Every week, I find a couple of dozen articles that interest me for blogging, but only a small number of them actually become posts. Here are a few recent ones that didn’t make the cut:
- Supreme court to decide when the police can use your phone to track you
- Cops using ‘cookies’ to track people. Police state?
- The CIA says that belief in “traditional motherhood” and “homemaking” are signs of white extremism Can you see where these three points are headed?
- FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides and medical treatment
- US Navy to use technical skills in promotion decisions, instead of criteria unrelated to a sailor’s job
- Actually using Bitcoin (or any other thing of value) as a medium for bartering has tax implications
- Store worker sued for stealing winning lottery ticket from boss
- It’s racist if a black person doesn’t always win everything they set out to
- The so-called income inequality gap is caused by household chores?
- Court says the US must release all secret military plans to the press
- DOJ stops providing free legal aid to illegal immigrants. (they always leave out the ‘illegal’ part)
4 Comments
ghostsniper · April 21, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Ya know, I was tempted to click on 1 or 2 of them links.
But I just couldn’t. I don’t have it in me no more.
I’m tired of arguing, and tired of the retardation.
Just about all of them links can be categorized as:
1: tyrants needing their asses killed
or
2: sissy’s needing their asses killed
Unknownsailor · April 22, 2026 at 3:57 am
“US Navy to use technical skills in promotion decisions, instead of criteria unrelated to a sailor’s job”
Yea, right. I don’t believe that for a pico second, not after everyone currently wearing khaki gamed evaluations to get promoted.
signed,
Retired E-5 who never received higher than Must Promote in 20 years because he refused to play office fuck fuck games.
Divemedic · April 22, 2026 at 5:58 am
When i was in, evals were on a 4 point scale, but everyone got between 3.0 and 4.0. It was stupid.
Unknownsailor · April 22, 2026 at 2:20 pm
I have one evail on that system in my files, 1995. In 1996 the Navy rolled out a new evaluation that is based on a 5.0 system that uses various “traits” for grading, like in rate knowledge, leadership, etc. How you score on that 5.0 system is called “trait average”. However, the Navy doesn’t use that trait average for promotions, the old 4.0 system was retained for final multiple calculation purposes in a “promotion recommendation” block, which goes:
Significant Problems, Progressing, Promotable, Must Promote, and Early Promote.
SP and Progressing are punitive, P is average, MP are above average, and EP are “walk on water.” P to MP is about 20 points on the final multiple, and MP to EP is another 20 points, so in some rates (mine was like this,) EP is required to promote much past E-5.
Promotion recommendation is what this Navy article is talking about, because for E-1 thru E-6 traits basically mean nothing.
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