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mircea_popescu: folk are broken in
the fucking head ; just look at current mad max remake : a hot chick
THAT IS NOT NAKED driving A
TRUCK.
Mocky: in
the 90's all of
the 'how
to operate'
tank
training was in
tanks and ~all
the 'how
to fight as effective
tank platoon' was in shitty simulator.
this for both army and marines. Makes me wonder about 'modern' pilot
training
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah yeah. which is why
the brits generally had
to supply
the cover.
mircea_popescu: point in case, "losing pilots
to marriage stress". if you can't slap
the bitch over
that running mouth of hers, what
the fuck are you going
to do in
the air ? shoot instagram posts ?
mircea_popescu: so no,
the "current" problems aren't current but fucking sturctural. always was a conclave of cowards.
mircea_popescu: but
throughout
tenure us "ace pilot" consisted ~of "fly stratofortress, armored plane above aa range".
a111: Logged on 2018-08-17 18:52 mircea_popescu:
there's
two kinds of i won :
the "i won because you're fucking stupid" and
the "omfg i'm so cool i won".
the latter never works out.
BingoBoingo: Another counsin spent very little
time one boats, bounced around between arctic and arizona with experience punctuated by "peacekeeping" in Balkans. His kid is latest
to enlist because "acts out", didn't school good, and wtf else
to do
mircea_popescu: (this isn't
to say ro is
that good ; but
the nato planes are shit, and
the nato pilots even worse shit)
mircea_popescu: and since
then, gimme a break ? for one
thing ro destroyed
the entire nato force back 9in when was it, 2015 exercise. and for
the other, soviets were always better ; and after a brief gap ru is certainly supreme over
the usg's rust buckets, since at least 2010s
mircea_popescu: anyway ;
there was never actually a
time us pilots were remarkable. during
the war raf dominated
the east and by VERY far japan dominated
the east (in fact,
the "biologically unfit
to fly" jap pilots were
the best pilots of
the war, hands down). even romania's royal air force had better pilots
than fucking usaf, wtf. but anyway, it was mostly brits and germans.
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> marines just get carried around by
the navy, dun 'take ships' <<
This meshes with one of my cousin's experiences in
the corps. Spent 6 years alternating between being stored on boats and being stored on land
Mocky: marines just get carried around by
the navy, dun 'take ships'
mats: good
times in
teh best military in
the world
mircea_popescu: "losing
the qualitative edge
that has had
the USAF dominating
the air since 1945"
mircea_popescu: the mariens are supposed
to be amphibious landers not fuckingpirates.
BingoBoingo: Doing an alt-history retrospective I am starting
to
think
that if I would have enlisted... Coast Guard would have been
the way
to go. Practice useful skills like boarding ships,
they do
that all
the
time. When's
the last
time
the Marines boarded a shipp in anger?
mats: by contrast, warrant officers fly
their entire careers in usarmy, commissioned officers also fly but also get piped
through command and staff billets
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very strictly what he says : can't have grunt have
this much $$$ assigned
to him.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
This was back when college degree still was a somewhat useful gatekeeper
mats: airframe is very expensive, smelly privates can’t be
trusted
mircea_popescu: anyway ; pilots were universally 2nd lts
throughout jet golden era (60s
to 80s say).
this strictly for mats reason, got it upon completing academy.
mircea_popescu: mccain needed MOST mother ? he's
the best kid
thereby!
BingoBoingo was under
the impression "warrant officer" ranks were kept around for helicopter folk
mats: since E1-4 and O1-3 are
time gated ‘you’re not a fuckup here’s a promotion’ ranks
mats: asciilifeform: not sure about
the details but i wouldn’t be surprised if many pilots were at least 1LTs by
the
time
they get out of
training
to actual unit
BingoBoingo: It's ok,
they got
Tome Cruise
to make a sequel
to
Top Gun, never mind
that is character would have hit
the ceiling on career length and been forced out last decade
mats: usaf is crawling
towards putting enlisted men into pilots seat due
to personnel shortage
mircea_popescu: hey guise, i know how
to
to barrel rolls. i played some video games.
trinque: lel, I
thought
this was what passed for "low-level commissioned officer" in chairforce
these days
trinque: fortunately disappointing enough
that I didn't end up stomping around
the desert or flying drones for a living
trinque: certainly. most obvious example was
they'd hit ya, make you do pushups in mud, etc., but
there was a
tacit "don't spoil
things and cry
to mother, who cries
to superintendent"
mircea_popescu: or, if one prefers, kinda reminescent of
the "computer security" crowd. same
thing, really.
mircea_popescu: kinda reminescent of
the classical abused wife portrait.
mircea_popescu: the
things people who decided "to work with
the system" will
try...
trinque: probably has degenerated further since
then
trinque: it was all perverse, had
two sergeants and a colonel (retired)
trying
to make a proper boys academy in a public school
mircea_popescu: just
that makes it obvious
they should be shot until
they submit.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-29 16:20 asciilifeform:
trinque: jrotc is pre-enlistment army school, neh ? and
they drill with ceremonial rifle ?!
mircea_popescu: but recall your own "remove bs solder
through mixing" experiments
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely, wasn't even getting into all of
that.
mircea_popescu: washing machines all over
the nation routinely get "lead" out of "barrel".
mircea_popescu: nah, you do what
the washing machine does, by hand. your surfactant's prolly going
to be a grease.
mircea_popescu: warm enough lead
to be workable is not such a big deal, can hold i nhand with leather strap.
trinque: somebody oughta
tell
the kids next
time
there's a priceless artifact of
the old south
to defend
mircea_popescu: (the fundamental problem being
that lead and iron don't alloy)
mircea_popescu: trinque here's
the fun
thing : you can actually clean
those. contrary
to what
the idiots
think, it's not "permanent" : lead becoms soft enough
to push out long before
the barel's actually fucked by
the
temp.
trinque: jrotc drill
team; we had a particularly
traditional sergeant, wasn't going
to have any of
that plastic gun pussy shit
trinque recalls
throwing around m1 garand's in high school, had lead poured down
the barrel
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
Those are common "demilitarized" collectors items. In
the 1990's
the catalogs selling Mosin and cheap SKS were full of all sorts of otherwise cool (sten, uzi, etc) molested into uselessness
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i picture her as gigantic guinea pig.. << What puzzles me is
that
the hairless cultivars all seem
to be in
the pet
trade. Due
to
their size you gotta defuzz
the skin instead of skinning
them lest
they get
to dry during cooking.
BingoBoingo: Well, when you gotta cut down non-Judeoist fanatics like
the Japs... Gotta do what you gotta do
BingoBoingo: Anyways
the armaments of
the ATM refill crew are pretty armed with
the rifles and submachine guns (apparently
the ATM crews are organized as fireteams with specialists?)
mircea_popescu: by VOLUME, i don't mean by fucking mass,
that'd be a
total blowout.
mircea_popescu has recently seen "the untouchables", a
typically idiotic nonsenseyarn (with pre-america ending prettyboy costner). sean connery gets it well and good, and
then proceeds
to scramble about, his lungs 50% lead.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo don't you just love it, btw, when all sorts of inept modern remakers of "prohibition era" have people machine gunned with
the damned
thing and
then
they ... walk ? or something like
that ?
mircea_popescu: (oh, also got me #1 and #5 in month
top of pops! and #1
today! win!)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i sell reconditioned
tommyguns, cheap. << Sweet, apparently .45 ACP is hard
to find around
these parts
though
mircea_popescu: it sometimes fails for me
too, but i've not yet been able
to get enough of a fix on it
to report something useful.
diana_coman: hello mircea_popescu , I already got Mocky's bot
to fail once!
mircea_popescu: erexcited nonsense. consequently -- if sex includes buttseks,
the butt will open up during sex, just like dogs drool when hearing
the bell, and
through exactly
the same mechanisms for exactly
the same reasons.)
mircea_popescu: (ah, note also
the greedily opening butthole.
this happens, in girls
that regularily
take it up
the ass, because sexuality, as a subjective psychological construct, as well as sexual function, as a matter of physiology, are both
TRAINED BEHAVIOURS, and absolutely nothing else ; certainly not some kind of "path
to
truth" or "deeply genuine and unfalsifiable expression of
the self" or any of
that 1900s "reformist" protestant ov