thewildginger

Thank you. Grusch was 4 years away from a full retirement and like 2 from early retirement when he resigned and became a whistleblower.

AOC was there and did ask a question that provided the only name of a possibly involved department.

If anyone's reading this, I would recommend watching the hearings. It was very serious for everyone, on both sides of the aisle. The partisanship was left at the door, and the allegations were serious.

People probably don't believe the whistleblower, I understand. Regardless, accusations of serious government fraud from someone of his tenure should be investigated. You don't give up your whole career over a possibility of fraud or more.

Two presidents claimed to have seen a UFO. Both never declassified it. One even ran on that promise. Barack Obama and his wife are producing a documentary about a famous UFO event currently. If there is a UAP program, the presidents are not told about it, probably because of the possibility of a mishandling of that information, that's what I think. If, of course, you think it exists at all.

Here's some evidence to directly contradict what you're saying.

https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Ending...

Evidence points to what the original poster said. It may seem counter intuitive but well, solutions often are.

Is your property usable by someone else, for something else, that it is better suited for?

For most people no, not in a meaningful way. Socialists call property that is really only valuable to an individual personal property, whereas right now it's all just property, and no matter what it can be privately owned.

Lots of people willingly give up property to a collective. Money is your property, and donating to charity is just that. Church collections basket? Collective. People willingly part ways with property for the collective all the time. People even more often contribute to what is a perceived collective but is an individual.

This must be the most stereotypical wall street journal writing imaginable. Anything communal or socially minded is evil, and things are bad but they can't be any better, the status quo must go on forever, so keep frowning and give up.

Shutting down asking the most basic questions like what is property, what makes something private, and who gets to decide that, only makes things worse.

The crazy part was that I was expecting so little, and comedically the WSJ stooped even lower on this one.

It's not really like the SAT at all. The SAT is pure academics.

>Appropriate for evaluating military recruits

Again, not clear if you're trying to be condescending. The ASVAB has logical reasoning portions (order the shapes based on labels of points), mechanical questions, I remember getting asked questions about force distribution of pulleys and tackle, but also questions like volume of a cone, basic trig, knights and knaves questions, what is the name of this screwdriver orientation, what's this engine piece called? ( Camshaft), and now there's even a computer science focused addition the Air Force uses.

It's a test that actually tells you about what you know and can understand, and is far more useful than an SAT or ACT exam.

finding out about these aspects of how our society currently runs like he mentioned in the article has deeply informed my political views. Every Electronic payments should not be something a corporation gets to profit off of by ~2% every time there is an exchange. That's basically a sales tax but some already crazy rich person gets it and for what?

For something as specialized as aerospace engineering software? Definitely yes.

I've lived in five US states on both coasts and have never heard this phrase ever in the US.

Dont worry, they don't spend any money on that cause it's basically already done.

This is the least BS UAP/UFO claim to date, purely due to the amount of reputation, commitment to a long drawn out timeline, and processes that have been followed for THIS official to go public.

This is the most credible the saucer heads have ever looked.

I watched a brief clip of the interview and the way he is guarded about some of the subjects makes it seem like there is also more to it than what he has claimed, which is a lot.

I am still not convinced, but I'm certainly closer than I was two days ago.

>The Ukraine

It's a country, not simply a geological region.

From the little info about the arrest in the article" hack" sounds super click baity. I bet he had a video a very rich person didn't want him to have, which isn't a crime in and of itself. But hey, it's America after all

>14.3 litres of pure alcohol a year

To get to this amount of alcohol for reference, a pretty standard bottle of spirits is 750 mL and 80 proof, or 40% alcohol by volume. so if you regularly bought a One liter bottle of liquor you would need to drink 35.75 bottles of Jameson a year, or larger, and pricier, 35.75 bottles of Smirnoff. That is the average, and from public health studies I've read in the past alcohol consumption by average has a serious barbell effect altering the average.

Personally I have three drinks and think " I should slow down"

Thought experiment that radicalized my thoughts on our economic system: with all the data being collected on people about their behavior, habits, quality of life, demographic differences etc, we could probably know the reality acutely of many societal ails, and this find better ways to fix them. Instead it is being used to effectively continue human suffering so a few can be powerful and feel special.

>Likewise for other left wing beliefs

My friend, I don't think you know what Left-Wing really looks like.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

Question that I want other HN readers to answer with what they think: Do you think the concept of paying for interactions on the internet would have been different if the internet never became privatized? Do you think it would have happened anyway but at a similar pace?

Stephen Hawking.

This is theoretical and not the case in practice. Meat companies are an Oligarchy in The United States which is the largest world meat producer. There are four massive meat companies and if they existed at the onset of anti-trust they would have been broken up long ago. The miracle of the market to competitively decide on a price relies on competitive market environments which do not exist in the largest meat market in the world, The US.

You're saying a lot of stuff and I'm going to need more evidence to be convinced as to your position. For what reason would meat prices increase if people ate less meat?

This is like that 4chan post about a guy who tries to cheat on a test and ends up studying and does well on it.

Sam bankman-fried would have agreed with you I'm sure.

The author of the article couldn't be bothered to proofread the first two sentences, and apparently the CEO mentioned $30 during a presentation, WOW!

Did you read the article? It explains the reason why the amount is so high.

I do not understand how a three year service obligation can be interpreted explocitly as being served concurrently. This was most likely a "gentlemen's understanding" among officers, and the reality is that the choice of big army to change its mind about what a contract says has always rested with them.

From a legal perspective this even sounds above board, cause the UCMJ is for the most part a legal framework that is primarily about swift, not just, punishment, and giving commanders authority over everything but certain things, instead of a system where authority for specific things is permitted, and nothing else.

Enlisted people get screwed like this regularly, every day. Some people enlisted for high demand low recruiting fields are activated out of IRR after finishing active duty, the epitome of backdoor conscription. This sounds similar to the pilot's situation, and they don't like it.

When you're in the military they control your life. Surprise!

Correct. This isn't an HOA, it's the city itself.

Elon Musk: My father never owned an emerald mine, where's the proof? Errol Musk: ha yeah I owned one. Want to see a picture of one of the bigger emeralds I gave my wife from it?

If they are a historian something like this would take a mystical person like Leonardo even more mythological. It's almost folk-lore levels of impressive the origin of the greatest minds of western history would be from a less traditional background.

If I was a historian I too would be skeptical. It's just almost too good to be true as far as someone who historically is often portrayed as a type of hero to humanity due to his artistic and objective contributions. One of the greatest painters in history was also born of a slave mother emancipated by that great and inspiring painter's father? It's even romantic!

No one said it was impossible, just impossible for someone in a field of study to believe outright. Good on them for going out and finding out the truth for themselves. Id say that's what it's all about.

"you've mistaken my kindness for weakness"

Wow people outside the military say this unironically? The military has some shit bags who really do think this way (taking advantage of people giving them a second chance), and while people say it and I never liked hearing it, to think a CEO has the nerve to say that like some paranoid despot is pretty out of touch.

This dude sounds like he started listening to some other, much more successful, much more insane CEO's podcast during the pandemic and lost his mind in turn. That article read like the Facebook post of a terminally online friend who's having a mental break