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The text of Maverick is all about how human fighter pilots are awesome and we should root for them against the drone proponents, but everything about the story just underscores the huge advantages of unmanned systems.
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Go see it, give it some Oscars, make movies great again but … let’s have the military invest in drones with low unit costs not a new generation of human-piloted fighters.
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"Even if"
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DSA North Star ✴️🌹 @DSANorthStar
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The fact that the FDA won’t let pharmacists prescribe pavloxid based on a simple test result (despite Biden saying they should!) is yet another example of public health institutions asking tremendous flexibility of everyone but themselves.
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