THATS SOCIALISM! UNLESS HES BLACK!
The U.S. Air Forceās top officer wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of Cold War-vintage F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticatedābut costly and unreliableāstealth fighters.
The result would be a high-low mix of expensive āfifth-generationā F-22s and F-35s and inexpensive āfifth-generation-minusā jets, explained Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr.
If that plan sounds familiar, itās because the Air Force a generation ago launched development of an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of Cold War-vintage F-16s and complement a small future fleet of sophisticatedābut costly and unreliableāstealth fighters.
But over 20 years of R&D, that lightweight replacement fighter got heavier and more expensive as the Air Force and lead contractor Lockheed Martin LMT +0.6% packed it with more and more new technology.
Yes, weāre talking about the F-35. The 25-ton stealth warplane has become the very problem it was supposed to solve. And now America needs a new fighter to solve that F-35 problem, officials said.
Yeah thatās why I said fuck the police, I was specifically talking about the FBI. The local police absolutely should have looked into it further. If she had told them he was growing marijuana in his RV they would have raided the fuck out of it.
Local police is complete shit and useless, FBI sucks too but I donāt think this one is on them.
today i learned that a Russian hockey player is apparently openly anti-Putin and pro-Navalny.
and that hockey divisions are apparently sponsored? Honda Central, and Scotia North. wattba
Well this sounds great.
The writing was already on the wall for brick and mortar retailers. Covid has just hastened what was going to happen anyway.
E-commerce is going to be the only commerce eventually. Which is why Iām trying to learn everything I can about e-commerce.
Pretty much the same approach I want to take with online education.
Was looking into coding boot camps but theyāre a real wild west type of institution. Doesnāt seem to be anything defining accreditation. Looks easy to create a scam boot camp.
Private trade schools are like that in the non-bootcamp world. Itās really bad. People pay $20k to learn to be an electrician and often go into debt and the schools are abysmal. Some of the money is coming from the government, but in some cases itās people taking on debt for no reason. Classes are worse than the adult education at community colleges.
Youāll see most people tell you that the value in the coding bootcamps is far more in job placement than what they teach you.
I donāt think education write large is going to be one of those things. Education is one of those things where the raw materials for education has already been online for 20 years or so and can easily be found in a library for hundreds of years
"You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.ā
ā Matt Damon, [Good Will Hunting]
But the real value add in an education is having a mentor organize and present the raw materials in a compelling fashion and then provide interactive feedback. In a university setting dedicating full time to education and being in and around other people in your major is a huge value add.
Those advantages arenāt really going to go away. Some of them can be semi replicated, but never quite to the extent that in-person education will be.
Word of the day:
ecĀ·dysĀ·iĀ·ast
/ekĖdÄzÄÉst/
noun humorous
noun: ecdysiast ; plural noun: ecdysiasts
- a striptease performer.
Spotted here (WaPo article syndicated in the Seattle Times):
Fanne Foxe, āArgentine Firecrackerā at center of D.C. sex scandal, dies at 84
At about 2 a.m. Oct. 7, 1974, U.S. Park Police pulled over a silver-blue Lincoln Continental that had been swerving and speeding without headlights on near the Jefferson Memorial in Washington.
A female passenger in an evening gown ran from the car, climbed the stone parapet along the Tidal Basin and ā acting on what she later described as a frantic impulse ā leapt headfirst into the frigid, inky water. Her splashdown would ripple into one of the capitalās most infamous sex scandals.
The woman, Annabel Battistella, 38, was a plumage-shaking striptease dancer with the stage name Fanne Foxe. She was billed as āthe Argentine Firecracker,ā and patrons of the local burlesque circuit were captivated by her elaborate costumes ā complete with five-foot-tall headdresses and tropical-colored ostrich and pheasant feathers ā as well as the artfulness with which she removed them.
[ ā¦ ]
Washington has a long history of tawdry scandals, but the contrast between [ Wilbur ] Millsās public persona and the subsequent revelations about his private life ā his uncontrolled drinking, his prowling of strip clubs, his regular companionship with a star ecdysiast ā drew intense media attention as he headed into his first serious reelection fight in more than three decades.
hereās a fun video from Russiaās Ministry of the Interior wishing 14 year olds a happy birthday. Turn on captions and auto-translate. such kindness and not a hint of instilling fear.
Never knew you could auto translate the captions. 
The online education software and infrastructure to implement it available is adequate for full online education in some subjects. It replicates a classroom so long as the students and teachers are familiar with how the software works. Iāve already tried it in a university context and it worked well enough that I am convinced that some majors (especially humanities) will be entirely online in the near future. Itās simply too profitable for universities to not do that.
Itās really a matter of how well it would serve children at this point. Personally, I think the answer is probably not that great. An online-only education would stunt children socially and psychologically unless they made a concerted effort to socialize on their own whereas school allows for both to happen simultaneously. There would have to be a lot of changes to the typical school day to make it work (more self-study, more student-centered learning environments etc). But because education policy is politicized, few people are willing to take on those risks with public education. Itās often up to universities and the occasional private school to lead the way and show people how these things can work.
Any of you Michiganders know anything about a guy named Lee Chatfield who was in politics up there? Iām eating next to him and Iām picking up stron deplorable vibes.
Our new hobby comrade
There is nothing hotter than a hot chick speaking Russian (:41). The brunette before her looks like sheās got a gun just off camera pointed at her head.
probably not too far from reality, figuratively or literally.
Divisions changed this year bc Canadian teams canāt travel to and from the states so they realigned and got sponsors bc of no fans
Damn, kinda upset I missed this deal since I have shopped at that Goodwill numerous times.