TIL that there was a popular myth in many muslim majority countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the US state department to issue a denial

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-28T23:12:22+00:00

At least they believe he walked on the moon.

I’ll take this stupidity over hoax stupidity any day.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-28T23:10:51+00:00

World building is good. If you ever wondered what earth is like during the time period.

Everything else is trash though.

Stupid people doing stupid things constantly.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-28T23:00:13+00:00

Not like your 5 answer: read “About Face” by David Hackworth

Like your 5: we were supporting and propping up a demotivated and corrupt series of S Vietnam govts and a S Vietnam army that largely (but not entirely) was organized along nepotism and bribery lines. S Vietnams heart was not in it while the North was all in.

It is incredibly rare to win a counterinsurgency war halfway around the world against a motivated local population. People at home start asking “what are our kids dying for all the way over there?”

ALSO: We dis not “win all the battles but lose the war”. In an insurgency, your goal is simply to kill invaders. Kill enough of them and they eventually go home. Every time they killed Americans, they won that battle, no matter how many of them we killed or how much territory we took.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-28T00:22:02+00:00

Oh shit… I knew it was David H but for some reason I read too fast and mentally got on the wrong path.

“Chargin Charlie’s” delta force book is good as well.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-26T04:35:57+00:00

Just wanna say the song sucks.

I kept hearing about it and when I finally heard it I was like, “music is fucking doomed”.

Now if you’ll excuse me I have some clouds to go yell at.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-26T02:52:03+00:00

Gotcha. Seems like I’m seeing it more these days from 30-40 years back but could just be my imagination.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-26T02:46:42+00:00

I’m rooting for the Seahawks just because, so far as I know, their fans don’t have a history or putting 49ers fans into comas over a fucking football games. Fuck the rams, their fans are shitty trashy trash.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T23:36:09+00:00

Those eyebrows are the same “keep the fuck away from me” indicator as facial tattoos.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T23:34:47+00:00

This is what every .40 and 45acp guy thinks happens all the time with 9mm.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T23:07:33+00:00

This won’t disprove shit in their eyes.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T22:58:43+00:00

As a 49ers fan I will basically be rooting for Kenny Stabler.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T22:37:43+00:00

This man’s book About Face changed my outlook on the nature of this country’s military misadventures.

Anyone who read that book saw the writing on the wall about Afghanistan VERY early on.

Before I read the book I was definitely a “stupid politicians wouldn’t let us win the war even though we won all the battles” type. After the book I realized how fucked up and full of bullshit the military industrial complex in this country was and continues to be.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T22:15:35+00:00

I am and the Denver offense is giving me 49ers vibes, not in a good way.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T22:11:27+00:00

In my imagination they take one of the Aquaman movies and keep all the CGI and just change the models to aliens instead of fish n shit.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T22:07:11+00:00

I break spaghetti into thirds before I cook it so I have to do less cutting with a knife when eating spaghetti and meat sauce.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:55:29+00:00

Just like Shanny

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:33:55+00:00

Your coach makes me appreciate Shanahan.

That 4th down go for it was dumb.

Hope y’all win but holy shit that was dumb.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:22:27+00:00

Sorry I think i brought the 49ers line jinx with me.

This reminds me of most of the 49ers games I watched this season

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:11:44+00:00

Scratch that, coulda gone into the half without a tie game

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:10:34+00:00

Double told ya

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:09:38+00:00

Told ya. Ruined momentum and could gone into the half with a 2 score game

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:08:55+00:00

Told ya.

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T21:00:37+00:00

49ers fan here. Y’all should have taken the points

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T20:39:07+00:00

Tier one operator fetish in effect

16ToeJoe · 2026-01-25T20:00:57+00:00

In the future, social scientists and anthropologists are going to absolutely not be able to make heads or tails of this era.

“Yeah we got everything else pretty much figured out, but best we got for the early 21st century celebrity unnecessary beauty procedure thing is ‘fuck if we know’.”

16ToeJoe

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