LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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This one is weird, it seems like it is smaller and lower altitude that the first balloon. I suspect this is not Chinese but either a missing US balloon, or private drone or private balloon. I will stay away from UFO. I think they are just freaked out by the last balloon and overreacting to anything.
I suppose it could be a smaller Chinese balloon.
They just shot down a third one in Canada.
Fourth object in Montana. I am not sure if this really spy stuff or they are freaked out by anything and everything and shooting mylar balloons.
It looks like that the Montana may have just been a radar anomaly. However China is now claiming that it has objects flying over them that they are going to shoot down. It could a balloon cold war.
At some level I simply do not care what China does. We have Russia to deal with and 2024 could be another possibility for fascisim in the US. A few balloons is nothing.
Another one shot down today by Wisconsin. The balloon war continues. By the way for all you history buffs the first "spy" balloons used in war was 1794 by the French, we seem to be going backward in time.
Does anyone else find this stuff a bit disconcerting? We are close to a conflict with Russia and now we are kind of getting essentially into a shooting war with China.
Well take heart, suppose we did not have nuclear determent than maybe we would already be in giant conventional war so the nukes are preventing that. Of course it call all go sideways really fast.
Looks like a private hobby balloon. Cool
2/12/2023 2:51 PM
Because we shot down a surveillance balloon in our airspace? Get real.