US Army personnel at Fort Sill launched Halloween candy at kids using a M142 HIMARS rocket system

US Army personnel at Fort Sill launched Halloween candy to kids using a M142 HIMARS rocket system : r/Damnthatsinteresting (reddit.com)

1. Neat!

2. This is exactly why you can't afford public health care.

That's ... pretty awesome.

And it's not really the reason we can't afford public health care. The reason we can't afford public health care is that we're not willing to risk some billionaire having to downgrade from a 16-bedroom yacht to a 10-bedroom one.

Who wants to drink from the firehose?

This is a human thing IMO. I have just been in charge of events where no thought was given to the safety of shooting certain free items out of pneumatic or chemical explosive devices. This is how gender reveal parties go bad. This is how kids lose an eye or get injured. This is how members of my generation learned safety. Kids had to get hurt and die.

I grew up having learned to swim to survive at Action Park. That was a place we begged our parents to take us specifically because we saw people bloody and injured in the parking lot, and that was cool. Candy coming out of a cannon at use while we jump in front of it to stop it from getting to the kids behind us and then fight for the scraps on the ground is the best candy ever. You enjoy that fucking candy with all the dirt, grass, and your own blood on it all the more because you survived the fight for that sweet morsel of diabetes. My diabetic neuropathy is a battle scar and not a disability. I fought my friends for the biggest pile of candy and won.

I have battle stories and will not die a protracted death in a hospital bed. Not to mention, I do not let the horrible balance and other parts of neuropathy stop me. I fall the fuck down, bleed, and get the fuck back up and limp on. I will push this body until it dies quickly. Don't get me wrong, I almost slothed myself into an early grave, but I am back motherfuckers.

A couple days ago I learned Bezos’ custom made support yacht for his custom made mega yacht is 246ft long and has berthing for 45 support staff as well as two extra luxury guest staterooms and a helipad.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/-companies/jeff-bezos-m-yacht-has-a-foot-support-ship-lauren-sanchez-figurehead/ar-AA1brJ4a

It would be great if he sinks and drowns.

It is sad how CHUDdy Musk had to go to make Bezos look better in comparison.

Yeah, but, he earned that support yacht for his mega-yacht, which he also earned.

You don't get to complain about his support yacht just because you're not willing to put in the effort and make the sacrifices it takes to become a billionaire.

How's that government ran grocery store doing? Oh right, not good.
https://reason.com/2023/10/23/government-run-grocery-store-is-predictably-losing-money/

Looks like they're operating the store as a public service, and the point of most public services isn't to turn a profit. Spoiler alert: the point is to serve the public.

You already lost me.

Pretty fucked up if true. The military is out of control.

That's about the size of a First World War Destroyer.

Gotta justify they're existence I suppose.

Communist!

Interestingly, the very same article whines that Chicago should be doing something about the factors that they say make privately run stores unable to be profitable there, seemingly unaware that by doing so, they are undercutting their own argument.

Readers who are capable of logical reasoning pick up on that sort of thing. Luckily (and ironically), that leaves out most of the people who read Reason.