warner25

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by warner25 2y ago
The missions are flown through that airspace multiple times per day, and it's all for national security purposes. You can't put a hold on all commercial air traffic every time, and you need to train the pilots to navigate and comm
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by warner25 2y ago
As defrost said, having goggles would be normal (probably even required by local unit policy) for any night flight. Whether they are helpful or harmful will vary with conditions so, yeah, when transiting through a dense urban area with lots
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by warner25 2y ago
Yes, the public needs to understand this. That unit's [1] task is to provide transportation to senior government officials and security forces around the capital, including to and from that airport. If they didn't train to operate
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by warner25 2y ago
It's a bad idea. That unit's [1] task is to provide transportation to senior government officials and security forces around the capital, including to and from that airport. If they didn't train to operate there, then their f
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by warner25 2y ago
I disagree with the premise that the US will be totally different tomorrow. One characteristic of the US that differs from most other countries is the degree to which the states retain a lot of power to govern themselves, and states will co
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by warner25 2y ago
Another forum that I frequent is bogleheads.org (about investing and personal finance), and one of the rules is that discussing politics and proposed legislation is off-limits. But obviously when a new law (e.g. on taxes) is actually pass
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm debating trying to do this. I've seen it recommended by other people who I think are smart. Honestly, I tuned out most of the 2010s after being a political news junkie in the 2000s, and it was probably good for me. I couldn&#x
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by warner25 2y ago
Yes, and what's even worse to me is Trump's explicit motivation for supporting TikTok now. Like there are some interesting philosophical, moral, and maybe legal arguments against the TikTok ban but what he's seized on is si
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by warner25 2y ago
Yes, I don't have a reference immediately available, but I've read that the DoD has studied this and found that LDS kids join the military at a disproportionately high rate and turn out to be better than average troops. Anecdotall
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by warner25 2y ago
But for Gen Z folks, that stuff is ancient history, isn't it? Even the oldest members (using 1997 as a starting point, but some definitions use 2000) were too young to protest or serve in Iraq[1]. By the time the youngest Gen Z folks w
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that only a small minority of Americans, let alone those in the 18-29 age group, can name their senators and representative and anyone on the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, most Americans instead seem to imagine this cou
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by warner25 2y ago
I've been fascinated by the shift towards Trump by 18-29 voters in this past election, and I think this is a good explanation that I haven't heard before. Yeah, and Bush 43 was so long ago that his popular image has turned from ki
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by warner25 2y ago
Regarding Trump, yes. Also, > Kill all the algos and let me find stuff via regex I love this. As someone who increasingly feels old and dissatisfied with what computing is turning into, I'm going to start using this along with thing
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by warner25 2y ago
> I bet it still does I'm not sure why anyone would expect otherwise. This also extends to a lot of computer science and engineering departments. Not just through funding research and recruiting graduates, but a formal pipeline fo
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by warner25 2y ago
I have a single anecdote, not much insight, but I'm interested in advancing discussion around your question. My wife, in her mid-30s, has friends who will share or send her links to TikTok videos. She says that she can't view them
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by warner25 2y ago
Very good!
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by warner25 2y ago
For the next 2-4 years, sure, but this seems like a longer-term trend towards something that's going to happen eventually.
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by warner25 2y ago
The article leaves me totally unsatisfied, with even more questions than answers. I still have no idea how so many people like me [1] can feel increasingly disconnected from the party that has been totally remade in Trump's image, whil
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by warner25 2y ago
I feel the same way as the parent comment. They're number two for now, but seem screwed in a world that's moving towards outlawing gasoline-powered cars. Their bets on hydrogen fuel cells haven't yielded anything, and now the
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by warner25 2y ago
Agreed. I still have a 2008, and it has gotten me through a couple nor'easters. Even with the original Goodyear Integrity tires. One of them was on the rolling hills of I-90 and I-84 through western Massachusetts and Connecticut. On ev
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by warner25 2y ago
As someone who enjoys corresponding with old friends and distant family via email (as opposed to, like, text messages or social media comments), I feel like this trend has ruined my ability to do so. It seems like people - who've given
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by warner25 2y ago
This is what filter rules are for. See my other comment.
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by warner25 2y ago
Agreed on all points. A step further, which I haven't personally tried but I've been thinking about, is to set up a filter rule that just automatically deletes anything with "unsubscribe" or "manage your preferences
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by warner25 2y ago
Don't use filter rules to sort mail; after unsubscribing from everything you possibly can, use filter rules to even more aggressively auto-delete or block stuff that you really don't need to see. You should end up getting so f
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, starting around age four, all of my kids became prolific artists, going through dozens of sheets of paper per day. With our oldest kid, we tried hanging them up on the wall, but it quickly ended up covering every inch of a long hall
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by warner25 2y ago
My kids just freely grab sheets of printer paper when they want to draw stuff. To save paper, I later use the other sides of their drawings for any handwritten notes or conceptual sketches that I make. I guess people will be really amused i
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm seeing 219 R to 215 D, by the way, and the one remaining vacant seat will probably go R again. Unless I'm interpreting something incorrectly(?), it doesn't look like a one-seat majority. Still more narrow than it was in 2
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by warner25 2y ago
Who is "they" in this sentence? You mean the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress who (nearly) all have their seats at this point only because they appealed to Trump's mob of followers? He could be impeached for
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by warner25 2y ago
Good point - I didn't realize that the new majorities are more narrow than they were in 2017 - but my observation is that he has more control now over these more narrow majorities. In 2017, there were still a lot of "Never Trump
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by warner25 2y ago
I think the idea is that Trump wields enormous (unprecedented?) control over the members of his party, and thus effectively controls both houses of Congress for at least the next two years. I assume he'll quickly get whatever legislati

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