Spoiler alert.

At least it might be needed if it wasn't this sub where you see the same story played out over and over.

Guessing it's Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

As an unconventional battle, this reminds me of another history anecdote: when the submarine USS Barb destroyed a Japanese train.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2011/march/sailor-who-torpedoed-train

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/submarines/barb-ss-220.html

On 19 July, Fluckey noticed a railroad running close to the Japanese coastline. After three days of observation to establish train schedules, eight crewmembers secretly deployed ashore in the black of night. The men strategically placed a 55-pound demolition charge that was intended to explode when the next train passed. As the crew departed the area in rubber boats, an incoming train hit the charge sending locomotive wreckage 200-feet in the air that crashed in a mass of flames and smoke. Twelve freight cars, two passenger cars, and one mail car derailed and piled up in a mound of twisted metal. For the remainder of the war patrol, Barb continued to wreak havoc on Japanese shores and enemy vessels. Her last war patrol ended when Barb arrived at Midway on 2 August 1945. The war ended when the Japanese surrendered about two weeks later. Barb was credited with destroying 96,628 tons of enemy shipping. She received four Presidential Unit Citations, a Navy Unit Commendation, and eight battle stars for her World War II service.

I remember I was hammering on a fence in the backyard when Dad approached. He was carrying a letter or something in his hand, and he looked worried. I continued to hammer as he came toward me. "Son," he said, "why are you hammering on that fence? It already has plenty of nails in it." "Oh, I'm not using nails," I replied. "I'm just hammering." With that, I returned to my hammering. Dad asked me to stop hammering, as he had some news. I did stop hammering, but first I got a couple more hammers in, and this seemed to make Dad mad. "I said, stop hammering!" he yelled. I think he felt bad for yelling at me, especially since it looked like he had bad news. "Look," he said, "you can hammer later, but first-" Well, I didn't even wait to hear the rest. As soon as I heard "You can hammer," that's what I started doing. Hammering away, happy as an old hammer dog. Dad tried to physically stop me from hammering by inserting a small log of some sort between my hammer and the fence. But I just kept on hammering, 'cause that's the way I am when I get that hammer going. Then, he just grabbed my arm and made me stop. "I'm afraid I have some news for you," he said. I swear, what I did next was not hammering. I was just letting the hammer swing lazily at arm's length, and maybe it tapped the fence once or twice, but that's all. That apparently didn't make any difference whatsoever to Dad, because he just grabbed my hammer out of my hand and flung it across the field. And when I saw my hammer flying helplessly through the air like that, I just couldn't take it. I burst out crying, I admit it. And I ran to the house, as fast as my legs could take me. "Son, come back!" yelled Dad. "What about your hammer?!" But I could not have cared less about hammering at that point. I ran into the house and flung myself onto my bed, pounding the bed with my fists. I pounded and pounded, until finally, behind me, I heard a voice. "As long as you're pounding, why not use this?" I turned, and it was Dad, holding a brand-new solid-gold hammer. I quickly wiped the tears from my eyes and ran to Dad's outstretched arms. But suddenly, he jumped out of the way, and I went sailing through the second-story window behind him. Whenever I hear about a kid getting in trouble with drugs, I like to tell him this story.

Why would lending be up? Is it for shorts?

War is hell

Origin:

William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

Tammy from Twitter, 2021

Well, little girl, I've had lots of jobs in my day: whale-hunter, seal-clubber, president of the Fox network, and, like most people, yeah, I've dealt a little ivory.

Smacky the Frog for President 2024!

Because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

This is true. Antifa aren't fascists despite using violence as a means to a political end because they have no autocratic leader and they don't put the race above the individual, not because it's in their name. Many groups have contradictory names, like the Institute for Historical Review denying the Holocaust, but in this case antifa got it right. They're around to stop, through violence if necessary, actual fascists from achieving their goals.

The Democratic People's Republic*

And a sudden Putin supporter.

Well what do you know... It's apparently delayed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lindell-hack-my-pillow-b1900160.html

How do we know there isn't herd mentality for one man? Guess the man he is referencing.

Biden? Nope.

Fauci? Nope.

Ask a Republican who they love, support, or want to follow and they'll say Trump.

Apparently Democrats have a herd mentality for Schumer, which is why you never hear AOC or Tlaib or Bernie or Sinema or Manchin (etc.) disagree with Schumer.

Edit: exact quote for context (in the article and vid linked in the tweet)

And it's a weird thing, Sean. There is a herd mentality among congressional Democrats that they obey Chuck Schumer, and their only answer is, ‘Sir, yes sir.’

Where is this from?

There's a lot of options here, and premiums are only one of them. For many treatments you must meet certain requirements for insurance coverage or get prior authorization. For example TMS is a depression treatment that's usually covered by insurance after multiple medications have been tried, but not covered before hand. This could be another avenue that insurers take: Covid treatment is covered if you have the vaccine or prior auth because you are unable to get it, otherwise not covered. This would also be a tricky subject because it might be considered a violation on the 10 EHBs mandated for ACA qualified health plans.

All I'm saying is I don't think it's set in stone that insurers can't find ways to make it harder for unvaccinated people, and they will have an incentive to do so in the near future.

Low blood volume? Believe it or not, bloodletting.

Discrimination is a broad term. They are allowed to discriminate, under the ACA, by age and smoker status. They aren't allowed to discriminate based on pre existing conditions. Whether they would be allowed to discriminate based on vaccine status would probably be subject to court decisions. It might be seen as voluntary, like smoking, or like a pre existing condition.

Seconded. Would this new sub be different enough to warrant it's own sub? How so?

I'm just trying to clarify and understand your view. Insurance is mandated, which means you're forced to consume a product of a corporation or face penalties. Is this fascism?

I concede the product is different, the penalties are different (or non-existant), and the circumstances are different. With those things mutually understood and agreed upon, you said:

It’s fascism to deny someone their public liberties for their refusal to consume a corporation’s product.

I'm saying you are denied liberties (penalized) for refusing to consume a corporation's product (insurance). Is this fascism?

I'm not sure I understand the question.

My question was on direct response to your comment, that the government forces you to consume insurance products (technically health but currently with no penalty) and car insurance if you have a car. These are common in the US, along with other insurance mandates.

Do you consider this forced consumption fascism?

11% of the population (in the US) is already uninsured.

If you'd rather not take any chances with the vaccine, does that mean you'd rather take chances with getting Covid again?

I'm not trying to play gotcha. I have a friend I respect who's almost in your identical position.

Have you looked at probabilities with and without the vaccine, and severity of possible negative outcomes of each? If so, how does this play out from your perspective?

What do you think about mandated car insurance?

That seems really implausible on its face - the entire subsequent decade was the "roaring twenties". The depression started 11 years later and certainly had other known factors like the market crash, banking panic and lack of guardrails/security for economic downturn.