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by greedo 3y ago
I would be careful conflating the fate of the Moskva with the ability of the USN to survive an ASCM attack. The USN has been working on this particular issue since the 1960s. And the Moskva was an old, poorly maintained and poorly operated
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by greedo 3y ago
Energy abundance doesn't mean at a loss. It just means that excess energy that would go to waste can be used very cheaply, for all sorts of stuff that never would have been able to be accomplished before. Take CO2 extraction. It really
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by greedo 3y ago
It's not a zero sum world economy...
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by greedo 3y ago
True electricity abundance (like posited by fusion reactors) will enable an incredible amount of new advances and technology.
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by greedo 3y ago
It's pathetic to call them ghetto cars, rez wagons or whatever racist term you want to use.
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by greedo 3y ago
Nice terminology about the cars.../s And pot is legal in Oregon, so why would the smell be probable cause? Besides, cops invent PC on a routine basis.
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by greedo 3y ago
By "Copaganda", I was referring to shows like COPS that only shows the dramatic moments, the YT channels that glorify police work, not the boring traffic stops, or the paperwork officers have to deal with. My dislike of this cover
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by greedo 3y ago
So Target claiming their closing stores across the nation due to their lies about shoplifting etc doesn't connect in your mind to this? https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-...
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by greedo 3y ago
Guess where little State Prosecutors grow up? Working cases at the municipal level until they move to the minor leagues. Federal prosecutors work up the same route, so all the institutional bias and privilege is instilled early. How many At
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by greedo 3y ago
Explain then why so many cops fail to understand (or follow) the law? They have a scant understanding of constitutional rights (and usually choose to ignore them when they can get away with it). And surveillance? Give me a break. At my job,
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by greedo 3y ago
You get to see the videos the police want you to see; the videos that reinforce the idea that cops are in a continual state of absolute danger despite all the occupational studies that show it's a relatively safe job. Copaganda...
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by greedo 3y ago
In both shootings, the officers didn't follow standard procedure (let the ESU take over the situation), and instead went all Rambo on the victims. Then failed to render aid after they pumped dozens of rounds into each victim. Or they l
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by greedo 3y ago
You do realize that this has been shown to be absolutely false? That losses due to shoplifting were used as BS justifications to shut down stores? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-sho
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by greedo 3y ago
Can you list some of the ways police have been stripped of their ability to do their job?
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by greedo 3y ago
There's a group that both funds office seekers, as well as votes consistently. Police unions...
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by greedo 3y ago
It's not just the average jury, but prosecutors, judges, mayors, city councils. Police get a pass for so much misconduct on an individual and institutional level it boggles the mind.
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by greedo 3y ago
Most states allow for "taking bags of money from detainees" under civil asset forfeiture.
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by greedo 3y ago
The article talks about how New Orleans (under Federal consent decree) would evaluate the constitutionality of police stops.
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by greedo 3y ago
This has happened where I grew up. All the coastal California towns have priced out the majority of people who grew up there.
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by greedo 3y ago
Yes, because pogroms have solely been targeted against practicing Jews. There are a ton of Jews who don't follow kosher law, who aren't particularly religious, etc etc. Yet they would be targeted by anti-semites.
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by greedo 3y ago
Well, the "investor community" wasn't really well informed. Tesla wanted to pull out of California due to regulations, and was only considering Texas and Oklahoma for the CyberFridge. Texas was selected the year after the ini
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by greedo 3y ago
1. Isaacson's Musk biography was so poorly written and fawning I couldn't finish it. I take nothing in it as fact, mostly PR and hagiography. 2. Musk has had lots of plans. Plans that he dumps the minute he changes his mind.
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by greedo 3y ago
Looks like you are cancelling...
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by greedo 3y ago
I'm sure that the lower regulatory environment in Texas was much more of a factor. Musk has complained for a long time about California's regulations.
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by greedo 3y ago
Looking at the picture of the CT in your link, unless you're Andre the Giant reincarnated, that thing will hit you smack in the face.
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by greedo 3y ago
Catapults have almost always been used to minimize takeoff space, or eliminate it entirely (drone launches). The tradeoffs in using a catapult are stress on the airframe, heavier planes due to hardening the airframe to mitigate this stress,
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by greedo 3y ago
It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous.
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by greedo 3y ago
The amount of fuel needed to become airborne is a fraction of the amount of fuel needed to achieve cruising altitude. So using a catapult would only save a puny amount of fuel, as well as add risk to takeoffs. Plus, if you actually watch a
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by greedo 3y ago
Catapults just shorten the runway needed. The plane still needs a ton of fuel to climb to altitude. Plus, I doubt you'd ever get a lot of civilians to fly off a catapult...
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by greedo 3y ago
When I had much more energy (read younger), I finished my basement. 800sqft or so, put in a guest bedroom, a little library for the missus, a full bath and most importantly a home theater. I was talking with my neighbor who is a realtor and

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