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Milo and POTUS posted:Matthew Gertz is gonna get what he has coming to him! A migraine? https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1377587537720573957
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CainFortea posted:It's like you see a news article "Man arrested with FIVE THOUSAND ROUNDS of ammunition" Man arrested with A SHOEBOX FULL of ammunition, wait, that doesn't get as many clicks, hmm... Reminds me of my last deployment where they were tracking monthly hard FOD found. Well, one month they found a box of washers that someone had left out on the flight deck, and counted every single washer as a separate instance of hard FOD. So the monthly totals went 15, 13, 21, 827, 12, 10...
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Apr 4, 2021 02:11
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Hekk posted:LOL Sorry I probated the wrong person because I AM an Idiot King. I didn't realize probes had splash damage.
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Apr 9, 2021 02:08
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Campaign medal is for service in theater, not direct combat. There are a lot of other awards for that and a whole bunch of sour britches from CABs handed out in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago. I just learned I'm getting both OIR and Afghanistan campaign medals for... flying in vaguely the same geographical area as those places. A few times we even flew close enough to see land! I'm glad this proves to the VFW how combat experienced I am. Naturally the time we spent evacuating Somalia, which was way more along the lines of actual combat missions than anything else we did, counts for nothing.
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Apr 9, 2021 20:43
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Reminder that the plan for dealing with Queen Elizabeth's death is completely bonkers: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge quote:Britain’s commercial radio stations have a network of blue “obit lights”, which is tested once a week and supposed to light up in the event of a national catastrophe. When the news breaks, these lights will start flashing, to alert DJs to switch to the news in the next few minutes and to play inoffensive music in the meantime. Every station, down to hospital radio, has prepared music lists made up of “Mood 2” (sad) or “Mood 1” (saddest) songs to reach for in times of sudden mourning. “If you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (Nursery Remix) by Sabres of Paradise on daytime Radio 1, turn the TV on,” wrote Chris Price, a BBC radio producer, for the Huffington Post in 2011. “Something terrible has just happened.”
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Apr 10, 2021 16:00
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It's pretty telling that when I saw this headline:maffew buildings posted:Liberal hippy vegan California once again trying to drag the rest of the country down to forced gender reassignment abortions. The Klan existed in Northern California in the late 90s, I don't know about now but white supremacist groups and strong racist sentiment have always been a thing in California. Orange County is one of the most blood red voting blocks in the nation, so big shocker this is being done there. my first interpretation was that the police were the ones attending/organizing the rally.
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Apr 10, 2021 19:51
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Bored As gently caress posted:Who the gently caress would mean "I'm going to execute you via the electric chair" vs "I'm going to tase you?" I gotta agree, it really sounds a power tripping cop salivating over the thought of using a taser. That's exactly the macho euphemism I can imagine them having for it. "You're going to go to death row for a traffic stop and be executed in 15-20 years" feels like more of a stretch and too abstract of a threat considering the rest of the cop's behavior.
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Apr 10, 2021 20:54
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Dude's lawyer looks like he just hopped out of a longboat with his law-axe: https://twitter.com/ChanelVanHook/status/1380922893710852103
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Apr 10, 2021 21:34
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facialimpediment posted:Anyways, here's the first thing I've seen about timing on the full-blown approval of the COVID vaccines. TLDR: Companies need to submit 6-months of full data, then the FDA usually takes about 6 months after that for the full-blown approval. Moderna/Pfizer/J&J probably go full-blown approved by the end of the year. So it sounds like Biden could make it mandatory for the military tomorrow, but he probably figures that the cost of the inevitable right wing shitstorm isn't worth it if it's expected to get full authorization in a few months anyway. There are already some incentives in place to get vaccinated; mostly in the form of not having to ROM on the back side of out-of-area leave. A CO can't explicitly deny leave solely based on vaccination status, but not having to ROM for 10 days can factor in to whether or not it's feasible to approve a leave request. Right now the official guidance, at least on the Navy side, is that people don't need to ROM if they're a close contact of a potential COVID case. This is a big deal because it's not the one guy who gets COVID that fucks up your unit, it's the dozen people who are close contacts and also have to ROM that brings things to a grinding halt.
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Apr 11, 2021 03:10
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I got Moderna and was just a little sore in the arm for a day. Getting #2 in a week and a half. It's a pretty big deal for air crew because if you get COVID, you're grounded until NAMI can run you through a full set of pulmonary tests to make sure your lungs aren't swiss cheese. Even just getting the shot itself is a 3-day down, compared to 12 hours for flu shots.
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Apr 11, 2021 16:11
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I still find it kind of surreal that a country can just *yoink* everything on a cargo ship if it wants to. I mean I guess that's the benefit to being a sovereign power, but jeez. What would happen if a superjumbo cruise ship got stuck? (I have no idea if cruise ships actually go through the Suez canal much) Do they get to ransom the passengers? Enslave the staff? Do they keep all the passengers' luggage and all the booze and stuff from the onboard mall?
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Apr 15, 2021 02:50
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Defenestrategy posted:You're saying this as if the republicans haven't already been doing it for some time. Apparently something like 100 something federal judges ended up being handed to Trump due to the senate not bothering with a lot of obama's nominees. The Republicans also showed that if a Supreme Court seat becomes vacant under a Democrat president, with Republicans in the senate, they'll hold it vacant until the next R president. Yeah, republicans have made it clear that they'll do whatever the hell they want if given the opportunity, so gently caress 'em. Add 15 seats to the court. Put Greta Thunberg on there. Put Obama on there; Barack if there are no other options, but ideally Sasha or Malia. Appoint a lesbian black/latina communist just to see how many aneurisms they can cause for the Fox News staff. As far as I'm concerned it's been game on since Merrick Garland got stonewalled.
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Apr 18, 2021 03:47
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Just locking down the entire neighborhood for an isolated domestic dispute, as one does.
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Apr 18, 2021 20:19
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1383870519670280202?s=20 Honestly, I'd be surprised if the fraud aspect outweighed the benefits of the sheer simplicity and reliability of using physical cards to track this. Any digital method of doing it would have been by necessity thrown together at the last minute and would have a very high chance of loving something up - just look at how well the ACA website rollout went, and that was something they actually had time to plan for and develop. With a card you don't have to log in to a website or set up an account or try to get text message notifications working, you can just stick it on your fridge as a reminder for when your second shot is scheduled. There's a lot of unappreciated value in that.
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Apr 19, 2021 03:28
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hobbesmaster posted:Did the marines not have them on CVNs until retirement? Marine Prowler squadrons, at least by that point, were all expeditionary, not carrier based.
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Apr 22, 2021 03:30
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Volkova III posted:I had to sneak through the paywall to read it, but it's somehow even dumber than you think. Unsure where the paragraph breaks appeared in the original, I tried my best. The grammar and punctuation issues are all his, though. Wow, that's... uh, definitely something. quote:Every grown-up in the room realizes that Trader Sam is not a representation of reality and is meant as a funny and silly caricature. Disney, well known for only catering to grown adults. Definitely no chance this would normalize racist caricatures in the minds of young kids. I forget where I first read this, but it really makes these peoples' mindset clear when you substitute their use of "political correctness", and now "wokeness", with "treating people with respect". quote:I love Disney World, but treating people with respect is ruining the experience.
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Apr 23, 2021 23:27
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I mean it's not like I can talk, I had a real fondness for Coors Light.
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Apr 25, 2021 02:22
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Flikken posted:As someone from Ohio I've never heard of ice in beer. I haven't either, but as someone also from Ohio, that definitely seems like the kind of thing some part of Ohio would come up with.
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Apr 26, 2021 02:20
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Milo and POTUS posted:What was that feeling that astronauts had of well being after being in space? There was a term for it and I want to look it up Overview Effect
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Apr 29, 2021 22:36
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Seeing the night sky through nvgs for the first time was loving amazing Never done NVG's, but a ship in the middle of the ocean on a clear moonless night is pretty amazing too.
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Apr 30, 2021 00:33
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CBJSprague24 posted:Can't wait for The Five, Ingraham, and/or Gutfeld! to have debates on the symbolism of adopting a cat to have as a pet at the White House and how it's a harbinger of a socialist Marxist Leninist Radical Left Antifa BLM Agenda. You know how cats like to walk on keyboards? Imagine how stoked this one is to walk on the nuclear launch button. "The White House extends its deepest sympathies to the smoking radioactive crater formerly known as Finland. That darn cat will just jump on anything!"
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Apr 30, 2021 16:30
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