God bless our truckers!!! A job so many wouldn't do, hard work, not the greatest wages, lots of frustration and often treated like crap by employers.
But they're waging battle for us all.
If you drive a truck for a living, thank you!!
This made me laugh out loud literally. The same f*cks that lie to the public for a living don't like people knowing about their lies, so they choose to censor truth tellers instead of stopping their lies.
Fuck them. All of them. Forever.
1st amendment for the win!
Dude couldn't even hold down a free job as a gazillionaire royal. F him.
Probably a good disclaimer that this originated at the Babylon Bee.
Link not working. This one works from Right Side Broadcasting:
Yeah the Hornet was not a real replacement. It was a sacrifice to take on part of the A-6 job and part of the F-14 job, but excel at neither. A loaded down Intruder was an awesome display of firepower at 24K pounds of armament. F-18s early on, and maybe still, had to launch, refuel, do the mission, refuel, then fly to the ship to recover. And at one point they talked about F/A-18A/B/C/D/ tankers. What a joke!
Amen to that, Fren!
I use Libre Office on a Mac that runs Linux as its operating system. Fuck Apple and MS!
Amen! I'm in!
I miss that kind of action more than any other thing I've ever done since then. Greatest time of my work life was surrounded by Navy jets.
Man, the sounds of those arresting cables being pulled out by a jet landing is so odd to hear from below decks. Just seems weird, but out on the deck it's just a day in the life and part of the orchestra playing out in flight ops.
Balls of steel. Those Prowler crews knew they were going out to often get radar locked intentionally so they could fire air to ground missiles down their radar pipe. Standing between two of them on cat 1 and 2 in the crotch is just an amazing experience. The only thing cooler is standing between two Tomcats on cat 1 and 2 at afterburner at night.
Was there anything more chest rattling than a Prowler at military on the cat? I heard the Super Hornets are quite a bit louder than the older Hornets, and the F-35 is insanely loud when it flies over. Can't imagine that beast on a cat.
It truly was. Navy jets have been a part of almost all of my adult life in one way or another and I wouldn't trade it for the world. But being on the flight line with them is many years behind me and I miss it even today.
I was never around Super Hornets, but the A/B/C/D versions were awesome. Jet fuel, active flightline or carrier deck, and massive power all around. The A-6 and F-14 were amazing as well. Wish I were on deck for the Super Hornets for a day.
China and Russia seem to be playing a game of divide and conquer. Pull the US into conflicts thousands of miles away from each other and stretch its logistics capabilities to the max. I don't think war will break out with either, but it's a genius play for an enemy nation to try.
United we are strong. Divided, even for the US military, we are weak(er).
This new VA administration has come in swinging wrecking balls of steel. Impressed so far! Hope they keep taking the fight as aggressively over time.
The hardest part of this will be keeping the technology in that jet out of the hands of the Chinese or any other nation not part of the F-35 program. What a mess. At least it's not the USMC version with vertical lift capability.
Not sure what you mean by looking weird. One thing about that jet is it hit the water at an angle, so debris, bubbles, etc. would likely move forward rather than at all angles around it. It also is composed of all sorts of composite materials in its skin, plus metals like magnesium that may react to salt water immersion. Plus any number of exotic materials, batteries, etc., so I assume that lighter colored plume around it is some sort of material or fluid from the jet interacting with the water.
Just my guess based on experience with military aircraft, but I'm definitely no authority on what made that water around the jet look like that, nor a materials expert. Plus assumptions on my part to try to make it make sense.
She uses the right language to get conservative support sometimes, but I think she's a female Mitt Romney who happens to be better at understanding how to act fake and actually get support. Snake in the grass.
And to listen in or search through online activity, comms, etc. Nothing is private and these VPN companies over promise in the hope you never find out all of them probably have a government back door.
The phone network had a government electronic back door installed in every phone switch in the early 2000s. Saw it happen. It was "so courts could issue subpoenas and monitor suspects without human intervention at the phone company" but the real purpose was access to everything without anyone knowing or able to stop or see it.
They've gotten the ability to listen prior to that through cooperation with the phone companies and manual intervention. Now they have complete, unfettered access with only keystrokes required and no checks and balances.
And what many don't realize is we have airborne SIGINT aircraft all over the world. Things like USAF Rivet Joint RC-135's sniffing for signals for many miles around. No telling what ground based sniffers are in place in larger populations. And add on jamming capability, especially for citizen bands like CB, short wave and cell phones, and we're basically at the mercy of those with the tech to shut it down or listen in at every moment. Cell phones microphones, smart TV's, Alexa devices, basically anything connected to the web with a microphone is listening.
People fool themselves if they think they can communicate without some way to listen, monitor or absorb that data, pool it, analyze it, etc. That's why the NSA built that giant facility in Nevada. Storage. And computing power. Go talk in the woods without electronics if you're looking for the perfect solution.
That sounds good, but a few EF-18G Growlers airborne with jammers on could keep CB comms from happening across thousands of miles. Not normally used on their own country, but if they felt civilian comms via CB were a threat they could easily jam the frequencies.
If she were to, we'd be far more fooked than we are now.