Sasuke
joined 4 years ago
thinking about that bbc piece again where they visited a US navy ship, and everyone interviewed moaned about missing their treats and being homesick...
US Navy aircraft carrier faces relentless battle against Houthi attacks (18 Mar 2024)
Unlike the Houthis, they're away from home with few creature comforts. Every meal on board is literally feeding the five thousand. The food bill on the carrier alone is $2m (£1.6m) a month.
Captain Chris Hill, the commanding officer of Ike, says "people need breaks, they need to go home".
But he says they don't yet have dates for when that'll happen. So one of his tasks is to maintain the crews morale and resilience.
He even has a dog on board to help. Demo, a facility dog who's been trained for life on the carrier, walks the mess decks to help lift the crew's spirits.
and...
Captain Hill says: "It's difficult to define winning and losing in this kind of conflict."
"Ideally, we want to stop every Houthi attack."
When I ask whether that's achievable, he replies that it's "hard to say".
after the 2016 election i read both hillary and comey's (god, there's a name i haven't thought of in a while) autobiographies to keep my lib brain occupied while waiting on the mueller report
commenting to remind myself to look through the reading list later (because i always forget my 'saved' posts)
anyone here that could help me get accesses to this research paper?
Totality Reconsidered: Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness a Century On (Aug 1, 2023)
the joke predates watchmen. only reason i know this is that if appears in benjamin's arcades project (which im currently reading) in the chapter on boredom
Boredom began to be experienced in epidemic proportions during the 1840s. Lamartine is said to be the first to have given expression to this malady. It plays a role in a little story about the famous mime Deburau. A distinguished Paris neurologist was consulted one day by a patient whom he had not seen before. The patient complained of the typical illness of the times – weariness with life, deep depression, boredom. 'There's nothing wrong with you,' said the doctor after a thorough examination. 'Just try to relax – find something to entertain you. Go to see Deburau some evening, and life will look different to you.' 'Ah, dear sir,' answered the patient, 'I am Deburau.'"
yup, i learned my lesson in 2016. i won't stay home on election day this time, not when hillary needs my vote again
US Navy aircraft carrier faces relentless battle against Houthi attacks (BBC, 18 Mar 2024)
[...] Captain Wroe says the Houthis have posed the greatest challenge to the US Navy in recent history.
"This is the most since World War Two," he says. That was the last time the US operated in an area where they could be fired upon every day.
The tempo of operations on the aircraft carrier itself has also been unrelenting - with dozens of sorties being flown round the clock. [...].
Up in the carrier's flight control tower, Commander George Zintac, known as the Air Boss, is having to choreograph their movements - with a jet either launching or landing in just over a minute.
He's been in the US Navy for more than 30 years, but says "this is probably the most flying I've done on a deployment - everyday we're flying a tonne".[...]
Unlike the Houthis, they're away from home with few creature comforts. Every meal on board is literally feeding the five thousand. The food bill on the carrier alone is $2m (£1.6m) a month.
Captain Chris Hill, the commanding officer of Ike, says "people need breaks, they need to go home".
But he says they don't yet have dates for when that'll happen. So one of his tasks is to maintain the crews morale and resilience.[...]
Captain Hill says: "It's difficult to define winning and losing in this kind of conflict."
to me it sounds reminiscent of the reading strategies used by some students with ('stealth') dyslexia
NRK, Norwegian state media, has a foreign policy podcast (URIX), and their newest episode on Haiti is advertised as
[Title] World's most 'failed' country
Kidnapping, murder and rape: Who can save Haiti now?
i listened to a few minutes of it, and the 'expert' they have on is someone from a christian 'charity' organization ('Kirkens Nødhjelp,' i.e. Norwegian Church Aid).
is that his daughter?
oh, so the russian hexbots are trying to get us to not vote for hillary? not falling for THAT again 🙄