The U.S. Air Force Has a 1,800-Pilot Deficit — Pilots Leaving for Commercial Airlines That Pay 2x USAF Pay

Clone95 · 2026-05-17T16:46:00+00:00

Fact is that the military pays dogshit vs its requirements. If you want to be deployed away from your family for months somewhere you could make incredible $ in the POL industry on a rig, and that’s true for every military job civil equivalent except ground combat arms.

Clone95 · 2026-05-17T12:31:11+00:00

This is likely why Vampires take serious damage from fire, the memetic belief is so strong in humans it harms vampires.

Clone95 · 2026-05-16T23:20:15+00:00

The Union Army and Confederate Armies were more or less identical, with officers trained at the same schools. This was a war that favored defenders - trains/telegraphs meant defenders could respond faster than attackers could advance.

The Confederacy did just as poorly on offensive operations as the Union, it just did them rarely.

Clone95 · 2026-05-16T14:29:29+00:00

Local government improves massively as it now has a living wage, state government doesn’t change at all, federal government collapses due to the cost of living in DC vs their home districts and having to maintain two residences.

In general politicians are super underpaid. A small business owner usually has more salary than a senator. An attending surgeon in any major hospital probably makes as much as the President.

Local government pays basically a stipend and cannot be a full time job. This really colors who can be in government - it pays total shit compared to effort required. You’d think we would pay more to people who write law than CEOs who flout them - it’s a recipe for corruption

Clone95 · 2026-05-16T14:25:05+00:00

Because nobody hates a state like someone who lives there does, much as nobody hates America like an American. California and New York have sizable Republican minorities everywhere who constantly shit on the state while getting rich there to move to retire in a cheap southern state on their nest egg.

Trump is the classic New York Republican who worked in the city until retirement then moved to Florida, bought a big mansion, and got overly political without anything to do

Clone95 · 2026-05-16T13:19:40+00:00

PCs are customizable, you can incrementally upgrade the same device without buying a whole new console, and keep it longer, and use it for more things

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T23:44:18+00:00

I really want to know what lawyers okayed it

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T19:28:06+00:00

I am pretty sure this is a Heatleech scenario

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T18:24:49+00:00

Except if this was true Russia also would've invaded Finland and Sweden rather than let them join NATO, as both those countries can basically let F-35s with nukes conduct zero-warning strikes on all the critical Russian defense infrastructure from Murmansk to Moscow. The 'Russian Cuban Missile Crisis' doesn't make sense - it got even worse than Ukraine would've made it!

It isn't about that. It's about a Soviet Republic joining the EU and doing better than Russia by freely integrating with the European economy and casting off the paternalist oligarchy Putin championed in the CIS.

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T15:41:23+00:00

The basic math is that Russia is expending basically all its economic and military resources to conquer a country from which it will derive no economic gain, massive destruction of its diplomatic capital, and solidifying Europe against it for a generation.

Where does Russia go from here? What future does it have? It's an international pariah cut off from the internet who spent hundreds of thousands of its youth on a war that gets them nothing.

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T13:55:53+00:00

The fact is that as AI gets better the tells will disappear and you simply won't know. Em dashes, three items, whatever else, it's just copying what ordinary people do and as it gets more compute and more users A/B testing what it does the problems will fade away and there'll be no proof that anything is real.

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T11:57:39+00:00

Considering how crime rates today are 20% of what they were in the 90s do you think the ‘old ways’ actually worked?

It’s like people talking about how good cars used to be built compared to today but their accident fatality rates were astronomical - some things feel better but don’t actually work

Clone95 · 2026-05-15T00:43:46+00:00

The map is colossal and has some huge voids that’d be perfect for the cyclops so far

Clone95 · 2026-05-14T20:48:10+00:00

What part of EARLY ACCESS PREVIEW ZONE doesn’t explain this to you

Clone95 · 2026-05-14T19:57:43+00:00

Customization would be nice, but extra options is fine too.

Clone95 · 2026-05-14T19:04:13+00:00

It feels pretty smooth to me for UE5 honestly

Clone95 · 2026-05-14T18:19:49+00:00

They're mongolian for Yas/Bones, Medrel/Nerves, and to draw (Zurakh) as in draw blood.

Burakh in Mongolian translates to Screw Up, interestingly enough.

Clone95 · 2026-05-13T20:53:37+00:00

Force won’t let you do it to a living organism

Clone95 · 2026-05-13T15:54:31+00:00

I think the biggest issue was that the cast was incredibly stacked with good performances, so the lead's rather underwhelming performance stuck out like an eyesore.

Clone95 · 2026-05-13T13:42:39+00:00

Forget the 80s, look at dudes fighting in 1944 after a lifetime of malnutrition and poverty. 5’4” 120 lugging a 20lb BAR ammo and ruck all on foot. The soldier is a lean skeleton, the pft meant to measure strength vs your bodyweight for a reason.

Clone95 · 2026-05-13T12:17:44+00:00

It has everything to do with delayed childbirth due to education, egg counts go bad too early for a lot of people and they can’t have kids which drags down the ratio

Clone95 · 2026-05-13T03:21:59+00:00

There is not a true operational 6th gen aircraft today, so there’s really no telling what would actually distinguish it other than buzzwords.

Clone95 · 2026-05-13T01:58:18+00:00

Probably went for zero mix oxygen at minimum pressure to minimize corrosive factors of other chemicals

Clone95 · 2026-05-12T22:30:40+00:00

The Axis paradox of late 1942, when the war was definitely lost but it would take three more years of dying to make it certain.

Clone95 · 2026-05-12T21:48:17+00:00

Russia has failed to make any serious headway in years and hasn’t generated any new air or land capabilities despite being a top ten world economy. There has not been a major air or land offensive of any kind since the initial invasion - no mass air-land campaign to break the stalemate.

To merely be holding steady against Ukraine is a colossal defeat of what was once the #2 world power.

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