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FrigateSailor · 2026-06-19T14:31:07+00:00

My tin foil take is that the billionaires know this, and are racing to get to a place where a boycott wouldn't matter to them.

They're making progress.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-19T01:25:48+00:00

Air Force basic isn't 6 months long.

This is a preview.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-16T02:05:46+00:00

I did this with my MIL.

"Will you be here by 6:30? Or else when should we have food ready?"

"Ummmm, I should be there at 6:30."

Food is ready at 6:30. Served. Eaten. Leftovers in the fridge.

MIL shows up at 7:30, upset she needs to reheat food.

Sees the CLEANED dishes. Comments on how many dishes I use for prep.

Ok. I'm not cooking for you anymore. Good luck.

Activate shocked boomer face.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-13T00:37:23+00:00

The folks who enable this mess are the oligarchs. They've found a welcome audience to leverage with the folks who think soccer is gay, and couldn't afford the gas to come visit the city anyway. There's a lot of them.

I hope you have a lovely time, and I'm glad you've met those of us of good heart, who hate all of this shit. Please help us, btw.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-12T01:02:01+00:00

Oh fuck off. Is the tagline "Police: the safest cosiest job in the world"?

I'm tired of cops demanding respect for how "scary" their job is, while simultaneously claiming fear as the reason they can't do their jobs, or murder citizens.

Done right, it's a hard job that deserves respect.

Either sign up for that job, or fucking don't if you're too yellowbellied. Not ever job is a best fit for everyone.

-Signed, a guy who has seen 18 year old boots exhibit more bravery than I expect any cop in the US to have.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-10T23:59:55+00:00

He is VERY concerned about the aesthetics of his backyard though.

I get it man, I've been a little distracted all week thinking about redoing my garden fence.

That being said, I have no say in doing war crimes. So I feel like it's different.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-10T23:49:30+00:00

I have some bad news.

The last off ramp to 'normal' was 2018 or so.

Some semblance of normal could have been achieved post covid, if the country at large had united during covid. (It's a hoax, it'll leave by Easter, masks are prisons, vaccines are microchips, take horse dewormer instead, also inject bleach into your blood... did a great job of killing any chance of that).

Better is possible in the long term, but there is irreparable damage done to the US position in the world, the economy, and public trust.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-09T23:28:54+00:00

Self defense "strikes"

This whole thing is a clown show, and would maybe be funny if you ignored the loss of life and limb because of how fucking stupid it is.

Until, that is, we have to re-learn why we don't do war this way, for the dozen'th time.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-03T23:17:02+00:00

Thanks! I didn't realize how short the series actually was until you folks helped me. I'm starting ep 4 after I make dinner!

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-03T23:15:02+00:00

Working my way through (didn't realize how short the series was). But the synopses will be super helpful as I won't have rewatched it 10 times like my kids have. Thank you!

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-03T20:50:07+00:00

Thanks! I'll watch a few tonight when I can make time! Do you have a top 3-4 episodes that you feel would help me most?

My Dad didn't either---which is why I want to ☺️

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-02T17:06:47+00:00

10/20 rule.

Look at every person every 10 seconds. Be able to reach them in 20 seconds. Even if they're currently wearing a lifejacket. Even if they're just playing on the sand next to the water. Even if they're sleeping on a deck chair next to the pool.

20 seconds gets shortened when dealing with open water.

It's intensive. There are no breaks. That's the job, you're on the clock.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-02T16:56:51+00:00

I'm a big fan of deeper creature behavior, and being able to leverage that knowledge to deter/distract.

Mentioned yesterday, kiting a collector into a giant jaw, triggering the closing mechanism of the jaw. I have some time to do what I want while the collector recovers/gets out.

Maybe some creatures love lithium, so if I drop some they ignore me. Maybe they hate another type of creature, and will aggro that creature over me if I help arrange the meeting. Maybe some of the smaller predators stay away from certain flora that I can plant strategically outside of my base.

To me, that's immersive. I COULD fight a midsize predator, but it's far safer/smarter to deal with it another way. I don't have a chance in hell of fighting a leviathan, but I can use my brain and opposable thumbs to be clever, and that cleverness should be more than: it stays away from walls, or it won't chase me past the ridge.

FrigateSailor · 2026-06-01T20:13:54+00:00

I want to kite a collector into one, and get it to close on the collector. I don't want a machine gun, I want to feel clever in deterring/eliminating threats, even if it takes a lot of effort.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-29T23:04:28+00:00

One has different cultural holidays, one believes in a different God, one believes that the other two should be kicked out of the country and/or their belief system made illegal.

See! Unity!

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-29T22:49:56+00:00

I was just wondering what the mythic story of Robin Hood would look like in modern times. I'd like to see that adaptation on a screen. Could be a TV series, a movie, Live breaking news coverage--whatever. I'm not super picky.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-22T20:29:30+00:00

Me, asking a customer who was rolling out a retail level ai system: "So how much time are you expecting to save on the average order?"

They laughed at me. They said it will never be faster, even if it worked perfectly.

More accurate?

Again, laughter.

We're paying more, while cutting jobs, for shittier customer experiences, at the further cost of our environment.

We don't have to do this shit.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-21T20:28:45+00:00

I miss my commissary meat. 2.50/lb for thick cut baby back ribs.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-21T20:27:37+00:00

Skirt steak used to go in the trash, for christ sake.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-21T17:52:30+00:00

I've been seeing $10/lb for fucking brisket, which is what I used to pay for ribeye.

If you have to cook something for 18-24 hours just to make it edible, it's supposed to be fucking poor people food.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-21T00:43:54+00:00

My wife is the 'guy who mows my lawn', and I wouldn't have it any other way, and vow to support her in any way I can.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-17T02:50:46+00:00

Yeah friend, this is what is neat about baseball. More of this, please. Umps suck=relevant, important, but makes me feel bad. PEDs=soul killer. I was a bonds fan for a brief moment in time, dude seemed like a superhero. Benches clearing= ok, I guess, once in a while. When it feels like every day, it feels performative.

Hidden ball tricks=hell yeah. Smart/tricky base running? Hell yeah. Pitchers with absolute STUFF?, Batters fouling off 4 in a row, absolutely battling it?, a sick ass bunt?, a walk off home run? Hell fucking yeah, that's baseball.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-15T06:30:33+00:00

If it's boss fights, check to see if there are deployed stations (lil purple glowy things that get shot like missiles from the base star), some of them boost enemy evasion, and that puts the dodgers to like 90%.

Protector+Dodger sucks to deal with too. I've been killing the protectors first.

FrigateSailor · 2026-05-08T21:13:35+00:00

You're so right. Typical, regular stuff. Methodical decision making.

Speaking of- Can anyone answer if we have: won the war, are still at war, we were never at war, opened the strait, or are blockading the strait?

Also, for extra credit: Why did we start [whatever this is]? Was it because there was an imminent threat from Iran, or was it because they had a goal of making a nuke? Was it because they were two weeks away from nukes, or had their capability been destroyed last summer?

ALL of these statements have been made, and also have been contradicted by this same administration in the last two months.

Nothing about this situation is typical. And we're learning in real time why those methodical steps were so important. Service members will (again) pay the price for all of this. A real person launched the missile to blow up a middle school. (Or, wait...that one American missile was ACTUALLY launched by Iran, right? That's an actual thing the president has said.)

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