“potentially” lol

No worries.

Fair. Weirdly, I’ve been one of those dudes with the megaphone lol.

The point of a uniformed service is to show your enemy that you have control and command over people who will follow your orders. Demonstrating this lowers your enemy’s will to fight back. It gets soldiers on the other side to think “If these guys are so organized that they march in unison, we don’t stand a chance.”

Fair enough.

It will not surprise me if in the next year, a new division in the army is created for parade duty for the president’s birthday where next year their marching will be perfect.

That would just be the chefs kiss of silly bullshit on top of everything else.

I knew I left it around here somewhere.

I imagine there’s some small percentage of people who will. Assholes are a fact of life. Realistically though, most people won’t care. I’ve got family that strongly support Trump and everything he’s doing, but they work with Mexicans and have no problem with individual immigrants. It’s a weird but common mental contortion, blaming a group of people for something, but carving out exceptions for all the individuals you know. You’ll probably be ok.

I mean, that was my takeaway. If everyone knows and accepts that you like pussy, then wearing a shirt that says “I ❤️ pussy” is just kinda skeevy, if not wildly inappropriate. If you’re in a place where people either deny your sexual orientation exists or don’t want your orientation to exist, then you’re a badass for being explicit about what you like, and I’m comfortable with light applause.

Story time, boys and girls.

When I joined the Army and went to basic training, one of the first things they did was show us how to stand at attention, at-ease, right face, left face, and about face. Then they turned the training unit and marched off.

And then stopped and screamed at us for marching like Nazis.

Turns out, you don’t see US soldiers marching like that because it’s stupid as hell, and you can’t do it for twenty miles with a rucksack. The US military for all their many, many faults, is real good at war, and marching like a toy soldier doesn’t help you do war.

So we learned how to march like Americans, which is much more casual. The only thing you’ve gotta do is make sure you match the stride length of the soldier in front of you, but even that is more of a suggestion than a hard rule. We got good, though, because we were assholes.

We would ease out behind someone who was walking somewhere and roughly the same height, and step slightly faster than the person in front of us, until we were close behind them. Then you perform a little skip at the last second to get back to the same stride and close the last few inches. The end result is that your chest is hovering about an inch from their back, your nose is an inch from the back of their head, and your hands are swinging right behind theirs. While walking at full speed.

You haven’t had a jump scare until you’ve marched two blocks, turned your head, and glimpsed someone’s face an inch from your own.

I thought you said “gluten” for a minute, which, to be fair, is also accurate. He looks like partially risen dough.

Thank you sir and/or ma’am

I don’t read German, but I recognize “micro plastic”, which means “asbest” is “asbestos”, don’t know what the first one is though. Last is graphene. I’m assuming “Voller” means something like “generation of”? How close am I?

We’ve got no kings because they’re all in the streets.

This bear in particular is maybe not much better than a dude. He’s gettin a little handsy.

Doesn’t matter if you did do it the windows way, honestly. Anything of any scale programmed in .NET has runtime reflection scattered everywhere, and that shit adds up.

@[email protected] draw for me an avatar for an online forum, for a user named “blackstampede”.

I’m guessing it’s part of the genre of porn that purports to hypnotize the viewer into liking cock. Mostly gifs, from what I’ve seen.

posts article titled “Donald Trump is a Nazi: part 1 of 10” on both bsky and twitter.

1200 clicks on bsky

3 clicks on twitter

concludes that twitter users don’t read as much as bsky users.

This is a joke, but seriously, social media experiments are rarely useful. Lotta confounders, and inconsistent documentation.

My town is small and located in a very conservative area, but had maybe fifty people turn out for the protest. People are really pissed.