Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Kyle Hill" channel.

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  30.  @sixft7in  yea lol same here. '99-'07. I probably shouldn't have extended. Was on two carriers, 65 and 76. Why they didn't turn 65 into a museum after it was decommed I'll never know. It should have been. But people do idiotic things. 65 had a stunning massive mural on the hangar deck doors in 2002-3, then some clown-ass painted over it. Made no sense. Why would you erase such good art? There were some cool seals on the deck in the engineering spaces that also got papered over at some point. Again I mean just why?? Things like that are nice to have around. Why get rid of them? I do not know. Anyhow... My time in was ok but I definitely wouldn't do it again. I can think of many better ways to spend my 20s. I appreciated seeing unique places I got to see but that alone wasn't worth all of the other mess. Had I known ahead of time I would have been going out to sea for 5 years straight very consistently for no reason at all only interrupted once by an incredibly stressful and frustrating shipyard period (in the lesser shipyard out of the two available options even at at that), I would have opted out. Just too much constant movement, interruption and being away from society. It's not worth it. You can't have a normal life. For me it just wasn't necessary. I didn't have a family to support and after a while I just didn't know I was doing it anymore. You can't really be free and you can't really have a life outside of the job so it's not really worth it. Now shore duty is a little different, but I never got a chance to know a nice shore billet. If I was in air wing it would have been different because they only come aboard for the main deployment, but being ship's company you're always there. Every single motion that ship makes you go with it. For me it's just wasn't worth it by the end. Shore billets can be rewarding but five years is too long to wait for one. I don't know how people do 20 years as enlisted. I can see why officers do it but not enlisted. Not all sea billets are hard but the nuke one is a pretty raw deal. Maybe its easier now with the newer ships.
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  82. The future is obviously nuclear and renewables, and hopefully fusion by 2100, the only question is how long until we get there? The cost as far as I'm concerned is immaterial. Everything comes with a certain upfront cost. Overtime all those costs will pay off and there will only be ongoing maintenance costs. Same as with anything. Everything in life has an initial investment. It would be foolish to be against a particular technology or project simply because of its initial costs. What benefit will provide over its lifetime of function?, is the much bigger question. I would say the cost to lives, world peace, and localized genocidal destruction can hardly be underestimated when discussing fossil fuels and the current US petro-State empire of death and resource theft. How long will ruthless fossil fuel gangster jefes control their willing human pets in governments around the world??? We are still finding out. The future will be decided one way or another between powers with represent the interests of psychopaths, global thieves, and destroyers, and those who care for this planet and all those who live here. DC won't be able to remain in its current form in that new world which I see as an absolute win. Genocidal petro-states will have no role in that world. That's pretty awesome for literally EVERYONE fucking else currently alive. Take it from a vet. Switch to renewables, dethrone fossil fuels and you cut at the heart of these remorseless killers. Other resource conflicts may still exist, but I have more faith that they can be won in the interest of the workers and the local country (tho it may not happen overnight).
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  142.  @dahleno2014  there's a risk with every pharmaceutical on the market. Every medical treatment every pill that's ever been designed or devised will come with a non-zero amount of risk. THIS CANNOT BE AVOIDED. Have you ever spoken to a desperate patient who has been denied their desperately needed pain meds???? THEY ARE LIVING IN A SPECIAL KIND OF HELL THAT I WOULDN'T WISH ON ANYONE. Nobody should be have their legal and legitimate medication taken away from them because a tiny few had some unfortunate struggles with it. By that logic nobody should be allowed to drink alcohol, use any prescription medication at all (not just pain meds), drink sodas, go skiing, own a horse, go hiking, drive a car or go skydiving. Do you see how quickly this gets ridiculous? Next time before you just accept the malicious government lies and propaganda without thinking, realize that this issue is a more complicated one and the people who are really suffering from this ugly crusade against medical treatment are the vast majority of legitimate pain patients. They are suffering deeply right now because the federal government suddenly decided to treat them like pseudo-criminals simply because they were unlucky enough to develop pain. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. The sackler family may not be a bunch of heroes, but at least they helped bring something to market that millions of people can consider life-saving. Also, don't let Uncle Sam colonize your mind. Opioids, plant medicine, herbs, and derivatives of the poppy flower have been used by humankind for millennia to help negotiate our pain and to seek better health. Government should have nothing to do with this and have no right to interfere. Their agenda is only a destructive and harmful one. For any more based health freedom facts feel free to follow me around youtube.
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  149.  @kibbleofdoom  oh cool, no kidding? I didn't even consider that possibility. After nptu I never knew any sub folks. They kind of went on their way and I went on mine and I never much thought of them again, almost forget about that part of the fleet. I'd be curious about that experience.... That's a different one... Such a small crew.... Single gender..... Always underwater... Huh yeah.. that's a different one.. I guess the sub fleet is integrated now? Just curious- were you guys able to smoke while you're underway? I'm not claustrophobic but I'd be curious how I would deal with being in those spaces for an extended period of time. Id probably be ok but it would no doubt be an adjustment... I was always curious what the experience would have been like on a smaller vessel. Carriers are nice because there's a lot of open space plus weather decks. Easy to get outside if you want to, move around, see the sun etc. Plenty of unlocked voids or storage spaces to go chill in for some privacy. The planes are cool but flight ops can sometimes be loud and jarring, but after a while it all starts to blend into the background as white noise. Other than that, idk, it's ok. It's like working anywhere else except it's on a large ship. But at the same time I don't think I would have minded being on a smaller ship where there was more of a family vibe and felt a bit more laid back- I was always curious about that. I never got the feeling of community I was looking for from my divisions and that's too bad, but they were pretty dysfunctional, mostly on ship 1. Ship 2 was less so for certain reasons.
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  150.  @jerm8146  I can imagine all that! Cool reflections. I think I would appreciate the close knit aspect the most. I always wanted that and didn't much find that when I was in. Carriers and larger ships can have a lot to offer as far as size, variety, diversity, options, open space, crannies, noise, recreational choices, more people... But you don't have that socially intimate feeling usually. Sometimes you do if you have a close workcenter and enough supportive folks in your division, and/or decent people in the upper ranks, but that greatly varies. I did not that feel that from my group on ship 1 but ship 2 was somewhat different. Less stressful by leagues so that helped, and kind of nice to be on a brand new ship. Incredibly clean and fresh feeling as contrast to the very old enterprise. Do sub crews have access to radio and TV??? Do you surface regularly? Are there swim days? We swam in the gulf and lemme say that was a trip. Water was like bath water (so awesome) and the heat in the engine spaces was unbelievable. We had to wear ice vests which were incredibly relieving for about 10 minutes, then they wore off. I had it easy as an EM with AC, my mechanic friends had it much harder. Gulf heat will rapidly give you your heat wings. July and August in the gulf regions will rapidly build your heat tolerance to new levels. I've known desert heat before but this was still a serious experience. I would occasionally wake up with my eyes puffed almost shut from the stuffy air. But we managed to roll with it. Sweating was the default lol. Is there a way to smoke on subs? I love water and being underwater but a long underwater cruise would be different, but I imagine you get used to it, like most things. I probably would too I suspect.
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