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by Retric 9mo ago
Yea, they where off by a factor of 10, so 0.4%.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Anyway here’s some actual science on why going vertical makes a big difference. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-022-19171-5
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by Retric 9mo ago
Hollywood and spy movies/series predate the web. What makes the CIA Factbook useful is it reframes learning about other countries.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> firearm transfer under federal jurisdiction A far looser restriction. > doing the associated paperwork for the feds. That implies that it’s guaranteed you will pass, which is false. That said, the ability for some states to totally
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by Retric 9mo ago
Now you make me want to come up with a controversial source. The Martian rovers continued to operate at useful power level for decades without cleaning. But but lack of water…
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by Retric 9mo ago
Soft power includes positive perception. Every time someone learns that GPS is completely paid for by the American government and then freely available to the rest of the world, that shapes perception. The Facebook being quoted by so many
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by Retric 9mo ago
Again way less dangerous than a modern firearm. “Repeating” here ignores the actual rate of fire of a Kalthoff or the even worse Cookson design. Especially when you consider how slow reloading is vs modern firearms. How many lives would ha
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by Retric 9mo ago
Prodigies almost always spend vastly more time doing their thing than the average kid. So it’s not just some random outcome. That relative advantage goes away as people age and specialize.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> the Court tends to say things that didn’t exist are covered by constitutional rights. Sure but drivers licenses exist when no similar requirements existed for horse drawn buggies because the clear increase in relative danger to the pub
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by Retric 9mo ago
I’m saying the same thing she is, that soiling isn’t as severe in the desert not that it doesn’t exist. The article itself said the maximum was 50% and it was significantly less of a problem in the desert. Even 50% still beats space by mil
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by Retric 9mo ago
I’m aware, but that was a spike in industry in the English speaking world not innovation. Instead they started to innovate on things we care about today. It was largely associated with Englands colonial exploits rather than some new way of
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by Retric 9mo ago
Humanity has been rapidly advancing throughout recorded history. We just gloss over advancements in outdated technology. Who cares about when exactly the stirrup was invented when we have cars. Medieval armor was vastly better than what w
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by Retric 9mo ago
A relevant quote from that article. “The reason I concentrate my research on these urban environments is because the composition of soiling is completely different,” said Toth, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering at the Universit
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by Retric 9mo ago
You don’t need to do anything to keep panels with a significant angle clear of dust in deserts. The Sahara is near the equator but you can stow panels at night and let the wind do its thing. The lack of launch costs more than offset the ne
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by Retric 9mo ago
“Possessing a live grenade is illegal.” https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def... Obviously there’s a bunch of exceptions, including as you point out the federal option of going through a backgrou
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by Retric 9mo ago
For sake of argument I’ll agree, but again by explicitly using arms here they where excluding them from constitutional protection not banning them.
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by Retric 9mo ago
White people already extradited to the EU during the current administration would disagree. But this administration has a limited shelf life, even hypothetically just under 3 years of immunity isn’t enough for comfort.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Lawlessness is a complete breakdown of state power and just as threatening to a new country as foreign powers. The degree of importance they place on individual factors here is obviously debatable, but they just had two governments fail. E
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by Retric 9mo ago
Getting kicked out of the EU is extremely unattractive for Twitter. But the US also has extradition treaties so that’s hardly the end of how far they can escalate.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Legal yes, protected by the constitution without constraint no. Both the use of Arms being man portable weapons and militia makes a very clear distinction.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Arms at the time meant man portable weapons as distinct from cannons or trebuchet etc. Just posted about firearms so many times used the wrong word here.
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by Retric 9mo ago
I agree it’s the composition of the Supreme Court that’s at issue not the constitution. Saying what arguments are right doesn’t make sense in these contexts only what is the current precedent.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Firearms (ops Arms) was used rather than weapons suggesting some level of consideration here. They had cannons and warships back then. That bit about a well regulated militia suggests limits on what exactly was permissible. But obviously
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by Retric 9mo ago
Actually things that are new after the constitution was written is regularly brought up before the court it’s a very common argument. The thing was written a long time ago, everyone involved in the process acknowledges that fact. The degr
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by Retric 9mo ago
> They’re deadly and rapid fire So are a pile of stones, it’s the degree of risk to the public that matters not some arbitrary classification. Ignoring differences is degree here isn’t enough to win the argument.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Grenades a clear requirement for a modern infantry are also banned, thus eliminating any argument that a modern standards of military efficiency apply. Banding heavy machine guns yet another invention after the constitution was written didn
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by Retric 9mo ago
> So fast-firing weapons were not some alien technology. Thrown stones are a fast firing deadly weapon. They, compressed air guns, and ball musket etc aren’t used by modern military forces in combat because they are less dangerous. A ru
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by Retric 9mo ago
Air guns existed sure. There’s a reason those aren’t used by the military today, they just aren’t that dangerous.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Crime exited when the constitution was written, suggesting the framers were only concerned with interactions at the state level is to insult their intelligence. Not to mention specific text like people’s rights to a jury trial etc.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> Girardoni repeating air rifle Not a firearm. I didn’t say we could ban compressed air powered guns, I specifically said percussion caps. The Girardoni was way less dangerous than a modern handgun.

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