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Bill Sweetman

@valkstrategy

Polymath on gap year. #AvGeek. Writer, strategist, cook and guitar picker. Lol, woke, and cope gonna get you blocked, chile. www.valkstrategy.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-sweetman-024aa01a/

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05.11.2025 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe it’s that Trump 2 is represented by so many creepy men with more red flags than a Moscow May Day parade, with a smattering of Cray Queen Bish women…

05.11.2025 15:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Multiple possibilities, but I would never add a third engine without a good reason.

26.12.2024 19:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.12.2024 14:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe GodlyBoi is one of the people in the files that Mad Madam Marge was gonna drop if they fingered her little Eraserhead pal.

23.12.2024 18:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Well he would, wouldn't he? - Wikipedia

Full Mandy Rice-Davies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_he...

23.12.2024 18:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.

I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.

23.12.2024 12:02 👍 2640 🔁 831 💬 35 📌 22

Don't FA with the Insinnerator

20.12.2024 23:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The key to this is semantic engineering. Nobody has yet defined 6Gen, any more than there is a coherent definition of Gen 1-3, so whatever horror has come out of Frank's requirements sausage machine can be labelled 6Gen. But LockMart won't like that one bit, because it will make their ATM sound old.

20.12.2024 19:31 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time?
But here we bloody well are.

20.12.2024 14:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not the point of this thread, but “do you think Trump’s win marks the defeat of identity politics” is SUCH a tell.

His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics.

If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity.

Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.

15.12.2024 21:05 👍 815 🔁 160 💬 23 📌 11
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turning a new page for 2025

14.12.2024 01:13 👍 77 🔁 5 💬 18 📌 2
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Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight.

13.12.2024 22:40 👍 56 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2

Someone has to be, until there's a vaccine against PLA-N submarines.

14.12.2024 00:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Journalistic English, where "polarizing" means "stark raving batshit".

14.12.2024 00:50 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But he's something that rhymes with "trite fail" and that makes him much more sensible and smart than Michelle Obama.
The Right wants to overturn the result of the Civil War.

13.12.2024 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.12.2024 00:39 👍 16743 🔁 2934 💬 252 📌 100

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Don’t like it ? Didn’t vote for KH? Welcome to the Leopards Eating Faces Party, snot for brains.

12.12.2024 00:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@artemisapphire.bsky.social

10.12.2024 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two F-35s in the Mach Loop. One is on its way to a movie premiere with a champagne reception and the other is making a Tuesday afternoon dash to Tesco because it's out of oregano.

10.12.2024 18:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Women working at Kelvins (later Smiths) licking their paintbrushes to help them paint the numerals neatly on aircraft instruments, using paint loaded with radium.

09.12.2024 23:02 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I missed Martinage's piece at the time. Quite a powerful endorsement.

09.12.2024 14:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

By the way, note the date on Martinage's piece... Everyone forgot about Musk's 2020 comments because we had Covid.

09.12.2024 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Autonomy helps. but there is an answer and I spent two years trying to make it happen. Key concept: 120 hours on station gives you most of the same benefits as 90 days.

09.12.2024 14:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Elon Musk Was Right: The Manned Fighter Jet Era Has (Almost) Passed

And why not? Read this, from a leading air power analyst...

nationalinterest.org/print/blog/b...

09.12.2024 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

All in all, it made a lot of sense and there is no sign that it has ever been studied by anyone American./ends

09.12.2024 13:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Survivability combined RCS reduction with advanced jamming and TF/TA - the French govt. built an indoor RCS range that could measure a real fighter aircraft (not many people know that). They also designed a new 750-pound bomb family (Mk82-class with rocket motor) - six weapons on two stations./2

09.12.2024 13:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Balanced requirements. Good concept for an aircraft that carries a lot of external load for the edge missions. A configuration that was compact (no wing fold), efficient in flight, high lift for TOL. CATIA was matured for Rafale, so as to cope with carrier loads in the smallest number of parts./1

09.12.2024 13:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very worth a read (the link seems to be paywall-free). I don't think this is a new problem. It's a newly identified problem.

09.12.2024 13:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

but with ground troops and football players, the idea that brain injury from repeated events can be cumulative, undiagnosable and the cause of seemingly psychological effects is more widely recognized.
And does anyone really need to pull 9g anyway?

09.12.2024 13:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0