Subverb

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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I should have attributed, sorry.

Randall Jarrell, published in 1945.

Bomber ball turret gunners and tail gunners had the shortest life expectancy of any combat occupation in the war, as these were the first targets of incoming fighters. I found one site that said tail gunners' combat life expectancy was four missions.

Ball turrets couldn't reload in flight. The ball was too small for parachutes, and the mechanisms jammed or froze often. Typically they put small, young, single guys in them.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Maybe try a poem.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,

And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Randall Jarrell, 1945

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just happy to see someone remembers the Spin Doctors.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This isn't malloc though. I have to assume the cast is because the user has experience with the output from an LLM being untrustworthy.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I agree that he was pretty hostile but it's Fox News. To be expected.

But she's the sitting Vice President. "Yes, madam Vice President." or at least "Yes, ma'am./madam." is the appropriate way to reference her though.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But think how safe you would be if you did pack a bomb.

The odds of there being one bomb on a plane are tiny enough, but the odds of there being two bombs on a plane are vanishingly small...

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

And all those potentially explosive water bottles are sitting in a trash can at the security checkpoint.

This indicates that they know full well that their are no explosives among them. It's just theatre.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (24 children)

What if I told you: No Shit

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 80 points 2 weeks ago

Five years ago the audience would have fawned all over this kind of crap.

It's good to see people are wise to his stock pumping strategy now.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

ls that the kind of man you need? Loquacious type?

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

There is no reason for that, last comma.

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