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by silverquiet 2y ago
She famously shot her own dog for misbehavior; I assume she knows her way around a gun.
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by silverquiet 2y ago
My coworkers and I have been discussing how to prepare our company for tariffs since last November. I didn't realize that we were smarter than then smartest businessmen. Perhaps that is no great feat. Trump promised his voters "ve
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by silverquiet 2y ago
What makes these EU companies part of the American companies then?
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by silverquiet 2y ago
April Fools seems like a relic of a happier time in the tech world. That said, I've found myself following /r/SBCGaming on Reddit recently and they had a decent one today with their game of the month, announcing that a histor
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by silverquiet 2y ago
Democrats didn't run on a radical anti-gun stance either - Harris talked about owning guns herself[0]. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vxvzg34qwo
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by silverquiet 2y ago
There are little hand-held emulation systems made in China these days that hobbyists enjoy developing for and playing with. Anbernic makes a model with the physical design of the GBA[0] and others make ones similar to the SP. They are neat
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by silverquiet 2y ago
My favorite was some comment on Reddit or other observing how often people had to resort to paying medical bills via GoFundMe. They had the idea to create one large pool of money in order to pay the medical bills of all citizens. It is ofte
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by silverquiet 2y ago
Noticed it myself, but old.reddit.com seems like it's still working.
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There's a fabulous article[0] by William Langewiesche in "The Atlantic" that I read years ago to that effect; it's "An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS" that follows a B-2 mission against a group of
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by silverquiet 2y ago
Although my company is a small, private firm, we maintain systems that are considered important public infrastructure and as such we are eligible to work with CISA. They have provided red team pen-testing for us in the past, though my under
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by silverquiet 2y ago
I remember "Justified" portraying the area (technically it's Harlan County in Eastern Kentucky) much like you describe, and then the show visited the black portions of the region and the poverty appeared even deeper. That sai
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I saw one in the US a few weeks ago that had a Mexican license plate. Pretty interesting because I'm aware of the brand but had not seen one in person.
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He was reinstated quickly at the order of the vice president. It's been strange getting older and seeing aspects of politics I thought were fairly fundamental quickly change. I remember not too long ago when accusations of racism were
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They are in those sizes, but they are not AA or AAA replacements because the voltages are different. If you want to use rechargeable batteries in devices made for alkaline batteries, Eneloop branded NI-MH batteries would me my preference, t
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by silverquiet 2y ago
The first lady seems to have come to the US under similar circumstances.
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I've never been able to square the easy access and vast private ownership of firearms in the US with the ideal of non-violence. It's an outlier in the developed world for being a rather violent place; perhaps it is just how the co
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by silverquiet 2y ago
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was signed into federal law in 1986 and established a program to compensate individuals who were harmed by vaccines because it was known that there were vaccine injuries.
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You could always physically mount them but there were compatibility issues as Nikon added functionality over the years. It was a tradeoff.
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> I’m old enough to remember conservative republicans from 2008 ish era and while there was some dumb stuff, anything 2016 and beyond is unparalleled and its revisionist to say otherwise. "Idiocracy" came out in 2006, and Carl
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Definitionally, a veteran is no longer serving the country. If you're strictly thinking about it from a perspective of efficiency, providing them any service at all is a waste. This is not how I consider it, but I wonder if a billionai
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Last I read (though it's been awhile), Guantanamo was still housing an aging group of indefinite detainees from the war on terror to the tune of much more than a million per head per year (healthcare costs being the biggest expense).
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I've long wondered what it will look like when these things start answering uncomfortable questions with what I suspect are likely answers.
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Is that poor schmuck sitting by some friends? Because social isolation is a huge driver of anxiety in itself.
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Is 8 degrees the angular size of the Earth from the moon? Aren't GPS satellites in relatively high orbit, so it could potentially be a larger patch of sky.
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It's funny, I've used that exact term, kapo, for Shapiro for probably a decade now, but I was thinking more of the "Commentary Magazine" crew. They are (as far as I know) not rich and make Jewish identity a stronger part
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by silverquiet 2y ago
> Musk made the call for Derek Chauvin's release from prison Tuesday on his X social media platform while re-posting a rant from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro. I listen to a fair amount of center-right/old-school conservative
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> The Kevin M Loch Estate will be shutting down Kevin's websites in the near future (4/1/2025). All respect to the deceased, but there's always at least a tiny part of me that is suspicious of anything taking place on
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Pretty neat! I've long had the idea to build dead man switches into various things that I've set up mostly as a way of cleaning up after myself to prevent bitrot from degrading things, and also probably out of spite, but I've
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> It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage. I suspect that other scapegoats can be found to blame for their problems; as you say, their news sources will offer t
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The reason is his amusement, something that I assume gets harder when your hedonic treadmill has long ago accelerated beyond what seems humanly possible. As someone who has trollish tendencies myself, I cannot help but feel a bit of grudgin

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