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21 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
new *what* orders!?
the f-16 entered service in *1978* and unless we are talking about a "super falcon" type deal where the guts and airframe are completely revamped, ala the (awkwardly designated) f/a-18e/f then this is not a front-line aircraft in coming decades
the u.s. shouldn't be investing in buying new aircraft that can't easily operate in a contested environment, imo. the f-16 is a hot ride that can turn on a dime but it's not built for the mid-2000s
and like, everyone loves to hate the f-35 but the primary issue with it is its enormous development cost. it is a good aircraft that can do many things the f-16 can't dream of. can it win in a knife fight, given equal pilots? sure. will it survive to the merge? no
I'm certain that work is under way on the next generation u.s. fighter, and using new purchases of a 42-year-old design as a placeholder until it arrives does not seem like money well spent

anyway, thanks for listening to my ted talk

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29 Dec 20
yeah, that's not really the best takeaway

it took the better part of four years for the political media to come around to the idea that it was ok to say true things, such as "trump lies." would be nice if we could hang onto lessons like that
there is also a real danger of thinking "covering biden the same way" equals four years of the same sorts of stories. trump generated the coverage he did because of the person he is and the things he did.
for instance,
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17 Nov 20
that's correct.
the jcpoa put iran's nuclear program in the deep freeze, at basically no cost to the u.s. and its allies.

the u.s. decision to pull out of the deal spun up iran's nuclear program to the point where the u.s. is considering military force to stop it

just insane
and (sigh) if we're going to talk about what military force would look like, it's perhaps more complex than you think.

tomahawks can get the job done vs. surface targets, stuff that isn't buried or overly hardened. but you also need to take iran's counterattack off the table
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8 Nov 20
now that the election is functionally over, I have a few observations.

first of all, this was not a close contest. biden has a huge lead in the popular vote (4-plus million) that is only going to increase. electorally, the trajectory is roughly the same as trump's 2016 win
that's not a squeaker. a squeaker is 2000, which was decided by lawyers and a few boxes of hard-to-interpret ballots in florida

like... child, come close and let me tell you about the election day that lasted two months
"closeness," in 2020, was just an illusion, thanks to the enormous number of mail-in ballots and slow counting in key states.

so it seems weird to cast this as a narrow victory for the dems. especially by dems! and they still have a real shot at a senate majority, thx to georgia
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3 Nov 20
oh, hello. I didn't see you standing there. it's been quite a year, hasn't it? what with all the hundreds of thousands of covid deaths, minor wars, and political mayhem. and it's u.s. election day. which means: you need a drink.
today we're bringing out the big guns. the elephant guns. the 16-inch naval guns. bourbon and champagne.

let's... BEGIN
the classic champagne cocktail is a sugar cube soaked with bitters, dropped into a champagne flute, which is then filled with champagne. that's not what we're making. but the basic ingredients are similar: champagne and sugar, in this case simple syrup

plus bourbon
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10 Jul 20
have I mentioned I take requests? I do. and they are all the more urgent when someone has a bottle of something different (pastis) they need to make disappear quickly (a week or two). to that effect: let's make a greta garbo
in most circumstances you'd drink pastis chilled, straight up. it is, more or less, a somewhat more civilized cousin of our good friend absinthe. but can can also make cocktails with it--important if you have to drink a bottle in like two weeks
there are many different ways to make a greta garbo, which if we're honest is not a common drink by any stretch of the imagination. the central elements are rum and pastis.
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28 May 20
I feel like this week keeps getting darker and darker. so we need an appropriately grim drink. this one is another alleged hangover cure, but we're really doing it today because of its name: the corpse reviver
it was invented during prohibition as a way to help people feel better after drinking (illegally) all night. once again, this seems less like a strategy to cure a hangover and more like a strategy to get drunk again
I mean, it's right there in the name. if you're feeling like you've died, this will help. but like all zombie potions, the magic will run out at some point.

the punchline is that there is a whole *bunch* of corpse reviver recipes... no. 2, no. 3 and so on. an endless dark cycle
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