start a series of those satisfying hydraulic press videos except it's that dog chomping things with its mouth
"My name's Coyote Peterson and I am now entering the bite zone"
Is this the guy who gets bit by the world’s most painful bugs and shit on purpose for internet clicks?
He's basically Steve Irwin's spiritual successor, yes. He does know what he's doing most of the time, and has measures in place to mitigate the danger but he definitely takes some big risks
I love that guy. Dude is putting himself through hell for science.
edit: oh so this is a nature documentary and these animals do a successful hunt so now you're warned in case that's something you're sensitive to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxG3p7LO8v0
I learned that my car was not overheating because of the thermostat, water pump, or clogged radiator. I did not learn why it is overheating. But i am closing in on it.
Today I learned about the only US soldier who was ever executed for desertion since the Civil War, Eddie Slovik.
Conscripted for World War 2 after a lively teenage years of minor crime like disturbing the peace and petty theft, he had a traumatic combat experience on the front lines as part of a rifle unit and asked to be reassigned to the rear. He also said, to his company commander, if refused he would simply run away. Brave or stupid, you decide. The company commander said that would count as desertion and he would be court-martialed if he did it.
When he was refused, the very next day he left his unit, with the company commander trying to get him to rethink that decision, and walked several miles to a rear detachment where he wrote a note detailing his desertion and why he did it, giving it to one of the cooks. I... don't why he gave it to a cook.
The cook immediately turned him in to military police, who then brought him back to his company commander. The company commander told him if he destroyed that note and rejoined the unit he'd forget everything that happened. Eddie refused and was brought to a lieutenant colonel, who gave him the same offer. Eddie refused and was told to then write a second note stating he understood what he was doing and the potential consequences of doing it. He did so, thinking jail time was preferable to being killed in battle, and was imprisoned.
At his court martial he elected not to testify in his own defense and the guilty verdict was quickly issued. The punishment? Death by firing squad.
This surprised Eddie for very good reason. While he was imprisoned he saw other deserters get court martialed and their punishment was dishonorable discharge followed by a prison sentence. He had assumed he'd receive the same and immediately pled for clemency from one Dwight D. Eisenhower, currently the Supreme Allied Commander and the one who had final say over Eddie's fate.
However, Eddie had no way of knowing that his sentence had nothing to do with any notion of justice or punishment. Desertion had steadily been rising throughout the area and the Battle of the Bulge had just occurred. Eisenhower was going to sacrifice him as both a deterrent and a message and signed his death sentence.
He was executed by firing squad the next month at 24 years old. His remains were buried in a mass plot used for rapists and thieves, the only ones who had ever been executed prior to him. His wife continually petitioned the government all her life to return his remains to her, and was refused every time. It wasn't until 1987 that Eddie's body was returned back to the United States and his military record made public, after the efforts of Bernard Calka, a WW2 veteran.
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I learned that Jackie Robinson was a Lieutenant in the US Army during WW2, but never got deployed due to le racisme.
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Racism, sometimes it works out!
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the only time I met my great-grandpa he told me about how he was friends with all of the "[affectionately meant horrible slur]" on the section because their superiors would make up reasons to punish the black soldiers and he'd be like "oh no, that was me, sorry" because he knew he wouldn't get in trouble. He also credits being friends with them for not being sent overseas.
according to my dad, I would not have gotten along with my great-grandpa, but he wanted that story to be The One Thing he told his great-grandchild, how he helped people who were getting fucked with just because he could.
Also man that guy could curse.
this is both apropos and oh also today I learned that my cousin has a second (first) kid! they're an adult!
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We did actually deploy the unit he was originally assigned to (the 761st "Black Panthers" Tank Battalion) and it saw heavy fighting, but Robinson had been transferred to a different unit because the (white) commander of the 761st refused to court martial Robinson for the crime of, checks notes, not moving to the back of a specifically un-segregated army bus. To make a long story short, Robinson was acquitted of all trumped up charges by the panel of all-white officers at his eventual trial but was never able to get back to the 761st.
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As an aside because now I'm doing research, when the 761st deployed Patton requested they be attached to his army and his welcome speech is classic Patton:
Men, you're the first Negro tankers to ever fight in the American Army. I would never have asked for you if you weren't good. I have nothing but the best in my Army. I don't care what color you are as long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sonsofbitches. Everyone has their eyes on you and is expecting great things from you. Most of all your race is looking forward to your success. Don't let them down and damn you, don't let me down! They say it is patriotic to die for your country. Well, let’s see how many patriots we can make out of those German sonsofbitches.
As an aside because now I'm doing research, when the 761st deployed Patton requested they be attached to his army and his welcome speech is classic Patton:
Men, you're the first Negro tankers to ever fight in the American Army. I would never have asked for you if you weren't good. I have nothing but the best in my Army. I don't care what color you are as long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sonsofbitches. Everyone has their eyes on you and is expecting great things from you. Most of all your race is looking forward to your success. Don't let them down and damn you, don't let me down! They say it is patriotic to die for your country. Well, let’s see how many patriots we can make out of those German sonsofbitches.
Any yet he assaulted a soldier suffering a ptsd break.
As an aside because now I'm doing research, when the 761st deployed Patton requested they be attached to his army and his welcome speech is classic Patton:
Men, you're the first Negro tankers to ever fight in the American Army. I would never have asked for you if you weren't good. I have nothing but the best in my Army. I don't care what color you are as long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sonsofbitches. Everyone has their eyes on you and is expecting great things from you. Most of all your race is looking forward to your success. Don't let them down and damn you, don't let me down! They say it is patriotic to die for your country. Well, let’s see how many patriots we can make out of those German sonsofbitches.
Any yet he assaulted a soldier suffering a ptsd break.
Patton, a man of contrasts.
He also ordered a charge against the Bonus Army.
Sounds like he did one cool thing, which is great, and also fuck him straight to hell.
As an aside because now I'm doing research, when the 761st deployed Patton requested they be attached to his army and his welcome speech is classic Patton:
Men, you're the first Negro tankers to ever fight in the American Army. I would never have asked for you if you weren't good. I have nothing but the best in my Army. I don't care what color you are as long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sonsofbitches. Everyone has their eyes on you and is expecting great things from you. Most of all your race is looking forward to your success. Don't let them down and damn you, don't let me down! They say it is patriotic to die for your country. Well, let’s see how many patriots we can make out of those German sonsofbitches.
Any yet he assaulted a soldier suffering a ptsd break.
Patton, a man of contrasts.
He also ordered a charge against the Bonus Army.
Sounds like he did one cool thing, which is great, and also fuck him straight to hell.
He did several cool things and also several completely shit things; you should definitely not take my post as an endorsement of the man.
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edit: oh so this is a nature documentary and these animals do a successful hunt so now you're warned in case that's something you're sensitive to
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This changes everything.
Hah, neat, look at the little fella go.
Conscripted for World War 2 after a lively teenage years of minor crime like disturbing the peace and petty theft, he had a traumatic combat experience on the front lines as part of a rifle unit and asked to be reassigned to the rear. He also said, to his company commander, if refused he would simply run away. Brave or stupid, you decide. The company commander said that would count as desertion and he would be court-martialed if he did it.
When he was refused, the very next day he left his unit, with the company commander trying to get him to rethink that decision, and walked several miles to a rear detachment where he wrote a note detailing his desertion and why he did it, giving it to one of the cooks. I... don't why he gave it to a cook.
The cook immediately turned him in to military police, who then brought him back to his company commander. The company commander told him if he destroyed that note and rejoined the unit he'd forget everything that happened. Eddie refused and was brought to a lieutenant colonel, who gave him the same offer. Eddie refused and was told to then write a second note stating he understood what he was doing and the potential consequences of doing it. He did so, thinking jail time was preferable to being killed in battle, and was imprisoned.
At his court martial he elected not to testify in his own defense and the guilty verdict was quickly issued. The punishment? Death by firing squad.
This surprised Eddie for very good reason. While he was imprisoned he saw other deserters get court martialed and their punishment was dishonorable discharge followed by a prison sentence. He had assumed he'd receive the same and immediately pled for clemency from one Dwight D. Eisenhower, currently the Supreme Allied Commander and the one who had final say over Eddie's fate.
However, Eddie had no way of knowing that his sentence had nothing to do with any notion of justice or punishment. Desertion had steadily been rising throughout the area and the Battle of the Bulge had just occurred. Eisenhower was going to sacrifice him as both a deterrent and a message and signed his death sentence.
He was executed by firing squad the next month at 24 years old. His remains were buried in a mass plot used for rapists and thieves, the only ones who had ever been executed prior to him. His wife continually petitioned the government all her life to return his remains to her, and was refused every time. It wasn't until 1987 that Eddie's body was returned back to the United States and his military record made public, after the efforts of Bernard Calka, a WW2 veteran.
The first is that Pablo Picasso died in October of 1973, far, far more recently than I'd imagined somehow.
The second is that Aerosmith's first album came out in January of 1973, so Pablo Picasso could conceivably have listened to Aerosmith before he died.
Steven Tyler killed Pablo Picasso?
That would make Steven Tyler a hero and Steven Tyler ain’t no hero
Listening to All Fantasy Everything?
Yes and I got progressively more upset as that bit went on, I think I stopped it to yell stuff at my wife in the next room three times
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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according to my dad, I would not have gotten along with my great-grandpa, but he wanted that story to be The One Thing he told his great-grandchild, how he helped people who were getting fucked with just because he could.
Also man that guy could curse.
this is both apropos and oh also today I learned that my cousin has a second (first) kid! they're an adult!
We did actually deploy the unit he was originally assigned to (the 761st "Black Panthers" Tank Battalion) and it saw heavy fighting, but Robinson had been transferred to a different unit because the (white) commander of the 761st refused to court martial Robinson for the crime of, checks notes, not moving to the back of a specifically un-segregated army bus. To make a long story short, Robinson was acquitted of all trumped up charges by the panel of all-white officers at his eventual trial but was never able to get back to the 761st.
Any yet he assaulted a soldier suffering a ptsd break.
Patton, a man of contrasts.
He also ordered a charge against the Bonus Army.
Sounds like he did one cool thing, which is great, and also fuck him straight to hell.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
was Patton the one who wanted to nuke China or was that the other psychopath?
Pretty sure that was MacArthur, but they're both shit.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
He did several cool things and also several completely shit things; you should definitely not take my post as an endorsement of the man.
I read that exactly the same