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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.
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I'm just imagining the fun when someone gets reassigned back to the states and can't take their kid because they don't have citizenship. Imagine the paperwork.
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Yup. Heavy debt means you can't get a clearance because of the risk of taking bribes. 
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AlternateAccount posted:1> Senators represent states, not people. 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.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:I'm pretty jealous that they spend less on their military, too. We really could do so much better. Yeah, I'll be down for running out of munitions any day compared to selling them milsurp to police departments.
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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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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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evil_bunnY posted:because chuds appropriate poo poo like their lives depend on it. pepe the frong was purely a gaming thing, finger ring was purely a prank, and deus vult had other uses. now they're all chud-stained. Edit: Twitter died, here's a working link. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/us/samuel-james-gulick-planned-parenthood-bombing.html Yeah, here's what this idiocy's become. Dude spraypaints 'Deus Vult' on a Planned Parenthood and then tries (and fails) to firebomb it. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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madeintaipei posted:Never in the history of "calm down" has "calm down" ever calmed anyone down. That's why I usually go with 'okay, take a deep breath'. Hyperventilating people keep panicking.
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Milo and POTUS posted:drat that sucks. I'm also not surprised. Yeah, same reason our yearly refresher on electrical safety at work includes a video of someone eating a 480v arc flash without his PPE on.
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canyoneer posted:It's just a garbage army town by Ft Sill. She's probably from there 'Garbage' is deeply understating it. It only really exists to serve Ft. Sill, and was built on land seized from the natives in 1901. I went down there a few years ago for a buddy's wedding when he was stationed there.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The same can honestly be said about the entirety of Hampton Roads. It's like Flint, Michigan with a good health insurance policy. Partially-abandoned strip malls everywhere with almost obvious shell businesses in them, thick-rear end weeds growing out of cracks in the parking lots... Yeah, Lawton was basically a WalMart, a casino, and a bunch of payday loan joints, tattoo parlors, and car lots to prey on the enlisted.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Woodland? In 2020? Hey, if it's good enough for the Space Force...
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I honestly don't think five days is long enough for the message to reach the denser parts of D&D/C-SPAM. The permabans it is generating will hopefully deliver that message to the depths.
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A Bad Poster posted:I was under the impression that 90s model 4.0 Cherokees were the closest to the indestructible Hilux that one could get in the US? They are workhorses, but most of them still on the road are structural rust with 300k+ miles or have been hosed six ways to Sunday by someone trying to make a 'rock crawler' with no idea what suspension geometry is.
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A Bad Poster posted:This was my experience when I was looking for one to buy about 10 years ago. I figured that the best bet was to find one that a grandpa in the southwest drove gently, but that's a diamond in the rough. Those are going for $5k and up these days with 200k on the clock. I've been shopping for one lately.
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Even if those were complete fiction, they capture the tone of Cold War Bullshit so perfectly that I want to believe.
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Tunicate posted:I remember seeing a site called 'no nonsense self defense' where 90% of it was just 'how to avoid getting into a situation where you might need to use violence', and most of the remainder was just methods of running away The best martial art, as far as keeping yourself safe, is track and field. Most people who want to kick your rear end aren't prepared to run a 5k to do it.
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Platystemon posted:Obviously the best martial art is the Fixed that for you. Patton knew.
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Speaking of idiots: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/07/the-littoral-combat-ship-and-the-folly-of-concurrency/quote:At the program’s inception, Navy leaders projected each ship would cost $220 million. To no one’s surprise, the costs more than doubled so that each of these ships cost taxpayers approximately $600 million to build. But did they learn anything from this? quote:The Navy plans to make up for the smaller Littoral Combat Ship fleet by buying 20 new frigates. The ships themselves will be built by Fincantieri Marinette Marine and based on an existing Italian design, which will reduce some of the risks hazarded by the Littoral Combat Ship program. Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract to kit out the new frigates with their actual warfighting systems. In that contract, the Navy designated Lockheed Martin as the lead systems integrator for the frigate’s combat systems. Of course not.
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Shooting Blanks posted:poo poo, I'd be willing to bet it's either totaled or repo'd within 90 days - almost certainly totaled. Totaled and a bankruptcy within 2 years to try and get out from under the loan, because said idiot absolutely can't afford gap coverage.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:IRL Goose would have gotten named at Tailhook or something. Would have been someone who keeps playing grab-rear end in the barracks all the time.
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shame on an IGA posted:holy poo poo why didn't he tell anyone and why isn't it on Kindle, I would've bought this years ago I thought everyone knew, I bought a print copy of that first story like 7 years ago. Been up on nothotbutspicy forever though, back when we still had yearly ghost story threads in GBS.
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When I was in fast food I would have hated getting Sundays off because Sunday was easy mode. Sunday night is reliably the slowest night of the week every week.
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Milo and POTUS posted:...should I join the military If you want to get repeatedly hosed in the rear end by authority while living in substandard conditions and being bored out of your mind, just go work in fast food.
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Sherman was well known for leaving bare, fertile fields, bereft of their former coverings, in his wake.
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Whoops, looks like those VMI accusations have more speed to them than expected: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/virginia-military-institute-superintendent-resigns-amid-call-racism-investigation-n1244877
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Found some high grade idiocy today. https://twitter.com/Xaniken/status/1327077285564919809
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Absurd Alhazred posted:It was a thing in the protests just this summer in the US. Yeah, ask Linda Torado about them if you can look her in the remaining eye. She got shot in the face with one while doing photojournalism at Minneapolis protests this summer, blew her eye up despite goggles.
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Icon Of Sin posted:
Seconding this reccomendation, I've been reading C&C and less than a hundred pages in I'm convinced it was an act of god that the world survived the cold war.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Please, I'll catch chunks of that generator with my sternum and won't need rescue. What, and free you from the curse? Never.
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boop the snoot posted:The Amtrak experience is nothing like commercial flying. Yeah, commercial flying is bullshit, but at least reasonably short bullshit.
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Casimir Radon posted:Thanks to Starlink you’ll never see it again. lovely, expensive internet sold by a sociopathic douche! Yep. I cherish my last trip to the high desert, because I will never see a sky that unpolluted again thanks to Musk's ego. Current plan is for starlink alone to put 42,000 leo sats up. That's over five times the number of leo objects we're currently tracking total. Utter pollution to sign Musk's name across the sky. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/TKgapane12/status/1467442848215846913?t=GCiqjNeG9k8uIGZWO1oRJg&s=19
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OSHA best practices are, as always, written in blood.
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Yep. It's how I explain to the guys I work with, when I get stuck running safety training. "We pay attention to this because some other poor bastard getting killed or maimed produced the rule. Let's not be the cause of the next one."
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Wasabi the J posted:Like Beau of the fifth column, he was in prison with 4 Russian nationals trying to smuggle in women to work at Florida based resorts, had a multi decade sentence to which he served several months. Kinda misrepresented by some of his critics who want to paint a picture of him as a fed stoolie who got out of prison early to be an informant for the feds against the left, but true about the convictions. He got 41 months of prison time and 3 years supervised release as per federal sentencing guidelines, not 'decades'. https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2008/February/08_crm_145.html Like any news or analysis source, take biases into consideration. For god's sake don't build your whole philosophy around youtube talking heads.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:It seems like Alex Choi was involved, so it's probably safe to say absolutely no-one in that crowd told him not to do this illegal thing that will generate stupid amounts of clout & clicks Yeah, they destroyed that Tesla, totaled two other cars at the bottom of the hill, and the assholes filming and driving all hopped in another rental Tesla and drove off.
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TK-42-1 posted:Lol you think the kind of idiot that brings their carry to an mri is walking around unloaded? 10 to 1 it was a department of corrections pig or local swine hovering over a prisoner getting medical treatment who didn't think 'don't wear your duty belt next to the giant loving electromagnet' applied to him.
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