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Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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A Bad Poster posted:

I'm still of the opinion that Obama would have been justified in dropping a hell fire on them in Oregon.

His restraint was rewarded with Operation: Dildo Drop.

Seeing the look of pure :sigh: on their faces as yet another care package was revealed to be full to the brim with plastic penises made it almost worthwhile.

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Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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MrUnderbridge posted:

Huh. Wonder what party passed the law capping the House at 435....

To be fair, 435 members is already pretty big and unwieldy.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Flying_Crab posted:

Why are we shaming the victim here, or shaming someone for wanting to sell porn of themselves as a consenting adult person? 🤔

There are definitely jobs that really should preclude you from putting naked pictures on the internet.

Like congressman, or First Lady :v:

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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EBB posted:

I see this boiling down to excluding people from office based on how they choose to express their free speech. Without even getting into issues of feminism it's no bueno.

Well, yeah. Certain offices and positions do come with restrictions on your freedom of speech and expression. It’s not controversial when cops get tossed for posting racist memes, right?

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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evil_bunnY posted:

Man you're just full of spicy loving takes aren't ya

I was being sincere, I just forgot to include “it’s not controversial here.”

Even the cop thread dunks on those guys.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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chitoryu12 posted:

Yeah because cops reinforcing the racist status quo in the police force is the same as women legally selling nudes to make ends meet. You absolute twat (which I would not pay to see).

They forced out the male pornstar who was moonlighting as a Navy SEAL for exactly the same poo poo.


Wild T posted:

So I got diagnosed with narcolepsy a while back, right around 17 years in. I just kinda layed low for a few months before my PCM called to ask. They told me that would be an MEB with very little chance of returning to duty. Well, poo poo, I really wanted concurrent disability but medical retirement may do. The doc tells me she needed to talk to my sleep specialist about his diagnosis first. Months pass. I have a follow-up with my sleep specialist, who confirms that it's definitely narcolepsy and his diagnosis remains firm.

I'm now 3 months from my 18 year mark. I have a sitdown with the doc for my PHA and she brings up the same point about the narcolepsy, and in particular the modafinil that was prescribed for it. I tell her I take it as needed if I'm drug out in the morning, like an extra cup of coffee (which is true). She tells me that narcolepsy with modafinil is a definite med board, so her solution is to just arbitrarily clear my prescription from the system and call it good. So untreated narcolepsy is, presumably, peachy.

Current plan? Sit pretty for another year and after my 19 year mark get my modafinil back and let them MEB me. Praise the lazy gods of military medicine for allowing me to grab a bigger fistful of Uncle Sam dollars solely because a doc took a shortcut.

I mentioned this in the last thread, but my boss had a friend with the exact same situation, and they put him on light duty until he could retire.

Except they made him a driver. Naturally he fell asleep at the wheel and drove into a ditch. Totaled the Jeep.

Vengarr fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Nov 15, 2019

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Kawasaki Nun posted:

I only do rng rolls in my computer when I have my zirconium plated Ethernet cables plugged in be

:smug:

Those are only pseudo-random number generators, you purblind fool! You need a hardware-based random number generator, or your rolls are compromised!

The description even says it's for gaming!

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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chitoryu12 posted:

Depends on how willing they are to believe that it's truly been programmed to be random and how much their obsession with dice is part of having physical dice brainworms instead of actually just caring about it being random.

You can’t get true randomness from a program, since it relies on taking a seed number and running it through a formula to produce the result. The seed number has to be produced from something (like the time the request was issued), so it is possible to get the same result from an RNG generator every time if you can figure out how to manipulate the seed.

True randomness isn’t usually necessary. A good pseudo-random number generator can be random enough to be functionally indistinguishable from true randomness. But there are plenty of examples of people manipulating RNG in video games to get predictable results.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Or say deus vult, no one is going to think you’re a Nazi any more than saying inshallah makes you a terrorist.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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I stand corrected.

Most nazis don’t exactly try to hide their beliefs, so unless it’s part of a pattern I don’t think twice about it.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQqmsxEXe4

Demonstrated on a dummy. I’m guessing that’s the kind of mistake you only make once.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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I've been having a series of nightmares that I'm a dumbass Marine who can't find his rear end with both hands, all thanks to this thread.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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There was a Tom Clancy novel that ended with the Segway Special Forces attacking a liberal terrorist stronghold, seems legit to me

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Midjack posted:

Was that R6, ended with the jungle hideout destroyed after the pandemic plot was foiled?

No, it was literally a bunch of special forces on segways attacking the compound of a liberal politician who was also a terrorist

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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DarkDobe posted:

Every year so far as I can tell.
Pretty sure some get lost and never recovered. Just set up camps in the woods and become bushmen until winter rolls through and kills 'em off.

Have you considered setting some traps? I hear car dealerships work well

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Who the gently caress worries about their barista job at Starbucks once they’ve joined the military? This person is being given a ladder and is sliding down it like a pro when they should be climbing it.

Starbucks has a better medical plan and I’m not joking

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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maffew buildings posted:

who the gently caress doesn't eat it out of the bag

Someone doing it for the camera?

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Casimir Radon posted:

We probably shouldn't be crudely calling people sluts.

Pretty sure he was saying "He got a lot of action".

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Thailand is a silly place.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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movax posted:

Chiang Mai is the best part of Thailand and northern Thai food is the best. Fight me cowards.

Nah you're pretty much spot on. I've heard nothing but good things about the islands, but I've never been so :shrug:

MA-Horus posted:

Thailand is a land of wonderful contrasts and is one of my favorite places on earth.

I spent 3 weeks on Koh Tao scuba diving, drinking and relaxing and they magical
the days when I had to spend in Phuket getting to and from the island were awful.

I jumped in the ocean in Phuket so I could say I swam in the Andaman Sea. Got hit in the face with an old shoe. Was too scared to check if there was a foot in it.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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”Pack your poo poo! We’re on the wrong side of the border!”

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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EvenWorseOpinions posted:


I don't really know where to post this other than here


https://i.imgur.com/GZRvoja.gifv

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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That’s more like when the SWAT team threw the flash bang in the baby’s crib. Big yikes, but I evaluate accidental fuckups differently from active maliciousness.

E: the airstrike not the massacre

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQzFGe1yMk

This belongs here

Vengarr fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jul 9, 2020

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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"I can literally smell my burning nuts" for next thread title please

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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CainFortea posted:

I mean, I got mine through a voluntary sterilization program put on by my state so I paid literally nothing, but I was a bit miffed that my request for some kind of sedative was met with "nah you'll be fine"

:eyepop:

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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canyoneer posted:

One of my coworkers just bought a lime green Hellcat. We've been working from home for the last 5 months and will be working remotely for the next year or so, at least. I'm driving 20 miles a week these days.
Feels weird on timing, like buying a pair of new jet skis in October

Off-season is actually the best time to get a deal, everyone is desperate to get their old stock out.

“Buy lawnmowers in December and snowblowers in July” was my dads advice and it’s always worked out well

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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canyoneer posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1246364316355514368

This is a good thread about a Venezuelan patrol craft getting owned by a cruise ship earlier this year

Venezuela accusing the cruise ship of "piracy" is especially good.

If they were a bunch of pirates instead of a cruise ship full of tourists, and they managed to sink your frigate by doing absolutely nothing, you are still the idiot

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Looking in the job listings, one popped up for "Data Entry Specialist". I click on it and

"-REQUIRES ENLISTMENT IN THE ARMY OR ARMY RESERVES
-BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ELITE SQUAD!!!!!!"

Anyone here in the ELITE SQUAD of Excel Commandos?

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Based on this thread, If the guy had just said “it’s a guillotine, I’m going to use it for a prank” nobody would have bothered him or thought twice.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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This girl was telling me about a classmate of hers with severe Aspergers. She ends the story with “and then he joined the Army.”

I instinctively ask “Wait, is he in Intel?”
She does a double-take and says “How did you know that?”

You can learn so much from GiP.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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The Japanese had a guy blow up one of their battleships during WW2 because he was pissed and suicidal. I guess it does happen.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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They did some tests that seemed to rule out the special shells being the problem. The main reason the committee settled on arson was that it happened to take place in the turret manned by this particular pissed-off sailor, but we’ll never know for sure it wasn’t an accidental fire.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Scratch Monkey posted:

Figures the air force would miss chick-"Jesus loves waffle fries"-fil-a

Chick-fil-a does kinda kick rear end as far as fast food goes. Their lovely politics are the only reason I don't go all the time.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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The prestigious “Purple Dildo”.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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To be fair, I think even the Coalition was surprised at how well Desert Storm went.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Commandos always get mythologized though. Probably a little of both—legit brilliance mixing with 20th century racial theories.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/fort-bliss-soldiers-injured.html

quote:

Eleven soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas remained in medical care a day after ingesting an “unknown substance” during a field training exercise, the Army said on Friday. Two soldiers were in critical condition.

The soldiers fell ill after consuming something that they had acquired “outside of authorized food supply distribution channels,” according to a statement from Fort Bliss’s First Armored Division and Public Affairs Office.

Mushrooms...? Poisonous frogs...? I can't figure out what else you could eat out there that would put you in critical condition.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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"Staff-Sergeant, I'm stuck! In the desert!"

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Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

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Wingnut Ninja posted:

The trick to making it a career is obviously to stay in long enough to be the one doing the pissing. :chiefsay:

Hold on, I'm getting an update from the career military side of things:

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1372945884590309376

"Franks also told his subordinates to push their units faster during the invasion. He did not realize his tracking software was zoomed out so their progress appeared stalled on the big board"

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