Probably time to reinvent the license plate as a concept; or start spinning up LLC's to put the cars under and just each the extra insurance costs.
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AcerbicZero commented on Sixteen bottles of wine riddle chriskw.xyz/2025/08/11/Wi... · Posted by u/chriskw
Too easy. You just mix all 16 together, chuck them into the machine, take cover, then walk out through the now exploded door/hole.
Bonus points if you convince her to leave, and rig it up right above the door for when she comes back, home alone style.
I don't think he's throwing his hands up in the air, rather he's implying we need more radical change. If we're going to be waiting around for police to become "good", that's not going to happen. We need to force them to become good.
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
AcerbicZero commented on GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down aviationweek.com/business... · Posted by u/throw0101b
It does seem that if next-gen GPS tech isn't already being tested/deployed then we've managed to already begin falling behind. GPS III just isn't anywhere near as useful in a non-permissive environment
Also, I read something on ITAR being relaxed specifically for CRPAs, this year, so maybe some of this is improving? ->
https://rntfnd.org/2025/02/20/first-fix-freeing-crpas-gps-wo...
Not directly related, but I also think its impressive that a major airliner could take a SAM hit, from what was likely a Pantsir-S1 (20KG of HE moving at Mach 2 is not something airlines usually design for) and still land with half the souls surviving. While not great, that is certainly far better than I expected and shows some excellent airmanship.
>I'm going to stay and fight and try to make whatever impact I can.
Can you give me some examples of how you would fight?
Boss comes in (or whoever more powerful than me, e.g. someone acting on the president's orders), says something with the gist of "Do this, or get fired". What are the next steps that I can take that won't get me fired, but also count as fighting back?
If you're in a hierarchical structure and someone higher up gives you an ultimatum, your choices are: comply, resist and face consequences, or find subversive, incremental ways to undermine it. None of those are cost-free.
"Fighting" isn't about magic moves that keep everything safe. It's about choosing when and how to accept the risks. Expecting a fight with no threat to your position is cowardice disguised as pragmatism.
One thing I don't understand is people resigning on principles.
If something bad is happening to an organization that I hold a significant amount of clout and power in, I'm not just going to leave and hand the reigns to someone on 'their side' -- I'm going to stay and fight and try to make whatever impact I can.
So many people are just leaving...instead of fighting. Which seems like it's going to have the effect of just accelerating the demise of the organization they claim to love so much.
You're getting a lot of pushback, but this resonates with me. I guess I have a hard time understanding the value in a "noble departure" rather than just going down swinging.
If a shark was eating me, I wouldn't say "welp I'm boned, better just resign from life". I'd punch the shark, until that shark had to fire me from life.
Maybe from a PR perspective its somehow better? Idk, I don't see it.
I like to save my resignations for the whole "you can't fire me, I quit" part - when the fall is all thats left, it matters a great deal.
AcerbicZero commented on Sixty Years On, We Still Dream of the Arrow (2021) watershedmagazine.com/fea... · Posted by u/teleforce
Eh....cancelling a not very good design in 1959, well before most countries realized ground controlled interceptors were kind of a bad idea might be the real story here. The US (and the Soviets to a hilarious degree) went down the other path for many more years, at high cost; the USAF (Fighter side) didn't truly recover from those choices until the late 70's - early 80's IMO. (Vietnam being the real tutor here)
If you're interested in the subject, look up the performance of the beam riding missiles in use, and the limitations for deployment of the AIM-9B - those do a good job highlighting the extremely limited envelope in which these weapons could be deployed, and the difficulty in getting the aircraft in that envelope.
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