LorenPechtel

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by LorenPechtel 4d ago
Doesn't make sense to me--too much visibility.
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by LorenPechtel 4d ago
The mere presence, no. The gun in the holster, fine. The gun in your hand, not so fine.
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by LorenPechtel 4d ago
Clearly toy guns. Gun-like, but nobody with the slightest understanding of guns would think they were real. I have no problem with kids having toy guns. I do have a problem with kids in public having realistic replica guns. Bright orang
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
And Russian Roulette is 100% safe. Just ask anyone who has played it, they weren't hurt. (In other words, just because we haven't blown ourselves up yet doesn't mean it's safe to have nukes in the hands of lunatics.)
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
Hamas is claiming a total of around 70k. Israel is claiming a total of over 20k combatants. Thus at most Israel killed something under 50k innocents, and probably a lot less.
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
The problem existed anyway. Pushing it into open conflict doesn't change that.
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
And you're getting downvoted because the truth is too unpleasant. Everyone else realized that the world wasn't ready for anything but appeasement, our idiot didn't understand and pushed it into open conflict. Didn't cha
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
And you think Iran will get a bomb and be peaceful? They're already backing multiple genocides. A bomb is immunity from retaliation--until Israel can't tolerate the situation anymore and blows them off the map.
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by LorenPechtel 8d ago
All nuclear things fall off much faster than square of the distance unless you're in vacuum. The atmosphere is nowhere near transparent to any of them. An addition to the inverse square issue the behavior of the various types is comp
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by LorenPechtel 9d ago
I've had a pretty wild ride from being hit at probably less than that speed. I'm sure you've seen video of the police performing a PIT maneuver. That's basically what happened to me--tapped by a car starting from a stop
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
The basic problem is that making the angle low makes the urinal take up more space. Businesses don't like that.
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
Phones, 45 in a 25? I was taught that pedestrians are invisible. 99.9% of cars will stop, but not all--don't take the risk. Cross only when you can see that nobody's coming.
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
Yup, this is the part that bothers me. 5 year old kid who has been properly trained walking alone--I have no problem with that. My mother was blind, I was taught safe street crossing from an early age. I do not recall when I was crossing
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
She repeatedly saw him do it safely. Why should she think he wouldn't do it safely if not observed?
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by LorenPechtel 13d ago
And there's the problem that they can do this with no recourse and no defense permitted. I'm reminded of the guy who lost his Google access over "child pornography"--a picture sent to his little boy's pediatrician t
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by LorenPechtel 14d ago
Voter ID laws aren't about fraud. The amount of fraudulent voters required to sway an election would be a massive operation that could not be kept secret. But it's a distraction from the real issue: vote fraud by improperly deny
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by LorenPechtel 14d ago
And the government keeps the database truly secure? You're providing a single point of compromise that would be incredibly valuable. If nothing else, it would be cracked the XKCD way.
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by LorenPechtel 14d ago
I don't think there is a "full" state, but watching the changes as the years go by I have thought of collisions. Not really like a hash table, though--most collisions are with things that would be filed together. I think it
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by LorenPechtel 15d ago
There certainly are problems, but the biggest is that reality puts two other factors ahead of publishing the truth: 1) People don't like having their beliefs challenged. This will slant all news organizations towards the biases of th
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by LorenPechtel 21d ago
I don't understand. Brokers quite correctly do not count the value of the shares because they never actually see it. But that's not the way insurance works--while dollars flow in and dollars flow out they are not remotely the sam
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by LorenPechtel 24d ago
Or because the wires don't support the demand. And note the second part of what I said--developers never bear the full cost of their infrastructure needs. Yeah, I'm going to oppose expanding a powerplant for AI, both because I do
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by LorenPechtel 25d ago
It isn't NIMBY. The thing is it's not the data centers that are actually the issue. It's the power. Gas turbines are loud! And look at the news--many incidents of it being even louder than they had permits for. And the real
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by LorenPechtel 25d ago
To lower spending. People always complain about taxes.
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by LorenPechtel 25d ago
You do not understand what I'm saying. To illustrate, my numbers are not meant to be accurate. Population at large, 100 red marbles (heart), 80 black marbles (cancer), 80 blue marbles (everything else). Cancer is 80/260 of the t
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by LorenPechtel 26d ago
This doesn't really say what it looks like it says. They don't have an above average risk of dying of cancer. Rather, if they die they are more likely than average to have died of cancer. Which is not exactly surprising given tha
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by LorenPechtel 28d ago
Government has a cost motive. Lower taxes. There is no such thing as non-profit, cost drives all organizations. And government can just lower the definition of acceptable service rather than provide any accountability for not providing it
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by LorenPechtel 28d ago
Lifestyle can help, it's not a cure-all. I'm one of the 20% with the lipoprotein A gene. Mimics high cholesterol. Diet and exercise still help but that just slows the clogging.
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by LorenPechtel 28d ago
Except this process is independent of whether there is overuse. It's always a pressure to lower costs, whether they are appropriate or not. Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare are all basically universal systems for segments of the populat
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Sex probably isn't that relevant--but being able to have sex says something about your health. Thus this very well might be a yardstick, not an actual benefit.
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
While they have no evidence of big problems this sort of thing causes issues. Idiots use the alert system for stupid things, people respond by blocking them. I've seen it locally, dodgy cell phone area, we were all being bombarded rep

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