stretchcat

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by stretchcat 6y ago
Lots of warships are now museums, and those were never intended to be kid safe. Just rope off the sketchier bits and tell people to be careful. Not everything needs to be totally safe. A little danger builds character, whether it's
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by stretchcat 6y ago
They've aged since then. Maybe they can't support as much weight today as they once could.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Heh, the first time I bought IKEA furniture I felt like a rich person, because that was the first time I even owned new furniture. Before then, all my furniture (except mattresses) came from the side of the road on large trash pickup days,
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I don't see what real life names have to do with keeping in touch. I've kept in touch with people for 15+ years using IRC nicknames. In a few cases I don't know the other person's real name at all. Sure people can chan
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by stretchcat 6y ago
JFK's attempts to stop Israel's nuclear weapons program ended when he got shot in the head. His successor, LBJ, dropped the issue.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> Kind of puts companies depending on advertising in really bad position Good. I hope these companies die. This business model is more toxic than Dow Chemical.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
The way I've seen it, atomic bomb and nuclear bomb are synonyms which refer to any sort of fission, boosted fission or fusion bombs. Fission bombs can be specifically referred to like that. Fusion bombs can also be called hydrog
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Unshaven drivers? I can't help but read this as a dogwhistle to people who don't like regular taxis because they're often driven by immigrants with facial hair. Incidentally I happen to believe uber's initial rise to po
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by stretchcat 6y ago
You mean like what happens on the web, the system you're using presently?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
So this is the power of machine learning, huh? Just as shit as the old keyword blacklists of old.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I've never watched the show, but I have to admit I'm a bit bemused by the number of times I've come across people saying they've got [professional] life figured out by realizing it's actually exactly like The Offic
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by stretchcat 6y ago
To me, it's the language I use when I want to have fun.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I'm not spinning anything, and the scenario I'm responding to (62k satellites in one launch) has not occurred. I've been a fan of SpaceX for years, but apparently even a whiff of anything short of pure adoration is enough to
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I know these cubesats don't stay up for long in LEO, but at what point does it become too many cubesats?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> [A country with] no physical land, it produced no physical goods, it built no physical infrastructure, it paid no welfare, > "Does that mean it was invented just to launder money?" Probably.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
How does this work for people on these lists? If Chicago PD thinks I'll be shot, do they warn me?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Usually it's around this time that some European chimes in with some bullshit about how it's not racism when it's against gypsies. Hopefully this time they spare us.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
It really depends on what their objectives are; what they think they might accomplish by having an automatic rifle. There are a wide array of tactical objectives, some better served by automatic weapons than others. Consider particularly
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Slight correction: Legal automatic weapons. It is hard to estimate how many people have or could retrofit semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons illegally. There are public plans for such modifications floating around the net, and
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I'm not sure about baseball, but the last time I went to a basketball game I had to walk through a metal detector, got my bag searched, and was patted down.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Incidentally, mpv is extensible enough to replicate sxiv's features with the right configuration and scripts. I like to think of mpv as the emacs of multimedia.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Isn't the right way of doing this to use a different implementation of malloc, rather than wrapping malloc with your own meta-malloc?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Are tidal forces a significant source of strain on the ISS, due to the size of the station putting different parts of it in slightly different orbits? And if so, would these forces be less at a lagrange point?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> Again, I view this as a passive voice excusing of responsibility for direct political action You are mistaken. Neither intentionalists nor functionalists excuse the responsibility of anybody, least of all the organization's lead
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> Why can’t we just leave each other alone and let people be free? What is that, if not tolerance?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Require? Illegal? ID is not required to use the internet, nor is it illegal to do so without. I can, or at least could before covid, go to the local public library and use their wifi with no questions asked. That's a government pro
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Most of the people being toxic on Facebook are using their real names. Requiring them to prove their names are real wouldn't change anything.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> 1. Held accountable how? 2. Toward what end? In the case of the Nazis, the answers are 1. Executed. 2. Justice. For Facebook, I think executions should be off the table, but the second answer is the same. Facebook's engineer
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I don't think mens rea is particularly relevant when it comes to the actions of corporations. It's not at all clear to me what it would mean for a corporation to have intent. We could certainly say a 'corporation intended&#x
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by stretchcat 6y ago
When software goes wrong, the company that decided to create and operate that software for profit is responsible for whatever negative impact that software might have, regardless of whether these problems were foreseen. (And in the case of

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