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AFStealth posted:Literally at the deid right now and nobody can drink because they took away booze for covid. Corona numbers are down now but sexual assaults are down also so the WG/CC won't bring drinking back. Other than that, I can't complain I guess. Other than the pointlessness of the Centcom mission currently. Holy poo poo beer on the pier is like the only thing we got going for us right now with all other liberty secured.
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A Bad Poster posted:Tony Hawk is still really cool, and Herman Cain's phantom has twitter access. I'd say that is about where Wednesday needs to end. For some reason my brain interpreted these lines as Bob Dylan lyrics and I can only hear them in his voice
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That Works posted:What's 'deid' for us civvies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Udeid_Air_Base
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oh my god this is real https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/s...ingawful.com%2F
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shame on an IGA posted:oh my god this is real https://twitter.com/Nickgb/status/1293685499257712641
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Curacao is sad as poo poo that's why it's blue
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The biggest, dumbest, most transparent morons. https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1293883405990596608?s=19 https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1293907346523959296?s=19
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facialimpediment posted:The biggest, dumbest, most transparent morons. And yet a large contingent of voters agree with both things.
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The mail in my area is still running on time, so far, a ferociously blue area. A friend in Georgia told me his has ground to an almost halt. This might end up hurting them more than helping them, which would be very on brand for these idiots' schemes.
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Mail seems to be fine in my area of ATL, although I dont get much in the way of paper mail.
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Everyone check your 2020 bingo sheets and check if you had “Israel and UAE announce surprise diplomatic agreement and thank Trump for his role in brokering it  ”https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293922803419353088 None of this is really surprising, the Gulf monarchies have been not-so-secretly making deals with Israel on a lot of things over the past 10 years.
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I don't think this can do anything but hurt them in the long run. Old people hate the USPS because they hate everything. The truth is they rely on to to receive their benefit checks, get their medication, and pay their bills. The republican plan has obviously always been to kill the USPS a with a death by a thousand cuts, and then contract out the mail to private companies that end up costing the US 10x as much as the USPS ever did. But now they're rushing ahead and totally decapitating it, completely loving up the timing. There is no possible way to implement the second part of the plan, so we're just going to end up with a broken system that millions of americans relied on to function. This is a huge deal and I don't understand why the press is pretty much ignoring it. Arven fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:And yet a large contingent of voters agree with both things. Since the founding of the country conservativism has been about making sure only the right people can vote.
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Arven posted:This is a huge deal and I don't understand why the press is pretty much ignoring it. Because the usps has gotten so much bad mouthing over the years that it's more than old people who thinks it's obsolete and needs to go away. I have know people who were fairly left on most things who thought no one actually used the usps and all they did was deliver spam on the taxpayer dime.
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People need to try another country's mail system and then try and criticize the USPS. gently caress you, Australia Post.
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Isn't USPS fairly unique in its level of good and reliable for government post?
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RFC2324 posted:Isn't USPS fairly unique in its level of good and reliable for government post? There's a very short list of postal services that were above the USPS in reliability. Were is the operative word because lmao this is gonna kill the USPS.
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Arven posted:This is a huge deal and I don't understand why the press is pretty much ignoring it. Here's my version of what's going on in the media world: https://twitter.com/Tierney_Megan/status/1293929889171738625?s=19 The problem is that some post offices are getting turbofucked and some post offices are fine. Some city/county election boards are fine, others are getting turbofucked. The "media" is still in fact-finding mode. A lot of this poo poo could be explained by the new Postmaster General / Donnie Donor doing hyperaggressive cost-cutting, but also could be him loving with things to prep for a hosed October/November. The changes going on are really weird to parse. Donnie now upended all of that by taking a friendly interview on Fox News and running his yapper about what he really thought. Give it a few days.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Everyone check your 2020 bingo sheets and check if you had “Israel and UAE announce surprise diplomatic agreement and thank Trump for his role in brokering it The agreement is also a bunch of bullshit. https://twitter.com/RaphaelAhren/status/1293928475993268233?s=19 Israel is hitting pause on West Bank annexation, not actually stopping anything. It's a bullshit agreement, mostly.
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Sturgis update: The first load of early "bikers" are leaving, most have been here since Sunday. They have access to COVID testing for $45 at a car dealership to see if they will spread it back home. There are thousands streaming in mid-week to replace them that will be here until Saturday. Sunday is generally regarded as "locals" night but I know lots of locals who have made the trek to see such awesome bands as Trapt, Smash Mouth, Puddle of Mudd and Leonard Skinnard. Numbers are down only like 4%, if that. Could even be less. They are all over Rapid City and lol, masks. I went out to get booze and food Wednesday and saw lots of out of state plates with riders not bothering to mask up when they came in the liquor store. Estimates based on last year are probably going to top 250,000 people. They are all over the region, riding around the state and national parks and all throughout the roads. Somebody mentioned that this is the largest gathering in the last five months and I believe that. And nearly all of the Sturgis people are boomers. I've seen only a few people that would be younger. Lots of trump poo poo from this crowd as well. Ugh. My school is opening for business next week. My kid's school is opening September 8th. I am so amped up with anxiety that my ability to prep for the school year is being compromised, in other words I am shutting down rather than working. Been reading alot about the battle of Jutland and the Columbine shooting instead.
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Most diplomatic agreements in the mid east amount to "let's put a little less effort into killing each other while we work to kill these other fuckers"
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Burning Beard posted:Been reading alot about the battle of Jutland Found Drachinifel's Jutland series on youtube huh. That's good youtubing.
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orange juche posted:Found Drachinifel's Jutland series on youtube huh. Drac, the Chieftain, and Ian of Forgotten Weapons form a really solid MilHist trio that I highly recommend.
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one hundred and sixty-five thousand dead
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https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Game-Jutland-British-Command/dp/1591143365/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=jutland&qid=1597335580&sr=8-6 Rules of the Game is really good but involved. Gordon dives deep into the late Victorian culture of the RN as a root cause of the failure to win a decisive blow against the High Seas Fleet. He concentrates mainly on signals vs. mission command. https://www.amazon.com/Castles-Steel-Britain-Germany-Winning/dp/0345408780/ref=sr_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=jutland&qid=1597335684&sr=8-15 Massie is way more accessible and very good to boot. He hits on the difference between Beatty and Jellicoe. Also the US Navy officer's reefer jacket was directly influenced by Beatty's three button jacket. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo..._-srp1-_-title1 Holloway's book is considered by some to be the definitive account. It's older but pretty good. I have three other books to plow through. Doc Hawkins posted:one hundred and sixty-five thousand dead But hey! A bunch of boomers got to see Smash Mouth! And ride around on bikes.
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Burning Beard posted:
They've had a tough life, they need a vacation! Their father fought in a war you know!
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Burning Beard posted:Sturgis update: I somehow doubt that most of the crowd is over 55.
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Doc Hawkins posted:one hundred and sixty-five thousand* dead *documented
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ded posted:I somehow doubt that most of the crowd is over 55. I absolutely would not.
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You should check out some of the live feeds. I was watching people drive harley's the size of smart cars and not being able to handle a red light right turn without nearly stacking, and it's a lot of really old fuckers. I don't know about nearly all but it's an awful lot.
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Ugh. I'm glad my boomer parents are smart enough not to do that poo poo.
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akfbdjgesvdhshege ahdhsyeyebrhfjsnsdhias INSIDE JOB https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1293951126950285318?s=19
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A dumb guy and his wife from my high school are there and posting #wolvesnotsheep hashtags on Facebook. Hope they're enjoying Trapt and swinging with fat old people. It would all just be lols except that these same people are lining up to be the next viral video about coughing on trader joes employees for freedom.
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Arven posted:This is a huge deal and I don't understand why the press is pretty much ignoring it. Lol yes you do
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https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/1293943948956835840 Who wants to bet he’ll get longer than a minute to speak?
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Of the hundreds of bikes I saw heading north towards SD, I saw maybe a dozen that were for sure under the age of 50. The one dude I saw that might be in his late 30's or early 40's was wearing an Angels vest. Even in a normal year, Sturgis is mostly old white dudes. I know a handful of gen x types that got and like one or two younger dudes, but motorcycle rallies seem like a relic of the 60s and 70s, so it makes sense that boomers would be the ones going. I know a bunch of the smaller rallies died off a decade or two back, I wonder if the bigger ones will be able to survive much longer?
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