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@cdrsalamander I must be pen cursed. If not used regularly, they always shit the bed in about two weeks in a desk drawer. Unless it was ORSE work up time and we were snorkeling a lot. Then, 1 in 5 would explode ink all over the others. Gruesome sight.

This has been at least 20 maybe 25 years since it was last used. It still works.

@cdrsalamander AND take a bottom up review of the training pipeline. High standards is not the same thing as a punishing schedule. Also, use PA's and nurses to their full capability - most healthcare that normal healthy adults consume can be provided without a doctor in the loop.

The answer, of course, is the same one that my friends who wanted to be doctors were yelling about in college in the 1980s: expand the capacity of US medical schools to train American who want to be doctors.

@TheShadowIntelX How do ya like them apples!

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the on

@chamath @newstart_2024 Nothing improves thoughtfull engagement and accountability like having skin in the game. Having half the population pay nothing is a terrible idea.

this is a simple, elegant and very effective idea. take the taxes of the bottom 50% to zero.

@GitaGopinath @cdrsalamander There’s 24 dudes there. Name the woman who is objectively better qualified than any specific man and explain what specific qualifications are in question. Then specify, with facts, why that woman is better qualified. Provide specific names.

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

@KyleSeraphin Well, yes, it is rad! Never pass up a chance to jump. Except, the poor schmuck who made the jump is going to be weeks to months before he gets off the island. Bet he eats well, though. Tristan is famous for their spiny lobsters.

@HomerK66 I'm sure they couldn't drop a guided pallet. No way they have ever considered how to deliver things by air... needed an emergency HAHO

"Why don't you just land and give them the supplies?" "Because we have these GoPro's and the SAS dudes need to knock out a parachute qual. So, shut up, you naysayer... this is gonna be rad!"

@AntiWokeMemes No advice, just gratitude.

“I am 22 years old, I have no children, and I am getting my tubes tied." 🙅‍♀️ What is your advice for this liberal woman?

I was skeptical too, until I was flying a Econ + seat on a transatlantic flight and the lady next to me asked if I would switch with her son. Normally I do this for families but I was wrecked fm work and at 6’4” needed the space. So I asked where her son was. He was well into his 20’s and seated in regular economy. I explained I paid extra for the room, but I am sure her son’s neighbor would be happy to trade up to Econ +. Silence for the rest of the flight.

@luxemiaa In my many years as an adult, I have travelled by air certainly hundreds, possibly thousands, of times, and I've never once seen anything like this happen. And yet, pretty much every other day, I see a post from a traveller claiming that this happened to them. Seems odd.

I was on a flight sitting in my assigned seat when a couple walked up and immediately told me I was in their seat. I checked my boarding pass again even though I already knew I was right. Same row, same seat number. Everything matched. I politely told them this was my assigned seat. The husband looked unsure, but the wife became fully committed to the argument within seconds. She kept insisting I needed to move because apparently she wanted my window seat. I showed her my boarding pass. She barely looked at it and kept arguing anyway. Then she started getting louder and making comments about how difficult I was being. At one point she straight up called me a bitch because I refused to move from the seat I literally paid for. So now the flight attendant gets involved. She checks my ticket, checks theirs, and immediately tells the wife she was........

@JimHansonDC The asymmetry here is that they were quick to implement this when the left had power, but even with a huge win in this case, the HR hags will slow roll a return to merit. We need more than money, we need individual accountability. Even a tapeworm turns from pain.

The number of lawsuits that will pop in the next few years over hiring discrimination is massive Almost all major corporations had DEI policies that incented leaders based on hiring/promoting based on race/sex. That's illegal and all of the folks who who were passed over/by have cause. The woke mania (willfully) blinded all of these organizations to the wrongs they were doing. They got bonuses and their companies were praised. But all along they were flagrantly violating the Civil Rights Act. None of the woke silliness that "You can't be racist to White people because power structure" works to save them either. The Civil Rights Act protects all people: "It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer— (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" That is going to bite a lot of people and companies right in the a$$. They will be paying and paying again to all the people they cheated. And before any cries that all the DEI hires were just equally qualified but just needed a chance. Spare me. I did Executive Search for a major defense contractor hiring people to run billion $$$ lines of business. They would give us their requirements, years exp, size of budget managed, number of employees managed etc. and we would give them a list of the 50 most qualified candidates available. Bald White guys almost to a man. They would say no, so we would ask then what requirements can you flex (i.e. drop)? And we would go through and lower the standards until the correct shade and sex of candidates made the cut. It was highly lucrative but it made me ill so we told them we would no longer do diversity search and they gave us the boot. The discrimination was real and the evidence will be all over. This is gonna leave major marks.

@tshugart3 @cdrsalamander It’s hard to believe someone with her credentials can “mistakenly” miss the progress made in explicitly defined mil objectives. What she wrote would technically be true of Nazi Germany in April 1945 (-drones). Basic partisan chaff.

@cdrsalamander You may not agree with her, but that doesn't mean she's arguing in bad faith—a serious accusation against a think-tanker. There's an argument to be made that many of the *strategic* objectives (from civilian leadership—and which have been all over the place) have not been met.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, USAF, made it quite clear on March 10 what the goals of the operation were. 1. Destroy Iranian missiles/drones 2. Destroy Iranian navy 3. Destroy Iranian military and industrial base There are plenty of things out there to critique, but Talmadge is not making a good-faith attempt at that. Ref. A: cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/you-dont-thi…

@jess_ann_pin @GadSaad About 50% of abortions, who would otherwise grow to be healthy adult women, would dispute that abortion bans are a loss for women. That is, if they had the opportunity to speak for themselves.

This figure supports the statement that I have repeatedly made, namely that progressive women fuel the infinity pool of Suicidal Empathy.

@BonafideKRS My first thought was, "I could fix her", but then I realized she's darn near perfect.

And I thought this was America

@infantrydort @PeteHegseth Don't forget the SES/GS ranks. Collectively they have a bigger impact than our uniformed leadership. Social media is full of these retired A-holes spouting their TDS crap - and they have the ear of many uniformed former subordinates who are waiting for the next election.

I love watching George C. Marshall get invoked as the sacred model of nonpartisan military leadership. Fine, but let’s tell the whole story. @PeteHegseth’s reported senior officer “purge” is roughly 3% of today’s active duty general/admiral universe. Marshall’s senior-command cleanse? After the Louisiana Maneuvers, he relieved or pushed aside 31 of 42 division, corps, and army commanders. That’s 74%. And even by raw total force share, Marshall’s documented 1941 tranche was over 15x Hegseth’s reported rate. Marshall was the dark angel of career death. Do the midwit ideologues understand their own example? If Marshall existed today in the purest form, politicians would collectively stroke out. To his credit, Marshall did have a ready made excuse to give Congress with the plucking boards and testing. What the ideologues need to really fear is, what happens if Hegseth starts doing the same thing? 3%? That could just be a warm up. And if George Catlett Marshall Jr. were alive today, he would concur.

@AntiWokeMemes 100k. With minimal effort it will mature better.

If someone offered you this deal, what would you take? A. $100,000 Cash B. Marry Her

@xnoesbueno Worked pretty well in Panama.

It's really tempting to applaud that. I'd rather have 84,000 US troops already forward deployed in Europistan, for when we need them there. Because sooner or later, we will. I'd say make nice with Europe. Don't even charge them, keep going. Just harden up the bases. Make sure every soldier, every base commander, understands they are already behind enemy lines. What was that Nicholson line? "I eat breakfast three hundred yards away from four thousand Mohammedans who are trained to kill me." OK, that's not exactly what he said. Works though

@johnkonrad @IMOHQ LOL, ESB class ships are in subject to 3 standards: ABS, IMO, and NAVSEA. And, as fwd deployed rotational mixed Navy and Civmar crew, deployed maintenance is a nightmare. Its almost like some deep thinker with a mean streak intentionally came up with the most f’d up op scheme

When asked how we fix shipbuilding and the Merchant Marine, U.S. Maritime Administrator Steve Carmel points to the United Nations @IMOHQ as a primary problem. Most of the world follows one set of rules: UN IMO. U.S.-flagged ships suffer under a dual regulatory burden, forced to comply with both IMO and USCG regulations simultaneously. Two bureaucracies, two sets of inspectors, two sets of standards that don’t always align . He is absolutely correct. For the Navy the problem is even worse. Warships are not required to follow UN shipbuilding rules. They never were. But the Obama administration volunteered to apply them anyway. Because IMO rules were never designed to cover warships and auxiliaries, this creates constant friction for USCG and ABS inspectors trying to enforce standards that don’t fit the ships they’re inspecting. Jettison the UN rules. The Navy side can be done immediately via POTUS or SECDEF order. No legislation required. I’ve pushed this myself. The problem is the Navy doesn’t understand commercial shipyard regulatory frameworks, and admirals are hesitant to touch regulations they don’t fully comprehend. So nothing moves. This will require a leap of faith, but not a blind one. What any admiral can verify in an afternoon: IMO rules were never written for warships. The organization itself does not claim jurisdiction over them. The U.S. voluntarily opted in, and it can voluntarily opt out. That single fact should be sufficient to kill the dual regulatory regime for naval vessels tomorrow. The merchant marine side may take legislation, but the Navy side is a signature away. And it’s not just shipbuilding. The Navy laid up 17 @MSCSealift ships because it can’t find enough Merchant Marine Captains and Chief Engineers. The reason is we follow the USCG guidance to attend college for four years at the beginning of our careers AND the UN guidance to go back to school before becoming Chief Mates and do STCW classes regularly. Pick one USCG. Just one more of many examples: UN allows online classes. USCG does not. So we are subject to the more stringent requirement putting us at a major disadvantage to mariners in other nations who we sometimes compete with in the job market. Every day we leave these rules in place is a day we’re slowing down warship construction to comply with standards that weren’t built for warships, enforced by inspectors applying rules that don’t fit, in shipyards that are already behind schedule. We did this to ourselves. We can undo it just as fast. Cc @SECNAV @SecWar

@GenFlynn Our Diocese in East TN , made an explicit statement that the Pope’s proclamations should NOT be viewed as a specifically partisan issue and that the church will always transcend politics. Of course we should pray for peace, and to bestow those in authority w/ wisdom.

This was at a prominent Catholic Church in Florida today. This type of information warfare against “MAGA”, against President Trump, is just beginning. It is dangerous, it is very political, it is fifth generational, and most definitely, it is spiritual warfare. There are approximately 1.4B Catholics worldwide. The largest Christian denomination in the world. Fact is, without the Catholic vote, one cannot be @POTUS . This Pope is consciously choosing political sides. He is emerging as a woke globalist instead of a humble servant of Jesus Christ representing the Church of Peter. The @Pontifex should represent humility and courage in the face of the evil that walks the earth. Does he truly see @realDonaldTrump as evil? I think not. I believe he is moving at a speed directed by his masters (not God). The Pope, as a man, needs to be reminded that humility in the face of God is courage. Courage without humility in the face of man is dangerous. It is shocking how many Catholics are upset at Trump currently. It shows the unhealthy allegiance that they hold for any man, including the Pope. In Revelation 19:10, we are told not to worship even an angel, but only God, so certainly we should not worship a man, even the Pope. In Acts 10:25, Peter (the first Pope) says that he is just a man and not to worship him but to worship only God. In Jeremiah 17:5 says that we are cursed if we trust in man or in our strength. With access to greater knowledge, all of us see a darker underbelly of our international political systems and the depravity of humanity (truly). So what? Thrust yourselves into the word of God instead of focusing on the word of man. I know that is the challenge of a lifetime, but for some individuals and even for a few nations, it could save lives. Why? Because all men say dumb things at times. It may be purposeful for a circumstance or it may just be ignorance. If our hope and trust remains in Jesus, that allows us to walk through these uncertain times unphased. If it isn’t clear enough yet, it will become even more clear in the months ahead.

@KurtSchlichter Looks like a Key and Peele college hockey lineup.

They caught Dwigt Portugal!

@ryangerritsen You know, the Canadians had a say in that. Still do. Evidently, hindsight is blind.

“An RBC report released Tuesday confirmed that new investment in Canada has completely collapsed during the Liberals’ tenure in power” Trudeau cost our Country 1 TRILLION DOLLARS in investments. Just a reminder, he was taking advice from the “master economist” currently running our Country.