JamesTBagg
@JamesTBagg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
Okay, your simpleton suggestion is, two years of latrine digging (which doesn’t happen anymore, and was never a job anyways), THEN start the two years of training which when complete will finish out your four years or leave you with one remaining year of active duty?
That’s insteaf of two years of initial training then 2-3 years OJT, which a person can carry back out into civilian life and related career fields?
That’s your idea?
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 week ago:
The jaws themselves are huge plus you’d need a hydraulic power supply. Not very incognito.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 week ago:
I recently watched a video about the quickest and quietest way to cut through thin wall tube, that had absolutely nothing to do with cameras what so ever. They determined portable band saws were the most practical method; balance being relatively quiet compared to other power tools while being the quickest. Manual tools were most quiet but the slowest which leaves you vulnerable.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
That’s a theory I’ve never heard. Might have to do some reading.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Two years may be too short, some jobs require near two years of training from boot camp to fleet. I’m in aviation and my initial contact was 5 years active instead of the standard 4.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
No, the state hiring you on temporarily for a case is much different than having professional jurors. Professional jury corruption would begin immediately (like any professional lifetime bureaucrat or politician.) Add the education requirements and you’ve eliminated the “Jury of your peers.”
Specialist witnesses are already a thing, and a thing often corrupted.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Picasso is a “real” artist and his work sucks. I’m pretty sure his work was and is just a vessel for money laundering.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Privatization and consolidation of houses as investments, instead of homes.
- Comment on Hmmm 1 week ago:
Both avocados and quacamole are wildly overrated, I’m in San Diego and it’s every where.
I’d disappear avocados for the sake of potatoes. - Comment on Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling 2 weeks ago:
Zionist Israel is antisemitic.
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
YYYYMMDD is the ISO standard.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
The bicycles with nor just the headlights, but the flashing white lights to dazzle your vision. Genius. “Let me be seen by blinding you.” Right up there with motorcycles riding with their highbeam on. People cannot see you if you blind them.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
This one time riding my motorcycle, the days adventures ran a little longer than anticipated. As night fell so did the temperatures. Coming down the mountain a 4Runner or Tacoma was behind me with their high beams on. The lights were so bright I could feel them on my back. I folded in my mirrors and accepted the free heat.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 8 months ago:
No, RoboCop 2 is alright. RoboCop is probably my favorite movie. RoboCop 2 is good, not as deep, not as gratuitous, nor perfectly campy as the first but good enough for a watch. 3 is not, don’t waste your time… Even Peter Weller didn’t come back.
The remake totally missed the mark; had some interesting ideas and callbacks to the originated but didn’t know how to capture the tone and thought of the original and took itself too seriously. - Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 year ago:
I’m glad my two anecdotes of 25-ish years of driving have given you a complete picture.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 year ago:
Did I say it doesn’t count? The cop didn’t issue me a ticket so he didn’t think so.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 year ago:
I was once pulled over for doing 50 in a 30 and I was just coasting down a long hill. I’ve also been pulled over for doing 35 in a 25mph zone (a classic Texas small town speed trap where the posted speed went from 65 to 55 to 25 in a very short distance with a cop posted at the 25 sign. You had to be on the brakes to make it.) Some cars are quite quick, foot on the gas pedal a moment too long and you’ve blown through 8mph. Some people spend more time with their eyes outside the car than on the dash. Hell a lot of you drive around with highbeams on and there’s an indicator light for that too.
But also, “Watson already had nine points on her licence before the speeding incident occurred, the court heard.”
- Comment on Horses go brr 1 year ago:
Now, I’ve read that horses were native to the Asian continent and migrated elsewhere, eventually to the Americas. However, I was at the San Diego Natural History museum and they had a display that claims the opposite, that horses are native to then migrated out of the Americas.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 year ago:
Yeah, this was before the industry decided on their panic price increaes. It’s weird how post panic prices never corrected. Going shooting is almost painful now on the wallet.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 year ago:
When I moved out of Texas in 2016, some friends told me there was a $5 bounty for hog tails from the state. So, you could do it for more than fun; less than a dollar a round for .308, then 5 dollars per tail… that’s a decent profit.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 year ago:
Not all personalities are likeable.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 year ago:
Probably the same people up there that prefer Lynch’s Dune to Villeneuve’s.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 year ago:
“Wooden performances” is the only way to describe the acting in Lynch’s. That movie is a confuding mess and painful to watch if you don’t know the story. A movie can’t simply assume you’ve read the book to understand it. People can only truly prefer Lynch to Villeneuve ironically. You can’t honestly think it’s better film.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 year ago:
Ah, so not the scent-memories that were triggered in me then. Different Nintendo scents, makes sense.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 year ago:
suddenly tastes like a Nintendo Switch cartridge.
Fuck. I know this smell. You just triggered NES and Super Nintendo memories in me. Never played Switch but I’m assuming they’re about the same.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 1 year ago:
The future is that one where corporate oligarchy took over everything, dumbed down the population to the point of dumbing down their own posterity, and end up dooming all of society for immediate profit. None of the high paying or necessary jobs are getting done. It’s not the future we’ve reached, its the one we’re en route to, the time line we’re on, right down to the crocs.
Your optimistic turn out relies on some dope from now getting cryogenicly frozen, then forgotten about, who accidentally wakes up a few hundred years in the future.
You’ve seen the movie put didn’t pay attention to it. Your death hill is a dumb one.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 1 year ago:
I guess you skipped the first half of the movie. You might be exactly who the movie is making fun of.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 1 year ago:
Ha. Remember when Idiocracy was just a funny movie making fun of us and not prophecy.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 1 year ago:
I’m sure all those old European royal families are going, “Yeah, yeah, it’s those tiny middle of nowhere American towns where the inbreeding happens. Not here. Never here.”
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 1 year ago:
Source: Trust me, bro.