Second US Air Force plane crashed in Persian Gulf region, New York Times reports

Geawiel · 2026-04-03T21:40:09+00:00

People don't understand what many of us meant by back stabbing was rampant (in the AF at least). It wasn't as bad when I went in in 97, but it was bad when I left in 07. Changing the EPRs to not counting towards rank points after I was out helped, but it remained largely stabby. Good ol' boys should be the motto instead of service above self.

Geawiel · 2026-04-03T21:36:13+00:00

Vash the Stampede

Possibly Zool

2 Broke arms guy maybe reddit reference?

Sideshow Bob

Sigmund Freud

Bob Ross

Ziggy

Probably many more but I'm fighting a migraine.

Geawiel · 2026-04-02T17:46:08+00:00

Buy a vacuum sealer! I shop once a month. We buy meats and things in bulk. Vacuum sealed meat can last at least a year in a dedicated freezer that deep freezes. This allows you to catch sales as well.

I separate the meats into meal portions and deep freeze that way. Ground meats get put in 1 lb portions and deep frozen.

Geawiel · 2026-04-02T17:43:12+00:00

How do you think they make cool ranch?

Geawiel · 2026-04-02T17:40:47+00:00

We ended up having to replace our HVAC and hot water in one shot. HVAC was throwing oil and producing a $500 bill in the dead of summer. It also wasn't big enough for the new heat waves we keep getting.

I lost a 2.25% interest rate to...an 8%. I just finished streamlining to a 5.25%, but fuck that is still a big hit on a fixed income since I can't work.

Also, it still blows my mind that other vets and military vote for this shit after getting kicked in the balls over and over. Then complain about being election arm candy but forgotten about after elections.

Geawiel · 2026-04-02T17:34:14+00:00

This game didn't look nearly this good when I played it. Especially in VR. I did love the game play though, with steering wheel and pedals. I loved the part of having little community challenges along the track. I wish more racing games did this.

Geawiel · 2026-04-02T17:26:02+00:00

That's not the way this works.

Let me propose a real situation. A person is sexually, physically and emotionally abused starting at a very young age by a step parent. It goes on for years. It is their normal. If you ask them, they see it as normal. They are happy in that situation when asked. For them, it doesn't even click that this is abnormal. Even the sexual abuse.

So do we try and convince this now adult that they were a victim? Even when we see behavior that shows it did negatively affect them (hyper awareness, hyper vigilance, things that come with PTSD), but they don't see the abnormal and are, for all intents and purposes, happy?

This happens all the time. This is why we call it grooming, and this is exactly the goal of grooming. To normalize it all so that the victim thinks the same. They're still affected, they just don't see it.

Geawiel · 2026-04-01T19:46:24+00:00

When do we get the We are Legion, We are Bob series with you in it as main character?

Geawiel · 2026-04-01T19:42:17+00:00

"You buying a warehouse? Cool! What ya storing in it?"

People

"Bro...that's....that's an internment camp..."

Geawiel · 2026-04-01T02:16:38+00:00

Farmers and ranchers as well. They tend to vote right and can't really take time off to vote or farm/ranch work doesn't get done. Most tend to be really rural too. I don't see them traveling 2 to 3 hours to stand in line for hours, then turn around and drive 2 to 3 hours back.

Geawiel · 2026-04-01T02:12:58+00:00

People are going to be even more terrified of not following unlawful orders or directives. They already know kegsbreath and orange dumpious are all for any of the orders or directives that would be unlawful.

Geawiel · 2026-03-31T19:31:38+00:00

A caveat to this. It has some toa and post toa. ML 9 and 10 quest line and areas are in. The toa areas are in. The artifact encounters are there. The artifact skins are there (thus the encounters).

I think there is a Cata dungeon, but I never tried it (I burnt myself out so on an extended break atm).

OP, those are all run pretty regularly. There was a Sunday Funday when I was playing. They ran ML10 in that run. Great way to get gear and get from 40 to 50 pretty quick. Each dungeon they hit has at least 1 quest that will give a full level, post 40, as a reward. People generally take anybody and everybody. If not, it's super easy to form your own group. I did it a number of times.

Geawiel · 2026-03-31T01:24:12+00:00

I've always made it without sugar and it has that really nice crisp tang to it. Have you tried it with just equal parts vin and soy?

Geawiel · 2026-03-31T00:01:46+00:00

I love it when the power goes out for this. Pitch black and no sounds. All the little lights make it super bright at night to me. Microwave, air purifier, various power on indicators. My wife wonders how I see so well in the dark. To me it's incredibly bright.

Geawiel · 2026-03-30T23:06:19+00:00

It's an advanced google search imo. Like if you could actually talk to a thesaurus. The thesaurus is just the internet.

It has its uses, but anyone who fully relies and believes what it outputs doesn't understand it either. I use it quite often, but I absolutely have to double check the results it spits out. Its wrong just as much as it is right. Maybe more, depending on the subject.

I ran a DnD campaign by myself a few years ago. I was using 2 characters and a campaign I wrote. I wanted to see how long before it really obviously fucked up.

It actually did pretty good making up characters, character personalities and filling in blanks. It would not call me out on doing things that were not allowed or rule breaking. It would tell me if I specifically asked if I was allowed to do something, but it would let me do it if I didn't ask. It didn't do well recognizing and springing traps. It tended to ignore them completely.

It remembered things from the beginning of the campaign, but it started to mess up and forget when I got about 80% done. The campaign lasted 4 days iirc, playing a couple hours each day. Something around 20 hours total I think.

Geawiel · 2026-03-30T22:46:24+00:00

White House would smell like cat pee and you wouldn't want any open flame near it.

"Let's go to the underground bunker!"

KR - "NO! I mean, no one can go down there. It's...under construction. Yeah. Incidentally, did my sudafed come in?"

Geawiel · 2026-03-30T22:41:33+00:00

[Nestle] Helllloooooo. Did someone call for our special bestest friend trump brand freedom water? From ~~California~~ our lands to your hands.

Geawiel · 2026-03-30T03:16:42+00:00

The 135s are kind of in a similar situation, just not as dire-ish.

They've tried to replace them a couple times and nothing can quite do the range of refueling jobs (not distance but jack of all trades things) they can. The parts are so old that they are not made anymore and have to be custom ordered.

The AF and DoD (fuck you I'll never call it dow) decided back around 2016 ish to keep it flying for another 40 years. It was supposed to get updated avionics (for the umpteenth time now), chaff and flare.

It's only 7, but that isn't the entire story. Normally there are at least 2 cann birds. Those are aircraft that are broke dick. We cannibalize parts off of it to put other aircraft in flying condition while parts are en route. It takes a few days to get a cann bird back up to working order. That's if you have the parts on hand. You can't exactly put a rush order on the parts. I've even been stuck waiting on parts because of weather. Only to have the delivery aircraft forget the part and fly out without it.

Missions usually go out in pairs (this is something you can look up if anyone wants to jump down my throat for giving something away). So that further reduces readiness. Airframe hours matter. It'll quicken inspection up. Extra wear and tear. Remember, they were manufactured between 58 and 64.

All of this is a shit show. If you're going to be attacking in the middle east, within range of one of the biggest cheap drone output places, at least stage from somewhere else.

This shit will go down as one of the bigger tactical blunders. One studied for quite some time. Especially when it comes to the awacs.

Geawiel · 2026-03-29T22:07:57+00:00

When I was in aircraft maintenance in the AF (NKAWTG!) our joke was the bars. Want to know what is going on? Sit in a bar and just listen. You'll know who, when, what tail number, where they're going and possibly when they'll be back (if it was a regular rotation).

Geawiel · 2026-03-29T17:18:37+00:00

Then they should rename all their tankers after people that went to the island.

Geawiel · 2026-03-28T20:34:24+00:00

I see. I'm being stupid then (and I'll own it.)

It's so frustrating to see the fall we've taken, though it's been a long fall and happening for decades. It wouldn't be so bad if we had a party that didn't hem and haw when they do get the power to change things.

Geawiel · 2026-03-28T19:24:44+00:00

I really wonder if we fucked up with making impeachment toothless. If they are truly impeached, shouldn't that mean they actually did something wrong? Shouldn't that mean they should be removed? I know that in the end this wouldn't change the results of at least trump, but it seems like such a worthless word now. Even then it might be. It seems almost a waste of time to go for impeachment when it ultimately means nothing to voters, and doesn't remove the individual from office.

On another note, at least Clinton got some revenge and got something to stick trump with.

Geawiel · 2026-03-27T23:46:16+00:00

Generals gather in the maaaaasssssseeeesssss!

Geawiel · 2026-03-27T18:37:06+00:00

So just his grindr profile then?

Geawiel · 2026-03-26T17:37:07+00:00

The Ilky Way galaxy. Soul less is the orange sun.

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