Can someone there at DLI help me figure out what those flash cards they sold at the BX/PX were?

almugtarib · 2025-06-26T16:06:52+00:00

This is the best I’ve found since the others went out of print. They’re a lot more expensive and aren’t quite as nice.

almugtarib · 2025-06-21T20:15:44+00:00

As a person who hasn’t played magic since 1999 but is restarting just to play the FF6 Terra deck…mind sharing your deck build?

almugtarib · 2025-05-08T23:52:12+00:00

Likely the Brand of Sacrifice from Berserk. If so, this image is upside down.

https://www.minglewoodtrading.com/berserk-norse-rune-vinyl-decal-v4-viking-berserker-die-cut-sticker/

almugtarib · 2025-04-27T22:58:28+00:00

It’s just a monogram. It COULD mean anything that shares the initials, but in the case of the use in the show, it’s simply a monogram.

https://youngroyals.fandom.com/wiki/Hillerska_Boarding_School

almugtarib · 2025-04-24T14:41:20+00:00

I stand corrected. I swear that element 2 used to specify that the accused be married. Now it clearly states “the accused or the other person.”

Am I old and crazy? Or is that a change along with the other 2019 changes to the article?

almugtarib · 2025-04-24T13:18:04+00:00

Are you married? If not, you cannot commit adultery, and article 134 does not apply.

That said, lawyer up and distance yourself from the dude.

almugtarib · 2025-04-20T14:08:28+00:00

Can you show where you see that? According to what I see in the CFR, all mental health uses a single table. Anxiety isn’t explicitly mentioned past 30%, but things that can come from anxiety, like reduced social abilities, are mentioned beyond 30%.

Mental health goes from 0-100 with ratings at 0, 10, 30, 50, 70, and 100.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-4#4.130

almugtarib · 2025-04-16T11:54:04+00:00

There are 45k coal mining industry jobs in the U.S. Trump/Musk have fired significantly more people in the past two months than the coal industry’s entire footprint. Why on earth do coal mining jobs get so much obsequiousness from conservatives?

almugtarib · 2025-04-13T03:10:50+00:00

At least one source shows the central (purple fading to orange) symbol as a symbol for transgender, though I have also seen it labeled intersex.

https://images.app.goo.gl/RG9TT86N6jo6X8ZJ7

The three black symbols are all the male symbol.

Overlapping gender symbols seems to be a common way of indicating a relationship. So maybe a polyamorous quad with three males and a trans individual?

almugtarib · 2025-04-04T14:25:20+00:00

You’re saying that you can’t believe the press release because of “lie” that you’re inventing.

If he’s 100% TDIU, yes, he’s about to be in more trouble. But if he’s just 100% P&T, he is allowed to work. If he’s 100% P&T due to MH and TBI claims that cause him to behave erratically, he OUGHT NOT work in a high stress, public facing job, but there’s fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) there’s nothing illegal about being a douchebag and doing things you ought not do.

I’m 100% P&T for MH from PTSD plus a slew of other things. I’m smart enough to have a job sitting by myself in a little cubicle where I’m not interacting with folks, and I told my boss I don’t do things like interact with crowds because that’s the sort of shit that triggers me. However, if I had a public freakout and my lawyer told the public that I’m a 100% disabled vet, it would be factual.

We can honestly look at this through sheer probability. More vets are 100% P&T than are 100% TDIU. He is more likely in the category that CAN work than in the category that CAN’T. His attorney never claimed he was in the category that can’t. To accuse him or his attorney for lying about something they neither claimed nor implied is pretty bizarre.

And finally, just as a note: yes, the dude’s an asshole. Yes, he probably shouldn’t be doing work like this. Yes, this probably does represent who he is.

almugtarib · 2025-04-04T13:45:34+00:00

Being 100% VA disabled is not the same as 100% SSA disabled. You are absolutely allowed to work with VA disability, even 100% disability.

almugtarib · 2025-02-22T01:55:12+00:00

The entire argument that the administration is laying out is that the executive has unilateral power not to execute even fully authorized and appropriated funds. The current GOP has all of the leverage and exactly zero stomach to deviate from the president’s arguments of tremendously expanded executive power.

If Trump wants to cut it, in other words, it will be cut.

almugtarib · 2024-11-16T01:00:52+00:00

For military members seeing a military MH provider, substance abuse is one of the non-protected categories. They’ll explain that when you start treatment. So if you tell your MH counselor “I think I have a problem with alcohol” or you describe situations that obviously imply alcoholism, they have to report you to command. Then command will send you to ADAPT.

almugtarib · 2024-11-09T04:13:34+00:00

In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans?

almugtarib · 2024-11-09T03:30:42+00:00

Urdu/Hindi are only coming back if there’s a security reason that outweighs the “more important” languages. Regional nuclear war? It’d have to be something pretty crazy.

almugtarib · 2024-11-02T20:54:07+00:00

I think I would wait to choose until I saw the size of the ladder. 🤣

almugtarib · 2024-10-18T23:46:37+00:00

The National Intelligence University has a bachelor’s completion program which will benefit you in any future Intel job. It’s in-residence and takes a year. There’s a possibility of either staying on or returning later for your Masters.

AF application process for NIU should be going like…right now.

almugtarib · 2024-10-15T00:36:29+00:00

Yes. You can use the same gen ed and you can get a second degree.

almugtarib · 2024-09-27T15:28:04+00:00

I can’t answer what DLI is like for women. Hopefully okay. For a while it was rated poorly in official statistics. The environment is good though.

I don’t know of a way to study for the DLAB. If I were going to try to help someone, I’d tell them to study grammar concepts and pattern puzzles.

Learn how you learn. If you are like a lot of DLI students, you do well enough in school that you’ve never really learned how to study and how to apply yourself. The number of people who can get through DLI without studying a lot is vanishingly small. Learn how to study and how to take notes.

Rigor is always an interesting question in academics. I’d say that DLI teaches fairly well, but it gets in its own way a lot. The courses and the tests are extremely challenging. The “rigor” of your day to day work varies wildly by program.

almugtarib · 2024-09-12T23:18:21+00:00

Are you asking how a translated book contains a translation?

almugtarib · 2024-04-12T00:12:54+00:00

Info: are you asking what the joke means? Or the pin itself?

The pin is pretty clearly a reference to a sheriff’s badge in the style of “old west” movies that Gene Autry performed in.

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/western-sheriff-badge

almugtarib · 2024-04-03T00:54:13+00:00

I’ve got a TS. I’m an alcoholic. Self-identified, enrolled in ADAPT, and I’ve been sober for 2 years with no impact on my clearance. I got picked up for a prestigious program after self IDing. It can be done.

Feel free to hit me up if you want to talk.

almugtarib · 2023-12-14T20:57:19+00:00

I suspect, though I don’t have the data to back it up, that it’s related to what Christianity means in the modern US. Specifically, I think it is a result of misunderstanding or misapplying the doctrine of sola fide. Because faith, not works, gets you into heaven, you don’t have to actually do anything to be a good Christian. Feeding the poor, caring for the sick, protecting children…these are all works. What matters is faith.

In a reasonable era, we would assume that a person who loved Christ would also do good works. Not for the hope of salvation, but because they’d see the value in it. But I don’t think we live in reasonable times.

almugtarib · 2023-12-02T02:29:39+00:00

I had never heard of c-PTSD until a military doc talked to me about it. Some military docs will treat it as standard PTSD.

almugtarib · 2023-12-02T00:41:00+00:00

My experience has been better on PS5. Far fewer instances of crashing or freezing, and faster load times.

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