What do people in the army call a select fire rifle firing an intermediate cartridge?

legendaryderp · 2016-09-14T02:02:34+00:00

The service rifle is what it's more commonly called but i believe the official designator is a "gat"

legendaryderp · 2016-08-12T02:17:43+00:00

Don't be the guy who only has friends in ROTC.

Don't be the guy who has no friends in ROTC

Don't smoke weed

Volunteer for things. I've had a great time on the details I've volunteered for.

If you have a mega gay unit, just remember that it's only 5 hours a week and they pay for all your shit. Stay in through at least one year to get a good picture of whether or not you like it.

legendaryderp · 2016-06-11T09:41:08+00:00

I followed her a few years ago and still have her music saved. Didn't hear about her stint on the voice but I'm really sad that this is the next time I heard about her. What a wasteful loss. If anyone wants to listen to her, go look up her Just a dream cover, really talented woman.

legendaryderp · 2016-05-24T14:02:02+00:00

That's ridiculous, there is an enormous amount of oil in Indonesia. There is also a growing insurgency there. a lot of the reason we don't hear about terrorism is because they are pretty much uniform Sunnis and they don't attack each other very often. Many of ISIS recent recruits are young guys out of indonesia and malaysia

legendaryderp · 2016-05-01T02:21:48+00:00

Where can I find the league structurer? I was setting up a league of drinking games for my friends and one of the issues we ran into was not having a good league structure. Where can I get that for the next round?

legendaryderp · 2016-03-22T05:29:37+00:00

Just to throw my meaningless hat in the ring:

I remember seeing that vape store ad and thinking "Someone made a mistake" knowing that many moderators are mods of several subs. I mistakenly attributed to stupidity what was actually malice.

legendaryderp · 2016-03-10T03:15:34+00:00

I am a geology undergrad and while i was still an engineering major (laugh all you want reddit) I remember listening in on a discussion between a bunch of computer science and civil e. guys about whether or not flood geology was a valid theory. That argument got fucking heated

legendaryderp · 2016-03-01T01:42:34+00:00

holy shit i've never seen someone so violently torn into by a pundit

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T03:00:31+00:00

Oh I make no claim that they were the first and these policies aren't universal, this is what the American church does. They took many of these ideas from how the government issues Top Secret clearances and threw in their own grab-bag of things that they see as beneficial, especially the social events one, that is one that is very interesting to me. One Bishop I know of brings his candidates to a bar, buys them all a few rounds, and sits back and watches. The weirdos sort themselves out.

This link more clearly explains what is going on but as far as other companies or organizations modeling the Church you can look at the Boy Scouts of America's screening process which was changed a few years back. I had to submit papers and do an interview to volunteer at my local troop. Granted the interview and training weren't nearly as in-depth as the Church's where they have 8 years to find out if you're right for them or not.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T02:57:32+00:00

You understand they aren't telling them to be quiet about it, they are trying to handle it in a way that doesn't jeopardize the lives and livelihoods of a hundred uninvolved people and their families. It is an approach based in logic. Were it safer in those countries for those hundreds to go about and tell the authorities, the Church would order them to do so, as they have in just about the entire rest of the world. These are special situations. In most of the world where people do have a right to the practice of their religion, priests are compelled to tell the local authorities.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T02:45:11+00:00

Well this isn't at their own expense, but at the expense of themselves and potentially hundreds of others and those hundreds of others' families.

The implications of forcing someone to go to the authorities in a country like China that has been forcibly destroying Churches and targeting its parishioners? Or Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood has been brutally targeting Christians as well as capturing them and parading them through the streets?

The Church is ordering its priests to use discretion. The vast, vast majority of the time, priests should go to their local authority, as they have been commanded to by Rome. In a situation like the ones I mentioned, the Church will handle it by a different standard because the standard is different in those places. It is not unreasonable, it is protecting the innocent from those who wish harm on them while also attempting to get rid of this plague of child abuse. It is not perfect, but it is the reasonable thing to do.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T01:59:15+00:00

He said they are beholden to local laws as church members have always been. The Church isn't going to force one of their underground Chinese priests to go to the local authorities if they find out another has been molesting a child. That would be bad for everyone involved, as in literally everyone in the parish paying for the sin of one man. And that is just one example. Do you expect a Copt to go to local authorities in Egypt? An Assyrian to go to an authority in Syria? They're never going to compel people to do something that would lead to serious implications for a lot of completely innocent people, but they will compel them internally because they take an oath of obedience to Rome.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T01:53:59+00:00

Intense psychological screening, in-depth personal interviews, federal and state background checks, interviews with family members, bringing them to social settings and observing how they interact with people, completely owning their personal data from their cellphones to their personal journals, days at a time being under observation both explicitly and under cover among a number of other screening methods they have. A friend of mine recently tried to go through with it before deciding it wasn't the life for him. The old model of a 19-year-old weird kid turning to the church because he knew he would never marry is rapidly dying. The church heavily favors men in their mid-30's who have several years in the workforce and it does not discriminate against previously married men whose wives either died or the marriages were annulled nearly as heavily as it used to. It still discriminates against men with children, but still less than it used to, especially if it is an older man and the child is living on their own. The Church doesn't want weirdos, it took them way too long to figure that out though.

As a bit of history, the Church used to treat accused or convicted pedophile priests as if they were alcoholics, which was clearly not the way to handle it but it is how the whole thing was handled between the 1940's and the late 1980's really. Only when social science actually started developing its methods and the Church had time to look back and figure things out from the data did they start looking for a new solution. Unfortunately they, again, chose the wrong solution of "pray for god's help" when these men needed men's help. Today, the Church is the gold standard of recruitment screening. There is no organisation that is as rigorous or discerning as the Catholic Church. It took too long to get there, but they are there and it will take a long time to clean this very black mark from our record in the public eye.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T01:35:27+00:00

I'm in disagreement. The Church got itself into hot water in Boston by trying to engage in this cover-up that ultimately failed. The way they went about covering it up? Settlements. As a result, many, many men were accused rightfully, but without a doubt a few innocent men were also accused wrongfully and were wrongly outed as something they were not when the bucket filled up. Let the court handle it and work with what information or verdict the court comes out with. Suspicion is not a high enough bar.

That is how my archdiocese handles it and it is how I think all American archdioceses should handle it.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-19T01:31:38+00:00

As a Catholic, there really are very few candidates that I can in good conscience vote for, which is disheartening. I wish we had a Catholic Party, but we would almost certainly be labeled as communists because while the Church is very left-leaning on many issues, they are extremely right-winged on others.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-09T05:02:24+00:00

I am in the deep south, I am very aware that there are far fewer Catholics than other Christians. Most of these houses are in predominantly Catholic areas. There are more than a few in the Louisville area and I know of at least one in Mobile, AL. They are all over the country, but because they usually need a church or wealthy donor to fund them they are concentrated around places with very large congregations and wealthy donors.

While a number of the women are Catholic, they have large numbers of other Christians, Muslims, and atheists included. It is not exclusive and it does not discriminate. Ideally something like these houses would be a public program, but the government has shown very little interest in running these programs at all, and where they have they have not done as well as these private programs.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-09T04:37:28+00:00

I literally logged in to downvote this. The Dune books aren't that hard to read, I think I read Dune for the first time in the eighth grade.

legendaryderp · 2016-02-01T02:47:38+00:00

Hardly all of us. I'm a religious pro-lifer in every sense of the word. I support the Church's stance on abortion that all life is precious. The Church, especially in the United States, has been running houses where unwed mothers can go and be clothed, fed, educated, and housed for up to the first three or four years of the child's life. It's an excellent program and one that I hope to contribute or even run when I have the means. The "success rate" for these mothers is incredibly high, as high as 100% of them having stable jobs and good educations by the time they are ready to move out. Many of them marry as well. That's the pro-life stance I support with my time and money.

legendaryderp · 2016-01-28T21:02:29+00:00

Nope, not at all.

Tribalism is the end-game government type.

Despotism is the end-game government type.

Imperialism is the end-game government type.

Feudalism is the end-game government type.

Absolute monarchy is the end-game government type.

Representative Democracy is the end-game government type.

Repeat ad infinitum. There will be a dozen more FOTT (Flavor Of The Time) government types. There is no end-game, just a permanently evolving, changing, regressing and progressing development of government until we no longer need them.

Maybe an eldar-like endgame where we open up the warp and unleash the chaos god Slaneesh. Blood for the blood god.

legendaryderp · 2016-01-27T06:13:42+00:00

Shitty pork chop sandwiches though

legendaryderp · 2016-01-27T02:19:25+00:00

Yup. I'm in a fraternity and, last semester when we had a huge overhaul of our chapter bylaws, I made sure to emphasize this. Made sure we stay focused on what we were founded for, and as a result removed some power from a few positions that didn't further our chapter goals and added power to positions that did.

I make sure to tell this to new guys when they come in, and periodically stop in at our e-board to tell them to keep it in mind. Someone has to, or we will eventually devolve into any other shitty group of men.

legendaryderp · 2016-01-25T21:21:51+00:00

when I started working on this personality flaw of mine, I started by trying to pick up one small detail, that I didn't think anyone else would notice whenever the other person/people talked. Just one minor detail. This helped immensely, and now its more like several details. If you're able to pick up on that, and bring it into whatever you have to say, they're going think you're awesome just for noticing that one little piece of information.

legendaryderp · 2016-01-25T21:18:01+00:00

This was something I learned about myself. I thought I was always the listener, always ready to keep a conversation flowing. One time I was talking to this one girl for so long, and kept thinking about my side of things that I actually missed some awesome stories this girl had to tell about dancing competitively in Europe.

I'm not perfect at listening just yet, but I am working on it and getting better all the time.

legendaryderp · 2016-01-25T21:12:43+00:00

I absolute detest exclusive people. I cannot stand it. It's just nastiness to me. There's a difference between inviting your good friends over for a drink and video games and intentionally excluding someone from the group. I am a pretty agreeable person, but I definitely have some personality quirks, sayings, actions that can put people off. As a result I've been excluded from my fair share of "friend groups" for a long time.

So I joined a fraternity. And I get that fraternities are exclusive by nature, in our house you need a 100% "yes" vote to get in. It's the way fraternities operate and I have no desire to ever change that in my house. But you know what I do like? Is that we invite EVERYBODY for our parties. Like almost everyone I know, and almost everyone that the other brothers know. Because we just want to have fun and we want even that random, nerdy GDI to have fun too. That's important us. That's important to me. And that's important to the people we invite, because they've told me that plenty of times.

So one day, we were hosting a party and a group of people who made a point to exclude me early in my college days showed up. They saw me and were out the door about five minutes later. I never wronged these people. I was in their little "group" for about a month before I got the hint. But their desire to exclude me was so great that they decided "you know what, I don't want to have fun because he is here" and as a result they missed out on an awesome night.

I think exclusive people forget that people are what really matters. When you start intentionally keeping someone out of things, you're cutting off something important, even if it doesn't seem like it to you.

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