No military background here. But through family and friends I have had a lot of interactions with military folks, and I’m loosely interested in military stuff.

My username is due to living near water my whole life, and enjoying being in and around it. I love fishing, paddling, swimming, skipping stones from shore, watching osprey catch fish, all of it.

Ballpark numbers: USS Abraham Lincoln has about 5,000 people on board. And it is part of a larger carrier strike group that totals maybe 7,500 personnel. You need a long, strong global supply chain to serve that many people for months on end as they travel halfway around the world. Iran has apparently broken the chain in some key places.

Mental health is a separate problem. The Abraham Lincoln’s planned 6-month deployment is now at almost 9 months and counting, with no publicly announced return date. Wikipedia says the ship has only stopped at port twice in that time. So the sailors on board have been stuck in close quarters, away from their homes or loved ones, getting shot at in a war zone, for 3 months longer than expected, and with only two brief breaks. It’s not hard to understand that they might be exhausted and strained. Multiple sailors have tried to jump overboard and at least one sailor actually did it without being stopped. That’s not a supply chain problem; it’s a top-down organizational fiasco.

Nobody speaks up in public. But if you watch the top brass you can catch glimpses of their disdain for Trump and the GOP’s culture war bullshit.

One of my favorite examples is the video of Admiral Gilday sticking up for a non-binary sailor (and the Navy in general) when Tommy Tuberville tried to grill him in a senate hearing. Another time, previous Secretary of Defense James Mattis visited troops abroad and let a line slip about trouble back home.

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Twenty-Two Inch Nails

The last extension cord you will ever need.

Relevant Arlo & Janis comic:

You’ll find a new honey someday.

As an American, I approve this message.

Direct link: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

Those are coveted by the noncredibledefense crowd. You can get copies on AliExpress, but they just aren’t the same.

The telescoping ones I’ve tried have all been sticky like a cheap fork. Four-bar linkages like the Thudbuster work better IMO. Though I have never found a suspension seatpost I really liked. It bugs me to have the distance between the saddle and cranks vary without my input.

Can your frame fit bigger tires? I would recommend going that route if possible.

Didn’t you hear? Lockheed is “extremely woke” according to the right-wing culture warriors:

https://buywokefree.com/brand-profile/lockheed-martin

“Sex work is work and work sucks.”

When my Waterpik broke after years of use I was happily surprised to learn they still had replacement parts available.

No. I am not sure how we could even craft such a law in the current US legal climate. Political speech, and money tied to political speech, are nearly impossible to regulate in any meaningful way.

I like this representation a lot.

Every day is STFU Friday.

actor Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic tale, had said in an interview that she had “the greatest arms I have ever seen.”

Damon had been discussing one of the film’s pivotal scenes when he gently corrected his interlocutor, who had mistakenly assumed the biceps in the shot were his own: They belonged to Dalton, who some might be surprised to learn is his stunt double.

A shot of Dalton from behind in the scene, holding a sword and ready to pounce at the giants, is used in one of the posters for the movie.

Confirmed. That’s a damn fine arm.

In such a case, would the two instances still effectively be defederated?

I think so? That’s what I would expect, at least.

The meme is like 99% true.

But watch the video of Portishead’s Roseland NYC Live and tell me Beth Gibbons crooning with a cigarette isn’t dope as hell. You can’t.

If you want to complicate the graph further, I believe hexbear federates using an allow list. Blahaj, lemmy.ca, and sh.itjust.works are not on the allow list, so they are effectively defederated. I haven’t looked further to see which other large instances may be affected.