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Fortunately avoiding carrier life, but never been an outdoorsman. I guess I can try and start. Seattle will be fun at least, and I've never been to Canada--I bet Vancouver 's fun, thanks for the tips all.Elviscat posted:On that note, something I forgot to mention when I was complaining about 21 class berthing is something called "mega mat" which is a TR mod that's a 10x2 configuration of mattresses laid directly next to each other, no dividers of any sort, so it's essentially one giant mattress with 20 people sleeping on it, rolling onto each other and poo poo, and of course completely COVID unsafe. So with the loss of berthing we have sailors forced to sleep there every night, completely unseperated from their shipmates. What in the gently caress?
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piL posted:Fortunately avoiding carrier life, but never been an outdoorsman. I guess I can try and start. Seattle will be fun at least, and I've never been to Canada--I bet Vancouver 's fun, thanks for the tips all. Seattle's great, Vancouver has night life on par with any city I've ever been in, including NYC and Boston, microbreweries and such are everywhere. Even if the outdoors aren't your thing, at least get to the ice caves aka "big four" if you're looking at a NFS map, the hike's only 1 mile and is wheelchair accessible, also take a car trip of the Olympic Peninsula if you're lucky enough to be here for a summer, there's everything from WWII gun emplacements to one of the very few rain forests in the contiguous US to explore. Here's a visual depiction of "Mega Mat" lines are matress boundaries only, not physical barriers of any sort, curtains hang around the outside.  E: When I have bandwidth I'll upload some pictures of the boat's short-lived mascot, the cat named "Arsenal" or "Crash Meowntain" depending on who you ask. He hung out with us on the quarterdeck, meowing at everyone that went aboard or came ashore until he passed away about a week after we arrived, he was a very sickly kitty. E2:  
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I did the Olympic loop right after I bought my Subaru. Went up Hurricane Ridge like it was Pikes Peak. Much fun was had.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I did the Olympic loop right after I bought my Subaru. Went up Hurricane Ridge like it was Pikes Peak. Much fun was had. I thought those were issued to everyone upon moving to the PNW.
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piL posted:I thought those were issued to everyone upon moving to the PNW. I had a Nissan when I moved to central Oregon, then I started skiing and the obvious upgrade choice was a Subaru. I own a nice orange cross trek now. My Car (with parking space marker):  My Co-pilot: 
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piL posted:I thought those were issued to everyone upon moving to the PNW. I just got hosed by Supply Admin I guess. (no regrets, love you Suby *sunset hearthands*) If I'm being honest with myself, I am also probably going Crosstrek when my '09 Impreza crosses the rainbrow bridge.
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Just bought a Tacoma for life up here. God I love having a vehicle that’s super easy to toss a yak in and go. Strapping to the roof is for the birds.
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Reviews for the crosstrek were kinda poor when I was looking, didn't they just take a forester frame and add a different body or something? How is it?
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lightpole posted:Reviews for the crosstrek were kinda poor when I was looking, didn't they just take a forester frame and add a different body or something? How is it? It’s a beefed up Impreza and apparently there was a HP jump great enough for one of coworkers to trade his 2018 model in for he current one.
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I absolutely love mine because I can get up to the mountain really easily while the vehicle is still reasonable sized. I did not want a huge vehicle that was going to be a pain to park. I drive a 2019, so I cannot speak to the newest models. I also think it is pretty comfortable to drive and has a lot of nice convenience features. I don't speed though, so if you want to be like the junior enlisted and drive like a maniac I don't know how enjoyable the car would be.
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Crab Dad posted:It’s a beefed up Impreza and apparently there was a HP jump great enough for one of coworkers to trade his 2018 model in for he current one. They upped the engine from a 2.0L to 2.5L (which is what it is in my Impreza, 2020 IIRC). I have friends that have the 2.0 and say it is "quite" gutless.
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Most subaru engines are gutless, ask me about my 16 outback. Everything else about the car is great but yea the gotta go fast factor is not there. I test drove the newer turbos and they're not the best
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PneumonicBook posted:Most subaru engines are gutless, ask me about my 16 outback. I wish Subaru would ditch their CVTs (2016 Legacy owner). The manual Subies are legendary, but they're nixing them from their lineup. Another car to try are the CX-30 and CX-5 with the turbo. Mazda's still using a classic six-speed automatic.
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Crossposting from C/E because there was a discussion of sinking rogue cargo containers earlier: https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1452033836879994880 They're from a burning container vessel in the Juan de Fuca Strait. I assume unless the Coast Guard tries to tow them to shore, someone's gonna have to sink these. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Oct 24, 2021 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Another car to try are the CX-30 and CX-5 with the turbo. Mazda's still using a classic six-speed automatic. Going (more) off-topic here, but the Mazda Skyactiv automatics are great. They almost completely nixed the slushbox feel, and it's like driving a manual most of the time, you just don't have a clutch pedal to worry about.
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Wibla posted:Going (more) off-topic here, but the Mazda Skyactiv automatics are great. They almost completely nixed the slushbox feel, and it's like driving a manual most of the time, you just don't have a clutch pedal to worry about. I don’t know about anyone else here but personally I feel like a car that tries to be a manual but without the clutch pedal just seems dumb.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Crossposting from C/E because there was a discussion of sinking rogue cargo containers earlier: Hopefully they're full of Garfield phones.
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Anita Dickinme posted:I don’t know about anyone else here but personally I feel like a car that tries to be a manual but without the clutch pedal just seems dumb. It's just quick in it's shifts instead of floating around for an extended period. Still not manual feeling. Just crisper like a dsg automatic feeling
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Surely this will help the cargo ship situation https://twitter.com/ScottSeattleWx/status/1452289237374676996?s=20
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King of Bees posted:Hopefully they're full of Garfield phones. Even better, they're full of HAZMAT (likely). One of the burning ones is Potassium Amyl Xanthate. (From GiP Current events via PYF Favorite Chemicals [forums incest is fun!]) Kesper North posted:https://twitter.com/JasmineBala_/status/1452092929711874052?s=20
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If this fucks up my winter crabbing season I’m gonna be pissed. Hopefully dilution is the solution but gently caress couldn’t they steam straight for the ocean?
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Nasty storm out there, container ship so full recirc might have some gaps or they might not even be able to do it. Theoretically they should be steaming with the fire on the downwind side and they would be good but at anchor its way too late, they were evacuating crew yesterday. Plus the fires moving into the container stack which could be very bad depending on whats around it.
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lightpole posted:Nasty storm out there, container ship so full recirc might have some gaps or they might not even be able to do it. Theoretically they should be steaming with the fire on the downwind side and they would be good but at anchor its way too late, they were evacuating crew yesterday. Plus the fires moving into the container stack which could be very bad depending on whats around it. I saw the story and it's just kind of like container ship... hazmat... storm... container stack fire... evacuation. This story only ends in a bunch of toxic fire and twisted metal really. A container ship can do two things, go in a straight line at a fixed speed, and have a bunch of boxes put on it. Anything else is a huge ask.
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Holy poo poo being on the other side of wild conspiracy theories is entertaining.
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We know you hit that alien base disguised as a Chinese fish farm while you were trying to recover the recording from an EP-3 that crashed twenty years ago while monitoring a soviet ship of a previously unrecorded design.
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FrozenVent posted:We know you hit that alien base disguised as a Chinese fish farm while you were trying to recover the recording from an EP-3 that crashed twenty years ago while monitoring a soviet ship of a previously unrecorded design. A full decade after the Soviet Union ceased to be.
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CMD598 posted:A full decade after the Soviet Union ceased to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z77JFw2D6f8&t=31s Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Pretty cool to find out the results of the investigation/what we hit through the news and not my CoC.
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Elviscat posted:Pretty cool to find out the results of the investigation/what we hit through the news and not my CoC. Oof. I saw your post in the thread and came over to see what your take was. Not what I was expecting.
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Elviscat posted:Pretty cool to find out the results of the investigation/what we hit through the news and not my CoC. They're busy trying to learn how to write a civilian resume.
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Elviscat posted:Pretty cool to find out the results of the investigation/what we hit through the news and not my CoC. That's definitely a healthy command environment.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:That's definitely a healthy command environment. Oh yeah. Crab Dad posted:Uh what did you hit? Mountain. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/01/politics/navy-submarine-underwater-mountain/index.html
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https://twitter.com/JECurtis_WA/status/1455622859590553604?t=CwBbnv_x8cA4wQ6oO5Y2LA&s=19 11 year Second Class...so a Seabee
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/JECurtis_WA/status/1455622859590553604?t=CwBbnv_x8cA4wQ6oO5Y2LA&s=19 Or any other idiot rate like BM or CS. I figure they’ll just HYT adsep him next year regardless. Isn’t it 12 for E5 or is it 12 for E4?
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Anita Dickinme posted:I thought it was a ridiculous number like sixteen to make first now. After I think about it some more, I think it's 12 for E4 and 16 for E5. E6 is at 20.
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These fucks claiming the order is unlawful, or the idiot on Facebook claiming she wasn’t allowed outside this summer, are helpful reminders of why lawyers stay employed. Laws: turns out you have to read the whole thing.
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gently caress i remember the 20 year E5s getting ready to retire in the early aughts. They were so calm and beatific. If i also remember right back then it was next to impossible to rank up in the air force so 20y 5s were fairly common.
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