Notices by John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)

@WashedOutGundamPilot @nerthos @Groomschild @Rhodesian_YuKari Damn, that's alarming. Guess I should pray for them. They're still young and haven't gone to the heathen big city school yet.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @nerthos @Groomschild @Rhodesian_YuKari Saw some girls at my church who got the fake sticker type tattoos. They wash away but I couldn't help but think their parents are fools to let them do this. Yeah they aren't permanent but they're just encouraging them to get the real thing when they're older.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @kuronakai1488 I'm finding that I'm saying to boomers "are you sure of that?" more and more. They seem to get these ideas in their heads and even subject matter experts have told me things that were just plain wrong.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Heil_Honkler Yeah, they will figure it out eventually. But it's still a public relations blunder for the military if it was in fact a military blackhawk that caused this. They've already lost a lot of credibility after that debacle in Afghanistan, their failure to stop Houthis from attacking shipping in the red sea, and continuing woke faggotry that's repelling normal and respectable young men from joining up. If they did $100,000 worth of damage and injured some people, they should just apologize and pay for the damage. Compared to the military budget each year, that money is a rounding error. Then they should take leadership in explaining to volunteers how to properly designate LZs, and how to properly designate when no LZ is desired. After all they're the experts, right?

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Heil_Honkler Yeah but it's kinda hard to build a house of brick when everything's been destroyed. Even worse if you are assuming that military helo pilots are going to be careful to not blow your house down. Supposedly we have the best military in the world, but lately it hasn't been acting like it. People will learn and figure out how to protect themselves, but it shouldn't have to be this way.

If it was an honest mistake the military should be apologizing profusely and committing to being more careful around aid sites.

As to brick houses, even brick houses can break down if blown on enough. I work in a field where I have recently seen critical infrastructure take repeated hits from the past few storms and survived, but the accumulated damage is adding up and right now one more good hit is pretty much gonna cripple it. It takes time to order parts and there are lead times for certain things. And here comes Milton to fuck us up again.

@deprecated_ii @WashedOutGundamPilot Oh come now, anyone who can pass the license exam and can afford a baofeng can into ham radio. Don't let the crusty old farts get ya down!

@deprecated_ii @WashedOutGundamPilot Yeah, I rarely interact with other hams. My interest is mostly just in listening and building homemade antennas out of speaker wire. If I do any talking its usually more in the digital modes like psk31. Those modes tend to attract a better crowd.

The most fun I had was listening to some griefer keep talking over people on an HF net being done with boy scouts. He kept telling the kids "Don't listen to her, she's full of shit!" when some old lady was trying to say something.

@Mommy I remember something similar when I was 18. Saw a guy slap the shit out of his girlfriend in the taco bell parking lot after my shift. I wanted to call the cops but an older co-worker just told me to sit and watch. 15 minutes later they were hugging and kissing.

Most of the time, if a woman is being beaten by a man it's because she doesn't deserve any better. Or at least she doesn't think so. Otherwise she would walk away.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @bladerunner What dignity is there in struggling alone without any meaningful result?

@WhitestTemplar @WashedOutGundamPilot @JuicyGothMommyFeet @deprecated_ii I thought the same thing. Just sink the damned boats.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Shadowman311 I was a normie kid in a normie family back in the 90s, so a lot of the political stuff just wasn't on my radar. I had bigger concerns being that nerdy kid everyone else wanted to pick on. I wound up turning into pretty much a lol-bertarian when I eventually did become politically minded. The Obama administration pretty much cured me of that though.

@SoylentGroyper @suquili @PoalackJokes88 @WashedOutGundamPilot @AmericanChampion @Griffith @synapsid @EdBoatConnoisseur I remember talking to a programmer friend back in the early days of online dating. He worked for a hookup site and told me that all he did was work on the automation of creating fake profiles of women to make it look like they had an equal ratio of men to women. In reality 99% of the female profiles were fake. The regular dating site he worked on was also mostly fake profiles. He left that line of work shortly after because things got too sketchy for him.

@synapsid @WashedOutGundamPilot @AmericanChampion @EdBoatConnoisseur I struggle with this too. I do archery and it's mostly older people and kids. I do activities because I want to do them and my interests aren't things you find marriageable women at. I'm involved in ham radio too, and it's a sausage-fest of old and young nerds.

@EdBoatConnoisseur @synapsid @WashedOutGundamPilot @AmericanChampion Well, Audie Murphy was 5'5" and was a war hero and movie star. He married twice and had two sons. Still, he's an outlier.

It's bad out there. I'm living in a house with a reasonable mortgage payment compared to what the going rent rate is where I live, working at a decent job with good benefits. However I am still single and don't hold out much hope any more for having a wife and some kids. I have younger friends who still live with their parents and don't see any way out. TBH I can't even see any way for them out.

I have certain niche skills that make me competitive on the job market, but most guys don't, and can't even get their foot in the door to try. So they can't find a job that pays enough to move out. Even if they can find a job that pays ok, the rent is so high they can't accumulate enough savings to be able to make a down payment to buy a house. Inflation keeps getting worse because our gay clown-world leadershit needs the big numbers to always GO UP!!! Whaddaya mean the economy is shit now? Big number is still going up, the boomers investments are still safe, so the economy must still be good and you're just a whining slacker who needs to bootstrap himself, have a firm handshake, etc!

So I can understand why young guys and especially manlets can fall into despair. All I can really tell them is not to give up, because in the end that's what the people in charge, who hate us all, want us to do. What worked for me was to stop worrying about what I don't have, can't find and can't do, and focus on what I already had, and build from there.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Eternal_Iratus @Paultron @vriska I liked what I saw driving across the southwest when I left California for good. I kinda wish I had taken it slower and visited some of the places I passed by, like Meteor Crater.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @matty The military can't recruit young people because most young people aren't even White anymore and have no feeling of allegiance or duty to the USA. The White kids are all alienated from the USA because the government and society in general openly hates them. And commercials don't even make serving look glorious or exciting anymore.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Had a guy ask me if I liked Trump today. I just said "eh, well I think he's funny. It's entertaining to watch him spin up the liberals. Still not voting for him though. Don't care about politics anymore."

@skylar @deprecated_ii I've never had a good breakfast at a hotel.

@chainsaw_appreciator @WashedOutGundamPilot You relaxed. Big mistake.

#1 rule for boomers is, around boomers, never relax.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @c @Bunsen @Polfusilier @leespringfield1903 I remember when I was in high school some exchange student from Israel was asking me who would win in a hypothetical war between Israel and the USA...

I was so flabbergasted that I was reluctant to answer at first since I personally had nothing against Israel at the time (not being wise to the JQ back then.)

Finally I told him Israel may have a good regional military but they're not a global power. The USA would just bomb their critical infrastructure with stealth bombers and blockade their ports until the economy was totally ruined. I personally found the whole conversation so distasteful that I ended it shortly after that. Knowing what I know now, the absolute hubris of this guy still amazes me.