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by justin66 8mo ago
Soma was really good, and certainly worth playing if someone likes sci-fi and single-player FPSes and this subject matter, but there are some fundamentally frustrating things about it. Number one for me: in contrast with something like Half
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by justin66 9mo ago
When reached for comment, a Department of Defense official told Business Insider, "There is no Department of War directive requiring service members to see this film, though the film is fantastic."
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by justin66 9mo ago
> How could you prove that though? This is uncomplicated. You ask him the question and he answers. The judge or jury decides whether he is telling the truth.
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by justin66 9mo ago
Obnoxiousness isn’t the decisive factor in the creation and application of laws that you seem to think it is.
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by justin66 9mo ago
> Why wasn’t that the thing that annoyed people? It's an occurrence that, whether you approve or not, is a normal thing for an editorial board to do, and people pay for it. They would have already lost any subscribers who find the p
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by justin66 9mo ago
The strategic adversary their fighters are likely to encounter, Russia, flies propeller-driven subsonic bombers for the most part. Any modern fighter is adequate to the task. (it's beyond the scope of the current conversation but Canad
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by justin66 9mo ago
To add a little clarity, here's a link to (perhaps ironically) the Post's own reporting on the event. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washin... https://arc
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by justin66 9mo ago
You misunderstand what occurred. The paper prepared an endorsement and Bezos killed it. > they refused to endorse a candidate. > for them choosing not to endorse Harris There was no "they" or "them" involved.
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by justin66 9mo ago
I haven't measured this but all the ingredients are there: they're unjacketed or copper washed, and they are made from soft lead rather than a hard-cast alloy. You can get a polymer-coated or pure copper round but that's pret
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by justin66 9mo ago
The base of the bullet is lead (with jacketed pistol rounds, that's often true even if it's a "full metal jacket" and some brands are trying to draw a distinction there with "total metal jacket" branding) and i
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by justin66 9mo ago
You can still buy the same stuff at an airport or race track.
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by justin66 9mo ago
Yeah. Two crewmen, something like twice as much payload weight (originally designed to carry a nuclear bomb or two instead of a top-tier reconnaissance package), and apparently less ceremony in general than the U-2. The U-2 really wants to
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by justin66 9mo ago
It's a pity the $600k won't be deducted from his retirement income.
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by justin66 9mo ago
You make it sound like the word of an eccentric billionaire is as good as a US treasury bond.
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by justin66 9mo ago
There is no reason you would have forgotten.
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by justin66 9mo ago
It's a downgrade that we have no choice but to accept in order to continue using our machines. Anyone familiar with Microsoft or Apple already knows that's the future.
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by justin66 9mo ago
Learning BASIC isn't essential, but the thing is, you might as well just do it. It's not complicated, and you're not under any obligation to develop a big piece of software with it. Have fun!
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by justin66 9mo ago
Donuts don't just eat themselves.
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by justin66 9mo ago
Cringe: In a statement, Lyric Jorgenson, associate director of science policy at the N.I.H., said the agency had taken steps to protect the ABCD Study. It has introduced a new online portal requiring users to complete training on responsib
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by justin66 9mo ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't LEO satellites only going to reflect light from the sun when they're at low angles near sunrise and sunset? For night time stargazing, they're going to be in Earth's shadow,
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by justin66 9mo ago
We’ve apparently abandoned the meaning of the word “best,” for staters. > For countries outside the US, it would actually not be a bad scenario. I really don’t think I can help you, but the two obvious crazy ideas encompassed here are th
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by justin66 9mo ago
We would fund nationwide health care and more robust social programs if it weren't for all the money we are spending on defense is simply not something the US right-wing and centrists ever put out there. When they fought those things
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by justin66 9mo ago
> The US is more stable than the powers of Europe (which have constant political upheavals, snap elections that completely remake the political landscape, etc) How many European powers have had their incumbent head of state violently att
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by justin66 9mo ago
As far as I know, Trump is unique among American leaders in having mused stupidly in public about not paying all holders of US Treasury debt. But I'm sure he would not do anything crazy. That's just inconceivable.
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by justin66 9mo ago
This comment: A new civil war that drives the US to fragment into several independent regions over the course of the next ~five years would kind of be the best scenario from a global perspective. is nutty.
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by justin66 9mo ago
Better: advertising!
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by justin66 9mo ago
I guess I don't even know what to do with some of this information. It occurred to me that you'd also probably have to build some infrastructure (power plant, railroad, fuel terminal, a real port... I don't know) in order to
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by justin66 9mo ago
What examples of digging through that amount of ice for the purposes of mining are you familiar with? What's a good example? It'd be interesting to understand how much the environment there increases the cost of mining. Anything i
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by justin66 9mo ago
"Zero backlash" isn't fully accurate. You could complain about the focus of current protests in the United States being in other areas, but that's what happens when masked thugs are brutalizing and abducting your neighbo
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by justin66 9mo ago
All interesting questions that fall short unless you’re willing to assume the American president will act deliberately in the national interest. I feel we’ve clearly moved past that point.

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