They’d get really sunburnt and maybe end up with visual damage from accidentally glancing at something brighter than they evolved with. Ditto for how you or I would do under Sirius or Vega (“blue” stars).

I don’t know, somebody would have to start shooting back. The only real candidate is the existing military, and I’m not sure they or the Democrats are up for it.

Canadian here. Mostly concern. Anybody here that thinks it’s a fun show hasn’t thought very far ahead.

They mean in the “chaos” sense, not the Lemmy-friendly sense.

Very plausible. If you need any recipes for when the California vegetables stops coming HMU, I’ve made a project out of it.

You could keep adding to that.

People are big mad and think electing a brain-damaged version of Mussolini makes some kind of point.

I mean, we’re already a capitol storming and a few assassination attempts in. You need to be a bit more specific.

It’s a toss up and I have no special crystal ball, but if I had to do arbitrage on it I think the risk of a 2000-style tie is even higher than projected (already 10% per Nate Silver), just based on the vibes I’m hearing.

Or maybe just refuses to fathom that other people could not want to talk to him. If he has a psych file I’m sure it’s darkly fascinating.

Yeah, I’m not saying it’s wrong - pretty much nobody gives rigid instructions a good review after working under them. Just another reason there’s a whiff of saltyness in the paper pictured.

It would be retrospective, since this is about now. That dovetails with their whole current national myth. Never mind that Ukraine was there fighting the Nazis too.

For anyone else reading, this is how all Russian toasts work AFAIK. “С Новым годом” for celebrating New Years is one I learned pretty early on.

Ah, the seam was part of it.

To be fair, he killed way more people than any tiger.

I don’t know about gift shops, but definitely fast food and probably clothes too.

Yep, there’s a guy buying shoes in one of the Wikipedia article’s pictures. Appliances and electronics too. Anything a soldier could reasonably want to buy, although apparently they have their own brand for auto sales, as opposed to a chain.

Navy SEALs eating government-supplied but non-free Big Macs as bullets whistle overhead is just the most aggressively American. I also get a kick out of soda fountains on submarines, although it makes total sense from an engineering perspective.

So, what’s the MOS code for Hooters specialist?

Ah, cursive. I’m bad enough at that in English, lol. Thanks.

Yeah, but some people are more willing to move onto a smaller platform. Like us. In practice, as long as more than one person becomes willing per person who makes the change, it works out to compounding percentage growth, which is good because the internet itself would never have taken off otherwise (or cities and railways, for that matter).

Is that a “g” in supposed Cyrillic, or just a font I don’t recognise?

Yeah, we’re talking about the army that rolls out chain stores in warzones as SOP. Apparently it’s pretty haphazard from he inside too, but nobody else can remotely pull that off.

Hmm. Well, if you do go IT, you could look for a UI/UX (user interfaces/experience) role where they might see that as an asset. Or maybe do marketing analytics - anything math heavy could potentially get you into that. I don’t even mean college credits, I mean job experience on your resume (since you were worried about finding a job afterwards) - it’s just as important in non-academic hard science as in other disciplines.

The academic credits are another thing, though. Hard science education can be pretty demanding, and the drop-out rates in some of them - like engineering - are sky-high. Then again, professors say older students almost always do well.

And yet, it’s a famously specialised force with tons of complexity and supply chain overhead. Pretty much every other military is flying by the seats of their pants, by comparison, whether it’s a Canadian soldier with the MOS of “dunno, boats maybe, and your equipment is definitely filled with mold”, or a North Korean soldier that can change their own orders with a bribe of pork.

I feel like all four people in this document (including the author) had an angle of some kind.

Yeah, then you can figure something out I’m sure. What is your background? If you can bring past experience “with you” to some extent, you’ll have a much easier time, even with just 2 years of education behind you. Everybody shits on hires fresh out of college.

This is the part where I make a disclaimer that I’m not exactly a career rolemodel, I just hear a lot of talk and know people from all kinds of backgrounds. And read the statistics on things.