Dozzi92

Reservists have been and continue to serve overseas since WW1. I can really only speak to the Marines, but they did generally the same job as active counterparts. There was a hiccup when 3/25 went and got hit hard, and leadership took a second look at how to deploy reserve units, reason being when a reserve unit takes casualties, they're all confined to a geographic area, so you'll have states and towns getting multiple casualties, versus active units, which have dudes from all over the place.

We trained the same as active units, just obviously with less frequency. We were held to the exact same standards. When you went to corporals course, or sergeants course, or squad leaders course, it was active and reserve all together.

Jesus Christ, I'm out here disenfranchising the disabled.

Ha, definitely unclear. The presumption is it's a person with a handicap who left it there. I know I've seen some older folks leave them at the end of the spaces and so I guess I'm more inclined to let slide someone who perhaps has some infirmity that makes walking difficult.

People being shitheads is ubiquitous, eh? Very frustrating.

Yeah, when I walk into the store, I grab them from the handicap spots. It's the only place where I say "Okay, you get a pass," when I see carts left, and so I bring em back to the store.

I'm not aware of anywhere that pays (or is even allowed to pay) baristas what waiters and bartenders get. There may be exceptions. This post seems to be about literally anyplace with a new POS having basically options for 20-30% tips, despite the person behind it making like $15 an hour (at least where I live). Fortunately, lately, I'll have the person reach around and press the "no tip" button often enough, since it's usually the least obvious option available.

Damn, thank you. We're snowed in AF here in Jersey (New), and I needed a good family flick, the kids are shit at helping me pick.

I always liked the word karst. Came up through my work once, had to look it up, and I just like it.

He's the US director of the FBI. He just shows up and they let him in. What're they going to do say no? They just let him in, do the photo op, and that's that. None of them are thinking about it. Half the dudes on the team probably don't even know who he is. Hockey players are so insulated, that's why the young guys always do the worst interviews, their entire life has been hockey, and that's it.

You can't wear cages in the NHL unless you have an injury.

I used to smoke a lot of weed in high school and after for a bit. One day, the panic set in. It wasn't always, but the frequency definitely increased slowly, until eventually the risk of having a panic sesh became too much for me to be able to enjoy smoking.

Kind of unrelated and in the middle of all this, I remember talking to my old man, and he had lived a similar life to the one I was, at the time, currently leaving. He smoked a bunch of weed until, one day, couldn't do it any longer because of the panicks.

So I definitely anecodotally agree with the ineritableness, and I certainly agree and am an example of the idea that cannabis can bring out symptoms similar to schizophrenic episodes. And they are so far from my norm that I really can't attribute it to anything but the pots.

I've always felt that mental disorders can be like a switch, you flip it and it turns on, kinda. And the flipping can be the result of something external, life events, trauma, and drug and alcohol use. I had a friend who I smoked with often as a kid who eventually kinda disappeared into a world of mental issues, and I wonder if it would've been the same had he not smoked.

Nothing, now.