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How'd they do it?

I never said it was because woke, only that he's lying about readiness because that's his job. The US military attrition rate is ridiculously high right now, and we aren't at war. Why? I'm not going to pretend to know why. Maybe the pay sucks. Maybe the prestige is gone. Maybe the forever wars for oil and opium soured people on the idea. Could be woke stuff, who knows. But the numbers don't lie, people don't want to be in the military as much anymore for some reason.

Yeah I won't have another cat. They don't deserve to be kept cooped up but they are pretty destructive.

Look, his job is to project strength.

The US military is holding officers a year after their contracts expire. It's calling expired contracts begging them to reenlist. It's calling in national guard members to active duty. It's weaker than it's been in years.

Does that have to do with woke stuff? I don't know. But if he's saying its stronger and more ready than its been in years he's lying. The US military is a fucking jobs program.

You're not allowed to like it if a fellow member reminds you it is disallowed

Believe it or not, most animals live outside.

If you won't clean a litter box you aren't fit to care for an indoor cat.

I had a cat that I adopted from some piece of shit that was bad to him. He always wanted to go outside like a lot of cats, was enamored with it when the door opened. So I let him. This was a choice I made, I knew life for an outside cat was harder but he was happier, and he was neutered so I let him go outside. I never had to change litter, he went outside every time. But it came with a price: he died early from being bit by a snake or something. I always knew it was a possibility but I knew my cat, he would've been miserable cooped up all the time. He was a free soul.

So you have a choice: clean a litter box every day, without fail, even if you hate it, or let your cat go outside whenever he wants. He will get beaten up by other cats, stuck in trees, attacked by wild animals, he will not come home sometimes for 2 days, he will come home sometimes looking like he got the shit beat out of him by another cat. You have to make sure he doesn't get picked up by the pound, that your apartments won't flip out on you or get him picked up, and he could get run over by a car. Maybe he won't like being outside, in which case it's not an option, you're cleaning a litter box. Or, if you can't deal with either, don't have a cat. Someone who won't clean a litter box has no business having a cat, go shit and piss in the corner of your bedroom and leave it there and see how happy you are with that state of affairs, that's what you do to your cat being a lazy bum.

I use Koreader. It's a bit heavy because it has basically any option you can think of, it works on a wide multitude of platforms, and can have weird bugs sometimes but hardly ever. But the way I read, I need some settings that aren't in very many readers and it has them. Try it out.

So cities then.

Does it mean black against black?

The ability to drive on a road and know it will be in front of you is called irresponsibility?

Same. I know I'm not a white supremacist, but I'm with you on the color blindness and all that.

You can't win with these people. They're racists. I don't even play the stupid game anymore.

I drop usernames without a second thought if it suits me. I use different ones I think up on the fly most of the time. The only one that matters to me is one attached to my development activities in the FOSS community, and I might share opinions using it but primarily I use it to engage in discussion related to development so that people who know me in those circles know who they're talking to.

So apparently the barriers were missing "due to vandalism" and it was raining heavily the night this happened.

I am a bit terrified of this. Sometimes when I'm driving at night I realize, to assume the road doesn't end right over the next hill is to put full faith in the state. You have to trust your government to am extreme to go 70 mph over a hill you can't see past. Some people in some places don't have that luxury, and it won't be like that forever anywhere.

Traffic... That's a sticking point for some people. Closures, I find OSM is more up to date than google on that front these days.

I don't need traffic data. I live somewhere without bad traffic, deliberately. Traffic is one of the top criteria for me when choosing where to live.

Osmand+ doesn't suck.

I chewed minty gum and sipped tonic water for like a month.

I struggled with quitting for about 5 years, I felt my stamina get destroyed and realized how much it was costing me financially, so I tried several times. I got panic attacks, something I never dealt with before, the last couple of times I tried. Finally about 3 or 4 years ago I smoked my last cigarette, somehow I didn't get a panic attack. I don't remember the day because in my mind, to not smoke I can't be too serious about the importance of all of it, smoking is a ritual and if I allow myself to think about dates and anniversaries around quitting it will just drive me to it again. Smoking has to be something I don't think about at all.

I still use nicotine. I'll have a cigar every now and then, I vape a little, but man there's something else going on with cigarettes. Quitting nicotine by itself is easy, even having some tobacco every now and then doesn't cause me to crave anything. I can go hours after waking up without vaping and feel nothing, whereas with cigarettes, I planned my entire day around smoking them and how many I had left. If I smoked a single one right now I'd be smoking a pack a day for who knows how long before I succeed again, I can't have a single drag off a cigarette for the rest of my life. Quitting cigarettes, even with nicotine to sate me, was hard as fucking hell. I don't know what they do to those things but they're addictive in some way beyond nicotine and it's a motherfucker.

So you're a covert white supremacist?