For something so commonly used, it’s got some pretty glaring flaws. Most critically, ‘golf’ and ‘mike’ - single syllable, which over radio comms often doesn’t sound like shit. Compare to something like ‘oscar’, which even if either half of it gets all staticky you still hear “osc–” or “–car” which is enough to still receive an accurate exchange of info.

My more whiny complaints are that the number of syllables are inconsistent, F and X use compound words instead of one single complete word which feels… icky… x gets a pass cuz x is always janky and x-ray is perfect. Some of the entries rhyme with commonly used words that could confuse someone who’s either inexperienced or in a stressful situation like being shot at. For example, “echo” could be misheard as “gecko” and even though “gecko” isn’t on the list, our brains do stupid shit when they’re saturated with adrenaline, so something like this should be as absolutely idiot-proof as possible.

If I could magic that fucker into something new, I’d shoot for:

• every entry is exactly three syllables.

• no two of the same syllables in any entry can rhyme with those two syllables of another entry. I.E., “Uniform” and “Chloroform” are not compatible because syllables 2 and 3 are too similar.

• Each entry should be as common a word as possible, in as low/unspecialized a reading level as possible. I.E., “November” is recognizable by nearly everyone; vs something like “Ganglia” which is gibberish to anyone without specialty knowledge requiring them to be familiar with ganglia.

• No compound or multiple word entries.

• X gets a pass cuz x is always janky and x-ray is perfect.

• Prototype phonetic alphabet must be first scrutinized by a panel consisting of a linguist, a speech pathologist, an English teacher, a 7 year old, a highschooler, a geriatric with severe hearing loss, and a junior enlisted US Marine. Their job is to find any potential for confusion.

Given Isreal’s track record lately, I’m kinda amazed they didn’t kill her.

Dang, I guess selling shit that you can get for half the price across the street just isn’t a good business model. No one could have seen that coming!

There’s always vigilante justice.

…please send help.

Violence is how we beat the Nazis the first time. If there’s a cleaner option that’s actually feasible, then yes please… but failing that, cutting the head off the snake is a pretty tried and true method. And if it grows back, cut that one off too - they’ll get the message eventually.

We do nothing they complete their agenda. We do something maybe they use it as an excuse to expedite their agenda.

If the outlook is the same either way, might as well bag a few Nazis on the way down.

Hoping, yes. Definitely not expecting, but hoping.

We don’t need them to not give a fuck, we need them to do their job.

Aaaand once again a huge gathering of people who are oath-bound to defend the constitution from domestic threats just sat and listened to a domestic threat prancing about a stage, adding to a mountain of failures in their duty to this country.

Cowards and traitors.

Charlie Kirk is the modern Horst Wessel; Ryan Walters is the modern Joseph Goebbels.

…why is it only ever the shitty parts of history that repeat themselves?

Excise a stage 1 cancer?

The bullshit generators we call ‘AI’ don’t assume, and aren’t frantic: they just regurgitate an output based on as much bullshit input as we can stuff into them.

The output can be more or less recognizable as bullshit, but the computer doesn’t distinguish between the two.

Guys if we’re not careful they’re going to turn the US Military on blue cities!

…oh wait.

That’s like asking why someone with a tumor is calling for a surgeon to cut it out, even if that person isn’t themself a surgeon.

Lots of people would be extremely uncomfortable watching a major surgery, but that doesn’t and shouldn’t stop them from coming to the OR when they need one. Nor should they be forced to see footage of their operation.

We have a fascism problem, and personally I’m thankful we have people with the aptitude and fortitude to address it, regardless of my own ability or lack thereof in that area.

Just ordered a pork Banh Mi - waiting for it as I type. So excited!

Fuckin love banh mi!

Play Nazi games, win Nazi prizes.

now we get to watch the conservatives squirm.

If they weren’t shameless hypocrites, yeah. You really think they’ll have any issue saying Clinton is a pedo for associating with Epstein, while in the same breath saying Trump did nothing wrong for that exact same thing?

Kinda wonder what the actual cutoff is regarding the legality of those statements. Like “I want to-” and “I wish someone would-” don’t really carry any actual threat. As opposed to something like “I’m going to-” which, yeah, straight to jail.

…aight, what the fuck? We don’t appear to be talking about the same thing. I’ve got no insight on the best way to address depraved gooners on the internet… you do you on that front.

But if a Nazi comes knocking on your door, you shoot him before he shoots you.

Here’s hoping. I’m currently trapped in the cousin-fuckingly deep south, so I’m pretty detached from anything happening Chicago, but I wish my friends to the north the best of luck.

And for fuck’s sake, leave your cellphones at home, wear a mask, and wear gloves.