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Sometimes I'll see a car, or a computer, or hell even a coffee maker, and I'll think to myself "3000 years ago that was in the fucking ground. Some guy woke up one day, looked at a rock and started changing it. We eventually changed rocks so much that we could turn them in to this stuff" and even with the benefit of a White IQ it seems like some low level sorcery

One of my favorite stories from the Cold War arms race was how America got so shook by the MiG-25 that they designed and built the greatest fighter platform of all time to counter it, and then later found out the scary Soviet wunderwaffe was actually a gigantic piece of shit that could reach its purported top speed precisely once before melting its own engines.

One of my lieutenants asked me, "do you know the process for giving the all clear?"

No.

"you find the most insignificant, disposable soldier around, and you get your senior nco as well, 'private hand your weapon to sgt so and so.' you have your weapons trained on him when you do this. then, 'private, take off your mask.'"