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[-] db2@lemmy.world 185 points 7 months ago

Gotta give the (probably imaginary) recruiter credit for a classy response though.

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 98 points 7 months ago

Can confirm they're real as well as the reaction

[-] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago
[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

My GF would kill me if I wore it, however much I love the shirt. She was army reserves for 8 years. She is so happy to be out though now. She was deployed to Kuwait and Afghanistan. She's officially VFW with all the VA benefits. But yea, totally one weekend a month, lol.

[-] theotherone@kbin.social 68 points 7 months ago

I’d imagine they swap creative blow-offs for laughs, like any job.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 48 points 7 months ago

Man, I haven't been blown off in a while...

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 47 points 7 months ago

Military would be a great place to start looking.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'll get blown for crack before I get blown for the military

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[-] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Let alone creatively.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

They're usually dudes who got bumped there for being injured, for being psyched, or being incompetent but well meaning. Don't be mean to them, they legit don't want to do what they're doing they know how stupid and shitty it is but they still have time left in contract and gotta trudge it out day by day like the rest of us.

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 40 points 6 months ago

Some of them, sure, but there are a lot of stories of how many lies recruiters will tell you to get you to sign on, so a pretty significant number are genuinely bad people.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

They have quotas blame the system not the consequences.

[-] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

If they weren't conscripted via draft, they volunteered. 100% their shitty choice to become a terrorist.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

The average income of a enlistee is below the poverty line, if you can't get a job you can get your ass in the military and make enough to survive.

You act like every life choice is binary.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

it was 100% your shitty choice to become homeless. maybe dont get cancer and be in debt to medical bills next time dumbass

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[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

Good to remember that not everyone is aware of the bullshit by 17 or 18 when recruiting is at its height (gotta pay for college somehow, right?). I know I wasn't but, luckily planned to do ROTC instead of enlisting, then, educated myself out of being willing to do that.

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[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

this actually was in mildly infuriating a while back from the original screenshotter, complaining abouth the fact that the army reqruiters can do this trough messaging apps. so I think it's very real

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

I think its originally real, but this image is old to me. Pretty sure I've been seeing this one place or another for at least a year now.

[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 139 points 7 months ago

Last time a recruiter harassed me via text he tried to convince me of all the kickass benefits and fun of being in the military. Straight up just told him "Dude, if you put a gun in my hand, you're going to be responsible for a suicide. Not happening." For some reason he never replied.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

Why I refuse to have guns even though I'm really interested in learning to shoot. I would love to go to a range and get better at target practice but I just don't want to go down that path. Maybe I should consider archery

[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Jesus, there is a non-zero number people, in this thread, that don't get guns because they are afraid they might suicide? I hope you get the help you need, keeping a gun out of your house is a good thing but it is just the tip of an iceberg.

Edit: Everyone on this thread is acting like this is normal, THIS ISN'T NORMAL OR OK. PLEASE take care of yourself.

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

I suggest if youre looking for a shooty type hobby that doesnt involve actual guns, yes archery is very neat, though modern compound bows are comparably pricey to many guns...

Perhaps try paintballing or airsoft?

Frankly I've always found airsoft and the community around it pretty cringey, but I had a blast 'woodsballing' as a kid. The indoor competitive ranges I found silly... but it can be great fun to stomp around in the woods for a day, if you don't mind huge bruises from getting hit haha!

Even so, probably most outdoor ranges have an area for chronoing (dialing in your gas pressure so your paint is flying at an appropriate speed) or just target practice, and you can probably just plink at such a range if you wanted to.

Or maybe airsoft sounds more your thing?

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[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 73 points 7 months ago

At least he was chill about it and was like " yeah - I get it. "

[-] Tebbie@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

A good salesman knows what he is selling.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

Isn't this why we should embrace EVs and other cars that can use renewable energy so we don't have to worry about the middle east and other petrostates?

[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

Evs make us reliant on lithium which just shifts the problem to another country. Additionally - the infrastructure is not there for evs.

I think the best alternative right now would be biodiesel hybrids and straight biodiesel vehicles and FUCKING SMALLER VEHICLES

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 months ago

Public transportation.

The less of our lives we have to buy the less critical supply chain there is to “defend”

[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not that easy. Sprawl needs to be addressed. Our cities are build around cars. You can't slap a few busses in a town expect shit to work.

I work an hour away from my home. I would take a train but there isnt one that is reliable or cheaper than driving.

Having a light rail system that connected the east coast would take centuries unless the government acted with unprecedented action and speed even then it would be decades.

I'd love more public transportation yes.

I am saying right off the bat I think biodiesel would be a more viable alternativ as it could be relatively easily adopted as the infrastructure is already in place.

Edit - I was probably a bit verbose when I wrote this. Clearly it won't take centuries. Decade or two at the most

Edit two: I was also misinformed about biodiesel - thanks for the helpful information, I appreciate it.

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

The best solution right now is to build out public and alternative transit. Busses, streetcars, lrt, greenways, woonerfs, etc are far superior and cheaper than anything we could figure out for cars.

[-] Bideo_james@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Biodiesel is not a good option imo the NOx emmisions are generally significantly higher. Also most of the oil thats used to create biodiesel is not sourced responsibly. The production procces also still creates toxic waste although usually less than normal diesel.

Source: i just wrote a report on this if you're really interested. i can dig through my sources lmk

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How about better public infrastructure, like trains and tramlines? They don't require lithium, and are fully electric.

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[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Batteries are still better because they can be recharged without oil or extra pollution.

You cant recharge an ICE engine without more pollution and oil

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Yeah, EV's are not, in themselves, the cure for our environmental woes. Too much electricity is still generated from fossil fuels for the carbon footprint to actually be diminished much and the environmental toll of mining for lithium also needs to be factored in. BUT, at the very least, it removes some dependence on oil in particular, where coal and natural gas are other forms of fossil fuels used to generate electricity. If nothing else, it takes some pressure off very specific regions, pressure which has contributed to invasion, war, international manipulation, extreme politics and oligarchies. It spreads the sources for resources around further.

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Also it moves the burning of gas from millions of these poorly efficient vehicles to a single much more efficient power plant.

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[-] kn33@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

The last time a recruiter texted me, I replied with that meme. I haven't heard from a recruiter since, so it appears to have worked.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

I just said "I'm on Lexapro"

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 months ago

Fake: Army recruiter actually goes away the first time he asks

[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

Good soldier

[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

it came down to a job that paid. training mostly sucked. oil? you mean the crap I buy for my car no matter what they charge?

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