LifeInMultipleChoice

Wait the guy has lived here since 3 years old on a green card and never became a full citizen somehow? The guy has 5 kids and has lived here legally for 43 years (assumably). The fact that he isn't automatically naturalized is rediculous.

Apparently the costs skyrocketed after the start of the war do to supply. The NATO commissioner quoted $8489.60 and the U.S. Army rep said we were paying $3,000 a round for new ones. So that original quote in 2021 was when demand was lower and supplies were still sitting on shelves. Either way, that would mean NATO on a whole is paying over $4,000 per unit if Europe is currently producing twice what the U.S. is making. That would put the NATO average around ~6700 currently. Fuck that's a lot.

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2023/11/race-make-artillery-shells-us-eu-see-different-results/392288/

When the Houthis started shooting at ships and we sent ships for protection the smart missiles they were using to shoot some of the stuff down was around 2,000,000 per missle. So AA guns were preferred use. They took a contract out with a defense company here in the states that was to convert standard launchers of smart missiles into "smart launchers" that could shoot "dumb" ammo. The lead at the facility quoted those were costing 20,000 a piece. So you could shoot 100 for the cost of 1 smart missiles. Those I'm sure were rough numbers because that was just what one of the managers of the facility mentioned to us. (I was working an IT contract supporting part of the facility at the time.). It's crazy how things take forever to get done in our republic, yet projects like that seem like they are churned up in a heartbeat. I assume it was something they had previously inquired about and didn't have a reason to pull the trigger to get financial signatures, the poof. Full go

When I think back on the times I ordered things from eBay by walking to the local convenient store, getting a money order for the winning bid amount and sticking it in an envelope to mail it to some random address for someone I'd never met expecting I was going to get an object back for the money, it's crazy that it worked for me every time. My brother would also buy cards online (basketball, baseball) and had a local shelf at a card shop here. He'd buy cards at the store when they were cheaper than they sold online, and those online that he could sell higher in the store. That led him down a hole where he used Bitcoin at one point for trading cards. He's one of those people that had 9 Bitcoin or some shit left with the key on a flash drive or something. At the time that was probably $7 or some shit so he lost track of it. Just had the numbers in his excel document with what was left from the purchases. He probably formatted it for use for some school project or something and never thought twice about it. Crazy to think that could have been sold for near a million dollars now haha

When I moved in 2016 I didn't have a place to bring all my books so I got rid of my bookcase and most of my books. I filled a suitcase with what I kept and I think that suitcase with what I refused to get rid of at the time. After another couple moves that suitcase kept getting lighter. Eventually if I own a house I'll start collecting again

Nah, that's what the yellow pages were for. And to be able to see over the steering wheel for our vertically challenged friends. And to start fires in the fireplace at Christmas, just tear the pages out.

To be clear, I believe domestic militias should be able to exist, but militias attacking infrastructure is what I am saying falls under domestic terrorism.

As someone noted elsewhere, that infrastructure is helping to protecting the population from Tornadoes and other severe weather.

I dumped him and quit the gym. Wait, this is why I don't have a wife..

Thanks for the heads up about yt-dlp. Maybe if I start running into videos like that I can set up a way to execute the yt-dlp to download them in MP4 format on my jellyfin server using Tailscale or such to link the command. Then play from there.

Seems like a lot to watch a video, but I'll leave it on the back burner idea pile if ever needed. A lot of the text based stuff if it gives me to much issue I'll drop the link into archive.ph

In case you end up looking for other file explorers, this one has treated me well: https://github.com/Raival-e/File-Explorer-Compose?tab=readme-ov-file

(And has the ability to open with, then change from browsers to any app type so you can locate Firefox)

If anyone is curious apparently 152mm rounds cost about $1000. So that would have been $12 billion dollars in sales for NK if true.

Edit: sidenote, the 155mm NATO uses cost around $4000/ round...

Awesome to hear! You should be able to just poor a bit out, clean your equipment and put it back in and keep going

"Modern commercial brewers reuse yeast for several fermentations, often up to 40 or 50 batches, usually by pumping yeast directly from the bottom of one cylindroconical fermenter into the next. "

https://www.seriouseats.com/homebrewing-reusing-yeast-how-to-reuse-yeast-for-brewing-beer