new friend from school posted:

But why is the rifle filthy, that’s what I want to know. And why tf is her ejection port cover open?
I thought the E-6 inside me died many years ago, but this photo is making me furious.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Franklin was certainly a good, well respected diplomat but the French desire to gently caress over the British was more about hard feelings after they lost the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The funniest part of the whole deal was that the French king was basically responsible for radicalizing and training up the same people who would eventually cut his head off. Probably not the outcome he envisioned.

Flikken posted:

You must have seen "A very secret service" on Netflix

A Bad Poster posted:

I'm bemused that he didn't face any punishment from the FFL for intentional fratricide, but the IDF gave him a year in prison for deserting to get revenge on the concentration camp guard who killed his family. Like, what the gently caress Israel? You should have thrown the man a parade in Tel Aviv.

Smiling Jack posted:

Flying_Crab posted:

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1161268795278790658?s=21

https://twitter.com/usdol/status/1161318109501886465?s=21 Lol

Liquid Communism posted:

So some dumbass Marine thought it'd be a good idea to send Max Uriarte, who does Terminal Lance, a picture...

https://twitter.com/TaskandPurpose/status/1161309658956460037

He's a private now.

Max Wilco posted:

The Rat posted:

What's a Shorim patrol?

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

I’ve heard they’re super racist and have a long history of harassing women, blacks and Latinos in their areas. Basically just thugs that happen to be Orthodox Jews

Smiling Jack posted:

He has a 24 hour all access to the docks for "duties".

Guys looking at the photographer like he's working out how to steal the camera when he's done.

Midjack posted:

“their families can get hosed though.”

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

The X-37 is most assuredly not an Army asset. The army is more of a space customer, than operator.

Stravag posted:

That was the justification of why it was ok for him to give 5i Intel to putin right?

Guest2553 posted:

No doubt...it wasn't a very good order, but it was an order all the same.

drgitlin posted:

This lawyer thinks so: https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1167531824857436172?s=20

EBB posted:

I have quite literally sat in a classified briefing where they took great care to confiscate everybody's cell phone, but still had to confiscate handwritten notes at the end because we are required to have paper and pencil as part of the uniform. This was years before I ever saw The Wire or the criminal conspiracy scene. I even had a moment where I turned to one of my brother LTs who pulled out his notepad to ask him why he was taking notes when they just yanked our phones.

Memento posted:

Sitting in the foyer at a court I guess you *could* be there for a non-dumb-decisions reason.

Anyway.

Anyone want half a dozen Bradleys? Yours for the taking but you have to pick up.

https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/1174875031547056128?s=20

MRC48B posted:

I understand what you are saying, but I disagree. There are far too many idiots who don't know they are idiots, and incapable of figuring out what wohl truly is.

His actual effect is immeasurable, but every bit counts in the right-wing media machine. Wohl is the blond kid in the "I'm doing my part" in starship troopers.

Everyone laughs, but there are many who don't get the joke.

Volmarias posted:

I'm a little disappointed the wheels weren't made into dicks.

Nyyen posted:

You might want to have your urethra check out bro.

redreader posted:

She said that the Trump administration had banned travel for all parts of the armed forces to Mexico because of the wall or something. I was like 'WHAT? REALLY?'. I suppose her son is lying to her about the reasoning or whatever, then. I think she just hears what he says about it. She did mention Tijuana too. (She's not a Trump supporter). Thanks for the info! I though it was too weird to be true.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

It's simple, place President Smoothbrain's live speeches on a five minute delay. When he says something classified, just play Yakety Sax until he's back to talking about himself and his ~tremendous~ properties.

Internet Wizard posted:

Wyoming disenfranchises California in the same way LA, SF, and SD disenfranchise the entire rest of the state, or Chicago disenfranchises everybody else in Illinois.

Getting rid of the senate might solve some problems but the whole “only coastal cities matter” thing would rapidly eclipse that.

Liquid Communism posted:

I mean we could go back to the Senate having members assigned by the State-level assemblies rather than popular election. That'd be closer to representative, if still super vulnerable to gerrymandering on the local level.

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WUWbAlD-F0

quote:

In late October, the commander of Fort Hood’s 504th Military Intelligence Brigade told her soldiers a new app could solve a lot of their communication issues.

It could relay information on weather, training changes and other logistics, Army Col. Deitra L. Trotter said. She then told the soldiers to download it onto their personal smartphones, according to the Texas-based soldiers in the unit.

But the soldiers — many of whom hold top-secret clearances with jobs in interrogation, human intelligence and counterintelligence — soon noticed that the app’s terms of service said it could collect substantial personal data and that the developer has a presence overseas.

That prompted concerns that sensitive data of intelligence soldiers could be harnessed by adversary governments, putting individuals and missions worldwide at risk, soldiers in the unit told The Washington Post.

“We do top-secret work,” said one noncommissioned officer, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution by their chain of command. “If our personal information is being put out there to a foreign power, what can they get from our brigade?”

...

The concern among service members circulated on Reddit and the Army WTF! moments Facebook page, a popular digital hangout for soldiers. Soldiers deleted the app in revolt. Trotter called another formation Wednesday to address the controversy, admonishing whomever talked about the issue online, soldiers in the unit said.

shame on an IGA posted:

This guy having a loving three page meltdown that his D&D dice aren't manufactured with the same exacting statistical process control typical of aerospace bearings

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3902892&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

LingcodKilla posted:

Sounds to me a perfect business opportunity to charge an extra $100 for certified tested dice.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

The house isn't raking in tens of thousands of dollars a night at their D&D tables.

Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1209119127761301506

I've only made it through the introduction and chapter 1 so far and knew I had to post it here.

quote:

A chief petty officer, responsible for training the sailors to use the navigation system, was charged with dereliction of duty. The chief petty officer had himself received less than an hour of instruction.

...

The IBNS was so complex that it overwhelmed the junior sailors who used it. Navy technicians would even disable the touch screen to avoid rudder changes caused by accidental taps, forcing sailors to use the manual wheel instead, according to a former Navy technician who worked on the system.

...

In 2014, Navy officials discovered a flaw in the IBNS. One component could not keep track of more than 150 ships at a time without malfunctioning, according to Navy investigators. The Navy’s solution? Sailors were told to delete tracked ships before the total hit the magic number.

Doggles posted:

Midjack posted:

Anybody who thinks touch screens should be on any kind of critical system anywhere has apparently never tried to use a smartphone anywhere besides inside their home or office.

Stravag posted:

The spines stopped lighting up during sex almost immediately in the series conveniently

Ceiling fan posted:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1213853007906889728