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It’s the Blended Retirement System and it is a blend of a pension and an employer-sponsored retirement account. In the BRS service members went from 2.5% per year of service to 2% and gained a 5% match to their Thrift Savings Plan. So a member retiring at 20 years in the BRS would receive 40% of their base pay as pension vs 50% under the traditional military retirement system.

TIL. Thanks

Are you referring to the hate symbols of 88 for Heil Hitler and 14 for the fourteen words? I think you’re reading into something that isn’t there.

No. There is such a thing as “national socialist black metal”, but trying to correlate a baphomet tattoo with NSBM is a stretch. He very well could be a Nazi, but I wouldn’t associate that with satanism solely from some images. There are assholes in every religion, we don’t need another satanic panic out of ignorance and fear.

Might as well link to the actual source which has a lot of great content.

The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but I’ve learned a lot about agriculture from Farming Simulator. It’s neat driving around and understanding what the farmers are doing in their fields.

Yes

Awful taste but great execution.

• Jalapeno
• Serrano
• Cayenne Long Thin
• Cayenne Long Thick
• Ring of Fire
• Ristra Cayenne
• Tabasco
• Datil
• Sugar Rush Peach
• Scotch Bonnet
• Bhut Jolokia
• Carolina Reaper

There’s a real estate bias, but I’m a fan of the Bigger Pockets family of podcasts.

My blocked community list got significantly shorter when they introduced instance blocking. Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.

There’s that one guy that HATES sunfish.

The most notable deaths in surfing

International Morse code is composed of five elements:

• short mark, dot or dit: “dit duration” is one time unit long
• long mark, dash or dah: three time units long
• inter-element gap between the dits and dahs within a character: one dot duration or one unit long
• short gap (between letters): three time units long
• medium gap (between words): seven time units long (formerly five)

It’s effectively a Huffman tree based off the frequency letters occur in the English language used to minimize the overall symbol length duration of each letter in a message.

!metal@lemmy.world

without her and her family’s knowledge, Galena hopped inside a package full of products they were returning to Amazon.

I wonder if someone in the family is “surprised” and “relieved” on the outside but very disappointed on the inside that their plan to get rid of the cat got foiled.

The Bag Lady

Whenever times get tough, come back to the rhythm of your breath. Remember to breathe.