|
Sacrist65 posted:https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/1157124264975376384?s=20 Lol if you joined under the old retirement system and switched to blended. I knew it would be a defunded shitshow, but I lacked the cynicism to suss out exactly what it would robbed to pay for.
|
#
¿
Aug 2, 2019 14:53
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 20:07 |
|
|
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49229054 One of the Dayton shooter's first victims was his own sister.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 4, 2019 23:44
|
|
|
sneakyfrog posted:sweep the leggs smashmouth
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2019 01:59
|
|
|
McNally posted:I'm not at all inclined to think you're at all dealing with me in good faith here. First you come at me with "well that's a chud talking point," then you say "yeah well whatever I don't care." So by that point we weren't talking about the original argument anymore and then you pivot back to "citation needed." I'll ask the question in good faith, then. I freely admit it's been years since I did any digging into early American gun control. If I recall correctly, various colonial and early American towns were straight-up gun free zones, even within the lifetime of the Constitution's writers. I would take this to suggest that they weren't wholly against the idea, as I'm unaware of any of them raising hell about that. But, I'm also not a history major. Don't cite sources, that would be a time consuming pain in the rear end. But, if you don't mind paraphrasing, what did you come across regarding the Framers' original intent re: the second amendment?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2019 06:04
|
|
|
Flying_Crab posted:Lol. Is every midwestern person here of Norwegian/German roots? Weird. One set of great grand parents hopped off the boat from Norway at Ellis Island in the 1920s while the others were from Germany of some flavor. None of them were chuds/religious nuts, at least. Just blue collar working class union worker types. I know I'm some mutt variety of Irish, Ukrainian, and English at a minimum. Beyond that, my mom was an orphan who never met her own grandparents, and nobody on her side of the family cares enough to track down the family tree past 1900, so I have no idea where her side came from. That is definitely a current event and not a derail. In actual news, another right wing terrorist is in jail. Twenty years for mailing pipe bombs to celebrities who spoke out against Trump. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49244322
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2019 23:03
|
|
|
Vasudus posted:It gets better. I broke my plate because I thought I was in a movie and jumping from rooftop to rooftop should be easy to do. Especially in full kit, after all it's only like five feet away and I'm fit and young so it should be super easy! Growing up means realizing you're not Trinity or the Agent. You're the fat cop who doesn't make the jump.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 9, 2019 18:44
|
|
|
Flying_Crab posted:Cannibal cop? Wha This gets weird, even for the "cannibal cop" premise. Assuming I'm thinking of the right guy, and there's not somehow another one in New York. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/conviction-cannibal-nypd-overturned-article-1.1850334 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-nypd-cannibal-releases-extremely-violent-horror-article-1.3745322 tl;dr his conviction was overturned after a couple years because a higher level court found that his original jury conviction for planning to murder and eat people was based on insufficient evidence. He then went on to write a novel about killing and eating people. How do I know this, off the top of my head? Well, because my high school librarian was one of his cannibal pals, and is doing time for it. Dude always had creeper vibes. Guess he wanted to eat his students. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/school-librarian-15-years-case-tied-cannibal-article-1.3786933 Edit oh poo poo, and now that I'm reading the article about my librarian, I guess he was with NAMBLA too. And was suspended even before his arrest for molesting students. Wow. Arc Light fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Aug 11, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Aug 11, 2019 19:36
|
|
|
Fallom posted:What an unbelievably stupid loving thing to put on Twitter gently caress me what the gently caress On the other hand, why would you assume anything he says on Twitter is accurate? He also said that the F-35 is an invisible plane. E:f;b
|
|
#
¿
Aug 13, 2019 00:15
|
|
|
Milo and POTUS posted:What are the assumptions That you didn't have the dignity to quit instead
|
|
#
¿
Aug 19, 2019 00:50
|
|
|
Hot Karl Marx posted:trump is going to start a cyber force now isn't he? That would honestly be a better use of time and resources than a space force. I can't speak for quasi-civilian agencies, but the US military cyber folks are all ultimately under the top-level command of someone with no cyber experience. In the USAF, we call our assignments "cyber sorties" where we maintain "time on target" while we conduct "cyber escort" for allied computer systems. It's dumber than I can articulate. We use bastardized forms of flight terms for things that bear no relation to flight, because our senior leaders don't understand computers or networks. Thus, we pretend we're flying cyber airplanes, because the alternative would be to promote leaders who possess the ability to learn new concepts. The best comparison I can think of is this: imagine if, in the early days of flight, military leadership insisted that we call dogfights "air infantry charges" because the infantrymen running the Army couldn't understand that aerial warfare worked differently than land-based warfare. At least a cyber force would, theoretically, have people at the top with some kind of relevant experience, and wouldn't need to compete for funding with airframes. Edit: and our USAF cyber ops have recently been reassigned to Air Combat Command, which is notable for being so lovely at anything outside the original TAC wheelhouse that we had to reactivate SAC. Arc Light fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 20, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Aug 20, 2019 01:23
|
|
|
Godholio posted:I would like to quote this. By all means. I desperately wish I were exaggerating, but those are the exact terms we use. We also use the flight PBED whiteboard process, even when it's completely inappropriate. Like, I could almost understand using it for OCO stuff where you could encounter a human element of resistance, but we use it for things like upgrading rules on a firewall. "Oh no, what are the enemy forces? And what kind of terrain are we conducting this cyber sortie over? We'll address that when we hit phase 2, where we click "save" and then exit the user interface." Edit: "If IRC fails, the alternate method of communication will be talking to the person sitting next to me. Or maybe smoke signals." Edit2: 
|
|
#
¿
Aug 20, 2019 01:59
|
|
|
Godholio posted:It's a shame you're almost free, because I've got a great bullet-generating idea. threat of the day briefs That's the kind of good idea fairy shenanigan I reasonably expect to see in the next couple years. I've only got 11 years in, so that light is still way at the end of the tunnel. I gripe a lot, but I generally like the people I work with and the mission. I just wish that we spent as much time doing our real jobs as we spend pretending to be pilots, right down to wearing "wings." For those who have blessedly avoided working with AF commo, our cyber sorties are "flown" by airmen wearing these:  It's only a matter of time until flight suits.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 20, 2019 02:15
|
|
|
EBB posted:shovels, and blunt objects for hammering No need to re-invent the wheel. These are all you really need.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 21, 2019 04:09
|
|
|
Yeah, like, people who joke about guillotines don't actually build them and use them, nor have they been used within multiple generations. And, generally speaking, those same people tend to be against capital punishment irl. Whereas people who joke about running over protestors might not actually go out and kill people on the roadway, but it's def a thing that happens, and they're totally cool with it irl. Which means it's not actually a joke.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 21, 2019 17:00
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 20:07 |
|
|
No spoilers on NWS content? Mods?!?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 1, 2019 02:42
|
|
