George83728

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by George83728 3y ago
I mean... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sail... > Kristian Saucier, of Arlington, Vermont, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, where a judge also ordered him to serve s
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by George83728 3y ago
That could be it but his other videos recently have been over-long too. Paraphrasing: > "In this video I'm going to try fusing two bullets together but uh, I don't want to 'break the internet' with clickbait so
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by George83728 3y ago
You're right that the F-22 and F-35 aren't black, but neither are they the blueish gray I'm talking about which is much darker: https://dragonladyhistory.com/2019/04/30/u-2-black-paint/
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by George83728 3y ago
> Unhoused people are [...] not murderers. "Too dangerous" obviously includes robberies and assaults, but you've neatly excluded those to narrow the focus of the conversation to murder. Where is this idea coming from,
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by George83728 3y ago
The root of the problem is the electorate (not the leaders, who are downstream from the electorate), and that problem mainly falls under category A. They, the voters, have this idea that more social services, more compassion and understand
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by George83728 3y ago
When I think of dangerous street people, I don't think guns. I think knives. The times I've been threatened by street people, they showed me or made reference to knives. A gun seems like an expensive liability to such a person
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by George83728 3y ago
I love Pipewire, Pipewire fixed bluetooth headphone reliability. For years I had frequent trouble where the bluetooth headphones and bluetoothctl would both say they were connected, but there was no audio sink for pulseaudio. Sometimes th
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by George83728 3y ago
In related news, an ABC reporter for Good Morning America recently revealed on air that he was told not to report live from the location of this mall because it wouldn't be safe. "But it is worth mentioning that we are not at U
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by George83728 3y ago
Wow, that New Yorker article really is something. She hires private investigators to obtain sealed court records about an allegation of child abuse and de-anonymized the child. Then when the university reprimands her for this and tells
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by George83728 3y ago
SBIRS is intended to use infrared to track ballistic missiles through all stages of flight, including decoys and debris released during the mid-course phase in space (so we know it's meant to be extremely sensitive, not limited to trac
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by George83728 3y ago
There's an interesting question concerning why (most) US stealth aircraft are black. Black isn't the best color to make an aircraft invisible at night; a dark blueish gray is best for that. One possibility is that the radar abso
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by George83728 3y ago
Take it up with barelyauser, I only mention Africa because they brought it up.
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by George83728 3y ago
> They are even offering to pay companies the extra cost to reinforce their payloads to try and get customers and they still can't get anyone to do it. It certainly can't help that Spinlaunch can't put anything into sp
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by George83728 3y ago
No it isn't, the "energy costs" are negligible. That link is a joke, he's fear mongering about the effect of satellites falling back to earth but can't point to any specific harm; "Effect? WE HAVE NO IDEA.&qu
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by George83728 3y ago
I guess you missed this recent news story: Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers So we can now have both. Africans can have their satellite internet, and astronomers can see their dwarf stars.
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by George83728 3y ago
> But jetliners around the world also have flight deck doors. That change (arguably itself unnecessary) was made in response an incident that happened shortly before that change was made. This new change is being made in response to..
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by George83728 3y ago
I don't think you quite understand what the word coherent means. Just because somebody has a different perspective on what reality is, doesn't mean they're being incoherent. In this thread and related discussions on HN the
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by George83728 3y ago
> It's an ongoing situation but I love how you're trying to force everyone's hand to get to "how things were" for you. > Go create the sub you want. The community will follow you, right? I stopped using re
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by George83728 3y ago
> what if a Reddit admin abused their power by like, I don't know, editing a user's comment. How would you address that? You (user) can most readily address it by not using reddit. That is the ultimate answer to all of this.
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by George83728 3y ago
Reddit admins could automate the reposting of old content from years ago, complete with comments, and I think most doomscrolling lurkers would never notice.
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by George83728 3y ago
> The communities themselves are what make the sub. The same happens when users migrate from one sub to another or complain. Yes, the sum of all users are the community, not the mods themselves. Therefore if the community is truly ali
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by George83728 3y ago
You can read through this thread to find many coherent reasons. They won't necessarily be reasons you personally find persuasive, but that isn't what coherent means. People have different value systems and priorities and theref
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by George83728 3y ago
> Americans (and terminally online Europeans) I think this is characteristic not of Americans and not even of terminally online Europeans, but rather of reddit users specifically (and heavy users of other systems that operate similar t
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by George83728 3y ago
Let me know when lack of double doors does any of that. That sort of issue was resolved more than 20 years ago when passengers learned they need to fight back or die. The threat no longer exists. You're scared of imaginary tigers.
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by George83728 3y ago
Rules written by reddit are interpreted and enforced in whichever way is most convenient to reddit. You can't rules-lawyer your way to a positive resolution in such a scenario, they have all the power. "Stop quoting laws, we car
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by George83728 3y ago
> What kind of communities are you a part of that you pay for? Committee-run churches are this. Obviously not all churches fit the bill, but many do. Also other many other sort of traditional 'IRL' clubs that collect dues
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by George83728 3y ago
McDonalds is friendly, their workers all smile at you and wish you a happy day, may even give you three sauce packets for free. Their adverts are cheerful and positive, full of platitudes about how great everything is and how they contribu
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by George83728 3y ago
Tiger attacks are far more common than plane hijackings, thousands of people are attacked by tigers every year. Listen, I know a guy.. he works for free if you let him keep the carcass. You don't want to take risks with tigers.
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by George83728 3y ago
Spez is the King, appointed by God (the board). The mods are landed gentry, who rule small fiefdoms (subreddits) at the pleasure of the King. The King doesn't pay them, but as long as they don't upset the King they're all
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by George83728 3y ago
We should take away their shoelaces, just in case the pilot tries to garrote his copilot. Velcro shoes work fine, and a minor fashion offense is a small price to pay to prevent this scenario.

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