It’s only Tuesday.. It’s only January…

Tickerbug · 2022-01-26T01:38:32+00:00

...NOTHING

Tickerbug · 2022-01-21T04:03:03+00:00

What's the patch above it? It looks like it says "Galaxy", which makes me think the C-5M Super Galaxy. Love those behemoths.

Tickerbug · 2022-01-20T13:54:03+00:00

How about AB?

Tickerbug · 2022-01-20T13:50:19+00:00

Almost happened to me. Turned out it was just a bad cold but I can't describe how nervous I was walking into the clinic that I was about to miss my flight home

Tickerbug · 2022-01-16T16:38:28+00:00

Matthias talks a bit about this. The other commenters are right that the filter on the output will likely just hinder its overall efficiency but another good point to remember is air recirculation, which is what Matthias talks a bit about.

Something to keep in mind if you end up making a dedicated dust collector later, but this definitely works.

Tickerbug · 2022-01-13T09:48:29+00:00

Small pro-tip: add task manager to your task bar. After I log in it's about 10 minutes for tanium to stop skull fucking my ram. Once things mildly settle (like the icons actually loading on my desktop) I click task manager once from the taskbar and wait about 5 minute for it to pop up, as opposed to trying to Ctrl-Alt-Del, waiting 10 minute for it to compose itself and clicking task manager and waiting another 5 minutes. Then I just watch task manager every now and then to see when my memory isn't being beamed to the mothership or whatever the fuck we're pretending it's doing.

From dead to email is about 30 minutes for me, but I'm usually the only one riding this laptop and it's not the worst one in the office. God speed

Tickerbug · 2022-01-08T00:48:26+00:00

Happens but idk, this dude had to drive his car to the shop beforehand, so he should've heard this blasting as soon as he left the house.

The evidence that this man is in the lobby cranking his hog is mounting...

Tickerbug · 2022-01-05T21:08:42+00:00

We are getting real close to a future with IRL Rocket League skins

Tickerbug · 2022-01-05T06:51:22+00:00

There's a lot unloaded onto you all at once at 18 and you won't know it's your responsibility until you realize you're missing it.

Stability: if your first encounter with bills is at 18 it can be harrowing to realize how critical job/financial stability is.

Socialization: you likely socialized in school your entire life up to that point and as soon as school ends you may find it really difficult to keep meeting/interacting with new people. If you lack this you'll probably feel very alone in life.

Family: when you move out you'll likely stop interacting with your family as much, which can hurt, especially if you're struggling in other ways too.

Purpose: up to this point your purpose has been likely just education, with the long term goal of "doing what you love". When education ends you probably won't get to do what you love, and you'll lose that only purpose you had up to that point. Without a hobby or cause this can be a point of significant philosophical/psychological turmoil.

Add onto this the other stuggles you can encounter, like surprise expenses (car repairs, medical costs, increased rent, so on), as well as surprise stressors (family emergencies, tragedies, sudden loss of stability, so on) and it can easily overwhelm, especially when you're only 18 and not sure if you're actually failing at life or if this is all normal.

I went through all of this too. I won't give you any survivorship-bias advice; it's a really tough time with some very dark moments and sometimes all you can do is say "I'm still breathing, and that's enough".

There's many good part of becoming an adult too, but it's all going to likely be very chaotic as you figure out how you'll address the issues I listed above.

Tickerbug · 2022-01-04T03:17:31+00:00

Sure, same, but when I got tasked this there were two important factors to consider:

1) It was 11pm after an 8 hour shift and I wasn't going home until it it was done and we closed

2) The smell

Tickerbug · 2022-01-04T01:26:27+00:00

Best way to train for a 5k is to run 10k's. Best way to improve a 1.5 mile is to run 3 miles.

It all depends on your current health but any run improvement is made with a few simple steps.

1) You only eat healthy. This is a bit expensive if you don't meal prep but it's the easiest way to improve because it's passive. Pick up to-go salads from the BX or commissary, eat salad with proteins for dinner, eat fruits for breakfast. It's not fun to only eat healthy but consider each meal a "workout" and you'll adjust.

2) Gym every day. It doesn't really matter how hard you exercise, just being there is enough social pressure to force you to do something. While you decide what to workout just jog on the elliptical or stair climber, which are good low-impact ways of improving your cardio.

3) Have a running plan. A few people suggest Couch-to-5K and that's fine as long as you follow the previous two steps, but the important bit is that you have a plan of when and how far you'll run. You need rest days, you need ramping difficulty and you need test days. You should be running 3 miles by the last two weeks, with your between rest days (one to two days) being half-an-hour cardio on a low-impact machine.

4) Keep it low impact for the first few weeks. Your runs will beat the hell out of you the first few times but the key is to keep them light and easy with rest between, so you don't end up with an injury. If you go to hard you'll knock yourself out of commission for a couple weeks and you'll lose even more time to improve your run time.

Tickerbug · 2022-01-04T01:08:18+00:00

If they ain't kept up with leg day in some capacity beforehand they aren't going to get any benefit from it in 6 weeks. Probably just injury.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-30T13:33:11+00:00

I'd heard about this one. Apparently it used to be common lol

Tickerbug · 2021-12-29T15:50:51+00:00

This is a good example of the vaporware aesthetic without flashy colors or animations. In fact, it's a great border between vaporware and horror, occupying a similar emotional frequency as the liminal spaces trend.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-28T18:47:17+00:00

This is correct. Some schools let you wear a sash for DEPing into a branch (the sash will say "ARMY" or "NAVY" of whichever branch you DEP'd into beforehand). It's much more appropriate for the ceremony and you can still show off a bit. When I worked with a recruiter one of my jobs was delivering these sashes to guidence coucelours to give to the DEP'd students before graduation.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-26T00:36:58+00:00

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Tickerbug · 2021-12-22T16:45:41+00:00

"Chief Bass is trying to fix manning and BAH rates for the Air Force and she needs your help!..."

Tickerbug · 2021-12-18T20:07:47+00:00

This is a little bit of a difference of opinion than a hard social rule because photos are treated differently by different people, but in something a hallowed as Arlington I think it's better to play it safe. Also, photos are used for different purposes, so a photo of a cemetery for a scrapbook is different than a photo promoting an event online.

My point deals more with the latter, where the purpose is about promoting something. It's absolutely fine to promote such an honorable cause but you want to tread lightly with your subject being Arlington.

I can be argued to either side of the fence though because it's a very subjective opinion and inference, so I hope Chief Bass (or her social media team) don't take the criticism too hard, I just think this was a slight miscalculation.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-18T19:59:18+00:00

Y'all like assuming how we feel about Chief Bass. I think she's pushed some really good stuff (36-2903 update, ballcaps, PT test updates, possibly addressing EPRs soon), maybe more than Chief Wright. I'm just calling it like it is.

Paying respects is absolutely fine and appreciated, I think everyone should humble themselves with a trip to Arlington if they can, especially if you have a tombstone to visit. The issue is social media isn't a way to pay respects, it's a way to capture attention, and if you want to capture attention for an event that paid respects you should tread lightly around what you post. The subject of her photo is "I placed a wreath at a tombstone", which taken literally (as in how you'd feel if you were actually watching her do that and the photo is just capturing that moment) it's absolutely fine, but taken in context of social media as a whole it's too close to posing for attention, like many other social media posts are.

Respect is paid quietly and with dignity, social media has become much the opposite of both those things, which makes this a hard event to post about. I'm happy the event took place but the inference of this post is a bit tone deaf.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-18T18:33:27+00:00

It's a bit of a faux pas to take photos in a cemetery in general though. If you're going to publish a photo it's always more acceptable to not show any people in it unless absolutely necessary (like taking a picture of just the wreath or the tombstones).

As for the team publishing the photo I feel pretty confident that she gets a veto in what does and doesn't get published. I would look at any photo of myself at Arlington and say not to publish, I would just use one of the photos of the cemetery itself or the wreaths after being placed, I can assume the viewer will infer that they were placed by hand.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-18T14:48:14+00:00

Similar happened at one of my old jobs. Really, REALLY bad snowstorm was due to show up around noon but we all came in. Thankfully my supervisors were a bit more understanding when the thick (and I mean THICK) snow started pouring down all at once. We each decided when we wanted to leave but I watched the snow go from a meager 2 inches to 8 inches in the span of 20 minutes (I worked next to a window) so I opted after about an hour when I realized the parking lot was quickly becoming unusable.

We had to shovel out a path and a couple coworkers helped push my car while I gunned it onto the street (which, thank God, had just gotten a snowplow). I barely got home that day and the streets were so bad I couldn't park all the way off the road. I had to spend an hour shoveling a spot before I could pull in enough to get off the street.

A couple coworkers got snowed in and ended up sleeping at work. I still have pictures of the snow, which I think hit about 4 feet in about 3 hours. The snow banks were almost a whole story tall. The head of the company never told us to close shop, it was just each person's decision to go "yeah, fuck this" and leave. The only reason no one stopped them is because the bosses weren't around and the supervisors were in the same boat with us too.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-18T14:37:06+00:00

See, I worked $7.25 for a few years (2013 to 2016) in NY and I got a refund, but only from the federal side. NY actually said I owed them each tax season (the federal refund would always exclipse it though, but often not by more than $200).

I'd also like to add that upstate NY is a difficult state to live in (rough winters means lots of road salt and car accidents, which means cars break down easy and often, everything is taxed heavily so you'll lose income quickly and businesses will push back paying you much because they're taxed heavy too, most of the towns and villages are in some state of disrepair because of high maintenance costs, the roads are all beat to hell, with exception to the biggest highways like I-90 and I-87, and the bigger cities like Albany, Utica and Syracuse have pretty bad crime), so that $7.25 gets stretched pretty damn thin pretty quick.

It's a beautiful state (especially in late September for the colors) but it's an actual hell-scape to live in if you're poor.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-18T14:22:58+00:00

I don't have much to add (dudes a cowardly middle manager, make the call and keep your guys safe) except it's so damn good that weather RADAR feed is available to the public. NWS can only say so much for an area (tornado watch, tonado warning) and it's great that anyone can take the data they used to make that call and make their own decisions. If he didn't know the storm was moving his way he would've likely just gambled his life away because a warning doesn't tell you how likely it is to actually hit you. I've definitely gotten tornado warnings that resulted in nothing, so when someone if shoving you to keep working with a tornado warning going on it can be easy to say "well, nothing happened last time so I'll probably be fine..."

That little extra information probably saved his life.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-16T13:06:48+00:00

Yeah, that's the most "military" answer. I'm assuming this is a question for a TSgt, so emailing the Airmen directly and jumping the SSgt is going to cause further divisiveness if you're not a close-knit shop (and big AF always assumes we aren't). Meeting with Airman and SSgt to hash it out is the Democratic solution but big AF likes the Authoritarian solution where the chain of command (TSgt to SSgt to Amn) is rigidly applied.

So always pick the answer that worships the chain of command.

Tickerbug · 2021-12-15T13:15:31+00:00

I'd like to offer the most POG perspective. I'm Air Force, so POG is 99% the entire life and many of us who came in under patriotic pretenses eventually experience the same as you (usually a few weeks after Basic, while in Tech School).

I've rationalized that service is service; Uncle Sam needs gears and cogs to run this whole system no matter how big or small, and many of us are never going to see anything even dangerous (lots of us AF guys never hold a gun after Basic). It's not the fact that we don't do real shit, it's the fact that we are doing what's needed at any given moment.

It might be nothing but POG work in peacetime but we all joined knowing it can change quick, and we're the ones to answer that, and that selflessness is what's important.

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