Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Cultural/religious prohibition against manual labor (of certain types) being performed by machines?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Well, as long as they're not shooting the bigfoots, whatever they're doing is probably legal.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
For men it’s probably something video game related: guilds with up to thousands of players, clans with dozens, or some large joint Minecraft projects, etc.
Sports fandom? Tailgating, making big ol' tifos, that sort of thing?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Man, how does one get hired by a think tank? It's always seemed like the ideal job to me.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Ah, the ol' "Avocado Toast" argument again?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Yes. Whether or not Ukraine fights is entirely their decision. But if they're willing to take up arms, I'm willing to have my tax money go towards making sure they have those arms to take up.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
America didn't come together and be disgruntled in order to spend the effort to lose at least 5 manned aircraft in a bungled special ops raid inside Iran
Is this referring to the pilot rescue mission?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Even though wokepedia calls it "Christian apologetic"
I mean, it is. It's also wonderfully written, both enjoyable and enlightening.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I think he can't believe it's not butter.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I saw claims from the other side about national guard housing violating the third, but I assume that it was requiring that something be taken out of context or squinted at.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
There was a time for each of them when they were certainly worth far more in their seats in terms of capability than the average person with a knowledge of their postions. Congress is more than just casting votes.
Near the ends of their careers, though, yeah...
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Only if we could replace them with cool action hero augmentations!
I did in fact ask for this, as it were.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I think you responded to the wrong comment? Charlie Kirk sure wasn't on that landing craft (although it would be an even funnier conspiracy theory...)
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
That'd have to be a lot of people in on the coverup... the other 12 landing craft and support ships/personnel involved in the exercise, the half the crew that did survive...
Technically possible, as you said, if you squint.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
At my dermatologist recently, it was all female receptionists, but they were pretty diverse otherwise, and mostly pretty cheerful.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
That... sounds like a very promising concept.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Okay, but early submarines really cannot be used as representative of modern(ish) naval accident rates. Those things were... well, death traps is a bit too strong of a word, but issues abounded.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
How much of that is due to the fire, and how much is standard/deferred maintenance cycles, though? I have a feeling they'd be in port close until 2027 even without the fire.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I'm honestly unsure of what you're trying to imply here.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
New CoH 3 is a... wave defense expansion pack/standalone, effectively?
Haven't yet fired up Mistria. What I really want is Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, legit and legal on PC, but in the old artstyle rather than the new remade 3d style, and I'm hoping this will be about as close as I can get to scratching that niche itch.
246 fires on aircraft carriers and big-deck amphibs over 70 years, after WWII.
"A clothes dryer caught fire and destroyed a carrier"
"Destroyed" is... a tremendously strong word. It's not like FORD went full BONHOMME RICHARD.
There's also that time the US sank one of its own subs while the thing was moored at a pier. Oh, and that time an aircraft carrier sliced the top off the cruiser USS BELKNAP. Can't recall if the cruiser was carrying nuclear cruise missiles at the time or not, but I do remember that the officer determined to be at fault had just won an award for his ship-handling skills.
And from a related branch, there was that landing craft that up and sank during training off the coast of California, killing 9 marines. Or the F-35 and refueling tanker casualty that had a botched SAR operation in very friendly waters. And I don't need to tell you of the (oft-maligned, and possibly out of context) Osprey safety record concerns...
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
The only British public figures who get £5 million in taxpayer-funded security are the King and the Prime Minister.
I recall Bezos was only having his security detail funded by Amazon to the tune of $1 million USD.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Picked up CoH3 (fun! I'm awful at RTS games!), Fields of Mistria, and SRPG studio. Yes, I'm aware I'm too lazy for the last one. No, I don't care.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Apparently you can rent out his house in Vermont. Looks pretty cozy.
"Here's what having my avant garde performance art being accused of AI usage taught me about B2B sales!"
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