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A divorce lawyer revealed the top 5 professions a woman should avoid marrying in a now-viral TikTok Meanwhile, pilots, including those who work in the military, have a lot of responsibility as they are "in control of like 150, 200 people's lives at a time," she added. "And they tend to be very narcissistic and very controlling." What is your point bitch, go make me a sandwich...

I think I can help with that:

You pick some weird takes to apologize about Russia with.

You realize there is a difference between a major passenger station and a marshaling yard where war related material and equipment are being prepared for movement to the front, right? While I agree the latter is a legitimate military target, it’s kind of hard to argue that a station full of fleeing civilians is a legitimate target or one that has any military value other than attempting to terrorize a population into submission.

All my life I have read military history, including a lot of WWII stuff. Well, duh... Reading the accounts of the mass, systemic literal raping of everything that moved once Ivan moved into Germany, I kinda figured it was just some sick payback for the Nazis killing millions of your countrymen/women/children. I was wrong. Seems its cultural. Too many stories of low-ranking Ivans doing really heinous things in a war they started.

It’s not a bad chunk of change for those of us who love our jobs and the people we serve with. Doubly so if you’re a U-2 guy without a Guard option! (unless you’re cool with flying something lame)

Predictable. Do you mean the international norm of invading a sovereign nation without cause?

Because I want to ensure international norms and consistency are met so that they don't come back to haunt us? Buddy I get it, you don't like Russia and you want to hate everything about them and everything they do. That's an emotional argument. Approach one from logic. Elevate shit that can rightfully be criticized under current ethical frameworks. That's how you build an international coalition. Not by nitpicking shit that we want to do ourselves later. In the next year we might be at war with Russia and I dont want to see people coming after us because we struck rail terminals and explosives factories, things commonly held under conventional wisdom as being valid military targets? Or are you just going to plead hypocrisy at that point and say "well it's ok when we do it." That doesn't go over well on the international stage.

I still don't know what an assault rifle is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. (just kidding...nobody knows what an assault rifle is).

My family emigrated to the US in 1868 to Wisconsin, they stayed in touch with the family still living in Pomerania, which in 1868 was in Prussia since there was no Germany until after they beat the French in the Franco Prussian war. They lost touch in 1939, after 45 my aunt was stationed in Berlin as an interpreter, her Wisconsin German was a challenge talking to Wehrmacht officers. She made inquiries since our family ancestral home was east of the Oder River and now part of Poland. She later found out they were scattered or dead, the Russians and Poles most likely got payback. Mass graves were found later when guys who go around with metal detectors looking for battlefield relics found mass graves of German civilians. The largest ethnic cleansing ever, for centuries German speaking people lived all over eastern Europe and others who moved in after the Wehrmacht took over, after they lost the Soviets said start walking west or the shot them on sight. Since in the late 40's nobody had not much sympathy for Germans taking it in the shorts, so the Soviets went buck wild on German girls. If you were a German POW being held by the Russians, they got taken care of about as well or worse than Americans being held by the Japanese.

Ukrainians got a good strike on a Russian ammunition depot

I said it a couple months ago and I'll say it again: Once you separate and go through the VA disability process, you can do damn near the bare minimum and easily end up with 40-50% disability. That's $1000-$1300 a month, tax free depending on how many parents and kids you have. The bonus is $35K/yr taxed, which depending on your bracket, will probably come out to roughly $2000 a month. So handing your balls back to Big Blue for 3/5/8 years will net you roughly $1000 per month over just getting VA disability. This doesn't even account for the piles of money you'll be making at your major of choosing if you separate. Bottom line at bottom: taking the bonus will be the worst financial decision you'll ever make. You'd be financially better off buying a boat, airplane, and a 2nd wife. If you love your job and want to continue to serve, I respect you. But don't, for one second, think it's a good financial move to take the bonus.

You know who else offers $35k bonuses…the guard.

PROPORTIONALITY is key here. While civilian casualties are an unfortunate reality of war, it is still not ok to commit murder. Have a look at the multitude of evidence of Russians executing civilians with their hands tied behind their backs & tell me they’re not guilty of war crimes. How about deliberately targeting hospitals and clearly marked shelters? How about raining down artillery on residential areas with no military targets in sight? Not exactly proportional now is it? Have the Ukrainians been operating 100% in accordance with LOAC? Probably not. But it’s their neighborhoods, their cities, their farms that have been invaded here. They can’t possibly be guilty on the same scale as the Russians because they aren’t ransacking Russian neighborhoods, raping their women and killing their children. Putin and his enablers are absolutely responsible for all of this reprehensible activity & frankly a hanging at The Hague is far to easy on them. Once again I’ll remind you that there is no gray area here. Only one side is guilty of a violent invasion & subsequent atrocities. There is NOTHING that justifies that. Not an expanding NATO, not an actor turned president who Putin doesn’t like, not Ukraine defending its own claims to Donbas. NOTHING JUSTIFIES RUSSIA’S ACTIONS. NOTHING. Fuck Putin and all of the Russians (and anyone else) supporting him by covering their eyes and ears to everything but the absolute garbage the Russian state is spreading. One final note here: It’s sickening and offensive to those of us who have served and still believe in our country that we have American military members making a moral equivalency between our own targeting processes which, while less than perfect, are NOTHING like what the Russians have done in Ukraine. It literally turns my stomach.

Looks like the new bonus is out. 35k/year (even for 11Rs this time) with 3-12 year options. Lump sums starting at 5 years for initial eligibles. CSOs/WSOs… it’s not awesome. 15/25/35k per year starting at 3/5/8. Now, if we can just get folks to see past the “35k max is congress’s fault…” It’s bullsh1t. We ask Congress to write a law about every dollar we spend; failing to equip the force in front of congress and failing to build the force we need (pay for talent) are both the same failure.

His quals are court-martialed for unprofessional relationships, that’s the highest on the LOX Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/indoor-mask-mandate-philadelphia-businesses-20220411.html The madness isn’t done in Philadelphia yet. Soon to return to a city near you?

Nitric acid is a key component to making certain explosives which is why Russia probably attacked it. TnT is made chiefly with nitric acid, as well as amoniom nitrate fertilizer which is what was used in the OKC bombing. Kind of a similar thing with the rail terminal that was just hit. Shitty a bunch of civilians died but rail terminals are pretty important military targets. Again, not saying it doesn't suck civilians died, but it's not a crime to hit logistics terminals and explosive supply chain factories in a war. We need to focus on the stuff that has more substance like shooting bound prisoners, rape, etc...