Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
15hr 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
1d ago
Only if we could replace them with cool action hero augmentations!
I did in fact ask for this, as it were.
Mantergeistmann
1d 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
2d 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
2d ago
At my dermatologist recently, it was all female receptionists, but they were pretty diverse otherwise, and mostly pretty cheerful.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
That... sounds like a very promising concept.
Mantergeistmann
2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
I'm honestly unsure of what you're trying to imply here.
Mantergeistmann
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
Apparently you can rent out his house in Vermont. Looks pretty cozy.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I'll have you know that my swastika tattoo has nothing to do with the Nazis, but is a sign of my admiration for the Finnish Air Force!
Related, but it's a shame more edgelords don't go for Adolf Galland's nose art as a tattoo... Mickey Mouse with a gun & axe, smoking a cigar, is too awesome to languish in the history books.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
If you grabbed P4, I would strongly recommend Metaphor ReFantazio, if you don't already have it.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Personally, I still hold “democracy is the best government except for the others”. I’m not against dictatorship, if the dictator is competent and has a good successor strategy. But who does, and how do you get this person in charge and ensure they’re not overthrown?
The only dictator I would be comfortable with is myself, and given that a) that cannot be guaranteed, and b) would be a terrible idea, am therefore against a dictatorship.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I've been seeing talk about VAR having been improperly used in this case, and how that's the unspoken justification (because FIFA doesn't want to admit a mistake). Any truth to that?
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
At 7k a year and cash discounts you need a significant injury to make it worth getting.
Yes, that's what I mean: it's literally insurance against catastrophic injury. I think that's one of the biggest flaws in the system, really: it conflates a health care plan with health insurance, when an awful lot of people would be perfectly fine with a bare-bones plan that only covers the latter, and then paying for the former out of pocket.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I love visiting Britain, but you would have to pay me to make me live in London.
That is generally how salaries work, yes.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
This is exactly the sort of reason I love this place.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Makes no sense to carry insurance in US unless employee sponsored. Better to just pay cash.
The point of insurance (at least to me) has never been to deal with routine care, but for catastrophic situations, like how car insurance isn't for covering oil changes. In practice, health insurance covers both, but I sure don't think too much about it covering my annual physical. I like having health insurance so I know I won't break the bank if I get a significant broken arm.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I remember going to the Saratoga Battlefield, where Arnold was shot in the leg. The interpretation was pretty clear that if he had died from that wound, he would have gone down in history as one of America's most beloved generals and patriots.
Instead, he received a nameless memorial. I wonder sometimes if that wouldn't have been a decent enough compromise to deal with the Confederate legacy, but I think everything is so poisoned that neither side would accept it anymore.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
This model is locked down tighter than a nun's asshole!
Someone hasn't been reading enough medieval and Renaissance literature, then.
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.
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