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by racnid 5y ago
With all due respect, that's the point of sanctions. You've brought it up as some sort of gotcha. It's not. They're a means to cripple the war-making ability of a nation without actually bombing them into submission or s
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by racnid 5y ago
I noticed Opa-locka (Miami-Dade area) as well and a couple of others.
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by racnid 5y ago
Aaah yes. A while back I rented a car in England, did a bunch of driving, and on my way back to the airport crossed the Dartford Bridge in the dark. For some reason you have 24 hours to pay it then it steadily becomes more and more impossib
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by racnid 5y ago
Are you talking about the actual inflation that just happened when we tried our mini-UBI experiment like several months ago? Those inflation fears?
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by racnid 5y ago
Good luck, we're having enough trouble protecting our normal arms.
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by racnid 5y ago
Yes, it was a wholly boring response. Something like stay tuned exciting things are coming.
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by racnid 5y ago
Over two years ago I emailed them about "sailing" starlink and actually got a decent reply back about it but have never seen anything else about it.
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by racnid 5y ago
It gets posted every so often here but: https://asmtutor.com/ Is a good intro to writing x86_64.
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by racnid 5y ago
The simple answer is that you eventually have to do thruster burns to dump momentum from reaction wheels; they can't keep absorbing momentum forever. It also needs the fuel to adjust it's orbit every so often and keep it on statio
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by racnid 5y ago
My greatest fear about the current defund the police push is that it will lead to a national police force. Unaccountable to anyone at that point. I'm heartened to see at least some mention of it in the popular press.
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by racnid 5y ago
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/departme...
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by racnid 5y ago
Must be nice to have that much faith.
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by racnid 5y ago
The yuppies and karens are trying their hardest.
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by racnid 5y ago
Whats the adage? You can't out train a bad diet...
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by racnid 5y ago
Schemes like that only work if you participate. Even in America we have people that refuse to participate in the birth certificate and social security scheme for better or for (mostly) worse.
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by racnid 5y ago
I can't seem to find any reference for what actual submunitions a Tomahawk carries but conventional cluster munitions can already be smart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon
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by racnid 6y ago
If one person has a right to free speech then logically groups of people have rights to free speech, there's really no other way to look at that.
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by racnid 6y ago
I know this is a thread about Blender but FreeCAD has been making good progress in that area. Parametric sketching is still different from some of the commercial packages but reasonably functional.
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by racnid 6y ago
Don't forget Pratt and Whitney, they're still a major builder of aviation (jet) engines along with Honeywell and others I'm sure to be forgetting.
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by racnid 6y ago
Yes, to my understanding the only issue a pilot would run into with MCAS disabled and neutral is decreasing control forces at high angles of attack. The FAA requires control forces to monotonically increase with angle. I say "only&quot
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by racnid 6y ago
I wonder how that works in a world where more than a few competitors are willing to chainsaw apart the upstarts.
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by racnid 6y ago
Grenades are registered destructive devices in the US. If you can pass the background check to buy a firearm you can buy a grenade. The cost will be $200 (tax) plus the cost of the grenade itself. Practical issues include the government bei
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by racnid 6y ago
1) Because "freshly shot lifeless" bodies can and have come back to kill people. 2) Because there is no such thing as shoot to wound. If you've gotten to the point where you're shooting at someone they need to be dead. A
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by racnid 6y ago
Stop treating Twitter as news. It's trash, bots, and trashy bots all the way down.
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by racnid 7y ago
People are still going need cars at the same rate they always have.
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by racnid 7y ago
Their website is one of the clearest and easiest to navigate parts website I've ever come across. I just wish there was an equivalent for motorcycles.
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by racnid 7y ago
Minor plug for a vendor I've used with great success for a long time: Rock Auto, don't even try to deal with Amazon for specific parts. Their website is a nice throw back to actual usability too.
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by racnid 7y ago
While you're certainly welcome to that opinion, it's incompatible with the origins and philosophy of the US Constitution at the very least. Your rights still exist even if someone hasn't told you they do.
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by racnid 7y ago
For anyone reading along at home: Gun rights do not derive from the Constitution, they derive from the natural right of a being to protect itself. The second amendment is codifed there to attempt to limit the power of the government to take
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by racnid 7y ago
Ugh, everyone loves to dredge up gun violence archive and use it as an authorative source and it's trash. They deliberately inflate the numbers of "mass shootings" by changing the definition from the FBI definition (itself oc

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