Shingles fucking sucks, hurts like hell, had it right along my left side under my belt line. Putting my pants on was like stabbing my side with knives every day, and I got mine treated as soon as the symptoms appeared before they got really bad. I grew up in the 80s where it was normal to get your kid exposed to chicken pox to protect them from small pox... Fuck that shit, glad my daughter was able to get the chicken pox vaccine.

My drill sergeant once said that every soldier in media who isn't a real soldier will have a fucked up uniform somewhere due to it being illegal to impersonate a military member. The fubar'd uniform is to protect them from stolen valor allegations as there is nothing illegal about wearing a uniform top or pants as long as you're not trying to pass yourself off as an actual soldier or vet. Putting flags on wrong, missing insignia, stuff like that is intentional in a lot of cases where its actors portraying them instead of actual soldiers. Whether that's actually true or not, I have no idea, I wasn't in a habit of questioning drill sergeant at the time.

like they actually spend time scamming people... they have people for that.

Don't worry (sarcasm), he was replaced with a die hard trumper... I literally know his replacement, James Taylor, he lives down the street from me. I have literally had his wife tell me directly that covid was a hoax and she knows it because James was put on a ventilator and survived his covid just fine. Dude literally almost died and was put in a medical coma while on a ventilator, and that wasn't enough for either of them to take Covid seriously... Suffice it to say, I try to avoid talking to them when I see them...

but you forgot, Elon didn't diddle little kids because Jeff was out of town that weekend, so he's in the clear! (sarcasm if its not obvious)

you wouldn't have a high credit score if you had a clone out there abusing it.

The outcome would be a while lot of people trying to gaslight me.

Yeah, you can say it and deal with the outcome. I chose to keep my mouth shut since my entire family is cool aid drinkers.

It seems like Nvidia and Linus are getting along these days since datacenter Ai workloads need Linux. Amd is still king for Linux gaming though

I asked my sister-in-law who worked for the VA (retired a few months ago) about the end of the road emails, literally I asked "Hey I heard that a bunch of crazy emails went out to all federal employees, did that happen to you at the VA too?" and she went off on how everything has been nuts since trump took over and how people are being removed from W2 and made all gig workers with 1099 so they don't have to pay out insurance or benefits or earn time towards a government pension / retirement, and how lucky she is she gets to retire before that fully takes affect and how its "all Elon's fault". Saying it was all Elon, and Trump had nothing to do with it, is some serious mental gymnastics... This was August of last year.

Me too

I can see them try to place it "under the protection" but the states need to have a chain of custody for every vote, and whoever signed that custody chain is responsible for it. I dealt with this in the Army as an MP. And it would require the state to be complicit as well and I don't think most states want to just hand over all their authority to the federal government and turn themselves into puppets. But we will see...