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by beerandt 5y ago
Those are actually the easy ones to "fix". Either disassemble and pull the spring out, or if it's the push then twist version, just force/ twist the spout past the plastic nub that's supposed to limit how far it twi
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by beerandt 5y ago
Political views are the ultimate primitive protected class in a democracy. Otherwise, it's not a democracy.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Because you're sitting on that embedded energy, at the opportunity cost of someone else not being able to use it. So it's additional supply of both material and embedded energy that otherwise could go to someone else, or wouldn&#x
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by beerandt 5y ago
The embedded energy of a second vehicle won't be made up for in a 10-20mpg improvement, except in very very niche cases. The lifetime amount of fuel/electricity used by a vehicle generally accounts for only half of the total energ
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by beerandt 5y ago
>justified to kill 200k Japanese civilians to save a small handful of allied lives Sacrificing your own soldiers lives to save enemy lives isn't usually a great or even winning military strategy.
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by beerandt 5y ago
He describes the fire bombing of Tokyo in a way (using primary sources) that definitely makes getting nuked seem not so bad by comparison. Both physically and psychologically.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Japan refused to sign IV(1889)/XIV(1907), so the restrictions on aerial bombardment wouldn't apply to either party.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Because lack of home resources and being so susceptible to the oil embargo is basically what led to Japan wanting an empire in the first place. The prewar US trade restrictions/ blockade had a lot to do with Japan believing war with th
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by beerandt 5y ago
>After World War 1 Germany surrendered. That did not result in a good outcome. Which is exactly why the Allied forces agreed to only accept a unconditional surrender. Most people arguing "Japan would have surrendered anyway" ar
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by beerandt 5y ago
>The easiest part about Starship is the booster because its not doing anything F9 isn't already. Just at a much larger scale. That of course isn't easy either. Scaling up in this context isn't simple at all. For all the re
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yea, if this is like the many other similar studies, they are restricting the antibodies counted to the ones specifically made to match the spike protein. Natural immunity makes less for the spike , but more overall, both in breadth of typ
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by beerandt 5y ago
No, because they broke quotes. That's going out of the way to try and tell me what I think.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Because it's least susceptible to reporting bias, and being an extreme, also offers a base point for interpolation, to independently estimate numbers of lessor crimes, especially violent ones.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Canada and international donations to blm is.
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by beerandt 5y ago
For matters of state jurisdiction, like police power, it's interstate and extraunion. As opposed to -lets say- issues related to international trade and crossing an international border between two signatories to NAFTA/USMCA.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>specific to the internal affairs of Canada. It's a Canada policy, but is specific to crossing the border from the US. "Specific to internal affairs" is a stretch at best. >Shining Path, the Contras, the Medellín Cartel
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by beerandt 5y ago
Because many on the right (and center and left) are naive enough to think that left-leaning groups/entity protests getting "mostly peaceful" positive coverage during the height of lockdowns in 2020 was actually an unbiased sh
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by beerandt 5y ago
There's no need for ideological alignment to be notorious. Something being controversial is more than enough.
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by beerandt 5y ago
From videos of US protests in recent years, it's pretty clear that certain factions are teaching protesters to abuse these "rules". Same as if these red cross helicopters were to be armed and attack while still painted with a
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by beerandt 5y ago
The placement of crossings is less about giving pedestrians right of way, and more about designating places where it's safe to cross. Unfortunately, the opposite often happens due to political pressure. People know that a blind curve i
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by beerandt 5y ago
>January outlays fell 37% to $346 billion, partly as they did not include $142 billion in individual stimulus payments sent in January 2021. The dropoff in covid spending since congress is in a stalemate and didn't extend programs
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by beerandt 5y ago
As part of the market, your opportunity costs go up. Meaning you need a higher sale price to offset a higher buying price if you want to move. Or that locking in that current cost means less inventory on the market. Housing costs going up a
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by beerandt 5y ago
Vehicles are not only "behind" on supply (which is difficult enough to overcome in an industry that's so dialed in to production capacity that quick bumps in production aren't possible), but they continue to be produced
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by beerandt 5y ago
Manipulating just what is included in the "average basket of goods" and at what percentages is how.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>apparently the big rise is in used ones Only because there are practically no new ones. We've been trying to buy a new vehicle for over a year, with a family member owning a dealership, and still haven't been able to get one.
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is a failure mode already accounted for in determining the posted weight limits.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Roman slaves were the spoils of war, while American slaves were the spoils of criminal enterprise American slaves were also the spoils of war, just with a middleman and a miserable voyage between capture and being put to work. The compe
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by beerandt 5y ago
The incentive might be the seized property, but the purpose is to disrupt the drug trade in cases where prosecution would be difficult or impossible. Which it is technically accomplishing.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I'm all for that, but that means a lot of other federal laws and regulations getting wiped from the books. Which I think is a good thing, but many arguing this angle for marijuana legalization haven't fully considered the implic
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yea- agree with it or not, technically this is Civil Asset Forfeiture working as intended (Ie not one of the many many abuses of it.): To make it difficult for drug dealers to continue selling and transporting drugs by seizing proceeds and

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