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Vasudus posted:Like I get that the attitude of riding a motorcycle encourages the least amount of protective gear possible, but the very mechanics involved in riding one demand the most. I'm not an ATGATT guy by any stretch of the imagination and my attitude is generally "riding a motorcycle is already a big risk so exactly how much of a risk you're willing to take is your own business" but jesus loving Christ I can't get over how loving stupid not wearing a helmet is. Edit: I mean you can get DOT-rated beanie style helmets that are like wearing a baseball hat, at least wear that poo poo. Jarmak fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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colachute posted:That’s the infantry. We arent good at what we do but we will for sure throw more bodies at it than you will. What ate to poo poo unit were you in? This guy looks like one of the guys that gets drummed out right away or harassed into going AWOL.
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colachute posted:And oddly enough I consider 1-502 to be the most not-hosed-up unit I was in but I don’t keep in contact with any of them except for one person because they were all hosed up people. Yeah that was not at all my experience in the 173rd: they were super professional, my fellow team leader had a law degree from Harvard and married the Michigan Sec. of State, we had a guy with a physics degree from Brown, and even though it had it's problems it was a pretty slick operation. Even though my unit at the 101st (1-187) was full of violent, broken assholes they were at least very very good at their job. And in all units it was always my experience the the infantry were the least hosed up parts of the unit. It was always the support units trying to rack up high scores in DUIs, rapes, etc. Though that may be biased and or just anecdotal statistical noise.
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colachute posted:Maybe mine is the anecdote and not the norm, but I think morale has a lot to do with it as well. All of the people I met that were ever in the 173rd thought it was great and I never really heard much about it. If you're talking about the 10-11 deployment I went to the 173rd right after so I went straight into clearing and never bring at work mode but that was a hard deployment and I heard from people there was a *lot* of bad poo poo that happened after I left.
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ded posted:United States of America. Now more racist than WW2 Germany. We're not even more racist than WW2 America. edit: re: Times cover: wonder if "Trumpism" will be the 21st century Fascism (language use wise, it's already fascism) Jarmak fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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I doubled in computer engineering and electrical engineering. One of my biggest takeaways from that experience was the realization that we still only barely understand how half the poo poo we do works and we're much closer to the 50s era "radiation, whats up with that?" level of fiddling with things then the masters of our universe the digital era makes it feel like. Also it felt like as hard as it was scraping by with a ~B average I barely scraped the surface of most things I had to learn, and half of that I basically learned to the test because it was the only way to get through. I don't know how the gently caress anyone gets out of engineering school and thinks they know everything. I got out thinking "it's only going to be a matter of time before someone realizes I don't know what the gently caress I'm doing" and the anxiety from that feeling only faded with the realization no one did.
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FrozenVent posted:I’m winging it all day every day. I just have slightly more of a clue about my field than everyone else I work with. Eh, electrical engineering is heavily stochastic. Even something as simple as conducting electricity on a copper wire is really a series of random events repeated so many times so quickly that uneven probabilities appear deterministic to casual observation (and I guess effectively are). That's not even getting into really crazy poo poo like quantum tunneling. Honestly chemistry really is as a whole so I'm not sure what discipline would have engineers that behave like that other then bad engineers.
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eww what's with you people wanting more coins? I hated ones and twos being coins when I was stationed in Europe, bills fit neatly in wallets.
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Jun 26, 2019 13:48
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Posting this on facebook is turning into an effective way to clear out what's left of the chud fuckface vets that I haven't brought myself to unfriend yet for *reasons*.
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Jun 26, 2019 20:53
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bird cooch posted:I'm sure it was a joke but it's one of those jokes that I've heard enough times now that it's stopped being jokey. Think you're getting mixed up with USPOL
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ElMaligno posted:Libertarians are not and have never been in power, so i have no idea how this is a positive news. I think they're talking about this forum, 10-15 years ago there was a point were libertarian politics were dominant in the way leftist politics are now. There was a time when I felt pretty lefty in comparison to the rest of the forum, I'm still probably the most left-wing person I know in real life, but here I'm a bootlicking fascist. You know, a fascist who supports unions, UBI, has literally beaten the poo poo out of a Nazi (if we're counting loudmouth Trump supporters), and supports Warren and all her ideas that I can think of off the top of my head. 
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:Law enforcement reform has to come from the top down, trying to do a one man crusade against corruption as a rookie cop has an explicitly bad track record. It requires both. There are good cops and good departments, it's a matter of changing the balance and the culture not trying to single handedly change the system from the inside like some sort of movie.
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Professor Bling posted:The lede the cops buried is that they entered the home with weapons drawn, while saying "you're not in trouble, dude," which, lol They were there to escort/protect a domestic violence victim as she gathered her belongings from the home, so no he wasn't actually in trouble until he started trying to murder people.
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