Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Please help I need to appreciate my own life more by hearing your experiences What’s the dumbest situation you’ve ever been in? As in office space style “I have 4 bosses that all want conflicting things and have no end in sight” type of dumb Mine is in the 1st reply
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Now I’ve been a LOT of dumb situations, but I think this is the dumbest While deployed to Afghanistan back in 2016/17, my company was the only unit in the Tarin Kowt region (bout an hour by air away from any other NATO units) We had a makeshift base setup where we lived so we could maintain a secure location in this area so NATO generals could advise the Afghan Army on how to fight the Taliban So we made a mini position within an Afghan army base who were 50/50 Taliban sympathetic (we knew this bc we listened to their unencrypted radio transmissions…. with the Taliban) And every few days a General would come through and we’d provide security for like a 6 hour PowerPoint presentation which we soon realized was just an excuse for the NATO generals to just sort of hang out and drink tea and eat chicken + rice. Overall dumb, but manageable…
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
The catch-22 level insanity part was that even though we were THE ONLY NATO units anywhere near there our higher hq didn’t believe any of our daily reports of firefights happening nearby (we’d stay up and just watch the tracer and rpg battles happen every night around us but we weren’t authorized to to go out and do anything about it) So we’d periodically fire mortar flares near the areas to be like hey quit fucking around) but mostly we just waited and hoped nobody came near us Then after MONTHS of daily reports they wanted to land a C-17 (massive ass plane) to drop off some stuff and we said it was a bad idea but they did it anyway so we said hey okay don’t approach from the west bc that’s where a ton of firefight activity happens…
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Freytrades🎩📈
@freymon.eth
man i have a lot of those "dumb moments" (and a lot more to come) but if i were to pick one, i'd pick my most recent one i made a lot of money trading last year (lost a bunch of it too but still kept some) and coming into january 2025 i was on a losing streak (still am), i'd lost all my profits, my reserves and more (in debt)-so i had a dumb idea moment "sell your laptop and use it to trade", which i did (unfortunately) i had just bought that pc 2 months ago to start my coding career for $1100 usd (1.8million naira as at then) so it was a lot of money. So i sold the pc (for about $800), paid off my debts(about $300), funded a majority of the rest ($400-$500) traded with it and during a span of 24 hours i made $5000 again and rebought my exact pc back from the store i sold it too, i was feeling like the king of the world. fast forward 1week later i had lost everything again, and had the same dumb idea, i did it again but this time it didnt go as planned
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