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4431283 No.4431283 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /sci/, I want to increase my mechanical knowledge. What's a good way to do this?

Let me explain, I have an anthropology major, and while I obviously have BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES, i've decided to join the army. I want to get into intelligence work, and to get into Intelligence, I need to score high in General science, Mathematics, English comprehension, and Mechanical knowledge. Now I don't know much about pulleys, levers, and engines, or how gears work.

What's a good book/web site/podcast to get basic information about these things?

>> No.4431299
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4431299

>>billions and billions of job opportunities
>anthropology

I'll admit, I laughed.

>> No.4431298

>>4431283
>I've decided to join the army
So you've decided to help facilitate the murder of human beings in far away countries while at the same time losing anything resembling free will and the ability to think for yourself?
You should have the necessary tools for suicide around your home.
Go use them.

>> No.4431309
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4431309

nice life decision dickhead

>> No.4431310

>>4431299

>> No.4431316

>>4431298
You are on a computer yes? A computer likely assembled by unfair wages by chinese children. And you drank coffee yes? Coffee planted by people who don't have license to grow FOOD for themselves. And you're using electricity yes? That's likely created by spewing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. And in three years you're going to throw your computer in a dump, and it will end up in the toxic wastelands of central Asia.

not all of us are
>>200k starting
math majors, and I have a very particular set of skills entirely useful for army intelligence. Additionally, there are people in this world who need to be opposed, or they would cause ridiculous amounts of death.

>>4431309
Or I could roll burritos for the next ten years while i gaze wistfully into the great blue yonder wondering what my next decision should be.

this thread is full of college kids who have more money than strictly good for them. What're you going to be doing in 4 years? Still posting on /sci/? Still JUST ABOUT to go to graduate school?

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4431317

>>4431283

>> No.4431321

>>4431316
Those are things we can't do anything about.
You have a choice about whether or not you go into the army.
There is absolutely no thread from the Middle East to the rest of the world. As of now it is unclear as to why the United States is continuing that shitty, destructive, and pointless war.

>Or I could roll burritos
You should've thought about that before you majored in something that could be studied independently.

>> No.4431325
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>>4431321
That's nice. What year of college are you?

>> No.4431329

>>4431325
That is irrelevant to this discussion. If you didn't even learn the proper conduct for discussion in or before college, then you can probably consider your college years wasted.

>> No.4431334

>>4431321

Irrelevant to discussion...

Those are things we can't do anything about.
You have a choice about whether or not you go into the army.
There is absolutely no thread from the Middle East to the rest of the world. As of now it is unclear as to why the United States is continuing that shitty, destructive, and pointless war.


doesn't answer question

>> No.4431337

>>4431334
4/10
Or extremely fucking stupid.
Either way, get out.

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>>4431329
Oh i'm sorry I thought that unwarranted personal attacks were fair game for this discussion.

The fact of the matter is you don't understand economic realities until your out of the nurturing womb of college.

Additionally, DO i have a choice? have you SEEN the job market out there? I'd rather get reputable experience doing intelligence work. Intelligence work is PRACTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. And the goal is to NOT have to kill people.

>>4431337
>>4431334
Not me, though i'm glad someone is defending me.

>> No.4431342

>>4431337
Still doesn't answer OP's question
Peak of Bitchery
youmadbro.jpg

>> No.4431347

Have you talked to a recruiter? They will give you all the study guides and shit you need.

The rest of the stuff you'll learn in OCS.

Also, enjoy psyops, that's where you'll end up.

>> No.4431356

>>4431347

They didn't offer study guides; I suppose I could go in tomorrow and ask for some.

Psyops is interesting, I've already spent some time and energy thinking about the subject. There's enough PSYOPS being committed on the american population that I actually wrote my senior thesis on the subject, though I didn't call it that of course.

>> No.4431402

>>4431337
>>4431329
I'm curious what you majored in. Was is Biology?

>> No.4431784

Wow, I had no idea /sci/ was so unreasonably neoliberal. Or was this not an accurate sample size?

>> No.4431787

>>4431784
what's liberal about recognizing that retards who made poor life decisions and generally fail at life shouldn't be allowed in the military?

this is the same reason why police forces are often such trash. depending on the department, an idiot with a high school degree and 21 years of age can get in if he sucks the right cocks. then that idiot is trusted with upholding the law which he is likely too stupid to comprehend himself.

idiots, like OP, have no place in positions with any sort of power over other human beings.

>> No.4431801

>>4431787
Yes, because I chose to be born into a poor family, be really good at social science, and then i MADE the economy really shitty. That makes buckets of sense. And then of course I CHOSE to make the army have a really good program for social science for free.

Enjoy your environmental science degree. I'm sure you'll make 20k starting.

>> No.4431809

Go ahead, OP sounds like a good experience.

This samefag saying to not enlist for moral reasons is just a philosophy major being butthurt.

>> No.4431815

>>4431809
that's kind of what I thought. I hope he enjoys juggling on the street for petty change in two years.

>> No.4431832

>>4431283
Build things. Attend /diy/ and do everything there. Reading a book or going to class will not solve this problem for you, the ONLY solution is to actually mess with mechanical things. A lot. Make up for your years of not doing it with hundreds of hours of messing with any mechanical thing you can find. Get lockpicks, get screwdrivers, start taking everything apart.

>> No.4432204

>>4431787
>what's liberal about recognizing that retards who made poor life decisions and generally fail at life shouldn't be allowed in the military?

That is exactly the type of person that should join the military. I live in San Diego the Marines are 70% rube/redneck/hick subhuman bottom feeders. The more of them that are killed the better.

>> No.4432228

>>4431787
If you're so brilliant why don't you join the military instead? I'm sure they could use a great mind like yours.