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Aug 11, 2021 22:29
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Only $28 million? Some gov contractor decided to only have a modest pay day.
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Aug 11, 2021 22:31
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boop the snoot posted:Only $28 million? Don't worry, some hard-hitting journalists found out that actually the uniforms were a great idea, so says the company that sold them
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Aug 11, 2021 22:39
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And if Pauley Perrette asks you to keep your dog on a leash you should do this….SLAM!
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Aug 11, 2021 22:41
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Scratch Monkey posted:https://twitter.com/kejamieson_/status/1425491359151136772 Groveryacht
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Aug 11, 2021 22:54
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I like it the same way i like the x32. Awwww its so derpy but atleast you tried!
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Aug 12, 2021 00:49
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https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1425563114460884994?s=20 lots of "funny" anecdotes in the replies
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Aug 12, 2021 15:22
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Scratch Monkey posted:https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1425563114460884994?s=20 https://twitter.com/mtns2ocean/status/1425670108681105408?s=19 
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Aug 12, 2021 15:28
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So if the ANA is the Afghan version of "poo poo, they need recruits for the army, send them our most useless failsons"...who are the competent sons in this scenario? Where did they go?
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Aug 12, 2021 20:07
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:So if the ANA is the Afghan version of "poo poo, they need recruits for the army, send them our most useless failsons"...who are the competent sons in this scenario? Where did they go? They either left or are with the Taliban.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:11
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I worked with an Afghani guy who was a senior driller for one of the big mine drilling companies in Western Australia. Top bloke. He told me a couple of years ago he thought sometimes about how it would be nice to see the old country again but he knows he almost certainly never will.
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Aug 13, 2021 01:50
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Memento posted:I worked with an Afghani guy who was a senior driller for one of the big mine drilling companies in Western Australia. Top bloke. He told me a couple of years ago he thought sometimes about how it would be nice to see the old country again but he knows he almost certainly never will. Good news for him if anyone ever goes after those fabled mineral deposits in Afghanistan.
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Aug 13, 2021 04:04
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mllaneza posted:Good news for him if anyone ever goes after those fabled mineral deposits in Afghanistan. The Soviets dug a mile and a half long tunnel but it didn't go great for them!
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Aug 13, 2021 04:18
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mllaneza posted:Good news for him if anyone ever goes after those fabled mineral deposits in Afghanistan. I've read plenty of exploration reports out of Afghanistan that talk up the mineral wealth there, but none that made me think "this is worth dealing with the Taliban to develop". poo poo, there's world-class deposits in Pakistan that if they were in any other region in the world would have start of the art facilities on them right now. Reko Diq could be putting out a quarter million tons of copper and about the same ounces of gold every year if the government there didn't decide to pull the licensing from the company that explored the deposit. It's a tale as old as time; company comes in, does the work, shows the deposit is viable and gets ready to mine it, then gets their permits pulled so the government can hand it off to someone they prefer. In the end it's mining companies attempting to gently caress and getting hosed by governments, so it's hard to feel any sympathy for any of them.
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Aug 13, 2021 04:37
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The Taliban's going to slide into China's DMs and say they can take all they can carry so long as they keep the US off their backs. China won't care about women being put back in head-to-toe burqas and forbidden from doing anything except cooking and getting pregnant.
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Aug 13, 2021 04:51
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The Taliban's going to slide into China's DMs and say they can take all they can carry so long as they keep the US off their backs. China won't care about women being put back in head-to-toe burqas and forbidden from doing anything except cooking and getting pregnant. China would be right there taking notes on how to oppress minority Muslim populations more effectively
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Aug 13, 2021 05:26
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The Taliban's going to slide into China's DMs and say they can take all they can carry so long as they keep the US off their backs. China won't care about women being put back in head-to-toe burqas and forbidden from doing anything except cooking and getting pregnant. They will probably care as much as the US cares about Saudi Arabia's various human rights violations and exportation of Salafism all over the world. It's just how it works, human rights only matter for great powers when it's convenient.
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Aug 13, 2021 10:33
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Without nerding out too much, mining companies take government / social stability into account when assessing a project. No sense spending a billion starting a mine if the government is just going to step in and take it next year. Mines in places where they surround the site with barbed wire and guard towers have unusually rich deposits or are digging for gold or diamonds. The other thing is there’s very little infrastructure in Afghanistan that would allow you to operate a mine and export minerals in large quantity, so again, you’d need to be working gold or diamonds for it to make sense… and even then, how are you going to get your supplies in? A smallish mine needs about 25,000 metric tons of supplies and 30-50,000 tons of fuel a year to operate, never mind the start up. And they’re not willing to spend $US Military to get it in.
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Aug 13, 2021 10:39
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Just throwing it out there that Afghans are the people, Afghani is the currency
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Aug 13, 2021 14:51
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Just throwing it out there that Afghans are the people, Afghani is the currency Alhamdulillah not for much longer, may the Taliban Buck replace the kafar Afghani.
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Aug 13, 2021 21:50
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Damnit, Forgot to spend my EagleCash. Do you think they’ll honor it?
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Aug 13, 2021 21:57
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Does AAFES still honor POG currency?
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Aug 13, 2021 22:00
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There was still some floating around in 2018. I don’t know why.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:04
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Just throwing it out there that Afghans are the people, Afghani is the currency This is stupid, pedantic bullshit. Do you know what the demonym for a person from Afghanistan is in Dari and Pashto? AFGHANI
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Aug 14, 2021 00:24
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Androies posted:Alhamdulillah not for much longer, may the Taliban Buck replace the kafar Afghani. The Taliban used the Afghani before the invasion, I dunno why they'd get rid of it. Unless they really like the idea of Talibucks.
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Aug 14, 2021 00:36
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Vengarr posted:Talibucks. Worst. Coffee. Ever.
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Aug 14, 2021 00:37
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Time Crisis Actor posted:This is stupid, pedantic bullshit. Do you know what the demonym for a person from Afghanistan is in Dari and Pashto? AFGHANI Farsi, too. Weird that it isn't in English, the language we're using now.
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Aug 14, 2021 01:18
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Worst. Coffee. Ever. Never order an Americano there.
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Aug 14, 2021 01:46
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Farsi, too. Farsi/Dari same-same
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Aug 14, 2021 02:04
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Time Crisis Actor posted:This is stupid, pedantic bullshit. Do you know what the demonym for a person from Afghanistan is in Dari and Pashto? AFGHANI And Arabic.
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Aug 14, 2021 04:07
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Farsi, too. If you're going to be really pedantic, in English it's "Persian", not "Farsi". The same way we don't say people speak Nihongo, Deutsch, Español, Francais or Ivrit.
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Aug 14, 2021 04:59
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Hyperlynx posted:If you're going to be really pedantic, in English it's "Persian", not "Farsi". The same way we don't say people speak Nihongo, Deutsch, Español, Francais or Ivrit. The USA government and military do not refer to anything as persian except rugs. E.g. Arabian Gulf.
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Aug 14, 2021 11:40
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Be nice to one another guys.
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Aug 14, 2021 12:51
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Mr. Nice! posted:The USA government and military do not refer to anything as persian except rugs. E.g. Arabian Gulf. there’s cats op
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Aug 14, 2021 13:09
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Platystemon posted:there’s cats op Ok cats and rugs, but anything else is referred to by a different name. I said persian gulf all the time during briefings before and on deployment and always got glares from some of the other officers 
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Aug 14, 2021 13:48
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Mr. Nice! posted:Ok cats and rugs, but anything else is referred to by a different name. It really weirded me out on Deployment 1. I thought it was some personal vendetta that the Nav had or something. Its really hard to unlearn 5th grade geography.
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Aug 14, 2021 14:28
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The logic, for the gulf at least, is that calling it the persian gulf implies that it was historically persian and therefore strengthens iran’s claim to full ownership of the gulf and SoH.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:13
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O.K. but “Arabian” is not itself neutral.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:19
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Mr. Nice! posted:The logic, for the gulf at least, is that calling it the persian gulf implies that it was historically persian and therefore strengthens iran’s claim to full ownership of the gulf and SoH. I definitely got that after being there for about a month, but in the lead up going into 5th Fleet briefings and what not, it was weird. I was also a huge geography nerd as a kid.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:19
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Petition to rename Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America”
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Aug 14, 2021 15:20
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