AngryCommieKender

On Dec. 3 1941, the US as a whole was quite content supplying the allies with everything they needed materially. We had told the USSR to just make tanks, we would give them everything else, including the ammunition for said tanks. Letting the USSR take a win was certainly preferable to what happened after they took a loss at the end of WWI.

I wonder what could have possibly happened on Dec. 4, 1941, that got the country to collectively say, "Fuck that. We aren't sitting by anymore."

We probably won't ever hit 11 billion contiguous humans. At least not without colonizing Venus. The birthrates worldwide are dropping quickly, and every time another country passes through the Industrial Age, into the Modern Age, their birthrates fall off a cliff. I suspect we will eventually stabilize around 9 billion people, which is a few billion lower than the maximum projected sustainable population of The Earth.

We didn't lose a war with them, but the Barbary Pirates were giving the US trouble before we had a Navy..... I also wouldn't call the first war we had with them entirely successful, but we certainly didn't lose it.

https://youtu.be/RRC_t84UXzI

Apparently Santa was originally an Elf. As in tiny, just like all the other elves. That's why he uses the chimney, it's big enough for him.

I think that may have changed since I was that age. I remember trying to rent a car as a 20 year old, and being told that I was too young. Thankfully, I was able to borrow a car from a mate, and return it refuled and cleaned.

Or maybe Kentucky is the wrong state to rent a car in as a new adult.

It's not just US aircraft. Most military aircraft have the ability to turn off their transponders. That's kinda SOP when flying a mission.

The main difference with many US military aircraft is that they have a tiny radar cross sections, so ATC can't "see" them, not just can't "hear" them. That refuling plane should have shown on radar, transponder or not. That thing is literally about the size of three barns, not the nuclear physics kind, and literally can't have much in the way of radar stealth the way the plane it was refueling probably had.

The other main difference here is that normally our joint chiefs, and secretary of defense ~~war~~ don't have their head up their asses about OPSEC. Normally such an operation would have not come anywhere near civilian flight paths, but these assholes literally said that the troops should be "drawing fire."

Well they have to be officers so, at bare minimum you're probably looking at 21 if the pilot in question went through ROTC, and performed well enough academically to gain some grants or scholarships privately, and use the GI bill through the Air Force, or Navy. I really don't remember if you can rent a car at 21, 23, or 25.

I would wager the average age of our pilots is probably closer to 24 or 25 than 21, maybe even closer to 29. Once you get that job, they tend to retire. Either early at a minimum of 12 years with limited pension, or at 20 years with a full pension. There really aren't a lot of engagements in the air for us.

That's a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn't actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.

He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there's absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn't shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don't know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.

They'll voluntarily weaken themselves, if there's corruption to be had. The US is currently following that particular playbook, which causes me to wonder what's currently being irreparably broken.

Ironically, a decent chunk of the most successful businesses out there actually did start in an economic downturn, however I suspect survivorship bias is playing a role there.

They tried to pull a Russian tail in 2020. They perfected it in 2024.