Loathe to see the 90's Bucs former nemesis of the Eagles win, but defense wins championships and the Eagles' front four DL put on a master class during the superbowl. It was really fun to watch.

Good to see the Chiefs humbled. Glad to avoid seeing Kelce on the victory stage. Great to see that there was no three-peat after the uninspiring regular season games played by the Chiefs.

I compare all Super Bowl halftime shows to my #1 favorite - Prince. Which will forever be tough to beat as the combination of rain + brilliant artistry + established musical legend hits all the notes for it to earn elite status. Some folks put the Michael Jackson Super Bowl halftime show in the same category, but that was 1993 ;).

Wow SecDefs live well. I always wonder who and what professions live in the North Virginia mcmansions adjacent to DC.

I doubt it actually needs a paint job.

Why are an individual's medical decisions, made in concert with their doctor, a public concern?

Very valid question, at least in this case the public figure is the one making it Newsworthy rather than the media folks springing a public airing of a private medical procedure, but to the question of public concern ... no answers lol.

Mission accomplished!

Gobbler's Knob?

... seriously?

#5 | POSTED BY BOOTYHUNTER

Haha it is a beautiful helicopter

Good news is that they didn't lose their press passes. Bad news is that their reporting will be less timely due to office space availability being cut .

I think it would be a good asset to test out on the Ukrainian Test Range.

#35 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Agreed. I wonder if they even have C-RAMs on that front?
Good to know about the role of aircrafts on the US side of strategic defense doctrine versus GBAD. Learn something new every day.

Somewhere deep down, they're perfectly happy avoiding all the craziness on earth. #8 | POSTED BY DBT2

I bet! Outside of only packing for a short while and staying for a long while, I bet there aren't too many complaints.

I wonder whether the government employee-astronauts have to file their timesheets and do their taxes while deployed.

Platforms on station, as well as non-mobile platforms, if total inventory == 0, then there is zero.

If an actual conflict against a near peer adversary breaks out, air defenses will be deleted in a few months or less.

#26 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Absolutely a real concern. Also, replenishment at sea or close to the area of operations of armament to conduct the mission. I have no idea of the logistics supporting the mission in the Red Sea, but I've watched Greyhound (movie) and there isn't infinite reload of inventory in real life.

These astronauts need to high tail it back to the office as remote work has been cancelled, per OPM direction.

I am hoping that instead he meant expanding investment in anti-ICBM technologies and their strategic positioning.

Iron Dome is not designed for ICBMs.
The USA has large oceans on the west and east coasts, The gulf of America in the Southeast, a friendly northern neighbor, and Mexico as border countries.

Is this in anticipation of the southern deployment of forces to receive mortar and other small/medium projectile incoming fires?

State GOP legislative leaders abruptly ended a special session called by Ron DeSantis and are pursuing their own immigration proposal

Interesting bit of inside baseball there - the State legislature pursuing their own agenda perhaps because Desantis is a lame duck and the rest of the legislature have seats to maintain and credit to claim.

It is a bit curious to think of native wildlife in the surrounding area viewing a monkey for the very first time in their ancestorial history thanks to this monkey lab leak situation.

I wish the Eagles let Barkley earn the regular season rushing record in Week 17.

Yes, I know the original record was set in a 16-game season and it isn't the same.

There will be some guy who eventually breaks Eric Dickerson's "single season rushing yards title" in 17 or 18 game regular season and unfortunately it might not be Barkley, whereas Saquon has had a Offensive MVP caliber season this year in 2024-2025...

How many guys on a team earn a Super Bowl appearance or win?

There is only one all-time regular season rushing leader, and that stat is forever.

I'm a KC fan so I hope the referee's don't take advantage of the the free Lasik.

#16 | Posted by visitor

LOL! I gut-laughed at the idea of fixing the blind refs in the NFL ;)

Rooting for the chief's three-peat?

Chiefs vs Eagles feels like a boring match-up narrative-wise, but I will still watch the Super Bowl in ~2weeeks from now ofc.

tbh, I have little idea what the fun would be as a JAG in any of the services :P

just put on his silver oak leaves : ) and later this year he is destined for the Presidio [for that he has my condolences...]

#29 | Posted by MSgt

Best of luck to him as he has a clusterf**k of not fun administrative work awaiting him ;)

The further you go in the field, the further removed you are from the fun bits.

Hope he enjoys the little bits of fun he has left as an o5!

Gates is one of the few very public tech billionaires without a personally owned media outlet.
Musk-X
Bezos-WaPo

It is interesting to think of this outburst in the perspective of perhaps Gates wishes he had more skin in the influence game.

DeepSeek*, of course.

(I have sinks on the mind as I'm searching for sink styles as a kitchen weekend project).

@fresno500, DeepSeek R1 is certainly interesting.

Sets a new standard in efficiency for non-opensource models to learn from. OpenAI, Meta, Google, etc, likely have their LLM folks reviewing the DeepSink model around-the-clock to look for new efficiencies for running their proprietary models.