Service reactions to returning to Bagram: USAF: “We just got you out of there!?” Army: “Three COAs: tons of dudes, less dudes, and a huge amount of dudes.” USMC: “What if we airlift three amphibious ships and drop them right on Bagram?” Navy: “Whatever.” USSF: “What planet is that on?”

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I'm not saying it's the end all but for my son who's struggles with reading, we got him the Pokeman nintendo game which requires him to read all the prompts and cues on the screen. I only help him with words that are above his grade level.

This via @alarcos.bsky.social is fascinating It looks like @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 's flight to Plovdiv was *not* victim of GPS jamming, but a non GPS landing was requested for unknown reasons. BUT the plane's earlier flight over Estonia was jammed. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

The Gettysburg already resolved this question

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

I'm not saying nothing happened but that's not how GPS works.

They massacred my boy in the name of "OPSEC". While also forgetting that the C-17 is a diplomatic tool when it's delivering aid, evacuating refugees etc. We should want a big American flag on the goal and "United States Air Force" on the fuselage.

Amazing

Aegis Ashore Afloat!

We will literally strap anything to a LCS in an attempt to make it useful. 😂

Me: hello large hospital in our area, I forgot to grab a doctor's note for my son on the way out can you email one to me? Hospital: we can't email, we a can only fax

13.5 years, from a rescue in a small town in OK to 3 more states, swam in both oceans, never passed up the opportunity to seize an open gate for a little adventure. Today he got to sleep on the couch and go one one last walk with his best friend. Trooper lived up to his name to the very end.

One last evening walk with my friend of 13+ years. We always hope for more time but it's never enough.

Nothing cracks me up more than a couple NatSec Think Tank Podcasters discussing the supposed obsolescence of entire job sectors & need to retrain all these white collar knowledge workers to blue collar jobs, without acknowledging that one of the first sectors to go could be NatSec Think Tankers.

Critical support

To paraphrase Elizabeth Warren, oh my goodness, oh dear, are you worried that all the lawyers in a lawsuit are going to be held to the same standard?

I play paintball as a hobby. Checking in today for practice before our tournament next weekend, the guy at the register says the price for paintballs has gone up a couple dollars but it's probably going to go up a lot more since almost all of the competition grade brands we use are made in Canada.

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.

Sitting in the Pentagon Flight Med Clinic waiting on my hearing test and this Marine walks and starts talking with the front desks tech. I can only see his back out of the corner of my eye but his voice sounds familiar. It was one my pilot training classmates, who I haven't seen in over 13 years.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

I am desperately waiting for regular media to figure out that 99% of the predictions coming out of tech CEO's mouths are complete bullshit. It's *perpetual futurity*; these "imminent" things are always 1 year, or 5 years, or "within a decade" away, and the goalposts keep moving as necessary.

I do not want to have to open my email and click on a link to log in every fucking time I want to order/use your service/whatever. Let me make a fucking password.

You see this Silicon Valley attitude with DOGE yelling about databases on COBOL. Here's the thing about 60 year old code - it's probably had all the bugs worked out by now; COBOL is very performant and is usually optimized for the systems it is on.

New doctrinal definition: Luyang Mission Kill - to render a Luyang Destroyer unable to continue in its intended mission until the vessel is turned 90 degrees.

Ukraine and Russia are relying on drones because both sides are critically short on traditional combined arms platforms and lack the capability to conduct large-scale strike warfare from the air or integrate it effectively with ground maneuver. That’s literally it.

Oh no! Science broke your cartel's strangle on an industry? www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Why is Ukraine using drones?

I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand that the US hasn't invested so much in kamikaze drones because we have GUIDED MISSILES. I'm not saying don't build drones, they have their uses, but man. We have MISSILES.

100% of the people quoted in that piece literally do not understand the concept of range

Defense experts who also happen to have a company that's trying to carve out a portion of the DoDs budget for their silver bullet technology

I can’t remember who pointed out, but if all these AI tools were truly worth a damn, they wouldn’t be forcing this stuff down everyone’s throats for free.

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

War is all about logistics.

The American Dollar is American Power.

Ok so when Microsoft was making the first Xbox I was doing Flash ads for them and they had an 800 page brand standards binder and when I used a green that was, and I quote, 6% off, I got my ass chewed out. Fucking losers now. Have some goddamn self respect.

Using Alt Text to provide the recipe needs to be normalized.

PSA: If you are shopping for Prime Day, you should have the Keepa chrome plug in handy or the app on your phone so you can see the historical prices for the item that is "on sale". keepa.com!

Those Zumwalts look like props from the 80s Star Wars movies.

OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY ACTUALLY PUT A FLOT ON THIS THING

“Show of presence the capacity and freedom of maneuver” ….HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA…LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAH

“I'm mostly just a dude. I'm just doing a job. This is what I signed up for, and I think that any single Coast Guard rescue swimmer or any single Coast Guard pilot, flight mechanic, whoever it may be, would have done the exact same thing in our situation.” Good dude. We’re lucky to have him.