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RE: Random Thoughts
March 18, 2026 at 2:15 am
I'm exiting an indulgent period of my life...and I know it is and was that, but gods I'm just so fond of what it was.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 18, 2026 at 11:52 pm
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 19, 2026 at 3:46 am
That makes me miss the cucumber I had.
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 19, 2026 at 8:54 pm
It sounds like "Aisle 31", but it's not.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 22, 2026 at 10:38 pm
Why do people like this have a wikipedia page?
From article:
Quote:Vincent Christopher Vannicola (September 8, 1932 – March 19, 2026) was an American electrical engineer.
Vannicola was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 8, 1932, the son of Romano Vannicola and Mary Nuzzo. He attended Wilbur Cross High School, graduating in 1951. After graduating, he attended the University of Connecticut, earning his bachelor's degree in physics in 1956. He also attended Syracuse University, earning his master's degree in electromagnetics in 1968 and his PhD degree in signal processing engineering in 1982.[1]
He worked as a engineer at General Electric in Utica, New York, and was a signal processing engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory until 1996.[1] In the same year, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "for technical contributions to radar signal processing theory and practice".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_C._Vannicola
And that's pretty much it. I mean, aren't there like standards of who gets an entry in an encyclopedia?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 23, 2026 at 12:23 am
(March 22, 2026 at 10:38 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I mean, aren't there like standards of who gets an entry in an encyclopedia?
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
That page, IMO does not meet the standard.. I've seen pages like this get removed, eventually.
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 23, 2026 at 6:28 am
(March 23, 2026 at 12:23 am)Jackalope Wrote: (March 22, 2026 at 10:38 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I mean, aren't there like standards of who gets an entry in an encyclopedia?
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
That page, IMO does not meet the standard.. I've seen pages like this get removed, eventually.
It's kinda fun when things slip past the editors, though. While it was going on, I found Stormy Daniels' Wikipedia page. No problems - clearly - with the notability standard, but it ended with the sentence, 'I would tap that so hard.'
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RE: Random Thoughts
11 hours ago
At the time when I signed up for this forum, I actually kind of enjoyed being alive. Not a whole lot, but it was better than nothing. The last couple years have crushed my spirit....I had to be put on a very powerful anti-psychotic just to cope with my sad reality. I really don't have anything left at this point, not even my dachshund. I have to wonder if the people around me had any idea how much I was suffering, or if they just couldn't imagine it at all. Either way, they weren't of much help. In fact, their involvement might actually have slowed down my progress. False promises, gaslighting, misguided moral imperatives....Some of them even said it would get better. It never did. If anything, things in my life are in a worse state than ever before. I tried, I did everything I could, everything I was supposed to do, I gave it my all....And I am still not having a good time, nothing even resembling a good time.
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RE: Random Thoughts
11 hours ago
(11 hours ago)Ahriman Wrote: At the time when I signed up for this forum, I actually kind of enjoyed being alive. Not a whole lot, but it was better than nothing. The last couple years have crushed my spirit....I had to be put on a very powerful anti-psychotic just to cope with my sad reality. I really don't have anything left at this point, not even my dachshund. I have to wonder if the people around me had any idea how much I was suffering, or if they just couldn't imagine it at all. Either way, they weren't of much help. In fact, their involvement might actually have slowed down my progress. False promises, gaslighting, misguided moral imperatives....Some of them even said it would get better. It never did. If anything, things in my life are in a worse state than ever before. I tried, I did everything I could, everything I was supposed to do, I gave it my all....And I am still not having a good time, nothing even resembling a good time.
You should probably speak with whoever is prescribing the anti-psychotic and let them know that you aren't doing well on it.
That's all I've got. I have tried with you in the past and been burned. I can't expend any more energy on someone who doesn't seem to notice the effort.
Get professional help. None of us here can help you until you help yourself. At this point, helping yourself sounds like asking the right people for assistance.
Send lawyers, guns, and money...
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RE: Random Thoughts
11 hours ago
^Couldn't have said it better.
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