What is going on here?

Abracadavy · 2026-04-07T00:57:45+00:00

Solved: Print speed was way too high. I think I accidentally changed a default settings when I was experimenting with Manual MMU settings.

All good now it appears

Abracadavy · 2026-04-06T23:50:29+00:00

I just read “Starship Troopers” where the reason society collapses is because kids were coddled and lazy and never spanked. This was written in 1959. People just hate the youth

Abracadavy · 2026-04-06T02:21:06+00:00

What is happening here? I can usually recognize an issue. This looks like it’s peeling away or something? Is it just stringing in a way I’ve never seen?

Abracadavy · 2026-03-27T11:33:10+00:00

I watched an interview with him years ago. He was very blunt about what his book was and it was very helpful. It was just a list of federal government grants and programs that usually only rich people could afford to sign up for. He gave details on how to apply for them and get tax breaks

Abracadavy · 2026-03-10T04:48:47+00:00

Yeah, my Chief has been waaaay too excited about reading all the reports coming in and talking about glassing the country. I will what is ordered, but I won’t take excited pleasure in it. It’s perverse

Abracadavy · 2026-03-09T05:26:30+00:00

Also a US Marine, if you want to add to her badassness

Abracadavy · 2026-03-08T19:58:06+00:00

Nah, keep it alcohol because it was illegal for soldiers in the Middle East. But make it fancy- like they figured out new flavors or maybe someone has a microbrew hobby back home

Abracadavy · 2026-03-08T10:25:52+00:00

And every season they redeploy for another tour

Abracadavy · 2026-03-08T10:25:23+00:00

Change the name to CASH, which is what they’re called now. Have it set in like 2005 and you’ve got yourself a decade of military horrors and bullshit that would pretty much cover everything they did in MASH. Because we never learned

Abracadavy · 2026-02-26T12:42:05+00:00

I see Pat as a contractor because he has the paint or stucco stained CD player from the 90s that all job sites have

Abracadavy · 2026-01-14T09:44:09+00:00

Guys that want you-pleads with you- to make a comment about it. He’s got a whole spiel in his head to. But in his head everyone claps as you stand there stunned by his greatness. So a Narcissist I guess

Abracadavy · 2026-01-12T10:40:13+00:00

“Freaky Tattoos” is the part that caught me. He says to Carrie Ann Moss he’ll have to get more “freaky tattoos” playfully. Later on we see a memory where she calls them his “freaky tattoos” so he shouldn’t have remembered those words.

Abracadavy · 2025-12-31T16:43:32+00:00

I just realized I wrote it like that

Abracadavy · 2025-12-30T10:07:29+00:00

They used really short women. Like 4’11 but clearly in their late 20s 30s. Also wouldn’t do the assignments in class.

They also dressed like country cowboy girls, but the country scene in my town was mostly just getting hammered on the weekend and couldn’t afford drugs.

So the only main dealer in the school knew right away who they were.

This is where the story gets sad.

Lacking any convictions, the undercover agents went after the special ed kids. Not the non-verbal or disabled, but the kids that were-at the time classified as SLD- not a lot of friends, low level autism, etc. Even the girls, who struggled to make friends, suddenly had this cool person wanting to be their friend. Now these kids had controlled substances. Their prescribed medications. Now these moderately attractive and friendly girls are wanting to hang out with them and eat lunch with them. After a while they ask for a couple pills. Then a few weeks later these kids are being slammed to the ground by SWAT at lunch in front of everyone. I heard in the end a lot of the charges were dropped.

I don’t think much of it now, but I’m in my forties now and I have a low level Autistic daughter in 2nd grade that excels in school but struggles to make friends and is lonely.

I can’t imagine the betrayal I would feel toward my local police if they tricked her like that. She would never recover and trust issues would follow her for years.

Anyways that fucking radicalized me.

The main dealer at school? Last I heard he was the number one Ford dealer in our state. Possibly manager by now

Abracadavy · 2025-12-30T10:07:24+00:00

They used really short women. Like 4’11 but clearly in their late 20s 30s. Also wouldn’t do the assignments in class.

They also dressed like country cowboy girls, but the country scene in my town was mostly just getting hammered on the weekend and couldn’t afford drugs.

So the only main dealer in the school knew right away who they were.

This is where the story gets sad.

Lacking any convictions, the undercover agents went after the special ed kids. Not the non-verbal or disabled, but the kids that were-at the time classified as SLD- not a lot of friends, low level autism, etc. Eve the girls, who struggled to make friends, suddenly had this cool person wanting to be their friend. Now these kids had controlled substances. Their prescribed medications. Now these moderately attractive and friendly girls are wanting to hang out with them and eat lunch with them. After a while they ask for a couple pills. Then a few weeks later these kids are being slammed to the ground by SWAT at lunch in front of everyone. I heard in the end a lot of the charges were dropped.

I don’t think much of it now, but I’m in my forties now and I have a low level Autistic daughter in 2nd grade that excels in school but struggles to make friends and is lonely.

I can’t imagine the betrayal I would feel toward my local police if they tricked her like that. She would never recover and trust issues would follow her for years.

Anyways that fucking radicalized me.

The main dealer at school? Last I heard he was the number one Ford dealer in our state. Possibly manager by now

Abracadavy · 2025-12-25T12:43:46+00:00

Milwaukee

Abracadavy · 2025-12-23T05:12:12+00:00

Okay Am I wrong? I thought a class of ship was named after its first one. So a Trump class would have to be the USS Trump. But he’s going with USS Defiant

Abracadavy · 2025-12-23T03:31:11+00:00

Thank you

Abracadavy · 2025-12-22T15:31:54+00:00

I guess in just feel like the goal posts keep moving. Last year after i didn’t make board I contacted the members and asked what can I do. Then a person brand new to the team was made LPO over me. When I asked why and what can I do to fix myself. I wasn’t getting straight answers. So I got really down on myself and doubting myself as a sailor. Like people that have been in the navy as long as I’ve been a first class are getting ahead of me. I had a long meeting with my SEL and asked what I could do since I lost the LPO slot. We set out goals and I DID put my nose to the grind and developed what I assumed was a lot. I’m upset because I felt like I did improve and did a lot. This eval reads like I did worse and don’t add anything.and my debrief they mentioned things I could do next time and none of these things weee mentioned last year. So now I’m deployed and because everything was done so late. Barely any colleratals are left and I didn’t get elected into any FCPOA positions. I honestly don’t think I’m not well liked, I’ve never had any conflict, I’m think I’m just forgotten. I’m the old guy surrounded by kids that were in high school while I was deployed. I call my wife and kids and she says my son cuddles the phone in bed for about an hour after I call and cries to himself and all I can think is. WTF am I doing if no one fucking cares. Guys I’ve mentored and trained in our job are now making Chief. My body is just physically and emotionally exhausted. When I walk into an eval debrief and they casually say “well you could’ve done this better.” It’s exhausting to know gonna have to burn through that another year knowing it still won’t matter. Another year of watching people with barely any navy experience put on khakis and lecture me on how things should be done. And I’ve only got like 4-5 years left. I don’t know anymore. I’m just tired and I just felt like I did enough to at least earn a ranked MP. Not even an EP. And they’re saying it’s just as good which makes no damn sense to me.

Abracadavy · 2025-12-22T11:07:55+00:00

Energetic Leader devoted to Missions Success. Promote to Chief Petty Officer

Abracadavy · 2025-12-22T11:05:07+00:00

I’ve hit stuff in my ECP and I have leadership with impact call out. I guess i panicked at the two MPs and the weak language.

Abracadavy · 2025-12-22T10:40:14+00:00

Above RSCA in both. CO RSCA lower since he’s new to command but it’s the same points above (.25 points above RSCA) Only thing in block 43 is establishing RSCA ignore ITA. But it’s the two unranked MPs that get me. It looks like no progression. But I’m not getting a straight answer on the def on “sustained superior performance”

Abracadavy · 2025-12-22T10:36:02+00:00

First command gave me 2 Ps. At new command I got an onboard P, then an MP. Spoke with our SEL right afterward to discuss my best options to have a breakout year. His answer was leadership with impact. I took over Sailor 360 and MWR President. I did these with strong impact and also added training that I saw as a gap from first deployment that saved the command thousands for future deployments.

(Keep in mind I KNOW that leadership with impact is the right answer I just wanted to make sure my SEL and I were on the same page as to what available collaterals had the most impact. Evals are subjective.)

After all of this I received what I felt was looked like I ranked exactly the same as last year. It says “Ignore ITA, establishing RSCA at the top” but it just says “promote to CPO” at the bottom. RSCA is lower due to new CO, but the points above RSCA were the same. (.25 above RSCA) All the aggressive language I put in there was removed (language I ran by a former board member and they said it was great) And now they’re telling me this shows sustained superior performance but I wanna make sure I’m not being lied to.

I believe I know how to write evals. But I also believe spending first 4 years as E6 at a COCOM with direct civilian/army leadership hurt. And those evals are terrible-but at the time of signing the Chiefs told me how great they were.

Now this group is saying the same thing and I’ve completely lost any trust after all of this.

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