Bendingo

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by Bendingo 7y ago
> you need access to a gender neutral restroom If you don't want to use the mens or womens, then just use the restroom with the wheelchair picture on the door. There's your gender neutral facility right there. Solved.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> everyone reasonable agrees that "kill the {jews,muslims,hispanics}" is intolerant, no? Does "everyone reasonable" also agree that "kill the {nazis,racists,transphobes}" is intolerant?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
That seems pretty arbitrary to me.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Worrying about them today ... And yet, still the west endlessly obsesses about Russia, for some reason.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
I develop mobile apps for a large corp, who have decided to deliver maximum accessibility. And I can tell you that accessibility is hard to get right. I estimate implementing good accessibility and fixing accessibility bugs in Android takes
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Accessible design tends to be easier to read in general, helping everyone. This is not necessarily so. I develop mobile apps for a large corp. Our designers are often told by the accessibility team to change their design in ways that m
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> pretend this is a issue both sides are at fault for I'm sorry but there is no doubt that "both sides are at fault". "Trudeau has never really stood in the way of Canada’s oil industry, despite years of platitudes ab
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Without a bodycount Only if you ignore all the inevitable civilian casualties.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> It's available now through the app DoNotPay, created by 22-year-old wunderkind coder and entrepreneur Joshua Browder. This "wunderkind coder and entrepreneur" is son of Bill Browder, wanted in Russia for tax fraud [0]. I
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by Bendingo 7y ago
This sounds like praise for the effectiveness of S-400; Gen. Tod Wolters, who leads U.S. European Command, offered this explanation: “You cannot operate an F-35 in the vicinity of an S-400..."
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Forces are forces and any upwards force from the engines can be counteracted by the control surfaces Only if you ignore moments. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_moment
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Great summary.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
The western governments (in this case the UK) don't seem serious about the Chinese security scare, when they allow Chinese company to take part in the F-35 program. [1] https://www.rt.com/news/461918-chinese-compan
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Russian hackers This claim is repeated endlessly but I've yet to see any actual evidence of it. But that is par for the course in this era of disinformation.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Add the INF treaty to this list. [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-02/us-to-suspend-cold-wa...
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> we're able to design nuclear weapons without ever testing them in meatspace Perhaps you are forgetting about all the nuclear weapons testing that was carried out in the 40's 50's and 60's ? (The last tests by USA a
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by Bendingo 7y ago
There were enough of Soviet troops to invade Japanese puppet Manchukuo, and they were planning on going to Hokkaido. [1] Japan was plenty concerned, especially remembering the last time they met USSR military. [2] In fact, memories of that
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Meng will get a fair trial in America. Your faith is US justice is admirable and patriotic. Do you believe Assange would also get a fair trial in USA ?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Since when does the US set laws for Huawei? The attitude that the whole world must obey US laws is being increasingly rejected. And not before time.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
It was obviously staged, for anyone who saw the photos of the bomb laying on the bed, underneath a bomb-shaped hole in the ceiling.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Best analogy so far +1
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> guarantee that China and Russia > for the Party/Putin This thread has nothing to do with China/Russia/Putin etc. And yet, still somehow every discussion of US always requires criticism of Russia. > trip to Siberia
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> The student has the privilege of benefiting from their parents' sacrifices And that sacrifice will be for nought, due to adversity scoring. This is a very bad idea.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
zerohedge.com is not blocked on telstra (Australian) network as of yesterday (when I last visited). Don't know about the other sites.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
I didn't know that. Do you have a reference please?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Both these arguments are true. "Japan was ready to surrender" should be interpreted as "Japan wanted to surrender if the terms were acceptable". To spell it out for you: Japan was ready to surrender before atomic bombs,
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Sorry, but GP's post is absolutely correct. Japanese surrender was not prompted by bombings of 6th and 9th August -- they had endured already much worse bombings of their cities during that summer, and were not particularly scared of a
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by Bendingo 7y ago
This is absolutely true. All these leaders: - Adm. William Leahy (President Truman’s Chief of Staff) - Henry Arnold (US Army Air Forces commanding general) - Adm. Chester Nimitz (Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet) - Maj. Gen. Curtis L
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Yes, I appreciate that. Although it's worth mentioning that some modifications (such as removing seat belts or tail-lights) would render the car un-roadworthy and are effectively illegal. My concern is less with legality and more with
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by Bendingo 7y ago
This seems mind bogglingly dangerous. At least with commercial self-driving vehicles, there is a responsible legal entity (the car manufacturer). The thought of thousands of amateurs and enthusiasts releasing their hacked self-driving cars

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