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Get all those folks marching, you aren't going to get good decisions out of everyone.
But the expression of the people is hard for those in power to ignore.
if they have it, everyone does.
that is the deal for an employee, you put in the hours, you get a check.
today, this individual is CTO- Vibecoding at Uber.
The demand for real programming skills will become infinite (again).
someone who can actually read, understand, and debug code. when the clankers get stuck.
unfortunately, there will be only be a dozen people.
end of the day, his experience as a private meant nothing towards the job. perhaps he was slightly more able to relate to the needs of the troops.
now we have a reserve captain. who was pushed out of the service for extremest views and body art. his experience means he hates the army, and his selection to the post means his political views have been vindicated.
a master of strategy? leader of men in battle? CEO of the worlds biggest institution? nope. he doesn't even understand those roles.
and does not take no for an answer.
I don't know anyone that has spoken to a former slave.
And most people of color in the US's ancestors were not slaves in the US south. They came as immigrants from other countries.
The issue is not slavery. It might be racism. But it is not "I can't have slaves anymore"
Mortal enemy of the US to closest friend in 2 weeks.
No private meetings either. I have repeatedly called both his local office and his DC office. If I have a donation, a staffer will meet with me.
His philosophy is simple "You love Donald, I love Donald". It is the focus of the mailers that are sent out every quarter.
This elections democrat has no polling. The prediction markets give her an 8% chance of winning.
"ICE deported my wife. She was legal and was following the rules. I still love my Donald and will vote for him again"
Social media destroyed local media and turned to making money instead of informing the populace.
Let's have another lawsuit about Facebook killing our democracy.
In Texas, it is widely known that the Trump family are experts in crypto finance, and worthy of the gains they have made. (also that sharia law is widely practiced)
When people that aren't highly educated have no source of accurate current events, they have a warped view of reality.
But Reagan did not put any money in his pocket. Other than a set of snow tires, Lt.Col Oliver North did not take any money for himself.
It makes it better, somehow, not for money to be the motive. Or maybe it makes it worse.
in the past politicians would steal a little, and there was enough to go around.
a couple of hundred grand on a land deal was OK. but $250B in crypto is just too much.
The military can piss away millions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of hours, and it is not an existential situation. Oh, we bought an airplane that is broken 1/2 of the time vs. the 10% of the time we budgeted for. No big deal. A business where an investment failed like that would be in trouble. In the military, they just take that as a lesson and move on (we shouldn't buy that again, or we should not use that process the next time).
Likewise with people. Hire someone, train them for 6 months, find out they cannot do the work. The military will retrain that person. Most businesses can deal with situations like that without going broke. If you ever have a spare hour, research how the Navy selects commanding officers for aircraft carriers. The select 5 for each future opening. All highly qualified pilots with demonstrated leadership potential. Then they send them to Nuclear school. 1 Year. Then another school for a year. One or two might get a carrier XO slot, one of those will get a command. The others, they just retire them. Crazy investment. No business would do that.
#1. For russia / ukraine neither side has air superiority. If one side had it, they could be obliterating the other side with a constant stream of 500 lb gravity bombs. Each of which has more explosives than 100 drones.
#2. For us / iran, the US is unwilling to risk any pilots. And iran has some air defenses in place. The US could drop bombs from up close, gravity mk-82's and jdams every hour for months. Currently they are using standoff weapons which are either minimally effective (drones) or crazy expensive (Tomohawk, Standard Missile, etc.)
One B1 gets shot down, and 4 crew get paraded around in downtown Tehran, and what little support trump has will vanish.
What am I trying to say? Drones have a place. They don't obsolete anything. The key is to have the weapons available to meet the time in which they are needed.
Hopefully in 2 years every company that 'bended the knee' will excise the leadership that thought it was a good idea. Shows a lack of good judgement and understanding of the social order.
Your integrity as a leader has value. Squandering it to slow down some tariffs is foolish.
Isn't the product close to being finished?
Maybe the money could be better spent on paying the drivers more. Or a stock buyback.
A tremendous amount of time / money is spent on developing talent. There are way too many officers just for supervision; they are there so that leadership can be practiced, and just as important, so the next levels leaders can be selected. 'up or out' is what makes this work. You can't do this in a business.
(in peacetime) there is no cost of failure. The military can afford to learn. You can't do that in a business.
The book has value. I have read it. But there are several mis alignments across the problem domains.
I could never sleep at night without thinking about what I have done.'
A life is worth a lot more than $2k for my sanity.
70 years of working on the 'how do I reuse code?'. And the solution just takes all the electricity in the world.
The way I got good at finding the hard ones was finding hard ones. Without that practice, I would be helpless.