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by troad 7mo ago
Alright, I hear all y'all, apparently I'm wrong on this one. I'm kind of surprised by this. I have no idea how you would do this safely at scale.
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by troad 7mo ago
With extensive US logistical support, yes. We're talking about a scenario where that factor is absent. That's not to diminish the bravery of the Ukrainian people. They're heroes. But bravery doesn't suffice without mater
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by troad 7mo ago
With tidbits like that, you're my kind of person
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by troad 7mo ago
Central/South America has a lot of 100-130 V too, I believe, but I don't have direct personal experience. I find the standard voltages pretty interesting. The 230 V standard, for example, is mostly a lie. In reality, Britain and f
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by troad 7mo ago
I don't disagree. The question is whether Europe is going to be capable of maintaining that level of defensive action on its own. I hope the answer is yes. Sadly, I'm left extremely sceptical from observing European politics.
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by troad 7mo ago
Yeah, sure. Don't complain when the independence of countries like Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia is unceremoniously snuffed out the next day. But I'm sure Europe will rise to the occasion. I'm sure the same European countrie
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by troad 7mo ago
>> All of a sudden Russia is a total pushover handled through "prowess". It is you who are being absurdly reductionist when you contort 'Russia is not capable of threatening the US' into 'the US can't suc
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by troad 7mo ago
I think 'assuming that the airline has a way of preventing' people from plugging in dangerous items is doing a loooooot of heavy lifting in your argument. How, exactly? The airlines have absolutely no way to know what shoddy ele
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by troad 7mo ago
Yeah, no. In EU+CH alone, you've got Schuko, French, reversed French (Czech), British (Ireland, Malta, Cyprus), and more rarely Italian, Danish and Swiss plugs. And those are just the current national standards as of 2026, ignoring any
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by troad 7mo ago
Too tricky for international flights. Easier if you have a vast domestic flight market (US, China, etc), but not really practical if you're flying across borders, which is the base case in Europe, much of Asia, etc. With traditional ou
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by troad 7mo ago
This is such a great anecdote, thanks for sharing! >> for gunshots go to Highland, for amputations go to CalPac Davies, for heart attacks go to UCSF, etc Oooft. My utmost respect. I could not do this job.
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by troad 7mo ago
You can, I believe, but I often need to move between computers so I try not to mess with shortcuts too much (or go down keyboard layout rabbit holes, etc). Saner defaults would be better.
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by troad 7mo ago
Just for the record, I am neither directly employed by social media, nor big tech, nor am inside that bubble. And I never have been. My salary includes precisely zero dollars linked social media in any way. But hey, don't let the facts
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by troad 7mo ago
Sure, kiddo. I'm sure sweeping regulations of social media won't have any consequences on people's ability to express themselves. I'm sure all these regulations will be well tailored and have absolutely no overreach. And
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by troad 7mo ago
The US considers it in their strategic interest to maintain peace around the world. We are vicarious beneficiaries of that logic. The same way that a farmer considers it in his pecuniary interest to grow and sell vegetables, and we are vica
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by troad 7mo ago
Yes, such a coherent argument: "no one is trying to restrict your speech, and if they were it would be good actually." There are people who just can't admit to themselves they actually hate free speech. Because they're p
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by troad 7mo ago
>> How many people who played DND or video games or music or any of the other things you listed regretted it afterwards? How many people playing DND would say “I wish I was out with my friends because this game is too addictive”. None
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by troad 7mo ago
You get stuff like... obnoxious notifications? Duolingo's notifications are borderline emotional blackmail ("don't make the owl sad!"), and Duolingo is a vastly profitable company that expressly targets school-aged child
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by troad 7mo ago
Uh huh, sure, America profits handsomely from paying trillions of dollars to defend its deadbeat dependencies because... uh... something something capitalism? The unnecessary expense of trillions of dollars being, of course, just so famousl
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by troad 7mo ago
So does Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/mac-help/mchl9674d0b0/... . Obnoxiously, it's part of the recent trend of overloading the Globe/Fn key, so it's hard to do with third-part
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by troad 7mo ago
And at some point we limit Japanese American freedom of movement for general public safety during a war with Japan. Still no different? Bad take. Civil liberties matter.
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by troad 7mo ago
It's wild to me how many people are willing to throw basic civil liberties overboard because they don't like the other guys. Today's media circus is about addictive social media. Before that it was video games and rock music
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by troad 7mo ago
All of this is framed in the way Europeans like to talk about power, which is as though it's a question of attitudes and feelings. It's much cheaper to pretend that beautiful laws against war can stop bullies, than it is to actual
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by troad 7mo ago
Do they, though? They seem to very consistently vote against foreign entanglements, before their own leaders betray them, pressed into action by foreign allies advocating their own narrow regional interests (Europe on Russia, Israel on Iran
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by troad 7mo ago
> It’s revealed a fair bit about America too. That America is incredibly generous with resources in a conflict has no possible bearing on the security of their continent? I don't see Europe sending billions of its taxpayer dollars t
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by troad 7mo ago
¿Por qué no los dos? There are an awful lot of old men yelling at clouds in power across the world right now.
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by troad 7mo ago
I did not know that, that's neat. Are there any blog posts or articles that go deeper into this?
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by troad 7mo ago
You're fuzzing the crucial distinction between well defined and narrowly tailored exemptions, which are of course normal, and these exemptions, which are complete blank cheques that effectively neuter the rule they attach to. No laws a
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by troad 7mo ago
One of the reasons international human rights law is so worthless in actual practice, is that half of it is framed like this. "Everyone has the right to X, except as duly restricted by law." Cool, so that's not a right at all
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by troad 7mo ago
>> Of course you've no obligations for support or maintenance, but with increasing exposure responsibility grows as de facto ever more projects, people, softwares depend on you. This is an oxymoron. Either you have obligations, o

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