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Should be a wild four years.

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The bigger source of confusion to me is why civil aviation is still standardized on American/British measurements of knots (speed), feet (altitude), miles (distance), etc ever since 1950s.

I can understand knots, as it lines up nicely with nautical miles and latitude/longitude for long range navigation, but feet is more of a mystery to me.

Before 1950s, other countries used kilometers per hour and meters for speed and altitude.

How many long-range bombers have those "other countries" got?
 
Ooooooo I wonder if my friend's nephew got counted in this audit. He is also a veteran who never deployed. He currently sits as his home, paid for by you, painting his Warhammer figurines. Also paid for by you.

He's a top tier Consoomer Disney Adult who loves all things Star Wars who can barely bring himself to say the Acolyte wasn't good. He's spent at least $20,000 of taxpayer money on Warhammer figurines at this point. As well as 3d printers for businesses he's never started or used. He also just got back from a Tax Payer funded Disney vacation with his mother. You'll be paying for this vacation annually for the rest of his life by the way, even when he does eventually get a job.

I assume now he'll be back at home, scrolling through Hinge to find some fat chunky chick to take out to dinner, also on your dime, and to fuck, again on your dime. Enjoy taxpayers!!! This is what you paid for!!!!

(On a side note, he's gotten pretty good at painting, so you the average taxpayer can take comfort in that)
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"One thing I've promised since stepping foot on the campaign trail almost ten years ago is standing by the men and women of the United States military. Time and time again previous administrations seemed to go out of their way to disrespect service members, both active-duty and not. Today, I'm pledging to not touch the benefits to our wonderful veterans. In fact, I'm increasing them by executive order. I will personally vet the disability rating process to ensure that the most mobile, able-bodied, pencil-necked paper pusher gets 110% disability—only the BEST for our veterans.

Some of the less patriotic among you may question my decision, especially in the midst of my efforts of streamlining our government and making things better through effeciency. The facts of the matter are this: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my Secretary of Health and Human Services gave his word that he would find the cause of autism by September of this year. I hold the greatest of faith that he will and that we can finally put a happy ending to this true epidemic of autism spectrum disorders plauging our young people, making them ineligible for the honor of serving their country. But like most things, there are trade offs—and I am the best at trade, believe me. If we, as a country, provide a Final Solution to the Autism Question we must then ask ourselves: who will paint the Warhammer figurines still left on the shelves?

Who will know the lore-accurate shades of color for each chapter of Space Marines? Who will get the grotesque and putrid flesh of the Death Guard just right? The answer in a post-Autism America will be the new class of veteran NEETs who can dedicate themselves to this great craft. My Department of Veterans Affairs is partnering with Games Workshop to add a monthly crate of figurines and a steady supply of paints to the benefits of all veterans, new and old. It's gonna be great folks, just watch and see. That's my promise as your President to the amazing service members of this great nation."
 
Just like he defunded USAID...

only for most of the programs to be refunded via the continuing resolution Trump bitched out Massie for railing against.
Are you ignorant on purpose or on accident?

Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone—APNews (archive) March 10, 2025

Analysis of USAID’s Active and Terminated Awards List: How Many Are Global Health?—KFF.org (archive) April 17, 2025
*chart from article
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USAID cuts felt far outside Washington, D.C.: "Layoff trauma hit across the country"
—CBSNews (archive) April 23, 2025
[a few select quotes:]

“She is one of the close to 20,000 employees — many living in states such as North Carolina, Vermont, California and Georgia — who lost their jobs as the Trump administration took steps to shutter USAID.”

“USAIDstopwork, a website tracking the economic impact of the USAID funding cuts, determined that 19,187 American jobs have been lost as of Wednesday. The tracker found a total of 46 states were affected by job cuts and that, outside of Maryland and Virginia, some of the most impacted states were North Carolina, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and California. In Georgia, for example, USAID funded 18 organizations that ran 79 programs, and 44 of those programs were shuttered, leading to layoffs and an estimated loss of $257.9 million.”


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Over 80% of USAID funded programs are gone. They have not been re-funded. Congress being retards about the budget didn't stop USAID from being shuttered and closed down; and it didn't stop Trump, DOGE, and "little Marco" from cutting off the money flow to over 80% of USAID programs.

Congress has effectively been writing blank checks every modern Presidency (with money laundering earmarks). Trump2.0 used this opportunity to use the blank check and do something useful... not fund large chunks of the globohomo patronage network.
 
Not trying to get straight into ad hominems, my bad I started it. you are right about that and I am aware the republic of Yemen has postured to do something im just not very confident in their abilites, they have been fighting these groups for a long time, ive read about it a decent bit, the Gov in the north is just incompetent and dosent have very much broad popular support.

Rebel organizations like the Houthis dont just spring up out of nowhere, the reason they are so entrenched in the area they are is beacuse of how neglected the population has felt by the powers that be for a very VERY long time.

think ANA level of incompetence of Iraq conscript army when talking about the Republic of Yemen
that ignores the Yemenite government getting support from the UAE, US, and KSA as well as having USA provide air cover/drone surveillance for the Yemenite forces. Meanwhile the Houthi have been cut off from their sponsors and their essential infrastructure is getting destroyed. 2018 Yemen and 2025 yemen are very different
 
hey, I hate that shit works as much as you do TRUST ME, but when you have a billion fuckers, human wave is kinda one of your most OP strategies

is it smart? is it even a good strategy period? is it even remotely sane? No to all 3

Did it force us into a stalemate long term? yes.

lets not sit here and debate the tactics used, thats for the gravy seals, im just talking OUTCOME.
The outcome was South Korea remained in place, which was the USA's objective. You should switch to water and take an hour break.
 
English isn’t a particularly special language
That's just wrong. English is in a class of languages that allow for information and instruction to move more freely and easily; largely free of cultural restraint, seeing as language is culture.

The other languages like Chinese are not bad for this, but English is better.
 
Remember, when they say Net Zero, they don't mean the 1990s era "free internet" thing. They mean "we will undo the industrial revolution because our ecofascist cult of white liberal women and their simps says we're killing the earth mother and you will be forced live in neo-feudalist "15 minute" villages for the rest of your very short lives as penance." (They, of course, will be living on private islands flying around on private jets with AI powered robot slaves to tend to their every whim.)
That is all they every cared about climate change is and always was an excuse to reinstate feudalism, to create a new system on the bones of an old. One were the lives of middle and lower class are nothing but tools to be thrown away the second they pause. We Americand for the moment have seemed to dodge this outcome, but it seems as if the cucks up north have decided to embrace their new age. They want to kill millions on a global scale but they just don't want to say it like that instead they hide it in vague and positive-sounding words. Of course they won't be subject to their own policies, no whilst the least are force to eat roaches and possible themselves, they will dine on the finest meats. Whilst the fools who clapped and cheered them on are forced to live in tenets with beds of rocks, they will live in homes made of gold and quartz, sleeping on the softest beds ever made. And of course the socalist will cheer this on because they have abounded any meaning of that term they use to describe themselves.
 
Remember, when they say Net Zero, they don't mean the 1990s era "free internet" thing. They mean "we will undo the industrial revolution because our ecofascist cult of white liberal women and their simps says we're killing the earth mother and you will be forced live in neo-feudalist "15 minute" villages for the rest of your very short lives as penance." (They, of course, will be living on private islands flying around on private jets with AI powered robot slaves to tend to their every whim.)
I wish one of these libtard governments would actually put their money where their mouth is and impose annual decreasing caps on oil, gas, and coal consumption throughout the country. Germany came close. I would love to see Canada's government tell the whole country that they'll have to decrease petrochemical use 10% next year, and keep turning that ratchet until they're living in preindustrial conditions. The jeets would probably all go home, to be honest.
 
That's just wrong. English is in a class of languages that allow for information and instruction to move more freely and easily; largely free of cultural restraint, seeing as language is culture.

The other languages like Chinese are not bad for this, but English is better.
Can you post an example?
 
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Can you post an example?
I don't really know shit about languages but it seems to me like English is extremely efficient at transmitting information compared to Asiatic ones. You have a tranime avatar so surely you have subconsciously come to this conclusion, while watching subtitled anime where the character goes:
"hup shi do go muh fugga ching chang chong chong gook gook mook spidook"

and then the English translation is:

"can I have some"
 
Yeah that Korean flight that hit the ground in the 90s. Or maybe it was the 2000s? One of those. Pilot ignored the copilot.

Funny that the helicopter in DC had a similar effect. This is English on DEI. :D
I was expecting a linguistic answer, but whatever.

You do know there are several flights involving only Americans where similar things happened, right? That was all part of the introduction of CRM I mentioned earlier. Investigators noticed the pattern across several different languages and cultures.

It seems you are trying to blame something on a certain region of unrelated languages when it should be blamed on something more fundamental to human nature. Korean and Chinese are nothing alike by the way.
 
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