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Nuke commands have had some good ones throughout the years. Some funny, but mostly just extremely eerie. Death wears bunny slippers: https://media.wired.com/p

by MS90 7y ago

Nuke commands have had some good ones throughout the years. Some funny, but mostly just extremely eerie. Death wears bunny slippers: https://media.wired.com/photos/5932c01d95879f6d0c009e10/master/pass/patch_bunny_slippers.jpg https://media.wired.com/photos/5932c01d95879f6d0c009e10/mast... Politically incorrect: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bLwAAOSwaEhZHz9u/s-l300.jpg https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bLwAAOSwaEhZHz9u/s-l300.jpg Satisfaction guaranteed: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiB52Y-HTES5GCiydIdD5tssV7hFdlT2lT9WRYOAca_24H-Xrx-g https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiB52Y... Central heating: https://www.airforcecollectables.com/images/USAF%20Patch%20SAC%20337%20Bomb%20Squadron%20B%201B%20WPCH%20Warsaw%20Pact%20Central%20Heating%20Nuclear%20Dyess%20AFB%20PI.jpg https://www.airforcecollectables.com/images/USAF%20Patch%20S...

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GhettoMaestro 7y ago
Don’t forget Dominos! https://www.designobserver.com/Images/Vanderbilt.Delta2.jpg https://www.designobserver.com/Images/Vanderbilt.Delta2.jpg
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Reminds me of a joke we used to tell as kids. "How long does it take for western technology to reach the east? About 20 minutes from launch."
dmix 7y ago
Some of those are great, especially the Warsaw Pact Central Heating one. It's always a bit reassuring to know that dark humor is allowed to exist somewhere within these faceless organizations. They're still allowed to be human. Being a secret agency and protected from the Twitter brigades always helps!
- PavlovsCat 7y ago
  > They're still allowed to be human. Are they, and are they, by extension, allowed to see "the enemy" as humans, too, or are these stickers part of the rituals of compensation? > [Hobbes] foresaw the necessary idolatry of power itself by this new human type, that he would be flattered at being called a power-thirsty animal, although actually society would force him to surrender all his natural forces, his virtues and his vices, and would make him the poor meek little fellow who has not even the right to rise against tyranny, and who, far from striving for power, submits to any existing government and does not stir even when his best friend falls an innocent victim to an incomprehensible raison d'etat. -- Hannah Arendt In light of that, "tough and mischievous", variations of which 99% of these patches seem to be, doesn't have quite the luster. On the extreme end we have stuff like calling children "fun-sized terrorists", which is clearly not dark humor that expresses humanity, but cartoonish dehumanization. > protected from the Twitter brigades Covering one's ears further removes any semblance of luster.
  - specialist 7y ago
    Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal. Clay Shirky said something really smart about teenager's usage of public social media: They're talking to each other, not you. So stop listening. You wouldn't eavesdrop on teenager's at the local food court, would you? I'd only start worrying once the inside jokes become agitprop, bumper stickers, or campaign slogans.
    - PavlovsCat 7y ago
      > Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal. False dichotomies are a sophistry mechanism. I'm noting what Hannah Arendt said also applies to a lot of people with money, or people in the military, plenty of positions of supposed power. > So stop listening. You wouldn't eavesdrop on teenager's at the local food court, would you? Did you seriously compare talking in a less than fawning way about insignia of soldiers in a military conducting wars of aggression, that were posted here as "cool and interesting", with snooping on minors? Wow. We're both "snooping" in that sense, I just am not fawning over their conversation, that is all. Why can't the people who disagree with, but neither want to refute nore expand on my comment, simply ignore it? They are not the target audience, after all. > I'd only start worrying once the inside jokes become agitprop, bumper stickers, or campaign slogans. I'm not "worrying", I'm simply totally unimpressed, have been for ages, by anything in that bucket, and the Arendt quote is a good summary of why. I would guess that the worst things are regularly perpetrated by the utterly bland, not by those who call themselves deathlords of hellfire or whatever, but nonetheless, I think it's the opposite of "cool", it's unintentionally derpy.
cat199 7y ago
As clear a proofe as anie that the Americane Revolution, hafing overthrowne the Tyrannikal Nature of Evil Popishness, has replacede the corruptede Imperial Idolotrie of suche Devils as 'St George' with the Superior and Enlightenede Virtues of Libertie, Equalitie, and Fraternitie.
paulie_a 7y ago
Fun nearly fatal fact. The nuke launch codes were all zeros. Making a lot of 80 movies regarding getting the codes pointless.
- exikyut 7y ago
  [Citation requested]
  - MS90 7y ago
    https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-si-1473483587 https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...
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GhettoMaestro 7y ago

Don’t forget Dominos! https://www.designobserver.com/Images/Vanderbilt.Delta2.jpg https://www.designobserver.com/Images/Vanderbilt.Delta2.jpg

TeMPOraL 7y ago
Reminds me of a joke we used to tell as kids. "How long does it take for western technology to reach the east? About 20 minutes from launch."

dmix 7y ago

Some of those are great, especially the Warsaw Pact Central Heating one. It's always a bit reassuring to know that dark humor is allowed to exist somewhere within these faceless organizations. They're still allowed to be human. Being a secret agency and protected from the Twitter brigades always helps!

PavlovsCat 7y ago
> They're still allowed to be human. Are they, and are they, by extension, allowed to see "the enemy" as humans, too, or are these stickers part of the rituals of compensation? > [Hobbes] foresaw the necessary idolatry of power itself by this new human type, that he would be flattered at being called a power-thirsty animal, although actually society would force him to surrender all his natural forces, his virtues and his vices, and would make him the poor meek little fellow who has not even the right to rise against tyranny, and who, far from striving for power, submits to any existing government and does not stir even when his best friend falls an innocent victim to an incomprehensible raison d'etat. -- Hannah Arendt In light of that, "tough and mischievous", variations of which 99% of these patches seem to be, doesn't have quite the luster. On the extreme end we have stuff like calling children "fun-sized terrorists", which is clearly not dark humor that expresses humanity, but cartoonish dehumanization. > protected from the Twitter brigades Covering one's ears further removes any semblance of luster.
- specialist 7y ago
  Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal. Clay Shirky said something really smart about teenager's usage of public social media: They're talking to each other, not you. So stop listening. You wouldn't eavesdrop on teenager's at the local food court, would you? I'd only start worrying once the inside jokes become agitprop, bumper stickers, or campaign slogans.
  - PavlovsCat 7y ago
    > Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal. False dichotomies are a sophistry mechanism. I'm noting what Hannah Arendt said also applies to a lot of people with money, or people in the military, plenty of positions of supposed power. > So stop listening. You wouldn't eavesdrop on teenager's at the local food court, would you? Did you seriously compare talking in a less than fawning way about insignia of soldiers in a military conducting wars of aggression, that were posted here as "cool and interesting", with snooping on minors? Wow. We're both "snooping" in that sense, I just am not fawning over their conversation, that is all. Why can't the people who disagree with, but neither want to refute nore expand on my comment, simply ignore it? They are not the target audience, after all. > I'd only start worrying once the inside jokes become agitprop, bumper stickers, or campaign slogans. I'm not "worrying", I'm simply totally unimpressed, have been for ages, by anything in that bucket, and the Arendt quote is a good summary of why. I would guess that the worst things are regularly perpetrated by the utterly bland, not by those who call themselves deathlords of hellfire or whatever, but nonetheless, I think it's the opposite of "cool", it's unintentionally derpy.

cat199 7y ago

As clear a proofe as anie that the Americane Revolution, hafing overthrowne the Tyrannikal Nature of Evil Popishness, has replacede the corruptede Imperial Idolotrie of suche Devils as 'St George' with the Superior and Enlightenede Virtues of Libertie, Equalitie, and Fraternitie.

paulie_a 7y ago

Fun nearly fatal fact. The nuke launch codes were all zeros. Making a lot of 80 movies regarding getting the codes pointless.

exikyut 7y ago
[Citation requested]
- MS90 7y ago
  https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-si-1473483587 https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...

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