[–] 6 points 6 months ago

Some stupid shit like they'd already submitted a flat design to fab when they find out that certain work trucks actually have a center horn mounted to the top of the cab that brings the height from 5 meters to 5.25 meters so they cut in a gap, add some bends and weld the letters back on.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    The real problem with Greenland is it being worth taking back. It has a population of 50k. The biggest town has a population smaller than all but the most rural towns in most countries. The expenditure of untold quantities of money and unknown numbers of lives to re-take it is going to be hard to swallow for most of NATO.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Was watching bombs exploding in Venezuela while the helicopters flew in, basically live, with my girlfriend. And she's like, "Holy Shit we're invading Venezuela!" And I just told her, ".....nah, whatever we're doing isn't that serious."

    She asked how I knew and I told her "look at the lights in the city. They're still on. And these videos are being uploaded over the Internet. And there are explosions but relatively few. That's not how the US does war. If we were invading we'd have hit energy infrastructure and telecommunications first, and all at once. So this is probably just us taking out anti-air batteries and maybe a few military assets. So it's something else."

    (Please don't interpret this as minimizing how ridiculously illegal or pointless this was, because it's definitely both. It was just my reaction at the time.)

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I've been saying since I was in highschool that Shakespeare should probably be an elective in college, except for maybe Julius Caesar in AP Literature classes. It's just so far out of date and the teachers aren't allowed to explain what any of the slang means so it's just... soulless. If they were able to explain how filthy it is, the kids would probably enjoy it more.

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