Dozzi92

Tanning? I don't tan, but I have tanned. I'm a 38 year old dude. One, it feels wonderful, especially if you're somewhere with a harsh winter and no sun for months. You hop in there and it's six or eight minutes of fantastic.

Second, everyone looks better tan, and so yeah, not exactly white supremacist, but they're not smart people to begin with.

Semantic bullshit is another big karma farm here too. I could've said updoots, arrows, upvotes. Whatever pleases the Lemmings.

Yeah, I only really have experience with upstate NY and out to central PA, maybe Altoona, Harrisburg at most, and even there it sucks. Upstate NY, I'm limited to 81 and it's surroundings because it's my route to Montreal, but it also sucks. The finger lakes are nice, saratoga's all right, but it's mainly awful.

I say it often, but NYC and Philadelphia have more in common with the sprawling suburbia that is NJ than they do their rural upstates.

That sounds exactly what it's like where I live, in the USA!!! Big country, many different laws. I live in New Jersey, which has some of the strictests gun laws in the country, and wouldn't you know it, we also have the least amount of gun violence in the country. Imagine that?

The US isn't a homogenized wild west, there is a lot of nuance, and I don't like where I live being lumped in with some of the less civilized places.

Amen. And I know we all want to just agree with it, but propaganda is propaganda, and when people are painting it to fit the guidelines of communities (like this), it's deceitful and wrong.

What's that have to do with this post?

Ha, I'm out for over a decade at this point, and I'm kind of an "I did my time" Marine. I do have some friends still in, who I'm fairly certain they're still wearing MARPAT digi cammies.

Nah, digi cammies weren't gulf war. Dudes wore old deserts in Fallujah, IIRC.

I did boot in '09, and we qual'd ironsights, and got to SOI in August 2009 and we had ACOGs. I believe boot went ACOGs shortly after that. We also had A2s in boot in '09, and A4s in SOI. Full digi was sometime in 2004, and Fallujah was earlier that year, and so you saw guys in old cammies and digi.

Yeah this picture is confusing. I went to boot in '09. We wore deuce gear, but it was green. I can't tell if there are picatinny rails on the rifles or not. There's no ACOGs. I'm definitely leaning toward your timeframe, but something definitely feels off about it. Dunno.

Yeah, I don't like the idea that failed ideas are a waste, because that kind of thinking stifles technological advancement.

I do like thinking that we can have both technological advancement and healthcare.

The old arguments were "Look how long they (the socialists) wait to get appointments and get seen!" Yep, we're there now. I have insurance, I still pay a bunch, and seeing specialists is a luxury at this point. If I have an issue, I don't even consider calling specialists, because I know it's weeks til I can get in.