• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    So easy to be a formidable force when the army just gives you equipment and training. Even with training, it’s a lot harder when you have no guns or armor. So leaving the army must suck.

  • Kite@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Anyone who plays stealth games knows that you have to watch out for the chickens when you’re trying to be sneaky.

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    4 days ago

    Is he bragging about stealing a chicken from one of the people he’s supposed to be helping?

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      4 days ago

      What about the Iraq invasion gave you the impression they were there to help to the people?

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        4 days ago

        There are only villains in these proxy wars, no heroes, but the USA supposedly tried to fight against theocracies and extremist paramilitants. They always operated under the guise of rightous necesary intervention.

        Sadly the results of their withdrawal from Afghanistan and release of 5000 taliban fighters, both Trump era decisions, shows the USA actually was holding back the tide of baddies in some cases.

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        4 days ago

        You know, all the bombing and killing civilians. How else do you generously spread democracy?

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      4 days ago

      It was trivial to buy a chicken on the local economy. You could get anything for 5 USD or less.

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            4 days ago

            Something tells me you’d have a fucking meltdown if a Russian slave soldier had the same story about a Ukrainian chicken.

            But our soldiers are the good guys so they’re allowed to tell stories about stealing from Iraqis without even being lightly criticised for the looting, amirite?

          • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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            4 days ago

            Like how my brother “rescued” a puppy by buying it from a pet store. (16 years ago, and yes I don’t approve of puppy mills. Pup now lives with me and is a good grumpy old man dog)

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    4 days ago

    I also “liberated” a 32 inch TV out of Walmart the other day, which is now my assistant gunner when I boot up tf2.

  • ProvableGecko@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Leave it to yanks to steal some guys chicken and then turn her against him. I’m surprised he didn’t teach the chicken how to shoot Iraqi children.

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    4 days ago

    Yo, no bullshit, my hen that sometimes rides on my shoulder catches shit I’d never notice.

    Mind you, it isn’t armed enemies or anything, but those fucking squirrels are plottin on me.

    And the rooster, that crazy bastard would rip a shotgun out of my hands amd shove it up the ass of a coyote. My feathered homie goes hard on predators

    • sleepmode@lemmy.world
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      Watched some documentary ages ago and pigeons’ reaction times are so fast it’s almost like we move in slow motion to them. 250ms is the average for humans without training and pigeons trained to peck when a certain stimuli was presented showed theirs is roughly 80ms. Smaller birds are even faster. Pretty neat.

      • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I half-remember it being a thinking-reacting continuum. The less you think, the faster you react.

        So therefore, head empty; twitchshot on point.

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          3 days ago

          Saw something like that along with less length for signals to pass along neural pathways being a factor.

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      4 days ago

      Lucky, my roosters are either total assholes or complete cowards - but they both end up worthless when a fox or coyote show up.

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      In my experience, roosters go hard on on everything. Well, some anyway. The other half are cuddly instead of aggressive.

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        This crazy bugger used to go hard on everything, but the last month or so, he’s turned into my buddy. Loves getting pets and scritches now. But he’ll still flex on anything that isn’t familiar unless it’s a hen lol