LemmyLives

The services deserve some blame. The Constellation class was based on a proven, in use, design used by the Italians. But, leave it to the USN to frick it up:

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…the United States Navy’s Constellation-class frigate program (was) not as a case of technical failure or flawed contracting, but as a breakdown in sustained stewardship over a sound acquisition construct. The program was conceived to adapt a mature, serially produced parent design; expand the U.S. surface-combatant industrial base; and impose cost discipline through a fixed-price structure that depended on preserving design stability and commonality. That construct remained coherent through early execution and even through extraordinary external disruption during the Covid-19 pandemic. The program did not fail because it proved infeasible. It became vulnerable when the continuity of senior ownership eroded. During a narrow period between mid-2022 and mid-2023, the program’s central premise—reliance on a proven parent design to control risk, cost, and schedule—was no longer actively defended as directed changes accumulated to comply with historical Navy shipbuilding specifications. Absent deliberate reconstitution of that premise, contractual and technical alignment degraded, and the program’s recovery pathways narrowed.

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It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amps!

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plane was over half empty so I had an entire middle row to myself to lay down and sleep.

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I took a Singapore 5th freedom flight from IAH to MAN, and booked premium economy. This was a mistake, because premium economy didn't have movable armrests, even though both premium economy and economy were probably 25% full. Regular economy were all sleeping across rows, I was stuck.

Or actually save money:

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I was hitting Acopon brewery two weeks ago:
11. Tilberi (Nitro) Stout - Milk
4.6% ABV 25 IBU Acopon Brewing Company

Just buy from a seller that has a four or five star rating. Read the reviews of the seller, there may be a one star review, but the review says, "USPS lost the package and I never received it," etc. Not the sellers fault.

For computers and laptops, it's perfectly fine from the big shops that show a lot of turnover (hundreds or thousands of reviews.) I bought a laptop last year that arrived without a fingerprint as if I'd just pulled it out of the Microsoft box.

Inspect the pictures, request more if you want, etc. I don't know that I'd buy any headphones used, I'd just wait for a sale (Labor day, black Friday, etc.) and buy new.

ETA: My advice is for eBay, I'm not about FB Marketplace. I wouldn't list, or buy anything from FB Marketplace, even meeting up in a police station parking lot to do the exchange.

Prepare for the flood of "anything for family, always, reeee!" :rolleyes: The guaranteed excuse for most of them will be that he didn't have kids, etc.

Except now he's going to be eating cat food in retirement, which will probably be delayed. I'm sure his mother wouldn't have wanted that.

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transit routes to and from neighborhoods where cars have been broken into and stolen.

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Like four of them on an overpass on I-10 (Pedersen Road) that track every plate and device that leads to more than 10,000 homes with a value at a minimum of 300k, South of I-10 off of Texas Heritage Parkway? It sure as shite hasn't solved any vehicular robberies, or stolen Chevy/GMCs. Crimes get solved because cops pull over the right car at 2AM, as Fulshear PD has repeatedly posted. It's not ALPR that's getting anything done. We have almost no property crime as it is, but that intersection alone has multiple cameras. The latinos building houses all over the area aren't stealing shite.

I get scanned six times on the way to and from the gym I go to in Katy three exits down I-10. For what?

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Fourth Amendment -- Ever heard of it???

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He doesn't understand it's not just about the plate. He doesn't know what bluetooth beacons are, and that Flock is gathering data from your phone, your Airpods, your smart watch, your dog's collar, the air tags and all your Life360 sensors, etc.

It's traumatic as hell, I'm sure, and I don't wish it on anyone. My hood has gators (usually one or two per lake, usually very shy,) but only a stone cold idiot would let any dog, or even child, wander within 3-4 feet of the water. I'm in Houston, not even LA or FL, and wouldn't even let my ex-wife's dog that I dislike that close to the water.