This is fucking disgusting.

Two points: He was not “restrained”, however they were trying to restrain him. There is no need to exaggerate the language in this clear abuse of a victim.

That dog handler should lose his job and be tried for assault, those cops should lose their fucking jobs. The dog and the man should become best friends and travel the world sniffing out dirty cops, AKA cops.

Of the two ships “seized” in April, neither were Israeli and the oil tanker that was “seized”, was actually heading to Mogadishu.

Why would the Somali government seize a vessel that was headed to them?

Are the Somalis releasing the vessels and cargo once they are outside the straits, like the U.S. is releasing the vessels they seize?

That is a lot of work for a not fun costume to wear.

You haven’t seen my shaved head.

I buzzed it during a deployment and I made Billy Corgen look sexy. :/

You can contain the radioactive waste though.

The rules for radioactive storage are also old, outdated, and needlessly encumbering.

But nuclear is like a dog whistle to some people who act like it is inherently evil and won’t even discuss it.

We have massively increased our renewable footprint, but anyone that thinks we can get by on renewable only, at least with technology where it is at today, is lying to themselves

I will never understand the anti-nuclear folks.

Seriously. They’re as bad as anti-vaxxers.

I think the biggest concern is inhaling or ingesting the “dirty” material. Our skin does a pretty good job providing some protection against the low levels of the alpha emissions of depleted uranium. However, if you were too inhale or ingest, then you face direct absorption, which carries significantly higher risk.

Thanks for the link, though I am probably on a list now.

This isn’t even half as cool as what else it can do.

This pool is a great way to demonstrate Fourier Series.

The principle is that any shaped wave can be reproduced through a summation of appropriate frequency/amplitude sine waves.

I’ve seen them create hearts, even kanji characters with this pool.

I agree with you that their plight has been exploited, certainly by the U.S., without really getting real, long term benefit for themselves.

No state wants to legitimize them because there will be an immediate influx and then they’ll just legislate their independence (or fight for it), once they got big/established enough.

When I saw that we were arming the Kurds again to potentially fight Iran, I was wondering if we are not just creating another Al Qaeda scenario for ourselves. That and, I wondered if they would just start fighting Turkey instead

How many stateless groups are there outside of the Kurds and the Armenians?

I don’t even know how to begin to resolve what the modern Middle East looks like. I would love to prevent the large groups from just destroying the small groups, but then I feel like haven’t we fucked it up enough already, with our meddling?

So what do you propose?

What country is going to just give up land for another culture?

Look at Israel/Palestine, because that has worked out soooo well.

The U.S. is fucked up, but you can’t blame the U.S. for everyone else in the area shitting on the Kurds.

He is her daughter’s Godfather. They haven’t talked since the story broke.

She even recently sang a song at a concert, that contained references to him, but apparently she changed the words, essentially writing him out of it.

-Source is my wife who is a huge Tori Amos fan.

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SNL does a good job at least.

Why is the artist’s name scrubbed off?

*Edit: Then down voted for this question?

What the hell?

Served in the Navy and was stationed in Japan for three years.

It is not inaccurate.

TLDR: The U.S. is not taking over Japanese assets and under any circumstances barring alien invasion and kaiju. (In the case of kaiju, we should probably operate under Japanese control.)

While we practice/train with the JMSDF, and have ok interoperability, there is zero infrastructure for us to control them.

It would actually hurt us and would be easier to tell them to stay home while we did everything than to try and control both assets at the same time.

However, we can work together, by assigning each service their own responsibilities and let each perform those responsibilities within their own chain of command. That would work peachy.

In that sense, we may have overall strategic command, but the Japanese would absolutely have a seat at the strategic table, and the Japanese would and should take their toys and go home, the minute we asked them to do something against their best interest.

Now that you say it, I am remembering.

It has been almost 40 years since I read that book.

Thank you for the correction!

I like spiders, but I don’t think I can feed it a horsefly out of my hands like that.

And how did he not get bit by the horsefly himself?

According to the book, Kobyashi Maru, I though Scotty also found a solution.

Of course that solution landed him as an engineering officer instead of a line officer.