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by post_from_work 5y ago
Special Forces Assessment training handbook (aimed at success in Army Special Forces, but lots of practical workouts and injury-prevention techniques): https://goarmysof.com/documents/sf/SFAS-PT-handbook.pdf Speci
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>>>Once you have the ability for individuals to launch multi ton payloads on escape velocity, you have the ability for individuals to launch multi ton payloads at earth. An important plot point in Heinlein's "The Moon is
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No, these are the typical levels of Chinese influence operations: https://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/chinese_malign_influ... https://gnews.org/635457/ https://asia.nikkei
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dethrone != "take over" It's important to understand the concept of the Petrodollar, how that system is secured by US maritime supremacy, and how it underpins the US financial system. https://www.israeldefense.co.i
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>>>But why should we as Westerners actually care? Because the CCP has built a blue-water Navy, which it continues to expand, with the stated goal of dethroning the US as the global hegemon? https://www.reuters.com/i
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>>>why wouldn't the Chinese support their government? Trepidation at encouraging/rewarding a state apparatus that is comfortable driving armored vehicles over its own protesting student citizens? It's easy to support
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From The Atlantic ( https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/trump-r... ), attributing comments to the WHO: *But critics from WHO and elsewhere have said the bans are unnecessary and could
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>>>You don't care about your carbon emissions at all? We are introducing such big amounts of greenhouse gasses just from our consumerism lifestyle and the convenience of it all is big enough to just "[not] care". Who
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>>>All the people who work in positions where they have to physically show up must be aware that they need to be charging extra for being in a position where they have to physically show up relative to others got the benefit of sit
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v... https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/vim.2021.0054
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>>>And they'll ask us uncomfortable questions we won't have good answers for. Didn't you know about the health risks at the amounts you were consuming? Yup. Didn't care. Bacon-wrapped filet mignon tastes THAT go
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Implement records management/data management policies with metadata tagging for individual fields in a record. This could cover Unclassified/Secret/etc. as well as PII/PHI. Then when a FOIA requests comes in, the softwar
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>>>We separately run 4 of the top ten air forces. One of my favorite quotes about how massive and redundant our military is: "Your Navy possesses its own Army, which possesses its own Air Force....which is larger than the Air
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>>>To a lot of people, giant military-looking gun = assault rifle. >>>It’s not always a false claim; Words have meaning and details matter, especially when discussing legalities. It absolutely is always a false claim. To a
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by post_from_work 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_key easily confused with the conversation's "Windows key" aka "software license".
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I think there is a "Show Dead" button. Also you can click on a message's timestamp and if you have sufficient karma, you can "Vouch" for a message, and then upvote it.
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Another non-paywalled article on the subject: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/995389117/howard-universitys-...
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>>>95% of people can cycle, and electric bikes or trikes or tuk-this exist for the rest of the population, and are much less expensive than cars. I’m pretty sure no one HAS to use a car to survive. "less expensive" "
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Then I'd really like to see how many of those polled are overweight/obese.
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I visited Slovenia and stayed in LJ for a long week in...2012? Lovely city, enjoyed the cafe culture. THAT SAID....getting around downtown was a pain in the ass. I don't cycle so walking EVERYWHERE got tedious. The article reads that r
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>>>What makes Dune and Foundation scifi and not just feudalism in space? The Foundation TV show bores me to death A LOT of science fiction is "X in space". The Hammer's Slammers stories are "Vietnam in space&quo
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Damn a $0.75 can is cheap even by Japanese standards, and I'm assuming that's a US-standard 12FL OZ can (bigger than Japanese ones too).
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Granted I live in Japan, but I carry a coinpurse (an old camera bag) because the 10-yen, 100-yen, and 500-yen coins are so useful. Vending machines are on practically every corner here, and the drink sizes are such that $1.20 for a drink is
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>>>There's a mention of "KVM switches". I'm not at a Combatant Command, but work in a smaller military operations center. KVMs are prolific because we frequently need to switch between computers on discrete netw
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by post_from_work 5y ago
An interesting written SF series with similar themes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence
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Re: Bush-> Obama -> Trump....Your position comes off as very emotive, focused on feelings and sentiment. I looked at Obama's election the way Padme looked at Chancellor Palpatine declaring the First Galactic Empire in Star Wars.
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>>>Also, when you're playing hearts with friends, your friends aren't telling you to kill yourself, it's light hearted banter. Ha! Play cards with Marines. We absolutely tell people to "suck-start their service
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I don't think ANY party apparatus operates in good faith. Maybe it comes from being in the military, which is harshly meritocratic, reasonably color-blind, and expects people to overcome obstacles. I'd rather work to reform the de
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>>>This culture of fear is what the Republicans want and its what they need to hold on to power amid changing demographics. They will strip the government of every last thing they possibly can on their way out of relevance. You do
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The Department of Defense uses EDIPI, which is basically a second SSN-like number used to identify you for less-secure/serious stuff short of healthcare, etc... https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Intercha

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