of anyone that signs up for that job…but most that wear that crap…either didn’t serve or had jobs/deployments that were safer than the drive to downtown Disney.
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Which isn’t much of a downtown, as you doubtless know!

My moment of zen is a bunch of ICE creeps wearing more gear in Chicago (but somehow not a float coat or PFD while on a boat) than Lieutenant Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg USNR did in Afghanistan.

SO TUFF. SO TACTICOOL.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Which isn’t much of a downtown, as you doubtless know!

My moment of zen is a bunch of ICE creeps wearing more gear in Chicago (but somehow not a float coat or PFD while on a boat) than Lieutenant Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg USNR did in Afghanistan.

SO TUFF. SO TACTICOOL.
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I mean if they don’t look like D boys coming back from a raid in Afghanistan while kicking another brown grandma out of the country, is it really police work in the states?

Ermmm…I mean thin blue line or some thing…
 
derg said:
Well, people think we’re just going to turn back”on” the NASA of the 1960’s by maybe adding a few dollars to the program. We’ve gutted the department of education, childcare have no interest in science, 50% of us think thoughts and prayers with a sprinkling of dude-bro podcasters subsitutes for education (“Just askin’ questions for the vibes, bro”). We could throw a trillion at space and end up with absolutely nothing because we don’t have a farm team of highly education, highly motivated young people AND the Far East is recruiting our brightest minds.

We’re basically dead seat on being a really nice third world nation.
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So NASA is basically a "funding problem." We can just throw money at it and it'll do pretty well.

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Also, I may have been out of grad school for about a year but there are some AMAZINGLY highly motivated, intelligent, and driven locally grown American kids. They just (tragically) are not rewarded for being "smart." You're going to need CS graduates and EE graduates to design rockets, but it's really hard to get a job out of school. Most of the kids I knew who graduated with their undergrad at the same time I was finishing my masters last year had to move across the country to find work - some of them didn't find work at all. Some of them are driving Grubhub and Doordash and trying to get by. The ones left over either got hired or went to grad school because, "maybe I need more credentials" - the whole thing sucks. But we could literally solve the space exploration problem by just throwing money at NASA. You think the kids were intrinsically smarter in 1965 out of school? No - they weren't - but we

1. didn't keep them passified with a dopamine binky smart phone
2. actually were willing to invest money into their well being and professional growth
3. we actually wanted to go and do space stuff so we "went to war with the army we had not the army we wanted"

But basically, if congress would just stop stepping on it's own scrotum all the time and allocate money towards space stuff we'd get more space stuff.

I keep reading that the ROI for space related stuff is about 7 to 1. So we spend $1 on some pork-riddled NASA project, and by the time the dust settles we've made $7. It seems stupid not to do that, but here we are.
 
jhugz said:
I mag dump my EDC Glock 43X every time a leaf falls. Not gonna let those Antifa terrorists take my freedumbs.
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ACORN!?? OBAMA IS ATTACKING! AUGUGHGHGHGH

Nah bruh, it was a literal acorn.
Autothrust Blue said:
Food stamps are the same way, and it’s a valid argument.
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Yup! We can choose to spend money on things to fix things! Weird that. And hilariously, you can make better space stuff if you do food stamps because you can get more bright young people educated enough to design rockets, so it's kind of a fly wheel sort of thing.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
DO NOT DO THIS.

You guys are idiots, seriously.
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It's great because it both explicitly tells you what to do *and* gives you further room to increase your understanding of "why" you should or shouldn't do something. Should be the standard for all safety critical stuff. Also non safety critical stuff.

FAILURE TO DO THIS WILL RESULT IN DEATH

There's a tiny valve at the ass end of the machine that will over-pressure and pop if you fail to do THIS.

is way more usable than reading a limitation on the automatic felcher valve or whatever.
 
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