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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Cats, Dogs, Other pets.   
    She only attacks my feet one or two times a month.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Deep Thoughts   
    You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.
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    The Old Hack reacted to ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    ***The Edema Chronicles for June 9, 2023
    Today's weight, taken at around 2:38 a.m., was 318 lbs.
    In less than 48 hours, I have lost 5 lbs of water weight. I feel drained.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Generic Table top gaming.   
    Depends on how you define AC. If in terms making them hard to hit, massively high.  If in terms on taking damage from close order explosions or even direct hits, depends on the aircraft.  Either way you've got to toss hundreds of round up into the air to hit an aircraft.  While modern radar assisted guns reduce the number of rounds needed, it's still in the dozens and that assumes a low and slow aircraft, normally helicopter.  On the other hand largeish drones are being taken out via AAA fire in Ukraine.  Given that they are low and slow and don't attempt to "doge" out of the way they are fairly easy to hit.  Small drones, not so much.  It's seen videos where they are taken out like skeet by shot-gunners.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Deep Thoughts   
    You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Deep Thoughts   
    You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    If Legal Eagle wrote fan fiction, would it count as legal fiction?
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Deep Thoughts   
    You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Cats, Dogs, Other pets.   
    "I feel frisky and The Human put his foot near me.  Must Attack The Foot" - Explorer the Cat.



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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Generic Table top gaming.   
    The current Tarrasque AC is 25.  This means that a character a 1st level character with a 20 strength/dexterity/spell casting score hits on an 18 or better.  18-19 hits on a 19 or better and below that hits on critical hit only.  At a level more expected to take on a Tarrasque (i.e 20th)  a 20 ability score means you hit on a 14 or better.  Add immunities  and reflective carapace it's not going to be an easy fight.  There is a modern weapon with more or less the same name.  Uberpowerful?  Not really it's a French 20mm single barreled antiaircraft gun.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20mm_Tarasque 
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    It was Army Air Forces from 41 on.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to ijuin in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    My father was stationed at Shemya in 1970. It’s literally as remote as you can be while still being within the United States.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in Comic for Friday, June 2, 2023   
    By extrapolation, I'm pretty sure it involves weapons and last man standing.
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Comic for Friday, June 2, 2023   
    At least that is real governmental position.  The amount of viscous infighting you get from "leadership" of local clubs and organisations is pretty bad. 
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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    Army Air Corps; it wasn't the Air Force until after the war. Japan actually invaded the US during the war. They invaded some Aleutian Island or other. I suppose holding it was its own comeuppance.
    I've met several folks who were stationed at Shemya. My career field could have sent me there. The base has tunnels between buildings. Allegedly, the wind can be so intense that stuff like rocks that should not get blown around gets blown around. 
    There is a tradition that if you get stationed at Shemya, you take a rock with you when you leave for a new duty station. The hope is that eventually the island will disappear.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    My grandfather was in the Army Air Force and spent the war in Alaska and the Aleutian islands.  As far as he was concerned the weather was as big of an enemy as the Imperial Japanese were. 
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    The Old Hack reacted to Don Edwards in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    My dad's job during WWII was aircraft quality control across multiple factories. He was not only exempted from the draft, he was kicked out (and sent back to flying his private plane over the western US and Canada making sure airplane parts from factory A connected properly with parts from factory B ) all four times he enlisted.
     
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    What he did was nonetheless still necessary and important for winning the war. He was part of the effort that freed my homeland from Nazi control and so allowed me to live free. I thank him for his service.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Cats, Dogs, Other pets.   
    "I'm under the desk.  Not in the way of anything except maybe your legs.  You can scoot around" - Explorer the Cat.
     

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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    My dad was in the Army Air Corps in WW II, and he performed a valuable service, but he was not near combat. He was essentially a remote air traffic controller.
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    The Old Hack reacted to ProfessorTomoe in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    Mrs. Prof's father went ashore with the second wave at Omaha beach that day. Unarmed, as a medic. He made it all the way to Germany, methinks. I'd have to ask again, but she's gone to bed. Let her sleep.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in NP Comic for Tuesday June 6, 2023   
    Sadly you need to add TT to RPG for table top RPG due to the computer games that just because they have classes and levels think that they are RPG and that, even with D&D latest growth, computer RPG players still out number table top players.  I remember when "gamer" either meant you gambled a lot or played table top games.  Less than happy that it means computer game players now.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)   
    The fact that Europe had a fairly mild winter did have something to do with that, but either way with the Nordstream pipelines destroyed Europe not getting any where near the volume of Russian natural gas as they were before. 
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    Russian tank identification guide for Ukrainian AFV


    For those that don't get the meta joke the tank labeled as "M1 Abrams" is in fact a Leopard 2.
    Also for those that don't follow the Ukrainian war daily, Russia has claimed it's destroyed multiple Leopards and has released a video of one being destroyed by a helicopter fired anti tank guided missile. The thermal image is of the tractor in the lower right. Leopard 2 have not been used in combat by Ukraine at this time