“The Best Years of Our Lives” got it pretty well for a film released immediately post-war (even some of the mental health stuff).
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“The Best Years of Our Lives” got it pretty well for a film released immediately post-war (even some of the mental health stuff).
“Oh so you’re a cop” is flagged by Nextdoor as “similar to other offensive content.”
Trying to imagine how addled my brain would have to be to use a gif to explain something to someone in the real world.
“Deputized by the president” made me audibly chortle
“Surely seven people wouldn’t all be dumb, would they?”
Me, in my VETERAN hat, with my twelve squawling brats in tow, glaring at the TSA agent for not bowing when I present my ID card and for preventing me from carrying my jug o’ water through the line: “Whaddaya mean ‘3 ounces or less’? This is ‘murika, use ‘pounds’ or go back to Commie Europe!”
LinkedIn and Nextdoor never fail to deliver unhinged content. LI: CEO suggests AI is good because it lets us use our brains less. Includes an image with absolutely zero context. ND: travel agent makes case for using a human to book your trips, uses AI to write her post for her.
Always nice to see a reputable outfit like WotR take time to publish even the dumber opinions out there.
At least if the connection is lost, Grok or whatever wouldn’t offer some stupid suggestion. “Try using mortars against your enemy’s airplanes. Then ask your combat engineers to dig rabbit holes because rabbits breed prolifically. I’m sorry, you’re right, this isn’t helpful.”
There’s also the fact that Boromir didn’t fight the Uruk Hai thinking “Ah I’ll give them a jolly ruse and draw their eyes away from Frodo and the Ring,” he just fought them to defend Merry and Pippin because that’s what he had to do as a warrior and friend. Denethor would never.
You don’t get to whine about “constructive dialogue” if you’re not offering anything worth talking about constructively.
“They treated my friend Bill Bellachurk very poorly.”
No fucking shit
He took time away from his day job to respond to me but it still sucked.
Maybe James Dobson was just warming the place up for the next guy.
“I admit that I, too, was a tad curious.”
Pair it with shorts over sweatpants and you’ve got the makings of a 1980s bully.
“Hellyer? More like hell yeah.” Or vice versa.
“USA Today opinion columnist-“ Okay gonna stop you right there.
My son and I were among the last people at the pool on this, the last day of our outdoor public pool being open for the season.
CGs used to have them aboard (when they carried nuclear TLAMs), so maybe they could fit them. LCS might have the room but that would be a bad idea. DDGs and CGs can land/launch something bigger than a -60.
“Bring back MARDETs on cruisers!” (Had to quibble though with moving two 13-Marine squads ashore with a DDG’s embarked MH-60. That’s not exactly feasible, I think.)
Small world. Our ship had a permanent list from the mine hit.
Thanks for taking time away from your day job to personally engage.
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“Constructive dialogue” is a two-way street, bub. It needs something worthwhile to constructively engage. In its absence you get dunks. Or in your case, dunked on.
Read this. I also want everyone to read "The Surge"
Okay he’s definitely still alive (in the technical sense of the word).
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Honestly the most compelling piece of evidence I’ve seen so far for the “all the assembled ghouls are taking turns using his phone” theory.
That one guy in every MFA workshop:
Kid’s first words were “Sell the team.”
“Good night, America. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill some more of you in the morning.”
“But where does the ‘magic’ happen? (Wink)” “In here.” (Opens a replica hatch from the Titan submersible, inside is a full auditorium with a magician on stage)
I thought that kind of internet had been taken from us. Must be a relic from the Before Times.
Gotta be some sort of sex worker thing
Dude wears “shoes” inside, immediate fail
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
The whole thing would have gone more smoothly but Rudy kept saying to call 9/11 instead of 9-1-1.
Weird thing to claim
Her barbaric yawp confirms she contains multitudes
I’ve been in the market for a new team to follow (since the Rockies are, have been, and will be garbage). Are the Mariners worth it?
This makes me so nostalgic I need to reach for some Kleenex
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
The instructions are literally in the owner’s manual.
Army lost (yesterday) and Navy won (today). Maybe if West Point wasn’t in the process of re-hanging their traitor photo they’d be able to focus on not losing to a school no one has ever heard of. If Annapolis changes the names of Carter Hall or Farragut House then they deserve to lose, too.
My sports analysis says: no.
Good contribution to the thread
Solar panels are basically wireless receivers for a nuclear fusion power plant.
Ridiculous
“I find your lack of toilet paper disturbing.”
There’s a joke here about beer and pizza, too.
According to me, using AI atrophies your brain.
The twist is that it sucks
That shed didn’t exist and now it does.
No, the predator from The Predator doesn’t only attack people when it’s being attacked. That’s an inaccurate and obtuse characterization of the entire reason the creature comes to Earth.
The New York Times has a 4-page spread on the “Jaws” Template and totally fucks it up.
This article is framed oddly. This only really impacts naval aviators in the strike pipeline (a fact kind of mentioned but glossed over halfway through). Plenty of naval aviators earn their wings of gold having never trapped on a carrier.
It’s the one area where I conform to stereotype
Simple insult or clever?
No
Well at least Army lost today
What a dopey question
Weird photo
Hope he spends his weekend eating Big Macs
*term limited for governor
France, holding Indochina against its bosom: “There, there. Those mean Japanese imperialists won’t hurt you any longer.”
I’m not in favor of de-extinction for mammoths and stuff but I’d be up for bringing Lee back just to have him put back in the ground.
Why did they call it “dad bod” when “father figure” was right there?
Yeah the penguin was technically correct but missed the original point
*Col. Robert E. Lee
Senator or president. He’d have a shot at the former. He’d get blasted out of the primary for potus.
Uh what
They correctly identify the Confederacy as their political and cultural inspiration.
Putting a new spin on “Great Mistakes”
*There’re
There’s two offices I could see him thinking he could pursue: senator or president.
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“Permissive regulatory regimes” like probably child r*pe
Put quite simply, this is fucking stupid.
Hope Polis has no higher political aspirations because this is disqualifying
I’m curious after reading the plot summary and description. Is it more than an accurate semi-realtime retelling of a combat op?
A minute closer to his end
You are such a reliable schmuck
“If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“As a former paper salesman I couldn’t stand watching The Office and its inaccurate and disrespectful portrayal of the paper sales industry.”
Where’d you hide the body?
What’s the organization system?
Timothy McVeigh to receive posthumous promotion to staff sergeant.
Yes and yes
What a weird thing to tweet
“Best” is such a meaningless descriptor for political races.