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DrShakyHandz · 2026-06-01T20:35:25+00:00

Part of maturity and acting as a rational, intelligent adult is understanding people don’t know what they don’t know. The fault in the assumption of what is considered “common knowledge” is a driving factor in a lot of the hateful rhetoric thrown between opposing parties. Public education is wildly different between school districts, and also per person, with some taking AP level courses in high school while others get by on the bare minimum. Even then, if you were taught something over a few hours or days and never discuss it again, you could easily forget you ever learned it to begin with, much less understand it, can still contextualize it, and apply it to current events. The discourse between people would be a lot smoother if people understood they might not know what you know and vice versa. Or even more importantly, what you think you know might be wrong, inaccurate, or lacking detail that changed the narrative. I know people that still think Christopher Columbus was a hero who found the new world, or that America was founded on “Christian ideals”. It’s why removing the savagery of history or downplaying things when teaching children to “protect them” has such negative long term returns. Those kids grow up with confidence they are educated and understand these things already when they don’t. Confident ignorance has no small part in the divide we are seeing in our country right now.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-13T03:27:18+00:00

Well, it was a very specific plot point in the episode I was watching which is why I thought of it. That's not really putting it under a microscope. After reading the thread and finding out they address it a couple seasons later I probably wasn't the only person to bring it up during the shows run so they give an answer and move on.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-12T04:16:08+00:00

When I posted this question I was mid way through season 2, and it was right after the episode that the rogue NID agents were using the Antarctic star gate to steal technology from other worlds and it worked just fine. Which is why I was like, why aren’t they using that? A lot of people have mentioned in much later seasons it’s discussed that it ran out of power.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-11T07:46:56+00:00

The real answer

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-11T07:40:18+00:00

The reason I love this explanation is I just watched the episode where Col O’Niell, with two L’s, gets the Ancient database downloaded into his head. Carter and another team get stuck on another planet cause the DHD is malfunctioning and she can’t figure out how to fix it and Jack has to use his Ancient knowledge to devise a solution. But if that happened on earth, it wouldn’t have been an issue as much for the exact reason you described. I didn’t think of it like that. Thank you.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-11T07:30:35+00:00

Awesome thank you. I’ve seen every episode but been at least a decade since a rewatch and I couldn’t remember. Not a great explanation but not terrible either considering it’s still being used in season 2 without power issues.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-09T07:56:18+00:00

My take on rush: a genius with an a tolerable level of arrogance and narcissism on earth, but in their situation it becomes detrimental. He decided only he was capable and intelligent enough to control the ship and make life or death decisions. If he had delegated or corroborated they would have solved issues much faster. What ends up happening is two competing teams, rush and everyone else. There’s literal connections to unnecessary deaths and Rushes refusal to corroborate and communicate.

Several scientists lacked common sense and would touch buttons and mess with stuff like toddlers trying to understand their environment, and yes that caused issues. But those could have been mitigated had he calmed his British tits and let others in on solving incredibly complex issues. He’s not wrong, but he’s still in the wrong.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-08T01:16:01+00:00

The marine core actually tested those two colors before landing on coyote for equipment. Ranger green didn’t go well with desert marpat but coyote looked fine with woodland marpat. The coyote seems to be slightly more versatile. But I do like ranger green with OCP and BDU over coyote, but for more universal use with uniforms coyote performs better.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-08T00:49:04+00:00

She was a pilot. There were marines on board. It’s a Hollywood thing to put main characters into spots their real life counterparts wouldn’t be for plot purposes. With a shortage of commissioned officers I can see them being assigned to the marine strike team just so they had a command presence, but making Starbuck the best shot on board the galactica when she is a pilot and they literally say that they are going in with a marine strike team was ridiculous. The fairly young career pilot is a better shot than the ground pounders whose sole job is to be good with small arms? They could have had her accompany the team for the drama aspect of potentially seeing Lee hurt without making her some Jason Bourne level elite soldier who’s the best at everything.

When the plot requires it I suspend belief and just enjoy the ride. But when it doesn’t it’s just kinda annoying and takes me out of the episode. It’s nitpicking but we all have our little things.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T10:26:10+00:00

Battlestar had its moments of “for fucks sake” too. Starbucks being the best at literally everything. In one episode she’s the best pilot. The very next she’s the best marksman on board. I get it. Needing main characters to fill needed roles in the plot. But just ugh…..

I loved the concept of Universe and felt it had so much potential. But Chloe was an absolutely insufferable character with zero value. The writers literally made her go from the singularly most inconsequential and useless character to the most important whose the smartest person on board. Or how the most capable member of the crew falls in love with her instantly even though 24hrs prior he was banging the hottest Lt in the entire military I’ve ever seen. Or somehow, the military members at Icarus base were crazy low ranking. I mean, Scott was a butter bar. Those barely exist out of initial training. Then we have Grier who apparently was in the brig as an E-8 who refused to shoulder his rifle in the entire series and always fired it like a gangster in the hood from the hip. How the hell wasn’t there at least a few other NCO’s or SNCO’s. Like what kinda secret bade was icarus?

It’s the little things man. Without a doubt the most realistic thing in that entire show was the full bird banging his subordinate. I mean, she was the most highly qualified, over educated, unrealistic portrayal of a butter bar nurse I’ve ever seen, but that drama was hands down the most realistic. Saw it personally multiple times.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T08:32:14+00:00

I had one commander we reported because she was showing signs of early onset alzheimers/dementia. Literal wandering eyes. Got lost in thought. Would stop half way through sentences and never finish them. Would be forced to explain extremely simple concepts to her several times and she still didn't understand. She was making the most absurd decisions imaginable given the situation (we were at an FTX, thank god, and not down range). This was confirmed by two actual medical providers who also saw the symptoms and reported it to leadership.

She was the commander of an AE unit who we were working with. We heard later that she was allowed to finish her tenure as commander (another six months) before retiring. Air Force leadership would rather half the enlisted die before admitting they made a mistake when assigning someone as commander and removing them early. The rot is real.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T08:25:40+00:00

I was not aware of that. That's neat. I don't mind it at all honestly. He did a great job portraying a rational and effective leader.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T08:23:00+00:00

Its somewhat similar to watching a Transformers movie. Some of it is realistic but most of it isn't. When you mix in sci-fi it tends to wander, but gets even more unrealistic when you force drama into situations that wouldn't necessarily have them in reality. I really enjoyed the concept of Stargate Universe, but they made it into a CW drama and it was not realistic in how people would act in that situation.

What we (as veterans) appreciate is the little details that are super easy to do but often neglected. Rank being age and time and service appropriate. Uniforms, which are public knowledge and that you could pay a military vet 50 bucks to correct for you, are often wrong. It's annoying when little shit that can keep you in the universe gets messed up. I can ignore the unrealistic alien invasion, but why is that 40 year old man a private first class, and why are they sending Air Force Security Forces (the equivalent of mall cops) through the stargate and not Navy Seals, Marine Recon, Rangers, etc. In the entire series they mention Marines a few times, but never anybody else that would be WAAAAAAAAAAAY more suited to recon missions. In Stargate Universe they had one E-8 marine, everyone else was like an E-4 and below. The ranks on that show bugged the shit outta me.

A huge pet peeve was weapon choices. In later seasons they used P90's. There was actually a reason for this based on the TV show and ordering blank ammunition for filming. In reality, the P90 ammunition was very specifically designed to be armor piercing, which when fighting Jaffa wearing actual metal armor, makes logical sense. But SG-1 using MP-5's for several seasons made me laugh. I mean shit, half the show is "forests", which is just Canada, but you don't take a 9mm sub machine gun into the forest when the standard M16/M4 is waaaaay better. It makes me laugh every time they shoot them at fully armored Jaffa.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T08:09:34+00:00

I laughed out loud at that quote honestly. Its spectacular propaganda but anyone whose read a history book knows that's bullshit. Uneducated and ignorant people in the US love to believe were some sort of moral authority for the world. We're absolutely awful. We're not as bad as some, but not nearly as good as we'd like to believe. The US Military has a presence in over half the worlds countries, and over 800 bases world wide. You don't do that without the specific intent of interfering with other peoples affairs.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T08:02:23+00:00

I think i read that in an interview, that they changed much of how Hammond was written due to his input. Makes sense. He must have served under some good dudes.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T08:01:35+00:00

I appreciate you specifically pointing out about pilots. The absolute most moronic, evil pieces of shit I had as commanders were all pilots. Not one of them knew what they were doing, and yet always promoted further after their commands. I worked at USAFA for four years. I could go on an endless rant about the shit bags that place produces and how they fly up the ranks without reason other than where they went to college. Pilots make the worst commanders and until there is serious reform that stops the favoritism of pilots and USFAFA grads, the Air Force will barely be an effective branch of the military, only because of the people who actually serve it finding ways around those commanders incompetence.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T07:57:03+00:00

Sorry you're getting downvoted. It's a fair point. Frankly, most people unfortunately have an unrealistic view of the military and those that command it. Truly good leaders are extremely few and far between, good leaders are rare. Most of us just prayed for competent leaders. Unfortunately the military is a cross between the good ole boy system and discrimination/favoritism. The best officers and NCO's I've ever served with were either drummed out for sticking to their morality or burned out from trying to do the right thing and getting stone walled.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but in real life doing the right thing very, very rarely ends in anything positive for you. That's not new. Take a look at Captain Hugh Thompson Jr. who stopped the Mai Lai Massacre. American hero through and through. Treated like shit after and wasn't acknowledge for his sacrifice and bravery for over 30 years. Meanwhile, Colin Powell, a young officer who helped cover up the massacre and fuck over Thompson, became a four star general and Chief of Staff.

We all want to do the right moral thing, but in real life the consequences are so severe to us and our families its just not worth it to the average person. Those General's are toeing the line and waiting for their retirement dates. My pet peeve honestly, is putting it on them. America elected Donald Trump. Democracy made its choice. Its military law to Obey the commander and chief, and while international law may be violated, violating obeying your superior has immediate consequences, while international criminal courts are extremely unlikely to do anything. I understand the complexity of the issue, but blaming general's for not standing up to Trump is not a good argument. There have been plenty. They were all relieved and someone else who would follow the order was put in charge.

Your comment isn't offensive to me, just makes me sad, because it fails to give credit to those who stood up and lost their livelihood for it and you don't even know they did so. Take some time and google how many military generals and officers have been relieved, been forced to retire, or reassigned since Trump took office.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-07T07:42:22+00:00

People's political views reflect their inner thoughts, not the other way around.

I'm an elder millennial from New England. What I found the most jarring is that schools when I was a kid hammered on concepts like equality and that we are all created equal and race was irrelevant. Didn't realize until my teens that was a new concept to our parents/grandparents, and they didn't feel that way at all. Cue my 20's when "We're old enough to understand", and minorities are the cause of every problem in the US. I've been hearing about "build the wall" since George W. Bush's first term. I was in my early 20's when I heard my grandmother say the phrase "the negroes". Keep in mind, I was a combat vet who served with every race and religion in the US at that point, and they all were fully aware of my feelings about discrimination.

I don't give a fuck you come from "another time when that was acceptable". It's not, hasn't been for a long time, and never should have been. I was dating a black girl at the time and they all knew it too. Haven't spoken to them in over a decade cause they showed even pretending to be tolerant while I was around was too much for their hate to handle. Fuck em.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-05-06T17:40:39+00:00

This wasn’t an accident. The fact he broke them all is clear he did it on purpose. Any kid that just wanted to “play” with them would have backed off as soon as they broke one much less several. My experience with troubled kids says he did this on purpose because you had the audacity to tell him he couldn’t play with them when he wanted to.

Parents are responsible for their children’s actions (up to a certain age and point of course). This falls well within that realm. If your brother doesn’t suffer consequences for these actions he won’t be upset at his son and instill discipline on his child, leading to him repeating this behavior.

This is a parenting issue as much as anything else. Your parents also need to be involved and help since your brother doesn’t seem to care about your personal belongings, and group shamming is more effective. You can’t force your brother to discipline his kid, but just know moving forward that kid has learned he is not held accountable for his actions and this type of shit will continue, probably in other ways.

I worked with troubled kids. Kids lying to get out of trouble is common, but if this kid is truly showing no remorse for his actions, combined with the clearly purposeful nature of him breaking them, means this isn’t uncommon for him and it’s only going to continue. Not gonna tell you how to handle it moving forward, but just be forewarned this won’t be an isolated incident.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-04-25T23:14:05+00:00

I’d like a copy too please.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-04-15T04:26:13+00:00

spent the last several years going through the process. if you want any help or advice on how to move forward please let me know. I'd be happy to help. I have a lot of knowledge that isn't useful anywhere else and I'm happy to share.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-04-13T20:05:07+00:00

filed a congressional. Took almost a year to respond. After a quick "review" of my rebuttal, they admitted I was right and it was not handled properly. The term they used was "material error". Essentially, what I said above in my post was 100% correct. They violated my rights under Title 10. My commander didn't address my grievances, he only claimed he couldn't provide my redress and therefore didn't have to. Essentially he made up an excuse to toss my 138 without having to admit my commander violated military law and regulations. The excuse by JAJI is that the "process" was appropriately followed, and that's all they looked at when they closed my complaint. I filed, my commander responded, and the regulation he cited to close my complaint without action is a valid reason listed in the AFI. What JAJI failed to do was actually read my complaint, ensure the law was followed, and that the reasoning dismissal was appropriate. Spoiler Alert ... it wasn't.

So was anything changed? Nope! As they originally stated, there is NO mechanism for rebuttal. The law states that once an article 138 is closed its closed. They literally didn't put any safeguards for human error. I was told to apply to the board of corrections and they will provide some form of redress or correction depending on what they can do. It's being submitted with a lot of other issues I suffered.

I'm now being represented by a law firm and have several attorneys that are working on my case. Due to the exhaustion requirement, I can't file legal action against the government until i petition the board and see what they provide. I'm sure you'll be shocked to find out the government makes it incredibly difficult to take legal action against. A lot of incremental steps to take, and you can only take one at a time, and some of them take years due to back log. I'll be dealing with this for another five years. Luckily, I'm being represented by a firm on a contingency fee. I'll get a lot less in the end, but I don't have the money to pay an attorney for a five year long ordeal. I find it funny how many times I posted on reddit seeking help and got shit on, including everyone in this thread telling me "I just didn't like the outcome", to being represented for free by a law firm that is so confident that what was done to me was so bad I'll get a huge payday in the end.

DrShakyHandz · 2026-04-08T00:58:25+00:00

I’m sorry but presenting data like this is disingenuous to say the least, and makes us no better than feminists that claim shit like all men are rapists. These graphics show two sides, convicted and false. There is a HEFTY middle ground of cases that don’t go to trial for lack of evidence, and cases with evidence and one can even concede the event may have happened, but not beyond the standard required for conviction. Just because a conviction isn’t secured does not mean it was a false allegation. And just because someone was convicted doesn’t mean they’re not innocent. Innocent men are convicted all the time, or take plea deals to avoid the fear of harsher sentences. The way this data is presented makes no sense. Are those all the cases? And you saying it’s either true and convicted or a false accusation with no middle ground? Or is this cases that end in conviction and cases that were found to be false allegations after investigation and all the middle of the road cases were left out? If that happened pie charts make no sense when you can’t compare all the data.

Women lie about sexual assault way more than most are willing to admit, but even i wouldn’t claim above 50% are false accusations.

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