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DevDave

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  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • One piece of advice I never see, perhaps because its not practical for civilians. Immediately after an explosion where you are close to the epicenter, do everything possible to avoid gasping or yelling. Next, quickly but carefully check if you have been hurt or not.

    By the end of my time in service the most I might do is have an eye twitch but for normal people, being in proximity to an explosion is an unprecedented experience that's like opening a hot stove oven, flipping a flood light on in your face, having a party balloon pop behind you, and being hit hard by an ocean wave from an awkward angle, all at the same time. Totally normal reaction is to want to get the fuck away but first you want to make sure everything is still attached, nothing new is now attached to you, and there are no major holes anywhere.

    I guess the problem with that advice is that unfortunately its only useful to those expecting to be near an explosion.

  • T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills

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  • Anti-Trust is some bullshit invented by damn socialist commies to keep the money from trickling down. \s

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • The soundtrack was one banger after the next.

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • Indeed! I know a fair bit about explosives and no one I know likes watching action movies with me. Either I will point out the blue bands on weapons, how everyone will be dead in the next hour or so because of all the perforations in their intestines and other organs after the impulse wave passes over them, or how some of these people should be wheezing through the rest of the movie due to the chemical burns to their esophagus and lungs (I am a blast at parties).

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • I am sorry to be a bummer but it is pretty obvious the VA and DoD will never willingly acknowledge it because the least cases of hearing damage might only be with the medical people in the Navy and USAF.

  • T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills

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  • I thought TMobile bought Mint?

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • You maybe a mutant as I've never heard anyone else say they could do this.

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • I can't remember if it was at psab or what but I was in a smaller detail (20) wedged between two Army company's (I think that's the right name, like ~150 or people?) in the same chalk. The group rotating back in were way fucking louder then the other and I pointed that out to someone with me who also noticed the same thing. At the time our guess was the quieter group were national guard going in for the first time while the others were active duty/permanent party and dealing with the funk differently.

    Now I am starting to wonder if the one group's hearing was just collectively fucked?

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • As a veteran this is pretty much on brand. A joke at the VA is that half the reason they're so recalcitrant with declaring tinnitus and hearing loss as a disability is because everyone has some sort of measurable hearing damage from service.

    For myself, I've had tinnitus for so long I don't remember life without it always being there.

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • Was talking to my partner about that movie and how much of a pleasant surprise it was. The tilt to sarcastic realism was perfect.

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • That would be another fun one. With every shot the suppressors become more and more useless until bursting into flames.

  • They need to make an action movie where the entire cast becomes progressively more and more deaf after every gun is fired without hearing protection

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  • That was such a wonderfully disturbed show.

  • 13 moderate democrats sign the "Promise to America" pledge to fight the democratic socialists

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  • I was thinking of other stuff but even if you were on the internet in the 90's and early 00's it would be difficult to convey how unhinged a lot of us seemed to have been.

  • 13 moderate democrats sign the "Promise to America" pledge to fight the democratic socialists

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  • Bill Clinton named an airport after Ronald Reagan, the guy who fired something like 10,000 FAA air traffic controllers for wanting to strike.

    Biden told the rail road engineers who were almost literally begging to be treated like human beings they couldn't strike, here's more money you don't have any time to spend, and kiss my ass because "I am the pro-union" president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute

    Newsom pushed through a age verification law. How can that work unless it is a national login page? Reddit, imgur, lemmy/piefed, and pretty much everything else would require a digital bouncer at the door because none of this is designed to keep a tiny fraction of the countries total population from being psychologically scared like all the rest of us have been.

    Establishment Democrats have been enabling the Republicans for decades.

  • Youtube Disliked the Dislikes

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  • ~20 years ago I saw someone doxed under a false accusation. Wasn't about racism, sexism, or really anything equal to the amount of abuse this person and everyone around them received.

    Another incident, I almost sat down next to these fuckwits but I am thankfully out of frame https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/

    The thing is that a lot of people are stressed the fuck out and are aimlessly angry. The goal with managing what you show and tell the internet is to have enough time to run. That's the best you can do.

  • D.C. Settles Suit With Protester Arrested After Playing ‘Star Wars’ Song Near Deployed Troops

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  • fuck yeah! Anyone else want to go to DC and follow the national guard around blasting Celldwellers version of the imperial march. Willing to split the settlement money 60:40!

    edit: typo fix

  • 🎶36 degrees and it's getting hotter🎶

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  • just need to hang on for a bit longer and when AMOC fails the heat waves will be a much lower priority! \s

  • Youtube Disliked the Dislikes

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  • Identity management and security.

    So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David's fighting over this handle. It's hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle "First!" with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don't type anything here I wouldn't say out loud in public.

    The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.

  • Youtube Disliked the Dislikes

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  • This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That's when the first big change to the "Hot" algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.

    Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev's at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon's. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don't think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.