frostburg

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by frostburg 4y ago
Yes. It's not like professional sport is important.
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by frostburg 4y ago
You really can't model this on a single axis.
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by frostburg 4y ago
When you read that on a newspaper you know that you're reading a newspaper and they tell you that they've talked with people that allegedly told them something different than the official line. This doesn't happen with stuff
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by frostburg 4y ago
What is being said here is basically the tautological truth that official government acts are indeed the official government acts, generally with some mechanism such as signing, publishing in an official gazette or something like that. Not
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by frostburg 4y ago
They clearly do, but there is a difference between speculating and posing as the government and lying about what the real government is saying.
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by frostburg 4y ago
If you count averages, I agree, but I would argue that the bulk of what makes the NYT nominally left wing is very safe signaling on almost stereotypically caviar gauche issues, while they're not left wing when it could actually matter
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by frostburg 4y ago
Imagine that you're talking about database transactions or crypto key exchanges, instead of executive acts.
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by frostburg 4y ago
The omitted part drastically alters the meaning and you just ran with it.
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by frostburg 4y ago
I find disturbing how a large portion of the general USA public is apparently convinced that the NYT and CNN are leftist orgs (due to a general political realignment that left not being socially reactionary and imperialism clustered, as far
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by frostburg 4y ago
Not merely an opinion but an opinion on a deeply unimportant but politically strategic wedge issue.
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by frostburg 4y ago
They're comparatively a lot more trustworthy than anyone decrying the evils of the "MSM", despite serious issues and systematic bias. At the very least, you mostly know who they are.
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by frostburg 4y ago
I recall the same thing being said about Apple and USB-C ports in iPhones, yet here we are.
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by frostburg 4y ago
When I wrote that, the thread was empty and I was referring to the Twitter thread, not this one.
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by frostburg 4y ago
The national governments are either elected directly or by a directly elected parliament; there is not as much difference as you think when you consider the state-level mechanics of the electoral college (commissioners also have a lot less
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by frostburg 4y ago
The anti-EU brigade in the comments isn't exactly giving a good showing of its intellectual caliber, with the most common arguments being that EU representatives are unelected (true in the same sense that the president of the USA is un
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by frostburg 4y ago
You have no idea about how much Tuscan municipialities care about medieval pigs, especially if they can get a protected designation of origin out of them (also not everyone is willfully ignorant, but I support accurate medieval pigs in vide
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by frostburg 4y ago
Every school (and many university professors) does "cold calls" in Italy, as far as I know; scheduled oral examinations are the exception, not the rule, before university. Not knowing the answer at a random university lecture does
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by frostburg 4y ago
"What is base load?"
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by frostburg 4y ago
They're friends with other people with guns and rockets.
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by frostburg 4y ago
The Kinzhal is basically an air-launched Iskander, a ballistic rocket, not a cruise air-breathing missile.
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by frostburg 4y ago
The Pershing II and the ASM-135 ASAT did that in the '80s, actually. The Soviet Union also had a FOBS.
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by frostburg 4y ago
This is true but Factorio is not Madden; for example they have a sizable (for Factorio) built-in audience of everyone making iOS apps. The pencil would work well for input, I'd gladly buy it again.
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by frostburg 4y ago
This specific problem can be solved by rotating motherboard 90 degrees (there are a few Silverstone cases that are laid out like this, they also tend to have excellent air cooling performance).
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by frostburg 4y ago
I can't find out exactly why. The ACLU might think that being able to marry is a right worth defending for emancipated minors or something along that line, but it doesn't look like a strong argument (I think that marriage shouldn&
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by frostburg 4y ago
No, they'll break modern cameras due to their shape, but that's why I mentioned the FT3 and FM.
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by frostburg 4y ago
No EOS camera is mechanical because they all use EF lenses with electronic aperture control, I don't think that's what the parent post asks for.
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by frostburg 4y ago
The manual lenses are actually better on modern mirrorless cameras than on older dslr ones, because those had viewfinders that made focusing manually rather hard, while the mirrorless bodies have good focus aids.
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by frostburg 4y ago
Those are bad in general and also specifically bad for learning since the results aren't repeatable.
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by frostburg 4y ago
The issue there is that the once very affordable FD lenses are now popular among filmmakers for rehousing, which makes them a lot less affordable. Pre-AI Nikon is cheaper.
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by frostburg 4y ago
Olympus OM-1 (or OM-1n) if you can stand using silver oxide batteries for the light meter. There are many other great fully mechanical options but they can be somewhat expensive or have issues with finding lenses. The OM-2n is also great bu

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