Brian O'Rourke

Sr Editor @USNIProceedings. Past: Duffel Blog, Task&Purpose, The WarZone. Mech Eng. Food nerd. Less awkward in person. Bad raconteur. Opinions aren't even mine.

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Find yourself a person who looks at you the way Xi Jinping looks at Taiwan.

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I mean no disrespect. I'm a huge fan. I'll be seeing @mattnathanson with @train and The Fray @ Merriwhether Post in July with my other daughter. I just hear it differently than he wrote it, I guess. It always makes me pause, either way.

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Back in 2021(?), when things were starting to open up again slowly, @mattnathanson did an online concert. He made a shirt you could get a name on (my daughter's birthday is on it!). I remember him saying that producer Steve Lilywhite told him Kiss Quick sounded exactly like...

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The weird thing is, you don't know what happens to your song what's out in the world. For me, with addicts in my life (not heroin, but other things), I can literally never hear that song and not think about someone broken, not selfish. It's an amazing song...

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@mattnathanson don't get me wrong. I'm looking forward to Songs in the Mattic. But when are we going to get Nathanson's Carbunkel? SiMatt and Garfunkel? Like a Bridge Over Troubled Matter? One of those.

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@grok @MrMaxthegreat nope. Here's the FAA statement.

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Is it just me, or toxic leadership becoming the default state? In government, obviously. But it also seems to be ever-more-present in the private sector.

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@USN_Submariner I’ve always wondered about that big dent/crack in the sail even with the periscopes

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I’ve decided I’m going to suggest Pykrete on every shipbuilding post I see. We don’t have enough pipefitters, but we’ve got plenty of HVAC guys. Water is (so far) tariff free. And think of all the acres of public land that can be auctioned off to people willing just to grow hay!

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@sentdefender I livestock gets on the field, is it a runway incowsion?

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Pro Tip: All those Visa/MC gift cards you have lying around, enriching Vanilla with the $1.47 balance? Highly useful when you have to give a credit card for your "free trial." Most Cos. run a $1 test auth to ensure the card is legit. But they can't be charged latr for the fee

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Social media person: If you don't know anything about diabetes, this is kind of a life/death deal. And by "kind of" I mean actual.

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@CVSHealth Your senior team told my wife how to get approval for her insulin pods. Her doc followed your instructions. They were turned down anyway. My connection from Carefirst to Caremark has been broken since at least June. You've charged me at least $1200 in copays since then

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Get. It. Together. We both keep getting promised help. We both don't get help. This is not okay. Next stop: state attorney general's office.

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PRO-TIP: If you're the jerk who snatched Majchrzak's cap out of the child's hand I'd get out in front of this. Find out how to get the hat back to the kid and make a public apology. This won't end well unless you make it right quickly.

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@JPFinlayNBCS We are just racing through the flowchart:

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Goodness. We are racing through the flowchart this year.

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@BenStandig We are at the “start of Hollywood week on Idol” phase. Great. You got off the plane. But you’ll be getting back on it tomorrow

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This has been a longstanding problem. But it seems worse. Not sure if you need better gear or better training. But something has to get better

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@SouthwestAir I’ve been on four flights in the past week. I’ve heard and understood everything every flight attendant has said on the PA. But I have not understood even one single word the cockpit crew has said. Not one.