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  • 37 years is a LONG time when it comes to technology, especially military technology. Think about how much has changed in society since then. Hell, the vast majority of people in the military 37 years ago have long since gotten out. Just because “the us and Iran are doing a thing again” does not mean we’d even attempt the same thing. The geopolitical landscape that existed in 88 isn’t the same either. US is on the way down as chinas going up. And you more or less copypasta the same thing that every person whos ever been on reddit has seen. Come on, at least put a write up, or some opinion on it. Or just describe the thing that happened. So many of us know this copypasta, that if someone were to ask for a source, it should be an immediate ban. Stop the copypasta.





  • When one is committing crime, one includes as few people as possible. Adding people multiplies the risk exponentially. This is why things like a 9/11 conspiracy could never, and would never add up. That amount of people it would require for that level of coverup is in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands. And statistically it just straight up is impossible for that big of a coverup to happen and nobody credible coming forward? Look, maybe they knew the Intel and let it happen. That would require a lot less people in the know, and those people would already be vetted to secrecy. But that we did it? Totally impossible. Honestly now that I’m thinking of it, that’s just a case of bureaucracy being inefficient, more than a case about some kind of mass delusions of our capabilities. It’s just not statistically possible from a logistics perspective. And yes, I know that anything is basically statistically possible, but in reality, no.

    Sorry for the wall of text but it was a train of thought and I went back and tried to find a good place to cut it, but just didn’t find one.

    Edit: my tldr for that is that the odds are a lot higher for your acquaintance being a liar, than this story being true.



  • Ugh, that entire post felt personal lol. I’m also mostly torso. My entire life, my mother characterized the men in my family as “bulldogs” because of our short legs and big chests.

    Also me and my friends drunkenly fit 9 people in a Hyundai sonata, so 4 in a BRZ seems sadly reasonable.

    Thankfully I rent a house that used to be a “college rental” so I have a 3 car garage, and neither car takes up a big footprint.

    That being said though, there’s nothing like top-down driving in a lightweight car. I seriously can’t oversell that car enough. I’ve owned several corvettes, the 04 GTO (better than the vettes, honestly) a WRX STI, a CTS-V (first Gen, meh) and I’ve driven everything from the f type and gtr to the C7 ZR1. The MX-5 is my favorite car I’ve ever driven, followed by my old GTO. The reason being that they were both so supremely communicative and manageable. I’m a combat veteran and have flown into questionable situations in helicopters and felt more safe than in the C7 ZR1. I haven’t driven any C8 Corvette yet, let alone the special ones, but holy fuck that car scared the ever living shit out of me.