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1: The ribeye and seafood contracts look like Defense Logistics Agency contracts spread around the world. DLA buys the food served at military dining facilities. Which are more frequented by troops than brass.

2: There's some subsidy, but troops generally pay for their DFAC meals.

Stonks meme except a construction worker in front of construction with the word "bild" as in "build"

YIMBYs only want one thing and it's disgusting.

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

but remember, LIDAR is totally unnecessary for AV operation

Moderate, compromise take.

absolutely deranged headline from the depths of hell

Great 🧵. The ubiquity of horses in the Civil War was central to the entire enterprise. And it was a god-damn equine apocalypse. You could tell where an army had been from the trail of horse carcasses. Soldiers hated spring because it meant they had to bury rotting horses once the ground thawed.

He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.

To combine these thoughts: Transit expansion, passenger rail electrification and freight electrification (particularly in urban areas) should have been consistent policy objectives and goals with commiserate funding from 1967 onward. And we stopped in about ~1981. -- bsky.app/profile/ndha...

"The Petroleum Business Act (Article 23) includes provisions granting the government the power to control prices and distribution when there is a significant disruption in the supply or demand of petroleum, or when there is a risk of such disruption." www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic...

My hottest take right now is that the United States should be divided, Home Nations-style, into the four Census regions of Northeast, South, Midwest, and West, for the purposes of World Baseball Classic competition.

The linked study implies it's a rounding up of the real-world costs in Norway.

I presume India did it for cheaper.

(And if the VVS and PVO are knocked down enough that they can't, then the EUAF grinds up the Ground Forces from the air, and the Poles walk into Moscow. Unless the plan is then to confront the Chinese People's Volunteers east of Vladimir. For which the answer is still Deep Strike.)

The IAF is hitting that deep into Iran only because IAF/USAF tankers are *ridiculously* far forward; either over the far Syrian border or over the Gulf. The IRIAF is prostrate and out of combat, but the VVS would never allow threats to loiter so close to the Rodina in wartime.

Correct. And if you're fighting Russia, you should have a conventional option for leveling Uralvagonzavod's tank factories to the fucking ground.

Much as electrification to Pittsburgh would be good for me, personally, I do accept that it's probably better for the country if Alameda Corridors-San Bernardino-Cajon Pass-Barstow goes first, and by first I mean "preferably yesterday".

There's a widely-rumored study out of BNSF that calls for systemwide electrification at some figure, commonly $5.00 or $6.00 /gal for diesel in 2007 dollars. Good luck to any of us in getting our hands on that...

That's about what I figured.

(And why a Hezb-affiliated medical org would forego the protection that comes with the Red Crescent/Red Crystal, is an exercise best left to the reader under these circumstances.)

MENA, sorry to say, is half in your backyard, and a lot more than half if "you" includes Türkiye, as it should. Final proof of that should have been the drone strike on RAF Akrotiri, which is de jure Brexited from the EU but de facto integrated into the Republic of Cyprus.

That said, as I continue to plead against a Hegsethian monomania with the tip of the spear and for attention to the haft: long-range deep strike stealth bombers are proving their worth, and if Britain is offered a chance to buy B-21s for the RAF they should jump on that.

It seems wrong to take any positive lessons from the current charlie-foxtrot in Iran, but one thing we can definitively say is that an air force the size of the USAF, but not geographically divided in its responsibilities between SACEUR/CENTCOM/INDOPACOM, should be *fucking terrifying* on home turf.

~46 divisions isn't going to be worth squat (except as third- or fourth-echelon reserves) unless and until the ability exists to mobilize to (and sustain at) secondary fronts, including the Caucasus, the Sahel, and Kazakhstan. For that, Europe needs heavy airlifters and tankers.

~32 CSGs and ARGs is "fight America" numbers, and massive overkill at that (unless the carriers are the smallest of small STOVL-only jump-carriers). As you rightly point out, the main threat is from Putinist Russia. So, act like it. More ship hulls is America's problem. Europe's is airlift.

Aerial view of the station showing that the building on fire is closer to the concourse and shops than the actual infrastructure

If you’re unfamiliar with Glasgow Central, here’s an aerial shot. The red circles dome has just collapsed- that building is the heart of the fire. The red dashed line is roughly where the train lines start. So the good news is hopefully the bulk of rail structures are not currently in danger.

Riverine shipping is so cool

Honest question: does the Islamic Health Organization use the Red Crescent or Red Crystal? If so, the protections scale up significantly, and even discarding the uniforms before opening fire is insufficient. But I haven't seen any photos of them using the Red Crescent (in a very cursory search).

Just when I thought I'd already seen all possible transit fare payment methods

Bordeaux app tickets use *Bluetooth* rather than NFC, and can be validated by bringing your phone within ~2 meters of the validator

Hey, remember how I said that my third friend in the oil industry didn’t respond? Yeah they got back to me.

It’s not looking good, team

Trump famously said “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” and now we're seeing that he could literally kill a Trump voter's kid in the middle of the street and not lose their vote. Trumper brains are cooked.

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go birds.