Rants, Pre-Christmas Edition
Dec. 22nd, 2025 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribWork has entered that curious year-end hibernation period. My company gives their employees a lot of holiday time - so much so that we have only 5 working days (including today) from now until the end of the year. That, plus a liberal PTO policy, means that people are scarce on the ground.
This next bit is more of an observation than a rant, but to stay in symmetry with Thanksgiving, it's labeled a rant. Trump recently announced that he was “seriously considering” building “battleships” for the US Navy. Unlike many of his announcements, there is a small kernel of truth in the announcement, as some analysts are considering building large missile-carrying ships of 15,000 to 20,000 tons - twice the size of a current USN cruiser. The high end of that number would approximate the displacement of the USS Texas, a WWI dreadnought.
And here to the rant. I don't think Trump actually understands what is being proposed, nor does he have any idea how much ($4 billion) one of these ships would cost. I think he was half-asleep in a meeting, heard about the concept, and is now running around declaring it a done deal. Spoiler alert - there isn't even a PowerPoint about the ship, much less a set of drawings with which to start cutting steel.
To shorter myself, stopped clocks are right twice a day, especially if you're not too picky.
This next bit is more of an observation than a rant, but to stay in symmetry with Thanksgiving, it's labeled a rant. Trump recently announced that he was “seriously considering” building “battleships” for the US Navy. Unlike many of his announcements, there is a small kernel of truth in the announcement, as some analysts are considering building large missile-carrying ships of 15,000 to 20,000 tons - twice the size of a current USN cruiser. The high end of that number would approximate the displacement of the USS Texas, a WWI dreadnought.
And here to the rant. I don't think Trump actually understands what is being proposed, nor does he have any idea how much ($4 billion) one of these ships would cost. I think he was half-asleep in a meeting, heard about the concept, and is now running around declaring it a done deal. Spoiler alert - there isn't even a PowerPoint about the ship, much less a set of drawings with which to start cutting steel.
To shorter myself, stopped clocks are right twice a day, especially if you're not too picky.
