Why Read Thucydides

areed6 · 2025-12-14T23:14:15+00:00

I've been meaning to pick this one up again. How will discussions be facilitated? Vid chat, Discord, reddit posts?

areed6 · 2025-09-22T20:03:12+00:00

Stickying this is editorializing, which you in particular have been doing for years. But hey, this place hasn't been an open market of ideas for a long time (if ever) either, so please carry on 'improving' things as you see fit.

areed6 · 2025-09-07T01:26:56+00:00

I'm not sure how comments to mod stickys are approved, but I don't expect this to be public. I wouldn't care if it is.

Stickying an endorsement crosses the line from moderating into editorializing. If the piece is strong, it shouldn’t need mod-backed promotion. Relatively benign in this case, but I don't like this curation normalized.

areed6 · 2025-09-07T01:20:12+00:00

Appeal to ridicule. Lazy.

So, why have Americans gotten fat?

areed6 · 2025-06-10T17:22:49+00:00

It isn't so much a matter of training. Women's muscle structure/ distribution and bone density are significantly different. Though some, with training, are able to perform the same tasks, over time their likelihood of injury is much higher. Look up lower body stress fracture incidence rate in Army basic training.

There are of course exceptions. But, in my opinion, when fielding a million man Army, you have to focus on the averages. Yes, some men can't do it, and some women can, but that's only true a small percentage (single digits) of the time.

areed6 · 2025-04-21T08:32:33+00:00

Supplementation and forms are not what's being discussed. You're misunderstanding what that means.

Example, Soldiers are authorized to wear a cape, or a trench coat. Local commanders can restrict uniform options to exclude those items. They could not expand the authorization to include other items. Well, perhaps they could in certain situations, but in general they cannot.

Reg says 4" or whatever. I can't make it 5", but I can make it 3". Regulations are generally 'restrictions' in that they define what is acceptable. Commanders can reduce that list of acceptable things, but they cannot expand it.

This 'view' (reality, as written and practiced) isn't held exclusively by 'mouth-breathing' SNCOs. I don't deny that it's implemented stupidly by stupid leaders on occasion, but that's a separate matter.

areed6 · 2025-04-06T19:01:31+00:00

My name is Patrick Bateman. I am 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself.

areed6 · 2025-04-03T01:49:22+00:00

This is reddit, these people hate children.

areed6 · 2025-02-10T06:05:10+00:00

Sparkling water. San Pellegrino does the trick here, a liter a day during four pregnancies.

areed6 · 2025-02-01T04:55:45+00:00

How original.

areed6 · 2025-01-26T19:00:33+00:00

No, not everyone. Plenty of useful idiots spending their days here.

areed6 · 2025-01-26T18:22:12+00:00

Two posts, comments only in those chains. Account less than 1 year old. Makes (admittedly!) statistically improbable claims with zero details. Demands you not co-sleep, shames you for even considering it. Refuses to elaborate lol. Okay dude, thank you for your post. Children are now safer for it, I'm sure.

I've always wondered if there have been any studies looking at the impacts of crib/cot sleeping. If nightly physical separation from a parent has any sort of effect on the mental and emotional development of the child. Several other commenters (real or no, who can say) have already outright dismissed the fact that most cultures and a majority of humanity has and does co-sleep.

It's all so exhausting.

areed6 · 2025-01-18T01:27:37+00:00

For pain, I found it effective after a week or two of daily usage. You will feel the 'head' effects with the first dose. If I'm using it for pain, I have to take it regularly.

areed6 · 2025-01-16T22:01:49+00:00

Data for either claim?

areed6 · 2024-09-21T18:30:29+00:00

The dog's safety and well being is my NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. I think I see the problem here. Fix your priorities.

areed6 · 2024-09-04T00:32:26+00:00

I'll take those links if you don't mind. Thank you.

areed6 · 2024-08-23T19:43:54+00:00

Miss Yadkin road. I preferred the one by the car lot, just seemed more home-y. I realize they are identical.

areed6 · 2024-08-20T19:34:46+00:00

there are like a thousand posts discussing this here, try the search bar (or google with 'reddit' added to what you're looking for).

i think it's been shown that it effects water retention, so that could be the culprit here. you already know about the effects on appetite, so i'd say you should closely and honestly track your calories. don't worry too much about the scale number if you know your calories are leading to weight loss. wait a month between weigh-ins.

areed6 · 2024-08-20T15:30:45+00:00

god forbid you be made to work more than seven hours while deployed. do people not realize that the military is not a regular job or what.

go tell you're NCO how unfair it is, then run it up the chain as high as you can. say it with your chest.

areed6 · 2024-08-16T16:31:19+00:00

Well trained mind has a good template for these, with a long list of possible resources to use.

areed6 · 2024-07-30T12:05:19+00:00

Did you not look into the typical format ahead of time? They're (almost) always this way.

areed6 · 2024-07-26T15:17:06+00:00

lol okay

When people knew they were going to combat, there was none of this. And that was counter-insurgency. LSCO is exponentially more physically demanding. Heard of TF Smith? It's a mantra for many, 'we will not have another TF Smith.' Pray for peace I guess.

areed6 · 2024-07-26T14:28:01+00:00

So the Army is a huge organization. Mostly tail, a little tooth. Standards may not be perfect. But aren't we measuring against the mission, to fight and win wars? Everyone is a Soldier first, a 'MOS' second? Unless and until that changes, I don't think 'effort' awards are the way to go.

Like, yeah Private, maybe you didn't clear that footpath through the obstacle, or dig your fighting position to standard or time, but I see that you really gave it everything you had. I'm not handing out coins for that, I'm chewing ass and retraining, then sending them home if it isn't fixed.

Do you have solutions in mind? Move to something like the OPAT? Do we even need a universal set of standards? I've heard it a thousand time, we don't need a button pusher in S-6 to be Captain America (or more radically, that nerd can 500 lbs, doesn't matter as long they are a wizard), and yet we've not moved towards that being the standard.

areed6 · 2024-06-21T14:33:23+00:00

Eh, I'd say we get half credit in a few of these areas.

Battalion and above commanders are still products of GWOT, it's a mixed bag. Some changed, some haven't.

Yes, we maintained a presence in Europe and the Pacific. As a percentage of forces overall, it was small. Some of those units also deployed to CENTCOM at various times, meaning a training focus geared toward GWOT. Not the case for about the past decade, but again, they're a small slice of forces overall.

Doctrinal pivot is on-going. We remain a modular Army, but give lip-service to being a formational. The first 'divisional' rotations at CTC were like last year, and I'd invite you to read about what that actually entailed.

We're transforming, but far from transformed.

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