uhhello
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11 minutes ago, Majestik Møøse said:The Veterans Parking spots at Lowes and Home Depot are dumb. We’re not all handicapped with PTSD, and even if we were, when offered the luxury most of us are the types to automatically refuse the help anyway. I saw the instructions for applying a military discount at HD once, it says to most importantly “ensure you thank the member for their service.” Dude could be a CMOH winner or awaiting NJP, and the cashier is required by company policy to pander to them because of an attribute. Just like the gate agent lets you board before the families, or the commissary make old ladies wait for uniformed personnel. Nah, I’ll wait my turn.
I imagine many gay people feel the same way about Pride Month when they see dudes slinging dong in public during the small town parade. FFS, just act normal and get on with it.
Nailed it. I was thinking the same as your second paragraph reading your first. I have a relative who is an admissions counselor and they have annual training to "deal with veterans". She has explained some of the training and its very disheartening. Basically walk on egg shells around them because they could explode at any moment and offer accomadations above and beyond anything offered to "normies". Like you said, could be a guy who didn't complete basic training or follow on training.
And the shitbags amomgst the veteran community will be the first to demand accomadations and adulations that the majority of veterans want nothing to do with.
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2 hours ago, FLEA said:
Dude in our class easily broke the ice on day one for us when we were choosing flight roles. He self identified as not needing SOS DG and not particular gunning for it. When I went your class had to decide their own flight roles, including the flight lead which is usually a shoe in for DG if you don't screw it up. This was usually an awkward moment because noone wants to come off as someone who is not going to try but noone wants to come off as pushy or start conflict on the first day. Anyway, that sort of broke the tension in the room and everyone else admitted they weren't looking for DG either. Made the rest of the course either.
That said, another approach is don't immediately look down on anyone who is gunning for DG. There are a lot of c*** blowers for sure but there are some people that are riding a glass tight rope in their home squadron and they are hoping something like a solid SOS performance might turn it around for them. If you have anyone like that, feel free to advocate for them taking the flight lead role so they have the opportunity and giving them chances to prove themselves.
Has been my experience as well. Have had two great people self ID as looking for an award for whatever reason. Class agreed they were good people and pushed them at the right times. Much better than the two faced assholes gunning for whatever bullshit they were giving out.
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1 minute ago, FLEA said:
Nope. Believe it or not, SF doesn't have authority to shoot people trying to force their way in a SCIF either. There is a Use of Force spectrum and it went totally out the window here because political leadership wasn't concerned with the victim. The only crime here was trespass and democrats have consistently held that trespass on its own is not a sufficient reason to use force.
I'm tracking. I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare firing into a street protest bunch versus a somewhat organized group of people smashing through doors/windows in the capitol. Still not justified but not the same level.
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Just now, FLEA said:
We need to be consistent. I didn't support police overuse of force in George Floyd and I don't support it here. Consistency is key. Without consistency there is no rule of law. You don't get to fire a random round untargeted into a group of rioters. Besides, protest are "supposed" to make you uncomfortable.
I agree with most of your sentiment but the dynamics were a bit different here than your average street protest no?
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4 hours ago, panchbarnes said:
Going to start shopping auto insurance around, heard great things about GEICO.
Been dealing with an auto total loss claim (I'm not at fault), the customer service has been terrible. Is not proactive in contacting throughout the whole process (I had to initiate the f/u call after waiting the first 48 hrs), gave conflicting policy info depending on who you are talking to. Lack of empathy on the phone, borderline rude/don't give a fuck about the claim (multiple agents). Website did not update even after the settlement has been reached so I had to call after 72 hours of waiting because I couldn't continue the settlement process online.
The company appears to have taken it's customer base for granted over the years and is in a steep nose dive. I'd rather them save their national TV commercial budget and put it towards staff training.
I mean, are military folks and dependents really going to sign up for USAA because they saw Gronk on TV???
I also bank with Navy Federal for checking. Have visited their branches all over the world and top notch customer service, super easy and fast to get documents notarized as opposed to waiting at the base legal office.
I left except for checking and a savings account last year. A couple days ago I did get a cheap coffee cup in the mail from them 🙂
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2 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
Some Russian companies fire Ukrainian IT experts: Russian news outlet RBC is reporting that Russian companies have begun to fire or demote IT experts of Ukrainian nationality or descent. In addition, sources from Russian cybersecurity firms have also told the publication that they have been instructed to closely monitor employees of Ukrainian descent or those who have relatives in Ukraine. Moves to fire or demote IT workers with access to critical systems have been observed in companies with government contracts, and sources have described it as an "unspoken requirement" for continuing to work with government agencies.
Sounds like a solid plan.Sounds like they are probably a month late.
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17 minutes ago, nsplayr said:
Found one from March 24th 2022 after about 6.9 seconds of googling 🤷♂️
I think he meant to say sit down interview 🙂
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33 minutes ago, Hacker said:
I mean, except for that Steve is British, living in the UK, and doing his research and producing that content while physically residing in the UK.
Head for the Ecuadorian embassy Steve
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21 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
Disinformation…or something.
‘Heroic ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ fighter doesn’t actually exist, Ukraine admits’
You don't say. Who would have thunk it.
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2 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:
How about just deleting the video, no need to encourage the douchbag.
I don't have his youtube password....
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Edited by uhhello
On 4/21/2022 at 8:15 PM, HercDude said:Douchebag GenZ social media influencer is flying across a National Forest, and just happens to have 3 GoPros recording it, when he just happens to have an engine failure, and just happens to have a selfie stick in hand when he parachutes into the mountains below.
FAA didn't buy his story, and now they violated him and he's lost his license:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/trevor-jacob-youtube-plane-crash.html
I hope the likes and follows were worth it. 🙄
Hey he got 2million views out of it.....
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10 minutes ago, Smokin said:
Yes the county will take on the debt, but that debt will be paid off by the taxes levied on Disney property. The county will have to increase their personnel, again at the cost in taxes, which will mostly be paid by Disney. The left is trying to claim this is going to be a huge cost to the people that live in that county. I doubt it.
I can't find an unbiased explanation. What taxes is Disney currently paying or not paying? From what I gather it doesn't appear like much, they are just funding everything on their own right now with no tax burden to themselves?
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37 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
So it looks like Disney is going to lose a lot of money after their “go woke get broke” comments. The question I have is: Did their leadership decide to go all in with leftists talking points, etc because they believe it’s just the right thing to do (regardless of the consequences) or did they really think this would improve their position financially?
It actually looks like neither side has any idea of the potential ramifications. It's pretty funny. Glad I'm not in the area affected by it.
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On the surface it doesn't add up. Also, google the "heritage foundation" and it's connections to Lockheed in the last decade.
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37 minutes ago, tbro96 said:
Recently received my M.S. in Aviation Safety. My capstone project was on this flight and what went wrong. It's an incredibly shallow view to just label it as pilot error and be done with it. There were so many questionable things that happened here from the training of the pilot, the structure of Atlas Air, to the cockpit design itself.
I don't think anyone is arguing that. It's rarely down to a single pilot error. In this case, the pilot error was pretty significant though. Over and over again.
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3 hours ago, Prozac said:
Aircrew’ll be fine. There’s gonna be some backlash from a good chunk of the FAs though (if this sticks). I never minded them enforcing the mandate (decision was made above their paygrade) but holy shit some of them got pretty over-zealous about it. Won’t miss some of the preflight spiels about masking between sips, bites, etc.
My response was more along the lines of these folks having to deal with the ruling today and the potential delay in an actual TSA/FAA/Whoever decision on what rules/laws are being followed. There are daily videos of people getting thrown off planes or fights from these stupid masks.
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1 hour ago, TreeA10 said:
And his family is suing others for THEIR failings...
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
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Man, nothing like having a relaxing cigar on the balcony on Bastion when those fuckers would light off.