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Guadaloopy

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  1. So this is it, huh?
  2. I get that a lot of us are feeling hopeless and beat down over the last three months and especially the last few weeks, but c'mon man.
  3. Seriously though... by the time it is observable again in 2028, we should be able to determine location and timing of strike and then weigh the cost-benefit of intervening to modify trajectory or evacuating the impact site. There is absolutely no reason that this should kill millions of people.
  4. Well Buenos Aires isn't on that line, so we can rule out the bugs.
  5. That’s the way the world goes ‘round.
  6. I hope that everyone who ever mentioned/suggested/advocated trading away starting pitching last year or the year before spends some time marinating with this graphic. To paraphrase the great baseball mind of General George S. Patton: "No bastard ever won a pennant by trading away his starting pitching. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard trade away his starting pitching."
  7. Not feeling the enthusiasm this year. Maybe playoff/success fatigue is setting in?
  8. You can say dick here. You don’t have to make up folksy euphemisms.
  9. I’ve caddied Cordevalle, so this hits close to home.
  10. This I can get behind. As long as we don’t completely abandon the rule of law.
  11. I’m on record many times in this thread disavowing Musk without reservation. He’s a piece of shit. So again… fuck off.
  12. Fuck off, I’ve been eating negs for posting statistics.
  13. You know that you are just voting for leopards to eat their faces. Because they’ll totally stop when done with those guys. Do you even Reign of Terror, bro?
  14. I’m not defending them, just saying you can’t outright advocate for their murder. Y’all are letting this stuff turn you into ghouls.
  15. I’m familiar with what you’re referencing. You can’t complain about stochastic terrorism and then turn around and advocate for the murder of CEOs.
  16. I neg praise of pre-meditated murder. We can have better conversations than that crap.
  17. Swim call is a high-risk/low-reward evolution that has been naturally phasing out as fewer and fewer COs are willing to assume that risk. It's a minimal morale boost that could turn into a shitshow if a Sailor were to drown. That said, I'm glad I got to do it a couple of times during my career, once over the Mariana Trench.
  18. My experience is that it has variable buoyancy based on liquid and gas content, just like certain type of maritime vessel. Even has a similar tapered shape.
  19. Not the first time USN has had a collision in that patch of water. It's a highly congested area. This is one of the hardest force protection problems to crack - how do you keep threat actors away from high value assets in high traffic international straits? Without prior intelligence, large merchants are always going to be classified as a non-threat. They are simply a navigation problem to solve, not a threat to avoid or mitigate. It's not practical to maintain separation of more than a couple hundred yards max with these ships in some of the tighter areas. As the carrier, you can't really say, "500 yds and no closer" in tight areas like international straits. It's a bit of a different story with smaller craft. There is usually host nation security that will keep small craft outside of the carrier's security zone. We are reliant on host nation for the most part. We don't have patrol craft in this area to do surface interdiction of potential threat craft (we do have these in Djibouti, Fujairah, Jebel Ali/Dubai, Bahrain, and Kuwait), and they can't travel with a strike group. Escorts (DDGs and CGs) are too large themselves and the area is too congested for them to do threat interdiction. There was probably an armed SH-60 airborne doing nominal force protection duties.
  20. Don't get focused on the $30M present value number for Bregman. He's still getting $40M AAV on this deal. The accounting trick is when those payments come.
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