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I've thought that our doofus new guy was too immature to be a dad since I met him. He had CPS talk to him last year because he slapped his toddler son in an Applebees. Now apparently his wife is cracking under the pressure of raising a kid she wasn't at all prepared for, and ended up on a 72 hour hold in a mental health clinic. I don't see any of this ending well.
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Dec 9, 2019 06:14
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Casimir Radon posted:I've thought that our doofus new guy was too immature to be a dad since I met him. He had CPS talk to him last year because he slapped his toddler son in an Applebees. Now apparently his wife is cracking under the pressure of raising a kid she wasn't at all prepared for, and ended up on a 72 hour hold in a mental health clinic. I don't see any of this ending well.  happy holidays
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Dec 9, 2019 07:34
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wait, Brian May the astrophysicist and Brian May from Queen are the same dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9C7frk2ss
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Dec 9, 2019 07:36
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some dude on reddit posted:We had a guy in the unit, one of these guys, you know always willing to go way out of their own way to help you out, but just one of the most disaster prone people I’ve ever met. He once left his M9 on a bench in a bus shelter on a base in Iraq, it had apparently just slid out the holster as he was sitting and he had no lanyard attached. Someone else from our unit happened to get there after the bus had left and before anyone else walked up. He recognized it as one of ours and brought it in with him.
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Dec 9, 2019 09:43
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Casinos do pay a markup to have highly accurate dice for craps. Yep, and they're serialized and removed from play before they can get any wear that would bias them. Problematic Soup posted:
I mean GameScience exists, but they're not to that standard. http://www.gamescience.com/About-Us_ep_7.html But yeah, you're rolling maybe 50 times in a game session, that's not even enough to notice statistically unbalanced dice unless they're hilariously weighted cheater dice.
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Dec 9, 2019 13:24
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Edit: forgot to refresh before commenting
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Dec 9, 2019 13:41
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Liquid Communism posted:Yep, and they're serialized and removed from play before they can get any wear that would bias them. That depends a lot on the game. In wargames like warhammer 40K or some of the more overpowered versions of dungeons and dragons, you can easily roll 50 or 60 dice in one roll. If one die is off you'll never notice but if a brick of 36 dice you bought together were biased in the same way you'd probably notice.
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Dec 9, 2019 14:01
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wait, Brian May the astrophysicist and Brian May from Queen are the same dude Someone upthread mentioned he’s not just living his best life, but possibly several people’s best lives, and I think that’s pretty spot-on.
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Dec 9, 2019 14:02
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Leviathan Song posted:That depends a lot on the game. In wargames like warhammer 40K or some of the more overpowered versions of dungeons and dragons, you can easily roll 50 or 60 dice in one roll. If one die is off you'll never notice but if a brick of 36 dice you bought together were biased in the same way you'd probably notice. Nah, not beyond psychosomatic hunches. ~500 rolls per side of the die to get a good data set to check the distribution, so for a single d6 you're talking ~3k rolls. Unless a die is pretty catastrophically unfairly weighted, if isn't going to have any real statistical effect on a game where you throw buckets of them. Not like GW cares anyway, these are the people who put out these rubber-covered asymmetrical dice as a thing to use: 
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Dec 9, 2019 14:31
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I mean i have nightmares about waking up in afghanistan and not being able to find my rifle so yeah if I dropped a pistol into a shitter I'd fish it out. At the very least I would refuse to leave the shitter and have someone go get a stick. I can still remember the feeling of your stomach dropping when you reach under your cot to check that its still there and not immediately feeling it
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Dec 9, 2019 16:02
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EBB posted:Musk doesn't have a stellar body named after him, or any published papers of merit. He can eat poo poo. elon musk is the best hype man since flava flave
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Dec 9, 2019 16:03
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Doc Hawkins posted:
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Dec 9, 2019 16:24
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Casimir Radon posted:You add holiday stress to an already deteriorating situation like this and I could see this getting tragic real quick. Oh yeah. Holidays are the worst, especially if the family is already struggling... I've seen the aftermath of some bad poo poo. Nothing like writing reports next to a cheap fake Christmas tree with two or three dollar store presents under it to get you in that holiday mood. Used to budget a few extra dollars every December to buy people baby poo poo / groceries / cheap toys after helping sort out screaming fights during December. Holidays are tough on some people, hard to explain to your kid that Santa was light on presents this year but hey you saved up enough for a dollar menu meal at McDonald's as a day out. Edit: big shout out to the USMC Toys for Tots, explained to a lot of people how to request toys over the years, you guys rock Smiling Jack fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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Dec 9, 2019 16:32
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Smiling Jack posted:Oh yeah. Holidays are the worst, especially if the family is already struggling... I've seen the aftermath of some bad poo poo. Nothing like writing reports next to a cheap fake Christmas tree with two or three dollar store presents under it to get you in that holiday mood. 
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Dec 9, 2019 16:43
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Memento posted:blue story.txt I flew with someone whose callsign was 'Smurf' on account of the stained-blue arm they received after digging a phone out of an airborne shitter.
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Dec 9, 2019 17:21
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In Kuwait during the buildup, we got hit with a massive sandstorm (we were told it was the worst Haboob seen in like ten years, but that was probably bullshit). Some poor kid was in a portapot when it first started gusting. It tipped. He looked like a lovely smurf.
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Dec 9, 2019 17:24
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Imagine getting asked why you didn't just get a trash bag and then, instead of losing some dignity, you get sepsis because of some nick on your shitter-rummaging hand and lose an assortment of extremities plus your kidneys
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Dec 9, 2019 18:47
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aphid_licker posted:Imagine getting asked why you didn't just get a trash bag and then, instead of losing some dignity, you get sepsis because of some nick on your shitter-rummaging hand and lose an assortment of extremities plus your kidneys Nah, god's perfect idiots are protected from that kinda stupid poo poo from sheer dumb luck. The kind of idiots that fall off of trucks and smack their kevlars off of the gun trails, split the fucker right in half and pop up going WOW THAT WAS CLOSE!
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Dec 9, 2019 19:05
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Brian May: rock god, Ph.D astrophysicist, author, knight, appears to be living not only his best life but several other people's as well. My aunt has a Ukrainian family she's very good friends with through her ballet classes. They went to a science event and the husband called her, yammering in a mix of broken English and Ukrainian because he was so excited. The only words she picked out were "Brian May! Brian May!" Turns out he was just kinda hanging out at the event, being a chill dude and talking about astrophysics. He even wore a tie with tiny guitars over it. When I was in Diego Garcia the head Customs dude was a gigantic hairy Irish sailor named Chloe who used to hang out at our barracks. At some point he let slip that Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden lived in his town and evidently a pretty nice dude, too. Got his commercial pilots' license so he can fly their jet on tour and plans the route to avoid the band being jet lagged at their shows.
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Dec 9, 2019 19:05
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Having a crew serve in the shitter with you was the worst. A machine gun is like an extra person in that space.
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Dec 9, 2019 19:08
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MA-Horus posted:Nah, god's perfect idiots are protected from that kinda stupid poo poo from sheer dumb luck. The kind of idiots that fall off of trucks and smack their kevlars off of the gun trails, split the fucker right in half and pop up going WOW THAT WAS CLOSE! In EMS we call that the “cockroach factor”. The dipshits always live.
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Dec 9, 2019 19:18
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Ugly In The Morning posted:In EMS we call that the “cockroach factor”. The dipshits always live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias I know plenty of the folks you're referring to, but let's be real: we just don't know about all the goofy dipshits who, y'know, died.
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Dec 10, 2019 17:04
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No, we do, they're well cataloged in the Darwin Awards.
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Dec 10, 2019 18:53
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EBB posted:It's not a hill I'd die on but this song gets the most play from me This is a good song and I’m taking it with me to the next page.
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Dec 12, 2019 11:20
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EBB posted:Having a crew serve in the shitter with you was the worst. A machine gun is like an extra person in that space. Things I never realized you'd have to do in the military
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Dec 16, 2019 19:19
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I liked being in units where the 240 gunner wasn't able to carry a 9 because of shithead officers and NCOs
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Dec 16, 2019 19:21
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Long-term idiocy. https://twitter.com/sgtjanedoe/status/1206740775934914560
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Dec 17, 2019 02:15
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That's gonna take one hell of a dry mop
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Dec 17, 2019 02:20
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loving Idiots and Nazis. The 10 Mtn Div posted a picture of a Nazi war criminal on their Facebook yesterday for the 75th anniversary for the Battle of the Bulge https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/army-facebook-post-featuring-nazi-war-criminal-sparks-pushback-n1103041
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Dec 17, 2019 19:54
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's gonna take one hell of a dry mop I thought the solution was to have a helicopter hover over the base until things were dry.
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Dec 17, 2019 21:06
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Are you saying there weren't good people on both sides?
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Dec 17, 2019 21:22
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MrUnderbridge posted:Are you saying there weren't good people on both sides? There were plenty of good Nazis. The dead ones, specifically.
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Dec 17, 2019 21:37
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canyoneer posted:There were plenty of good Nazis. The dead ones, specifically.  Alright whose boot is this, come pick him up he's about to get married at an Arby's 
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Dec 19, 2019 03:41
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Memento posted:
Sorry you don't like my car, maybe you should 'rah harder devil dog
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Dec 19, 2019 03:53
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False flag, a real american would have a jacked up f-350 if they were gonna go through all that trouble.
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Dec 19, 2019 04:09
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Should have done them a favor and turned some of the fake bullet holes into real ones.
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Dec 19, 2019 04:24
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Lethality Jane is a pro follow on the Twitter.
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Dec 19, 2019 04:31
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mllaneza posted:Lethality Jane is a pro follow on the Twitter.
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So dude I know has a subordinate sergeant who happens to live in his neighborhood off base. Within a couple weeks of moving in, meeting the sergeant, and starting the job, sergeant asks "Hey, I'm going out of town in a few weeks. Will you and your wife watch my ten year old daughter for a week while I'm gone?" Imagine asking your boss, who you just met, to watch your daughter for a week. They don't even have kids at home. 
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