Post by @bad1080@piefed.social

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. Catch-22

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@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2026-11-08 14:54

My first thought was, who the fuck names their kid “Data”. Then I realized there is a local radio personality named Oedipus, and I always thought what kind of parent names their kid that. But then I remembered that that, is in fact, a stage name. But I don’t think you can use stage names in the military? So maybe they are NB and this was their chosen name? But I don’t think thd military would really go for that, let alone put them on TV (though I have no doubts that the best cyber security researchers out there are, in fact, queer). So now I’m just more confused about everything.

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@starik@lemmy.today 2026-11-08 15:06

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@neidu4@piefed.social 2026-11-08 15:14

She got the job after Colonel Failure was promoted.

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@explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-08 16:00

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@daychilde@lemmy.world 2026-11-08 18:28

“What did you say her name was?”

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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-08 18:33