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What is the point of having a Deputy Secretary if the mandarins in the Secretary's office will just run things? What if they made the Chief of Staff of the secretary some sort of assistant to him, so if in the event he was ill they could take over? They would already be closely working under the Secretary and so could be "deputized" to perform their role as their boss would have directed, even in the Secretary's absence...
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 03:52 |
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gonna start some western anti-dprk style rumours that the sec of def fell out of biden's favour and he was executed by getting mauled by Major
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:09 |
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thinking what the reaction of the media would have been like if this had happened to Mad Dog Mattis
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:10 |
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OK, so the deputy was vacationing in Puerto Rico when she got the call that she had to take over and took over on the 2nd, so its not as bad as I initially thought, but she still didnt know the reason was because Lloyd was loving dying in walter reed till the 4th. What a loving mess
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:19 |
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comedy option: botched circumcision - cut too much dick off
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:19 |
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yellowcar posted:gonna start some western anti-dprk style rumours that the sec of def fell out of biden's favour and he was executed by getting mauled by Major starting a rumor that Austin was being treated in Fort Detrick
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:22 |
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Engineers thinking about joining the MIC like "Is manufacturing coming back to the US or is the grift about to blow apart?"
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:23 |
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welp better let the private sector take over Questions about NASA's Mars Sample Return mission put JPL jobs in jeopardy - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com - Sun, 07 Jan 2024 posted:The Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 100 contractors last week and will scale back part of the first-ever effort to bring pieces of Mars to Earth, after a cost-cutting order from NASA that lawmakers called “short-sighted and misguided.”
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 08:24 |
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https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1744054524111725054 America can’t make nuclear missiles anymore because they fired all the technicians to save money
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 08:42 |
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1744054524111725054
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yellowcar posted:gonna start some western anti-dprk style rumours that the sec of def fell out of biden's favour and he was executed by getting mauled by Major War Brewing in the Regency Council
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 09:14 |
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remembering in mid-2022 how libs kept saying that it was fine to escalate in Ukraine because even if Putin launched the nukes, they wouldn't all work projection!
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 09:22 |
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1744054524111725054 That's one way to disarm. Just have everything fall apart. Future archeologists are going to discover what were once old silos with rusted remnants of missiles, completely solid with long decayed concrete because nobody knew how or wanted to take them apart so it was easier to just bury everything in place. They will be very confused. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 10:30 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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I knew my faith in comrade MIC was not misplaced. Future generations will honor them for doing their duty as extremely wealthy buffoons if they've managed to disarm the only country to ever use nuclear weapons. Remember that fan fiction novel someone wrote during the Trump years of Trump chasing around the guy with the nuclear football because he was wanting to nuke NK or something? Funny to think of that happening and then everyone just shrugging when the silos don't work.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 11:12 |
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1744054524111725054 didn’t obama spend billions on upgrading these things?
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 12:10 |
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Jel Shaker posted:didn’t obama spend billions on upgrading these things? yes but also that was a while back - eight (?) years is a lot of time for old people to die and for schematics to be lost
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 12:11 |
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also obama said a lot of things that never materialized, like "hope" and "change"
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 12:14 |
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Jel Shaker posted:didn’t obama spend billions on upgrading these things? look if they actually got updated you would not be able to spend additional billions to update the again
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 12:15 |
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https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-royal-navy-forced-recruit-linkedin-rear-admiral-nuclear-2024-1 Britain's Royal Navy resorts to LinkedIn to recruit a top submarine role that will oversee the nation's nuclear program, reports say The British Royal Navy has resorted to LinkedIn to fill a vacancy for a submarine Rear-Admiral. The unconventional recruitment process comes as the Navy struggles to find new talent. A former submariner called the LinkedIn search for such a senior role "utterly shameful."
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Jesus Christ
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 12:49 |
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DancingShade posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-royal-navy-forced-recruit-linkedin-rear-admiral-nuclear-2024-1 Masters of the sea indeed
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DancingShade posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-royal-navy-forced-recruit-linkedin-rear-admiral-nuclear-2024-1 lmao slava brtiaini
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DancingShade posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-royal-navy-forced-recruit-linkedin-rear-admiral-nuclear-2024-1 with an attitude like that no wonder he was passed over
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 13:01 |
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Well no point recruiting an actual sailor when your subs don't put to sea and the reactors are glued together badly.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 13:05 |
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fanfic insert posted:also obama said a lot of things that never materialized, like "hope" and "change" Personally I still hope things will change
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 13:10 |
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Pidgin Englishman posted:Well no point recruiting an actual sailor when your subs don't put to sea and the reactors are glued together badly. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfao1s3Tiek&pp=ygUhd2hlbiBpIHdhcyBhIGxhZCBpIHNlcnZlZCBhIHRlcm0g
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1744054524111725054 I've worked at some government facilities with decades-old infrastructure. This is extremely common.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 14:20 |
DickParasite posted:I've worked at some government facilities with decades-old infrastructure. This is extremely common. it's also true of the softwarer/hardware at the base layer of most banks/airlines/etc. all that poo poo at the very bottom is one some ancient mainframe running COBOL and if it ever breaks no one is left alive that knows how to fix it
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 14:33 |
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I've worked on some drawings that were hand drawn in the 50s ink on mylar, scanned in the 80s to microfilm, and then somewhat recently turned into a PDF. Just reading them is hard because conventions have changed so much that it often may as well be a different language that has to be deciphered line by line. Then you run into accuracy issues from hand drawings made 70 years and have to figure out if something was a mistake or if it was intentional and if so why, lots of fun. And everyone that would know is dead so good luck
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:it's also true of the softwarer/hardware at the base layer of most banks/airlines/etc. thing is since the banks all have their infrastructure based on that there's been a lot of money to pay retirees consultancy fees and pay talented professionals to pick up COBOL or the nightmarish ibm mainframe environment with nukes it's all classified which excludes the vast majority of potential experts (because you have to be a psycho to qualify) and there's no money in it and there's nobody in the private sector doing it to hand the job off to
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Broke: nuclear triad Woke: nuclear dyad
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atelier morgan posted:thing is since the banks all have their infrastructure based on that there's been a lot of money to pay retirees consultancy fees and pay talented professionals to pick up COBOL or the nightmarish ibm mainframe environment Very fair point, that and I suppose all the more reason we should just bury the bastards all deep underground and go about forgetting we ever made them in the first place
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FuzzySlippers posted:I knew my faith in comrade MIC was not misplaced. Future generations will honor them for doing their duty as extremely wealthy buffoons if they've managed to disarm the only country to ever use nuclear weapons. I mean, how else can you explain Boeing keep loving up their new planes.
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Jel Shaker posted:didn’t obama spend billions on upgrading these things? And I'm sure it paid for a lot.of new kitches in consultants homes
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1744054524111725054 This is probably very common. I work in private industry and we have a lot of old equipment that is very difficult to find information on because there are no drawings and the people that used to know this stuff long since retired That said, most of the stakes here are significantly lower than, say, nuclear weapons.
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Jel Shaker posted:didn’t obama spend billions on upgrading these things? On 21 August 2017, the US Air Force awarded 3-year development contracts to Boeing and Northrop Grumman, for $349 million and $329 million, respectively.[70] One of these companies will be selected to produce this ground-based nuclear ICBM in 2020. In 2027, the GBSD program is expected to enter service and remain active until 2075.[71] On 14 December 2019, it was announced that Northrop Grumman had won the competition to build the future ICBM. Northrop won by default, as their bid was at the time the only bid left to be considered for the GBSD program (Boeing had dropped out of the bidding contest earlier in 2019). The US Air Force said: "The Air Force will proceed with an aggressive and effective sole-source negotiation." in reference to Northrop's bid.[72]
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://thehill.com/newsletters/defense-national-security/4392394-iraq-wants-us-military-out/ Rooting for Iraq to have the guts to follow through here. I don't think there will be much political will to keep force there if the US is pushed a little harder.
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mawarannahr posted:Boeing ftw my favorite part about this claim is how right it is. like even when you flip through the wiki article on it and look at the parts of the system that Boeing didn't design... they still ended up buying the companies that did the design. and then did nothing to manage the designs and documentation.
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wonder what an aggressive and effective sole-source negotiation with the only people who say they can build your strategically vital poo poo looks like
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mawarannahr posted:wonder what an aggressive and effective sole-source negotiation with the only people who say they can build your strategically vital poo poo looks like probably a lot like a job interview for a VP position 5 years in the future
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