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I cannot overstate how good your shared spreadsheet is. Thanks again!

I volunteer as tribute! I’m a 2003 PwME who is second generation, and my son is diagnosed 3rd generation. And we have lateral transmission to my wife, somehow. My Dx. was by Dr. Nancy Klimas 2009 and had an extensive work up by the Mayo in 2010. Seriously, if there is anything I can do to assist your research, please let me know. (I’ll put contact in my profile)

but would help moderate your acid-base over the long term if you can push through the pain/fatigue/etc.

Pushing through is part of the problem. The crash that comes from pushing is the real problem --all kinds of blood markers go amuck after exertion (especially anything aerobic >10m, like a cardio pulmonary exercise test) and stay amuck for about a week. And the more you try to do during the crash the longer or worse the crash becomes. Pushing regardless of crash status, like in graded exercise therapy, has actually caused ME/CFS/Long Covid baseline symptoms to become worse semi-permanently.

In my experience, short tasks/projects that have a definite end work the best. Do not give volunteers projects that are mission critical with hard deadlines. If you must give volunteers on-going tasks, make sure to try and recruit enough volunteers that they can rotate between different jobs/tasks. Burnout is a killer on volunteer teams. And some level of politics and drama are inescapable—a volunteer coordinator can really help keep it to a minimum though.

The biggest motivator I’ve found is resume building. Match your volunteers to things they’re interested in trying out—including soft skills! Help coach your volunteers to find the right fit!

Recognition is another huge motivator. Newsletters, meetings, special awards, you name it.

Volunteers are hard. A good volunteer coordinator is worth their weight in gold!

If anyone has specific questions, I’m happy to answer.

(I helped run an all volunteer charity for about a decade)

Have you heard of the FODMAP diet? It can really help with IBS. You start by eliminating all foods with FODMAPS[1] for six weeks and then gradually reintroduce foods from each of the FODMAP categories. It’s recommended to have a dietician/nutritionist help with the temporary diet. It was pioneered by Monash University. [ https://www.monashfodmap.com ]

[1] the FODMAP acronym: Fermenatble Oligo-,Di-,Monosaccharides And Polyols

Firm, Fixed Price (ffp) contracts can be utilized with incentives after delivery based on metrics like tail availability, maintenance issues, flight hour cost, effectiveness, etc. Most big contracts are really a hybrid, though an existing contractor always tries for a cost plus. It's literally taught in PM classes.

I was NOT directly involved in F-35, so I can't speak to the exact amount of sleaze that occurred with the prime contractor.

I'd love to see a real competition! (new contractors, new ideas, new teams, new airframe ideas). And two engines, yeesh.

Anyways, cost plus is great at moving risk to the government. FFP is at the other end of the spectrum, moving all risk to the contractor.

[Unnecessary edit: I'm a fan of the textron scorpion-as a light attack fighter we could modify]

FCC does. Had to do deconfliction between JTIDS data links (could use more more than X of the available timeslots between all military datalink users) and S-band radar. They’d monitor us and actually occasionally issue fines to units that messed up their terminal’s time slot allocation.

Aquifer in the area is brackish, but huge. San Antonio even has their own Desalination plant to process their water that they get from their aquifer.

I think that you have to focus on whether you have a human in the loop and can the human reliably interrupt an automated kill chain before there is a release of ordinance (much less fuzing)

If there's any point that a human cannot 'abort', then it needs to be classified as a WMD.

Out of human control I view swarm UCAVs as an unrecallable remote shotgun for the same reason as the article author, it's "inherently indiscriminate".

Radar & Sonor Operators, Radio Operators, Anyone in combat, Anyone on watch/sentry, Datalink Operators (watching messages go by was a little like Cipher watching The Matrix), to name a few...