Don't forget the marine chronometer invented by John Harrison in 1844 used to determine longitude. For that matter, the sunstones used by the freaking vikings! This guy peaked when he was cast on Road Rules.
I mean, if the midshipmen in the audience didn’t already realize he was talking out his ass, this line alone would have opened their eyes. I cannot believe these folks who are graduating from a school of sailors don’t know the history of navigation like the back of their hands and will believe Duffy’s ignorant take. He’s telling experts about his elementary knowledge. Someone should have patted him on the head and said, “that’s nice, dear. Now go along and play, the grownups are talking.”
I am may be wrong but I think DM had once a compass as a keychain when I was a child and she teached me how to use it. She also teached me how to make a solar cadran with a twig and some dirt.
Canopus is a prominent Southern circumpolar star. It is the one which told the ancient Egyptians when the Nile was due to flood - when it first became visible in the nighttime winter sky. Good for navigating, too.
Canopus is due South of Sirius and becomes visible in the nighttime winter sky in January. I can see it from my office window at night if the lights are off. 2nd brightest star in the sky - secondary to Sirius.
"The ancient Egyptians noticed that the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, the brightest in the night sky, would occur a short time before the annual flooding of the Nile. The heliacal rising of Sirius therefore kicked off the farming season in ancient Egypt."
I learned it the way I said in High School, in my post, but after trying all day to confirm it, I obviously learned it wrong. I submit to your greater knowledge. Still, neither way matches up to modern growing calendars.
I actually found something. I wonder if you didn't confuse the city of Canopus founded by Greeks in Egypt and named from one of their myths with the star you mentioned earlier.
“There are two kinds of people in life: those who believe in God and those who think they’re God. There’s something beautiful, humbling, and properly ordered about a man and woman who understand that there is a power greater than themselves.”
You’re confusing atheists with Trump. Atheists don’t believe they are gods, they just don’t believe your claims about a god existing, and what you claim your god is. If no gods exist, then we cannot be gods. Logic.
Properly ordered? Son, this is a clear attempt at setting up an authoritarian regime. While that is how the military works, it is often counterproductive to society, and even in the military it gets in the way of effective service.
In regards to the idea that there is power greater than us, duh. But it doesn’t have to be a god and it is clearly not your God. Atheists and folks who aren’t religious don’t think they are the end all, be all. Christians tend to act that way. We know damned well that there are things out of our control, that we can’t change the laws of physics, for instance. But y’all MAGA, evangelical, Christian supremacists, or whatever seem to think you are in charge of reality. The rockets illegally shot at Iran really did obliterate the country’s nuclear capabilities, Trump is handsome, the 2020 election was stolen, Elon is a genius and absolutely not a Nazi. None of these are true, but you seem to think if Trump says it, it’s real. You can’t make it real. Atheists understand this, you clearly do not.
Oh this is why I stopped arguing with Christian apologists years ago. They LOVE to tell atheists what we believe, and all it is is propaganda to prevent them from thinking for themselves and to keep them in their cult. Yak yak yak. Arguing with them is pointless. I taught my own kids to frame the argument as a need rather than a belief: "I don't need a Sky Daddy, I don't need gods (plural! always use plural) in my life." You completely bypass the whole "does god exist" argument that way. My kids learned to say "well, if I was going to choose a god, I sure wouldn't choose yours. I'd choose ___" (I think it was Anubis for my daughter because she loved dogs and is into 'liminal spaces'; and for my son... I don't remember. He was the kid who told his kindergarten friend that "God is like Santa--make believe." LOL)
""well, if I was going to choose a god, I sure wouldn't choose yours. I'd choose ___""
I always go with Athena. The way worship of her (and maybe all gods) is described in The Odyssey is wrapping fat and sinew around thigh bones and burning them, or as I like to call it, grilling.
If there is truly something greater than us, it is probably the laws of physics, and everything that derives from them. That isn't a god; it's the rules of the game.
I expect only Christian Nazionalist rhetoric from anyone connected to the regime. But this? Claiming that everyone who does not believe in the Christian idea of the Abrahamic god thinks they are themselves god? It is a fairly safe bet that each of those midshipmen knows at least one other midshipman that isn't some sort of Christian. For your boss to tell you that the guy next to you is trying to replce god with themselves in next level demonization.
Duffy is trying to plant the idea that anyone who does not believe is anti-American and an active agent of evil. We may not be near the top of the list for being rounded up and sent to camps, but we are on that list.
Oh that's been the argument for a long time. "Atheists turn themselves in God, atheists worship themselves." And then you could get into the argument that "atheists don't believe in gods or in worshipping anything" but it's pointless. Oh, and it goes along with "gay people worship themselves and that's why they choose a partner of the same gender as them." Yadda yadda. Walk away. Block.
If Jesus is the answer then it must be a very convoluted question because Christianity is the most factionalized religion on the planet and there is nothing close to consensus on that subject. I feel sorry for those graduates because I doubt they had any choice but to attend. For politicians like Duffy, religion isn't an actual solution it's an excuse for his own incompetence. Any failure can be blamed on a lack of faith, or God moving in mysterious ways. I know what happened to my religious faith when I listened to an idiot priest in Vietnam give us a 'Kill a Commie for Christ' pep talk. I hope Duffy's speech has a similar effect on at least some of the graduates.
A large part of the cost we pay for having Shitler in charge is having these ignorant hacks addressing our young men and women. Disinformation on steroids.
Yeph. One had to wonder how in the heck they want "christianity" to be the rule of law, ask them if Christians argue so much over what their religion is, then why would we want them to be in charge of society?
Trying to sort out who was, or was not, a TRUE Christian has spilled enough blood to float the Navy. The men who wrote the Constitution knew that and not giving religion a role to play in the governance of their new country was not an accidental omission.
I regret buying what they were selling for too many years. Now the fascists are trying to rewrite our Constitution. The Corrupt Supreme 6 will let them do it.
I will defer to the incomparable Christopher Hitchens for a response to this lightweight:
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can f#$%ing die and leave North Korea!”
Duffy should be sued for violating the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment.
People who believe in your god, people who don’t believe in your god, people who think they are god, people who could care less about your gods or his gods. people who believe in no gods, people who believe in a different version of your particular god, people at sea who dies despite all of their prayers to their gods, people at sea who don’t die despite having no gods.
Did I say five? I lied.
There are only two kinds of people: assholes and non-assholes.
I know that most of this administration are narcissists (or worse) with zero introspection who spend more time drinking and partying than reading or using their brains. But I just have so much trouble believing that they actually believe this shit and that it isn't 100% some con to shame people into accepting the domination of billionaires and oligarchs. I mean, maybe they do "believe" as far as they are able to believe in anything. But they also do a hell of a lot of projection. Who exactly thinks they're gods? Them.
I remember over a decade ago when my then local state representative was arguing against Florida accepting "Obama's dirty money," aka the Medicaid exemption. People have died because of what he did. He's a Christian nationalist whose siblings run a charter school lobbying company and whose wife runs the White nationalist* charter school that DeSantis loves to use for photo ops.
I emailed him and said "look, you claim to be a Christian. Can't you just say that Jesus appeared to you and told you to be merciful and accept the Medicaid expansion?" His aides didn't reply to my emails for a long time after that. But seriously! Why not? He could say anything he wanted and claim it was Jesus. Apparently Jesus DID tell him to meet with the Koch Brothers and the NRA and go on Fox News to tout his "Marshall's Plan" to arm teachers. Then DeSantis made him into Education Secretary. Now he's pulling ridiculously big bucks turning Florida's former honors college into a Viktor-Orban-inspired, Hillsdale-College-clone propaganda factory. Richard Corcoran. Remember his name.
*The terms "classical" and "western civilization" in education are code words for White Christian Nationalism. And I suspect White Christian Nationalism is nothing more than a tax-free-real-estate investment scam covering up human trafficking and sexual abuse.
Yes, any classical roman 'nym screams manosphere! There is one that I used to see who named himself Alkiabades, so I asked him why did you name yourself after the guy that fucks goats in Assassin's Creed Odyssey?
"Scenes: Some moments and interactions with Alkibiades are suggestive or open to interpretation regarding his relationship with a goat. One user mentions a scene where the player character might "bone" him, and asks "how can you resist a goat..."
It is apparent this yahoo never served in the military. All those things he listed as how these midshipmen persevered is just the standard state of things (except for the Air Force 🤪) in the military. He would have known this had he served. Someone would have had to practically die from the conditions before anything could be done about them. And paper plates and plastic forks?!? That’s a problem? That is just field problem normal, having that in the dining facility just means kp is that much easier for not having to wash so many dishes.
But seriously, facilities don’t get that bad in just four years, this seems like a chronically underfunded program. You can blame Biden for not addressing it, but you can say the same for Trump, Obama, and Bush as well. But, like I said, these conditions are pretty much average conditions throughout the military. All that defense budget goes toward building fighter jets that sit at storage facilities, and the folks that contract the war machines. Not actually taking care of the servicemembers.
That painting was treated with great respect and appreciation during the move to the most appropriate place on campus, making a fuss about putting it back to a location where it didn’t belong and wasn’t respected seems to be more insulting than anything.
There are two kinds of people: those wo don't believe in gods and those who believe that their god has given them a brain, but refuse to use it to think!
"There are two kinds of people in life: those who believe in God and those who think they're God."
Hey, Duffy...
Might want to have a chat with your boss about that.
You beat me to it, NOGODZ20. Those words stuck out like the syphilis spots on Shitler’s hands.
Thought for sure someone was going to make the observation while I was typing it. I wouldn’t have seen it until it was too late. :)
That was the first thing I thought, too.
"Before the time of GPS technology, sailors solely relied on key stars"
Astrolabe ? Compass ? Dumbass.
"In the Middle Ages, men of the sea, prayed to the Virgin Mary"
Oh ? That must be why Phoenicians, Chinese, Polynesians and Vikings were so good at crossing seas and oceans.
"it had been restored by a “reputable Pennsylvania art conservation firm"
I know about someone in Spain who could do it for dirt.
Duffy likely wouldn't know an astrolabe or a sextant if it bit him on the ass.
He might have a hard time identifying a 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴.
I knew what a compass was and used one when I was a kid. Hell, they even taught us how to make our own homemade compasses. :)
At 9*, my nephew know what it was and he wasn't a boyscout.
* He wanted one, my sister said "no, it's too expensive and fragile".
Never mind trying to figure out which one draws a circle and which one points North!
He'd ban the word "sextant"
Whereupon sailors who are so inclined would use an octant! [Sometimes {just SOMETIMES???} these born-again types are SO DAMNED DUMB!]
Is that a Discworld reference ?
Nope. An octant is a variation on the sextant, used in navigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octant_(instrument)
https://www.zentaur.org/memes/Disappoint-e1595386181110.jpg
Now THAT was good for a laugh! Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣
VIKINGS (seeing the crucifix for the first time): "Their god is dead."
Ugh, Dave is still trying to win that argument
He’s a lost cause. I don’t think he’s capable of change. His religion won’t stand for any sort of critical thinking.
Or introspection, reasoning, and not being an ass like his imaginary friend!
Now he's being an Internet scold with John Smith elsewhere on this thread, whining that JS is using naughty language. JS is having none of it.
I unblocked him briefly just to read JS' comments.
Maybe that's the answer for us to finally get rid of him.
débile grift, if you can read my comments. I don't see why I should be friendly with assholes, and I am not an Atheist.
And since you don't seem to quite grasp English, maybe other languages will work.
Estás un perdido, no estàs quiere aquí.
Pov' cloche, fous l'camp d'ici.
Fucking looser, hit the road and don't let the door hit you.
DG really knows how to win friends and influence people, doesn’t he?
I would say, no one here turned their back on me when I confessed I am a Pagan.
😂
Don't forget the marine chronometer invented by John Harrison in 1844 used to determine longitude. For that matter, the sunstones used by the freaking vikings! This guy peaked when he was cast on Road Rules.
I tend to think he peaked in elementary school. That seems to be about the level of his knowledge.
That's generous of you.
Kindergarten?
I mean, if the midshipmen in the audience didn’t already realize he was talking out his ass, this line alone would have opened their eyes. I cannot believe these folks who are graduating from a school of sailors don’t know the history of navigation like the back of their hands and will believe Duffy’s ignorant take. He’s telling experts about his elementary knowledge. Someone should have patted him on the head and said, “that’s nice, dear. Now go along and play, the grownups are talking.”
I am may be wrong but I think DM had once a compass as a keychain when I was a child and she teached me how to use it. She also teached me how to make a solar cadran with a twig and some dirt.
Canopus is a prominent Southern circumpolar star. It is the one which told the ancient Egyptians when the Nile was due to flood - when it first became visible in the nighttime winter sky. Good for navigating, too.
Actually, it's Sirius (Sothis/Sopdet) :)
Canopus is due South of Sirius and becomes visible in the nighttime winter sky in January. I can see it from my office window at night if the lights are off. 2nd brightest star in the sky - secondary to Sirius.
The flood is in summer, not winter.
https://m.espacepourlavie.ca/en/monthly-sky/heliacal-rising-sirius
"The ancient Egyptians noticed that the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, the brightest in the night sky, would occur a short time before the annual flooding of the Nile. The heliacal rising of Sirius therefore kicked off the farming season in ancient Egypt."
I learned it the way I said in High School, in my post, but after trying all day to confirm it, I obviously learned it wrong. I submit to your greater knowledge. Still, neither way matches up to modern growing calendars.
I actually found something. I wonder if you didn't confuse the city of Canopus founded by Greeks in Egypt and named from one of their myths with the star you mentioned earlier.
OT, but incredibly cool video series about a 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 computer that tracks stars for navigation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb5_Gufx3xFN9qW__mL4BUsy2
...and also a metric shitload of 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 cool restoration projects, including an Apollo Guidance Computer.
“There are two kinds of people in life: those who believe in God and those who think they’re God. There’s something beautiful, humbling, and properly ordered about a man and woman who understand that there is a power greater than themselves.”
You’re confusing atheists with Trump. Atheists don’t believe they are gods, they just don’t believe your claims about a god existing, and what you claim your god is. If no gods exist, then we cannot be gods. Logic.
Properly ordered? Son, this is a clear attempt at setting up an authoritarian regime. While that is how the military works, it is often counterproductive to society, and even in the military it gets in the way of effective service.
In regards to the idea that there is power greater than us, duh. But it doesn’t have to be a god and it is clearly not your God. Atheists and folks who aren’t religious don’t think they are the end all, be all. Christians tend to act that way. We know damned well that there are things out of our control, that we can’t change the laws of physics, for instance. But y’all MAGA, evangelical, Christian supremacists, or whatever seem to think you are in charge of reality. The rockets illegally shot at Iran really did obliterate the country’s nuclear capabilities, Trump is handsome, the 2020 election was stolen, Elon is a genius and absolutely not a Nazi. None of these are true, but you seem to think if Trump says it, it’s real. You can’t make it real. Atheists understand this, you clearly do not.
Oh this is why I stopped arguing with Christian apologists years ago. They LOVE to tell atheists what we believe, and all it is is propaganda to prevent them from thinking for themselves and to keep them in their cult. Yak yak yak. Arguing with them is pointless. I taught my own kids to frame the argument as a need rather than a belief: "I don't need a Sky Daddy, I don't need gods (plural! always use plural) in my life." You completely bypass the whole "does god exist" argument that way. My kids learned to say "well, if I was going to choose a god, I sure wouldn't choose yours. I'd choose ___" (I think it was Anubis for my daughter because she loved dogs and is into 'liminal spaces'; and for my son... I don't remember. He was the kid who told his kindergarten friend that "God is like Santa--make believe." LOL)
""well, if I was going to choose a god, I sure wouldn't choose yours. I'd choose ___""
I always go with Athena. The way worship of her (and maybe all gods) is described in The Odyssey is wrapping fat and sinew around thigh bones and burning them, or as I like to call it, grilling.
If there is truly something greater than us, it is probably the laws of physics, and everything that derives from them. That isn't a god; it's the rules of the game.
And the smart money is on playing by the rules.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒: 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑑.
I expect only Christian Nazionalist rhetoric from anyone connected to the regime. But this? Claiming that everyone who does not believe in the Christian idea of the Abrahamic god thinks they are themselves god? It is a fairly safe bet that each of those midshipmen knows at least one other midshipman that isn't some sort of Christian. For your boss to tell you that the guy next to you is trying to replce god with themselves in next level demonization.
Duffy is trying to plant the idea that anyone who does not believe is anti-American and an active agent of evil. We may not be near the top of the list for being rounded up and sent to camps, but we are on that list.
BTW, I certainly do not think I am God.
But his boss does. What does that say about him ?
The Orange Ba'al?
Ba’al of blubber…? 🤔
Orange Blubber!
Jaffa Jabba the Butt.
That it's not yet time to say: "There are two kinds of people in life: those who believe in Trump and those who think they’re Trump."
I wouldn't trust any of these douchecanoes to be the god of a fucking 𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘺, let alone anything more important.
"Douche-canoes?" Oh, THAT's a GOODIE!
Don't shower her with too much compliments 😋
As good or better than “douchenozzle “!
Oh, it's up there, no doubt! 👍
Or douche canoe?
I favor douche-bros, myself, it describes that college brain dead attitude.
I occasionally go with douche nugget.
Sean likely thinks a douche canoe is a type of watercraft.
Oh that's been the argument for a long time. "Atheists turn themselves in God, atheists worship themselves." And then you could get into the argument that "atheists don't believe in gods or in worshipping anything" but it's pointless. Oh, and it goes along with "gay people worship themselves and that's why they choose a partner of the same gender as them." Yadda yadda. Walk away. Block.
If Jesus is the answer then it must be a very convoluted question because Christianity is the most factionalized religion on the planet and there is nothing close to consensus on that subject. I feel sorry for those graduates because I doubt they had any choice but to attend. For politicians like Duffy, religion isn't an actual solution it's an excuse for his own incompetence. Any failure can be blamed on a lack of faith, or God moving in mysterious ways. I know what happened to my religious faith when I listened to an idiot priest in Vietnam give us a 'Kill a Commie for Christ' pep talk. I hope Duffy's speech has a similar effect on at least some of the graduates.
A large part of the cost we pay for having Shitler in charge is having these ignorant hacks addressing our young men and women. Disinformation on steroids.
Yeph. One had to wonder how in the heck they want "christianity" to be the rule of law, ask them if Christians argue so much over what their religion is, then why would we want them to be in charge of society?
Trying to sort out who was, or was not, a TRUE Christian has spilled enough blood to float the Navy. The men who wrote the Constitution knew that and not giving religion a role to play in the governance of their new country was not an accidental omission.
that history they do not want you to know.
History they gloss over and ignore.
I regret buying what they were selling for too many years. Now the fascists are trying to rewrite our Constitution. The Corrupt Supreme 6 will let them do it.
It's good that you got out. That's not an easy process.
Just like every other part of history.
There's only one thing to do when someone like Duffy goes off on a diatribe like that:
Walk out.
Silence is golden, but duct tape is 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳.
:)
Except, this was a quasi-military graduation. I am quite sure attendance was mandatory.
A shame, that. One hopes that there might have been more than a little blowback, if not from the cadets then from the faculty.
No blowback from the faculty, their jobs depend on being quiet.
Especially now.
Or in this case: Away all boats.
Aye-aye, Sir!
I will defer to the incomparable Christopher Hitchens for a response to this lightweight:
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can f#$%ing die and leave North Korea!”
Duffy should be sued for violating the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment.
Duffy should be thrown out of government on his ear and told to get a life!
That applies to every member of the regime.
Ba-da-bing.
Ba-da-boom.
Garabaldi: No boom?
Sinclair: No boom.
Ivanova: No boom today, boom tomorrow, there's always a boom tomorrow.
Big ba-da-boom!
-- Liloo
Marvin: There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.
And some injustices.
Hitch in his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPD1YGghtDk
There are five kinds of people;
People who believe in your god, people who don’t believe in your god, people who think they are god, people who could care less about your gods or his gods. people who believe in no gods, people who believe in a different version of your particular god, people at sea who dies despite all of their prayers to their gods, people at sea who don’t die despite having no gods.
Did I say five? I lied.
There are only two kinds of people: assholes and non-assholes.
Breathe, Ben, BREATHE!! 😁
Not while he may drinking his coffee.
👆🎯
I know that most of this administration are narcissists (or worse) with zero introspection who spend more time drinking and partying than reading or using their brains. But I just have so much trouble believing that they actually believe this shit and that it isn't 100% some con to shame people into accepting the domination of billionaires and oligarchs. I mean, maybe they do "believe" as far as they are able to believe in anything. But they also do a hell of a lot of projection. Who exactly thinks they're gods? Them.
I remember over a decade ago when my then local state representative was arguing against Florida accepting "Obama's dirty money," aka the Medicaid exemption. People have died because of what he did. He's a Christian nationalist whose siblings run a charter school lobbying company and whose wife runs the White nationalist* charter school that DeSantis loves to use for photo ops.
I emailed him and said "look, you claim to be a Christian. Can't you just say that Jesus appeared to you and told you to be merciful and accept the Medicaid expansion?" His aides didn't reply to my emails for a long time after that. But seriously! Why not? He could say anything he wanted and claim it was Jesus. Apparently Jesus DID tell him to meet with the Koch Brothers and the NRA and go on Fox News to tout his "Marshall's Plan" to arm teachers. Then DeSantis made him into Education Secretary. Now he's pulling ridiculously big bucks turning Florida's former honors college into a Viktor-Orban-inspired, Hillsdale-College-clone propaganda factory. Richard Corcoran. Remember his name.
*The terms "classical" and "western civilization" in education are code words for White Christian Nationalism. And I suspect White Christian Nationalism is nothing more than a tax-free-real-estate investment scam covering up human trafficking and sexual abuse.
Your final paragraph l believe hits the 🎯.
Seriously, would anyone here be surprised?
Yes, any classical roman 'nym screams manosphere! There is one that I used to see who named himself Alkiabades, so I asked him why did you name yourself after the guy that fucks goats in Assassin's Creed Odyssey?
"Scenes: Some moments and interactions with Alkibiades are suggestive or open to interpretation regarding his relationship with a goat. One user mentions a scene where the player character might "bone" him, and asks "how can you resist a goat..."
It is apparent this yahoo never served in the military. All those things he listed as how these midshipmen persevered is just the standard state of things (except for the Air Force 🤪) in the military. He would have known this had he served. Someone would have had to practically die from the conditions before anything could be done about them. And paper plates and plastic forks?!? That’s a problem? That is just field problem normal, having that in the dining facility just means kp is that much easier for not having to wash so many dishes.
But seriously, facilities don’t get that bad in just four years, this seems like a chronically underfunded program. You can blame Biden for not addressing it, but you can say the same for Trump, Obama, and Bush as well. But, like I said, these conditions are pretty much average conditions throughout the military. All that defense budget goes toward building fighter jets that sit at storage facilities, and the folks that contract the war machines. Not actually taking care of the servicemembers.
B-b-b-ut they stuffed Jeebus in the basement! That's why the facilities went to hell, dontcha see?
did they make Jeebus put the lotion on???
It puts the lotion on its skin
Or it gets the hose again
Yes it will, Precious, it will get the hose again!
𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝐴𝑑𝑚. 𝐽𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑁𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑦’𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐷𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑦’𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.
Duffy's disrespect may not have played a direct role, but given this regime's panchant for firing powerful women who aren't sycophants...
I would t be surprised if he said something to her before or after his address. Something like, “you can retire or we will retire you.”
"Fine, Duffy. I can knee you in the groin NOW, or wait until after we're off the dais."
[Only slightly sorry about this. I am sick to death of self-righteous fucks like Duffy.]
That painting was treated with great respect and appreciation during the move to the most appropriate place on campus, making a fuss about putting it back to a location where it didn’t belong and wasn’t respected seems to be more insulting than anything.
It's not about respect. It's about domination, and marking territory.
Yes territorrial pissings are their favorite activity.
"𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆: 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒓𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅."
There are two kinds of people: those wo don't believe in gods and those who believe that their god has given them a brain, but refuse to use it to think!
I smell a false dichotomy in Duffer's statement there!
Someone needs to ask why, if their God is so powerful, why they are needed to do His handy work.
Same reason God needs a starship.
God needs a starship,
Elon delivers.
And it explodes.
Before it even launches.
makes me thing of Star Trek VI.
Probably because Yahweh likes to PLAY with his toys. Problem is, he has a penchant for breaking them, entirely too often.
Reminiscent of Trelane from Star Trek.
Quite so, though Trelane was alleged to be of the Q Continuum in a Star Trek novel.
Q-Squared. I've read it, though only once, unlike Q-in-law, where Q meets Luxana Troi.
𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘺 implied in the Lower Decks / Strange New Worlds crossover episode.
Ha! I'll have to re-watch that!
I soooo need to order a whole bunch of DVD's and do some serious catching up.
As soon as I have some money.
Beat me to it.
https://c.tenor.com/wbU069eOtu8AAAAd/tenor.gif
Only someone who’s never been to see would think the North Star is the only one mariners use.
Let's put him on a boat in the southern hemisphere and have him find his way back with Polaris.
Yes, I'd like to see that!
I can 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 imagine this nincompoop trying to use a sextant.
...and now I can't stop giggling.
They have renamed it an abstainant.
It's what? A sex toy?"
If I was god, there’d be no Duffy. Smite!!
That fugly painting was rightfully put in a basement. JFC, indeed.