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  • There are definitely some good philosophies debated in those volumes.

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    Kamala Harris Wins Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ Poll With 52% of Votes, Trump Grabs 48%
  • While I tend to agree, the only political news I got before I was 18 came from whatever news my parents had on the TV after dinner.

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    Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
  • They as good as ended his career with that. You don't think every sailor hasn't already heard or will hear at his next command that he is so ignorant he can't even fire a rifle right? If he's that incompetent they shouldn't have let it get so far that he got a command in the first place. He's either so incompetent that he can't do basic sailors tasks OR they made up a reason to fire a sailor who made a non critical mistake. Do we publicize IN PRINT when an army infantry NCO has a negligent discharge at clearing barrel? Maybe locally, but it doesn't mean he is completely unfit to lead men to war.

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    Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
  • This is a staged photo and that mag looks full so he probably just pulled it up quickly on command and started firing. Which would also explain his bad stock placement. He rushed for this photo op because everyone likes to look like a bad ass especially when there are cameras around.

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    Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
  • Yep, and I agree an 11b or equivalent who doesn't know his ass from the front of the sight isn't fit for duty, but this guy is a naval officer and was probably just stoked to look cooler than normal, and someone could have just as easily been playing a joke on him to see if he would notice. We play pranks on people all the time asking for PRC-E7, or grid squares, or blinker fluid.

    I doubt it's true it's the reason he was relieved of command, but to even think it was a last straw is crazy because if he was really that bad of a leader they wouldn't need to use something as trivial like just a funny picture to some among the gun owner's who know what they are even looking at.

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    Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
  • US Army Aviation and two deployments with the AF. I was never even issued an optic as we only had a handful per company. Can't touch what Uncle Sugar doesn't allocate. The only time I touched a weapon that wasn't a helicopter was during annual qualifications.

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    Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
  • Nothing happened, and nothing could have happened other than him missing a practice target by a mile. It doesn't even show him aiming at something in particular, just looking down the barrel. Ammo can kill you, not having a working optic is not a safety issue no matter what direction it's installed. Did he check the chamber to see if there was a round? Did he flag any other sailors? Did he keep his weapon pointed down range? Every single person around him let him shoot the weapon like that, they obviously didn't feel too unsafe to be around him. None of them even seemed to noticed it was on backwards either. How can you tell it's backwards from this picture of him?

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    Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
  • Is anyone replying in this thread a US military armorer? I'd love to know who gave him the weapon with the sight installed backwards. I was never allowed to touch an installed optic other than to sight it in. I was never in the US Navy, but in all my training I never got a class on anything but an iron sight for the M16, M4, and M9. How would someone who isn't a master at arms and probably qualifies on a weapon once, maybe twice a year going to know that someone else installed the sight on his weapon backwards? You don't even know that it was his issued weapon and not someone else's who also shot with it backwards.

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    Trump Media reports $16 million loss for quarter as revenue falls
  • Personally, I love this for ALL of them.

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    Dude is ruthless... I like him!
  • You, you I like!

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    Ukrainian HMMWV withstands the impact of two Russian FPV drones in the eastern direction.
  • Gotta love those quality Russian munitions! You see the Ukrainian ones taking out APCs and shit. This HMMWV runs right through like it was a watermelon.

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    There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.
  • Does this cover what you're asking for, I hope it does?!

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    It’s a Workers’ Party Now? Republicans are trying to rebrand as pro-labor. There’s just one problem.
  • Can anyone point to the last piece of major legislation that the Republicans passed that has improved the life of the working class?

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    HTC One M8: The Android GOAT, 10 Years On!
  • My m8 is somewhere in my office still. Behind my pixel 5 it has probably been my favorite Android phone.

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    DOJ filing: Steve Bannon is a "co-conspirator" in a $1 billion fraud case
  • Just one case? Those are rookie numbers, I'm sure there are plenty more out there that he's a coconspirator

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    Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?
  • I have been using that stuff for years and I'm very satisfied!

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  • apnews.com Florida Republicans oust state party chairman facing rape allegations in critical election year

    The party suspended Christian Ziegler last month and demanded his resignation, stating that he cannot effectively lead during a critical election year with the allegations, which Ziegler denies.

    You'd think if they cared about these credible allegations, they would care about some of their candidates credible allegations.

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    I purchased the year ad free sync pro for $16.99 the day it launched. I wanted to support what seemed to be a great app for a new platform even though that was an excessively steep price.

    At this point I wish I hadn't wasted my money.

    After the last app update every time I opened the app it would crash. I attempted to clear the cache, clear the data, then reinstall the app. It would crash every time I tried to restore my backup. I reached out to the developer first and told them my issue. They initially replied back and said they would look into it and I provided extra information. Went several days with no update and I attempted to contact them again and got no response. I then asked for a refund because it doesn't recognize that I purchased the Pro upgrade. Again no reply. I then tried to get a refund through Google and also no luck and that I should contact the developer.

    I will never again purchase sync pro for lemmy or any other platform and I would caution anyone else from spending an arm and a leg for this app when there are plenty of equally good alternatives.

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    apnews.com House approves nearly $14.5 billion in military aid for Israel. Biden vows to veto the GOP approach

    The House has approved a nearly $14.5 billion in military aid package for Israel, but without humanitarian assistance for Gaza. The partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson posed a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.

    This bill is DOA according to the Senate.

    "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has warned that the “stunningly unserious” bill has no chances in the Senate."

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