Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
15hr ago
At my dermatologist recently, it was all female receptionists, but they were pretty diverse otherwise, and mostly pretty cheerful.
Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
That... sounds like a very promising concept.
Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
Okay, but early submarines really cannot be used as representative of modern(ish) naval accident rates. Those things were... well, death traps is a bit too strong of a word, but issues abounded.
Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
How much of that is due to the fire, and how much is standard/deferred maintenance cycles, though? I have a feeling they'd be in port close until 2027 even without the fire.
Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
I'm honestly unsure of what you're trying to imply here.
Mantergeistmann
18hr ago
New CoH 3 is a... wave defense expansion pack/standalone, effectively?
Haven't yet fired up Mistria. What I really want is Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, legit and legal on PC, but in the old artstyle rather than the new remade 3d style, and I'm hoping this will be about as close as I can get to scratching that niche itch.
246 fires on aircraft carriers and big-deck amphibs over 70 years, after WWII.
"A clothes dryer caught fire and destroyed a carrier"
"Destroyed" is... a tremendously strong word. It's not like FORD went full BONHOMME RICHARD.
There's also that time the US sank one of its own subs while the thing was moored at a pier. Oh, and that time an aircraft carrier sliced the top off the cruiser USS BELKNAP. Can't recall if the cruiser was carrying nuclear cruise missiles at the time or not, but I do remember that the officer determined to be at fault had just won an award for his ship-handling skills.
And from a related branch, there was that landing craft that up and sank during training off the coast of California, killing 9 marines. Or the F-35 and refueling tanker casualty that had a botched SAR operation in very friendly waters. And I don't need to tell you of the (oft-maligned, and possibly out of context) Osprey safety record concerns...
Mantergeistmann
19hr ago
The only British public figures who get £5 million in taxpayer-funded security are the King and the Prime Minister.
I recall Bezos was only having his security detail funded by Amazon to the tune of $1 million USD.
Mantergeistmann
19hr ago
Picked up CoH3 (fun! I'm awful at RTS games!), Fields of Mistria, and SRPG studio. Yes, I'm aware I'm too lazy for the last one. No, I don't care.
Mantergeistmann
19hr ago
Apparently you can rent out his house in Vermont. Looks pretty cozy.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I'll have you know that my swastika tattoo has nothing to do with the Nazis, but is a sign of my admiration for the Finnish Air Force!
Related, but it's a shame more edgelords don't go for Adolf Galland's nose art as a tattoo... Mickey Mouse with a gun & axe, smoking a cigar, is too awesome to languish in the history books.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
If you grabbed P4, I would strongly recommend Metaphor ReFantazio, if you don't already have it.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Personally, I still hold “democracy is the best government except for the others”. I’m not against dictatorship, if the dictator is competent and has a good successor strategy. But who does, and how do you get this person in charge and ensure they’re not overthrown?
The only dictator I would be comfortable with is myself, and given that a) that cannot be guaranteed, and b) would be a terrible idea, am therefore against a dictatorship.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I've been seeing talk about VAR having been improperly used in this case, and how that's the unspoken justification (because FIFA doesn't want to admit a mistake). Any truth to that?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
At 7k a year and cash discounts you need a significant injury to make it worth getting.
Yes, that's what I mean: it's literally insurance against catastrophic injury. I think that's one of the biggest flaws in the system, really: it conflates a health care plan with health insurance, when an awful lot of people would be perfectly fine with a bare-bones plan that only covers the latter, and then paying for the former out of pocket.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I love visiting Britain, but you would have to pay me to make me live in London.
That is generally how salaries work, yes.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
This is exactly the sort of reason I love this place.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Makes no sense to carry insurance in US unless employee sponsored. Better to just pay cash.
The point of insurance (at least to me) has never been to deal with routine care, but for catastrophic situations, like how car insurance isn't for covering oil changes. In practice, health insurance covers both, but I sure don't think too much about it covering my annual physical. I like having health insurance so I know I won't break the bank if I get a significant broken arm.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I remember going to the Saratoga Battlefield, where Arnold was shot in the leg. The interpretation was pretty clear that if he had died from that wound, he would have gone down in history as one of America's most beloved generals and patriots.
Instead, he received a nameless memorial. I wonder sometimes if that wouldn't have been a decent enough compromise to deal with the Confederate legacy, but I think everything is so poisoned that neither side would accept it anymore.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
This model is locked down tighter than a nun's asshole!
Someone hasn't been reading enough medieval and Renaissance literature, then.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find the Italian sodas I've had to feel different carbonation-wise from American soda.
Similarly, yes, gelato is basically a type of ice cream, but that's like saying "someone told me I had to try Chicago deep dish, and I did, but it was just a mid thin-crust pizza."
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
UV light
That was an actual product currently in R&D, and I recall the youtube video by the research hospital working on it -- which predatex Trump's press conference mentioning it -- being triumphantly taken down as misinformation on the report of a journalist. I think from one of the big rags, too, but I don't want to slander when I'm not sure which.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I suppose a simple test is to ask a question like, "Can you tell me some things Trump has done that you disagree with, or that you think went badly?" Every politically sane person has some disagreements or disappointments even with their own favoured side.
My dad's a fan of asking the devout Trumpists he knows that question.
He's also a fan of asking the anti-Trumpists he knows the inverse.
I'm a big fan of my dad, even (or perhaps especially) when I don't agree with him on a specific point.
That'd have to be a lot of people in on the coverup... the other 12 landing craft and support ships/personnel involved in the exercise, the half the crew that did survive...
Technically possible, as you said, if you squint.
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