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by beerandt 5y ago
>that would be true no matter how you changed the militia clause. Right- but that's exactly the point, and why reading it differently is critical. >A rag tag posse of unarmed thugs First- the term "militia" also had dif
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by beerandt 5y ago
The popular mechanism remains- there's no need to encourage a voluntary interest in military culture and therefore military readiness, when it's already a popular idea to mandate the readiness. In the absence of that mandate, ther
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>Australia has no home nuclear capability and wanted to be able to do some of the maintenance locally. That's premised on whether France would have been willing to sell that capability to AUS, and for what price, vs the price (econo
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by beerandt 5y ago
Well I suspect the demand was at least partially due to budget, as opposed to philosophical or technological reasons for diesel over nuclear. Separately, I've got to think turnkey access to the tomahawk missiles has almost got to play
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Well we don't really know that, because studies like this one seem to go out of the way to avoid directly studying that, or at least sharing the results. Including whether exposure might result in any level of immunity without diagnosi
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by beerandt 5y ago
They have a POV, but I wouldn't call it a US bias. They're pretty quick to criticize. (It's one of my few regular reads besides HN.) They always post their sources, and then explain any speculation from there. Usually the spe
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's relevant because the 2nd amendment calls for the militia to be well-regulated, (not the arms themselves, or the people), and then goes further, specifically saying the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. And it does so by
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by beerandt 5y ago
If software is released for a sub-system that enemies don't know exists, or for a senior system that makes calls to that sub-system, damaging information is being revealed right there. Even just exposing data structures will reveal cap
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This doesn't work, because the complexity and reach of the systems are themselves sensitive information about capabilities. Even the un-classified stuff is mind-blowing, including thinking about how to even begin running/building
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>that people who have previously tested positive for COVID-19 as well as receiving two vaccine doses have the best protection against future infection. No mention of natural immunity on its own compared to anything else.
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by beerandt 5y ago
There's a reason that national, electronic, centralized medical records happened before we started hearing these pushes for red-flag laws.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Try putting a pre-emptive background check, $200 fee, and 10-12 month waiting period for approval on any other constitutional right, whether that right be explicitly stated, or implicitly "discovered".
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Yet every swiss male citizen does military training and is issued a weapon to keep, to use in staying proficient. There's no need for a military culture, when the government has already mandated it for you. Not that it isn't popul
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This is like claiming people get in car accidents during every single driving trip, because accident reports fail to ever mention drivers reaching their destination safely and without incident.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It means different countries have different cultures that value life and violence in different ways. And that your immediate neighbors will have more of an influence on that than a country on the other side of the world, especially if there
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by beerandt 5y ago
This pope pushing for just about anything will cause more Catholics to outright reject it than to embrace it.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I'd argue that's a result of the historic usage that has persisted, partly because it's compatible, but only in context. A steam regulator supplies steam from the boiler to the piston/traction, at the desired controlle
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by beerandt 5y ago
Department policies have caused a surge in resignations and early retirements, with no supply of new recruits eager to step up. In sense, the movement was successful because it reduced the number of police on the street. OTOH, those places
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by beerandt 5y ago
Separately, "regulate" didn't mean the same thing then as it does today. Think about the phrase "well-regulated". When has modern regulation ever been described as "well"? And what would that even mean? Th
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Australia?
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by beerandt 5y ago
No, it's decomposing grass, expelled as cow burps. That grass decomposes whether it's eaten by a cow or not. And grazing land use has been decreasing, but not land use for producing feed.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's meaningless, unadjusted percentages of separate populations. Idk if it's supposed to mislead or confuse, or if they're just idiots at the CDC that don't understand statistics. They shouldn't be comparing percen
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by beerandt 5y ago
Beyond it's shortcomings, it doesn't really solve anything. The land growing grass and corn to feed livestock isn't suddenly going to be abandoned, or even repurposed, and it's that biomass that's the ultimate sourc
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by beerandt 5y ago
Netflix makes it too easy to re-subscribe, though. I cancelled it after one of the price hikes and a round of it suggesting nothing I wanted to watch, only to have it seemingly re-subscribe on it's own. After a couple of rounds of that
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by beerandt 5y ago
It shouldn't, but the organized religions have largely held their ground on principle, when others have given up rights for broken promises of safety, or equality, or "for the greater good," but most of all, because they thin
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by beerandt 5y ago
When you're trying to convince STEM professionals to go from hand written design documents to computer generated, you'd better be able to reproduce every little symbol that they're accustomed to using, or else it's just
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by beerandt 5y ago
This isn't necessarily the case anymore. At least not universally. Big bombs and mirvs weren't necessarily for more damage, but primarily to ensure smaller, high priority targets got destroyed. (Because accuracy of ballistic pro
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by beerandt 5y ago
Here's Entergy's visual: worse than the next 4 hurricanes on the list, combined, including Katrina. (This is part of what I meant when I said msm isn't covering it well up thread.) https://www.entergy.com/hurr
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's good to hear. Lake Charles is still waiting on Congressional approval for a relief bill for last year's hurricane damage, so there's some angst. Cable news seemed stuck on Afghanistan evacuations (which didn't h
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not likely- the odds ratio vs non-users for smoking (2.01) is lower than that for vaping (2.26) and "other" (2.36). They say that this is not statistically significant , however all forms of cannabis use vs non-users is statisti

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