wearywanderer

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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I think players would revolt. Leather gloves require "break in" to be comfortable; without a break-in period they are very uncomfortable and could even cause blisters. And a glove broken in for one person isn't necessarily
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Why can't the MLB just admit defeat on this issue and amend the rules to allow the use of these substances? When it comes to performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), I understand the ethical argument against it; PEDs have negative long term
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
My edit includes some details. Basically, the warranty was too short and when audio (except HDMI out) broke, I couldn't get it fixed. There was also the matter of the secure boot nonsense, where if you press the wrong key on boot, se
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I bought the original Chromebook Pixel when it was new for something like $1.3k. At the time, I believed this the best way to get a slim laptop with a high resolution screen and good linux support. Debian did run well on it, as I expect
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
If Risk isn't a great game, then why do people playing it get so angry when they start to lose? There is something about Risk that makes players get emotionally invested in a way I just haven't seen in other board games. In most
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> In fact, if player A and player B decide to unite against me and player A had his turn and stopped me, player B is highly likely to backstab player A and then emerge as the winner. The fun in Risk is the other player knows they wil
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The rules of the wargame, which are invariably rigged for the most expensive toy.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Whether that's actually true or not, I don't actually know, but it's still widely believed and influencing men's behavior/plans all the same. On average I think it's probably not true. Most men probably
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> The results show that only in marriages are the majority of breakups wanted by the female partner. Men and women in nonmarital heterosexual relationships in the US are equally likely to want to break up. Incidentally, the courts gene
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Competitive highschool sports often practice for several hours a day. It's not really a serious sport if you're only going to practice a few hours a week, is it? Maybe badminton club practices an hour on thursdays, but the swi
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Strange implication. My swim coach was a woman and that wasn't unusual, many of the teams we competed against were also coached by women. She was a very good coach too; she was also the one who taught me to swim about 10 years earlie
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Quite a few teachers enjoy being teachers. When my younger brothers moved out of the house, my mother decided to become a school teacher to occupy her time. She can yak for hours about the school board blundering or administration being
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
ITAR obviously isn't focused on export to "enemies". If I export sensitive missile technology from America to New Zealand, an ally of America, that will still run afoul of ITAR and for good reason. Consider the scenario whe
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I think some kinds of video games provide this more than others, at least for some definitions of achievement. If somebody spends their free time painting happy trees but never sells any paintings, I personally would not say achievements
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Believe it or not, there is more to ITAR than annoying programmers with crypto export rules. All manner of cutting edge shit has obvious military applications and is covered by ITAR. ITAR may cover materials, radios, navigation systems,
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I fear I don't. Probably I'll end up using the web in general a lot less.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Lojack has often been installed on construction equipment since the 80s or 90s.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
That is flat wrong in my experience. I browse with javascript and CSS both disabled by default, using uMatrix. Only a minority of sites I browse require me to whitelist JS or CSS; maybe 1-in-10. Most newspapers and blogs do not requir
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Advertising is linked to depression, body dysmorphic disorders like anorexia, and numerous other adverse mental conditions. The advertising industry has a whole lot of blood on their hands. This is an industry that doesn't think twi
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Something else is going on Scenes require supporting media. In the age of print and broadcast, access to media was comparably limited. Consequently, the number of scenes was comparably limited. The "something" that happ
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Oxygen deprivation at high altitudes This is actually three examples in one. Tibetans, Andeans, and Ethiopians each have their own unique version of this adaptation.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Somewhere on the net in some parallel forum, water and electric utility workers are talking about how simple running twitter must be. > How hard can it be? If a ethernet cable fails it's not as though it will electrocute the worke
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Flying nape-of-the-earth is a hard counter to CIWS-style defense systems. For antiship missiles this tactic doesn't help a whole lot, but for drones over land? C-RAM can't see through a hill, let alone shoot through one.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The line between drone and missile is fuzzy at best. Most of the distinguishing characteristics often cited in these conversations are wrong. For instance, missiles are usually powered by rockets, but many missiles are powered by jet en
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Dunno, do agile rockets dodge? Or just follow a simple preprogrammed patterns (like low, then pop up to attack from above)? Modern antiship missiles have complex programs. Some are capable of flying in formation with each other, wit
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Not to mention you don't want to dump a magazine upwards in your own territory. That is what birdshot is for. Birdshot, e.g. "No. 9 or 10" shot, are tiny lead BBs about 2mm diameter. Because they are small, they ha
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
May I suggest replsh.it ?
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Right, even as a joke the above proposal makes little sense. If a king suspects his eunuch of secretly being a predator, the eunuch can at the very least easily prove that he is in fact a eunuch. With an asexual, no such proof can be demo
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> In older, harsher, times, this was done by literally murdering people, In past times, nonviolent forms of 'cancelling' that would seem familiar to us today were also employed. It was/is called 'shunning.'
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Such politicians are not liberal, no matter which party they belong to.

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