smitty
I am just a very thin layer of charming with some funny sprinkles wrapped around a huge creamy center of raging arrogant a-hole.
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These little guys don't get enough recognition for all our scientific advancements 4 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
For the Russian one, the mouse is knitting, but it's a DNA strand.
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Not just Round 4, it's the 4th of four scheduled. Next, the maintenance phase. 6 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Yup, it's that day again. I'm doing well and things look promising. Chemo as scheduled might be nearly over, but I still have a long fight ahead of me with more immunotherapy on essentially the same schedule.
Where do I stand? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The scans I have in roughly three weeks will be very informative as to the next steps "we" take."
Bottom line? I'm better. Far better than before Chemo started... but I'm still tempering my optimism.
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Where do I stand? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The scans I have in roughly three weeks will be very informative as to the next steps "we" take."
Bottom line? I'm better. Far better than before Chemo started... but I'm still tempering my optimism.
Spring time in Vermont 2 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Wait untill you see the Autumn pics when the bots post then in 6 months. XP
I jest, but the Autumn pics are breathtaking. Not just from Vermont either. New Hampshire and Maine too... they look like a Thomas Kincade postcard.
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I jest, but the Autumn pics are breathtaking. Not just from Vermont either. New Hampshire and Maine too... they look like a Thomas Kincade postcard.
Sensed comfortable inbound Tards 9 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
That said, where do you stand on the age old trope of, "Old enough to join and die for your country, not old enough to drink."
Personally, having served in the Army and been in a position of leadership, I think drinking age should stand as is. In my experience, junior soldiers 18-20 are still essentially children, often still behave as such and therefore should not drink. Even a few of the ones who are "of age," were utter raging morons and should have been prohihibited from drinking entirely.
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Personally, having served in the Army and been in a position of leadership, I think drinking age should stand as is. In my experience, junior soldiers 18-20 are still essentially children, often still behave as such and therefore should not drink. Even a few of the ones who are "of age," were utter raging morons and should have been prohihibited from drinking entirely.
Sensed comfortable inbound Tards 9 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Now, that wasn't necassarily true, but I would nod in appreciation as the senior winked at me because it often made my job easier as the one with the training and tools.
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Sensed comfortable inbound Tards 9 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
"Army Proofing" isn't necessarily enhanced simplicity or durability either. Often, it's making equipment hard or impossible to mess with to such a degree it's like child proofing. It's not enough to tell a Joe, "don't do this, that or the other thing." You have to make it impossible to mess with.
Case in point with the aforementioned armor. The crews are only equipped with the absolute bare minimum needed to maintain the vehicle. There are certain key points inside that are assembled with fasteners that are completely incompatible with the tools crew has. In other cases, some fasteners are locked with lacing wire.
Just to reinforce this a little further, I've heard senior guys tell juniors when asked what the big deal was that, "not only are you not trained, you don't have the clearance to see inside. If opening it doesn't kill you, you might still face a court martial."
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Case in point with the aforementioned armor. The crews are only equipped with the absolute bare minimum needed to maintain the vehicle. There are certain key points inside that are assembled with fasteners that are completely incompatible with the tools crew has. In other cases, some fasteners are locked with lacing wire.
Just to reinforce this a little further, I've heard senior guys tell juniors when asked what the big deal was that, "not only are you not trained, you don't have the clearance to see inside. If opening it doesn't kill you, you might still face a court martial."
Easy to remember periodic table 2 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Not accurate though. If this were truely how an organic chemist saw the table, C, H, and O would all be highlighted.
It do be like that 7 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Now corrected, with cognative dissonance surely setting in, he doubled down and started to waffle and spew a gross scientific missinformation and ignorance, much the same way that anti-vaxxers do now.
Nearing an emotional raised voice, he hung up in a fit.
Before moving on, the panel simply said something to the effect of, "well, that just goes to show that some people just don't know what they are talking about."
I lost a lot of respect for those kinds of "enviromentalists" that day.
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Nearing an emotional raised voice, he hung up in a fit.
Before moving on, the panel simply said something to the effect of, "well, that just goes to show that some people just don't know what they are talking about."
I lost a lot of respect for those kinds of "enviromentalists" that day.
It do be like that 7 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Once upon a time, a new nuclear plant was being built near me and there was a fair bit of opposition to it. Late opposition, since construction was already well underway and the plant was close to being commisioned.
A local radio station took some of their FCC mandated public outreach time and invited a panel of nuclear experts on to have a discussion and Q&A call ins to allay public concerns. It was facinating to listen to, to hear experts in their field discuss at length and answer the public's questions.
Then there was one caller who frankly sounded a little bit like a hippie with a bit of California dudebro in his voice. He went on to complain about carbon emmisions and how nuke power was bad for the enviroment. The panel was silent for a noticable moment, as if to say, "wait, what?"
They remimded the caller that nuclear plants are zero carbon emmision.
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A local radio station took some of their FCC mandated public outreach time and invited a panel of nuclear experts on to have a discussion and Q&A call ins to allay public concerns. It was facinating to listen to, to hear experts in their field discuss at length and answer the public's questions.
Then there was one caller who frankly sounded a little bit like a hippie with a bit of California dudebro in his voice. He went on to complain about carbon emmisions and how nuke power was bad for the enviroment. The panel was silent for a noticable moment, as if to say, "wait, what?"
They remimded the caller that nuclear plants are zero carbon emmision.
The perfect lingerie doesn’t ex 10 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
There's more to this though. In another pic of this set, it shows sliced pickle nipple pasties.
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Hmmmmm 9 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
This bears about the same level of perceptive intelligence as the parents that back in 2017 wanted the eclipse events and gatherings moved to a non school day.
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Gone co0kie 6 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
Yeah, we have similar, the white fudge dipped ones... and perchu can calm tf down for them. They've been around for quite a while, but only at the holidays.
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Pink Floyd's frontman sold His guitars for a WHOPPING $ 21 MILLION to fight climate 3 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
* David Gilmore
I saw the auction offering listings for these about a month and a half ago. Quite comprehensive, they had a detailed general history of that model, as well as the history of Gilmore's use of his.
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I saw the auction offering listings for these about a month and a half ago. Quite comprehensive, they had a detailed general history of that model, as well as the history of Gilmore's use of his.
To the dank and more away 2 comments
I wonder what he did 2 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
At the risk of soundng blunt, if you run your mouth publicly, often, you tend to get on a "list." As a reporter, it's kinda in the job description, especially if you editorialize.
That's how gun control is supposed to work, keeping firearms out of the hands of those that are at risk for malicious intent.
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That's how gun control is supposed to work, keeping firearms out of the hands of those that are at risk for malicious intent.
Lowly fighter can still punch a wizard 13 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
God killing spells? In the campain I used to run, that was just Tuesday. We had a 12,000 year old Elf spellcaster that could terraform planets.
The players wound up having a cleric who was the Pope equivalent of one of the gods of war join the party.
They also allied with a 35th level magic user whos best freind was an Amethyst Dragon.
Then there was the Rouge who passed on becoming a Theives Guild Master because it was "too restricting and wasn't ready to settle down."
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The players wound up having a cleric who was the Pope equivalent of one of the gods of war join the party.
They also allied with a 35th level magic user whos best freind was an Amethyst Dragon.
Then there was the Rouge who passed on becoming a Theives Guild Master because it was "too restricting and wasn't ready to settle down."
RIP 1 comments
smitty
· 3 years ago
I'm calling fake. Without an adapter, a blank does not generate any back pressure to cycle the action to chamber the next round. Needing to charge the rifle after every shot is a sign something is wrong. Wrong enough that at the range, you should stop firing and figure out why.
The adapters are also pretty obvious when mounted too.
Blanks also cause zero recoil without an adapter and with, the recoil is different, another obvious sign.
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The adapters are also pretty obvious when mounted too.
Blanks also cause zero recoil without an adapter and with, the recoil is different, another obvious sign.
Just your german dorks 17 comments
