I mean that’s where my MiL started (on the right) and after many years of work she’s now firmly to the left of Bernie and AOC, but not quite at the “armed minorities are harder to oppress” stage. Maybe by the end of summer …

Everyone whose been paying attention for the previous 16 years:

No shit right?

I’d pay you to shit my hand in a drawer if it meant I didn’t have to use atlassian

Why would we send them to Italy…

I just imagine them handing out some Beretta 9mm’s to some lab technicians who typically work with ice cores or something and them being told “You’re getting sent to Seattle. Find this guy”

That’ll get you killed on my beach.

Biggest issue is keiki and tourists crowding the seals when they come on shore to take pictures, and the seals get nervous and head back into the water. But sometimes you get local kine just as disrespectful.

But also…

Special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration arrested Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk near Seattle

wut…

Oh you know he didnt have to throw his special gifts away…,

I went for jerk a few weeks ago and it was the marinated version not the rub version and I was crestfallen.

senpai

Counter propaganda for that recent poll where Harris got “slammed” into 3rd place among prospective Democrats.

Harris should have run for governor in CA to re-enforce her ability to win a statewide election. Should have been a layup for her. But you don’t come off an L like she delivered in '24 and expect to be a starter. That’d just be silly.

Lieberman, Manchin, Sinema, and now Fettermann. - All Democrats in name only who are really Republican plants.

abwd amirite?

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Emphasis added for low reading comprehension individuals.

This is the guy voting to allow the war to persist:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zDDEYk9kn-Y

There are four Republicans more reliable than this Democrat.

So my sub was a modern nuclear sub. It had both a reactor and a diesel engine. But modern diesels and even some older ones, they would get close to the surface to run their diesel (because you need oxygen for combustion) via a snorkel to charge batteries, then go back under.

A reactor is much quieter than a diesel. And batteries are quieter still. Water moving through pipes, anything with periodic motion, is going to have a frequency. And sound moves far more effectively under water. So generally yes, in operation, you aren’t running equipment like the diesel engine. The goal is to be sneaky. Running a diesel is practically announcing to the whole ocean “here I am”.

Dont tell my parents I’ll never hear the end of it.

Well there we are then.

Not many fat sub sailors then?

Oh quite the opposite… one treadmill. All the way aft. In the smoking area.

Is it 12h shifts?

Depends if you are forward or aft, nature of mission/ training, and how many stations/ personal your division has for any given underway.

Standard is when I was enlisted was actually 6 hour shifts on a rotating 18 hour day. 18 hour days you say? But wouldn’t that make Homer something something…

I think its now 8 hour standard shifts and sailors are far less suicidal and depressed, at least so I’ve heard.

The rack space is extremely small. Smaller than a surface vessel. I can’t remember the exact dimensions but I want to say in the range of 50 centimeters between the mattress and the bunk above you. The racks are in the range of maybe 65-75 cm deep. The mattress is maybe 10cm. All your gear has to fit into the rack, which lifts up on hinges, so maybe you have 6-10 total cm of storage below your rack. I went out of my way to get a mini-disk player when I got shore-leave in japan so I could bring more music with me underway. Also, you are probably sharing this rack space with another sailor because if you are jr. enlisted on a submarine, its almost certain you are hot-racking, which means, someone else is going to crawl into your rack and sleep once you get out of your rack. This serves two function, first you need 24 hour coverage on all watch stations, and, well there isn’t a ton of sunlight anyways so since you’ll need to cover a 24 hour watch regardless, you can get away with fewer racks than you have sailors. Its always hot in the rackspace. Cooling and heating requires pumps. Pumps make noise so you generally just don’t do it. Just a bunch of sweaty sailors and their dirty socks for weeks on end. Yeah maybe you trust them with your life but you sure af better not trust them with your socks. There are also people constantly coming in and coming out of the rack space. So you’ll almost never get undisturbed sleep.

As far as motion… Unless you are doing something like a maneuver, or you are just getting underway or at battle stations, you don’t feel practically any motion on a submarine. You intentionally get below the surface sufficiently to avoid any impacts of wave action, because why wouldn’t you? I would say sea-sickness is far less of an issue on subs for exactly this reason. If there is significant wave action, just go deeper. Now if you are at battle stations or in combat or doing exercises, yes, you’ll 100% feel some motion, and then there are extreme cases like an embt blow, which is going to send bodies flying. But in general, slow and low and trying to create as little motion as possible is the goal with how you are going to practically manage a submarine underway.

As far as sound. Its called the silent service for a reason. Practically every decision is made with a thought about how much sound is this going to make. Every wire run, every pipe, every pump, every circuit; everything is done with a consideration of what impact this is going to have on your profile because the entire point is to be practically invisible to not only other submarines, but surface vessels or anyone else who might be running sonar. Anything humming… thats an unmitigated disaster if you are a submarine and is a practical announcement to any other vessels in your vicinity “Here we are, and here is where we are going”.

So what is it really like? Take a 3 meter x 3 meter garden shed. fit you and 15 of your closest friends onto some of those cheap plastic storage shelves… and spread some corn-nuts or similar smelling items around to get the full authentic experience. Oh and hit everyone in the head with a hammer because I didn’t mention the part about dropping oxygen levels to reduce the risk of fire. So you are always going to be groggy and have a tension headache. But maybe after a couple years you’ll be able to afford college.

Depends if we’re talking about a hobby or a habitat.