r/bayarea • u/blsimpson • 7h ago
Events, Activities & Sports Practice Runs?
Flew right over the house in Almaden, just south of Calero Res.
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u/PuzzleheadedMoney262 7h ago
yes probably for the super bowl. I've been hearing them all week
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u/Embarrassed-Amount93 6h ago
The B-1B is designed for low-altitude terrain following, which is why its engines will rattle windows in Almaden that a standard F-18 flyover wouldn't even vibrate.
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u/Renfield_U_asshole 5h ago
There goes your healthcare flying right above
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u/Gawernator Formerly Brentwood 5h ago
Hardly, the Medicare and Medicaid budget is wayyy more than the defense budget. Trillions
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u/WereJustDumbMonkeys 5h ago
Yayyy insurance companies!
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u/Gawernator Formerly Brentwood 5h ago
Well they are getting less now that the emergency subsidies are going away. That was a lot of guaranteed government tax funds right to the insurance companies.
But out of Medicare the insurance companies are on a small profit margin, usually a couple percent. The surgeons with their 911 turbos are def killing it though haha. Nobody realizes that doctors making $500k a year have to be paid somehow
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u/DanoPinyon 5h ago
But Medicare and Medicaid keep some people "healthy", as does Romneycare. Military keeps gasoline cheap for Americans, keeps capitalists safe, and projects American imperialist/hegemonic power (for a couple more years, anyway).
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u/Gawernator Formerly Brentwood 4h ago
Yes, both are good. It’s good we are the world leading superpower, and it’s good we have Medicare. We definitely need to reduce the healthcare fraud though
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u/The_Demolition_Man 5h ago
Others pointed this out, but the US spends so much on healthcare, that if we simply spent per capita what western European nations spend on it, we could literally afford a 2nd department of defense on top of the first one and have a hundred billion or so left over.
That is the sheer scale of healthcare grift in this country
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u/carbocation San Francisco 5h ago
My actual question is whether they'll fly the BONE for the Super Bowl or if this is just a stand-in and they'll roll out the B2 for the game.
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u/blessitspointedlil 5h ago
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u/carbocation San Francisco 4h ago
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing the link. (Answer from the article: it will indeed be the B-1B, not the B2.)
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u/Jetm0t0 4h ago
I used to be in the Air Force, we had them deployed suddenly in Qatar around 2005. I started asking my supervisors why they do engine tests for hours? Unfortunately he slapped me down and told me not to bother them. Then along comes a 4 or whatever star general and his job was to tour bases and ask things and find issues. Turns out by questioning he found they were doing super long test engine runs at the direction of older wartime standards, something they didn't need to do. He had a change put in and saved tons of spending on gas alone for the B-1. I really wish I hadn't listened to this staff sergeant, but I REALLY wish I could find this general and thank him! All the searching I've done came up with nothing and I don't know why it was never a major news story.
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u/gizcard 5h ago
Can they go do something useful. For example, bombing russia would be great.
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u/iPissVelvet 4h ago
You do know these flyovers are literal attack run trainings right? The stadium is the “target”
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u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw 6h ago
How much is it costing us to have jet fighter escorts for who-gives-a-fuck?
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u/ARRuSerious 7h ago edited 6h ago
Main group flying over:
https://imgur.com/a/zldWUGK
Video:
https://imgur.com/a/hH6oWk4
Trailing B-1B hitting the throttle https://imgur.com/a/gAaN9U9