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by mwint 4y ago
Which American accidents are you referring to? (Genuine question)
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by mwint 4y ago
I mean, yeah? If I personally started launching ships to orbit and landing them, I would gain a lot of relevance too. The point is, somehow SpaceX is able to do things Blue can’t. Combined with Tesla being able to do things other automake
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by mwint 4y ago
How about if AT&T said “you cannot pray over our telephone lines”? Because that seems closer to what’s happening here.
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by mwint 4y ago
The immediate change Elon should make is to remove the high-pressure “login/open in app” stuff… it’s ironic that I can’t even read his tweets (without being logged in, at least)
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by mwint 4y ago
Oh come on, that’s like saying someone isn’t being tortured, just temporarily having their pleasure removed until they confess.
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by mwint 4y ago
I wonder… would a nuclear attack wipe out the pyramids? Not one directly on them, but centered on the nearby city?
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by mwint 4y ago
> I found a bug in the course registration system that let me sign up anyway. Hah, that’s an awesome filter… if I ever start a college, signing up for any 200+ level CS class will require spoofing a POST request.
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by mwint 4y ago
> The problem was covid wasn’t bad enough I guess. Yep! If Covid was bad, people would have reacted as such. > But it could have been But it wasn’t! Hooray!
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by mwint 4y ago
> Or, is it just the Covid vaccines that were evil? “Evil” is the wrong word, and is an attempt to simplify ad absurdum the reasons someone might not want the vaccine. These are some of the things that the Covid vaccines were, which thos
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by mwint 4y ago
Maybe then a good category system would be “wet” and “dry”?
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by mwint 4y ago
Huh, this is an interesting question I’ve never thought of: Why wouldn’t it always be more efficient to do single-stream recycling, with giant blue bins for people to throw recyclable stuff in, and have manual sorting at facilities? If the
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by mwint 4y ago
You’re correct - I’m addressing why someone would buy a solar setup and not use it. You’d need a grid tie to use it, and often the permits for those are slow to get. But if the power goes out for an extended period in a real apocalypse scen
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by mwint 4y ago
Is the real answer here some form of radical transparency? I’ve seen some decent arguments that spies prevented the Cold War from becoming hot, because both sides thought they had good info on whether the other side was going to strike.
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by mwint 4y ago
Often, utilities and laws make it irrationally difficult to use solar and grid at the same time. You'd need a grid tie system (if permitted), or loads that you can run off solar alone (not connected to your home wiring). I can totally
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by mwint 4y ago
Not OP, but your email in your profile isn’t visible (at least to me).
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by mwint 4y ago
My guess is they’re including construction and/or materials emissions. So the categories overlap, and whatever you’re talking about will always seem to have a high number (office building contributes x emissions, half of that is transp
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by mwint 4y ago
It’d be interesting to know how much radiation this was, and what would have happened if someone just walked out there and grabbed it. Or put some double sided tape on the end of a stick. Or, said another way, was shutting down a major free
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by mwint 4y ago
> "The damage detected at the pumps has no impact on nuclear safety," the company said on its website. Then start the dang thing! Run it through the winter, fix it in the spring. Unless that’s some form of a lie.
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by mwint 4y ago
> different pumps and tanks This sounds suspiciously like “rip out the gas station and build a new hydrogen station”
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by mwint 4y ago
They’re normalized against previous tests: when was taking ACTs, they would always say “one section is not counted, but you don’t know which one it is, so do your best on everything.” Weird thing to say, but anyway, I’d been told that one s
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by mwint 4y ago
Yes to all. Only vaccine requirements were all stuff I’d had many years ago, and none of those were developed in the previous 18 months. Though this is all somewhat irrelevant; the government didn’t mandate vaccines in most contexts. Coerci
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by mwint 4y ago
> If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements This isn't true, because I've lived here my whole life and experienced zero vaccine requirements since being so young I can't remember. Many that I or
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by mwint 4y ago
For myself, I’d never been on the receiving end of state power until Covid. It does, without a doubt, change how you think about politics, government, etc.
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by mwint 4y ago
I’m guessing they don’t want to put stuff in the areas around runways, because that’s where planes go when something bad happens. I wouldn’t want to be escaping a plane directly into a chopped-up field of HV solar panels.
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by mwint 4y ago
Usually they would do that, cut to commercials, and then show the full thing in slow motion. Irritating, but not quite the same.
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by mwint 4y ago
There's lots of legal things that groups can agree an entity "shouldn't" do, and lots of illegal things groups can agree "should" be done. Even in a court, it's really not a 'should' question. It
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by mwint 4y ago
“Should” questions rarely matter in practice. They are, and they probably won’t be stopped, so each of us at the individual level have to decide if we are okay with it and what additional action to take to protect ourselves, if necessary.
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by mwint 4y ago
Respectful of the democratic process? I get opposing the Roe reversal, but Roe wasn’t created by the democratic process any more than it was just overturned by it. And the democratic process could pass Roe as law tomorrow, if it so chose.
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by mwint 4y ago
Maybe it’s worse than a casino - relatively few people walk into a casino expecting to win life changing money and never come back. Many people use dating apps expecting to find a lifelong partner and never come back.
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by mwint 4y ago
More that the process of verifying age leaks a lot of unrelated information.

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