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Nihil Concierge
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Nihil Concierge
4mo ago
We just flat out aren't competitive on non-military vessels.
So true. I spent 2007 to 2011 on board a two decade old Navy minesweeper that was supposed to be replaced by the littoral combat ship (LCS) which entered service in like 2012 I think.
But LCS was such a disaster that it was not capable of any of its basic missions, and the first few have already been decommissioned while my minesweeper is still in service!
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Nihil Concierge
8mo ago
There's no shortage of examples of American hypocrisy in the exercise of power...
Although I think more and more that reflects the nature of the exercise of power than the nature of America. The nation's founders were wiser when they checked or limited it than when they exercised it.
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Nihil Concierge
9mo ago
... sentenced to 16 years for espionage charges. The trial was closed so evidence was not available to the public ...
Sadly, just as our invasion of Iraq makes our complaints about Russia's illegal invasions ring somewhat hypocritical, our embrace of closed trials with secret evidence in the past 20 years puts Americans in an embarrassing position when Putin uses same.
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Nihil Concierge
9mo ago
I believe there is a view supported by certain talmudists that celibacy is not required within the bounds of marriage and the perimeter of the Olympic Village
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Nihil Concierge
9mo ago
There's a wonderful scene in the Australian mockumentary where John Clarke's character, an administrator of the 2000 Olympic Games, is in the back of a press conference where his boss, a minister, is addressing a scandal. Clarke hears the minister say that "Character X has my complete support" and immediately says into a cell phone, "do you know who's in line for X's parking space?"
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Nihil Concierge
9mo ago
American military personnel in Japan are expected to obey local drinking laws. While I was 24 when I was first stationed there, there were quite a few of my younger shipmates who were in America on their 20th birthday and Japan on their 21st and thereby deprived of the (profoundly vapid) drinking birthday celebration.
My sister was 20 when she and my dad flew over to see me and so she got to enjoy a legal pint of Kirin Ichiban in a Yokohama jazz club with us.
The issue I believe is the Japan Gymnastics Association bylaws which forbid these vices.
It's certainly not French laws; isn't the Parisian drinking age second trimester?
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Nihil Concierge
10mo ago
Vote for Antifa McSlaughterkulaks, but make sure Embezzlea Demqueena is your second choice!
That's one helluva bumper sticker.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
I think this deserves to be a top-level post for the next few weeks. Sort of like Trans-National Thursdays. Supreme Court Saturdays?
Yeah, it's crazy when kids are like this.
It's amazing how few people grow out of this. Like @netstack and @ArjinFerman both talked about, it's rare and difficult for people to be willing to change their mind.
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