The Careful Hands That Mold Us

More this-is-getting-out-of-hand Captioned Adventures of George Washington

WW2 Pacific theater, there was different ways of doing it.

Had the refrigerated barge for one,

then we had bomber ice cream.

Source they linked for that here

And another

One documentary I watched had someone quoting Napoleon I think it was at one point, short version of the quite was something along the lines of.

'wars are won or lost through logistics'

Our industrial output could not be matched.

And then after it was all over the Berlin Airlift managed to eventually get stalin and the rest of the soviets to back off on trying to claim the whole city for themselves, because starving people out wasn't going to work, we'd managed to move more supplies into the city than should have been possible.

Fat Electrician has a good video on that.

Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift

Be gay, do crime(tax fraud), show ass

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

Americans have one of the highest obesity rates in the world, yet they hold the most Olympic medals. They have a horrible education system, yet eclipse the rest of the world in scientific research. The country is filled with clueless philistines, yet their culture permeates every society, in some way, across the planet. The country is still less than three centuries old, but has spent most of it at war. They are universally hated or feared by nearly every other country on the planet, yet the first to offer help during a disaster. Their people are stubborn and never content with the way things are, and for better or worse, all of them imagine how things could be better. Every American is a bankrupt billionaire, a prince in exile, a grounded astronaut, a disgraced scientist. There are the people who do not settle for who they are, but for what they may become.

The country has her problems. Certainly their government has a lot of blood on its hands. But there is something charming about the people I can’t quite place. Even the delusional leftists or the out of touch neocons. There is a certain magic about the place that you don’t find elsewhere. There are bad parts and bad people, to be sure, but there are just as many good parts and good people. It is a land of extremes. But even the poor aren’t really that poor. Much better to be a homeless American living on the beach than literally freezing to death at a metro station in Moscow.

I do not choose to be a common man, It is my right to be uncommon … if I can, I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen. Humbled and dulled by having the State look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; To dream and to build. To fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole; I prefer the challenges of life To the guaranteed existence; The thrill of fulfillment To the stale calm of Utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence Nor my dignity for a handout I will never cower before any master Nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect. Proud and unafraid; To think and act for myself, To enjoy the benefit of my creations And to face the world boldly and say: This, with God’s help, I have done All this is what it means To be an American.

TFW you accidentally come up with your enemies' new theme song.

And then the Continental Army took it as an unofficial anthem, it became wildly popular among the troops, and they added more verses and rearranged them over time. They sang it often when there was a British surrender, just to be trolls about it, and sang it at the treaty-signing at the end of the Revolutionary War.

It’s hilarious to me.

This seems to have been a predictor of the American Spirit and the unlocking of the special “Professional Pain In the Ass” skill tree, and the acquisition of the very specific Ass-Kicking Boot.

“Yeah, maybe I’m simple, but that’s my big, stupid, clod-hoppin’ boot that’s lodged up your ass… if I’m dumb, what does that make you?”

Big “Leave Me Alone” vibes and a deep appreciation of irony.

And sarcasm.

And the casting of the “you can’t hurt me if I have a bigger stick” die that became a complex and then an overarching personality.

And an obsession with boats. ‘Cause the first two times the most powerful military in the world picked on Americans, they didn’t have nearly enough boats to fend them off with, so they said “absolutely not, never again” and steadily worked on building as many as possibly and innovating to make them better and faster and more powerful. Which is where we got the U.S.S. Constitution from, aka. “Old Ironsides” because the Live Oak sides of the ship were an incredibly tough example of hardwood, and the canon-power at the time wasn’t calibrated for such resistance yet.

When the Continental Congress declared independence from Britain, it wasn’t just because they didn’t like the way the King imposed taxes on the colonies. If you read the Declaration you will see there were a good number of reasons as to why the felt that the King was behaving tyrannically towards the colonies.

When laws were submitted for his approval, King George vetoed them, despite the laws being considered necessary and good by the colonists.

Even when the laws were of immediate and pressing importance, the Governors were not allowed to enact those laws until King George approved them, which if he did not veto the laws would frequently just neglect to confirm or veto.

The King disallowed new communities to be established unless the relinquished their right to representation in the colony’s legislature.

The colonial governors of Massachusetts and Virginia, citing safety reasons, declared that the meeting sites of the assemblies should be moved. In both cases the new locations were distant from where their public records were kept, which interfered with them conducting the public business. They believe it was done for the sole reason of wearing the legislative bodies down so they would comply with the King’s measures instead of standing up for the colonists’ rights.

The King had, from time to time, ordered the representative bodies of the colonies be dissolved for various reasons, including when they stood up for the rights of the people that the King and Parliament were infringing.

After dissolving those representative bodies, he would refuse to allow new representatives to be elected. This lead to the colonists convening their own legislative bodies outside the authority of the King, which the writers of the Declaration believed still left the colony exposed to the dangers of invasion and rebellion. 

The King opposed various laws meant to encourage immigration the America, to allow immigrants to become citizens, and to allow the settlement of more land (which was already claimed by the King for the colony.)

The King prevented the administration of justice by refusing to allow the establishment of courts by the colonies, resulting in some states being forced to do without courts of law for a long time.

The King had sole discretion for the tenure, and the amount and payment of the salaries of the Judges, basically requiring them to put the King’s personal will above the law to maintain their positions.

The King, in an effort to enforce the increasingly burdensome trade laws, erected additional courts of admiralty (military, not civil) and sent ‘swarms’ of customs officials, who, by the claim of the Declaration, “harass[ed] our people, and [ate] out their substance.”

The King kept standing armies among the colonists during times of peace and without the consent of the legislatures.

The King rendered the Military independent of and superior to the Civil powers.

The King allowed Parliament to subject the colonies to various legislation which the colonists felt was unjust including:

Quartering large bodies of armed troops among the colonists.

Protecting the troops, by a mock trial, from punishment of any murders which they may have committed against the colonists.

Cutting off trade with all other nations.

Imposing taxes without consent (the infamous Taxation without Representation.)

Depriving some from the benefits of trial by jury.

Transporting colonists to England to be tried for crimes committed in the colonies.

The passing of the Quebec Act which was seen as an example for introducing the same sort of absolute rule on the colonies.

The taking away of Charters, abolition of valuable laws, and fundamental alteration of the colonies’ forms of government.

The suspension of the colonists’ own legislatures and the Parliament declaring themselves invested with the power to legislate for the colonies in all cases.

The King declared that the colonies were out of the King’s protection and waged war against the colonists.

The King, by way of his military, attacked the colonists, including burning down several American towns.

The King hired mercenaries who were at the time of the writing en route to the colonies to help wage war against the colonists.

The King authorized the British navy to capture ships and take colonists and compel the colonists to fight for the British against the colonies or be executed.

The King had encouraged slave and Indian revolts against the colonists.

@quiggsy This doesn't seem to have posted for some reason, but thankfully I had another tab open with the ask in it so I can do it this way.

Link to the tweet here