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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm not saying that times aren't rough. Obviously tines are rough. What I'm saying is that America is not on the cusp of a civil war and the overwhelming majority of Americans aren't itching to kill each other, they ju
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Well I have some good news for you, they lost the election . A few of them may not like to admit that, but they lost nevertheless and any scenario where Biden or Harris isn't president a year from now is a delusion.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If that's a coup, then obviously not all coups are worth worrying about. They really are not going to do shit.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Most of the republicans I know are disappointed, but not so severely that they want to go killing people. That sort of extremism is very fringe. Also, even if you count the mellow majority, they're far from 50%.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is no coup, just some sore losers who aren't going to do shit except get laughed at by a few judges.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the overwhelming majority of people who make claims like that are just full of hot air. If the shooting ever started, they'd be hiding indoors with the rest of us. This is one of the reasons I think the scenarios they propose
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Fridge/freezer combos are already a compromise design that sacrifice efficiency for floor space. Chest freezers that open from the top are far more efficient (the cold air doesn't all pour out when the door is opened.)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the real truth of the matter is the majority of Americans know the sky isn't falling. Profit motivated media is blowing the political divide way out of the water, fear mongering to sell eyeballs to advertisers. I've got
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This is doubtlessly why Facebook likes to buy their potential competitors. Any particular social media platform might be a transient fad, but the company itself can remain relevant by buying all the new fads.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
'Torching the company' implies they're figuratively burning the place down, which seems like an exaggeration. A more appropriate fire idiom might be 'flaming the company', or you could say they're 'spitti
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by bigbubba 6y ago
In some contexts, a subcritical geometry is simply a plastic jug that's too small to hold a critical mass. Obviously they're not using plastic jugs for this, but the principle of the thing is pretty straight forward. They could
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> This formidable safety tactic is only possible if the fuel is a liquid." [1] Isn't something similar possible with pebble reactors, at least in principle?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
*delayable.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Such a failure seems reasonable to me, such a pressure vessel obviously needs to be as light as possible to maximize payload. But making it lighter will make it weaker. And even today there are limits to computer analysis, hence why they
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There are a lot of companies like that popping up now in the wake of SpaceX's success. Enough to fatigue most peoples' capacity for excitement I think, particularly in the cases where the company has interesting ideas but has not
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Probably not, SpaceX invested a lot of time and effort into composite tanks before giving that up.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This is the first incident I've heard of that seems concerning, but admittedly I've not followed the matter closely. I've heard they had some incidents on the pad, or the one they crashed earlier this week, but neither of th
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I generally agree that these discussions are tedious because of fanboys, but consider this: If SpaceX fans/employees didn't have an unreasonable amount of optimism, then SpaceX never would have put anything into orbit in the first
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You've been downvoted but clearly heavy objects falling over in workshops where workers might be squished is not meant to be part of their corner-cutting rapid prototyping approach to rocket design. That's an industrial accident,
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Why do you say that I'm obsessed with vindictiveness? Note that I am not the GP, I left only two comments concerning it. I happen to think that your feelings vindictiveness are justified. I'm just saying you shouldn't dece
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> designer psilocybin analogues Is that what 'dried mushrooms' means in Canada?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That's a justification for your vindictiveness (which I did not ask nor expect you to justify.) I am suggesting that you recognize your vindictiveness for what it is, not that you deny yourself feelings of vindictiveness.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You can't deny there is a certain vindictiveness to that comment. Being a little vindictive is fine, it's unreasonable to expect saintly purity from people, but it's good to admit such mindsets to yourself at least.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
As I understand it, their navigation system favors routes with fewer left turns, but there is no prohibition against drivers making left turns.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe UPS drivers ignore it, or maybe UPS no longer does it, but it's not an urban legend: https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/knowledge-center/article.... (This link claims they had 55,000 drivers u
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Open a bar, pour liquor down the drain then say you sold it at a huge markup and they paid with cash. (This is not advice.)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Utah loves laws that hassle drinkers, because they're a bunch of Mormons.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts in order to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Small nitpick, whether or not something is propaganda has nothing to do with whether or not it's correct. These are completely orthogonal. "Loose lips sink ships" is basically true, and is also a textbook example of propa
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Except when it's not. Often being cynical will give you accurate expectations, but sometimes not being cynical pays off. https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/ > In the video, Enrico encouraged every work

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