You kids today are soft, back in my day there was this big war & I could only use one hand because I needed the other to fight people that wanted to evacuate me.
Or that one time I had to hide in the attic & do it very quietly.
Or that time I had to do it with a super bright light in my face because there was something called "an interrogation" at the camp.
Private Cowboy:
Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical.
Private Joker:
What was the matter with him?
Private Cowboy:
He was jerkin' off ten times a day.
Private Eightball:
No sh*t. At least ten times a day.
Private Cowboy:
Last week he was sent down to Da Nang to see the Navy head shrinker, and the crazy f***er starts jerking off in the waiting room. Instant Section Eight. He was just waiting for his papers to clear division
This is just a poor translation. It's a colloquialism to say you're jacking off when you're lazy and doing nothing. In fact, it's the same colloquialism in English. We literally say the exactly same thing when we call someone useless. What's really interesting in my opinion is you already know this. Yet because it's from a translation and you know that, your brain didn't think about the colloquialisms. It's kind of crazy how our brains work.
I'm aware of the colloquialism but I also thought that this is something Chinese party officials might plausibly say. You know, something something Western decadence.
Leave a man idle enough time and he'll end up masturbating that's where the relationship goes to the colloquialism for everyone. I cna tell you in Spanish we use the same colloquialism.
I know we just met but I feel very confident leaving the fate of the free world in your hands. Just cool it with the warcrimes okay, all that teabagging is going land you in the Hague.
Ok I would be down to just turn my hearing aids lower and lower in response lol. The funny thing to me is I’m not much deafer then they make people. I just come pre deafened and they can’t have that. It’s like if the marines wouldn’t take anyone who bought a car they can’t afford and cheats on their girlfriend, like fair enough but I’ve met y’all it’s strange to insist you be the ones to get people to this state.
Imagine the Chinese taking the Alamo with noclipping special forces wiping out 20,000 men as they sit in a digital forest around a thousand bright but cold campfires talking about Christian values, the merits of racism, and which anime girl is best.
I think the name of the paperback was 'The Best Of Cordwainer Smith.' I read it years ago.
Fun bit of trivia. Harlan Ellison used the pen name 'Cordwainer Bird' on projects he'd written but had been badly produced. 'Bird' appeared as a character in at least one short story.
Man, I wish he had gotten more work done on the Instrumentality. The first novel I read was Norstrilia, maybe when I was like 13 or 14, and that absolutely got me hooked on the universe he built.
Now I have to go back and read everything again if I can dig those out of the boxes. I was really getting down on the pointlessness maundering of modern SF stories and had pretty much shut down reading it. Now I'm excited again.
John Varley is pretty underrated. "Titan" is an anime ready adventure story and "The Ophiucci Hotline" is good old fashioned hard SF. He's the first writer I think of who compares with Smith.
Just put them on a 2000 calory deficit diet during basic training, and double its duration.
That'll get rid of 80 pounds of excess fat, plus they won't have the strength to masturbate.
Sure, half of them will become casualties before they see action, but they can still pilot drones, do the funny or make coffee, while you can feed the other half into the front line grinder.
This is how WW3 will happen, i figure. Warfare from the comfort of your home, ready to jump into o a new robot Body once downed. War being nothing more than a Battle of attrition and technical Ressources.
As Randall Munroe observes, the first billionaire to create an AI-controlled swarm of killer robots will try to take over the world. So it may be Robot Wars on a grand scale.
The robots probably wouldn't stop with the other robots. For example, if Israel had remote piloted robot warriors do you think they would only attack and kill other robots? They would just send them into Palestine, slaughter the "hostiles" and wouldn't bat an eye.
Why. The fuck. Would anyone, Millennial or younger join the US military these days? To fight for oil overseas, while the world is burning? To be the arm of our corrupt politicians? To defend all the houses we will never afford? To protect a populace that yearns for fascism?
The nearly free housing, healthcare, and potential for a pension are all decent incentives. Basically everything people want for normal us citizens are provided to the military.
Barring, of course, active duty members who have to deal with deployment and location assignments.
Free college. Depending on where you live; better parking(purple heart), no property tax, unlimited handshakes, and the ability to stare into the middle distance and white-knuckle any moment you are left with your thoughts.
You know most enlisted aren't in combat roles right? My brother did ten years behind a desk, ended up with an awesome career and got to travel the world for free.
You're fun, but this is NCD, it's all military defense jokey jokes. The only civilian defense we take seriously is Mr. Park and the Roof Koreans. You're not really here, with these filthy rave babies, to persuade them not to join the military? It's far too late for many commenters here, they already have bad knees and a discharge in their rearview mirrors. Try to get some perspective on your audience before you start your Ted Talk.
Yup. The company I work for is a bit less unethical than many others. Nobody's perfect though, and we have a yearly remembrance for people we've killed over the years.
- "Grandpa, did you fight in WW3?"
- "No, they wouldn't let me enlist because I masturbated way too much. Like an immediately disqualifying amount."
Grandpa, do you mind? It's hard to talk to you when you do that in front of me.
You kids today are soft, back in my day there was this big war & I could only use one hand because I needed the other to fight people that wanted to evacuate me.
Or that one time I had to hide in the attic & do it very quietly.
Or that time I had to do it with a super bright light in my face because there was something called "an interrogation" at the camp.
Now you're just listing off my gooning kink playlist vids.
Did I tell you about the time I got stuck in the dryer?
I was again left with only one free hand!
Luckily I wasn't home alone, your stepmom was there too.
I remember. I was watching from around the corner.
Go on..
Go on.
Go-on.
Goon.
Private Cowboy: Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical.
Private Joker: What was the matter with him?
Private Cowboy: He was jerkin' off ten times a day.
Private Eightball: No sh*t. At least ten times a day.
Private Cowboy: Last week he was sent down to Da Nang to see the Navy head shrinker, and the crazy f***er starts jerking off in the waiting room. Instant Section Eight. He was just waiting for his papers to clear division
How exactly does masturbating prevent you from military service?
It makes you go blind.
And your hands get all hairy
It makes your hand pregnant
Perrganent? Preganté?
Gregnant
How is babby formed?
8===D {()}
Oh, and your rifle gets all slippery!
Can I do it till I need glasses? lol
They’ll just give you government issue glasses
Yup, gotta keep at it until you can't see the screen anymore. AFAIK, the military doesn't do braille.
This is just a poor translation. It's a colloquialism to say you're jacking off when you're lazy and doing nothing. In fact, it's the same colloquialism in English. We literally say the exactly same thing when we call someone useless. What's really interesting in my opinion is you already know this. Yet because it's from a translation and you know that, your brain didn't think about the colloquialisms. It's kind of crazy how our brains work.
I'm aware of the colloquialism but I also thought that this is something Chinese party officials might plausibly say. You know, something something Western decadence.
I thought the same. Isn’t the party kind of anti porn?
Decadence isn't exactly the word I'd use to describe masturbation.
Sex shouldn’t be for fun. It is work for procreation of the superior culture. That time jacking off could have been spent contributing to the GDP.
+100 social credit
If it weren't fun there would be no humans
Perhaps we should be paid to fap so it does contribute to the GDP
Are you a CPC official?
That's boring tho lets go with the masturbation jokes
Leave a man idle enough time and he'll end up masturbating that's where the relationship goes to the colloquialism for everyone. I cna tell you in Spanish we use the same colloquialism.
When the mortar tube is clogged with cum...
And that's how you learned the company Fleshlight has a hole in the back.
Post-nut clarity makes you realize what a bad idea joining the military would be.
After a good fap I realised that this is the most plausible explanation.
Hold on, I'm almost there.
When they won’t get their dicks out of their hands in formation, it’s very distracting for others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGIfWLqC3Y
They are too exhausted from masturbating to pass the fitness test.
Something something male essence
I don't avoid women Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence
WW3 is gonna be a 5v5 on de_dust2
Heeeeey. There might be a role for me after all.
I want it in Source at 800x600 on my end. CRT please.
I know we just met but I feel very confident leaving the fate of the free world in your hands. Just cool it with the warcrimes okay, all that teabagging is going land you in the Hague.
It's Denmark's war to lose then
The Astralis esports team basically turns into Delta Force in this scenario.
I'd be willing to watch that live and in client.
TF2 and they all pootis,, POW!! Each other till everyone's dead
Nah, on de_Vertigo.
de_rats
Yeah I spent a decent chunk of my 20s attempting to explain to them that I’m deaf
I can totally imagine them just yelling louder and louder at you
Ok I would be down to just turn my hearing aids lower and lower in response lol. The funny thing to me is I’m not much deafer then they make people. I just come pre deafened and they can’t have that. It’s like if the marines wouldn’t take anyone who bought a car they can’t afford and cheats on their girlfriend, like fair enough but I’ve met y’all it’s strange to insist you be the ones to get people to this state.
I feel bad for recruiters. Someone has to do it but they get shit from everyone.
They'd get less shit from everyone if they weren't predatory liars about it.
They’re being paid to get shit. It would be a disservice to them if you didn’t provide the shit.
You just have to get fat enough that they can see how fat you are, on the news.
Landscape mode?
On an ultra-wide screen monitor.
Yeah, there's a legal requirement for Korean citizens to serve in the military. My SO is Korean, and that's why my kids aren't Korean citizens...
Good luck! Eat some more fast food.
not gonna lie it would be awesome if wars were actually conducted by gaming
The rampant cheating would make for some... Interesting streams.
Imagine the Chinese taking the Alamo with noclipping special forces wiping out 20,000 men as they sit in a digital forest around a thousand bright but cold campfires talking about Christian values, the merits of racism, and which anime girl is best.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/74098/74098-h/74098-h.htm
War No. 81-Q by Cordwainer Smith. Written in 1928.
Thanks. I thought I'd read everything Cordwainer Smith had written, but had never seen that before.
I think the name of the paperback was 'The Best Of Cordwainer Smith.' I read it years ago.
Fun bit of trivia. Harlan Ellison used the pen name 'Cordwainer Bird' on projects he'd written but had been badly produced. 'Bird' appeared as a character in at least one short story.
https://woldnewtonresource.fandom.com/wiki/Cordwainer_Bird
That might have had a rewritten version in it because it was vaguely familiar and I'm pretty sure I have that collection.
I can't believe that they haven't made an anime out of the original catgirl, C'Mell.
Man, I wish he had gotten more work done on the Instrumentality. The first novel I read was Norstrilia, maybe when I was like 13 or 14, and that absolutely got me hooked on the universe he built.
Now I have to go back and read everything again if I can dig those out of the boxes. I was really getting down on the pointlessness maundering of modern SF stories and had pretty much shut down reading it. Now I'm excited again.
John Varley is pretty underrated. "Titan" is an anime ready adventure story and "The Ophiucci Hotline" is good old fashioned hard SF. He's the first writer I think of who compares with Smith.
They already are, but the controls are connected to physical weapons that kill people IRL.
If you die in the game, you die in real life
The body cannot live without the mind
I swear there's twenty manwha with the same concept
So hot right now
There was a star trek episode like that.
Simpsons did it!
Wait I have to stop touching myself in order to successed in the fitness test?
How does that guy do pullups without using his hands?
Absolutely not, just only do it while at the gym.
Yeah pass.
Just put them on a 2000 calory deficit diet during basic training, and double its duration.
That'll get rid of 80 pounds of excess fat, plus they won't have the strength to masturbate.
Sure, half of them will become casualties before they see action, but they can still pilot drones, do the funny or make coffee, while you can feed the other half into the front line grinder.
Do the funny?
Do the funny.
2 kcal is not very much.
Deficit diet means burn 2000 calories off a person per day, oui?
not 2 kcal per day, a 2 kcal deficit per day.
Are you autistic, or is it OK to make fun of you?
common misinterpretation.. Calories is kcal
(with a capital C)
I’m convinced that’s some bs some bigwig invented to avoid admitting they’re wrong.
But sir, do we even have drones to be piloted?
Rules 5 and 6
I don't care about how much you dislike capitalism, that doesn't belong in here. Also this is NCD, we love war.
We did it! Capitalism saved the planet from WWIII!
Now we just tidy up a bit...
Sitting up? Check out these gym rats...
What on earth is going on with that helicopter?
It made the mistake of being AI generated.
Mad lad hanging from the rotor blades
They're filming numa numa yay 2
Hot new AI design. Dangle a person and have three rotors.
She put the burger on the gd floor like damn bich you know we got plates right?
Just on the floor and as big as an air fryer, this is straight out of cloudy with a chance of meatballs
They come wrapped in the plate ffs.
Burger's big enough there might actually be a plate under there somewhere.
Honestly, it's a message of hope. In a true dystopia she'd have a bag of sliders they charge regular prices for, but instead she's got a mega-burger.
Glad to see freedom still rings during WW3.
It’s bothering me thinking of how you would eat that. Maybe you cut it like a wedding cake and serve slices.
Selfish bastard didn't get milady any milk
TIL wanking habits fit into recruitment parameters.
I did my part by being born with a sensory disability. Mind you I’m also too mentally ill to enlist…
I WILL get myself addicted if a draft gets instated. My family has a predisposition towards addiction, and my life would be ruined either way.
I don't know the statistics but survival chances for addicts might be actually better than for soldiers in active combat
"The enemy cannot push a button, if you disable his hand!"
If they make a bigger button and then the enemy can push a button with their wrist nubbin.
You know that movie with Bruce Willis named Surrogates? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates The Scene where they visit the Military.
This is how WW3 will happen, i figure. Warfare from the comfort of your home, ready to jump into o a new robot Body once downed. War being nothing more than a Battle of attrition and technical Ressources.
As Randall Munroe observes, the first billionaire to create an AI-controlled swarm of killer robots will try to take over the world. So it may be Robot Wars on a grand scale.
Hmmm, piloting a robot body against other robot bodies in war actually sounds kinda cool. Live-fire paintball without the risk of actual injury
The robots probably wouldn't stop with the other robots. For example, if Israel had remote piloted robot warriors do you think they would only attack and kill other robots? They would just send them into Palestine, slaughter the "hostiles" and wouldn't bat an eye.
https://www.ft.com/content/442de9aa-e7a0-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3
Yeah the AI companies are chomping at the bit to let their killer robots loose on us. Wish I were exaggerating but I'm not.
ChatGPT, destroy my enemies
I'm going to become a God
Based on all the Arma footage already in the news I thought this was always the plan...
Wars are won and lost on a nations ability to not get physics yeeted into the air
Why. The fuck. Would anyone, Millennial or younger join the US military these days? To fight for oil overseas, while the world is burning? To be the arm of our corrupt politicians? To defend all the houses we will never afford? To protect a populace that yearns for fascism?
The prospects of room, board, health insurance, and a pension are more than enough to entice someone with no better options.
They take it just to sell it back to you.
lmao, who believes you’ll get any of that and not the post nam treatment
I’ve met so many disabled vets suffering and the va/benefits keep getting worse
The nearly free housing, healthcare, and potential for a pension are all decent incentives. Basically everything people want for normal us citizens are provided to the military.
Barring, of course, active duty members who have to deal with deployment and location assignments.
There's also the chance to kill people, so there's that.
Sign me up.
If you live in Europe: to protect your freedom. (may apply to other regions as well)
Good news, in the US, you don't have to join the military to get a gun.
😎 Yeeaahhhh
Based!
Woah woah who tf downvoted this? You're in NCD. This is in fact based.
Sorry, I meant in the US. (Freedom offer no longer applicable, must be 18 years or older)
Free college. Depending on where you live; better parking(purple heart), no property tax, unlimited handshakes, and the ability to stare into the middle distance and white-knuckle any moment you are left with your thoughts.
Better parking you say? 🤔
You know most enlisted aren't in combat roles right? My brother did ten years behind a desk, ended up with an awesome career and got to travel the world for free.
Huh? I didn't mention a single thing about combat roles or personal danger. If you join the military, you're supporting their agenda...
You're fun, but this is NCD, it's all military defense jokey jokes. The only civilian defense we take seriously is Mr. Park and the Roof Koreans. You're not really here, with these filthy rave babies, to persuade them not to join the military? It's far too late for many commenters here, they already have bad knees and a discharge in their rearview mirrors. Try to get some perspective on your audience before you start your Ted Talk.
Hard to find a way to make a living without supporting an unethical agenda, unfortunately.
Yup. The company I work for is a bit less unethical than many others. Nobody's perfect though, and we have a yearly remembrance for people we've killed over the years.
That is very true.
If you work for just about any corporation in the US, you are supporting an equally repugnant agenda.
Welcome to Capitalism.
Name five companies you can work for that don't have an unethical agenda.
Do you not know what any of those terms mean
Tax free liquor and tobacco? 3 meals a day? It was a good enough reason for granpappy to leave the still down in the holler.
It's too credible so I'll whisper it (poverty)
Shootin guns and driving around in big trucks with the boys sounds mad as.
Someday war will be... in a cup!
sweats in Cloud9
For some reason I remembered Notch. He tried to settle all disputes in Quake. And it even worked.