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Time for Natalie's big promotion.

Allergic to responsibility.

One of the reasons these chuds talk like this is directly tied to how much more they like violence being done at their direction than actually doing it themselves. Lots of talkers, not a lot of hitters.

I think that's the only reason the Browning Hi-Power still exists.

The Common Era is downstream of the Reformation.

Every trip to PME in my career confirmed that if you put 6+ people of the same rank in a room without some kind of adult supervision, the average age becomes 23.

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The "feel" of a Scotty Cameron putter is mostly smugness and superiority.

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"I did 12 years as an 11B, got hurt, dropped an OCS packet, and now I'm an intelligence officer." "Roger, sir, I need you to think very hard about every word you're about to say in this meeting, and I know you just packed that lip, but you need to spit it out."

No, you're right. It doesn't help that most officers will be prepared to be an officer by an officer who comes from highly permissive environments even if they're going to places where office politics has a huge impact. Your Infantry ROTC CDR did not prepare you to be an Intel/Cyber officer.

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Ah, the Biden administration, simultaneously full of bumbling, half-asleep idiots and also ingenious Machiavellian schemers able to rig the economy so it could go from the envy of the world to shit between December 2024 and April 2025.

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Just my take, however I got scuffed up before I reached a rank where I was being evaluated in writing (and definitely before that written eval is being looked at by a bunch of faceless E9s) is a whole other animal once "I want a career" and/or "my final rank dictates my retirement pay" factors in.

I recall a 2LT being casually racist online and his defense upon become a Main Character™️was that no one from his platoon followed him on social media. One of several "Tell me your unit" moments from a senior leader back on the bad place.

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"ICE delenda est" is such a moderate liberal position Democrat politicians are making campaign ads about it.

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SpookyOtters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 16h

*Battle Without Honor or Humanity plays in the background* "Ladies & gentlemen, you've heard the phrase 'anything can fly once.' I'm here to tell you, the future is now: our newest Tesla can fly twice!"

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The audience of one who cares that she looks like Ivanka more than anything she actually says.

Meh, a lot of the thickness is the doming on the chrystal, and I don't mind statement watches being big, especially knowing an in-house manufacturer would probably charge twice as much for a 2mm thinner watch similarly engineered.

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Now you've got me wondering whatever became of my father's LaserDisc collection. They were the future. A whole movie, plus behind the scenes footage, and you could use the same storage you're already using for your vinyl records!

It stinks that the same watchhaus that makes stuff like the Loco also decides to sully its reputation with "homages" like the Biscay.

The French are so fucking weird (highly complimentary.)

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Congress abandoning its Constitutionally obligated duties to sanction military action has both cultural and professional consequences. It absolutely sucks that this family is trying to get survivor's benefits and being told his death from enemy military action is not a war.

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Not so much "it weighed 40 tons" but "it weighed 40 tons, which was twice as much as the requirements documents said it could be, so now it's too slow & unarmored for mechanized units and too heavy for light infantry, so Ol' Yellering it is the cheapest option."

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I'm not on board with "drones are a RMA" but they are shifting cost calculus in odd ways because the cost of countering them is still much, much higher than the cost of making them, and it's playing out in unexpected ways in the next generation of battlefield capability development.

It sounds cavalier to say "the problem is our insistence on survivability" but it's extremely difficult to make a modern "armored" vehicle, including EW, c-UAS, etc. without falling into the trap of "well now it costs a fuck-ton, we can't lose it, so now it needs more armor," until it weighs 40 tons

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The Purple Man himself. The Netflix Marvel series (minus Iron Fist) is still where the MCU peaked.

It's always going to be extremely difficult to craft a highly modular infantry fighting vehicle without becoming subject to weight-ballooning scope-creep. Infrastructure for modularity isn't free.

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I'll bet you could carpetbag your way to most state-wide offices in Michigan so long as you remember two phrases: "Ohio delenda est," and "Claude Lemieux still has not apologized for what he did to Kris Draper."

The next level of enshittification is to tell employees they must still meet work requirements, on time, and excess use of tokens will be deducted from their paycheck.

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How do you run for office in Michigan, know you're going to have to answer a q about hockey, turn to your staff, and neither you nor anyone in your staff can remember to say "fuck Claude Lemieux." My kid learned that phrase on his first trip to Joe Louis arena last week.

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I can't decide if, regardless of the outcome of a debate, it was a worse decision for Paxton to not show face. I wonder if he thought CNN would chicken out if they didn't "show both sides" and just cancel. Either way, Talarico came across very well on the platform.

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I love that evening conversations with my wife include topics like, "we need a plan to try to ensure our 10 year old is not exposed to government-sanctioned snuff films." Truly a joy of modern parenting.

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Is it good for the incumbent party that 88% of voters are concerned about government corruption? Asking for Nixon staffers.

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I can't believe Natalie Harp is backing down to the woke mob like this.

Someone should ask Pete Hegseth how it feels to be owned by the libs.

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21 year old me may have come home from Iraq & Europe in 2004 and got in a fight at Busch Gardens Williamsburg for loudly opining that in Germany at least the ugly people had the good taste to not be fat.

I hate that I've picked out a number (190#) that I know I am a salty meal away from hitting and still deciding that's my dividing line between "pretty fucking fit for a guy in my mid-40s" and "disgusting fatbody who can never have a fried food or drop of alcohol again."

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My Army-learned capacity to switch my brain off when I'm being yelled at is not helpful when my boss' standard tone and volume is shouting.

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Simpsons: My Eyes, The Goggles Do Nothing!

I am in a congressional district that is polling at R+11, and the mailers I get from the incumbent don't include his party affiliation. "Trump-endorsed" appears nowhere on his campaign site. The toxicity levels are off the charts.

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ALT: Simpsons: My Eyes, The Goggles Do Nothing!

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Situated between Charlotte and Fayetteville and you can't convince a bunch of vets to come out for an event with guns and cigars? Either juiceless, or the market really is over-saturated.

I'm almost done with season 3 of Shrinking, and it's a little weird that Robin and Marshall are dating. Most millennial skeet ever.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Considering it's already been announced and there's (another) subordinate unit alignment underway, Pete will never be accused of trying to steal second while keeping his foot on first...but I wouldn't update my signature block just yet.

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Reposted by SpookyOtters

Average republican voter

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It is prime horsing around and shenanigans weather.

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An irony that the GOP hammered transgender issues in 2024 because they and the nation, literally, could afford to.

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The cost of filling up one's gas tank between Halloween and election day is the single most important factor in the state of the nation.

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It remains his most enduring MO. bsky.app/profile/cybe...