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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They don’t deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.

    Right now, though, they’re playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.

    It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn’t doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.

    Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that’s just math.



  • I kinda think I want it to try. I make little effort to hide my location or identity, and I think I’d like to see the results.

    …just without saying who I am before I get those results. And my desire to stay anonymous-ish and not give it a chance to cheat means I can’t satisfy I have the right to the identify of myself if it finds who I am.

    Quite seriously, I cannot prove I have the right to make it search for me, for myself, without giving it too much information or without risking the leak of private info to a so-far unidentified stranger if it finds anything.

    Catch-22