Yeah … but if all you’re using it for is opening boxes, you don’t need a $350 mid-tier knife … you need a $15 box cutter with replaceable $0.50 blades.
If you want a fancy knife, sure – go get one … with your own money. But if you’re using taxpayer money for it, you can have the $15 box cutter that gets the job done just fine.
Yes, they literally can’t stop.
I was in Air Force maintenance for a while. And it’s because of ‘use it or lose it’ budgets.
Every fiscal year, if your department doesn’t spend all of its allotted budget, then their budget will be reduced next fiscal year. Personal equipment, replacement parts, materials, etc all come from the same budget.
But how much money your department actually needs may vary from year to year. Maybe in a good year not much breaks and you don’t spend much on replacement parts. So you have surplus budget left over in the last month of the fiscal year:
A) You can do the right thing and submit your budget paperwork showing that you had some left over at the end of the year. Your budget will be reduced next year, which means if next year is a bad year that needs lots of replacement parts, you’re going to be running severely short.
B) You take the whole crew up to the Supply store and go on a shopping spree, buying up anything ‘nice to have’ that could even somewhat conceivably be relevant to doing your job. (Such as … a very fancy combat knife that you could conceivably use because you can use it to open boxes.) You use up the entire budget for the fiscal year, and next year your budget stays the same. So when next year is a bad year that needs lots of replacement parts, you still have enough money in your budget to buy all the parts you need.
This end-of-fiscal-year shopping spree is pervasive within not just the Air Force, but every government job where this ‘use it or lose it’ budgeting system is in place.
On the face of it, ‘use it or lose it’ is supposedly a way to help the military save money, by reducing the budgets of departments that are being allocated more money than they need. But it creates a perverse incentive for each department to ‘need’ all the money it has been allocated. The ‘use it or lose it’ budgeting system will have to be reformed significantly if this is to be fixed.
If that’s something you’re going to be doing a lot, maybe look into starting a Mastodon account or some other service more specifically tailored to blogging?
You could be totally screwed in that assignment just by having a very common name.
or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB
Yeah … good luck with that.
The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising
Yep. They only buy things on their list, okay.
So which brand of that thing are you going to buy? The one you recognize most and are most familiar with, maybe?
It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.
Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.
I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?
They really do like to penalize people for caring about their privacy, don’t they?
ENOUGH THAT I CAN USE IT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PANCAKE SYRUP IN A PINCH IF NECESSARY!!!
Yep, either way, your job is toast.
AI succeeds: AI takes your job.
AI fails: Economy crashes and you lose your job due to the crash.
But you won’t be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.
The ones that require traffic lights and shit never seem to work properly for me. They always make me do an endless repetition of them, going through dozens and dozens before it finally, maybe lets me see the website I was trying to get to.
Maybe I’m just not human enough?
If I put sugar in it, I might as well be drinking soda and juice again.
Paying attention to a trans man’s feelings would only give them feelings of gender dysphoria.
Sounds like a big opportunity if anybody ever wanted to start up and run a big, popular instance…
Though it might be a bit of a nightmare to moderate.
The primary argument of “you might forget to disengage it in the heat of the moment” is complete bullshit.
Even if you are in that (rather misguided) camp, there are better alternatives. Specifically, a grip safety. Safety automatically disengaged as long as you’re holding the gun properly. Can’t ‘forget’ to do that!
And, yes, there are good, modern designs that use grip safeties. The Springfield XD line, for example. (Those models also require a trigger pull for disassembly, though. Is it that hard to include some kind of decocker?)
Get your Stop the Bleed certification in addition to CPR/FA https://stopthebleed.com/training-and-instructor-locator/
Yes! Even if you can’t own a gun for legal/moral/mental health reasons, you can still do training like this! If you’re not going to be armed, you can at least make a field medic of yourself. And then, even without a gun, you could be immensely valuable to the cause.
Just remember – if you’re going to do this, bring friends!
One armed protester, the pigs will readily shoot as a ‘valid target’. But if there are multiple armed protesters, the pigs know they can’t shoot them all without any risk of return fire.
If you’re going to open carry at a protest, bring at least 2 friends with you!
Plus, it will divert Russian personnel, fuel, and other resources away from Ukraine.