If you want to see something really crazy, look for the audio of when SECNAV got on a plane to fly to Hawaii just to yell at the crew in person.
It was on YouTube and Reddit before he even made it off the ship.
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It takes a tremendous cultural effort to adapt that attitude.
To be able to listen to and care for your crew, while maintaining authority, isn’t as easy as it sounds. I think it’s the most important qualities of a commanding officer to know how to scale his/hers authority, without losing it.
And I think everybody struggles with that, at some point.
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Really good Deep Dive into The F-35 Engine Upgrade Debate.
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The Waginater makes a Cameo 
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It’s long, but that’s a great podcast. Wags has lots of reveals, like the carrier deck and future flight line crew improvements to animation, and his work on the Chinook. Whole earth map. Vietnam era map.
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Thanks I enjoyed that. 
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Me too, Wags is one cool dude.
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Casmo’s Low Level Hell podcast is coming back! It will be a live tie-in with his youtube channel. He’s still figuring it out apparently but glad to have him back.
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Very Interesting Deep Dive into F-35 Block #4 Upgrade
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My Normal rotation is (opens spotify):
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Mover & Gonky (though they should probably just add WOMBAT to the title)
https://www.youtube.com/@CWLemoine/podcasts -
Mike Force (Mike Glover- Former Delta Force guy)
https://www.youtube.com/@mikeforcepodcast -
Cleared Hot (Andy Stumpf- former SEAL)
https://www.youtube.com/@ClearedHotPodcast -
Shawn Ryan (Also a former SEAL- LOVE this podcast!)
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnRyanShowOfficial -
and True Spies, which is on the Spyscape network. This one is more like a documentary of historical events. Really cool podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/@SPYSCAPE/podcasts
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This is pretty good so far…kinda interesting for me because he grew up not far from me,
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Incoming!! …with More Matt Waginator
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The recent conversation about how terrible Google and other formerly useful Internet tools have become reminded me of a podcast I’ve been listening to for the last few weeks.
I’ve made no small secret of the loathing and contempt I have for Silicon Valley and the tech bro culture, so this is pretty on point. And more than a little terrifying.
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Thanks for that link. Interesting stuff:
I just listened to 2 of the latest. Some, not all, I think he stole from my brain - thoughts generated over the years yet now just lying around, dusty and unattended, in the far corners. The constant growth over everything else idea?
Systems - ‘things’ - created by imperfect beings.
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In my arena we’re FINALLY starting to talk about the explosive growth of data centers, as they’re having an immense, very often negative impact on the power grid, and it’s customers who are paying the price.
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Don’t tell me you’re not excited about your toaster finally getting AI.
What’s not to like about Google (the search engine) returning garbage at 3-10 times the energy one query used to take?
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By coincidence: I was reading [another] blurb on this very subject about an hour ago. TLDR; AI is at the root of the observed behaviour (sorry @Discobot) by guess who.
The article stated (I’ve not verified) that Amazon just built a new one right next to a nuclear power plant. I wonder why 
As far as actual remote storage (AKA, the “Cloud”), requiring data center-like space…
I’ve been a fan of removable, physical, storage over ‘cloud’ storage since that ill-informed term came about. The “cloud” has its uses but One Drive/Google/iCloud/ETC are just unnecessary for me, the average person.
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