giardini

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by giardini 1mo ago
So how much?
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by giardini 1mo ago
Hey there, Otto! Otto's "I blame Society" speech from the movie Repo Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3b5Q7b8YXo
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by giardini 1mo ago
You don't have to engage the burglar, you just need to shoot a gun once (a shotgun is especially effective) b/c the blast will render the perp deaf temporarily. Sometimes you get some mechanics' tools. But the best part is
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by giardini 1mo ago
hackable_sand says "Same value. They're the same value." How do you come by that? By that logic, Joseph Stalin is as valuable as Mother Theresa!
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by giardini 1mo ago
What causes people to become Democrats? Who knows?! Companionship?
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by giardini 1mo ago
Yeah, what happened? Shooting someone inside a car will undoubtedly make a mess! Did he drag the thief out of the car ASAP afterwards, did the guy run off, or what? My actions would likely depend on how fond I was of the car: New Tesla - tr
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by giardini 1mo ago
Yeah, but who know how many thieves end up dead. And regardless of state, there's always revenge - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071402/
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by giardini 1mo ago
bryanlarsen says "Texas is the only state that applies stand-your-ground to crimes against property alone." Not true.
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by giardini 1mo ago
Med school.
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by giardini 1mo ago
A drop of water moving down a surface might act like the belt of a miniature Van de Graaf generator: accumulating or dropping electrons at one end and vice versa at the other end of the drop as it rolls down the surface. This rolling polari
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by giardini 1mo ago
SoftTalker says "as I have a long-standing personal boycott of Shell products." What's your beef with Shell products? BTW thanks for the post on Kroger: they've been tempting me with credit card offerings (lower gas pr
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Investigation of agents in OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident(metr.org)
5 points by giardini 1mo ago|0 comments
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Swarm of 700 AI bots went rogue in hacking attack(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by giardini 1mo ago|0 comments
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by giardini 1mo ago
Do we know how Costco's "additive package" rates relative to other providers (e.g., Shell's) additive packages? Currently I buy Shell gas b/c I trust that it's good for my car's engine. Can I trust that Co
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by giardini 1mo ago
I've been to many of the major cities in China and hubs in-between and I have not seen a single public toilet that is clean. Humid, stinky, wet, stained with shite and urine yes but "clean", no way!8-((
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by giardini 2mo ago
astura says ..."Catholic teachings (they both went to Catholic school) very heavily discouraged individuals from reading the Bible. My parents also grew up going to mass in Latin, a language they don't understand. Things are diff
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by giardini 2mo ago
FTFA: "... instead of grabbing myself by the balls and admitting that I was climbing a ladder propped against the wrong building.." Indeed a complex metaphor! Perhaps it has a Russian cultural source? An origin story? But i also m
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by giardini 2mo ago
general1465 says "You are pretty cathartic..." Well, you apparently needed the purge. But you need more: EM catapults may someday, somewhere be a future but first they must work reliably and predictably. The salt-water environment
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by giardini 2mo ago
Since when did the Chinese set the mechanical engineering standards for US aircraft carrier design? How many aircraft carriers do the Chinese have in the field today? How many does USA have? My favorite: What percentage of the Chinese navy
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by giardini 2mo ago
That's always been part of the trade-off. but the EM units were never reliable, probably never will be (b/c too many structurally weak and electrically unreliable components and connectors in a very harsh physical environment). An
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by giardini 2mo ago
The steam catapult has always been superior. This has nothing to do with Trump, just more TDS crap.
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by giardini 2mo ago
The above link, https://archive.ph/XDM2H does not work for me. However I can see that there is plenty of food (perhaps too much) at the end of the world.
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by giardini 2mo ago
Citation?
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by giardini 2mo ago
ghusto says: "...'We're going to make the Straits of Hormuz a US territory?! Are you out of your fucking mind? I mean, obviously yes, but Jesus Christ.' Thank you, finally, a name for our new state in the Mideast: &quot
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by giardini 2mo ago
Why doesn't someone give us an LLM that is as "educated" as possible, instead of throwing us dummies like this?
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by giardini 2mo ago
No more than you are here.
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by giardini 2mo ago
Little secret: we only disconnect lefties! Most of them don't know about that box on the side of their rental unit! And FWIW we're hoarding the mustard sardines for WWIII (or the next Super Bowl party). Bwahahahaaaaah!
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by giardini 2mo ago
But honestly what are the odds that you would find and successfuly test the very tick that infects you with Lyme disease? Gotta be pretty slim!
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by giardini 2mo ago
ssl-3 says "If moving to Texas would make me be just as smart, witty, and observant as you think that you are yourself, then: I think that I would rather stay where I'm at, thanks." Then we shall both remain happy and Texan
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by giardini 2mo ago
And WTF is it about mud guards now? When i was young all bicycles came with mud guard (then called "fenders") front and rear. Now they seem to be anathema. Every bike I rode w/o fenders put a stripe of mud up my back!

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