Al Bundy.

Grammar and punctuation are not your enemies.

The budget of the US Space Farce (spelling deliberate) exceeded NASA's only 3 years after it was created.

2024 Pentagon budget - $841 billion
All NASA budgets since foundation, combined - $640 billion

This is why we can't have nice things.

The Pentagon number doesn't include the (unconstitutional) Black Budget, the alphabet soup of intel agencies (some of which have space budgets larger than NASA), or the plethora of mercenaries hired by the State Department.

They erected a half dozen statues to him just last year, one just a couple of blocks from a mass grave of people his followers murdered. Zelinsky visited a cemetery of Ukrainian Waffen SS, a group which carried out multiple atrocities, as part of the WWII anniversary. They're not even subtle about it.

You don't know any actual Russians, do you? The claim that they "still worship Stalin" was BS the day after he was dead.

Today unless we're attacking Grenada or Bhutan it's unlikely that anyone would be able to establish complete air superiority. Air defense platforms which can nail even stealthed planes and missiles are no longer bleeding edge, even Asarallah (Houthis) seem to be able to build them. The only time even Russian planes feel safe attacking Ukrainian positions directly is after all the air defense platforms in the area have been destroyed, and Ukrainian planes won't venture within 150 kilometers of the front.. One of the first things that Israel did in Syria was destroy its few air defense platforms after the troops had fled and before the Al Qaeda headchopper now in charge had time to move competent people to man them.

It's almost certainly disinformation designed to confuse "the enemy" (Russians, Chinese, and the US taxpayers), even the lost lamented dish at Arecibo, the most powerful radar ever constructed, couldn't have done that.

Ukraine's sparse history is mostly made up of allying with a more powerful power, and then stabbing them in the back as soon as it looks advantageous. Not sure I'd want to ally with a country which still constructs statues to Nazi-allied Stepan Bandera and to add insult to injury often locate them near sites where his people carried out atrocities against Jews, Roma, and ethnic Turks and Russians.

Oh, you are 100% right. This was basically my childhood experience. My dad was in the US Army; and, back then (1960s-1970s), he was getting moved a lot. In terms of my age, my family moved at: 0, 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7 (yes three moves while I was in second grade), 9, 10. On top of that, at (my age) 8 he was shipped to Vietnam, then they wanted to ship him there again when I was 11... so he decided to get out.

Interestingly (and possibly ironically) when he left active duty, he moved into a mostly equivalent full-time position with the Army Reserve - doing personnel and logistics management in support of the frequent moves of active-duty personnel! But he never had to move again, thank goodness.

Eventually the army figured out this wasn't a good way to get people to re-up... but yeah, it totally sucks to keep leaving your friends. Doubly so if you're a shy kid, like I was.

Yes but SaaS marketed straight to staff as free has completely broken admins control. Sadly.

Sounds like, "move fast, break things, be fragile."

I guess there is just a huge amount of utility in doing this which everyone is willing to go with, and security concerns are just accepted and to some extent ignored, because why try to set up a system that is more careful and assured, when the problems might not show up for years.

We have only his word that this is actually what happened. And, this being Facebook / Meta, they are known for lying through their teeth.

I wouldn't put it past Zuck to demand his minions make up some explanation that didn't boil down to "our tech sucks".