BlueSquire

Knight in Rusty Armor
Interests: Greek Mythology, Chivalry, Knights Templar, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Classic Star Trek, TTRPGs, Savage Worlds, ETU, Deadlands

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

Standard creepiness rule:
1/2 older person's age + 7 is less than, grater than or equal to younger person's age.

1/2 (38) = 19
19 + 7 = 26

31 > 26.
Not creepy. Non-issue.

Someone is trying to inflate the importance of there very few years of (probably very limited) experience.

(Standard creepiness rules falls apart for ages younger than high school and older than retirement, but is pretty reliably for everything in between).

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

Just that.
He is proving that you do not have to be a dependent.
He is proving that innovation and hard work can pay off.
He is proving that people can succeed without big brother holding their hand.

And he is providing thousands upon thousands of jobs, which takes thousands of dependent slaves away from the Left.

And if there is one thing the Left hates, it is having people have other options besides being slaves.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@sirbenjaminjr Godfrey Before the Phoenix.

It is excellent!
I highly recommend the series (but start at the beginning with Godfrey's Crusade).
https://t.co/cj4NGp2l0x

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@TimothyImholt

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@Poeslawisalive You're wrong.
They have thought this through.

100,000 employees out of work and suddenly helpless and dependent?
A crashed economy?
That is exactly what they want.

It is long past time we stop excusing malice as incompetence.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@PolitiBunny It is very simple.
Failure leads to dependency.
Dependent people are obedient slaves.
That's what they want. Slaves.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

On this day in 1289, a 24 year old cavalryman charged into one of medieval Italy's bloodiest battles and survived. His name was Dante Alighieri.

Yes, that Dante. Before he wrote the Divine Comedy, he fought on the front line at Campaldino, where Florence's Guelphs crushed the Ghibellines of Arezzo.

He rode as a feditore, the first wave of cavalry whose job was to absorb the enemy charge. Front line. First contact. The position with the worst survival odds on the field.

He never forgot it. Years later he put the battle in the Divine Comedy itself. In Purgatory, Dante meets Buonconte da Montefeltro, the enemy commander who died at Campaldino, and lets him tell how he bled out alone by a river, his body never found.

Think about that. Dante looked across a battlefield at men trying to kill him, and his response decades later was to imagine one of them into salvation.

The greatest poem of the Middle Ages was written by a combat veteran processing what he saw.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

Yes, my brother.

My motorcycle rides are often silent.
Not always. Sometimes music is helpful.
Sometimes they are silent because the logistics of music on a motorcycle are inconvenient.

But often they are silent because I want to hear the roar of the engine and the wind.
Or because the whole point of being on a one-person vehicle is to be alone with your thoughts.
To be in a position where you must focus a fairly specific amount of attention on your task, but have a fairly generous amount of your mental energy not engaged in that task and not able to be engaged in distractions - to be alone with your thoughts.
And that is beautiful.
That is therapy.
That is rejuvenation of the spirit.

I once told myself the entire store of the Epic Cycle (the Trojan war), in all the detail I know it on a motorcycle ride. Silently. Every detail I could recall.
It took more than two hours.
It was glorious.
It was relaxing. It was invigorating at the same time.

For those two hours, I was at peace. I was happy.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

My employer's policy manual.

[Anthony LaFauci @AnthonyLaFauci]

What is the scariest book you’ve ever read? Like, actually creeped you out and haunted you for a minute

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

As someone who has been in several emergency situations, I can tell you this:
No one rises to the occasion.
Everyone, I mean everyone, falls back on their experience.
The most consistent form of experience?
Training.

Pure and simple. Training.
You are absolutely correct. Training.

This was a choice, made by Britain to train their officers to prioritize identity-priviledge over everything, including survival.

This was a choice, a deliberate one.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@pureMetatron @IHOP Excellent choice.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@Dystopian_Dawn @MrQuestX

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

It is known all over the USA.

It is currently famous and extremely prevalent only in certain parts of the nation, particularly the north-eastern states that are referred to as New England (the northern part of the east coast - New York, Boston, etc).

In New England Dunkin' Donuts are extremely common, you can find several in just about every town. My impression is that New Englanders go there more for coffee than for donuts.

In the south-west, Dunkin' Donuts are findable, but not everywhere. People in that region go to Dunkin' Donuts more for the donuts than the coffee.

Other regions may vary.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@pureMetatron Congratulations and welcome!

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@PrimevalFantasy @nerdrotic No, but I'll have to look it up.
Thanks for the tip!

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

I think @Nerdrotic is onto something here.
Hugh Laurie as the Doctor with a smoking hot actual female companion?
I'd watch.

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

How to fix Doctor Who.
Wipe out everything post Peter Capaldi. Most importantly the horrific Timeless Children.
The Dream Lord and The Valeyard are behind the non-events of the 13th, 14th, 15th, and stupid Fugitive Doctor.

Better yet, just never mention them.

Cast Hugh Laurie as the Doctor with a smoking hot actual female companion.

You're welcome.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@YossiGoldstein8 Wrong.
The US Navy was initially created to fight the Islamist Barbary pirates who took Americans as slaves.
Slaves.

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@hokkori_buzz Happens all the time in the USA.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

@joshblaster_ @ApexSeeker_ Please do not do this to yourself.

[BlueSquire @Blue__Squire]

My friend, these things are crucial:
1. Exercise.
2. Natural sunlight (failing that, a full-spectrum lamp).
3. Activity.
4. Purpose or joy (just find something that you enjoy enough to want to do. If you don't know of anything, start trying new things).

In the overwhelming majority of cases, if you put these four things into your life, the depression will disappear, or at least substantially decrease.

Even a little bit of each of these will go a long way.

I am rooting for you.