Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤

I had the same issues with the communications suite on USS BOISE (SSN764). I ran a division of 11 great guys who did their jobs well, got their work done, and did minimal damage during radio room WWE events. There were a few personalization items in the radio room. One was a dancing hula figurine, who really got it on during any flank bell. There was the bobble-head turtle, who looked like the Engineering Officer - the absolute worst Officer of the Deck, and a few pop-culture comics (mostly Robot-Chicken stuff) taped up inside of a few COTS equipment racks. There was nothing lewd, and nobody naked...you know, modern Navy.

Now, the radio room is a SCIF, so only the radiomen and a few officers ever go in there. You'd never find the Sunday afternoon girl scout tour going through Radio.

Anyway, the captain comes in one day, sees some of the personalization items, and says, "Hey, Chief. Some of this stuff is a little less than professional." I chuckled and said, "Yes sir."

A few weeks later, during a stop to Radio, the Captain sees the same stuff, and says, "Chief. I thought we discussed this stuff being unprofessional?" I responded, "Yes sir. We did." He left.

A week later, I walked into Radio, and the Captain is talking to one of my guys, and when he sees me, he said, "Chief. Didn't we agree that some of this stuff was unprofessional?" I said, "Yes sir." He said, "You should probably consider getting rid of it." I replied, "Yes sir."

About a month passed, when the buzzer went off. One of the guys opened the door, and the Captain came in. As he made his way to the aft end of Radio, I saw the flash of anger on his face, before he said, "Chief! I thought you were going to take this stuff down?!" I said, "Well, sir, I considered it, but unprofessional as it might be, there's nothing lewd, nothing morally offensive, it's all in a place where nobody except the people who work here would ever see it. My guys work their asses off, do everything they're supposed to do, and do it well. If a couple comic strip, a hula girl and a bobble head turtle keep them happy and working well, is that really too high of a cost to us? Plenty of WWII bombers and fighters had unprofessional things prominently painted on their hulls, and displayed proudly. Everything on this boat that doesn't have to be painted a certain color, and is not wood-laminate is painted blue or orange, after Boise State. It looks gaudy, and as far as I know, neither Idaho, Boise, or Boise State University has ever some anything for this boat. My last boat did the same thing, but in purple and gold, with viking emblems everywhere - talk about offensive!" The Captain stared at me for a moment, and said, "Well, I don't like it." I said, "Yes sir." He left.

A couple weeks later, I'm in the Chiefs Quarters, and one of my guys comes down and says, "Chief, the CO wants you." I said, "OK. In his stateroom?" He said, "No. Radio." Oh shit.

Up to Radio I went, where I found the Captain, "God damn-it, Chief! Everything is still here!" "Yes, sir." We stared at each other for what must have been a full minute. He said, "Well, were you ever planning on removing it?" He looked past me, to one of my guys, and said, "Go get the COB." The COB (Chief of the Boat) is the Command Master Chief. We just stared at one another, until by the grace of God, the phone rang, and I ended up on the phone, and a laptop for a few minutes. When the call ended, the COB was in the room. The Captain said, "COB, this is the stuff I was telling you about."

We had a Mexican stand-off staring contest.

The COB finally said, "Well?" I said, "Well, if he had ordered me to get rid of it, I would have gotten rid of it." The Captain asked, "You're going to make me order you to get rid of it?!" I looked at the Captain, then the COB (I was standing between them). The Captain then walked out, and the COB followed him.

About 20 minutes later, I went back down to the Chiefs Quarters. The COB was reading a book. As soon as I walked in, he asked, "Did you get rid of that stuff?" I said, "No." He asked, "Why are you keeping it, when you know the skipper doesn't like it?" I said, "My division does its job really well, they don't give me any trouble. There's not much I can do to reward them for doing well, but if that little thing makes them happy for months inside this miserable fucking boat, then they should have it. If the skipper orders me to take it down, I will, and I suspect if it's really that important to him, he'll give the order. This turned into some stupid pissing contest a long time ago, but I won't choose to lose. He'll have to order me to make him the winner."

The COB shook his head and laughed. None of it was mentioned again, and everything was still there when I transferred 2 years later.

They'll be all about "forgetting" about that separation, all the way up until someone opens Beezlebubs Intermediate School of the Damned - then they'll be up in arms again.

I'm a leftist GenX whose served aboard 3 nuclear submarines, over a 20 year career. Ive slept between ballistic nuclear missiles, on top of torpedoes, mines, and tomahawk missiles early in my career, but later, switched to a standard bed (rack) on the boats..can I reflect and make a fuss?

The old moderate Democrats are not going to change...they keep trying to reach conservatives in a "middle" that keeps moving right. I'd say getting Democrats elected, then replacing them with better democrats in future elections would be the way to go, but there's something to be said for getting nowhere with the same.old.people.in.the.same.old.positions.election.after.election.and.never.gaining.a.meaningful.majoritye. Either the positions or the people need to change. Since the existing people are not willing to change their positions on the issues, people must be the next thing to change. The party needs to progress into the future, with younger, more vital blood.

Or as a young man in the navy, being told to make sure to act right in foreign countries...."you'd never want to have to deal with their legal system."

IIRC, "delay, decline, depose" were in memos from UHC. Does that mean UHC is liable for the same charges for any paying customers who died, while being delayed, denied and deposed? Corporations are people as well, after all.

My first deployment in a fast-attack submarine, in the fall of 1991. We were working under British operational control, and they ordered us to cruise surfaced, in the North Sea. I was standing watch as a lookout, with another lookout and the Officer of the Deck (OOD), in the sail superstructure of the boat. We were wearing body harnesses and lanyards, clipped into the superstructure - normal procedure.

I was a sailor aboard USS SUNFISH (SSN549), a Sturgeon Class boat, where the sail superstructure was 25 feet tall. We were in 48 foot seas.

The 3 of us on watch that night were washed overboard more than 10 times each. Often all 3 of us at the same time... flung overboard, hanging by our lanyards, trying to roll around and grab onto the ladder rungs, or one another, to get back into the bridge pooka. None of us broke any bones or lost any teeth, but we were pretty battered and bruised by the end of it.

That was the first time I got to see the entire boat out of the water... at the top of the wave, I could see the stem planes, stabilizers, the end of the towed-array housing, and the propeller. At the bottom of each trough, we'd see just a tiny hole of sky, through the water, as it all crashed down upon us, and we all hold on, trying to stay inside the superstructure.

We pulled into the Navy Base at Rosyth Scotland the next afternoon. The windshield, booked in for surface operations, was completely missing, as well a the port running light. We sustained damage to our observation periscope and main communications antenna as well.

The experience was both scary and exhilarating.

Boomer: What?! Just walk into the building, go up to the receptionist or bossman, and demand to be interviewed for a job, and fill out an application form. Refuse to leave without a job offer. They'll be so impressed by your dedication, they can't do anything else, but to hire you! What are you waiting for?

Darth Vader, "I'm altering the deal. Pray that I don't alter it any further."

I'm certainly not the 1st, or thousandth person to say it....we have a legal system, not a justice system. Luigi showed us all a flash of a justice system.

Says the man who has a maid, a butler, a staff waiting with a coffee and strudel for him at work. Every conference call is set up and waiting on him to start. Everyone is lined up to lick his boots at all time, to ensure the person who's time is "the most valuable" never has to spend an extra second listening to anyone or anything they don't want to. Give me a break.

"We have many values, but the most valuable value to us is profit, far and away. As a business pursuing profit above all else, supporting this administration, and always being ready and willing to bootlick, anywhere, anytime, at a moments notice, was thought to be our best shot at the highest profitability possible for our members. Unfortunately, like most of the supporters of trump, his administration, and his best-picked people, we're left embarrassed, and holding a (figurative) bag of shit, with nothing to show for it except for smelly hands. Sorry. Can we get a do-over?"

Or use Amazon (I'm guilty), or shop at Walmart (sometimes guilty, but not often), or shop at Target, use Tiktok, use Facebook (reunion coordination only - but still guilty, I guess), use PayPal (very guilty), use LinkdIn, use Google (guilty).

It's really difficult to live a modern life, without being guilty of using anything exploitative of something. Of course, all the things (and many more) mentioned above are made to make people reliant on them by design.

Amazon operated in the red for over 7 years, before turning any profit, often selling and shipping items for a lower cost than they purchased the items for. But after that 7 years, they'd driven much of their competition out of business. Now there are fewer choices with regard to finding some items, because Amazon drove everyone out of business. The cheaper prices on Amazon? Nothing like what they used to be - they don't have to compete.

How many small towns have Walmart as virtually the only place to shop and/or the only employer?

It's very important in our modern, separated society, for people to return to basics....get to know your neighbors, stick together, become friends, and help one another out. Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, "Your co-workers are not your friends." I wondered if many people ever looked past that, to ask if that's how HR wants things. How do you ever achieve solidarity in the workplace, when you walk in with that attitude? I've certainly had my share of hated co-workers, but much more often, I have been friends with many of them. Co-workers are a great resource to vent, problem solve, find out what's going on behind the scenes, and if there are problems - a great co-worker can be honest and let me know if I might be the problem, or not.

But, separated and isolated within our own little tribes/families, too busy working too many hours, for too little money, trying to keep up with too many financial obligations, is exactly how they get us exactly where they want us.

Bad headline...should read, "doesn't care to do anything, with regard to getting him back."

First you break government. Once broken, privatize everything on the justification of government not working.

Use propaganda to make people hateful and violent towards election workers. Use to loss of election workers to either have the incumbent administration run elections with "impartiality" or cancel elections altogether.

Cut government funding and make everything unpredictable, causing farmers and business owners to go bankrupt. Have oligarchs buy up everything at rock-bottom pricing, and turn the citizens back into serfs, who will be poor enough to shut up and do as they're told.

The problem could be that, with all the advancements in technology just since 1970, all the medical advancements, all the added efficiencies at home and in the workplace, the immediate knowledge-availability of the internet, all the modern conveniences, and the ability to maintain distant relationships through social media, most of our lives haven't really improved.

We are more rushed and harried than ever, life expectancy (in the US) has decreased, we've gone from 1 working adult in most families to 2 working adults (with more than 1 job each), income has gone down. Recreation has moved from wholesome outdoor activities to an obese population glued to various screens and gaming systems.

The "promise of the future" through technological advancement, has been a pretty big letdown. What's AI going to bring? More loss of meaningful work? When will technology bring fewer working hours and more income - at the same time? When will technology solve hunger, famine, homelessness, mental health issues, and when will it start cleaning my freaking house and making me dinner?

When all the jobs are gone, how beneficial will our overlords be, when it comes to universal basic income? Most of the time, it seems that more bad comes from out advancements than good. It's not that the advancements aren't good, it's that they're immediately turned to wartime use considerations and profiteering for a very few.

I love how a billionaire "puppet master" can think so low of everyone, like nobody is intelligent to think for themselves, instead, relying on some unnamed "puppet master." Yet he cannot name any alleged puppet master leading the over 1000 protests. What a freaking Muppet. Sorry - I don't mean to insult the Muppets.

Wow! How long until "the man" starts collecting passports, and requiring working immigrants to work off the debt of being allowed to work the fields, before allowing them access to their passports to be allowed to leave - likely with an ICE escort?

Don't forget about the actual ingredients in the food, no matter what the portion size is. There's a reason that 1 year old McDonalds cheeseburger looks just the same as it did, fresh under the heat lamp.