Jon Camp

@mitchellvii I always looks up my route beforehand to make sure that nothing like this "pleasant surprise" ever happens. I never just get in the car and then type in the address. Ever.

NIGHTMARE GPS STORY: So I'm driving to meet my sister at her nursing home where she is convalescing in the mountains of West Virginia. I'm following my GPS and it tells me to turn down this gravel road. I figure ok, this is probably only a hundred feet or so. No, it was 30 miles of gravel, potholes coal dust and dodging massive coal trucks passing the opposite direction. Damn you GPS! My brand new car driving through HELL for 30 miles. I haven't tried to wash the car yet so I'm hoping there are no big scratches. What a nightmare! Has a GPS ever led you astray?

@Hunter_Eagleman Yup. My mom *still has* that exact table in her living room.

LOL… So true!!

@CynicalPublius Source: facebook.com/story.php?stor…

@CynicalPublius These 3 men are "just Reservists" and were "in a safe area" in Kuwait but they were attacked, watched 6 of their friends die, and now have Purple Hearts which awarded this past Sunday. I think they most definitely qualify as veterans.

I get slightly mad at veterans who feel it is unfair that they call themselves veterans because they never served in a combat zone. I always tell them: "You raised your right hand. You were ready to die for your country. You're a veteran." This is particularly true for Cold War vets who stared down the Soviets. There should be an official Cold War Service Medal.

@Oceanbreeze473 Sure did. We didn't start changing clothes for gym class until junior high.

Did they really make grade school kids climb 30’ ropes off a tile floor in street clothes?

@TechOperator dir /p

You walk up to your computer and see this screen. Your next move?

@MbarkCherguia 2 people wearing bearskin cloaks seated facing each other while giving a high 10.

What do you see in the Rorschach shape?

@DaddyWarpig I mostly read litrpg serialized slop on Royal Road anymore. It's not "high literature" but It's cheap, it's fun, and it passes the time :P If I saw this description for a story there, I'd skip right over it.... It sounds absolutely execrable.

I'm not trying to be mean just to be mean, maybe this is a great book, but the description just gives me nightmares because it's so generic. Maybe this is what F&SF looks like to outsiders reading the descriptions, but to me this just looks like modules from other popular series taken apart and put back together like legos: Enemies to Lovers, Fae, Dragon Shifters, Secret Rebellion, and the Hunger Games, I mean, Fae Games. Even the structure of the name (A NOUN of NOUN and NOUN) was pioneered by a popular series. There is no hint of anything surprising or new. With such books, the only determiner of quality is how well this particular writer did it. NB1: WOMEN LOVE DANGEROUS MEN THEY CAN TAME NB2: MASCULINE PROTAGONISTS HAVE TO STRUGGLE TO BECOME GREAT, FEMININE PROTAGONISTS WERE GREAT ALL ALONG AND JUST HAVE TO DISCOVER IT WITHIN THEMSELVES NB3: THIS IS WHAT THEYVE TURNED MY BELOVED EPIC FANTASY INTO LOOK AT WHAT THEYVE DONE TO MY BOY -- A fae rebel. A ruthless dragon commander. And a deadly trial that will turn their lives upside down. Trapped in the Seelie Court by a forest of thorns, Selena Hale lives at the mercy of the dragon shifters. Her only chance to gain her freedom is by entering the Atonement Trials: a deadly competition that pits fae magic users against each other. Only three people can win, and Selena intends to be one of them. There is only one problem. Draven Ryat, the ruthless commander of the dragon shifter army, is determined to make her lose. He symbolizes everything that she hates, and if he finds out that she is also a member of the secret fae rebellion, he will not only mess with her chances to win, he will kill her. But the more time she spends with him, the more she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. And nothing is more dangerous in a lethal trial than a distracted heart. Especially one that beats for the enemy…

@Ford_Nick Who puts ketchup on a brat? Mustard and diced onions for me!

Brats, are you adding ketchup or mustard?

@pika_nekopanda This was the first Japanese song I ever heard, so while I prefer Love it's now, this one always springs to mind when I'm asked that question. youtu.be/yzC4hFK5P3g?si…

海外ニキへ質問です。 日本の曲といえば最初に何を思い浮かべましたか？

@CNviolations Steel Dawn. I know it's obscure, but it was actually the 1st thing I ever saw him in, so he's always been Nomad to me.

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"Cruising speed" efficiency is best at about 40-50% of engine capacity, so for fuel efficiency the "red line" needs to be about double the cruise speed. It's also useful for safety to have some extra "umph" to be able to avoid hazards and whatnot too, meaning you need "more power" than a minimum as well.

Because it's legal to drive 200mph on your own land, or on a race track.

@SCShipyards So... many..... And surprisignly enough, most in the 1900's. USA in the 1700's was an anomaly. youtube.com/watch?v=snukwr…

The most common holiday on your planet.

@EndWokeness I see it. It's in my "For You" feed. I follow you.

@DaddyWarpig PC Master Race needs no gaming console.

WHERE'S THE GAME CONSOLE

@SandyofCthulhu @creepydotorg Which was sad, becuz Judy Garland said she was one of the the few people she ever worked with who treated her kindly behind the scenes.

@creepydotorg Margaret Hamilton used to be stopped in the street by kids asking her why she was so mean to Dorothy.

He played the role so well that many hated him in real life 😭

Back in that Neverwinter Nights game that used a modified 3.5e rule set, if you picked a "war domain" for your cleric you could use swords from the get-go, and you also got the fighter's attack table at level 3, plus all the cleric's buff and protection spells. It was so overpowered and broken. So of course I abused the hell out of it.

This is true, but I've never sweated it. I'm more perturbed that clerics can't use bladed weapons.

@BarbarianDisco I mostly read litrpg serial slop anymore. Most main characters are some sort of sword-swinging wizard anymore. I think the D&D restriction is largely ignored in most fiction now.

it's dumb that wizards can't use swords.

@ShamashAran I buy those by the 20-pack at a time and unclog the sink and the shower both. I also got one of these plungers. The toilets *claim* to not be cloggable, but... they are. This "plunger gun" makes it easy to fix.

Men: If you live with a woman, get yourself a bunch of these and be a hero when he bathroom sink clogs:

From what I've learned from NoKo defector interviews I've watched over the years, the NoKo Army doesn't have *anyone* back home -- they are conscripted for 10 years while still teenagers, and aren't allowed to marry or have families until after their discharge. Those who choose to "go career" are exempted after that initial term ends, at least, but those are just the politically connected officers, not the rank and file.

The amazing fact is that despite what these pictures seem to show, the South Korean army would annihilate North Korea's in any fight. South Korea has better training, far better equipment, actual air support, better allies (Japan, USA), and higher morale. Also their families aren't literally starving back home. You hear talk about how North Korea has 100 artillery tubes within range of Seoul. They can reach ~5% of Seoul. South Korea has a special anti-artillery missile (KTSSM) designed to bunker bust artillery hidden in tunnels; AND the K-9 Thunder, a 155mm mobile howitzer specialized for counter-battery fire. It's doubtful North Korea's 100,000 artillery tubes would last many days.