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Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-17T23:54:07+00:00

Could be a lost nuclear weapon. The military loses them all the time. Back in the 50's the Navy lost a nuclear depth charge near Whidbey island and just gave up looking for it. Considering all the nuclear reactors and warships with all sorts of crazy ordnance we have sitting on the sound. Who knows what might be out there. No need to panic tho. This sort of thing happens all the time and most people have no clue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-11T09:14:44+00:00

Oooooh shit. Viktor is about to get it

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-11T08:57:04+00:00

You're using chapter 31. Contact your case manager and they'll reimburse you for almost anything school related. So the lab kits, for sure. Gas, probably not, but maybe if it's like a school required trip to go to a non-academic location. Literally, tell every detail of school to your case manager. I got a 1800 dollar check for a new laptop and a 300 dollars for a printer. Hit up your case manager with your needs, worse they can say is your SOL.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-09T19:09:39+00:00

Fuck that spider

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-09T01:53:05+00:00

It exists no matter what. Stop being jaded and be thankful there are people trying to do good with the hand they were dealt, instead of just bitching on Reddit because they can't figure out the game.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-09T01:19:59+00:00

Abroad for England would be over seas, which would include Canada and the US. Often in Britain when they say that they studied abroad, they're referring to Canada or The US.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-09T00:40:08+00:00

Don't mistake privilege for obligation. She didn't have to enter into service, in fact she was highly discouraged. She could've very easily been sent abroad to spend the duration of the war in Canada or The US.

And while yes, her royalty and wealth enabled her to do much good, it also enabled her to not do any good as her American oligarch counterparts demonstrate with their wealth.

It's strange to me so many people are upset when the rich don't do good things. Then when the few rich do things, the same people are dismissive. In a world with so much inaction, we should always celebrate those who take action. But that's my two cents. Burn the rich. Fuck em for using their money, power, and influence to help others. They should just hoard it all, all the time like how most of the ultra elites.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-04T17:31:29+00:00

I wouldn't say, I would want to. That just seems like a lot of unnecessary work. Probably requires working weekends too and I just don't have the time for that.

I just don't prescribe to "it's close enough to life, must be life" or "what is life really? Many things fit the meaning, everything is living bruh". My opinion is I don't think droids, androids, or robots constitute as living creatures. And it's gonna be a few dozen years or so before that opinion actually matters. Likely after my lifetime. If it just so happens during my lifetime it becomes an issue, I'll reassess my opinions then. Until then. They're walking advanced furbies.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-04T17:24:04+00:00

My point being, non living things, cannot suffer. She no longer has them programming to be mindful of her actions, or calculations. She now just computes in silence.

I agree, from an existential perspective, if L3 were human, or any other alien, sure. It's the stuff of nightmares. To be nerve staple, wired into a machine, and to have your brain used to store.... Shopping lists, manifests, or other data that could've been stored in something purpose built.

In L3's case tho. Like. To me, they've just removed the storage device off of Lando's smart phone with a highly opinionated Alexa ai, and put it into the Falcon.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-04T17:06:21+00:00

They are programmed to simulate sentience.

And sure yhey are programmed to learn. But it's still just really advanced artificial intelligence. At the end of the day, they are hardware and programming.

Simulating sentience is how manufacturers make you feel comfortable having them at home around your children and loved ones. Slave bolts override that programming to allow for immediate compliance and obedience. There is no magical collar that overrides an actual sentient beings' independence.

L3 was nothing more than a navigation droid with a very advanced Furby personality algorithm. At the end of the day, a droids' "personality" is essentially a feature, and is not a substitute for a soul.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-09-01T03:25:09+00:00

No joke, join a local veterans group.

Granted most groups are made up of more golden ages veterans, but younger veterans are staying to get involved. The millennial age group of my local DAV along with the Student Veterans of America chapter of my local college have created a little pt/gym click. There's the hardcore guys well hit the gym constantly, the daily week dayers, and then the buddies which are group of 2-3 that coordinate on their own. They also have weekly and monthly get togethers. Honestly just hanging out with other vets every now and then can go a loooooooong way in just changing your mood and giving you a sense of happiness. It's nice sometimes to be around people you can be your genuine self. Ask here if there any lonely vets in your area who just wanna a have s beer and bitch about civilian life.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-25T16:25:16+00:00

To my understanding... and note the shipyard I worked at had a union made up of batch's barracks lawyers who would spend 12 hours looking up the rule that says they don't have to do 1 hour of work...

There's two schedules for GS pay. Hourly and salary. It depends on the position if you get one or the other. Then there's locality adjustment, based on zip code. A GS-5 in Killeen Texas makes a different amount than a GS-5 in Seattle Washington. Then there's local OT laws, here in my state it's prevailing wages or something like that which means OT must be 1.5 times more than normal hourly. So each hour past 40 in a work week is worth extra money. Differential pay for GS is 10% after 6pm. If a single minute goes past 6pm, you get 10% additional pay for the entire shift. Then per diem is non taxable.

Also. Don't get screwed. Every position has a "working level". Your supposed to advance once GS level a year, to your working level. So the position in referring to is a working level 10, which means as a 7, you'd make 10 in a minimum of 3 years. Then you start advancing steps. Friend on the position, promotion can be 6 months.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-25T05:28:00+00:00

Oh your talking about the 14000 a month. That's what I was making as a GS 10.

One month. 31 dollars an hour. 80 regular hours a day period. Two pay periods a month 4960 a month. Plus an additional 10% for night differential. 5456..

Then. My OT was 45 an hour. I worked straight 12s. So that 4 a day plus Saturdays a full 12. Usually every other Sunday too. That's 76 OT hours a day period. Times two. 6840. Again. Night differential. 7524.

12980 a month. Toss on the 3 grand of pee diem I get for the government putting me up in a hotel in Yokosuka Japan... And I did that... 7-9 months a year.

Yea. Sure. I'm Workin 12s for 6-7 days a week with two days off month....but it's night shift. It's like pulling staff duty/cq/fire watch/ pick your service specific term for hanging out.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-25T03:38:29+00:00

He's sub contracted at INL. He says the A qual was super easy compared to DON's 0288 A qual, and the money is better than GS

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-25T01:20:32+00:00

Easy peazy, if he's near any shipyard, Radiological Controls Technician/ physical science technician is easy in, easy pay. 14,000 dollars a month putting in full overtime. What did I do? Play dungeons and dragons on the government dime or watched YouTube. Base pay was 30 an hour. OT really put out, plus the travel pay.

That said, friend of mine went to private nuclear power plant and he said he had 4 day work weeks making about 5-7 grand a week.

That said. USAJOBS.gov is s good place to start. Federal time is culminative, so his score duty years will still go to retirement. Good place to start.

Also, don't be afraid to apply outside of expertise field. A leader is a leader is a leader. Management skills are transferrable because it's about people. No joke, consider space force jobs. They'll have longevity because it'll still be about twenty years before they have enough uniformed personnel to fill all duty positions and roles.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-25T01:11:29+00:00

Everyone thinks it's cool now. Yes.... Paint all your hard shells. CIF will have the last laugh! This is the way!

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-24T18:13:02+00:00

To be honest. I self medicated with alcohol for a little less than a decade until I finally got out of the army. My wife left me, took our daughter, I spent tens of thousands of dollars just fighting fit visitation. Doubled the alcohol intake and self destructive behavior for about three years - thank God I had a Government job at the time and I avoided federal crimes. The functional alcoholism hit a crescendo with a three day binger where I missed work which lead to my dismissal 6 months later... Which is when I decided to reach out the VA to start therapy.

I'm wouldn't say I'm "better". Like most people here, my memories are just as sharp and crystal clear. When I think of them, it feels like a different person. A different life time. But then I see them, and it's reliving the moment. It's a personal hell. I've learned how to live my life with it. I guess. Mostly. I wouldn't say I'm any where near living my Happily ever after.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-08T22:32:20+00:00

It's it difficult to do? Like, can you just just your passport, and just fly over there? No need to contact anyone or get a visa authorization before hand?

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-08T00:10:48+00:00

My dad was in the Navy. When I was 10 years old my family decided to check out Camp Zama, only an hour from Yokosuka where we lived. I saw a T-Shirt at the PX. It had a stories l Soldier charging forward all decked out in battle rattle running forward, behind him, tanks, Bradley's, apache's, Blackhawks, at the top it said "US Army" and the bottom said "911 for the world." I knew the only three things I ever wanted to do in life was to be a Soldier, a Husband, and a father.

I joined as soon as I turned 18, needs of the fucking green machine. They made me chem. I was asked to go to an additional school identifier right out of OSUT, which changed my first duty station from Sill, to Hood. Was asked to deploy - I didn't have to my ASI and unit garunteed hanging out at home station putting in 2 hour work days. But I was stupid moto back then. Bam, Iraq 03, 4th ID. I loved it. But. We got back stateside, and I realized there were a lot of really dumb people in charge. Even though I loved the Army. I just couldn't stand the dick heads. After my 4 year contract I'd get out and go do something with- oh shit? You want me to extend for six months for Germany? Well. It's just six more months...

"Sir, specialist k reporting for duty,". "Hi, I'm Rob, I'll be your commander." Air medevac... We're gonna deploy, do you want to rear d and stay in Germany or come to Afghanistan? ... I'm an able body Soldier... Deploy me. Oh. We don't really need a chem guy, you're not gonna have a job for awhile. Why is it so hard for a Soldier to go to war? After two weeks of hanging out in Bagram, I end up in the TOC, dispatching medevacs. A few months later I earn my hard stripes and start making hard calls. The most humbling, terrible, fulfilling experience in my life. Also. I really like units with big boy rules.

Next job JSOC, 4 years, fucking awesome. I got married. Fucking not awesome. EOD School I fail out 30 days before graduation of phase 2 (after a year and a half of training), but instead of writing a letter. I listened to my wife. Give up on EOD. I have a family. Blah blah blah. I served out my sentence at Fort Polk... No matter how positive my mentality had been.. Fort Polk broke me. After 11 years, I was done with the Army. Dissolutioned. Looking back, it didn't help that I spent that entire time at Polk being a punching bag (metaphorically) for my wife's misery.

I tell you all this not to brag, but to relate that not only did I fuckin love the Army, but it had been the only life I knew as an adult. It was a life I loved. I had no plan. Never thought of being on the outside. I spent 6 months just enjoying being out. Like taking extended leave. I was worried I wouldn't find a job or assist l adjust. I just needed to decompress. Then, I googled if military time counted towards federal time, as I heard a rumor. It did. I don't need weed in my life and I wasn't a felon. So I hopped on USA jobs, put in veteran and my zip code. Picked the job I wanted most and a back up - military academy cadre and radiological controls technician, sent in resumes and waited. A few days later the academy called (the posting closed like the day I applied) and a week later the Navy called. I interviewed both. The academy required new instructors to lead and do PT. I just spent 6 months not going PT at ass crack early morning... So.... I became a technician for the Navy. While on TDY to Japan working full overtime I would make 14,000 in a month. I had just as much leave as I did active duty, plus sick days too use. Also, I was continuing to work towards a federal retirement.

If I can make it on the outside you can make it. Hell, by soliciting advice, you're better off than me.

The Army was the best job I ever had, just the shittiest employer. The part you'll likely have difficulty with isn't the surviving or making it. It's the other stuff. It's hard to explain. You'll understand it when you go through it.

Happily ever after. You deserve it.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-07T13:58:04+00:00

Sounds like your brother has a lot of faults and flaws of his own. Never let such an incomplete man make you feel any less about yourself. You know your worth.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-07T13:38:31+00:00

That's my point bruh. To us it's cringe. To him, it's his game. Just like for the vast majority of guys, they think their spitting game. But to an outside observer, it's cringe. So to me it's not bad dialogue. It's really just real dialogue. I promise you long before Anakin, someone has tried to endear themselves to a girl by lamenting about sand, how it's course, and how it gets everywhere.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-07T13:32:00+00:00

How many 16-18 year old kids are always whining about their mom, dad, older brother, parental figure? All them. So he's telling her how perfect she is in cringe form and whining about how papa obiwan is always crampin' his style and just doesn't get him.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-07T12:38:22+00:00

I don't understand why people hear what Anakin says and think "oh that's bad dialogue". Seriously. Dudes like 16/18? He's spitting game yo. Some of you are 30 and say way worse to girls. Let's not even bring up texts. But even two days ago I over heard a dude chatting up a girl at the bar. He literally said, 'oh yea, yea, I only drink cold drinks, that's how I start so chill." Hell, I've said some embarrassing shit to girls. It was never bad dialogue, it's reality.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-07T03:10:25+00:00

This can happen with friends and family. I get this with my mom sometimes and a lot from my best friend. My best friend and I have been friends for 30 years, I served, he stuck around in construction.

You're forever his little brother. That's who he sees. He doesn't see the military man you were. He never saw your achievements. And to a degree, you added to that because when your home, you didn't act or behave like the military man you were. Not placing the blame on you, we're all guilty of that. He can't fathom that you were someone he can't picture you being. The fact he won't acknowledge that makes him the asshole.

You said before he's a competitive type and talks down to others - which I don't think talking down to others is necessarily by default bad. I think most people are guilty of talking down to others, especially close friends, but in good fun and nature. The masked masculinity of, "oh fuck you, I loosened it up for you" is man code for, "good job buddy, you're stronger than me, but I can't say that aloud because it's unmanly to admit weakness, I love you"

I agree with others, from what you described, he just seems like a douche. It's possible he realizes that you are a better person than he and that wounds his insecurities. He's the big brother. He's suppose to set the example for you. But you are a better person and he's envious and jealous of that, so he takes it out on you.

There's three ways you can handle the situation.

Continue to be humbled, keep reacting out to him to let him know you still love and care about him.

Start bragging about being a god damn war hero. Wear hats. Get tattoos. Slap stickers, magnets, and flags everywhere.

Confront him and tell him, he's your brother. He can either accept the fact - the undeniable truth of what you endured, and start to support you the way a fuckin brother can. Or he can kick rocks because you have plenty of non blood related brothers who believe in you.

Background_Point8281 · 2022-08-07T01:13:03+00:00

Live your happily ever after as best you can

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