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Riot Carol Danvers posted:Related, reported some dude on Facebook yesterday for posting some "patriots get your guns loaded and ready" bullshit on an election post but Facebook decided it doesn't violate their community standards. So that's nice. I report every buy/sell of a gun on Facebook marketplace, so now the algorithm has pointed me towards more people who are trying to illegally sell guns, who I then report and then I see even more guns. Its basically a part time job at this point. Is FB doing anything? Probably not!
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Government might shut down and stimulus could be derailed due to Republican infighting and last-second gotchas being inserted into the bill: Easily the most predictable part of all of this once Biden was elected.
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Godholio posted:The problem is that Space Force, if they're actually going to treat it as a separate branch and not something along the lines of a USAAC, is going to need a bunch of its own infrastructure stood up. Training pipelines and facilities...yes, some of that will be carved off the AF, but BMT for example won't be. It'll be duplicated. Same with training pipelines for poo poo that the AF isn't losing: personnelists, finance, etc. And of course we can't forget the staffs, which are, for the moment, billets pulled from the other services to avoid increasing the number of AD officer billets and specifically GO billets. Yet. That will change. And suddenly we'll have further duplication of effort with no tangible improvement in capability. While this is largely true, IIRC from when I worked on this, they're still going to use AF members for most of the support roles, and then going to maintain use of certain AF training facilities for specialties that haven't changed that much. The redundancy might still exist in a few places it doesn't make sense (I think Space Force is still arguing for separate IDE and SDE, which is loving stupid) but if they stay around the 10-12k personnel threshold I don't think it'll make a huge difference. One hopes they stick to the general low number of members as it stands, but we'll see if institutional creep sets in. I'll argue that one positive here is similar to the Army back in the 40s, the AF wasn't focusing on space-oriented needs from a programmatic standpoint, and in my experience largely deprioritized vital space warfare needs in favor of airbreathing platforms (hello F-35!). Separating off a new service would hopefully get those issues addressed more readily and allow for a focus on space warfighting as an emphasis point rather than just a thing the AF feels obliged to do against its will. Whether or not it comes to fruition effectively or is just another boondoggle is yet to be seen. It certainly will cost more than the like $2 billion they were calling for originally.
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Even if its because he's Jared's dad, its even funnier because its mostly just a gently caress you to Chris Christy for not being a perfect bootlicker and Jared's dad was doing *~*just fine*~* already
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Dec 24, 2020 01:45
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Wasabi the J posted:Almost like your employer shouldn't have a goddamn thing to do with your healthcare, weird. How dare you oppress those wonderful business owners who grant you the privilege of taking 2 days of work off annually if you're sick.
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Milo and POTUS posted:You guys get sick days? I do appreciate the socialist utopia of the military where if you get sick you are ordered to go to a doctor to be examined but otherwise can stay home without incurring a penalty.* *may not apply to the Army, USMC, Navy, or any proles in these branches
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