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  • Nah, 9 months is insane…

    When I was in one hit 6 months, with none of these supply issues, and it hit morale fleetwide.

    This isn’t even really “armed conflict” and there’s no logical reason not to rotate the ships out except they don’t want to. We do that in actual wars and peace time. The Lincoln and all it’s support are going to be there indefinitely.

    Anyone that gets sent anywhere, will be there indefinitely.

    A shit ton of norms are being violated, and even Republican voters not voting is an advantage, they don’t have to flip.




  • Amazon is the end result…

    Amazon “guarentees” the lowest prices, and that’s true.

    If a product is sold on Amazon, that’s the lowest price.online. The manufacturer can’t even sell it for lower on their own website.

    Because Amazon uses AI scrapers to constantly check, if it detects a lower price, it will “you may be overpaying for this item” in big red letters next to it, or even removing the buttons that let someone buy it.

    So before they can lower the price anywhere, they have to lower it on Amazon. Because they need the volume that comes with Amazon sales.

    Amazon’s “lowest price guarantee” just ends up meaning they keep people from getting it cheaper anywhere else. But for an individual, each individual purchase is a better deal at Amazon.

    To win we need a drastic boycott where everyone just toughs it out and pays a little more for slower shipping to buy direct again. The manufacturers will make more per unit, and eventually will be able to stop playing Amazon’s game.

    And that would leave Amazon with just Temu slop, and actually financially impact Bezos.

    All we gotta do is get people to think big picture, we could bankrupt Bezos in less than a year.


  • That was intentional…

    Large corporations don’t undercut small businesses because vertical integration allows them to take smaller profit shares

    They intentionally lose money in some markets so that small businesses get run out of business.

    Then, after the small businesses are gone, they raise prices higher than the small businesses were to begin with.

    It was a problem when large corps “drove down prices”, because that was them running everyone else out of the marketplace.

    It’s why I hate the term “enshittification”, it starts identifying the problem after it’s too late to fix. That’s why companies are fine doing it, but the time shit gets worse, there’s no other alternative.

    We don’t roll back to before it got shitty, we need to roll back to “when there was competition”.


  • One of the few Israelis that the IDF actually said “this dude is too much, he doesn’t have to do military service”

    Like, he was a full blown terrorist decades ago, then Netenyahu put him in charge of the Israeli police and shits only gotten worse.

    Days before 10/4, he was spending his time defending the “Jewish tradition” of spitting on Christians.

    However, Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, who oversees the police, said in an interview with Army Radio that spitting at Christians was “not a criminal case” and that not everything “justifies an arrest”.

    He said the incidents were “deserving of every condemnation” but urged people to “stop slandering Israel”.

    Ben Gvir had previously defended the act of spitting on Christians as “an ancient Jewish custom”.

    The claim was echoed on Tuesday by Israeli settler Elisha Yered, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of a Palestinian teenager in August.

    Yered said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that “spitting near priests or churches is an ancient Jewish custom”.

    “Perhaps under the influence of Western culture we have somewhat forgotten what Christianity is, but I think the millions of Jews who suffered in exile from the Crusades, the torture of the [Spanish] Inquisition, blood libels and mass pogroms – will never forget,” he added.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-spitting-christians-jerusalem-not-criminal-ben-gvir

    That’s why they’re ok with a temporary alliance with trump and Christian extremists. Both sides are well aware that they hate each other and any alliance is temporary. They hate each other as much as they hate Muslims, they all hate anyone who isn’t the exact same as themselves.

    And that’s true within the groups too, it’s true for every group of religious extremists, that’s why it’s been 2,000+ years and the fight is still happening. Even if one group “wins” they’ll immediately start ostracizing fringe members of their own groups if no one from another group is there.




  • How naive of you, failing to realize that now, as we approach the midterms, is exactly when our attention is needed most.

    The time to pick a candidate was in the primary, which is why I was telling people to vote in primaries…

    We’re past the primaries now, in case you haven’t noticed.

    If you’re going to try and advocate for a third party candidate over a Dem in a specific race go fucking find that candidate first, don’t just shit on Dems and hope something better magically fucking appears




  • “Chicken feed” is enough, but whether you want them for eggs or meat, protein increase yield and quality.

    If they’re free range, they’ll find protein on their own.

    There’s a shit ton of different breeds, but you have to research on your own to find the right ones for your climate, living conditions, and desired outcomes.

    If you’re rural and get old-school chickens, they’re going to keep laying eggs in trees even if you build a coop, especially once they quickly realize you keep stealing eggs from the coop. But also they’re going to be at most half the size of the chickens you buy in a grocery store for $5

    Like, if cost is your main factor, $5 is worth your time cooking a whole chicken, let alone killing and slaughtering one.

    Like, what’s even you’re goal here?


  • How are you raising them and what breed?

    The old breeds you just release around your home, that’s it. A coop helps if you want eggs, but the goal here is to eat chickens not eggs. And it costs zero upkeep. The chickens are too stupid to realize you’re a predator, but capable enough to avoid natural predators. They’ll just hang around your property, because you keep normal predators away most of the time.

    That’s how the arrangement with chickens is supposed to work.

    If you’re in a city or even a town and can’t let them loose and just want eggs, then you still don’t need vitamins, just raise mealworms and feed them that with chicken feed.

    But you’re going to need to make sure you buy the right kinds of chickens for what you want them to do.


  • The military is a large voting block…

    Traditionally it goes R, because they expand the military, which means more people get promotions.

    But I guarantee everyone in the Navy and Marines know what’s happening, and that trump doesn’t give a fuck.

    Air Force is basically an evangelical death cult at this point, and who knows about army since they’re not deployed.

    But Republicans will likely lose the military in midterms over this.

    It absolutely should be brought up more, every time he lies, he loses military votes. And a lot of military members are still eligible to vote in the small red states they came from. And their friends and family know how they’re treated too.

    This isn’t “war” and it’s justifiable, they’re just sitting there