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Cake day: 2023年8月15日

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  • They are not very accurate. You’re more likely to get yelled at by a NCO(non commissioned officer) than by an officer on a day to day basis. Most officers are like middle managers until you hit the O-5 to O-6 rank. Officers give out orders, NCOs carryout orders using junior enlisted personnel. Most harassment stops outside of basic/advanced training, unless someone in your unit gets in trouble and then they might do a mass punishment where everyone is cleaning the barracks on a Friday night or over the weekend. I’m white, so I can’t speak much to the discrimination part, other than it didn’t happen much in the jobs that I was in. I’m positive it happens, but it didn’t happen out in the open when I was in. Obviously the current administration for the US government is changing that a bit. I can’t speak for the person you asked the question to, but I had two combat deployments and two trips to South Korea, with a solid bit of PTSD from the deployments.












  • I live in central Florida and I’ve been out protesting quite a bit, a couple political events for democratic candidates, and volunteer for poll duty during elections. One of the least represented demographic in all of these places is young women. There are plenty of retiree women. I’ve even been to a couple women’s rights group meetings and there were more men there than women under 40.

    I understand it’s going to take all of us to make any meaningful changes, but I am constantly surprised that one of the most impacted groups doesn’t seem to be too concerned to participate in the civil unrest part. Even the women I talk to in other social settings don’t seem too concerned or feel the need to do anything to halt the real life Handmaid’s Tale we’re about to find ourselves in.


  • I can’t believe we ever thought that someone like sleezy Zuckerberg had anything worth saying to begin with.

    On day two of his testimony on Capitol Hill, Representative Billy Long, a Republican from Missouri, was the first to mention Facemash.com, the website Zuckerberg first created at Harvard in order to compare photos of his classmates and allow users to rate their looks… In an awkward exchange, Long asked Zuckerberg what Facemash is and whether it is still up and running. Zuckerberg called it a “prank website” in response, and claimed that it “has nothing to do with Facebook.”

    It’s almost comical to me that it’s serious until someone calls them on it, THEN it’s just a joke. FACEmash has nothing to do with FACEbook. Fucking lizard person.


  • All US military personnel are obligated to follow all lawful orders. Until the supreme courts rule that what he does is illegal and someone enforces that, what is a military person supposed to do? Unlike most jobs you can’t just quit and if you disobey a “lawful” order then you will likely be kicked out, lose your source of income and any benefits, and probably end up with a bad conduct or dishonorable discharge which is like a felony on your record.

    As a veteran myself, I am also quite ashamed of what is going on. These people are stuck and have much more at stake than the general population if they disobey or quit. I’d be about as ashamed to work at a place like Tesla or SpaceX for another Nazi, but you don’t expect Tesla employees to stand up to musk and overthrow his regime.