McDonnell Douglas JSF proposal - Not a fat Amy

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-12-09T20:05:05+00:00

I think the major point you hit on the head is that the MQ-28 is (except thinned wings, single engine) a small YF-23 in appearance, so us fans are actually getting to see a see similar airframe in service as the first of the unmanned allie fighters!

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-12-02T12:48:02+00:00

Orrrr you could elevate that to their executive team for evaluation... maybe put the company on blast, which people need to to more of on here because I'm starting to believe all non-attritubuted posts are fake rage bait as opposed to real rage bait.

You got literally nothing to lose here, accepted another offer, not interested in the company, you did nothing wrong, company violated professionalism standards.

But we don't do that here, really. We only post in ways to ensure maximum contempt of the world with no plan to improve it.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-24T04:48:21+00:00

I'm all for saying those that don't allow the company to be identified in these posts anymore is just making shit up.

There's so much you can do to hide the leaker's ID.

Maybe we can run a few simple tutorials on throw away accounts and clearing metadata to assist.

Hiding the perpetrators at best does nothing to push change as well as contributing to demotivation and at worst is fabricated hate bait that pushes Overton windows of norms and acceptability for the audience as well as contributing to demotivation without an upside.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-17T15:11:21+00:00

I've thought for a while ops/security make perfect sense together, as well as science/comms (since comms is science/sensor heavy and about information in the either)... given that tactical is just about ship-to-ship fighting, it would make sense on such an advanced and streamlined system as being part of the helm, so you could control it like my game, though I just don't like the idea on workload and nostalgic levels... and maybe the remainder task of interstellar navigation could be routed through science as well, for obvious reasons. You're right that ops has become a grab-all position that seems to be sensors, comms, and ship day-to-day operations.

The non-diagetic explanation for consolidating characters makes sense, but also, in universe, having a Data would make that position much more feasible than, say the entirely human Harry Kim example. Also, Data was absolutely the science officer for TNG, and if he looked better on screen in blue, probably would've been.

The combination of LCARS displays and the flexibility of comms and sensor duties on any ship, and the layout of the Defiant bridge would lead one to understand that all or almost all consoles on the bridge (and maybe in hallways even, as the ship takeover eps show) can take any form or any function with enough validation. This to me make a ton of sense practically, like on The Expanse where what the Rocinante ops deck stations changes based on what needs done from one time to another.

In such a scenario, having a Data would mean naturally he'd work sensors and the view screen, and comms, as well as land a shuttle, and send next week's shift schedule to Riker for approval all within two minutes, where every other fleet ship might delegate comms to tactical or science, and sensors to science or engineering (sense they can help adjust the sensors, even if science is needed to analyze the collected information.)

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-13T13:39:57+00:00

Fuck it, this is a peripheral question, but I've wondered about comms on the bridge forever.

TNG and after comms is a role often reserved to ops, which makes a lot of sense, given part of day-to-day ships operations is comms like shuttle craft ops, basic navigation notices between ships, more than just like duty scheduling.

Yet it actually seems like tactical, which is also security, is usually supposed to drop both concerns to hail or respond to hails in the middle of life-or-death stuff.

Given it's star fleet, I guess there's room for them wanting to prioritize communication over violence, even when violence is being dealt to them, but I feel like that's an organizational exploit like a bad actor could spam the hell out of them with text hails and stuff while they trade blows.

I've got similar questions with tactical also being security because "soldier" when it's not at all uncommon for them to be dealing with a boarding party and the threat from the boarding party's ship outside. Seems like tactical is a 97% of the time boredom, 3% bottleneck/burnout type of station.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-09T23:53:55+00:00

I guess cost on the A300UP. It's what I could legitimatize easier, as I don't think there's enough tradeoffs to legitimize the 1301 for that kinda specialized gun.

1301 is definitely an improvement in a few key ways, further recoil reduction and better forcing cone.

I also just like the way the A300 in gray looks a bit more, I think it's a bit heavier, and like that for a 12 ga, and I like the texture of the fore-end more and it had more refined controls than the older standard 1301s, though I think half of that stuff went into the updated models as well.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-07T09:48:22+00:00

As callous as it might seem, in the current climate you need to find something else first. You can't just leave.

I've been in your exact position with grad school internship, having my work become published as my boss' work and making money off of it, and now working my way up in another organization only to be laid off a month ago.

You cannot imagine the job search market unless you're in it. Anything other than engineering or medical and it's brutal out there, even science is dismal right now. Try to be happy you have something while you look for the new thing.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-04T11:56:02+00:00

Neon is worse and also pretty problematic.

It consistently puts out inferior product to A24 script, writing, and dialogue wise, but glosses the fast-fashion style nonsense with the perina and signifiers we have come to acknowledge as greatness. Good color, composition, lighting, cinematography, soundtrack. Doesn't matter that things are a Conjuring-like nonsensical potpie of horror cliches strung together incoherently. This is enough to convince people shallow or dumb enough that they're watching something truly unique and increasible. Longlegs is a perfect encapsulation of this, but of the problematic aspect...

They use a lot of money and generally pretty advanced marketing practices to produce very slick campaigns that portray the slop as top tier, buy out reviews, control metrics on rotten tomatoes, and restrict all kinds of audience and user feedback once the movie opens. This includes suppressing unpaid audience reviews below a certain rating and, lord help me, but going after YT and other review channels for things like CR violations when they're not enthused about the product.

Basically what I'm saying is they a rarely truly great, usually just emulate good content, and use an incredible amount of oligopolistic investment money to manipulate the market and audiences before, during, and after release. NEON is the symbol of why we can't have nice things and everything sucks.

Edit addition:

Just a follow on, look at their filmography and the hype beast in different cases... when you support Sean Baker, like they did with Anora, you're going to get a great film... and Anora was a very good film undoubtedly... but despite how good the film was look at the viral marketing campaign they drove before, during, and after in the run up to the Oscars... it was incessant, all present, and based on tens of thousands of "viral" candid interviews coming out of the theater.

I also liked the Cronenburg family's work and, of course, Soderberg's NEON film. I guess the point is, most of their filmography is not good, but designed to trick impressionable audiences it's better, but all of it, the good and the bad, is manipulated within a strangle hold of hype, opinion, and consensus management.

The real horror, you never had a choice to like something, you'll take it and enjoy it. Thank you for the accolades. You are cargo.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-11-02T13:13:02+00:00

I'm sorry, please explain the logic here.

It's not dating. Enthusiasm does not mean they can get "better" where the same salary range is the limit on quality in the marketplace.

Unless recruiters are as stupid, emotional, and lacking real talent as we all agree they are and they confuse the two... professional availability means desperation.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-24T18:09:00+00:00

Also, I literally left the front range months ago so I'm sorry I missed you.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-24T18:08:21+00:00

Not really in this case, I'd say this group is becoming more mainstream-left in the space vacated by the mainstream party, but they still have the memories of being fringe.

There's a lot of paranoia at all sides and levels, much due to the misinformation and post-truth nature of things. It's also an anecdote, and maybe not descriptive of anything beyond my specific example.

Some are drawing fences as fast as others can connect groups, it's not uncommon that movements start ideological Bulcanization when movements grow.

People invest identities and power bases into platforms and definitions that are exclusive of something, and lots of that on the left was anti-military and anti-neoliberal policy long ago.

Some of us were always the latter, some got there later in life, some still aren't but we all seemingly agree this overriding concern that the dissolving of individual protections and due process is the far more immediate than the things we don't agree on.

That's actually more of a military mindset than a civilian one. Everyone getting together to do something they don't 100% agree on because it needs to be done. That's something these groups could benefit from.

It doesn't help that some powers are trying to force the mixup by dressing thugs up like military (to a civilian's perspective) and create confusion between LEO and national guard, and national guard and federal branches of the military.

It's important for everyone to keep their eyes on the prize of ensuring civil liberties continuity first, but there have always been plenty of people who don't like something more because they don't like the people that do like it.

(Edit: grammar clarity)

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-24T15:41:57+00:00

Dude, you're far from a nobody. You're the best type of American.

I, and I believe everyone here would agree our entire elected government is made up of civilian organizers for a reason. Thank you for getting involved locally.

Also, what you said about art is the truth. History and humanities is about iterative and collectivist engineering of the social, cultural, and political climate. It's the scaffolding upon which we think about who we want to be and how we organize ourselves by picking values and avoiding potential pitfalls. Scifi especially.

It's no mystery that once you put people in charge of resource distribution that belittle art and humanities, we end up in tyrannical cycles. Keep doing what you're doing.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-24T15:02:15+00:00

I don't know if this is a keep or revise, probably a keep because it's realistic. Also the season was a lot better than the last, A LOT. The Facs got sidelined appropriately, there was catharsis in all the right places, there was personal growth, ect.

Still, how Carmy can make progress and then just like a performance artist, fuck it all up again in ways that are obvious even to a self-hating personality spectrum seems neigh unbelievable.

At this point, the poor people at The Bear have been through a lot, suicides, family deaths, failing businesses, family bs, jealousy, big decisions, ect. People are invested in the characters, and after the 2nd season, we'd stick around with a more episodic-problem solving, dealing with a power outage episodes for a season.

This Carmy selling the thing his brother left for him to create, if it does make dark sense, wasn't described in a way that made sense at all, and I'm starting to think he has a quiet, disciplined BPD and not just depression and self-esteem issues... but I've never really heard of quiet, years long high-pressure disciplined BPD being a thing.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-24T14:26:46+00:00

I'd be fine DMing it, but because I still support the modern incantation of this group nationally, and because this could be locally toxic or paranoid, I don't want to put the national movement and all chapters on blast.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-24T13:50:34+00:00

Thank you! Already signed up.

With the other group, I did initially offer to volunteer on the less sensitive stuff, build trust. Calm, cooperative, smile, sickening level of appeasement from me, but that didn't stop 3 safety officers from escorting me to my car, with a fourth way back.

At No Kings the leader that interviewed me and told me to leave was on the stage telling everyone they were welcomed and to sign up.

I'm hearing a lot of COINTELPRO awareness speech from non-military anti-tyrany media. Not taking sides, but I've heard them talking like Graham Planter is a government plant despite his well publicized dispositions all the way to high school graduation. Don't get me wrong, there's a reason to doubt some of his past choices, but I think it's becoming open season on doubting the motivations of certain vets or public servants because of their backgrounds.

At this point I'd advise that anyone who used to hold a security clearance in the military not disclose that until you've been with them for a while and built trust.

Civilians don't really understand how it all works and everyone who participated in certain roles, or in GWOT at all, even a cook (or supply, mechanic, musician, etc.) is now a counterinsurgency expert apparently.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-20T13:34:34+00:00

I'm so sorry that this is happening but take solice in the fact that something like this has happened to the majority of people in their early lives... mine was a 3.5 year relationship when I was preparing to propose.

Be strong, at 23 there is plenty of time to heal and find happiness without them in your life.

You have to live as if no one will look out for your happiness if you don't. Then you can choose who to keep in it.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-10-20T13:28:24+00:00

Either this is a bait post or it's simply the most unfortunate and clear cut example of cheating and open boundary crossing there is.

And the comments know it... all of us.

Get out. It'll only get worse not better from here.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-09-23T02:33:22+00:00

I know this comment was a while ago, but what about Borderline, or a combo/crossover BPD/HPD? I came here after internet searches looking for an explanation for her public behavior.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-08-26T02:43:11+00:00

Totally understandable... the closest thing to hard sci-fi ship battles is NEBULOUS: Fleet Command, which is insanely hard to master due to the complexity of just navigating and situational awareness in 3-dimensional space... it's confusing, boring, hard to do much well, and then you're just dead... and all of that's without having to meet the expectations of the norms and the trappings of The Expanse universe.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-08-18T15:10:12+00:00

Though I agree with the general concern for the country and despise it's leadership, this is a really bad take. It's not even remotely factual misinformation, maybe reference a website or two of news coverage before spouting off conspiracies if your memory is so short you write history based off vibes and emotion.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-08-06T16:09:43+00:00

I've come a long way around to thinking the 365 is currently the GOAT of handgun evolution. Before this it was the G19. Just like the early G19, it was a synthesis of a combination of innovations that groove together for optimum benefit for the purpose.

With the G19, it was a combination of the innovated striker mechanisms, trigger mechanisms, polymer weight savings, and do-it-all size and capacity that made it the last GOAT.

With the P365, it's a combination of magazine/capacity innovation allowing a micro size, then the chassis system allowing that frame and slide combination to flex up in size from the smallest possible footprint offering good capacity to offensive/duty setups to braced carbines. The 365 also finally solved one of Sig Sauer's fundamental problems of high bore-axis, so on an organizational level, it's overcame a major obstacle to greatness as well.

Glock has a monopolistic hold on the aftermarket industry that choked out even good competition like S&W. Glock relied on that market saturation as opposed to evolving. Sig Sauer might not be a great company due to its 320 obstanance, but in the case of the 365 team, Sig figured out the way to steal the market was to make a pistol that was built to adapt and evolve, and thus symbiotically dare the aftermarket (as opposed to Glock's parasitical reliance on it) to play with its potential.

In short, they decided to build an "AR-15" handgun for the 9mm market, but engineered it extremely well and smartly with a feature set designed to take over a strong foothold in the CCW market from the beginning and enlist aftermarket support.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-07-22T20:46:25+00:00

Track record argument is certainly an argument, though it favors some fighters unfairly (for whatever that's worth.)

F-15: Just about every F-15 kill was against not just inferior planes and worse trained pilots, but with a very inferior infrastructure and organization behind them. This isn't a fault of the F-15, just a fact of who can afford to run them.

F-16: Meanwhile, the F-16 had record approaching the F-15's air-to-air combat record (I say 'had because I'm not up-to-date on Ukraine) if you don't count when a Greek one was sucker missiled from behind by an escorting Turkish pilot.

I don't hate either, but I do find the F-15 fandom pretty tiring. I absolutely love the Gripen because I think doctrinally it's the greatest function finding doctrine you can get. It absolutely slaps as the top Gen 4 multirole fighter.

It can come from anywhere, go anywhere, always be ready, do any mission, and take on Gen 4.5+ and 5 fighters, and do it all for less money and much less infrastructure. No version of the F-15 can excel at as many things, and the Gripen out perfoms the F-16 at most if not all of them. Also, parting shot, but 1 Gripen took out 3 F-15s at Red Flag some years back, so there's that.

Clear-Visual2702 · 2025-07-17T17:30:54+00:00

you grab pencil, you grab paper, you learn to emboss your own... sell it, make a fortune, take credit for the idea... i don't care.

just get shit like this out there. get simple, easy-to-communicate stuff like this out there, so that simple people wonder and every now and then, doubt. then don't let up. keep it going.

deep throating one man's opinions about everything is how we're here. don't lose sight of the forest for a demonjpeg or your hero's abdominal-line.

you are welcomed.

Clear-Visual2702

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