WTF? (**NSFW**)

[SurelySerious]

I’d say if he can’t handle that, he’s probably not someone I’d want with more responsibility 

The fact the Lt Col couldn’t make the call is dumb. Make the UOD ABUs or whatever, who cares about a one time exception to an idiotic mandate? A shit unit commander.

[Sua Sponte]

3 hours ago, M2 said:

Can anyone confirm its authenticity?

That's real.

[DirkDiggler]

29 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:

The fact the Lt Col couldn’t make the call is dumb. Make the UOD ABUs or whatever, who cares about a one time exception to an idiotic mandate? A shit unit commander.

Agreed, that's some sackless shit.

[tac airlifter]

5 hours ago, M2 said:

Can anyone confirm its authenticity?

Yep, that happened. I can't see the date on my tiny screen but I remember it as being maybe 16 years ago?

it's funny to remember blues Monday; what a waste of time and effort that did not accomplish its objective of professionalizing the force, but certainly unified the troops in contempt for senior leadership.  Having now retired and looking back I'm amazed at how seemingly smart people can climb the ranks to become senior officers and just do and say and think the dumbest possible shit.  

[Biff_T]

1 hour ago, tac airlifter said:

Having now retired and looking back I'm amazed at how seemingly smart people can climb the ranks to become senior officers

Especially a herk driver that looked like George McFly

[SocialD]

7 hours ago, tac airlifter said:

Yep, that happened. I can't see the date on my tiny screen but I remember it as being maybe 16 years ago?

it's funny to remember blues Monday; what a waste of time and effort that did not accomplish its objective of professionalizing the force, but certainly unified the troops in contempt for senior leadership.  Having now retired and looking back I'm amazed at how seemingly smart people can climb the ranks to become senior officers and just do and say and think the dumbest possible shit.  

 

 

Lol, I remember when he took over and an old college buddy tanker driver was all geeked about there FINALLY being a non-fighter CSAF.  A few weeks later...blues Monday.  I sent him a screenshot of the memo saying, yay non-fighter guy...he didn't respond! .

[Biff_T]

This is a WTF story.   

 

 

[JeremiahWeed]

16 hours ago, SurelySerious said:

The fact the Lt Col couldn’t make the call is dumb. Make the UOD ABUs or whatever, who cares about a one time exception to an idiotic mandate? A shit unit commander.

Are we sure this wasn't a tongue in cheek facetious comment by the LtCol taken the wrong way?

"Sounds like a pretty big problem Airman, you better forward that to the CoS".

[uhhello]

1 hour ago, JeremiahWeed said:

Are we sure this wasn't a tongue in cheek facetious comment by the LtCol taken the wrong way?

"Sounds like a pretty big problem Airman, you better forward that to the CoS".

Exactly how I envision it going down 

[SurelySerious]

Exactly how I envision it going down 

A pilot, maybe. Intel? Less likely.

[brabus]

Blues Monday - gayer than a bag of dicks (fact, not opinion - Biff completed a blind study in Van Nuys and determined this to be true), but also Snuffy was too fragile to do his brief in blues and would be more comfortable in ABUs…there’s a chance his DO thought he was such a pussy that he deserved to do it in blues. Maybe. 

Edited July 14, 2024 by brabus

[Biff_T]

1 hour ago, brabus said:

there’s a chance his DO thought he was such a pussy that he deserved to do it in blues. Maybe. 

This.  

 

Edit: @brabus I almost pissed myself again today,  but this time it was from laughter.   That was a fucked up study in Van Nuys, only a spec ops fighter pilot would understand.    

Edited July 15, 2024 by Biff_T
Laughter

[M2]

I can't fathom why everyone hates AOC!  I think she's very friendly with Taylor Swift!

[Biff_T]

1 hour ago, M2 said:

I can't fathom why everyone hates AOC!  I think she's very friendly with Taylor Swift!

Two gag balls and dibs!

[Biff_T]

wtf?   

 

 

[M2]

 

[Biff_T]

20 minutes ago, M2 said:

 

JFC

[Biff_T]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/science/cocaine-sharks-brazil-scli-intl-scn/index.html

 

 

[M2]

On 7/24/2024 at 4:03 PM, Biff_T said:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/science/cocaine-sharks-brazil-scli-intl-scn/index.html

[ClearedHot]

The dystopian future is upon us.  While we are distracted by this shitshow of an election, big tech and corporations are developing ever more intrusive ways to generate cash while trashing the Constitution.

To summarize the story, Ford just patented technology that will used the sensors and cameras in your car to report speeders in other cars to the authorities. 

Also being shopped is a mass surveillance system of cameras on Fedex trucks that would collect images as they come on to YOUR property without a warrant, use AI to process and look for crimes, then sell that data to the police.

 

 

 

[brabus]

How long until we reach Minority Report!

[brabus]

8 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Also being shopped is a mass surveillance system of cameras on Fedex trucks that would collect images as they come on to YOUR property without a warrant

Seems like that would open FedEx to a lot of litigation. 

[Smokin]

A slightly scary but potentially good use of that would be an Amber Alert.  Suddenly every recent model year car on the road is looking for that license plate, kidnappers wouldn't get very far.

If you are in public, you have to assume you're on camera these days.  Even on your own property, there is limited privacy as police can legally sit somewhere else with a telephoto lens or fly a drone over your property.  Will be really interesting to see when a drone case gets to the Supreme Court.

[SocialD]

I mean, I won't lie, I wouldn't mind this if it helped catch the asshole I saw the other day that drove off after causing a crash because they were weaving in and out of traffic and ran someone off the road.  BUT....I understand slippery slopes and all.    

Ya, unless you live out in sticks, you're probably on some camera anytime you're outside of the house (and even sometimes inside), even in your back yard.  Look at how many incidents have been witnessed thanks to ring cameras (SWA low in Chicago, NFL players parents house explosion, etc...).  They already canvas the neighborhood for these videos, but I'm not sure I like the idea of them just tapping into them all without approval.  I have no doubt it will play out as a "do it for the children" or "if it saves one life," type of argument.  

Edited August 5, 2024 by SocialD

[M2]

And y'all bitch about Anthrax and COVID shots!! 🤣🤣🤣

The Icy Village Where You Must Remove Your Appendix

There’s a settlement in Antarctica with a school, a post office and a huddle of homes. It’s like other sub-zero villages, except for one thing: families must have surgery to move in...

While the settlement of around 100 people is mostly populated by a rotation of scientists and personnel from Chile's air force or navy, those on longer-term stints with the military often bring their families.

A gravel landing strip nearby is the primary route in and out, seated on converted stretchers inside a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a huge military transport plane. On the flight over from the far south of Chile, the only sight visible from the scratched, tiny windows is hundreds of miles of dark, cold ocean, where death would come within minutes.

Villa Las Estrellas might be the closest you can get on Earth to experiencing life on another planet.

Sergio Cubillos is the Chilean commander of President Eduardo Frei Montalva, the air force base. Cubillos has lived there with his wife, and his son, for more than two years. While his family occasionally fly back to Chile, he has remained there the whole time.

Does he himself enjoy life in Villas Las Estrellas? “Yes, but that’s because I am the commander!” he laughs.

Getting pregnant is discouraged – at least in the military – because it’d be too risky.

Cubillos (front), a lieutenant colonel, leads a Chilean air force team.

Yet while conditions may be hard, the long-term Antarctica residents experience a one-of-a-kind life at the extreme end of the world that few people will ever share – albeit without their appendix, of course.