Posts by Ryan Lee35

Adam Collins4 said:Look, there are some of us who spent three or four weeks at a time out in the Appalachians or near the Rockies back in the '90s—while snipers were popping off and grenades were flying all around us, much to the delight of the local kids...

And we did it without any connection to our families... because technology basically didn't exist, and I won't even get into the other reasons for that...

But you people? In this era of high-speed internet, smartphones, and endless apps, you think being alone for a little while is some kind of crisis...

If things actually got real—if you had to dodge the police or bust through blockades—you’d be running.

I agree, there's no point in this debate. You honestly have no clue what actual shit looks like—especially when your mother or your wife is waiting at home, praying you actually show up alive...

Or what it feels like every single time you say goodbye before heading to a post where you won't be back for weeks...

Or going back out into the field for the first time after being wounded, trying to deal with the chaos in your own head while watching your mother refuse to let go of your hands...

There are things you haven't experienced, and you should just thank whatever Bog you believe in that you didn't have to.

This is a minor issue that can—and must—be fixed...

Nobody said it would be easy, but the sheer amount of pathetic whining here is getting a bit much... especially considering everything modern technology provides.

My friend, you have put this together quite masterfully 👍👍👍
Personally, my own record was thirty-two days out in the Rockies just for the hell of it; meanwhile, my wife—well, she was my girlfriend at the time—took advantage of that window to go off and pass her Bar exam. What kind of communication are we talking about? Nothing! It was basically just, "Good luck, see you when I see you," if I even saw her again at all.

Jose Scott3 said:Obviously. You lay out a hypothesis, grind away in the lab, get your results, publish them, and file the patent. Then you hand it off to industry to actually turn it into something...

Oh, so suddenly it's "psychopathic" when the private sector wants to slash wages or start handing out pink slips just because we happen to be public sector employees... right. Funny how that works...

But what happens when there isn't actually any production happening to turn those fancy little theories of yours into anything tangible—like what we're seeing right now—and yet the paychecks still need to clear? Is it suddenly not your fault that the actual, productive side of the economy has completely vanished into thin air?