#operational supply

[alwaysbewoke]

[crimeronan]

was reading the first part of your "the other thing about hiking accidents" post and thinking "haha yeah, like that time my sibling and I accidentally did a hike that was fully snow-covered all the way up and down the mountain with so little experience and none of the things we would have needed if something went wrong, though at least we weren't foolish enough to do it on a mountain more than like a quarter of the elevation of mount hood" and then I got to the second half of the post and started laughing out loud because our ill-advised hike was literally in the white mountains this past april. luckily the trail wasn't icy even at the top and was close to a big info center, and we had substantially better weather than you did! look up your hikes yourself kids, and don't assume that the person in the ski shop where you stopped for coffee will take into account that you're a dumbass from the midatlantic when giving you recommendations for a "short hike" 😂

THE LATTER HALF OF THIS ASK MADE MY HEART STOP. SLKDJFSJDLKFSJL. OH GOD.

in Complete fairness, the lower white mountains aren't Super deadly -- it's typically once you hit the alpine tundra that conditions can get Very Dangerous. i'm guessing you didn't do one of the 4,000+ footers if it was called a quick hike.

and also, i DID eventually get to go up to the white mountains during that trip in april -- we just had to check for favorable weather before we left. so possibly we were up there at around the same time!

but yeah, i've found that hikers from new hampshire tend to have a difficulty baseline that's.... different from the average vacationer's. for ANYONE hiking in the white mountains, i 100% recommend looking up reviews of the trail on alltrails before you go. bc they can be Telling.

if the one-stars all start with "it's flooded with running white water" or "we didn't know about the vertical rock climbs" then..... well. assess your readiness with caution 😭😭😭

[liesmyth]

Rereading Tiptree is making me think about space exploration... I still maintain that the whole FTL trillionaire fleet carried a few thousand people at the most. And many of them didn't make it

Thinking about this...

I know that TLT seems to have a very high number of random planets that are suitable for human life compared to what we currently know about our universe + Tazmuir has been known to bend scientific details to suit her storytelling, and also this is a world where planets have souls so who cares about science anyway, but.

BUT. I still think that the FTL fleet was a last resort operation, the ships jumped blind with one (1) chance to settle without being able to count on the resources of a home base, and I think they were almost nearly wiped out.

[crownrots]

[historyofguns]

The article "Nazi Germany’s Last-Ditch D-Day Defenses" by Tom Laemlein, published on The Armory Life, explores the strategies employed by German troops to strengthen the Atlantic Wall during World War II. Faced with a shortage of weapons from their own production lines, the Germans repurposed a vast array of captured artillery from their campaigns in Poland, Belgium, France, and Russia. These included older artillery designs, anti-tank guns, and anti-aircraft guns from various annexed and conquered nations such as Czechoslovakia and France. The article highlights specific weaponry used, such as the French “Canon de 155 GPF” and the Soviet 122mm guns, demonstrating how the Germans integrated captured equipment to bolster their defenses. While this resourcefulness showcased the German military's adaptive strategies, it ultimately did not prevent the successful Allied landings in Normandy, which marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in Europe.

[oltammefru]

Did I ever mention here I did IS3 Relicless SW15 wolfgirls only. I did IS3 Relicless SW15 wolfgirls only.

[wizardnuke]

crouched on the floor eating my sandwich like a maniac

[restlessreveries]

Kind of amazing how forgetting to overclock ONE machine can completely fuck up your entire new turbofuel plant.

... Granted, it was the oil extractor that supplies the base for all the fuel that said plant produces and consumes, but still...

[salty-software-engineer]

It really sucks that military, tactical, and similar stuff is so cool and frequently very useful because not only do their fandoms suck but they're also inherently tied to systems of oppression.

[astranauticus]

new art tomorrow guys ✌️after i sleep off this fucking headache

[twowowowowowo]

I like to think numbers , variables , & operations/symbols are all wildly different creatures. With variables being more closely related to symbols than numbers. They’re all similar in size & compatible with one another but they do have distinction

[yngai]

we are winning at levels never before thought possible it seems, after making the wrong choice of becoming an ada wong fan & having to subsist off the crumbs of characterization given to me in in-game files, supplemental material & scant lines of dialog it seems capcom is truly going to give me everything i have ever wanted :

probably giving ada the best DLC in the franchise, a meaningful relationship with a character that isn't leon that seems to take precedent in her story over her few chance encounters with leon in RE4R ( i have a feeling her & luis' history gives their dynamic far more meaning than his little rollercoaster ride with leon ), cool sci-fi contacts replacing the glasses she never really used in the original, integrating her grapple hook in her combat when it was sadly only ever used for traversal, actual content specifically designed for her campaign & not just reused arenas from the main game ( some of these are from the original carried over to ada but i think her performing the coolest thing leon does in the original, dodging the lasers, is sick ), finally positioning wesker as an antagonist in ada's story directly rather than him hanging over her like a school headmaster trying to play mindgames .

it's honestly so personally rewarding to see capcom go to such lengths for a character they have otherwise neglected, even in a game like re6 where she carries the emotional core of the story ( in specific her developing relationship with carla as she learns she is more than just some lab-made doppelganger, which was sadly undercooked - like most of the game, despite the explosions )

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Me, yesterday, 5:30 PM: wow I’m honestly doing so great at my adult tasks; I’ve gotten some homework done, I went grocery shopping, my laundry is almost dry. I spent so many spoons and I barely feel tired! Maybe I’m finally fully recovering from burnout!

Me, yesterday, 6:00 PM: oh.

[bevanne46]

Operation Christmas Child Sew/Craft Ideas · (group on Facebook) · Linda Huskey Schroder ·

I am working on a sewing kits with little pin cushions in the lids. I really like the snap lid boxes from Dollar Tree best but haven't found them in stock this year.

These bottles come from Walgreens. The caps screw on both ways, childproof and then turn them upside down and they screw in as shown. The labels come right off these with no residue left.

To make the pin cushion, cut circles, 3" for smaller bottle, 5" for larger. Sew a gathering stitch by hand or machine. Gather and stuff with craft fiber fill. I used a hot glue gun to glue pin cushion on the lid.

Inside the bottles are needles, straight pins, safety pins, thread, buttons and a needle threader. I am including scissors with these sewing kits.

These small kits would be great for any emergency. Store one in your glove box, desk at work, camping supplies, B.O.B., suitcase for travel, etc. Give then as gifts for Teen's Christmas Stockings, College Students, etc.

[maydays-medbay]

I've been thinking about the Ruination Corporation lore and I've started to play with the idea that the corps has kind of expanded over time, leading to many facilities where they run their shady dealings. These facilities will probably also have satellite sites/facilities where they store things and/or focus on the different aspects of what they do. With that being said, I now also realize that I'm going to have to think more about these different facilities and how they run. I'm definitely considering each of the Salvific Six getting their own facilities that they run (Paradigm's being the largest and most important) with the others being less grandiose and more hidden to the average onlooker, but with that comes another problem.

I'll have to create characters that run these extra facilities while these members are otherwise occupied, AND I'll have to consider making characters for the satellite facilities. There's....a lot of work ahead of me lol.

(Now that I'm thinking about it...maybe we'll see some old faces within the corps. But you didn't hear that from me 😉)

Each of the characters who run in the absence of a Salvific Six member are those sincerely trusted by the member to run their operations. I can imagine that many of the right-hand members are reflections of their overseer, though not all of them are.

(Keep in mind, many of these operations and facilities run independently and can sometimes clash with each other. When that happens, the members can gather at the main facility to have a meeting to clear things up, with Paradigm often having the final word)

The only exception to this rule would be Paradigm's facility, as I think they would entrust Vyrox with their tasks whenever they leave. Paradigm is the ONLY member that does this, as they simply find many of their rank-and-file members lacking. Their trust simply doesn't trickle down far enough for them to see any member outside of the Six to carry out their work, and even then, many of the members they'd find too self-interested to be able to adequately run their entire regime without catastrophic consequences.