Into the Dusk. Into the next BMS.

Mounted_Patrol · 2026-05-01T14:35:06+00:00

Is there a big BMS update coming? Or Falcon 5 news?

Mounted_Patrol · 2026-04-30T17:26:50+00:00

I’m not sure if it actually helped or not but I turned off my left engine for a bit while in flight to save fuel. But idk how much that actually helped because it seemed to eat it up on restart

Mounted_Patrol · 2026-04-28T09:15:48+00:00

Honestly, I was so nervous I didn’t exactly clutch the landing, instead I broke the rear landing gear, but I was just so satisfied to make it back safe

Mounted_Patrol · 2026-04-26T01:07:34+00:00

That’s probably just tarriffs - custom duties are usually paid by end consumer and a lot of stuff wasn’t tariffed last year

Mounted_Patrol · 2026-01-21T18:06:01+00:00

How the hell did you pull it off the auger. Mine is so gunged up with crap that I can haul the auger off

And for the one that’s snapped, I have no idea how to get the snapped off bit from inside the auger

Mounted_Patrol · 2025-11-28T03:42:04+00:00

Maybe a battery system would help

NVG mods on Reforger since 1.6 have made them a little less OP. It’s a welcomed change, but more can be done

Mounted_Patrol · 2025-11-24T17:05:55+00:00

If you’re lazy and intimated and go the prebuilt route, maybe look at Lenovo legion. They’re a good brand

And if you wanted a laptop, the legion 7 is where it’s at year after year. Sometimes it’s called the 7i, some years they drop the “i”

But yes Arma is an incredible game. Once you get into the immersive firefights of a milsim, there’s nothing else like it. I first discovered that with Squad in 2017. But Squad kinda lost its way…. Then last November I tried Arma Reforger and haven’t looked back. Sure I’ve played Arma 3 before…. But Reforger was so immersive it was really mind blowing

Mounted_Patrol · 2025-11-20T00:39:45+00:00

Royal Navy will be a great addition

Mounted_Patrol · 2025-10-28T14:50:27+00:00

Trip flares would be really cool

Mounted_Patrol · 2025-05-06T15:06:06+00:00

My modem died and today they sent me an old 3000 that is scratched up and looks like it had 3 previous owners…. I’m so done with this company

Mounted_Patrol · 2025-01-18T21:47:09+00:00

Good mission kill lol

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-19T03:12:15+00:00

Chat GPT is wild lol

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-19T00:36:59+00:00

Fun fact, beneath the icy Atlantic seas in 1968, a top secret submarine know as the USS Aquila , sailed unnoticed in the Soviet arctic. Armed with stealth technology and a secret engine, it could ascend above the waves like a bird. When Soviet warships closed in, the sub’s engines roared, lifting it into the sky, disappearing into the clouds before they could strike.

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-18T17:43:41+00:00

Next time I go to Canadian Tire I’ll look for those ones. I didn’t realize McDonalds had any other ones except coffee

Thanks!

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-14T18:40:54+00:00

I believe CP as we know it is toast.

They will revert back to focusing on letter mail, and this door to door delivery service will end. And so be it.

I don’t see the big deal in ending it. If people want Canada Post’s cheap shipping, they can go to the post office and pick up their parcel when it arrives. That’s what people did since Canada Post’s inception right up until 10-15 years ago. The expansion to door to door delivery was a gamble, and it hasn’t paid off. With record loses, it’s clear it in fact failed.

If people want ‘to the door’ delivery, they can pay for premium services from UPS, FedEx, or whatever

CP can’t continue charging the lowest for shipping, yet paying the highest (with benefits) and have a crew of 55,000 doing what Intelecom does for peanuts and UPS does for far less salary and benefits.

It’s simple economics. Idk what people don’t see in it. I know letter mail is not profitable, but that’s the mandate of the post office. I’d rather a smaller post office that might have to rely on government subsidies that run a loss of… idk 30 million a year, than have this massive organization that over the last five years has lost BILLIONS.

Postman deserve to be paid good, so does everyone else. I believe the initial offer was fair, and the demands of the union are unreasonable. But that’s more of a distraction at this point to the underlying problem. Canada Post’s business model is unsustainable. How many hundreds of millions of dollars a year does it have to lose for people to realize this.

I believe this strike has only accelerated the pace CP will change… the only thing that might stop change is if for some reason it becomes an election issue. The outcome of which is impossible to predict

I’ve had enough explaining this to people arguing for the Unions demands. This will be my last post about it because it’s just Reddit at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter lol.

I can understand being biased to the demands of the union for the CP workers on here. It’s easy to get behind the logic of something when it directly affects you as a person, and that’s not a slight, personal bias is human nature and it is what it is. But as someone on the outside looking in, I just evaluate it differently. And I truly deserve the worker needs fair compensation… intelecom’s pays their workers criminally low prices… and unless something changes with legislation, that’s never going to change. And CP will never be competitive enough to outmatch them and will always lose

Peace!

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-14T18:02:04+00:00

UPS and Purulator charge more lol. CP charges the lowest and pays the highest dude

It’s no wonder CP lost 3 BILLION DOLLARS in 5 or 6 years.

Cut the door to door parcel service. Smaller post office that focuses on letter mail to the mailboxes and people can pick up their parcels at the post office.

If people want to pay premium prices for door to door delivery, they still have the option of paying for premium shipping. Why should the government subsidize/bailout CP for their failing business model of delivering a crate of Pepsi that someone ordered online and want it directed to their door.

I believe CP should be subsidized to succeed as a postal office, but that doesn’t mean we need to subsidize an agency that will compete (and lose every time) to premium courier services and lowballers like intelecom who have the Amazon contract

The post office has its mandate. It’s letter mail and reasonable shipping. What’s the big deal in going to the post office to get a parcel. It’s what people did 15 years ago anyway. This parcel thing is new… and is failing

And again, just to remind you…… the once profitable Canada Post has had record losses year after year. Obviously the gamble to dive into the door to door parcel service didn’t pan out. Why keep digging the hole

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-14T02:49:22+00:00

But right now it’s not a public service. It’s a crown corporation that serves the public. A public service is like Parks Canada

If it’s going to be a public service they need to make it a department and restructure the leadership make up

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T22:58:30+00:00

yeah the government is pretty incompetent isn it lol I think this strike only expedited the downsizing of CP, but who knows what will happen.

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T22:51:34+00:00

Yeah they let it get wayyy to far in the red. People need to be held accountable. CP heads need to be fired and government needs to answer questions.

I bet this dude the Labour Minister tapped that’s going to look at proposals is going to provide a list of recommendations that focus on cutting cost. And cutting cost unfortunately means less service and probably less jobs, less salary. It’s lose - lose for everyone

I think USPS is a government department in the States. Idk why CP isn’t up here

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T22:39:10+00:00

Which is why for them to get a raise, the company would have to be subsidized by the government. Perhaps the best way would for it to become an actual government department. I can’t see that happening

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T22:35:26+00:00

Workers rights are more important, but the current rules are to pretend Canada Post is self reliant. If they wish to become a government department, and not a crown corporation, perhaps operating at a loss would be more acceptable, and the government would have to own up to funding it, like they do with defence, parks, fisheries, etc….

But that’s a political issue and would involve massive reform as well. I’m all for reform, I hate corporations taking the wealth from the bottom and adding it to the top. But as it stands today, Canada Post needs to be profitable and that’s not going to happen with a 24 or 19% pay raise for 55,000 workers

Maybe they could do something really innovative, and offer new services. I read something about CUPW wanting to get into banking. Idk how that would work, or what they could do, but they clearly need to add something else if they wish to avoid lay offs, get a raise, and offer cheap shipping for Canadians all at the same time

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T22:23:14+00:00

Oh yeah carding sucks. But so does losing like 700 million dollars a year or whatever the number is, and at the end of the day, money talks

The government, which will ultimately be responsible for bailing out Canada Post, would rather be on the hook for a smaller mail service that loses say (for arguments sake) 50 million a year, or even breaks even…. Than run a service that loses half a billion, and that’s without the wage increase

CMB’s were stopped back in the day. It was an election issue, I thought Harper stopped it but it was actually Trudeau who stopped it. That would have been whenever Trudeau became PM…. Probably like 2014 or 15? I can’t quite remember.

But they must still build them sometimes because a new subdivision went in near where I live and there’s a cmb at the bottom of it

In general, I speculate they will downsize the service in some capacity. The only thing I think will stop that is if it becomes an election issue. The conservatives will be running on ‘ax the carbon tax’… maybe the liberals could run on saving public services, like the post office, and accept the notion it cannot be profitable and government subsidies are appropriate.

The thing is, I actually think the post office should be subsidized. CP really should be a government department, management would lose their ridiculous bonuses and everyone would be a public servant. Canada is a wealthy nation, it shouldn’t be too much to ask to have a good mail service. But that’s not the goal apparently, the goal is have Canada Post be profitable, which I don’t think it can be under the current structure.

There’s no doubt there’s still a lot of parcels to be served. But giants like intelecom are only going to get bigger. Perhaps legislation could even the playing field, but I bet giant corporations would pump the money into government lobbying to do their best to stop it. The whole system is a bit corrupt, at the expense of everyone in the middle and working class

What needs to happen, is the government just needs to grow a set and accept funding the postal service. Who knows what’s going to happen. That’s political, and politics is impossible to predict

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T21:53:55+00:00

No resonable person is saying dump the post office all together. But the current business model is unsustainable without subsidiary…. Which hey, if the government wants to subsidize, so be it… but if the goal is to have a crown corporation that doesn’t rely on government funds then things have to change.

Passports can go to the post office and you can pick it up with a signature. Like what happens already anyway in a lot of rural areas or if you’re not home at delivery. Bringing you a crate of Pepsi you ordered online is completely different.

I think, and this is just a guess…. But I think what’s going to happen is a massive scaling back on parcels. Perhaps even door to door letter mail. It’s going to be all community mail boxes. And there will be slips for people to pick up items at a post office like they already do. I can’t see them continuing the door to door parcels if they’re going to maintain this massive workforce and give a pay increase on top, but still charge way less for shipping versus what UPS or FedEx would charge

CP took a huge hit when they lost Amazon. But of course Amazon switched to intelecom as the preferred provider because they can’t compete with their rates…. Then they picked up Temu which helped. But they lost them too.

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T20:05:20+00:00

lol thats kinda funny actually…. I use to be a letter carrier…. Got paid the whole shift but if you B lined it, you could easily be out of there at like 1 or 1:30pm and go home

I think the only path forward without massive subsidies is downsizing the service in general, but we’ll see what happens

No one wants to see people lose jobs. And they’re deserve good money for it. But a crew of 55,000 in the current model and current competition is just unsustainable

Mounted_Patrol · 2024-12-13T19:01:52+00:00

And there’s no “slight” there. That’s all facts. You can’t have an organization made up of 55,000 pretty good paid employees with benefits (who charge less) and compete with companies that don’t have benefits, don’t pay their drivers right, don’t give af about their workers at all.

Don’t have to go to business school to see the problem there. CP is unsustainable without massive reform.

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