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> This was a long held theory of mine because I could not understand why a galaxy would spiral. I think in general it would be unusual if they didn’t rotate. Any large non-uniform mass of gas or rocks when colliding will induce some rota
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2y ago
> Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do. How do you mean? Is it that legally it's not allowed to, so it's obviously not what happened here -- it must be someone else or some other government or
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2y ago
I had no idea! Thanks for sharing. Those are definitely more subtle. I had never caught on to those when viewing the movie.
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2y ago
> This is one of these US-specific polarised debates I find really bizarre, around some kind of issue that the rest of the world has by large solved but without any acknowledgement of this fact. > Maybe the US should look into how oth
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2y ago
> The Straight Story That indeed was a nice movie. It stands out exactly as it's not like any other Lynch movies. I always wondered what that meeting with Walt Disney Pictures looked like. "-Ok, David, please, just can you not
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2y ago
In case of a mall however it didn’t hold up: > In Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, the Supreme Court distinguished a private shopping mall from the company town in Marsh and held that the mall had not been sufficiently dedicated to public use for
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2y ago
> It can be both It can and perhaps should, I agree. But whether it actually does, I am not sure.
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2y ago
> If you're serious about a free society that means you have to cop criticism, disrespect, and even mockery Government does, but other entities don’t. I am not saying I agree or like it, just that 1st amendment doesn’t specifically
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> Despite Ukraine War A war that started in 2014. They watched Putin annex Crimea then proceed to built stronger ties with him. It's also worth pointing out that countries like Germany had a hand in making sure Ukraine won't ma
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> Lidden pleaded guilty to offences under Australia's nuclear non-proliferation act that carry a possible 10-year jail sentence. The bureaucratic apparatus, especially dealing with law enforcement always concentrates people who enjo
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2y ago
> ChatGPT is already a household name, and nobody has even heard about Gemini. Just yesterday I polled my household, the 8 year old knew about ChatGPT and "China's R1". The teenager knew ChatGPT and Google's was a bi
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2y ago
> Meta’s expert, for example, stresses that data is broken down into “pieces” and further into “blocks” during BitTorrent transfers. It’s argued that, even if Meta shared small blocks of data, they would be unusable to the receiver. >
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2y ago
She is a known technology blogger https://rachelbythebay.com , active for more than a decade. Her posts often make it to front page. I'd trust her enough to remove a non-essential component like atop basically.
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It's Rachel. If she says to remove it, I'll remove it. I see people are suspicious, but I think I'll trust someone like her at least once to do this.
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2y ago
Unless we're talking about an authoritarian regime and it falls with a revolution, then it's hard to blame the new leaders that much. But in case of democratically elected government it is worth pointing out the electorate and the
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2y ago
> I dont pretend to understand it but I also dont think you should minimize it to just one or two transactions. I think no matter how complicated when it comes to regular citizens, not those who have a political science degree, there sho
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2y ago
I suggesting doing it faster and acknowledging it was a mistake not doing it sooner.
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They should have strengthened their military and supported Ukraine joining NATO instead of opposing it publicly at the Bucharest Summit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Bucharest_summit > The Alliance did not off
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> Presumptive Chancellor Friedrich Merz has decided that now is the moment for Germany to invest in its military, on levels not seen since the Cold War Now? After spending billions funding Putin’s war with gas money. Especially after wat
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> Amazing that this is being downvoted. Very strange, isn't. I didn't write it a "sides" thing, just a bunch of criminals who claimed they were feeding $90M worth of meals to children, and instead stole the funds. The
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> What is up with this conception that there is some sort of moral death squad running the pecking order among inmates in prisons. I don't know. I am not saying it's right that it happens that way but it does. I imagine it'
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We’re helping Taiwan reclaim us back. We just built a cool landing craft to help them make it more efficient. I can see that propaganda line working!
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> Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future > Ms. Bock herself had funneled money to her boyfriend at the time and used it to take trips to Las Vegas and rent Lamborghinis. She didn't betray the mission and did feed her future. Some
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> These models should not exist. Ever. By any means. Do not pass Go. Go directly to jail. Exactly. It's disturbing that this needs to be explained to people.
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That's certainly a good reason. Thanks for explaining!
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2y ago
Neutrons can be used for these things as well. The advantage, say from x-rays, is attenuation is not by material density, where all metals will just look dark, but by thermal neutron absorption cross section. So boron might be dark, but met
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> I mean, from a certain perspective, it absolutely is. It's "absolutely" in the same category as running a space race for decades between two superpowers, sacrificing enormous resources including human lives? Ok, then....
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What's the design? -Don't know, it's a simple chair. What's it made of? -Wood and fiber. Where were the materials sourced? -No idea Why? -Why what? Where was it made? -Factory in a town over Why? -Is it the first "w
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What do you mean by “anything”? The chair I am sitting is not terribly political, for instance.
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> I've heard rumors that SpaceX suggested another mission to bring them back earlier, but as it would only have been a couple of months earlier NASA very sensibly declined (not worth >100 million to reduce their time in space by
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