peebee67

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by peebee67 4d ago
You're idealising one government rule to stop other government stupidity. The fact is that enforcing that kind of thing is meant to be the electorate's job. Instead of howling these people out of office as the spent, bought-and-pa
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by peebee67 4d ago
That's a really solid set of counterpoints to which I'd respond that the foreign policy has not merely been to maintain supply of oil, but to do so at discount prices and prevent other powers from developing it. This has demonstra
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by peebee67 18d ago
They'd be better off trying to align themselves neutrally and dropping NATO.
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by peebee67 18d ago
"Remember that pirate fleet that tried to tie weights around our neck when we were taking on water 20 years ago?" "Yes, why?" "Well they're about to sink and I think we should tether our ship to theirs."
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by peebee67 1mo ago
> Bonus: put some typos in the quiz that don't matter. Red flag for the people that get hung up on that. I feel like after presenting a great solution to the stupid, cryptic, arbitrary interviewer games where you have to guess the r
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by peebee67 1mo ago
I loved everything about this.
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by peebee67 2mo ago
I'd take the attribution with a wheelbarrow of salt. If Iran was as dangerous as Unnamed US Official has been claiming for the past 50 years, they'd be running the world by now. Iran hitting US mainland targets would be a big depa
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by peebee67 2mo ago
Microsoft 364, am I right?
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by peebee67 2mo ago
It ceased to be independent. It still exists and I have agricultural products at work that still bear its trademark.
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by peebee67 2mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that plant breeders who develop a new cultivar or variety are generally awarded seven years of exclusivity on registration, which seems reasonable to me. For fruit trees that take 3-6 years to beco
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by peebee67 3mo ago
Yes. They actually made similar observations about each other, in that Bill is observing that Steve has a genius for marketing and picking clever people, as opposed to any particular knack for innovation or inventiveness of his own. But Bil
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by peebee67 3mo ago
They pretty much are, too. It certainly reads like some tech job ads. Rock star with 30 years experience. Graduate wages.
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by peebee67 4mo ago
There's good evidence that it was expressly approved in the form of social media posts advertising the consignment on their social media pages. Difficult for them to argue either ignorance or that the arrangement wasn't authorised
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by peebee67 4mo ago
If he's truly a "senior" CIA official, he probably actually was a reservist for much of his career, and continued to claim leave for reserve duties after he was discharged. And payroll eventually did pick up on this, which
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by peebee67 4mo ago
All of the comments in this thread assume he was being investigated for his acquisition of comically large amounts of cash and commodities that he presumably left the building with in big bags with a dollar sign on them. They ignore the ope
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by peebee67 4mo ago
Deliberately testing its survivability with that failure mode over different parts of the vehicle has been one of the major foci throughout the entire test campaign, and it has proven remarkably resilient. That generalisation pretty much do
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by peebee67 5mo ago
I personally broke it by admonishing it for fucking up its last revision to my project.
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by peebee67 5mo ago
The headlines just write themselves at this point.
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by peebee67 5mo ago
That's right. SpaceX is likely a great business on its fundamentals, and starlink is probably even better. The meme-stock part of this is that they've swept all these different business up together. I would've loved the oppor
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by peebee67 5mo ago
They'd tolerate it because they all poked a giant in the eye and it didn't go down. It's by far the cheapest route to peace any of them have. USA could agree to it because it's not particularly dependent on that fuel sup
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by peebee67 5mo ago
Absolutely none of that would happen. It's in Iran's interests to keep the oil flowing at a fee that everyone can stomach and that doesn't offend the sensibilities. $1 a barrel for a year of unprovoked war crimes costing them
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by peebee67 5mo ago
As you say, the shadow fleet exists because of sanctions. In other words, because the biggest bully on the block is committing de facto piracy with their navy. Pretty much the definition of blocking freedom of navigation. Their insurance
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by peebee67 5mo ago
Just pointing out that for the volume of these ships, it's not really a massive toll. It's honestly a bargain, paid for in a really easy to stomach way by the people who allowed this to happen: Everyone else.
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by peebee67 5mo ago
Nobody ever questions why the troll is living under a bridge.
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by peebee67 5mo ago
I realise he was making comedy, but breaking that down further I'd argue that dumb people can fool smart people for a little while that they're smart. My social acuity has developed slowly, only after being repeatedly pounded in
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by peebee67 5mo ago
I remember the set of his shoulders and generally pained body language during that address. He knew it was bullshit, and knew that the world could tell that he was bullshitting. They sent him because out of the four (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield
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by peebee67 6mo ago
The E3 fleet is aging and difficult to keep airworthy. Of the 32 or so planes the US has, it sounds as though they struggle to keep the operational number above 16, and moving more to the gulf means they have to pull them from other theater
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by peebee67 6mo ago
Okay, so this is clearly corrupt, but is it illegal? If not, add it to the United States Congress' many failings. If it is, since they spy on everything, it really shouldn't be hard to convict everyone who spilled the beans early.
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by peebee67 6mo ago
pfft, were you still working for a living or something, you leaner?
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by peebee67 6mo ago
You must be young.

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