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At least two members of the Academy leadership went so far as to suggest that the organization should apologize to the FBI for offending it. One opined that he didn’t think Roy, a full member of the Academy, should be allowed to present at all.

Fucking

Like seriously, apologize for what? Hurting the feds feelings? Merely having a guy suggest that the feds may be (they do) jailing innocent people?

If you really want to get into it the general rule for road travel has always been don’t go too far outside of the state borders of the state on your license plates. It doesn’t matter what state it is, having “unreasonably” (e.g. generally about 3 states away is about the point it starts) out of state plates has always increased your chances of being shaken down by the cops, mainly because they know you’re very likely not going to be able to make the trip to traffic court so you can even attempt to contest your ticket.

Besides bad geopolitical takes, it’s kinda just on cruise control at this point.

any Winnie the Pooh joke

You know, I almost have to wonder if anyone who makes those jokes has even watched like any of Winnie the Pooh, like at all. Like every single story has always been some problem comes to the Hundred Acre Wood and then Pooh and his friends come together despite their differences in strengths, flaws, and personalities to solve and fix the problem.

History is written by the victor

Counterpoint: The Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

Now, with that being said, if there’s anyone who I wanted to do some legally questionable stuff to in the 5 years i worked at at factory. It’d be the 3rd shift manager, and some of the division managers, each for different reasons.

It’s a factory, they all practically speaking shut down on Christmas week, and depending on the factory and what they do (or how behind they are) they could shut down all the way through to new years as well.

At least that’s my experience with factory work in the car supply chain, and the factory where this happened here looks like it’s roughly doing the exact same thing. Also just as an aside, a lot of factory type work still here in the states almost always has all sorts of problems with retaining workers.

f35 is supposed to be stealthy but China can already track it.

You do know that’s pretty normal for stealth fighters, right?

Like to explain this as far as I know the F-117 is to date still the fighter that is the most stealthy, and it still technically shows up on radars, just that it’s radar signature is a lot smaller than a normal jet. Which how stealth fighters work is that they minimize the radar signature that is received back by radar systems, either by shape (which is why the F-117 looks the way it does), and or special coating on the panels itself which absorb the radar signals being sent out by the radar installation on the ground or from other aircraft. The point of it to essentially trick the other guy into thinking that what they’re reading on radar isn’t a fighter jet. And this doesn’t get into the several ways you can essentially trick the opposing radar into not seeing you regardless of the plane doing it is a stealth fighter or not.

There’s plenty to dunk on with the F-35 (like all the cost overruns, the fact that it seems to only be able to fly in good weather), but saying that anyone can track is incredibly misleading.

Okay, at the risk of being that person, the F-35 loses in a stand up fight because it’s not designed in a doctrine sense to get in stand up fights. On paper it’s designed to leverage its status as a stealth fighter to avoid those stand up fights by either avoiding them entirely or get one of the most important things in a A2A engagement, getting the first missile salvo off.

So regardless on how actually good the F-35 is, having it’s blueprints to have the knowledge on how to counteract it is still incredibly useful in case it happens to be very good for what it’s designed to do.