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by shmeeed 5mo ago
Well, that explains a lot.
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by shmeeed 5mo ago
I absolutely adore both Burke and the Connections series, and without a doubt this is a lovely shot, but I feel the same: I don't get the hype. It's been memefied to death for no real reason. There's no incredible feat involv
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by shmeeed 5mo ago
I for one would love to see someone try and shove hamburgers down everybody's throats in order to increase consumer demand.
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by shmeeed 5mo ago
Second this. I love his dry humour.
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by shmeeed 5mo ago
The Power for All Alliance exists, just buy into their system.
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by shmeeed 5mo ago
The latter often goes hand in hand with the former.
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by shmeeed 5mo ago
Yeah, and I find it pretty interesting that the meanings are not 100% congruent.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Cool story
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
>Apparently it was two German inventors working for Westinghouse in France on a project for French telecoms as I recall So the Germans invented it! JK I like how you put this. It always seems weird to me how some people get hung up on th
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
That's the first time I hear that claim. Genuinely curious if you got a source for that?
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
For decades, I have joked about "people printing out the internet" or having it printed out for them. Nowadays, things like these are an obvious exercise in mental sanity, and I kinda envy this person. Also, using a dot matrix pri
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Honestly, looking at this photo even for one second only triggers intrusive thoughts about how badly it needs to be corrected for distortion... But maybe that's exactly the lesson.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
I'll take the opportunity to share this beautiful sci-fi video that is (ostensibly) about oil extraction on the exoplanet Solstice-5: https://youtu.be/Gl2hTmgG18k
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
I found this worthwhile read on the topic: https://warontherocks.com/carrier-strike-groups-should-be-re...
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
To be fair, up until 2022 and 2025 respectively, the common understanding was that EU/US and even EU/Russian relationships were beneficial for all parties involved. Then both relationships were unnecessarily and unilaterally broke
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
US carrier groups probably pose the #1 strategic threat to the PRC in the Pacific. You can safely assume they throw whatever resources are necessary at the task of knowing their whereabouts. I mean, you can try all you want, but there'
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
I hate to be the guy to say it, but this is just capitalism working as intended.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Seems quite cumbersome to do this manually when you can get purchasing power assessments at street-level granularity from data brokers.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
>because you don't know the location in the first place Do you seriously think China doesn't track US carrier movements?
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
He's also on substack: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Paul Krugman* July 1978 *Assistant Professor, Yale University. This research was supported by a grant from the Committee to Re-Elect William Proxmire.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably the cover, not the cushion.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
I have no idea what I just read, but it's beautiful. Is this your own work?
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
I was going to comment on MSFS2020's Active Pause as well. It's a curious implementation, but I always assumed the behaviour was intentional. After all, there's a "regular" pause mode as well. You gotta learn and un
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
What's wrong with it?
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Spacemonkey.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Aka the Broken Window Theory.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
That's what I understood from the article as well, but commenters below say they fixed it with a cotton cushion. That rules the piston out.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
That doesn't matter. The question is, who do you trust with your private data forever? To me and the parent, the answer is obvious: no one except yourself.
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by shmeeed 6mo ago
Nah, I won't be fooled again. I won a long time ago and never looked back. https://xkcd.com/391

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