mantaraygun

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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> 20 minutes warning That's why. Dumb article, do people think tornadoes are the same thing as hurricanes or something?
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> - every day I deal with broken links and broken images because my feed reader doesn't know from which URL it should resolve relative links I have a restrictive whitelist configuration for uMatrix and in most cases I don't bot
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
They're being replaced by people taking fewer trips, and fewer people taking trips at all. By people taking road trips instead of plane/etc trips and having their own car at their destination, or by choosing to visit friends&#x2
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> Someone at Hertz is culpable for not taking steps to prevent this from happening. It's far from clear that anybody at Hertz is criminally culpable, which is what was suggested upthread, with talk of people making false stateme
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> 1.8.9 and 1.12.2 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the first favored by pay-to-win servers and pvp specializing servers, while 1.12.2 is favored for modding? Both seem pretty niche to me, albeit noisy niches. There have
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
You missed it, or maybe your translation left it out? Search for 'Apothetae': > Nor was it in the power of the father to dispose of the child as he thought fit; he was obliged to carry it before certain triers at a place cal
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> hundreds of thousands of project have "log4j" in their dependency list That's on them. They can migrate to wyldfire-fixed-log4j if they want, or to whatever other fork they want, or they can keep using the old busted
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
The US Navy has lost/dropped some nuclear bombs too. But what he means is they've never had a serious reactor accident. They've lost two nuclear submarines, but neither was due to a problem with the reactor. Fumbling a n
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> Uranium isn’t dangerous by itself Well.. it's not a huge deal but don't eat it. I have a bit of uranium ore on my bookshelf, but I avoid handling it and wash my hands after I do. Besides the alpha radiation, which isn&#x2
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
Both at once would be quite a shitshow. Soil liquefaction floats your tornado shelter right out of the ground, then the tornado smashes it. I can't imagine what it would take to survive both at once. Thankfully both at once would b
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
Does Brave have their own extension 'store' yet? Last I heard they're still piggybacking off Chrome's. I see no point in Brave supporting the old API if none of the extensions do.
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> people getting head injuries when getting zapped is pretty common This scares the shit out of me, more than getting shot by a cop. Cops use tasers a lot more freely than guns, very frequently using them when there is no plausible
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
I'm not sure about those particular air rifles, but there are .177 and .22 caliber air rifles capable of 50J or more. A half gram .117 pellet at 1600fps is 60J. They should definitely be treated as weapons.
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> From what I can see the only arms that are prohibited are ones that don't have a legal use (ie sawnoff shotguns) Not really, the sawnoff shotguns thing is an anachronism. The National Firearms Act (NFA) which restricted sawnoff
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
Why is it called a shotgun? It shoots little discs, not shot.
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
I don't know what it's like in Italy, but in America bicycles are allowed on almost all roads, except for limited access highways. They're even allowed on most regular highways, to the chagrin of many car drivers. The poor
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
> there are countless reasons why you cannot drive a bicycle [...] on a highway besides the speed you travel at. What reasons other than speed are there for keeping bicycles off fast roads? Motorcycle can be very nearly just as small
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
If the road conditions were good, then breathalyzing somebody who's going substantially below the speed limit for no apparent reason seems prudent. If road conditions were poor, then obviously that's another story.
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by mantaraygun 5y ago
Since this minting craft would only practiced by a very small number of people (relative to other crafts), I think the chance of many relevant artifacts/documents surviving until today would be relatively slim.