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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Correcting the historical record isn't despicable. You'd honestly rather people go around parroting a myth because it makes you feel better? Maybe the author uncovered it as part of a separate research effort and decided to contri
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
The original article [0] notes other potential disqualifying conditions include ever having received welfare in their own country, cancer, and advanced age. The stated purpose is to prevent the visitor from being a "public charge"
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
It is if he would describe a member of his own family this way, which I'm betting he would. He was rather famously described as a "tough Irishman" by his longtime friend, biologist Mark Ptashne.
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
No, they rushed to beat Pauling. In a just world Franklin would gotten a co-author credit, but I don't think anyone holds that she was going to have the breakthrough on her own.
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
> racist things about Irish people It's a trait that some people of Irish descent, like Watson, share. See also: self-deprecating humor Greek, Jewish, Italian, and members of other ethnicities are sometimes known for. The difference
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
My intent was to show the pearl-clutching intended by the article's author isn't justified. The org isn't being "shut down", it's being moved and its remit broadened. That is a good thing.
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Yes, and organized crime's intersection with immigration is called human trafficking. I'm not seeing the problem here. Taking a proven effective organization and opening it up to attack crimes above and beyond the War on Some Drug
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
> One practical implication of this transfer to the Homeland Security Task Forces is that the group’s remit will be broadened beyond targeting drug cartels... Good. If this structure is good at taking down drug kingpins it will be good a
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Sortition was famously used in classical Athens (~5th C. BC) and a couple other Greek city-states. There were other examples, but I think the big issue with the historical examples is the fact that the eligible parties weren't as broad
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Misleading headline, but good PR for grip-strength gizmo sellers.
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
> “This kind of blind prejudice can happen on both sides.” Cancel that man, immediately! /s The truth of it is most people are too dull and/or ignorant to vote, but we have to let them because the alternative ends up being even
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
I hear you. Drug boats or not, I would not choose our present course of action.
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
I'm responding directly to a post on using subterfuge to pretend to be fishermen, and further addressing the oft-stated opinion that fishing boats are being targeted. They aren't bothering pretending to be fishermen, and also stat
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Who said kill everyone? I was responding to a post about using subterfuge to pretend to be a fisherman. Deception is a personal and professional interest of mine so I responded. Determining what the boats are and what they are doing is a se
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
I can find good aspects to the work I've done, but certainly many hate one or more of my past employers or their industries for a variety of reasons, many good ones TBQH. I've learned that it's best to simply not look to othe
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Okay. https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/09/15/us-attack... If you think those are fishing boats you don't know very much about fishing. Those are dope haulers. The question of whethe
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Footage of the boats to date show they aren't trying to spoof legitimate fishing vessels. They are IMHO very clearly dope haulers and anyone saying otherwise is either extremely credulous or not being honest with everyone. Fishermen do
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by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
Nuclear release authority is pre-delegated to varying degrees, but not down to the launch control centers. They do not possess the required information to launch their missiles. Precise delegation details are classified. For combatants down
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
It would be interesting to know the survival rate of the mariners involved. Do they mostly make it, or is it like serving on a WW2 German u-boat? The craft involved and the descriptions of the passage given to date do not inspire confidence
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
I think it's an interesting visual to compare the Stasi's rows of scent jars to data centers filled with banks of flash memory storing biometric data.
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
The USDA notice included the fact that retailers can get a waiver from Equal Treatment provisions, but (of course) the author failed to mention that tidbit. https://www.fns.usda.gov/form/snap-incentives
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Apple watches have them as well.
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Sure to result in a surge of ticket sales as clandestine intelligence operatives pivot to Czechia as their flight hub of choice. /s
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
I wonder if they have a revocation list they circulate? Surely there must be a mechanism for informing those who need to know when it's a less famous member of royalty. "Colour Sergeant, there's some prince at the gate!"
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
The CTBT calls for a zero nuclear yield threshold; all tests must remain subcritical. It seems likely that China (DoS 2020 report) and Russia (DoS 2022 report) have exceeded this.
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Local acquisitions under this program have saved lives in fire and search & rescue operations. It turns out thermal imaging is pretty useful for that kind of thing. The local SWAT team's Bearcat armored vehicle helped stop bullets
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
That's ridiculous. It's not threatening a launch, it's threatening a new arms race. The idea is to push China into stopping its abrogating behavior. If Trump wanted to start testing unilaterally, he could just do that. There&
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
You were wrong. The NIF doesn't simulate the entire chain of events of a successful detonation. Some experts have pushed for a resumption of American underground tests that exceed treaty yield limitations as a surety check on the new R
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Threat of nuclear war? Where?
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by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Trump stated "equal basis" — no one is conducting atmospheric tests anymore.

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