Bryce

That sentiment is perfect - we're in a similar boat and I think it's definitely in the near future for us

Gerald Auerbach, who flew in WWII missions over Japan, dies at 101 Auerbach was a navigator aboard a B-29 Superfortress and was part of firebombing raids over Tokyo in 1945.

One of the Old Breed flies west: Gerald Auerbach, who flew in WWII missions over Japan, dies at 101 www.expressnews.com/news/article... via @expressnews

I would rather be reanimated as a shambling, flesh-eating ghoul or have my parts stitched together as part of some sort of hideous Frankenstein's monster than have this done to me after I'm dead.

We looked into all of this (proposed legislature to ban them, how much of a problem they were) at Stars and Stripes like nearly 20 years ago - honestly stunned these things are still around on base.

as a Texan, chaos

shit, now I have a bottle of Malort

Honestly it wasn't terrible, but ymmv depending on your feelings on Moxie (I love it) because it makes an admirable (though not entirely successful) attempt at trying to diffuse the Malort.

Decisions were made.

lol, holy shit

Ahhhh gotcha!

I got King Arthur-pilled at a young age by my New England parents, and not only are their products amazing, their recipes are all winners.

Oh, we're sharing pics of Spider-Man?

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

Unforgivable.

From low security in Tallahassee to minimum security in Bryan... 🤔

The Ganong Chocolate Museum in St. Stephen, Canada was great!
chocolatemuseum.ca#about

To avoid being locked up in a lab in Area 51 for shooting off fireballs or flying around, I feel like in these modern times I'm going with Enchantment.

Moxie is good though

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Interesting... Now I'm wondering how much longer Bregman has in Boston...

Hell, I know a few who already got got - from the VA no less.

Radioactively unpopular opinion at the moment here, but having attended a formal event at the White House a few years back I was genuinely surprised by how cramped the current space in the East Room is.

Man I would love to know what changed since yesterday

What in the Devil DOGE?

Exodus at VA: 10,000 Employees Are Resigning in September. Here’s the List Over 10,000 employees will leave the VA in September after taking a deferred resignation. Nurse and doctors quit too. See the full list of positions.

It's fascinating to me how when a factory or whatever opens you'll here all these lines about how those 300 jobs will "grow the town" or "revitalize the local economy", but no one seems to be making the inverse connection to the literal *tens of thousands* of federal jobs going away.

Army Puts Political Operative in Charge of Public Affairs, Stoking Concerns of Creeping Partisanship While it's not unusual for political hands to manage messaging at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the ongoing change to military public affairs marks a broader institutional pivot.

This stinks.

(Also I worked with BG Azubuike back when she was a PAO MAJ, and later when she was the Chief of Public Affairs, and her departure is a huge loss to the Army)

That linkedin number is wild.