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Puck the Puddle Pilot
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Husband, Dad, Geek, Nerd, former Army WO IP (60s), current Coastie. Personal account. He/Him, White, Cisgender, Allosexual, Heteromantic, unmedicated Introverted Neurotypical.
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Getting flashbacks from serving during DADT, when every unit had a sailor or three that we all knew, protected, and shut the fuck up about
Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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Hegseth: We are banning reporters from the Pentagon. Washpost: We have exclusive photos of the historic Dwight Eisenhower globe that was damaged in Hegseth's zeal to move it out of storage and into his office. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3WF2YQo
This is literally the most consensual interaction with a Roman god ever. Feel bad for the woman though. Relations with a god tend to lead to things like Minotaurs, being turned into Medusa, or just getting killed by your own family.
Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.
But they aren't. They are building data centers. Plus the whole wealth disparity thing. The media capture thing. Your premise ended in the 90s.
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
I feel like after cheerleading the "broken window" theory of policing and getting clowned about it forevermore. I'd keep my "offbeat intellectual" ass out of hot takes about policing.
“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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1. The same crowd who are dodging vaccinations for "reasons" are gonna try to testosterone max. 2. Is there a legal path to compel treatment on a SM who isn't complaining of symptoms? 3. All the frustrations about kicking out Trans individuals while forcing Hormone Therapy to everyone else.
The Pentagon released guidelines requiring male service members aged 30 and older to be tested for low testosterone. A new study estimates that about one-quarter of active-duty U.S. Army men may have levels below a commonly used cutoff for low testosterone. https://wapo.st/4sfO8vK
I think it was Chris Titus who pointed out that one of the strengths of America is we build stupid stuff. Top fuel dragsters are stupid. Monster trucks are stupid. The first rockets to the moon were stupid ideas brilliantly executed by geniuses. The helicopter is a stupid idea.
yes. "this is an impressive stunt but obviously won't see a production vehicle" is fine. "actually this is lame" is letting your hatred for musk cloud your judgment. it is a kickflipping car.
Remember when there was a vetting process. Reams of oppo research. Literally the reason some highly qualified people couldn't take positions. Because they had weaknesses that weren't public. Hell the entire show Scandal? Good times.
Katie Zacharia defended labeling herself a lawyer, saying she consulted people in the field who told her it was acceptable because she has a JD.
Tenth Mountain, famous for... Not jungle school.
The U.S. is sending a 600-soldier battalion from the 10th Mountain Division to Latin America. Troops are deploying first to a jungle training site in Panama, then to train with forces in Colombia and Honduras, the New York Times reports. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
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Lol. I'ma start saying NO to ADS-B and Transponder use. I go where I want, when I want. Everyone else better get out of my way, because I'm a federal entity and I'm the most special boy.
I figured out just how average I was in highschool. I'm... the tippy top of the bell curve.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?