Will Obringer

Retired Army officer, veteran's advocate, father, husband, Eagles fan and all around good dude (or so I'm told)

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@Phillies Maggie loved Zach!

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@RealJamesWoods The Mob will be back first. Taking care of those that the system cannot.

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@CynicalPublius Major Fredo.

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@johnkonrad No, but they need to be partnered with Catalina type flying boats.

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@JackFritzWIP @FuturePhils Playoff roster move.

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@eurofounder I think we know the answer.

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track

You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations

What do you do?

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track

You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations

What do you do?

[BowTiedBull.eth - Read Pinned or NGMI @BowTiedBull]

Identity crisis is a major trend we're watching for in the coming 3-5 years or so. (Not today but something to bookmark)

You can bet we'll do our best to make sure you avoid that + make a business from it when it comes

https://t.co/1J3NyQdklv

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@CynicalPublius VA disability attorney here (Ha), not to mention asbestos on ships, flight line sound issues, Vietman eara Agent Orange exposure and the most dangerous work of all Sports PT (it will deadline your whole action).

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@JackPosobiec Likewise the proper pronunciation of "coffee" is cau-fee.

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I would also say our military justice system that is not managed by civilian prosecutors looking back through time to hard decisions made in war is also a function of a society that recognizes the distance difference between military and civilian. Good order and discipline are hallmarks of the military criminal system and not easily translatable to a civilian justice system.

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@mkhammer I got lots of text messages. That part wasn't bad.

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@Timcast @chasedownleads guess who owns the hen house building monopoly?

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@CynicalPublius Physical therapy before and after. If it is just the meniscus, you'll be GTG in a few weeks.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

[Will Obringer @willobringer]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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An old boss used to say. Scope of responsibility vs. manner of performance. The best SPC in a company has a tiny scope of responsibility vs a division staff officer. Both have to perform but higher awards are about organizational impact not just doing awesome. Staff officers do not get V devices.

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@Grummz I appreciate the Devs making real time adjustments to game play. I first had no idea how to put my bow away, easy change that makes gameplay better. Looting is easier too. Since I am not real gamer I have no idea of the bosses have been nerfed yet.

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@alexthechick April fools?

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Yes. Somewhere along the line commanders felt that everything needed investigation even the most trivial infractions to cover their decision making process.

The problem is paper also is the flash to bang is so long that the eventual pain does not have the same effect as quick direct pain by someone immediately in charge of pain distribution.

We lawyers didn't help but I know as I was getting out we were trying