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Mazzyx

Made a mixed berry smoothie.

SO GOOD!

Casual

shryke wrote: »

Casual wrote: »

ever been struck by the odd compulsion to scrub your bathroom clean at eleven o clock at night?

long story short my bathroom is pretty spotless now

I do some of my best cleaning and baking at insane hours of the night.

i never have any energy in the mornings but then to spite me just before its time for bed my brain is like hey all this stuff needs done and my body is like HERE IS SOME ENERGY TO DO IT WITH

AManFromEarth

Mazzyx wrote: »

I want a video of the B-52 using it close combat support weapons they are planning for it.

lol

get wrecked, other air forces

shryke

Casual wrote: »

shryke wrote: »

Casual wrote: »

ever been struck by the odd compulsion to scrub your bathroom clean at eleven o clock at night?

long story short my bathroom is pretty spotless now

I do some of my best cleaning and baking at insane hours of the night.

i never have any energy in the mornings but then to spite me just before its time for bed my brain is like hey all this stuff needs done and my body is like HERE IS SOME ENERGY TO DO IT WITH

There are many like us, I assure you.

Trace

NEW HAVEN, CT—Shedding new light on one of the most influential leaders in American history, Yale University historians released a report Thursday that suggests White House officials deliberately hid President Franklin Roosevelt’s mechanical spider legs from the public.

The report, which draws upon a recently discovered trove of photographs, state documents, and personal journals, describes a coordinated effort by top aides to conceal the fact that the 32nd president relied on a set of eight hydraulically powered cast-iron legs to skitter about during the last two decades of his life.

“Roosevelt’s advisers feared voters of the time would never elect a man whose lower extremities had been replaced with an intricate system of spider-like appendages,” said report co-author Stephen Elmore, who noted that during FDR’s first campaign for governor of New York, his staff began to disguise the 4-foot-long triple-jointed prostheses that he had custom-designed to regain mobility after becoming paralyzed in 1921. “After he secured the White House, they continued to worry about the potentially devastating fallout should his eight lanky, motorized legs be discovered by political opponents or foreign governments.”

“Records show that even some members of his Cabinet were unaware Roosevelt was a robotic arachnid below the waist,” Elmore added.

According to historians, the president’s entourage blocked views of his wide base of spindly metal legs by closely flanking him on all sides until he was safely behind a desk, a table, or one of his specially crafted 6-foot-wide podiums. If he needed to be seen seated, they reportedly covered his legs with blankets or pillows, as was the case at the 1945 Yalta Conference, when assistants draped 11 wool shawls over his lap before he posed with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.

Various written accounts reveal that when driving him to public events, Roosevelt’s chauffeurs always parked his Lincoln convertible in hidden garages so no one could glimpse him exiting the vehicle, a noisy process that required him to extend his long, clanking alloyed limbs out the limousine’s door one at a time until he could crawl out onto the pavement.

While most reporters kept the president’s condition off the record, Secret Service documents show that agents often confiscated the film of noncompliant photographers. Historians discovered one set of images in which Roosevelt, his hands occupied with the adjustment of his bow tie, can be seen standing on his two hindmost legs and using each of his remaining legs to sign six different executive orders simultaneously.

“There are several clues that, in retrospect, support the idea that FDR made use of a mechanical contraption consisting of four pairs of symmetrical limbs that emerged from beneath his torso,” said Elmore, noting that the occasional faint hissing of the president’s leg pistons is audible in several of his fireside chats. “In the recording of 1943’s ‘On The Coal Crisis’ one can even hear, beneath his familiar patrician tones, what is most likely the sound of Roosevelt lubricating a squeaky ball bearing in his knee joint as he argues that it is the United Mine Workers’ patriotic duty to end their strike.”

“We also believe the mysterious rhythmic banging heard during his ‘Infamy’ speech is the sound of at least three of his heavy iron feet tapping nervously on the floor,” he added.

Unearthed blueprints indicate many renovations were made to the White House during FDR’s administration, including widened doorways and a titanium-reinforced bed frame to support the extra 400 pounds of his specialized extremities. In addition, financial records confirm Roosevelt retained a full-time staff of machinists and metalworkers to handle repairs and keep him moving around during his more than 12 years in office.

Because the concealment of his condition took an enormous emotional toll, the president is said to have cherished getaways to his personal estate in Hyde Park, where he was free to scutter around the grounds without fear of being spotted. It was there, records suggest, that he sought refuge during the most trying days of the Great Depression, clambering up the wall to a ceiling corner of his study to devise his outlines for projects such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and Tennessee Valley Authority.

“It’s important to remember that in those days, the need to rely on eight mechanical spider legs was perceived as a weakness,” said Elmore, citing a lack of education about the issue and the fact that most Americans simply chose not to talk about it. “For him, it was a matter of political survival. Of course, in today’s media environment, it would be nearly impossible for a president to disguise a set of large molded metal appendages.”

“Fortunately, our views are more progressive now,” he continued. “For example, in the current presidential race, no one considers Sen. Ted Cruz’s razor-sharp tungsten fire-ant mandibles to be a disadvantage.”

emnmnme

All these damn millionaire Democrats with their shady foundations and robot spider legs.

AManFromEarth

"Hey we've got some extra 60 year old bombers, what should we do with them? Sell 'em to Israel?"

"Nah, make 'em close air support. That'll really fuck with people."

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Coinage

With its core members in place, the Graphics Group spent the early ’80s developing the techniques and technology that would later define the company. In 1986, a financially embattled George Lucas announced that the team would be spun off into Pixar, an independent corporation with Steve Jobs, the ousted founder of Apple, as chairman of the board.

Ed Catmull: Steve Jobs had a huge impact on Pixar, but as for the idea that he was the main creative force? That’s a myth. He was very hands-off.

John Lasseter: He mostly let us do our thing. He’d say things like, “I want you and your playmates to go draw your little cartoons, and then I want you to bring them here so I can cry at them. I don’t know how you make them, and I don’t care, but I’m addicted to the wet-faced expression called sadness, and you’re the only ones who can deliver it.”

Alvy Ray Smith: That creative freedom really let us flourish, and it sowed the seeds of success. I wrote a piece about a clump of rotting spinach stuck in a garbage disposal that comes alive for 12 seconds and then dies. And the titular character from John’s short Bradley The Bird gradually evolved into Brad Bird, who directed some of our features.

John Lasseter: Steve definitely had a darkness to him. I think he was haunted by the fact that more things weren’t alive and sentient. Rumor was that Apple fired him for throwing a toaster off the observation deck of the Space Needle, saying, “It couldn’t think for itself anyway,” and then diving out of the broken window after it.

Ed Catmull: One aspect of Steve’s personality that definitely wasn’t a myth was his volatile temper.

Andrew Stanton (writer, Pixar): He had these legendary fits. When someone did something to set him off, Steve would physically take that person by the hand to an in-office dance hall built to his exact specifications. Then for the next day, the two of them would dance to a waltz that Steve had composed, performed by the greatest orchestra ever assembled. Then Steve would fire them.

Viktoria Mullova (violinist): I was in the orchestra for one day, but I played one wrong note. The next day, I was the one dancing. The day after that, I was out of work.

Ed Catmull: One of Steve’s ideas that stuck with me is that children are just as smart as adults, sometimes even smarter. “Sad and true,” he’d say, and then he’d get Alvy to stand up in front of the whole company as an example of a grown man who was stupider than a child.

Alvy Ray Smith: Steve Jobs never met his biological father and never learned what he looked like. He told us his great hope with Pixar was that one of us would animate a character that looked exactly like his father.

John Lasseter: We animators would go off and work, then we’d bring sketches to Steve for approval. For each one, Steve would, without exception, say, “Yes, that’s him. That’s my father. I’ve never been so sure of anything. That’s my father as he looks today.”

Alvy Ray Smith: He said the exact same thing about the old man from Geri’s Game, Flik from A Bug’s Life, and the lamp from the company logo.

Andrew Stanton: When we showed him the concept art for Toy Story, Steve was overcome with emotion. He pointed at Woody and said, “That’s what my father looked like when he was born.” Then he pointed at Buzz and said, “And right there is what my old man will look like when he dies.”

John Lasseter: Years later, when Steve was no longer at Pixar, all of us continued to get calls from him thanking us for including his father so many times in all of our movies.

Kana

SummaryJudgment wrote: »

Why is college radio so bad

Early-20's coed, breathy and vacant-sounding introducing our #3 song by The Decemberists

Do they select for people who sound like Daria?

I... I don't understand the issue.

Mazzyx

AManFromEarth wrote: »

"Hey we've got some extra 60 year old bombers, what should we do with them? Sell 'em to Israel?"

"Nah, make 'em close air support. That'll really fuck with people."

They are fantastic planes. It is why we still use them.

I don't think we will every really replace them except with like space planes or something.

I mean look at this ordnance!

edit: Changed picture.

P10

something is throwing avast warnings on this page

AManFromEarth

Mazzyx wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

"Hey we've got some extra 60 year old bombers, what should we do with them? Sell 'em to Israel?"

"Nah, make 'em close air support. That'll really fuck with people."

They are fantastic planes. It is why we still use them.

I don't think we will every really replace them except with like space planes or something.

I mean look at this ordnance!

Oh I love them.

It's just silly to think of them as CAS but idgaf

Make em fighters for all i care, they're brilliant

programjunkie

SummaryJudgment wrote: »

ALso, hey programjunkie what's your opinion on the A-10? Worth it? Replaceable with helicopter / fastmover CAS?

I fucking love the thing and the A-10 air wing out of Selfridge ANGB is like 5 minutes from my parents house so I see them all the time

@SummaryJudgment

I think we need to eventually look for a replacement in the long term, but the Air Force is being irresponsible with that nonsense. The A-10 is fantastic for both the missions we're doing today, and in the foreseeable future. Insurgency is going to continue to be an endemic problem and while we need to be prepared for anything, I think we should continue to train and equip with a substantial counter-insurgency focus, with perhaps some dual use training (i.e. intel guys get some force on force training, but it is more limited, and many counter-insurgency intel techniques can be applied in a similar fashion, albeit with some changes, and I'd like to see a bit more emphasis on that).

This is an article why the A-10 is special:
http://taskandpurpose.com/unsung-heroes-10-pilots-intentionally-drew-enemy-fire-protect-trapped-marines/

By the time Capt. Jeremiah “Bull” Parvin and 1st Lt. Aaron Cavazos arrived over the Afghanistan battlefield on Oct. 28, 2008, six special operations Marines cut off from the rest of their unit had been fighting off 50 to 60 insurgents for two hours in close-quarters combat. They had not received close air support because F-18s on scene were unable or unwilling to fly beneath low cloud cover, according to Military.com.

The pilots turned on the exterior lights of their aircraft, intentionally presenting a visible target for the insurgents in order to draw their fire away from the Marines, reported the Air Force Times. With the help of enemy coordinates relayed by the joint terminal attack controller and infrared strobe lights to mark the Marines’ position, Parvin and Cavazos were able to make multiple deadly strafing runs. Their accuracy was crucial, as they effectively targeted enemy positions as close as 20 meters from the Marines.

During the course of the engagement, the A-10 Warthogs flew as low as 400 feet above the ridge lines. “I would have rather hit the mountain and at least try to save them versus fly above the weather and listen to them fight and die on the radio,” Cavazos said in an interview with Air Force Times.

Before the A-10s arrived, the Marines were surrounded with nowhere left to retreat. They had suffered two wounded and were taking fire from immediately outside the windows of the house they were holed up in, and even from an inside hallway. The house itself had caught fire.

(emphasis added). Those pilots are heroic as fuck.

A lot of the hard data shows the A-10 perhaps statistically quite well compared to other in-use CAS platforms in general.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-air-forces-smear-campaign-against-the-a-10-relies-on-flawed-data-243d4964aae1

Using the same data sheets and long division, you quickly find that the A-10 suffered 1.4 civilian casualties for every 100 “kinetic”—weapons employed— sorties. The B-1B bomber, the platform Air Force headquarters always touts as the preferable alternative, had a rate 6.6—nearly five times worse than the A-10.

Every other aircraft except for the KC-130 also had rates well in excess of the A-10, but neither the Air Force nor available reports even hinted this was the case.

Honestly, I actually get a little angry at the A-10 thing, because while in 2050 I don't want America to not have superiority when we're fighting the Canadian invasion or whatever, we're spending so much time and energy jerking off over air to air bullshit that has been of no relevance for decades. It's important, but it's only so important.

Thomamelas

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Mazzyx wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

"Hey we've got some extra 60 year old bombers, what should we do with them? Sell 'em to Israel?"

"Nah, make 'em close air support. That'll really fuck with people."

They are fantastic planes. It is why we still use them.

I don't think we will every really replace them except with like space planes or something.

I mean look at this ordnance!

Oh I love them.

It's just silly to think of them as CAS but idgaf

Make em fighters for all i care, they're brilliant

They made some modifications to increase the number of guided munitions they can carry. Now they can carry a full plane load. And they can be well outside the range of the kind of anti-aircraft missiles that infantry can carry.

Gim

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

Trace

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Evil Multifarious

My new couch is beautiful, but my friend is having panic attacks and I have to get up at 4:00 a.m. to catch a flight to Nova Scotia for a wedding

LIFE

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Kana

I have been playing more arms, the community in that game is super cool.

Like I've been playing mostly on one server for about a week, and I already recognize more dudes on that server than I ever have in any other mp game. You'll get banned for doing things that are just part of the core experience of like a CoD, like taking vehicles that aren't for your role. And so the people that are on really want to actually cooperate, and do cool team assaults instead of just running around trying to get all the kills.

Which actually arma is smart about, you have to click like 3 menus to get to kill lists

Gim

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Damn you, exit polls, you gave no warning about this either!

Trace

Gim wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Damn you, exit polls, you gave no warning about this either!

he's never going to leave you alone.

he's going to call on the hour every hour and do a personal check up on you.

Tav

I gave my friend her birthday presents today and her bf called me out on getting her better gifts than he did

I WONDER WHO'S FAULT THAT IS

AManFromEarth

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Damn you, exit polls, you gave no warning about this either!

he's never going to leave you alone.

he's going to call on the hour every hour and do a personal check up on you.

https://i.imgur.com/Q1m0mwnl.jpg

Sir Landshark

Tav wrote: »

I gave my friend her birthday presents today and her bf called me out on getting her better gifts than he did

I WONDER WHO'S FAULT THAT IS

if this were a movie you'd be secretly in love with her and the two of you would end up together by the end of the movie

Trace

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Damn you, exit polls, you gave no warning about this either!

he's never going to leave you alone.

he's going to call on the hour every hour and do a personal check up on you.

https://i.imgur.com/Q1m0mwnl.jpg

I'd be for an actual Doom PM.

Tav

Sir Landshark wrote: »

Tav wrote: »

I gave my friend her birthday presents today and her bf called me out on getting her better gifts than he did

I WONDER WHO'S FAULT THAT IS

if this were a movie you'd be secretly in love with her and the two of you would end up together by the end of the movie

Girl also got her gifts that were nicer than what he bought, but he didn't call her out on it.

Winky

I'm gonna put a hard cap on the length of all relationships for the rest of my life at two months.

That's just enough time to get comfortable and then hurt them before they can hurt you.

RMS Oceanic

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Damn you, exit polls, you gave no warning about this either!

he's never going to leave you alone.

he's going to call on the hour every hour and do a personal check up on you.

https://i.imgur.com/Q1m0mwnl.jpg

Depressingly fitting.

SummaryJudgment

spacekungfuman wrote: »

SummaryJudgment wrote: »

ALso, hey @programjunkie what's your opinion on the A-10? Worth it? Replaceable with helicopter / fastmover CAS?

I fucking love the thing and the A-10 air wing out of Selfridge ANGB is like 5 minutes from my parents house so I see them all the time

Oh man. A law student can afford to replace his existing helicopter with a new one.

@Donkey Kong = rekt

Hah

I've been at grocery store since my post and I saw this on mobile and I was like "pbuhhhhhhhh" and my wife was teasing me since it completely pulled me out of what I was doing

I made a throwaway post about being a securities regulator (yesterday I think) and I figured you would have been all over that

Sir Landshark

Tav wrote: »

Sir Landshark wrote: »

Tav wrote: »

I gave my friend her birthday presents today and her bf called me out on getting her better gifts than he did

I WONDER WHO'S FAULT THAT IS

if this were a movie you'd be secretly in love with her and the two of you would end up together by the end of the movie

Girl also got her gifts that were nicer than what he bought, but he didn't call her out on it.

that would be covered in the porn parody

Tav

Also, girl got some awful news today (not relating to her, but a friend) and I have no idea how to, uh, be there? Like, my natural reaction is to joke and change the subject, but obviously you can't do that with something of such severity.

HerrCron

Winky wrote: »

I'm gonna put a hard cap on the length of all relationships for the rest of my life at two months.

That's just enough time to get comfortable and then hurt them before they can hurt you.

Ahh, I see someone is taking the advice of 1996's grunge classic "popular".

Sir Landshark

Winky wrote: »

I'm gonna put a hard cap on the length of all relationships for the rest of my life at two months.

That's just enough time to get comfortable and then hurt them before they can hurt you.

WHO HURT YOU WINKY

*grabs knife*

Mazzyx

Calling Cameron Doom is giving Cameron too much credit.

SummaryJudgment

programjunkie wrote: »

SummaryJudgment wrote: »

ALso, hey programjunkie what's your opinion on the A-10? Worth it? Replaceable with helicopter / fastmover CAS?

I fucking love the thing and the A-10 air wing out of Selfridge ANGB is like 5 minutes from my parents house so I see them all the time

@SummaryJudgment

I think we need to eventually look for a replacement in the long term, but the Air Force is being irresponsible with that nonsense. The A-10 is fantastic for both the missions we're doing today, and in the foreseeable future. Insurgency is going to continue to be an endemic problem and while we need to be prepared for anything, I think we should continue to train and equip with a substantial counter-insurgency focus, with perhaps some dual use training (i.e. intel guys get some force on force training, but it is more limited, and many counter-insurgency intel techniques can be applied in a similar fashion, albeit with some changes, and I'd like to see a bit more emphasis on that).

This is an article why the A-10 is special:
http://taskandpurpose.com/unsung-heroes-10-pilots-intentionally-drew-enemy-fire-protect-trapped-marines/

By the time Capt. Jeremiah “Bull” Parvin and 1st Lt. Aaron Cavazos arrived over the Afghanistan battlefield on Oct. 28, 2008, six special operations Marines cut off from the rest of their unit had been fighting off 50 to 60 insurgents for two hours in close-quarters combat. They had not received close air support because F-18s on scene were unable or unwilling to fly beneath low cloud cover, according to Military.com.

The pilots turned on the exterior lights of their aircraft, intentionally presenting a visible target for the insurgents in order to draw their fire away from the Marines, reported the Air Force Times. With the help of enemy coordinates relayed by the joint terminal attack controller and infrared strobe lights to mark the Marines’ position, Parvin and Cavazos were able to make multiple deadly strafing runs. Their accuracy was crucial, as they effectively targeted enemy positions as close as 20 meters from the Marines.

During the course of the engagement, the A-10 Warthogs flew as low as 400 feet above the ridge lines. “I would have rather hit the mountain and at least try to save them versus fly above the weather and listen to them fight and die on the radio,” Cavazos said in an interview with Air Force Times.

Before the A-10s arrived, the Marines were surrounded with nowhere left to retreat. They had suffered two wounded and were taking fire from immediately outside the windows of the house they were holed up in, and even from an inside hallway. The house itself had caught fire.

(emphasis added). Those pilots are heroic as fuck.

A lot of the hard data shows the A-10 perhaps statistically quite well compared to other in-use CAS platforms in general.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-air-forces-smear-campaign-against-the-a-10-relies-on-flawed-data-243d4964aae1

Using the same data sheets and long division, you quickly find that the A-10 suffered 1.4 civilian casualties for every 100 “kinetic”—weapons employed— sorties. The B-1B bomber, the platform Air Force headquarters always touts as the preferable alternative, had a rate 6.6—nearly five times worse than the A-10.

Every other aircraft except for the KC-130 also had rates well in excess of the A-10, but neither the Air Force nor available reports even hinted this was the case.

Honestly, I actually get a little angry at the A-10 thing, because while in 2050 I don't want America to not have superiority when we're fighting the Canadian invasion or whatever, we're spending so much time and energy jerking off over air to air bullshit that has been of no relevance for decades. It's important, but it's only so important.

Great post, thank you.

A lot of people have been saying it's outmoded now that we're not worried about Soviet armor, but still, BRRRRRRRRRT.

My understanding from people explaining it to me is that friendlies and enemies alike know exactly what the fuck that sound is.

Inquisitor

Thanks to the current humble for 5 bucks I now have Crusader Kings 2, Victoria 2, Europa Universalis 4, and Hearts of Iron 3.

Where the heck do I even start?

Sir Landshark

Inquisitor wrote: »

Thanks to the current humble for 5 bucks I now have Crusader Kings 2, Victoria 2, Europa Universalis 4, and Hearts of Iron 3.

Where the heck do I even start?

crusader kings 1, then Victoria 1, then Europa universalis 1-3 then hearts of iron 1&2

Gim

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

Trace wrote: »

Gim wrote: »

I just got a phone call from the number 10.

I am appropriately frightened.

it's David Cameron.

Damn you, exit polls, you gave no warning about this either!

he's never going to leave you alone.

he's going to call on the hour every hour and do a personal check up on you.

On one hand, I am American and he should have gotten over that split a long time ago.

On the other, senpai has noticed me! =^__^=

Casual

i love this fucking thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130

i wish the UK had some but big flashy boondoggles aren't really our thing