When you take a shot at the most powerful person in the world (hyperbole to make a point), you better not miss.

I’ve decided not to apply for a promotion I was likely to get partially because it would have meant managing a person I dated 18 years ago. She is a lawyer. I shouldn’t be smarter than her about what could represent a workplace ethical violation.

But of course he did.

I mean, I get that he wouldn’t be able to get it to trial until Trump is already dead. But it just sets a bad precedent to let a President try to steal an election.

Show me where he is setting military policy. I’ll wait.

Oh, hang on, he isn’t. He is making a public statement about what he thinks politicians should do based on what he observes in his daily work on the job. It’s literally the Chairman’s job to make public statements about what is best for the industry they work in and what is best for their company.

Another commented said Fully Remappable Controls, but I want to foot stomp it. On PC games, I use EDSF instead of WASD, but if some controls can’t be remapped and they overlap with EDSF then I won’t play the game.

On console, I fucking hate that Elden Ring maps “crouch/sneak” to pushing down on the movement stick. I’m furiously fighting for my fucking life against a boss that attacks every 0.7 seconds. I’m moving that stick as fast as I can, which means I’m pushing hard on it. It sucks to be trying to run away from an attack but then start crouching and sneaking away from a 40ft tall axe coming down on you.

Fully remappable controls is my biggest wish. I hate WASD and swear by EDSF, but some games like Fallout 4 hardcode some controls. E is hardcoded to “interact” or “open door” or something, but the game DOES let you map “move forward” to E. So I can run around like normal, but every time I run past a door it auto opens to a zombie hiding behind it.

Ghosts of Yotei lets you pause during cut scenes. It doesn’t let you skip most cut scenes, though.

You’re right. He’s the Chairman, who in most corporations leads the hiring of the CEO. He’s actually higher up. Congrats on being technically correct.

The Chairman or CEO or whatever of a major defense corporation has a vested stake in what things might affect the defense industry and very likely has a team of people informing him of what is going on geopolitically. This person is someone who probably knows more than you on things like this, so maybe listening to him is worthwhile. We don’t have to follow what he says, but hearing what he says is probably a good idea.

Who said anything about stock price? I sure didn’t.

Who cares what the CEO of a major Defense contractor thinks about the defense of the continent that company is located in? I’d say a lot of people.

Dmitry Peskov said: “Why is he involved in nuclear weapons?”

“Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov expressed surprise that a representative of the civil aviation industry would make such statements.”

I have to think that Peskov knows Airbus is not just a civil aviation company… He does know that Airbus is a major defense contractor, right? The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) just rebranded itself as Airbus 10 years ago. The literally make missiles. Why wouldn’t the CEO of a company that makes weapons talk about making weapons?

When I first saw signs about fly-tipping in London, my head went to cow tipping and thought, “someone would need really fast reactions to tip over a fly.”

The interesting thing about this case is that the investigation began during the Biden admin in 2024. It didn’t find enough conclusive evidence either way, but the current admin decided to charge her anyway.

Nobody agrees with me! It must be them that is wrong, not me.

There are very few cities he could move the games to that aren’t Democratic cities. Indianapolis, while mostly Democratic as a city, is surrounded by enough strong Republican areas that it would be fine according to him. Same story with places like Cincinnati, Nashville, Las Vegas, and Pittsburgh (but not Philly). They could all host some games at NFL stadiums and have enough hotels ready.

That said, I don’t really care if he moves games away from my city. I have no interest in WAY overpaying to go to a game where Cape Verde battles it out against Iran. I am definitely not paying literally thousands of dollars for a nosebleed seat to see England play Japan.

“missteps”

You have no evidence and just made shit up.

I started The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett this week and am really liking it. This is the first book I’ve read from him, and I’m easily getting into his writing style.

Wow, that’s an extremely plain statement from a manager at a major club. They usually say nothing political or outright divisive. Yes, his bosses are an Islamic state, so maybe he has leeway. But it isn’t hedged at all like more public statements from high profile coaches.

Imagine being an MLS owner having already watched this game and then making the announcement that your league, which includes three Canadian teams plus Minnesota, will be switching to a winter schedule instead of a summer schedule.

It isn’t a con at all. It’s the result of the unbelievably arcane and complex defense acquisition rules. It’s nearly impossible to move fast and save money with smaller companies due to all the hoops they have to jump through to get on contract, so only large corporations can handle all the paperwork making anything at all cost way too much money to pay for all the overhead.

The con, if there is one, is large defense contractors convincing non-technical officers that highly technical things will be super duper hard and needs to be on a cost-plus contract to take into account any unforeseen issues. I sat in a meeting where one of those mega-corps said with a straight face that they needed a cost-plus contract to cover any losses from the additional inflation… on a one year contract.