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by DocTomoe 4y ago
To give a few comparison numbers: In Switzerland, arguably the world's experts in tunnel-boring, one death per tunnel kilometer is considered acceptable (and it is often less than that). The much easier Channel tunnel has had around on
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
"Shook hands with both Ronalds, Reagan and McDonalds..." [1] [1] https://youtu.be/ZT2z0nrsQ8o?t=103
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Given how important fuel balance is to trimming the aircraft, I would not board an aircraft that has a history of problems with this. > See Boeing in the US vs Europe. Call it politics, call it whatever but it is what it is What you call
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Ok but what about Poland? Given how deeply ungrateful the Polish government has been towards the rest of Europe, especially Germany, in the last twenty years or so, pulling the evil German Nazi card whenever their will was not complete
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Arguably, after what we've learned about the FAA after the 737-Max crashes, FAA approval should be considered a red flag instead of sufficient proof of safety, especially when it come to Boeing airframes. Europe has banned airlines, es
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Where in the article was that said? From the article: > The Reporter does not have access to the arrest narratives, so our analysis includes crimes that could be considered looting in the context of a protest, but may also be everyd
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
And as time progresses, new laws are no longer common sense ("don't steal, don't murder"), but become increasingly cumbersome, while still acceptable ("don't drive a vehicle unless we license you for vehicle us
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I think you may forget about Afghanistan, 1979. And yes, I really think that. I do not think many sensible people believe in a looming Russian invasion of Germany.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Actually, Russia has a track record of being a reliable provider of gas in worse situations than we are in today, reaching back to times when the Cold War was at its hottest. Outside of big media and some very ideologically-kosher circles,
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Other than hoping for a early peace in Ukraine I don't really anything that could solve the issues. I guess we will just have to tough it out. Don't worry. The government is setting up all the right parameters for a revolutio
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In very rural southern Germany, I know several electronics stores who have 7x4-meter panels, and I know a spot where they are mounted to a mast next to a federal road (with farmland around it). People always think "Times Square",
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> on May 29th in Chicago, the address with the highest number of arrests by far was at Trump tower, against peaceful protesters. I am not surprised that the one place in town which has a strong connection to a sitting US president who is
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
As a mid-career engineer, I had to renew a professional certification during the Covid-19 times. That recertification was set up as a proctored online exam. After 15 minutes of removing random stuff from my desk, under my desk, on my walls,
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The next step then is the government deciding what will harm us, so we can be protected. And then you got a very nice little fascist country that runs perfectly, and the trains run on time to move all those harmful people away from where
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Of course we do experiments on humans. Every psychology student is subject to them (and that's often mandated by their universities to enter the next semester). Pharmaceutical companies are mandated to run human test-runs of new medica
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Wikipedia says violence broke out a day after the George Floyd incident [1]: > After the main protest group disbanded on the night of May 26, a much smaller group, numbering in the hundreds, spray-painted the building, threw rocks and b
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It will not continue because it is ultimately unworkable. We are seeing that already today, with increasingly larger parts of the population becoming aware of the "boomer problem". Eventually this will become evident enough so tha
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Let's name the elephant in the room: No government is going to make a significant part of the workforce work in (unproductive) elderly care. Societies will eventually start to just get rid of their old, first encouraging life-ending t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Enter the "Hello Mouse" experiment, where a young magichealer-in-training first maims a rodent, and then tries to heal it, to master the technique before being allowed to even think about sentient beings.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> I am curious, what in particular raises your hackles? I guess as a non-Chicagoan, this just rose above the treshold for me to take notice. May be related to my early FS days, where Meigs Field was the default airfield.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> I'm sure internal company LAN's will remain IPv4 behind a proxy for decades more IPv4 will continue to exist in limited capacity as long as network hardware supports it. With increasingly more network hardware suppliers phasi
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I would guess rameesh31 is an XPlane user. A friendly rivalry has existed for some time. As a MSFS pilot: Asobo does some questionable things when it comes to instruments. For example, their "Weather Radar" as existing in MSFS d
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It's a crime, in a city where crime is not prosecuted. That Daley was allowed to stay in office, instead of a very small cell, for the remainder of his life is indicative on the state of rule of law in the United States.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sailors are. They intimately know the sea and her dangers, they know looming death and despair during many months of being subjects to powers immeasurably stronger than any human can ever imagine. I would argue that two blokes on a sailboat
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Pervitin, essentially Amphetamine with a brand name, used to make people awake longer, walk longer, carry more, was called "Panzerschokolade" - "tank chocolate" by German troops. Today, psychoactive stimulants are market
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
To join an open network, it needs an antenna, which are easy to identify and permanently remove.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
One of the great tragedies of the time beginning in the 1990s is the massive abuse of medication to solve social problems, especially in the United States.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> They are, after all, trying to make the human species survive. A perceived "good cause" does not make an argument - or an action - necessarily good. Remember that medieval witch hunts were doing the "humanitarian" t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Coming from Europe, where air conditioning is not really a thing (outside of places of business), yes, you are probably right. It is not a need. But neither is clothing in most parts of the world, or houses larger than a bed, or food that&#
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Because that's how it starts. Eventually, the cheaper tier will be with more ads, the more expensive tier will no longer be ad-free, but have "some" ads. It has happened before. It will happen again.

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