skorpeon87

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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> The King County Municipal Court is dishing these out left and right, Hardly, the number of tweakers they throw into rehab is nothing compared to the number of tweakers on the streets. A small percent of tweakers being thrown into re
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
There is simply no evidence that American military training would produce better police than extant American police. Nothing other than the self-aggrandizing claims of people who claim to be veterans on the internet. Claims that usually
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> multiple (as-claimed-on-the-internet) soldiers complain about cop-malfeasance with respect to the situations in which gunfire is allowed to occur. Soldiers tooting their own horns; this self-aggrandizement is not to be taken seriousl
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Exactly.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> Wild to see the Seattle Chamber acting like he is making things better in Downtown when 2 blocks down the hill from City Hall 7-Eleven closed up shop due to all the tweakers. This apparent contradiction is easy to explain. Forcing pe
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
A single bomb core is a sub-critical mass; needing either neutron reflectors or another source of neutrons to start a chain reaction. But if you pile a bunch of such cores up together like they were cannon balls, that inherent safety goes r
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Pu-239 is an alpha emitter, but that's not the end of the story. All plutonium weapon cores are also neutron emitters because all weapons grade plutonium is impure and contains 2-7% Pu-240. Pu-240 is very prone to undergoing spontan
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
A private contractor would not have sovereign immunity, so you can sue them without the government's assent. They would not receive special legal protections, like the signs the TSA put up threatening you with steep fines if you &qu
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
As far as I'm aware, America is the only country that makes you take your shoes off. Certainly it's not the norm.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
What's the real difference between the government stationing armed soldiers in your town to maintain the peace, and stationing armed police in your town to maintain the peace? The former became unfashionable so it was replaced with th
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
The overwhelming majority of the time, "arrests" on airplanes are made by regular passengers and the flight attendants, who beat up the offender then hogtie him with duct tape. Air marshals are completely pointless.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Air Marshals and the TSA are both pointless jobs programs and security theater. The problem of hijackers was solved in the morning of 2001/9/11 when the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 fought back against the hijackers.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> The DoD has far more than just 4 satellites up there. Yeah, and they want a hell of a lot more. Seriously, read up on NDSA. For the transport layer they want hundreds to thousands of satellites in LEO.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
The only real meta is to treat everybody as an individual. Pay attention to how they react during different stages of the conversation and tailor your own behavior to make them more comfortable. Some people respond well to being asked
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Additionally, don't attempt to banter even if the Brit initiates it. Brits think that Americans cannot banter and will assume that any banter from an American is intended as a sincere insult. Don't try to explain that Americans
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
I find the most frustrating conversations are with people who can't stop talking and who fail to distinguish what is or isn't important information for other people in the conversation. > How was your flight? > Oh it wa
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
The only virtue Tim Cook knows is money. Everything he pretends to believe in the context of America goes completely out the window in the context of China. Why? Because money.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Probably. In a war I don't think they'd hesitate, since they've already demonstrated their willingness to cause huge clouds of LEO debris with simple tests. But the upside is that it's much less of a problem for the re
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Rage against it all you want, people are judged by the company they keep. Ideally not in court rooms, but in everyday life? Abso-fucking-lutely. You don't have to like it but that's how life works.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> The DoD already had something like Starlink. The NDSA doesn't actually exist yet, and SpaceX is presently the only company that could launch the larger versions of it.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
You're talking about boost-phase interceptors, not mid-course interceptors. Starship to replace GMD (as suggested by credit_guy) doesn't make much sense, but Starship does have the technical ability to launch a massive constella
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
How do these cell systems respond to the network no longer existing? Do they continue trying to ping towers that no longer exist? Do they give up eventually and turn themselves off forever?
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> So I’m not sure why Signal should drop them other than because of the general volatility in crypto. The affiliation to a cryptoscheme casts the entirety of Signal in a disreputable light. Not least because it gets Signal tangled up
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Children don't decide what neighborhood they live in.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
And your position is... "this is an obscure HN meme" (it isn't.) And "therefore you're wrong". Very persuasive.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Who cares if you feel bad for them? Who even asked? Crime isn't supposed to be legal when you victimize other unsympathetic criminals.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
I'm very familiar with it. It's a minced oath used by those who disrespect free speech so intensely they suspend any pretense of decorum and resort to childish wordplay. It's the same as FOSS activists who insist on writing
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> (or who's old enough to remember Polanski) That's not a resolved matter by the way. He's still alive, still a convicted rapist, still a fugitive, and still defended and respected by Hollywood-centric media. He contin
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
There's probably not much point explaining the cultural value of free speech to somebody who thinks free speech is so awful they can't even bring themselves to mention it without using a minced oath, as though they fear even the t
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Dogs, like rat terriers, are much more effective for exterminating rats.

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