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@AGMCHAIR @Snakeeater36 “The skull out front should have told ya…”

@Snakeeater36 Cave rescue here. This happens again and again due to nothing other than curiosity and lack of discipline. Our hearts break every time we have to recover someone. PREVENT YOUR DEATH GO NO FURTHER

Your bottom time on a 160ft cave dive, with conventional open circuit, even with twin 80s is not going to be long. Add in….caves, disorienting surroundings and panic, and i can see why this happened. Real talk, I have dove…. A lot, and for what it’s worth I’m a dive master. And I will never….fucking EVER go cave diving. Especially at this fucking depth.

@Snakeeater36 @RGuy999 I’ve been diving for almost 30 years, and that was an insane dive profile. Air, single 80, no deco stop plan. Insane. Plus a penetration dive?

@TwoRulesOfWar I thought it looked familiar! That was an amazing book

@DreadRoberts94 It is indeed.

Being an officer does not equate to morality, integrity or character. It never has. Remember that when you see retired officers running for elected office.

@planefag He was a badass in the book

Fun fact, in the book he survives. He vanishes in this scene but pops up later. Does not evac on the chopper with the rest - he fights his way off the island alone.

@railboss @RobProvince Yes, most call themselves “Moorish” and have a whole diatribe about treaties with the US govt that make them “sovereign”. They like to commit squatting fraud on homes that are vacant and lien fraud lawsuits

@RobProvince I had a couple working for us. I honestly thought they were all crazy white guys in Idaho or Arkansas. Turns out there’s a whole black version of them. Equal opportunity crazy I guess.

I had never heard of a “sovereign citizen” until like 2 weeks ago and now I’m addicted to watching videos of them getting their absolute shit pushed in by cops.

@PKPatchworks What the hell kind of dive profile was that?

Christ. 160 is way past past narc depth and into CNS oxygen toxicity range. Been diving for most of my life and the deepest I've ever been was 210 on trimix and that was incredibly intimidating. I don't even go past 40 without nitrox. Can't imagine 160 on air. Those poor people.

@jonsthreecents @JamesHu27192912 Maybe it’s a more regional thing, but we heard that in WV/Western MD

@JamesHu27192912 59 years old, grew up in the north Georgia mountains (generally considered "Appalachia" afaik). This is literally the first time in my life I've ever heard/seen this. I ain't doubting ya, just thought it was odd that I've heard all sorts of stuff but never this.

In the Appalachian Mountains, there’s an old rule many people still refuse to break, don’t whistle in the dark. Not on the porch after midnight. Not walking a back road. And definitely not in the woods. Most children learned the warning before they were old enough to understand it. If someone started whistling outside at night, an elder would stop them fast. Usually no explanation. Just a sharp “don’t do that out here.” Over time, people came up with different reasons why. Some said whistling at night called spirits. Others believed it drew attention from things in the woods better left alone. In certain hollers, people said if you whistled once, something might whistle back, and if it did, you were supposed to go inside immediately and lock the door. Hunters and miners had their own versions of the rule. Some believed nighttime whistling brought bad luck before a hunt or underground shift. Others claimed the sound carried too far through the mountains, confusing people about where it came from. And that’s part of what made the stories stick. Sound behaves differently in the Appalachians. Valleys echo. Ridges throw noise back in strange ways. A whistle from far away can sound like it’s standing right beside you. In the stillness of the mountains at night, one sharp sound can travel farther than most people expect. But the old stories turned that natural feeling into something deeper. People talked about hearing whistles from the tree line when no one else was around. Some claimed the sound moved closer without footsteps. Others said the worst thing you could do was answer it. Maybe the warning started as a practical lesson. A way to keep children from wandering at night. A way to avoid drawing attention while hunting or traveling dark roads. Or maybe the mountains simply gave people enough strange moments that the rule stayed alive on its own. Even today, there are people who laugh at the superstition during daylight… and still won’t whistle once the sun goes down. Because some mountain rules don’t survive for generations without a reason. And in Appalachia, the dark has always sounded different after a whistle. #AppalachianFolklore #MountainLegends #NoWhistlingAtNight #DarkFolklore #OldWays

@JamesHu27192912 Yup, that and don’t reply/investigate if you hear your name being called from the woods

@jotham5741 @FrBreslin @Maribet62481007 YoU ain’t BiBLiCaL…

@FrBreslin @Maribet62481007 God has spoken and you are in open rebellion! REPENT And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” Matthew 23:9

Happy Ascension Thursday to those who know how to count to 40

@FrBreslin @cathy_chess I never understood why the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the home of American Catholicism, doesn’t celebrate it on the actual date. We did here in PA of all places…

@ethnopoetics @Super70sSports Or Mister Tibbs

@Super70sSports When I was in high school, I had a girlfriend and I addressed her dad as "Ken" and he condescendingly tut-tutted me and said "Mister." Hey, listen, unless you're Mister Mister or you're Mister Jones, you can just settle the fuck down with that energy.

When I was a college student, I once addressed a professor as “Mister” and he condescendingly tut-tutted me and said “Doctor.” Hey, listen, unless you can save someone’s life or you’re Julius Erving, you can settle the fuck down with that energy.

@BengalsDFW @Super70sSports A good friend growing up has a PhD in Mathematics. He has never insisted that he be called “Doctor”

@Super70sSports I’m a professor and this is precisely the test I use to decide which of my colleagues are cool and which are douchebags. (There are way more douchebags.)

@johnkonrad We used to do something similar before conducting police dive operations-we called it a “dirt dive”

They don’t teach you this in school but you can “chair fly” all sorts of non-aviation things too.

@TomP28857792 @thomasbsauer I have heard that the Navy will always have a ship named Enterprise? Is that true?

@thomasbsauer We need to re-use the proper carrier names that have been abandoned, the top three here especially: Ranger Independence Enterprise Lexington Kitty Hawk Saratoga Coral Sea Midway The president-name crap started with the JFK, and at least he was already dead.

This is the proper name for a destroyer or a frigate, which are named for military heroes (like Miller), naval leaders, or naval pioneers. Aircraft carriers are named for presidents and high profile Navy champions. I’m all for naming a ship after Miller, but can we please get back to standardized ship names?

@LindaHConley13 @Sachinettiyil We do this here in York, PA

@Sachinettiyil We have been saying the St. Michael Prayer after every Mass, including daily, here at the Cathedral in Portland where Bishop Sample resides for a number of years now. I honestly thought all Catholic Churches in this country was doing the same.

Archbishop Alexander King Sample of Portland has instructed that the St. Michael Prayer be recited in churches across the archdiocese after Mass.

@Sachinettiyil We do this at every Mass…

@PicksLacrosse Hampton ranked lower than Hampton level is 🔥

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Lars Tiffany tells the full story of his lacrosse stick, gifted to him by his late father

@Trident_93 @OrdinariateUSA We are far from an “elite” family. Most schools have a sliding scale of tuition based on your income, plus most schools have affordable tuition plans. You would be surprised on how a Catholic school can be made affordable to your average working family (like us)

@DreadRoberts94 @OrdinariateUSA How is the cost of sending a child to such a school? Is it manageable or only really for elite families?

This event, and others like it, are what led to the forming of the Catholic school system in the United States. Tired of dealing with discrimination and violence from the Protestant majority, and tired of being forced to give their children a Protestant education, Catholics created their own parochial school system. By 1900, half of all Catholic children attended a Catholic school. Today, the Catholic education system continues to stand out as one of prestige. Consistently among the highest-performing private-school networks in the country, they boast graduation rates often exceeding 99% and send the overwhelming majority of their students on to college. They are highly sought after by parents of all faiths and creeds, including the Protestants who once tried to ban Catholicism in education. The Catholic schools welcome them with open arms, an excellent demonstration of “turning the other cheek”, as Jesus Christ himself commanded his followers.