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McEnany wrote:

"How I Met Your Brother -- Never mind, forgot he's still in that hut in Kenya."

uziq wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/his-head-wasnt-in-the-world-of-reality-how-the-plot-to-invade-venezuela-fell-apart

fun story about the attempted coup in venezuela. sad!

Pochsy wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

One of my close high school friends OD'd 3 years ago. I went to his funeral and took one of his funeral cards.

I have no idea where it is right now. Let me look.

Is the image of the funeral card to show us what a funeral card generally looks like? I'm a little confused.

Scuba diving​ was pioneered in Italy and so was the combat frogman and all his equipment, including hand-placed limpet mines and the explosive motor boats and manned torpedoes that the Japanese would copy as suicide weapons – the originals allowed the operators to save themselves, if they were lucky. With a tiny fraction of the Italian navy’s resources, between 1941 and 1943 Italy’s sea commandos destroyed two British battleships, wrecked a heavy cruiser and two destroyers as well as 18 supply ships and tankers. Aside from much technical ingenuity, this exemplary force multiplier required heroism of a particular kind, not just individual but collective, not just episodic but habitual: the fragile prototypes that made up the equipment could be deadly even in training, let alone when intruding into enemy harbours and through torpedo nets.

Another spectacular display of effective heroism, noted by John Gooch in Mussolini’s War, was the all-out charge of the Savoia Cavalleria, the Italian equivalent of the Life Guards, when 650 mounted men with sabres and pistols broke a Russian infantry regiment some 2000-strong at Izbushenski on 24 August 1942. Sans horses, there were other heroic episodes even in that one month, as Italian troops resolutely resisted the first Russian attacks in the build-up to the wider battle for Stalingrad.

An example of high talent of an entirely different order was the Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM), the military intelligence service whose remarkably objective and prescient analysts forecast in November 1941 that if the United States entered the war it would equip an army of 1,750,000 men during 1942, launch two large merchant ships a day and ramp up to produce 25,000 tanks and 50,000 aircraft in 1943 alone. Those spot-on estimates (the 1943 actuals were 28,164 medium tanks and 84,853 aircraft) meant that Germany and Italy would be quickly outclassed: one year of forecast US production would exceed the total German and Italian inventories. But the Germans held onto the illusion that US industry would take years to convert for war production, wrong-headedly presuming that the Americans would be inhibited by their own craft perfectionism. Always averse to hard truths, Mussolini ignored the SIM’s warning and went along with his then still victorious German ally instead of bailing out of the war when he still could.

“Tired of Boomers bunching Gen Z and millennials together because I personally don’t want to be associated with people who think Harry Potter movies are a personality trait,” she said in the video.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Bumped into this unintentionally.

Millennials horrified by vicious insults from younger generation: ‘Why are they so furious at us?'
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/later-b … 29197.html

Using the TikTok platform to whine about cringe is one the greatest social media ironies in recent history. Still,

“Tired of Boomers bunching Gen Z and millennials together because I personally don’t want to be associated with people who think Harry Potter movies are a personality trait,” she said in the video.

Greatly recycled, but still a little funny.