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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:24:07 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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   @AlbinoMutant @Eiregoat @Tovarish_Pedal @sparky I don’t think the numbers are what makes it though. Every day I see more of a little slice of our society and I see waste. I see slippage.

   If you were to measure the economy, or a system by how effectively it can leverage its real resources, like you measure the diff between wheel horsepower and crank horsepower, I’d be you’d find us at 40% for most places and most things. Every interaction, story, and tidbit I glean paints a military picture just as bad in the service, so I don’t really care too much about what kind of power the US navy is supposed to make at the crank. I care about how much reaches the tarmac.

   Naval history has all kinds of “wait, how’d they fuck that up they should have won? How in the hell? Are they retarded?“ moments, and our military seems to have dedicated itself to staffing every critical position with as many weighted dice rolls as it can.

   Uh oh, captain karen wasn’t paying attention to her nav charts and now she’s stuck in shallow waters her screen has broken formation and now she’s easy picking for submarines.

   Oops, the night watchman was too busy watching porn on his smuggled phone to notice the swiftboat sidling up alongside the ship

   Those are the little vagaries of wartime that you can’t ever plan for, and I can’t help but expect us to have the worst string of luck an american fighting force has ever experienced when people like THIS are the ones at the helm:

   The upside? Well, the opponents are in many ways similarly retarded.