I agree that would be helpful. I’m just going off what is available with what is currently available in the app. Ive only been on the website once so really don’t know all the available data points

Tradition sure. Most people don’t. But they most assuredly can and do. I speak as the person who had to give a death by power point to my company due to a soldier in our unit getting into a scuffle with a civi that saluted during reveille and as per tradition PowerPoint/education based on history and regulations was the answer for preventive measures.

The only reason I even spoke to this now is the “stolen valor” aspect you presented initially and to inform the rest of the people that feel this is awkward for just anyone to do.

The truly awkward part is the way most do the “military” salute wrong. American or otherwise. I’d say it’s a tell tell sign of them not being in the military but there are plenty of soldiers that don’t do it correctly either so :shrug:

So misinformed. Civilians absolutely can and do salute. They have since the beginning of time. It is a sign of respect and acknowledgement. Whether a full fledged “military” style salute or a hand wave like the royals and civilians do or a tip of the hat like “cowboys” do. There is no implied “stolen valor” if a civilian wants to salute another civilian or a person in the military or of high position.

And of course you can choose not to salute like I assume you do.

Edit: this in no way should imply I support the people in this article. Just stating facts

Every damned spreadsheet should have the header locked so that you can quickly know what you are looking at after row 25. You can’t change my mind.

Or start a music app… switched back immediately when I couldn’t do hands free while ride the motorcycle. And damn near everything requires me to login with the thumb app even with voice req

Has never worked for me either. Not for Lemmy and has never worked for reddit either. I do have show read posts off in my settings and it still doesn’t work.

No.

Sand to wafers… Fortunately, there is no shortage of raw material. Silicon is the second most common element in the earth’s crust, comprising about 26% and exceeded only by oxygen at 49%. But silicon does not occur naturally in the pure form needed for electronic applications, for which it must contain less than one in a billion non-silicon atoms. The starting material really is sand. Not just any sand, but silica sand, specially quarried for this purpose and having concentrations of quartz (silicon dioxide) as high as 95%.

https://semiengineering.com/from-sand-to-wafers/

You must have missed my first sentence. You can say the same about any helicopter that also have the CAS roll. So why not get rid of those as well? It’s also why you have layers of force. 3rd 4th 5th gens duke it out and then you send in CAS. These machines were never designed to be taking on an air to air roll. Hence the Tank Buster nickname. Sure they have the ability to defend against air assets if necessary but that’s more of a deterrent to give them time to bug the fuck out. These machines are to help the troops on the ground. Not defend the skys.

For what fighting 5th gen fighters? Fuck yes. But for their mission set? Close (to the soldiers on the fucking ground?) Air Support, invaluable. I never once heard or thought “I wish they’d get rid of those useless crappy airframes!!” Mostly cause the sound them screaming across the sky and of freedom coming from their nose was just too heartwarming. I’ll never hear it again but I am glad to know they are doing their best to keep them relevant to the people that count most. The soldiers with boots on the ground.