mr_toad

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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Not to mention US air bases dotted all over the Middle East, the near East, Europe, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean the Arctic…
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> That will require that humans never come in contact with the regolith or things that touched it. It’s really only a concern if you ingest it.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
‘Ozone’ is the smell of ionisation, ‘gunpowder’ the smell of oxidisation.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Suffer them to tarnation.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
And yet many early religions associate their local mountain with god(s).
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Seems to be partly price discrimination, I guess that people willing to pay more will fork out for flexible tickets. Same goes for seat allocation.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
It’s worrying, or perhaps just sad, that 766ms for an initial page load is considered especially noteworthy. Six thousand milliseconds is just awful.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
The papacy prefers to excommunicate rulers, the idea being that their subjects will turn against them.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
From what I’ve seen religions derive from basic human virtues and not the other way around.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Commons in England were being enclosed in the Tudor age. It caused a great deal of social unrest, even rebellion. It had little to do with technology, and was mostly caused by population growth.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
It’s all about sex. Being idle typically means being poor. Try being in the dating market when you’re poor. Being bald means being middle aged which is also a big negative in the dating market. The people who are lauding the virtues of b
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Junior doctors slave away for senior doctors so that they can one day become senior doctors with 10x the pay and have junior doctors do most of their work. That’s not going to happen for the average white collar worker.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> SLS launches are so expensive, and so slow to build and prep to launch, that we cannot fit in a uncrewed mission between 1 and 2 to test or validate fixes or models If they’d wanted to they could have launched an empty Orion crew modul
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> You'd think if it's causing this much of a problem, there would be money available. There’s plenty of economic solutions if companies are really that desperate. They can pay a premium to encourage more investment. They can
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Too often I see IT departments use this as an excuse to only upgrade when they absolutely have to, usually with little to no testing in advance, which leaves them constantly being back-footed by incompatibility issues. The idea of advanced
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
ID cards don’t connect to the internet. These days an ID system that doesn’t work online is next to useless.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Someone has to stay behind and make ammunition.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Figures I’ve seen say over 700,000 casualties in the British Army alone. 3.7 million served in the Army, which is a fairly high proportion when compared to the age range suitable for military service. Add in the Navy and RAF and you get to
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Why don’t presidents fight the war; why do they always send the poor?
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> If France stops being a deterrent Russia would be able to nuke Brussels - and perhaps a few other capitals to make the point - and likely force immediate surrender. Ukraine isn’t under anyone’s nuclear umbrella, but Russia hasn’t done
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Jaywalking is illegal is many jurisdictions, partly for pedestrians own safety, but also partly to shift the blame if a pedestrian is involved in an accident. So it’s mostly seen as a crime where people only hurt themselves.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> That money is held in a US treasury account. In February the estimated price from the first 50 M barrels was $2.8bn... with the USA+Israel bombing of Iran, the price of course would have increased since. That’s chicken feed compared to
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
What clearance level do you have?
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
If you live in the southern hemisphere most pictures of the Moon that you see online look upside down compared to ones that you take yourself.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
One would hope they’re still in Earth’s orbit - if they’ve achieved escape velocity they’re not coming back.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
What does it look like to human eyes? Is there enough light for a person up there to see colour, or would it look like black and white (like a moonlit scene on the ground).
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
They’re not circling the Earth, but they’re still orbiting it. Their orbit is highly eccentric, and will be near the Moon at apogee.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
in WWII they had to avoid serving gassy foods to bomber crews because at high altitudes intestinal issues could go from uncomfortable to lethal.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Yes, although it’s designed for interdiction, rather than primarily a ground attack aircraft, the difference being that it’s intended to be used against defenceless ground targets (like supply lines), not on the front lines.

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