𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕 @grumpy67T

@Rank1Apples Here's the thing, and I say this as the father of a 21-year-old woman: No technology is going to solve this problem. First, kids are smarter than you think. They /will/ find a way around it. Second, the problem is not a technological one. It's a parenting and awareness problem.

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13 hours ago

@tuuu28283 Following... Ask away.

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14 hours ago

... "...Academic expert." So... would that be akin to a "theoretical expert"? "I was a little concerned over the opinion of all the experts who had rated it impossible. I was, a matter of fact, somewhat irritated by seeing myself denominated an 'American expert' in the Admiralty inquiry. For I didn’t consider myself an ‘expert’ in anything and besides I had a low opinion of 'experts' anyway. Experts are people who know so much about how things have been done in the past that they are usually blind to how things can be done in the future." Edward Ellsberg - "Under the Red Sea Sun."

Kevin Bass @kevinnbass

a day ago

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

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18 hours ago

@billysandytodd ...Why isn't it bigger news? We know why.

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a day ago

@JesterJum Damn... both of ya'll look fantastic... congratulations and many great years ahead for ya both.

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𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕 @grumpy67T

2 days ago

@redrose_anna @JennCashmere Excel spreadsheets. I, too, was financially retarded. Now, my spreadsheets have formulas and links.

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𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕 @grumpy67T

2 days ago

Pickles on pizza? No. Pineapple? Yes. youtube.com/shorts/pe09Gc5…

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3 days ago

@Sassafrass_84 Yes. It is not as much about punishing the criminal as it is establishing clear consequences for their actions to dissuade similar acts within the society. If there are rules, yet they are not enforced, then what good are the rules or the authority of those who create them?

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4 days ago

Unfortunately... agree.

Mitchell Poole @MitchellPoole14

4 days ago

@denisrancourt Entropy. Applied at the civilization level. To our institutions, traditions, and educational systems. Chesterton's fence, the things modernization, and feminism deemed unnecessary or oppressive, were in fact civilization necessities. You can argue, but....where we are argues

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𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕 @grumpy67T

4 days ago

@siabaaLee @infantrydort And no - they do not get to control the narrative anymore. ...And that is probably disconcerting to their worldview and academic whitepapers.

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4 days ago

That's just it, though - they don't understand that history cannot easily be reduced for the sake of simplicity, justification, or convenience. Sure, I have written in the past that the Civil War could have been said to start over cotton, but anyone with an understanding of economics, cultivation, manpower, profit, and morality would understand that this is an opening to a MUCH longer discussion. A literal hypothesis, even. But folks like whats-his-name critic of Dort... they *need* to be right. They *need* the validation of public opinion. *We* don't. *We* were there, at the dull edge of the rusty and bureaucratic spear. We didn't (and oftentimes couldn't) be burdened by academic nonsense. We just did what we had to do when needed. Sometimes, some folks went too far. Sometimes, some folks didn't go far enough. We can debate now, but we didn't have such luxury then. Was whats-his-name critic wrong back then? I dunno - didn't know him then nor wa he in my CoC. Maybe it impacted what we had to contend with, maybe not. But for him to question ethics of then... now... it just seems kinda unproductive, other than generating prompts for posts like this.

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𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕 @grumpy67T

4 days ago

This is the neat thing about these threads: that different perspectives of a common timeline are offered. I was at Speicher from Jul06 through Sep07... so yeah... I remember the minarets being hit in Samarra and we were preparing for all sorts of Medevac calls... but that was it - that was our only focus. My only memories of anything external to 1st/2nd/3rd up duty cycles was Bush's "bring it on" comment (to which we were going "Oh HELL no... don't bring it. We don't have enough crews!") and an article about how even though Sunnis and Shias helped each other following a bridge collapse during the Hajj, both sides later regretted helping those of the religious antipode. So your insights are enlightening - even if they are rekindling old questions of why we ever bothered to help those who wouldn't do the same.

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4 days ago

@siabaaLee @infantrydort "Shia and Sunni were blowing each other up at their holy sites and neighborhoods were being ethnically cleansed." I was at Speicher when Saddam was executed... weird times. Hard to fight for democracy for people who hate each other as much as they hated us.

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4 days ago

@EricLori3 @infantrydort Or the NG CAB that stopped port ops to unfold the birds in Kuwait and go back north.

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4 days ago

"The enemy engineered that dilemma deliberately." That. That right there. They were watching. They were modifying their TTPs based upon observations of our TTPs. This is warfare, plain and simple. Ethics are often based around static assumptions of theory, not the dynamics of operational reality. Sure, ethics guide and shape the foundation of the warfighters, but they cannot dictate the execution of how wars are fought. If they do, then that's how one gets 20-year wars.

Daniel Lee @siabaaLee

4 days ago

The period from 2006 to 2009 in Iraq was a strategic and operational mess. Higher headquarters and civilian leadership in DC often had unclear or shifting objectives, and assessments were frequently written to satisfy whatever narrative the academics, colonels and above, or

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4 days ago

@redrose_anna Fascinating, isn't it?

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4 days ago

"Now you can't use your college education When you're swimming in your own perspiration You broke all the rules you know Now all the rules go out the window" youtu.be/-JSA-AksHC0?si…