I went through the schools, at NAS Pensacola, to be a Rescue Swimmer.

I noticed the lights around the quad, in the main barracks, galley, and school house area, all had little metal F-18’s on top of them.

A few days before I transferred off base to the next school in my pipeline, I climbed one of the poles and took one.

It reminds me of the challenges I faced, being young, and to alway keep a bit of “Damn the Man, save the Empire” in my soul.

I have a bit of sand from Normandy which used to just remind me of the sacrifice that so many have made to fight fascism and aggression. Now it also reminds me to fight that same fascism today.

A photo of me in the color guard, for a parade in a town I wasn’t from, for people I didn’t really know, in a state I had never been. It was a summer of adventure that took me all the way across the US. It reminds to embrace the unknown, be friendly, and sometimes just letting the flow take you can lead to new, wondrous things you never could have expected

My wedding ring. It reminds me that despite the heartbreak, despair, and self loathing that came from that relationship, there were two years of delirious happiness. That not all journeys’ ends are happy or avoidable, that we need to bear through them, no matter how much you want to just end everything. You WILL look back and remember the things you got to do because you stayed, and be glad you did. To trust my gut and have the courage to make the choices my heart doesn’t want to make. It is easier to live with your own mistakes than someone else’s.

Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.

My favorite thing about Laplace and Fourier transforms was making a fabulous looking F and L.

Their functions are so fucking spectacularly useful, but I just loved writing it out.

I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.

It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.

They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.

Eh, fine.

I would say, “That’s not a burger.”

I did deploy a lot, but I recall one of my first cultural lessons and they only mentioned the three.🤷🏾

I really appreciate you taking the time to share some of your knowledge.

Thank you!

Huh,

I lived there for three years and only learned about, Kanji, Katakana and Romanji.

Is Hiragana a more classic version of the language or is it an evolution of Katakana, that it looks similar to?

Same story, different healthcare provider. U.S. VA system for me.

My company actually got their own internal use AI that supposedly is safe for client information and is firewalled and not scraped.

It is not very useful, constantly is out of service, and I don’t trust for a second that it is secure/not scraped.

At this point, I don’t think they can think past, “Hur, dur, immigrants bad.”

They are still arresting people who are married to American citizens and going through the normal green card process.

The wife of a fucking active duty national guardsman, in Texas, with an active green card application (filed in 2022), and no criminal record.

They arrested her at her work and deported her to the Honduras. Oh and she had an infant son as well.

He’s still on. He is just not getting his contract renewed.

You may be right.

I only have time for one show though, and for now, that is Colbert.

I do think what happened to JK is beyond fucked up and it is just another peg on my radicalization meter.

This show is the reason I have always dislike him.

He was kind of funny on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”, so I initially looked forward to this show.

But then I watched it and it kind of pissed me off. Like, is this what a “man” is supposed to be? A sexist douchebag with a terrible sense of humor.

It was a TERRIBLE show. Glorified womanizing and binge drinking.

Despite what he says now, that was who he was. He shouldn’t have had a career after that.

But he’s just a talking head. He doesn’t write his material, he just reads teleprompters and has celebrity friends.

There are so many examples in your post where you place her above you and she is not equal in that return.

It is challenging, especially when you think of things like, “Love means sacrifice, or hard work.” And those statements are not wrong, but they are also easy mechanisms your brain uses to justify why you let someone shit on you.

I am coming from a marriage of 20 years and after getting therapy, finally realizing just how I much I enabled the treatment I received.

Sex is such a strong urge too, ESPECIALLY at 20. That and fear of loneliness.

I’ve got something that is worse though. 20 years I will never get back because I convinced myself if I just kept loving her, she would eventually love me back the same. That I just need to be strong and the sacrifice is worth it. Now I don’t even really know who I am anymore.

You got this in a short dating period.

I am not red pilling or any of that other chauvinistic bullshit because this applies to both partners.

Almost every single example you presented was reason enough, on its own, to leave her.

But you twisted yourself into thinking there’s no way this is what it is. You must not be seeing it right, there must be some justification for her behavior. It must not be a big deal, or you are “over reacting”.

That can be anywhere from poor self esteem to just putting your partner on a pedestal.

If your partner does something that makes you think, “I could/would never consider doing that.”, in a bad way, it is most likely not an equal or healthy relationship. (This mostly applies to how they interact with you and others.)

You are NTA, you just need to respect your own boundaries, even when it hurts.

Holy shit. Neither of you are ready for a real relationship.

She is a toxic dirtbag and you need to learn to love yourself more than the person with whom you are in a relationship.

Was searching the post to see if someone else pointed out that neither Adams was on the list.

Thank you for the laugh this morning.

Everytime I see Sam Adams mentioned, I always think of Sam Jackson beer.

Not really. It does pull some in, but not directly at earth, and the majority is either “eaten” by Jupiter or slung out of the system.

Jupiter’s pull is so great, compared to earth, that the ones that do get past or then pulled more towards the sun.

At least that is how my professor described it.

It’s also a shield for earth.