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by tomohawk 2y ago
Here's a video that Greg Terry shared about the impact of these bombs https://youtu.be/iBFYNl9i3_8?t=1539 He then shares info from some original sources. He's been involved in Ukraine for 26+ years and spends a l
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Not shown in the charts, is that a very large percentage of the aid has been in arms that are obsolete or practically used up, and the actual money being spent is on new replacements to go into US inventory. In some cases, the US would hav
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by tomohawk 2y ago
do you mean Katherine Maher's brain? She was head of wikipedia, and now head of NPR. She now sits on the board of Signal. https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/us-news/nprs-new-ceo-katherine... Here she s
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When children do do those things, people who have nothing better to do call the cops on the parents, and the cops actually respond . Many parents are afraid to let their kids out to do normal kid things and wont even let their kids walk
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Emergency responders need higher reliability and priority, even when the network is degraded. That is something that costs more to provide. Those who need such things need to fund it, and not just expect they'll get such service with
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meticulously demonstrates that the famine was not only vast, but manmade; and not only manmade but political, born of totalitarianism. Mao Zedong had vowed to build a communist paradise in China through sheer revolutionary zeal, colle
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There's big science and little science. You can use the scientific method to see what works for you. Those results may or may not be applicable to others. You can use the scientific method on a representative group. Those results may
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Diet is another thing to try. A family member went on a low histamine diet (carnivore) and no longer has any of these issues. It's not a very fun diet, but they also were able to get off of their blood pressure medicine and had a bun
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A water cannon is still using kinetic force to take over and occupy a space that is not theirs. How could they not expect a kinetic response to this?
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It's not the pressure or hard work that breaks us, it's the frustration from not being able to control anything. It's the knowledge of knowing that if you had some amount of say in what was going on, things could improve for
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This is what happens when the people doing the actual good work are looked at purely as a cost. The administration that is brought about to contain that cost will end up costing way more than any possible cost savings they could theoretica
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As the author states: I have built things I love with people I love: a family, a business, a circle of friends and associates. All the while, the enemies of the Good have grown even more totalitarian. And yet I do not fear, in good part
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That is the systemd way, and what many of us have pointed out for years as a major risk of the approach.
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which spikes the electricity demand from the grid and puts it under the most strain when its most critical for the grid to stay up, which means the grid has to be overdesigned, which means that the air based heat pumps are a poor choice for
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Instead of industrializing rural and wild landscapes, put solar on existing urban hardscapes, lessening the need for long distance transmission. Target the grid improvements to where the demand is.
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Biden is still holding on to a few billion in what looks like an attempt to keep Ukraine from attacking Russian oil refineries. He could drop Ukraine a lifeline today, but wont. The funds for the F16 training were allocated almost 2 years
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Congress allocated money to train Ukrainians on F16s in summer of 2022. Still no F16s in theater - only "maybe by end of this year". Biden's timidity has a huge cost for Ukraine.
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One of many lawsuits going on https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/19/lawsuit-female-prisoner-say...
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Vouchers instead of service fees would be better. Having finally achieved fiber broadband in a rural area, the main obstacle to build out is the provider being able to cover the initial cost. Our new provider is a municipal broadband compan
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Proposal to require San Francisco grocery stores to give 6 month closing notice(foxbusiness.com)
13 points by tomohawk 2y ago|1 comments
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Is there such a thing as the "NYT gaze"? This would be good evidence for that. Saying that all black people have shared culture and history really seems more like a perspective thing than an actual thing. It says more about NYT
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If you're interested in this sort of thing, Ryan Mcbeth has been talking about this recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUqYmCeZN4
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Just ask what the person's concern is, or what problem it is they're trying to solve. It's best to demonstrate the behavior you would like others to follow. And if you have retrospectives or can talk to the lead, maybe raise
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The WPATH Files [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
2 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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I thought you were going to say something about how large branches will just pop off and crush anything beneath them at random times. This is due to how multiple branches will come from the trunk at the same point, and are weakly attached.
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A friend went on carnivore diet (a ketogenic diet) and went from a person who always had lots of anxiety for several years to being much calmer. While that was the most stark transformation, I know 3 others who have made the same dietary c
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by tomohawk 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/travel/united-airlines-bo...
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The comment was about people's reactions to the risk and putting the risk into perspective, not these allegations of wrongdoing, which are a separate matter. Should Boeing be held responsible for United Airlines actions (or lack thereo
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And yet they'll get into a car and drive around at a substantially higher risk. And if you look, many of the problems reported to be Boeing problems are planes operated by United that have been in service for a while.
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Parents complaining to government, and government enacting consumer protection laws.

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