Youtube comments of Stephen Villano (@spvillano).

  1.  @LygerTheCLaw  it seems to me, the problem the homeowner has is police doing just that - getting the uninsured felon off of the highway and straight into his livingroom.
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  2. Well, she is asked to defend the indefensible to the morality and laws of our entire society. Granted, she has a duty to defend the indefensible and morally objectionable, but has very little ammunition to use.
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  3.  @Tommy1marg  that's the hardest lesson to learn or teach, to mentally take a step back and analyze what's going on and to then take the proper steps to get out of the problem one is unexpectedly confronted with. I've been caught by rip currents, while merrily heading out to sea, evaluating what was happening and cut across the current to get out of it. I've also caught an offshore current, which was marked on nautical maps of the area that I just happened to blunder into (Coast Guard station was near the beach I was at), noticed I was quite distant from the shore and moving around 4 knots toward NYC from NJ. Seeing that and remembering the current marked on the map, I cut across the current and eventually waded back to the beach I was at. Fighting the current is the recipe for disaster, as water's a hell of a lot stronger than we are! Laughably, what brought my attention to the problem was, a shark swam between my legs, brushing against my inner thigh. As sand sharks tend to be in deeper water, when I turned toward shore, well, whoopsie that doesn't look good... The lifeguard looked quite alarmed, until he saw me cut the current and start wading back. First failure, losing situational awareness. Lesson learned. He who panics drowns.
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  4. Back when I was working a long gig at TUH, a radiology department "Case of the week" image of a neonate was posted on the board. Classic gassy abdomen. The department head noticed my looking at the image, a few comments back and forth and I asked if the child survived beyond 12 hours. Pretty much 12 hours precisely. I suggested imperforate anus. None of his residents recognized what was going on in the image, so doctor asked me to give a presentation on that case, as I was correct. Thanks to insurance companies requirements for rapid discharge, the infant had never passed a stool and was incapable of doing so, obstructing the bowel, resulting in ruptured intestines. What captured doctor's attention was my sad shaking of my head when examining the simple x-ray. Totally preventable, still haunts my many nightmares. The irony is, I was there as an IT guy. But, I was also a military medic and trained in basic x-ray reading and that particular case was one I bumped into during study.
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  5.  @mrbyamile6973  the, get a permit, artfully crafted by an attorney, for a "facade" for the front of the house - of 10000 pound test reinforced concrete, dressed as a brick wall house front. It'd be like hitting a bunker, a bit of concrete paint to touch up, all one has to do then is fix the damage to the lawn. When they complain about the body count, simply state it's a lower count than mining the road.
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  6. One is doomed to fail when one proceeds upon the assumption that children are stupid.
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  7. You learned a very, very, very important lesson that day! The biggest difference between the US Army and the Boy Scouts is, the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
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  8.  @scuss2  why bother? A shroud made of a soiled bedsheet would do as well.
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  9.  @JohnathanGross  do you have evidence to support the non-student status of the dog?
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  10.  @josswoman4191  there is no felony insurance.
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  11. Heh, my wife used to joke that I'm too lazy to have an affair. I'd reply, "There is no man lazier than a man too lazy to go fishing and I am that man!" We also used to do "The Lockhorns" numbers at parties.
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  12. Well, it started out at 9 pounds unloaded, almost 11 pounds loaded and yeah, way too light to remain on target. For crying out loud, the M50 weighed in at 23 pounds, the M240 at 29 pounds. That mass kept the weapon in the general direction of the target. Might've as well have a 5 pound version of Ma Deuce!
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  13. Most leave a trail a mile wide and deep straight back to them. They'll be getting a very unpleasant visit from the FBI soon.
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  14. To subsequently get to wear a crown of stems with much larger thorns. What was driven out were money changers (Roman money was considered unclean, so other nations currency was changed for a fee) and animal salesmen for sacrificial animals. Turning a temple courtyard into a bizarre.
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  15. Not a one of them went back to normal, their immune systems are fouled up to this day.
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  16. Nah, leave the tug alone. Otherwise the carrier wouldn't make it back to continue being a hindrance.
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  17. I dunno, we've not had any problems of note in the hands of the US Navy. But, as a retiree from the Army, remembering our history with nuclear reactors, never*, ever, *ever give the US Army a nuclear reactor to run! We contaminated a chunk of Canada, we contaminated a chunk of Greenland, we blew up a reactor in Idaho. But, we never misplaced a half dozen warheads, that took the US Air Force to do that in 2007... :/
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  18. Ah, but it's gonna be great for employment, all that putting up to 3 million people immediately onto unemployment. And tanking the auto industry and farms at the same time.
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  19. Mom taught me to always wash my produce before preparing it for a meal. The military also trains people to wash produce before preparing it for the mess hall.
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  20. I guess that was a defense available to the bastards that stole every inch of copper from my home, along with all appliances and electronics while I was deployed. After all, it's reasonable to expect a soldier to desert to protect the assets his tax dollars retain police to protect, since there is no expectation that law enforcement will do their duties. I guess it's unreasonable to expect valuables to be stored in the safety deposit boxes of a bank that's frequently robbed as well. Abandon all home, ye who live here. Oh well, I'm back in PA now and we're castle doctrine and stand your ground.
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  21. You can see it, if the burden is high. If it's a lighter infection or early on in the infection of the animal, the fewer cysts could be missed. But then, that's also why we were taught to cook pork well.
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  22.  @GreyWolfLeaderTW  so, this 61 year old guy has to have a heat stroke to protect children from seeing my hairy chest, but it's OK for them to watch a war movie of men blown literally apart? Do tell this veteran about how that's OK and not fucked up in the head to the point of psychosis.
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  23.  @jackedakk  same here. Lost a cousin and a few friends in the attack and well, it's funny. Lost more friends serving in the wars, only one of which made sense.
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  24. Haven't looked up the citation, but if I was the dad, I'd write up the case.
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  25.  @jeroboam4486  if they could get the chance to. Some are doing their level best to sink themselves by cracking.
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  26.  @ronblack7870  hit a reinforced wall like that, the one impacting it is about as likely to survive as I am likely to become a flying unicorn.
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  27. A combo lock with three digits is pretty much not locked at all to begin with. They're the cheapest POS one can buy beyond a fire security box. Meanwhile, a secure safe for firearms that requires two keys being used at once to open it costs $320 on Amazon for a handguns only sized safe. The pistol retails for around $1k - $1200, one would reasonably presume other firearms in the house if one is being bought for the son's usage, so the cost of a properly secure safe is a drop in the bucket. And more than a reasonable protection on an investment.
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  28. Well, real proceedings would bore an audience senseless, military or civilian. The interesting part would be, was the order unlawful in a way universally understood by service members of that rank and experience level? Was the command environment conducive to allowing such violations of the law?
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  29. Well, the NSA lined their headquarters building with copper mesh as a Faraday shield - back in the '50's.
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  30.  @nursejanainholland1978  it'd reduce the numbers of surviving bacteria. The DoD washes all produce with a calcium hypochlorite solution. Listeria isn't known to drill into produce skins, but they do form a good biofilm. So, it's a matter of defense in depth. The first layer being at the farm, the final, in one's kitchen. The goal isn't complete exclusion or extermination, but reduction on numbers of any colony, thereby lowering the inoculation dose.
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  31. Th problem is that when enough are gathered into one space, the mass-energy equivalence of their intellect causes an implosion where a Planck mass travels a Planck length in under one unit of Planck time, resulting in a singularity.
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  32. Well, he thought he hit a bear, so he stopped to talk to it. So, he's really Doctor Dolittle. Or Doctor Doobie... The bear of it is, had he actually stopped and called for help, he'd likely have ended up going on his way with a stern warning, maybe a modest fine for driving where he shouldn't and that would've been it. Now, he'll get felony hit and run for starters.
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  33. I know why Ukraine won't be at the peace talks. It was reported earlier, they're literally not invited. Now, how does one hold peace talks with only half of the parties, save if one's instead plotting to divvy up the corpse of the one not included in the talks?
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  34. Given it'd be a war of aggression, Canada wouldn't try to help anyway, given it's against international law and hence, violating a treaty that was ratified. Ratified treaties being the law of the land, per the US Constitution. But, not to a god-king... Although, Bebe isn't so fond of that idea at all. So, any US invasion would likely be taking on both Hamas and the IDF.
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  35. I'll simply say, pure balls of diamond. Did what was needed when stainless steel wouldn't suffice.
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  36. Oh, the irony, someone from England is speaking English wrong - said by someone not from England. Of course, the language wasn't properly documented until late in 1776. ;) I'll just get my coat...
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  37.  @suecharnock9369  save that the warrant would be titled, "World's Least Wanted".
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  38. The way the law is written, every car that has its key removed when parked should be impounded. After all, you cannot safely operate most cars and trucks without their key. Perjury and willful falsification of official documents under color of law used to be a crime, now it's business as usual. Well, unless we do it, then prosecution begins.
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  39. I dunno, nothing ever happened before, so honestly, it sounds as though the sheriff's office is heavily overfunded. So, how many arrests did the sheriff make the following night, when it was dark out and actually dangerous? Did he arrest the entire town for attending a pagan festival and vagrancy?
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  40. So, is he going to arrest weather forecasters and economists? Futures traders? Or is he only going to arrest witches?
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  41.  @Redmanfms  Jesus was a Jew, by his own proclamation.
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  42. I was denied housing by a realtor who relied upon some commercial background check service that entirely fails in due diligence. Worse, she decided to tell me of the denial at high volume, across a crowded busy office, then when I objected, continue her justification at high volume, attempting for maximum embarrassment. The reason, "You have a record". My objection, "I hold a security clearance, the US government isn't in the habit of issuing security clearances to criminals". The crime, I inherited property from my father, who hoarded construction supplies and right after inheriting the property, I was fined over it. The court immediately dismissed the charge and that was the end of it. By the time I left, I was quite irritated. So, it being a military town and I being retired military, expressed a grave concern with the local base command over the risk to our service members morale and welfare, due to that business' practices. The business was promptly blacklisted by post housing and the business declared off limits to military personnel. For some odd reason, said business had grave difficulties in finding rental customers, what with losing 85% of their clientele. To morons, a dismissed case is equal to a conviction, "because you were accused". Sorry, by McCarthy is long dead, he drank himself to death after losing office, after losing faith and trust with his unamerican activities. And I do willingly admit to a character flaw. I am a very, very, very vindictive man.
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  43. Literally went through that for four months, turned out to be Crohn's. Trump's more tiresome.
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  44. Had some junior soldiers decide to mess with my constantly present thermos of coffee. I pretended to not notice the hot pepper sauce dumped into my coffee. So, I picked up some indicatorless OC spray, bathed the thermos with it, allowed the solvent to evaporate, leaving a fine film of OC over the thermos and only handled it with gloves on. The next time they messed with it, well finger oils are solvents, the OC adhered to their fingers and people love to touch their faces and especially eyes. Getting the crap off of the thermos was annoying, but the lesson was learned not to screw with Sarge's shit. Instead, got comms cables switched around, they got batteries disconnected, just regular pranks.
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  45.  @nvelsen1975 perhaps you can show us when an arms dealer sold a firearm to a minor child. What was said here was that a parent bought the minor child a handgun. Possession of which is unlawful under federal law for anyone under age 21. 18 if employed as an armed security guard.
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  46.  @christinam3294  the felonies have been felonies for decades on Earth, not sure about your planet. Treason? Wrong again, are you ever right? Treason is clearly and narrowly defined in the US Constitution.
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  47. When a law professor says outright that it was a stupid defense, it's a seriously stupid assed defense that rightfully got one fired.
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  48.  @Sorcerers_Apprentice  a true horror would be a narcissist with dementia.
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  49. So, now we're giving Uber police powers? It at a minimum is a crime using telecommunications, making it federal, add in credit cards and again, federal. So, plenty of authority there to be actually finding the actual origin of the call. From there, it can escalate as needed and even for "an Indian call center", they're a friendly power that enjoys a good relationship with our government, so extradition is likely. Well, unless India really wants to change their national language to Chinese...
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  50.  @TheGrobe  that worked in France quite well, right until those masters got to meet the National Razor.
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  51.  @queenbee3647  or have an opening in the guardrail wide enough for pedestrians and wheelchairs to pass through. This isn't rocket science. Honestly, at this point, I'd be getting a wall permit and installing a fine reinforced concrete wall with ten thousand pound test concrete. The next best thing to armor plate. Deny that, I'll get a permit for a reinforced concrete "facade" for the front of my house, artfully worded, of course. A man's home is his reinforced bunker being a sign to go out front thanking the local government... But then, I'm a dick when angered and I also know how to build such structures at cost.
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  52. What's amazing is, they keep falling for his "I'll cover you, I'll pay for your defense, etc" repeatedly and publicly it's been shown he doesn't have anyone's back but his own. They go up the river, he sits in his clubs.
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  53.  @midnightrunner684  repeating mistakes is a certain sign of idiocy. We're not idiots.
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  54.  @saikirannarayanaswami1618  there was a very similar course with a patient, where the treating physician's prognosis in the chart said, "The prognosis for this patient is horrible". The patient worked at a dry cleaners and had brought home some dry cleaning solvent, carbon tetrachloride. Said patient then dutifully began attempting to remove some stubborn carpet stains without adequate ventilation or respiratory protection, inhaling the fumes. Same course, as it destroyed his liver. The moral of the story, enjoy a chemical free life and only enjoy purified vacuum. Or, don't screw around with toxic chemicals. I recommend the latter, given the really bad smell of a hard vacuum. ;)
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  55. Well, no electricity is fine, gas actuated hydraulic motor driven... ;)
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  56. Ah, but that's why we retain the option for Corporal Punishment.
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  57. 48 hours? Why the freebie? Sanction the lawyers for filing a fraudulent bond, cite him for contempt, seize assets immediately. No fine for contempt, can't trust him in anything financial, so put him under the jail, where light takes a month to get to him.
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  58.  @KutWrite  what an odd takeaway from an account of a defective and abusive experiment - politics! Tell me, it's raining outside here, does politics cause that as well?
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  59. They can go with $9 every day or enjoy OSHA shutdowns, fines and being prohibited all federal contracts. I suspect they'll go with the $9. Retired Army and cleared DoD contractor here. I'm very diplomatic about safety, "do you want me to shove that missile up your ass sideways, the fire the high energy igniter?", they universally go with safety. Probably because the missile is longer than they are wide...
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  60.  @killpidone  well, she did promise to take care of him. Just not quite in the way that he expected.
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  61. I lost my wife of over 41 years to sepsis, rapidly advancing from a dental infection on a weekend. Within around 6 hours of initial pain, she had died while I was outside having a cigarette. Initiated CPR to no avail, while on the phone with 911. Brief interruption to open the door for law enforcement, who ran and retrieved his AED to no avail. EMT's arrived, took over compressions to no avail when the paramedics arrived and plugged in the monitor. No pattern, not even pulseless electrical activity and I recommended discontinuing CPR (old military medic here, I know those monitors and treatments intimately). They continued for another 20 minutes, then called the hospital for the code to be called. Four hours earlier, she'd helped me carry in $400 in groceries. Couldn't eat for a week, as every time I saw that food, I saw her carrying it inside for me. Two weeks of nightmares of her ribs fracturing under my compressions.
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  62. Well, he also gave us McNamara's Morons. With predictable results in casualties. He also believed that videos could teach anyone to perform any task. Leading to tapes that featured, for one example, Magic Medic, who carried the tiny M3 aid bag, but would suddenly produce a two foot long erector set of a Thomas Leg splint and a full box of cravats to secure the infernal contraption that was obsolete during the Vietnam war... He also apparently concealed quite effectively, a full litter, Stokes litter, M113 APC and probably had a nuclear reactor inside of that bottomless bag. Earlier in my career, similar tapes on the original Pershing, long replaced by the 1A and then 2 was in progress, with tools being used we'd never even heard of or could find a use for... Highly effective at being inept and utterly incompetent. The only thing he seemed effective at was fucking up wet dreams.
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  63. Follow the money.
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  64.  @BigBeerus  the idealized usage was recognized to be point blank, last ditch weapon. After all, the thing is going to sound like an M-80 going off in an area otherwise quiet. I would expect that someone might want to look into what made that disturbing noise... So, the idea was shoot, grab and scoot away fast.
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  65. Definitely not a hit and run, which typically isn't covered.
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  66.  @richardfox6595  show me where Hillary was charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Otherwise, you're the one committing a crime in committing defamation. You too can pay out as much as Trump, for the low, low price of lying about people in a way intending harm.
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  67. The apple isn't inside of the crucible either. Go check some of the foundry safety videos on this site. Just dropping a pop can that was just emptied into a crucible of molten aluminum generates a massive flash of steam that throws insane amounts of molten aluminum all around, endangering workers. Now, under extreme pressure, magma acts even more strangely, with water forming novel kinds of ice at extreme pressures and temperatures that'd boil iron briskly.
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  68. The psychic friends network, of course.
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  69. He'd have hated my response, "You're the god-king, walk on the water, asshole". Remember, he's also the one to throw in the towel in Puerto Rico after the hurricane creamed the island. After first calling it a foreign country...
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  70. As near as I can tell, this company is basically declaring that making a profit is illegal. I hope that discovery is both fruitful and highly illuminating, so that at a minimum, the investors are hated nationwide and if foreign, lose out on the entirety of their investment in land around a US airbase.
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  71. At this point, I really have to be up front and ask honestly, just how much money and real property was transferred during their ex parte "meeting"? Sounds like RICO was being violated by most of the officers of the court. Of course, corruption and Georgia courts... Well, I repeat myself.
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  72. Well, MAGA confuses George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
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  73.  @the_last_ballad  oh my goodness, I'd forgotten that Jesus said that the end times would happen before all of his apostles died! That means at least one is still alive. Well, it ain't George Burns, maybe Mel Brooks? I'll just get my hat, already wearing my running shoes...
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  74. Sounds like an interesting form of protest. Then, the courts would likely decide that pads and tampons that are in used condition are medical waste, requiring specialized disposal and the torches and pitchforks of a sizable majority of taxpayers objecting would be noted and entirely not dismissed. Self-preservation being a rather strong human trait and all.
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  75.  @ripmeemaw2119 you are absolutely right! Better to never object to the objectionable, when a fixed bayonet can far more effectively address the outstanding problem.
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  76. I've changed careers more than a few times myself, did a full military career as well. Lost everything a few times as well, losing a paid for house due to it being stripped of every ounce of copper in the building, walls and floors damaged to get to the copper, all furniture stolen, all electronics stolen, even family pictures strewn about while I was deployed. Some thank you for your service. Had expensive property stolen during two moves. Lost my wife coming up on three years ago after over 41 years together to sepsis that advanced fatally in only a few hours. My last memory of her was performing CPR on her when the police arrived and took over, then the EMT's arrived and well, I've done CPR before, but it's different when you feel your wife's ribs breaking under your compressions... Even ended up homeless for a bit after that, just totally losing all drive for a period of time. Oddly, never felt like driving a car through a crowd of people, trying to bomb a hotel or shoot some CEO. Maybe tie some shoelaces together around a chair... ;) I'm also rather accustomed to being the best in each field I've been in, so if I'm not careful, I could go onto an ego trip and that never works out well. And I walk on water. But, only when it's been really, really cold for quite a while... But, I'm a perfect 10 - alas, on the Richter scale.
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  77. Had that for over 41 years, lost her just over two years ago.
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  78. Went through similar, with increasing hypertension that was presumed to be age and familial related. Right until things decompensated and I dropped 30+ pounds in a month and had a hypertensive crisis. Whoopsie! Missed Grave's disease, TSH receptors getting lit up by antibodies, sending my thyroid gland into overdrive. A couple of thyroid storms later, it was mischief managed. Now, just for entertainment's sake, my immune system did something not unusual in Grave's disease, it switched to destruction mode and I'm moving into Hashimoto's. Not unexpected, given my eldest grandchild has it.
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  79. They have him on an unlawfully made SBR, which is a heavy felony under the NFA. That's enough to hold him while they consolidate a case with more charges. He'll end up getting hit with pretty much the entire law library by the time he sees the inside of a courtroom.
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  80.  @bladerj  whenever I designed something, that was my first and final consideration. I've not designed something that killed anyone yet and compensated. But, there are final costs to consider. How many billions of dollars do you want to spend to protect a worker? Who will only contribute millions of dollars to the economy at best. Yeah, it's that ugly and real. In this case, it was a total loss that was worth more than the damned platform. All, because three steps were skipped. Well, major steps. There were dozens of minor steps to go through. One burst of intracranial flatulence resulted in a mass death situation.
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  81. He does fulfill the descriptions of one of the antichrists, which are warned of in the bible as preceding the little horn.
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  82.  @edwardprofit4537  twice impeached, never until now convicted and his conviction, for 34 felonies. Sentencing can be for up to 4 years, all sentencing concurrent, plus probation, community service and fines. Most likely, as a first time offender, no prison time, although I'm sure he can talk the judge into it.
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  83. No, it was, "I wasn't able to defend myself!", right after utterly refusing to defend himself at all. But, it's an excellent example for law schools in times when mounting any attempt at defense would've resulted in significant harm to the client's interests.
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  84. Even if the joint somehow survived repeated missions to that depth, the slightest deformation of the underrated viewport would increase the stresses on the flange joint tremendously, a failure giving a chaotic spike in pressures around that entire flange. The only thing missing was Coyote's Acme company's logo on the damned side.
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  85. The problem is, he's essentially asserting that he is allowed to do it, not should be allowed to do it, that he's a god-emperor, like the tyrants of old. Something the Founders found a horrific notion and thought they insulated against. He's successfully fractured his own party and created a constitutional crisis at the same time, all due to shenanigans with the courts jurist selections, endangering nothing less than our Constitution in its entirety.
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  86.  @pdxshadow9819  yeah, every business and the city burned to the ground daily. At least, that's what Fox reported. How something already incinerated was burned again the following day is beyond me, since ashes tend to need a lot of convincing to burn. Most, as in 90% of the protests were peaceful, not that fascists care about rights guaranteed by our Constitution.
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  87.  @georgelayton6641  more likely, Putin told him to say it.
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  88.  @DrWhom  the part about his mother was breaking him up inside.
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  89.  @glorioustigereye  ...leaving on a jet plane, don't think that I'll be back again...
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  90. You miss one group also being marginalized - repeatedly. Women.
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  91.  @allisondeller6330  no, he's president-elect. He's not been sworn yet, inauguration a month and change away. Which means, he's presently got zero authority. The only things he can legally order that are official things are in regards to his businesses and his current transition teams. When I was in the Army, if an officer presented his orders showing he'd be my commander next week and tried to order me to do something inconsistent with my current orders, I'd tell him, "That's nice, Sir, come back to me next week when your orders authorizing you to command me are effective, please have a nice day."
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  92. Yeah, they melt quickly. Had one tell me, "I'm loading my AR15". I replied, "Fine, my M1A can is good beyond 1 kilometer, come and get it". I fire competition with both an M4 and M1A and am a veteran that's lugged both ludicrous distances before I retired. Little snowflake wasn't ready to take heat being returned coldly. Although, that thing wouldn't need to leave the safe, the streak of yellow down their back is long and thick. And firearms discussion belongs on firearms forums, ranges and gun shops, not in a political forum. But, when they can't make a point, they resort to terroristic threats.
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  93. Nonsense! Woke up dreaming of eating a cat from a Penthouse Pet. Thankfully, it was just a nightmare involving a needy model, don't want to relive that waking nightmare again! Had feline in my mouth before, damned cat actually stepped in my loudly snoring mouth. Why and how mystified us both, both of us equally grossed out. Me, got litterbox du foot, cat got a mouth full of saliva, so we were tied on that debacle. Well, except that the foot couldn't digest my mouth, the same couldn't be said of the poor cat's foot, who was utterly unwilling to lick that foot clean for good reason. Yeah, had an interesting life. Did I ever mention that I really hate interesting and prefer boring? Oh, shall I discuss that this blood libel is over a century old and barely retread over anti-Chinese immigration from the railroad construction era? I've not heard a new idea come out of the GOP in decades, everything is a century old or older. Literally, just changed a few stickers, apply the same libel to a new group. "They're stealing our jobs!" Yet, oddly not a single one of them wants to sign up for minimum wage and muck out the industrial henhouse the size of a large warehouse full of chicken shit. Not. A. One. Did it with my own small henhouse. Which is why I don't have chickens now. Next up, Nativist Riots requiring artillery to suppress them.* *Two incidents, Philadelphia Nativist Riots resulted in a number of dead, including responding militia and involved rioters stealing artillery to destroy Roman Catholic churches (Irish Catholic immigration wave at the time). The other, Big Army shelled the Bowery to suppress rioting.
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  94.  @Tyler-vw9bh  it is experimental in some specialized cases of compartment syndrome and spinal cord injury, but the types that are experimental are highly specialized cases and researched in specialized facilities, progressing to animals only. More importantly though, why was there anything flammable within the chamber, as well as why was there an ignition source present within the chamber? Both are ultra-big no-noes in hyperbaric chambers of any sort. But, for ADHD and sleep apnea, nope, not even experimental.
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  95. No, it's pure genius. This way, it can silently spread and not ruin his numbers as graves get filled. He learned from COVID. The wrong lessons, but he learned something.
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  96. "Too bad, your offer has been accepted. This shall be Infowars last show, as seances aren't considered worthy of radio. Guido?"
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  97.  @jsnification  now, now, there you go, trying to confuse the issues with silly little things like facts.
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  98.  @arty2k  with much profanity, unless I miss my guess. There were a hell of a lot of software packages out there that ignored Microsoft's API's in favor of their own reinvention of the wheel. That resulted in many a proudly square wheels when Microsoft would change something that the API would fix internally, but behave oddly with the reinvented wheel.
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  99. I'm somewhat reclusive in my dotage. I'm gregarious, but when I don't feel like interacting, I just stay holed up at home. And I'd call it reclusive. It's not like we're speaking of some hermit on the mountain, just someone enjoying their privacy and retirement and not wanting to be incessantly bombarded with attention during normal everyday things like a trip to the store or incessant guests. Being reclusive when one wishes to be left alone isn't some personality flaw, it's just wanting to be left the hell alone when one doesn't want a tiring number of visitors.
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  100.  @markdkberry  the first pressurized jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet had square windows, which failed, causing crashes. Hence, the modern rounded shaped windows.
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  101. Just another, in a long line of successes. Of course, there may be an opportunity to top this success by appealing and the appellate court increasing the penalty...
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  102. There is only one time it's ended well, when I was at the store and was picking up a jar of honey for a reasonable price.
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  103.  @rickatatastan2695  there is no pardon for either civil actions or disbarment.
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  104. They chose their replacement god, as the original one went against their prosperity gospel doctrine. Choosing man and mammon over godliness and nation. Because, do note how many are extreme fundamentalists.
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  105. U-Haul is nothing but fraudulent all around. Had problems after renting one of their trucks, with all manner of fanciful charges attempted to be added and money seized without notice from my debit card under an oddly named business traced back to them. Bank clawed the money back after investigating, which speaks volumes as well.
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  106. Remember, kids, whenever a MAGA cries, an angel gets their wings.
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  107. Although, there's secondary coitus interruptus, it's also referred to as parenthood.
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  108.  @monad_tcp  actually, the opposite. The safety wire and later ball linked chain would be removed to arm the bomb and couldn't be reinserted to safe it. Of course, the safety system was horrifically lacking as well, had a couple that very nearly accidentally detonated after a crash. Because of the near-detonation, they redesigned everything to be multipoint safe, where there was no way for the damned thing to go into a nuclear detonation accidentally. They also removed RDX from the cores, as that grew unstable on exposure to the radiation flux from the core. The new explosive being quite insensitive to shock, heat or radiation.
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  109.  @dr.floridamanphd  nope, that's why a lot of top brass and suits resigned quietly. Never should've gotten that far, then later, the cheating on their nuke certs, think they finally weeded that garden clean.
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  110.  @ls6jay  true, though it's part lubrication, partly cushioning the valves when they closed. Modern components can withstand those stresses, old engines either needed a change of valves and seats or have leaded fuel. But, confounding the story is another source of lead that remains a problem today, lead paint. Ironically, there's still another source and one that's two feet away from me, lead solder for electronic circuits. Now, modern solders use greater amounts of silver and tin, which then introduces tin whiskers into the mess...
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  111. ​ @SuperLordHawHaw  it teaches the meaning of the root words. Be happy, I usually add in a tidbit as to the origin, Greek or Latin. Leaving students to seek out safer inhalants, such as CN compounds. ;)
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  112.  @BreakTheCode115  that isn't a one, it's an entire class of compounds of mercury that integrate carbon, hence organic. In the case you're speaking of, I mentioned Doctor above. She was the case that died from methylmercury drops on a latex glove. She was pretty much the world's leading expert in mercury compounds.
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  113. Well, it could've been worse. They could've done the same thing, but pushed it out at COB on a Friday on a holiday weekend. Then poured gasoline on the floor on the way out the door for the weekend. The only way to get something like this through the Swiss cheese model is if they predrilled some very cavernous holes through in advance. Boy, oh boy, glad that I'm retired.
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  114. Not even as a guest.
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  115. "Yes, but it appears that our signal keeps getting interfered with by their microwave ovens at lunchtime."
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  116.  @tinnitusisnotmusic6807  there was a literal lord of the flies situation with a bunch of children stranded on a Pacific island. Interestingly, no strife as outlined in the book occurred, all cooperated and eventually got rescued and returned home happy and healthy.
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  117. I remember back in the heady old says of a few months ago when one could go for years without another government scandal or president saying anything stupid.
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  118. And the judge simply has to keep repeating, "Contempt" and a dollar value and when enough is enough, number of days and a dollar value. And as the jury hears that, the dollar counter for award will scroll upward swiftly. Trust me, been a juror a number of times, piss the jury off, it'll cost ya and wasting the jury's time with antics is wasting the jury's time.
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  119.  @mr-boo  whenever the deep south types start that crap, that whole usurpation of the Constitution, I simply remark that the next Reconstruction will last generations and include Hunger Games. In my best South Philly accent. I may be from SW Philly, but I speak fluent South Philly, courtesy of my parents. I'm also fluent in American English and actual English. That last, a favored joke between friends I served with from the UK...
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  120. 63 year old veteran here, I'm also getting damned tired of idiots saying, "Oh, I didn't vote for him, not my problem", forgetting we're all standing at the bottom of the cesspool and nobody bothered to turn the water off before we entered. No matter what, we'll all end up treading turds.
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  121. Jurors have been attacked and even killed in the past when their names became known. And those, not in as high profile cases as this, but frequently involving violent common criminals. So, their names remain sealed, lest our court systems fail due to a lack of responding jurors.
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  122. There are two people that I can name that are uniquely unsuited for the office of POTUS. Donald Trump and myself. The greatest difference between us being, I recognize that and wouldn't attempt to run for the office. What astounds me is how many people he can convince to destroy their own professional careers defending the indefensible. I can understand giving a PR defense or legal defense, within normal boundaries, not professional destruction level, that's a job one accepted. But, destroying one's own career and life, incomprehensible!
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  123. Wait, the RTO isn't glued to their radio set? When did they change that? Miss one net call, see how much time you're on the carpet for answering some seriously pissed off senior officers! Of course, I was Army. Put me in charge of a vessel, I'd be a hazard to navigation at the dock.
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  124.  @oldmech619  well, since mass isn't a big deal to you, neither is gravity. Feel free to step off of a roof and show us all how little mass and gravity mean to you.
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  125.  @DonnaLena1  so was Jerry Lewis, nobody wanted for him to be POTUS and at least he was funny.
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  126. Abuse of office and assorted state official misconduct criminal charges should also be filed against her, just to discourage other public officials from abusing their own official positions.
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  127. Well, we commoners don't have a god-emperor wannabe supporting us.
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  128.  @WilliamDaugherty  well, the last time Trump was at Normandy, he manhandled world leaders so he could stand in front of everyone, then as every mature leader walked to the stands, Trump rode in a rather tilted golf cart. And stayed out of the rain. Can't blame him, shit softens and washes away in the rain.
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  129. Their biggest problem is when it comes out as, "I'm impotent!".
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  130. Got a National Razor handy?
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  131. Trump knows all about working off. Yeah, I grabbed the electron microscope and went there.
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  132.  @AnserBauer171  the problem isn't much of a problem. That was half of people voting - most don't vote, but all are getting screwed and are getting more and more pissed about it.
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  133. @brennalee98 compared to Trump, who couldn't even get 1/3 of the first page of the SIOP, the actual instructions on how to use those nukes? Sorry, I'll take Biden, at least he knows how to read something more complex than a primer about Spot and Puff.
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  134.  @DeeDee-bm9hr  an interesting takeaway, given the dozen comments from men who used the forward assist with no problems in combat in these very comments.
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  135. I watched a friend go into respiratory arrest from huffing nitrous oxide. Got him breathing again and during the mess decided, NOPE!
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  136.  @QuiteSimplyMyChoice it's not, he's engaged in witness intimidation. Want to live where that's legal? Move to Russia.
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  137.  @MeSkeefer  more likely, a bot.
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  138. Easy enough work for both Walz and Harris. After all, Trump brought Vance on after seeing an advertisement in the paper, "Idiot seeks new village" and Trump thought it was a match made in heaven. And as we well know, Trump gets everything bass ackwards.
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  139. The clock offset and sampling rate set up an ideal race condition, which resulted in the error that caused all of the computers to fail out. One problem with "it's so one off, it'll never happen" is, with enough flights, it will inevitably happen. Thankfully, the safety pilot justified their duties by catching what got overloooked and was key to understanding what was going on. Concerning is, with dual engine failure, the recorders lose power. So, get surprised by an event in Iceland, lose all recorders really doesn't sound like a grand idea. There should be some standby power to them and their inputs for at least long enough for the RAT and/or APU to come online and provide power. This one could never be properly conveyed in "Seconds from Disaster", it could only be well covered in milliseconds from disaster!
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  140.  @jimcarr1354  they said that the Teflon Don couldn't be convicted. Yet he died in prison, alone.
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  141.  @wloffblizz  they had just initiated go around and the engines spooling up when ATC ordered them to go around. At that time, the incident wasn't a mandatory report event and it was reported three days after the incident. As the aircraft had been used in the days following the incident, the CVR had overwritten the flight data. NTSB recommended increasing the recording time from two hours to 25 hours.
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  142.  @dougbates8018  Vance and Johnson won't be able to hold MAGA together and it'll turn on itself.
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  143.  @angtxsun4460 yeah, because those two groups got together in the past so successfully, which is why we haven't needed a foster care system. Oh wait... Insanity is doing the same failed thing over and over again and expecting new results. Replication of a failed experiment to confirm failure is one thing, putting the failed experiment into production, that's just batshit crazy.
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  144. Well, still time to adjust the agency's budget for 2026 to $1.98. No oversight? No funding.
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  145.  @MrSniperdude01  OK, we'll simply ignore all of those farmhouses with root cellars and storm cellars. Although, hiding from a tornado inside of a barn sounds a lot like actively attempting to win a Darwin Award.
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  146. Two tier criminal justice system. One tier for we peons, the other for the wealthy.
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  147.  @dannydaw59  I actually had to look it up. He does need to wear reading glasses, but hates being seen wearing them. I need reading glasses to see as well, seeing beats effectively being blind to close objects, so screw the beholder. Mine being permanently fixed at +1.75 power, due to implant lenses that replaced my cataracts. Hell, even if he needed Mr Magoo's +2.50 and climbing glasses my wife needed, his aversion is decidedly odd - especially when giving a deposition!
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  148. For many of these, I'm reminded of the original Zealots and their fate.
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  149.  @RainboomDash  indeed, with unwashed contaminated lettuce, all she did was incubate the bacteria in a nearly ideal culture medium - the meat.
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  150. Yep, there are plenty of guides in building a cloud chamber on YT. One even has plans that don't require dry ice, but instead a regular aluminum heat sink, gunk from a cold pack and hot water.
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  151. Registered Democrat after those insane about tea jumped from Libertarian to GOP, hijacking things toward insanity. Only the second time though that I voted party line. I vote for platform, interests and national welfare, not blind loyalty to a person or party and my only sworn affiliation remains for the laws and Constitution of this nation. My contract may have expired upon retirement, my sworn word of honor has no expiration date.
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  152.  @AlanDalvarez-t2q  certainly, as a zero target.
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  153. What should have happened is, once denied, he contacted the county elections office and everything that happened while the reporter watched would've been done. In this case though, doing so through the press ensured what should happen did happen and ensured viewers know their options and to call their county elections office if there's a problem. Most don't know who to call and that's critical if one is to exercise one's right to vote.
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  154. Don't forget, while every leader walked to the stands for the ceremony, Trump drove his golf cart. Honestly, I didn't know that a golf cart could lean to one side like that before that moment.
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  155.  @NateB  given that the video related that it was an Asian country, there's a good chance that there was no no fault divorce option available. But, thank you for playing US law is universal law, please play again. But, given the region, I suspect his fate was dire, as murder is seriously frowned upon in most countries and in that region, the death penalty is available in many nations. And while he was a wronged party, murder isn't a civilized option in that scenario.
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  156. She had the option of finding a cheaper place to shop, just walk there. While at sea. Yeah, the court recognized that and addressed it.
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  157. Two tier justice. One for the royalty, one for we serfs. France used to have that, then the National Razor cured that malady.
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  158. Yeah, then and now, that behavior is not tolerated at all and rightfully so. And every senior NCO does know better! A dumb ass way to lose a pension.
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  159. Go look at some of the Manhattan Project x-ray high speed films of the implosion. Same basic thing, smaller distances and far more than one charge, but really educational as to what's happening when shockwaves meet and metals in different phases combine at high speed.
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  160.  @richmondvand147  there's this neat new invention, it's totally cool! You type in or even talk to it if you've enabled voice commands and it'll search for things. It's called Google. Because, the entire campaign and its subsequent unmasking after the Soviet Union fell and the KGB files were opened is trivially available and frankly, I don't have time to do your homework for you, nor am I inclined to then argue about well established history that you'll then disagree with. I well remember the campaign and its response, better dead than red.
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  161. Given how many "unfixable bugs" have been found and viola, fixed in one way or another, yeah, clickbait. Clickbait doesn't win subscriptions, it wins unsubscriptions.
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  162. He bravely raised his mighty tiny fist in the air when he so honorably got a boo-boo on his widdle ear. Then bravely turned and wanted his shoes... Makes Sir Robin look like a superhero.
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  163. Probably, largely because most of that institutional memory had long been retired and the young-uns just didn't really pay attention, as they'd "never be involved in such a project".
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  164. The network canceled it, too low a revenue, too low energy and tired and the cost overruns for the staff working late hours for an entire week per episode to make him look like anything but a low grade moron just became excessive.
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  165. Dr Karen Wetterhahn taught us well, complacency kills, assuming protective measures are effective without testing kills.
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  166.  @terrypetersen2970  AI = Artificial Idiocy. Trump = Natural Idiocy. How else does one explain serial bankruptcies being claimed as great successes, to the point where he's been prohibited from owning another casino?
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  167. "Veterans are #1", incessantly heard from GOP types. Every veteran can tell you that they're really holding up the third digit, as those same misleaders lead the charge to cut our VA benefits and the VA budget - including the first years of the GWOT after 9/11. All giving it to the little guy, never a suggestion of a reach around.
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  168. Hell, with the secret documents case, anyone else would be in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison until the case was over, then returned back to that same prison. As Manning about it.
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  169.  @themidsouthcyclist8880  not totally garbage, we still see people getting arrested for trying to trade nuclear weapons designs. But, the onus is great before the court will countenance prior restraint beyond matters of national security. Here, there's a different issue and given the accused declined to appear before the court, a summary judgement was issued for violations of the Copyright Act, as well as several communications and computer crime acts. But, the court exceeded jurisdiction into international realms when ordering the take-down of any .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. I'm also dubious of a national order, as well as the significant onus of requiring significant labor and equipment being provided with no compensation of the independent ISP businesses, as well as the order going far beyond the jurist's district and circuit. Or we could go to war with Tuvulu and have the US Navy report back that they couldn't find the island. ;) That last is a joke, as courts cannot order us to go to war, that belongs to Congress or an emergency use of force declaration by the POTUS and authorized by Congress under the War Powers Act.
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  170.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  only for a LOCA. Not for long term operation, as pellet erosion was an issue, which tended to also jam the discharge tube/chute. Loads of weird things happen with helium and metals, not quite as bad as hydrogen, but bad enough. Now, add in a high flux of ionizing radiation, all manner of mischief can occur over time in that environment.
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  171. I remember the exact same argument being made for registration and insurance for those new fangled high speed 10 speed bicycles. And the questions were asked, how many mass casualty accidents occurred with the bikes and when are we insuring and registering fucking shoes? Amazingly, the message got across to the politicians, no need for pitchforks, torches or fence rails and tar...
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  172. I heard quite enough of that from my father, who despised them and grew up with them. As one example, one hitman who turned states evidence and went into the witless protection program was basically the school wimp, beat down by everybody. Got caught after a rather lengthy career, sang like a canary. I call it witless protection because of the sheer volume of those who offend again while on the program. Personally, I pity their lives, not much of a life when you're constantly looking over your shoulder and have to answer the door with a gun in your hand at times.
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  173. And bringing it back then brings smuggling charges. It's a plan, just not a good or sustainable one, as you're unlikely to get that drug in prison in the US. Hell, in the US, one's lucky to get any lifesaving drug in prison.
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  174. My very first military EMS patient was an advanced hypothermia patient. Conventional wisdom at the time was, he'd have zero memory of when his body was locked rigid in a continuous shiver. He remembered me, what I did, an argument with some senior NCO's that I won, a MacGuyverism to warm him during nonstandard emergency transport and more. As I learned when he thanked me at a unit Christmas party some years later. Kind of embarrassing, as I was just doing my job. But, good to see he was not only OK, but still serving and his family had grown. Had only mild hypothermia once, had severe hypoxia a few times, once to tunnel vision and gray out before I recognized what was going on and mitigated it. Neither was pleasant, to put it mildly. The last hypoxia event being due to a form of CHF, due to a thyroid crisis - during the first big peak of COVID. Uttered by me to the ED doctor, "Oh, thank God it's only CHF! Wait, did I just utter those words?" Doctor gave a great belly laugh, hard won, "Yeah, but I understand". A few days later, I rebounded due to new treatment, despite one endocrinologist considering iodine to shut down my thyroid. Driving the poor nursing staff to distraction. I am, by nature, a rather energetic person, so idleness isn't really in my nature.
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  175. The have enough to hold him now on the unpermitted SBR (Short Barreled Rifle, which is an NFA (National Firearms Act)) weapon. This allows them time to build a case for WMD possession, intent and whatever the federal prosecutor can come up with in a completely airtight case.
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  176.  @jackglenn7097  save that a seat was open for over a year under the GOP excuse that a year left in POTUS office was too short a time to allow any confirmations.
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  177.  @mauriciochiessi7138  uh, huh. We'll ignore the fact that men regularly work at the operating depth at Mponeng mine ranged from between 3.16km to 3.84km (2 - 2.4 miles) below the surface by the end of 2018 and entirely missed anything other than one bacteria being the only thing found alive at that depth. Oil wells go deeper and have transducers to detect sound, in order to detect oil via sonography and entirely failed to hear anything alive.
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  178.  @Brad-ip8wz  and highly confident in their incompetence.
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  179. Well, even a dog can be taught to have basic manners. An idiot cannot be taught. The Queen, being a former motor officer was certainly within rights to dress down an offender, but also having the good commonsense that one does not engage in a wrestling match with a pig. Lest the pig grow happy and one end up encrusted in excrement. As for Putin's behavior, I question the wisdom of any man who threatens the use of nuclear weapons against the only nation on earth to ever have utilized such weapons in war and openly discussed their use in two subsequent wars.
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  180. It's a pity that he never invested in a sense of humor. After all, that ain't a spare tire below my beltline, that's my chest muscles settling. Kind of goes along with age...
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  181. Trust me, the thought process didn't even manage to get that far. We're talking supersonic escape of atmosphere and well, chest and abdominal cavity contents, which ended up in the masts.
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  182. They're bot accounts, all they really care about is the paycheck.
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  183. Not the first time. Had a school bulldozed, an entire town panicked over Satanic worship and alleged torture and deaths in a basement of the one floor schoolhouse, inside of tunnels proven to never have existed. Two women in Georgia sentenced to decades in prison for abuse and even murder of children who never existed, because of an insane town drunk's claims, we keep falling for these moral panics that trigger amoral actions. Remember pizzagate and the pizzeria that got shot up in D.C.? All to inspect the basement that didn't and still doesn't exist over adrenochrome, something I can make by the gallon from medical adrenaline and a plain silver wire. Adrenochrome being oxidized adrenaline and medically utterly useless.
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  184. One biggie in aerospace is, they demand and use a hard realtime OS. A delayed response is a wrong response, as we're talking about critical systems. If the entertainment system, which is not integrated with the critical flight systems decides to circle itself around in swapland, it's not a big deal, so the passengers don't get their e-mail, game or movie. With the flight controls, that becomes a huge, lethal deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system The entirety of design is essentially opposite what Linux was designed to do. One would have to write an entirely new kernel, the time sharing would have to be entirely redesigned, swap goes away and timing tightened way up. All of which is doable, really, as one is able to change out any part of the sourcecode. Hence, why there is RTLinux. Microkernel, scheduling, all already done, as someone needed a realtime OS and they developed it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux And this was typed on a Ubuntu 22.04 Linux system. I only keep one Windows machine around, largely for medical applications that don't have Linux equivalents. I usually keep one *BSD box around as well, although currently I don't. Each OS to its strengths and purpose.
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  185. Looks like he's now the epitome of what Marines should be in the future.
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  186. There's a truism in the employment world. Employees don't quit a job, they quit a shitty management organization.
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  187. To put it mildly. She's literally edging closer by the day to legalizing espionage in the US - literally via defective case law.
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  188.  @sebytro  because, over time, one can pick up enough to understand what's being said. Especially in second and third generations, where english begins to mix into the Italian speech. I learned a lot of Arabic just by sitting at a meal and listening.
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  189. That's the shrinking minority core of his followers and hence, way less than 10% of the vote.
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  190.  @dreaxuslordofdecay  and a tyrant king was decidedly not what a single Founder wrote about - ever - anywhere, they abhorred such a notion in the extreme, but wanted proscribed powers for each branch. Essentially, the converse of your fanciful argument. Indeed, were the intent that the President were supreme leader, it would've plainly said so in the Constitution, that no laws bind him, also plain, that his power was unlimited also plainly laid out and not given any proscriptions at all and frankly, the Constitution would've never been either signed nor ratified.
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  191. The US Navy is really, really short on Private ranks. He is eligible for court-martial for certain offenses, but I'm uncertain if grounds could be magically extended that far in this instance and let's suffice it to say that stretching the law in such an abusive way doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy. Insubordination for starters, undermining the faith and trust of the populace in the Commander in Chief, undermining the faith and trust of the Armed Forces personnel in their Commander in Chief, interference with the political processes of the United States of America, conduct unbecoming a senior officer, conduct unbecoming a military officer are all actionable if not court-martial offenses and some even grounds to shitcan his pension. Ronnie forgot a very, very important lesson he should've learned early in his career. Never piss off an NCO, we know the regs well and precisely how to slam that book down on your genitals.
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  192. Well, he's proved again to be as highly effective as he was with his pandemic non-response.
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  193. Apparently, being dead is a form of resistance to some officers.
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  194. I'll see 99 years old - if someone remembers to put a flashlight inside of the coffin...
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  195. I walked to the Harrisburg, PA post office on the 3rd to pick up a stamp, as to my horror, I was out of stamps. Mailed it on the 4th, got confirmation of receipt from the county by e-mail on the 6th. It'll be counted on Nov 5. I actually said, "No, Trump" as I dropped that ballot into the mailbox.
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  196.  @nom3nnescio  I signed a contract to protect and obey the laws of my nation and obey the lawful orders of my lawful superiors. I did not enjoy the privilege of setting foreign policy or order military forces to other nations. That belongs to the POTUS and Congress. Are you always this trivially easily confused?
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  197.  @norman_5623  Arthur C. Clarke died of post-polio syndrome, many years after contracting polio.
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  198.  @GoXDS unless the attorney, realizing that the case was doomed, sought to provide grounds for incompetent representation as grounds for an appeal. Which I'm sure would be quite well received by the bar...
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  199. Be extra careful! You might start gaining weight from all of those yummy new recipes. :D I came close more than a few times.
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  200. When I came back to the US from our base in the Middle East, I had idiots threaten to have me deported. I then looked at the creature with contempt and asked in my finest South Philly accent, "To where, South Philly, jack-off?!". Universally, they wandered off before I could bite the other cheek. While I remarked loudly how the idiot wanted to deport me back to the very city our Constitution was written in to witnesses. Suffice it to say, there was much mirth. Karen vs US Army NCO, it's always Karen 0.
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  201. Heh, even money, he'll be having a Trumpy tantrum from tonight until the verdict is read. He's utterly incapable of controlling himself.
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  202. GunBunny 13 , if you add in the optics, $15k is pretty fair. It's not like anyone is going to slap a cheap Tasco scope onto it, the recoil would destroy cheap scopes. What I love is the "drug dealers want this" or "I don't want this on the streets", these have been available for decades, not a one has been used in a crime. Criminals want portable, lightweight weapons, not 30 - 50 pound monstrosities that have magazines that weigh 5 - 7 pounds.
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  203. And homes.
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  204. His ballot would've been questioned if he was sentenced under New York law.
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  205. You missed the one common thing with Trump. He complains. Remember in 2016, when he won and was a sore winner? When one has no solutions, all one has to offer is complaints, regardless of if they're valid or not.
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  206.  @emilyhamilton4933  try to live in a home without water. I dare you, you'll be out on the street the second local or county government finds out. Parents show that they provide access to food, water, clothing and shelter. As for politicians ignoring homeless camps, that's nonsense! As soon as someone complains, those camps are destroyed. That is the reality of this nation.
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  207. As I recall, it's typically "Your honor, permission to approach ___", the variable being jury, witness or bench.
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  208.  @SueFerreira75  whatever are you going on about?! We have Emperor Musk and Empress Trump.
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  209.  @missmaryjanegreen  why break such a lengthy streak?
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  210. Hydrogen flames tend red-orange, which is decidedly within the human visual spectrum. If optimally mixed with air in a burner, they're blue flamed like a natural gas flame and well, still visible to the human eye - especially at night. But yeah, the sealant and protective coatings of the Hindenburg were aluminum oxide paint, nitrate based sealant and basically, add in rubber and you've got the basic ingredients for a modern solid fuel rocket. Still, balloons tend to be flammable anyway and somewhat delicate, a bit of WP dispensed by a few small dedicated drones, it's raining ruptured compartments balloons and netting, which I'm sure would do wonders for both the target and power grid. Might as well attack their protected target themselves, save some trouble and expense and end up with less damage. Whenever possible, turn the enemy's defenses against that enemy.
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  211. I will happily be impressed if China or well, anyone makes a probe that lasts even half of that time on Venus. Still, surviving that long, first through space, then landing and operating on Mars is impressive. It's a royal PIA to design things to survive such environments, but actually getting there and even briefly operating is a major accomplishment! I'd suggest collaborating with JPL for the next probe, with no sides hiding any efforts and methods. Likely gaining a probe that lasts far longer than anything humanity has yet launched. And if one selected Venus, one might actually learn a hell of a lot more, given a supercritical near atmosphere, temperature and pressure. We have a preference for STP, that isn't present for either other planet under study. Still, only a suggestion.
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  212. Heh, they started with "the sniper system, an AR" and have since been all over the map. Thus far, the only thing missing in the mist is, no space aliens being invoked yet. Well, beyond my "The Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens", which is my default label for any conspiracy theory, all of which are outlandish. And entirely have no space aliens involved, save when fancifully invoked for the purpose of hyperbole that even Helen Keller could see. In a way though, I am thankful that a minimal skill idiot used the least appropriate common weapon. As much as I may loathe Trump, that ain't how we select candidates and leaders. And the reality of it was, by the third shot, it was really over. By then, Trump figured out that wasp sting wasn't a wasp, Secret Service yelled for him to get down and for a change, he did what he was told to and agents had covered him with their bodies as they're supposed to do, buying time for the Secret Service snipers to neutralize the threat. Still, what a goat screw!
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  213.  @petebetz5358  worse, it is a crime, as it's intentionally signaling a false distress signal. I've flown the flag inverted while in distress and had expended my smoke signaling devices. The smoke was still visible on the water, but I was one small craft among many, so I inverted the flag. Coast Guard saw the smoke and was investigating and saw my flag. They towed me to a dock, where I could secure the vessel and effect repairs. It's not just military, it's literally an international distress call.
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  214. Hence, why the Bunker Boy video was such a hit.
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  215.  @firstresponderren9546  ah, so you altered the laws of physics and chemistry while my attention was diverted! Previously, phospholipid membranes were attacked by detergents, killing microorganisms. So, how do we extract DNA in this novel universe? Feel better, my scrotal contents! Modern soaps and even legacy soaps are detergents and destroy phospholipid compounds, which pathogens require to do that living thing. Alcohol does a similar function, but both work quite well and soap actually works a bit better, which is why surgeons still scrub down with detergents, rather than alcohol. And sanitize skin with an oxidizer that destroys said phospholipid membranes. Do you really want to go into biochemistry with me on this? Bad hill to die on. My medical education was... A bit more advanced, due to specific duties in specific types of units. Actually understanding pharmacology and chemistry was part and parcel of said education and experience.
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  216. Year? Been off the planet for the past decade? As soon as he dropped his hat in the ring the first time, the news media gave him free advertisement for each and every turd that he dropped, treating each and every occasion as if they were platinum nuggets.
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  217. Screw the wall, make it a giant Barney sandcastle and while everyone aims at it, we'll slip behind them and the non-newtonian sand will leave them without ammunition.
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  218. One problem I seem to recall was the pebbles eroding unevenly and jamming the discharge chute. That kinda fouls things up for commercial power, if one cannot cycle the fuel while operating, as it's supposed to do.
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  219.  @BobDobbs681  been there, done that, sat in the dark. My question in the meeting afterward, "What happened to the monthly generator tests?", management looked dumbfounded and claimed to have never heard of such a thing. The facility supervisor countered, "Yeah, everywhere I ever worked at those tests!". We had prime power, a building UPS and generators. The building UPS at the time had a literal room full of batteries, all failed and were ignored. I tacked that onto my weekly information assurance report and given that all war communications went through that building, the batteries suddenly got budgeted in and replaced. After a month of reporting the failed batteries...
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  220.  @velisvideos6208 "Hi, honey, how was your day?" "We discovered something important today". Having a serious clue that anything after would be incomprehensible, "That's nice". A conversation I've actually held with my wife of over 41 years, now sorely missed. Explaining shit to senior executives, that was what I practiced with her. She was no dullard, but not being a specialist in the field, I had an up in preparing technical stuff with her in advance. Humorously, she advanced slightly faster than most executives in technological comprehension.
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  221. Are coffee cup stains still forgiven? I'll just get my hat...
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  222.  @TraumaTeam4  I blame the voters.
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  223. He uses a Groucho Marx number. "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
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  224. The proper term, while highly technical, should be properly observed and utilized whenever possible. Batshit crazy.
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  225. That's a nothingburger. He got grazed on the tip of his earlobe, giving him what we called in the Army, a boo-boo. What really saved him was that the kid was such a lousy shot that he was asked to leave his school gun club and thankfully, he never developed any amount of skill. Anyone who graduated from any branch of service's basic training just don't manage to miss a 150 meter target. Frankly, if it was me, I'd call it a boo-boo from someone that, thankfully due to dumb luck in turning the right way and his being a shit shot, gave me little more than a minor scratch. But, he is a showman, so he was shot in the head and being a superzero, lived. Or struck in the head by a sword and did not die, for the fundies out there... Although, what I noticed with his speech wasn't sober, deliberate, heroic, it was tranquilized, complete with slurring and difficulty tracking even with a teleprompter. Something I've been gaining some familiarity with, not due to tranquilizers, but new BP meds that keep dropping me hypotensive and requiring much more effort to read fairly simple signs. I'll be discussing that with doctor, complete with BP logs this coming week.
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  226. I met him at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, where he was a guest of honor back around Y2k. Boor of the party, everything talked about had to be him and he was still flush with happiness over his "success" in bankrupting his casinos. The following year, the attrition rate for that previously popular function was 95%. Yep, only 5% of the business owners signed up to attend the following year, yet another Trump "success". Apparently, successively failing equals successful in his book.
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  227.  @killman369547  heh, surprisingly accurate. The SL-1 had two flaws that was shred by Chernobyl. Both had graphite tips on the control rod, turning their tips into moderators unintentionally. Both had a positive void coefficient, so if steam formed pockets, the steam behaved like a moderator, which can cause a thermal runaway. The big difference is, the SL-1 core assembly was only a little larger than the fuel rod assemblies for Chernobyl and SL-1 also had a containment building. Chernobyl also had a flammable asphalt over wood roof, which was expressly prohibited in the plant design, as it could and did catch fire when the reactor was dismantled by steam.
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  228.  @lancet2266  they pull them out of prison for jury duty? How progressive or something! Mythical, but let's not let silly little things like facts get in the way of discussing the issues of perpetual punishment.
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  229. It's also an Sicilian-American martial arts method, Take Yo Dough.
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  230. Well, they are sworn law enforcement officers, something few realize. So, they'll happily testify against him, but due to the SCOTUS decisions, they have no duty to halt a crime in progress, only arrest if possible and testify against. "To Protect And Serve" is literally false advertising. But, the Secret Service did refuse to drive him to the riot on 1/6. Despite his attempting to wrest control of the vehicle from them.
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  231.  @lynnhoffmann247 they probably thought he was leaving.
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  232. No Mexican can vote for him, neither can any Canadian. Only US citizens may vote in federal elections and we've always made great efforts to ensure that was and remains true.
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  233.  @UTubeHandlesSuck  not only not make money, but bankrupted them so many times that he's prohibited from owning any casinos in New Jersey ever again.
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  234. Not really a battery, it was a radiothermal generator. Heat from decaying plutonium warmed a thermocouple, which induced a voltage and current in the thermocouple. The unit is scheduled to basically die within this coming year, not due exclusively to plutonium decay, but the thermocouple degrades from the radiation over time and well, it's time is long past and its output rapidly declining.
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  235.  @d.jeffdionne  the game may be over, but that means the cosplay is done, now it's time for the real deal to start resisting. As was suggested that he's now got his extralegal brown shirts, perhaps, but there are a hell of a lot of hog farms around my area and we are a stand your ground and castle doctrine state. And I never did cosplay, I was a very real soldier for over 28 years and two wars.
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  236. Make it a class action and you'll probably get 100 million signing on at a minimum, myself included. Ain't about the money, it's about the punitive.
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  237. In EMS, we call that a significant mechanism of injury.
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  238. Because they don't have SMS/MMS messaging, right? Now, how many Blackberries are still in operation today? Flip phones, well they're around, both would still use the same messaging servers, but both sets of antiquated service users typically won't be sending sensitive data via messaging or those devices after they wound them up in the morning.
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  239. Of course it's the same thing, it's all that he can barely misremember.
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  240.  @barbarajolley6578  I hear that he's studying furiously to try to pass the mirror test.
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  241.  @Linguaholic23  your example reminds me of an automobile insurance company argument for denying a claim. "The accident is half your fault, as if you had only stayed home, he accident would have never happened." Interestingly, the courts eventually dismissed that nonsensical claim. The tire was chopped by the Continental aircraft's engine cowl fragment, tire fragment impact caused fuel tank #5 to rupture. The fuel from tank #5 then flowed into engines 1 &2, producing asymmetric thrust that began at V1, the fuel igniting appearing to ignite in the damaged landing gear's well. The quantity of fuel isn't exceptionally relevant, post V1, aborting takeoff is unsafe with that aircraft. One can debate until proton decay if the tank would've remained patent if it was filled to 75%. Given that 5 out of 6 prior tire failures resulted in tank ruptures, one being a severe rupture, the amount of fuel isn't exceptionally relevant, especially given one side of the aircraft being plumb out of engines. Being 810 kg overweight was relevant, given the loss of thrust and damage, once past V1, the flight was doomed.
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  242. As a hint, expect more, given RFK Jr's installation. :/ Ideally, such nonsense would not be permitted, but for the freedumb crowd, who know better than all of the physicians that take up to 20 years of study to become licensed in their fields.
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  243. I've gone into areas to fix a PC that had alarms go off. I did one thing that I didn't have to do, called the responsible party and let them know that an alarm was going off. Most times, I was thanked and told they were aware of it and it was being fixed, a few times, they weren't aware and dashed down to investigate. The only time I might consider disconnecting power is if the damned thing was on fire and that, on the way to trigger the fire alarm.
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  244. Interesting is, one of the last 5 questions is of being awake, aware and oriented X3, aka person, place and time. So, it was hard for him to know who he is, where he is and what year it is.
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  245.  @TheGavrael  the video briefly mentioned politics, not make politics a primary focus. That's like commenting on a video on economics and because the existence of political contributions was mentioned once, early in the video, commenting at length on politics in general and using a single sentence to justify the comment. Especially on a study that was so problematic as to make P torturing to fake results look like a good and valid practice! Seriously, the data was so tortured during the study as to say whatever they wanted it to say just to stop the torture. The observers literally became participants, invalidating all observations or theories being tested.
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  246. The same game that he campaigned on not having enough time to play any longer if elected.
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  247. Another frequently used argument is for a firefighter arriving to the home on fire and being shot by the untended mantrap.
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  248. The only problem is, he renames losing as winning and his religious devotees follow that idiocy.
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  249. I'm in Harrisburg, originally hailing from the Philly area, a veteran and courtesy of the Tea Party, blue voter, although pre-MAGA, not always entirely party line. I'm damned curious myself. Damned shame that kid in Pittsburgh couldn't make a shot that a basic trainee has to make in BRM training's first week...
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  250.  @bovineavenger734  yet. Once the plaintiff gives reasonable time and reports to the judge that the judgement was ignored, fireworks ensue, to include jail time for contempt of court. I'm sure that Alex will enjoy Bubba's attentions.
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  251. Yep and it was still quite new. Remember, one way of properly writing the chemical compound of water is HOH, hydrogen hydroxide, it's both a base and an acid, heating it only makes things uglier on metals. The main control rod was what was pulled to hook up to a pulley, it got pulled out over a foot too far and here's the fun part. A mass of cold water inside of the reactor, around 3x10 feet, instantly vaporized from the insanely high amount of heat added faster than the eye can blink. The reactor sharing a design flaw with Chernobyl, a positive void coefficient, which meant steam made the reaction even more intense. The root cause of each accident was the same, prompt criticality, the base reason being massively different, but both were shit designs that never should have even been prototyped as too unsafe.
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  252.  @petezahman3914  oh? Show me your Juris Doctor degree. I'll wait. Likely, forever.
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  253. It's a supreme crock, as anyone of pension age between 1937 and 1939 received a one time flat rate payout. No continuing pension. What they went off of was a placeholder, when a precise date wasn't available, to fill the field and was standard by convention in COBOL programming and the script kiddies didn't know or understand that. Then, Musk chimed in that COBOL is obsolete and nobody can learn it. Odd, given I learned it in a day back in the '70's, guess the kids these days are dumber than we were. And since COBOL is obsolete, when is SpaceX going to get rid of their FORTRAN software that's just as old that they got from NASA to calculate orbital dynamics?
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  254.  @1987slither  bleh, Allah is Arabic for "The God", allegedly the god of Abraham. Looked more to me like Poseidon was the god involved in this debacle. Well, that or Koalemos, the minor god of stupidity.
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  255. I left the GOP when those who dote on stupidity and tea could see Russia from their home's window. Had to leave, as idiocy was embraced, rather than commonsense and actual campaigns and platforms, turning campaigns into early versions of the current three ring circus that this is. Still, I didn't vote straight tickets, but followed platforms and positions, voting according to views that more closely aligned with my views on which way our nation should go. This election went straight party line, as a message had to be sent and well, all campaigns reflected one value, vote for a god-emperor wannabe, one man being more important than the nation I spent over 28 years of my life and two wars in military defense of. Had no choice, as I've met Trump back around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. Where he lied like the proverbial rug, was flush with his successes of five years before in bankrupting casinos multiple times, causing so many eyerolls in a room full of business owners that I wondered that the planet kept on its axis! A boor of the party so severe, the following year experienced a 95% attrition rate for that same function and the Chambers had to spend that following year apologizing continuously in order to regain attendance. And devout loyalty to a single man, nation be damned, party be damned, to a petty tyrant wannabe, whose main campaign plank is to discard the very Constitution and laws I swore for so many decades to give my life in defense of, while he denigrated the sacrifices of those who fell defending those very things. Someone noted in the election of 2016 having kept a book of Hitler's speeches on his nightstand, who proved beyond a reasonable doubt his unsuitability to even be within the District of Columbia, let alone the Oval Office, who considered "his numbers" of superior worth to the lives of the population of this nation. To a man, so flawed as to kowtow to communist strong man leaders and the thug running Russia into the ground deeper. Nope, it is my intent to hand over to my grandchildren a thriving nation, not a fascist police state with death camps. Because, my family does enjoy one fine tradition, grinding fascists and fascism to dust and an utter intolerance that extends back to the Revolution of utter intolerance for having a king.
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  256. Yes, he could have defended himself from armed robbery, then been the subject of an armed and dangerous manhunt, be labeled on the news as a disturbed cop killer veteran and at best, go on trial for assassination of law enforcement officers, at worst, gunned down in a one sided "exchange of fire", the keys or cell phone being muzzle flashing like a gun. You can do loads of things, most won't exactly pan out very well.
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  257. Done to Brave Sir Robin, "...Assad bravely turned and ran away."
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  258.  @valeriegarrity5773  corn mush is good too. Cream of wheat doesn't last long for me, 20 minutes later and I'm hungry again. Corn meal mush lasts longer, oatmeal even longer. Might try barley at some point, but that's mostly because I like barley.
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  259.  @Teeveepicksures  oh? When did we substitute prosecutors for vestal virgins?
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  260.  @themagaguy  ah, the next contestant in The Biggest Loser. Don't forget to sign your paycheck over to your god-emperor wannabe, he really needs the money with all of his mounting legal losses.
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  261. Well, that $25k thing was a lot steep for post-war Japan. Seriously, it was. Japan was in ruins still into the 1950's and early '60's. But, they caught up, first with the joke of Made in Japan being of laughable quality to swiftly turning into industrial leaders. Call it bullshit flies in the face of global industry, where Six Sigma is a mantra and originated with Toyota. Introduced by Motorola, Toyota improved it to what it is today. Misapplied, well, the results are equally legendary and at the root of supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.
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  262. I started my career with Pershing Ia and II missiles. One of our NCO's was a hard charging type, who infamously predicted, "If those missiles fly, your next job is infantry". Having enough one day, I replied, "Sergeant, if those birds fly, our next job is to be a brief bad odor in the air after the missiles pass each other". That shut that NCO down hard and I got back to work with one less annoyance that day.
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  263. Been in a gypsum board plant and a cement board and cement products plant for some IT work they needed done. First thing, the facility manager was proud to give us a full guided tour at each. It's always cool to see how products we have in our homes and even use ourselves are made!
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  264. I'll always happily vote for Trump for circular file! Straight into section 8 of file 13.
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  265. Odd that I never heard of that capacitor fragment until today, as I tend to track such things. Thanks for that information! The more conventional bombs of WWII are still killing people on occasion today, either construction crews or if the infernal thing didn't blow, responding EOD teams. And even today, farmers pile up unexploded WWI shells for collection by EOD teams.
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  266. We know what our oaths say and that we're loyal to the nation, not one god-king wannabe. And we still retain at the state level the bulk combat force of the US Army, the National Guard. The Army was cut back after the Vietnam war and again after the Cold War, so that the primary combat force in the military now are the National Guard. Add in many states also have a State Guard for when the National Guard is deployed for national duty, that's a hell of a lot of well trained and equipped soldiers that live where he'd try to make them shit. And he additionally, during an interview announced soon to come 50% DoD budget cuts and apparently is going to deploy troops for immigration enforcement, I suspect he's about to find himself the recipient of a massive bite in the ass.
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  267.  @veretos7  when I had my thyroid scan, the first thing they had to do was get my baseline radiation level as measured by the gamma camera. During conversation with the radiologist, she confirmed that my generation does indeed have an elevated gamma emission level. I was born a week after Tsar Bomba was detonated. Nobody of my generation can figure out why cancer rates went way up... Downside is, when I get angry, really bad things happen, as I turn into the Phenomenal Bulk.
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  268. You need to show the proper respect for POTUS and SecDef. That's Cadet Bonespurs and SecDef Lampshade to you! Loved Sec Lampshade's European interview, during the presser, he kept pulling tumbler after tumbler with two fingers of a brown liquid that's entirely whiskey colored. Damned near turned me away from whiskey and to vodka!
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  269. There's an old saying that comes to mind. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
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  270.  @davidkahil5158  so, my uncle lied, thousands of prisoners lied, camp logs lied, guards lied, the rest of the liberating Allies lied and photographs and film lied. Gotya.
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  271. But, it strengthens the notion that safety deposit boxes are illegal and subject to being searched and seized upon mere whim, if a box in the same vault is searched, due to god-cop syndrome. I'll store my important documents with a thermite charge, just for security. If I can't be secure in my papers and person, I can at least eliminate one of the two I'm no longer allowed.
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  272. I can imagine it well, "Well, we have procedures". Well, there are other procedures that involve pine tar and feathers...
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  273. The parents of the child had to give consent.
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  274. @Aleksandr Aleksievich Palm-Leeis at least they didn't conspire with foreign powers, or ignore a pandemic that's killed 130000 US citizens and that number is climbing rapidly.
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  275. Actually, to my ear, his accent was always a bit flat. Never entirely dead on for one region being part, but inflection slightly off on occasion to have had me wondering since the first episode and it was between second and third episode that I did learn he was British. Largely, because I honestly don't go running to see where some actor or actress came from as a matter of course. Once I learned, I had to admit that he did an exceptionally fine job of it and well, one does have to work with what speech impediments one is stuck with.* *The fun part of that statement, it being pronounced with a southwest Philly accent. Excuse me while I take my breakfast of pills, lemme grab my worder boddle, gonna haveta fill this at the zink laedder on... Suffice it to say, I've quite a number of friends from the UK, most being from London and my accent actually is rather variable, as I tend to pick up idioms and accents rapidly during conversations. The result being sounding at times like I'm northern midlands in part fairly frequently, although missing the mark on idioms often enough due to lack of practice. That said, I sincerely doubt that I'll ever come close to speaking whatever language it is that spoken in Liverpool. ;) The US and UK, two people separated by a common language. It's their own fault though, they never bothered documenting the language until after that little tiff we had in 1776 and they ended up losing the war. We further diverged after much exposure after we rescued them from two world wars, the wars going quite terribly for the war... Actually, the original UK accent in received English was closer to the US mid-Atlantic accent, which oddly has decreased to near-extinction in the US since the 1950's. Makes sense, as the mid-Atlantic had the last great wave of immigration from the UK before that bit of unpleasantness in the late 1700's and that general trade disagreement in 1812. You should hear me go on about US tourism of Canada during said conflicts and their rather humorous conclusion of an honor guard escort to our borders, when their arms were finally returned... A spoiler, Benedict Arnold was seriously wounded during that brief vacation abroad, resulting in disability and inability to work his farm, resulting in his contracting to earn a living in the UK... As a result, we created the precursor to the VA. Yeah, history actually is pretty cool. Right until one survives having actually made some of it, then it's damned tedious and unpleasant.
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  276.  @guitarbandit408  more like wore kneepads for Trump and Putin.
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  277.  @larrybremer4930  you mean that the secret PAL code was 0000 and well, everyone knew it. Literally.
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  278. Well, quite a few actively seek reasons to be angry and upset. Probably why they cover the mirrors in their houses. The polar opposite of why I cover mine, can't spend that much time laughing.
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  279.  @maudeboggins9834  not really, Hussein was sane, Trump isn't.
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  280.  @user-ij6ng5bi8j  Putin's been saying that for years, he's still losing to Ukraine. You know, like a grown man losing a fist fight with a toddler. Given Trump's lack of performance without Putin and well, even with him and Putin's drained impotency, well, everyone knows about Trump's impotency.
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  281. It's not a nearly given, it's a certainty, given Trump's involvement. Have faith in the man who repeatedly bankrupted multiple casinos.
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  282. Naw, get a President Musk and VP Trump button. He really loses it over that bit.
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  283. Yep, totally, it's quite clear that the jet went into reverse and was backing away. At least to the delusional.
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  284. He can refuse to pay to his heart's content, the court can then seize his assets to the amount that satisfies the judge.
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  285. A state can always indict someone, even the POTUS while in office. It's only a custom that federal charges won't be laid, as that presents a conflict of interest in that the executive branch is bringing charges against its head.
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  286. Whenever someone gripes "You can't see radiation", I reply that I can't see a common industrial pollutant gas, cyanide gas either, but it can be easily enough detected and protected against too.
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  287.  @janicesyndergaard6953  especially given that the feds never did check his New Jersey property, where he waved classified nuclear attack plans around at.
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  288.  @deaddan2148  dunno, smart would be not getting caught and executed in my book.
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  289. There aren't many aspects at all, just loads of facts that are still being discovered during the investigation. That's why they hold investigations, to learn all of the facts that are initially unknown or uncertain.
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  290.  @MiniMike-u5i  yeah, how unfair that the US pays for electricity from Canada. Oh well, it'll be the 2003 blackout all over again. Who needs Wall Street anyway?
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  291. What is a commander in chief again? Someone that just gives advice and suggestions?
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  292. +A3IOWN3DU there are reformed Marines, they usually join the Army. ;)
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  293. Well, she postponed one appearance, due to Debby. Good call, no need to make a mess from a hurricane a bigger mess by holding a rally. She's averaging one stop per day, he's managing to barely do one stop per week. Surprised he isn't wearing steel ear guards... Oh wait, that'd take effort to lift and he barely can swing a golf club these days. Even failing to effectively drive a golf ball. But, at least he's keeping his distance from his crowds, saves their nose hairs.
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  294.  @Sartre_Existentialist  the courts said otherwise, that it was never legal, as it can never be legal for a mere law or Act to overturn the Constitution. Otherwise, we'd literally no longer have a Constitution or government. Laws are empowered under the Constitution, not the converse. If a state passed a summary execution law and immediately enforced police extrajudicial executions in the street, the state would still end up liable for the violations of citizens rights when challenged for damages by the executed parties families and estates. Your claim of an affirmative defense is, "well, despite it being unconstitutional and hence invalid, it was legal" and being invalid, it's by definition born unlawful due to its unconstitutionality. When considering rights, it's sometimes easier to substitute another right in the place of the one one is arguing over. In the above example, substituting property for life, both being inherent right to possess things. I've used it in second amendment arguments, where some insist that that right, "like all rights" is unrestricted, so I substituted free speech and showed a half dozen common limitations upon the right of free speech, including no right to engage in sedition, conspiracy, fraud and defamation, to name a few I'd start out with. They usually depart the field with "your a commie". Apparently, Constitutionalists being communists in their odd world view.
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  295.  @Tugela60  he obviously has valid citizenship or they'd not have given a US Navy sonarman his TS clearance to operate his own console.
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  296.  @simonmultiverse6349  incarcerated and drugged with medications he didn't need.
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  297.  @ethicalhacker9720  the same way Tokyo Rose did.
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  298.  @battybethc8061  that's OK, some of us know where the ATACMS systems are stored, as well as their munitions.
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  299.  @Mark-uh4zd  no. If someone cannot bring themselves to use that mythical firearm, they've only given a criminal a firearm to use against them and others.
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  300.  @Norwegian_Troll  more like, one law for the rich when the offense is especially egregious, oppressive enforcement for the poor, who are unable to defend themselves.
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  301. He worked diligently and tirelessly in bankrupting his casinos - six times. He worked exhaustively at bilking Trump U students of their money. He incessantly bilked contractors of their hard earned money. Let's face it, Donald Trump could fuck up a wet dream.
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  302. Odd, as that was readily apparent in all of my reading on the subject of Japan's surrender. The emperor wanted to surrender, but needed an excuse and used the atomic bombings for the civilian populace and the Russian declaration of war for the military. I'm certain he recognized that our inevitable victory would've turned Pyrrhic in fact if we had to engage in Operation Downfall and wanted to avoid that at nearly all costs. Just as the unconditional surrender was agreed to upon the condition that the emperor's throne was retained and we readily agreed.
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  303. The entirety of the call was the antithesis of what a 911 dispatcher is required to do. Normally, the dispatcher will encourage a caller to keep as quiet as possible if the caller is in danger and does not disconnect an active call, as the recording may contain critical evidence that would be needed in court.
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  304. Largely, because we won't allow the French National Razor.
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  305.  @AmericanWoman-rh2xm  got a case of a dozen in Colorado as well, being investigated now and suffice it to say, they're pissed. Gonna be a bumpy ride this election! Let's hope that the dumbasses enjoy prison food and commissary fees. And if mail is involved and it likely is, federal charges at 20 years and $200k fines per offense. Some folks are gonna forget what sunlight looks like.
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  306. Because being cute is more important than being competent? Entertainingly, her words, not mine.
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  307. It'd be viable for a business where I am, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, to write the judge and politely tell him to pound sand, as we're not under his or her jurisdiction and hence, the order is null and void in our circuit. It comes down to jurisdiction, this only holds for those under the jurisdiction of the 2nd circuit at best, SDNY at minimum. Even if they were under the jurisdiction, the costs in man hours would be fairly significant and they don't control the top level domain controllers, of which there are currently 1589, most of which are foreign or in the US, still outside of that circuit and district. So, there are several options available to someone under the jurisdiction of the court. Comply as they can and risk contempt, shut down operations or refuse to comply due to the labor cost being insanely high, as they'd need to build their own Great Firewall of China to block the traffic ordered blocked. Even backbone providers couldn't quite manage compliance with that order without literally breaking the internet and putting thousands of man hours and millions of dollars in equipment in place just to comply with that order. Which means, next month, as today, I can easily still access that site that I've never heard of. And despite multiple national courts orders, Pirate Bay still is around, under at least a dozen top level domains that are outside of the authority of those courts.
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  308. Hey now, give him due credit. He made billions into millions! Total success, like the great success of the Zealots at Masada.
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  309. I remember the massacre well, watching it on television after it happened. As a direct result, National Guard troops receive training each year on crowd control and won't bring their weapons to such details.
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  310.  @Demortra given the precedent, it appears that soon, for one to have an effective attorney, one will have to retain only eunuchs and hermits.
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  311.  @Avo338  this one isn't Trump's baby, it's a state issue.
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  312. I'm reminded of the fact that every employer that turned into an exhibition of turds aging well in the summer sun, I left and not long after, said employer went belly up, either completely liquidated or were sold for pocket change in comparison to their former worth. Basically, I have a talent of knowing when to get off of the ship before I have to compete with the rats abandoning ship.
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  313. Their CEO supports Trump, enough said.
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  314.  @jimsmith9819  ain't gonna happen. Qualified immunity.
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  315. I don't vote for reproductive equipment. I vote for brain, heart and soul. Three things absent in Trump. Come to think of it, does he even cast a reflection?
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  316. They have to maintain scarcity to ensure their pricing and profit is met. Now, ask why Ukraine is the breadbasket for so much of the world. Considering how much grain that the US was sending Russia since the 1970's, which was an embarrassment to the Soviets. Every GCC state produces much more of their food now, due to public opinion in the US suggesting we stop exporting to them during the oil embargoes. Since they were a touch sore with us, FVEY nations stepped in to help set up their agriculture, which is double tough in desert nations. But, circling back to scarcity, guess how much grain the US plows under every year to ensure pricing remains high enough to sustain farmers? Hint: most of the grain produced. There ain't any saints around to find, but there are supertanker loads of sinners. Now, just where did I put that pitchfork and torch pile again...
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  317. These children would be unlikely to care for me and I most certainly was not a Trump voter. But, we have laws and our most supreme set of laws is our Constitution, which places ratified treaties being "the law of the land" and we did ratify the refugee and asylum treaties. Which we're feloniously ignoring. Both, by ignoring the ratified treaties, which are subordinate only to the Constitution itself and the accompanying Acts of Congress, which are codified laws. So, either we have a Constitutional system that we follow or we don't. If we do, these children and parents should be rushed through the asylum process yesterday. If we don't, we don't have a President or Congress, so why is anyone listening to anything they say? For then, our Constitution has no power to enforce treaties or laws and as such, we're an anarchy, no laws at all.
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  318.  @andersjjensen  well, the bulk carrier is small, only 188.5 meters long, around half the size of the Truman, so it obviously darted out in front of the Truman from between parked ships... This is also the same carrier that had an F/A 18 shot down in a friendly fire incident. Ensign Helen Keller being recently promoted from air defense aboard the USS Gettysburg to conning the USS Truman. In other news, the US department of irresponsibility, also known of as D.O.G.E. has announced a really, really sweet deal on a slightly used Nimitz class aircraft carrier with low mileage. No comment yet on the name of said vessel, as officials look up how to spell Truman. Moving on, I still remain a hazard to navigation and refuse to leave the water citing safety concerns. If anyone's seen my Speedo, do let me know, it should appear as a kilometer long oil slick...
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  319.  @Fedico7000  no, they say a lot, it just is tangled bullshit that makes no sense at all in a real world. Oddly, they love to use GPS.
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  320. I call it the Biden Under the Bed. He sneaks out at night and haunts the White House, undermining the god-king and Emperor Musk at every turn.
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  321.  @groovytunes2  given the monies that they spent was done so only by Congressional authorization, you're saying that workers following lawful orders were wrong to follow lawful orders given by Congress. OK, all laws are illegal, so murder is also legal, yay for civilization!
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  322.  @JeanAmann-w1u  well, the other prisoners will eventually find out if that's true, both when he uses his cell's toilet and when he goes to the shower. Well, finally uses the shower after getting firehosed clean a few times...
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  323. Me: Activated charcoal to the esophageal region and stomach, then gastric lavage, while also intubation and supportive therapy. And 1e^77 Our Fathers and Hail Mary's, of whatever faith that you follow equivalent. Surfactants and oxidants are nasty species. Nasty, as in, better to get into naked polar bear wrestling in the polar bear's habitat, while it's hungry and has young to guard and provide for. It's nearly as bad as the worst chemical exposure possible for humans, HF exposure being worse and that stratified field is rather rare, overall, for the average populace (HF can be found with "Halon" fire extinguishers, once it meets a fire and as most operators will forget proximity warnings, be fired into the fire and sit there to breathe in a very nasty chemical).
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  324. I loved him asking about his opponent's husband's location, who is deployed to Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti with USAFRICOM (a command I'm familiar with, having served there myself after USCENTCOM). Talk about pot accusing the kettle! At least her husband has a reason - military duties. And Melania avoids the stink, Haley's husband gets the stink of Djibouti City burning garbage right outside the base... Yeah, I went there. And yeah, they do indeed burn the city's garbage near the base. We built a state of the art incinerator and donated it to them, alas, we never gave them fuel money to run the thing, so they stuck with what they had and could afford and I really can't blame them.
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  325.  @nagato2k633  I have two addictions, nicotine and caffeine.If I stop cold turkey, damage to my heart from a heat stroke sends me into v-tach, which can easily lead to v-fib, then on to that dead thing. So, if I'm to quit, I'll want a cardiologist monitoring. When I was hospitalized for a severe thyroid storm, doctors came to swiftly agree, once the PVC's started to pile up.
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  326. Looks like it's not a crime, it's a feature.
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  327. Any science that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Asimov's response to Clarke's third law.
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  328. Forcing one's way in and refusing to leave is a foolproof way to get shot in a castle doctrine state.
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  329. There are two things that scared me. Losing my wife of 41 years, which happened two years ago. Dementia. Lost my father to that a decade ago. Watching my A1c and whatnot like the proverbial hawk. My nation, I swore an oath long ago, protect the Constitution and laws, that oath has no expiration date.
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  330. Even worse here, it'd be like a magazine fire with no flooding system. Due to how much energy the batteries store, they've got nearly unlimited heat, oxygen and fuel and for bonus points, those decks would trap the heat, turning them into immense ovens that'll cause nearby batteries to run away.
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  331. The most unkind thing to ever do to a fool is to allow them to speak their mind.
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  332. Some years ago, the US government became aware of Russia spying on a US designed oil pipeline valve system that was being made in a Canadian plant. Some rather enterprising individuals then worked with the Canadian plant management to stage some, ahem, erroneous designs to be stored on the compromised computer systems and labeled as the latest design in production. Obviously, this design was never constructed on the North American continent, but it sure did get built in Russia and installed in a pipeline in Siberia. Which dutifully exploded. Can't pull that one off every time, but once in a while, all the ducks get lined up in a row and make that espionage effort, well, unworthy of continued investment.
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  333. One thing in common with influenza and COVID is, both utilized the same general method of infection, via different receptors. Both invaded phagocytes, essentially infecting the very alert and first response system of the immune system. Both resulted in eventual cytokine storms that were triggered essentially by the body "noticing" that the infection wasn't being properly addressed and switching to a cytokine storm based "scorched earth" attack on the infected cells, which by then were fairly ubiquitous and beyond just phagocytes. Initially missed, in part due to some faulty reporting, cytokine storms were initially denied and hence, went unaddressed, causing the worst and most lethal of the infection's symptoms. Once realized, the storms were blunted with steroids and that became the first route of intervention. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, the mere existence of the virus was theorized and considered a wild theory that had absolutely no evidence in support of it. Cytokines were utterly unknown. We'd barely managed to develop vaccines against h. influenzae, a bacterial infection and those were actually developed in some physicians own personal laboratories! One researcher that was well respected had authored a paper proclaiming h. influenzae was the cause of the 1918 pandemic, which lead many researchers down the merry path to nowhere, but it wouldn't have helped had they been aware of the actual cause, as viral research didn't exist, there was no way to visualize the virus, no means of comprehending viral replication, it wasn't until 1931 that the electron microscope was invented, It wasn't until 1933 that influenza A was finally isolated from swine! So close, yet so far! Interestingly, in 1910, Dr Wu Lien-teh had been dispatched to manage and treat an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Manchuria and Mongolia, which ultimately claimed 60000 lives. He'd performed, unusual at the time and location, an autopsy and ascertained that it was indeed airborne and developed a filter mask, the first in use to prevent infection of its kind, which was highly successful. A French physician was dispatched to replace him and refused to use the mask, compounding that with some ethnic slurs and died within days of pneumonic plague. The doctor then insisted upon cremation of the bodies to halt the plague's spread, which was adopted and the plague swiftly ended. It took quite a lot of additional time to eventually trace the animal vector of the infection. Reports of his filter mask were widely distributed and by the 1918 influenza pandemic, were well known and most of the arguments against surrounding COVID and masking, well heard and disproved at that time, with liberty and freedom arguments, etc long exhausted and well, a hell of a lot of folks just went with masking and kept doing that not dying thing. Yet, we still managed to turn an argument over well established medical science on filtering droplets out with a simple mask into a political argument, to the detriment of all. But, it's been said, the two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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  334.  @nom3nnescio  relieving that a threat was stopped. How does it feel to send soldiers with no choice in the matter into armed combat for no reason?
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  335.  @darrennew8211  no, but they are claiming privacy to protect themselves in a deficient manner from their willing participation in fraudulent activity involving the USPS. Which is a felony. And the courts won't view a privacy claim on discovery very kindly.
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  336. Never start a legal fight with a corporation whose legal staff numbers exceed your state National Guard numbers.
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  337.  @Sayid-al-Furat  oh? Who's the emperor of that imperialist organization?
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  338. A far better series of justifications for gaffes than the more typical, "I was shooting a movie, not a documentary", which simply generates a feeling of being beyond disrespected by the filmmaker saying that drivel.
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  339. I've reminded my conservative friends, those who are denied the vote by ballot retain the right to vote by bullet. People are getting that pissed off, what with so many people dying of this virus that idiot refuses to lead the efforts against or even allow a full court press. He's also refusing to fund the states, despite the massive tax revenue loss and insane expenses in state responses to the pandemic, which will result in the loss of essential services. So, Trump is defunding the police, fire and EMS.
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  340. They typically can't just jump in and intervene, they have to have a case before them, such as an appeal.
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  341.  @roycsinclair  but, they didn't break Linux. It's a bit worse. They broke multiple distros in multiple ways on multiple occasions. That indicates some very severe issues in their test environment and change management process, such as a lack of both. We'll eventually learn the ugliest, once discovery is completed and evidence goes before the courts. I suspect it's gonna get fugly. Pity, I actually liked their product.
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  342. I guess the parents are also diabolical, since they'd have to give permission for the minor child to be interviewed?
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  343. The parents had to consent, why are you usurping their parental rights?
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  344. I normally don't vote straight party line, but select based on platforms. This election of course, there's only one platform, Trump. So, it went straight party line. On the 4th, as I put my ballot into the mail slot, I said two words aloud, "No, Trump". On the 6th, I got notification that the county has received my ballot. Counting is on Nov 5.
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  345.  @kalikalimai1  ah, but would it be effective? Is Trump an animal, mineral or vegetable? Do Trumps feel pain like higher animals do?
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  346. Trump reserves special days on which to go nuts. Days that end in the letter 'y' in English.
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  347. It's always heartening when one observes them eating their own.
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  348. He didn't even send most of the money Congress authorized. Looks like most diverted illegally to a wall vanity project, which is misallocation and misappropriation, both felonies.
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  349. At a certain point in production, one ends up losing some reality in favor of calling HelicoptersRUs. Just isn't worth the additional budget for a brief scene where the bent bird is incidental to the scene. It's not as if they were going to search a bent, burned bird for heat seeking moisture missiles.
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  350.  @wholeNwon  just far less amenable to being trained. Getting them to clean their room is like getting wild horses to clean up their shit. No, the horses are more easily trained.
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  351. That and those immediately adjacent to the principal are instructed to remain in place as to not hamper evacuation of the principal.
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  352.  @Leftywrecker the opposite of what was written and intended by the Founders? Thanks, but no thanks. I swore an oath to defend our Constitution and laws, not undermine and destroy them.
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  353.  @tibetloga  you might want to take a course in English, as that second sentence self-contradicts. The news is incessantly filled with stories of people arrested and charged with terroristic threats against officials, but lemme guess, Birds Aren't Real, amiright?
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  354.  @Bound4Earth  I entirely concur. With every right there are responsibilities and duties.
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  355. Well, he also thinks that apples are sold in the refrigerated section.
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  356. 2N3055 brings back some memories. Thankfully, the burns healed. ;) Used to watch an FNG come in and screwdriver discharge filter cap banks, welding the screwdriver to the bus strip. Hey, we told him to check with us first before doing anything exciting or energetic! Haven't worked on that kind of logic in ages. Now, it's all pretty much PC, NUC, RPi, Deep Thought... Nobody trusts me to do any work on Earth.
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  357. It's called playing for both sides, thereby never taking a risk. Worked out well for Vichy collaborators after the war.
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  358.  @williammielenz3752  this is why learning how to pick locks is only the beginning of the journey. And why having enough psych courses to allow you to know the answers expected in their testing is rather important. If you fuck up the test, at least you'll know enough to be able to pick the lock. I highly recommend using windshield wiper blade inserts for the source metal for making one's own picks.
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  359. Humorously, he did make it to be one of those very few people who died after 100. By a few months. He'd joked so often of playing The Palladium, that they were in negotiations for him to do just that when he died.
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  360.  @glennschlorf1285  moral values? Any moral values associated with Trump are the polar opposite of any known morality that isn't Satan's amorality. Now, he's playing it as if felonies are legal and good things.
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  361.  @trueheartintent  well, not only mice. Occasionally, it's with dogs or even primates for some drugs that interact much differently in mice than in primates. I remember one drug write-up that discussed an increased incidence of testicular cancer in male beagle dogs, which was never reflected in humans or well, any other species or canine breed.
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  362. Most, if not all of what he detected wasn't from the reactor, but from lax handling and safety precautions. Once those were enacted, proper PPE issued, the contamination issues disappeared. Well, other than from the fire and thankfully, one engineer raised so much hell, they installed them before the reactor went operational. Oak Ridge had a similar problem, as did many US processing facilities.
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  363. Not elevated position, it's more dire. They hold a position of great public trust, which they abrogated. So, yes, maximum sentences to deter further abrogations. Let everything simply fall apart due to lack of maintenance.
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  364.  @JZsBFF  the appellate court.
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  365. It felt like witnessing the rape of Lady Liberty to me.
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  366.  @EmeraldEyesEsoteric  that'd be like avoiding ham or turkey on our winter holidays. It's a traditional staple. It's literally like telling some Italians to never eat baccala ever again, just ain't gonna happen. Better enforcement and inspections by the national government in those locations would be far better, so that dodgy sources are removed before finding a consumer's dinner table, which is how we addressed that very same problem in the west.
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  367. As far as I'm concerned, any municipality that allows an HOA to exist is nearly as bad as the worst HOA around and should be actively avoided to the point of shunning.
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  368. Trump could never be in solitary confinement though - too many "people" telling him things in his head.
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  369. Oh? Do tell us all what law says that, since they're supposed to be locked up, that means there is a law. I'll wait, given we've got 50 states with 50 different sets of laws and tons of resistance against such a common sense solution. I mean, I lock mine up, but mine are insanely expensive competition models, hence an expensive investment. Oh wait, most firearms are expensive to the purchaser, so they should treat their weapons like the investments that they are.
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  370. Don't think he'll survive that long. Once MAGA realizes he's emptying their tables by deporting the crop harvesters and slaughterhouse workers and their tables are empty, telling them to eat cake won't cut it.
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  371. Hey now, I resemble that remark! Just because of a bit too much chili... Tasted great though, was worth spending the entire morning with a Crohn's flare! Oh well, shit happens. Just as long as it misses the fan.
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  372. Honest, ossifer, the building swerved into my path and stopped suddenly! Damned shelf drwiving car...
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  373.  @sessahme  the problem is, he would have spoken Aramaic, a proto-Hebrew, Greek and possibly Latin (definitely Greek and probably Egyptian as well). What was "translated"is more accurately transliterated, as direct translation would be impossible and going into mistransliterations is a well worn out and documented mess. The only thing worse than ignoring those errors are those proclaiming that King James is the language of the bible, as if anyone in the Levant, let alone the British isles would understand that ancient proto-English! Given the location, trade was significant, so multiple languages would have been the norm.
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  374. And wound gets pronounced like wound, aka bullet wound vs wound as in what one does for a coil around a spool.
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  375. That is entirely untrue, as attested to by his own admission that flies are always buzzing around him. He is most assuredly the Lord of the Flies.
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  376. Alex Friday , I do have to admit, in one way, this is indeed a murder tool. It'll murder the shit out of your budget for a year or two purchasing it and the necessary accessories and ammunition to use it. Such a price would also murder one's family life, resulting in a divorce, where she gets the damned thing and sells it off for pennies on the dollar.
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  377. Well, given that pretty much every human on the planet knows by now that he doesn't even know what the word decorum means, yeah, being surprised is... Astonishing. But, having no business writing about anything? I disagree. They can write about person, woman, man, camera, TV, MOUSE...
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  378.  @germyw  look up Nixon's Southern Strategy, which aligned with southern Democrats platforms, perfecting a conversion from what the GOP originally stood for to what it stands for today.
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  379. No need to shout! I completely agree, he should be properly identified by title. God-emperor wannabe.
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  380.  @danielboone8435  having sat on several civil case juries, I'd decidedly not award a dollar, save if there's a shit ton of zeroes on the right and quite distant from the one, the decimal point. As a hint, I'm sure that she always wanted to own her own rental car company.
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  381. Wow, so you're the one guy with the magical phone that processes and stores all SMS messages throughout the US? You got ah ultra deluxe model then! Given the message servers were hacked and those are at the cell phone company data centers and are just a dozen times larger than your phone and use around 100 times more power per server and there are hundreds of servers clustered together.
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  382. Allegedly, that commercial drove him around the bend.
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  383. I've never feared my tools, I do however respect their power and capabilities. For the simple truth is, the tool will never cause me harm, I will cause myself harm by carelessness, inattention and shoddy practices with that tool. Hence, my first, second, third and final questions are always, "how can I do this safer?".
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  384.  @BelleWhittington  that's one of the reasons many communities now require a concrete vault, to prevent coffins from floating out during heavy rains.
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  385. As someone observed long ago, quality kneepads are true lifesavers.
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  386. When you work in a hazardous environment, it's just the norm to do whatever you have to do to pull someone out of the shit. After all, the next time, it just might be you. Hence, it's not a big deal, it's literally business as usual. Although, if it was preventable, all manner of hell gets raised over the excessive risk imposed. And well, I'd be moving heaven and earth to help out too. Might be an old army dude, but long ago I learned, although we are mostly water, water vs human, water normally wins, so help a brotha out. And the most infamous and common last words heard on radio typically are, "aw shit" and I'm damned tired of hearing those final words.
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  387. I don't think so. The comorbidities tend to be synergistic with many health issues, especially in severe illness. I'd not be surprised if the virus has caused problems in the ACE-renin system, plus its other effects with immune response and cellular destruction that all tend to make the illness that much harder on that segment of the population. But, that's why we have researchers, to answer such thorny and critically important questions.
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  388. Given that the music was approved by the school administration and part of the game's program of activities, it's literally as if the officer ordered the team off of the field in the middle of the last play of the game.
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  389. There were problems with metallurgy, non-chromed rifling, tolerances, political interference that resulted in precisely the prohibited type of smokeless powder being in the rounds and more. If you want something fucked up, ask the Army to handle it, want it mangled beyond recognition, give it to a politician. But, don't forget, not all USAF were zoomie and missile guards. Some did run CSAR missions. One thing though, how'd you get cleaning kits? The early '16's shipped without cleaning kits, resulting in men thinking that they never needed cleaning. At least, per everyone I knew that served in Nam when the M16 was introduced. Loved my M4 in the sandbox, although I really loved the reintroduced M14, brought back updated as an M1A as a DMR. Although, the best things we had beside our Strykers was Kevlar and radios to call for air or indirect.
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  390.  @otadashi1570  local fascism isn't going to be able to control internet or even state or out of state organizations. A local school board can be as fascist, hell, let's go county, a county can be full on fascist in Alabama, they cannot influence behavior of businesses and individuals in my Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If they want to try, well, the Union marched through Alabama before, it can do it again. "As for "Oh no.. far worse.. Communism" I'm reminded of the fact that the ones that caught Mussolini weren't the Allies, but instead were Italian communists. And without the Ruskies, we'd have had a much tougher time against Nazi Germany.
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  391.  @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574  so, facts are illegal, because you hate the reporter. Gotya. Honestly, can't stand their whining and single POV, but facts are facts, gravity still goes down, regardless of who tells you about it.
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  392. Our nation's first conservative party was the Whig party. It got hijacked by Nativists, a populist isolationist and Protestant first group that was every bit as weird and zany as the MAGAts.They tore the party apart to the point that the same conservatives finally abandoned ship and formed a new party, the Republican Party. The new party's first candidate for POTUS, some Abraham Lincoln guy. Fairly quickly, the remnants of the Whig party dissipated like a weak squall that it was, leaving our current leading parties that we have today - albeit with changed positions post-Nixon's Southern Strategy.
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  393.  @trumpthis1656  I just checked, there's a remarkable shortage for some reason of folks born even as late as 1828. We're a tad low on folks born on or before 1861 as well.
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  394.  @rudibaroni88  and to think, Russian troops camped and dug in in that contaminated soil! I shudder to even think about how much they and their vehicles tracked all over Ukraine!
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  395.  @ShadowTwilight89  he'd just declare peaceful protests an insurrection and a state of emergency, from there martial law. General nationwide strikes, people staying home would do the same and be devastating if one got 5 - 10% of the population, as that would cripple every business in the land. And everyone in the universe would laugh him off the planet if he tried to claim people were in an insurrection inside of their own living rooms. Remember, a peaceful, utterly uneventful protest during his inauguration he labeled as a riot. Enough said.
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  396.  @pdxshadow9819  I was unaware of the first amendment being predicated upon how popular its exercise is with business owners! What other rights have been curtailed due to unpopularity with businesses?
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  397. He's only been making that promise since 2016. It's just been a really long two weeks...
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  398. Well, strychnine is natural. Comes from seeds from a tree. Arsenic is natural as well, doesn't mean I drink water laden with it or chew the shit. Wild boars taste good, preferably after being killed and butchered, otherwise they don't taste all that great. My cat's foot is natural as well, not the best thing in my mouth in the middle of the night. Although, I suspect she was objecting to my snoring.
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  399. And to think, I used to fix those damned things for a living. And LaserDisc and DVD players and CD players... Then, the price started dropping and I saw the handwriting on the wall, jumped to computers and networked systems, the rest is history. Still comes in handy for when something breaks on a holiday weekend, as I know how to repair switch mode power supplies to component level, still have a solder station, meter and oscilloscope. Although, after replacing a probe, I had to remember how to properly tune the replacement probes...
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  400. Given their annual budget, they'll not make a block before they're out of fuel. Armored vehicles are notorious for shitty fuel mileage, think gallons per mile. Well, for an M113 series, 0.4 miles per gallon. Plus shit tons of grease or the wheels will lock up. Did my own annual maintenance on the damned thing, so I knew I'd not get stuck. Then we got Strykers. Don't get me started on those... Had to explain why a rear hatch wouldn't work because of a bad hose to a company depot tech. Right after the blood and teeth were washed out of the damned thing - literally. Yep, great idea, save it won't happen. Maybe one will make the trip, the rest will be local cops with their budget M4geries and military cast off uniforms and even money, hit the wrong house with full immunity.
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  401. The'd bigly dumb. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
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  402.  @lindaj71  that's an entirely not my problem issue. I was a soldier, not a chaplain, the chaplain had the love department, I was in the smite department. It's one thing for a leader to say that they despise someone's political views and endorsements, but to express hatred in an already hatred and threat laden campaign, that brings things into the realm of terrorist threats, which he has encouraged. As far as I'm concerned, any terrorist attacks upon her should result in domestic terrorism charges being levied against him.
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  403. Nope, usually either Taps plays or the theme from F-Troop, both quickly confirming the bad idea and I desist. Likely, why I'm still alive today. Despite my worst efforts to the contrary. ;)
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  404. A flag that was not his own and decidedly not on his own private property, which makes it criminal trespass, vandalism, theft, destruction of public property and aggravated battery upon a peace officer, as well as sedition.
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  405.  @christianheidt5733  yes, it is. Otherwise, all of those nice reinforced concrete buildings would've collapsed when swaying gently with the wind.
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  406. I says we sendsa Guido and Giuseppe over to have a talk at them, make 'em an offa they canna refuse.
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  407. It is a shame that airlines and even other employers have no way in which to track the age of their employees and potentially predict the utterly unpredictable, completely random age in which employees may retire. Maybe we should ask governments to suggest a retirement age, which could make predicting such things possible. Oh wait, that would require management to jump off of the just in time bandwagon and anticipate predictable things, prepare in advance for them and retain a certain level of excess personnel to act as a buffer should there be a sudden loss and that is definitely not lean six sigma! Decades of promoting just in time ordering and lean philosophy has gone as we predicted, disruptions in supply chains and traffic flow have disrupted everything up and downstream and retirements are adding to the hot mess. Again, as predicted when we took that training that is only ever effective in an undisturbed steady state environment. But, people that were in the field for 20 - 30+ years didn't know what they were talking about and needed to have a positive attitude. I was quite positive it'd blow up in their faces. So, we're short flight crews, infant formula due to one plant going offline out of a dozen and a tampon shortage, that due to hand wave cotton and plastic shortages... And the ones that need to be shown the door for such business harming shortsightedness will retain their platinum parachutes, while everyone else gets lead parachutes. </0.01% spleen venting completed, detonation averted>
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  408.  @perwestermark8920  yeah, good job on reducing the complexity. To fully cover it, one would have to go through the OSI model and discuss layer 2 and layer 4 protections. Got a new router in for a government network, zero instructions save its location in the TLA stack. A chance comment by a reviewer informed us it was for layer 4 protection, which by a fortunate guess, we'd configured it to do. And people wonder why this old IA guy grinds his teeth...
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  409. How long has Melania been avoiding him?
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  410. I remember when he said he was going to run using only his own money. That never happened.
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  411.  @olika9076  no, he's simply hiding behind a hill of beans.
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  412. Starts at chapter 11, ends at file 13.
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  413.  @nom3nnescio  never counted. I only returned fire when fired upon. Keeping score is a foolish thing, it distracts from important things, such as survival.
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  414. Not until litigation got filed that the insurance company would be unlikely to want to defend. They'll next seek an out of court settlement that admits no wrongdoing...
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  415.  @fisheyenomiko  and by extension, saying that his then wife is ugly. But, not his type, as she didn't let him do whatever he wanted to her.
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  416.  @XXMatt0040XX one wonders why we're experiencing a 23% decline in births...
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  417.  @Chris.Davis.2  Ruskie bot following Putin's orders.
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  418.  @Sir_Wellington  oxygen isn't flammable, it provides oxygen to flammable things that have an ignition source to cause them to burn. So, the only real risk in a high oxygen content room is a modest overexposure to workers, which can cause irritation and of anything flammable igniting if exposed to an ignition source. Now, was the fire within the chamber itself or within the room containing the chamber?
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  419. Well, disqualification is a great success, just as he trumpeted his wonderful successes in bankrupting casinos. Succeeding in Trumpworld is easy, Bizarroworld style, relabeling failure as success makes everything great. From side to side, like every other splatter.
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  420.  @steelcom5976  Congress still has the power of the purse. And the 2026 budget hasn't gone through, adjust DHS' budget to $1.98 until they do allow oversight.
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  421. Which is fascinating, as one has to literally take a civics test that most born US citizens can't pass to acquire citizenship.
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  422. They're in the temple of Our Lady of Perpetual Audits. At least, according to the Lord of the Lies.
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  423. Fellow veteran and retiree here, glad to see a fellow like minded vet! My wife had an ectopic pregnancy that had to be aborted, with some difficulty due to a Roman Catholic hospital wanting my permission to perform the procedure while I was away on a field problem. Mailed my ballot on the 4th, it was received on the 6th and will be counted Nov 5, per state law. For a vanishingly rare change, I didn't vote per candidate's platform, due to GOP side MAGA worship, so it went straight Democratic party line. Despite being bit by voting for Nick Miccarelli, who is a GOP type and veteran, but alas, also a walking turd. And I have a gun and know how to not grab the end the glue comes out of! Only took three tries... ;)
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  424. +Adam Rainstopper well, obviously the young man's ass was a great danger to the officer. After all, he might have farted at him.
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  425. Ah, but Croy, don't you realize, firearms are really Klingon disruptors? Or something. Or are .50 BMG rounds actually supposed to be photon torpedoes...? Seriously, a two inchish long projectile, a half inch across, is magic?! It'll kill by just passing nearby?! Shouldn't a frigging train then kill the crap out of me, if it's moving at Amtrak speeds?
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  426.  @selftaopath  yes and no. In a very real way, he started running for 2020 when he was first elected and he pretty much treated his time as POTUS as largely a campaign. It's pretty much the only thing that he did in office, well, other than playing with his tiny balls with his tiny golf stick...* *I know they're golf clubs, work with me. Although, to me a birdie is something that flies and has feathers, never played golf, not interested, as I'm more into marksmanship as a sport.
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  427.  @813laker  especially when he complained in that speech, right after the beauty of Gettysburg's battlefield results of unburied Confederate soldiers, their loss and how poor Robert E. Lee isn't looked upon in a good light any longer. Yeah, for that matter, then either, as Congress issued a writ of attainder and seized his plantation in punishment for his treason. His family, paid after a court battle years after his death. It's now Arlington National Cemetery. Lee was also well known to whip his slaves mercilessly for even mild "offenses", at times taking over himself if his employees were deemed "too gentle". And that us and US thing, wow, just wow. He realized it just recently - I realized it when I was 4. But, he does deliver the irony. It's coming up on 45 years now since I've last saw someone earn an F- in US history.
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  428.  @sheisofthewoods  both use pressure canning, some will even use refrigeration. Depends upon the sect and their adherence. I've a bit of a clue on that, they are just down the road from here. If it's acidic or sweet, they'll water bath it, otherwise it's pressure canned.
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  429. Or even better, an armored car.
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  430. No, let the appeal run and the appellate court double the penalty for the perjurous submission and submit Alina to the Bar for disciplinary action. One danger of an appeal is that the court can find that the imposed penalty is insufficient.
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  431.  @brucewelty7684  happens in research as well. Some bleeding edge something is discovered, but nobody can replicate the procedure, despite it being painstakingly documented. Not even the original researcher. Only to find, after much hair tearing and finally, someone asked around, one of the undergraduate students assisting prepared step X in the process and when interviewed, one tiny step was never documented. Once that was replicated, the replication efforts worked every time. Not an isolated thing, either, it's actually quite common in scientific research.
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  432.  @RichardKatchuik  and that Denmark owns Greenland and is a NATO member. Invade there, all of NATO comes down on the invader like a trainload of bad news.
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  433. So, the defense attorney is still in prison? Nobody did anything about it, so there won't be a trial that Steve talked about, right? Or do you mean that nobody showed up with a militia and machine gunned everyone concerned down? Here's a life lesson for you. You can do things a fast and easy way and they'll fall apart every time or one can do things the right way, which takes time and effort and those things will be lasting. And things with courts take time. First, the trial of the accused has to be completed, then the defense attorney has to have his trial, then if acquitted in the latter, the misbehavior of the jurist then is reported up to the superior courts as appropriate for disciplinary action. No magical thunder from above, no Harry Potter waving his fuck stick, but a step by step legal process that is properly followed at every step, in deliberate and sober actions. Otherwise, we don't have the rule of law, we have the lawlessness of the mob.
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  434.  @malcolm5514  I used to work both ramp and mail and freight. Much of the field is quite dark and lousy with a whole world of "I can't see shit". I nearly collided with a commuter that didn''t have his anticollision lights on as he taxied from the terminal toward the main taxiway intersection once. To avoid collision, I made an omega course well in front at my bobtail's maximum speed and fortunately, got the timing right, as we both were going a bit too fast for maximum ramp speed limit. He turned his anticollision lights right afterward. I paid closer attention to my speed after that one! I forgot that that particular bobtail didn't have a governor in it. I figured that out when I noticed that I was passing a commuter after he hit V2 and was climbing out, pegging my speed at twice the ramp speed limit. I made them replace the instrument cluster lamps after as well.
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  435. Hey, never before has anyone played a game of cards against someone who holds an entire deck of trump cards. Unfortunately for him, jokers aren't trump cards.
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  436. Deuterium doesn't have a half life, it's stable. Tritium half life is 12.3 years and usually is in a pressurized tank inside the warhead that can be swapped out, with only a small amount used, as both nations use lithium deuteride for the fusion stage, which neutrons from the boosted fission primary fission the lithium into tritium. Lithium is a weird element... There are a number of common failure modes for nuclear weapons. The high explosives degrade over time, especially in the presence of ionizing radiation. The same is true of the electronics. Tritium does need replacement fairly often to maintain purity. Helium and hydrogen embrittlement is a problem in both the fission stage and the storage container for the tritium. Corrosion, yeah, but that's why the plutonium and uranium are plated with gold (typically). When the Soviet Union fell, only one military portion received adequate funding, the Strategic Rocket Forces and their boomers (sort of, on a highly limited basis for fully operational boats). The stockpile dedicated for anything beyond limited tactical strikes likely did atrophy though, both due to corruption and lack of funding, as maintaining nuclear anything is damnably expensive. And was a high priority for the US to maintain, as proved by the saga of fogbank. Code name for a polystyrene foam that the DoD literally forgot how to make and needed to replace, as it was crumbing over time. It was to be replaced with a more modern aerogel component, but that component wasn't functioning at all, so a crash project ensued to figure out how to make the old component, see what made it work and replicate it in the modernized version. That mushroomed into a 200 million dollar program and eventually, the issue was traced to a contaminant that made the x-ray laser actually work, as that was critical to the ablation system (this is all open source information). The laser is hugely inefficient, bad enough that Teller hung his hat on it being made efficient for his SDI contribution and destroying his and LLNL's reputation at the time, but was sufficient for inside of a confined, excited warhead and was eventually replicated in the new aerogel and now being actively incorporated in updated warheads. Very important, utterly critical, entirely forgotten, it was so critical for us, Russia suffering economically fared worse, I'm certain. So yeah, it's an open question on how many lower priority warheads would actually function, rather than splatter a few pounds of plutonium at the impact site and maybe a half ton of depleted uranium as well, the enriched stuff not weighing in all that much and still fairly long half life anyway (seriously, if you enjoy mineral water, it comes from wells that frequently have uranium leeching into them from the granite bedrock, folks, welcome to earth, didn't like that fact, maybe your ancestors should've stayed inside of the battlestar). So, where we stand now is China vs Russia some years ago, where Russia laughed at "China's Final Warning", thousands of which being issued without action, we're getting dozens now of "Russia's Final Warning", while observing their paper tiger burst into flames in action. Paper tiger also being a term Russia used about China's military. And Putin is an egomaniac, but not stupid, he's not about to launch and accept his family and nation glowing in the dark. Like me, he has a gun and knows not to grab the end the hot glue comes out of.
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  437. I'm reminded of the beginning of the film "Cool Hand Luke", not that I'd suggest anything unlawful...
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  438.  @guillaumepare9651  having driven an M113, that story generated major sympathetic pain. There's nothing whatsoever soft inside of those vehicles, other than personnel. The driver would've needed to be evacuated by air. We had a road collapse and the driver had to be evacuated by air, the passengers and TC were able to be evacuated by ground. I also slammed my back into the TC communications box while cleaning out my track after field operations. That solid aluminum box dropped my feet from me, for a few minutes, I was unable to get my legs to work at all. In Iraq, a similar rollover, due to roadside collapse killed a buddy. Ammo cans and he rang that interior like a bell, resulting in internal bleeding that claimed his life. So, not very ha ha here.
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  439. One of the Castle Bravo photographs shows a bunker on the left edge of the screen being vaporized. They had light pipes to carry the x-rays to instruments within that bunker. Unfortunately, the bomb yield was 2.5 times greater than anticipated and that bunker and its contents was vaporized, with a equivalent yield of 1 kiloton of TNT.
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  440. I remember that insult. I still greatly resemble that remark! As for my childhood, then we were mostly ice, not plain water... ;)
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  441.  @phylis3917  having actually met Trump, I doubt it. Only one capable of feeling love would have a desire to be loved.
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  442. You failed with the word never. Rarely held accountable, but far from never, I'm aware of three cases in the past two months that officers lost their immunity, which always was a privilege. Rights require a court of law to rescind or limit, privileges can be administratively revoked.
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  443. @geekfreak618 well, a lot of us got distracted by all of those cities being burned to the ground every night, just to amazingly be restored in the day, to burn to the ground anew every night. You know, the blizzard of bullshit flying about in the media during that mess, plus Trump's sending out the Waffen SS and Gestapo after protestors. Largely, due to an information processing disorder we've seem to suffered a pandemic of - the inability to pay attention to more than one thing for longer than five minutes. It's frustrating as hell, I know. I have managed to pay attention.
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  444.  @kimberley1449  and if he royally screws up and SHTF, he'll just jump onto his airplanes, likely taking every nickle he can from the treasury first, like every other falling dictator does and flee to a friendly, non-extradition nation. Like al-Assad did. I'm sure that Russia could make good use of that money.
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  445.  @thecyrenian5988  yes, in matters of constitutional law. No president may suborn the Constitution. We have a president, not a king or emperor.
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  446.  @TheGelasiaBlythe  I call it Grave's disease, which I have. Not as bad as multiple myeloma, but just as disastrous if untreated. It is interesting that the high levels of T3 and T4 aren't of consequence for blood donation, but then, any effect would be short lived and is diluted, the same being true with the methimazole I take to control those hormone levels. Running out of the red stuff being far worse for a patient than a modest spike in thyroid hormones or modest decrease in them short term. Although, given my current litany of medical issues, I suspect that I'll have to hold off for a full body transplant... ;)
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  447. Brucella loves Erythritol, one of the few bacteria that prefer sugar alcohols. "The presence of erythritol in the placentas of goats, cattle, and pigs has been proposed as an explanation for the accumulation of Brucella bacteria found at these sites." Meanwhile, sugar alcohols can have antibiotic behavior for some species of bacteria. The bacteria's mileage may vary...
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  448.  @Mondfischli  more like the cube shaped planet, Bizarroworld.
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  449. Next, Trump will create the Ministry of Truth, so as to memory hole inconvenient libraries, history books and artwork to ensure the memory hole remains bottomless. Nineteen eighty-four was a warning, not a damned instruction manual!
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  450. The joys of when they go cheap developer for their apps, vs using a good developer. :/ In the end, cheap ends up always costing a hell of a lot more.
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  451.  @onlygameplay134  if it's all the same to you, I'll listen to an endocrinologist, not a gamer, butcher, baker or candlestick maker.
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  452. In EMS and also in law enforcement, that is a significant mechanism of injury. It's a high energy collision. Dereliction of duty, for starters against the cop and well, if the department doesn't even find a reasonable standard of care, then hold the department fiscally responsible for massive punitive damages. Maybe when the taxpayers see their tax bills increase exponentially, they'll insist upon proper policing, rather than thuggery and negligence being the standard.
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  453. They don't adhere to the camel and eye of the needle, as that's incompatible with their prosperity gospel.
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  454. Nope, it all depends upon the pressure gradient. Explosive or gradual decompression at 30000 feet, fairly quick, not as fugly. A nine atmosphere environment and a two foot crescent hatch, fugly occurs, those inside get body wide hickies and blood that's pink from degraded lipids in the blood. No clue what idiots are going on about nitrogen, that happens on a small pressure differential, large, like atmosphere to zero or 9 atmosphere to atmosphere, minimal, the gas exchange processes work in reverse quite efficiently. All gas exchanges from the lungs are atmospheric gases - all of them. Oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, even frigging Argon.
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  455.  @gags730  not quite. ICBM's and SLBM's are already hypersonic, but suborbital. But, during the ionization phase of atmospheric reentry, they stick out like a dick in a convent, stealth or no stealth - you can't hide that sheath of ionized air as the warheads and decoys make atmospheric entry. Once into the lower atmosphere, then they'd be a cast iron bitch to knock down, again, stealth or no stealth, they're still hypersonic. Maybe with a lot of shotguns to clutter their path, which would be hilarious just to watch any attempted test... ;)
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  456. One word. Expired.
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  457. Alas, that's never happened before. Some first amendment thingie, which is a double edged sword, but indispensable in a functioning democracy.
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  458. @Plentus true, they probably also nixtamalized the corn, unlocking the nutrients and neutralizing or removing aflatoxins and making B3 available to the body. Plain corn has literally caused starvation in the south US at times, hence why hominy is a big thing - it's nixtamalized corn. Wikipedia has a great article on nixtamalization. Gotta have nutrients that you can use to begin with! :) There are a fair number of foods that need special preparation to avoid being poisoned or suffer malnutrition, cassava being an excellent example. In the west we mostly see cassava starch, processed safely into tapioca. Unprocessed, enjoy hydrogen cyanide poisoning.
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  459. Worse, many refusing to come back as civil service, but as contractors at five times the price. BTW, our enduring stockpile and some unspecified assembled warhead systems in our nuclear arsenal apparently went unmonitored when all security staff were summarily dismissed by DOGE. After an unspecified time, minimum a day, possibly up to three, the agency went essentially unstaffed. So, for all we know, someone's cat is rolling a plutonium core around their house. Because DOGE didn't know what the NNSA was, despite feeding all of the classified data into their unauthorized AI. They're not only shuttering our entire government, they're scuttling the entire ship and trying to take the planet with it.
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  460. Once posted, it's on state laws on what one can do. At a minimum, it's trespassing, aggravated if he opened a secured gate. In my state, well, we're castle doctrine and stand your ground. So, holding the trespasser while awaiting law enforcement and a tow truck is allowed. A quality padlock should suffice, force that and it's willful destruction of property and evading law enforcement.
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  461. Oh yeah? I'll show you! Just bought 2 1/2 gallons of Canadian canola oil. :) Even though the price went up a few bucks. Couldn't get any Canadian flour though, I'm fully stocked on that already. Next, to get some Mexican produce, once the ice melts a bit (had a wintery mix storm that pretty much dumped a bunch of everything overnight). Got any other recommended products for sale, let me know.
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  462.  @kyleschafer6275  shitty ammunition doesn't deplete steel of carbon, overheating during tempering does that. Which is precisely what the problem was in that limited number of defective 1903's. Once they added pyrometers to monitor the temperature properly, the problem vanished. Shitty ammo, that's been a cyclic issue with the DoD - especially if politicians get involved. See the introduction of the M16 for more recent details. See the USS Iowa turret explosion for when incompetent idiots modify the ammunition to be issued, then get in charge of the coverup.
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  463.  @bc2112320  that would effectively collapse the treasury in short order. And could trivially be done by escrowing all withholding by businesses in the state. By the time the courts hear the case, the damage would be done and the economic siege won.
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  464.  @_eeveeon_  that ship has long sailed. Now, we have medical and industrial gamma and xray sources and tritium illuminated devices all over the world. Reactors, not quite so much. But, far safer in design than SL-1 or Chernobyl, who had a similar void coefficient flaw.
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  465. They'd have hated me as a jurist. "So long and thanks for all the fish, now come back when you have actual reasonable suspicion, chucklehead".
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  466. Military EOD dogs get rewarded after a search, positive or negative, to avoid that potential bias.
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  467. Geiger counters weren't all that new back then, they were invented in 1928. But, I did know some atomic veterans, some are still alive today and have regular special VA appointments for monitoring that's literally still part of those human guinea pig experiments. BTW, on a scale of 1 - 10 in the stupidity scale, burning the uniforms was a solid 23. It spread the contamination and created a worse inhalation hazard for those nearby. As for denialists, if they'd like, I'd happily show them a very real nuclear warhead. And plop the goddamned thing on their feet and leave it there until they admit to the gravity of the situation, wouldn't take long. Nukes are dense and heavy.
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  468.  @lukebrooks3240  and as was explained, takes a substantial amount of time and repeated readings to assess a contact's course and speed. Although, tossing water slugs out tends to announce your presence to the ocean at large too. Plus the high speed evolutions and gyrations like a stripper at the jiggle joint on payday. All, for a dog and pony show for some executives. I'm sure some Admiral was pleased with the return on investment. Total goat screw from start to finish. Don't belong on the boat, don't board the damned boat and let the crew do their jobs.
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  469. How did a few hundred attendees get past them? They were inside the venue, where the Secret Service was responsible for and that's been reported now for *days*. How did he get past hundreds of local and state cops lugging a nearly 3 foot long rifle? Carried it in Wonder Woman's invisible airplane?
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  470. Heh, the Oklo rector was successfully mined for uranium for decades.
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  471. In a fair part for one reason, $$$. Ads cost money and the wealthiest are supporting their god-emperor.
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  472. Given the biblical "interpretation" by one chief injustice? Perhaps instead, a fundie minister with a fine wooden stake and a cord of wood might be a superior option. Given the jurist overrode the Almighty's decrees, hence knows better than God, an entirely Satanic viewpoint. Not a suggestion, just an observation from an ordained minister, of both ancient punishments for blasphemy and the general practices of those of such like minds.
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  473. I could tell that he had some trouble relating the story, emotionally. Thankfully, it was a Tenerife done extra light. Both still make me nauseous.
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  474.  @cj8172  at this point, he literally gets the same briefing Biden gets. So, his unintelligence team is irrelevant. Meanwhile, here in the real world, most of the "drone" footage I've seen were airplanes that were out of focus due to oversaturated camera sensors and helicopters. So, rather than getting someone from oh, the USAF to answer questions or even someone who works with drones, they get a journalist/lawyer to answer technical questions that are basically guesswork. Might as well ask your mechanic their opinions on which brain surgery technique to use.
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  475. Remember, the VA budget was cut every year I served, from 1982 through the first year and a half of our GWOT. Hence, they ration sparse tax dollars and it's now purely reflexive actions from the privations of those decades. So, put the blame on Congress and the taxpayers, who whined about their tax rates, to hell with the veterans. Whenever you hear how "The troops are #1", realize that it's the third digit being raised. Around a decade before the GWOT began, I had a clinical rotation through a VA hospital. Most of my time was spent on the oncology ward, with every patient being on the DNR board. Some were so ill that they required a flotation bed to prevent pressure ulcers, but had to be authorized by a board, as there wasn't enough money to get the number of those specialized beds for all of the patients that needed them.
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  476.  @Naptosis I remember the pre-GPS days, when the St Louis Arch was a big thing due to precision measurements. 1/128th of an inch off, the arch wouldn't have met in the middle. And I still ponder my cable humping days, when one discussed getting a cable stretcher... ;)
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  477. Why would they, whoever they is, need a distraction when they have a Trump?
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  478.  @oleladywho  makes me wonder what was said, as Youtube isn't showing it. Regardless, looks like a Ruskie bot account.
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  479.  @lynch6642  well, now that Trump's coming in, Ukraine is talking nuclear weapons development, since Trump wants to give them the same support we gave Poland against Hitler.
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  480.  @TheMrCougarful  well, a defendant is entitled to the best possible defense - even when a defense is utterly impossible. Although, most highly proficient attorneys would "fire" any client that keeps on sabotaging their best efforts.
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  481. So did his Trump hotel in D.C., which had entire floors rented by wealthy interests during his entire Presidency.
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  482. Not even as a visitor.
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  483. Got slammed with a debit card fraud ring when I hit the Harrisburg area. Turned out the tools went and got keys to all the gas station dispensers and installed their own card readers inside. They now have a nice place to stay, three squares a day and secure sleeping quarters with fine steel bars. Took two weeks and spare change to fix my account, went a bit hungry for a bit. As for getting carded, been there, done that. I'm 61, so I'm, erm, turning blonde. ;) Getting carded is rather comical now. Never got carded when I was 16, so go figure. But, fines are real and stores are sensitive about self inflicted injuries. Annoyances happen in life. Just talk to your kids. :P Can't talk to my wife, she died last year after 41+ years of CMH winning duty. Yeah, I'm a veteran, who isn't of our generations?
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  484.  @stevestoll3124 quantum tunneling isn't in the Oxford dictionary, should we then outlaw computers that utilize that principle?
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  485. What does Polish people have to do with it? Seriously though, it's polls, damned spell checkers will kill us all... I'm awaiting my mail in ballot, just got e-mail notification it's to arrive within 7 days, which means I should expect it Monday or Tuesday.
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  486. Well, that's about par for the course with a submarine that's at test depth on the surface.
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  487. A wise, elderly police sergeant once told some academy graduates, upon handing them their certifications, "Here is your badge. When you screw up, you dip your badge and mine in shit. I don't like shit on my badge, please don't dip ours into shit". Would, were he still alive today, he be in command of all LEO's nationwide!
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  488. If we started citing people for driving while stupid, over half of the drivers on the road would get citations.
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  489.  @KevinJDildonik  more ignorance, as most people don't realize how rare lithium is in the universe and even on earth. Lithium is weird, it fissions and it fuses easily, so it's destroyed inside of stars as quickly as it's made. A hint on how easily, hydrogen bombs use lithium deuteride in the fusion core, the lithium fissioning into tritium to fuse with the deuterium. Then, if a tritium ion and deuterium ion comes to love each other very much, in the heat of the moment, a helium ion gets born.
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  490. Yes, but the US is notorious for ignoring certain inconvenient agreements and treaties. Ask the Native Americans about that fact.
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  491. As the good preacher repeatedly said, "You're all going down!". Don't forget, that chimney weights in far heavier than the entire building. It'll most assuredly scratch the paint. And turn the optics into modern art.
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  492.  @Missunderstood103  thereby, while proclaiming adherence to Christian values, rejecting Matthew 25:35-40, condemning themselves.
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  493.  @BriarLeaf00  not really, it doesn't scale in any realistic way. There were Manhattan Project workers who were commonly referred to as "plutonium pissers", who had detectable amount of plutonium in their urine for the remainder of their quite long lives, very little cancer in any Manhattan Project workers - surprisingly so, given they couldn't even spell radiation safety, let along practice it. Couldn't very well protect against that which wasn't very well understood at the time. A fair amount of the risk involves which tissues the radioisotope accumulates in, as some tissues are more sensitive to radiation damage than others and from there, it gets damned complicated.
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  494. Interestingly, there seems to still not be any laws against the practice. Civilization, brought to us by the folks who brought us wife selling and blood pudding. ...
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  495. There was no glass, the teleprompters remained intact when he was hit. Frankly, I've no doubt his ear was stung by an angry lead wasp in 5.56mm. Barely, literally qualifying for the term in medicine known of as a boo-boo. What is humorous is, he golfs without that white flag on his ear. But, on stage it's there, well pressed and pristine. I'm thinking he'll likely milk it for at least two months. Beyond that, he'd get poked fun at for either healing at a rate that is positively sickly or obviously milking it and well, that's by his own base.
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  496. Well, if they decide that the fourteenth amendment is unconstitutional, they've literally decided that the Constitution is unconstitutional. Or that all amendments are null and void, which is essentially the same thing.
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  497.  @Nasheepoo  ugh, that just made me nauseous. Granted, I'll enjoy an occasional hot dog, but that's maybe a pack in six months, same with mac and cheese (usually with some ham and leftover veggies tossed in), but veggies are a must. They keep me regular... ;) And my diet is varied enough that, despite being diagnosed with Crohn's severe enough to really foul up my electrolytes (specifically salt and magnesium), all other micro and macronutrient levels tested smack dead center of normal, despite damage to the colon. As for dishes, I tend to cuss a bit, but that's more in objection to gravity. Blown disc and all... :/
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  498. I don't know if it's luck or just some oddity in metallurgy, but it seems that every ship built in Ukraine that gets involved in attacking Ukraine suddenly becomes incredibly flammable. I wonder if it has anything to do with patches of the aluminum being made of torpex...
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  499.  @OAleathaO  compared to the SL-1, which had a worker pinned to the concrete ceiling with a control rod bushing. Same flaw in that reactor as was in the Chernobyl unit, a moderator at the tip of the control rods and a positive void coefficient.
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  500.  @EuriEuropa  we've well established that comets speed up when venting and that they're made of rock, so you've lost your first point. If space aliens could travel interstellar distances, they'd most certainly steer free of this planet full of assholes. Finally, I fear nothing that does not exist, due to its inability to threaten, due to its lack of existence.
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  501. Although, I think with this one, the bots have set a new record in speedy response. The shooter's remains weren't even cooled down and they were stirring the pot. I'm now fully on with the Obama Doctrine, consider any computer based attack by a nation state to be a WMD attack on the US and reply in kind with the only WMD we field. For some reasons, that makes the Ruskies nervous... The other side view, also interesting though. One side is currently stirring in some mythical CIA operative being well, less competent than Maxwell Smart and the Secret Service was magicing it along, ignoring that the suspect experienced high velocity lead poisoning by the Secret Service. And a nascent, but growing "The Shooter Was a RePuBlIcAn!!!" and well, Christ knows where they're going with that, got too dizzy watching all of the hand waves. Sigh, I don't drink enough. I do know that the governor of Pennsylvania didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I know that because his mansion is 3 blocks from me, well lit and way too much traffic for a building that normally has pretty much no traffic.
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  502. Insufficient bang path.
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  503. Public domain has been under attack for years. Laws can indeed cross borders, most frequently via international agreements and ratified treaties. It'd be interesting to see what the EU courts would find on this, as this is within their purview and the EU still is a bit cordial in policy toward public domain. Still, one wonders, George Washington made bricks that sold throughout the colonies. Those certainly are cultural artifacts, so by extension, all bricks should be. Perhaps Italy brickmakers are infringing upon US cultural artifacts...
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  504.  @pamelabryant7390  more, the reverse is true. All of the smart criminals have Trump by the gonads.
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  505. That's OK, a half million Antarctic Puffins invaded Russia via Ukraine to commit war crimes. The UN is responding by dispatching a dozen divisions of American Elephants for peacekeeping operations. That's largely because the Icelandic Platypus divisions refused to serve.
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  506. It looks to me like that department is insanely overstaffed and hence, overfunded. Now, a more appropriate response would be to eyeball the merchandise and let friends know, with pictures (with permission) sent of examples. You know, help out enterprising honest citizens in their efforts to get a little more scratch. You know, community building, not community wrecking.
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  507. Well, using the same reasoning, receiving chemotherapty and radiation therapy for cancer takes money out of the pockets of funeral directors and gravediggers. For that matter, so does having law enforcement, fire departments and EMT's and hospitals.
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  508. In her favor, when did she lie under oath? That is what perjury is, so when was she sworn in and lied to a court of law? As an attorney, she can misguide, mislead and do whatever she has to, within some boundaries, to defend her client and that's demanded of attorneys under our laws, rightfully so. That she did the worst possible job, under the worst possible conditions - courtesy of her client and made serious blunders in court still don't count as perjury. Only incompetence. There's an old joke. "She passed the bar, alas, she didn't stop in and learn anything".
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  509. Just where are they going to manufacture things? A circus tent? What factories we had are long shuttered and crumbling dangerously, if they weren't already demolished. They'd need to build plants, equip them, hire and train workers, that isn't something that happens overnight, but over years. As a hint, the Lend-Lease Act was passed in 1941. We were supplying combatants already for a decade, helping us recover from the Great Depression. By the time we entered into the war, we already were in full production and simply had to scale up production a bit more by adding shifts.
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  510. He doesn't have to prove his innocence, the prosecutor has to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Given Trump's performance thus far, sounds like quite a low bar to clear.
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  511. Well, one could go out and collect the used bullets. It'd be entertaining to see a character trying to fit even one into the chamber for a second go.
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  512. Actually, he'd not be allowed on the grounds, let alone granted a Yankee White clearance.
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  513. There is one instrument system that I'll rarely trust, my organic sensory system. I've been fooled once by a false horizon, once fooled, twice shy. The Captain got an "this is odd" moment, which swiftly turned into "I'm about to become a submarine captain" moment, reacted properly and recovered. In some instances, the proper reaction was delayed by continued analysis, resulting in a lesson written in blood, rather than elevated blood pressure and pulse. To err is human, what one does once one realizes the error reveals the quality of the person. In this case, recovery, uneventful flight, brushing it under the rug by filing a detailed, honest report for all to eventually learn from. That reveals a top notch person in my book. Because, three words have gotten me out many troublesome resultant situations, "I fucked up". Lying by omission or commission only reveals someone unworthy of any trust or position of trust. Admitting to an error, documenting it and thereby training others to avoid that error marks one as worthy of a position of trust.
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  514. Trumpites do have one valid complaint that they selectively and willfully ignore, not liking lying politicians. And well, politicians have to lie in general, as the saying goes, "you can't satisfy everyone", the trick is not to blatantly lie about shit that just doesn't matter, you know, ala Trump.
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  515. Pheochromocytoma is usually found inside or on the adrenal gland(s), but occasionally, one will be present pretty much anywhere in the body and flood the body with adrenal hormones, such as adrenaline. Yeah, things can get lost and set up shop in the wrong place or a mutation causes a tumor that produces things it shouldn't in the wrong place. Or in my case, I've long had a mass on my adrenal gland that does nothing whatsoever, so, no harm, no foul, leave the dog alone. ;) Meanwhile, my immune system took a dislike to my TSH receptors in my thyroid gland, turning it on full tilt. Hypertension, tachycardia, extreme rapid weight loss, Hulk level "irritability", heart failure, abdominal aortic aneurysm all came to visit. The last time I had a thyroid storm, it was right at the first peak of COVID and my pulse oximeter read 85, well, that and I was gasping like a fish out of water, convincing me to have my wife call an ambulance (I hate hospitals, they're full of sick people!). Doctor came in after testing and said, "I have good news, you don't have COVID". "Oh? What do I have then?" "A type of heart failure from your hyperthyroidism." "Oh, thank God it's only heart failure... <blink> Did I just say those words?" Doctor laughed with a bit of a hysterical tinge, "Yeah, but I understand". At the time, hospital beds lined the hallways and were double stacked in the elevator lobbies, with one floor overflowing with COVID patients.
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  516.  @brandonjames6855  that depends upon the vote. To say otherwise is to invite sedition charges. Well, unless you take up arms when you lose, then it'd be treason charges for the survivors. Because, we in the US Army swore an oath to our Constitution and laws, not a party or a single senile old man.
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  517. Understandable though, since she was so amenable to doing anything asked of her, she's a no-brainer for a first choice. It's always the first move for any would-be tyrant, the last prime example being in Germany in the 1930's.
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  518.  @jesspeinado480  erm, seller fi? Ironic, to put it mildly, largely due to its accuracy. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy. Semper Fidelis, Steve! De oppresso liber!
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  519.  @chrisp2249  where that came from is beyond me, given there's no plans for NATO to "fill" Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, with NATO troops (where NATO would shit out an army that the organization doesn't have is questionable as well, given troops only go on NATO missions when there's a specific need), NATO hasn't deployed nukes because only the US, UK and France have nukes and haven't deployed them with NATO anything since the Cold War ended in the mid-90's and again, why would NATO stick a fleet in a non-NATO nation's single base? Not a goddamned thing about what you said makes a damned lick of sense. Besides, Russia's well in range of US, UK and French boomers.
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  520.  @nom3nnescio  I was a soldier. Might I suggest that you invest in a dictionary?
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  521. The US Naval vessel could've been running radar off, but there's a planet full of vessels that would've had their radar on, including the accident vessel. Plus in such congested waters, the US Naval vessel would've had decks full of watchers just to avoid a collision. Making me wonder about both the canal pilot and conning officer's visual acuity, as well as the same aboard the Truman. Did everyone suddenly go blind, deaf and dumb?
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  522. I always pick up. Loved it when I'd get "I am Microsoft". Kept a busted keyboard near the phone to bang away on, just to waste the prick's time. Got up to 45 minutes on one, he started cussing me out, I returned the favor in Hindi, which really flamed him. I curse fluently in six languages. Courtesy of the US taxpayer.
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  523. Indeed and it eliminates the risk of more rubbish falling from the sky, dangling from a parachute while holding a selfie stick. Seriously, if he had landed upon my land, I'd be on the line with 911 reporting, "Oh no, we have Spaceballs".
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  524.  @expatannie6958  what county? We had some shenanigans in a few counties that are being investigated as we speak. I'm in Dauphin and our election did run cleanly. When I was still under Delaware County, it ran cleanly as well, though I did miss one vote due to our moving from FOB to FOB, making mail catching up problematic. Irritating, but I've always been a mission first guy
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  525. I'd have gone with clean room environment and vacuum chamber assembly to avoid gas pockets. But then, I'd also not have used expired carbon fiber or a viewport that was rated for 2/3 of the intended depth. Worse, no xray inspections, ultrasound, etc after each mission. Just acoustic monitoring for popping, which if that happened, it was already beginning to fail and one won't make it to a safe depth. Way too many corners cut, turned a cube into a sphere and the ocean dutifully refined the size of that sphere. What should have been done is proper environmental control for assembly, proper selection of components and then, use the damned thing as an ROV for a hundred missions minimum, cut it apart to examine everything and build a new one based upon lessons learned from the first one. On the third, then consider carrying passengers.
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  526. Still need a couple of "childhood vaccines" that are recommended and finish off my hepatitis B series, as that immunity has waned and the vaccine's required for a biologic I'm currently on. And my primary ran out, of course... :/ Scuttlebutt is that RFK Jr wants to pull a bunch of vaccines, so soon, we'll be back to burying babies again.
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  527.  @spxram4793  if that was so, one would think that they'd at least utilize a vehicle that's actually bullet resistant. An M2 can punch through that armor, just as it can with an M113, anything heavier would shred it as well. It's more likely that someone was screwing around with antiques, slopping it together for fun and it got turned into a propaganda tool. Especially given the armored gun's weight would turn that vehicle into a rollover just waiting its opportunity.
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  528. He'd have had one consequence. No more worms. I've taken ivermectin for a parasitic worm infection some years back. The only issue was some modest mental confusion issues toward the end of treatment, although I understand that the worms had some very severe, fatal issues involving a sewage treatment plant.
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  529. The good guys fired, the bad guys ducked. The bad guys fired, the good guys ducked. The cops fired, everybody ducked...
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  530.  @stormriderkaos totally, which is precisely why they guaranteed the bond. Oh wait, they didn't.
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  531. Never fear, they'll first peel away the remnants of the very first amendment until it's meaningless, then deincorporate it from the states, then declare the Constitution unconstitutional and null and void. We'll get Comstock back, prohibiting condoms and any form of sex education even for physicians and be back to leeches and bleeding in no time at all. Then, they'll bring back Dred Scott and women are only allowed to be barefoot and pregnant. Then, blame everyone else for the syphilis and HIV epidemic that follows. Welcome to the third world, folks, third world, Act One.
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  532. Seriously, I really did start laughing at the comment. I've been on a few juries over the years, 15 minutes won't get you figuring out when to have a bathroom break. Still, everyone's likely tired of the place and each other by now, to put it nicely, so Friday before COB is the most likely bet, just to avoid the risk of another week stuck in the courthouse.
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  533.  @rebeccahicks2392  oh? Funny, all of those John Wayne films since WWII are now rated R? Audie Murphy's films are rated R? I can show you hundreds of war films that are not rated R at all, but for general audiences.
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  534. There are going to be a few mandatory recounts, due to state laws regarding 1% or lower wins. Which is a good thing, it proves that the system is robust and self-correcting and verifying.
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  535. Somehow, I suspect he'd know what I'm talking about when I reference the collapse of the Whig Party due to the Native American Party antics that are nearly verbatim what the far right echo today. Abraham Lincoln didn't start out a Republican, everyone sane from the Whig party joined the new Republican party and allowed the nativists to destroy the Whig party completely.
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  536. Most people don't realize, ambassadors aren't selected on merit or education, but are appointees and are far too frequently awarded as a favor by our executive branch to "friends".
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  537.  @j.dimitri5077  not a one of which outranks him or myself currently, as they no longer serve and Walz and I are retired and not subject to military requirements or ranks. Unlike your Ruskie peers, we don't quake at the Russian paper tiger that's giving China's Last Warning just before they get defeated again in Ukraine. For the record, I was an NCO as well, those commissioned officers former ranks are irrelevant in my life, as I'm no longer serving, as again, I'm retired and no longer under any contract of enlistment.
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  538.  @Panama_Red  well, we were packing blood onto MEDEVAC flights downrange, save a hell of a lot of lives. But, those flights had people trained in working with blood products, whole blood or packed red cells, etc. Just dumping blood products downrange is of minimal utility without the trained individual to select and administer them, given a mismatch will kill the patient that's already unstable.
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  539.  @ksavage681  pizza?! They deserve my homemade lasagna!
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  540. Whatever are you talking about? He testified to every camera that someone mistakenly pointed in his general direction. And it's blindingly obvious that swearing him in would never generate truthfulness from him, I sincerely doubt he could ever be truthful.
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  541. +John Driver which is three miles an hour under sixty and well within the law, save if she was in a fifty mile an hour zone. The pickup truck driver wanted to speed, did breach the peace with an obscene gesture, then accelerated well above the speed limit, made an unsafe and unsignaled lane change, lost control and crossed two oncoming lanes of traffic before crashing on the opposite side of the road. Frankly, I hope he totaled the truck and thereby learn a lesson that could save lives later.
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  542. And no lead was dropped from those guns, they only know how to deliver hot steel on target. A steel container full of boom.
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  543. Well, it would match DonOLD's "taking a bullet" by getting a boo-boo on his ear and miraculously healing in just over a week.
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  544. I'm pretty sure the crackers were to be used as improvised armor on the vehicles. We were in the middle of a field problem when the big switch to the meal in a body bag was introduced. Caught some HEAT rounds over my radio call, "You've a hell of a nerve dropping that off to eat, we have nukes"... The franks and beans had a bad run, pinholes in the package meant something already digested them before you got to open the package, which was, ahem, decidedly aromatic. The early MRE's were also infamous for constipating soldiers, especially if they didn't eat the fiber crackers in the meal. They were so delectable, that in Honduras, one of the guys tried to feed a stray some of his MRE and the dog bit him instead.
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  545. There is only one caveat against that view. If the parent purchased the firearm and properly secured it in a safe storage device (secure gun locker or safe) that the minor child lacked access to, they cannot be held at fault. We know, however, that was not the case, so this multiple firearm owner says to not throw the book at them, throw the entire law library. When our children were growing up, I kept a number of firearms about, some within easy access, due to the neighborhood that we lived in. Handguns were secured, save for two, which were in open storage and would be missed instantly. I wasn't especially concerned about my hunting rifle, as someone trying to conceal a hunting rifle in 45-70 is a laughable exercise. The kids never had access to the secured firearms, the open storage was in constant view of us and as said, would be instantly noticed due to how they were stored (a bright background was concealed by the firearm, think safety orange in a dark woodtone background) and plenty of paranoia was observed.
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  546.  @williamkeaton7945  President of Solitary Confinement.
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  547. Didn't need much convincing here, just showed her it melting, while explaining sugar crystallization.
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  548. Buildings don't typically have blinking beacons like aircraft do. But, odd angles create impossible blind spots. There was a daylight, clear sky collision between a helicopter and small airplane near NYC some years back that was captured on video. Both aircraft had one another perfectly in each other's blind spot until a couple of seconds before collision, when it was impossible to avoid.
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  549.  @joshg1529  I've never considered kids dumb. Ignorant, yes, but ignorance can be mitigated by education. But, social inexperience can and has been abused by malicious people with nefarious intent and researchers who can't even spell the word ethics.
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  550.  @ThatonedudeCR12956  what was Trump's entire argument, well, other than spewing bullshit out of a firehose with a response that was a Gish gallop of well, bullshit?
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  551.  @stevegolacks8731  equality isn't legal? Fascinating, do enlighten us as to how equality isn't legal.
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  552.  @strnglhld  anything that gets between me and my pasta gets a fork in it and sent to my mouth too. If it's in front of me, it must be food. If it's your hand, good luck in life, lefty.
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  553.  @Fidel5555  I've always said, I'll stop learning maybe, just maybe three days after I'm dead. ;) No reason to not study various things, as knowledge is power. Back when I was in the Army (retired in 2010), I ran into not one, but two cases of pheochromocytoma. One was recognized late, the soldier was to begin treatment after field training, but expired from a ruptured AAA. The other, I pieced together what was going on, asked doctor to do me a favor and run a couple extra tests and there it was, he had pheochromocytoma. His problem was quickly addressed and he returned to duty. So, that trivia can and does save lives. Diagnosing things, just Boolean flow really. I do Boolean algebra and regular expressions in my head as part of my job. :) Annoyingly, basic math tends to give me trouble, but that's what calculators or if I had to, fall back to a slide rule is for.
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  554. The funny thing is, everyone gets their panties in a twist over radiation from a thermonuclear warhead and that isn't the greatest threat. Most of the radiation is in the fireball and well, if you're inside of the fireball, you've got a whole hell of a lot else to worry about - like being incinerated. Fallout from a modern warhead is typically fairly low as well, as most are set for air burst to maximize destruction by heat and overpressure, figure around a half ton, most of which will decay in around 12 days, most a lot sooner. But, that overpressure and heat, that is the destructive parts, think concrete wall moving at the speed of sound, with negative pressure between pulses, plus the fireball that well, is hotter than the surface of the sun. That's one hell of a pee-pee smack! Broken gas pipes, which the pulverized buildings help by adding fuel, the word being firestorm. Firestorms aren't any fun, we're talking about getting pulled into the fire from more than two blocks away. Most deaths will occur from carbon monoxide poisoning from the firestorm, well, those who weren't ground into dogfood when their building collapsed on them or had their window glass shred their body. Suffice it to say, I have intimate knowledge of how a nuclear warhead works, as I worked on nuclear missiles as my first MOS. I call them what they are, products of the insanity factory. The problem is, if one country has them, well, we'd damned well better have them too, lest oh, nuclear blackmail occur, which is precisely what's being attempted. Trust me, trying to blackmail me is a really shitty idea, not known for enhancing one's chances of survival. And realistically, I'm old, banged up, not in the best of health, so life in prison or the death penalty aren't exactly a deterrent. So, what does it take to launch any part of our nuclear arsenal? One telephone call from POTUS, his identity confirmed by someone in the line of succession and in possession of "the biscuit", the magical boom-boom code phrase of the day that POTUS and others in the line of succession possess (typically, it'd be SecDef). Target selection via the SIOP. No magic buttons, no red phones, a secure telephone is all that's needed. The "Football" being only used while traveling. If traveling, the Football comes along for between times, like while they're setting up the portable SCIF (yeah, they have one that converts a room into a full grown SCIF in kit form, pretty cool, looks like a royal gonad crusher to set up. Apparently, Dick Nixon was drunk a lot toward the end of his Presidency and had actually ordered North Korea nuked. His Chief of Staff sat the orders on his desk and said, "We'll see if he still wants to do it in the morning, after he sobers up". Yeah. Oh, for the record, I actually hate nuclear weapons with a passion. But, we don't live in an ideal world, so we're not going to have ideal solutions to our problems.
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  555.  @jameskahl1598  OK, never said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSrOXvoNLwg
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  556. I took my wife to a clothing optional beach, of course having her agree first. First day, she insisted on wearing her shorts, a bit of hesitation in removing her top, but seeing her own minority and well, the whole "nothing to see here" thing, that went away. The next day, we arrived, she looked right, then left, didn't bother looking behind and everything came off and we had a good day, like the day before. Some time later, we were again on leave and enjoying the beach and I was annoyed at crabs trying to nibble my toes, so I treaded water farther out. I can tread water for hours, purely out of entertainment and just enjoying the freedom of movement and quiet. I noticed some boats not too far away, but figured they got daring, googling at the clothing optional beach, as is the local perv custom (along with guys in shorts with binoculars). Then, I felt sandpaper slide between my legs - a sand shark. Hmm, might want to move before he confuses worms... Turned around to look at the beach, it was a quarter mile away and moving laterally. I had consulted shipping charts at the Coast Guard station earlier, largely out of curiosity and noted my speed matched the offshore current at that distance. I'm sans attire and literally, per the current chart, headed in a few hours (no sweat, but concerning for other reasons) toward Battery Park. Oh, the federal Life Guard was having conniptions to try to get my attention. I waved to acknowledge, yeah, I know I'm in the middle of shit creek, lemme paddle... He calmed as I cut across the current toward shore. Fight the current, die. Water's more powerful than you, Hulk, you'll drown and you ain't green. Got out of the current and into wading depth, waded along, as I was in the "textile beach", aka clothed beach right next to the undivided clothing optional beach, back to our beach, then waded ashore and apologized to the lifeguard. "Lost situational awareness, my bad and apologies, won't happen again". We've all had our intracranial flatulence outbursts, apologizing and not allowing that to occur is a biggie in a successful life. No life is survivable, but that doesn't mean we need to make it unsustainable until the ticketbook of chances runs out. Although, even then, I was dearth in taking chance tickets. ;) Got another 20 years with her before she died, still one of both of our fondest memories. And I miss her a year and change on like I'd miss air. Lost her to another US metric of disgrace, a dental infection. 41 years, now gone. 6 hours after feeling poorly and right after helping me move $450 in groceries into home, she laid down and died. Civilized nations have universal health care and dental care. Only third world nations don't, well, them and their peer, the US.
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  557.  Zigest  OK, fire everyone that has ever been sick. You're fired.
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  558. There is no system, save for the serfs, Lords and Ladies are exempt from all law, save the god-emperor's decrees. The only rights that actually exist are the god-emperor's rights, there is no we the people, who are mere property of the god-emperor to do with as He wishes, in his holy Imperial Grace. Perhaps it's time for a Committee for Public Safety and Star Chamber, as well as a Brutus. While we retain a vestige of human dignity, rather than falling into chattel status and powerlessness.
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  559.  @SoWhat1221  nope, before. They noticed contamination when one of the physicists on a lark checked his home garden, then home and pretty much crapped himself. Shoddy contamination avoidance practices being the norm in that era pretty much universally. Oak Ridge was just as bad and still has areas that haven't been cleaned up.
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  560.  @Zelink108  technology won't replace sunlight on fields that grow the crops that we need to survive. By the time we even began to try to augment those lost fields, we'd already be seeing mass starvation, as we'd need to beef up energy production or curtail power in areas to have enough to light greenhouses. Rome took years to rebuild, but it burned in only six days.
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  561. Wouldn't matter, it's literally a religion with them.
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  562. How can you tell when his brain enters the room? Oh wait, the odor of diaper contents...
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  563. I wonder how many of those papers have classification markings...
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  564.  @AnymMusic  well, there is Mercury the planet, Mercury the old space program and ethylmercury, as well as dimethylmercury. The ethyl variety was known as Merthiolate or the preservative thiomersal, which is rapidly removed from the body. If you're into art, remember the shade vermilion? Mercury oxide, which is also fairly toxic. Don't get me started on how often as kids, we played with regular mercury metal. Back then, nobody thought it could be harmful. Of course, that's back at the beginning of the ice age... As near as I can tell, it was an absolute miracle we didn't manage to kill ourselves back then! The only times I came really close was in the Army and that was during a war, where some really unpleasant people objected strenuously to our very existence. They're quite placid now.
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  565. I'm reminded of well, a press debacle and actually, a high quality paper on superluminal neutrinos. The press billing it at times as faster than light particles being discovered, largely because reading wasn't the correspondent's forte. The actual paper basically said, to paraphrase, "We know that the results are nonsensical and erroneous, but we cannot find what is wrong with our experimental setup and configuration. HELP!" A butt ton of researchers examined the setup, some figured out what was defective and suggested checking and the problem was resolved and everyone pretty much forgot about it. Pity, because that was one of the great successes of science. Not some epic new discovery, collaboration to overcome a problem that one team couldn't resolve and collectively, science resolved. Then, we get the cold fusion dweebs... Yep, as Sabine mentioned, lukewarm fusion in the form of neutron generators abound, hell, they're reasonably affordable for fairly small physics labs. I can build a more expensive type without the titanium by ginning up a fusor and generate tremendous amounts of electricity bills. Both will produce a fair amount of neutrons though. Alas, electricity bills are not energy generation. If they were, my computers would be making me tons of money. Instead, I get to twirl my electric meter and watch Debbie Does Donuts in the parking lot on TV. And there is a non-zero chance I could wrangle plain actual cold fusion, just on plain probability alone, one or two atoms over a long amount of time, just based on random chance. Still ain't generating power, only bills. Just once, I'd love to see one of these announcements and papers be released with a "Folks, this isn't making a damned lick of sense to me, but here is my apparatus, these are the conditions and observations, please pop by and see what I fouled up". Added kudos if they'd throw in lunch. That makes science look credible, rather than some other fly by night idiot blathering about how they discovered Harry bleeding Potter's magical screw stick.
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  566.  @valsyaranamual6853  honestly, given that he's never actually been held accountable in any meaningful way for his entire life, I'm quite certain that he believes totally that he'll never have to pay and that he can keep things tied up in court forever.
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  567.  @holymoley1920  this 62 year old veteran finds Biden irritatingly healthy - good for him! He's doing better than I am, so again, good for him! But, as badly as I'm doing on some days, I still wouldn't need to drive a golf cart at the Normandy monument site. I'd rather crawl than embarrass those men's memory in that way!
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  568. There was the Midas touch, where all that he touched turned into gold, then there's the Trump touch, whatever he touches turns straight into shit.
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  569.  @mina-xt1mj  chuckles remembering SPO2 83 - 85 on room air, tachycardia, severe hypertension, lungs with minor collapsed pockets and pockets with fluid. When notified of my thyroid storm, I said, "Thank God it's only a form of CHF!", words I never thought I'd ever utter. Our youngest was hospitalized at the time for COVID-19 and due to metabolic issues associated with her PCOS, wasn't doing well. All, because the COVID floor she worked on became lax on protocols. Convalescent serum quickly put her on the mend. Addressing my thyroid storm sent me on the mend. COVID-19 would kill me and my wife, so mask up and avoid being tripped with my cane - repeatedly, folks.
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  570. I'd have put a screen in, hosed them to dissolution until I'd get the cameras. It'd just be a process of elimination. I'd also gain a fair bit of compost water... I imagine that Adam has never tried to repair his toilet. I have, as well as having to replace the damned pipe and flange, as in my old house, the flange went to a joint for a failed lead pipe. I still have a length of that old pipe, just for those who have never saw a lead pipe before.
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  571. No, it is decidedly not!
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  572. Same here, but in Harrisburg, PA. I'd have happily shared my combat load of MK318 mod 1 rounds.
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  573.  @ALTINSEA1  as I've said of many fast things, "Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow". A one degree course deviation would bring hellish G forces on the airframe, which tends to be inconsistent with its continued integrity.
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  574. President Musk and VP Trump never seem to have heard of our very first amendment. Oh well, the courts will explain it to the idiots. The Tesla bomber was a former SF type, the NOLA truck attacker was IT and personnel, which was his last position isn't currently known, as each has its own shop (such as J1 and J6), both allegedly were assigned to the same base, but again, nothing on if it was at the same time or even if they knew one another. As for Musk being a security risk, he still holds a Top Secret clearance, he just didn't get SCI and special programs clearances.
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  575.  @anidnmeno  then He'd better get off of his throne and do what he willed, flushing before leaving this time. Don't need more like this specimen climbing out...
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  576. He didn't give a cut to those upstairs. What's the old joke? Yes, that dacha in the woods is expensive, so the government helped him save on the costs. There's plenty of woods in Siberia.
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  577. Well, they simply cut corners similar to SpaceX, but the blast deflector held, instead the backup Temubolts failed and the primary hook and loop fasteners failed, resulting in the unintended lock release of the spacecraft. Should've had a third backup of zip ties...
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  578. And in EMS, the now current saying, based upon that entire practice and former ordeal, "Nobody is dead until they're warm and oxygenated". Ironically, my very first military EMS patient was an advanced hypothermia patient. At a stage where consciousness is largely considered absent. Dude remembered me and my efforts, some involving some MacGuyverisms. Shocked the shit out of me and well, embarrassed me, "Just doing my job, man". Got a medal for it too, never wore the fucking thing. Didn't wear medals awarded for just doing my damned duty. Besides, in peacetime, it's doubleplus ungood to wear more medals than one's commander has. ;)
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  579. Fair point, but we did learn from Trump that important life hack secret, apples are in the refrigerated section of the supermarket.
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  580.  @redf7209  non-compliance opens their forces up for reprisals, up to and including summary execution, as the SS learned in France. And having interviewed a former Soviet soldier some years back, even the Soviets trained their officers on the Conventions. The closest that anyone ever got to getting away with not following the Conventions was Japan during WWII, as they were non-signatories to the Conventions, but had agreed at the onset to follow them - then didn't. Then, things got ugly and they started to follow the Conventions. Japan committed atrocities against the Conventions, suddenly some of our service members were wearing Japanese body parts... They got with the program quickly enough. One of my team was blowing off steam talking about non-compliance, I suggested that "when I can't tell you from the other guys by behavior, you're both getting killed". He remembered seeing our team in action and my marksmanship and tactical movements, he decided to nip that crap in the bud.
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  581. He's really quite proficient at losing. Which he then rebrands as a success. I mean, if he was the Emperor of Japan at the conclusion of WWII, he'd have proclaimed victory right after signing the surrender.
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  582.  @EdOeuna  I'm well aware of IFR training and reality. But, we differ in views on how to consider an acute burst of intracranial flatulence. By your candle, everyone that makes a mistake that results in a loss of situational awareness is incompetent and that means, in reality, no human is ever competent. Where ever driver who ever drifted out of their lane is incompetent. And anyone who walked somewhere and stumbled over a stone or nut fallen from a tree is incompetent. Such a view on life and reality, seriously disgusts me, sirrah.
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  583.  @seriouscat2231  the sea's climb rate exceeded our own rate of climb, resulting in contact and airframe damage. Recommended action to prevent a future mishap: ground the sea.
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  584. And a walking, talking blonde joke.
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  585.  @thekububeach  I disagree, not wholly fictional, but appears to be a compendium of a number of characters active in religious and political life at that time. Religiously, a communal faith, similar to the Essenes is well established, along with the political view of "Don't get into a war with an army twice the size of your entire populace", along with a Judaism-lite akin to Buddhism vs Hinduism, which was relatively new at that time as well.
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  586. It's even uglier than that. I was denied rental of a home, their reason was that there's a court record in my name for a property crime. Specifically, my father hoarded tools and construction supplies and I inherited it, the township then promptly took me to court over it and the case was dismissed with prejudice. The realtor had a private company check some private database, which only shows the case and no resolution. Suffice it to say, that national firm is blacklisted for my family. We'll deal with century 22 instead.
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  587. Cans will go up, both for canned groceries and soft drinks and the price of cars, depending upon how much crosses the border repeatedly for various processing, potentially as high as a 400% increase, realistically, at least nearly doubling in price. Gonna kill Detroit. Frankly, can't think of an industry that isn't gonna get punished badly. Even my old Army unit, 56 SBCT is due 300 Stryker combat vehicles, which are made in Canada, due for arrival and oops, subject to tariff. So much for defense spending! Last contract was for $712.3 million for 300 vehicles, that's $890,375,000 because he was so stupid that he didn't bake in a DoD or general government exemption. Way to go, Stinkie!
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  588.  @NG-VQ37VHR  and in prepared foods, less ingredients, changing the flavor into something washed out. Went through that and well, I saved even more money, I duplicated recipes and make my own, saving my expense in buying their watered down crap. I'm sure some executive is blaming sales for their sale slump. No, executive, you turned tolerable into c'est merde.
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  589.  @Irishguy334  no, those who abrogate a position of great public trust should be made example of, just for violating that special trust they were given. It's a deterrent for those who we place in authority over us, otherwise there is little to no deterrent at all.
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  590.  @nom3nnescio  odd, as that choice was never present on any of my enlistment contracts. You do know what a contract is, don't you? I have to ask, as you seem horribly confused about what is and is not a war.
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  591.  @cat6022  and individually, they're about as tough as what I wipe and flush each morning after breakfast.
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  592.  @joelglanton6531  I'd love to have a service dog for anosmia, but that is a condition that gets ignored. After all, having the shits for months on end makes one qualified to be a politician or something... :/
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  593. And protection by management reinforcement against the biggest killer, complacency. Both can introduce very similar error chains, complacency kills far more quickly than simple fatigue, as with fatigue, adrenaline will wake you up a bit. With complacency, adrenaline only arrives belatedly.
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  594. Well, c'est merde is the name of their thought processes.
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  595. He is a rather odd bird. Everyone's heard of a sore loser, most have known such people. He's the only man I've met, despite literally traveling the world, who is both a sore loser and sore winner. Something that makes people human is fundamentally broken inside of him.
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  596. I usually parse the lousy reviews, they're far more informative. But, most of the fake reviews I've seen are for entirely different products, with the offered product being edited to another product at some point, reusing a listing for something entirely different.
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  597.  @teamidris if Trump fails to maintain the buildings, the lender usually has a collateral protection clause that allows to call the loan immediately, with penalties for the attempted damage of the collateral assets.
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  598. He also loved the "take me wife, please". The saddest thing I ever read was when he said, "don't take my wife, please", when she died. Little known is, comedians tend to actually have lives of suffering, so they try to relieve that suffering in others.
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  599. I've heard of beer goggles, but never of deer glasses. I'm with the prosecutor, I've heard better lies out of a five year old. I'm also more than willing to consider if he were driving while impaired by ethanol. I am curious, with the conviction, if there was a motion to remove the disability, is a simple majority required or a 2/3 vote in that state?
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  600. It is, literally. The Privacy Act of 1974. We don't go off of "arrest him because he made me nervous or he hurt my feelings", we file litigation or arrest people if they violate the law. There are around a half dozen statutes, all are privacy based, from encryption of data at rest on those hard drives to who can access what data and what databases. Because you're not going to convince this ancient IT systems admin and IT security guy that those 19 year old kids have a clue about how to safely work with a critical database, typically an Oracle database or even some older mainframe databases that are entirely custom.
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  601. Never interrupt the adversary when they're making a mistake, but feel free to unobtrusively facilitate their mistake making processes.
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  602.  @jimwilliams4532  the only kind of mom to want to have.
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  603. Only slightly flammable. But, it does get nasty in the presence of fire, producing hydrofluoric acid, which can etch glass and a highly toxic gas. It's low on the greenhouse gas scale, but still breaks down to phytotoxic acids. Still, not as nasty as FM-200, another freon based compound used in fire extinguishers. Laughably, both butane and propane make excellent refrigerants, but idiots go on about their being flammable in an accident. I guess gasoline stops being flammable in an accident and simply becomes inflammable... ;) Seriously, there's a shit ton more thermal energy available from gasoline than from a kg or so of butane or propane. But, gotta keep DuPont happy.
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  604.  @BIG-DIPPER-56  assuming that the barrel and chamber isn't brittle and the damned things explode.
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  605.  @Drew-DTM  nonsense! If it were you or I, we'd be under the prison, in solitary confinement.
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  606.  @Alex-vr4wu  it's also lead to tar and feathering in the past. People rightfully loathe antidemocratic nonsense like this.
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  607. Just send him the bill. Then, when he refuses, as he's infamous for doing, litigate him into the poor house.
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  608. Well, a settlement should be that the funds come out of the police department's budget. Otherwise, it comes out of the county coffers and the police continue to offend without a real penalty.
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  609.  @MichaelMantion  I can just see the ADA cases as well. The first time a cop cites a disabled person, who stopped due to a spasm or other difficulty, millions of dollars will flow out of the local government coffers. Then, they'll want litigation reform, to try to neuter federal laws...
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  610. Well, with this, we can justify immense savings by simply denying how nukes exist and just abandoning them underground. Then, explain how we surrendered, because it was more profitable, to the Emperor of Japan. As for the Sergeant Major, I guess he's now Sergeant Major Nameless.
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  611. I've tossed illegible tickets, looked them up and responded as needed. No need to use force, the courts have their own force, their first escalation being by mail, the next, a constable. Only met one officially once, apparently, the ticket blew away or otherwise wasn't under my wiper, an apology and quick response halted anything untoward, as it was a valid complaint and fine. Oddly, no pepper spray, tasers, firearms or thermonuclear weapons needed to be involved.
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  612.  @TheBooban  original creative art vs a photographic reproduction, the original creative work is able to be copyrighted, the photographic reproduction isn't a creative work without some transformative process making it a creative work. Otherwise, Xerox would own damned near every written and printed word.
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  613. There's a video about on social media that tells people how to boost Kia and Hyundai cars, due to their phenomenally weak (addressed in this class action) ignition locks. A neighbor's looking at around $4k in damage from someone ineptly trying to follow that guidance - twice, damaging the column, trim and harness. Oh well, criminals aren't the brightest on average. When a bright one is found, we put them into politics, where we can keep an eye on them. ;)
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  614.  @LisaCheney-o3q  with all of the required FAA beacons, yep, totally. It's mutiverse law, don't ya know.
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  615. We had a drone operator zoom a drone from one end and top to bottom our new, just completed federal courthouse as part of the final building inspection. He also had to return at night for a thermal inspection. Judging by the repair work that followed, they had some loose seals or insulation on one of the upper floors, which was quickly repaired. Which is why they perform inspections. The building is now open for government business and to the public. Ugly artwork, but then, everyone's a critic... ;)
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  616.  @Survivor83  we once had another Teflon Don. He died in prison alone.
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  617.  @oftenlucid  I dunno, was it chaos or Kaos? Oh wait, Maxwell Smart was far more competent than any of the GOP.* *Trivia: Don Adams, before he became a comedian, was a USMC drill sergeant. The series was ended when a service connected injury prevented his performing his stunts and he called it quits.
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  618.  @wallychambe1587  had two Samsung phones that had batteries swell up enough to force the rear cover from the phones and with one, also cracked the display. Hell is gonna look like Antarctica before I get something from Samsung again. Made me want to deliver it back to their factory - from 50000 feet...
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  619.  @DavidScott-oq9yp Nope, he didn't lose big. He lost bigly. I'll just get my hat...
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  620. We don't nationalize businesses in the US. We do eminent domain businesses though.
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  621.  @scotrick3072  well, it's sheetROCK. Or something. Yeah, oh crap! Gotta replace my bulletproof toilet paper roll. It's the stupidity gambit, if he can't see you, his bullet can't reach you. Sort of like, the tiger is hunting you, so wearing a blindfold is like wearing armor, since if you can't see it, it can't see you.
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  622. So, jurisdiction is infinite for cops, just as it is for the god-emperor. When are we to be required to have travel papers to be outside of our neighborhood?
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  623. Here in the US, a 16 year old can acquire a driver's license after passing the driving test.
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  624. Well, it's about time civilians learn what our B-52 nuclear bomber pilots learned from pirates. In the bad old days of the Cold War, B-52's had curtains to cover the cockpit windows and the pilot had to wear an eyepatch on one eye, in case a nearby nuclear explosion was viewed by the pilot, resulting in blindness, the patch could be moved and uncover the remaining sighted eye. In case of a second nearby nuke and blinding, the pilot was SOL.
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  625. Mental health problems, which means, there's no meaning that someone sane would comprehend. But, yet another wonderful example of what happens when you dismantle a mental health care system promising a community based mental health care system, then utterly refuse to fund that promised system.
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  626. Once, I was talking to one of these braintrusts, they started going on against Jews at great length and increasing volume. I observed that Jesus Christ was a Jew, to which they objected that Jesus was a Christian. "No wonder he got into trouble, worshiping himself!" Show me one place where Jesus identified as Christian, you cannot, as he identified as a Jew and not a single thing he preached wasn't in the Old Testament. He just gave it a Cliff's Notes intro to it. Just as the same people invent all manner of religious objections to abortion, which is never mentioned in the bible, despite it being practiced for thousands of years. So, they're essentially saying that they know better than their God on something, which is pretty much what got Lucifer into trouble. Basically, their pride is making them literally follow the other guy, not their God. But, that's OK, they're big on Prosperity Gospel, which is the antithesis of every bit of Christ's teachings, since it's worshiping Mammon.
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  627. No, fined and jailed for a month or three for the lawyers and Trump.
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  628.  @mikes-wv3em  I’m petty sure he’ll be losing all of them, given his fraudulent overvaluation of his assets. Perhaps to “Life Stinks” level, lacking any sympathetic supporters in the end.
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  629.  @27lynn I'd be unsurprised to see a light with the word Applause come on at his "rallies".
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  630. No, their signature is no more a guilty plea than one's gun in an armed robbery attempt is. Both are evidence against you, your plea comes from your lips, evidence comes from the totality of the case. As an example, I see armed men preparing to enter the bank, with the fairly obvious intent to rob it. So, I grab my BFG 9000 and enter before the group can. I halt the robbery attempt, but the DA and police in confusion, charge me with attempted bank robbery. The evidence could appear I was part of the robbery, save for my testimony and the bank video, which shows me rushing in and stopping the robbery. Evidence against their crimes is lacking, but it's their right to plea not guilty and have the absolute defense possible, as our Constitution demands.
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  631.  @SweetJustice11  nope, he actually used and was serious, a Groucho Marx joke, "Who are you gonna believe? Your eyes and ears or me?". I'll believe my own senses over the senseless every time.
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  632. Shows their lack of confidence in their own candidate though.
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  633. Fighters have short legs, a 707 is designed for far longer trips. Otherwise, they'd need to have a tanker along with AF1 the entire long trip, while risking fighters breaking down, as they're not really designed for crossing halfway across the planet.
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  634.  @BigChieff93  yeah, OK. He carries ketchup just for such an eventuality and the kid really shot himself, ignore that dead guy in the crowd. Everyone that knew the kid said he couldn't shoot worth a damn and was kicked out of the school's gun club because he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from inside.
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  635. If the radiation is significant enough to effect the video, it'd also be impacting the memory and CPU equally. A crashed camera makes no video.
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  636.  @voornaam3191  well, he was the lead test pilot for that aircraft. He was also quietly told to never do it again.
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  637. I'm still trying to wrap my head around "the DOJ strategy to bleed him dry", when most of the cases are state cases. Now, I can expect foreigners to not understand the segregation of cases between federal and state, I do expect US citizens and especially attorneys to know the difference. As for the filing, it very well may be erroneous. After all, one trademark thing with Trump is everything is amateur night at the opera. A follow on from four years of amateur night at the White House. Yeah, knuckles and all...
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  638.  @thehulk1177  unfortunately, we've closed the majority of the factories, so those jobs are fever dreams. Can't work in a plant that's decayed unto collapse and all of the equipment's rusted solid. Then, there's food, let's just do home. Know where 100% of our wheat comes from? Canada. We export all of ours for profit. Most of our produce comes from Mexico.
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  639.  @johnryan8859 that bible wasn't upside down, it was an Australian bible. I'll see myself out... Quickly.
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  640. What?! Not looking like Mr Clean isn't looking guilty?!
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  641.  @OldPainlessSR-71  partial birth, like partial pregnancy, which by definition would be equally valid. Now, enlighten me, show me a partial birth or partial pregnancy. I'll wait, the universe will become quite cold before you can show me anything real - absolute zero.
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  642.  @gregoryellsmore2095  OK, all parties involved said it was a mistake, but you know far better via your godlike superpowers.
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  643.  @LilTricky622  well, a fool and his money have plenty of friends on payday.
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  644. When one's enemy is destroying himself, get out the popcorn.
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  645. He makes Benedict Arnold look good. At least Arnold betrayed his country because he needed an income after being disabled in war and we had no wounded veteran pensions at the time.
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  646.  @orange-rt3dx  and Russia is now fielding Korean War relics, as they're out of even the aged T-72's and T-62's. They're low on trucks as well, now ferrying supplies by donkey.
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  647. Let New York do whatever they want to him.
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  648. That's the joy of sugar alcohols, they're laxatives. The EU placed limits on content due to that. The US says, "Oh, eat as much as you want, while you're proving how full of shit you are, run for office". I was oddly lactose intolerant for around 9 months, right after I had my gallbladder removed. Given it's the brush cells at the entry to the small intestine that generates lactase, neither doctor or I ever figured that one out. But, boy was it an interesting time, I'd forget and have butter or well, anything milk related, off to the races!
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  649. Only those who weren't beaten to death by the former prisoners. Something surprising, given how poor the prisoner's condition was! My uncle took part in liberating one camp, he only spoke in whispers on rare occasions of what he saw, but he had an absolute hatred of the SS. He liked the rest of the German people, just the SS were hated by him and honestly, from what little I overheard and learned later from camp survivors, that hatred was quite well and hard earned. Also remember, Waffen SS were summarily executed at times in reprisal for war crimes, which is allowed under the Geneva Conventions. They executed prisoners, members of that command also got executed in reprisal, ordered by the commanding general, so as to keep the reprisal within the scope of the crime.
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  650. Now now, he cares for more than his purse. He cares about his pleasure the most, that includes money, golf and well, Old Blue. It's a lifelong occupation for him. Remember during the 2016 campaign, his remark that he should've been given a medal during the Vietnam War for not getting VD?
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  651.  @LauraKnotek  and roundabout state.
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  652. Which we continued with coal miners via the mandatory company store system. Well, that and Pinkerton assassins killing off anyone supporting labor and having the Colorado National Guard machine gun striking workers.
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  653. Well, ever notice that some show up at multiple rallies that are quite distant from each other? Hard to work and have a job if you're crisscrossing the nation following Trump around like a little puppy.
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  654.  @Boko-u1q  no, Trump is a wannabe version, but went to advanced stimulant addiction first, rather than toward the end. Oh well, time for a different reality. Does Germany offer a strudelhund visa? ;)
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  655. Well, he forgot the most important component required for reassembly. Profanity. It helps parts expand or contract as needed to ensure a proper and secure fit. Although, that last opener trim is something that as an owner, would get thrown across the shop in the direction of the damned trash can. One side effect of an excess of profanity is the melting and crazing of plastic components. Doesn't do the glass much good either...
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  656.  @Gangsta1168  the only time I carry a gun or guns is going to the gunsmith or range, although occasionally I'll lug one around the woods in deer season (typically, not chambering a round, as the deer seem to outwit me). I am known to teach about what's in the bible, reciting entire chapter and verse, as I can and have done with the Quran, largely to correct misquotes and misconceptions. In that, I do tend to judge the speaker by the standards that they profess to abide by, as documented within their favored texts. Jesus, I like, I don't like those who profess to follow him, while profaning his teachings all that much.
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  657.  @thedungeondelver  well, that and the Pershing II guidance system.
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  658.  @mayuko7042  I don't think anyone hear understands Klingon.
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  659. Have you forgotten? The god-king said we won't have to worry about voting ever again. Unless Congress decides to not abdicate, we may be stuck with a very, very noisy and unpleasant solution that's also the only remaining option beyond subservience.
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  660. The hole was so hot and high pressure, drillheads failed extremely rapidly and the MOJO discontinuity was still quite distant. Still, that diameter drill manages to get through to the mantle, any magma would quickly freeze deep down and cores of that being priceless.
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  661.  @jespernystad  no, send him to the first surface colony on Venus. Less of a chance of escape.
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  662. I'm reminded of Microsoft's battle with Sun. My Java is the only way, which lost, as Sun did originate the damned thing. Here, not as simple, but close. But now, it's binary blobs should be illegal! And none have ever tried to figure out a computer without an OS in person, save to load tons of such blobs and complain about them.
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  663.  @favouritemoon4133  he's not been a US President for a number of years. Enough years to rack of a significant number of felony charges.
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  664. It's even uglier, beside the PR black eye, they spent likely at least $150k on attorney and court fees to try to save a few thousand dollars and while they succeeded in paying a much lower amount per bag, the expenses far, far, far outstripped any money saved.
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  665.  @nansi113  there is no herd immunity for something not prevented by vaccination. But, quarantines used to be 100% mandatory, try to violate them, armed guards would become present, still try violation, enjoy your isolated prison like Typhoid Mary did. Today, people want to pretend to be more important than their entire nation, which is precisely how nations fail.
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  666. Mostly, lobbying from US corporations.
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  667.  John Grit  so, you disparage all who serve to protect this nation, both CONUS and OCONUS, you're better because you flip real estate. If everyone flipped real estate, nobody would fill all of the other necessary occupations and our society would collapse. Yeah, I'm insane, I served in the US Army for 27 years 8 months, defending ungrateful assholes like you.
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  668. One would really hate me. I'm badly allergic to pot, so if you smell it around me, I'll likely need an ambulance. Or, you're lying.
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  669.  @Edax_Royeaux  well, the Norden bombsight helped with that, ahem, accuracy. It was also used in Nagasaki, missing the target by two miles. About the only bombs that did reliably hit target were all delivered by dive bomber.
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  670. It's happened. And in Italy, seismologists were arrested and criminally charged for false reporting after giving an earthquake warning. Great way to never receive an earthquake alert again.
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  671.  @robertmiller9735  due to statute, the SS is currently working on figuring out what, if any protection detail that he'd get if he is convicted and sent to prison. Traditionally, for those who divulge classified information, it's solitary confinement, so if a protective detail is still mandated, it'd only need to be minimal.
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  672. Titanium is just another metal, midway in general strength to weight between aluminum and iron. And just as plain aluminum or iron isn't exceptionally strong overall, with our most desired characteristics, that's true of titanium as well. That's why we have alloys. Love my high carbon steel for many uses, as one example, great for many tools. But, want a high heat steel for cutters, the alloy needs to change, with cobalt being a great addition to the alloy. One can go on and on on alloys, but I'm not a metallurgist. That's voodoo or something. ;) And when I need high shearing strength, with tensile strength as well, yeah, I call in an engineer. I'll do medical things, I'll do electronics technician things, I'll do IT and IT security things, but when it comes to designing things, I'll leave that to the subject matter experts in engineering. Otherwise my diodes will be smoke emitting, not light emitting. Oh crap, those were supposed to be rectifiers... ;)
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  673. I just hibernated. Woke up late, dragged until lunch time, ate then, slept until 4:30, made a quick ugly dinner, now preparing to hibernate again until tomorrow. Considered walking the three quarters of a mile to the food bank, but it's going to be below the 20's until the end of the week, so I'll just wait until it warms up a bit to at least low refrigerator temperatures, my pantry can withstand it.
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  674. Ah, but engineer vs engineer can be downright entertaining.
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  675.  @nogoodnameleft  I see it differently. While losing much of her crew, most survived, despite catastrophic damages from enemy fire and its results, as well as the catastrophic assignment of her captain to her. Those men can be patched up, heal and many, if not most eventually reassigned to continue to fight and a substantial number far faster than drafting and training up replacements.
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  676. They've gone beyond mere legislating from the bench. Now, they're amending the Constitution from the bench, rather than interpreting it.
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  677.  @josephvanwanzeele5125  looks like the owner went with the traditional self-changing oil, which is maintained with the occasional consumable spark plug.
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  678. Three words have always gotten me out of trouble over the decades. Just three magical words. I fucked up. Think about it, no matter what jackpot one found oneself, when someone in a superior position of power, be it a supervisor, manager, jurist, superior officer is getting ready to read one the riot act and one admits to fucking up freely, the wind vanishes from their sails. Because most of the incipient tirade is designed to get one to admit to that which one just admitted to freely. That leads to the most common response, "Just don't do that again!". Had one lead complain to my training officer at a job I was new in, in an environment I'd never functioned in before, "He keeps making mistakes!". The training officer patiently replied, "Yes, he does, but he never makes the same mistake twice, he makes new mistakes and that shows he's learning fast". And to make new mistakes means, one's learning and more importantly, one is still trying to accomplish something.
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  679. OK, as all police powers for the federal government are executive branch, I'm sure that Trump will get right on that.
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  680.  @Slizzo82  most of the problems, other than wear and tear that should be caught at the armorer level and sent to depot for rebuild, was PMCS. I had the distinction of giving the class in my battalion when we switched over from light infantry to mechanized (and later, Stryker) on the M2. Distinction, as I was a medic. Wasn't always a medic, knew the gun inside and out, so being one of a few who knew the gun well, got to lead the instruction team. We're on the range after class, I'm BSing with some of the other NCO's and I hear a gun's firing rate becoming erratic and varying in volume. Before I could get the word Fire from CEASE FIRE out, the barrel was launched 25 meters downrange. We went to check fire, I approached the position and asked, "OK, you remember class, so who didn't perform their PMCS?". Assorted excuses and bewildered looks, "Remember I mentioned checking your detent spring? How the barrel could unscrew when firing? That could've send the feed dawgs and tray into your faces, which is why it's so high on the list, the correct answer to my question is, "we all failed to perform our PMCS, as PMCS done partially is PMCS conducted not at all. Now, get this weapon off of my firing line and checked by the armorer and fixed and I'll see you in retraining". Recycled them to retraining, never had to mention it in class, but they did follow the standard the best of all classes afterward. Irritating was, I had actually harped on that issue in the first class, as it's a fairly common problem. Used to blow their minds by placing the gun from the M113 deck into the pintle alone. They'd work as a group of two or three to get the gun into position. I'd lift it handles down, lever the barrel up to cantilever it to the roof and lower the base onto the pintle. Basic body mechanics. Work smart, not hard. They also went nuts trying to learn to outshoot me, that never worked out, but at least we got plenty of experts in their weapons in the attempts! Never got to fire the mk-19 or Barrett, the latter by refusal, as my spine wouldn't forgive me for that much of a shove. Did get to be AI in the TOW missile school, given I was present at Redstone when it was introduced.
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  681. No, what he knows about the military can be written on an aspirin with a railroad spike head. Albert Einstein was an actual genius, that whole relativity thing and all. He was also smart, knowing enough about the military to be a pacifist and leaving things military to the military, who are geniuses in their own right in things military, but couldn't tell E from M, needing physicists, chemists and machinists to build their bombs.
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  682. Yeah, totally don't work, the smog that used to plague my youth disappeared because of the efforts of Peter Pan and the fairies.
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  683. Frankly, I am starting to think that he wants the film "Civil War" to become reality, apparently never viewing the end of the film.
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  684.  @fasteddiejs  or in many elders, they'll run a retrograde fever, a lower than normal body temperature, where younger people would run a fever.
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  685.  @newoioi  I prefer my reality with facts, not conspiracy theories that never have a singular fact in them.
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  686. Can't possibly be that! Still, let's just take a look... Sumbitch, it is! Son, hope you don't mind, we'll be writing a paper about your dumb ass...
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  687. He's always been a "everything has to be about me, that's all I want to talk about", even back when I met him at a tri-state chamber of commerce do around y2k. Total boor of the party, ended up, due to his being an invited speaker and guest of honor, with a 95% attrition rate for the following year's function. The chambers then spent an entire year apologizing to try to get the previous attendance numbers.
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  688. D&D was based upon military war games. Similar here. All, to try to model the real world without breaking it.
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  689. The action was not only morally repugnant, it was democratically repugnant in the extreme! What would be next? Monitoring votes, punishing exposed "wrong" votes for reprisal, thereby destroying the very heart of democratic governance?
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  690.  @avi7278  well, admitting to a problem is the first step in recovery. I'll just get my coat...
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  691.  @wdkaye  that's one system out of tens of thousands and I've actually had to monitor patch levels on dozens of Oracle databases in the DoD. And nobody in IT with an operational brain would make such a blanket statement that's patently false. BTW, they also fired most of the NNSA staff, who guard our nuclear weapons, leaving much of our enduring stockpile without security. That includes some assembled warheads, most worrisome the old SADM packages. Due to that security lapse, a full inventory is now required and hopefully, none of the old SADM duffel bag nukes wandered off. "Oh, we're feeding all of that data into our AI", if it's as well secured, it's probably all as one big dataset available now on ebay.
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  692.  @stephaniecoomey2356  introspection can be painful, but it's the only way to begin to change something you dislike about yourself.
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  693. Well, federal law enforcement is a responsibility of the executive branch, so ask Empress Trump.
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  694. My wife and I met Trump at a Chamber of Commerce event back in the late 90's. It was a tri-state function for PA, NJ and Delaware and he was a guest of honor. He was quite flush with his latest success - bankrupting yet another casino. A topics of conversation had to be about him and his greatness. The following year, attrition was around 90%, as none of the business owners forgave the Chamber leadership for their selection. I have two emotions when thinking of him, disdain and contempt.
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  695. @DBRisingbecause Airbus blows up turbulence in its path?
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  696.  @veronicascott8012  well, there was that Russian guaranteed "loan" to Trump from Deutsche Bank for 2 billion. That bank ended up involved in multiple scandals involving improper loans and money laundering that cost them quite a bit of change in fines.
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  697. IBM made one of the best M2 .50 BMG machine guns I ever fired! I'm literally not joking. In that era, IBM did calculating machines, the old crank calculators you see in ancient B&W movies. So, having the capability to cast thick sheet metal, IBM did have the contract for the outer cast casing of the M2 .50 BMG machine gun, aka Ma Deuce. Welcome to history! :) Many of those guns, albeit modified, are still in service! Singer Sewing Machine Company also made many, fired a few of those as well. And in basic training, back in early 1982, I handled handguards of an original M16, modded to A1 model, with original Mattel handgrips and still had the open front, tri-slot flash suppressor.
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  698.  @valeriemahabir7997  that isn't malpractice. It's practicing medicine without a license. And to arrest him for that is to also have to arrest every parent treating their children's boo-boos. Now, distributing controlled substances indiscriminately, that is also a crime. But, the SCOTUS has basically given an aura of godhood for Trump and those around him that remain loyal, nothing is illegal.
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  699.  @hopenavajo1391  precisely what was said of Caesar, right before he crossed the Rubicon with his armies. Brutus had to explain to him how naughty he was before he got the point.
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  700. The bear of it is, fresh water drowning is actually easier on the body when recovering. Fresh water is hypotonic, so gets absorbed by the tissues and diffused into the bloodstream. Salt water is isotonic and harder to absorb. Had the same training as he did. First, pause for a moment to clear the "holy shit" factor, failure to do so can get you killed. Orient to the seat, I used the seat back. Once grasped, don't release and release the harness. Feel for exit, in that case, the emergency exit windows. Remember the entire time that you float naturally, jettison crap that'll weight you down before moving. I also have a trick that usually works, exhaling a little into my hands, feel which way the bubbles are going, that's up. Once one breaks the surface, give thanks for gravity. You're kind of screwed if you're submerged in microgravity.
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  701. The worst thing is, blinky isn't just a "responsible gun owner", he claims to be a firearms instructor. Given that I'm a responsible multiple firearm owner that retains not only all ten thumbs, but both eyes and an unperforated home, I can only assume that he provides the proverbial bad example to not follow... If I'd been there, I'd have summoned the Capitol Police, identified him for them, then kindly asked them to remove the trash from the hallway. If he objected in the wrong way to my call for assistance, he'd swiftly learn just what I did in the US Army for over 28 years - briefly. I'm happily retired from that now, but I remain tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. But, I'd be kind enough to return the remaining eye once I was done playing pool with it.
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  702. Just remember, MAGA has their historic place. After all, Samson defeated the Philistines with the jawbone of a MAGA. I'll just get my hat...
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  703.  @elizabethlock6169  no, his main achievement is pulling these howlers out to distract away from other dastardly deeds he's doing in the background.
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  704. I have, the words were covered by George Carlin in his 7 words that you can't say on TV.
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  705.  @asureaskie  sorry, but it is the CO'S duty to ensure readiness and competence in all of the crew. When my team fouled something up, my first question always was, how did I fuck up a good team and how do I prevent a repeat of that goat screw.
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  706.  @Shan4yt  good! 2011 until now is way too long and tortuous for a nation. Now, all that's needed is a government with Syrians in it, rather than way too many Palestinians.
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  707. Heh, I remember when he wanted the DOJ to go after Saturday Night Live for making fun of him. Personally, I'd have called the producers of SNL and said, "You call that lampooning?! Let me know when you want me on the show and I'll show you how to properly lampoon me!". After all, Obama was on SNL as POTUS. ;) And I can pick the low hanging fruit along with the best of 'em. :P
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  708.  @FishKev  so, money makes one wise? I've known more than a few extremely wealthy people, oddly wisdom wasn't one of many of their traits. So yeah, clowns for some. And myself? I'm comfortable everywhere I choose to go. When someone irritates me and I tell them about it, if they make the mistake of telling me, "Well, tough shit", the response is, "Chew harder". They swiftly learn the error of their ways. Or end up on suicide watch.
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  709. I'm 3 blocks from the governor's mansion, suffice it to say, he didn't get much sleep.
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  710. And for the controllers, who kept their heads when pretty much everything went sideways.
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  711.  @davidsalo8397  totally defenseless too, the most heavily armed populace on the face of the earth is utterly defenseless.
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  712.  @terranhealer  an AED doesn't start anything. Chest compressions should be initiated immediately, applying the AED, which will automagically determine if a shock is needed to defibrillate the heart. First lesson, whenever you see a medical scene on TV and they shock a flatline, turn if off, that's bullshit. Only fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia are shockable events, nothing else gets a shock. Second lesson, compressions, compressions, compressions. Can't repeat that enough. Third lesson, if you're doing the compressions right, ribs will be broken. If you have someone available to help, they can monitor the quality of compressions by feeling for a carotid pulse, which would match the compressions until the heart beats on its own and compressions should cease.
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  713.  @TooTallForPony  he could remove the biggest hazard by remaining off of the course.
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  714.  @wilburunion6532  Ohio has a statute against inciting panic, riot and violence.
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  715. That started to swing back once NC voters realized that if it kept up, FEMA and the 82nd and 101st would get pulled until everything got sorted. Not that I've a clue where they got that idea from... But, it's amazing how powerful a few whispered questions can alter someone's view.
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  716. Just spitballing here, but maybe not electing them in the first place just might be effective.
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  717.  @kirk2767  well, it's a Navy ship, they've likely had spares. Hell, the USS New Jersey just recently found spare windshields squirreled away aboard ship.
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  718.  @rogerphelps9939  not entirely true, just from a terrestrial perspective. For a space colony, getting resources from the region of space one's in is far more efficient than mining, processing and boosting it out of Earth's gravity well. Of course, space colony already is a huge problem, insanely complex and well, still to be attempted beyond pitiful ISS kinds of nonsense that's of necessity hugely time limited and rife with difficult problems to resolve. Maybe in a century, but no way in hell any time within our lifetimes.
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  719. I've yet to see a recipe that uses exclusively whole wheat flour. It's too dense, rough and the texture is abrasive. Google a recipe for whole wheat bread and see how much regular flour is required.
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  720. I'm comforted by the fact that the Teflon Don eventually died in prison. This one will as well, if ever he lives so long as to get to trial after his term.
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  721.  @backwoodstherapy  true, once properly evaluated by doctor that it's a blockage and not a hemorrhagic stroke. The inappropriate speech and ataxia should've been more than sufficient to go to immediate EMS response and transport. And going lights out, no EMS summoned, just by cruiser when the nurse refused to accept the patient in the jail, that's just malfeasance.
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  722. For seriously neutral PH foods, I also goose up the cooking time. I'll can quart jars of pasta sauce with meat, that's after cooking and still quite hot, 15 minutes under pressure. For green beans and other fairly neutral vegetables, I've gone up to a half hour if they were fresh and cooked in the jars under pressure. Better mildly paranoid than a whole lot fouled up!
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  723.  @sarowie  well, for one example, how many samples of smallpox should be stored, since only one freezer isn't good enough? Rather than having a spare freezer on hand and simply move the samples into it when the primary fails. Which is what the CDC does with their sample.
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  724. No, we're enraged that we've got an unelected man that bought the Oval Office and is misallocating resources in an unconstitutional, utterly unlawful way that disregards national security, the Constitution itself and our laws. All, it seems, at the behest of Russia. Congress controls funding and allocation and appropriation of funding, the POTUS does not get, nor does some fictional agency, which could only Constitutionally be created and funded by Congress to misappropriate funding - misappropriation being a felony and utterly unconstitutional.
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  725. Because placing a tarp over a partially entrapped body is precisely the same thing as removing hundreds of tons of concrete and steel that's still collapsing. So, how many lives do you want sacrificed to unbury the remains fully, while the concrete and steel collapse and bury more workers and when do you want to kill dozens more to recover the missing worker?
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  726. More likely, one of his superPAC groups, which essentially are his backup bank account.
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  727.  @V100-e5q  well, water showers in the form of fire hoses. I can just picture their head slapping as they realized they didn't account for expansion of steel with heat. That's a hell of a lot of pressure to dissipate every day!
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  728. Downside is, one only has rights if one can afford to pay a lawyer to buy them.
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  729. I served for over 28 years in the Army, now retired. I was also married for over 41 years, lost my wife despite CPR efforts coming up on three years ago, still dream of her and thankfully the nightmares of breaking her ribs during compression have faded. I'm now sorry I robbed my family of so much time with me while I served in military defense of this failed nation, which is rapidly descending into a banana republic - interestingly named, as we enforced that condition by military force throughout Central and South America. General Smedley Butler wrote about it at length, his having earned two Congressional Medal of Honor awards. For the first time, I'm glad that my beloved wife died, rather than witness this! That in and of itself makes me feel a very special kind of way, the way I felt about terrorists as I put them down.
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  730.  @goodun2974  your food and your weapon & ammunition were all made by the lowest bidder.
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  731.  @DerSteppenwolfe  careful, your hyperbole is showing. There has never been a WMD inside of our schools. Guns, yes, but as a hint, name one school that had every single student killed. No nerve agents, blister agents, choking agents or nuclear weapons have been used. In the early 20th century, there was the Bath schoolhouse disaster, a former school board treasurer blew up a school full of children, but that' still not a WMD. The next worse was in Texas, where a natural gas that'd normally e flared off was used to heat a school and due to that source, had no stench of mercaptans that we add to natural gas to detect a leak. A pipe began to leak badly, a spark set off the gas/air mixture and pretty much picked up the occupied school and gravity took over. Walter Cronkite was a cub reporter that went to the scene and when asked to, he put down his notepad and started helping dig through the rubble. You also missed the mark on Nazism, they're simply vanilla flavored fascists. Some neo-nazis are supporting him, just as the Nazi party supported Mussolini's fascist regime. Trump being a weakling and imbecile, well, that's spot on target. Trump has only one real skill, he's a different form of WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Whenever something especially vile gets released/leaked, take a look at the Senate to see what he's distracting you from noticing. Still, I've had Trumpettes go on and on about how I shouldn't be allowed to do that. I simply remind them of the golden rule. My gold, my rules and try to interfere, well, I've firearms as well and our chief difference is, I served for nearly 28 years in the army. I know how to use mine effectively. Shut the idiot down. It isn't what you will do that counts, it's what the other idiot believes that you might do that counts and if I use the damned thing, then I have to clean it and frankly, they're not worth that much trouble. We have one critical advantage against Trumpettes, they're only around 28 - 31% of the population, so they're a minority. Go out and vote for somebody!
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  732. Remind me of the US Army' brainless recruiting commercial, "I am an Army of one"...
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  733. That's precisely why, should such happen to either of my daughters or granddaughters, I'd handle it personally. That could range from long range rifle fire from a mile or so away to an unfortunate industrial accident involving a malfunctioning electric urinal. As you should well recall, it's always a bad idea to make an old counterterrorism type angry.
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  734. The setback being an easement for access.
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  735.  @me8042  I really don't hold with taking a pension for honorable service away, it disincentivizes honorable service overall. Take the cop's property, take the PD operating budget, even their assets in compensation and punitive awards. And therein lies the secret sauce, punitive has a very specific meaning and a wrist slap is not really punitive, it's saying "naughty, naughty" to theft and murder.
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  736. Think that was covered in the film "Don't look up".
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  737. Since the rule of law is extinct and only Imperial powers exist, We The People outnumber them. Everyone stay home from work until the maladministration resigns in its entirety. Within two weeks, the debt will be in danger of default. The 1% don't want their billions to turn into pennies. And at the end of the day, we outnumber all of the federal government, even our military and it's kinda hard to force people to their place of work from their livingrooms - might end up hanging out in the park instead.
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  738.  @alicedyment4219  worse, missed a shot that a basic trainee has to make on their first week of basic rifle marksmanship training or they get discharged.
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  739.  @hunglikeahorse---fly  they switched from following the Holy Ghost to following Beelzebub, the Lord of the Lies. So sad, too bad, they're earning a very warm reception, per their own former faith. The funniest thing I've found in Christianity is, there is nothing Jesus taught that wasn't already in the Old Testament. Well, more fully in the full Tanakh.
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  740. In those days, one paid to be commissioned in the British military forces. US forces commissioned directly early on, but began to add educational requirements for one to be commissioned. Although, WWII did kind of knock that into a cocked hat with battlefield commissions and one of my uncles was offered a direct commission had he remained in the Army, which he declined. Still, you'd have had to pay for your own uniforms and that swill you ate in the chow hole would be paid for by you as well. Something I frequently reminded my commissioned officers of when our cooks yet again outdid their infamous best, "Well Sir, they pay me to eat this shit, alas, you get to pay for that privilege". Yeah, the reply, regardless of rank was predictable.
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  741.  @avanellehansen4525  no, they didn't. They had greater faith in the idios than the ancient Athenians did, who denied the vote to the uneducated. I actually said in 2016, that the ancient Athenians appear to have had the right of it...
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  742. At least they let you say that. Whenever I do, or anything against Putin, my account gets locked for a day.
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  743.  @thesoundsmith  release the laser wielding sharks!
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  744.  @davidvincent1093  well, if something like this happens, due diligence was not performed and they're liable at the end of the day. But, we both know how well a diligent lawyer documents everything that they do, accounting for documents, document revisions, time spent on a client's behalf, etc. A diligent lawyer can bury anyone claiming a lack of due diligence in so much documentation as to make their attorney surrender and a jurist laugh. Learned that setting up their time/documentation tracking software and migrating old records over to the new system.
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  745. Two for two, his last maladministration's press secretary said those very words, then in the next breath, spewed enough hot air to float the Goodyear blimp.
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  746. Impeachment, the other, well isn't legal.
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  747. Naw, be nastier. Review everything he's actually said he considers scams and when he opens one, especially if it's an investment area, pump and dump before he can, rendering his holdings worthless. Make his ass utterly broke. He's damned close, save for his grifts, which are the only things he's been making bank on. He's not been liquid for years.
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  748. Investigation underway in Colorado for a dozen ballots that were "intercepted", which means either fraudulently re-registered by an unauthorized party or stolen from the recipient's mailbox. That alone is 20 years per offense max plus $200k fine per offense - and the mailing of a fraudulent ballot is another 20 years per offense max and $200k fine per offense. Suffice it to say, Colorado's officially pissed off. Now, this in Lancaster County, PA. Per mailing of fraudulent application, same penalties as above. Those are just the federal charges, the state can also get their stripe of hide. The feds might need to build a new prison, given the rate this crap is starting to happen! Thankfully, clerks are alert, performing their duties and catching these things. And questioning iffy signatures, contacting voters to cure their ballot so that it can be counted. Dauphin County already sent me a receipt of my mail in ballot, it'll be counted on Nov 5, per state law. So, a special thanks to our nation's county elections clerks for their tireless, thankless hard work! This retired military veteran salutes all who faithfully perform their duties to their county, state and nation!
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  749. "He went to see the pope", the heart of the nativist movement, which merged into the "Native American Party", aka the Know Nothing Party, which brought religious warfare to Philadelphia city streets - complete with artillery fired at churches and insurrection against the militia that the governor summoned. And eventually, bringing us a civil war when some new Republican Party candidate won the presidency, some Lincoln guy. I'm also trying to figure out how Biden is a dictator, when he's allegedly being dictated to. And what the crapping himself is all about, given it was Trump walking up the stairs to board Air Force One that had toilet paper stuck to his shoe. And needed help walking up a ramp by an aging General... And how Biden took up arms against his nation or gave aid and comfort to an enemy of our nation (which implies a formal declaration of war or de facto state of war exists), while being incapable of doing so in their very statements... Or how my vote is stealing a vote, yet their vote is OK. Oh, I know, veterans aren't allowed to vote, maybe? And the pandemic was released to stop the vote that already happened, I guess via the primary attack vector of the Obama time machine. And biological weapons being a WMD attack, why didn't we nuke back, given tough boy Trump having the nuke controls? The mountains of evidence of stolen votes made entirely out of the same stuff Wonder Woman's invisible airplane is made of. And the penalty for treason is life in prison, we did away with the death penalty for treason for civilians over 60 years ago. Trump isn't facing the death penalty for anything, life in prison and tons of fines, yes and given the charges are in both state and federal courts, being filed by two sovereign entities - state and federal. Nope, I think she overbaked her brain, along with her skin. And that, coming from a guy who tans decidedly darker, due to genetics.
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  750. Well, a bowl of pudding has a superior IQ to that of the insurrectionists that intended what happened to occur.
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  751. This is precisely why I insist that all emergencies are scheduled at least 90 days in advance. Now, if only my body would listen... :/ In my own case, my thyroid just tries to kill me every so often. Because, one's absolute most desired thing in life is to spend a week in the hospital. Oh well, beats forever in a box or urn. As for privacy, I completely agree. He had a medical emergency, as far as I'm concerned, it's between him, his family and his medical team.
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  752.  @larion2336  well, early release new HD tech has had issues in the past. From LBA HD's BIOS/HD driver issues to later sluffing of the platter coating, which took being mass produced, mass marketed to identify and quickly correct. There's a reason it's called bleeding edge. So, I'll wait a bit on the 32 TB devices, until the design is fully proven stable.
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  753.  @shremich4583  I recall a king once saying those words. Didn't end well for him.
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  754. His cult has their new god, the god-emperor Trump, long may he wane.
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  755.  @WlmaAlexender-zl6nx  what actual injury was sustained? He didn't say that he paid the bill, only that he received the bill and I suspect that the surgery did not proceed on the ashes as scheduled. Ashes are a real pain in the ash to suture. Referral to the local DA and medical board should suffice, so that doctor can explain what precise surgical techniques are utilized on performing a surgical procedure on ashes and what benefit that the cremains enjoyed from said surgery.
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  756. Not according to the law.
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  757.  @marktwan4237  nah, too easy to escape with the thin atmosphere. First surface colony on Venus.
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  758. Amazing that he was so absolutely clueless as to blame the entire crew, given the US Navy even blames the commander for such a loss. "It was over 3000 men's fault, not me, I was only in command" really floats about as well as a lead balloon on Venus. Where lead can only exist as a liquid. If one of my teams failed at something, the very first question that I have is, "How did I fuck up a good team and how to I fix my fuck-up?", while apologizing to the team for setting them up to fail. That only happened a couple of times over 28 years, so obviously I didn't repeat mistakes. I sincerely hope that his assignments in the remainder of the remnant of his career made hell look like a vacation destination for the family!
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  759.  @LoloO42  aw, come on now, he was a great guy to everyone who never had heard of him or been under Germany's influence at the time. I'm sure that some of the isolated tribes in the Amazon still would find him a delight to not deal with. We can thank one thing in particular for Hitler's decline late in the war and the overall incompetence in leadership toward the end. Hitler and his staff were really big on methamphetamine use, it not being known to be addictive or have deleterious side effects at the time. One big side effect of chronic use being paranoia and delusions... Couldn't happen to a nicer target...
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  760. I'm comfortable, the wife and kids are being baked and steamed, job accomplished - assuming a divorce is one's goal - with massive payments to said ex-spouse and children. Rightfully so.
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  761.  @barrylangille3523  the proper term actually being confabulation. Common in dementia patients.
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  762. What makes this mixture worse is, promethazine (AKA Phenergan) is, it potentiates opiates and opioid, as well as possessing weak pain relieving properties and antihistamine activity. Great Swiss Army knife of a drug limited facility, but chronic use has to be avoided. Hopefully, whoever prescribed such a toxic load for had his or her medical license withdrawn for cause!
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  763. The literal argument is, "Hitler was popular, so the UK should've surrendered and worked with him to exterminate all of the Jews". Yeah, no. History has prove that wrong on multiple levels, one of which resulted in Mr Popular chomping a cyanide capsule and shooting himself before the cyanide could do its good work. And Musk did just leave our nuclear enduring stockpile unstaffed and unguarded and can't find the people he unconstitutionally, illegally fired, from his unconstitutional, unfunded, illegal non-agency that's stolen public records and misused them in dozens of felonious ways. I mean, if the devil becomes popular, we go to war against God? Popular isn't right, it's popular error, that's why we have a representational democracy and not a total democracy. Meanwhile, I'm looking at some fascinating strategies from the Offal Office. Mobilizing the military for immigration enforcement and potential unrest, while simultarneously sending Musk and his Merry Band of Misfits to the DoD with the Trump stated goal of cutting the DoD budget by 50%. Dunno how that'll be accomplished when one's cut that budget by half. But then, we're talking Trump, who thinks that magnets stop working if they get wet. Which is a shocking thing, given my military issue compass is fluid filled and works quite well.
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  764. Boeing was notorious for generations now for mass layoffs of skilled workers. It's literally one reason I avoided the company, despite living within walking distance from a VERTOL plant. Employers love reliable employees, too many employers forget that employees absolutely require reliable income.
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  765. Those men, a private security firm whose license has been revoked by an enraged town council.
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  766.  @TheGelasiaBlythe  I know the feeling, 28 years of military career left me with osteoarthritis in the knees and a few other overused joints. As for height, I'm a towering 5'9" tall, good enough for me, the cane can pull down what I can't reach, but my wife was 5'1" tall and I was always reaching for something she couldn't "because you're tall".
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  767.  @119Agent  well, that's two former employees fired, alas, without using actual fire. I'd honestly have asked that attorney, were he representing me in that manner, if he ever heard of the fine Russian practice of defenestration... At a very real risk of receiving a demonstration of defenestration. To say that it would have a major deleterious impact on the business is like saying that Genghis Khan wasn't well liked.
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  768. Yes, the endless expansion of economies, the bane of every empire that ever was. Once they reached their maximum expansion, conditions stagnated, then decayed. Every time. The stress of agriculture properly applied would be minimal, but that means adapting to drought and relying upon areas not experiencing drought, not wasting pesticides and fertilizers, for every ounce in the river is wasted and harmful downstream. But, we can and will hit resource bottlenecks and stops, where, for example, copper mines become exhausted and new sources have to be discovered and recycling geared up a lot more. Most of what we say we recycle ends up collected and dumped in a landfill. Most plastics - landfill. Paper, mixed. Metals, again, mixed and most exported and reimported once recycled. Glass, poor to mixed, although the chances of our running out of silicon is next to nil. Oil, don't get my laughing, we're going through that like a teen on their first job's payday. Don't get me started on solar panels pollution and energy requirements to manufacture, let alone our new high energy density batteries and efficient motors that rely upon rare earth minerals. Food isn't much of a problem yet, mostly we have distribution issues that we refuse to resolve, as "it isn't our nation's problem", so we in the US literally dump good food to keep pricing stable for the farmers. Well, until a few disasters, droughts and disruptions hit us...
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  769.  @Gangsta1168  love one another as one loves oneself, which is actually Old Testament in Leviticus 9:18. Forgive repeatedly. I never said that I follow that either, now did I? Or do you think that I'm a Christian-Muslim-Gnostic? I said that I judge others by their actions and words, as justified by what isn't written to support those within the texts that they utilize to justify themselves. Then, I correct them and move on.
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  770. Down is good, but hell is far too shallow.
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  771.  @akshinbarathi8914  the problem with cancer cells is, they "forgot" how to die when their genome gets partially scrambled and worse, ignore both cellular signaling for when to grow or stop reproducing and signals that tell them where to live within the body. So, cells that ignore signals that tell them that they're malfunctioning and should die are ignored, the cells reproduce out of control and cells that, as an example, should be part of one's skin end up growing wherever the bloodstream and lymphatic system carries them. And Henrietta Lacks cervical cancer cells are still growing today, despite her dying from her cancer in 1951 and are some of the cells used to test chemotherapy drugs worldwide today.
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  772.  @OldPainlessSR-71  sedition is not patriotism, it's the polar opposite.
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  773.  @metallicarchaea1820  and every microbiologist on the planet is covering for them because of hand wave, right? Thank you for the disinformation!
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  774. @Rated Are true, we've two probes that are just leaving our solar system, but those are mostly aluminum. What passed through our solar system was rock.
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  775. What does the CIA have to do with anything within the US? Their charter forbids their operation in anything domestic and especially domestic and involving US citizens and Congress enforced that charter when they did do so in the 60's and early 70's.
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  776.  @tde1964  you can avoid them shooting each other by a longer flight distance, allowing drop to handle the matter for you, but also increasing the precision of the build to allow much greater precision in adjusting the aim to cover the greater range. That said, one wouldn't have to clean the barrel after each shot, but they'd need much more frequent cleaning. One can offset the higher velocity and fouling issue by using a slightly larger bore. Lower friction and cutting by the rifling, gas leakage lowering pressure and hence, velocity, downside is lower accuracy. Chroming the barrel also would lower fouling.
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  777. @brennalee98 no, I'll not vote for Putin's running mate.
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  778. The regulations are posted and approved, so they're not vague. The pollutants are listed and not complex. They're not contradictory or they'd not get approved. And your closing nonsense is just that, as those vehicles are also tested before being allowed into the country, as has been repeatedly reported in the news. So, how much are you being paid to lie?
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  779. They said loner, not hermit. For all you know, that could've been his mother or sister. Or even an AI crafted talking can of paint.
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  780. Given that they're speaking of enforcing copyright law, it is well within the authority of the court, but the SDNY does not have national, nor international authority.
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  781.  @gwynethstephens3133  cross contamination?! Have you ever looked at food ingredients and how many have gluten hidden within them? I'm thankful beyond words that I process gluten normally, but I've had friends with diagnosed celiac disease and it's no picnic. Selecting foods for them as a guest was some significant work.
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  782.  @michaelpower4372  well, one largish section doesn't need to be checked. He did a photo op at it, after he left, it promptly fell over. No, I'm not joking.
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  783.  @JimCOsd55  cheaper option, less maintenance needed for a boomer and its birds, believe it or not. Even when non-critical, reactors require a hell of a lot of maintenance. So, figure a few dozen total such reactors needing incessant TLC just to keep flight ready, a fleet of boomers is a lot less work. Meanwhile, it wouldn't take much to loft current ICBM warhead bus units into low orbit, to change course and reenter at one's leisure. We proved that possible with Gemini and Mercury. And an incoming MIRV warhead is hypersonic by nature and already has a number of flight options available on its way in. Also proven by our early space program.
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  784.  @danielleriley2796  it'd have to fly a hell of a lot higher while hypersonic. Even at the notionally high 30000 feet, the air is pretty damned dense for such travel, even our space capsules have slowed to subsonic by that altitude due to the density of the lower atmosphere. Think 100k feet, you'd be more on target and avoid essentially impossible stresses on the airframe and obscene temperatures generated by the denser lower atmosphere. Also, the story is bullshit as to radiation, it didn't spew reactor fuel, it did release a lot of gamma, x-ray and neutrons though, along with some daughter isotopes from the fission. Stay away from its exhaust, it'd be fairly safe, given its cruise altitude. It'd only come down for its terminal maneuver into its final target. Oh, NERVA did actually fly - without fuel, only ballast, just to see if the aircraft would be stable. Thankfully, they never lit off either for actual full power flight testing, not too sure if any might have or not have flown at low power, although I think that any benefit would be dubious at best. Low power doesn't equal producing usable thrust and the damned things were so radioactively hot, survival of a flight crew was questionable at best. Still, regardless of who would actually release such a product from the insanity factory, they'd most likely be suborbital single stage to suborbital altitude, then skip for range, then penetrate the upper atmosphere for the remainder of Mr Toad's Wild Ride. All, while ICBM's and SLBM's passed one another in their own suborbital pathways into oblivion. Still survivable, in a way. The Bikini Atoll is now habitable - as long as one doesn't eat the food or drink the water, lest one get a hell of a dose of cesium-137 and strontium-90 (mostly). Safe to stay there to visit and even spend a week there, if you bring your own food and drink. So, we'd be safe enough, just bring a century or so worth of food and water. I'll wait. ;) And yeah, I worked on them long ago. A stupider weapon I have yet to discover. Nukes are like having a handful of thermite grenades, while standing on top of a refinery tank full of gasoline. There won't be any winners in that game of chicken. So, go toward the light, my children! Go toward the light!
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  785.  @jag1963  now now, with Trump it's still Russian Roulette - with a machine gun.
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  786.  @miah5040  yeah, as an Army medic, I've had to administer morphine, then clean the vomit from my boots. If that was the worst that got on my that day, it was a slow day. Wouldn't have minded getting amniotic fluid on me, I'd have been helping deliver an infant. Instead, I was half-expecting to next get hemolymph on me and have to get on the radio and declare, "Zed, we have a bug"... Yeah, we develop a bit of an interesting sense of humor in EMS, especially military EMS.
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  787. He certainly makes Roy Bean look good!
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  788.  @MorphMV  there are those who do so recreationally, not taking anything too seriously, but then there are hard right types that think that they're a supermilitia that is capable of taking on seasoned regular forces. If one is going to dance, it's really helpful if one knows the moves to the dance first.
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  789. And the aircraft is known to sigh with relief when he steps off of the aircraft.
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  790.  @loganbuhain1559  frankly, I've served for nearly 28 years, I've worked alongside of the military since retirement. I do not know of any military commissioned officer or non-commissioned officer who would not acknowledge this. What astounds me is this maladministration has essentially declared war upon the populace. A populace that is the most heavily armed populace on the face of this planet. No good can come of that ever!
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  791. And everyone who knows him knows that the J stands for Jackass.
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  792.  @LivianaM.Hochberger  frankly, it all depends upon who speaks to him last before he goes in with Zelensky. Once he ropes in on some deal, he'll pretty much be stuck with it, as going back on it would require his admitting to being wrong and that just doesn't happen with him, regardless of how wrong he is. And yes, it's a very common issue in those with dementia. We've entire programs and sets of laws protecting elders from such abuses. But, not a law to protect a demented leader or nation from such. We're now prey to a critical assumption that's proved false, that a leader with dementia would never win an election.
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  793. Only because the US gave them classified intelligence, complete with imagery of a senior officer's looking at his wristwatch and the time was easily ascertained. Easy to play as best when a superpower has your back, especially when Soviet intelligence couldn't make sense of the scattered Israeli response.
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  794.  @Apipus  that's true only if you studiously avoid going to NASA's website, where their data is available for download.
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  795.  @daftvader4218  how fascinating your divergence of views from practicing commercial pilots here, as well as with UAL's management. It's also a shame that you became so apoplectic as to have lost the capability to craft complete sentences for over half of your comment, you really should see a licensed physician about that ASAP, as that may be a symptom of an impending cerebrovascular accident.
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  796. I've long joked, ships, like trains can stop on a dime. The only problem is, a nautical dime is really, really, really huge. As for rush hour, well, having driven Army convoys with hazmat across that bridge, I'm sure that'll be tonight's nightmares - collapse during rush hour. Great job on a timely warning that the vessel lost control and exceptionally good work on getting the bridge closed to traffic in time to avoid horrific casualties, as traffic is always present on that bridge!
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  797. And I'd have simply turned around a mistake, which would be unlikely to be made by simply saying... "It's been confirmed! We've been invaded by Bulldogs! I have faith that our Wolverines will repel them back to enjoy our hospitality after the game." But then, living in the capitol of Pennsylvania, we're routinely invaded by tourists, both for the capitol tours and for nearby Gettysburg. Few escape unscathed by local Pennsylvania Dutch cooking...
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  798. @londop.a.3048 erm, 62 miles of anchor line, which is a chain on cargo ships? That'd fill the cargo hold and swamp the vessel with its weight.
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  799.  @yoshiclubcaptainfeerick7750 the media has been reporting them, if you're paying attention. They've reigned in some early attempts here in Pa, which saves me a trip to the state house here, which is literally right down the street from me (although, the governor's mansion is closer (a few blocks away from my home)). Few forget when a military NCO has something to say in at a volume designed to address a mass formation of troops.
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  800. No, sickening is that he feels that he's the designated approving authority on ancestry and racial constituency. I'd likely make him even more insane than he already is, given my Sicilian heritage and well, Sicily has the distinction of being invaded and conquered by everyone on the planet save the Inca, Aztec and Chinese, who couldn't be bothered to travel that far for no valid reason.
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  801. Yeah, such significant emotional events can "tend to ruin one's weekend plans", but should also be considered "a fine opportunity to discover precisely whose religion, if any, is actually correct". For ineffective fire/weapons, "an irritating opportunity to repaint the vehicle" and "Yeah? Well, this works!".
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  802.  @stuartgray5877  ooooooh, sailor! Sorry, couldn't resist. Upside of either pathway is, 'scopes only have so much reach and the gut is over 30 feet long. That's a fair bit that's inaccessible to a gastroenterologist. And it'd be useful here, need an upper looksie for my GERD and well, keep dodging the colonoscopy (largely due to time issues interfering) accidentally. Pop a pillbot, maybe a wearable recorder, go about the day as it scans around looking for my lost ballpoint pens and socks, 'cause they sure ain't in the dryer.
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  803. Two words. God-king. President Musk bought a god-king, we're fucked with that purchase. Unto death do they part.
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  804.  @StubbsMillingCo.  I've worked with CS "gas" for decades in the military. It'll barely burn at 200 degrees, smoldering only. More likely, he broke a gas line intentionally and his firing either a firearm or flare gun ignited the gas one is reached its flashpoint, which if memory serves is between 5 - 15%. Lifted the roof and blew out the walls, which suggests gas or a dust initiator, with the latter being unlikely in a residential building (more effective in warehouse types of structures).
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  805. To borrow one of his early favorite phrases... LAW AND ORDER!!!
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  806.  @kevinlove4930  oh? I was unaware that enforcing state laws was against federal law. Is that part of the new Articles of the Russian Imperium?
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  807.  @unclesteve42  no, when the crystals fracture, the light is emitted. Wintergreen has been documented to give the most reliable triboluminescence effect. It's also theorized to be behind some earthquake light phenomena.
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  808.  @thekububeach  learn the history, learn who Josephus was and what he wrote, learn who the Essenes were, learn who the Zealots were. The history is easily available for all to review.
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  809. No, that would help Russia. Send them to Venus on a surface colony.
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  810. Meh, "I always did want to try that model gun out, thanks for the gift. You might want to see a doctor about that elbow and knee though".
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  811.  @chunksinfante1789  thank you for your input from the short bus in Saint Petersburg. As a guy who rode the short helicopter to work, I'm fairly entertained.
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  812. I've around a dozen primary accents. My native Philly accent, assorted foreign accents that I use with those nationals when I was in their countries, hell I've even a North country and London accent. It comes from communicating with people outside of my group and nation and well, can't travel in the military without communicating.
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  813.  @richardgaleczka1580  yeah, a lawyer couldn't understand questions about US laws and the Constitution. Thankfully, he still can cogently order the proper implementation to what formerly was referred to as the SIOP, so Putana isn't safe any longer.
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  814. Considering 2016's victory, he was a sore winner, 2020, he was a sore loser, he's just butt sore all the time. Now, the courts will give him a reason to show butt hurt.
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  815. A strong wind at his back? A slightly steeper ramp he can't get down due to the platform shoes? Unreinforced stage?
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  816. Impeachment.
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  817. OK, I've been shopping for food pretty much since food was invented. At least, it feels that way in the morning. $300? Let's see, prepared foods, pre-baked rolls and breads, those expensive small package pre-prepared containers of what looked like yogurt and a ridiculous number of salad dressings. I push a folding cart with twice that mass in quality foods home monthly, albeit I do bake my own bread and mix my own dressings. I get my veggies frozen to save some $$$, just as nutritious as fresh and my nutrient levels have been tested to determine if I needed supplementation when my Crohn's was diagnosed. Only nutrients I was low on was magnesium and salt. Despite having significant erosion of the colon where many nutrients are absorbed. And as a hint, my folding cart has ball bearing wheels that I've now replaced after a year, so my loads aren't light with $292 in food expenses via food stamps. So, I suggest a home economics class for the poor dear, she's got zero clue. Interestingly, the breads flour, the broccoli and other cold loving greens are imported from Canada. Leafy greens, fruits (including tomatoes) tend to be imported from Mexico, most of our foods grown in the US are export only. The breads themselves, a major cost right there, not a one being under $3.00 for the quantity shown - for each bread bag/package. I have rye flour, make my own, lasts longer than the crap at the stupidmarket too. Swap some of the water for oil, it stabilizes the bread and lowers the moisture content, while mouth feeling moist, but the lower moisture inhibits mold growth. Raw milk, so wasting money to travel to get raw milk and risk getting everyone sick, brilliant! Here's a hint, we've been pasteurizing milk for a century and a half, we're not extinct, we also have a lot more kids surviving to adulthood than before that came to pass. Still, might have some raw milk - if the cow that produced that milk is witnessing me try it. After an hour, I'd toss it. Before that, I'd pasteurize it. Waking up dead really wreaks havoc on my weekend plans and I've got plans to go bull tipping this weekend. As for crunchy mom, thanks, but no thanks. Medically, I'm highly conservative by nature, the minimum intervention for the maximum benefit being my mantra. That said, without modern medicine, I'd have my weekend plans wrecked forever. Got an abdominal aorta bigger than your fist, a blow mitral valve from COVID, osteoarthritis from over 28 years in the Army, Crohn's disease because my immune system's a traitor, autoimmune damage to my thyroid and all of the crunchy bullshit in the universe would make all of those fatally worse. The aorta part due to the thyroid raising my blood pressure to unsurvivable levels and requiring two BP meds and a thyroid blocker to keep my BP and pulse at a survivable level. The mitral damage is low, as without it, well our youngest had long COVID from the first wave, took her two years and change to recover reasonably. So, screw RFK Jr and his brain rotting worms. Ha! Am watching the video as I comment and called that one in advance. Yeah, I know the type. Then, thrilled about Trump, yet griping about inflation that he caused. I was an SF medic, I've no sympathy for anyone who shoots their own goddamned foot. Here's a hint, should the griper actually read this: I've met the man personally, he's profoundly ignorant, the boor of every party, obnoxious, full of himself to the point where all conversations must praise him and clueless about everything - as evidenced by his tremendous business losses and incessant bankruptcies. He'd not know a bag of groceries from a gross of sandstone. I mean, the fucking guy thinks that apples are sold in the stupidmarket in the refrigerated section, for crying out loud! He's a con man, he lied, you got conned, get over it and get with the program. While you're trying to figure that out, if you want tips on healthy and sustainable feeding of your family, ask away. While I might be inclined to let you hang, I never could stand the thought of kids going hungry and going without. On $292 in food stamps, I eat like a veritable king and am generous with needy neighbors, who I allow to "shop" on my pantry shelves and tightly packed freezer. I do buy about a gallon per week of 1% milk, that percentage, as the higher fat gives me indigestion, eggs typically last a month for a dozen. Well, unless I'm baking, then all bets are off. I get canola oil in 2.5 gallon jugs and refill the smaller containers, it's cheaper that way, olive oil is in the large tin and smaller containers refilled from that. Evangelicals, well they swiftly learn that I know the bible better than most of their ministers. I also am quite conversant with several other faiths religious texts. I'm the maniac that will happily converse with knocking Jehovah Witnesses and they end up converting to something mainstream and far less overcontrolling and wrong per the scriptures.
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  818. Only Congress can impeach.
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  819.  @imthebadguy3225  I'm pretty sure that Biden isn't going to pardon him.
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  820. Not all that much. He usually would say one thing at one venue, then the opposite at another venue, even if it was minutes later. All geared to his audience at the time.
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  821. Naw, it's "They have no right to...". Consistency is not exactly their forte.
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  822. It's good for qualitative measurements, that radiation is present and an approximate level, but when looking for health physics level measurements, well the counters are orders of magnitude higher and require annual calibration and recertification. The last military base I worked at had a health physics professional. He had detection gear I've never seen or heard of before and I began my military career working on boosted nuclear weapons. Most of which had price tags that well, one could drive around town in style on that kind of bread laid out on a new car. And the reality of it is, if there is an actually imminently hazardous level of radiation present, the Radiacode detectors would be saturated and essentially worthless. Basically, they're good for radiation spectrometry to determine what is emitting what, even a general idea as to level, but for occupational or residential hazards, one needs the really expensive equipment to ascertain the actual risk. Note that they had to put the detector onto the sample, because by the time one moves an inch, the beta radiation is being intercepted by air, reach two inches it's undetectable, the gamma is blocked by the glazing due to its low energy level from uranium and alpha particles are blocked by one's epidermis or even a plain sheet of paper. Real risks in that environment are for the cleanup and demolition crews, as it's crushed tiles and cumulative exposure to the dust that has traces of the uranium oxide in it, creating an ingestion and inhalation hazard. For residents, it'd be a trace and likely not easily measured, given the granite that originated the soil remaining present and the natural presence of uranium/uranium decay chain and potassium-40 in the granite. Oh, for entertainment value, get a Radiacode unit, go up to a friend's granite countertop in their kitchen and put the detector down on it. It'll prove the existence of that trace amount of uranium and uranium decay chain, as well as potassium-40 in the granite. Both also being present in most ceramics in trace amounts.
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  823.  @princesmooth8302  fiber optic drones is the most hilarious thing I've ever heard. Since C3 isn't going by fiber optic, that means that only the internal circuits use fiber optics and that isn't against jamming, that's protection from EM overloading beyond jamming - designed to burn out control circuits. Hence, jamming remains an option. Russia's brokety broke broke. Worse, their Black Sea fleet is emasculated and ineffective, they send their river traffic only ships into the Black Sea because the fleet cannot protect them, only for the sea to break the fair water merchantmen in half. Their refineries burn daily. Totally winning, if one redefines losing as winning. More embarrassing is, Russia has a hell of a lot more people than Ukraine and can't manage to take it any more than they could Finland during the Winter War. Just a paper tiger. What time is it? Don't want to miss Putin's "China's Final Warning".
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  824.  @markg.7865  no, only one was and that proposed amendment promptly was shitcanned by the Republican speaker.
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  825. An excellent filter phrase... ;)
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  826. I simply note names and monikers. If any show up for a cleared position, they get reported and their clearance is cancelled. Those trumpeting for summary execution are against the US Constitution and as such, cannot be trusted in any position of public trust.
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  827. One can only wish... I'm starting to think that The Three Stooges Syndrome that Montgomery Burns had is real and present in Trump...
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  828. Admitting one was wrong has always been a difficult thing to do for many people. I mean, once I thought I was wrong, but I was merely mistaken. OK, I don't make small mistakes, I make colossal blunders. Huh, maybe I'm qualified to work for this maladministration. Oh wait, can't happen, I'm actually competent.
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  829.  @therabbithat  sodium metal isn't exactly fun to juggle either. ;) Interestingly, it wasn't all that long ago that mercurochrome and merthiolate tincture could be found inside of household medicine cabinets. Of course, those largely went away around when leaded gasoline and paint went away. Although, one can still get leaded gasoline for aircraft, as an equal or superior substitute hasn't quite been found.* *Note that I said gasoline, as in aviation gasoline, totally different beast than kerosene that's jet fuel.
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  830. Nobody has waged war against the US, we're also not at war, since Congress hasn't declared war since WWII, so there is no enemy to give aid and comfort to. And since treason is the only crime enumerated in the US Constitution, narrowly and precisely being defined there, there is no treason. They're both too cowardly to ever consider picking up a gun and attacking anyone. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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  831. Biden was stuck with the withdrawal plans negotiated by Trump's maladministration. So, it's on his hands for the entire debacle. Some equipment was left, routers, switches, some crypto devices, all configurations erased, crypto zapped, rendering that equipment useless to the Taliban. Would've cost more to pull it and send it to the US than it was worth by a factor of three. Actual military equipment was thermited. So, if it's proof against molten steel boiling its way through, I've yet to find that kind of equipment - despite over 28 years of military service. But then, serial business failure Trump, who turned $20 billion into $300 million and serial bankrupted more businesses than Carter has little liver pills knows better. Spend $10 million to take up $3 million in old network equipment and slagged vehicles and worn out, melted weapons. As for the GOP, always claiming our military is weak, pitiful, useless, cut the VA budget from 1982 to the second year of the war, only stopping when the public became outraged that men and women were redeploying home to receive no VA care because they tanked the VA budget. Yeah, they only care for the photos, then they screw the veterans and never, ever offered a reach around. And their maniac faction threatens to take up arms and expects that repeatedly beaten down military to join them? No, deliver white phosphorus to them, merrily smoking and burning, the only way we'd join them is if we bayonet charged their remnants once they did take up arms. But, what would I know? Only served for over 28 years and contracted with them daily, they know more than I do, based upon their vast experience acquired on their Twinkie encrusted sofas.
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  832. Gotta wheedle in that televiewer screen into every room of every home somehow, Big Brother's viewing pleasure is far too sparse.
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  833.  @lordvadertheleftie9703  kinda hard to short penny stock.
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  834. I've been through the Wyoming Valley and frankly, never even realized it. Which makes it my kind of place. Noteworthy places, well, look at Philadelphia. Need I say more?* *I was born in Philly, raised in Philly, then Delaware County. We boo our own teams, we throw rocks at people we *like*. People we don't like, well, we don't talk about that. Although, my company is sponsoring a contest. First prize is a week in Philadelphia. Second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia. Thank you, W.C. Fields. But then, it's easy to pick on Pennsylvania's only first class city. Why pick on Pittsburgh when Philly's lower hanging fruit? I'd insult Dauphin county, but containing Harrisburg, my current residence, that's insult enough. Did I miss anybody? :P
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  835.  @gradycdenton  it's a total mystery to me. But, I do wonder why we're funding such malfeasance and will again ask my congresscritter about it. Given a choice between unfuck and being unfunded, we know which way survival lies for out eldest branch of our military.
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  836. If only we had a foundational document that demanded that.
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  837. The same qualifications to run for office are the ones to vote, so what kind of background check, what poll test are we to require? Should we also bring back a poll tax? Or just go whole hog and bring back all of Jim Crow?
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  838. Well, he's got that new new new new math going on. $55 billion = $2 billion.
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  839.  @kurushii1137  that's Cadet Bone Spurs. And pulled a miracle cure for his bone spurs right after the war ended. Amazing recovery!
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  840.  @toddmarshall2726  in other words, only your opinion counts, no others may apply. As a veteran, military retiree, grandparent and taxpayer, I submit that that opinion is entirely invalid under our very first amendment to our federal Constitution.
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  841. I remember under Reagan, the surgeon general agreed that ketchup was a vegetable too.
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  842. Rocket science is easy. Build a bomb, have it controllably explode in only one direction, add steering, have it explode in that direction for as long as one needs to, avoid RUD. ;) Oh and schedule failures for national holidays...
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  843. The building is a private company, so certainly wasn't "with COPS inside". There also appears to have been no ladder, just crap in position to allow him to, with significant effort, climb onto the roof. There is video out showing him scaling his way onto the roof. As for his car, must've been Wonder Woman's invisible car, since there's ample footage of the area and its notable dearth of motor vehicles. What'd you do, attend the Helen Keller School of Observation?
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  844. Not in the slightest. For several miles around a venue, nobody is allowed on a rooftop and manholes along the route and venue are welded shut. Period. Firearms screening at the venue is beyond intensive and invasive and somehow someone got a rifle and ammunition through, got on top of a roof and fired. That smells in a couple of highly specific ways and the chances of the Secret Service being involved is about as likely as our sun being a black hole. And this old retired soldier smells fish in the depths of the meat market. I'll wait for actual evidence before I say much more.
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  845.  @lind3237  I'm amazed that he didn't blame Obama or Clinton.
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  846. Yep. That could've turned exceptionally ugly! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster In that case, fog contributed massively, but one plane collided on the runway with another, resulting in a massive death toll.
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  847. Maybe it's time to turn the RICO statutes against their racketeering. "You didn't try to shake down enough citizens" is racketeering in any other context. Or perhaps, a citizen's vigilance committee is needed, if the courts are disinterested.
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  848. I lack zero confidence, but by the same token, I do have minimal confidence in the court as it now stands.
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  849. There's that pesky Constitution thing, the presumption of innocence until proved beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, by a jury of one's peers. You know, Constitutional rule and rule of law, rather than the rule of the mob, which is Trump's style.
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  850. Amazon Prime drivers frequently make deliveries for apartments and other large multi-tennant buildings in large fabric bin bags, which they'll typically drag into the building. One driver left the bin in our mailroom, which was left there for weeks, then relocated next to the main lobby door and well, everywhere Helen Keller could've found it. It wasn't removed until someone carped loudly to another Amazon Prime driver and he finally removed the damned thing, remarking of a similar case at a large business. If it slows them down even slightly, all caution is to the wind and I've literally had trouble getting to the wall of mailboxes for all of the packages, mostly Amazon, scattered all over the floor - despite our having delivery lockers and prominent signage insisting upon the usage of said lockers. On a typical day, I'll see at least 4 Amazon Prime trucks make deliveries here. UPS is nearly as bad, FedEx not quite as bad about scattering packages and USPS is good at using the lockers and mailboxes. Although, with USPS, I frequently see the postal workers out delivering until at least 7:00 PM, sometimes even later.
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  851. It's fairly well published all over the internet that nicotine for vaping especially is a deadly poison if mishandled or abused. There are plenty of US cases where nicotine poisoning has occurred just by careless handling, as it passes through the skin somewhat easily.
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  852. Well, he got half of the things to do on your first day right. Unfortunately, the cops showing up for the stolen car tends to ruin that first initial good impression.
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  853.  @patrickmcbrien9303  I'd have gone as a max at 10 miles hitting the pedestrian conversion sequencer and waited with my thumb out for search and rescue.
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  854. What excuses? They simply follow their god-king's playbook, bill all abject failures as successes. He's done that for decades, even billing his repeated casino bankruptcies as successes.
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  855. The city has the duty of exercising due care and due diligence in ensuring notices are sent to the correct address before any deleterious action is performed. The only way this could've been worse is if they bulldozed the property while it was occupied.
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  856. +Punt66 ah, so my eyes are good, she was doing 60, which would be the maximum speed limit on that road, yes? Indeed, others commented on her doing 60. She did video her dashboard.
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  857. Deano Mckenzie , that's like using a .308 on a rabbit.
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  858.  @lucyjackson9408  from personal experience, the majority of my fellow veterans are decidedly against Trump.
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  859.  @MorrisLess  alas, the CEO decided the converse. Better to go down with the ship and passengers than to go bankrupt and later recover. Oh well, at my age, one realizes, there is a neverending list of names that will live in infamy.
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  860. Oddly, not a Donald problem, his kids have Secret Service protection.
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  861. No, bonkers was, he retained his clearance to access any hazardous radiological devices. I'm intimately familiar many instances of men and women of well documented off duty intemperate habits that worked with special radiological devices. Still, safe enough on duty, as not sober got ejected, reported and access curtailed. Of course, the devices were innocuous enough, they were only boosted fission nuclear warheads. Trivial to arm without authorization - as trivial as performing a root canal on a patient safely and effectively via the rectum. But, they did and still do contain some of our most powerful high explosives. For the fission challenged, a boosted fission device is basically a baby version of a hydrogen bomb, too small to be called that, whose neutron radiation fissions the rest of the plutonium core and in some cases, the depleted uranium tamper that's frequently mislabeled a "jacket" (a tamper isn't a jacket, it has a purpose of confinement, ablation and focusing of energy). Oh, iridium isn't anything special, it's the specific isotope with a 78 day half-life that's special. The shorter half-life, the nastier it is. I intentionally exposed myself to a dose of a radioisotope that had only an 8 day half-life. It was one of two very similar ways to achieve a successful completion of a thyroid scan. Turned out to be Grave's disease, one form of hyperthyroidism. My immune system attacked my thyroid, it retaliated and damned near killed me. That was a good thing, as it confirmed a diagnosis, a thyroid hormone formation medication blocked most of my thyroid output and I was able to be tapered back from a literal LD50 dosage of hypertension medication to something more age appropriate. LD50 being half taking that dosage does from toxicity of the drug.
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  862.  @DKNguyen3.1415  I was going to say much the same thing, biocompability would be a major issue. Shielding with maybe some tungsten coated with titanium would give good biocompability and high efficiency, but that'd basically be reinventing the wheel. Now, for interim containers during handling and augmenting transportation to treatment room containers, it might be of utility. The lower the mass during handling, the less chance of an accident with the sample.
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  863. Well, there is one upside. She's rehabilitating by dilution Benedict Arnold's reputation.
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  864.  @oumarh.gassama8063  science is objective, philosophy is subjective. ;)
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  865. Alina Habba, the Chicxulub Impact of the legal defense profession. Beyond an absolute disaster.
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  866. I love my chili peppers, alas, my colon gets extremely angry, as that triggers my Crohn's disease. :( Oh well, so far, I've not found any other spices that anger it that way and hopefully, the biologic will control the autoinflammation and WBC infiltration from the triggers so that I might manage a wee bit of chili pepper to flavor my foods again.
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  867. There are very few high capacity rifles. There are high capacity magazines, however the definition is hazy as to what is high capacity and what is not. I don't consider a 30 round magazine a high capacity magazine, it's a standard issue magazine we carried in the Army. Now, a 60 round or 100 round magazine is decidedly high capacity, but not fielded by the military due to unreliability. Still, I'm entirely against any bans, as it just turns into a new arms race and one still can acquire the same caliber and magazines in different models. Placing the class of intermediate cartridge rifles that are derived from selective fire military service rifles into a new class under the NFA would be far more effective.
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  868. While I somewhat agree, what's that have to do with the FBI, who also aren't responsible for air defense? It is a shame though, if only we had some force for the air...
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  869. It's gotta take some exceptional brainlessness to ask to use the stadium the day of a night game, which basically would've shut down the game and well, the team and stadium's income.
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  870.  @UserDefaultEurope  the orbiters never had a fault that was fatal, for one, the SRB O ring failure allowed the fuel to burn through and impact the external fuel tank, for the other, ice broke off and damaged the heat resistant tiles protecting the orbiter. Both were external issues that destroyed the orbiter, but without the SRB's or external fuel tank, the orbiter would've been incapable of getting off of the ground, let alone living up to the title orbiter.
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  871. There is a major mystery and secret to IT. Coffee. Slapped this puppy together in no time at all. Ran into some trouble with the VPN, turned out to be a combination of insufficient coffee and needing to put my fingers on a diet, as I fat fingered my username, which my VPN provider hashes first.
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  872.  @birchtree2274  that's just the thing, there have only been a few accidents, all caused by not following established procedures, using the properly designed equipment that prevents problems and accidents. When processing, containers come in two flavors, favorable geometry and unfavorable geometry. Favorable meaning it can't possibly go critical, due to the geometry of the containers. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2032/ML20321A101.pdf The trick is ensuring management enforces policies that require their use - always.
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  873.  @azrobbins01  that's exactly what happened with Poland and France. Denmark already has deployed troops to bolster their territorial defenses, doesn't sound to me like they want to ignore any US aggression. Because eminent domain is a domestic action by one's own government, the United States of America is not the world god authority above all. And nearly everyone else on the planet knows that stealing is wrong. But, invading would put us onto the fast track to lose our only radar in the region, as we do have a base in Greenland and have had one there for generations. Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule AFB. Add in we've got the GIUK gap monitored, guess where some of the sensors are anchored at? Greenland. Of course, get that contested, we lose control and monitoring of the gap between Greenland and Iceland and heaven knows how many Russian subs could slip through, given Denmark wouldn't be cooperating with someone invading their territories. Or we could accept your eminent domain nonsense and Cuba could say the same for Puerto Rico and take it over. The same being true for your neighbor taking your back yard.
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  874. He's a spoiled brat, for whom any attention, good or bad is a good thing.
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  875. Just MAGA everything. MAGA cake, MAGA cookies, dunno why, they're both sawdust.
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  876.  @gerardflynn7382 no, that dishonors common streetwalkers. At least they're honest about who and what they do for a living. And have far more class when attending a theatrical performance with children in the audience.
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  877.  @damon22441  OK, so if I'm working for the federal government, I need to wear a body camera to fix a PC in a classified document processing area? You do realize that the SRT in question isn't a federal unit, but state police?
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  878.  @jillcrowe2626  hey, they never said you had to stop learning upon graduation, then it's just advanced classes. ;)
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  879. Hollywood wouldn't recognize what an HE blast looks like, even if one set off a charge on their gonads. All of their explosion special effects are gasoline laden.
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  880. Maybe, but with the incessant slamming, he'd first have to recover from a comminuted skull fracture.
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  881. See, that's where he went wrong. Go back and report in for work, they then send him back for the body cam. Milk it right, shift is over and he just goes home.
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  882.  @SA-cn4jc  I dunno, I might buy a Hyperloop from him. It'll be available around when fusion power is available... More maybe a tunnel bored to somewhere, oh wait, it's certainly a boring company, not tunneling anywhere. Maybe the brain chip, whose major advances have achieved that which was done in the 1970's, with 1920's infection rates. Oh, I know! Maybe I'll get one of his kamikaze cars, which aim for emergency vehicles when in autodrive mode. Yeah, I'd be better off and safer buying a 737 Max. At least it has ejection seats... I'll just get my coat...
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  883. He says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear, never actually meaning a word of it. What he intends, depends on who last spoke to him, the voices in his head or a flunky or contributor.
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  884.  @meelvis939  he says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear. His Achilles heel is, he also reflects back whatever he was last spoken to about folded in with a slightly higher priority. Add in a missing filter, get someone close and trusted, it'd be trivial to get him to say damned near anything.
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  885.  @Bronte866  well, not quite 200 years, there was those two times... During the Revolutionary war we invaded Canada. Then, during the War of 1812, we invaded Canada again. Both times, our forces were politely escorted to our border and sent home... Benedict Arnold was wounded in action in Canada during a polite disagreement and lacking a wounded veterans pension, ended up selling out to the British, as he couldn't work his far after the war.
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  886. Ever see where the model Y's batteries are stored? From the front wheel well to the rear wheel well, three compartments under the floor - nothing but batteries. That's some major dissection and I've done cam shaft work and more, but this is next level and I've no clue how to recycle that much inflammable energy storage device junk! And I do believe in the right to repair. Just one should go in informed before one begins. Change out one smart phone battery, you'll get an inkling on the PIA that can be involved. Change a surface mount chip for more fun, used to do that for a living. Back when I didn't need glasses to read.
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  887. He could've also set up a schlieren system, he'd definitely get the shock wave captured. With the jug of jimmies, there was a shock wave going through the jimmies, likely what fractured them and what looked like a triboluminescent flash on impact as electron bonds got ripped apart.
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  888.  @RockBrentwood  and the green immobile creatures, when in lower numbers or even isolation, generate a tremendous amount of low frequency electromagnetic radiation of chaotic modulation, in the region of kiloherts to gigahertz frequencies.
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  889. Well, there is a us vs here. Us vs oops. Figuring out who to call to resolve an oops can be daunting for many, as most of us don't have to deal with local or county governments much throughout our entire lives. So, now all viewers know to contact their county elections office if there's a problem and that's a huge win for all.
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  890. It's literally a religion to them.
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  891. Save that an EMP isn't a within the atmosphere strike, it's around 200 miles up to ionize the upper atmosphere and throw ionized particles into the global magnetic field lines. A close by nuke does have a limited EMP, but like its ionizing radiation, you'd have other things to concern yourself with, such as being inside of the fireball. That whole being hotter than the surface of the sun thing tends to make the EMP look a bit puny.
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  892. What key? Don't even waste time with a key, weld the cell shut inside of a hole so deep it takes sunlight a month to get down to him.
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  893.  @KingOhmni  Windscale sure redefined the phrase about split milk!
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  894. The problem being, the most powerful radio is the easiest radio to find, either by missile or a personal visit.
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  895.  @Mike-01234  seems a bit odd to have no provision for engine changes. If a brand new vehicle has an engine destroyed and hence, replaced, it no longer can be registered in the state and hence a brand new vehicle goes to the scrapyard unpaid for?
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  896.  @selfdo  yeah, optics and bricks make for a really lousy interaction. At the least, totally obscured and you have to unbutton to clear the debris away, more likely, they'll be either badly scratched to uselessness or broken entirely.
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  897.  @Pegasus856  Trump authorizing the breach is impeachable as well.
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  898. Well, we came close - in a way unimaginable. India and Pakistan were literally getting ready to slug it out, possibly with their mobilized nukes. At the peak of tensions, an airburst meteor was detected over the Med. A few hours earlier, it'd have detonated above the region of near-conflict. Thankfully, when they realized how close they were and how that airburst could've triggered a war, they grew a bit of sanity and put their nukes on standby and peace prevailed. Upside, updated modeling shows that nuclear winter lasting decades is a myth, but a few years is possible with a truly massive dust event, such as a supervolcano. A meteor or comet wouldn't have enough dust if it was of a mass sufficient to airburst, rather than impact. The dinosaur extinction rain of fire was disproved as well, as they couldn't explain how birds and frogs survived oven temperatures globally. Dust for a few years, yes, fire, just nope. Nature isn't good at instant death, but she's a cast iron bitch when it comes to a lingering death by starvation.
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  899. High speed thermal cameras are specialty cameras, no adapters to turn a regular high speed camera into one. But, they'd be a worthy lab investment. At high velocities, there are quite a few interesting thermal phenomenon that can be observed!
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  900.  @sharonpeterson896  laws only apply to the poor, not the wealthy. You haven't caught onto that fact yet?
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  901. He might've stood a chance had he testified. Then, he'd have had a chance at "Not guilty by reason of utter idiocy". Instead, he's being considered as a stable genius, so a criminal masturbationmind.
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  902.  @danielwaynemiller  it's a documentary behind the scenes of another documentary that was aired a while ago. The mission was aborted when the sub damaged her towed array, rendering the deep listening sonar inoperative and requiring replacement in port. Some speculated that it was intentional, but the array is basically a long cable with microphones, silent and two miles long. So, a wee bit hard to find, let alone hit and a big risk of fouling the screws on a submarine, leaving them immobile.
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  903.  @Cp3786  astroturfing doesn't make a lie true, Goebbels was wrong.
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  904. So, after they burn your house down, you'll begin to defend it.
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  905. He gave himself away when he claimed that he spoke with a woman who had to put the apples back in the refrigerated section.
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  906. If the agreement isn't expiring and just not being renewed, which isn't what it sounds like from my seat, the state has announced the company in fundamental breach of contract. That's rather heavy medicine, but also fully recoverable. Yeah, the company is gonna be there with bells on, way too much to potentially lose! Still, digital is superior to everything! "Here's your new computer for your heart attack." "Oh, it administers drugs to stabilize my condition?" "No." "It shocks me if my heart stops?" "No." "What's it do then?" "It glows pretty colors to tell what your heart's doing." ... "Kids, our new word for today is defenestration and we have a wonderful example to provide for you to understand its meaning..."
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  907. I dunno. I suspect a precipitous drop in egg prices, as Trump supplies the entire planet with eggs laid in court.
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  908. And the TB outbreak. And the measles epidemic in Texas. Hopefully, they didn't gut security at the BSL-4 facility or God knows what'll get stolen and released.
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  909. Actually, it looks like they had a fair amount of control, but looks like no power. Hence, the dives to get airspeed, but whenever one turns, one loses a lot of airspeed. Good flying in basically the worst condition for the aircraft!
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  910.  @BillsBayou  Adam saw the parts inside of the bots at the plant. Nope, he, as would I, want to actually work with those parts on his own and see what other tricks one can apply to perhaps improve the bot. Or at least autonomously harass the goldfish with... ;)
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  911. Went on a few digs back in school. Indeed, one can tell by what was left behind in the midden heap, even the wealth or lack thereof of the people using that midden and get a fair approximation of timeline from common goods, such as clay ware. And on one dig, found a collection and possible bag fragments full of lead balls. Given other findings, looked to be a military encampment that was from the pre-Minie ball era. Later, a button was found and given the totality, looked to be from the French and Indian War.
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  912.  @kelperdude  yep, astoundingly huge for so few attendees.
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  913. Heh, got a few of those in my day. My usual response is, "Funny, you'd think that they would've mentioned the warrant when I was in the agency's building working". Nearly as bad, getting a call from someone with an Indian accent, "I am Microsoft". I keep a keyboard onhand, not connected to anything so I can be heard tapping away their suggested commands, "Nope, isn't working. Nope, command not found. Nope, syntax error. Are you sure these commands work on a Cray?" I really love to waste their time. No, I don't own a Cray supercomputer, couldn't afford that kind of electric bill. ;) But, everything here runs Linux, so I'd be quite impressed if any of their Windows commands worked on my systems!
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  914. Being a sycophant is one thing, being a traitor to a nation is a felony. The former gets you insulted frequently, but the paycheck is good, the latter gets you hard time.
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  915.  @alansnyder8448  if you want to see what a collapse looks like, I'll happily take you on a tour of Somalia or a few other garden spots of the world. And having been homeless, suffice it to say that not only rampant drug use causes homelessness. A pandemic and the loss of my wife of over 41 years did the trick for me, took a VA "entitlement program" to get me housed again. BTW, a pet peeve, "entitlements" are things that are merely minor, like Constitutionally guaranteed rights under the Section 8 Welfare clause. So, people griping about entitlements are griping that we're guaranteeing Constitutionally promised rights, equal in all ways with what's in the Bill of Rights.
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  916. "Oh, my condolences, as the gas van just pulled up for you".
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  917. And to do that for which others get charged with extortion with.
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  918. Well, at least something's alive up there.
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  919.  @Talkathon408  no, the solution for them is for them to give those drawer SBC's to me.
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  920. A proper evangelical is a good example that others want to follow, not one induced by lies and pool boy antics with one's wayward spouse. But, what would this ordained minister, who remains unrepentant in foul mouthed preaching know? I'll never preach to the choir, I speak truth to the masses. Once truth is found, they gravitate toward the way.
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  921. Well, the upside is that there are several options besides US or Russian birds for position information. Still, an out of band method, like VOR is always a good idea, just in case orbital conditions are insanely too noisy, such as from solar activity. The propeller hat community goes nuts over EMP, never realizing or accepting that Sol, our own treasured sun hits our planet with radiation that makes an EMP look like a cheap firecracker next to a nuke. I've known that for decades, as I had to rely upon satellite communications and on occasion, things got tricky, to put it mildly. I also tend to have to reboot devices whenever a geomagnetic storm hits, likely from ground currents in the local geology. :/
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  922.  @BradleyGuy-v6i  these days? New to this country? Sentencing has always been up to the judge, as our system is designed to allow. You'd prefer summary execution or exile to Siberia instead?
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  923. Medical school is a lot more in depth, down to the cellular level, going into T1 and T2, which are precursor and byproducts of T3 and T4 production and more. There are even psychological effects of hypo and hyperthyroidism, which can be severe enough to require hospitalization in a mental health care facility.
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  924.  @chrisbudesa  given the Pacific Fleet's fine new tradition of running aground and playing bumper cars with their warships, plus a history of the admiralty covering each other's asses and trying their level best to foist their command irrresponsibility upon their enlisted, they've lost faith and credit in this veteran's book. And physicians haven't been patrolling their ranks, as they're entrusted to police since they're entrusted to license, essentially forever, so the legislature really needs to address that deficiency. Circling back to the OP, great president? Not so much, adequate President, absolutely. Orders of magnitude superior to Trump's non-performance in office, where he sucked up the paycheck he promised to never deposit, yet entirely refused to perform 99% of his duties.
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  925. The problem is, ego writes checks that one cannot satisfy.
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  926. Even better, educated the viewers on calling their count elections office if there's a problem. Turned a problem into a win for all of the populace that experience similar issues, because well, we all screw up and that's why we have such systems in place.
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  927. And contributed greatly to the aspirin company's income as well, when one reviews the math. ;)
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  928.  @recoil53  some of the Apollo 13 crew and support team are still around, you can mention that to them. Still, it wasn't a replication of Soyuz 1. We got back a living crew, the Soviets got back charcoal.
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  929.  @goldgeologist5320  you do realize that both are Executive Branch agencies?
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  930.  @ferreroman2913  true. My first thoughts were, salicylate toxicity, but couldn't recall if it was in the ointment that was indicated. It's a common ingredient, as doctor mentioned and if recognized late, is terminally bad news for the patient and family. Other toxins to mitochondria can cause malignant hyperthermia, in short, a dangerous to fatal fever, salicylates block that method of energy production and hence, part of why they lower fevers in therapeutic doses. Remember, the dose makes the poison - too much of a good thing can and will kill.
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  931. Kids, this is why we should huddle around the press while it's operating... Seriously though, the harder steel is, the more brittle it tends to become and the more energetic is its failure.
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  932.  @jameshall4503  which originated from DeShaney v. Winnebago County, a 1989 case.
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  933. The term is somewhat novel, but the practice goes back to Socratic Questioning, some 2500 years ago.
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  934. The water didn't protect the steel from radiation or well, anything, save from being already recycled for cheap before anyone realized the value of low radiation steel. That said, steel from newly mined ore can be smelted without introducing contamination, the process involved dedicated crucibles, special furnaces that are sealed and either noble gas filled or vacuum chamber based and well, ridiculously expensive overall to operate. It's also how that low radiation steel gets recycled without contamination. And absolutely necessary for things like radiology, which I'm sure those idiots will insist also doesn't exist.
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  935. Entertaining was when he asked if his followers voted and they cheered, then he asked if they were going to vote and many of the same voices cheered. Paid cheering stand?
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  936.  @vladpadowicz5946  in many states, it'd not qualify at all as a firearm. They'd fall back to "prohibited offensive weapon" or something similar, even if it's not explicitly prohibited and watch the court likely reject their charges - still costed you an attorney's fees.
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  937.  @briansmith5293  sundowning is a distinct phenomena that occurs in dementia patients after sunset. It's thought to be related to the biological clock and the cues the brain receives by the changing light conditions that basically prepare us for bedtime. Somnolence during the day is another matter entirely, only possibly loosely related.
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  938. What they forget is, the President can hide inside of the White House bunker or Camp David. They eventually have to return home and face their neighbors. Armed neighbors. Armed neighbors with boiling pine tar and a bag full of feathers.
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  939. Warranty void if you make the mistake of actually trying to use our product as intended.
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  940. The Constitution disagrees with you on sedition and treason.
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  941.  @N17C1  the problem is, when someone thinks that they're the starring hero, but instead are the comedic relief.
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  942. Erm, check real estate connections as well and erm, stock options...
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  943.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu what a fascinating observation - from someone who has obviously never lived in the southern US. An observation of that which entirely is an outright lie. But then, I've lived in the south quite a bit of my rather long life.
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  944.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu why would I use a map, when I could simply go to those clinics, which I have?
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  945.  Dustin Heath  odd, that you object to the Judaic laws Jesus followed, the fetus is part and property of the mother. What kind of heresy are you practicing, that you know more than your creator?
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  946.  @miketheskepticalone6285  I'm a marksman, expert shot actually. Bow, rifle, pistol, flatulence. OK, maybe not accurate with flatulence. The CEP is murderous. Bow is good for one thing, it's silent. Firearms tend to have supersonic shockwaves for each round fired (well, save for some, such as 45 ACP, which is pretty much always subsonic), giving a very distinctive crack when the round goes overhead. Hollywood enjoyed that a lot and ran with it. Now, with something like, oh say The Avengers movie, fighting the incoming army with a rifle would deplete even my 2200 - 2500 rounds in pack and magazines quickly, his quiver would be depleted in a minute or two. Then, he'd be somehow climbing down the building, running about frantically to recover arrows, then shit out arrowheads. Trust me, they hurt when shat out. As a hint, I'm 100% up to 50 meters with a .45 ACP out of a stock M1911A1. Equal with an M9, equal with an M4 or M16 and well, devastating with an M249 or M240. We'll not even talk about an M2, which has absolutely zero survivability level at that range with me. And my recurve bow will put an arrow through a vital area around 90% of the time. For me, a Bear 55 lb recurve. So, for The Avengers, I'd dust off to orbit, then nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. The site being their launch site. I'm kind of a dick that way.
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  947.  @afry6400  what continues to amaze me is how many professionals with fine careers are throwing their literal professional lives and careers away for one man that won't ever cover their losses or even thank them. He's a human wrecking ball for his own supporters careers and lives.
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  948. Be surprised then, as I've saw one of those data centers, they're more like a common warehouse in structure than a bunker. Everything is backed up to a hot site. Sort of like, how does one back up a full SAN? To another SAN. Tape ain't quite cutting it at a certain scale.
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  949.  @christopherleubner6633  as I recall, the ball chain replacement wasn't much better. Pull it out, couldn't put it back in and required a rebuild.
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  950. Basically, our laws are now optional, the legal system available to the highest bidder.
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  951. The only time we didn't get along well with Canada was both times we invaded. Then, the Canadians politely escorted the remainder of our invading Army back to our border and handed them back their weapons. Benedict Arnold was wounded in one of the campaigns and due to a lack of veterans pensions and unable to work his farm after the war, he sold out to the British to survive. Then, Congress finally funded an early version of the VA.
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  952.  @perrymichales4242  the night my wife died, everyone from the 911 dispatcher through to the coroner were sympathetic and professional. Hell, one cop even came back that night to check on me and the following day as well.
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  953.  @Elora445 I actually was lactose intolerant at birth, that went away, then returned after my gallbladder was removed (that's a complete mystery here, as lactose is produced in the intestine, so totally weird). Long and short, I'd give laban or kefir a shot, as the bacteria consume the lactose completely and I've yet to see a lactose intolerant person have a problem with either. Your mileage will likely vary, as individuals are different. One upside to the 9 months that I was intolerant after surgery, got to fall in love with goat milk. I'll treat myself to some around once a year. One warning there, it's fatty as all get out. Cow milk is around 4% fat, goat and sheep milk is much higher in fat. Oh, I also use kefir in place of buttermilk, as both have lactic acid from bacteria and impart quite similar flavors with a bit less fat.
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  954.  @HappyBeezerStudios  my wife died six hours after her wisdom tooth started hurting, as she went septic. Her immune system was quite good, given she was just diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune condition that attacks the body. The antibiotics are automatically prescribed - especially for wisdom teeth like mine, which have to be surgically removed. It's not like they're able to sterilize a human mouth!
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  955. Was in the same boat in S. Central Pennsylvania. Thankfully, a YWCA veterans support program scooped me out of the shelter I'd landed in after my wife of over 41 years had died and I was wheel spinning in a rut. Now under a VA&HUD program to at least get onto my knees, while some serious health issues are addressed before they kill me. And oddly, no substance abuse, I'd just lost direction and motivation to continue and ignored an aneurysm, one eye starting to go blind from a cataract and an out of control thyroid, to name a few things medically wrong. Plus assorted dings and dents from over 28 years in the Army... But, when I'm in a shopping area and see the cut them in half benches and similar antics like spikes on steps where I might want to sit to rest angry knees and back, I just pack up and shop where conditions are more friendly to the disabled and elders. I don't need those specific businesses products, but they sure need my money. And I remember who voted for what idiocy, to ensure they never get my vote. And I only missed one election in my life, when I was deployed and hopping between multiple FOBs, making it difficult for a ballot to find me on time.
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  956.  @Amberion  aw, I'm sure that they'll happily store it safely for him, for a nominal fee.
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  957.  @josephjones825  name even one that disproved the truthfulness of Cohen's testimony.
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  958.  @macmcleod1188  as hygiene has precisely dick to do with hypertension, obesity or diabetes, your statement makes no sense at all and ignores physicians and nurses, who are decidedly not hygiene challenged also falling into the same risk for more severe illness as the rest of the pool of patients.
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  959. They know, Trump might not know or want to know, but everyone with an operational brain realizes placeholder dates when data isn't available. And those dates, well they'd have been pensioners in 1937 - 1939, when Social Security first began paying out and those years, payments were one time lump sum. So, wouldn't be collecting anything now. But then, we'd be confusing the issues with silly little things like facts.
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  960.  @phillipharris8159  then demand the fine be paid by the newly bankrupted citizen, I mean prisoner.
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  961. Ever notice that whenever he mentioned anything about Black people, he immediately followed up with something about farms and farmers? That's a dog whistle for plantation life. Frankly, it's a damned shame that that kid in Pittsburgh couldn't make a shot that a basic trainee a week in on basic rifle marksmanship training has to make or be discharged.
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  962. Yeah, that sounds like something I've said often enough. It never said to preserve a perfect union, but in order to form a more perfect union. We've only one major impediment, an observation made by an ally, "The Americans will do the right thing, after exhausting every other possibility". Words I'm sure Tom is also well aware of.
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  963.  @rowanvolvo5454  likely, the Chewbacca defense.
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  964. South Africa isn't hyphenated, as every native English speaker well knows.
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  965.  @jamesleung0  or he simply lost his paperwork over the course of a long life. Guess he should have his life confiscated, huh?
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  966. Fair's fair, we hold him in utter contempt as well. Pity the courts didn't hold him fully in contempt.
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  967. I don't recall their washing machines, but their vacuum cleaners were quite good. So, if they could make quality products with global renown that sucked, they certainly could work with metals to produce something that gives a serious blow to enemies. I'll just grab my hat...
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  968. Yeah, but frequently, lose the prop and you just pop a new one on. Alas, the mileage fees for a service call is a wee bit high. :/
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  969. Well, he calls Canada a state, enough said. He also thinks that Africa is only one country. And that you can blow out hurricanes with nukes...
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  970.  @Joel-f1s2x  we really don't care about Russia's view.
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  971.  @Matt-pj2ou  gotta agree, they're decidedly not Artificial Idiocy, they're Natural Idiocy.
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  972. Easily done too, just adjust the federal budget for the executive branch to $1.98 for the year. Salaries inclusive. Congress owns the checkbook, the executive owns the services that would be out of money to even start a vehicle engine.
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  973.  @TheHikingnut  nope, they're endemic. The Birchers wanted to bring fascism to the US, then WWII slowed their plans way down.
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  974.  @tropicanaborgatta8335  I don't think that the antichrist can be exorcised.
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  975.  @SouthSideLadyWright  right now, I'm not working, the virus hit the jobs hard. Was to start just before this all kicked up, that went into file 13. Did without, it sucked. My point is, money is not the root of any evil at all, a person's intentions are the root of their evil or good. Money is an object, it's no more inherently good or evil than a roll of toilet paper or a hammer. So, for platitudes, I'd go with, a person is only as good as their intentions and deeds. A person with good intention that performs a deed that causes harm swiftly rectifies that harm, due to their good intentions. A person with bad intentions cannot be counted upon to rectify harm that they caused. But, corporations aren't individuals, they're large groups of people and large groups of people frequently will lose their moral center, due to the statutory requirement that a company makes a profit to reward its investors.
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  976. True, now all we need is Tort Turkey. ;)
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  977.  @Longlivedemocracy24  the problem with both is, both naturalized years ago. Can't deport US citizens. Or as I've told some morons that threatened to deport me, "Where ya gonna deport me to, bozo, South Philly?". In a fine South Philly accent at that, given both of my parents were born in the US, my mother's side of the family having Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. And I'm a veteran as well and military retiree.
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  978. Laughably, I had someone give me some bottled water that had the actual ingredients listed. Water filtered by reverse osmosis, with magnesium sulfate and potassium bicarbonate added for flavor. I trust that more than "Pure Water", which is decidedly not distilled or reverse osmosis filtered water, as they tasted the same as the magnesium sulfate and potassium bicarb added water, which resembles well water in taste due to those chemicals being present in ground water.
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  979.  @UNSUBSCRIBE_T0DAY  too close, I still champion them as co-emperors that care for Don Sr and Vance on our first Venusian surface colony.
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  980.  @WitnessingTyranny  yep, let that unlawful arrest impact the town/county budget deleteriously and watch the unlawful actions swiftly cease or the department runs out of payroll money.
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  981.  @rishtobby  zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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  982. As memory serves, Drexel University has a concrete boat program, as well as plans for and operational concrete canoes. I suspect that more modern concrete mixes and coatings would make the vessels far more longer lasting as seaworthy vessels. It's just currently, we have no need for them, as steel isn't something that there's a great shortage of.
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  983.  @neiloflongbeck5705  most people don't know the difference between concrete, which consists of aggregate and cement and just plain cement. I actually mixed up a light concrete mix and let it cure, as well as just plain cement to show the difference. The cement being exceptionally weak, the concrete cementing yet again its reputation as a tough construction component. ;)
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  984.  @gregpaspatis9425  lemme guess, since I was drinking at some parties at a college, I now have a degree and am intimate associated with everyone there? Nanu-nanu, you've got a really weird notion on how life and associations work that is utterly unreflected in reality. People in the past with such distorted thought processes were given special quarters in special treatment facilities, typically with padded wallpaper to ensure their safety.
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  985.  @sumduma55  one can question logic and one should, one cannot question verified facts and alas, far too many seem to think that facts are variable. Gravity is a fact, yet some idiots reject gravity and think it's open to debate. I just invite them to step off of the roof and demonstrate that gravity does not exist.
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  986.  @bengraham6015  we used to take care of such creatures with a fence rail and a bit of rope. Ride them out of town on a cold night, minus their clothing. It worked before we were a country quite effectively. Or my alternative, a grand toxic waste dump before they can notice or stop me, then good luck finding me later and no more tax payments or mortgage payments, let the bank and town fight over the toxic property.
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  987. It says a lot about the quality of construction of the igloo, containing the worst of the blast resulted in protecting your husband's uncle and his coworkers from what could've easily been far worse. Hopefully, he'll be around for a long time to come, as our elders are our greatest treasure!
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  988.  @donadams8345 he's speaking in tongues, alas, the tongues of asses.
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  989. Frankly, I'm half expecting to see Russia start to deploy WWII relics to Ukraine next, since they can't get any modern tanks off of their assembly lines. They turned themselves into a paper tiger, now issuing "China's final warning", which is an old, old Russian joke.
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  990. Well, his idea of groceries is a Big Mac.
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  991.  @nomenclature9373  dunno, the SecDef might melt without ethanol to decontaminate the soda. Have a problem similar myself, but I don't wear a lampshade like he does. Assuming you did catch his European presser and noticed his repeatedly reaching under the podium for a tumbler with brown clear liquid in it, each time filled to the same level, looked to be six glasses and a dozen swigs.
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  992. And one other thing, the concept of sandblasting.
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  993. True, they also failed to mention CAPTOR mines. A nice blanket of those, originally intended for the GIUK gap would do nicely in the Black Sea and in the strait along the Taiwanese coast.
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  994. She's just proving what's long been said about our nation. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  995. No! I already mailed my ballot on the 4th, it was received on the 6th and Nov 5, it'll be counted. First time I went party line, as I usually went with a few other party candidates based upon their platforms, but a message needed to be sent. Nation over party or lose power, as the nation is of paramount importance, not an individual or party.
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  996. If one can prove to the court that a Tesla has no gas tank, arrested and charged with stealing the electric car's gas tank.
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  997. As I recall, there were two cases of excessive exposure - inside the plant and they were volunteers that shut down valves for plant safety and were selected because they volunteered and were over 50. For pretty much everyone else, it was all about contamination avoidance procedures and PPE.
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  998. One sees that very behavior from certain people on the street corner, as they also exchange their favors for money.
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  999.  @b1gsteve251  when every SOB in office is under threat of a pissed off public replacing them, there's plenty of incentive. The incentive to the public, increased taxes to cover those penalties. It's warfare 101. Make the fight so damned expensive, disruptive and destructive to the other side that they'll beg for peace.
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  1000. Ah, but he has the protection of the Almighty God Mammon.
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  1001. Amazing, the sheer volume of people that want the results of an active investigation before the investigation has barely begun.
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  1002. And a closing rate of close to 300 knots. Not a lot of reaction time to ascertain actual range, hence threat and maneuver. Given the radar, that looks to be a bit over a mile separation at first collision alert, so maybe 10 seconds, with ATC also querying. Decision time to ascertain if it's spurious or actual, that's an awfully short amount of time to avoid collision. Especially for the UH-60, where the aircraft may well have been visually passing through the rotor plane. Unfortunately, we'll be receiving an aviation safety lesson once the investigation has been completed. Unfortunate, for those unfamiliar with transportation safety and aviation safety in particular, as such lessons are extremely expensive, as they're most often paid for in blood. A handful of years ago, there was a somewhat similar crash involving a small airplane and helicopter over bay at NYC. Bad angles and high closure rate resulted in a mid-air collision in a clear daylight sky, with minimal congestion. Just a bad angle for each aircraft to identify one another easily and ascertain closure rate and one the danger was appreciated, it was too late to do anything about it and it was all captured on video.
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  1003. I'd have gone with replicating an M2 .50 BMG barrel, albeit a touch longer for the two foot footer. The footer, not being well specified being 12" thick, reinforced 10000 pound test concrete, a foot below the surface and ten x ten feet, to ensure that the box couldn't possibly tilt into the roadway proper.
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  1004. Now, if Zelensky could unite the old Kievan Rus' peoples and region, he'd give Putin a heart attack. As a hint, Moscow used to belong to the Kievan Rus', who were Vikings that united the entire region under their empire for nearly a thousand years. As a hint, Russia's name originated from Kievan Rus' name, Rus'. Literally. So, by right of historical memory, Russia belongs to Ukraine, where Kiev is, the former capital is. And such memories live long and well in that part of the world.
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  1005. Let's see, $5k for one fine, $10k for a second two days later, then Trump started appearing quite quietly. As if he was shot by a tranquilizer dart every time he started showing signs of even mild agitation.
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  1006. That's what happens when marketing gets their hands on naming a product.
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  1007. It begins when it's dark, as all sundowner's symptoms begin to appear.
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  1008. Just another fine example of how the United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  1009.  @ShellyCline  yes, the infuriating part is, nothing within the chamber or room should've been combustible and most certainly no ignition source should have been present. I can think of absolutely nothing within the chamber proper that should've been an ignition source!
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  1010.  @anelemtiki3004  oh, committing 34 felonies, perhaps? These weren't misdemeanors or summary offenses, they were felonies.
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  1011.  @alasondrolinney5317  more like a mixture of the Marx Brothers playing a dictator and the Three Stooges.
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  1012. Trust me, Ethiopian coffee is higher in delicious aromatics than any other cultivar. Fresh ground, lest the aromatics be rapidly lost.
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  1013. I think it's only a matter of time until a mockup turns instead into a real, operational aircraft. Maybe not fighter performance, but at least can fly. ;)
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  1014.  @MikesTropicalTech  I still have my military ID card, so I'm good, but if he has a veteran health ID card from the VA, he should be golden - per DHS. Still feels like I'm in some dictatorship though, where "Travel Papers" can be demanded...
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  1015.  @echochamber.  that wasn't stealing. It was a dynamic reallocation of another's resources by the means other than military. Military means obviously being ineffective everywhere they've applied them...
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  1016.  @slatondragon  and entirely true, even we seek to make any engagement anything but a fair fight, the goal is essentially a mugging from hell.
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  1017.  @nickybeingnicky  nope, that's why surgeons have lengthy residencies.
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  1018.  @SuperSikntired  so, Kash is going to undead the shooter and charge him with a crime? Or is the dead shooter only allegedly dead and really got better after laying for an entire day on the roof of that building? Or is the god-king gonna condemn the shooter to hell on national TV after Kash prosecutes him? Or are you saying that the governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania runs and micromanages security details of the Secret Service that Pennsylvania secretly operates for the federal government and intentionally stationed some random armed civilian that shot at Trump? I'm curious as to the level and depth of your delusions, so do tell me more!
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  1019.  @KristenEnz how much blood sustains that which is in a freezer? Electricity and blood are quite different. And not much sustenance is going on, when around 1/3 - 1/2 products of conception end up inside of a tampon or sanitary napkin. Are we next to charge women for failed implantation?
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  1020.  @chouseification  I wonder how painful to your ears it is when someone from Philly turns on the spiggot (how it gets pronounced) at the zinc (again, how sink gets pronounced) to fill a glass with worder. ;) Being from Philly, I can keep that one going for weeks. :P I'm fluent in American English and actual English, but still have no idea whatinhell they speak in Liverpool...
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  1021.  @lilianboiten9867  yeah, but there's no Constitutional mechanism for an election mulligan. We also don't have a recall or no-confidence vote mechanism. The only things remaining are impeachment and unlawful actions. And the last time I checked, we do try to be a people of law.
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  1022. Paper clips are dwindling slowly, but staples remain annoyingly ubiquitous. Those are uglier, as they vaporize and now one has a cloud of gaseous steel in a plasma state.
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  1023. In the early '80's, I was working in our nuclear deterrent forces. Today, I literally live basically on ground zero, due to my living in a state capitol, surrounded by a bunch of DoD depots. Suffice it to say, she's not making me perspire in championing our unconditional surrender to Stalin-lite. Stalin was far more competent and well, the treaties give us more nukes than Russia has towns and cities, the converse is not true - we've more cities and towns than Russia has nukes. The end result in a countervalue exchange is, our economy and industrial base would be badly mangled, but Russia would quite literally become extinct. And after decades of Cold War training and experience, I do know that Russians aren't suicidal idiots, they're typically quite bright.
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  1024.  @adeveo9067  and it backfired, rather than being recognized as a nuclear state, they were recognized as an incompetent nuclear state, but instead got points for working and playing well with others. Not exactly the goal he likely had in mind, but it worked out well enough in the end for the nation.
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  1025.  @D_e_n_i_s_e_B  the military does not have police powers under the Posse Comitatus Act, only possessing such powers during a state of emergency that prevents the courts from holding session. The military also has a duty to question, then disregard unlawful orders. For this, it's Congress' duty to intervene via impeachment, conviction and removal.
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  1026.  @terryoquinn8199  heh, I'm 63 and walk with a cane, if they brought some more friends, it'd be about equal odds and they'd all learn what I did in the real Army.
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  1027. Naw, there's worse. Blog, wait for a fine notice, then sue for damages over their shredding the very first amendment and enforcing their laws in other states. Just to make their stupidity cost the taxpayers of Florida significant money, hopefully enough to irritate them into voting for mentally competent individuals for a change.
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  1028.  @c3aloha  "as long as one American man and one American woman survives, we have won". Besides, we closed the mineshaft gap decades ago.
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  1029.  @DavidHarrison-x2r4eyes  just evidence for day drinking is a bad thing, even in Russia.
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  1030.  @chiaraA.  not as long as President Musk and VP Trump promote his appointment.
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  1031. More like a lap dog pretending to be a wolf. Bring a real wolf in, the truth gets told swiftly.
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  1032. AluminumStud , don't forget around 25 pounds of rifle, optics and a 10 round magazine of .50 BMG ammunition. Meanwhile, it's utterly unconcealable, which is not a feature for a criminal's desires, isn't something fired while standing with (either prone or on a bench rest position only) and the ammunition is expensive as well. People can legally purchase artillery, we've yet to have a crime committed with artillery. We've not had a crime committed with the predecessor of this, the M82 in the decades since it became available. So, it's a huge non-issue. Trying to commit a crime with this is like trying to commit a crime with an anvil.
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  1033. +John Driver first, enforcement of the law belongs to the police and the courts, not reckless drivers. Second, driving fast to get to the hospital means ending up delayed to get to the hospital while awaiting fire-rescue extracting you and your injured child from the twisted wreckage of your vehicle. A task I have performed in the past.
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  1034. +John Driver the law also prohibits driving in excess of the speed limit. One does not yield to unlawful operators, just as one does not yield to criminal activity.
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  1035. +John Driver in the states I operated in, none permitted an emergency vehicle to exceed the speed limit. Getting there slow beats not being able to get there due to wrecking an ambulance. That said, it was a five state sparse sample around this nation. I was military at the time. Common courtesy does not extend to addressing criminal necessity. If I'm in the left lane, it's for a reason, I'm passing or avoiding an onramp/intersection. I also move back into the speed limit traffic and let the maniacs wreck their vehicles and halt my progress and really hate their selfishness that has halted my travel. And that has happened in my lifetime on more than a few occasions. The times I actually checked, the maniac survived, others did not. I stopped checking, lest I lose faith in humanity altogether. As for common courtesy, after I redeployed home in military retirement, I noticed that a lot. Both in daily activities and civil discourse. It had also entered into political discourse in a similar manner before my return to this nation. To be honest, I'm sorry to return to such a failed nation, it pains me each and every day to see such a societal failure and worse, a societal embracing of criminal behavior (well, criminal before I deployed away to defend the nation). Today, we have security theater to comedic proportions accepted as the norm, permitting the terrorists to win by changing our society. We also have people suggesting all manner of mayhem upon those law abiding. The land of the free and home of the brave turned into the land of the restrained and the home of the craven. Before I redeployed home, craven was only used in regard to individuals, now it's used in regard to a social acceptance. But then, common courtesy is extinct here. People do what they want to do. If I did what I wanted to do, this nation would have a lot less people living in it. I refrain from that because I'm civilized. I use the left lane to pass, then move into traffic. I don't yield to speeding maniacs that won't let me pass or speed insanely and swiftly and unsafely change lanes to flip the bird at me to prove insanity, only to lose control in their uncivilized excess of insanity to lose control after. Fuck him and fuck any other asshole that thinks that is acceptable, with a 40mm bore brush. Twice. I saw similar behavior at home before, the driver ended up causing six fatal wrecks avoiding such reckless driving. That's colored my viewpoint in this matter. Fortunately, in some ways, the driver was eventually arrested and convicted. Now, his family goes without his income and suffers. Fuck all if I can figure out how to equalize that problem. But, in road rage, I have an ROE, force against force, in level. Punch, I'll punch back, dearly. Draw a weapon, all bets are off, I go lethal. Super-escalation works toward survival. I'm nice enough of a guy who has repeatedly brought up religion and politics on three continents, in general discussion and in good favor. I've also explained to Wheaton where his law of "Don't be a dick" has limits that he has since learned the limits of.
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  1036. First off, to possess a suppressor, you have to undergo a background investigation that is exhaustive, think Top Secret clearance kind of investigation. Second, when you fire that thing, everyone knows where the shot came from, if unsuppressed and likely even suppressed. If you're in a school area, you're in a residential area, which is populated enough to hear the suppressed shot (it isn't a muffler, it simply changes the characteristics of the sound, it's still gunshot loud). The standard Barrett kicks up a lot of debris over ten meters around, so even Helen Keller could tell where a shot came from. Add in the thing weighs between 25 and 45 pounds, plus optics and magazine (figure 10 pounds for both), add in around $10K - 15K for weapon, ammunition and optics, it's not getting used in any crimes.
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  1037. Well, an upside is, for the dining ware, if the glaze remains intact, it's still safe to eat off of. As for military sources, there was a changeover to tritium for self-illuminated devices. It shares the failure of phosphor with the old radium types though, the phosphor will fail before the tritium has decayed away. Had to replace one compass that I served with for my entire career for that reason. In theory, I could've had it serviced, but given some internal improvements in the current model and minimal cost difference, I just replaced it. Had a laugh and gave a lesson in a different forum, where people were freaking out over Florida authorizing phosphogypsum usage in highway construction. It was used in construction and roofing tiles for decades, but "it's radioactive" freak-outs got it restricted. It's around as radioactive as an average granite kitchen counter - for much the same reason. So apparently, phosphogypsum is evil, but granite is cool or something. Complete with a promise of driving down a Florida highway and contracting acute radiation syndrome, talk about overreaction and failed risk analysis. I guess they should've stayed on the battlestar, as earth's way too hostile for them. Actually examining the risk would be to look for dust liberated for potential exposure for sensitive individuals, form the isotope is in chemically, as in bioavailability or ability to become lodged in tissues such as lungs, etc. Nope, anything radioactive is evil, so excuse me while I go turn off the sun and all of the stars and put all the black holes into shoeboxes.
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  1038. Well, no good lawyers want to represent him, as they're really weird people. They expect to get paid for their work.
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  1039. Heh, the only thing I was undecided on today was whether or not to cook up some stew for tomorrow while tonight's dinner is cooking. Decided to stage everything for the crockpot tomorrow, gives me something to do tomorrow. Already sent my ballot in on the 4th by mail, received on the 6th. It'll be counted, per state law, on Nov 5.
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  1040.  gigantastore8013  hey now, I'm infamous for hand speech. Indeed, I have to remember to put down a knife when talking while preparing dinner, nearly lost an ear that way.
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  1041. There was no precedent made, the judge simply upheld a longstanding precedent. A closer example is, the employer decides to cease paying the workers completely, but wants the court to force them back to work.
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  1042. Interestingly, quite a few of those who worked in the plutonium lab became "plutonium pissers", literally having plutonium present in their urine for the remainder of their lives. With the majority dying of advanced old age. Those exposed to prompt critical radiation, especially neutrons, weren't so fortunate. But, most of those were in a team where a lab accident killed the physicist performing the experiment and many of those farther away got sick and later, various cancers associated with radiation. The radiation from the bomb itself, not so much to worry about, as by the time you're close enough that it's seriously dangerous, you've got a whole difference concern, that whole being instantly incinerated thing going on. But, they were utterly clueless about fallout at that time, so yeah, plenty present got fallout from the tamper and core dumped all over them and being fresh from the oven, that was some seriously hot shit. Two weeks later, not that hot at all, but immediately after, downright evil kind of hot.
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  1043.  @ChristineCummings-s3p  he did invert cesium and boron when trying to explain why they were injecting boron into Fukushima. But, that's reactor physics, had he been discussing coolant or circulation, I know he'd have been spot on.
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  1044. There were many, many complaints of "unrelenting investigations", but we still ended up putting Al Capone in prison.
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  1045. My mother was a seamstress and knew sewing machines inside and out. I took that and well, always have been good with mechanical things and figured out the finer details, such as gear timing and finding timing marks to sync up the shuttle and needle. Came in handy when removing a shuttle, as someone forced the cloth through and bent the needle, burring the shuttle and catching and not releasing the thread. And figuring out bobbin tension problems.
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  1046.  @markkettlewell7441  the Lord of the Lies, who recently even went on about being literally plagued by flies at his own rallies. Lord of the Flies too? If you recall who that was in the bible...
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  1047.  @astrobullivant5908  nearly correct, observed, it'd appear to be an impossibly fast moving inversion of what gravitational lensing looks like.
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  1048. She'd have to pay dearly to be rid of me...
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  1049. Actually, Made in Japan was a joke throughout the US in the 1960's and 1970's, until quality control became a major focus in Japan. Then, it became a hallmark of excellence. Well, other than the "famous Japanese disappearing grease" used in VCR's...
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  1050. Because, a sphere inside of a hollowed out sphere its size in cavity would only have that spherical core roll out and fall onto the floor. The reflector should've either been on a hinge or rail, so that it didn't have to be lifted above the contraption.
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  1051. First, it's one judge, not multiple judges. Second, it's a state court matter and hence, "citizens of the USA" is irrelevant, it's "citizens of Georgia". So, we'll let things play out, as the state supreme court has been informed and found sufficiently for the defense counsel to release him pending trial and that will quite annoy those jurists, as appearances of impropriety smears their bench as much as the offending jurist's bench is smeared. I wise old police sergeant was issuing police badges and credentials at the police academy graduation. Before he did, he advised all of the rookies, "Whenever you do something wrong, you not only smear your own badge with shit, you dip mine into shit as well. Please don't dip my badge in shit".
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  1052. A bit of trivia, when I was growing up, a cheaper method was used on our community roads. Rather than asphalt roads that we know today, the township extensively used "tar and chip" roads, which was asphalt poured onto the old surface, small gravel then dumped unto that and a top coat of asphalt poured over the stones. Made for an unholy mess when I came into the house, eventually moving to taking off my shoes before coming in the door and using lighter fluid to dissolve the asphalt stuck to my soles, rather than coating our linoleum floor. Yeah, gave away my age there... Didn't last anywhere as long as asphalt roads and the stones would kick up and scratch the paint on cars, making the political leadership ever so popular with the public. Leading to the slightly more expensive at the time asphalt roads that remain today. Longer lasting and as a side effect, easier to plow. The road ain't worth much if one plows up the aggregate along with the ice and snow. I also learned during my global travels in the military that there are different mixtures, depending upon the environmental conditions. Hot vs cold being predominant, so Germany would utilize a different mixture of asphalt than a tropical nation. Use the wrong mixture for the application environment, it won't last very long, maybe a season. And I've yet to find a surface that can survive the desert for long, well, save for my skin. ;) One benefit of pure Sicilian genetics, having enough variety due to historic, erm, interactions to tolerate the African and Arabian deserts and the frigid wastes of a northern winter. Although personally, I prefer my climate like I prefer my women - hot, which is why I always tell them how much I enjoy the meatloaf. I'll just get my coat...
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  1053.  @Mr80jb  how fascinating, given there hasn't even been an election yet. And the last time I counted, we had a few more states in the Union than two that have held primaries.
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  1054. The newer models are more efficient, not more reliable. One can have both, but few would be willing to bear the much higher cost. :/ I would, largely because of having to replace the contents of fridge and freezer at the most inopportune of times. Twice.
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  1055.  @dsm9785  well, if he was washing it, he'd have been washing it with ice. Even though that is what I heard, but then I'm half deaf and the other can't hear... :/ Anyone think that the lady warming her car up might be interested in brick pointing services? I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  1056. Well, long term is an odd term. Hours? Days? Weeks? Oh, thanks for clarifying the specific salt, that's incredibly useful! That said, insulate well, store heat, boil wet shit, life's grand for steampunks that we still are. ;)
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  1057.  @ghtbe no, my bad though, something I ate disagreed with being eaten. Just clear air turbulence or flight exceeded maximum Mach. For CAT, there are procedures to get out of that mess quickly enough, it's harmless to the aircraft, but it can wreak havoc to unbelted passengers. Exceeding maximum Mach, that's grounds to tear their pilot's license up. Literally.
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  1058.  @ittsacrazyworld  I have a buddy that has a PhD in epidemiology. The math he uses dizzies me and I can crunch through the math involved in nuclear physics! Statistics plays the most important part of epidemiology, for that allows response teams to get in front of an epidemic.
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  1059. Congress awards the medal and tends to gain an intense, service injurious dislike of such officers. As in, really screwing with officer authorizations and budget until said officer becomes compliant with his government's wishes. The last such was an Air Force officer, who was ordered by Congress to release retired war dogs for adoption by volunteers. Said officer kept having the dogs destroyed, the Air Force suddenly couldn't get officers appointed and funding got tangled in perpetual committees and said officer was ordered to release the animals, then reassigned to a less complicated position, where promotion was beyond unlikely. I did hear something about the chaplain refusing a Navy Cross, only to find himself overruled by Congress by being awarded the Medal of Honor. Good chaplains are worth far more than their weight in precious metals!
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  1060. I'm thinking of three words. A Greek tragedy.
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  1061. That is entirely untrue! He's got two, both competing for third place.
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  1062.  @jimcarr1354  oh? What's coming? The tooth fairy?
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  1063. We have two primary deployment modes. Airborne mode, with somewhat limited assets deployable and while granted, it's an impressive capability, a full army it is not. Then, there's marine transportation mode, which can take weeks to get shiploads of angry men and angrier equipment.
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  1064.  @erickborling1302  OK, Boomer. Shaking My Damned Head. Dude was born ignorant and has been losing ground ever since! Signed, another Boomer.
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  1065.  @Chifan71  there used to be a form of entertainment precisely like this. It was called a side show. Took merciless advantage of those with deformities in their freak shows. It proves that a moderate sized element of humanity still hasn't grown up.
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  1066.  @san-ti7np  a cut rate Trump. Which makes him slightly below third rate.
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  1067.  @QuiteSimplyMyChoice I have, but youtube frowns upon my suggestions on how to handle Russia and their bots. It involves a lot of heat and ionizing radiation.
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  1068. Yeah, but it was one of those iridescent sharks from a tropical fish tank that's managed by a child. IRBM's are ancient news, MIRV type warheads, well, the dispersion and inaccuracies involved suggest a failure in the warhead dispensing bus guidance, with good fortune allowing one city to get a warhead on one house, rather than an actual military target in Kiev, some 200 km from where one warhead hit that house and precisely zero government targets struck. Which is embarrassingly far off the mark for a Russian MIRV! We're talking, aiming at Honolulu and hitting Johnston Island instead, just a wee bit off target, Johnston being where we did launch nukes to test them from and Honolulu feeling one EMP from an EMP test from Johnston (and it was way off course and still far from Hawaii.). This is more like a kid playing with daddy's loaded pistol, albeit with only one or two rounds loaded and the gun's a cheap Saturday Night Special, infamous for either not firing or hitting anything except what it was aimed at.
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  1069.  @bibigems well, close enough. Plain English, no bullet points, no imagery, he'll lose interest partway down the page - he did when in office.
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  1070.  @willa.1093  Trump, he couldn't even make bond for his last appeal and needed a private bond to give to the court.
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  1071. I had discomfort, with burning at times, right in the area consistent with gallbladder obstruction from stones. An ultrasound verified an assortment of large economy size stones and the gallbladder and stones removed, the common bile duct verified as clear. Still had the discomfort, which eventually turned out to be from oddly referenced GERD symptoms. :/ A decade and change later, one night, I had severe pain in the solar plexus region, with rebound in the right quadrant, severe nausea, was soaked with sweat and spiking a mild fever. An episode of vomiting resulted in a sensation of something solid impacting my lower stomach and the symptoms resolved. Everything consistent with obstruction at the sphincter of Oddi, which is where the common bile duct empties into the stomach. Interestingly, the press reported that Ruth Bader-Ginsburg had a stent in that very location.
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  1072. Saw video of a daylight, clear sky collision, both aircraft literally were in each other's blind spot until the last second, when it was too late. Aircraft aren't slow, so closure rate can be literally a blink of an eye at times. That's why in class B airspace like that, ATC is supposed to have extremely tight control and mandatory separation. Of course, a lot of flight safety and other protective programs just were defunded and decapitated, leading to chaos. Don't know if that factored in, but assuming they're not defunded, the NTSB investigation should determine what happened and make recommendations to prevent it from happening in the future.
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  1073.  @bethb7965  that's because it's all part of a grand unified policy. The Grand Unified Unicorn Fart policy.
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  1074. What?! Saint Ronnie Raygun? A man denounced as way too liberal for the god-Trump. OK, the first part I was joking a bit on, the second, I'm serious about. Although, currently he'll deny it. Using his tired old Groucho Marx line, "What are you going to believe, your senses or me?".
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  1075. He'd better step on the accelerator on the golf cart and "run" faster.
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  1076. I never did object to paying my taxes, I've always considered it for what it was, an investment in my nation and her future.
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  1077. Another common cause of botulism in small children, especially infants is from honey. The bacteria proliferate in their underdeveloped intestines and poison them. Another common in newborns, from the umbilical cord stump, although that's much less common in the modern era.
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  1078. Why do you repeat yourself? Greedy and Trump are synonyms.
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  1079.  @mavjimbo  humanity never can have enough of such moments.
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  1080. The layout design can be copyrighted, novel construction components can as well, although they also have to comply with the standards you mentioned, as well as local and state building codes. But, the blueprint being denied to the homeowner, that's novel enough that if I were facing that, I'd have a bulldozer to remove the offending construction, then sue the living shit out of the builder and design firm for having to redo their deficient work, as with no knowledge on what I required to complete my home, as stipulated prior to purchase, the work is deficient by lack of appropriate documentation and had to be replaced at their cost - plus punitive damages. Seriously, the design plans of the home are more secret than the construction of a frigging hydrogen bomb, what an absurdity!
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  1081. Well, as long as they're worshiping their proper Lord, the Lord of the Lies. While they preach antichristian everything.
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  1082.  @philiphockenbury6563  well, there's some of that with Hollywood, but there, it's more a function of story over accuracy and the few producers called on it basically were "tough shit, I'm making entertainment, not a documentary". Shame, as it's possible to do both, but few rarely exert themselves to do a proper job of well, anything.
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  1083. At least he'd be easy to find at parties. "Hey, where's SecDef, the Boss needs him ASAP!" "Oh, check the corner, he's the only one wearing a lampshade and pissing on the drapes".
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  1084.  @HappyBeezerStudios  that's what I said, then she slapped me. ;)
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  1085.  @Cheryl-o4k  I'm sure it went straight into File 13.
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  1086. People always hesitate and refuse to give up their false religion and man pretending to be a god.
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  1087. Everything isn't always repairable. There are times when it's just more cost effective to rebuild it the right way. ;)
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  1088. Regardless of the pre-flight being conducted properly or at all, trying to control that aircraft initially had to be like trying to fly a space alien's flying saucer, where controls are behaving in utterly foreign ways from what they should be behaving like and the spoilers and ailerons opposing literally risking stalling a wing at every moderate input. It's actually amazing the amount of abuse that the aircraft withstood and still remained even moderately airworthy enough to bring everyone safely to the ground. Between this aircraft and the 747 that lost thrust in #4 and upset, the forces were titanic against the entire airframe, in every axis, yet brought crew and passengers safely to the ground. That's some robust designs from both manufacturers!
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  1089. And those lessons are still taught today, without the ethnic idiocy. A bright bastard's a bright bastard, regardless of origin.
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  1090. He's working on it, he's been doing nothing but laying eggs in court and now, a crowded stadium. The biggest crowd, crowds like he's never seen.
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  1091.  @davidwydra2401  personally, it's a pot metal that just, erm, cute. Other elements, well, some are wonderful catalysts.
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  1092.  @marygoround1292 I'd watch when the ladies' rooms are cleaned, see if the two bags get consolidated or have separate bags. If they get consolidated, it's some odd etiquette thing. I'm unaware of any such secondary waste stream though, at least in any western nation I'm aware of or lived in. As for the biohazard bag approach, they'd just outlaw abandoning biohazardous waste... And besides, sounds far more expensive and exhausting than just investing in pine tar, some wood or a cheap pot to boil it in and some waste feathers from a poultry slaughterhouse... Then, a Home Depot fence rail and some cheap concertina wire to bind them on for their ride out of town in their new feather suit. It was a highly effective treatment a couple of centuries ago.
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  1093. That's why one design I saw for missions left the EVA suits attached to the shelter/vehicle. Just had to brush off the rear suit entry hatch, rather than bringing in a nasty, dust covered suit inside of the shelter/vehicle.
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  1094. We shut down the remaining reactor at TMI in 2019, all due to it costing twice as much to run as to produce power by burning natural gas.
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  1095.  @christophercox8237  interesting though, black jacket, black hat, just needs the arm band for a full Gestapo look.
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  1096. Governors have no authority over what is in the air, that's federal. And it'd shut down two major airport approaches for NYC and a major international ones at that.
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  1097.  @kixxxxxx  not really, given Russia could then cover a sunken wrecked aircraft with the Caspian Flotilla and recover everything, regardless of objections of any nation whose maritime space it's encroaching upon. Honestly, at this point, I'm wondering if they'd lost elevator control, but managed to retain trim control, both being different circuits and trim beginning to fail at the end. It'd explain some of the performance at the end. Still, one fights to maintain control until it's time to jump onto the slide.
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  1098.  @Makroti1050-z9y  Russia is bombing Gaza, Netanyahu and the ICC? Given that this story is about Russia attacking Ukraine, which is decidedly far afield the Levant.
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  1099.  @notapplicable4567  pity you jump in to defend Russia without viewing the video, which shows the kid's body being removed.
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  1100. Ogres, onions, you mean smelly and make people cry?
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  1101.  @Plutogalaxy  the pool and pool usage logs still exist, as those pools are products that someone has to pay for. Laws introduced in the last handful of years added deeper, more in depth logging of that data and well, courtesy of certain US agencies, metadata and IP connection data is forever. Do you really want to argue about IT security with an Information Assurance professional?
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  1102.  @rileycoyote8275  which was shut down and given to the University of Alaska well over a decade ago. And to the other idiocy, nobody's detonated a nuke since the '90's and that was underground. So, you're trying to tell us a state university is trying to destroy a US state because of hand wave. There are doctors that can help you, you know.
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  1103.  @rayreinhard1077  actually, once declared president-elect, they do apply. At least per the USG itself.
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  1104.  @unnimack9687 I'd be checking the boxes to be sure they don't instead contain guns.
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  1105.  @Tool2370  it's fortunate then that there are 320 million Americans then, huh?
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  1106. Actually, there's another reason. Everything about the detection network beyond its mere existence is classified. One has to secure permission from the data owner any data to be released, to whom and precisely what is to be released. That requires a security review at several levels. So, perhaps the USCG command or even scene commander knew, but still didn't have permission to discuss the classified data or know precisely what was permitted to be released. Few would ever consider risking that, as the view from PFC Manning's cell had really lousy reviews.
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  1107. "I hope the chain of command is ready for a sudden retirement". Ready or not, here it comes! Yeah, I'm seriously wondering about the viability of Ensign Helen Keller's career, first as air defense officer on the Gettysburg, now as conning officer on the Truman. Although, the investigation might get a bit muddle if the canal pilot was still at the con, not that damned much. It's not as if radar and radios haven't been invented yet.
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  1108. The Russian Federation reported to the IAEA, as required for any member that has an incident. I feel bad for the medical staff, as there was nothing that they could do beyond medicate him enough that he wasn't in agony for a time and after, still nothing that could be done.
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  1109.  @rustyrebar123  no, they have qualified immunity. So, she'll not even get an apology, just a thanks for her service, denial due to conviction for medicaid, then sat under a bridge. To then be arrested for vagrancy. Well, until she litigates, then her attorney wins.
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  1110.  @procerusgigas  I usually make all of my food from scratch, not very much prepared foods at all. I still get random shitstorms, can't find a food that'll replicate it, no rhyme or reason. I attribute some of that to age, some to hyperthyroidism. And a lot to the powers above proving, yet again, shit happens. Gotta keep a sense of humor, lest one ends up gibbering on a street corner with the preachers.
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  1111. I'd pull a Scotty, grab the scotch bottle and reply, "I'll let ya know". A few months later, call him with some mod suggestions... "Oh, I took the liberty of reverse engineering your telemetry and tried a few mods..." My fee: A small fleet of FDA approved models down the road.
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  1112. Yep, did the same for the last 30 years or so, as my skillets either got stolen or broken during moves. Honestly, I'm thinking that I need an armed guard on my kitchen stuff...
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  1113. These dealings are precisely like an incompetent armed robber. "Give me all of your money and I'll kill you!" "Don't you mean OR you'll kill me?" "No! Either way, I'll kill you." The only winner is the lawyers. I think that Shakespeare had a good point...
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  1114.  @rachelehosten1323  why? Lead and antimony haven't ceased to exist.
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  1115. No, but I'd be more than satisfied that justice was done if, after a few years of no trouble, expunging her record. It tells the convict, "Yeah, you screwed up, you paid for it, you admitted to it and you've learned from your mistake and not even come close to repeating it. You've regained our trust as a society".
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  1116. Sort of like My Fellow American meets Grumpy Old Men. Which are actually two of my favorite films (well, the both of the Grumpy Old Men films).
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  1117.  @MrSofazocker  in part, but there's this great bloody fusion furnace delivering craptons of heat to a metal box. What is a metal box that one applies heat to called again? An oven. Ever heard of Laika? The first animal sent into orbit. Due to a failure to separate the final stage of the rocket, the capsule cooling system couldn't operate. She died due to the capsule temperatures reaching lethal levels on her fourth orbit. Not that she'd have survived, as there was no reentry system designed for the capsule yet. 5 months later, the capsule reentered and disintegrated.
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  1118. I'm still dealing with the aftermath. Our youngest has long COVID, I have a badly damaged mitral valve. Thanks for nothing, Trump.
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  1119. The ballast was construction pipes just laid in a rack, so such an orientation change would literally cause the sub to dump ballast and bob to the surface uncontrollably. There is no real "taking on water" in that design, the pressures are so extreme, even a pinhole would generate a jet capable of cutting a human in half and damaging the hull. I'm still of the belief it was the viewport that failed. The inrush of water would generate a tremendous water hammer within the pressure vessel, plus equipment and crew being thrown like projectiles inside the hull, generating stresses that'd cause the hull to entirely fail. The Hydraulic Press channel has an excellent scale model carbon fiber over titanium sub that he ran up to 80 - 85 bar pressures before failure. He didn't have a viewport on the kludge, but it did show some impressive strength until failure and worrisome traits as well (bubbles being squeezed from the carbon fiber)..
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  1120.  @deuce38  even most advanced biology courses won't cover the human reproductive tract details. That'd be more along the lines of anatomy and physiology and especially obstetrics and gynecology. And isn't covered in major detail even in Benson & Pernoll's Handbook of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In some significant part because very little about women has been studied individually, to include pharmacological effects and reactions. It's only been fairly recently that women finally have merited study by medicine.
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  1121.  @deuce38  well, despite all of the medical training, 42 years of marriage and we both kept learning new things. Then, she up and died on me. Pretty sure that the only thing that saved me from takotsubo cardiomyopathy was that I was already prescribed a rather high dosage of beta blockers. Definitely had some weird things going on right after she died suddenly.
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  1122. My uncle was a merchant marine and avid small boat owner. He had a plaque that read, "A boat is a hole in the water, surrounded by wood, into which you pour money". Aircraft carriers aren't wood, but they are a deep hole in the water to throw money into. I've heard that the Ukrainian builders failed to tell the Russians that the burners were supposed to be fed bunker oil, but did facilitate deliveries of coal. ;)
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  1123.  @dontaylor7315  oh, I do bite. But, I reserve that for those who are exceptional, as I've never suffered fools well. For the ignorant, facts and educate treat their condition with education. But, I'm not above sarcasm or hyperbole when it suits my needs. ;) Old Army NCO, NCO's are educators first, disciplinarians last.
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  1124. Well, did the same thing for a living for many years. You'd be surprised to learn how many people haven't mastered rightie tightie, lefty loosey. Or how to hammer a nail and not their own fingers. Personally, when I did have a house, I made sure it was numbered and that the curb had the address painted on it.
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  1125. OK, now the fun begins. Prove intent over incompetence. Without calling in the Psychic Friends Network. Proving mens rea remains central to any prosecution.
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  1126.  @egondro9157  what a fascinating invention out of whole cloth! You do realize that we document history and we record laws? Corporal punishment was outlawed in the US military in 1869. I joined in 1981, but served with Vietnam War veterans and was trained by them. What was known to happen back from WWII onward until the '80's at latest was an occasional "we'll take the rank off and discuss this behind the barracks", which basically turned into, if the subordinate won the fight, he'd find out quickly that that rank never did come off. The rest of the "agressive, confrontational and tough" is pure blather, especially "officers are supposed to be gentlemen", as officers end up fighting as well, then and now. Why do you post about shit that you know nothing whatsoever about? At least I served for 28 years!
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  1127. ​ @SOSPainting  nah. He's got the same loaded gun. He just lucked out by having a worn out firing pin.
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  1128. I'm not going to go out voting. I mailed my ballot on the 4th, it was received on the 6th. It'll be read on Nov 5. I think I'll go to the bakery, order a Kiss My Ass Trump cake.
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  1129.  @AugieRockero  I imagine that its failure, as abject as the Ukrainian invasion has remained, makes him have a big sad. So sad, too bad.
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  1130.  @MackDickson-m8y  some, but they're wisely laying low. The tallest tree in the forest remains the first to be felled. The party's autophagy, well that hearkens back to the birth of the Republican Party, out of the ashes left by the Know Nothings of the Whig Party that they had purged and imploded. Downside, the new Republican Party's first POTUS candidate was some Abraham Lincoln guy and things got a bit difficult for a while.
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  1131.  @johncallahan3171  that would require a literal act of Congress to do, as that protection is provided by order of an act of Congress.
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  1132. Just tell him that he's signing for the Qatari airplane.
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  1133. And in some cases, what the internal structures look like at a cellular level. An example being dinosaur marrow, whose structure was preserved down to the cellular level, despite the loss of the majority of proteins and DNA.
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  1134. Red is the new orange.
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  1135. That is absolutely not true at all! They hate honesty even more than competency.
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  1136.  @nmcniven5145  I prefer my facts with reality and that whole truth thing going on. Why would anyone want to worship the Lord of the Lies?
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  1137.  @Lynette.usa.  and get 2/3 of the Senate to ensure impeachments go through unimpeded.
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  1138. Soy sauce salted, with extra salt, with additional salt. Boy, did my blood pressure skyrocket! Worse, no garlic, which is absolutely a sacrilege.
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  1139. Yep, check with doctor first or end up dealing with tons of doctors and pharmacists later. My blown disc gave me superpowers. Allow me to introduce myself. I am barometerman. If a major barometric pressure change comes in, a minimum of one leg and occasionally, both legs get the familiar 440 volts down both cheeks to the balls of my feet. At a minimum, with just regular severe storms, it's rock hard calf spasms and an inability to feel what position my knee is in. I was considering taking doctor up on a full body transplant, as my knees are shot as well and my hearing is fairly lousy, but the only donor bodies come with a brain. Ain't needed one of those for decades. ;)
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  1140. Right here in Harrisburg, PA. I've vanishingly rarely voted straight party ticket, this election, I have.
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  1141. Well, it is almost too simply explained, but since you did the math, you also remember your aspirin budget while doing that math. ;) What overloads many is albedo, which is counterintuitive in its effects on climate for most. Well, that and how slow radiative cooling into space actually is. Indeed, most people don't comprehend even partially how a thermos works. People tend to trust their own daily experiences, it takes a lot of education to allow one to trust the math.
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  1142. Are they making a profit from defending the paying defendant in a way demanded of that defendant? Not much of a waste of their degrees then.
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  1143.  @sabrekai8706  many universities still have concrete canoe competitions. So, I'm sure that boat plans are still about that use more modern mixtures, techniques and sealants.
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  1144. That's actually ancient news, given since the attempt to post bond was made, the boding company was found incapable of actually covering the bond and since then, found major discrepancies in the paperwork. Basically, fraudulently trying to get out of a fraud conviction, via fraud. I wonder which building will go first?
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  1145.  @MarcosElMalo2  the last referendum was successful, Congress ignored the red headed stepchild again, as usual. Good enough to serve alongside of us in war, second fiddle the rest of the time.
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  1146.  @Valthalin  I'm actually prepared to be generous, paying better than what the poor pay in is an excellent good faith gesture. If they're not happy, well, there's always the French National Razor.
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  1147.  John Grit  so, I should have quit being a soldier and went into real estate. Gotya! All soldiers, sailors, Marines and Airmen are criminals on drugs, gotya! Those laborers that build those McMansions are all criminals on drugs, gotya! Those EMT's that are coming to your car wreck or heart attack are criminals on drugs, gotya! Those cops coming to your rescue, don't forget to tell them that they're criminals on drugs. And those who collect the Social Security that they paid their entire working lives are "leaches" (sic) (for the record, it's spelled leeches, after the parasite and as such, you are saying those who collect on any insurance that they pay for are parasites). Indeed, you are part and parcel, indeed exemplar as to the problem that exists in this nation.
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  1148.  John Grit  one thing I learned over again, all wars are political, it's a design, not a defect. I volunteered, as I joined in early 1982, retired in 2010 (some complexities over end term of service and retirement nonsense). Warfare is decided by the leadership, which is guided harshly by the populace. Dad joined the USMC under forged documents, my grandmother managed to get the paperwork to stop him on the embarkation dock and get him discharged. He attempted to, after reaching agreement, to join the US Army, get selected to join the 82nd Airborne, train and VE and VJ arrived and he was assigned to fight the battle of Fort Dix. Trust me, returned home and simply said, "You didn't miss anything wonderful". That all said, I have zero interest in real estate, I do have interest in having a home that we can retire and eventually die in. It isn't a damned McMansion estate, it's a chunk of land for a large garden, what we don't reap, whoever needs it is welcome to, just leave us alone. Due to joint issues, we prefer single story, so if a split is offered, we want an escalator. Our property is also sanctuary, I am an ordained minister and I'm extremely old fashioned that way. We've always been, protect those without defense, the widow, the orphan, the indigent, who cannot arise out of their situation, due to malfeasance. Side against that, meet wrath that one will swear is the wrath of the almighty. You seem to abandon them, an incorrect path for the survival, long term, of the society.
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  1149.  @Idlewyld  I know where they're going down the merry path through. They confuse a civil matter and a criminal matter, with their substantially different standards of evidence required, then fail to realize that this is an entirely different beast from either, as it's largely procedural in nature and the court needs only establish fact of actions performed. Ignoring history, where we didn't give every Confederate a trial that was denied public office after the civil war's treason. As liberty and property are not at stake, the standards are much lower. Although, if they really, really want criminal charges, given Trump was Commander in Chief of our military while in office, when he committed sedition and ordered an insurrection, he could be charged with sedition, insurrection and mutiny, all capital offenses for the military... And attempted hijack of a federal emergency response vehicle and attempted kidnapping of his Secret Service detail members inside of his vehicle when he tried to wrest control of the vehicle from the driver. Can we say needle in the arm of the final kind?
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  1150.  @lrvogt1257  actually, a supercontinent had formed and broken up multiple times throughout earth's history.
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  1151.  @voiceofreason-ct1nm  detecting that which cannot be present isn't a mistake, it's a lie. Something cops are infamous for doing, even getting caught lying under oath without repercussions that'd land mere mortal men in prison.
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  1152.  @jennifercunningham8834  indeed, I seem to recall a question about taxes and Jesus said, "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, give unto God what is his". I'm pretty sure that ain't tax exemptions and Lear jets.
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  1153. When a protected facility is utilized for military purposes, it becomes a valid target - per the Conventions. One documents and retains evidence of the crimes and neutralize the threat. As an example, we didn't attack mosques, save if we observed and documented the mosques being abused as military centers, such as meeting places for fighters, munitions storage, etc. Then, we've documented, then neutralized it, either by a personal visit or by ordinance.
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  1154. I guess these "auditors" need auditing by actual auditors.
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  1155. Naw, it was some drunk guy who got off the bus at the wrong stop, stumbled into the building and was the victim of a wall collapse. While stumbling about disoriented, he found himself on top of the vault and took a wicked beer piss, eroding the bolts and tumbling into the shoddily constructed vault. He then grabbed what he thought was his shaving kit, but was actually an accidentally mistaken bag with $30 million in cash and coins and stumbled from the building. He's currently sleeping it off in the drunk tank, the police property receiving not noticing the modest amount of petty cash inside of his shaving bag.
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  1156. Worse, what he called them while in the cemetery in Normandy. It wasn't just anywhere, he was standing by their graves when he called them suckers and saps. Then following all of the other world leaders walking to the ceremonies on his golf cart and doing his best to avoid getting rained on. Understandable, we remember what happened when the Wicked Witch got wet...
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  1157. Why waste soldiers time? Just give them a ride on the M1911 express.
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  1158. Been getting around one per month over the past four months. Marked each one as spam, report and the app automagically deleted them.
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  1159.  @StompingRabbits  you do realize that Congress has two parts, one being the Senate?
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  1160. That is a lie. Patients get treatment in an asylum.
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  1161.  @veronicastewart1112  honestly, I'd suggest diabetes. Weight's consistent, other odd issues are consistent and I'm willing to bet that if one stripped that orange paint off of him, his skin is pale and thin, consistent with diabetic damages. So, race between vascular dementia, coronary and kidney.
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  1162. It makes me lose faith in our nation, to be brutally honest.
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  1163. The difference is simple enough, 8 billion is 8000 million. So, 1 = 1000 in Musk Math. Which is explained via the mathematical proof of accordion hands. Also known of as bullshitting. Hence, why I call their output DOGEshit. BTW, at the risk of repeating myself, their non-agency is named for a reason, I'm quite certain. It's a message. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)
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  1164.  Steve Jarvis  naw, they're draining the swamp - by pumping in sewage. :/
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  1165. And even today, both Germans and British EOD technicians get calls to disarm bombs unearthed by construction crews. Far too frequently, unsuccessfully, killing the EOD team.
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  1166.  @falxonPSN  yeah, I was scratching my head on the geography pretty hard, from my apartment in Harrisburg, PA. That's just a lot of rearranging the state's geography to make the suggested route work! I think the folks in Erie would be a bit surprised to see Pittsburgh turn up next door.
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  1167. A store is private property and the owner of said property has wider rights than a government office, where a citizen not under disability of a felony's punishment is permitted to actually seek redress of grievances with his or her government. Not that he was there for that, he was there for a photo op, a political statement of "fuck you, America!". Which isn't a valid reason to be within a federal office.
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  1168. Can't freeze the payroll of Congress, it's unconstitutional to alter their pay up or down while in session. That said, everyone staying at home until he's impeached for misappropriation, convicted, then prosecuted for misappropriation of the entire federal budget can be done. What can they do, send the Army door to door to make slaves get back to work? At my door, they'd just have donated equipment to distribute, a vehicle and a very dangerous thing - a radio. Just pin on my old rank, join in and wreak havoc without being even noticed. And one of my specialties was infiltration and exfiltration without being noticed.
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  1169. I've been wracking my brain trying to remember hypernatremic changes in the ECG pattern, but all I can remember is non-specific intermittent T wave inversions, which are both rare and only in extreme cases. That makes it a rarity in electrolyte imbalances where the heart isn't telling on the patient. :/
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  1170. I suspect that's covered in medical schools now, as all of the younger doctors I've dealt with incessantly would start to try to Goober things down for me, right until I began talking shop with my physician. I've also had intelligent conversations with pharmacologists about various drugs over the years. Learned all of that while I was in the Army.
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  1171. In Russia, the encryption is in you. Seriously though, as @doom9603 said, Russia has long been regarded as highly competent in crypto. That said, availability of encrypted radios at the front is as lacking as well, the rest of Russian logistics.
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  1172. Oh, they're only nukes, not a big deal. ;) I've also talked about nukes at the airport, as my first MOS was in nuclear missiles. The difficulty in a warhead is to maintain supercritical configuration for around 50 - 80 shakes to ensure the core fully fissions. Damn! Peter Higgs died, of Higgs boson and Higgs mechanism fame. Well, 94, so he had a good run!
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  1173. Well, all of the TPS tiles have been silica based. The earliest, so delicate that one could, with a badly sprained hand, crush them easily by accident and were about as waterproof as the Titanic currently isn't. Later versions improved greatly on strength, which even now remains not much to write home about and waterproofing - which has improved tremendously. Discussing the things, as Scott mentioned, ITAR can be a royal pain in the gonads, with prosecution being quite aggressive and the regulations being so nebulous in some areas as to literally leave it open enough that one could cite someone for an ITAR violation for discussing the chemical formula for pure water. And given my military background initially involved intimate involvement in nuclear weapons, suffice it to say, we had a keen idea on ITAR regulations. That dated back to when even PGP encryption was considered a weapon.* *Entertainingly, an allied foreign nation had ordained that encryption, especially VPN's were unlawful within their nation as they considered the technologies weapons. Citizens and residents were rather stuffed, but banks explained patiently that there were three chances that they'd engage in unencrypted financial transactions, slim chance, fat chance and no chance and that they'd cease doing business within said country. Policies swiftly changed for some odd reason.
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  1174. Hypothermic response is the more likely. The lower body temperature triggering the closest we can achieve to hibernation, lowering O2 requirements and well, allowing rescue. One big difference between humans and chimps is we rescue one another, even at significant risk, they usually don't.
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  1175.  @benevolencia4203  Artificial Idiocy for AI, but Vance brings a special skill set, Natural Idiocy. Dud makes Dan Quayle look smart. I mean, Dan Quayle took on the fictional character Murphy Brown and lost. JD Vance is taking on car seats lowering birth rates and losing badly.
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  1176. I guess we'll just have to stick with our youtube home brain surgery course.
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  1177.  @atomicsnarl  next to Jimmie Hoffa, who remains alive and well. I actually saw many flying saucers over the years. Boy, were we thankful when that incessantly fighting couple moved out.
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  1178.  @RegularSlice1  odd, retired after 28 years, never received an application for retired pay. Only my points notification and 20 year letter 8 years before I retired. The points notification being an annually issued document. The retired pay being retroactive is correct though, held off on filing until shortly after my wife of 41+ years died.
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  1179. In those earlier days, key splitting wasn't a thing yet. Remember, RSA encryption was the biggie and remained unbroken, still shiny and new. Now, we use AES, as RSA was easily enough broken. Meanwhile, under ITAR, encryption beyond 40 bits was considered a munition, right up there next to artillery rounds. At that time, opening the source math was considered the ultimate evil and RSA's being broken opened that up, as the more eyes looking at the math and source, the tighter and less easily broken things became and even better, those eyes are free. I do disagree with one thing, that the key, once revealed would've been exploited in three days. Nope, it'd have been exploited same day. Then or now. The biggest part of NSAKEY was it's also part of the NSAHOOKS system, where one can insert strong crypto DLL's at will. That was done at the behest of the NSA and other strong crypto users, so that their high end crypto could be loaded in without herculean labor. There was one other Microsoft carve out for one government agency, service pack 7 was paid for by NASA, as upgrading and ensuring that all of their custom software wasn't exactly workable at the time, so they commissioned the last service pack and paid for it. Never did manage to get a copy of it, but I can't gripe about not getting that which I didn't purchase. Oh, China bought the source code for NT4. At one point, I did have the source code, but those systems were lost in a move. :/ NT4 was a hell of a lot better than the initial release of W2k, which issued a busted to hell and gone LDAP system initially. Of course, Microsoft just claimed that's a new standard, just as they tried with Java with the msjava, which lost in court to the owner of Java, Sun... LDAP won in the end, as it's standard and eventually, Microsoft conformed to the damned standard. Who knows? They may yet get quality control dialed in in a reliable fashion. ;) On second thought, hopefully not. Job security and all!
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  1180.  @carrot595  he'd only need gold crayons and cartoons of churches for him to write Trump on every steeple. As for eating crayons, what's wrong with that? Army and USMC infantry eat them all the time. ;)
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  1181. And with a dismantled court goes the other courts and all rule of law. No, the amoral justices should be impeached and removed and that'll require Congress to actually honor their oath of office, rather than loyalty to party and cult leader.
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  1182.  @VideoArchiveGuy  because over time they do recoup their costs. They don't pay what they bill, if you think that, you know nothing whatsoever about business! Still, for an office building or better, complex, I'd be getting competitive bids from multiple providers and cable humping crews. That always lowers the end costs and for such properties, the companies will bid in for the contract.
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  1183. I don't eat lard. It's unhealthy.
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  1184.  @Starghost1999  I'm reminded of May 5, 1789, when a starving populace finally got pissed off enough to turn on the elite. Suffice it to say, being an aristocrat wasn't a career one could retire from at that point, as the Committee for Public Safety ensured. And losing those farmers ain't a great move at all. There's already rumblings suggesting shutting down interstates with farm equipment and some discussing more boisterous actions. They've long felt the pinch of corporate megafarms encroaching, rising equipment and seed costs and been increasingly ignored. It'd be hard to maintain power while the trade routes nationwide are clogged, food supplies choked off and millions are literally up in arms. And every state that's started killing its farmers has fallen quickly. The cities know where the food comes from.
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  1185. Actually, old wire lath walls would block this.
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  1186. I've an odd pica effect. Wanting to rotate diet incessantly. So, I've still Thanksgiving dinner in the fridge and clams and linguine sitting happily alongside, each in rotation with other dinners. And a hint on rotation, ranging from veggie burgers to a love of fish. If it ain't moving, I'll eat it, if it is, I'll get a bite on the run. For ramen, some green beans in a can and drained works, an egg adds to wealth. Rice and everything in the leftover tray works great. Been poor, won the title, survived is the real title.
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  1187. We're a wee bit funny in the US, before we put people in prison, we do that trial thing and if he just plead guilty, that means that the trial has nearly completed. Once sentencing is imposed, the trial is then completed.
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  1188.  @artemkras  heh, 1 micron filament would be a nice resolution! No clue how to implement such a resolution though, largely due to wavelength...
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  1189. I KNOW THE FEELING, STILL GETTING USED TO THIS NEW KEYBOARD AND ITS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT LOCATION OF THE CAPSLOCK KEY. Sorry, couldn't resist a truism that nearly bit me a few times now... We can put people into space for over a year, we still can't quite standardize a cheap frigging keyboard... Seriously though, yeah, ignorance is bliss and oddly, the blissful are phenomenally loud. And oddly, also sore losers and sore winners, they're just sore all over and still accepting that which generates their pain in the first place and blaming everyone else for their fuck-ups.
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  1190. Black powder firearms, the only weapon that produced a complimentary smoke screen. ;)
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  1191. When did the fourth amendment only apply to half of the nation?
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  1192. Sentencing guidelines. It's a class E felony, the lowest grade felony there is in NY. Add in, he's a first time offender. Hence, lighter gloves, rather than start out slapping people with an anvil.
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  1193.  @stephanfouche9208  you mean the dancer in the catsuit? Here's a hint, a human in a skin tight suit is not a robot.
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  1194. We have trouble getting a budget through, you want a full on amendment to the Constitution to override Article III?
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  1195. What is a has-been again?
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  1196.  @scriptorpaulina  don't get me started on pain in the balls lightning.
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  1197.  @warrenparker8282  having retired from the ANG myself, here's a newsflash. It takes a year, sometimes longer to process retirement paperwork. Units are not notified until a maximum of a year before deployment. So, the only way he bailed is with a crystal ball telling him that the unit was deploying. I know that well enough too, been through it.
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  1198.  @patsyleeoswald9912  uh huh, ignore all of those federally mandated flight manifests with his name on them, he obviously egressed mid-air and was picked up mid-air when the airplane returned. Even then, he was expressing the almighty powers of a god-king.
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  1199.  @kayrutledge1970  oh? I've actually met the creep, please entertain us all how Trump would engender such angst and terror. Indeed, tell this retired veteran soldier all about what induces fear.
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  1200.  @IllustriousCrocoduck  the laugh is, vacuum welding is a very real problem with metals in a vacuum. So, store those weapons in a vacuum, go to use them and find the metals welded together. As for weapons modified to work on the moon, easy enough, just modify the sights to not account for earth gravity bullet drop or atmospheric density. Now, you poke tiny holes in space suits, blood then seals the holes and one has to hope that the still leaking cosmonaut runs out of red stuff before killing you. As a hint, on one shuttle mission, an astronaut tore a hole in his space suit glove. The hole was sealed by the blood from the small cut that the tension bar gave him on his hand and went entirely unnoticed until he got back inside the shuttle after the EVA work was done. So, to disable someone, one's going to have to poke a hell of a lot of holes or really large holes through the micrometeor barrier overgarment and through the suit proper. That overgarment being what you see when you see someone wearing a space suit and it's designed to stop small objects from piercing suit and astronaut that are moving a hell of a lot faster than a bullet. Better to use a laser or maser to try to soften plastics, causing seals to breach and the faceplate to soften and fail. Or have a few cases of vodka handy...
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  1201. If you believe that, why are you working to make money? Do without and let the world know how great your life is without shelter, clothing, food or water.
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  1202.  @mrpepperidgefarms  as one that was for a long time military EMS, there ain't no such thing as bad joke or too soon. ;) I've already coined something about "the beast that was struck in the head with a sword, but lived". Oddly, that one confused ever so many "Christians", who should recognize a paraphrase from Revelation 13:3, since they love to misquote ever so much from the rest of that letter, erm, book... :P
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  1203.  @brodriguez11000  yep, what the devil said when he rebelled.
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  1204. Glad to see the price of rent and eggs has been knocked down as he promised as he eliminated jobs that were available for US citizens.
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  1205. Now, now, can't upset the US judicial system apple cart. We must maintain the two tier judicial system, where the poor get steamrollered into compliance and the wealthy do whatever they want with absolute impunity.
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  1206. None think that after an emergency. :)
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  1207. Thank you for making me feel young. I was born in '61. Did the electron tube, transistor, IC, VLSI conversions quite well enough. At least capacitors and resistors didn't change their behavior... ; Odd though, no selenium was mentioned in the documentary.
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  1208.  @tomschmidt381 heh, just yesterday I ran into a video on ancient Cold War telephones used for Civil Defense siren activation and the host mentioned cold cathode thyratrons, albeit not by name. Recognized the technology instantly, we had a class on the damned things back in 1979. A buddy and I had a contest on who could get the thing to glow brighter...
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  1209.  @littlejohn-pi7kk  no drawbacks? A false positive results in full suit alert and check, a false negative results in dead service members. Equal reward results in no expectations by the dog than being rewarded for doing what it was trained to do, without bias. But, you know how much about EOD in the military and their canines? Worked with them much? Which end of a ring main do you interrupt first?
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  1210. Al Capone had no intentions of going to federal prison, he still ended up there. One's intentions aren't relevant, one's actions are, so don't intend to go to prison and commit a crime in front of witnesses, one's intent be damned.
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  1211. To have a mindset, the commentards first must have a mind. :/
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  1212. You apparently failed civics 101 and well, law 101. Courts don't just jump up and make rulings in a vacuum. They need a case before them to make a ruling upon.
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  1213.  @southwestxnorthwest  nope. No double flash, no radiation spike that's always present on nuclear detonations, no barometric disturbance that accompanied every other nuclear detonation. Hydrogen explosion plus water hammer of the coolant instantly vaporizing blew the reactor top off, the hydrogen ignited on contact with air, blew the flammable roof apart and ignited it and air rushing into a superheated, melting core ignited components and graphite in the core. That spread reactor contents all over the city and well, much, much farther. Unlike Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the bombs detonated and what was irradiated was irradiated and stayed in place since they were air bursted nuclear warheads. They actually recovered sizable chunks of both bombs cores from ground zero in both cities. The black rain, soot from incomplete combustion of the city remnants at ground zero. The fires, largely from gas mains and overturned stoves igniting wood and paper buildings. Around two weeks post-detonation, most of the harmful radioisotopes had decayed to safe levels at ground zero (unlike Castle Bravo, which dispersed ridiculous amounts of irradiated reef components over thousands of square miles, but also had spared the shot cab the worst, with standard fallout lasting around 12 hours for the worst, 12 days for the harmful, then cleanup crews were able to come in with minimal protection). Started my military career in nukes.
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  1214. With no due respect, do go read the very first amendment. And no due respect, because I had to remind you of our most treasured rights. I owe Trump far, far less respect, just for full disclosure.
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  1215. Well, the problem is a bit older than that. Corruption was a big thing in Soviet Russia as well. Think middle management and up. That was the biggest millstone around their economic necks.
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  1216. No self-hatred needed. Major depressive disorder or severe bipolar disorder can and has lead to some pretty horrendous deaths by suicide. I worked military EMS. The very first lesson in dealing with suicidal patients is, don't let anything whatsoever ever, ever get between you and the door. If they've decided, have the means and perceive you an obstacle to their goal, they very well and in the past, have taken EMS personnel and police with them. A great rule to abide by, given some of us are trained to be able to end someone's existence before that person even realizes they're in danger. A corollary is, if the dog is out upon arrival at a scene, close the fucking door unless you really enjoy getting bitten by Cujo. Not a lick of self-hatred, only assured death of a suicidal person, who seems to have taken great care not to involve others in their path to self-destruction. Self-hatred, in my experience, was the realm of terrorists, who enjoy taking others down with themselves. Common themes being "I'm a sinner and can do no better or worse" and similar nonsense. Yeah, I dealt with terrorists and conversed with them. A fine experience only rivaled by the joys of masturbating with a cheese grater. Note for full disclosure, I have no idea, nor inclination of finding just where I put my cheese grater, nor since retiring, dealing with terrorists. But, I've come to understand all too well depression since my wife of 40+ years died in March. It's a pernicious thing I'm working on shaking and have no intention of self-harm beyond enjoying that can of chili I bought today. That last requiring my sending an NBC-1 report first, so that a NUKEWARN flash can be sent. ;) Even more seriously, that notion of self-loathing is a condition of its very own that does require a mental health professional intervening, but attributing that to a suicide or suicide attempt is harmful to those in desperate need of protection. Kindly stop it and learn about such conditions before harming others with such bullshit. I never, ever claimed to be a diplomat, but I'm infamous for my candor.
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  1217.  @lisaanderson135  vaguely recall it, can't bring myself to view it currently after my last episode that got me diagnosed with Crohn's. Doctor fixed the poopypants bit easily enough with steroids, which then displayed my talents in playing the entirety of the 1812 Overture by the seat of my pants... Note, unlike Trump, I do admit to health issues and well, shit happens and even joke about it. Oh wait, I'm not a god-emperor wannabe. If I was a god... I'd swiftly become an atheist.
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  1218. The same was true with my father, who suffered from vascular dementia. Early on, I hid his vehicle keys and his weapons safe keys from him. Thankfully, we don't have that problem with Trump, he just needs to make a phone call to launch nukes at any time, day or night. Just needs one line of succession officer confirm his identity, which is required by law, they cannot lawfully refuse to confirm his identity.
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  1219. Clowns are entertainers, not always funny, depends upon the act. But, Trump is an unreality TV entertainer, who cannot tell the difference between unreality TV and actual reality. But, he did bring us news of a super duper missile, two words strung together I never expected to hear uttered consecutively by a President of the United States of America. Which, to hear him was in production, but had a less than 10% successful launch rate, was cancelled. Because, Trump has one other skill, the precise inverse of the Midas touch, where Midas touched something, it turned into gold, Trump touches something and it turns straight into shit. Well evidenced in his business failures and implosions of the lives of those dedicated to serving him.
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  1220.  @nrdy2theXtreme  so, Article I of the Constitution was repealed, specifically Section 8?
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  1221.  @SA-cn4jc  Jobs was reasonably bright. Musk, not so much, but he is good at hiring the right people to be smart for him and avoid the bullshitters. The downside being, when he overruled his own people, well, the launch pad debacle is a prime example of how things went wrong due to his cheaping out and overruling his experts. Wouldn't have been a big deal, save for that natural refuge getting peppered with concrete chunks and a town inundated with dirt. The tanks that were damaged were his, so his business, the town isn't his, nor was that refuge.
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  1222. What I love is the ones that scream about states rights, but when a state exercises those rights in ways they don't like, they suddenly proclaim that the states have no such rights.
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  1223. It is better to remain silent and be thought the fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. MTG shouts instead.
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  1224. OK, in order to travel, speak, exercise religion or irreleigion, travel or vote, you need to be assessed by a panel. Since the Constitution is in abeyance anyway, why carry those traditions forward? You'll need government panel approved travel orders to cross the street. Stop trying to fight fascists by fascism.
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  1225. That's ever so highly unusual, as that typically only happens on days that end in the letter 'y' in English. Oh, yeah...
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  1226. The military are trained to first question, then disregard unlawful orders. And the speaker is wrong, Kent State was a panic reaction by armed National Guard troops who had zero training in crowd control. That's long been rectified and the NG won't show up with their weapons, they'll arrive with face shield on the helmet and mattock handles at most. And it's actually worse what Trump wanted to do. He wanted to turn the entire nation into Baltimore during the civil war, when Lincoln declared martial law and imprisoned citizens without charge indefinitely in Army prisons. Lincoln tried it in Illinois as well, but the SCOTUS handed him his ass, declaring no martial law while the courts can still hold session.
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  1227.  @rogerforsman5064  military in general, no, not their bailiwick. But, the National Guard does, had it each and every year when I was in the 56th Brigade Combat Team. We were warfighters on the Army side, but crowd control and riot response was training given annually. Even when we were converting, first to M113's, later to Strykers.
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  1228.  @lesleyphillips8146  no, it is not the law. It's the Constitution, upon which all laws are founded.
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  1229. If I were to need brain surgery, it's entirely possible for me to be smarter than my brain surgeon. But, I also need to be smart enough to recognize the fact that I'm not a brain surgeon, nor do I have any knowledge whatsoever about brain surgery.
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  1230. Tempered glass is designed to fracture into small, non-sharp chunks. It's the same basic type of glass used in automotive passenger windows and rear windscreen.
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  1231. I dunno, but it'd be grave #2 that what I'd leave would decidedly not be mistaken for flowers. Good compost feed, perhaps, but definitely not flowers.
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  1232. I'm in south-central Pennsylvania. Managed to get it, probably when four weeks ago I had to pick up groceries, back when masks were being argued about. My wife and I have taken a hit on our SPO2 (I have a portable pulse oximeter back from when I was in military medicine), I've not had a fever, she did briefly. Other than that, you'd not know that we're infected. Which worries me when I do have to venture out and pick up supplies, I hate the notion of getting someone badly ill or worse.
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  1233. Tire, my ass! Lubrication alone is extensive, we'll not even go into the fuel bill that most local PD's can't afford. Frankly, for civil defense, I'd take a 5 ton over an armored vehicle, as flood rescue and bridge collapses are far more common than someone bunkered in and somehow being uncontainable.
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  1234.  @richardross7219  M821 were mortar carriages. M812 was the 5 ton. My DA form 348 had "5 ton and below", SEE Combat Engineer (Small Emplacement Excavator, basically a Case front loader in front and backhoe in the rear deck of a Benz small truck), M113, Stryker, a few other odds and ends. We started with two models of 5 ton, one with a manual transmission, the other with automatic. Licensed on both. We had skid resistant tape on top of the bumpers to prevent slipping off on dew. That CARC paint is slicker than snot with the morning dew on it! Your M821 was part of the M809 series, which were replaced with the M939 series. Did see one get stuck in 1992, blizzard dropped 3 feet of snow, one inattentive driver got the floorboards hung up on the snow bank on the side of a road. Thankfully, a friendly civilian with a wrecker helped pull him out, shaking his head the whole time. Oh, both used the same spec Cummins engine. Wikipedia has a nice article on each, the M809 and M939 series.
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  1235. Dunno, the history would make that a bit odd for them to react that way. Much of Russian culture is derived from the Kievan Rus, who invaded from Kiev and formed an empire. The Kievan Rus being Viking merchantmen that settled in Kiev. Yeah, history gets weird at times.
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  1236.  @PeteOtton I can think of one individual. Trump.
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  1237.  @BoogieBoogsForever  sure they did, they waved a paper and proclaimed that DEI is fraud, despite the line item in the contract being waved around being an official requirement and approved by Congress.
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  1238.  @OverdriveGamesAnime  said the gravedigger to the Trump: When you want to get out of the hole, you first have to put down the shovel. Given Trump's current digging rate, he should soon hit magma.
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  1239. It's funny how everyone's shadows in that yard were around 10 feet tall. Obviously, they're all space aliens or something. I do remember seeing a green fireball flying west to east years ago while driving on I-95 northbound, in NE Philly. Given no sonic boom, that put it 30 - 40 miles up, moving likely around Mach 12 or so, given the altitude estimate and well, the speeds are well enough documented, it burned out and fell into the Atlantic. Still, it was pretty cool to see.
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  1240. Is a jack normally found inside of a house? What chemicals does one use to change a light bulb, which requires significant disassembly? Screw it, I'll just do what's worked for me, avoid California. Too expensive and invasive, nonsensical laws in some communities. And well, my house is notable for having all kinds of "odd" tools, which would decidedly make my home use of said tools unlawful.
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  1241.  @lukecantrell5149  her poor, poor neighbors!
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  1242. The only problem is, they're interviewing Bolton on a military subject. There's one truism in the DoD, whatever Bolton says, Bolton's wrong. Remember, Bolton was one of the champion against Iraqi nukes that never existed, we bled while him and W were searching the Oval Office for Iraqi nukes.
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  1243.  @jtc1947  sounds about right and the response being, "We're in an airport, you might want to try being a trifle more specific".
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  1244.  @b0rd3n  as Steve himself has often said, "You can sue a ham sandwich, doesn't mean you'll get anything out of it". In this case, the reasonable person hypothesis is the best test. After all, if the insurance company was liable for the injury of an STD, would they also be liable for an unwanted pregnancy and rearing of the resultant child? Absurd, but that line of non-reasoning would then be valid. Although indecorous, I'd have probably played "Hit the road Jack" after reading the decision to dismiss...
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  1245.  @Dingleberry777  he's no loner President, hasn't been so for a long time. Please do try to keep up. Here's a hint, if Nixon, Carter, Ford, Clinton, either Bush, Obama are not President, neither is Trump. We don't do president for life in this country.
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  1246. It depends upon the product and its intended usage. For moisture resistance, a non-permeable fiber, such as fiberglass might be used, for general strength, cellulose fiber frequently can be used. In ancient troweled on plaster walls, frequently horse hair was used. The fiber adds strength.
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  1247.  @dellchica2373  well, there are times that my countrymen do need to be reminded that the Fascist States of America did not invent and name a language after them, however this little island named England does have the English language named after it. That said, there are days in which I am quite certain that English as a first language really isn't working out for me.* *A jibe at some supreme fascists who even object to English as a second language being taught, due to American English only being tolerable to them on the entire North American continent. You can guess how they feel about Canada and Mexico...
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  1248.  @michaellowe3665  in other words, disabled people need to avoid LV. No problem, there are inclusive communities with casinos. Although, if that view were officially reinforced further, a number of important military bases in Nevada would end up on the BRAC short list. But hey, you want the Nevada Test Site back, don't you?
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  1249. And laughably, they'll expect and never come close to receiving similar special treatment, instead ending up with prison sentences. Again.
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  1250.  @LucasFernandez-fk8se  well, I still remember the horrendous trauma of realizing that I had a penis and that it wouldn't fit into the hospital urinal. Thank God that that anesthetic wore off and that pervy thing finally fit! Bombs are entirely natural, after all, Kuzma's mother was my mother, being born a week after she was introduced by Khrushchev.* *Yeah, I was literally born a week after Tsar Bomba was detonated and it shows on gamma cameras, verified again a few years back when I had an I-131 study and my background gamma count is still higher than those born much later than I was. And the true trauma begins when I get angry. ;)
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  1251.  @crocobaur5407  because I lacked the foresight to be born into a family that could bequeath me an emerald mine. Should've planned better before I was conceived.
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  1252.  @Real28  that's one thing I miss about my old induction stove. That and it'd cool as fast as turning down a flame on a gas stove. Whereas my current gas stove sure as hell can't heat as quickly as an induction cooktop. By the same token, I don't pay for gas in this apartment, it's included in the rent, but I sure do pay for electricity. So, I'll wait for the pot to heat up. Dad may have raised a dummy, but he didn't raise no fool.
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  1253. c) your security really sucks.
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  1254. That's entirely crazy talk, that whole welfare clause only being for government and big business or some other hand wave.
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  1255. They tried using the Q-ships again in WWII. The Germans didn't fall for it, but the Japanese did a few times.
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  1256. Apparently not.
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  1257. Nope, send it to the bar and have them either disbarred or the bar association accepts the disgrace in the eyes of the populace.
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  1258.  @scissortailsmallhold3681  bullshit, it's what his PT scores are that count. As for the OP, I disagree, I suspect it'd be kind of important if he's sleeping with the enemy.
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  1259.  @beckydoesit9331 OK, crimes are legal. No need to put people in prison for murder or rape either then.
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  1260. I did that a while ago, was utterly surprised by that wall suddenly moving and I didn't see it. Got that cataract removed right after. Now, I have had a box that did give me a hard time opening, but it was a wee bit more complex than a clamshell hinge and to my annoyance, had instructions printed on it once I put my reading glasses on. "Well, looks like I failed my IQ test this week", everyone got a chuckle.
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  1261. That's basically what it was. 11 out of a crowd started trouble with another crowd and now they get to face the music. Hopefully, for a very long playing album. Some jackasses just look for places to start trouble, don't need any real cause, they just like to start trouble and break shit that isn't theirs. I'm just amazed that I've not blundered into one of these shit shows. but happy as well, as someone with spray or weapon would end up badly hurt. I'm a retired war veteran, I'm also quite resistant to pepper, even bear spray and pain just pisses me off, so I share that pain with the one inflicting it in an efficient military manner not requiring a firearm. My cane will do nicely. A nice special order titanium cane. Harder than aluminum, about halfway as strong as steel and light weight.
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  1262. The problem with grabbing shinys is, some prick could've been loading those shiny rounds with RDX. Now, you get a face full of chamber and a bolt carrier through your shoulder.
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  1263. It did under very similar conditions in the past, when the Whig party was destroyed from within by the "know nothing" party, resulting in the creation of the Republican party. The Republicans fielded a winning presidential candidate, some Lincoln guy, the rest is history.
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  1264.  @davemccrillis1470  yeah, all 11 timezones of it. Now, look at population density. Most of it is uninhabited. Only a week by nonstop trains. Approximately one and a half forevers by motor vehicle. Ten eternities on foot. Well, assuming one can pack enough spare feet... Still, one doesn't nuke empty land, one strikes a target that's occupied by an asset.
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  1265. From what little this Army type saw of naval operations on ship, there just ain't a lot of places one can lollygag around without both being seven kinds of in the way and at a very real high risk of being badly injured. Pretty much the worst I had to worry about was getting in the way of a limited vision vehicle or wandering into a minefield. With few opportunities for me to dent a bulkhead with my head in an unguarded moment.
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  1266.  @SuzieW-f5b  yes, he does the bidding of We The People of the United States. How horrible he didn't just follow his whims like Trump incessantly tried to do.
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  1267.  @publicuser2534  processing paperwork for retirement takes the better part of a year. He'd have filed long before his unit received a warning order and stop loss orders and had the unit been notified before, he'd not have been permitted to retire during stop loss.
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  1268.  @rocksparadox  yep, another myth. An ostrich buries its eggs and sticks its head into the nest to turn them. It doesn't hide its head from danger. Indeed, it's been known to instead attack and decapitate enemies with its strong kick and large spurs.
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  1269. That's how Don the Con wins his golf prizes.
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  1270. +John Driver well, police commented that they liked the video, as it was evidence against his reckless driving, which is what crime he committed, along with breaking the peace with his gesture.
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  1271. +Punt66 unless my eyes are getting worse than I realize, she was doing 60 MPH. Is Florida's speed limit on secondary roads 70 MPH?
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  1272. Eethan O'Connell, then the kid learns that rule of law means nothing, rule of force exists and moves onward to form a militia that attacks the capitol. Fucking brilliant!
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  1273. Shilahfaith Diaz, whatever is a SNIPER rifle? I know of sniper systems, which a rifle is part of one. But, when one is close to a threat, a sniper system is worthless, beyond being used to blindly fire and hope to disable or even hit the target or a simple club. Kara, the law is set that one defends oneself in a court of law. But, the law allows defense of life, sight or limb. I would, under that context, suggest a martial arts self defense course.
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  1274. Yeah, during the invocation, it was telling that when "in the presence of the Father", he was looking at Trump. He was praying to his god-king, not the Creator.
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  1275. Well, that's what the safety bailing wire ties are for. Just in case the special high temper +++ATH grade bolts fail. But, for the wire ties, bread ties and hook and loop fastening system to fail, unimaginable!
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  1276.  @albertfiscaletti520  that is factually incorrect. The worm died of food poisoning.
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  1277.  @BrandiDonald  the problem is, businesses operate to generate a profit. Run a country to generate a profit, one sells out the populace for cheap.
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  1278. Too late. Google's search quality has been declining for half a year, with many errors that look suspiciously like chatbot AI induced errors. While all are eager to latch onto "hallucination" for the term, the closest medical term is a common thing in those with dementia, confabulation. It's precisely the same issue in a human that happens with the AI. Never happened, but was ginned up by a badly confused brain that looked for a memory, couldn't find it, so invented it for the occasion, unknown to the owner of said brain. Although, in this case, it was like the attorney handed a 9 year old the case, then asked the 9 year old if their work was good, then vouched for it unseen. The court cannot accept the excuse, as the attorney is an officer of the court and accepting such a bogus excuse would undermine the credibility of the court itself and by extension, all courts.
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  1279.  @grumpystranger6377  when you've allowed the enemy to change you to meet their expectations and values, you've already lost.
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  1280. Oh, come on now, you can trust Microsoft to only snoop on days that end in Y in English.
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  1281.  @hercules1073  the laugh is, the original broadcast was recorded and is available online. Around every 10 minutes an announcer states that it's a radio play. People ignored it and still panicked.
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  1282. Seeing the footage of damage and fire, as well as degree of disabled machinery and electrical and the list of the vessel, I'm amazed that they managed to keep her afloat! It was also a wasted opportunity to use the captain to seal a broached bulkhead in a burning compartment.
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  1283.  @kgniku503  given my 50 db of hearing loss and continuous tinnitus from gunfire and IED's in the military, yeah, about as inconvenient as oh, my cane getting wrapped around such a speaker's head a few times. Oddly, my high frequency and low frequency hearing is fine, it's largely midrange - right in the frequencies of human speech. Go figure. Oh well, the body, ain't gotta figure it out, just live in it.
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  1284. We all defy physics by merely walking. What we don't do as responsible adults is taking others down with us if we trip and fall. Meanwhile, everyone fixates upon carbon fiber, ignoring the lexan that was rated at half of its depth and well, a thousand other ignored fuck-ups in the design. There are 3 submersibles that use carbon fiber. Two still exist and entirely failed to crush. One of the two was examined after every dive by x-ray and ultrasound, unlike this one, which was "examined" visually and using just a plain microphone to detect when it implodes. From my seat, I'd have his death certificate list suicide as cause of death.
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  1285.  @PdPete11795  destroyers closed dangerously close to grounding and eliminated the gun fortifications.
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  1286. And one was extended, literally having part of the bow cut off, an extension added, then welded back on. While that can work, it also extends the length and hence, increases the stress on the keel and entire vessel and it appears that the hull failed at one of the rewelded sections joint. We've had similar end up putting ships into dry dock on the Great Lakes.
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  1287.  @malahammer  really good engineering and manufacturing. The stresses involved are phenomenal. It staying together likely factored into the lower injury rate, which in and of itself is unusual as one wants some buckling to lower the impact upon the occupants. Great design, pure and simple!
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  1288. I had some corn that was GM for use as cattle fodder. The host nation's government arrested those who diverted the feed into the human food supply and gave them quite a hefty sentence. It also made me feel bad for cattle, as that corn was tough, nearly inedible and tasted like crap. It did have one effect, it made me irritable, as my dinner was a bit light that night, what with the corn being inedible. ;)
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  1289.  @soldetardeaguilera2250  there aren't enough warheads in service in Russia or the US to give global fireworks. First targets would be the other guy's nukes, then military communications centers and nexuses, airbases, naval shipyards that aren't nuke capable, followed by staging areas and depots. That pretty much wrings out the stockpiles of both post START treaties nations. Given I'm in south-central PA, in an area ringed with depots, I'd definitely see fireworks - assuming a few miss first, otherwise I'll not notice anything but Saint Peter.
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  1290.  @michaelshrader5139  refused depositions and subpoenas is contempt of court. Declined under specific grounds, the courts may well allow. Even in the strange, exotic foreign land of Texas. ;)
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  1291. Well, his real name is Trumpelstiltskin. If you correctly say his name to him, he'll stomp on the ground hard enough that it'll open and he'll fall in, never to be heard from again.
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  1292. The law also touches on property rights. Social media companies are not the government, so censorship actually isn't possible, given the legal definition of censoring. Were the concept expanded, one literally could never throw a guest out of your home during a party for verbally starting altercations.
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  1293. Voted in a total goat screw of a shit show from hell.
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  1294. I've already had trouble getting my prescriptions filled. First, took a month for my beta blocker to get filled, now a cholesterol uptake inhibitor and thyroid blocker aren't getting filled.
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  1295. The laugh is, doing so actually counters inflation. That alleged $5k rebate nonsense they briefly waved about, was conditioned on $40k income floor. The justification was actually, for a change, transparent - those making over $40k were likely to deposit the money, rather than spend it, helping with inflation.
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  1296. The jury needs an award for brain damage from listening to her.
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  1297.  @MichaelWinter-ss6lx  the United States of America does not practice exile.
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  1298.  @qsquared8833  Go with enough of them, you'd not need those LEO birds, just put small stations at those orbital altitudes on the elevator "cable". A conductive cable with extremely low resistance would likely happily carry that current to ground. Don't recall any wires being reported destroyed during the Carrington event. But, a ride on a space elevator reminds me of a candy bar commercial, "Gonna be a while?", only with a lot of candy bars needed...
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  1299.  @michellecleek3997 aka, his new fiancee, Bubba.
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  1300. When did the York County DA become governor? Why would he replace the governor as governor in your delusions?
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  1301. Why do you fixate upon one asset out of many? It's unlikely he'd encumber one asset, rather than multiple, which he can also do multiple times and just at worst, have liens, rather than seizures and liquidation until a significant amount comes immediately due.
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  1302. Lived near a firehouse that had the same siren. They're combination, not only dedicated air raid. Hell, in tornado alley, they're more often used to alert that a tornado was on the ground. And for some explosives disposal craters, a siren was used to warn that the range was live and about to detonate charges and to warn the community that things were about to get briefly noisy. No complaints whatsoever, as siren then boom beat an unwarned boom in most people's minds.
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  1303.  @rodneyoneil-kb1xk  actually, my read is that the individual agrees with you. Money and politics aren't a terrible mix, they're a toxic to democratic institutions mix, as is well evidenced in Russia today.
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  1304. Where do they put a pilot, for port and other congested operations? Doesn't look like there's a world of room for additional personnel.
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  1305.  Pitbull Romans 5:8  same here. I used to be GOP, tea chased me away from the party.
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  1306. He'd suffered at least one TBI, likely multiple given his MOS. That predisposes him to PTSD, due to cumulative damage from those injuries and clouds thinking and predisposes the patient toward self-harm. Toss those into the mix of major personal problems that could easily end his career just before he'd be able to retire at 20 years, add another drive toward the deep end. Then, one needs only fixate upon some "message" and desire to make a showy egress so that the press picks up the spectacle. And we all are familiar with IED's that utilized the gas cylinders and fuel to build damage locally, accelerated by an explosive. He chose to utilize a low explosive, rather than mixing up a high explosive, which suggests he wasn't wanting to harm others or destroy property.
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  1307.  @jamesbehrje4279  and the prostitution for pressing such charges - using very real fire. After all, the covids might've kidnapped the kids and fed them to thunderstorms infested with venomous snakes with the space aliens supervising or something. Sherman obviously took it too easy on Georgia and reconstruction was halted far too prematurely.
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  1308. Maybe you need to fertilize with a few pounds of yellowcake. It'll take care of the "offending" garden and everything in the neighborhood being blighted by something they can't easily detect. Well, unless they're looking for uranium... Still, it's a common enough element, present in most granites. :P
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  1309.  @kevmontgomery4849  I'd have settled for the farmer tilling the manure into the soil and call it a day after I reseeded.
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  1310. That'll make the maladministration happy, get rid of the honorable officers and retain the fascists. Then, he can turn those against the populace when it grows restive.
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  1311. Let's see, you've announced it, so that's premeditated murder, abuse of a corpse, concealing human remains, unlawful burial of human remains. So, you have property open for someone else to squat in while you're enjoying life in prison. Compared to say, going to a district magistrate and filing an eviction of an unlawful occupant on your property and having the law remove them.
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  1312.  @annebiggins7180  given some of his audible "appearances", those moments are continuous.
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  1313. Please stop insulting idiots by associating them with him.
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  1314.  @whitewaves7788  no idea, why don't you enlighten us all?
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  1315. It's even uglier. How is he to retire? He'll never be able to save enough in a 401k or social insecurity, so he'll work until he drops dead.
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  1316.  @410cultivar  personally, I prefer to only hang around with radioisotopes with exceptional longevity. I don't like hanging around with short timers that only last for days. ;)
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  1317.  @fritzhaselnuss7852 well, they're a minority and well, at the end of the day, it's they who are armed vs We The People. Who are also armed. See the Philadelphia Nativist Riots for reference and its aftereffects.
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  1318.  @StinkPickle4000  what I read, in the NTSB report, 14 feet from the top of the vertical stabilizer. How they got such a precise number is beyond me, as I didn't see a reference on what band the ground control radar is and the ATC radar's band escapes my memory. Regardless, it was frighteningly close. I'm pretty sure that both were fully alert once they realized how close they came to a horrific disaster!
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  1319.  @happ-hobby  so, saying someone is guilty after they plea guilty is unconstitutional? With that last sentence, that's literally an end result of a guilty plea. Just as finding someone guilty of fraudulently signing a document would be unconstitutional under that argument, legalizing fraud and counterfeiting money. Perhaps, a rephrasing of that last sentence is in order? Such as, "Saying someone is guilty without a guilty verdict is unconstitutional"? After all, if I sign a document stating that I'm God and hence, via that document, requiring specific funding be paid by the receiving party, that remains fraud or I am indeed God. And if I become God, I'll be forced to become an atheist.
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  1320. It's literally the same with a dementia patient, where it's called confabulation. Entirely unconscious, but a very real phenomenon.
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  1321. What she missed was feral honeybees and she glossed right over production hive collapses, "Oh, you can buy more". With many, their budget's as stressed as the rest of us, so it'd be like telling a physicist that an accident that drops CERN off for a decade is OK, because they can just go build another one. But, she did brush on one thing I've been harping on for ages: Monoculture is bad in agriculture. One crop, one source of failure when a pathogen it's sensitive to arrives, as Florida is finding out, as are the Cavendish banana plantation owners are as well. As for cheese, might have a bit each day or every other day, but I rotate what I eat quite often, from fish to chicken to pork, all meat servings being palm sized or smaller, had asparagus and green beans tonight, was planning on sliced beets tomorrow, but I've depleted my supply, so it'll be pickled beets instead and spinach sauteed with garlic, onion and chili in a chicken bouillon stock. Given the heat wave we're starting here, I'll also be adding salt to some of my foods. I'll probably also boil up another cup of barley in chicken bouillon, with garlic and onion and add some stewed prunes into it again. That made for a wonderful breakfast or lunch!
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  1322. Equally fantastic is that the wheels wore so well! That's a damned good design for worst case scenario landing design! Additional lesson learned: Pilots should avail themselves of glider training, that beats simulator time hands down for preparation for such maneuvering.
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  1323.  @kathrynboyd4448  well, he got his discount and free service, got a bit taken off the side for his trouble. Wanna bet he's going to go back to stiffing cities again? Then, blaming them for "canceling" him because he refuses to pay his bills...
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  1324. Once embryos are declared children, all embryos are children, so parents with fertilized eggs that are frozen as backups now are stuck paying for storage of the now unable to be terminated "children". Of course, once the parents are deceased and the estate funds are exhausted, what happens when the hospital is overflowing with embryos in storage that it cannot get rid of, as it'd be murdering children? Meanwhile, IVF providers in Alabama consulted counsel and have terminated services. So, either their lawyers are all wrong or you are.
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  1325. "We're a pro-life church", in other words, a church that knows better than their God, who was conspicuously silent on abortion - a practice that was well established in biblical times. Know who else knows better than their God? Their devil. Under their own doctrine and faith, their fate is self-sealed to be a rather unfortunate and hot one.
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  1326.  @voornaam3191  no, not phobic, just protecting the business from financial ruin from litigation.
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  1327. I'll just say, windows for showrooms are rather expensive... I'd be eating dinner with a judge though, so obviously I'd know nothing whatsoever about what happened.
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  1328. I remember seeing a German inquest on a "suicide", the victim, someone entangled and rejected by certain foreign intelligence services as being uncontrollable and quite insane, having been found to have committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a bolt action 30-06 rifle three times - each one being a fatal wound. As this was after a major incident that very nearly started a war, yeah, it was a message from the KGB or some other letters... ;) The inquest results being a thank you note. Shit gets weird at certain levels of governmental shenanigans...
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  1329. Which would make the infection being a parasitic infection, like Toxoplasma gondii or massospora cicadina. Toxoplasmosis in mice removes their fear of predators, who consume the mouse and spread the spores throughout the environment. Massospora cicadina is a mold that completely consumes the cicada abdomen, mating attempts spread the infection.
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  1330.  @wendypiper2668  well, he made it hard to drain the swamp, given he keeps on pumping sewage in.
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  1331.  @MA2-o2l  it seems as if you're thinking that their primary weapons would be neutron bomb class weapons, but one doesn't require gaseous tritium to boost the primary, cryogenic tritium also would more than suffice. Especially true given the use of neutron generators to time a neutron pulse to accelerate fission initially. For neutron bomb class, one simply substitutes the tamper casing, changing over from depleted uranium to aluminum, lead or even plain iron to provide tamper ablation and pressure, while being less neutron absorbing to an extent. The fireball itself and the explosives would absorb a fair amount of the primary neutrons anyway, hence why an EMP infrequently (especially in "super EMP" class) as the fireball essentially eats the neutrons. The weapon core is a bit like Las Vegas, what happens in the core stays in the core, at least radiation wise. The weapon's primary purpose is basically a supreme air heater, so the heat and shockwave do all of the dirty work, save with EMP devices that utilize the gamma pulse and neutron bombs, which bombard the local area with fast neutrons to neutron activate and penetrate armor. As gamma doesn't travel well through the air, oxygen especially ionizing easily and blocking it, that leaves neutrons which have limited range and activated metals tend to be short lived isotopes, which finally leaves the old fashioned nuclear and thermonuclear effects of shockwave and thermal pulse. Since the primary is of a limited low yield device, boosting provides much of the energy to help complete fission of the primary core and it again, is of limited yield, basically enough to compress the secondary that has the higher yield, up to half of the yield of the weapon, the tamper being the final stage and providing the final half yield, at a cost of making the bomb dirtier. Regardless, as I recall, the typical size maximum I've seen in tritium dewars and flasks was only in the 100 - 500 ml size. As for Russian functional devices, I'd anticipate moderate degradation of their functional stocks. Their strategic, high priority warheads being the highest in reliability, their countervalue designated, moderately degraded in reliability. Adding in attrition of malfunctions that are normal in missiles, I'd estimate around a 50% failure rate at most, minimum of 35 - 40%. After all, everyone wants their dacha in the woods...
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  1332. The only problem is, taste testing isn't quite considered proper sampling.
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  1333. I remember a CO (commanding officer) consoling an over 40 man, via this bullshit.
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  1334. Wait a minute, they weren't uniformed hostages? Why weren't they wearing their hostage uniforms, are they trying to get shot as spies? Replacement sarcasmeters are available free of charge, got a few pallets of them in reserve. Lemme just set one aside for my computer, I'll toss it in when I install the replacement CPU fan tonight...
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  1335.  @ray.shoesmith  pity you didn't board him for transportation to a colony - on Venus.
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  1336.  @anthonylovern7994  the same is true for the single lever faucet vs two valve faucets. I've had to repair multiple brands of mixer lever faucets three times for leaks, whereas I might have to repair the valve unit once. Her complaint about the agitator is one that's slowly going away, as newer models do away with the antique agitation system.
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  1337.  @tonylevan9375  my mother warned me away from front loaders around 42 - 43 years ago. I'll suggest that things have changed a wee bit since then, as in those days, the tub filled quite high with water and modern units use a lot less water. Obviously, things have changed over the decades with front loading washing machines - opinions, not so much. I've seen stinky top loaders as well, it all comes down to care and maintenance at times, when something can leave a residue inside the machine's plumbing, it needs a maintenance cycle to clean it out. You know, run the damned thing empty and let that residue get cleaned out. It seems that common sense is a critically endangered species these days.
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  1338.  @douggardner8229  that's a small part of the oath, it's obey LAWFUL ORDERS. Not obey unlawful orders and usurp the Constitution and laws. I should know, I served for over 28 years.
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  1339.  @rse4379  I dunno, I get that light all the time. Computer readout gives a mysterious "Loose nut behind the wheel" alert that I can't find in the computer's documentation.
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  1340. Well, they don't want to put the pothole installer out of work.
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  1341.  @Susan.1946  PA Dutch in part. But, for the full background, you'd have to learn about the colonization of South Africa and the Boer Wars. Boer referring to the descendants of the Dutch colonists. There's a reason we military study history, it's not because we were bored.
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  1342.  @dlariby  all of Matthew 25:34 onward. For that matter, Isaiah 58:7.
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  1343. Well, there still is fresh pig's feet and when you can find them, fresh pork hocks. Use both, prefer the hocks when I can find them for my pasta sauce. When I can't get either, I'll grab goat meat, which is not quite as expensive as oxtails and plentiful in my current neighborhood. Upside, in my neighborhood, largely Caribbean, fish and chicken leg quarters are also plentiful (and hence, also goat meat). Also used to use oxtails in my pasta sauce, whichever was on special when the kids were growing up. Not any longer, stupidly expensive. At the rate peasant foods are growing into wealthy designer foods, soon I just might become vegan. Or cannibal...
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  1344.  @kagakai7729  what was annoying was, the Apollo program sent up engineers and test pilots until their last moon mission, when they finally got around to sending a geologist.
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  1345.  @William.Driscoll  I've had someone blather that to me, "You think you're better than me??" "Absolutely, you are capable of only having a simplex, you're giving me a complex and when I return as a manager, I'll remember your team wrecking today." The nail moron, I remind them that the manager wants a promotion, hence would require a replacement - with a business degree. The reality being, once I'm degree in hand, I'd be as gone as the previous winter from such a toxic environment, as those workers will eventually cause the business to fail. My usual practice, when the business fails, I return for the equipment sale and buy their servers, high end printers and newest office equipment for pennies on the thousands of dollars mark. Done that a half dozen times now. Giving those employees a pinkie wave on my way back out the door. I'm fairly accustomed to being the smartest guy in the room, I prefer not to be, as then I have a chance to learn something. I figure I'll stop learning a week or two after I'm dead. ;)
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  1346. Nope, the problem was spotted, unless you also want a special ID for every other right you currently enjoy. Because, the first people impacted would be the deployed military being unable to present their ID's to vote, hence denied their vote. And removing a reason to defend the nation.
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  1347. I've actually met him. He's worse.
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  1348. He needs to be put back into the box. The boo box from Peter Pan...
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  1349. Heh, around 10% of the time, he still slips and calls out Obama as he mastur-, erm, speaks.
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  1350. No, I didn't survive. I couldn't possibly survive. I'm an American, I thrived by fighting, not laying on my back like DonOLD and his fine family tradition of fleeing the draft or whoring opposition. We've been a land of second opportunities, giving a chance to whoever arrives to thrive if they've got the guts to try. Trump's family arrived fleeing a common draft to military service. We said, "Fine, but show us what you've got". Yeah, met the seventh fleet in fine familial virtue. We don't guarantee success, we only offer the opportunity to try. And DonOLD has repeatedly shown moral and financial bankruptcy. A hurricane pummeled an important US possession, he threw paper towels into the ring. A pandemic scarred and wounded us, he stayed on the field - a golf course, playing with his balls. Another term of this uncommon prostitute? I'd rather screw a wood chipper. Because, I didn't dodge a draft. I served for over 28 years and I'm in my 60's and still slugging on after I retired. I'm far too busy to be playing with my balls or hiring the disgrace to the US Marine Corps. Oh, for the record, I met him in person at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function around the year 2000. He was the guest of honor. Said function experienced a 95% attrition rate, stated by the attendees, when invited the following year and refusing to attend, their refusal to attend was exclusively due to his fine attention. He was the boor of the party, ruining an otherwise pleasant networking experience for all and their spouses. He trumpeted his wondrous successes, speaking expansively about the great bankruptcies as successes to a room full of business owners. I'm astonished that the planet stayed on its axis, given the phenomenal number of ubiquitous eyerolls. His "success" method is easy, call every failure a success. No, DonOLD, a failure is an opportunity to try again, not give up and call it a success. We're Americans, we fight on, even when we initially fail, we keep going until we succeed.
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  1351.  @MawkiieTawkiie  it's literally a religion with them.
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  1352.  @davidwydra2401  yeah, when the food runs out, all of the money in the world ain't worth a shit. That isn't a prophecy, it's an observation of reality.
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  1353. So, you want to deny the military their vote when they're deployed? Why, since obviously it was caught? Who else do you want to deny their rights to? What other rights do you want to strip your fellow citizens of? When do you want a second amendment ID card being required as well? And a first amendment ID card? Soon, we'll be carrying around unnecessary Encyclopedia Britannica sized ID card stacks!
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  1354. Hey now, we'll get a Trump middle class tax cut and superior replacement for the ACA - right alongside commercial fusion power and free unicorn rides. I believe him, but I also believe in Reaganomics, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. And I have brown eyes for a damned good reason. Seriously now, among many other things I've done for a living, I was a TV repairman. Nobody can bullshit a TV repairman. We profited even off of used car salesmen.
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  1355. Oddly, neither does Russia. Or China. Heard that hell might take him, provisionally.
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  1356. "Is he a clean bomb or a dirty bomb?"
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  1357.  @oleharder8028  well, that or Oktoberfest. The food is even better than the usual delectable fare! Good luck keeping room for some beer... I've found that you just can't go wrong anywhere that there's a harvest festival. :) If it wasn't for the Army, I'd probably had needed an extra widebody airplane to come home on.
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  1358.  @Namenlos_1312  that's easily fixed though. Take out the air filter, so that the motor will no longer be a problem. I'll just get my hat...
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  1359. Had an aunt I never got to meet. She died of the sequelae of meningoencephalitis, years after.
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  1360. And he's busily showing just how low one can go...
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  1361. At least Benedict Arnold had a reason, wartime disability, rendering him incapable of operating his farm and no suggestion of a pension to help support him and his family. A direct result of his turning traitor was the creation of what eventually became the VA. Which suffered nearly 40 years of annual budget cuts, counting our first year of our current wars. As for the rest, I consider the source... Questionable, at best.
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  1362. One problem that I've read reports on is, that the updater had been set by Crowdstrike to override corporate settings on the Windows platforms, applying the update for all, rather than the usual test groups and being permitted beyond those groups only when approved. I suspect it'll all become completely clear once discovery has been completed on soon to be initiated litigation and bytes start getting taken out of the company's sensitive bits...
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  1363. Donald Trump can't read a single page that doesn't have bullet points and pictures to lower the word content. So, reading an entire file is beyond out of the question, his Adderall habit won't permit it. Oh, ya forgot that candid photo of him behind his desk and the drawer open that was full of European generic Adderall? Then, we hear idiots go on about Deep State, which in Trumpese is the Civil Service. He hates an independent Civil Service, as he can't staff it with flunkies to divert every tax dollar into his empty bank accounts for him to lose. So, we segue into "It's the CIA", largely because most people don't understand what the CIA is and does, so obviously patriots are evil. And since patriots are evil, those actively working to destroy our government and nation are good - because they wear a red hat. Sorry, the good guys got white hats. What all of this tells me is, our educational systems are an embarrassing shambles, our lead paint abatement programs are a disgraceful debacle and that the insane rule the asylum.
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  1364. We've never had a system of justice, we have a legal system, which fixates upon what is legal over that which is right and wrong morally. Makes sense, as moral views are variable, legal views tend to have more constraints, as the laws are written, not unwritten "I know it when I see it" crap.
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  1365. Had more than a few wheelchair bound individuals who insisted on doing it themselves. Pissed them off when I got the door for them, to no end. Then, I explained, someday, it'll be me and I'll appreciate the effort. Nearing that now, literally. So, I do appreciate the door holding and still hold the door for those less fortunate. Park in my space, do enjoy finding your valve stems beside your tire. I'm a nice guy, just not all that nice. Do wonder how your spare got flattened as well. Picking locks is a hobby... And being a Dad, I know, sometimes one has to be a dick.
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  1366.  @clemdane  that would definitely get detected by customs and marked as smuggling. But, I did pick up 3 month supply doses for when I was overseas. Thankfully, foreign customs knew the difference between psychoactive "drugs of abuse" that were prohibited from antihypertension drugs. Got my ibuprofen in bulk abroad anyway.
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  1367. For thinking he's untouchable, he spends $20 million a year on personal security.
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  1368. The FDA doesn't approve pesticides. Thank you for playing, please try again.
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  1369.  @cathleenbodiker9292  not for national security violations. Those have mandatory sentencing.
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  1370. Sully had altitude in his favor and therefore, time to start the APU and for it to come online. This one, it's amazing they got the altitude that they did get on TOGA, but no thrust, they managed to only be able to make a reciprocal approach and landing, trading what little altitude they had for airspeed to avoid stalling. Even so, the fatality numbers would've been far lower if it wasn't for that bunker berm and wall to hold up the locator beacon antennae that itself was double rebar concrete. They may as well had installed a damned minefield in the overrun area. The bear of it is, the wall around the airport was frangible.
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  1371. Watergate is the name of the hotel. I'm honestly unaware of anyone who lived through that time who didn't know that. Especially if they were reading about it daily in the newspapers. More so for Tricky Dick...
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  1372. I'll happily take it back shredded, folded, spindled and mutilated. I'll happily take it back inside of its own crater, even in my back yard. I don't want it back with a service member compacted inside. So, get the hell out and enjoy the fireworks. I'll be doing the same, well, once I'm done ducking.
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  1373.  @glennmartin1632  immunity means we have a king and nothing is illegal for that king. That's more than any other king in human history has had.
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  1374.  @johnkru1295  ever so fascinating to hear from folks who want to tell other folks what they may or may not spend their money on.
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  1375. I dunno, I'd love to hear him whining, "We bad, we bad" as he walks down the cell block to his new cell and beets his new fiancee, Bubba.
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  1376. I dunno, it did decide "Let there be light"...
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  1377. And they'll need to hire tens of thousands of couriers to carry confidential and secret parcels and documents to their destinations, as the USPS does that currently via registered mail. This will end up in court as well and end up like the rest of his overreaches, tossed out as unconstitutional. One upside is, we'll not have an egg shortage soon, he's laying ever so many eggs in every court case.
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  1378. Fair, Russia, Election, three words that can never peacefully coexist in a sentence that is truthful. Rather like honest and politician...
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  1379. Why would you want to help Trump achieve his goal of eliminating the US Constitution? One has a right to appeal, removing that right literally neutralizes the Constitution and hence, the foundation of all laws in the land.
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  1380.  @KameraShy  which is precisely why they have courts. In many cases, those older agreement and treaties were replaced by the EU accords.
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  1381.  @brendasnow8255  it grinds their gears and it's geographically accurate, as South Africa is decidedly an African nation. Still, it's fair, we had an African-American president, now we've got an African president.
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  1382.  @MiddleAgedGeek  and they investigate the hell out of each and every threat, complete with having a long talk at the one making the threat.
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  1383.  Sy Fan  just another troll trying to cause trouble.
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  1384.  @donnarobertson252  yeah, he'd be hating life if he tried that non-answer with me. "Yes, it's a stupid question, which is why I asked you the question, stupid question for a stupid person, now kindly actually answer it".
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  1385. Ah, but now the worthless stock is worth less. What are penny stocks again? Still, I'm impressed, having personally met the man, I didn't think he was smart enough to manage a pump and dump. He's more a pump and dumpster fire kind of guy.
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  1386. BTW, Omar Bradley said it best. "Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics".
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  1387. My wife of over 42 years suffered from clitomegaly. Yeah, big time, not so fun, due to irritability. But, I certainly learned the anatomy. And I learned the basic anatomy from Benson's Handbook of OB/GYN. Gentlemen, learn your woman's anatomy, women, please do the same, it's simple enough.
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  1388.  @susanfender307  sir, hell! I work for a living! ;)
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  1389. A loud minority with billionaire backers said so. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy. Or at least rent for cheap. President Musk can tell you all about how he bought Vice President Trump.
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  1390. For a touch of wow factor, that helicopter was flying at an atmospheric pressure equivalent of 98000 - 115000 feet of earth air pressure. So, it buzzed around mars at the same equivalent pressure and atmospheric density that it took the SR-71 flying supersonic speeds to fly at.
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  1391. I'd laugh if the judge instead admits to an error and the amount due being even more.
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  1392.  @feedingravens  the funny thing is, the founders greatly admired Rome. Not the Rome of the Roman Empire, but the Rome of the Roman Republic. They wanted to avoid an Imperium, but emulate all of the best parts of the Republic. They framed our Constitution in the way that they did to avoid ever risking having an emperor. And they were successful until just recently, when a fair sized part of this nation would gladly throw our values under the bus in favor of a huckster from New York, whose every uttered word thus far and at least back to 2yk when I met him, to be a lie - so consistently does he lie that I feel to this very day that when he introduced himself, I should've carded his ass.
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  1393.  @davidleandro7026  yeah, reporting what they saw. It's called the news.
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  1394.  @yalak_sv  not all that free, gotta dismantled it carefully, pack it, ship it, reassemble it, we don't have slave labor robots yet, so labor is entirely not free.
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  1395.  @sallydaniel1023  President of Solitary Confinement. Replacing his burgers and fries with a much healthier bread and water.
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  1396.  @SM-nz9ff  save for reality. I've been a juror a few times. Courtrooms are boring places, utterly bereft od Hollywood excitement. Attempts to do so result in a pissed off judge and sanctions.
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  1397. OK, next time, they'll leave the hostage situation alone and patrol for drug dealers.
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  1398.  @heikechilds2816  battery remains a felony and if tolerated without punitive action, is encouraged. So, yes, he should be charged with the felony and upon conviction, most states won't allow him to vote until his sentence is completed. Then, it's up to the various states laws whether or not he remains disenfranchised.
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  1399.  @jeramysteve3394  pretty close and it used a skip reentry profile, skipping off of the atmosphere initially to extend range. The shape was pretty much the same as a MIRV unit, which combines lift and heat protection via ablation. Atmospheric entry is hypersonic and with warheads, minimum velocity is to be lost to make interception difficult to impossible.
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  1400. @MrsNaughtyCat96 there is no federal citizen's arrest. That's a state right and varies by state and in many cases only is allowed in the case of a violent felony in progress.
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  1401. You're assigned position X, shooter is at position Y, who is monitoring and protecting position X while you're just randomly sweeping areas that are outside of your area of responsibility? Guess you've never been on any protective detail or even military guard duty.
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  1402. And utterly impossible. We have 67 counties in PA, he'd have had to travel to each ballot counting center in each county and manually log into those computers one by one, as they're not networked by design. Just more smokescreen BS.
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  1403.  @Alex_Mitchell  subsequent reports did, after a full analysis of all imagery.
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  1404. @Richard Cranium that'd be my wife and I. Our kids are grown and have homes of their own. So, we don't need 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, den, mud room, rec room, separate laundry room, main engineering, auxiliary engineering, photon torpedo room, electron microscope room, 50 shades of plaid room and my guns don't need their own damned room. So, tell me I need to essentially build a McMansion, enjoy the nation's newest cobalt-60 repository. With many open sources to deter trespassers. For those ignorant of cobalt-60, it's a rather hard gamma radiation emitter. If any leaks into the water table, guess they'll need a majority of residents well over 50% complaining about the blue glowing water. Or put up with a town full of large green angry residents... ;) If I can't get the NRC permit, which is iffy, storing and composting castor bean mash from the castor oil companies would suffice. I'm sure that one of the most toxic biotoxins around would degrade quickly... In short, be a dick and a damned nightmare for the town.
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  1405. We've dined with our contracting office, but the dining was an official meeting over lunch to discuss contract issues, was documented thoroughly and had a trail of e-mails that remained preserved to further document what was discussed. Most of the meetings involved scope creep, which the contractor's management was fine with, due to underperformance issues and neither the contracting officer nor I were interested in suffering penalties over.
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  1406. Now that beach is part of the National Park system. There remains a USCG station there, the rest are public beaches, one being clothing optional.
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  1407. I'm confused. How is the truth a joke?
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  1408. The Army used to have the arms room access control list posted on the vault door, complete with the CO's social security number. I had a word with someone at division, since there was no real interest at the union level and I had ran into that person one day and mentioned it. They talked to someone upstairs, who called Big Army, who changed the guidance. What should have been used is the EDIPI, aka their "serial number", which is prominent on the ID card, as well as in their digital signatures. A couple of years later, I took a civilian job overseas on one of our bases and became the IASO for our base (information assurance security officer). Managed to keep us out of a major network mess from a foreign APT (advanced persistent threat), all from just ensuring everything was properly configured, the laws and policies being followed. Ugly mess, glad to not get jammed up by Buckshot Yankee. Those afflicted got tons of work and additional hours cleaning it up, I went home on time and a normal workload, all from doing a little bit more work initially.
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  1409.  @thomassargent-j6e  funny how the founders disagreed with you. But, you know better than those who wrote the Constitution. Hell, you know The Law better than God.
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  1410. I had many of the symptoms of low testosterone, complete with body hair loss, low energy, etc. Nope, thyroid hormone levels were way off and one side effect of methimazole is body hair loss. Endocrinologists, worth their weight in gold.
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  1411.  @onlygameplay134  no, insulting someone who contradicts licensed physicians without a whit of the education required to do so. And I've not researched such for personal usage, but for military medical usage. So, are you also one to tell licensed surgeons how to perform surgery?
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  1412. More likely, a state actor's botnet making complaints, which automagically get the video flagged. If one speaks sharply, critically and penetratingly of a certain Ukraine invading nation state and their leader, comments even get flagged and one goes to screwball tube jail.
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  1413.  @nancymarquis3943  they care only about the laws and Constitution, as is established in their own oaths. That is how it should be, because while it's not a perfect system, it's hands down better than any other system that's been utilized throughout human history and gradually improves. For the preamble of our Constitution said it all and still proudly says, "We the People of the United States, in order to establish a more perfect union". It doesn't say establish a perfect union, it by suggesting establishing a more perfect union admits to imperfection and the Constitution itself allows itself to be amendmended for that purpose. Such objections as above and other extremist speech and suggested actions are giving me grave reservations as to the viability of our continued union, which bodes ill for the nation, for how would nuclear armed powers interpret widespread domestic unrest or even civil warfare in a nuclear armed nation? I know from my own military experience, a first strike would be strongly recommended to neutralize a growing threat. Turning a disastrous wreck into a wreck upon a wreck. And fear drives civilians mad, always. Military learn to suppress fear and make rational decisions, lest things fall into chaos and death, civilians never had that terrible privilege.
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  1414.  @5678sothourn  indeed it is! For me, greyout and tunnel vision was my first symptom, then a feeling of panic, then I realized that I was suffocating due to a mask failure. The NBC NCO was profuse with apologies and I angrily reminded him that checking the valves is an operator task and it was my own stupid fault for not checking the mask upon receipt.
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  1415. I hereby sentence you to one solid kick in the gonads. As to policy, it goes unchecked, axle checks go unchecked, On every abundance in existence. Perpetually on every mandated run.. I'm a dick to work for, but easy to work with. I was an NCO in the military. Got a problem with god-cops, got a problem even more with abuse of office. Got a bigger problem with offices creating a problem via abuse of office. Immediate problem being dealing with such mismanagement. It all boils down to leadership or, well, misleadership.
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  1416.  @Swedishpolymath  they're loyal to their campaign contributors, not the populace. So, threats to vote for someone else is like telling YouTube that you'll take your video based social media elsewhere. Let me know how well that turns out for you. At least I know where the IRBM's are stored.
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  1417. BTW, how many centuries will CPS now be humping her leg? Kid will be 43 and they're still harassing mom over the non-issue... Hey, if one cannot trust the judgement of a local government in that one area, how can you trust them in any other?
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  1418. It's their second wave. It got hung up due to some off tuna salad in their cafeteria before embarkation and emergency debarkation, then got massively hung up on a confusingly signed cloverleaf exchange. And some confusion over a long awaited "Earth shattering kaboom" that never occurred.
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  1419.  @synewparadigm  because the cartels are too dangerous in Central America and Antarctica keeps giving them the cold shoulder?
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  1420.  @gbh5912  it's called remembrance, hence why we have memorial day. May you be swiftly forgotten and remain unburied.
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  1421. The overpressure isn't a fixed magical figure, it depends upon context of what one is protecting against. A 3 PSI overpressure from a shockwave is enough to collapse many residential structures that aren't reinforced concrete, at 5 PSI, everything but reinforced concrete, 10 PSI most concrete buildings are destroyed or demolished and at 20 PSI, utter destruction - from the outside, upon the entire structure. Inside, it becomes a different matter, as one is essentially talking about one flat or in this case, one room in one flat. That said, failure of the flat itself shouldn't have allowed the entire structure to experience a progressive collapse of that segment. One flaw is a lack of design to protect against progressive collapse. No building codes existed to mitigate against it at the time, no effort was made to design protection in, frankly, it was a rubbish practice and protection needed to be codified. But, corner cutting of such a degree, with bloody newspapers used in place of concrete, that stinks to high heaven of corruption somewhere, as inspectors should've spotted that a mile off during construction! It's not as if only one man pours concrete to join segments! In this case, I'd have looked for a design with nonstructural panels designed to blow out without compromising the structural integrity of the entire building or segment of the building. I'd also want the fucking thing put together properly. And in this case, I'm forced to question the quality of all construction in the borough at the time, as obviously inspection was either absent or badly lacking, allowing heaven knows what to get built at grave risk to the populace.
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  1422.  @ILoveTheMoodyBlues  oh, quite a few are taking care of themselves getting re-arrested for crimes various and sundry.
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  1423. None, those all got retired. Too much maintenance and better solutions are available.
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  1424. Germans still eat raw pork products today - only from trusted butchers. Seriously. I've had it, I've also had undercooked pork, much to my irritation. Thankfully, the butcher was well trained and diligent for the raw pork products I had in Germany and the undercooked pork, well, I was lucky.
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  1425. Knot tying isn't a big deal - as long as you prefer the fast route down. Personally, I prefer to take my time getting down, at least a few seconds longer than the fast way.
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  1426. Tijuana, Mexico, December 2013 a cobalt-60 source was on a truck that was stolen and the source was opened, contaminating tons of steel that was recycled and sold in the US. So, welcome to that world away, where the steel in your building is possibly contaminated with a gamma radiation source, albeit a rather low level emitter due to dilution. Brazil had their own mess, google Goiânia accident. There are a few here and there in our hemisphere. But, the prizes still are involving abandoned Soviet sources, especially RTG's for safety markers.
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  1427.  @jeromethiel4323  yeah, it's greedy and utterly unreasonable to expect one's own government not to dump hundreds of pounds of debris through one's home, since we routinely do that to foreigners or something. That type of thinking resulted in France adopting their National Razor for quite a few years.
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  1428.  @jimrobinett2254  yeah, go for putting an oval office inside of Rikers. It'd be unique for foreign heads of state on visiting day... Oh, even if somehow he won, you do realize that New York state does not have to release him from prison, yes? State rights and all.
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  1429. The most unkind thing one can do to a fool is to allow them to speak their mind. In Trump's case, allowing him to talk for longer periods guarantees that he'll eventually ride off of the rails and into the brush. One can accelerate that simply by allowing him to perceive disrespect, such as addressing him as former president, rather than his preferred president. That'll trigger adrenaline and he'll swiftly lose control.
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  1430. Kind of like "losing some charges", it's a simple case of Fani saying, "That's OK, Your Honor, I've got a wheelbarrow full of spare charges here.
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  1431. Just another pathway into a new form of affordable living - prison.
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  1432.  @rloomis3  OK, I'll qualify it a bit better. Given the choice of watching his coronation and having a root canal performed by a proctologist, I'll go with that route of entry root canal. What I actually did was supervise the river freezing deeper, had to make sure it froze fairly evenly.
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  1433. As was the Sahara and the Mohave was a seabed. Milankovitch cycles, while long, still are a bitch...
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  1434.  @Edax_Royeaux  yeah, the B-29 was an utter boondoggle, being only in use up to the 1960's and delivering two atomic bombs that could've been delivered by FedEx instead. Had we not wasted such money, Japan would've lost the war!
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  1435.  @beckydoesit9331 so, crime should always go unpunished. Close the criminal courts too! Just convict and release.
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  1436. Dangerously close to his suggestion for the disabled... :( Do look up Aktion T4.
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  1437.  @Puppies03b3eleyyBalenciaga  it's RX limited in quantity dispensed by law now. I've used it in the military to treat recalcitrant cough, with doctor cosigner, which says how rarely I suggested it for a patient. It's way too much like giving a kid a loaded gun...
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  1438. Heh, I'm 62 and still walk to and back for my shopping, it's only a couple of miles or so. If I have something that I want from the larger supermarkets, I'll take a bus. Got a nice riverside park right across the street from me, complete with a running trail. One big difference, in the towns, the roads in Germany are much narrower. Makes sense, as many such streets and roads were originally made for horse and horse carts (we shared that in downtown Philly and a few other older cities in the US). Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state (save in Philadelphia, where it's concealed carry with permit only). Few ever bothered. Louisiana was also open carry, the only time I did was when there was a cottonmouth moccasin in the yard - a highly aggressive venomous snake. Thankfully, never needed my gun, just being around 10 feet from the snake and not leaving convinced it to move off of the property. Found a molted skin from it in the garage, so I secured that a bit better afterward. A pro tip, if you want a more balanced diet or at least your greens and well, more than chicken or burgers, go to a diner. If you see one with plenty of elderly folks there, the prices and good are typically good. Before my wife died, we used to go to a local diner that had a wonderful fruit and salad bar, I terrorized the poor staff at that, as I can graze a *lot*. ;)
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  1439. Pennsylvania stands with you. The last thing the disaster area needs is this bullshit on top of an existing disaster!
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  1440.  @lindachallenger1554  more like an entire A team for security, the B team prepared for a frank exchange of views.
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  1441.  @silent_stalker3687  the majority of antivaxxer nonsense isn't spread on college campuses, but on the internet with those who don't know better.
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  1442.  @AJefferson-r5o  it's a religion now. They chose their new god-king, who reigns over all other gods, thinking they'll gain power and wealth, all while becoming more powerless and impoverished by his grifts. But, people pathologically loathe to admit when they're wrong.
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  1443. Wrong all around. Try reading actual history, rather than propaganda. Lincoln ordered all slaves in territory taken by the Union Army freed. Freed is the opposite of seized, a good dictionary will serve to show you that. Scott was suing over his citizenship as a freed slave, if citizenship is property rights in your mind, you need to get an operational mind. The court decision was also recognized by the SCOTUS in numerous commentaries on other cases as a deficient decision.
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  1444. And if the same hits an independent state, such as oh, another nation, it's just lousy marksmanship, as usual. Perfect deity, lousy shot. What a religion...
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  1445.  @Becker333  given both were MAGA supporters, "u guys" is a rather, ahem, interesting interpretation. Right up there with German propaganda announcing great successes in the war effort as Berlin was being stormed by all of the Allies.
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  1446. And a test, as someone testing is quite literally extorting money that they're really not owned, as they're not the one being injured. Meanwhile, I go to a small business and walk with a cane, having some issues at times navigating and am reasonable enough to realize a mom and pop operation can't afford to install ramps out of the blue, save if they're getting work done on the entry.
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  1447.  @Wilett614  actually, they're Russian Blue cats. Originated in Russian ports, extremely human affinitive. Had one some years back, miss that cat. But, can't afford to pay attention, let alone for cat food, litter and the occasional vet extravaganza. So, I'm stuck visiting my neighbor's cats.
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  1448.  @mile_high_topher  it is quite the unique train though. Never have I before witnessed a train full of dumpsters derail and catch fire. Or even saw a train full of full dumpsters before... But yeah, people keep on boarding the burning dumpster fire train in the ditch.
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  1449.  @jaysonlima7196  yep, the more things to sign, the worse the penmanship grows.
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  1450. And not far from where the first reports of the "drones" first started.
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  1451. I had a smoke detector fail, so maintenance replaced it and made the mistake of handing the broken one to me. Got the americium-214 source in the box with my scintillation detector (built from plans on CERN's outreach site). Eventually, I'll build a cloud chamber. Probably go with a cold pack based, using a hot water tub on top to give the temperature differential to get the vapor. As for his basement, got a different concern about going there - stairs and a bad disc that causes one knee to fold up randomly. ;) Interestingly, I'm a bit hotter in gamma than my children's generation, verified by gamma camera during baseline measurements for a thyroid scan. I suspect some part may be due to growing up during the atmospheric testing era. And ironically, born a week after the cleanest bomb ever built was detonated - and the largest, Tsar Bomba.
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  1452. Rome rotted from within, allowing perversions of office to drain life from the empire. That's why the Founding Fathers wanted to emulate the Republic, where no cult of personality existed until Caesar fucked things up.
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  1453.  @marcussurleyadventures1928  what is laughable is, we've currently got a batch of neofascists that are in, proclaiming the same extinct anarchist threats that were eliminated at the end of WWII, promoting the same thing that the GOP actually openly stated admiration of - fascism, right until WWII put the kibosh on it. When people fail to learn from history, it becomes entirely cyclical - if we allow it to.
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  1454. Anyone in our hemisphere and knows anything at all about WWII know the contributions and losses by Canadians.
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  1455.  @dafyddllewellyn6636  not really, the Lancaster was more accurate, as it was piloted and guided toward the target. The V2 had a crude INS guidance, which was largely dead reckoning, with only a gyrocompass for guidance, so could be miles off in its CEP. Of course, the Nagasaki device detonated 3 miles off target as well, thanks to the Norden bombsight.
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  1456.  @jeffkardosjr.3825  well, we can thank the super accurate Norden bombsight for that, which missed the target in Nagasaki by 3 miles (yeah, I'm serious). Typical (in)accuracy was around a quarter mile of target, with in one attack using over 1000 bombs, only one bomb landed on the grounds of a German chemical plant. The entire super-secrecy of the sight being exclusively created as part of sales propaganda by the sight's manufacturer. Nearly as laughable as carrots for good night vision, which was actually initially a joke told to a German spy, who had asked how British fighters were able to find German bombers so accurately and quickly at night and the British weren't going to admit to major advances in radar. That myth still is repeated today, but then the super accurate Norden myth is nearly equally repeated today.
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  1457. Erm, nope. The conviction is in a New York state court, Secret Service are federal. Anyone born here knows the difference, I've only had to explain that to foreigners.
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  1458.  @NofoolinMercy  he's a traitor to the Corps.
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  1459.  @Censorthisbananahamock  true. Many don't realize that a substantial portion of the population is military trained as well. Which means an escalation framework of our own. Escalate, be ready for insane escalation. Going for gun, well, that's when it's time to inflict harm and actually resist, with lethal intent. Then, radio in for more officers, as I'm running low on ammunition. I've never been accused of being a diplomat. But, oddly, I've wrangled diplomatic solutions quickly. And in the film, Rambo did screw up repeatedly. In the book, Troutman shot Rambo with the sheriff's shotgun. Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent, it does remain a course of action in extreme circumstances and I excel in special circumstances.
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  1460. @VladimirStepanov-e6h as I recall, when the Ring Around the Gulf was severed, the captain and officers did get prison time for anchoring in the do not anchor zone where the cables were. The trick is proving mens rea, a guilty mind, as Halon's Razor is central to a court of law.
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  1461. That is entirely incorrect! It's worse than a failed African state. But, we had practice in creating the mess that is Somalia...
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  1462. That goes with age and cognitive decline. Saw it when my father started fading rapidly due to vascular dementia from his diabetes.
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  1463. Let's consider worst case scenario, which is basically where things ended up. Don't need the cable, leave it up, maybe the cable gets damaged unnecessarily vs loss of aircraft. Cables are just a tad less expensive than an aircraft...
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  1464. Law enforcement doesn't rely upon the psychic friends network. They like to do that investigating thingie and question suspects thingie. They're really weird that way.
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  1465.  @gingerbread51  we're going for giving him the James II treatment, but at the rate he's going, he might qualify himself for a James I treatment.
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  1466. I most decidedly am not The God, which is the literal translation of Allah, nor could I be misconstrued as a god, but I most certainly did direct what can only be properly described as the wrath of an angry god via radio commands. Still, I and my team did actually try to not interrupt their worship services, largely explaining to the populace that we'd not want our worship services interrupted. The weird part is, overall, that worked out rather well. But then, things military are weird by nature. Proof: The WWI Christmas Truce, never officially declared, save by the participants.
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  1467. You had a clerk that was an idiot. He had a clerk that was either a willful idiot or just plain scofflaw. Puerto Rico was and remains a US territory, hence anyone born there is a US citizen. Canada is decidedly not a US territory or possession and more decidedly is a foreign nation and ally of the US. Despite our invading them twice.
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  1468. Honestly, I'm still astonished that there's a commission on that which originated as a felony and has lost ground ever since.
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  1469.  @SuperSunrise69  and all of that, irrelevant, as none are unlawful activities. What is relevant is, there was a week to prepare a venue that should normally take a month to prepare for in terms of security.
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  1470. There, there, Chatbot. Have a sip of water and calm down...
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  1471. When I rarely find it, I grab Marmite for pot roasts, saves time on making a wine reduction and flavors it wonderfully. Obviously, I don't salt the roast, the Marmite does that work for me. Personally, I kind of like it.
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  1472. Yep, if he was seeking redress, he'd have an appointment to see a specific congresscritter. Absent that, he had no valid reason to be within that hallway and hence, Capitol Police could be summoned and he'd have been directed to leave, likely with the hope that he'd resist.
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  1473.  @magdalisalbelo7428  worse, they deny him to His face.
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  1474. At first, the UltraFan seemed to basically be a dusting off of some rather older designs and in some ways, it is. With the twist of variable pitch. Initially, I was confused as to the lack of an outer ring to both duct and spread out stresses, but the variable pitch would render that idea impractical. Then, I pondered stresses involved and the next item listed was gear reduction, lowering RPM's and hence, those stresses. So, overall, intriguing designs and may result in the reintroduction of gull wing designs as well. A greater advantage is, now we've got excellent computer modeling, which was impossible when such things were briefly experimented with in the past. And given we've gotten a helicopter to fly on Mars, this should be much easier!
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  1475. But then, he thought that direct impingement was a good idea.
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  1476. Wow, two, I can name two of the opposing party that went after a presidential candidate of their own party and is now ostensibly the POTUS. I can name even more of that same party involved in other firearms related incidents, some that actually could've been charged with sedition over. Doesn't make it political, it means I'd be cherry picking like you do. How about having some modicum of respect for the deceased officer, whose body hasn't even frigging cooled off yet?
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  1477.  @apumpkinsmom  and giving false statements to law enforcement is already a crime. But, sheriffs don't punish at any level, that is the duty of the courts. Don't like it, sheriff, get another damned job, because either the Constitution reigns supreme or firepower does.
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  1478. What is the beta energy for nickel-63? The search engines are clogged with blurbs on the vaporware battery. Of course, the Chinese won't worry about the HF bath... The smog is far more toxic there anyway.
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  1479. I'm reminded of the Teflon Don, nothing ever seemed to stick to him. Who died in prison of throat cancer.
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  1480. They get a paycheck because that silly little Constitution thingie says that they get a paycheck.
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  1481. Phage research is moving up, globally and in the US. Antibiotic resistance is really starting to get them worried. Phage resistance happens, but it's brief as the phage quickly evolves. Been a half dozen reports in the past two weeks on the PROMED mailing list on phage research in multiple countries, including the US. Was a bit puzzled though about the time needed, as either way you're waiting for a bacterial culture to grow. Then, see if an antibiotic halts growth or if a phage halts growth. Although, if I was going to go for research, I'd probably be engineering phages, first remove toxins, then adding a major reproductive advantage while inside of a host, while narrowing species specificity. Most don't have all that many excess genes to begin with, so shouldn't be the hardest thing around. Not like oh, engineering a new antibiotic...
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  1482. I've fired the fully automatic M14, for fully automatic it was rubbish because it's literally too light. They wanted to replace the M1 Garand and the BAR with one rifle, but the BAR was as heavy as it was for a reason - recoil control in an automatic weapon. They brought back the M14 and even updated, accurized M1A's for the war, along with AR-10's. Loved the M1A DMR, had the legs for distance and the power occasionally needed. But then, it never really was intended or designed for clearing buildings, but originally for use as a battle rifle over greater distances than an M-16 or M-4 was designed for. The right tool for the right job.
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  1483. That's what people cried with Genghis Khan and Atilla the Hun.
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  1484.  @pablohammerly448  I didn't name the company, I merely said that I'd do business with Century 22. ;) Take a wild guess what company is guilty.
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  1485.  @donaldwert7137  then, the management turned the most fetching shade of purple ever witnessed by mankind.
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  1486.  @Cougelly1999  mine was, in some very real ways, like a drill sergeant, ensuring my phonics and reading lessons were done, allowing me to overcome dyslexia. Something that I actually learned how to use in the military - to plain out see through effective camouflage. Go figure!
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  1487.  @chunksinfante1789  don't own an iPhone, I use real computers as a professional. So, do entertain me, show me the Dunning - Kruger effect, where Dunning was obviously unimportant enough to not deserve respect enough to capitalize a family name? Show your superior knowledge and logic!
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  1488.  @Femaiden  that is their choice. People do have an inherent choice between left and wrong. I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  1489.  @ronfullerton3162  it's a standing family joke, not only do I have a green thumb, but it's likely that were anyone to plant a pebble, it'd grow in soil that I prepared into a boulder. In the Persian gulf, I moved into a villa that had a nice large garden. Well, it would, were it not just a hole in the ground with a curb in place to contain the hole - I mean garden. Got local "soil" from the livestock market, mostly with sheep, goat and camel droppings heavily present. Mixed in peat moss and cat litter until it became a real soil, even if the "sand" was fairly high in calcium carbonate. Despite the insane desert sun, that garden looked like the garden of eden! I also learned then, never, ever, ever put basil and mint where pollinators can find both at once or, being closely related, you'll get a mint flavored basil or vice versa. Made for an interesting spice with mutton, with injected tomato sauce to cut the gamey taste out (acids marinade, even while cooking and remove any gamey flavors from meat). The watermelon grew near the pool, watered a bit more by the splashes from the pool, the cucumbers near the wall, so that the concrete blocks and mortar would hold and slowly release the moisture into the soil.
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  1490.  @graxxor  fluently. Save, to avoid having to speak with Trump. Wish I thought of that when we met at a Chamber of Commerce function back around 2000... He was invited as a speaker of honor, so great was his impression that the following year, the Chamber experienced a 90%+ attrition in attendance to that function.
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  1491. @FunkyMonk6 heh, I'm in south-central PA. There's a diner down the road with an all you can eat salad bar. When they see me come in, they immediately call back to the kitchen, as I terrorize that fruit and salad bar! ;) Obviously, a fair chunk of dinner then comes home in a doggie bag for lunch at work. Dad may have raised a dummy, but he didn't raise no fool!
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  1492.  @Sookielal  ever heard of Flavor Aid and Jonestown?
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  1493. I've failed more times than Carter had Little Liver Pills, learned, moved on. One lead, a team trainer that trained the FBI on IT security things said to my lead, "He keeps making mistakes, but they're new mistakes, he doesn't repeat mistakes". You succeed or fail, fail, learn and advance or well, continue failing, ala many HP execs converting the company from engineering centric to venture capital centric. And why I won't buy their products beyond the LP5 series.
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  1494. I remember that the Constitution has precisely 7 articles and 27 amendments.
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  1495. Well, that and the main screw hub nuts vibrating loose.
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  1496. As the old song goes, Sometimes you need a bit of help from a friend.
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  1497. The United States of America does indeed have the absolute best government that money can buy. Or at least affordably rent, if one has deep enough pockets to pay the dockets.
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  1498. Yeah, that's on my to-do list, keeps getting knocked off of the schedule by life events. But, something's gotta give. I've become a bit anemic, d-dimer is up enough to suggest bleeding somewhere, magnesium is low suggesting clotting cascade is elevated, so it's either the abdominal aortic aneurysm or something else occult leaking. First patient I ever lost, a 28 year old female soldier with a dissected AAA. She was dead before she hit the ground, my only hint in the field, CPR being performed, while verifying compressions efficacy, the pulse fell off with each compression rapidly. She had pheochromocytoma, adrenaline producing tumor on the adrenal gland, shot her BP up way past tilt. Got to see two such cases, the other was successfully treated and was only mentioned in the patient history. Oh well, one upside from doctor's visit today, A1C lower, courtesy of my dropping 20 pounds, lowering insulin resistance, as that's a familial trait. I get to retain the family title of eldest by far to not be diabetic throughout my father's side of the family. Pisses my cousins off massively, as they all are and keep going with their failing mantra "It's in the genes, why fight it?". Simple, they'll be on dialysis in a decade at most, I won't. I'll still be kicking strong, walking with my cane, going deaf as a post, but still sharp as a tack. Well, back to designing a refrigeration unit that uses butane to cool a Wilson cloud chamber for my Amerecium source I rescued from a deceased smoke detector, then improve on a design from CERN for a radiation spectrometer that uses photodiodes retasked for the purpose...
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  1499.  @abelis644  a fine example of why one should never poke baby in the fontanelle. It causes brain damage! There is nothing laugh worthy about 140000 dead people, any people. As some Russians that I know would say, far too much nekulturny.
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  1500.  @LQOTW  PFM. Pure Fucking Magic, as there's no other possible mechanism for such activity.
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  1501. Well, she remembers that DonOLD's MO is to exchange his women for younger models.
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  1502.  @TheMrCougarful  well, Saudi has a really nice marble prison. When it got full with terrorists, a mysterious fire occurred...
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  1503.  @Sodapop-rd5ku  it depends on the reactor. There are a few models that can't leak or melt down and are buried on installation and only dug up when used up and removed.
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  1504.  @viator1987  so, it's an affirmative defense to say "I was tired". So, one can then reasonably infer that a plaintiff or defendant that claims fatigue is utterly justified in pulling out a machine gun and killing all of the attorneys in the room. Both are unlawful acts, both are equally sanctionable, regardless of the length of proceedings. And for the record, I have given depositions in the past, so I'm well cognizant on how long they can take - especially in federal cases. There are breaks and even multiple sessions in depositions, just to avoid fatigue being claimed in a later claimed erroneous statement being given. As ShinmaWa1 said, a one off gets overlooked, habitual times becomes at least malfeasance, obstruction and the judge will be getting a phone call that will annoy them. @SlinkyTWF, that name is a character in a video game series. As one who has had some rather unpleasant interactions with very real terrorists and terrorist organizations, I suggest you acquaint yourself with the rather modest difference between fiction and reality.
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  1505.  @johnpublic6582 why? Google Earth has coordinates available to more than sufficient precision, as does the Russian mapping birds. As for value targets, I'd go for fiber nodes and power distribution nodes. Hard to replace switches, collapse conduits entering the switching center for the fiber, etc. Data centers aren't worth very much if they can't communicate, as McDonald's found out globally recently.
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  1506. OK, lemme get this straight, as my duties in counterterrorism obviously confused me. Standing in the way of traffic is precisely the same as blowing up markets full of women and children, machine gunning babies and raping the cattle while stampeding the women. Gotya. I do have a question for those assholes as well. When did California declare war on Gaza? Or the US Congress, who are the only ones allowed to declare war? Because I really don't think that a traffic jam in California is going to really get many political leaders attention in Tel Aviv. Just spitballing here, I mean, who knows, maybe a secretary will be late for work in Tel Aviv because the Golden Gate Bridge is shut down and couldn't make it to Scotty's transporter or something.
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  1507.  @alanwatterson2850  thanks, but no thanks. I do my level best to avoid playing with excrement.
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  1508. Bucks County, PA, around 30 years ago or so, a farm and some homes were eminent domained by the county for a shopping mall. Litigation ensued, the land was taken, the homeowners and farmer SOL. So, not exactly a novel practice. This simply made it to the SCOTUS, who found that a man's castle belongs to whoever the municipality, county or state damned well fells like giving it to to turn a buck. One remaining farm was under threat and matters went slightly different, as residents of multiple counties finally became outraged. It seems, that the general public consensus was that the courts were worthless, but a few remarked how inexpensive lead was and the farm remains there to this day. It would seem that the officers who made the decision to apply eminent domain to benefit private real estate developers decided to not potentially share Louis XVI's fate. Or maybe it was the ghost of Christmas Future... Never underestimate the folks around Philly. To my knowledge, we're the only US city to have artillery used by the populace against other members of the populace and also got away with killing members of the militia sent in to restore order during the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. Although, the Bronx has the distinction of having US Army artillery used against it during Bowery rioting over the Civil War conscription (wealthy bought their way out of conscription, which triggered the rioting). Although, I do wonder about how much of a part whisky played in starting the whiskey rebellion, which took no less than George Washington riding out of the capitol to meet the responding militia from other states to suppress. History is a rather interesting thing! It can be entertaining or downright horrifying.
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  1509. Nope, although I did consider hydroxic acid. ;) Although IUPAC prefers Oxidane. Yeah, water came to mind both when he mentioned chemophobia and IUPAC naming. ;)
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  1510.  @catwrangler7907 hey, it worked great for Russia. It worked so well in Berlin, the Soviets built a wall completely around the Soviet Union - oh wait, they didn't.
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  1511.  @brycethomas8864  wanna bet, child? This decorated veteran stands against the coup. And I know where the artillery and munitions are stored. Wanna play, got a pocket full of quarters and I never miss my target with small arms as well, only our sniper ever outshot me. By one point.
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  1512.  @jeremycurtis2334  who knows what goes through his empty mutton head.
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  1513.  @YevhenRawrs  put the blame where it belongs. I served from 1982 - 2010 and each and every year the VA budget was first in getting cuts by Congress in response to taxpayers complaining about their tax rate. That counts our first 18 months and change of our GWOT. So, wanna place the blame? Look at Congress and use a mirror while you're looking.
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  1514.  @scottie2636 given their financial and political pariah status? Not enough to buy a pack of chewing gum.
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  1515.  ind0ctr1n3  dunno, I think that Homer Simpson moved to Tokaimura in the late '90's, they had one explosion and fire for waste being treated and encapsulated in '97, then in '99, a criticality event that left coins in homes 350 meters away neutron activated. Last I heard, he moved to near Fukushima, ain't heard anything since then.
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  1516.  @Acedanielss  because, nobody does an inventory, that's just crazy talk!
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  1517. I know quite a few cops that'd then go super gung-ho in admiring the snake and complimenting you on it.
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  1518. And we invaded Canada twice, ended hilariously both times, with our armies being escorted back to the border in the end. Hell, in one of the invasions, Benedict Arnold was wounded. I swear, Trump is likely the only human on the planet that could make the Pope swear like the proverbial sailor.
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  1519.  @themadpaddler9043  well, link up with JTF 2, I'm sure they'll wrangle getting between the two if it came down to that. And ALCON, remember, the groin protector does not have ESAPI plates and I've always fought dirty. And am also U.S. Army combat veteran and will be thoroughly irritable if I have to come out of military retirement to stop unlawful orders from being followed.
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  1520.  @thetaqjr  nail nearly hit on the head. Per capita is part of the equation, so is total harm vs gain. Which is why we don't have leaded gas or paint today.
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  1521.  @Pickn4Gold I pause as well when asked when my wife of over 41 years died, which will be two years ago at the end of this month. But, if one's unclear on precise events, rather than lying, one is instructed by any competent attorney to state I do not recall.
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  1522. For your first question, that's easy. He committed multiple offenses against her, repeatedly and now has to pay the judgement. Oh, he ran off at the mouth about that verdict again, so his bill might be going up again. I agree with your second sentence entirely. Your other question answered itself, cult and cult leader, enough said.
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  1523. That's one thing that I actually enjoyed with peer review. The joy peers take in savaging the shoddy work of a peer. Kept my ancient ass on my toes, given most of my peers were literally half my age or less and all were quite bright cookies. We both learned a lot. I learned a lot of the newer book learning that they'd acquired, they learned dirty sysadmin tricks on attacking and protecting systems. In one case, I showed them how EICAR could be buffered into notepad, which was actually being used in an active attack. I'm pretty sure that write-up is still being used in training. Always try to leave it better than how you found it.
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  1524. Failed huckster - 19x and climbing. Hell, the bible Trump was selling was Lee Greenwood's bible that Lee sold for $40, Trump resold it for $60. Lee, having added "patriotic verses" to his edition.
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  1525.  @mikewurlitzer5217  maybe you should consider saving that money by not starting wars in the wrong country "because he tried to kill my dad". Just an idea. Or ignoring a fucking pandemic "because the numbers make me look bad". Or that whole buying a bunch of ships that, on their first deployment, have cracks that resulted in them being condemned. Or even learning that states charge registration fees, not the federal government.
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  1526. Initially, possibly, but with density also brings different weather patterns. Still, terraforming mars is idiotic in the end, the gravity and no magnetic field would allow the atmosphere to simply be stripped away over time.
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  1527. George Washington was offered a monarchy, he refused and insisted upon a presidency. And it wasn't so altruistically, after all, he did offer to be president for no salary, just an expense account like he had for the Revolutionary War. Congress remembered that bill, which was far higher than any European generals salary and quickly gave him a salary.
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  1528. Obviously, their state has a massive excess of taxpayer dollars, since it didn't think twice about wasting those tax dollars.
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  1529.  @MreuRia  with a hurricane, you get days of warning of probable landfall and path information. I track them every year myself as a hobby. With a wildfire, you get minutes to an hour or so warning - to evacuate a higher density and number of population. We faced similar issues in the Civil Defense era regarding evacuation in case of a nuclear attack. In the end, it was determined that more would die evacuating than sheltering in place against that threat, which thankfully never arrived.
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  1530. Too much cherrypicking of data. Ignoring WWI, Spanish-American War, the Boer War and more, torturing P until it yields the results one desires, rather than molding theory to match the facts and data. But, you are spot on on resistance to major change. Many will fight change tooth and nail, in some cases, for generations.
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  1531. EMP hardened basically means gaskets that are conductive and sealing plugs to short inputs on the counter, with more pulse tolerant electronics.
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  1532. No, but the stockholders might be a wee bit interested in why a half million dollars in attorney fees and court fees were spent to save $500 and worse from both PR value and investment dollar perspective, lost massively. That's like buying a city block of dilapidated houses that are condemned, detonating a tactical nuke to demolish the structures and crowing about the massive profits that'll be had when they can build new housing there in a few centuries.
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  1533. Born in 1961. It wasn't unusual for either mom or dad to shower with me as a small child. Today, that's eeeeeebbbbbiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllll! As for the kids telling you that "your generation's shower habits were gay", I'd have calmly and quietly asked, in lower tones, "Are you trying to tell this US Army decorated war veteran that the entire US Army war veteran community is gay? Do you realize how inadvisable that is to tell someone who is perfectly capable of killing you in an instant that they're what they largely are not is?". Never was a diplomat. Otherwise, we'd likely have far fewer wars. What this is is an extension and recycling of the tepid bathwater of the lost satanic cult wars, when schools had buried children under them and were excavated to find precisely nothing, no missing kids on rolls, no missing children on birth records, no witnesses of missing children and certainly no parents missing children, but entire schools got excavated anyway, the amoral panic dispersed and recycled. Hell, most of their gays in the military, then transsexuals arguments are anti-segregation arguments being badly recycled. It's a conservative control mechanism, controlled by the unimaginative, as they think nobody can figure out the magical man behind the curtain bit. It's also PsyOps 101. And only used educationally. Then, the next course illustrates its many, many, many failure modes. Still, never interrupt an adversary when he's making a mistake. ~Attributed to Sun Tzu, historically, it's highly likely he wished he had that accumulated wisdom, a fair bit now outdated.
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  1534.  @Canleaf08  Gwyneth is well documented, complete with video, of saying that anything natural can't be harmful. Frankly, I'd happily invite her to sit upon a 30 pound mass of purified U-235, with a fine neutron reflector as a seat. We'll discuss it farther in whatever orbit she ends up in.
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  1535.  @ProphetAndLoss  malicious negligence implies intent, which is clearly absent here. Which makes it far, far worse. License revocation kind of worse.
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  1536. Oh never fear, AI will come to the rescue. Which will then create a new boom in roof repair and building construction...
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  1537. Back in the '80's, the TOW-2 was introduced as well. Improved in a number of areas, but still wire guided, optically tracked by the operator. The only way to blind the missile is to blind the operator through the filtered optics. A challenge was a helicopter at 5 km, ducking for a hill. Other challenges were same range, tracked vehicle ducking behind a hill. With a bit of practice, one could nail them reliably. On a tripod, one had only one round at a time, but from a vehicle station, one had a minimum of two shots to take. M2 Bradleys had them, Strykers have them, M113's have them, so they're plentiful enough. Although, to our surprise, we were knocking turrets off of T-72 and T-80 MBT's reliably with just the Bradley's chaingun during Gulf War I.
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  1538.  @artisan002 odd that they'd continue for so long, as petrochemical company HQ's are there, rail switchyards there, but that's true in multiple cities with more things that would be greater targets. Guess they wanted to test the sirens more often and that was their excuse at the time. And when one doesn't test them, that's when half will just quit working when you need them. Pretty sure that's a law of the universe. Another law of the universe, "A week after you test a necessary in an emergency device, it'll silently fail and you'll need it before the next scheduled test".
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  1539.  @VariantAEC  wouldn't work, the neutron generator wouldn't fire, so all you'd get is a dirty bomb and a kit if pissed off people with mops.
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  1540. Now, our military will be taking an oath to a god-king, since he's shredding the US Constitution, as he'd promised to do early in his campaign.
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  1541.  @davestang5454  there are two modes to consider in such a combat situation. Adrenaline ridden mode, uncompensated and makes one tunnel visioned, shaky and foggy thinking and trained to compensate for it, where one is, for a lack of a better word, "reptilian thinking", cold, calculating and engaging with precision. The US Army recognized that difference and engaged in a training plan to experience soldiers with adrenaline effects. This lowered ammunition spew somewhat late in the wars and increased accuracy. The training, derived from US Army Ranger training. One learns to put emotion aside briefly, during a firefight and engage with precision and lethality, to end the fight as quickly as possible. Or one fails and washes out. Wasn't a Ranger, but did other work at a somewhat similar level, under the same operational command. And well, didn't even know I was injured twice while engaging and neutralizing the SOB that injured me. Spray and pray is for amateurs and is telling due to their fatality rate. I kept my weapon usually on semi. Because, nothing sucks more than running out of ammunition in the middle of an active firefight and nothing felt better than neutralizing some SOB with a shot or two and nearing that firefight closer to its end. And another reason I'm glad to be now happily Retired, Extremely Flatulent. I do, however, support the open carry of howitzers. If one can lug that around, even for an minute, one can have whatever Superman wants. ;)
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  1542. It's even worse, as it takes around a minute to a minute and a half for the APU to spool up and stabilize. That'd eat up time during a reciprocal turn, not having thrust to do a go around, while starting the APU, waiting for it to be online, then switching the bus to the APU with their sixth hand. But, ever so many know more, based upon their vast experience gained upon their Twinkie encrusted couch. Honestly, I'm amazed that they got any altitude worth mentioning for the reciprocal turn, as that's one hell of an energy eater right there!
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  1543.  @leo29hornsfan  wrong. Had a property trash accumulation charge from inherited property. When trying to rent a home in a state that I moved to, I was denied rental "because you're a criminal, you have a record". Something shocking to me, given my security clearance being active. Suffice it to say, that real estate office has since folded, as no referrals from our local military base housing were allowed again and the home owner, who insisted on such a travesty gets regular inspections of the property, out of an abundance of caution over the safety of the tenants. Don't get mad, don't get even, get ahead and take the shoulders with it.
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  1544.  @WanderTheNomad  I'm pretty sure he'd refuse to remove his bra and girdle.
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  1545. Well, it's also long been work hardened by usage. And wasn't made to be the cheapest thing imaginable...
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  1546. Actually, the chainsaw was a gift from a South American dictator. I wish I was joking, but I'm not.
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  1547.  @Hurpdurpdipidydoo  yeah, totally it was a panic, not an immediate return or better, burn off the excess fuel with the engines that no longer ran. Why don't you try flying an engineless airplane sometime?
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  1548.  @fuzznuzzler3104  wow, the only POTUS to do worse than Buchanan and you call that great. Were you also the advisor to King Pyrrhus?
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  1549.  @BigSmiley0TV  just checked the API, looks to be a Ruskie bot.
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  1550. Coroner offices also report the deaths. Learned that when my father died, again when my wife died 3 years ago.
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  1551.  @terrybronning3532  try again. Remember that supremacy clause in the federal Constitution? REAL ID is a federal Act of Congress. What some states haven't done is require REAL ID for residents and specifically, foreign residents who are legally here and hence, don't have to prove citizenship. Meanwhile, I can pull his name up in JPAS and still likely find his TS clearance from when he was a sonarman. They don't give out TS clearances to illegals.
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  1552. Worse than helium, actually lighter than helium or hydrogen.
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  1553.  @Goatfer  flat feet didn't slow my over 28 year military career down. Now, I'm REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. And wondering if my veteran benefits will just disappear, despite governmental promises throughout my career.
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  1554.  @USA-GreedyMenOfNoIntegrity  this veteran and military retiree included.
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  1555. Amazing how God would bless a mass murderer for some people, almost as if their god is the devil.
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  1556.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  I'd think that any potential contribution palladium might have would be crystalline lattice confinement of deuterium atoms. As for defects, annealing would help illuminate any such contribution by altering the defects in either direction. Probably end up with another neutron source, rather than an energy source.
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  1557.  @davidmorgan8217  there is no power in the universe that could induce me to vote for the felonious Fallen One.
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  1558.  @silentmajority8365  actually, nope. Wouldn't want to be beholden to the creature. Unlike you, I've actually met him in person and despise him because of his own demerits. Indeed, much of the PenJerDel Chamber of Commerce membership that met him around y2k despise him.
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  1559. There was a recent report of the feds visiting (oddly, in some cases reported in the media as a raid, which they weren't) retail establishments, including Walmart, to inspect their card scanners. Recovered were many illicit card scanners that were glued to the store's card reader.
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  1560. Additionally, your Honor, the aircraft itself was a separate legal entity, so our airline cannot be held liable for any of our passengers that boarded and died aboard it, regardless of who holds the title for said aircraft.
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  1561.  causticsmooth  no, we're not Russians.
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  1562. Making war against the United States before two eyewitnesses to the overt act that will testify in open court. We lack an enemy, as Congress hasn't declared war since WWII. It's literally the only crime listed in the Constitution. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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  1563. You mean, switched from tasty to cheaper.
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  1564. I dunno, Scooby Doo villain or maybe Dick Dastardly. Hell, Muttly was smarter than Trump.
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  1565. Nope. First, treason is narrowly and precisely and indeed, is the only crime defined within the US Constitution. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. So, the individual must have taken up arms against officers of the US government to make war. The portion regarding enemies is irrelevant, as Congress has declared no war, hence the US has no enemies and adversaries are not mentioned, so also irrelevant. Such a charge would be invalid and indeed, attempting to prosecute such knowingly is a crime. Still, for giggles, the penalties: Article III, Section 3, Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. 18 USC Ch. 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ... §2381. Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.) Historical and Revision Notes Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§1, 2 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §§1, 2, 35 Stat. 1088). Section consolidates sections 1 and 2 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed. The language referring to collection of the fine was omitted as obsolete and repugnant to the more humane policy of modern law which does not impose criminal consequences on the innocent. The words "every person so convicted of treason" were omitted as redundant. Minor change was made in phraseology. Editorial Notes Amendments 1994—Pub. L. 103–322 inserted "under this title but" before "not less than $10,000". §2382. Misprision of treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.) Historical and Revision Notes Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §3 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §3, 35 Stat. 1088). Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative. Editorial Notes Amendments 1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $1,000". There's more for insurrection, sedition, etc. There's a bunch more, but these sections covered Trump and his all girl band. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim Our laws aren't hard to find, the US Constitution trivial to find and everything is in plain English.
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  1566. Or racked up all of that overtime, exceeded her authorized access hours in the building and likely network without logging off, etc. That's boardroom level, literally, lack of due care and due diligence to every damned layer and level of security for the business, customer data and corporate data security, from physical security for the facility to access to critical systems. All are now in question, per federal law. Laws that send CEO's to prison level laws. Sarbanes Oxley audit now. Proceed from there with full security audits from top to bottom, corporate wide.
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  1567. "Of course he's off his rocker, he always was, he's a lawyer after all".
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  1568.  @ragnong9680 apparently, sarcasm isn't your strong suit. It happens to be a Biden trademark, well displayed during his objections to Gulf War I.
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  1569. I'd consider that myself, but I'd need an AI that gives me an attitude adjustment when I need to fit in the right hat size. Or, as happened once when I couldn't fit in my leather jacket and suggested I'd need to replace it, "Why don't you get off of your fat ass and walk around to lose some of that weight". Two weeks later, the jacket fit and I was a fair bit fitter again, damned pandemic had made me a bit rotund. Now, since she died a few years back, I have to consult a mirror and scale to see when I'm fat, old and ugly. ;)
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  1570. Naw, but he did comment again on the rather large verdict against him, guess he wants to give the woman even more money.
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  1571.  @peterwilson8039  well, we'll know in another decade or so.
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  1572. The Constitution is clearly written, in plain language and is trivially available online. So, why are you asking random strangers questions that you could trivially answer for yourself with a very short read of a rather short Constitution? The citizens have no right to a trial of another - period, the defendant has a right to a fair and speedy trial. The defense can request delays for various reasons, to ensure that the defendant receives the best possible defense, as the Constitution requires. That Trump and his attorneys are abusing those rights is readily apparent, but also not quite unlawful.
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  1573.  @CaptainAlligator  that would have to be a virus, which won't infect anything other than this species for the most part. As the likely cause of death was excessive light, it's irrelevant.
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  1574.  @ratbazturd1843  yet another reason to be thankful that I was Army. Minimal head banging, well, save inside of the Stryker, not much shin banging and people didn't shoot at me with shit that could chase me around like a torpedo can. ;)
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  1575. @Rita Jo what an interesting perspective! So, when a woman accosted me to perform some service for her, despite my being a fellow customer in that business, what should I call her when she fulfills the stereotype, bitch from hell, insulting fine honorable female canines? That's actually happened to me, me being an irritable individual that day, when she demanded my manager, I gave her directions to the closest church, advising her that I'm the earthly representative of the Almighty's Wrath and more than willing to demonstrate that to her should she continue without reporting to the aforementioned church and demanding she speak to the pastor's boss. Thankfully, she in true karen fashion, then accosted the business manager, who got a chuckle over my response and she directed the individual to depart the business property immediately or be trespassed. It rather helped that I have a well honed US Army NCO glare and can project my voice well enough to address 1200 men of a battalion without the need of technology, as well as having many junior enlisted swear that my parents were never wed... So, what do we call this distinctive creature? Harpy would only set the actual harpies upon us, nudge is a lot of weak tea, so what shall we identify that type of person? Although, zero target would work for me, some might consider that excessively violent, but then I graduated from the George Patton school of diplomacy.
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  1576. They don't get to define a firearm, Congress does.
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  1577. Actually, he's more entertaining than that. He not authorized to give any more details, then in the next breath, complained that nobody was telling him anything.
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  1578. I'm assuming wire treason means with treason. Show me when he took up arms to overthrow his nation. Or gave aid and comfort to a declared enemy, which by definition requires a war declared by Congress. Nope, sedition, yes, treason, nope, the Constitution defined treason very narrowly and precisely and requires two witnesses to said armed efforts or giving aid and comfort to an enemy in a declared war.
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  1579.  @maryegarcia2432  erm, the Supreme Court in the US cannot pardon anyone. They also have to follow the laws of the jurisdiction a case is heard in and abide by jury decisions or the entire court system and Constitution collapses without worth. As he's had trouble bonding his case already, an appeal isn't exceptionally likely when he'll get yet another decision against him and as a repeated juror, I'd frankly be doubling the award for this offense. Just keep awarding, when the only thing he still owns is only his clothing, maybe the press will stop holding up his latest shiny and giving him attention.
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  1580. He reminds me of the VP in a scene from "My Fellow Americans", where the VP begins speaking and the press begins scribbling furiously at his train of blunders and gaffes. Hopefully, life will imitate art and we'll see him with those fine steel matching linked bracelets. You know the type, officer's cufflinks.
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  1581. Well, the excuse will be "The environment is not in the Constitution". Life, of course, is also not in the Constitution as a right, save for courts and Congress, therefore murder is legal, to use the same "reasoning".
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  1582.  @caesarmedina8489  well, if they hit me in the head, it'd only be a flesh wound.
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  1583.  @nikitamishra5075  oh? Since you have chemical analysis eyes and ears, just what drugs are involved?
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  1584.  @fasteddiejs  hospitals do not get paid more for a positive or negative test, they get paid the same. They're not admitting patients who aren't badly ill, as that would overload the hospital and the seriously ill would be dying in the street or at home. Try getting your information from reality, rather than some paranoid fever dream. BTW, you do realize that a lot of US hospitals are non-profit, so they don't make money at all, they break even and occasionally even get enough money to buy diagnostic equipment.
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  1585. Well, that's what one gets when one worships Machine Gun Jesus from the Prosperity Gospel. The antithesis of what the actual gospels said, which actually is just updated paraphrasing of much of the Old Testament minus all of the war crap.
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  1586. Hey, one of the better alternative "theories", as it only requires the brief usage of a time machine. ;)
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  1587. MrJamesIkanov , as you said, criminals use concealable firearms first, gangbangers might try a drive-by with a semi-auto AK or something. Long range, precision marksmanship firearms are beyond their class. That said, I've heard of some who did manage to acquire unlawfully converted fully automatic firearms and even one who had a full blown Ma Deuce guarding his drug distribution facility (a house in Allentown, PA area). Those are vanishingly rare. As for your description of an SSBI (that is what is performed for ownership of NFA firearms), "anal probing" is rather appropriate. Everyone you've worked with, neighbors, former neighbors, etc, for the past decade are interviewed. I know, I've passed such investigations a number of times for the military. In the middle of the initiation of yet another, again for the government. Interest in full automatic, despite my military proficiency with them? Zero, I'd have to triple my income to be able to afford to fire in such abandon as recreation. Something I also have very little interest in doing anyway. Dirties the weapon too much and wears the barrel. Worse, there are three chances of my firing full automatic out of any of my national match barrels. Slim, fat and none.
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  1588. Jar-Jar Binks , while I personally lack interest in competing in this class, I know men and women who to compete in one mile and longer competition precision shooting. Indeed, this rifle is short, compared to other competition models that have longer barrels. I'm not into it due to the weight and punishment to the shoulder and spine it delivers, too many years in the Army. I'll stick with .308 long range and 5.56 intermediate and short range competition. Then, there are those who want to own one because our military uses them. Frankly, to me, it's a waste of money, but I'm not one to tell another person how to spend their hard earned money. The final type who would want one is the one who earnestly believes that they can fight "tyranny", a ridiculous notion, as one puny rifle against artillery, MLRS, B-52's, various fighter aircraft, tanks, smart bombs, dumb (iron) bombs, AC-130 gunships, helicopter gunships and Special Operations, plus infantry, just isn't happening.
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  1589. MrJamesIkanov , actually, I've researched it. As one who argues with both militant pro-second amendment types and anti-firearms types, getting facts straight is super important if I don't want to lose my point by making an ass of myself. There have been no civilian crimes committed with a .50 BMG in living memory. There has been one case I am personally aware of (and verified via restricted means) of a DEA raid in Allentown, PA where the drug dealer (senior type) had a fully functioning and loaded M2 .50 BMG machinegun that was stolen from the military some time before. Zip otherwise. For myself, that rifle would be a waste. I'm unwilling to lug it around, my osteoarthritis prohibits it. Firing it? Thanks, but no thanks. Did so earlier in my military career, now, I'm retired from that after damned near 28 years. Now, my back would hate me and I'd hate life after that much torque would be thrust into my spine. Still, I know people who do compete with them and admire their precision. I'd love to join them, but today, I've acquired way too many dings and dents to race in that particular class of race.
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  1590. +09jitters it's an inside joke, Marines that ETS'd and joined the Army or Army reserve. One was in the Beirut barracks bombing.
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  1591. +09jitters one would think that a USMC DI would know how to spell Parris Island.
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  1592. +Noble 9 except for rounds like .22LR, which can be completely silenced. Even 9mm can be fully suppressed, it isn't until one goes into high power rifle rounds where one only suppresses a fair amount. It all comes down to size, the more propellant used, the larger the can has to be. One could fully silence a .50 BMG system, but the suppressor would be the size of a fucking trash can.
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  1593. He didn't get a bunch of maniacs that call themselves a militia to back him up. Here's a small hint. Any militia can be private, however it is under the command of one's county seat and governor of the state. Not under the command of itself. That has never been true since the inception of the militia centuries ago.
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  1594. S Justice, I rather doubt you have anything better to do. Whereas, I've been quite busy, ensuring government networks remain secure.
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  1595. Prounce proudly, why, soldiers to indeed fly everywhere. Alas, rarely did we get to fly somewhere we wanted to go. Hey, we're going to Germany! Means: going to Grafenwoehr and being up to one's nuts in mud in April. Good times. ;)
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  1596. Amanda Foxall , no worries, there isn't very much energy being expended. I just want to see how far he'll troll.
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  1597. But, I thought AR stood for Ancient Rifle. After all, it's only a little older than I am. ;)
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  1598.  @justkiddin84  he's welcome to wear the x ring.
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  1599. OK, so those scars I've had for 40 years will go away any day now. First, this targets mastectomy patients, so one cannot get a nipple tattooed on. Sounds like an ADA violation to me, good job Kentucky! Add in, scars or moles, that outlawed tattoos for the majority of the human population of this planet, everyone has moles and scars all over the place. So, it's a law essentially outlawing tattoos, save for very, very few, resulting in a law that'll be ignored by the populace, as prohibition was.
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  1600.  @glass.hammer  I'm guessing that you're referring to coronary artery bypass, nope. Dialysis is closer to ECMO, as it's invasive and blood is being managed externally, one filtering toxins from the blood, the other bypassing heart and lungs. With severe enough to require permanent dialysis, one frequently needs to get shots of a hormone made by the kidneys to keep your red blood cell count up.
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  1601. Yeah, because all of the young are sterile or dead, amiright?
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  1602.  @wolfrig2000  I note a dearth of janitors having anything to do with said fridge. As Dad used to say, "Leave the dog alone!".
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  1603. As I've frequently said, the United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  1604.  @guybeingaguy  nope, impeachment really doesn't require that.
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  1605. Boy, am I glad that I lost my storage unit, as I had three cats in it that I just didn't get around to recycling. Now, I'd be accused of stealing my own catalytic converters! If I replace the one that broke and failed on this minivan, I'll happily dump it into the river and avoid potential charges. As for antitheft, the damned things are welded to the exhaust pipes and get hotter than a cathouse on payday, can't think of anything that wouldn't set the vehicle afire to further protect them. Well, other than perhaps tripwires and high explosives. Sounds a bit extreme to me, although after having my entire house cleaned out while I was deployed, somewhat tempting. A little bit of Mad Max action and all. ;)
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  1606. I can imagine that every case he's been involved with for decades is now being reexamined. It's beyond a serious breach of trust, when an attorney, an officer of the court, commits such breaches of trust, as it entirely undermines trust in our courts.
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  1607.  @sean..L  blackout drunk and bipolar or some depressive disorders can trivially account for that. But, we could get a six sigma certainty, 99.99966% certainty, all we need to do is learn how to read the blankness of the human mind. ;) More seriously, their nuclear security office should've alarmed on him, his behavior and likely predictable action upon deleterious personnel action. It'd the only reason I refuse to support actions against Manning's intentional spill of classified data, for the same reason. Deleterious personnel action is, per federal regulation on nuclear material or classified information is an automatic revocation of access. I'd only support Manning's punishment if Manning's entire senior chain of command suffered a similar fate. In this case, the signs were present and repeated, but access was continued to make a buck. That isn't damning, it's displaying a prejudice that could harm security overall and in his case, essentially proved. At the time of exposure, memory or not irrelevant, he ensured a fatal exposure, a successful suicide. One upside is, he didn't allow others even the slightest chance of exposure. And Kyle pulled a lot of punches, death by that level of exposure is far uglier, nightmare fodder kind of ugly. As in, given a choice of that way or beating off using a cheese grater, then ride a 10 foot razor blade to then drown in a pool of iodine sounds far more pleasant.
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  1608.  @mshotz1  if they're identical and built from the battleships, show me the citadel within them, which would render them incapable of serving as an aircraft carrier. Nothing was built from a Montana class, as that class was never laid down at all. Recycling part of a design on paper does not mean it was built upon that which was never built. Battleships were planned around their armored citadel, carriers were planned entirely on their own. What you were saying basically makes a modern supertanker a battleship, as both have keels or some other such nonsense. They share common items of design and those get recycled in future designs, but the carrier is no more a battleship than a dingy is. Now, escort carriers, those were commercial hulls that they slapped a carrier deck onto, largely out of desperation to get well, anything that could launch aircraft out there to fight the war.
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  1609.  @griggbaylee5808  poorly, as polygraphs aren't admissible in court for a reason - they're unreliable. The examiner's opinion is worth more than the graphs themselves.
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  1610.  @LadyGhislaine  given his disposition, probably golden sandpaper.
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  1611. I'm familiar with it. We used to have a saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes, it'll change".
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  1612. No, everyone capable of learning basic first aid should be taught it. I remember one case where an 8 year old kid clunked his head, bled out an entire unit of blood while he and his friend wandered looking for help, nearly died before someone directed them to the fire department. He'd not have required hospitalization had basic first aid and say, his shirt used as an improvised bandage.
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  1613.  @charlespancamo9771  conviction? So, how many years is he convicted to serve for? Oh, for knowing so much about law, you don't know the difference between a judgement in a civil case and a criminal conviction. Or for criminal cases, a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt vs civil's requirement of preponderance of the evidence. Or the sheer lack of a defense being raised. Your ignorance doesn't add up, as every US citizen in the land knows those differences. Perhaps you should stop getting legal guidance from Russia Today.
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  1614.  @dennisyoung4631 the British tried it first, had similar results and swiftly retired them. The Russians embraced them, in typical contrary Russian style - deny a potential major issue until a somewhat expensive vessel and crew were lost. High test peroxide, makes a great mixer for scotch - if your goal is to make it to orbit quickly... If so, mix well, pour onto brass and enjoy the light and sound show.
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  1615. The New Covenant was promised, not in Hebrews, but in Jeremiah 31. None of Christ's teachings were new, they were all from the Old Testament and alas, most self-proclaimed Christians consider the Old Testament "no longer counting", but oddly cannot explain then why that part of the Word is still included in their Bible. Indeed, most of their objections to abortion and claims that it's against God's will, yet oddly is entirely absent from the Bible and the only entries on mother and fetus are regarding battery against the mother that claims the fetus' life being a property crime against the father. So, they're essentially stating bluntly, they know far better than their God. Something exclusively previously said only by Satan. Their prosperity gospel, the very antithesis of the teachings of Christ. So, of course they'll choose a god-king wannabe that worships only Mammon, as they both share a subject of worship - Mammon.
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  1616.  @dawngeorge5032  another name for it was the "National Razor".
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  1617. Frankly, I'd never consider getting components from Amazon. If I need components, I'll order them from Digikey and call it a day.
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  1618. Nah, Pierre renewed. Retracted, renewed, resubmitted...
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  1619. Start to tar and feather MAGAt Congresscritters, watch them decided which is a safer course to follow, fireship Trump of a safe stable course.
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  1620. Top and bottom armor have historically been weak on armored vehicles. So, never all that safe.
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  1621.  @OrdenJust  I was thinking TrumpelForeskin, but yours works a lot better.
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  1622. Article III Judicial Branch Section 3 Treason Clause 1 Meaning Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Clause 2 Punishment The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. OK, where in that did Trump take up arms and levy war against the US? We have no enemy, as an enemy would only exist if Congress declared war. Sedition, yes, absolutely.
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  1623. I got called in during the blizzard of '96. Had enough on call for Sandy, so got to stay home on standby. Now, happily retired.
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  1624. There is no problem in life that cannot be resolved by the judicious application of high explosives. Although, once resolved, you may need some repaving done.
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  1625. @ralphmacchiato3761 aka, dust oneself off and try, try again.
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  1626.  @JZsBFF  aw, it was only one attempted landing on an occupied taxiway...
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  1627. A proper wave would've done well. A thumb in both ears, fingers wave, while tongue cheers. Or, if not feeling so energetic, thumb to nose and wave away... We Americans hate when the monkeys mock us, it makes us self-conscious and being conscious is a novel experience for most. Although, I did tend to wear the towel until inside the sauna, then drape it on my seat. Rarely used one though, as where the most saunas were, they were the least necessary, as it was in Persian Gulf nations, which are saunas by nature. Deployed on 1 August, when it was 100 degrees outside, boiling literally (OK, it was F, 37.8 or so C), 5 million percent humidity due to the shallow sea - I felt like Aquaman. OK, 100% humidity, work with the humor. It looked like it was raining at night, as the triple pane thermal windows had condensation running down. One Arab complained about how sparse water was, while standing next to an air conditioner that was taking quite a brisk pee, which I pointed to. Thought for a minute that I'd have to explain to an Arab what distillation was, which would just be embarrassing, as an Arab invented it. Then explained an anhydrous ammonia based system that uses a standard utility type cooling tower to condense water from humid air and generate electricity, as it's solar based.
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  1628.  @20chocsaday  not without serious filtration. Which is done with municipal water supplies anyway. Amazing variety of geography in a country 2.5 times the size of my state!
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  1629. Night attack on the legion's supply train, destroying their logistical support. Nothing like a 03:00 wakeup call of rifle fire well within one's perimeter to render a unit panic stricken. Then, on the way out, leave some claymores with tripwires around important areas, like command tents and watering points. Marines also would avoid flat, open terrain, as that's a danger zone where they can be easily seen at a distance and in this scenario, archers could simply saturation fire at the area that the platoon is operating within, although the platoon would break off into fire teams immediately. If the unit has light mortars, that'd really break the legion's back, again, useful night or day and WP rounds to ignite tentage and supplies would raise merry hell with their supplies. Even legions traveled on their stomachs, even if foraging locally. Primary targets, the same as today. Logistical points, C3 points, being primary targets. And anyone dressed differently and fairly prominent in apparel, obviously a commander.
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  1630.  @patmurphy2472  and that instantaneously fixed a major natural disaster? Got ya. That's like saying "We tossed $5.00 after Pearl Harbor was bombed, everything's OK now" and ignoring the fleet sitting on the harbor bottom.
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  1631. There are some things an inquiring mind does not want to know. ;)
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  1632.  @ravenward626 that's why our national strategic reserve is stored underground in salt domes. Even the Russians would balk at ground penetrator nukes against those, as they're dirty as hell and we'd then reply in kind and just as dirty surface and just subsurface bursts.
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  1633. How is this federal? Does the federal government now run Tennessee?
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  1634.  @enuphsayd9746  whereinthehell do you think the toilet water comes from? The same source as your tap or some magical second water supply that doesn't exist? Here is a hint, Civil Defense used to teach, back during the Cold War, when things looked like flash and boom would happen, to clean the toilet tank and in an emergency, fill the tub and ensure the toilet tank is filled and live off of that until the fallout decayed to safe levels (around a week for the worst, two weeks for much of the rest).
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  1635. Makes Don the Con have a whole new meaning, Don the Convict.
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  1636. Obviously, the one denouncing them is a great Benedict Arnold fan.
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  1637. A single application? One monitoring application brought one vendor's operating system down. That's not a single application per se, but it is a major flaw in the implementation of one monitoring application's coding that allowed that to happen in the first place. After all, do you then condemn Windows as an OS? So, which single other OS do you select and later condemn and eventually have a computer without any OS? Having multiple OS's beyond necessity increases one's infrastructure complexity and support costs. That gets balanced upon enterprise needs on a cost/benefit basis. As for national security risk, let's review some edge cases, since at the extremes, the effects tend to be greater. Russia was largely unimpacted, how many cities did Ukraine lose during the time that the world went dark? A village even? Guess what? By your standard, using electricity is a major national security risk, gotta get rid of it!
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  1638. No, the first amendment and the entire Bill of Rights are privileges, as every court has ruled.
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  1639.  @farpointgamingdirect  I prefer my creamed beef on my potatoes.
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  1640. Hey now, I can indeed walk on water. After it's been really, really cold out for a while...
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  1641.  @mitchellpatterson3323  off the cuff, I'd go with around Mach 7 - 10.
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  1642. You'd really love to hear me say water, comes out with the usual Philly "Warder".
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  1643. Seeing 50 in the approach paths to JFK and LaGuardia? Yeah, unheard of! It's not like airplanes land and take off from those places, those are shipyards, right?
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  1644.  @MiloViking1538  a general rule of thumb is, when they're monikered as American Patriot, they usually are neither.
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  1645. Well, at least he knows success. In making himself an abject failure.
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  1646. You contradicted yourself by using an oxymoron, sane Republican. I'll just get my coat...
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  1647.  @DENKI-OTAKU  anode got pronounced multiple wrong ways, wound vs wound (don't blame me for the language, wound as in a capacitor or coil winding vs wound as in bullet wound, entirely different pronunciation. Some years back, I read a treatise that English isn't a language, it's a weapon designed to create madness. As a native American and am also fluent in UK English, I completely agree.
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  1648.  @brg2743  I jumped ship on CNN months ago, saw their drift and said "screw them". Let their advertisers pay big bucks for nobody to watch the channel.
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  1649.  @AlphonsoSnorkelli-dg2qb  unlike you, people know where they live and it ain't Russia.
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  1650. You cannot, by Constitution, deport a US citizen. That would be exile, which is also unconstitutional. So, you want to protect the Constitution by ignoring it, thereby destroying it. Have you ever heard of Doctor Guillotine? He invented the instrument for beheading people, as a merciful execution method, to eventually be executed via the same instrument.
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  1651. I'm surprised that they didn't arrest the victim again, charging him with stealing his family's DNA.
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  1652. Greene's brain disappears when she... exists.
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  1653.  @stevenparsons4464  so did my 30-06 hunting rifle. The AK was designed as a short range close combat assault rifle, the M14 a long range battle rifle. Think hedgerows of Europe, that's what the M14 was designed for, the M16 being designed as an assault rifle at closer range.
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  1654. I think we need a smaller door... Done to Chief Brody's "We need a bigger boat" in Jaws. Nothing was too bad for those monstrous bastards.
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  1655.  @Theleftisdesperate  fraud, for starters, violation of campaign finance laws. Laws aren't optional, disagree, step off of a building and claim an exemption from the law of gravity.
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  1656.  @sunbeam8866  yeah, it'd be like a room full of Furby dolls with fresh batteries.
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  1657. Dinner and a show, pity it'll likely turn into a gladiatorial match. Oh well, release the leopards! No! Not the pigeons, I want squab tonight...
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  1658. Nope.
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  1659. Well, at least the client wouldn't give him any shit...
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  1660. The guns as they were displayed, yes. I've driven with two rifles, a pistol, my vest, but the firearms were in cases, unloaded, the ammunition inside of a locked ammunition box and away from the firearms and my range pass kept with the weapons, safely stored so it couldn't get blown away when I opened the vehicle at the range. And of course, a handful of paper targets. The difference, I don't have mental health issues, am a competition shooter and safely store my equipment properly, as it's expensive, an investment and hence, is protected accordingly. And the only guns belonging in the front seats might be a glue gun or grease gun, should I ever find a grease fitting in a modern motor vehicle.
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  1661. Heh, have a chuckle over RD's. Had one call from my insurance company, by my request, to consult on dietary changes with my newly diagnosed Crohn's. Well, I was hoping I'd misread some of the conflicting guidelines and alas, the malady being what it is, I'd not misread. But, at least we've a mutual frustration with the disease. And she was surprised that I was already logging what was problematic vs well tolerated. Intelligent design, my as- excuse me...
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  1662. Having actually met him in person around 2000, my wife and I for the remainder of her life debated on whether or not he was actually human.
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  1663. Yeah, just a matter of time until we get a new quote, "You can't stick a thumb in *that*". The flash-bang round is unique too, never saw someone flash-bang themselves before by design of the device. Used to have some nice 12 gauge bird chaser flash-bang rounds, but I think they're restricted now.
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  1664.  @suntzu5836  what, you prefer Trump/Putin?
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  1665. Yeah, but there was also a launch code that, if incorrect or not entered would leave the fuel disconnected on half of the engines.
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  1666.  John Downs  I suspect I know which country, da?
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  1667. Nope, that's the primary hazmat route to bypass the tunnels. Used that bridge when I was in the military many times, as they thought tons of gasoline, diesel and C4 inside of their tunnels was a really bad idea. Meanwhile, you're ignoring the port blockage, which had $80 billion in trade pass into the US last year.
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  1668. So, 40 Wall Street, mortgaged for $122.6 million, bought for $8 million in 1995 and allegedly invested $100 million, so let's go with double the mortgage value and the state gets that half, the mortgage company has to get their money - now from the state. Well, there's always Trump Tower and Mar a Lago... As for his comments on Jewish voters, give him time, he'll eventually suggest special camps. No? I've met him socially, trust me. I'm extremely rarely wrong about what people will do, if allowed the chance. The boor of the party.
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  1669. The real question is, can there now be any successful prosecution for anyone doing the same thing? Equal treatment under the law, save for the god-emperor, who can do no wrong because he's a god? Or equal treatment under the law and since Trump was not prosecuted, nobody else can be either? I guess we'll have to await the Imperial Decree at the end of January.
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  1670.  @ericpeanuts5672  yep, they used big words and anything bigger than 3 letters defeats them.
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  1671.  @lobsterbark  wrong, that's sociology, politics is a practice, sociology is a science. Psychology isn't politics, it's the study of the mind and interactions.
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  1672. Well, the last time we let a combat guy lead the charge, logistics be damned, Patton's tanks sat idle waiting for the fuel to catch up with them. And machine gun vs bayonet charge was finally figured out to be a really bad idea during WWI, when it oddly kept failing on us.
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  1673.  @dickrue3317  I think you forgot, he was in negotiations to build and bankrupt Trump Tower Moscow. That was put on hole while he fucks things up as President.
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  1674. Oh, give it time. Trump's notorious for convenience shoving those close that aren't family under the bus. In fairly short order, Elon will be so deep under the bus that he'll be able to inspect the transmission bolts.
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  1675.  @birchtree2274  with that reasoning and motivation, we need to shutter all chemical and petroleum processing plants in the land. Very similar risks, with releases that can harm large swaths of communities.
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  1676.  @donalexander171  I believe he also has some new personnel protection technologies to unveil. For head protection against traumatic brain injury, he's offering the same model lampshade that he wears at parties.
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  1677. If tearing one's shirt apart is considered leadership, what's it called when old underwear tears apart? Godhood?
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  1678. There is no nuclear button. Nuclear launch orders are conducted by a telephone call, per procedures outlined in the SIOP, with verification of identity conducted by someone in the line of succession. The nuclear football, just a communications device that's encrypted and portable, with a copy of the SIOP. Given Trump never could get past a single page of text and then, rarely completing the page, the book like SIOP just is far beyond his ability to manage. I do know a wee bit about things nuclear, I did start out my military career in nukes.
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  1679.  @tonyjones1560  I dunno, I'm 62 and things aren't getting any easier. I'm thinking of one chance out of three I'd be willing. Slim chance. Fat chance. No chance. And considering that life in prison and the death penalty loses deterrent value as one ages, what would happen to the individual suggesting that job would be, well, most unfortunate. "Honest, Your Honor, his head just imploded and I found him that way!"
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  1680.  @whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306  that's fine, within reason. After all, having used one myself, I've been known to fuck up. In my own defense though, I am dyslexic. In Trump's defense, he is an idiot. I'll just get my hat...
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  1681. The ironic part is, the father was Lot, "the only good man of Sodom and Gomorrah". The issue, Moab, who settled in what's now Jordan. The bible teaches field sanitation and moral stories. Rather than learn the origin and reason, they simply lock into tradition and the word of the law, rather than the spirit it was intended. Then, enjoy the buffet line, picking and choosing what they like, ignoring what they don't like. One test for such people, ask them why they're allowed to eat pork, when Jesus would've refused. If they don't quote Acts 10:15, they're ignoring Leviticus out of convenience and tradition, rather than by justification. Hence, damn themselves by their own willful ignorance of the laws of their faith, per their own faith.
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  1682. Not much of a war, given that around 60 Soviets died in the "war" between Israel and Egypt. Just another Cold War brush war, where pawns fought and one pawn keeps trying to pretend it's a king.
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  1683. Well, except in the film Civil War...
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  1684. Dinosaurs in space! Well, soon to be one less dinosaur. I doubt that the pyros survived this long of vacuum exposure. Most explosives degrade in a vacuum, resulting in their being neutralized by the environment. There is an excellent chance that, if the heat shield is intact, it'll survive our far less dense atmosphere intact though, not a landing at terminal velocity, but until impact, intact.
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  1685.  @rondamitchellcosgrove8509  as bad as some Trumpites that threatened to have me deported - in a personal conversation IRL. In my best South Philly accent, I asked where they were thinking of deporting me to, South Philly? Worst thing I could've done to them, since their friends laughed at them.
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  1686.  @mrwebber35 true. Nothing to celebrate about biking Russia.
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  1687. My vehicle would get a bit messy when we were mobile and couldn't stop to tidy up, but it's also a risk of creating a trip hazard. As soon as we could stop, I cleaned that crap up. I was the most senior, but if it had to be done, I pitched right in and expected whoever was not busy and closest to do the same. So, even doing a police call for cigarette butts, I'd be picking them up next to my Privates, both to get it done and to provide a proper example to my subordinates. And if I, a dedicated smoker, caught you pitching a cigarette butt, you're going to get chewed out hard. Why make it easier to track us and know who we were?
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  1688.  @ftboomer1  you've obviously never served, as a hint, those trenches aren't traveling along the roadside, nor are foot patrols of one's perimeter and nearby conducted in a vehicle. Although, if anyone was smoking on patrol, they'd also take some HEAT rounds from me, as smoke odor travels a fairly long way.
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  1689.  @ftboomer1  I dunno, I seem to recall having to dig my own grave back in basic training in '82, you figure out which century that was (in the morning at times, I'm not quite certain)... ;) When we first when mechanized, I commented how much we were afoot for being mechanized. :P Then, they got us Strykers. Retired when it just started to hurt too much to put all of that gear that was protecting and supplying me on. Now, in the morning, not too much to put on, but still feel like I served under Col Benjamin Franklin.
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  1690.  @ftboomer1  ours never broke, believe it or not, they were still under warranty. Had a unit that did get broken Strykers, IED damage, with one bent in the middle around 2 feet up, but able to be driven. After I retired, I was contracting in Qatar and GD had a depot rebuild operation going on. The one badly bent was written off, they did have to fire hose out blood and teeth, but the crew survived. The installation commander had them hide the badly bent ones behind cargo containers, claiming it was bad for morale. Made shit sense, as only Stryker Brigade Combat Teams got those vehicles and there aren't many of those.
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  1691.  @davidmcgann9111  more likely, he's hoping they can delay things until past the election, then delay the trial while hoping to be in office, then demand dismissal due to expired statute of limitations.
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  1692.  @kevseb66 well, if they made you make this speech, you'd be doing the same as you think, "My careers are over, I'll never get a job - even flipping motherfucking burgers!".
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  1693. Yeah, but it was using a 300 Winchester magnum, not some 4 - 6 MOA carbine.
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  1694. So? Donald Trump works for the FSB.
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  1695.  @gailpaton1680  hard to be hungover when one's still drunk.
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  1696. We've had similar for certain high value targets, who under no circumstances should fall into the hands of the enemy. In this instance, it's more likely though that the hostages made a break for it and in the hairball that is combat, got mistakenly engaged. As a veteran, trust me, it's far too easy to happen and alas, bullets and artillery don't have emergency recall buttons. Still have nightmares over that last one...
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  1697. The bear of it is, they don't even really need to hire an expert, they could simply do what they used to do, retain consultants that their contributors and correspondents could consult. But, the return on investment on being accurate is low, so to hell with accuracy, being first is far superior, even if one's reporting is not even wrong.
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  1698.  @DanielsPolitics1  I don't see why it wouldn't help fix things, having a consultant a phone call away, even if one has to awaken them would lead to more accurate reporting - if the organization insisted upon accurate reporting at the leadership level. Without leadership buy-in, nothing ever can be achieved. A lesson hard learned in IT security.
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  1699. The weapons charges can't be dropped to misdemeanor, the rest might or might be misdemeanors, depending upon what all of the charges are and what plea bargains to save busy court time are. Weapons, that brings out the court's naughty stick and usually gets some level of time, in already overcrowded prisons and the NIMBY crowd keeps more prisons from being built.
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  1700. One day as a dictator is three days too many.
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  1701. Well, his first three choices weren't available. Genghis Khan, Atilla the Hun and Heinrich Himmler weren't available for the jobs.
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  1702. Can't boycott what I canceled my account on years ago. Can't cancel DoD and NASA contracts, that's up to those agencies and well, President Musk likely won't allow for their cancellation, so VP Trump sure won't support it either. Couldn't pay me to take a Tesla, not into proprietary charging BS, thought we were done with that shit after the beta/VHS thing ended. I'll just get my coat...
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  1703. Well, it's not as if we've got a monolithic accent here. We've a fair bit of regional variance, albeit nowhere as wide as in the UK, which is four countries to begin with, all packed into an area between the sizes of Minnesota and Michigan and having a number of languages spoken besides English. Yep, England, Wales, the Land of Scots, the northern part of the Land of Ire. No, you can't slap me, shit splatters. :P They do pack in the regional accents in the UK though, actually quite varied from what we're most accustomed to hearing on TV, which is largely a London-ish accent to whateverinhell they speak in Liverpool. ;) An in joke, had a friend from Liverpool, at times I had absolutely no clue in the universe what he was saying. The rest of the time, the universal translator, after much smoke and sparking, belched out a transliteration.
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  1704. Good move, say its name thrice, it will appear.
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  1705.  @megalonoobiacinc4863 well, two locks would need to be picked. I doubt someone with the issues he already was facing would manage the patience to pick both successfully. Whatever happened to simply adopting underage drinking, like the rest of us did back in the day? I'll see myself out...
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  1706.  @jennifer60515 if Trump, who I've actually personally met long before unreality TV was to introduce himself to me, I'd card him. Just because every word he says has typically been a lie.
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  1707. As we speak, Facebook posts are showing some folks rolling around in money...
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  1708. A hell of a lot of water mains in Philly are terracotta lines dating back to the civil war era. We see two winners at times. Road undermined and sinkhole opens, albeit somewhat shallow. Backfill, repave and move on, then wonder why foundations end up undermined along with the roadway again. Collapsed area filled in, undermining is present and ignored, shocked expressions when those sections collapse. During WWII, there were many questions in the UK as to when or if the US would enter the war. Operational here was one answer to that question to a UK leader when asked. The Americans will do the right thing, after they've exhausted every other possibility.
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  1709. Historians still argue the finer points of just what a skyscraper is. The first skyscrapers were a massive five stories tall. That's still brick and mortar height, but soon steel frames began to be used. In reality, skyscrapers are like porn, impossible to precisely define, but one can claim to know it when you see it. Then, meet others that find every art museum in the land is a porn stash.
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  1710. Odd, I thought it was Sun Tzu.
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  1711.  @klim4838  given the sheer volume of misattribution of "wise sayings", this past week including DeSantis claiming a Churchill quote that was actually a quote from a Budweiser advertisement from 1938, do you think that I may well have proper command of the word attributed? Still, you are correct, although Napoleon actually was paraphrased rather liberally. Sun Tzu said what basically was a corollary and likely would've considered such advice beneath him. Never … murder a man who is committing suicide ~Woodrow Wilson
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  1712. An additional question, when will they require registration and insurance on wheelchairs, motorized or not, then crutches and it's time to pick up my rifle when they tax and register my cane.
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  1713. Most automobile insurance policies that I've had (yeah, I actually read them before I'd sign for them) insure against events that occur in relation to injuries or illness that arise from the proper usage of the insured motor vehicle. I honestly could not consider screwing part of the normal operation of a motor vehicle. If I'm sitting in a car and have a heart attack, that isn't covered, given sitting isn't operation of the vehicle or under other covered circumstances. Otherwise, it opens up even no fault insurance to become basic health insurance! Kid gets strep throat, just show a study that bacteria exist in cars and it's covered? If she became pregnant, does prenatal care, labor, delivery, child support and college for the car fall to the automobile insurer? If a jealous spouse caught their spouse in flagrante in the car and shoots the lover, does the spouse's automobile insurance have to cover that too?
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  1714.  @z-beeblebrox well, getting a 100% efficient engine is easy. First, you take your perpetual motion machine... Then, you wish in one hand and crap in the other, most of us will know which hand will get filled first and as a hint, nobody will want to shake that hand. ;) But, useful for engineering theoretical studies, ideal solutions and whatnot, then if all of the math works out, see if one can do so in a practical, you know, real way. I've an old joke, "I was the theoretical consult to creation. Alas, theory and practice being two entirely different entities, the real universe is a complete mystery to me".
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  1715.  @KageShi  that's bleed that's partially rectified and amplified by the audio circuits. If he was using legal power, he'd not be interfering with anything. A quick call to the FCC typically cures them of their mischief. Or at least gets someone who knows what they're doing to properly tune their transmitter to the proper, authorized frequency and not splatter out slop at high power.
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  1716.  @jeffreykirkley6475  the problem is, orphan sources so abandoned by death makes that form of death communicable, as others then expose themselves unknowingly.
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  1717. What does sodium azide have to do with HE devices, alleged to be made of PETN? Millions of people aren't stopped by the TSA while carrying nitroglycerin tablets either, really odd point. The M67 uses 6.7 grams of composition B, that's 60/40 RDX/TNT with some wax to bind it. Everything shipped and received through customs is supposed to be screened or why bother? Every diagram of the devices show two AA batteries, one being alleged to be the explosive. Batteries are by nature wrapped in metallic cases - especially cartridge type batteries like AA batteries. Plastic still can penetrate and cause injury, as shrapnel ripping through flesh really doesn't care what it's made of, what matters is force inducing momentum, mass and velocity. Hell, did you get anything right?
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  1718.  @sebee555  rather my point. We strip searched Japanese troops that surrendered during WWII, after a bunch of surrender under perfidy attacks with grenades. With the hostages, likely they ran out in the middle of a hairball of a firefight and even the best trained HRT would be hard pressed to ascertain non-combatant from civilian attired combatants. There's a highly technical military term to describe the entire situation. A big fucking mess.
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  1719. Nope. I'm like Roadrunner, never been caught. ;)
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  1720. Trump is one of the rare few people who, if he told me his name, I'd card him - and I've actually met him in person long before unreality TV was invented.
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  1721.  @BlackCeII  well, play the middle line, keep federal contracts. That's the one problem when one is a contractor of many hats.
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  1722. Really? Richard Nixon had such a list, just not with such stated intents lengths as Trump has stated he'd want to go to. Nixon would've just blacklisted them, as he learned at Joe McCarthy's knee.
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  1723.  @bvoyelr  well, it's obviously impossible for a county to perform a title search. That's just crazy talk. Which is the very first thing that is supposed to be done when transferring property, at least if done by a licensed realtor or attorney. So yeah, they bushwhacked through a forest of red flags, leaving the developer stuck with a yard full of rakes to run through.
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  1724. Their AI is guiding them, remember?
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  1725.  Armando Silvier  odd that you'd consider a rather diverse nation like the PRC a tribe! That smacks of ignorance of the multiple cultures present within that rather large nation! Tell me, are Europeans all one tribe? Italians, perhaps? I'll call you racist for simply the reason that you ignore the many cultures that have always been present in China overall and reducing the lot into a "tribe". Not to mention lumping all "whites" as one culture, or as my grandfather would've said, "putana su mama".
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  1726. Well, toxicology 101: The dose makes the poison.
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  1727.  @RabbitWriter  it's worse than that. I'm an excellent example, as I'm fairly middle of the road and such efforts pop things toward even my eclectic feed. :) And I'm quite certain that my comments will spread the reach to the below the septic tank crowd too. Hmmm, maybe I need to befriend a better class of riff-raff...
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  1728. The Danes were pissed off over the Thule Event and when they discovered an attempt at making an ICBM base under the Greenland glacier. The experiment was a flop when they discovered that the ice still is moving, causing corridors to become disconnected in fairly short order and to further enrage the Danes, the reactor that powered the debacle repeatedly sprang leaks. There isn't enough money in existence that could make me want to be the ambassador to Denmark! He probably brought his own carpet, to avoid wearing theirs out.
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  1729. Just go over everything he's actually announced that he believed are frauds and scams, then watch for him to open such up for himself and in investment schemes, buy in early, pump and dump before he can, leaving him with worthless investments. He's close to broke anyway, so taking from his only income - grifts, will bankrupt him quickly.
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  1730. The problem with such idiots weaponizing the CPS, what the end result is that CPS then loses credibility. A CPS without credibility protects no children.
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  1731. It's a bit uglier than that. The bibles in question were sold previously and poorly by Lee Greenwood, with some alt-right crap tacked inside them as well. Reviews of sales were, "Pages were sticky and stuck together", "formatting is off of the page, where can I get a replacement?". "I bought this for my elderly father and he can't read the print" and "it's been nine months, where is my bible?". Originally offered in King James and NIV versions, the NIV people sent a cease and desist letter and that version was disposed of, leaving only the old poorly transliterated King James Middle English version available. I'm not joking about any of that. I'm being as serious as COVID in a cancer patient. BTW, Trump also criticized the Almighty for incompetence, because he'd never allow his son to get killed for anybody. Nope, still not making things up. Will Rogers famously said, "I never met a man that I didn't like". Obviously, he'd have had to withdraw that statement had he had the misfortune of meeting Trump. Yes, misfortune, I met him back around 2000 when he was guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce function for the PenJerDel region. He was such an effective and wonderful guest, the following year suffered a 95% attrition rate. He was the boor of the party. Genghis Khan would've been more welcome.
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  1732. That matter is a civil matter, hence jail is outside of any possibility of the court's powers.
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  1733. Disinformation conspiracy theory that facts refuted reported as such.
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  1734.  @Ian-yf1rl  which three soldiers will he send to enforce that? The rest of his paper tiger military is rather busy on their new Winter War. And given his recent ICBM, that was an antique IRBM, that performed like an early 1960's MIRVs and his 1950's tanks being deployed, three may be a bit more than he can field, unless he's going to start sending the retirees to Syria.
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  1735.  @murry001  years ago, it was mostly boxes and paper burned in burn pits. Think WWII, Korea an Vietnam eras, now we burn loads of tires, electronics, cabling, plastic, lithium batteries and more. It's not granddad's firebase these days.
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  1736.  @benjaminodem392  and it was Nancy Pelosi's fault, since she didn't order the police and National Guard to respond. Pretty sure it was the tooth fairy's fault for the same reason.
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  1737. Note to self: get vaccinated against meningitis. Last time I got it was eons ago in the Army.
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  1738.  @robertweldon7909  I'd have paid real money to see their application to the FAA to close the airspace around that range being read at the FAA field office.
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  1739.  @Guidus125  indeed! We've yet to fully understand many neuromodulators and still occasionally discover new ones, so embryonic is indeed spot on. Neurology is insanely complex, compared to something as simple as a thyroid gland! A few years back, I had a somewhat condescending pharmacist, turned out she was that way with every patient. The "I know it all" attitude, lording that knowledge, rather than sharing it with those interested. When I filled my first prescriptions with her, I declined discussing the medications, as I'm intimately familiar with the drugs, their pharmacology and mechanism of action. Beta blocker, calcium channel inhibitor and a drug that inhibits thyroperoxidase. She even got to the point of trying a spot quiz. Bad idea for her ego! She was far more respectful afterward. But, that's grade school level, compared to neurochemistry! When I see that a drug's mechanism of action being ill understood or not elucidated, I know that some soul out there will eventually find that understanding and make their mark upon science in indelible ink! Just don't look my way to do that, totally not my field. I largely dealt with communicable disease, body and fender work on humans and the plumbing leaks in humans under military conditions. ;)
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  1740. Well, in reality, an admission like that is extremely dramatic and I'm willing to bet, fatal to his career.
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  1741.  @Camilo_Cienfuegos  wanna bet he'll want to bring golf clubs to state prison?
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  1742. Well, the same was said of infantry. Yet oddly, nobody wanted to use an airplane to cordon and search buildings and tunnels. Total mystery as to why that was.
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  1743.  @levchan9752  usually, it's not the lack of food that claims their lives, but lack of water. No matter what, it's heartbreaking. Hantavirus, most common transmission mode for that is dust from swept up mouse urine being inhaled. A common event in frame tents in our western National Parks we used to have before we got a god-king. And common in outbuildings as well. Named for the Han River, when it was a major issue with troops being infected during the Korean War and eventually found to have a variety on every continent. Our own variety traced when Public Health workers were informed by local Native Americans that hantavirus pulmonary pneumonia was more common in good harvest years, secondary to the El Nino/La Nina oscillation and mice would abound in grain storage.
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  1744.  @unoriginalname4321  because he'd expect the bat phone to actually work and a coke be instantly delivered.
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  1745.  @unoriginalname4321  just have him say random stuff, MAGA callers would simply think he's Don the con.
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  1746. When I was in high school, they were just finally figuring out what mitochondria actually did. Laughably, we did have donated electron microscopes.
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  1747. First, the court issues an order. It is the duty of the court to ensure that the order is followed, not a bond company, not the tooth fairy, the court. The body company is to obey those orders and if not, the tooth fairy doesn't come after the bond company, the court does. In the first two minutes of video, it's plainly apparent that neither the courts or the bond companies were following instructions and their duties. So, we now have judges covering their asses for not performing their due diligence by attempting to foist it all off on the unsupervised bond companies. Basically, both sides are more full of shit than a Christmas goose and the taxpayers should hold the lot accountable. Maybe we need a contempt of taxpayer felony created...
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  1748.  PoliceManHat  nope, both were precisely the same, which is why both sites looked precisely the same. After all, every Empire State Building construction worker saw double images on holiday weekends or something! ;) Endoskeleton and exoskeleton are the same too, after all, PoliceManHat's old lady has bony tits or something. Yeah, that shit's gotten seriously old, way back in 2001. Especially with anyone who's worked with explosive demolitions. Listen to the bozo brigade, molten iron is antigravity and goes sideways or even up. No, only fucks go up, hence, fuck up. :P I'll not even go into high octane rating fuels burn colder than low octane fuels, like Jet-A kerosene, vs 130 octane antique bomber fuel. Low octane brains produce low octane flashes in the pan notions. I'll not even go into how leaky our government is, as to juicy classified events...Well, save the mythical event, which literally would require at least 10k participants, none of whom ever talked... Maybe give them a beanie with a propeller to go away?
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  1749.  @stephanematis  which was the trail end of the Great Depression. Personally, I rather like chicory in my coffee. Cardamom is also wonderful, which I learned of in the middle east. :) Still, a favorite remains Ethiopian coffee, the aromatics are beyond belief!
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  1750. That's because facts are getting found by those investigators folks and investigations, unlike "I Dream Of Jeanie" don't take a wink and blink, but require time and looking at things, interviewing people, etc. So, the media either interviews each other or reports whatever they hear to get the big scoop and well, most of the time, well over half of it isn't only wrong, it's not even wrong.
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  1751. When did SDNY gain authority over every other district in the land? Does that mean that all of the other districts can just shutter their courts and go home? There are 11 districts total, so this being a national blanket is decidedly odd! The SDNY is ordering businesses and individuals in DND to perform some action is far beyond their jurisdiction, as they're not the SCOTUS. Guess the SCOTUS can now go home too! For that matter, when did people become slaves to the court, to perform significant labor for no charge, merely by caveat of the whimsy of one district's court? Work performed by order without compensation is, by definition, slavery. We're talking 1589 top level domains, a fair number being foreign, plus any secondary redirects, guess we need to build the Great Firewall of China here now and block all foreign traffic for the godly judge. More like the story got blurred by that press outlet and honestly, it wouldn't be the first time that's happened. Technical journalists get jurisdiction and legal orders sideways often enough, as that's not what they normally cover. Case in point, I'm in the jurisdiction of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which is under the 3rd circuit, SDNY is 2nd circuit. No jurisdiction, period. Given a choice of what's most likely, a district court judge lost his mind and thinks he's Napoleon or a reporter fouled up a story out of ignorance, well, never attribute malice to that with which could be more easily explained by incompetence.
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  1752. Well, obviously, lying in a church is acceptable. Otherwise, wouldn't Jesus have chided the Pharisees and Sadducees? Oh wait...
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  1753.  @drewthompson7457  totally different construction methods and structure, not to mention that gasoline burns a lot cooler than kerosene and oil, which burn a lot hotter. We'll not go into endoskeleton vs exoskeleton based buildings being compromised differently, let alone explosive demolitions, which I'm actually quite familiar with.
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  1754.  @nah-y4e  try again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_collapse It's a well documented, repeatedly occurred event.
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  1755. I'll be satisfied with following the statues, rather than whimsy. We had enough whimsy when Trump was in office.
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  1756. "For answers to your questions on law, for correct answers, press 1, for incorrect answers, press 1, for random bullshit, press 1. Default all keys to redirect to 1... Call it a job well done, performed to specifications within the contract, as defined by 1.
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  1757.  @nonya.bizness isn't that Trump's nickname?
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  1758. There's a big difference between Trump and me. I'm not Presidential anything myself, the difference being, I know and acknowledge it, Trump doesn't know or care, as long as his whims are catered to and his ass properly kissed.
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  1759. Much of the cultural bit behind alcohol forgets US history. Completely forgetting, the US was settled by religious extremists, extreme fundamentalists, who essentially rejected anything pleasurable as distracting from their religious practices. That's retained in some current sects, such as Seventh Day Adventists, who still prefer unspiced foods and no ethanol. For those wanting to dispute, do look them up and the origin of corn flakes. I only put up with them because of Desmond Doss (I strongly encourage you to look him up!) and that is, of course, a joke. The problem with prohibition is, it's been repeatedly proved utterly ineffective. Prohibition of sex out of marriage, yeah, totally doesn't happy, they're all virginal pregnancies and ignore the ancient US joke about shotgun marriages. Prohibition of alcohol, helped spawn organized crime. Prohibition of many drugs, see what happened with alcohol. Prohibition of fully automatic weapons, see the North Hollywood shootout - they obeyed the law on buying machine guns, they made their own by converting legal rifles. I'll not even go into ban evading that goes on just in firearms and designer drugs. As a child, when my parents had wine or a drink, curiosity was satisfied and I participated in a bit of wine with the meal (usually, undiluted in small quantities in an cordial glass) or was offered a sip only of a mixed drink and I do mean sip, Mom or Dad held the glass. Later, well, I can consume legendary amounts of ethanol, think Marvel superhero levels, something weird in my physiology and exceptionally high liver enzyme performance. I also don't go howling at the winds and moon, for garnering attention gets entirely undesirable attention, so I limit consumption and intoxication by a lot. I can also walk through a raging fire - I've done that as well, doesn't mean that's my first or even second desired course of travel. I can drink that 1.75 liters of vodka and be fine the next morning, I hydrate, so I don't get hangovers, again, not my first or second desired course of travel. And let's face it, nobody likes someone getting drunk and acting like a smacked ass. All because I was taught balance and moderation, not total and unrealistic abstinence. You know, education. In matters of sex, my parents gave the basics in appropriate educational detail, the schools actually gave quality instruction back in the late 70's and early 80's, until the amoral majority hijacked things and turned the classes into their political pawns and teen pregnancies and STD's skyrocketed - then they fell from grace, courtesy of all of their own sexual scandals.
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  1760.  @howard7689  no, we're ignoring Trump's words. Besides, his video speaks tens of thousands of words.
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  1761.  @68majortom  especially since most of that aid was never sent by Trump.
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  1762. Aliens again, after all, there was that invasion in 1938, a very similar panic occurred. Aliens spotted all over the place too.
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  1763. What government job did he apply for? As you mentioned, one has no right to a government job, we do have an enumerated right to run for public office. Why do you want to help Trump eliminate our Constitution?
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  1764. I note zero citations in support of the claim of liberals attacking children (I'm assuming children are being discussed and not baby goats). And by indoctrination, schools should stop teaching reading, arithmetic, civics, history, the Constitution and science? Guess medicine, engineering, electronics, networking, computers and all vehicular repair will end fairly soon then. I'm really starting to agree with the ancient Athenians. They refused to allow the idios to vote, which would leave the majority of the MAGA crowd out, as they are idios, uneducated being the meaning of the word.
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  1765. Because either of those limited disasters halted the majority of trade on an entire high population coast?
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  1766.  @RudysRetroIntel  yeah, but people are known to have issues locating the any key.
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  1767.  @ONLYFACT_X  lemme guess, it involved a Skunky work and a lake that was groomed. ;) Ran into some of their works over the decades, well, I would've ran into them, had they existed.
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  1768. Thus far, all push back was conducted with a downy feather.
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  1769. Totally precise. Which is why it was spot on target at Nagasaki, missing the target by a mere 1.9 miles. With zero flak. When the Nazis finally got a sample that survived the bomber being shot down, they found it was no better than what they were already using. But, a great propaganda victory for Norden and the US government.
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  1770. I'm curious though, how many days of mandatory fasting is required of a governor after an attack on people in a city in his state? The rest of the MAGA antics, I'm entirely with you on. But, bitching that he went out for dinner is way too close to using those bastards playbook. The most he could do and should have done was visiting the victims and their families to show that the state has their backs. Beyond that, he's utterly useless at this point, as there are ample investigators on scene that are doing their jobs and anything he'd manage would only hamper their efforts. And having handled disasters myself, the absolute last thing in the damned universe that I wanted was some VIP's stomping around, getting in the way and generally being a distraction. And I'd have countered their border nonsensical antics with, "Wow, MAGA has kicked Texas out of the Union, along with Colorado!". It's always good to turn their own weapons against them, so by the time I'd be done, people would actually wonder if those states are being ejected from the union by President Musk and Vice President Trump.
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  1771. Only because the soldier didn't stick around to hear the rest of the sentence. I'm going to die... Of old age. ;)
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  1772.  @ossiehalvorson7702  there is no such thing as self-sufficiency without the sun. One cannot prep for a year or longer without food and unfrozen water.
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  1773.  @Chris_at_Home  heh, my media server and file servers would likely bake you out of that home! For me, heating isn't an issue, cooling is. But then, the only folks that can compete with my computing power is the NSA and National Laboratories. :)
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  1774. Huh, that sounded like my lunch...
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  1775. Emperor Musk will never allow his Empress Trump to be removed, well, as long as the empress behaves as desired.
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  1776. Wow, the bot quality's dropped tremendously as the war in Ukraine has regressed!
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  1777. Well, as a society, we're a bit funny about putting people in prison. We're weird, as in we like to have a trial and conviction, just not throw people into prison and maybe get around to a trial a few decades later.
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  1778.  @kill3rbamb146  the blue glow was observed in US nuclear labs as well. Not sure if it's ionized air glow, Cherenkov radiation from moisture absorbed by the sample or what, but it was also much admired in Goiânia during that orphan source disaster. One small child painted herself with the powder, got some on her sandwich and died from a lethal dose of radiation.
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  1779.  @elreytriton  you're obviously a stranger to the US, as the first thing one hears a cop say to a reporter is, "we don't comment on investigations". Hence, leaving the reporter to report what, that the cops won't comment?
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  1780.  @quietprofessional  for when change management becomes change manglement... Yeah, a hell of a lot of processes seem to have gone utterly ignored in the most newbie of ways, as if someone in the chain not only never heard of change management, but somehow acquired authority beyond privilege boundaries to absurd levels. I suspect that this will become a case study and precautionary tale within the community.
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  1781. Yep, I royally fucked up serving in military defense of this failed nation for over 28 years of my life.
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  1782.  @patrickvolk7031  detonation detection had sound based, pressure based, seismic based and satellite based. Our intermediate nuclear missiles were of course, theater based, so theater command gets codes for launch, forwards local missile codes to plug into the PDP-11/70, it sent its voodoo to the missile's computer. They got retired as they were being deployed to replace the earlier generation. Thankfully. Yeah, I was Pershing at the beginning of my career.
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  1783.  @SusanWelch-ms9hg  slightly irritatingly, Biden's doing better than I am and he's got 20 years on me.
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  1784. Yep, Trump as president is like having a constant Crohn's flare up.
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  1785. Yes, because unfettered, unregulated business is good. Just ask Johnstown about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood
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  1786. Well, I'm big on zero tolerance for abuse of any system. Period, end of story. And I'm largely zero tolerance on zero tolerance, typically. And was an EMT-P. The lights and siren are for a purpose, abuse that purpose, dilute the immediacy of response required by them, sort of dipping one's badge into shit, then wearing the shit encrusted badge. And all peers also now having to wear that shit encrusted badge. The lights and siren are a hugely visible badge of a Public Trust, a special place given by society to protect and guard said society. Abuse of that trust is an especially egregious offense. By the same token, if you're on lunch and I'm bleeding out, I'll wait for a response. While I have a necessity, you do as well. I'm an asshole, but I am an honest asshole and have plenty of blood. Seriously, enjoy your sandwich! Been there, done that, under rather austere conditions. Necessities of life are rights. You volunteer your rights when you choose to in support of others. And I've met only once a medic that wouldn't sacrifice a meal to save a life, that one didn't last long. By consensus. That said, any medic losing a meal on a call for me, your next three is on me, somehow. Preferred, bring the family and I'll cook.
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  1787. You are an idiot and self-enslaved fool. First, you'd never be entrusted with defending this great nation - ever. Second, I'd be defending any attack on US soil, being called out of military retirement to defend this great nation, from enemies foreign or domestic. And I rarely miss my target, missing wasn't in the budget.
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  1788. Knee pads and KY, which explains his wife’s absence. Oh, was that my outside voice?
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  1789.  @c0mbo  the children were sent to camp extremely early that year and I'm not joking. A coworker at the time had family there and he related that to us. But, what would you tell the population, many of whom wouldn't have transportation away? Indeed, uncontrolled evacuation would spread contamination farther than the ham fisted evacuation did and I can't blame them for the rush to move that many people so quickly. Any way you slice it, everyone had a shit sandwich when that reactor blew.
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  1790. The director of Top Gun said it honestly, when real pilots complained to him. "I make films for general audiences, not fighter pilots". In short, screw you, those who actually do it, I make what you do look cool (or something). To then prove pure, distilled ignorance and incompetence in the field of endeavor that's being displayed. ""I was only below the hard deck for a few seconds..." The hard deck is the ground for the exercise, so he was saying, I was only flying underground for a few seconds. Apparently, Maverick flew a fighter subterrene. And these films all used Magic Metal, which can forge weld cold, temper by mere whim and can be worked with the gentlest stroke of a feather.
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  1791.  @ttr1360  Charlie Brown, he's a clown, that Charlie Brown. He's gonna get caught, just you wait and see. (Why's everybody always pickin' on me?)
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  1792.  @BOFH_  estates are not perpetual. Once the estate is settled for the deceased, it's toast.
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  1793. I slapped one of these together around six months back, works like a charm. I did run into some trouble with configuring my VPN provider in, but that was due to two major technical issues. Coffee and needing to put my fingers on a diet, as I fat fingered my hashed username, running me in circles for 20 minutes before the coffee opened my eyes. ;)
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  1794.  @alanmcentee9457  I've heard both said south of the Mason-Dixon line. But, what is a tourbine? A turbine that suffered an uncontained failure.
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  1795. I'm shocked that egg prices remain high! After all, he's laying an egg everywhere he goes, especially in court.
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  1796. Well, her order just committed or attempted to commit five felonies. For three hard hitters that destroy any chance of holding a public trust ever again: 18 U.S. Code § 798 28 CFR § 17.41 18 U.S. Code § 793 Judicial immunity can't protect against those or the attempt at blackmail to violate those.
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  1797.  @jamesbarber5410  I've saw plenty of cases where the state told the court up front that it did not intend to appeal. So, that remains an honorable option.
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  1798. Wherever I've moved over the decades, the first places I sought out were those treasured ma and pa hardware stores. You'll find gems that you'll find nowhere else, well, other than the occasional estate sale.
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  1799. So, we traded up to a god-king and Emperor Musk. You know, not liking the frying pan, jumping out to check out the fire.
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  1800. Required by law. For many decades.
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  1801. Well, the management was objecting to the cost of such static fires and demanded some distance traveled for the expense...
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  1802.  @mulletman1705  not really, it doesn't take all that long to explain what LSD does.
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  1803.  @berberbasi  not entirely. Artemisinin is derived from a Chinese herbal medicine that dates back 2000 years and has largely replaced other treatments as the parasite evolved resistance to quinolines. Those, also herbal originated and decidedly not European. Modern pharmaceuticals manufacturing may have originated in Germany, but as usual, health is a global effort and few are unhappy for the help. ;)
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  1804. Or when someone attempted to assassinate him and Jackson nearly beat him to death with his cane - bravely so, after the man was disarmed. As the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day, Jackson was right twice in his life.
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  1805.  @iamJROD  either kiss Trump's ass or get zero help after a disaster. Hell, Trump just this week threatened Pennsylvania over one letter from the PA dept of health asking his campaign to follow state guidelines on COVID.
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  1806. Our children's math and reading scores have dropped a lot since the shutdowns, so we need to ban books from the library, including dictionaries.
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  1807. I'd call it a recycling bin, but one only recycles that which can be reused, not that which is utterly wasted and useless.
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  1808.  Helloclown  can't wait to cobalt-60 Russia.
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  1809. Trump vs a rock star, about as good for a campaign as Dan Quayle vs Murphy Brown, as played by Candice Bergen, who shredded him in a very public way. As for the rest, yes, he's a sociopath and narcissist. And some, rather than having him fitted for a room with rubber wallpaper, would give him the nuclear football. The guy that wanted to blow out hurricanes with nukes. Anything to satisfy their god-emperor wannabe, who fired Old God.
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  1810.  @APRIL_boymom  that price is just to poke your head in and say hello to an ED physician. To get actual testing and treatment, that costs thousands. Had an ED visit, followed by hospitalization for a hypertensive crisis. Billing fouled things up, so I actually saw the full ride bill. Could've paid a downpayment on a really nice house with significant property for that kind of money! The emergency department visit was insane enough, could've bought a car and had a few months of payments for that, the hospital bill as I said, could've paid in for an insanely expensive home.
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  1811. Actually needed a bit more, despite the more temperate climate, to hold moisture and gelatin from bones. Then, grind the dogshit outta the hard tack to hold moisture, like a good meatloaf or furburger. Hey, was an old SF medic, ya know? Gotta retain the moisture, both ways. And did run low on salt around four months ago, undiagnosed at the time Crohn's, shitting my literal brains out for four months, then doctor paid attention. Salt, both as sodium and chloride molecules, critically low. Quack ordered I eat highly processed meals, I excavated my salt shaker. Balanced beautifully, greens, now some salt, lot of cussing over the salt.
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  1812.  Antony Stringfellow  same basic circuitry, same basic neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, same basic infancy of understanding how all merge together to process information. One thing that held us back was the idiocy of considering a brain like a digital computer, as digital computers don't have modulators for the same processing element or different transmission mechanisms.
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  1813.  @michaelwright2986  years ago, media outlets had reference desks and consultants to get advice on science and technical subjects and be able to ask intelligent questions. Those eroded unto extinction and now, we get bothsiderism on everything. If there's a new theory on gravity, there will follow someone expounding on how there is no such thing as gravity. Oddly, in the latter case, not a one is willing to step off the roof to prove that non-existence of gravity.
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  1814. As near as I can tell, I'll have free credit monitoring for the next 3 billion years. That counts from the OPM breach, where some comments were made that, if our IC clearance based career doesn't pan out, at least we can get a security clearance in China... The few class actions I did sign on to resulted in payouts ranging from $0.50 to $3.00, so frankly, I don't bother. Supposedly, I have $10k coming from one, but given the multiple delays, I'm not holding my breath.
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  1815. I've been referring to him as Typhoid Tucker. The Fox version of Mary Mallon.
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  1816. I've held a security clearance for longer than many readers here have been alive. One critical thing sought by a background investigator isn't what one does, it's what one hides and refuses to admit to. If you hide it, you can be blackmailed for it is the theory that, sadly has proved true far too often. Hence, the admit to everything defense. And well, people forgive that which one admits to far more readily than that which one fails eventually to conceal. Hence, I freely admit to my porno stash of seven gigs of pirate porn involving a one legged parrot. Somehow, I strongly suspect there will be a sudden Google search for one legged parrot porn...
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  1817. Not so much a fleet as a series of crews. Otherwise they'd be unable to retain skilled crews. Now, all senior officers themselves...
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  1818. 14 pounds seems a lot light for most markets. That's the weight I prefer now, used to go with 18 - 20 pounder, but since my wife died and it's just me, 14 pounds is more than plenty for my needs.
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  1819.  @larrywest42  the Rob Roy method is far more efficient.
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  1820. By the people, of the people and for the people is also not in the Constitution, it's in the Gettysburg Address. They'll also quote the Declaration of Independence as law, it's not, it was a declaration of war and has zero legal standing since the Constitution was ratified (technically, since peace was declared and definitely since the Articles of Confederation were ratified and failed).
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  1821.  @wordforger  well, how many reporters interviewed PVT Manning in prison? No internet in solitary. Letters are read and censored. Uncle Sam cam be extremely vindictive when aroused to ire.
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  1822.  @Thechildishmandingo  they run off of JP-5, which similar tp Jet-A1 jet fuel, a yellow kerosene based fuel. Rhe engines being gas turbines. A stray thought did entertain me. Assign the Impossible Mission Force the mission of creating a gas turbine that ran off of bunker fuel. Then, go on vacation until they're ready to demonstrate a reliable model. I'd likely retire while still on vacation... ;)
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  1823.  @JFJ12  well, he'd be right, we'd more people to replace the people he killed on Mars.
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  1824. Actually went through kind of something like that. The idiot then started to open a clearly placarded secure parcel, with "What is this?", ignoring my classified documents courier card, I casually said, "Your telephone ringing", as I'd already sent my duress code and location. Phone rang and the idiot then tried to salute me with both hands. Had he actually opened the parcel, he would've been arrested under federal law for tampering with classified government property and that's all part of their training. Trained to know better, doing whatever he wanted to do under a false sense of empowerment, to find the federal government looking and frowning mightily.
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  1825.  @erkinalp some seem to conflate everything that goes on in the world with the US, either as a root cause or where it occurred. Amazing, right until one realizes that the average US citizen couldn't point out on the map the difference in the locations of the UK and Uganda.
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  1826. I'd have called it in, request discretion on approach, preferring no lights and siren on approach, as it's not imminent peril of life and limb, but is an emergency. One reason being, nosy neighbors that might call the press, press stalking political leadership's homes, foreign intelligence types, etc.
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  1827. Even money, US-EUCOM is also celebrating.
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  1828. In the morning, aw shit, winter storm, not doing a damned thing on Thursday, my back's already pissed off. Friday, when the poop storm clears off, I'll be grabbing a big old jug of Canadian canola oil. Was down to a half gallon, it's on special too, so wins all around.
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  1829. Because of the first word in the term that you used, DOMESTIC. Hence, a police function that is prohibited under the Posse Comitatus Act. We don't run under a military dictatorship and this veteran would come out of military retirement to reeducate his former students and peers on that fact were they to ever consider trying to do so. This shit is a matter for the House to address via impeachment, the Senate via trial and given the sheer volume of whores present in the conservative side, it ain't gonna happen absent a popular uprising. Get just 10% of the population to simply refuse to report for work for a few days, the economy would start to tank and while posturing that somehow they'd send the Army in to force people to work as slaves, they'd be impotent and also be drafting a surrender. And that's an easy number to achieve, given they'd just have to do what they did on election day, sit on their Twinkie encrusted couch.
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  1830.  @bindingcurve  something I'm used to, as that's typical at my age. Can you guess which companies I don't do business with professionally afterward?
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  1831.  @noah-cv7pn  and oddly, the council and executive got reelected since that petition was ignored.
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  1832.  @netherkevin  dude, this still isn't a dating site. Go back to Ashley Madison, you'll eventually score if you pay enough.
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  1833. Top scientists? I work in IT, we have tons and tons of H1B visa holders in IT fields and trust me, not a one is a scientist. It's for skilled workers, typically technical and scientific, but not exclusively so. That said, it's not properly applicable for models... But frankly, that's the least of our immigration woes, the entire process really needs to be redesigned and streamlined.
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  1834.  @Avendesora  no, thank you, I'll just take a coupon for a few gallons of gasoline...
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  1835.  @57msdeb  well, they all sway in the breeze. They have to, otherwise the stresses would tear the bridge apart. But, even knowing that, it's unsettling. We had to stop a military convoy in the middle of the Baltimore Harbor bridge, yeah, feeling it rock was a uniquely unsettling experience, even knowing that it did and why.
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  1836.  @Absaalookemensch  well, the airline was originally a state owned airline, but it was privatized in the 1980's. The problem is, the larger an organization is, the less ethical it is in its decision making, as each level of interaction is farther divorced from its final results.
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  1837. His serial bankruptcies also proved it well. Not to mention his idea of nuking a hurricane... Dude's dumber than a bag full of hammers.
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  1838.  @KaiserMattTygore927  I learned what insulation was in the '70's, during the energy crisis, when I helped Dad install it throughout the house. Around 2013, we had an energy audit of the house and despite a cracked window, they found no improvement in insulation was possible.
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  1839. Well, if you don't like the laws and Constitution of the nation, either have them changed or move to a dictatorship or absolute monarchy of your choice.
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  1840.  @Tom-xn8nn  nope. One can swear or affirm and not to God, but to the court, the ultimate authority at that location. That practice existing even longer than our nation has.
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  1841. Vote for Trump for the unemployment line. Once his MAGA crap finally collapses, his only remaining income source collapses.
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  1842. He's using the Groucho Marx defense, "Which are you going to believe, your own eyes or me?".
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  1843.  @mickeymouse12678  but, scavenging of extra water in the stool won't occur, as that's one of the primary jobs of the colon - to lower the water content of the stool.
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  1844. Save for the slurring, which increases as time went on during the event. That isn't sundowning, it's CNS depressant related, possibly ethanol, which there is a family history of the abuse of ethanol. So, either that or potentially coming off of a stimulant, from which he also has a known habituation. The Robert E. Lee bit, not in favor anymore. Yeah, one could say that, having Congress issue a writ of attainder for his plantation and seizing it, not paying for it until after his death, per the Constitution, yeah, kinda out of favor. You'd know his plantation, it's now Arlington National Cemetery. Who would ever expect him to suddenly fall out favor over a minor infraction like treason and three quarters of a million soldiers dead? That's definitely not all cylinders firing at top dead center, to put things mildly. The rapid progression, obesity and odd skin colorant usage suggests paler, delicate skin and possible poorly controlled diabetes, rapid progression suggesting vascular dementia, which unlike Alzheimer's, has a stair step progression. So, could flip either way with that or coming down from a stimulant dose. Given the incessant lost thought trains and word salad servings, I'm leaning toward dementia, possibly vascular. Cared for my father through that mess, wasn't pleasant for anyone. Of course, this remains in part the same Trump that wanted terrorists that were captured summarily executed, along with their families and children. Give him time, I'm sure he'll suggest special "work camps" with big ovens, as his impulse control flags further. Upside, even if he somehow won the election, our nukes are safe from his hands, as he'd never successfully authenticate, let alone be capable of selecting target packages from the SIOP menu book.
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  1845.  Donskii Donertello  interestingly, there are dozens of reports of people who proclaimed to one and all how their faith in Jesus Christ would protect them. And the horrific number who died of COVID-19, for God helps those who help themselves, rather than being lazy and hoping he'll micromanage the universe.
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  1846. Oh yeah? I'm retaliating. Next shopping trip, I'm picking up a large container of Canadian canola oil. That'll teach you! ;) Sorry, don't really like maple syrup that much, personal taste thing. There are other products I'll get though. Biggest trading partner, right until Trump fucks that up...
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  1847. How else could the judge properly refer to him as, given he was convicted for being an accomplice?
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  1848.  @christopherrobinson7541  there were no buildings inline with the landing, only some off to one side being constructed. The safety area was clear, the remainder of the overrun had a bunker construction wall from hell, protecting a frangible airport border wall and a maintenance road for that wall. They may as well had mined that area, it'd done the same thing at a lower cost.
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  1849. And the U2 remains in usage today. For those times you really, really want to make the other guy have to comb his hair often.
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  1850.  @Mz.TabbiB  so, how many more should die when hundreds of tons more concrete collapses onto them while they're trying to recover the entrapped body?
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  1851. One wee problem with the turnings theory is, what was WWI, which oddly gets skipped over? The entire mess reminds me of the Foundation series of books. Laughably, written under pressure, as his publisher wanted some new books written and Asimov, in desperation for ideas looked at his bookshelf and saw "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", giving him an idea for a series story line. Complete with a whole new (and actually incessantly attempted in the real world) field of psychohistory. Where a real largely pseudoscience field does now exist, with a predictive value of between crap and poop. Largely due to the failing here, cherrypicking wars as a crisis point, much as do religious fundamentalists "wars and rumors of wars", which sets me to open laughter. "Name some period, any period in history when there weren't wars and rumors of wars?" So, let's look at the most probable outcome of intentionally tanking civilization. Richie Rich hides out in his gilded bunker, sipping champagne and munching caviar. Eventually, enough time passes and supplies run low, they exist, anticipating people will follow them - because of hand wave reasons. Waiting for them, a brand spanking new National Razor.
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  1852. Has anyone checked them for classification markings? The FBI never did check his digs in NJ.
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  1853.  @ArchFundy  well, the Ramans do everything in threes. ;) Yeah, it's a rogue rock.
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  1854.  @Alex_Mitchell  Rendezvous with Rama, "Ramans do everything in threes".
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  1855.  @aydenwebb6223  what an odd statement, as it'll be 20000 years before it's outside of this star system!
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  1856.  @GeneralZap  odd, as vapor was observed venting from the object. There were also observed velocity changes that match nothing possible without emission of mass of some form.
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  1857.  @poppinmycollar423  well, it was a true total war, entire economies entirely dedicated to the war effort. But, Dresden and Hamburg were small potatoes compared to the US incendiary bombing of Tokyo. That campaign killed more than both atomic bombings. Wikipedia has a good article on the Tokyo firebombing, complete with pictures of the devastation. Always remember the wise words of warning: People in grass houses shouldn't smoke bones. I'll just get my hat...
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  1858. I always loved the "The Military-Industrial Complex" and the knee jerk, "There's no such thing". No, there is. They're called defense contractors, they specialize in contracting for the DoD. They don't specialize in fast food, they don't specialize in making luxury cars, they don't specialize in a field of medicine, they specialize in areas specific to the DoD. They're also not some evil villain living under an erupting volcanic lair. Their business specializes in DoD, just as a plumber specializes in plumbing and not hair dressing. As for MICE vs RICE, I prefer RICE. Reward isn't always money, it can be possessions, favors, power, hundreds of things that are no or minimal financial cost, but not available to the prospect. Snowden was ego, I base that upon actually meeting him during a DoD wide response to a compromise throughout the SWA AOR. Wouldn't have remembered him, save for the ego, while possessing only mediocre talent, but was excessively proud of his degree. Stuck in my mind and when his face flashed on the news, yeah, came right back to me. Agree though, his FSB handler should've been given a medal and promotion. For the "guests" that appear, well, they gain stature in their niche and hence, Reward rather than money. Many conflate money with power and influence and they're different things. One can influence with a few casual words. Money can buy some power, but remember the lesson of OJ. OJ went on trial for his life, expending tons of money and ending up the poorer for it in the end. Oliver North lied before Congress, got caught perjuring himself, got his own shows for his trouble. North didn't have much money, but he had power in knowing people and events. He never needed a trial.
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  1859.  @joejones4296  and no real progress in figuring out colony collapse disorder. Thankfully, it's looking like nature is figuring it out. After a decade of seeing nearly zero honeybees, I'm seeing a lot of them now. Including one pair of bees on a sunflower that were around 2/3 normal length.
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  1860. Honest mistake, they obviously thought it was a new access door for the riding lawnmower. No, I'm not going to replace that monitor and keyboard. You shouldn't be drinking near them while reading youtube comments.
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  1861. Imprisonment without sentencing? We don't do things that way, Russia does.
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  1862. And better, at least Fred didn't get caught to the tune of $350 million.
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  1863. And died of neurosyphilis in prison, despite penicillin being available, as big, bad Al was afraid of needles.
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  1864. How odd that this drops just as the Epstein Files did, giving the news media a new shiny over that brown, smelly log of felonies...
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  1865. This proves it! Donald Trump is really an AI - Artificial Idiocy. OK, seriously though, AI's have the same problem dementia patients have when confronted with an outside context question like he was, with confabulation ruling the day. As for referring to oneself in the third person, I do get away with it, but that's largely because I'm well known to spend a lot of time beside myself. I'll just get my hat... Trump, what a ring piece!
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  1866. Those ribs would also impart additional linear strength to the tank, which at the time were problematic when depressurized. A few early missiles would collapse from their own mass if depressurized. I do wonder though, how much hydrogen was retained in the foam, as hydrogen is infamous for infiltrating pretty much anything. Still, better inside than outside to slam into the stack as it's speeding through the atmosphere! Rockets are easy. Make a bomb, have it explode slowly in one direction, add steering components, there you go. Making one that doesn't explode in all directions, that part's hard. ;) Space is easy, surviving in space, tricky. There's a reason it takes an hour to open a hatch and the checklist is heinous, for good reason! Getting back alive, trickiest of all. The Russians do it by making a spacegoing tank - I can't think of any US spacecraft that could enter the atmosphere inverted, but the Russians survived multiple times of service module failed separation resulting in inverted entry.
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  1867.  @lydiabell6218  under state laws. As a former journalist, you should know that everything election related is under state law, per the US Constitution.
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  1868.  @rockystewart3297  McNamara's Morons? Neckties cause brain damage? Sorry, couldn't resist.
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  1869. At the heart there is a lack of due care and due diligence in ensuring the correct property was being serviced.
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  1870.  @JaneJetsin jokes are supposed to be funny.
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  1871. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia only spent money on their strategic rocket forces, maintaining their nuclear deterrent. Everything else basically fell apart due to neglect and no budget.
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  1872.  @alexanderadams8372  no, objection is sustained and one continues and hence, ignores an order of the court, a disciplinary matter.
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  1873.  @Speed-Daemon-123  which is actually hilarious, as Russia is currently a self-induced paper tiger, confronting a paper tiger, both giving China's Final Warning.
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  1874.  @alexanderrobins7497  Nope, one obliterated city means well, all obliterated cities. Which is why reasoned countervalue is a thing. There's a madness to the method.
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  1875.  @brianhirt5027  we're dead, so it failed, amiright? Any other epic failures to report?
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  1876.  @RBCharger  well, Trump already compared himself to Mother Teresa.
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  1877.  @ashbeck1736  around the same percentage of the population also deny the law of gravity, if they step off of the roof, they'll still not float or fly.
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  1878. Or maybe they wanted to see my pictures from my youth, when I used to walk my pet dinosaur. ;) Hey, some mornings, I feel like I'm 65 million years old...
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  1879. He's spot on about improvements. I used to joke that the infernal things (well, some models) lived up to their names, largely due to poor ergonomics of their designs.
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  1880. It's not unusual in the hairball that's combat, being unable to ascertain combatant from noncombatant. It's also the stuff of subsequent nightmares for all involved. Wars never have victors, they have survivors.
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  1881. Wrong. If they're not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, they cannot be detained or arrested. That's how diplomatic immunity works. Anyone else is subject to the jurisdiction and can be detained and arrested for a crime.
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  1882.  @MossyMozart  I dunno, morbidly obese is morbidly obese. Said by the guy whose weight is apparently the patent number of the scale.
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  1883.  @sharonfleshman6961  what really ruined Hollywood court dramas for me was sitting on a few juries. But, as retired military, I still retain a fine sense of duty.
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  1884. Could you picture what they'd do to every episode of Matlock? Perry Mason? Hell, they'd have Raymond Burr climb from the grave, just to commit suicide.
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  1885. All he's doing is trying to confuse the issues with silly little things like facts. Won't someone think of the children?!
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  1886.  @vladpadowicz5946  oh? When did the UK and Australia move offworld?
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  1887.  @clarkbilgrav  dangerous isn't the word. Near suicidal is more appropriate. Fighters learned where the "teeth" were and aimed to remove that threat first.
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  1888. Because it's not their job to let you know, it's up to the cell phone company that was breached and entirely didn't inform you. Hell, it's still not their job to notify you, they did you a solid and you're bitching about it. Maybe next time, they'll just save the bitching and not tell anyone but the companies involved, which is all they're required to do by law. Now, ask yourself why there aren't laws requiring the companies involved to let their customers know that their messaging traffic is compromised?
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  1889. OK, you don't, the other guy does and one city at a time goes until you surrender.
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  1890. Wow, such hyperbole over a whopping 0.85 lbs of Pu-238 per 30 watt SNAP-19 radiothermal generator. Sealed within a container designed to survive uncontrolled atmospheric reentry without losing integrity and what was shown reliable with the Apollo-13 module reentry with zero leakage. Let's see, 30 watts ain't gonna melt a glacier appreciably, at all. 0.85 lbs of Pu-238 isn't going contaminate with alpha radiation much of anything at all and it's in a form that's not biologically available. Hell, the granite mountain has more uranium released in water runoff than what could come from an RTG! Still, I've always been big on packing out my trash, pity that they didn't bother doing the same.
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  1891.  @richardbeckenbaugh1805  lawyers cost money. And not only denial of due process, state refusal of citizenship to a proven US citizen. Better, withhold every federal penny from Tennessee until they fully restore his rights and officially apologize.
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  1892. Maybe the Secret Service should change his callsign to that, Snowflake. Call him flake for short... Musk, just call him President Musk, it'll drive DonOLD nuts with paranoid notions.
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  1893.  @jacksprat3287  he's been trying his hardest, but the wealth shield from accountability keeps protecting him. Anyone of even upper middle class would've long been stored under the jail.
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  1894. I'd love to just sit there and go over the magnet control circuitry. The timing has to be a bear to maintain precise control of!
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  1895. I might consider retiring when I'm 450. Better more income than simply retiring and making only what the military pension and Social Security brings in and it would keep me active. Since I'm unlikely to live to actually see 450, I'll probably work until I permanently clock out. As for the ill educated teacher, I'd happily take him from one end of our base to the other, to find these allegedly stupid service members and I'd explain the ASVAB testing process and which points are testing which critical skill areas.
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  1896. @St Hurley what is worse is, at one point, making the 35 - 38k was good money, but it hasn't changed much in, quite literally, 40 years in the US and benefits have eroded as well.
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  1897.  John Grit  why? Do you mean that million dollar plus homes are being built in preference over housing for the poverty stricken, who couldn't get a home loan to cover the cost of a cheap modern home?! See my face? This is me being utterly unsurprised. The average home being built does not reflect the average Flordian income level. It means, business as usual in the US, the wealthy get what they want, the poor eventually get gentrified into the swamp and trespassed from there. Then, the wealthy gripe about a lack of cheap labor, undocumented workers accumulate and when ICE tries to move in, ICE gets met by a militia. Or would you prefer it written up as an intelligence analysis instead? The synopsis being, SSDD, the rich get catered to, the poor get kicked underfoot and that is now destabilizing vast swaths of the nation.
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  1898. And some wonder why I let my EMT-P lapse. Honestly, when I've had to use an ambulance, now twice in as many years, I remain surprised. Firstmost in life in the USSA is God-Cops, last, support. Not in that chain, you're fish food. The fun begins with, my primary job was counterterrorism, so closely dealt with real terrorists. Find common ground is a mantra in that business. Not liking this trail at all. Not trusting those anointed to guide us out of this path at all, given both parties get paid by the same interests. Yeah, not a clue, anyone? Hopefully, before we start burning "defective" citizens, like another fascist nation did? One lead complained about my many mistakes in learning in a novel for me environment. The man he complained to was a senior instructor in actual federal course work on said subjects. The instructor gently advised him, "He makes mistakes, but doesn't repeat them and adjusts according to his mistakes". I'm a dummy, but Dad didn't raise no fool. In short, I play dumb, ain't any dumber than you, and I'm usually the smartest idiot in the room. Sorry about your drink.
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  1899. No can do, cancelled mine ages ago, when Elon turned the place into a cesspool.
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  1900. I have a tritium illuminated US Army issue compass sitting on the table 3 feet from me. As for being radioactive, got to see just how much when in radiology for a thyroid scan. First, they need to take a background reading for the patient and I'm a fair bit hotter than my children's generation, both due to being older and weighing more, as well as due to being born during the atmospheric testing era. Hell, I was born the week following Tsar Bomba's detonation. I've also been around depleted uranium rounds being used.
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  1901. No, it's within reason to enforce copyright law and issue a default judgement for refusal to appear before the court, assuming that the operators of the offending site were properly served. I suspect it got a journalist's wash, the journalist being a tech correspondent and hence, lousy at reporting legal cases. It's about as bad when legal correspondents write a story about tech stuff, it gets all muddled and mangy, when the actual orders of the court were fairly straightforward. The providers can report back, they do not control the .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. Verisign owns the .com top level domain and they're out of Reston, Virginia. As I recall, even if not under the jurisdiction of a court, their TOS was to delete such an offending entry under their corporate policy, so that'll likely go away anyway. Likely, to reappear under a foreign top level domain like Tuvulu, just as what happened with Pirate Bay, which is still out there. It then turns into a whack a mole thing, which the ISP's would then complain to the court over the excessive costs involved in compliance... Being internet and international, the best the courts can do is to become a pain in the balls to the offender and have them keep switching domains to those outside of the court's jurisdiction. Given that there are 1589 top level domains and most are foreign, yeah. But, the court did what it could do, which is all anyone can ask of the court.
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  1902. He's running even out of T-62 tanks, which are the same age as me. As a hint, I'm retired, so were the T-62's, since they came out in 1961. They're out of trucks, literally now falling back to donkey carried supplies. As Russia finally did retire their WWII stock and they've fielded what's left of Korean War vintage stock and had it destroyed, what's next, children's toy wagons? Russia's turned themselves into a paper tiger.
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  1903.  @albertstephen2426  which just continues a long, fine tradition. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy. But, there is the upside of the tradition of Rob Roy.
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  1904.  @Edax_Royeaux  yep, utterly disruptive, which is why Germany won the war. If only the Allies didn't foolishly depend upon such unreliable air power, why they could've sailed battleships into Berlin and won!
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  1905.  @Edax_Royeaux  there was no flak armor on those bombs. The uranium acted like its own armor, hell, it's used in M1 Abrams tank armor! Strip their tamper cases, they'd have not gone off. The tamper was there to allow fission to continue for long enough to not be a fizzle. Even so, only 2% of the Little Boy core fissioned and around 20% of the Fat Man core fissioned. Wouldn't have gotten that far without the reflector/tamper at all!
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  1906. And he'd rightfully sue for false charges. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Congress has not declared war, so we have no enemy. He's definitely not taken up arms against the nation. Too much of a coward for that. Now, one may well be able to make a case for sedition and for championing the overthrow of our government, both also major felonies.
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  1907.  @MrHollowpoint140  and the remnants of the party, the taste testers.
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  1908.  @petersayatshkin7454  you obviously failed to learn the tradition and cultural requirement of hospitality. If you're feeding someone, they're a guest, to be fed, given proper accommodations, even if you and your family are put out a fair amount, allowed to bathe (that's actually pretty much #2, #1 being giving them water, then food, doing without to feed them if necessary) and the best sleeping arrangements possible, even if you sleep on the floor as master of the house. Understanding the cultural foundation is actually important to understanding biblical requirements. And all of the above are part of the 613 commandments. Indeed, interwoven among them. Which is why I'll always feel safer in a Jewish or Muslim home as a guest than in your home and I abide by neither faith, but find honorable traditions and points of behavioral requirements that I find peer worthy. You, not so much, per your own written words, odd, as you qualify them by calling yourself disgusting. Why?
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  1909. One question, did the physicians studying those with hypertension also track non-ACE-i/ARB treated patients, such as with calcium channel blocker or beta blockers? Was secondary hypertension a factor in increased morbidity and mortality in patients or is it primarily primary hypertension patients?
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  1910. King in that would be jet fuel and diesel. Those tanks aren't getting very far on well wishes. Also, as far into the war as they are, they're still mighty profligate in their munitions usage, but oddly fresh out of ATACMS or well, any indirect fire artillery. If you're moving into a stronghold, you'll be wanting to prepare the living hell out of the terrain you're about to enter, as the other guys would be well dug in. I can forgive their not using the White House tunnels, as those aren't generally known. FDR turned that office mansion into a fortress during WWII, with highly extensive fortifications, bunkers and tunnels - since they had to fix the crumbling building anyway.
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  1911.  @truekurayami  incumbent upon orders is, one obeys lawful orders, one challenges and then refuses unlawful orders. That's taught to every military NCO and Commissioned Officer. Perhaps, we need that taught to police officers.
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  1912.  @butterh2  I'll suffice it to say, for being a fanatic, she's underperforming.
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  1913. @prairie mark well, psychology in general is a field rife with the jokes about the blind leading the blind. Me, I'm Master Po teaching Grasshopper how to drive. ;)
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  1914. Can't act like you're in pain when pretending to be a tough guy. It's one way to know the poseur from the real tough guy, as someone that is tough will be continuing on while obviously experiencing pain. I've got no real doubt that he got grazed on the tip of his ear by a round. First lesson, bullets aren't explosive devices, they're not phasers, they're not death rays, they're projectiles that fly while spinning and not tumbling at that range. Hell, it wouldn't even be precessing at that range. So, a 0.22 inch chunk of metal essentially sliced the outer edge of the top of one ear lobe slightly, otherwise it'd have torn the lobe significantly due to the round's characteristics on any impact and low mass. There's a term for that type of injury. It's a boo-boo. Doesn't really need a cover, as is evident when he's golfing without a dressing. Although, to give him credit, I'd still need to wear a cone on my neck, he doesn't...
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  1915.  @ColonelSandersLite  one downside is high chromium stainless steels, which may end up pitted by the hypochlorite. I'm rather fond of phosphoric acid, which leaves a nice protective phosphide layer for exposed steel. It'd also be a nightmare if one did that to a camshaft... ;)
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  1916. In that case, it was a garbage and property dispute and obviously not political violence. We kinda stop things before a national government is protecting a Lord of the Land, ya know? That's largely under common law that was inherited from the UK at the inception of the nation.
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  1917. Having actually met him around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, where he was the invited speaker of honor, what you see is what you get IRL. Reality TV didn't create him at all, he's always been this way and well, he was the boor of the party. It literally was so bad that the following year, the Chambers experienced a 95% attrition in attendance and nearly cancelled the function. They then spent an entire year apologizing incessantly to their entire membership to reacquire attendance to the function. Everything had to be about him, his perfection, everything he did was self-assessed as a success - including serial bankruptcies of his casinos, generating so many eye rolls that I was astonished that the planet stayed on its axis. I did get a laugh out of a few of his more recent appearances though, where he was complaining and shooing off flies. The Lord of the Flies and the Lord of the Lies, all rolled up into one. How biblical! And people self-professing to be Christians follow that lord, the antithesis of everything Jesus of Nazareth preached about.
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  1918.  @badlyniceness2315  could be worse, Alina could come in the night as one's lawyer.
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  1919. I'm on so many lists it's absurd. When checked, I'm sure that the conversation that ensues is, "Jesus, this guy's clearance is higher than ours is!".
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  1920.  @jayceak7  oh, he landed something. A naval mine. The cruelest thing one can do to a fool is not to silence them, it is to allow them to go ahead and speak their mind.
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  1921. Patience is a virtue. Besides, never interrupt an adversary while they're making a series of grievous mistakes.
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  1922. Trump dancing, displaying for the world the same level of footwork as the bottom of the Hoover Dam and the same level of mobility as well.
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  1923.  @MMuraseofSandvich  I'm sure that the juror's cellmate/fiancee will be forgiving.
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  1924.  @jolenajade  I'm sure he'd love to fight against Finland in the Winter War. ;)
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  1925.  @MrDLRu  you failed in not knowing the difference between do and due, as well as propagating the gold is magic myth.
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  1926.  @macpduff2119  something that's been true of every disaster throughout human history.
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  1927.  @fatmanfaffing4116  and still not quite universal. For one, I tend to cut up my meat in one session, then set down the now useless knife, as my dominant hand is my right hand. I then move around my plate, meat, vegetable, other vegetable, etc, in a nearly random order, per my personal preference and social guidance (if the host suggested a part of the dish, it gets a preference). Well, save with okra, which I'll try, but usually it's a no-go at this station. Too much like eating green beans cooked in snot. The taste is OK, the texture, just nope. But, to be polite, I do try them. Found only one way I tolerate okra, in a watered down mixture with zero percent plant snot, one company's tomatoes, okra and corn, tasting like stewed tomatoes, with clean okra and some corn dumped in and I do keep a few cans on my pantry shelf of that.
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  1928.  @EdOeuna  as I said, intracranial flatulence. Pilot got distracted by out of profile behavior, which is always a bad idea when one's made a significant change, such as flaps setting and engine output being changed at the same time. Resulting in a pitch change that escaped notice. So, it's literally drifting out of one's vertical lane. Ideally, he could've asked the copilot to verify the configuration and kept his eyeballs on the instruments.
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  1929.  @arieldahl  now, now. There you go, trying to confuse the issues with silly little things like facts. ;)
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  1930.  Triangle Automotive, Inc  astroturfing, because you have nothing original. Trains need to be on the tracks to move, your train is derailed.
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  1931. From the brief bit of video I've saw (well, here, since I don't do other antisocial media much and here is decreasing), doesn't quite look thermobaric, save if there were secondaries in a depot. Might've been an ordinance depot going up though, which would match intensity, shockwave pattern and initial cloud rise. What was decidedly missing, any characteristic of a nuclear detonation beyond "oh, it had a mushroom cloud", which I can generate a mushroom cloud with a barbecue grill and trust me, those are decidedly not nuclear. No characteristic double flash within a specific time interval (part of the physics of a nuclear detonation) for starters and a biggie. Nope, pure electron recombination event, aka basic chemistry, aka conventional explosives doing their explodey thing. Indeed, it resembled a certain blast in a certain harbor from a fire that detonated contaminated old Russian nitrate fertilizer that was languishing dangerously in a poorly maintained environment inside of a port warehouse that no longer exists. Lebanon having some intimate familiarity with that tragedy.
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  1932. Many Linux distributions don't password protect root. Without a password, root is then denied an interactive logon.
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  1933. A bit OT, but a nice reminder of history. The US invaded Canada twice, both to somewhat hilarious result. Our forces being politely escorted to our border and kindly asked to not return. Politely enough that Benedict Arnold turned traitor, due to wounds suffered and disabling him sufficiently to not be capable of successfully returning to his farm as to sell out to the British, as we had no veterans or wounded veterans pensions at the time. Still, I agree to some point, the Canadian Combat Engineers shouldn't have been in Poland, save if training already in Poland. The Ukrainian forces should've mixed training and R&R in Canada. ;) But yeah, likely a bot, most out of Saint Petersburg, run by some Ruskie cook (some will get that joke). Some, out of an old KGB building that some allies gained access to the network of to observe an attack on the US in 2016.
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  1934.  @Chuck59ish  Boston and Halifax, tied and true forever. Boston sent help to Halifax after the port explosion in WWI pretty much leveled their waterfront and have exchanged gifts fairly often since. Frequently, it's where Boston's official Christmas Tree comes from. I served US Army from 1982 - 2019 (end of year). Dealt with a few red book incidents, not a lot of fun, but came with the job. Trained with one East German officer on an exchange program that slipped through the cracks, as he was former Spetsnaz. Recognized by both insignia worn and well, the last time I saw him, he was aiming a Makarov at me. We were patrolling a rifle range firing line, saw each other at 25 meters and mutually froze. I reached for my old low rider holster, he reached for his, neither of us wearing one of those models at the time, due to our mutual duties and uniforms. I said, "Look, we were both doing our duties, it's over now". He responded, "Da". Do my immediate left was one firer, who literally dropped his rifle, rolled over from his prone position and looked at me questioningly. He was our Slavic language interpreter. "Sorry, but you don't have a need to know". He shrugged, returned back to his firing position. Out of all enlisted, he went out with my group for drinks. True story. Shit gets weird at times, but we're all doing our jobs and if improbably recalled to duty after retirement, I'd still kill him if I had to. And no, people. It's still classified. I'll probably get shit saying this much. But now, I'm old and ill, so life in prison doesn't have that much of a threat to me any longer. But, experiencing and getting to survive to talk and write about history, as it is written, well, it... sucks.
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  1935.  @rosiedean7504  yep, peace, quiet and no stench.
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  1936.  @bipolarbear7325  as memory serves, the last POTUS that left the WH grounds whenever he pleased was Grover Cleveland. Everyone else, great big nope.
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  1937. I was scarier. Did a achene of clearing a building, I grabbed my water tube from my Camelbak and yelled, Allau Akbarrrrrrrr! The leader looked at me in disgusted defeat. My goal, unfuck your security, I don't want to go to their funerals! My entire mantra is, "What would I do"..
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  1938.  @shivasirons6159  people are well accustomed to liars and hypocrites. So, testimony would be, me said one thing and did the opposite and attacked him.
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  1939. I occasionally have fun with the chemtrail crowd. I'll start off and agree that there were chemtrails, then move forward to qualify that with U-2 additives to stabilize the literal charcoal lighter fluid fuel to keep it from boiling at altitude and move into the more serious additive in the SR-71 fuel, other than a similar additive for the same reason as the U-2's fuel, in a fuel you could put a road flare out in, it also had a cesium additive - to obscure the exhaust plume of a fairly stealthy aircraft, rather than having a gigantic proctologist's finger from hell pointing up the aircraft's ass end. All quite true. It also royally pisses them off, as it's true, no nefarious nonsense is involved and I provide citations. The climate denier crowd, I have fun with. After all, greenhouse gases are natural, CO2 is part of a plant's daytime respiration and well, CO2 made Venus the paradise it is today, assuming that molten lead temperatures is your idea of paradise. Loads of electricity and magnetism in the sun, well, its upper layers and corona, anyway. Deeper in, way too hot for such silly things to work, too busy fusing or convecting. Neutron stars, especially young ones are magnetic madhouses, accretion discs a magnetic madhouse of their own, fortunately for the neighbors, the inverse square law rides in to save their day and night and especially weekends. But, those strong, but range limited magnetic fields are handy for detection, they polarize electromagnetic energy going past them, providing a measurement tool for their strength. For the magnetic gravity crowd, I offer a quality insulated sole set of boots and invite them to step off of a tall building and demonstrate flotation. No takers yet. The most entertaining was an antivaxer who doxed me, then threatened graphically to invade my home, rape and kill my wife, then kill everyone else in the home, saving my death for last. When I was done laughing, I patiently explained that invading my home was both foolhardy and suicidal, as it'd be unlikely that I'd be very conciliatory as to end matters swiftly with a firearm against an armed intruder, he'd instead learn precisely what I did in the Army, what vivisection was, after being immobilized by bludgeon, his demise would likely take 16 hours and before we began, would he kindly advise me as to how he wished his sparse remains disposed of, or should I simply dump them into a pig feeding trough? Radio silence was observed ever since from that enterprising individual. I guess it was mission accomplished and I was utterly cowed or something. Or saw the error of his ways. Don't know, don't care, but he at least did save me the trouble of having to resharpen my fighting knife. Well, at least until the next time I was out gardening and it needed resharpening again. Unused tools are clutter, used tools require and deserve maintenance.
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  1940. What's the cost for an untreated ectopic pregnancy again? Well, other than a shovel... The GOP is intentionally, willfully ignorant, anything to get a few more of their base to vote against their own self-interests.
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  1941. Quite true, as a veteran, I can confirm that. Surrender is worse, ask the French how well surrendered to Hitler worked out for them.
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  1942.  @rb0090  further. Further. Further. Keep going until you're out of he door...
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  1943.  @HappyBeezerStudios I doubt it's regional, it has to do more with surgical than regional. My wisdom teeth have long, convoluted roots, so the surgery is involved and convoluted as well, so antibiotics are an absolute necessity. Otherwise, the risk of an infection in the bone, well, nothing good comes from those.
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  1944.  @amylee8969  yep, I identified it long ago. Bizarro World.
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  1945.  @ClauTo-oh5qu  and passively allowing them to violate those central tenets of the faith is considered within those very verses, tacitly and actively supporting those violations, rather than calling them out and by doing so, equally violating those orders given by the Almighty and thereby earning damnation.
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  1946. And has what to do with Musk again? Did he suddenly enter into Trump's campaign and that was announced in sign language in this story or something? You're only supposed to troll Biden and Trump stories, tovarisch.
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  1947.  @craigme2583  frankly, I refer to them for what they are. Rectally procured facts.
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  1948.  @fungoorstitch  yeah, but you'd offer one thing that'd be superior to his meadow muffin product. Someone intelligent behind it. His comes with leadership whose intellect is on par with that of a potted plant.
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  1949. There are plenty of instances where I've told guests in my house to stop speech that would've started a fight with other guests. Texas would hold that I'd have to allow things to devolve into a fight and I suffer the damages of a fight within my own home, as I'd not have the right to halt things before damage from fighting occurred and the troublemaker could sue if I even tried. I have property rights, so do social media companies.
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  1950. Don't you remember? We'll not have to worry about silly little things like elections any more.
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  1951.  @Dellvmnyam  well, Doctor Higgs. Easy mistake. And I think he got a promotion to Sir, in UK knighthood kindred. Screw it, Doctor's enough for his type of person, the rest is just BS to them. Anyone remember the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy term for an award for excessive brightness? Is it the memory the first thing to go or something else? I forget...
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  1952. Nah, that's already been done, aim to impress in novel ways and call it innovation! I'll just get my hat...
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  1953. Well, genetian violet certainly made itself known, but methylene blue really made its mark on the world that stays visible even today. Ungh, that was awful... True, but awful.
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  1954. If they don't, they're fed to the drop bears, right? ;)
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  1955. Unsure what word you forgot, industrialized, perhaps? Mixing both is a royal pain and a blessing, if done correctly. In the US, we did so reasonably well until fairly recently, when much of our manufacturing got sent abroad and we stupidly allowed it. But, that was also a product of outsourcing - outsourcing the funding of elections...
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  1956.  @BurgleArsonLarceny that's Generous Electric, extremely generous with the rounds. I've also fired an M2 .50 BMG machine gun proudly stamped International Business Machines (yes, that IBM), another Singer Sewing Machine Company and an ancient M3 submachine gun that was made by the Guide Lamp Company. If the company could mill or stamp metal, they made weapons for WWII. That was of a much higher national priority than adding machines, sewing machines or automotive guide lamps. The Baldwin piano company made wooden bracing for airplane wings.
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  1957.  @ImranKhan1976  thanks, I rather figured this was a fish story. Alcoholics who aren't no longer consuming alcohol are denied a transplant and still aren't first choice for an available liver.
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  1958.  @casjean8904  retired crayon chewing Army here.
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  1959. Ironic. Due to needing an infusion of a biologic treatment, my hep B titer was taken. Last immunized around 20 years ago and it's faded, literally in the past few years. Got the first of the series two weeks ago, scheduled for the rest. Gotta check with doctor on the 'childhood' vaccines, but I'm sure DPT would be a good idea, as well as RSV and last exposure to OPV was in 2009 (long story on that one). Although, given a 20 year half-life on the hep B, I'm sure that my smallpox titer is also low, but I'm not military medicine or first responder team for infectious diseases any longer, so my chances of being exposed to orthopox strains is minuscule.
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  1960.  @InanaNinsianna  well, it is in that exotic place, Pennsyltucky. Alas, a place of some familiarity to me.
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  1961. So, we'll redeploy our deployed military home for this national holiday so that they can vote?
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  1962. They did pass a referendum for statehood. Congress ignored it.
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  1963.  @letsRegulateSociopaths  and tellingly, never asked for a reach around.
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  1964. Where is Jackson and his cane...?
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  1965.  @SP2X1369  when the defense delays it, that "right" obviously was waived.
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  1966.  @beyondEV  AI can't get around the laws of physics. That's like saying that AI could make a regular 9mm bullet make 90 degree turns. Meanwhile, an old wire lath wall would block this, well, save for windows and metallic screens would disrupt it.
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  1967. Drunk drivers aren't driving irregularly, they're driving defensively using the weave... Yeah, total lead balloon.
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  1968.  @KevinWendigo63  bad assed airplane design! Most would have the fuselage come apart. After using a Stryker in the Army, gotta wonder what other tough things Canada is designing. Maybe a cell phone that's me resistant? ;) We only build things bigger, as one can tell from our egg shortage. One hen gets sick and 6 million get culled because of it. Oops.
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  1969. Alas, it's likely that only a test pilot would've recognized what was going wrong at that time.
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  1970. @Mister Bister and the lot of this is state law, not federal law.
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  1971.  @wildtymes2429  so, you watched "As the Stomach Churns"?
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  1972.  @alisonwilson9749  had one commercial client, they used a lot of aluminum and occasionally steel frames for the strength, durability and rigidity (for the steel on certain specialized jobs). Don't know the specifics though, I was the IT guy. Did hear something about rare times using steel mesh, most of the time though it was polyester mesh. Dunno, that stuff's magic to me, my wife was the artist, I only was half decent with wet on wet oils. Well, that and drafting with pen and pencil, which I always chuckled at, as my standing truism is that I can't draw a straight line with a ruler.
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  1973.  @robertvanderzalm4464  save that chaos theory is a mathematical construct, not just throwing random shit from the garage shelves, pantry and paint together and calling it a meal.
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  1974.  @michelleaugust9958  given that the virus was already well spread, as has been found by testing older cases, it was a case of closing the barn door after the horses escaped straight into the flood. The virus was spreading quite rapidly in December, alas, undetected and late being detected in China by local leaders who only wanted to report good news to the central government. Now, shall we discuss sending public health workers who had no training in contagious disease, without equipment, to evacuate civilians that were flown from a cruise ship where the epidemic was rampant? His championing workers going to work while ill? His claiming that 50 sick people were actually 15, repeatedly? His inventing shit as he goes along, proclaiming he's more proficient at anything and everything he's ever heard of than people with PhD's in the field? Not to mention his contradicting his own public health care experts in telling elders to fly, when those experts said it'd be insanely dangerous for them to do so. Of course, my wife and I aren't fans of the wannabe God-king Emperor, but we met him in person long before unreality TV became a thing and he was an obnoxious idiot then.
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  1975. It'd just be a "let them eat cake" tax. Worked out well the last time, why France perfected their National Razor due to their antics.
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  1976. Which, of course, was a personal choice. Some states mandate such things, requiring burial, rather than what previously happened where parents could leave the fetal remains with the hospital if they so chose.
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  1977.  @LS-zu5gt  or they could do what's always been done, costs go up, prices go up. Something that's as old as money is. Not try to starve out the market until people start sharpening the National Razor!
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  1978. If the signal is blocked, it's blocked when one has a jammer. Only higher power can get past jamming. But, there are access control programs that can disable the device's wireless drivers upon command or schedule. Hell, the software is actually cheaper than a jammer and not illegal.
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  1979. Well, the claim should be made by the 65 people, as they possess everything on the ground, they obviously own all of the ground and hence, county.
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  1980. Hyundai and Kia recently agreed to settled a $200 million class-action lawsuit over vehicle theft issues. It covers Kia and Hyundai models from 2011 through 2022 with a traditional “insert-and-turn” steel key ignition system. Yeah, sounds like a pair of brand names to avoid like the plague.
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  1981. Det cord won't erase flash, heat would. But, thermite won't ignite very well if the drone is badly physically damaged.
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  1982. Oh no, don't bury human remains in the garden. Pig farms are far more efficient.
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  1983.  @jplum7708  I do remember when one had to put a dime, later a quarter into a lock to get into restroom stalls. Around the same time, Krazy Glue became popular and the two met, due to the popularity of having to pay to poop (or for ladies, pay to pee). Well, that and even having the locks sledgehammered off of the stall doors...
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  1984.  @shannonp1656  better than the cases quietly settled, where the person that was hypoglycemic simply woke up in front of Saint Peter and the department kept most quiet.
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  1985. That goes triple here, as I have no sense of smell, so anything dodgy isn't easily detected if my wife isn't around to sniff it.
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  1986.  @w1ndgeneral226  just keeping it in the family. As Trump rather suggested about his own daughter...
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  1987. Didn't hear anything that legally was a threat. I did hear him say something that was objected to and the court agreed that "you cannot" was objectionable and correct to be halted - then he continued on with it, which really is contempt. So, refer him to the Bar and let them police their own ranks. Courts exist to bring order from disorder, that can only be conducted in an orderly, disciplined fashion.
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  1988.  @Eralen00  when I lived in Philly, the composted sludge was made available for free to city residents, the remainder being divided into what was sold for use as fertilizer, what went unsold, dumped. I picked up quite a bit for my small backyard garden, grew shit tons of veggies in the mixture of soil and composted sludge. Pathogens get killed off by the composting organisms and the culture is actually measured to ensure pathogens are killed off. Downside, occasionally in summer, the compost piles would spontaneously combust, as composting does generate heat. No, not joking about using it as fertilizer, it's a practice as old as farming.
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  1989. PB & cream cheese is also great.
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  1990. Nope, he left the kid a horrifying 10 feet behind him. Who knows what evil might've befallen him had he gotten 11 feet behind? Why, some evil pizza parlor basementless building basement dweller might've recycled his eyelashes into a fountain of youth drug or something! Yeah, it's a nothingburger. I loathe the SOB, as a human, he's subhuman. His only true talents are as a mediocre businessman, excellent showman and excels at hiring great managers and company CEO's. Whenever he runs a company himself, he destroys it by micromanaging it and turning it into a fiefdom, rather than allowing the competent staff to run it. But, the kid lagging behind during a public appearance, it's not as if the pod born body snatchers are gonna grab the kid, the stairs ain't gonna gobble him up and the Biden Under the Bed ain't gonna snatch him up and replace him with a changeling. As for the Oval Office thing, that's Musk showing everyone that he's the boss. Nobody brings a small child to a major meeting with one's boss, it's inappropriate, distracting and disrespectful to that boss. But then, most of us haven't had the good fortune of inheriting an emerald mine with which to jump start one's "genius in business, self made man" career. And he and Trump did make their money the old fashioned way - they inherited it. I inherited a pocket watch and bills, the watch getting stolen during a move. For some odd reason, nobody bothered to steal the bills.
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  1991.  @KM-ub4vb  I dunno, I'm pretty sure he'd want to review the whine list.
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  1992.  @andersjjensen  or uglier, crash-o-matic, one runs into race conditions if the software didn't return a clean abort. Still, code should be able to work around, like all of the other "unfixable bugs" over the years. I am Pentium of Borg, you will be approximated.
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  1993. I know one woman who is utterly devoted to him. Of all people, a Black woman lawyer, needless to say, his least favored groups. Totally in his thrall, beyond reason. Damned shame, she's quite bright otherwise, but got captivated and bought into the religion.
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  1994. Bar disciplinary board is more like it and quite a few licensed attorneys have said as much. It isn't that he said it, it's that he said it again after an objection to that statement was raised, sustained and he continued. He then finished his summation, judge dismissed the jury for lunch, then had everyone sit and read the riot act.
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  1995. Maybe you should take a digital forensics course. Everything has logs these days, even your SMS/MMS app on your smartphone.
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  1996. Since he took office, the Supreme Court has more and more, turned straight into the Trump Court, as the sheer volume of Trump cases going to it literally threatens to swamp it. Given the additional case load, perhaps there should be additional justices to relieve the load.
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  1997. Can't take legal action against someone who did nothing unlawful.
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  1998. Tokyo was struck in Operation Meetinghouse, 100k - 130k killed, 1 million homeless. Even then, Japan fought on until Hiroshima and Nagasaki, plus the Soviet Union declaring war and moving troops east. To this day, bombs are pulled from construction sites quite often. Remember that whenever some damned fool spouts off about total war, for WWII was a case of total war on both sides.
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  1999. He dropped the knife and it remained stationary, being far too dull to even cut through the air. Yeah, I've had a few knives that dull in my day as well, having sharper spoons. ;)
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  2000.  @aulii11  just be advised, he spends $20 million a year on personal security. Plus he's working out of the executive office building, which is well protected. Not that I'm suggesting anything. That would be illegal. Just, stand back and stand by, to borrow someone's phrase.
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  2001. Yep, appeals exhausted, tough shit, share a prison with the actual criminal.
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  2002.  @Jaromous  you believe in Harry Potter's magical wand too, huh?
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  2003.  @germanfisch  defense in depth goes back a hell of a lot farther than any World War. If troops were ordered to fall back, where do you think they fell back to? Home? It means layered defenses, so that if one failed, one had fallback defenses in place to prevent the collapse of all protection, as we had here. Know where else defense in depth is practiced? Biosecurity labs and even internet carriers and providers. As well as modern military installations.
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  2004. My apartment building is quite diverse, nearly UN kind of diverse. As in, I quite have fun sharing recipes with neighbors, as I enjoy a widely varied diet. Out of an entire 13 story tall building, there is precisely one Black neighbor who is a Trumpite and thinks that he's the neatest thing to come around since sliced bread. The rest, well, suffice it to say that he's generally loathed. Having actually met that turd around 2000 at a Chamber of Commerce event, where he was an invited speaker, well the Chamber suffered a 90+% attrition rate for the following year's event, for he was the boor of the party. Will Rogers said, "I never met a man that I didn't like", he obviously was unable to have ever met Trump. Good for Will! I'm just glad that my parents didn't live long enough to see this specimen of inhumanity.
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  2005. OK, then stop using oil that's older than your religion says the earth is. Walking is good for you anyway.
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  2006. They really don't have to tell you even now. The network provider, aka your cell phone company should have told you, it's their responsibility to do so. The NSA reported it to the FBI, the FBI investigated the US side, informed the cell phone companies and awaited any voluntary reporting, as there is no mandated reporting in the US. Anything beyond that is gratis and you're complaining. Their primary focus is to hope that the company accepts help and help them end the breach, once it's fully understood and properly blocked. And finding all of that out, even from the company side is a royal pain in the balls. I've handled a few, a few minutes worth of an attack can take hours to analyze and reconstruct from individual network packets in the tens of thousands at a minimum. The server administrator responsible for the specific compromised server(s) then has to be contacted and their management, reporting on precisely what was done to their server shared, incident responders then track the responses at each level and report back to senior management. Reporting to end users in up to the senior corporate management, by law.
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  2007. Well, negative energy and hence, negative mass then to be two specifications for the theoretical tachyon. I tend to shy away from anything that's massively negatively hot, as it's still way below absolute zero.
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  2008. And in microwave windows, so it can be used in windows for the process that makes these diamonds or high power radar applications.
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  2009.  @Cyancat123  for once, I'm not stopping anyone or discouraging them. I'd have considered it, but since Congress abdicated, not stopping anyone at all.
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  2010. Suffice it to say, there are times that I'm sorely tempted to discuss in detail some shoddy reporting with the correspondent, utilizing the translation services of a lead pipe I have next to my driver's seat. Just rediscovered it there, it was originally in the rear of my minivan, where I tossed it when I removed a broken segment and replaced it in my bathroom. How it ended up in a more welcome location is entirely forgotten, but likely involved showing someone younger what a lead pipe was, as they didn't believe such things existed. Eventually, it'll migrate to where I store old SCSI adapters and such...
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  2011.  @rudolphwatson1737  where's a snow plow when you need one?
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  2012. An all zeros file rings a bell though, some ancient transfer protocol erroring could generate that type of file. But that was back in the '70's... It was one of the reasons CRC was incorporated into the early protocols. I think I'm giving my age away here...
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  2013. Found the tail end interviewish bit interesting. Literally took an old Black man stereotype and inverted it. Justifying one of my jokes. "God has a sense of humor, as anyone observant can attest to, there's the platypus and other monotremes, for just when we thought we had a handle on biology, they'll knock everything into a cocked hat. Then, there is man. God had a special fit of mirth with man, for he gave man two heads and only enough blood to operate one at a time".
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  2014. Especially, as the music was on the program for the activities, hence a valid part of the game activities, as agreed to by the school administration. When did a ground keeper become the school superintendent and school principal's boss? The "justification" was to get people to leave the stands and field, so turning off the lights is a rather odd method of safely doing so. Were I in that band, I'd have abandoned my instrument and uniform and quit the band, stating to the administration that I am no longer able to safely participate in the activities, as music is illegal.
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  2015. Interesting, the arguments over the candies reflecting the arguments over Marmite. Which reminds me, gotta order a jar of Marmite. Great on pot roasts... Tip of the hat from across the pond!
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  2016.  @andiman45  a little over a half magazine worth, with typical Republican accuracy, thankfully.
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  2017.  @AlaskaSoundRecordist  messianic is sought, mess is all they got.
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  2018.  @kurtwetzel154  no, just not in the driver seat. It's not illegal to be a passenger in a motor vehicle if one has a suspended operators license. Otherwise, we'd be banning people from riding on buses, ambulances and hell, even a hearse.
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  2019. And barred forever from the entirety of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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  2020.  @groundscody  how odd that that wasn't in the bankruptcy filing. So, how does one give away money at a blackjack table?
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  2021.  @stephaniepaul6226  as I recall, the serpent tried that defense in Eden, didn't pan out so well.
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  2022. Well, there are days when this old Philly man has trouble with English as a FIRST language... :/
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  2023. It looks like there's some HF noise in the lab. Judging by the spikes on the oscilloscope, I suspect either light switching spikes or more likely cellular phone interference nearby, around a few meters away. Also looks like the 'scope leads might be near a transformer or they're growing resistive in the shielding, as there is a LF ripple apparent. You covered etching of the foil nicely, many classes on electrolytic capacitors omit that critical fact. I'd probably have gone lightly into inductance in capacitors, especially electrolytic capacitors, just to be thorough on design considerations and a small ceramic or mylar cap to counter ringing. Haven't worked in electronic circuit design in decades, nearly forgot about frozen electrolyte. Good to remember if I ever design something for arctic, high altitude or space usage. Unlikely, but in my life, the unlikely occurs far too frequently. Back when I was working as an electronics technician, I worked on everything from vacuum tube analog, germanium transistor analog, silicon transistor analog, discrete IC analog, VLSI analog and digital circuits. I work in IT now, but still remember my electronic theory well, which has saved my bacon on more than a few occasions. Knowledge is power! And equally important, useful.
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  2024.  @PCLee345  TBH, I'm uncertain as to his being functional. Staff can cover for a hell of a lot. Saw that plenty in corporate and military offices in my day.
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  2025.  @Dingleberry777  prove that anything reported here was a lie. I'll wait.
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  2026. Much smaller and they'll likely have to go with flagella, which is one of the more efficient micro scale propulsion methods in nature.
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  2027. But the, will want to rely upon the newly disenfranchised military. Not a very smart move. At least, not from this retired veteran's perspective.
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  2028. We had snow geese make a permanent nesting ground around a local man made lake. Laughably, there was a sign warning to not feed the wildlife - right over a set of gumdrop machines that dispensed birdseed. Well, one gander started becoming a problem, chasing people and cars about. He chased everyone, well save me. He charged and I looked and said, "You're welcome to be the center honor of our dinnertable" and refused to cede ground to him. Given it was a dominance display and I was a wee bit larger than him, he swiftly gave up the display. Just as well, I can just picture the paperwork nightmare over a newly roasted gander on my table... Eventually, the town relocated the flock and lake use massively declined. I guess people missed being chased by the gander. ;)
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  2029. The only way that being armed would've protected him is if he was armed with and wearing a main battle tank. Still, the toxicology could take a few weeks to complete and in any major metropolitan area, the list is fairly long and delays results. The autopsy results await the toxicology test results, as that's part of the autopsy data. But, that callous of a response would result in the bastard quickly learning what I did in the Army.
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  2030. Not sure what it means, but the dolphins are leaving and left a note, "So long and thanks for all the fish!".
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  2031. Shocking! That illegal immigrant basement tried to eat the cat! Or maybe the cat had the good sense to hide from the Wicked Witch of the East, lest someone drop a house on it.
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  2032.  @EatMyShortsAU  no hypernatremia here, only essential hypertension. Age and Grave's disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism). I don't even salt my food, save if I'm going to be exerting myself outside in summer, hence would have to worry about hyponatremia. I have been popping low on magnesium though, gonna have to adjust my diet a bit.
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  2033.  @joanb.  the god-king wannabe has worse things to worry about now.
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  2034.  @dustbegone  nope, the cop walks on qualified immunity, as does the city, leaving her holding the bag for a lawyer and court fees in lawless enforcement.
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  2035. Which means, his leaving Earth saves it.
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  2036. Indeed, from that the could also bounce a laser off of a window and listen in to everything said in a room. Is space based surveillance also OK now? But, you're safe if you got the big bucks to put a privacy fence, after getting a variance to do so, with a locked gate across your driveway. In other words, the wealthy have rights and we peons only have guns.
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  2037. I flew across the Atlantic many times over the decades, I always left my seat belt loosely fastened, just in case. Because, otherwise I might end up on the news in a story about mysterious shaking that the rest of the known universe refers to as clear air turbulence.
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  2038.  @gulfofmexico1569  the law says that until sentence is pronounced, he remains not a felon, but still on trial. Sentencing is the final part of the trial.
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  2039. So, we need to rake out the forests, like countries that don't have these fires (or deserts that are artificially propped up by irrigation until droughts cut off the water supply) don't do? The severity of wildfires is due to mismanagement, due to insufficient knowledge and good intentions initially. Wildfires are natural occurrences and the ecosystem evolved around them. What we did for generations was to fight every fire as if it's something we could always prevent and control, adding to the mat of decaying fuel by literal yards in some places, so that when fires became intense enough, the fire traveled beneath the surface of that mat of fuel. Then, some heretic came along and linked studies, conducted some of his own and found that allowing controlled burns lessened the severity of wildfires. Much resistance for much of a remaining generation and we're at today and trying to figure out how to decock that cannon we accidentally aimed at ourselves - while still building in wildfire prone areas. And no, raking out the goddamned forests is a non-starter, get a sense of reality, rather than what some failed businessman turned unreality TV star turned politician says, he's also the guy who thinks we can nuke hurricanes to blow them out and apples are in supermarket refrigerators. Aerating the fuel isn't a solution, it's in invitation to a worse disaster. If you're inside of the cylinder and survived the compression cycle, it's not time to light a match to look around.
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  2040.  @terryowen6759  the problem also is, there's federal land that he can't control or manage and state/county land that can be managed. For what can be managed, before things get too dry, controlled burns over time would help, as that ecosystem originally was subject to both natural uncontrolled and natives controlled burns that limited vegetable matter that was dead and just waiting for lightning or other ignition sources to light it off. But, budgets and the ignorant fighting such control measures conspired against all to result in this mess, so all are stuck with trying to control a wildfire in high winds instead. Thankfully, the weather reports are saying that the winds are falling off, giving responders a break in trying to control the mess. Gonna take a huge amount of muscle and sweat, plus tanker aircraft to wrangle the mess! Wish I was younger and still able to offer to help, but those days are long gone now.
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  2041.  @calyodelphi124  glad that you mentioned that. Notably, the FAA isn't the global approval authority, each nation has their own and none have mandated those replacements for the same reason we haven't - price. I believe that the UL94 was blessed by all, but as you said, not universally approved by piston engine manufacturers and in some instances, recommended against for performance reasons.
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  2042. I don't like them myself. But then, if I use a straw, I use my reusable metal ones. Usually, I don't bother with a straw and well, usually don't drink soft drinks anyway. Gotta watch my figure - whenever I look down...
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  2043.  @kn4cc755  how can the federal government pay awards it cannot have to pay, per your explanation? Because, the government would first have to give permission for litigation to continue, waiving its immunity due to misconduct (typically, when an agency was caught dead to rights misbehaving). Indeed, Steve actually glossed over the defense argument and judge tossing it, as the state was attempting to enforce, rather late in the game, immunity. One exerts immunity at the onset of litigation, not in mid-stream, when it's implied by accepting proceedings that one has waived said immunity in many jurisdictions. I've had foreigners massively confused with federal, state and local laws, as they're unaccustomed to a weak central government. Easiest explanation is "treat it like 50 nations under one federating weak government, rather like the EU". The confusion evaporated.
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  2044. If he was that skilled, he'd at least have trained his men while under weigh. Instead, he took F-troop out with him, didn't train them at all and figured they'd work out because the sitcom worked out.
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  2045.  @specialagent31alfa  I don't think one can 5150 a mindless beast.
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  2046.  @jackieow  there's nothing in a G-M tube to burn out. A tungsten light bulb can have enough filament evaporate to fail, which is its normal failure mode. Vacuum tubes can have cathode to heater leakage or heater failure, but typically die from cathode poisoning from residual oxygen or even envelope leak of air poisoning the cathode. The G-M tube failure would likely be similar, although more from leakage of air than poisoning, as they're not a hard vacuum. Upside of G-M, they're cheap and plentiful. Downside, a bit less sensitive than scintillators and less long lived. Like everything in engineering, it's all a tradeoff on price, function and capabilities. Specifically, what one can afford and the purpose one is putting the device to.
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  2047. I'd have covered the work surface. Largely, to avoid the problem with exposed horizontal work surfaces getting used for non-designed purposes and necessitating a moving project in order to utilize that surface for its intended usage. Like the machine, although the table is kind of tiny. Alas, can't use one myself, as a proper table to go with the machine would be larger than my apartment. Although, with a few mods to the table and one for the bed frame... ;) As for memorizing a basic chain stitch machine's general design, given the state of the art of the time and metallurgy knowledge and capabilities of the time, not really all that exceptional. Getting a modern machine right, that'd be a major accomplishment for many, but we're talking about entirely different beasts here. But then, I'm a bit biased, as I disassembled and successfully reassembled mom's Singer when I was 8. Did the same with dad's Baby Ben alarm clock, which kept better time after I was done with it. And I was decidedly never mystified about bleeding brakes, it's one of the simplest possible hydraulic systems.
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  2048.  @ashleighkeeler7857  shielding is a double edged sword. Indispensable for safety, but due to its mass, also can increase the risk of spill accidents. Anything reducing mass briefly during handling is always going to tend to be a big plus column entry.
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  2049. First off, as you mentioned, the National Guard is the state militias, so do we actually have some overwhelming need for 50+ territories/possessions Space Guard components that would largely be entirely non-qualified for any space missions whatsoever? A space reserve force, yes, as you said, specialty units and teams are reserve and they'd just hang off of the USAF reserve component to augment the active duty component. It's not as if we've got space combat troops, most are going to be missile defense, NRO augmentees, comms specialists, etc. No Space Marines need apply. And currently, that would provide an excess of any current or projected need that's ludicrous in numbers.
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  2050.  @s.k.1117  why go halfway? Each person should have sex wearing a main battle tank, with the NBC system turned on.
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  2051.  @earlhopkins3745  that'll not happen, what he's been convicted on would be a max of a couple of years. But, an entertaining notion is what his reaction to prison food would be.
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  2052. Typical question from a foreigner, who doesn't know what a bench trial is - after it was requested by the defense.
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  2053.  @Lerie2010able  in the US and many other nations, someone with a Doctor of Philosophy is referred to as doctor. Meanwhile, most medical doctors don't have a PhD, but have a more onerous educational load to acquire their DO or MD. Hence, after a teacher in my middle school got his PhD, he was referred to all as Doctor Smith, rather than Mr Smith. And my physician is also Doctor.
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  2054. Perhaps Gwyneth can try that ever so tasty jelly from the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica, totally natural strychnine. Goes great with a main dish of arsenic and a botox chaser.
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  2055.  @richardross7219  overused M designations is an understatement at times. What they did was branch the M designation out, so one buys an M<whatever> truck chassis, then has a specialty device attached, be it a hut, bridge, wrecker, flatulence containment unit, etc. OK, nothing retains my flatulence, I've been tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
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  2056.  @richardross7219  the problem is, one could never hope to slow or stop it, as dumb possesses infinite momentum. Largely due to the infinite mass of asses leading it.
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  2057. I've taken to calling him Typhoid Tucker.
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  2058.  @markpashia7067  for some reason, my departure is always applauded. I'm also typically deified when I enter the room with, "Oh, God!"...
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  2059. Well, I'm not as passive and well, I'm entirely a lapsed pacifist. So, if they tried coming for me, they're well advised to bring a thimble to be buried in. I'll retain the confiscated equipment.
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  2060. Yeah, but Trump never pays what he owes.
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  2061.  @nerfherder4284  not quite. A piece of fiction can be actionable, hence some rather interesting defensive measures introduced by the author. In one work, the author essentially admitted to doing so, creating a rather nasty character, who was sadistic and had some sexual deviant behavior, noting also that said character had a small penis. It's referred to as the Small Penis Defense. For, what man would place upon the public record, "Your honor, that character is indeed in reference to myself and I do have a small penis!"?
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  2062. That and artillery just sends whole bodies flying. Nope, body parts fly, intact bodies just aren't a thing for an HE round.
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  2063.  @queenvagabond8787  probably need a team of Luigi, I'm sure President Musk has a sizable security contingent.
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  2064. Surviving on medicaid as well, been way too sick to work, with an absurd number of issues popping up to annoy me. Well, issues that have tried to kill me, which is positively annoying. Cataracts nearly blinded me, could literally only see six inches and closer. Thyroid nearly blew out my abdominal aorta. Crohn's is the latest saga and oh, for fun, the hyperthyroid is now turning hypothyroid because my immune system got bored. Yeah, ya need a sense of humor... Keep on slugging, although as he shreds and burns the government, things are going to start to get really dicey. And I'm certain he'll eventually destroy my VA pension and my sole income, as well as Social Security and then, people are gonna get pissed when granny is tossed onto the street. At least my shelves are stocked. Even managed to get a dozen eggs, despite the expense of the armed guards... ;) Damned bird flu and congested conditions in battery farms.
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  2065. No, she believes in dominion over others, her views or the view of the grave. Saw the same shit out of the Taliban, didn't end up well whenever we ended up disagreeing. I got to go home with my teams, they got shrouds and a hole in the ground.
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  2066.  @elainestruve4324  why would one fear those showing cowardice? Do you think that they'll suddenly gain courage and paint a yellow strip down our backs to match their own?
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  2067. Huh, I seem to recall such tea making facilities being fore, aft and amidships, with assorted stations between. Gotta have something to fight for!
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  2068.  @gregsmith8111  I'm thinking it's more of a case of someone screwing around with excess property and a bit too much spare time.
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  2069.  @w0ttheh3ll  tapes are vulnerable to thermal effects, both intense cold making them brittle and heat melting them, plus they tend to build up electrostatic charges that makes stiction and ESD an issue (a major problem with early satellites that did try to use both tape and film). None of those an issue with SSD's, but then one now has EMP vulnerability, radiation vulnerability and still the potential for thermal issues. There's a reason we have hardware that's rated for usage in space, all courtesy of hard learned and expensive lessons in failures.
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  2070. Not a hypocrite, a heretic.
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  2071.  @1ACL  would that count as 34 terms for 45?
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  2072. That happened in the '80's with Reagan. Somehow, we survived. Nixon was a drunk and actually ordered a North Korean airfield nuked. The chief of staff put the order on his desk and said, "Let's let him sleep it off and see what he wants to do in the morning. Until further notice, all such orders go directly to my desk first". Then, there was Trump, who wanted to nuke a hurricane to put it out. Fortunately, he couldn't get through the OPLAN. Now, there's Biden, who'd have no problem following the OPLAN and vaporizing Russia if necessary.
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  2073. He'd just declare peaceful protests insurrections and declare martial law. Nationwide general strike and everyone stay home. Can't declare an insurrection inside of a private home's living room. Hell, that wouldn't survive indictment or a grand jury.
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  2074. Why would we repeal the first amendment?
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  2075. There is are concepts, wage being irrelevant, of due care and due diligence. You touched on them without realizing it. Due care being actually rendering care that is appropriate for that which one has taken responsibility for. So, the bags were brought into a room to be stored, rather than out in the elements, where they could be damaged or stolen. That was rendered - right until they let the man go shopping without even identifying him. Due diligence, in this case, no due diligence was applied, as they ignored the baggage check ticket being absent, didn't bother positively identifying the man claiming the bags and allowed him to take whatever baggage he desired. Ignored security procedures are no security procedures, since if they're not followed, they really don't exist. The amount ordered was beyond low and the legislature should address that, before businesses and individuals refuse to do business within the state due to risk of losses via uncompensated thefts. Remember, some businesses don't practice best practices, so some could literally have their entire company' business papers, documents, contracts and more on the portable data equipment and the loss would literally obliterate the business. The ludicrous thing is, the hotel likely spent $150k to save a couple of thousand dollars, netting a much greater loss. I can't think of a single business school that would teach that that was a good idea!
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  2076.  @JimboJimbo-i4i  double rebar at that, it was like a bunker and the berm has a tunnel entrance dead center and door, so it likely was also like a bunker beneath.
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  2077. I dunno, maybe get a real expert? I mean, he was talking at one point where he said he could only hit a target at 30 meters, seriously, that's just over 30 yards. People claim a deer with a 55 pound recurve well beyond that range!
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  2078. Sorry, we don't send US citizens to foreign soil for questioning and torture. Some Constitution thingie says it's a no-no. Besides, he isn't worth the fuel cost. Just grill him in a regular interview room, only allowing attorneys who are properly cleared to be near him and once detained, kept in solitary, like every other prisoner that's divulged classified information has been kept.
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  2079. And to create a nearly impenetrable barrier to interstate commerce. Consider a diamond courier, cops feel like diamonds, the jewelers will just have to do without while the cops fence, erm, auction the diamonds off eventually. Now, entertaining is, if they decided to grab computers and packets of diplomats or classified documents couriers... For one, a major diplomatic incident, for the other, theft of US government property and unlawful distribution of classified information. And couriers do get stopped on a regular basis, they present their credentials, courier card and placarded item(s) that have an outer cover over the placard. Open the outer, see the placard and if you proceed, Here Be Dragons.
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  2080. @stizelswik3694 "I thought he was dead". "He got better".
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  2081.  @DB-Au  no, but the Gulf of Mexico has a longer Mexican shoreline than a US shoreline, so Mexico wins the name for the Gulf. Unless he's gonna invade Mexico as well and turn it into the 52nd state of confusion...
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  2082. I can tell from the objections that the author never heard of RTLinux, which does everything he griped Linux didn't do.
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  2083. Only one problem, HAARP stopped being funded by the military in 2015, now it's exclusively under University of Alaska. And I guess DARPA fucked up with that whole internet thingie, letting that go open source and commercial. Especially given high profile breaches by foreign military powers of DoD networks - repeatedly. Although, during my last background check, I did comment to the OPM investigator that should my US clearance work not pan out, it should be simple now, due to the OPM breach, to get a Chinese security clearance. Said investigator didn't find that humorous at all...
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  2084. Wow, so the government is generating a crisis for years? Healthcare hasn't changed recently, so the crisis is literally years old. You might want to consult with a mental health care professional, assuming that your insurance covers it.
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  2085.  @maxsdad538  the unlock code is in the individual's mind, just as a combination to a safe is and the latter enjoys case law providing protection. Worse, some crypto systems offer duress codes, which wipe the unit securely when the duress code is entered.
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  2086. Electricity is not sustainable, given this level of a standard. Lead-acid batteries have phenomenally toxic lead in them, wires use copper which is mined in environmentally destructive ways, dams are made of concrete that's energy intensive to make and more. And can't extinguish batteries is bullshit. They're routinely extinguished, pain in the ass to do it, gotta keep them cool and O2 deprived until what remains discharges, but they can and are extinguished. Just more Luddite bullshit. Now, wanna talk about wasting lithium, one of the rarest elements in the universe? Poor standards in quality and storage? I'll be right there with you and nailing factual points home. But this is like condemning gasoline as impossible to extinguish after its introduction. Oddly, despite some dire predictions, we're still here and cars only burst routinely into flames in Hollywood.
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  2087. Alas, precisely what I've come to expect from Louisiana, having lived there for some years. No lead paint abatement programs, education is fairly optional and of poor quality, although I'll admit that inbreeding is lower than in Pennsyltucky. And I'm a native Pennsylvanian. I can pick on my own state, you can't, as you don't know the easiest targets.
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  2088. Everything becomes contentious for two reasons, both intertwined. Attorneys and money. I'm aware of one case that was portrayed in the press of one business using their surname as the business name and the press reporting it as litigation to force another unrelated person with the same surname to change their surname and business name. Obviously, it was far more complex and simple than that, but that's what you get when only journalism majors cover a story, rather than seeking advice from professionals involved in the story - half-baked coverage. Otherwise, the Johnson family would all lose their surname because of Howard Johnson's and obviously that never happened, as that was my wife's maiden name. For that matter, we'd have to change terms in various card games, as Donald Trump owns a trademark on "Trump", again, were that true, chaos would ensue. That's why descriptiveness is usually included in a trademark and "German girl living in America" is descriptive of literally hundreds of thousands of people, for just those with German citizenship, of which I doubt that the conceded trademark is.
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  2089. What relevance is it what insurance company the airport has? The airplane is insured by the company that owns it, the airport would have no responsibility for the crash once that aircraft has left their field and is flying their ATC assigned course.
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  2090.  @TheDreadedRaider  OK. Nanu-nanu. Exidor is calling you, Mork.
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  2091.  @willofdodge1  because, "I wan". Win, don't care about the cost, who is owed or why or how.
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  2092.  @doc325  in a very real way, seeing a team muddle through an op that turned into a goat screw is far more informative than any textbook perfect operation. Anyone can do textbook, it's right out of the book after all, but when everything goes into not even wrong land, that's when a team either shines through despite the mess or sinks into a spectacle of a debacle.
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  2093. @Grady Whitman well, for Americanish, we have something like the South Philly "He ain't got no brunging up", or "it's more gooder", what's more gooder than gooder, butter. ;) You should see me when I begin to seriously torture and mangle the language! After all, I have a bad repudiation to offend. :P
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  2094.  @GeeTrieste  from what I've observed, it may well come down to techniques used in construction of the unit under test. That's been borne out in every field over the years.
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  2095. Qualified immunity, so well, you can't sue Daleks.
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  2096. Right up there with Secret Agent 86... Oops, forgot to turn on the Cone of Silence.
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  2097.  @ThatOpalGuy  I was in charge because my wife said I was in charge. I promptly delegated. ;) Trust me, we kept that line of jokes going at parties to great success. That and our "The Lockhorns" number.
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  2098. With the cabin pressure control panel, there's another phenomenon that's bit me more than once. Seeing what you expected to see, not what's actually there. Not too much of a biggie if one is working on an electronics bench and miss a burned resistor, big deal with one's life support system when going to altitude. It's why, even when we don't have a cross check listed, I have a peer take a look to be sure something critical wasn't missed.
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  2099. As it should be. One should never be involved in investigating a crime one had any involvement with, it tends to create biases that can blind one to facts that may be uncomfortable and lead to incorrect assumptions.
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  2100.  @justinmiller5660  erm, sauerkraut. Got a bunch of cans and jars of the shit, gifted to me for reasons incomprehensible, given my name. It's OK on rare occasions, but pasta or canned crushed tomatoes would be more appropriate. Still, in response, "Very well, your honor. Do enjoy holding your breath, as I consume that kraut and a can full of beans".
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  2101. Well, at least your state has a perk. I'm in Pennsylvania, we gave away our only perk to Kentucky, via the rifle that got named after them - from PA rifle makers.
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  2102. That'd go on appeal - right after my financial crimes consultant (amazing the spectrum of people one meets in government service over the decades!) reviews the jurist's finances. Then, begin a parallel construction on any poisoned fruits... Good enough for the DoJ, good enough for me.
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  2103.  @kathybrigger9431  well, she did not commit any act of violence against her government, nor did she pretend to hold an appointed government trusted office. There are your differences. Now, while there are no grand jury charges pending, indeed, it's unlikely a grand jury would be presented anything due to judicial immunity and well, lack of evidence that a crime has been committed, she can be held accountable by the house and tried by the senate. And frankly, she should be.
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  2104. Never Again loses credibility when one's troops engages in the same mistreatment of civilians property as was employed in 1930. Never Again means for everyone to never do such atrocious things again - anywhere. Living up to that tends to also have a side effect of lowering recruiting numbers for the other side. Meanwhile, what mission was he holding up by destroying some small family business? If I ran into my men pulling that shit, obviously they were insufficiently tasked, so I'd damned sure make certain that they had plenty mission centered for them to do. In that case, a hell of a lot more to accomplish ASAP, with more to follow.
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  2105. I'd not be frightened, if doctor is on the list to receive botox for administration to patients, doctor's well qualified to administer those injections. Let's hope they wrangle this one down and it's done, the leading cause of botox poisoning in the US previously was infant botulism, secondary to being given honey at too young an age.
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  2106. Well, they've got reliable energy in the form of Russian natural gas.
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  2107. Trump basically had offered his defense, the defense of Charles I, "the King can do no wrong". Charles I was convicted of treason against the UK and beheaded. It was not good to be the king that day, but it effectively did end the English Civil War. The Founders of this nation remembered those events, as a result the chief executive had defined powers and limitations, checks and balances on each of the three branches of government imposed, a bill of rights that included the right to confront witnesses against oneself and at the time, a precisely and narrowly defined definition within the Constitution, of the only crime listed within the Constitution, of what treason was and how it my be prosecuted. In many ways, Trump seeks to upend both the results of the English Civil War and our own Constitution entirely. But, as worrisome is how many people wish to upend our own Constitution in their zeal to prosecute Trump at all costs, even at the cost of our own Constitution by redefining treason to mere sedition. Treason being defined in the US as the levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to an enemy. We have no enemies, as Congress has not declared war since WWII and nobody has yet organized and made war against their own nation in the US, with only individuals joining a foreign enemy against us during the GWOT, when we remained without an enemy due to a lack of a declaration of war. Such people forgetting the first rule of parenting, one does not discard the baby with the bathwater.
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  2108. I grew up during the civil rights movement era. MLK was on one side, militants were on the other. Faced with two forms of opposition, any child could predict who the power brokers would deal with and a hint; it ain't the folks with guns and bombs. As for the war on poverty, worked great. Google McNamara's 100000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000 That was part of that "war", killed a sizable number of its beneficiaries.
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  2109. Heavy metals, CO, CN, but the worst is the hypertension that damages the blood vessel walls. Now, excuse me while I get a cup of coffee, then have a smoke for a double whammy on my BP. Oh, the single greatest cause of failed back surgery? Smoking. It's a vasoconstrictor. Slows healing. My biggest health issue is BP related, but not to smoking. Hyperthyroidism and a few thyroid storms, which have done far more damage than my coffee and smokes ever could. I know the risks, I understand the pathophysiology, it's my choice. But, if it's any consolation, as much as I loathe my own secondhand smoke, I loathe exposing others to it even more.
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  2110. Erm, Walz is a governor, not a congresscritter.
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  2111. Lower class violent rabble, unworthy of protection, but their taxes were good enough to accept.
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  2112. To an extent, but overall, it's been exasperated by isolation from the pandemic. Just because I may exclaim "Shit in a coffeepot" does not mean that I'm inclined to do so, dammitall!
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  2113. I've got something that just outright kills people. It's called space and I don't even need to make it, it already is and isn't there. ;) Second place in killing astronauts goes to their own space suits. One astronaut nearly drowned, courtesy of his own space suit during an EVA. The source of the leak never identified and likely, given the stony silence on the matter, likely operator error. Once, I donned an M17 series protective mask for a military training exercise. Operator PM for that, upon receipt and regularly after being a series of checks, such as running a finger along the outlet valve and inlet valves. I skipped the outlet valve, due to intracranial flatulence. That valve got stuck closed. So, in the dark middle of the night during a training exercise, I get called for an emergency. I came running, fogged over lenses obscuring vision (a big hint of air flow obstruction) and I started to gray out, tunnel vision began and I realized I was being asphyxiated. Just shy of blackout, I realized in a flash what was going on and literally tore that buytl rubber mask in half - literally. The NBC NCO never saw one torn in half before, adrenaline is a strange thing. He kept apologizing for not checking the mask first, I wave him off, as it's an operator duty that I missed. I paid closer attention to operator checks after that debacle, as I damned near killed my dumb ass. Likely, a mis-seated connector caused the same for that astronaut. And he didn't have an option to tear off that helmet that was drowning him. Remove the helmet, get about 10 seconds of useful consciousness and a total of about 90 seconds before fatal v-fib that can't be resuscitated from. No experimental animal survived beyond 90 seconds of hard vacuum exposure. The few decompression events experienced by humans revealed only 10 seconds of consciousness. And in one case, cost a pressure chamber its window, as the supervisor broke out the window to rescue a technician whose faceplate failed under hard vacuum.
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  2114.  @OperationSlap69  sorry, but no POTUS may just scratch out part of the Constitution that they disagree with.
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  2115. Slightly more useless when you can't get the damned things. They decided to support the industrial market, abandoning those who actually put them on the map. I've given up and gone back to x86, power be damned.
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  2116.  @Bob5mith  if it's a self-inflating raft, the charges could be useful - not on the moon, but in spaaaaaaace. You know, a real life iron man and far less well guided. Brief bursts could work - maybe. Sustained, x=rnd movement. For that example though, that's a lot dicey. When giving a class, I try to smooth such wide variables out to prove a point, then employ socratic methods to discuss why it was smoothed. One SME or even experienced STEM person now is the SME and the rest, bozos. Bozos win clown games, not real life situations. But, can have bursts of brilliant insight, which is the value of a group that otherwise is going to spout useless nonsense. Leading to the adage, committees - no one is as dumb as all of us combined. A not so gentle reminder that while we might blunder as a group to a solution, it's just as likely we'll come up with the bonehead award for the decade, proceed accordingly, leader. Included in my class, "admit when you fucked up, everyone does and accepts that, they mistrust the 'perfect, dear leader' accordingly, whereas they forgive a fuck up". And listen to, "This is going to sound dumb", that might just lead to an idea that'll get you out of the shit. It has for me. And I've been in far too many "in the shit" situations over the decades than I care to count. Boy, am I glad to be retired from the military!
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  2117.  @williamshelton4318  I dunno, every time someone ends up shot by police, they spoke of fear. They seem to be very fear filled people.
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  2118.  @williamshelton4318  a stopped heart is asystole and shocking it won't help. One can shock ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia, that's the only shockable patterns and the automation inside of the AED will only deliver defibbrilation or cardioversion when the pattern is appropriate. When my wife died, she was totally flatlined, complete asystole, not even pulseless electrical activity that can resemble a QRS complex (normal heartbeat waveform), the AED wouldn't and couldn't administer a shock. When the paramedics arrived and plugged in the monitor, I knew she was gone. I was an Army medic and paramedic for a long time, so yeah, I know how to operate the equipment and how to read it.
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  2119. The courts cannot lawfully and Constitutionally delay anything. Most delays come from continuances that are granted by attorneys for various reasons, the courts don't just have the jurist hop up and say, "Hey, ya know what? I'm gonna hold off on proceedings for some random amount of time, just because".
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  2120. Suffice it to say, I'm fairly certain which building that the bot is working from. With a bit of creative work, I might manage to refine which floor he's on, not that it'd matter for the correct model of cruise missile.
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  2121. Indeed, please do find a link or a copy of his firsthand account! Had've been a pure and distilled pain in the balls to even try to handle that mess! Pumpers couldn't manage that much lift for water back then, had to use the building's mostly shattered mains.
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  2122.  @brainndamage  a quarter watt is a quarter watt, it should dissipate the heat without consideration of the leads themselves, which could be of pretty much any length.
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  2123.  @jagmarc  and ceramic spacers to enforce that separation. If memory serves, the iron based leads were what, about 1/4 the thermal conductivity of the copper? I think that was around the number. I remember the first time I saw iron lead resistors, had no clue why the solder kept melting on the board and the board starting to overheat, then one of the older guys showing me. I think that was about a month after electrons were invented. ;)
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  2124.  @1FatLittleMonkey so, when is Alabama going to open their first cryogentic nursery school, then primary and secondary schools, since those are mandated rights?
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  2125. More like "he should be a candidate for the next available spot in the rubber room".
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  2126.  @jeffanon1772  only after rebranding it as Trump Aid and charging a premium for the rebranded off brand.
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  2127. As the mink aren't wild, but farmed, much of your comment doesn't make sense. Were the infection in cattle, would say the same thing, despite cattle being domesticated for around 10000 years? BTW, we've had similar outbreaks in mink farms in the US. No clue if it's a mutated strain, but it may suggest a more common mutation if it is. The virus can tell us more about itself and stable vs unstable parts of the genome, but only if we listen.
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  2128. Same here, though the population of our city was 4208000 and no tunnel or gas station, plenty of stores though. But then, that was in a strange exotic land called 1960's Philadelphia. In the 1970's, we moved out to the suburbs, with a longer walk to and from elementary and later, high school of a couple of miles and around 2 3/4 miles. Oddly, no need for an armored escort or something, no need for mom or dad to escort my every damned step. Only now, when they now want electronic monitoring and perhaps, a telescreen to the thought police.
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  2129.  @andrasbiro3007  nope. Around the duck and cover era, they figured out more people would die in an evacuation - just from the evacuation, than would be harmed in any way by the disaster at hand.
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  2130. Trump doesn't like sharks for one simple reason. He hates the very notion of competent competition.
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  2131.  @wiretamer5710  what's amazing is, it was an old and settled argument in 1879, when case law was first sealed after the SCOTUS finally tired of hearing the same tired cases over and over again, repeatedly quoting that commie Thomas Jefferson (at least, some Trumpites called him a communist). That's over 150 years of repeated and finally at 145 years ago, sealed case law that they still argue against.
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  2132. Well, Ford got a carrier, wanna join the USS Whip Inflation Now (WIN)? Given WIN was a vaporware product, enough said. Oh, you do realize nobody was named Seawolf, don't you? Jesus wept...
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  2133. And Protestantism is based upon earlier Catholic practices, largely objecting to indulgences being made available for sale. Something Christ objected to in the Temple, but got ignored over money changers, rather than the reason that the commercial activity was condemned.
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  2134. Some countries consider lockpicks as a military weapon, others simply forbid everyone, including locksmiths permission to own lockpicks. So, in some countries, if you are locked out of your house, either you call the military or live outside and be arrested for vagrancy.
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  2135. AI is magical, AI is epic, AI is society disrupting super magic! Now, AI is eating its own shit and gonna die. The oldest fertilizer known to man is our own shit, properly composted, it still is one of the best fertilizers around. It's a tool that's currently ill used. It's not fucking magical, it's not even Harry Potter's magical phallus. It's simply a tool, for good or ill. Learn how to properly utilize your newest hammer, rather than keep on trying to smack each other over the frigging head with it.
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  2136.  @EonReevesScaleHobbies given we're at bloodletting levels of understanding, yeah, tons of room for advancement via screw-ups until we get a vague clue.
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  2137. What office does Ginni hold again?
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  2138. The laugh is, one went on about Allah, which in Arabic literally means "The God", the God of Abraham. So, they hate the God of Abraham, love the God Mammon of the Prosperity Gospel, which is the antithesis of Christ's Gospels. And using their faith to support anti-abortion laws, something the Bible is silent upon, despite several thousands of years of practice of abortion, states that they know far better than their God - something previously only Satan ever considered a valid thing, is not only telling, it's quite literally damning under that very Biblical framework.
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  2139. Well, TBH, I'd probably have forwarded that one up the chain of command as well, just so that command knows what an idiot that individual is. And BCC my buddies in the office, minus any PII. Although, if you were to drive back from Alaska to the rest of CONUS, you'd need a citizen ID card as a minimum to pass through that corner of Canada, depending upon tensions. At one point, Trump riled Canada up enough to require that passport card. That's saying a lot, as even both times we invaded Canada, they weren't that irritated. They simply politely escorted our defeated troops back and showed them their side of the border.
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  2140.  @LisaMitchell-f8e  one would hope so, but it seems that his flunkies stay bought until after they're sentenced. Then again, his rat's nest does seem to be unraveling as his cash reserves dwindle.
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  2141. He's been a naturalized US citizen since 2002.
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  2142.  @rickallen1908  no, we're better at one thing. Causing mass extinctions.
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  2143. A couple of quibbles. First, a preacher has no qualifications, whereas a minister does require qualifications in at least the divinities. Second, Google "Blood Libel" and reconsider the objection to hate speech in a church, given that wondrous history. An odd history, given how can one hate Jews, yet claim to love Jesus, who stated outright that he was a Jew? I only can think of one explanation, doublethink.
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  2144. I like one thing the most in this story, that a man of nearly 70 is still happily learning new things. Learning new things is one of my favorite activities! I figure that I'll stop learning a few days after I'm dead. ;)
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  2145. Or worse, execute one's desired goals non-interactively, not forming the outbound connection at all until one's goal, say data exfiltration, is achieved. Now, one's only potential warning is the outbound - oh crap, data's already gone. Often enough, many are caught and halted by catching the bidirectional connection, regardless of which end initiated said connection. I've actually done it, captured the entire session in full packet captures, including the malicious software of the week, which was immediately submitted for inclusion in the IPS and antivirus and novel aspects of the attack fully documented and submitted to FBI intelligence, as it was a foreign nation-state actor and known APT. One such attack involved lateral spread that I'd gotten a sniff of, began packet capturing and captured an RDP session in progress, attacker opened notepad, did a buffer dump of binary data into notepad, saved it and used it to assemble their tools on the target system. Got not only their binary tool signature, but the latest PXE padding for their known tool. Outlined the remainder of their attack, then their session experienced a mysterious termination before the data that remained safe on the victim system could be exfiltrated... The system was then immediately isolated pending full file pulls and forensics. Two more attacks and we found their point of entry into the corporate, global network. One forgotten test server on one DMZ, prompting a full review on every DMZ in the corporate network. Yeah, as well received as the plague, but necessary after two golden ticket attacks, one of which was successful and boy, you don't want that kind of aggravation!
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  2146.  @seekeroftruth2747  thanks for your soon to be extinct opinion. Enjoy experiencing the nuking of Russia.
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  2147.    well, Biden is known for his gaffes. Trump, known for unfiltered bullshit, and tagged as alternative facts. Personally, gaffes are good, bullshit is well, uncompleted fertilizer. :)
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  2148. And who could forget "The Seaview Shuffle", with the cast staggering around the room pretending that the giant submarine was being tossed about. And the flying sub.
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  2149.  @deeb.9250  which is why the US has a literal third world maternal death rate. Hemorrhage is missed, they're sent home and bleed to death.
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  2150.  @toneysunny9283  no, treatment isn't the normal cost for those who cannot pay in the emergency department. The law says that the patient has to be stabilized, then can be discharged, which is actually what does happen. So, have a heart attack, they stabilize you and boot you out the door to die that night when the second and more severe attack strikes.
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  2151. Erm, so asking for mayo is a worse reason than "I don't like Mondays"?
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  2152. John Ronkainen , as I said, thanks, but no thanks. I had more medals than my previous commanders and hence, declined wearing them, out of courtesy of the commander. So, yeah, I really do have a drawer full of them and a few in a safe at a location I cannot discuss. BTW, for the original posting query, yes, indeed, I've been personally present to witness the sale of an M2 .50 BMG machinegun, via class 3 procedures and requirements. I also know of one locally for sale. While the notion of shooting a jackhammer and hitting a target is cool and a fine memory, I'll decline. The cost of ammunition is far too high to engage in that spine traumatizing sport of lugging that thing around. I helped light infantry learn armored infantry, and hence, had to teach a large number of infantry how to handle Ma Deuce and attach her to her pintle. Wasn't a lot of fun, as I was beginning to age. I'm retired now, with 27 years, eight months of service. My knees are gone, my lower back is lojacked by itself away from my abuses, I don't have a single joint without osteoarthritis. So, no, I'd not want to lug that chunk of pig iron around. Well, save if I were permitted to "present" the weapon to a village idiot, by dropping it carelessly upon his lap. But then, I'd be obligated to call 911 for the femoral fractures. Thankfully, the number of people I've barely considered doing that do are numbered on a single hand, with plenty of fingers left over to continue the daily activities of life.
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  2153. R3v0LuT1oNpRo , .50 BMG rifles have been on the civilian market for decades, zero crimes have been committed with them due to their incredible bulk and the expense of the ammunition. As for fully automatic rifles and even submachine guns, one can legally purchase those, but the background investigation is the same as the investigation to acquire a top secret security clearance. To date, three crimes have been committed with NFA firearms, one committed by a law enforcement officer who shot up a drug house. I'd say that out of the thousands of NFA firearms (what fully automatic is, as well as disguised firearms and destructive weapons (bombs, artillery, rockets (military type), that's exceptionally low. Now, semi-automatic weapons are a different story. The overwhelming majority of those weapons are for sporting purposes, although the more portable models are indeed used in the commission of a crime, especially so for pistols. I personally advocate for firearms to be stored in firearms safes, they're expensive, so treat them like the expensive investment that they are. I do.
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  2154. Mikey114411 , the standards for state police are higher, in terms of professionalism. At least that's so in my state and the states in the tri-state area around me.
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  2155. I'll give you that one, got bit in the ass more than a few times by spell check. Worse is predictive text. Besides, by all accounts, it's Paradise Island.  ;)
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  2156. +Sam Whitmore yeah, but there are things that can be said to weed them out. I had quite a few buddies that had a hell of a time at Paradise Island. I had a much easier time at Dix in '82.
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  2157. ***** , not at all. One is unlawful behavior to support unlawful behavior, the other is unlawful behavior to support lawful behavior. Really isn't different? What the fuck did you people do to this country while I was away defending it? Put a double helping of moron milk on top of your stupid flakes each and every morning?!
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  2158. S Justice , what I expect is not summary executions of "justice" by law enforcement officers. Punishment belongs to a court of law, not a cop incapable of self-control. Indeed, as a staff sergeant, I expect you to comprehend that! Are you trying to claim that those handcuffed children are so mighty in strength that they are capable of overpowering those officers? I find it amusing that you then linked a police problem with politics. It's a shame that you can't stick with facts, law and our Constitution. So, the instruction on utilizing that 40mm bore brush remains.
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  2159. S Justice, actually, that picture is to reveal who are assholes, which you've just done. My Google, Facebook profiles both give a nice history about me, my near 28 year military career and where I was deployed. As you're incapable of using facts, laws or Constitutional information to prove your point, but stoop to ad hominem attacks, do enjoy the brush. Because, to be honest, I've killed badder than you wiping my ass.
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  2160. Artem Kail yep. Military self defense. :) A Canadian sniper made he world record distance shot, taking out a Taliban man with an RPG from well over a mile away (can't remember the distance offhand, but the RPG weilder was a mere dot in the sight).
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  2161. ***** , OK, I'll play your game. Want to meet in person and discuss this honestly? Even if it goes physical? I promise to be blunt, lousy with candor and honest, if candor is outside of the vocabulary of those reading. I'm certain you know what the word means, just for readers. I'm for equal rights means equal rights, not that some are more equal than others and I'd even commit to forcing the issue. But, telling someone to STFU is out of bounds. Indeed, it's tea party in nature, no other my speak! Debate proves facts in the end. It might taking flailing it to death for a decade, it beats the shit out of where things are now.
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  2162. *****, why I do take my medications doctor prescribes, two blood pressure medications and ibuprofen. I'd always meet with discussion as a goal, who I meet gets to decide which way the discussion goes. At least in person meetings lets both parties hear vocal inflections and see each others faces.
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  2163. Alex Friday , well, it's true. Amazingly, I've been married for 33+ years. Amazing, as the marriage has outlasted a 27 year, 8 month military career. In that career, well, my knees hurt when moving, my back hurts to the point where I only write to it to communicate with it and it's taken to letting my right leg collapse without warning. My ribs on my right side hurt, about a hand width below the nipple, then take half of that down, due to an RPG sending something into my side ESAPI plate and it twisted. That's a good thing, I ended up with a few broken ribs, but not a flail chest, which does really bad things to you, had the ESAPI plate not twisted. Things like sliced up lung, dead, trying to breathe through a lung full of blood that is now filling the operational lung thing, well, it gets unpleasant. Hurting can be fixed when injured, dead, not so much. Arthritis in the left shoulder as well, courtesy of a bad landing. It's been 20 years since I could take a blood pressure, while holding the stethoscope with my fingers, without hearing "Earthquake in Sensoround", so I've had to palm it. That is the short list. Here's the funny part. My wife doesn't have a problem with my purchasing a firearm to compete with or a couple for general recreational shooting. She's never objected to my phenomenal number of field knives, combat knives, etc I've acquired over the decades. Let's suffice it to say, many peers who served under SOCOM rather liked my collection, some surprised over choices of edged weapons until I demonstrated them. So, yeah. She'd leave me if I brought one of those home. But then, I'd leave me too, leaving that big, heavy rifle lonely. So, might as well leave it lonely at the gun shop and pick up something I might want to use. Currently, that is an M1911, GI specification. Mine is actually worn down on the frame. Time for a new one to dress up slightly.
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  2164. The 1951 Refugee Treaty, of which the US and Germany (and many other nations) signed and ratified directs nations to accept refugees. Now, Article 6 of the US Constitution states "...This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding...". So, you advocate for a lawless government.
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  2165. +Amanda Calvert kiddo, tailgating is a crime in every state I know of. Reckless driving is also a crime that he committed, resulting in his loss of control, crossing two oncoming lanes that for the good fortune of other drivers, did not result in a head-on collision. She was driving the speed limit, he wanted to break the law and speed. She did not facilitate his desire to break the law. He could have moved into the empty right lane and pass her, he didn't until much later when he then drove next to her for an extended period, then recklessly drove in a passing maneuver that resulted in his loss of control and potential disaster for other drivers and pedestrians. So, you, by your statements condone speeding, reckless driving and tailgating.
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  2166. +Tvarisch Byele republican, democrat, six of one, half dozen of the other. Both sides get their campaign contributions from the same deep pockets. Proving over and over, the United States of America has the best government that money can buy. Because it's sure that the last two elections 8 billion dollar per election tab wasn't paid for by We The People.
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  2167. Redlife666 , if it's any consolation, our 32  and 31 year old children don't go into conspiracy theories and are quite good at critical thinking. So, all isn't lost.
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  2168. +Caleb Whittington plus optics and ammunition. It's a real arm stretcher.
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  2169. ***** do enlighten me on how you believe that I am a troll? By correcting someone calling a sniper system a SNIPER rifle? Or is it that you believe that a sniper system is effective as close range, rather than at long range? Or is it the fact that I explained that one defends oneself in court, rather than via lawless violence? Or is it that you're incapable of creating a reasonable and effective argument, hence you have to denounce someone, as if denunciation has worked anywhere since Stalin left office and WWII ended?
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  2170. ***** I see! So, you dislike any conversation that isn't covering the points you prefer and you have a word limit as well. Tough shit, you're not the poster of the video, nor are you a moderator. I care not a whit as to how short your attention span is. You are welcome to stick your suggestions as to what I do with my time up your ass sideways. As I've done plenty in my life in things that "matter", things that include two wars, raised our children to adulthood and enjoy time with our grandchildren. So, perhaps you should invest your interests in something that matters more, I'd suggest washing behind your ears.
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  2171.  @Brother_Pugz  they'd be quite bright, but even without goofy goggles, they'd be brilliant - in a veritable sea of other lights and beacons, with one descending and possibly partially obscured by the length of the rotor disc and only maybe a mile off at 300 knots. At the first collision alert, that'd be a maximum of maybe 10 seconds to determine the threat, is it actually on a collision course or close, take evasive action and remember that neither craft is a fighter aircraft, so at the speeds they were going, wouldn't be exceptionally nimble. Then, consider that depth perception in the dark sucks in humans. Most of the hoopla about drones recently illustrated that quite well with people thinking things were SUV or bus sized and were just civilian helicopters or heavy passenger aircraft or even constellations of stars. Human vision at night is rife with optical illusions. What I am surprised at is that the ATC software didn't identify a potential conflict much, much, much earlier on - at at least 3 miles apart. Usually, when a near miss is reported, the aircraft were just nearing a mile apart after evasive measures were employed. We'll know the answers eventually, after the NTSB has gone over all of the available data with a fine tooth comb and offers recommendations on avoiding such a possible event in the future. Because, "the holes in the Swiss cheese lined up" isn't an epitaph anyone wants to read or write.
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  2172. Naw, as one is responsible for that which one owns and hence, has control of, the officers just ceded ownership of the entire county to the 65 victims of their whimsy.
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  2173. Classic doublethink. Orwell explained it quite well.
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  2174.  @mr.behaving  odd, the folks in the Carolinas and Florida aren't shuddering.
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  2175.  @antonk.653  was thinking of building one, just couldn't think of a reason to do so. Simple enough of a device, voltage multipliers are trivial as well. Just a case of, "now that I have it, now what am I to do with it?". Unlike the radiation spectrometer that I built, which at least is a decent conversation piece should I hold a party and basically was built because I have the Americium source from a failed smoke detector and well, was bored.
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  2176. Some of my in-laws did, but only when it was still warm from the cow. Otherwise, it was pasteurized all the way.
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  2177.  @Melodymaker99  Trump has no authority to amend the Constitution. He's literally declared himself king and can whim away the Constitution and every one of its protections. And the courts rightfully said, "Nope, you don't get to scratch out parts of the Constitution that you don't like". Presidents don't get to interpret the Constitution, that's the duty of the courts.
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  2178.  @michelleantonette9345  so, rhinovirus is now coronavirus? Yeah, not only not right, not even wrong.
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  2179.  @denisehartono843  haven't heard of a house call since I was a kid and JFK was still alive.
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  2180. Well, if you can fit one in your home, you lawfully can. Most store them outside though. Expensive as hell, it's an NFA destructive weapon, but legal to own if your state allows it and each round is a destructive weapon in and of itself, requiring a $200 tax stamp for each and every round.
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  2181.  @marty4278  huh?
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  2182. Yes, it is. ICE can ask if she'd voluntarily deport, rather than spend government money in incarcerating her, taking her to immigration court, prosecuting her there, paying the trial and yeah, all of that costs real money. Oh well, there are already warning notices worldwide in various nations state departments against the US, this will help lower tourism and the income that brings to our tourist attractions. So, a double Trumpian win, lost money in her deportation process instead of suggesting voluntary deportation and lowering tourism income. But, Trump wants to save money - by spending more.
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  2183. And the Martian attack on the electrical substation in Concrete, Washington. Something nobody would remember, save that the police department called the wire services about the "attack". Which was a blown transformer. Them Martians are purdy bad-assed, hit Washington state from Gover's Mill, New Jersey! Maybe this is the second wave, they just got hung up on the cloverleaf and all of those New Jersey roundabouts...
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  2184.  @tenzinnordron9836  that's an odd location for such samples. Most were stored far more southward than there. Not that the location matters at all, it's not as if biological samples are going to become a major biohazard. Especially given the plutonium pissers just wandering about the nation. They had no damned notion of industrial safety back then. :/
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  2185.  @tenzinnordron9836  I know. Unlike Q-anon, I actually did hold a Q clearance. Harry was a physicist, despite today's knowledge, based upon that era's knowledge. He was repeatedly warned as to the risk. And being an honest man, he fucked up, he mitigated his fuckup. We lost three to prompt criticality. Harry Daghlian, Louis Slotin and Cecil Kelly. More to less critical incidents. I blame none, as at the time, safety was uncertain in all ways. I suggest tipping a hat, dipping a drink or otherwise saluting the memory of them, even while loathing the product that they produced.
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  2186. Around eight and a half minutes in, the building was identified as a fertility clinic. Coverage as of an hour ago stated the deceased was the prime suspect. The building appears to be essentially destroyed, with around half partially to fully collapsed.
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  2187.  @painkillerjones6232  while announcing one's committing sedition and planning to commit treason if the government doesn't bend to their will. Nope, that's simply felony evasion of arrest.
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  2188. Meh to the yoga, but everlasting thanks for introducing us to all of those wonderful spices! Oh, folks, while Europeans were barely able to work wrought iron, India was exporting what became known of as Damascus steel. Yep, an Indian invention.
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  2189. "He bravely turned and ran away..." Brave Sir Robin, Sir Robin.
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  2190. We have no further territorial ambitions. Then, he'll invade Russia... Gotta repeat history in a nuclear era, after all. And he did mention he wanted big camps as well. Speaking of history, the US did invade Canada twice. Our armies were politely escorted back to our border, where their guns were returned to them. But, he'll assuage the pain of those expensive eggs by making every other food ten times more expensive and force supermarkets to move apples to the refrigerated section. While they also get rid of smelt, as Trump declared it worthless because it isn't his hamburgers and started California wildfires or something else incoherent, as he blathered, erm, weaved like Harvey Wallbanger on a bender through unreality in his press conference confabulation festival of dementia. I guess President Musk was too busy to control his mouth string for that one.
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  2191. There is one thing Elon invented, himself. He inherited an emerald mine, leveraged that modest income from the partially played out mine by buying into what became Paypal. Bought the rest of his companies too. He is good at one thing only, beyond promoting himself, he is good at the rare skill in hiring good managers for his companies, rather than bullshitters, so a fair number succeed. Well, other than Hyperloop, Boring, Neuralink (it's success? Literally producing tech that was introduced in the 1970's, as I remember seeing the mind moved around computer mouse back in the mid-70's on a Saturday morning cartoon break). We'll not even go into the collapse to penny stock that followed his wonderfully skillful leadership of Twitter. The only reason he came to the US was to literally dodge the South African draft. Entertainingly, something he's freely and publicly admitted to.
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  2192.  @TheInviolation  PA doesn't consider black powder weapons firearms, even revolvers. Conversion to cartridge would make it a firearm under PA law.
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  2193. Precisely, did that literally for a federal prosecution of a USO officer from the USAF. SOB went on a spending spree on an R&R soldier. Did initial survey, turned over logs and the entire computer, due to encryption over, having chain of custody twice over. Thankfully, said service member plead guilty due to the mountain of evidence. Did five long, federal military. Honestly, I'd prefer to have been sentenced to screwing a wood chipper. Military prison ain't a joke, but is hard earned. I'm a retired NCO, trust me on that one.
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  2194. Silver paint is easy to match - paint the entire damned car. ;)
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  2195. It's only a factor of 1000 difference. Exactly the same, as proved by accordion hands mathematics.
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  2196. Because the SCOTUS decided that the Constitution is unconstitutional, as no laws back one part of one amendment. Rather like saying that the first amendment rights don't exist, save on parchment, because Congress didn't legalize those rights by writing laws. Ironic really, given the Constitution and laws don't authorize the Supreme Court to review the Constitutionality of codified laws...
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  2197. Came onto the property, destroyed private property without a warrant apparently, then told him "We're not here for you". "OK, then get the fuck off of my property, as I now consider you armed men unlawfully trespassing upon my property." Conversation over, I reenter my domicile. Unlawful entry will then be greeted with double tap zero reflex shots and my training exceeds SWAT training, courtesy of the US taxpayer. "Oh, so you're here with a warrant for someone else?" No warrant, again, "Well, I don't give a flying fuck if you're here for Jesus, no warrant, no service, but you sure accumulated a bill for destroyed private property and be advised, we're a castle doctrine state". You can and you can't, because god-cops. "Officer, what is the effective range of your MP5?" "200 meters. Know the maximum effective range of an excuse is? The same as for bullshit, zero meters". I'd not let them inside of my home. Currently, it's heating greater Erie at his expense, while his camera is happily living in the snow, as apparently, wall mounted devices are illegal under decree of god-cops, who legislate by MP5 fiat. I'd also not be conversing with local yokels or state police, but with the US Marshal. At least with them in charge, things should go by the numbers. Obey the law and Constitution, we'll have a fine time discussing technical points of breach to entry, cordon and search, ballistics and an invitation to the range the next time I'm going. Only one cop ever outshot me and he was my unit's sniper. Guy always took me by one point, which is fine. He loved my competition pistol and rifle. One point that our host got wrong. The curtilage isn't protected, per the SCOTUS, save if a secure fence is around the entire property line, preventing access to the curtilage. UNITED STATES, Petitioner v. Ronald Dale DUNN. It literally temps me to get a Silent Warrior sensor system.
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  2198. Historically, roads going to and from a park are county and municipal, Disney had control and costs for them instead and now, DeDodo decided to try to strip them away and have nobody pay for them, as his act left nobody to maintain them. Infrastructure typically is park infrastructure and belongs to Disney. That leaves public utilities, which like the roads, would be in limbo.
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  2199. What point was raised in the objection was, "You may not" is an instruction to the jury on what is and is not allowed and that's exclusively the domain of the judge, not either attorney. An attorney may not instruct a jury on a matter of law, that's literally the duty of the jurist. Then, he continued despite the objection being sustained, which is contempt of the court and the law. So, it needs to be presented to the Bar disciplinary board to be addressed, as it's impermissible behavior.
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  2200.  @MHB0210  actually, it's EmCOAT. Literally RF shielding paint for a SCIF. The $1k door, a secure door that's also required for a SCIF. Then, there's the X-10 locks for the door and the safe for the encryption devices. Yeah, I've some familiarity with the infernal places. Full TEMPEST compliant wiring, sealed conduits, shielded cables and a fair bit more. And enough of a scrotal contents pain that I'd never want one inside of my house. Whatever it is, it can wait until I get into the office.
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  2201. Each and every one of his lawyers agree completely.
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  2202. Let's be real, Aktion T4 is Trump's goal. He's using the rest of that play book and well, I don't like being played, really loath a notion of my grandkids getting played and my kids call me in for reinforcements when they're getting played. And I'm a combat veteran, , the Almighty himself takes notice when we get angry. I ask the GOP, do they literally want to enjoin literal boiling tar and feathers? I'll happily ensure shit coated feathers.Or jumping on the blade during a National Razor event... And for the force upon mythical force type, I'm literally certified on all weapons short of howtizers. The mortar certification just newly discovered in my 201 fileand likely a reciporcation for m my instrudtorhood in in TOW missile training. I'm the prick that both hit the 5 km target and routinely calls in a 10 digit grid precisely.
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  2203. So, we've got a lawless enforcement officer falsifying an official document, perjury before the court via that falsified document and worse if he also testified to that orally or via deposition. Aggravated battery of a protected person under color of law. Just for a warm up. But, that's following his training. That should be promising testimony in any future case involving that department. And combat related dementia means that he's suffered from repeated traumatic brain injuries, which the lawless enforcement officer has now worsened. And he was snoring, but not giving the lawless enforcement office her hands. People don't snore while awake. If he's having seizures at this point, I'm sorry to say that his prognosis is not good and murder charges should be filed should he expire. Not gonna happen, then cops act surprised when people ambush them. Or in this case, hopefully the entire VFW. And yeah, I'm a veteran too.
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  2204. Helen Keller heard it 10 miles off.
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  2205. The punching holes in gas tanks previously was saw during the '70's energy crisis. Many gas tanks got a screwdriver punched hole in them, the thieve occasionally caught with a filling gas can. A few, shot to death in the homewoner's driveway. Or course, there were shootings over people jumping the quarter mile long gas station line as well. I doubt that they got their gas tanks filled. The reason for the poking holes was twofold. Newer cars had and still have anti-siphoning measures installed in the filler line and siphoning took longer than poking a hole. Well, until a few got holes poked in them from a distance...
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  2206. Dust? Not only dust or even a few stray atoms per meter. How about relativistic contraction of all of that EM around you, when getting fairly close to C, blue shifted to hell and gone into some seriously hard x-ray and gamma, as a point source dead in front of you. The front of one's ship (as in, pointed at the direction of travel) is going to be hotter than a two dollar pistol.
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  2207.  @grimwhitefang9247  Army, retired after 27 years 8 months. These days though, everything turns out joint missions, so one never knows what branch is coming to deliver thunder, fire and brimstone when you need it, which is a good thing. We all have our role to play. :)
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  2208.  @judithmyers-rooke7063  Luigi is in jail. And they confiscated his 3D printer.
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  2209. I've given up on SBC period. The RPi is still AWOL, the others overpriced, I've just gone back to full power PC's. The supply chain is just far too unreliable.
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  2210. I can use read-only to copy from now until the aurochs come home and they're the extinct ancestors of cattle. Among my many careers, I'm also a senior systems and IT security admin. Read to buffer, dump buffer to that with which I am authorized to write to and if console, you're totally screwed, as I can redirect console to anywhere I want to. Hell, because I was bored, a couple of weeks ago, I encrypted a life filesystem on the fly and am using it right now, fully encrypted to "military grade" which is basically industry standard, as that was released to the public ages ago when AES first came out. My random number generator being my home built radiation spectrometer. I don't build something complex for a single reason. Especially when it cost my cheap ass a whopping $40 in parts and two hours of labor time assembling and calibrating it. Oh, thank you, CERN for the design!
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  2211. Oh? What rights do you think that you have against another individual? When do your rights suborn the rights of others and when do you think that such a conflict won't of necessity escalate? Private industry is, per tradition and legal fiction a person. Just as individuals are persons equally under the law. And there's an ancient saying, "Your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose". There's also a tradition that seems to have fallen away when civilization failed, leaving political leaders children and grandchildren alone. One briefly touched by Harry Truman, when he threatened to punch a reporter out for insulting his daughter. Because, if you're unhappy with doing the civilized thing, some are perfectly comfortable doing uncivilized.
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  2212. And Finland.
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  2213.  @Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisor not quite. The protocols were made for after a successful invasion. Only Ukraine has been invaded thus far and Russia is having a difficult time with that invasion. Makes sense, Vlad is no Oleg the Wise or Vlad the Great, let alone Yaroslav the Wise. More like Vlad the Aba. At this stage, one leaves caches alone, undisturbed, but checked and simply makes ready in most other respects. One doesn't "vanish into the woods" until invasion had begun. Messing with hidden resources these days invites their destruction, as drones and satellites see all sins.
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  2214. The Constitution is dead, living in name only now.
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  2215. The camera is dicey on federal grounds, under state grounds, it's somewhat iffy.
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  2216. Well, sedition is now legal, given his pardons...
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  2217. For the same reason we can't see our lunar landing sites from earth, the telescope would have to be far larger than can be supported on earth. It's far smaller than a planet, let alone a star, so it's really hard to get a good view of it.
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  2218. Because it worked so well the first two times? Hell, even a democrat didn't even bother, he only said he was introducing papers of impeachment and Al Green promptly never even bothered after his wonderful speech.
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  2219. It's impossible for them to think, they never tried to, never learned to and will never think. They want to be told what their beliefs are by someone who sounds authoritative. @susandavey2361, wrong. Condoms are around 87% effective. That means they work around 87% of the time, but are indeed better than nothing. That said, a pregnancy would've killed my wife for the last 15 years of our marriage and she couldn't tolerate birth control pills or implants without having a stroke. The condom bill would've been astronomical for us. But, I thank you for wanting to spend my hard earned money for me.
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  2220. While hiding behind qualified immunity, thereby creating a lawless condition within that corrupt government and creating an environment that could trigger lawless actions by the population against that government. Simply put, there have been instances where officials wrongfully sheltered behind qualified immunity, only to learn that that immunity is ineffective against lead. Which is precisely why that immunity can be stripped from them by a lawful jurist.
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  2221.  @CharlesRichelieu-hv7sn  yeah, but you like whoever Moscow pays you to like.
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  2222. They live in small online enclaves largely controlled by Russian controlled and built media outlets. Two of which are direct competitors for Fox and were founded by Russia. Complete with paper trail. Their only defense, the Groucho Marx defense, "Who are you gonna believe, your own eyes or me?".
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  2223.  @solarindependentutilitysystems  short 1 kw? I call that profanity power. ;) Give it a few more years though, increased efficiency will likely close that gap with spare change left over.
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  2224.  @solarindependentutilitysystems  for Florida, I'd look at an anhydrous ammonia solar collector system, one pollutant that gets issued by one of those is water from the cooling unit if it's properly designed. Saw one design that was tested in Florida back around 2005 or so at a utility power level test site, should be able to be scaled down reasonably well for a dwelling. The biggest downside of that is working with anhydrous ammonia if you've never worked with it before. Easy to get burned or worse, inhalation exposure if you don't know how to avoid it.
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  2225.  @solarindependentutilitysystems  I'm thinking of getting an online UPS. We've been getting annoyingly common brief outages. Don't care about setting a clock, but I do care about my electronics and computers. Given the price these days for an online UPS, they're seriously worth the tiny premium for that (used to be a lot more expensive for an online vs offline or line-interactive). Apartment building, so solar or well, most other options just aren't present. Although, they don't bill for natural gas, only electricity, so there is a bit of temptation for a small NG generator... Or maybe a small water based generator, just to make friends.* *they don't charge for water, but we did just have an ongoing plumbing problem - right before it was time to start dinner that killed most of the water to the building. Got me pondering with horror as to what amount of hydraulic head it took to supply the 13 floors of building. Ongoing problem, as the building shutoff valve failed on the plumbers, necessitating that being repaired before they can dig the regulator up out front. Some time back, I toured the USS New Jersey, everyone wanted to see guns, I wanted to see every inch of engineering space... Although, dismantling and rebuilding the main guns mechanical computer would've also been entertaining for me.
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  2226.  @solarindependentutilitysystems  well, fixed income and good price, ya know?
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  2227.  @SeansModelBuilds2017  tried that, got stuck with SHIT instead. Guess I shouldn't have skimped and saved that much...
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  2228. He's already been recorded telling his faithful to ignore their own senses and only believe what he was saying at that time.
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  2229.  @raishaferreira8099  can't vote Mike Lindell out of his own company.
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  2230.  @MetroidChild  what? You don't need heat for propulsion, only a free lunch. ;) Seriously though, yeah, heat and pressure, get NOx and ozone. But, heat regeneration adds to the efficiency of the processes at that cost paying for the additional efficiency and costing a bit on the compression stage. Like all engineering, it's a balancing act. Catalytic conversion costs gas speeds for two reasons, one being restriction to allow contact with the catalyst, the other being time for the catalyst to react the gases to be converted. Yet another balancing act, which is far easier when one isn't using the combusted gases for propulsion, such as with a generator or ground vehicle power plant, spectacularly shitty for an aircraft, even with a high bypass engine. And don't get my started on heat regeneration and high bypass tradeoffs... Still, the OP made an erroneous statement, that one cannot do that which has been done at a cost in efficiency in output. Engineering isn't about ideal anything, it's tradeoffs to balance desired outcomes and achieving a specific goal. Hence, why we use neither an APU turbine, nor a 767 turbine to drive an M1 Abrams tank and vice versa, each is designed for specific task and purpose. All, while wishing for magic, which only exists in a baby's smile, which is tempered by the baby's diaper.
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  2231.  @JohnBurgess-wv4od  just proof of incompetence and inexperience in things government. I never signed a government document that I didn't fully read through. Otherwise, it'd be my luck that I'd end up with signing for a damned battleship or something.
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  2232.  @JohnBurgess-wv4od  better than what I called them after getting my letter from OPM telling me that China had my full SF86 and ancillary documents. Although, I did tweak the investigator's nose when renewing my clearance with, "Well, the good thing with the letter was, should my work with government go away, I can still easily apply for a Chinese security clearance". Suffice it to say, she was not amused.
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  2233.  @dragonflylkr  I'd settle for that loss if it meant he'd get some sense. Especially if he was expecting cents... Is it me or are his most current images looking like the top of his head is utterly flat? All of his plans pancaking the top of his head?
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  2234. And they'll claim to have made the fish pay for it.
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  2235. Might work by the city placing a lien upon all federal withholding tax monies. The companies don't pay them per paycheck, but frequently quarterly, biannually or even annually. That's a fuck ton of money tied up while the courts muddle through the mess, with all of the continuances and all - could take years, save if Uncle cries uncle. Or goes insolvent. And those billionaires would love to see their fortunes turn into pennies like the rest of us.
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  2236. Loved his response on questions about AI. He doesn't know what intelligence is, let alone artificial intelligence.
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  2237.  @xxkarlosxxxxxx7233  not water that is reverse osmosis filtered. Even microplastics can't get through that and that is the most common industrial filtration solution now.
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  2238. Technology, like the Great Firewall of China? Video surveillance all over the PRC and Russia? Technology is a tool and a double edged sword. As an example of the sword, Dutch intelligence had breached a Russian intelligence network and watched and recorded the DNC attack live, having someone from the US embassy summoned to witness the attack. During the Dutch hack, the Russian security video network was also breached and each and every person working on that breach was recorded coming and going. Intelligence has spies of various sorts, which is actually and counter-intuitively, a good thing. They keep everyone honest and in one case, literally stopped a thermonuclear war from occurring during a US/NATO military exercise that the Soviet Union thought was an actual attack in progress.
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  2239. It's literally like considering stage 4 cancer makes one viable.
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  2240.  @lisacollins5466  well, they didn't have a choice but to be tough. Came through a Great Depression and its privations, to fight a World War against some really ugly odds at the beginning. There were only two choices, be tough or be dead. Which is the only options in war anyway.
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  2241.  @truebeliever786  wrong. I've been to several police academies, including one that was colocated at our community college. Not an Israeli around. All cops and retired cops teaching the courses and oh, all local US cops. Thank you for botting, please bot again - elsewhere.
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  2242. I'm not, after all, they fell for W...
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  2243.  @tubaboytom  it's ever so fortunate that trains go door to door and one doesn't have to oh, say go from SE DelCo to Montgomery County via two stations and three trains or something time consuming. As opposed to hopping onto the Blue Route and just driving there. Or going from SE DelCo to Willow Grove, because the train station there is not in service, guess I'd have to take the hover train or something. And I actually advocate for public mass transit! It's just that for some destinations, it's not practical. And given that I currently don't own a car, well, some destinations just don't happen for me.
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  2244.  @goldenshatter  courts don't change if a crime is a misdemeanor or felony, the legislature does. That's US civics 101 that's taught in elementary school. We're not Russia.
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  2245. Want some fun, remember that unlike Trump, Musk is literate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title) It's entirely within his character to rub everyone's nose in it.
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  2246.  @ralanham76  I doubt it. The ball was already beginning to fail. Maybe with a discarding sabot...
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  2247. I redeployed home in 2010 and honestly, I don't recognize what it has transformed into. While I was busy fighting for our nation, a sparse few, with some foreign assistance, have perverted, distorted and destroyed everything that was special about this nation. They changed a shining beacon on the hill into a steaming outhouse on the hill that is poisoning all wells below. You can never drain a swamp if you keep pumping sewage in.
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  2248.  @specialsause949  how fascinating that every court in the land, at every level has referred to various amendment privileges. So, go with the folks that write case law or the word of a random stranger on the internet? Let's see now, random strangers on the internet can't order me locked up in the house of many doors.
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  2249.  @MyNewUserName47  obviously not! The authors of the Constitution lied and we're still King Charles subjects. GOD SAVE THE KING! Now, let's review, a random idiot stranger on the internet says one thing, every court in the land that ever was and currently says something different. Random strangers can't have me locked up, courts can, I'll go with the courts.
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  2250. Well, let's see, my last official photo looked like the unibomber. Yay, Let's see! Given AI's inability to know white from black, that'll be fine fun. And any victory would be Pyrrhic, enough said. By design. Excuse any errors, had a stroke two days ago.
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  2251. Hypertension isn't more prevalent in those infected, it's those who are sicker had hypertension. So, self-isolating themselves may lower the risk of infection, it would lower the risk for a part of that population only. So, if only say 1/3 of those infected badly enough to go to the hospital have hypertension and of those, around 1/4 - 1/3 die, the benefit for 2/3 of those infected is minimal, worse, one then has to consider the hospitalization rate, rather than discharged home and how many go to intensive care. What should be done is isolation for all, obviously with family groups self-isolating together, which would interrupt the infection chain. That was done in 1918, but then political will weakened and the second wave met loads of people no longer isolated and in the US, more people died of influenza than died from the US in WWI. Which seriously injured the economy, as if a business owner and all of the employees are sick or dead, that's kind of bad for business. Especially that dead part, for who is now going to employ those recovering workers?
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  2252. It's simplicity itself. Gated communities are golden, riff-raff like us are toast, it'd god-cop land.
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  2253. OK, didn't help here, disproving your assertion that would deny our deployed military their right to vote.
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  2254. Yeah, came close to getting booted out of an ER once, Nurse Ratchet was in the process of reading the riot act when doctor came running in and shut her up, as I had a fractured vertebra in my neck. Endorphins...
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  2255. Well, he got a $5k fine, two days later, a $10k fine and after that, he was fit to be tied. So, maybe he's getting low on pocket cash. Or more likely, liquid assets like cash.
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  2256. Odd, they actually say, "Shit I am to being dumber than". Apparently, Baidu translate didn't do an exceptional job... I wouldn't mind a hat that I saw that said, "Make America Grate Again", showing some fine hard cheese... But then, I'm a bit of a foodie. And among other things, a reformed chef.
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  2257. Sludgehammer vs sledgehammer. Not a fair comparison for that reason and that the old hammer's long been heavily work hardened. Not that sludge can work harden... It only work splatters.
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  2258.  @LeeBV great way to introduce more delays. First, NY would have to seek to domesticate a foreign judgement in Florida, then move to enforce the verdict through the Florida courts. All, while ignoring tons of assets in NY. Meanwhile, the bond would be gone, so whoever backed that bond would be left holding Trump's bag.
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  2259.  @mikes-wv3em I suggest that the Trump sign be retained and modified. "Trumpless". Hopefully, with an image of the amended sign to appear prominently on his social media stream multiple times per day.
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  2260. So, NH cold is colder than the same temperature cold in the last caucus state. Gotya.
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  2261. He'd hate making the 9 times farther golf ball hit than I could. "I'd have to give Mr Trump that one, as I'm a grown man that is far too busy to waste time playing with my balls". Edit: There's a term for thoughts that wander in one's head, when one's relating those thoughts as real events. The term is "Delusions". A sign of organic disease of the brain.
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  2262. Musk and Trump are draft dodgers. Hegseth, well, loved his European interview, where he was pulling tumbler after tumbler of brown liquo-erm, liquid from beneath the podium... Still have trouble recognizing him though, since he's not been wearing his signature lampshade lately.
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  2263. I think that they're going to have to do the same reboot that their predecessor, the Whig Party did. Abandon ship, open up a new party and leave the crazies to run the old house into the ground. The Republican party started by old Whigs that quit the hijacked party that went nuts in exactly the same way, their first candidate for POTUS, some obscure Abraham Lincoln guy.
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  2264. Well, talking to customers like that is a dismissal for cause offense. But, the battery resulting in fractured vertebrae, that's aggravated battery upon an elder. Bones don't tend to become that easily fractured in the young, but for over 60 do - especially in women.
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  2265.  @DanoKaroche  that brief glimpse was enough to send me for my booze bottle. :/ This is why we have lead abatement programs, people!
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  2266.  @satisfied656  I've long said that people get the government that they feel that they deserve, otherwise they'd replace it.
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  2267. I use three eggs. Now, let's see you use kimshi in an omelette like I do. Or spinach or even collards. That's the purpose of the damned thing, mix leftovers in for breakfast. Yeah, I really do enjoy kimshi in an omelette, typically with American cheese to leaven the spice with fat. Only The Onion can get a good response from me. ;)
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  2268. A double standard is indeed what is needed, for when a law enforcement officer violates the law, they've abrogated a position of great public trust. Who else do we trust with a firearm in areas where firearms are otherwise prohibited? Who else do we trust with powers of arrest? So, when such a great trust is abrogated by the willful commission of crime, a higher standard should always be applied. We do it to those we trust with national secrets, we can trivially apply that beyond our military and to our local trusted officials.
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  2269. Worse, firearms sales have spiked significantly, as has ammunition sales. Previously, the GOP would monitor things, such sales especially and when they spiked, they pulled back. Now, they double down.
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  2270.  @VladderGraf  if he was on it when the missile struck, it's unlikely he survived the concussion of the blast. Proximity to such a detonation typically ruptures internal organs.
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  2271.  @JKGaming1414  I'm quite familiar with antitank missiles. While there is a shaped charge, well these days, tandem charges, they're not perfect, so there is still overpressure present. Perhaps two feet from him. Unless his name is Kal-El, he'd certainly experience that shockwave and overpressure and their effects on the body. Although, with Ukraine, they might have kryptonite in their warheads, just to hedge their bets... ;)
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  2272.  @georgedennison3338 well, there's nothing to worry about. After all, fingers aren't limbs. I'll just get my coat...
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  2273. I can see one way in which it could have a Level eruption, but we're talking a subsurface burst of a device that has 10x the yield of Tsar Bomba's full yield. And honestly, I think we'd have other things to worry about then, what with megatons of extremely hot fallout that would render the fallout zone lethal for a couple of weeks and farmland unusable for at least a handful of generations. Nuclear winter scenarios were disproved by modeling and later, courtesy of Gulf War I, observation back in the '90's. But, I could see enough ash production to shutter air travel throughout Europe for months. So, this is about as likely of a VEI 8 as Yellowstone erupting all the way through California, plume location be damned.
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  2274.  @ReiAnikaAyanami  a non spherical assembly wouldn’t go supercritical, due to the geometry. Any other shape, the neutron flux would escape the core and prevent fission. They later designed the Godiva device to do the same thing, while everyone was in another room safely. That device was destroyed due to a somewhat similar incident occurred, just as it was designed to do. Blow apart, rather than blow up and that time, without killing anyone. It was followed by Godiva II, which survived and I believe it’s on display at Los Alamos.
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  2275. Oh? When did the state of New York depart the Union? Georgia fell off of the map too?
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  2276. I missed that report, thought it was one of the Long March failures that obliterated a village a few years ago. What one gets when one doesn't learn that hard lesson... As for a destruct range safety device, well, one can have the absolute best range safety officer on the planet, but get no good of that fact if one's abort system was sourced from Aliexpress or got a bad spin on Temu.
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  2277. Satan's earwax, gotta remember that one. Still, asking why we keep a divisive candy around, one that "everyone hates" denies our economic system. Capitalism says, simply, "they sell, keep making and selling them". What I never figured out is, how can each of the listed candies taste sweeter than rock candy, which is pure sucrose sugar? A true mystery for the ages...
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  2278.  @joehamill6743  which one is the "real original bible"? As for his placing his hand on the bible, there is no Constitutional requirement for him to do so, one swears not on a book, but on one's own word of honor and if invoking a deity, then before that deity as witness of their word. But, the religious portions are not required by our laws and Constitution, that whole first amendment thing and all. Then, it also comes to, which bible, as there are a few different versions, depending upon sect, as well as which transliteration was utilized. As an example: Catholic and Protestant Bibles both include 27 books in the New Testament. Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament, however, while Catholic Bibles have 46. The seven books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. Which is fascinating, given that Protestantism sprang from Roman Catholicism, so one would think they'd share the same religious text. But, history is always more complicated than that and the victors get to become the editors.
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  2279.  @benjaminsmith6411  more like a full generation. We're talking about courts, appellate courts, supreme court and we'd lose due to the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851, famously used after the RMS Titanic sank.
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  2280. Everyone treated and/or examined in the emergency department are admitted to the emergency department. Those sufficiently ill that they require additional professional care are admitted to the hospital proper.
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  2281.  @psychobeam99  the only times I went around with a loaded weapon while driving was when I was carrying my CCW or when I was on a combat patrol in the Army. The rest of the time, it was safety first and that meant firearms unloaded and secured.
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  2282. Some of that doesn't wash. Under what whistleblower provision was he reporting? There would be no reason to use aides to transfer the evidence, as he could trivially and lawfully transfer the data from IC systems via JWICS to the Congressional SCIF.
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  2283.  @eldoradoboy  from what I've read, they noticed immediately and fuel in the lines and filters hadn't been exhausted, so re-engaging the fuel supply prevented the engines from shutting down at all. Thankfully, he didn't get the chance to discharge the fire bottle, which would've gunked up the engines to problematic levels. Fortunately, the fire handles are forward of the throttles and in the peripheral vision of both front seats between them. Still, they went from a ho-hum flight to 23 alarm fire in a few milliseconds, I'd have likely crazed the windscreen with profanity!
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  2284.  @Ryan_DeWitt  is what you think relevant to what the algorithm "thinks"? Here's the answer, nope. It's part AI, you know, Artificial Idiocy, it goes off of keywords and whatever defective voodoo of the week is being utilized for its illogic. Of those not directly involved, as in victims, witnesses, etc, I've literally got one neighbor that I feel badly for. Have yet to ever see him, don't anticipate seeing him, but I do feel badly for the governor of Pennsylvania. The governor's mansion literally being three blocks from my home. You know for sure, he got very little sleep last night as law enforcement investigates and reports.
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  2285.  @haveaniceday3290  because extinction is an option and some folks want their Darwin Award.
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  2286.  @haveaniceday3290  I agree. How stupid! What the guy said doesn't make sense in English. At all, it's word salad and unintelligible. My response is a standard DoD RTO's response to an unintelligible message.
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  2287. Indeed, who knew that I was carrying around a thermonuclear weapon in Iraq? After all, he directly called an AR/M4/M16 a weapon of mass destruction. And that bazookas are used in mass shootings as well. Hyperbole like that does no cause any good, for it discredits the speaker instantly. Nearly as bad as the perjury in one case, where a former BATFE agent claimed that a 5.56x45mm NATO round was more destructive to tissue than a 30-06 rifle round. Hint, the 30-06 is around twice as powerful. In most states, the AR round isn't permitted for deer hunting, as it's not likely to kill the deer, hence it's considered inhumane to use. Thankfully, in my state, using even an AR-10, the 7.62x51mm NATO/.308 rifle is also not permitted, due to it having a larger magazine than is allowed in our state. You know, the damned deer ain't shooting back, so one doesn't need that many rounds to suppress deer gunfire...
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  2288.  @coltseavers6298  do you mean the bombs that burned down our own base? Grand idea! What next? Russian roulette with a fully loaded machine gun?
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  2289. OK, video is not an example. Neither is vision for an eyewitness. Gotya.
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  2290.  @sdgakatbk  he had a COVID response, other than contracting it and quietly getting effective treatment while hawking ineffective bullshit?
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  2291. Actually, the initial flash is the case shock from the ionized warhead case, the nuclear fireball light actually blocked by the ionized atmosphere and stalled until a shockwave can form and disrupt the opaque layer surrounding the fireball proper. Some of the high speed films actually show the shockwave expanding within the dimming initial case shock fireball, then a brief, but longer brightening. A double flash only possible in the atmosphere, in space it's a single flash which swiftly smears out along earth's magnetic field lines.
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  2292. No, he committed the black heresy of ignoring the god-cop's Lordly orders to cease, drop your instruments and abandon them and the property instantly. So, immediate punishment by Lordly Lightning is in order, as orders issued by Lordly Bull are to be instantly complied with and never questioned. At least, that's what many cops believe. Unlikely to get reigned in before people introduce those abusing authority to the French National Razor.
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  2293.  @jorgejohnson451  he's welcome to some of mine, I've a bit to spare. Dammit. Dammit, as my A1C is now at prediabetic and in our family, that's largely BMI related.
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  2294. We don't stop people from running for office because they're political idiots. If one can lawfully vote, is of age and a born US citizen, one may run for office and lose to one's heart's content. That an entire party chooses man over nation, that's far more worrisome, as it bodes ill for their future and as much as I may disagree with some elements of conservatism, we need their voices and views to balance other voices and keep our nation stable and on course.
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  2295.  @ohasis8331  it's a shame that you and reality are so utterly unacquainted.
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  2296.  @Kyrinson  well, ideally, in a special cell under the jail. One so deep it takes sunlight a month to get down to it. Still, the fines will likely bankrupt the business and leave the owner facing significant personal losses, as it's kind of hard to pay a mortgage when one is bankrupted by penalties for multiple crimes.
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  2297.  @clarawilliams2300  I hope that he voted for someone sane instead. But then, I've personally met Trump, I know better than to trust him any farther than I could throw the Pentagon.
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  2298. Now, get the DA to file abuse of office charges, as well as misallocation of public money for political suppression. That, or the first amendment is dead for those who can't afford an attorney.
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  2299. Yeah, but once Trumpites have converted back to the orthodoxy, they'll return to their hatchet jobs on anything Democratic. The enemy of my enemy is not a friend, but an ally, who shall be watched by all who are not fools. I am not a fool, I only play one to be underestimated.
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  2300.  @Schimml0rd  I suspect that depends upon the company that you keep. Hang with shallow people, experience a shallow society. As for shallow lives, dunno, still getting used to civilian life since I retired from the Army.
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  2301.  @peacemonger766 great, a bottle of Ripple. And ages as well as Trump steaks. Got a Trump vodka chaser? All should be easily acquired from the local landfill.
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  2302. The only thing I want my fridge or freezer to remotely inform me of is if they fail. Before food spoilage and defrosting, thank you. Washer and dryer, I know how to frigging tell time and read a clock, I know when they're done. I may suck at basic math, but I'm not that bad!
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  2303.  @arnkriegbaum  something that's actually true in a total war, the last of which was WWII for a true total war. Unmentioned is, were military supplies being transshipped? Ticklish line though for Spain, as they have a tightrope to walk on trade related to NATO passing through.
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  2304.  @matthewb2052  well, the last person Steve Jobs attempted to rob was Saint Peter, which obviously was a self-limiting problem. Now, Steve's running as hot as that crappy iPhone that the VA got for me. ;)
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  2305. Having actually reviewed the invasion plans and seeing the anticipated casualties on both sides, collectively and individually, I'll say that yes, the bombs weren't needed - if one wanted hundreds of thousands of casualties, mostly dead. I'd have personally dropped the damned things myself and frankly, I loathe the infernal things.
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  2306. They didn't only walk through the Chernobyl exclusion zone, they dug fighting positions and lived in that mess. Irony is, Ukrainians put the Rus in Russia - literally. The Rus people are descended from Viking traders and one Rus king invaded what is modern Russia today, unifying it. Now, Russia invades Ukraine to deunify everything... Looting is simply another Russian violation of the Geneva Conventions, one of a continuous train of violations of both the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which opens them up to reprisals of the Ukrainian's choice. The Russian people accept what news that they can get from state owned and controlled media.
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  2307.  @ShabazzTBL  well, a bit of chlorine trifluoride cleaned things up right as rain. Concrete and steel was like new and no employee washed with it complained about a thing. Seriously, that's about as bad as making nitroglycerin in a warm water bath. I'm guessing that none of those involved ever heard of a phase change.
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  2308.  @ReaperRestorations  knock any sense into him?
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  2309. I remember the energy crisis and oil embargo. A hint, invading Saudi Arabia is well, about the stupidest idea I've ever heard. If we didn't do so in the '70's, why would it be a good idea now? You'd lose the balance against Iran and inflame the entire region in some fascist land and oil grab that would spur terrorism worldwide, as well as likely starting a third world war against the US violations of international law. It's literally against a dozen ratified treaties to go invading other countries. And oil isn't going to change egg prices, eggs are in short supply due to entire flocks of chickens dying off of bird flu.
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  2310. Well, he certainly doesn't have a lack of continuing education units to scramble to fill each year. Teaching is one way to achieve those CEU's each year and from that, we all benefit!
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  2311. Actually, in all three years you named, US government censorship was alive and well. Indeed, the Spanish Flu was called that because only Spanish newspapers were allowed to print the truth about the pandemic, as the US considered such news harmful to the war effort.
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  2312. And defunded them the other day and silenced all public health reporting in both directions, to leadership and to the public.
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  2313. Well, apparently, there is some kind of conflict of interest that escaped the notice of an entire grand jury. Pretty sure it involved unicorns...
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  2314.  @Magicpete1  and what experiences that they had! ;) Every new technology has its growing pains, but few had audible growing pains if things went wildly wrong. I'd suggesting asking one of the workers in the reactor building at Chernobyl, but they've been gone for quite some time. Steam explosions are loud. Still, at least in the west, we want our operators to understand reactor theory and what does precisely what. So, if one's reactor got stuck in an xenon pit situation, they recognize it and don't just keep pulling control rods out until the power increases again. We can't say that of Chernobyl, where precisely that happened and once the xenon decayed, the reaction rate spiked and a steam hammer dismantled the reactor. When the xenon pit problem wasn't recognized, they kept pulling control rods until power increased to where they wanted it, but at that level, the xenon was transmutated by the neutron flux, the reactor resumed behaving normally - but with the rods insanely far withdrawn. Amazing what a lot of knowledge can prevent!
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  2315. My parents and I was born in 1961, told me and every other child they met, regardless of color or "race", they need to learn all that they can and advance. My first memory was of JFK being shot and killed and mom crying and dad badly distressed, in sequence. At an age when I "shouldn't have memories", given I was born in late 1961, literally a week before Czar Bomba was detonated. Had teachers incessantly tell my stubborn, dyslexic ass that, ignored them. Oddly, at the time, such artwork was considered worthy. Even in the south. It became porn when their satanic cult battles were repeatedly proved vaporware, schools excavated looking for bodies that never existed on the rolls or underground or anywhere. It's mutated repeatedly. Being one trick ponies, they try renaming the trick and failing, while flailing for new "causes" to embrace and continue trying to acquire what they want - political and lawmaking power, Constitution be damned. Which we see daily, when laws get passed, to be rejected out of hand by the courts, then they blame those suing for their rights for wasting tax dollars. Because insisting upon rights is bad, so the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are evil or something. No, they just want to hijack our life flight to Afghanistan, for Taliban rule. They literally have the same playing field and mantras. Their only strife is some Jesus dude and likely, they'll fully abandon him before long, since he never supported them in the first place.
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  2316.  @Milesco  yeah, really shitty use of language on my part. Blame it on late evening dyslexia decompensation. And feeling rather lousy, we've been inundated with smoke from our northern neighbors wildfires and I became rather ill earlier. Closer would be, "I was born in 1961 and my parents told me and every other child they met..." Order of operands, can bite you in the ass every time when placed in incorrect order. Now, I'm stuck sitting lopsided again.
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  2317. My imagination is rather good, however, it fails me entirely in this kind of scenario.
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  2318. I heard all about the same things 15 years ago, when the NSA was testing a quantum processor/computer. As near as I can see, they're right alongside fusion power, a few more years, take out, rinse and repeat promise a few years later. Always, with the same promises, rinse and repeat. Maybe, just maybe in a decade. New bleeding edge things are like that. We started our space program in in earnest 1957, JFK promised a lunar landing in 1961, we landed, with massive expenses from 1961 through the program's first lunar landing in 1969 and that, only because it became national priority #1. Quantum computing's a far, far, far back burner priority. I figure we'll get quantum computing at a production machine level around when we get fusion power.
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  2319. Next, he'll threaten a bloodbath if they foreclose on his properties, since he can't float the bond for the largest verdict against his fraudulent organization.
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  2320. I'm reminded of a US Army reactor with a similar positive void coefficient design error, the SL-1. One could walk on top of that a well, didn't end out well for the operator who manually lifted the primary control rod a couple of feet too far, leaving him pinned to the containment ceiling by a control rod plug. Then, there was Windscale, where ill understood Wigner energy release during annealing the moderator and insufficient instrumentation lead to an initially unrecognized fire and a veritable comedy of errors in putting the fire out. Oh well, no sense in crying over spilled into the North Sea milk... (Ungh that was bad) One acquires a certain type of humor, when one began one's military career in nuclear intermediate range ballistic missiles and currently lives in an area I used to orient myself by viewing TMI's remaining unit's coolant tower plume (shuttered in 2019 and I was in high school for the TMI meltdown around 90 minutes of driving away). Oh, the footage shown from the helicopter was an initial airborne survey of the accident. The fire was long out when drops into the reactor building began. Nobody worries about further collapse of the sarcophagus, as it's contained by the New Safe Confinement structure. I imagine that'll eventually get a newer, safer confinement structure... The "elephant's foot" corium is now decayed down enough that one could safely, if briefly, sit on it. I'd not recommend it, as decontamination would be a true Russian bear. Small trivia, got a full body count a few times over the decades, both due to an incident and later, for medical purposes for my background rate for imaging. I'm a touch more "hot" than your students, but I was born a week after Tsar Bomba was detonated and things were decidedly warm (some silly little fallout thingie) globally due to stupidity.
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  2321.  @Ronrelethford  just note when the unions do, if they do and go for it.
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  2322. We lived right on the final approach for Barksdale AFB. The cat loved the bay window, but gave up on it when a BUFF would fly overhead and he'd see the plane's shadow and bolt for cover. Those were loud enough, but worse were the B-2 bombers, which were even louder. I was overseas when the yahoos didn't check their missiles and flew a half dozen live nukes across the country, then parked unsecured on the ramp, until a maintenance type noticed the warheads and reported it. Everyone in the office came running at my outburst when I read the news, half being former Air Force, their reaction was quite similar. What a debacle! But at least, it was a team effort.
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  2323.  @wiretamer5710  so is sedition. The only way out of that is to get the SCOTUS to rule that the Constitution is unconstitutional and hence, null and void. Which would then be a meaningless ruling, as they'd have ruled that they cannot have any valid rulings, since they have no authority.
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  2324.  @Call-me-Rose-d6s  China long ago got my full SF86 and supporting data, including my fingerprints. Welcome to my world.
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  2325. The DoD has their own Starlink contract for a military oriented version of the service. It's encrypted twice, then allowed to exit the enclave, as is standard for DoD traffic. The network is entirely segregated for military usage. But worse, just transmitting anything gives away a warship's location, as the ocean is notable for its lack of transmitters. It's nothing to just toss a beam rider down a bearing to a transmission source and make it go away in a moment of fire, brimstone and thunder. And I did military information assurance, if just plugging in an unauthorized device is a major no-no, standing up your own network and network access point is beyond the call of big time no-no. Right up there with the idiot that actually bridged a classified network with the unclassified network and added a remote access point in order to administer both - promptly getting his clearance revoked and an immediate escort from the forward deployed base.
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  2326.  @RO-dj8dp  that'd just be repeating oneself.
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  2327. I'm still pissed, got my vaccines, got my booster, my 5G service still sucks. I'd want my money back if they had charged! ;)
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  2328.  @StinkPickle4000  well, centerline is, glub, centerline.
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  2329.  @AleksandarBosakov  frankly, given the examples I've viewed thus far, AI stands for Artificial Idiocy. It's either very, very good at recognizing what it's looking for or it sucks badly, wildly off the mark beyond even "not even wrong". Bounds checking isn't only for individual values, it should always be included in aggregate total as well.
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  2330. A fool and his money have plenty of friends on payday.
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  2331.  @jojolouis  missed the original comment, but if ineffective, the individual will likely join predecessors at the Ukrainian front, to get mowed down by the Ukraine forces.
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  2332. No, it's falsification of an official report, perjury and conspiracy for the above.
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  2333. Nope, that's part of Article I of the Constitution and they want the entirety of that document erased.
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  2334. Well, Palin popped her head up and found she was outmatched in stupidity.
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  2335. And if convicted, he'll gain new notoriety in having his picture in the illustrated encyclopedia for the article on "career suicide".
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  2336. Probation is for prisoners. So, probationary employees are prisoners because they were just hired? And one doesn't pay prisoners, explains his stiffing practices well. And "they don't speak the language", Haiti is pretty much Creole and French, so I guess we're deporting half of Louisiana too. If he had half a mind, he'd be actually dangerous, rather than a danger to himself and his immediate environment. But then, for him, a challenging question is simply asking his name. With a half chance he'll get that wrong too.
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  2337. There's an old joke. A bug with seniority is a feature.
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  2338. I'd be heading west, as north is totally fouled up right now and dealing with a major disaster. Alabama looks to be reasonably safe. Fortunately, I'll not have to worry about making such a walk, as I'm in Pennsylvania and we're already sending Guard troops south. Again. Just as the folks down south sent troops to help us out the few major disasters that we had.
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  2339.  @monad_tcp  well, we lack tsunamis here and oddly, Germany seems to have a dearth of such, but the risk of tsunami is too great or something. So, they fell back to reliable Russian natural gas. Oh, here being a few miles upstream of TMI, which was shuttered in 2019 due to the cheaper price of generating power by burning natural gas.
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  2340.  @Chifan71  and well, that whole 2025 thing revolves around bringing everything from that era back. Someone should remind them that that era also had gun clubs common in schools, where everyone was competent with firearms... ;)
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  2341.  @official_commanderhale965  I've long lamented that human males possess two heads, but alas, lack sufficient blood to operate both at once.
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  2342. What do you want to bet that the "good doctor" invested heavily in those specific drug companies? I'm not into gambling, but in this case, I suspect that it's a safe bet. With Trump always comes a trail of grift.
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  2343.  @KushMyCologneee  we closed the mental hospitals in the late '70's under a promise of community based mental health care. Ronnie Raygun then refused to fund the community based mental health care, so the mental patients literally were put out onto the streets. Now, we use prisons to house the mentally ill. Because we're the best nation in the world, rivaling China for incarcerations. He was a felon in possession of a firearm, which is also a felony and probation and any parole violation, which would've gotten him a full ride in the penal system for the original sentence plus a minimum of five years for the possession of the firearm. Classic suicide by cop to not go back to prison. So, maybe we need another law to make it a double-crime? Because the first crime and threat of prison would magically work with the extra of a double-crime?
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  2344. If you can get a good answer that says that you can, do let this US citizen and veteran know. Because otherwise, the rarest of things has occurred, me being at a loss for words.
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  2345. Would that they simply accepted the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. :/ Maybe done via "The Quiet Man" methods of disabiding said rules... But then, I'm just an old guy who walks with a cane. May the wild Irishman be wary and generous with the pot as I am. Yeah, I pick on everyone, even myself, who has zero genetics in that tiny island chain. And ancestors who generously fought on their backs whenever invaded. We fattened them up, killing them off with heart attacks. Now, all we have is just the mafia.
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  2346.  @DanielsPolitics1  well, having legal advice available doesn't necessarily mean it's sought or listened to. That's where leadership buy-in comes in and well, those serious legal errors did cost them significantly, as I recall. Leaving pretty much Daily Fail alone in exposure... I'll just get my hat... ;)
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  2347.  @Peter..Griffin  absolutes and split infinitesimals.
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  2348. Well, the viewed video starts off with anti-immigrant tropes that were dispelled nonsense nearly a decade ago, we know which political groups are pushing it. Especially when the second and third claims are also uber-right tropes that were similarly proved bullshit claims. the "unauthorized use of another person's body " being a very distinctive fingerprint, attacking "PC" and youtube policies "abrogating free speech" (meaning they really want to push the triggers, but aren't allowed to). I'm going to bet that somewhere gunz will come in, since they already blew the rape dogwhistle and refugee dogwhistle (evil dark hordes nonsense). "You can't track people down", wow, just wow, that's anti-German and anti-American and basically Russian in origin, where you need to track the movement of every member of the population, needing essentially passports to move within your own frigging country! Maybe we'll get luck and Roma will also get mentioned... Another tell is, combine a valid number with one that has been rectally procured and claim it to be a fact. I'm sure tell a lie, make it big and repeat it often enough will come into play, given how on a wrong roll he is. Graffiti, the scourge of the Soviet empire! Obviously, slave labor should be employed to clean it up! Next come gulags... A hint for the wise, no major addressing of a claimed problem means there isn't a problem and the rare events being never shown examples of are, you guessed it, rare. Expression must be strictly regulated in far right views, just ask Joe Stalin! And again, communal punishment, the hallmark of commies and fascists, since rule and justice by law is bad for them. Oh, the evil of pay toilets! I remember having those in the 1970's, oddly that was never given to avoid the US! Oh, Russia, the lost opportunity... Water Closet, a term formerly used in the US, from back when indoor plumbing was a novel thing. Unknown in Russia for the most part, due to Soviet era prefab projects, erm, I mean homes that came with that new fangled indoor plumbing. Retrofitting plumbing into old homes is a bit of a bitch... A gripe about compound words in German, one of the root languages of English. Everything I've written, literally in every sentence are compound words when you look up the history of those words. So, complex languages that adapt by compounding words to form the concept are bad, simple languages that do without describing something are good, that's why Neanderthals are still running about at the top of society, right? No, the speaker is simply admitting to being an idiot. OK, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, English medical word for silicosis. The idiot had to use an acronym as a word, because we in the US have a word for ACLU, NAACP, FBI, ASPCA, etc. Totally words to idiots. Parents, don't let people poke baby in the fontanelle (yeah, that big word will defeat the far right flung idiot), it can lead to idiocy from the brain damage. Seriously FUBAR (oh! another acronym and not a frigging word)! Taxes, another far right trope, they hate "entitlements". Want to know what American entitlements actually are? Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Literally and legally. But, far right hates any laws that aren't exclusively used to oppress, rather than support. I was raised Roman Catholic, my wife was raised Protestant. The Roman Catholic church required her to convert to a faith I don't follow if we were to get married in their church. We went to a justice of the peace instead, lasted 40+ years until she died at the end of this past March. Church taxes, yeah, a real thing dating back to mandatory tithing that even was practiced in the US for well unto our Constitutional era. Side note, when deployed to Germany in the US Army, if all of one's required documentation of a NATO deployment wasn't completed, one would end up paying US and German taxes. That'd eventually get sorted, but getting the paperwork taken care of up front was far easier, given unfucking something involving two central governments is always going to be a royal PIA. Interestingly, in the US, the farther right leaning a state is, the more it suckles from the taxpayer's teat, while bitching about paying taxes to support their demanded programs. Cultural difference in paying for daily things, EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See? I can do a far right abuse of punctuation. I also love to mangle my own language for entertainment purposes... ;) German weather, bitching about weather in a place never warmed by the Gulf Stream, uh huh. Given the Russian tilt in the diatribe video, that's rather fascinating! I mean really, snow = Russia in the winter, fall and spring, which converts instantly to mud once the nearly summer thaw hits. Sailors love their rum? Most sailors I've ever known in a near half-century of DoD work loved their beer more. Maybe the griper was really yearning for his wodka, da? Springfield, Delaware County, PA has a golden mile of businesses, most were closed until the last decade on Sunday by law. Obviously, evil religious whatever, whatever, blather... Oh, be loud when I'm trying to sleep, ever watch a Marvel Comics movie? Big green guy wanting peace and quiet? He's gentle. Given my looks, obviously I need my beauty sleep! Quoting Nazi era books, link it to a 30 year old living at home without a job to suddenly have support removed from, yeah, classic far right blaming others for their own failures. Here's a secret that the far right hate and actually do try to suppress in the land of free speech, the Republican party actively tried to import fascism into the US to "unify us", that failed when we entered into a World War against fascist nations, but they bring back tons of shit from the '40's, including anti-desegregation arguments being dusted off and used against women's rights, gay rights, civil rights, BLM, name it and they trot out the same shit with the thinnest retread job ever witnessed. It's almost as if it is originating from MINITRU, which was literally a warning against Soviet communism written by more devout communist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. A book that was required reading back during the Ice Age, when I was in school. Now, it's being used by far right as an instruction manual on governance. Violent right wing extremists are a problem in Germany, but them attacking the US capitol is OK, gotya, Tovarich! I do miss when Nazi anything was purely illegal in Germany, but the nation chose to not oppress their own people, while keeping hate speech unlawful. Oddly, hate speech was verboten in the US, but the far right keeps trying to promote, see MINITRU again? Oh, circling back to the unaddressed Oktoberfest, come for the bier, realize to your horror, the harvest festival food filled you up too much to enjoy excess of the brew. Especially in Bavaria, where a lot of farmer's foods remains a big thing, dumplings, beets and spuds, baby! Germany retains something we're quickly losing, the local butcher. We went with McMeat, cheap high production chop cuts of meat, requiring little skill to remove from a carcass, Germans love their local, trusted butcher. Idiots will then point at German raw meat sausages, I point to Italian raw meat cured sausages and to the inadvisability of insulting Italians so near Little Italy... ;) Note my family name, 100% Sicilian-American, so I can get away with mafia jokes. ;) Well, off to figure out breakfast. Might go with ham and pickled beets, since I have an excess of both, might just go with ham and some chicken broth boiled barley... Dinner's still in a pre-preplanning stage, either way a center being spinach sauteed with garlic, onion and chili pepper in olive oil, the main being mac&cheese with the aforementioned ham or linguini and olive oil based clam sauce. Yeah, I cook in multiple languages, including bastard American near-cuisine. :P
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  2349. Lived in Bossier City for a couple of years, yeah, the lack of love is indeed legendary. And I'm from Philly, where we throw rocks at friends and boo our own teams when they fuck up.
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  2350.  @ParkrosePermaculture  well, in many ways, both have similarities. In landscape architecture of say, a park, one can lay out the finest paths in the history of pathways, looks wonderful on paper. Then, one finds erosion from desire paths... Whereas if one's planning such, one incorporates a compromise path, the compromise pathway frequently is embraced. One controls for such behavior in one's design. The only problem is when one is confronted by a parasite, one entirely dedicated upon its own goals and desires, one then must provide a pathway to containment, lest one fine everything damaged.
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  2351. One has to get everything right in a high dust environment, miss only one thing, that will eventually catch up to you, in a horrific way. That's why one always needs to conduct periodic inspections and reviews.
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  2352. Feel free to enjoy that in a rotary wing aircraft.
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  2353. There is no recall for Congress.
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  2354.  @Grandizer8989  it's all largely logs, call logs, IP traffic metadata, etc. So, finding if a threat was domestic vs foreign is the first part, as there is no jurisdiction in foreign lands. If domestic, that's for the domestic threat investigation and response teams, if foreign, it's handed off to those who investigate and handle foreign threats. And with federal investigations, not soon is a mantra. Better an investigation and any prosecution (if deemed appropriate) be conducted properly and "air tight", which takes time, rather than quickly and haphazardly, falling apart in court. Most cases will likely result in an interview, where the conversation is decidedly one way and a through explanation of precisely how horribly one's life can go if the threat is repeated or any attempt to act upon it is made. Credible threats, well, they get the full treatment and have an extremely high conviction rate.
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  2355.  @edgemonsiteworksllc3369  so, the courts report directly to you? What duties you must have! The rest of us get reports from the media, who report on evidence presented by investigators and present that evidence for a court to find as fact. Which then gets reported by the media, as few have such Imperial authority as to have courts report to them directly.
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  2356.  @starsiegeRoks  actually, my body of proof remains on JPAS and is pristine. Anyone attempting to blackmail me learns swiftly, I'll admit to my flaws and well, the severance of their subclavian. I play nice, I'm not. It's a 50/50 equation, wanna play? One way makes it golden, the other feeding the pigs.
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  2357. It's bad enough that this 28 year Army veteran's ashamed of the nation.
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  2358.  @jesusofbullets  what an ideal solution! OK, all federal law enforcement officers wear cameras that always record. The county mounties SWAT team still don't wear cameras, so you've fixed precisely what? If I have a broken window, fixing the neighbor's kitchen sink won't fix the broken window in my house.
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  2359.  They're Distorting Your Rhthym 109  OK, since I'm infected with the virus, do I then not exist? Or are you simply proving to the world how stupid you are? If the latter, you've achieved a resounding success! If you think the former, you've become the paragon of idiocy.
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  2360. I just made another billionaire. Now, I'm going to have to buy more toilet paper, getting low...
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  2361. And qualified as hard labor. Rightfully so, I've peeled far too many faces from windshields, courtesy of drunk drivers.
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  2362.  @moiramccleary-p4g  more like a few hours with Melania.
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  2363. I had a heat stroke while in the Persian Gulf region in 2009. Broken AC in the car (no air conditioned showrooms at the repair shop, so I figured I'd wait for it to cool down before getting it fixed), dehydrated slightly secondary to having a few drinks the evening before, got stuck in traffic on the way to the base and I had for once, forgotten to bring a few bottles of water to work with me. Got to the base and was already beginning to experience a heat stroke. Base security delays in the sun made it a bit worse. I managed to get plenty of water into me at the MP station, as initially everyone thought I was inebriated and as I downed my 6th bottle of water, it dawned on the MP's what was actually going on. I recovered, minor cardiac damage with a slightly funky QT interval and sent the ECG analyzer into fits claiming digitalis effect, throw PVC's moderately often after and throw a bit of protein in the urine. Amazingly, my liver didn't show any damage whatsoever!
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  2364. If you're close enough to feel it, you're safe. Otherwise, you'd not even realize that you've got a problem. Before the signal from your eyes can hit the brain, the blast wave would've obliterated your organs. You'd have to be nearly inside of the fireball for a 9 kiloton nuclear blast, thermonuclear blast, you'd have to be inside of the fireball for the radiation to impact you and well, inside of the fireball, suffocation isn't your problem. Being hotter than the surface of the sun might be a bit more concerning. This is just another OpEd that was funded by Russia to encourage our surrender and allow their conquest of whoever they want to invade. The laugh, I live a couple of miles from Three Mile Island, which is also ringed with DoD depots, so I'm literally living on ground zero. And I used to work on nuclear weapons in the military at the beginning of my military career. Retired from the war zone, managing to duck at the right times often enough. Nobody's going to use these phenomenally expensive to maintain and deploy money wasters, they'll just keep maintaining them, not aiming them at anyone because it looks good and well, aiming them takes a minute or so at most. Takes about 15 - 20 minutes to launch them, half hour to fly to target as the other side's party favors pass in return and just enough to basically level each other's society and government fatally, while leaving the population to scrape things together to get back to third world living standards. So yeah, nobody's about to essentially do that to themselves. But, it sure is a sign that Russia is losing badly. Otherwise, they'd not be nuclear saber rattling and going to the trouble of such massive PR propaganda campaigns, which are also expensive and they're already insanely beyond over budget in their war efforts. The term for any Russian victory now is Pyrrhic victory, one more like it would destroy them. Pyrrhus won the battle, but lost his army in doing so, ending the war. Pyrrhus was later wounded in battle, then struck in the head by a tile thrown by an angry woman, which killed him at the age of 46. Life expectancy for his cohort typically being around 30 years beyond...
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  2365. The only problem with kicking the can down the road is, all roads eventually come to an abrupt end.
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  2366. End up with lamb more than mutton, as was mentioned in the video, it's harder to find. If the mutton flavor is way too strong, which is rare for my preferences, an acid marinade that marinades mostly while cooking does the job. Lemon, even injected tomato sauce will do the job. I always cook it to medium-rare, to keep it reasonably tender and I've also minced it down for a stew, with one favorite thickened with barley and filling popover pastries and baked in large bowl quantities and left on the counter for coworkers and day workers to grab and enjoy. Garlic and onion being obligatory, but then, my standing joke is, "Just be happy I don't garlic and onion the damned cookies" (which would basically make them dog treats). I'm fortunate currently in that the neighborhood I'm living in is largely Caribbean and hence, fish and goat meat are commonly available. Made four gallons of pasta sauce a few days back, with goat meat as a marinara, then pressure canned it up in quart jars. Last batch lasted me a year, as I prefer to constantly rotate my diet. Can't for the life of me figure out how anyone can eat the same thing day in and day out! So, I rotate around my greens, roots, fruits, etc and with that, meats and fowl. Even squab, aka pigeon, although US prices are obscene... Makes me half tempted to poach the birds...
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  2367. It still fails. I asked it, "Which is better, a hammer or a screwdriver", it responded with basically each to its task. The real answer is high explosives. There is no problem in life that cannot be resolved with the judicious application of high explosives. Which it properly attributed to anonymous.
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  2368.  @DavidBentley23  actually, dimenhydrinate is an antihistamine related to diphenhydramine, with dimenhydrinate most commonly used as an antinausea medication for motion sickness and diphenhydramine being most commonly used as a histamine blocker. From there, it gets rather complicated, as both also interact with other receptors and a video runs the risk of turning into an advanced pharmacology course. Still, if doctor can Goober it down, I'm sure it'd be worthwhile.
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  2369.  @pimphandduke8447  but never met him or barely knew him, because private jets are so yuge that one never gets to meet one's host on the airplane or Gilligan's Island.
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  2370. Don't forget, HAARP belongs to the University of Alaska, so they're also saying that the state of Alaska is allegedly controlling tropical weather systems using their Harry Potter magical marital aid stick... Well, maybe that's true and Alaska really is the master of the world, after all, they've got enough volcanoes that they could have a lair inside of one. And putting a lair inside of something that has more explosive power than all of the 2000+ nukes ever detonated is always both rewarded with survival and a smart idea, as proved by Saturday morning cartoons from the '70's. Lead, of course, by Professor Bumbler, obeying the Heisenberg Inanity Principle, being simultaneously incompetent and supremely omnipotent. And all while remaining souper seekrit, with tens of thousands of workers, all sworn to seekricy and magic-magic screw stick enforced by Harry Potter's wooden dildo. And further guided with radar from sites so well documented as to render the notion of being a secret beyond absurd. Pick a lane, I'd be happy if these dweebs could pick a frigging highway! And ever so much, lead by information supposedly from some kiddie porn purveyor out of the Philippines, who somehow still holds a Q clearance, meaning he'd have knowledge of parts of how to build parts of a nuclear weapon, which gives all knowledge of all special operations operations worldwide, because the two are so intricately linked as to both be in continuous simultaneous usage. Yet oddly, nothing manages to glow in the dark. There is no power like the power of Sven. At least, not according to the mighty Arctic penguins. With secure communications provided by the mercurochrome metronome, gently stirred using Harry Potter's magical fuck stick. Sigh, I really don't drink enough, but alas, the local galactic group can't make enough ethanol to supply enough to drink... Obviously also a part of the Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens. But, here's another souper seekrit, the seerit air shield code is 1-2-3-4-5. Now, excuse me while I change the code on my luggage.
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  2371. Nope, non-pasteurized juice is washed, squeezed and bottled for immediate shipment, figure it'll end up being a week old by the time you get it. The pasteurized stuff, well, it was boiled, changing it a bit chemically.
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  2372. There are two types of breach of contract, material breach and fundamental breach. A material breach would be, the hotel has a meal included with the room and doesn't have sufficient food for all rooms. A fundamental breach is, the hotel books say 100 rooms, then tells the travel agency to go pound sand, you'll not honor the contract. The difference is, most of the contract was fulfilled vs one has no hope that any of the contract will be honored. Of the two, a fundamental breach is fully recoverable with punitive damages added. If the loss of $30k is awarded and the judge assigns punitive damages as well, the agency may well be made whole. Unlikely, but occasionally courts sensibilities are so offended by such blatant objectionable behavior as to award punitive damages to discourage repetition. Personally, I say clean their clocks in court, then while dining with a judge, a Tesla in self-drive has an accident involving the building's cornerstone... But, that's my Sicilian side talking.
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  2373.  @Pfooh  and this is the reason why that guidance exists, lessons written in blood and flame.
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  2374. In 2016, he related the plotline from Sicario: Day of the Soldado as factual. Enough said.
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  2375. One critical advance in first aid being the reintroduction of the tourniquet. Initially, service members were trained that the use of a tourniquet doomed the limb it was utilized on, thus its use should be avoided in favor of pressure dressings. One new lieutenant, a physician just out of residency, mentioned how orthopedic surgeons use tourniquets for the better part of a day during surgeries and obviously don't lose the limb, so WTH were we training people in? Needless to say, that swiftly changed policies and procedures. Then, we moved into the 20th century and put coolers with blood on the MEDEVAC flights. Another odd hint needed to be made, blood replaces blood better than salt water replaces blood, what with all of that necessary red stuff inside of the blood, clotting factors, proteins, etc. Next thing you knew, we got nearly into the 21st century! For a chuckle, for some specific injuries, we still use leeches for the only effective treatment and maggot debridement of really stubborn wounds has been reintroduced. Sometimes, old is the new new. And sometimes, new treatments are ignored, like when we flew a specialist team from Germany to train treatment staff in treating injuries from RPG's striking the FM-200 fire extinguishing system on the mine resistant vehicles, causing hydrogen fluoride inhalation injuries and death. The treatment was highly successful, with a powdered inhalation agent administered on scene before evacuation to limit injury. Said entire protocol was rejected by the medical command in Afghanistan. With predictable results in deceased service members. I'm sure that Colonel got promoted...
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  2376.  @JKiler1  they'd hate me, the city would now be the proud owner of the nation's newest cobalt-60 storage site. Inspect to your heart's content, at your own risk. The upside, no need for street lighting, cobalt-60 glows in the dark. I actually did lose a house. I had gotten called away, some war thing and all, so I deployed and while gone, some enterprising individuals stripped out every inch of copper in the building. Wires, pipes, all gone. Redeployed home to find a shell. I let the city take the house, as there was no way to recover the damages for less than the property value. The city of Filthadelphia then assessed my payroll tax at thrice what was declared in my tax filings, compounding the amount "due" while I was deployed. Just another fuck you for your service to an ungrateful nation. And I refuse to do business with anyone within those shitty limits. The Commonwealth's singular shitty of the worst class. Yeah, still feel a bit salty over that mess.
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  2377. Does it matter? First, you have to get to the device. That was always a two man task, one alone approaching is subject to lethal force in a very prompt manner. From the Titan missiles onward, one fuel valve was disabled with its own code, no correct code, it stays off and the missile becomes a really big lawn dart on fuel exhaustion. You'd also need to enter a target package, as missiles have long been programmable and default to no target. Try to get into the warhead control panel the wrong way, disable the high voltage system, disabling the explosives and neutron generator.
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  2378.  mininmalta 123  frankly, such people are suicidal, via passive means. You know, ignore a very real threat, then piss and moan before they're intubated and placed on a ventilator. Others are paid by Russia, to further damage all Western nations.
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  2379. Cool! Knew Loblaws, didn't know Rona. Good to know if I ever venture to the frigid north. Now, maybe it's time to file for a Canadian invasion visa. I'm sure they could use a chuckle. Maybe file for a smuggling license for wheat, good whiskey and canola oil? I actually was invited to join one of the provinces security directorates for information security around a decade and a half ago, should've taken him up on his offer. :/ Now, I'm going to need the help of Snake Plissken to escape.
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  2380. Aw, come on now, those dashboards are nice and safely padded with the finest steel! Lost a buddy in Iraq. Not to enemy fire, but due to vehicle rollover, after the edge of the road crumbled and caused the vehicle to go down an embankment. An armored vehicle, of course, totally forgiving interior... Although, another leading cause of US military deaths is suicide. And lightning is high on the list, because when one's putting up an antenna mast, that's precisely when the thunderstorm will pop up. And then, one has to recall, one's vehicle, weapon and ammunition were all made by the absolute lowest bidder...
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  2381. Well, he also thinks that apples in the supermarket are in the refrigerated section. Totally in touch with the people, with Thurston Howell the III being people and peons not being people...
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  2382.  @Cp3786  Russia can say that all they want, just as they can keep on saying they've completely defeated Ukraine and that Putin is a god, won't make it true.
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  2383.  @steveturner2231  see my comment in a different thread on Nativists, it's also a Nativist argument against eastern immigrants, largely because many were Jewish or Orthodox Catholic, which was decidedly not Protestant and just should never be allowed. So, want to continue embracing that thought, you might have to pick up a white hat, so we can tell you from the other guys.
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  2384. In the US, we have, literally, multiple governments. We have community governments, county governments, state governments and a fairly weak federal government. All subordinate to the higher level constitution, so federal is primary, state next, the same with laws, with significant limitations on what the federal government can regulate. So, my local street is both a local road and county route, so both can regulate the speed driven on it. If the state or federal government tried to regulate that speed limit, they'd rightfully be told to go pound sand by the courts. I've enjoyed many a fine evening discussing our commonalities and differences in governments with subjects of the UK. Complicating things, well, add the Commonwealth Nations in, boy things can get interesting!
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  2385.  @BassBoyVA  land laser sharks.
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  2386.  @jesspeinado480  as I've said repeatedly here, it's been the law in this state for over six decades of my life. So, I guess I'll have to fix my time machine to do what you suggest.
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  2387. Some silly Constitution thingie about bail and excessive bail being prohibited. Got into an argument with, of all people, a lawyer this morning over it (and apparently, she wanted to deny all civil rights to any resident alien or undocumented alien).
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  2388. Nope, most has to do with a Druish princess and the Spaceballs. Do try to keep up before Mega Maid shows up.
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  2389.  @MonkeyDelicious  well, he didn't do so for very long.
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  2390. I've been watching ever since he descended that gold plated escalator in NYC. With growing trepidation, watched him infest the office, converting it into an Offal Office. Then, out of touch at the time, as I was shopping and my wife was feeling under the weather, I got through the checkout line at the stupidmarket and finally looked at the headline news and was forced to sit down and choke back tears of both rage and angst on 1/6. Angst both over an attack upon our very government and over my thoughts of a response, full air burst shake and bake over the bastards. Yeah, US Army veteran too and all combat units after I got out of nukes. The only election I missed a vote on was between FOBs, when the mail had trouble keeping up with us during the GWOT. Once and felt guilty over that. On 4 Oct, my mail in ballot was dropped into the mailbox, as making it to the polling place is now problematic for me due to osteoarthritis and some other medical issues. 6 Oct, it was received by the county and accepted. It'll be counted on my birthday. Hoping the nation gives me a good birthday present, no more Trump, rather than its usual fuck you for your service behind my back, while thanking me to my face. Not much faith though, as I watched our VA budget get slashed each and every year of my service to the nation - including the first year of our GWOT, when good service members were being sent home missing pieces. Retired from that now, 28+ years, packed it in when it just started to hurt too much to put on all of that equipment that kept me and my teams alive. And don't miss lubing the Stryker. Even at my rank, I still maintained and operated my own vehicle, taking turns with driver as TC/driver. Didn't ask anyone to do anything I wasn't gonna do right alongside them. Including ducking, besides, I was the second best shot in the unit, best being our senior sniper.
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  2391. Funny, the last folks that made a habit of arresting people based upon only their looks was the KKK driven South and alongside them, the Nazis.
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  2392. Whoever sold him a double charged round should be doubling the pot.
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  2393. I dunno, might have problems getting repeat customers.
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  2394. I'm dyslexic, if that's the least of my errors in a day, it's been one hell of a great day! Make a string of dyslexic errors, I know that I'm fatigued and need to sleep...
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  2395. Dresden and Hamburg are even more impressive, as initially, all that was available to rebuild was the bricks left over from the firebombing campaigns and that's what was used to rebuild enough to survive.
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  2396.  @trumpcard4182  thank you for showing the appropriate respect. I'm accustomed to being prayed to on entering into the meeting room with the proper, "Oh, God!" or at least "Jesus Christ!", with a properly respectful shake of the head. It reminds me well that if I actually were god, I'd be forced to be an atheist.
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  2397. Is he conducting diplomacy? No? So, speech shall be regulated, as will be your vote. You will attend your regulated and assigned church as well.
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  2398. Remember now, it really is all just an electric universe when you're close to a magnetar - not that you'd notice, being all dead and all. ;) I looked at a few of his videos, I've yet to get 30 seconds in before the distinct odor of bovine defecation permeates the room and I'm forced to top the stink. I can predict, with 100% accuracy a disaster. It'll happen on a day that ends in "y" in English. That's with a full six sigma certainty. Obviously, I'm totally a white cane visionary or something!
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  2399. Since her rights were thrown away, she obviously didn't get her injury compensated for by a court of law. Oh wait, she did get compensation, as was her right. This is what happens when you militarize the police and ignore citizen's rights and use common sense.
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  2400.  @rogueldr642smiythe9  injury extends to more than biological injury, it includes damage to one's property, denial of rights, etc. All are considered injuries by a court of law.
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  2401. Honestly, I never thought I'd live to see the day when a jurist would tell the DoJ that they didn't believe a damned word that the DoJ said. Even if it's politely stated between the lines.
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  2402.  @rnts08  it's dead hand and that's the alternate, they use a system similar to our PAL.
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  2403. Your 204 file? That numeric keypad got ya, huh? ;)
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  2404. Let's review that statement. Are you claiming that firearms are illegal? Or that firearms are addictive? Or are you saying that illicit drugs are legal?
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  2405. Because everyone has to walk around with a gun in their hand? Tell me, how do you wipe your ass when you're holding a gun 24/7?
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  2406. No, leave no child behind prevented abandoning someone that was slow to fail in life. She's a fine example of why we have lead paint abatement programs and got rid of mercury from our children's environment.
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  2407. You do realize that federal, state and county all have different laws and scopes of authority? Federal law largely stops if property isn't traded via interstate transactions and transfers. Delivery of a product is most often a local transaction. Additionally, if a parcel is delivered by the USPS and one accepts that parcel that is not addressed to you, you'll be guilty of a crime at the federal level.
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  2408. Uh huh, despite every virologist on earth that studied the virus showing conclusively no "tool marks" that would show if humans manipulated the virus and that the vaccines were free. Gotya! And how many unicorns are in your yard?
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  2409. The biggest reason is, experimental UAV's and aircraft are failure prone and tend to crash far more often than production models. There are around a dozen crashed A-12 and SR-71 hulks buried around Groom Lake, to give one example. Roswell is another infamous example, as the documentation has been declassified, but the hand waving crowd ignore them in favor of space aliens. What crashed was a sample capturing unit to capture fallout from Soviet nuclear testing. Remnants of the thing still get shown around as some magical exotic substance, while failing to recognize what was a classified material at the time is mundane and in common use today - honeycomb aluminum. I and my unit tested quite a few devices and technologies, ranging from at the time, classified UAV's that are common knowledge now to portable computing devices that gave squad level communication and personnel location tracking, with point and click artillery being experimentally available. Guess what? Each of those technologies had their own project code name, even for the team developing the primary software didn't know those names or capabilities, as it was all compartmented. Which long ago lead to a standing joke that remains alive today, "My job is so secret, I'm not allowed to know what I'm doing" and in some cases, one's boss isn't allowed to know what you are doing. So, what is really here is an SAP nothingburger.
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  2410. As a juror, we never considered the testimony of any one individual, but considered the totality of evidence and arguments.
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  2411. I'm never conflicted about mocking someone, as I mock all equally, including myself. Although, with some, they just make it way too easy. Like Trump, who takes being a poopoo caca pants to a whole new level of poopypants. Now, knowing my luck, I'll be wondering if farts are wet and lumpy...
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  2412.  @janebyrne6463  I'm reminded of the fact that France survived its revolution and subsequent Reign of Terror. Although, I suspect that that is a small consolation to the families of those who experienced the usage of the French National Razor, aka Guillotine. But hey, it was only 35000 - 45000 and 870000 killed in the revolution itself, so not a biggie, they had 26 million to play with.
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  2413. Well, I don't need a gun, my training included more nuanced means of terminating a threat. But, I do know where all of the ordinance and munitions are stored. And I'm good to a kilometer with small arms of a bewildering assortment number. The only man in my unit that outshot me was our senior sniper and he did it by typically one or two points. That was cool, learned new things every time and it improved my skills. I'm also that infamous prick that called out accurate 10 digit grid coordinates, that's one meter, using only a compass and a map.
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  2414. The worst I ever saw was when I and my crew were in D.C. for a meeting at a federal agency. Each of us used a different GPS, ranging from AGPS phones to full on car GPS units, every damned one had wrong information in the maps that made navigation impossible. We ended up picking up a map book instead. And don't say national security, that's bogus, as security by obscurity is not security.
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  2415. He survived, the kamikaze didn't. It's a bit cold, but that is war and something this veteran loathes, but was good at.
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  2416. I can't find Canada, as it's far too cold in the winter. ;) Obviously, I can't find Maine or well, anything north of my home state of Pennsylvania and I'm not terribly fond of its winters. But yeah, asking most in the US to point out Mississippi, they'd probably point to Utah. Of course, at one point, everywhere was Alabama, well, to one POTUS and his devotees... At that time, I was seriously tempted to copy that map with the sharpie marks and relabel every state as AL
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  2417. Naw, second best legal team ever. The first, "proving" an election was "stolen", hilariously, proving only that voters "stole" the election from someone fundamentally unfit and proved that so repeatedly.
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  2418.  @gagatube Congress can, it's called impeachment. Alas, we know how well the last impeachment went. The only impeachment possible now involves a super heavy element.
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  2419. The same Trump Media that lost a net $400 million and only grossed $3.5 million in income? Now, somehow their cloud services will go away if one user account on Rumble goes away? That doesn't smell just fishy, it smells like Moby Dick! I am confused as to why Congress would authorize such bills, given he'll definitely not share his ill gotten gains or toys with any of the Congresscritters. Hence, they've nothing to gain by doing so.
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  2420. There is an optical sensor radiation spectrometer plan out there. No lenses at all, since they'd block alpha and beta, as well as soft xray. 0.5 mil aluminized mylar for shielding light and must be used in low light if you want to detect alpha. Otherwise, it's opaque, can't recall the thickness for beta and harder offhand. Plain optical sensor though, not an IR sensor. I built a derived plan one with a photo diode and aluminized mylar. CERN has those plans on their educational outreach site, with database of measurements to help calibrate it. Output goes to the computer sound card.
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  2421. I look at such defenses that incessantly follow the most egregious of his offenses as giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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  2422.  @niyablake  that's being generous. The only somewhat survivable seat in the vehicle is the driver's seat (the passenger got to sit on something with all the give of a cushion on steel, the rear, hit a pothole, anyone in the bench seats in the back will feel it with a vengeance. I used to hod onto the roof ribs, to suspend myself when we did hit a hole. Well, on the few times I didn't bump the driver and drive the damnable thing myself. As I was the primary trainer for the vehicle, yeah, I stayed out of the back as much as possible.
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  2423. You know, it's going on 45 years since I saw someone get an F- in history. Ironic, really.
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  2424.  @levchan9752  my one nightmare arrived with my father, who eventually died from vascular dementia and ESRD. Telling him that mom had died years before. Then, he had to process that loss all over again.
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  2425.  @JDR8  not a thing was a lie. But, do tell yourself it's a lie when plutonium is raining on Moscow and Saint Petersburg. You'll have that fine dasha with a glow, da pasha.
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  2426. Funny, their revisionist histories and telling on themselves with “the Black race”. Oh, MLK never said what political party he supported, as that was irrelevant to his messages. But, the GOP did leverage a gulf between the northern Democrats and the southern Jim Crow Democrats and turn 180 degrees under Nixon. That guy would’ve hated life with me interviewing him, as I also remember the era and would push back. Hard. And that Philly doctor was performing “abortions” at full term, letting viable newborns die in his office and when uncovered was rightfully convicted of premeditated murder. Something sadly celebrated by both parties at the time. The interview would eventually close in a veteran on veteran donnybrook and this Surly Claus would beat that Santa with his own shoe. Badly.
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  2427.  @Billy-4226  having shat into mortar tubes (lined with a trashbag while camping), I admire his... Erm, dexterity. Especially so, given that I'm now age 62. Wholly shit! I'll just get my hat...
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  2428. Actually, that's not how it works. The requesting branch/service can still accept the risk and issue a clearance. The FBI only investigates and recommends, the clearance always belongs to the requesting authority. Otherwise most of the Manhattan Project and majority of our Operation Paperclip scientists would never have developed their products for the government, as they'd never have gotten their clearances. It's just vanishingly rare, as then, the risk is on that issuing agency and the one authorizing the override on the clearance. A risk that's tiny, as Trump isn't about to punish himself.
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  2429.  @jossfangirl  makes sense, as cyanide ions block cellular respiration an COVID-19 damages the lungs and blood vessel epithelial cells, blocking oxygen/CO2 transport.
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  2430.  @timmoles9259  because, 200 MPH bomber, much lighter than a jumbo jet flying 400 - 500 MPH carrying kerosene are precisely the same, exact thing. After all, throw a feather at you and an anvil, both will go clean through you, right? Oh, hint, the higher the octane rating, the cooler the flame is. Nope, it was thermite or thermate, to listen to the moron militia, antigravity iron or other heavy metal burning went sideways, rather than down, precisely as a brick dropped goes up every time on days ending in Z. Or some other fucktard notion.
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  2431.  PoliceManHat  well, show me a crab or even a clam who collapse with a decent sized hole punched inside of them. Not die, collapses. For that matter, show me that with a spider, cockroach or ant.
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  2432.  PoliceManHat  aww, look at you entirely fail to refute a single point and worse, showing a dearth of a sense of humor. Very well, I'll put a note up that you have no sense of humor, are lousy with Dunning-Kruger and entirely dodge factual points, failing entirely to engage in facts like the phenomenally well established fact that progressivve collapse is a very common failure mode in fire damaged buildings. Or that burning, molten metal doesn't go sideways, due to some gravity thing.
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  2433. Some of the old Iowa class battleships remain intact and are museum ships, which per contract and as required by law, may not be modified, so that the Navy can return the ships to service if the need ever arises. Given the estimate of $2 billion each to get seaworthy and battleworthy, yeah, that ain't gonna happen, but a contract is a contract. The New Jersey's curator suspect that the boiler system would require a massive, nearly complete replacement type of overhaul just to hold steam and literally not blow up. Armor is intact though, she's in dry dock now for much needed painting to protect her hull, the wooden deck replacement being completed as the the hull is painted below the waterline, the plumbing system, a shambles.
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  2434. Mom hated chicory in coffee, something about adulteration during the Great Depression. Honestly, if it's listed as an ingredient, I don't mind.
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  2435. The proper term is seditionist. Had he been part of a group that was armed, it'd have been treason. But, with no due respect, harassment is their game, why are you joining them in their methods? Prisons are for punishment, not the populace, for in the latter case lies the pathway to anarchy. As for the retribution guy, I'd gently remind him that I've long served with the Department of Smite. The Department of Forgiveness is down the hall and to the left. But, courtesy of Trump, sedition is now apparently legal. One can now plot, plan and move toward the violent overthrow of the US government, as well as recruit, train and encourage the same. That used to be illegal, but due to his actions, now is effectively the law of the land under his regime. Within, should he have his way, a Constitution free nation, under god-king, where imperial decrees abound.
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  2436. Entertaining would be to see a subpoena served to "someone". I'll refrain from being in proximity to judge's chambers, largely out of concern for retaining what little hearing that remains.
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  2437. No, because unpaid hospital bills get passed onto the rest of us, via higher hospital bills and higher taxes for whatever the government defrays to reimburse the unpaid hospital, lest it close and leave a community without medical coverage.
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  2438.  @RubberNecked268  exoerts know nothing, so when you need brain surgery, can I sell tickets to see your DIY brain surgery? It should only take a microsecond.
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  2439.  @drewthompson7457  steel frame, the WTC was an exoskeleton supported building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_collapse Plenty of buildings have experienced progressive collapse. Hell, the Hard Rock Cafe in New Orleans began to go into progressive collapse, but the bracing that was still in place managed to prevent a complete collapse.
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  2440. @Red so, a single engine aircraft, packed to the gills with high explosives is the same as a jet airliner carrying kerosene? Were you dropped on your head that many times? But, if I'm so foreign, I'm from Philly, I'm near Harrisburg, PA, let's meet and greet, pussy. I'm an explosive demolitions master and firearms master instructor.
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  2441.  @ed9121  drydock? Hey! Who just threw that wet trout at me?!
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  2442. There is one colony type that could work. A 1 Sol colony, duration of stay being 1 Sol only, research and study to your heart's content for that time, then back to earth and replacements arrive.
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  2443. The further impact, beyond the usual commuter travel diversion is, that's one of only two paths across the bay for hazmat ground cargo. Now, it'll be a huge mess diverting hazmat cargo around the city. Everything here was absolute worst case scenario, save that a timely warning by radio did get the bridge closed to traffic in time to prevent a huge casualty toll.
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  2444. Surfside wasn't public infrastructure, it was private. But, it points at systemic problems in safety programs supervised by the state and county.
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  2445. Promise a moon, deliver a copy of Skylab after all of the above.
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  2446.  @Jalapao76  trump did come up with a new business model. There was a young harlot named Sue, who filled her hoosegow with glue. She said with a grin, if they can pay to get in, they can pay to get out of it too. He just forgot to send the memo to charge for the exit buses.
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  2447. He's doing it his way, part Putin, part Hitler. Not a smart move in the nation with the most heavily armed population on the face of the earth. We don't do dictators here.
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  2448. Whenever the doomsayers go on about something this early in the campaign and well, it is early, it's the last months that count the most, I shoot them a picture of Truman holding aloft a newspaper with the headline, "Dewey Wins!". For the historically challenged, we never had a President Dewey, we did have an elected President Truman. That said, I know who I voted for in the primary, want to yank my candidate that I and the majority of the party chose, enjoy my vote for a party candidate I never heard of and is decidedly not a Democrat, as a return of the respect that was shown to my fucking vote. Don't be surprised then though, if my next Democratic Party vote is cast when the sun goes white dwarf. I myself have a prediction, that the GOP will go the way of the Whig party before it - for precisely the same reason and in pretty much the same way. The GOP's only strength currently is, "We have a Trump". To which I reply, "Oh? I thought the mindless beast wandered off".
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  2449.  @WhatIsThatAvi  just gotta run off to the used yard shop and have it installed, I guess.
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  2450. Wrong. Ambulances also would be forbidden, now you've killed dozens more than one saved from some fractures and bruising. A ground guide is needed to ensure this doesn't happen. Our Armed Forces require it, why do civilians require so much less safety?
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  2451.  @oceanaxim  war doesn't have winners and losers and never did. Wars only have survivors.
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  2452. Fox is a bit cumbersome and they're keeping some to retain audience. Every other Murdoch organization is biting harder and harder on Trump and Musk ever since that phone call with Trump went south. These guys are finally noticing what I've repeatedly reported for a week. He's balancing a bit, mostly to keep the viewers from moving to Newsmax, OAN and RT's remnants.
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  2453. I'd love to see an interview where someone points out that the "never surrender" image is of him after he surrendered. Five bucks says that they'll then blithely redefine the word surrender into something that looks good to them for their god-king.
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  2454. Must be a small neighborhood then, given this is about one home and family.
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  2455. Well, proposed in 1954. But, was on the two cent piece for a year in the 1860's. And basically was converted notionally into "In God we trust, all others pay cash".
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  2456.  @arronsmith4958  there's a reason some people are INCEL. Nobody wants to be with them, way too toxic and so insecure that they have to denigrate any accomplishment that others have achieved. I do find the OP's comment fascinating, as I had buddies at both Bagram and Kandahar AFB when they were attacked. Guess the magic smite fairy defended the base or something. And PTSD only happens to Army and Marines, everyone else has magic to keep that away too. Astonishing the amount of experience civilians acquire on their Twinkie encrusted sofas! And interestingly, those bears tend to be better behaved on sofas too. Even leaving between the cushions alone.
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  2457.  @realaudioreviews  they're seeking asylum, following a ratified treaty that the US ratified, swearing to honor and now is no longer doing so. FYI, the US Constitution states clearly, "Ratified treaties are the law of the land", meaning such treaties are equal and even superior to Acts of Congress and subordinate only to the Constitution itself, which is supreme and may not be overridden ever, by anyone, save via a Constitutional amendment, agreed to by 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states. So, you argue for lawlessness, ignoring the Constitution, laws, treaties, customs, mores, just to satisfy some atavistic notion that you're superior to what I flushed down the toilet this morning. No, you're only equal and should also be flushed.
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  2458.  @Warp10x  damn! I was shooting for a quater.
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  2459.  @davidwydra2401  I can think of a half dozen compounds that'd do the same without magical radiation. Some used in chemotherapy. So, it remains blather. For the record, I am actually an ordained minister.
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  2460.  @Starr6669  tell us all what a federal traffic ticket looks like. I do happen to know, as that's what one gets on military bases if one does get a citation, so tell us all what one looks like.
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  2461. Whatever are you talking about?! They're doing something! The Republicans are congratulating him.
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  2462. Mailed my ballot at the beginning of the month, saying the words, "No, Trump!" as I tilted the mailbox door closed. Got my notification that the ballot has been logged in, not to be counted until election day with the rest of the ballots.
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  2463. It's an uglier problem than that. In interstellar terms, we're sitting right on top of the sun, distance wise. So, whatever signals we whisper out are drowned out by the much louder sun's shouting. Blend in the inverse-square law, there are one of three chances an earth signal could be heard. Slim, fat and none.
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  2464. Whatever are you bitching about?! Trump, by his own admission excels at abject failure. Now, excuse me while I order a Trump missteak…
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  2465.  @stephaniemiller7536  I suspect Josh is referring to his followers.
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  2466. You're asking the executive branch to arrest itself. Fines on the other hand, they can be levied and if unpaid, property seized.
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  2467.  @lollsazz  funny, as that's what she said too.
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  2468.  @caldodge Another difference, other than the lack of oxidation is that martial regolith is also extremely saline. That has to be cleared first, before any bioremediation can be applied. That said, there was one microorganism suggested for saline remediation, then alfalfa to become compost. Given light levels, one's likely looking at an entire sol before any prospective soil might be ready to use and that's assuming one could get a blessing from planetary protection, which is utterly unlikely.
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  2469.  @elderrusty541  it's a pity that Darwinism isn't what people who thank god for Darwinism thinks it means.
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  2470.  @barrymoore4470  OK, so then what? We get President Vance? Which would still mean President Musk?
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  2471. Amazing that you have the sanctuary list. And that you hate ratified treaties and the Constitution that states that ratified treaties of asylum are the law of the land.
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  2472. Lemme get this straight, Trump's current motion is that conspiracy and sedition are protected free speech? Wow, talk about emptying out prisons! Oh wait, we're right in the middle of lead balloon land here, attached to an anvil.
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  2473. I've confused the living dogshit out of sensors, obfuscated movement that that infamous microchip couldn't then recognize and while those monitoring that chip's reporting, moved forces into place and won the day, as they thought we weren't about to infiltrate their command post. That was during a mock C4ISR test encounter against several automated systems. Chips are part of computers in that application and computers are stupid and do precisely what you tell them to do - not what you want them to do. A hammer can be a formidable weapon - at close range, at a distance, it's utterly worthless as a ranged weapon. It's not the tool, it's how the tool gets applied that determines efficacy.
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  2474.  @maxwell69319  precisely what one can expect from a foreign interest owned "news source". First, mark Murdoch's interests as hostile foreign interests and treat those media organizations accordingly.. Then, PNG the entire extended Murdoch family. Then, have the IRS and SEC audit those US side corporations.
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  2475. Nope, just abridging the right of a corporation's free speech. Speech shall conform to what the government says or the corporation will lose all rights. Next, the public, since both are legally and Constitutionally persons. Express yourself as required by your government, or else. Enjoy your fascism, we've now officially lost WWII to the fascists.
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  2476. Well, he stiffed every competent attorney, so he's got what he'll not be paying for.
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  2477. It's really hard to tell, given airplane turbine engines run on bird blood. Oh wait, they don't, they run on kerosene. Bird blood and feathers were found inside of the engines, the source could only be the birds committed bloody suicide while nesting inside of the engines or the birds were ingested and wrecked the engines. Had the pilots continued their initial landing attempt, they'd have had manual hydraulic brakes, no hydraulic boosting beyond any residual pressure that'd bleed off quickly, but full flaps, spoilers and landing gear. Instead, they went TOGA, had no thrust to climb high enough to gain time to spool up the APU and basically ran out of hands, altitude, speed and ideas, so did the only thing possible - reciprocal landing, a 180 degree turn, trading what little altitude they had for airspeed to stay aloft. Basically, the bird strike that killed the engines happened at literally the worst possible time, over the threshold, seconds from landing. Because, I've seen the damage that large birds can do to an aircraft and more importantly, a jet engine and fan. They'll take that marvel of modern engineering and turn it straight and instantly into modern art.
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  2478. My understanding was that the Zeus A carried the 25 KT W31 and the B was to carry the 400 KT W50 enhanced radiation warhead.
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  2479.  @DavidDalrymple-df4eb  I dunno, I could buy it all up and build Dizzyland. ;)
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  2480. Honestly, it'd be a shorter list to count the BSL-2 labs not working with monkeypox. It's a slightly elevated concern virus that's an incessant annoyance. It spikes somewhat randomly, then falls to a low noise level, but thankfully, it's BSL-2 for a reason, it doesn't spread easily to humans and it's even worse at spreading between humans that aren't closely cohabitating. More exciting is the newer vaccines, which have lowered vaccine related illnesses from the 1% of vaccinia to something more along the lines of modern vaccines, which is so low as to have most physicians never see any significant events. Given that I suffered from a thankfully aborted progressive vaccinia as an infant, I take great relief in the new vaccines! One upside is, orthopox viruses tend to tightly conserve their genome, they are lousy at jumping species due to the nature of its tight conservation of its genome. That the lab doesn't have the virus available isn't surprising, as they may well not be a BSL-2 lab for that research and hence, the virus wouldn't be available to them any more than their remaining samples of variola would be available. Fragments that are assembled and installed into yeast, that's not anything that one needs be concerned with from a biosafety perspective. But, if they're configured at most for BSL-1 and monkeypox is BSL-2, yeah, not gonna happen. A fragment does not a virus make, reassortment or recombination be damned, given it's in yeast or are unpackaged DNA and hence, non-viable. But, if virologists working with viruses is bad, we should close all virology labs throughout the world, destroy their work and call it a good thing when the next pandemic kills in wholesale numbers. Of course, one can carry that illogic throughout technology until we're back in the stone age. BTW, what virology lab had the last outbreak of smallpox, after it was rendered extinct in the wild again? Janet Parker was the last fatality and because of that mess, proper oversight and planning for all BSL-4 facilities in the world followed. The University of Birmingham Medical School does win prizes for the rapid response, isolation and ascertaining root causes and leading the discussion on how to properly create such facilities!
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  2481.  @NofilterDoctorD  and finding precisely nothing at all, save authorized by Congress contracts that had DEI listed in them.
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  2482.  @ExVeritateLibertas  one deficit to that theory is, it utterly ignores the recorded and well reported upon Russian ATC directions. Or did the pilot and copilot use remote mind control to give ATC directions to give them the directive to fly the course that they had to accept?
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  2483.  @lindaj5492  they'd be on the cockpit voice recorder. As for the legal status, look at the histories of the Russian government and US government...
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  2484. The "father of IVF", who can't explain what precisely IVF entails, is also the actual father of two poster children for the local abortion clinic. How ironic.
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  2485. "He was able to make A recovery". Just, not a full recovery.
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  2486. Trump adopted "politicians lie" and took it to heart and given he's not one owning a heart, that says a lot.
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  2487.  @llywrch7116 that bottle?! Wrong! Those bottles. With addiction comes tolerance to the drug one is addicted to.
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  2488.  @no_activity  especially given that nothing can go public domain for over a century under the new system. Thanks for fucking up even literature, Congress!
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  2489.  @Hunterwasabadbrother what does parenthood or nonparenthood have to do with what was said or the comments? This military veteran and grandparent is quite curious.
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  2490. I am honestly expecting Trump to show up and howl at the top of his lungs from his golf cart, "DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB!". WWII gave us Hitler, Trump brought us a special gift, Snitler.
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  2491. The automakers warned that layoffs would quickly come if Trump levied tariffs on their car components, Trump didn't care. It's not only steel and aluminum, it's things like master cylinders, engine components, exhaust components, etc.
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  2492. No, some older Jewish guy named Lazarus something or other.
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  2493. Well, in large part, it's because it's not really a spacecraft. It's a spacetank. ;)
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  2494. Dilaudid is legal in every state, as it's medically necessary for treatment of severe pain, such as post-operative pain. Narcotics are like guns, legal in every state and just as potentially dangerous and just as useful on occasion. The biggest difference being, a firearm can get me meat for dinner, a narcotic can't get me a damned thing to eat, but can keep me from having a stroke or heart attack from pain (or even limit damage from pain from a heart attack (yes, pain can actually kill you)). I don't know if it's fortunate or not, but I've a legendary tolerance for ethanol. Despite drinking enough to rival a Marvel comic book god, no liver dings or pancreatitis. No hangovers either. Fortunately for me, drinking so tends to bore me and I'll just toss the bottle into a closet to be forgotten for months on end. But, I do know quite a few substance abusers and can emphasize the pain. Best wishes on your recovery, which is its own agony, day by day. But, I did learn one thing in the military above all other things, pain is nature's way of telling you that you ain't dead yet, keep on living and thriving. Fight for life and if you feel the need too badly, contact me immediately. For the record, I love narcotics. Can't tolerate them, but love them for their utility medically. I tend to flood with histamine when dosed, so literally go into shock from vasodilation (blood vessels open up wide, due to histamine, dropping blood pressure into the basement). And I'm chronic GERD, so booze isn't quite so fun either. And blew a disc in my lumbar region, courtesy of not observing something I literally trained thousands against - never catch a patient, help lowering them to the floor and summon help. Wife collapsed hours post-op from gallbladder removal, I caught her and 440 went down both cheeks to the balls of my feet. Hence, my near-addiction for NSAIDs. ;) My thoughts when the disc failed? You. Dumb. Mother. Fucker. Couldn't even manage to express an exclamation point at the time. Too busy not dropping her, out of concern for mutual damage. Hilariously, she regained consciousness once I did get her to the floor, so she was able to help me to the bed in the next room. Lost her a year and a half ago, after 41 years. Excuse me while I crawl into my bowl of spinach. Really. Made a really nice batch last night, got some leftover and well, I do need to eat. Shit happens, you learn how to deal with it by remaining conscious. My trick, learning how to cook well, but then one other qualification I've got is, I'm a reformed chef. Reformed, as really, the pay vs labor ratio totally sucks. Now, excuse me, I really want to enjoy that spinach. Garlic, onion sauteed, a dab of chicken bouillon, dump in some spinach, cook and enjoy. Like many recipes, simplicity itself, my recipes even more so, as quantities of spices are entirely to taste - yours, not mine, dammit.
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  2495. Oh no, I overshare about the lethal qualities of my mighty flatus. And my infamous resistance to CNS depressants that has complicated surgical procedures. Or worse, my reactions to adrenaline... And well, they're welcome to my relating my Bristol scale measurement of my stool quality. And if they want my BP and pulse, well being a chronic pain patient and pain causes that aforementioned adrenaline release, they'll conclude that I'm either the Incredible Hulk or Phenomenal Bulk. I'm the latter, puny Hulk only smashes, I crush.
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  2496. That would be illegal. He's not due to be sentenced until July 11.
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  2497. I used to have that problem with myselves. I decided to stop spending so much time beside myself. As for an odd screwdriver drawer, naw, you need a rack for that. There are just that many odd specialty drivers out there.
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  2498. My first question is, WTF are you doing patrolling in front of the police department? Waiting for shift change, rather than performing your duty? I think we'll approach dealing with this abuse of taxpayer dollars via the budgetary process... Especially, given forfeiture came into abuse. I quite like my local PD. Instead of escalating and "ensuring control" via any means, they resolve problems, at times with some significant effort on their part for all parties in non-violent events. Their response time, despite that, is phenomenally fast. When my wife of over 40 years died, after my first cycle of CPR, I called 911 and resumed CPR. I got to my fourth and had to stop to let the officer in, who checked and at a dead run, ran to his cruiser for an AED. EMS was a touch less responsive, since they're volunteer and have to come from home to collect equipment and respond, but she was down too long. I know AED's, I've received provider level ACLS training in the military, if an AED doesn't suggest a shock in a couple of cycles of CPR, it's very much not good. When the EMT-P finally arrived, around 20 minutes after the ambulance arrived, the scope told the story. I managed to not get sick until most had departed and only the officers remained. But, I've watched them help the homeless, even to the point of bringing food and water to them. And I'm damned sure they'd be calling parents, rather than confiscating cars for something like this. Which is tax money very well invested, rather than simply spent. The Chief is simply justifying his revenue generation. I'm known to rev my engine to warm the car up a touch faster, so I can melt ice coating my glass. Cite me, enjoy me turning the thing into a federal case level defense and litigation that'll tie up legal for decades, just on spite. I did do donuts on snow as a kid. I also did donuts on a street once, the damned accelerator dropped to the floor and stayed there, donuting the way and literally burning out the brakes, while shutting off the engine ended that mess. It was a company vehicle and the mechanic and I had quite an exchange that took the shop steward to break up before I bent a tire iron around his empty head... I went over the vehicle with a fine tooth comb every time that idiot touched the vehicle after that! @Steve, I defy you to make a Yugo tires smoke. :P:p:P:p:P:p Even at 18, if you want my tires to smoke, you'd have to set fire to them. Tires never have been cheap! Wanna interest me, show me power and acceleration. I'm more into power, tow the Grand Coulee Dam and I'll be impressed. ;)
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  2499.  @Bchilds888  yeah and I'm still giving free unicorn rides.
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  2500. Spare the rod, spoil the Republican. I'll just get my coat...
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  2501. And the grandkids lunch money.
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  2502. We don't imprison people for defamation in the US.
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  2503. Just remember one thing about allies. Russia was an ally in WWII. Think they're friends now that it's over?
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  2504. I've interviewed very real terrorists, whatever they give up is valid intelligence.
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  2505. I know that I saw a lot more commercial drones after one was buzzing our new federal courthouse. Under contract, of course, it was part of the final building inspection and they had to return in the evening to swap out the camera for an IR camera to verify insulation and seals. Two windows needing resealing right after that. That beats the hell out of using a window washer platform and inching down the building! Expensive as hell though, around $10k for the base package and a whopping 20 minutes of flight time at best, with any wind of 7 MPH or more grounding the drone. Told Santa I wanted one for Christmas, he told me I was too fat and get the hell off of his lap. ;) Been coarse sandpapering his runners ever since, that'll teach him to piss off Krampus!
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  2506. "Shut up and mind your own business". Well, OK, but my spokesgun here isn't in the mood to shut up, so perhaps you should explain yourself before it speaks up? Your choice and all, it is a free country, after all and lead just really wants to be free. Oh, so now you want to identify yourself and show your work order. Very, very good, now you'll listen to my spokesgun's advice to await the nice officer, who will make a report on your willful destruction of the wrong property, its contents and its finished value at prime value. Have a great care though, lead poisoning mitigation in the US has long been well documented to have been an abject failure. Then, if the company wants to fight in court, a demolition crew gets dispatched to the owner's home - daily, until the courts instruct me to stop.
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  2507.  @elizzybec  sir hell, I work for a living! Always popular when commissioned officers overheard that one... ;)
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  2508. @@Fern00352 Hope is indeed thoroughly lost. So, someone kindly give her a map! ;) Every generation says much the same about some shiny trinket of technology, oddly, we still keep slogging onward. I suggest one adopt my terminology for AI. Artificial Idiocy. Or stay with The Croods, it's new, avoid it... And remember, regardless of technology predictions, we remain singularly and uniquely incompetent in predicting the frigging future. You know, household nuclear reactors, flying cars (good Lord, but they can't drive worth a shit on the ground...), voice controlled computing (we got kitten videos instead), need I continue? Artificial Idiocy meets Organic Idiocy, a match made in hell. :P
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  2509. But, at least the justices are as pure as the driven yellow snow.
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  2510.  @kinderdm  not really. If you saw the part where he kept shifting and halving dirt piles around and taking readings, can you picture doing that with lungs? You'd be cutting out lobes, halving them, halving them again, things don't go back together very well that way. And precision detectors rely upon time exposures of a non-moving sample and lungs, well, if they stop moving, the heart does too and that dead thing ensues, rather ruining one's weekend plans. Meanwhile, microsample exposures occurred during the Manhattan Project, where workers were exposed and for the remainder of their lives, their urine contained plutonium. Their lives notably not involving cancer or radiation poisoning. Do a search on "plutonium pissers", their unofficial title. People survive amazing things, a radiation example being an Iranian city notable for its naturally high radiation levels, Ramsar. All, courtesy of thorium deposits in the ground elevating the background to what everywhere else would be thought harmful, potentially fatal. 20 mSv/year is the maximum for radiation workers, Ramsar residents receive 260 mSv/year and that's been for hundreds of years.* *Finding the history of Ramsar's been problematic, all of the search engines default strictly to the Ramsar Convention on wetlands, regardless of how you phrase the search, due to their Artificial Idiocy implementation.
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  2511.  @grahamsalmons2027  no idea where your garden is located. But, radiation levels around here spike significantly more than double after it rains, forcing radon out of the ground. I'm also quite a bit "hotter", radioactivity wise, than my children. But then, I was born a week after the Tsar Bomba test.
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  2512. That's already been reasonably well established. Doctors don't perform a Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a vacuum, but in the presence of significant symptoms.
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  2513. Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state. So few ever bothered to that it's beyond unusual to see anyone openly carrying. The only exception is in cities of the first class, which is based upon population numbers and the Commonwealth having only one - Philadelphia, where only concealed carry with a permit to do so is permitted. That said, polling places are just one out of a number of locations where carrying a firearm is absolutely prohibited. Bullets and ballots make for poor bedfellows. The only gun that might belong in a polling place is a glue gun or maybe a screw gun, OK, maybe even a soldering gun, firearms, that's just a great big nope. Firearms belong on ranges or in the woods during hunting season. I could see my making such a mistake and wearing a campaign related hat in, get asked to remove it, realize my error and ask if the floor of my car is acceptable. "OK, sorry about that, please save a place for me at the back of the line, I'll be right back!", mischief managed and no charges pending. Unless someone wanted to charge my exclaiming "shit for brains me", which is unlikely. Toss the crapmuffin hat on the floor of the car, secure the car, get back in line to cast my ballot. It's called being civilized. By the same token, if I were to witness that misbehavior at a poll, especially the battery, I'd be in need of a replacement cane, as my cane would be up his ass sideways.
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  2514. Oh, roofing torches are flamethrowers. Outlaw those, outlaw non-leaking flat roofs. Or being able to set back fires to control a wildfire. If you want to get rid of someone who has a recording that announces "this call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes", announce that you are recording for quality assurance purposes. They'll reject consent and disconnect every time.
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  2515.  @words007  don't choose for us.
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  2516. Nope, an exculpatory answer would be, "The lid fell off of a couple of boxes, saw shampoo and hairspray in one, a bunch of papers in the other, put their lids on, as it's his personal shit". Bullshitting and outright lying just are shitty ideas, the former is even believable, as going through an employer's personal effects while moving them is really a bad career move. Now, do I believe him at all? I might, if I was on a jury and not presented evidence supporting his viewing the contents in detail of multiple boxes, have to accept him at his word. But, I do, in my heart of hearts believe that he's more full of shit than a Christmas goose. That all said, I'd obviously never work for Trump, as I like actually always getting paid. I also won't work for crooks, too bad for one's reputation in the end. That said, if somehow I fouled up and had his job and was moving shit tons of boxes and I saw marked classified folders or worse, the documents themselves, I'd have to make a telephone call to report the finding, as I still do hold a security clearance and rather value doing so.
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  2517. Had two GI types, one wanted a repeat upper endoscopy for GERD and probable Barrett's esophagus. The other wanted an colonoscopy. I suggested that since I'd be under anyway, lower the anesthesia risk and go spitroast. Doctor did not appreciate the humor at all. But then, quite a few specialists don't get EMS humor.
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  2518. @nothanks9503 it's always nice to know that Joe Flipburger knows more than doctors that spend a dozen years to become physicians. So, when are we banning molasses, since sugar alcohols are naturally present in it and in pork, beef and goats?
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  2519. The roadster, the bot, the tunnel and train, all coming soon, like fusion is. Musk was repeatedly warned, officially warned about stock manipulation via his Twitter blasts, now there's an active investigation getting ready to go to grand jury. Don't get me started on the neural crap, where his animals died of infections the type and source not seen since those were defeated in the 1970's. It was so bad, the university labs he was partnered with withdrew due to those infections, as one can't get much neural interface results with an animal dying of encephalitis. I'm amazed he literally isn't also trying to sell snake oil. He did finally get his rockets going, by hiring all of the talent he could get, given he's no engineer, let alone a rocket scientist. His other promised products? I'm expecting to see cold fusion first and hot fusion that has gain isn't something I'm expecting during my lifetime. He's just another huckster, albeit this one has only one product actually on the market and that's a captive market, as NASA loathes riding on Russian rockets. His robot buzzwords speech, sounds suspiciously and nearly verbatim what the character Daniel Graystone said on the series Caprica about his Cylons.
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  2520.  @thomasdahman1594  OK, Boomer. Wanna see what a recently retired from the Army Boomer can still do?
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  2521. It wasn't ignoring the checklist, he was getting the aircraft closer to maintenance. ;)
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  2522. Interestingly, none named after the Hood. ;)
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  2523. I was a Republican, but the Tea Party convinced me to change parties, as I saw populism coming. Now, I'm a Democrat, but I will never vote against my own or my nation's best interests.
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  2524.  @TheIndianaGeoff  really? I thought everybody did. I'm going to check with my apartment building maintenance guy, I think you guys are pulling my leg! Now, just where did I put my hat...
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  2525. Never blame an organic illness for simple prostitution of one's public office and values. What's the difference between a prostitute and a politician? The prostitute is honest about who and what's being done, the politician isn't.
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  2526. Nope. NSAKEY is still used as part of the NSAHOOKS system to incorporate proprietary strong PKI crypto, maintaining a standard entry for legacy and even newer systems to be dropped in without reintroducing the labors of Hercules. Hooking into 3.51, yeah, that was a major science project, 4.0 onward, lick and stick. Yeah, I go back that far and remember the joys of getting 3.11 to sing a song of TCP... OK, maybe not a song, one was doing opera, 3.11 was doing chopsticks. Don't get me started on sanity checking and ping of death! Ant the flagship NT4 servers that suddenly got replaced by slowlaris "because the PC based servers couldn't handle the load", yeah, the load of illegal sized ICMP ping packets, as Microsoft was busily denying the problem and threatening to sue anyone who confirmed it..
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  2527. Declaring regex, but not giving assertions is damning too. Might as well declare boolean and not include operators. Way too much is missing for it to even be a shadow of what it's being proclaimed to be, just badly enough to suggest a list of strings was provided to an AI and "define it as a regex" and of course, the AI doesn't know a regex without a context, such as java regex or perl regex, so without that there's no syntax to include, so it helpfully outputs just "regex" with well, no regex. And the context is where the AI usually gets lost anyway. Used regex in mail filtering, content filtering, arcsight filters and a hell of a lot more, each using slightly different syntax. But, it'll fool anyone who doesn't know an API from applesauce.
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  2528. We stuck around after the trial, had some wonderful conversations with the judge and attorneys.
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  2529. I've always said, "Vote for... Somebody! Because if Nobody wins, it'll be really annoying". Poll workers always got a good chuckle over that.
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  2530.  @bobthebomb1596  yep. In a rack, thermite can do wonders for making recovery improbable. In a drone, with a fuselage that could be damaged, a royal PIA. Can't even guarantee a shaped charge under those conditions. Or even ensure activation and detonation/ignition. Destruction to prevent enemy capture and use can be a royal pain.
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  2531. I routinely have fun with Trumpites that go on against mail voting. I ask them why my fellow veterans and service members should be denied the vote by them.
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  2532. One thing I didn't know was something I somewhat guessed, given the time of introduction into the west - the origin being South America. It makes me wonder what local cultivars still exist in the region. Given how wonderful Ethiopian coffee is, which is where coffee originated, my mouth is already watering.
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  2533.  @sirkeng  yeah, but he loves his free props better, doesn't have to go through all of the work of stiffing them.
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  2534.  @mikeneill6813  if I was in such a profound decline, I'd hope for Doctor Kevorkian's replacement.
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  2535. I'll frequently speak of evil spirits in computers, but all are quite clear that I'm joking about malware.
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  2536.  @Dodgerzden  well, evil spirits exist, but they don't survive too long around me before I drink them. ;)
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  2537.  @Dodgerzden  I've attributed gremlins to some circuit issues I was working on - at least until I finally figured out what was causing a weird issue nobody else could figure out.
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  2538. I wonder if anyone named Marcus Brutus might be running for the Senate soon?
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  2539.  @paddyholly2184  each jurisdiction has its own rulings. A New York ruling of vexatious litigant does not apply to Pennsylvania, nor would it apply to federal courts. This isn't Europe, with strong central governments.
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  2540. I'll put it this way, I'd happily work in a BSL-2 facility working with monkeypox virus. I'd find working with variola far more challenging, but that's mostly due to aging bladder and by the time I'm scrubbed in, I'd need to scrub out to go to the men's room... ;)
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  2541. At least, not unless one's eating dinner with a judge at the time... ;)
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  2542.  @samheasmanwhite  from my recollection, it comes down to gas flow being uniform and keeping the plasma uniform, any turbulence and one starts getting defects.
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  2543. Put him under the jail so deep that it takes light a month and a day to reach him, that way nobody can hear him whine.
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  2544. The US CDC is investigating an 11 state wide salmonella outbreak that's been linked to flour. No brand information yet. Fortunately, that won't impact baked goods, only those who consume the flour raw.
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  2545.  @tromedl  he says what the voices in his head tell him that his worshipers want to hear. Narcissists do that instinctively, malfunction in the mirror neuron circuits in the brain, disconnects empathy and leaves one with only a drive for selfish ends, selflessness being beyond their comprehension.
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  2546. J Edgar Hoover is long gone, his foul blackmailing influence purged from the FBI.
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  2547. No, but being elected is legally not being hired. One can hire and fire employees, one has to get both houses to impeach and convict someone to remove them from office.
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  2548. The only real question is, will he still have that apartment in the Carroll tower? Snorting walrus? No, more like tranquilized lump, likely with a dart to keep him quiet in court, lest he get fined so much he can't not pay his attorneys. This way, he'll have the money and still not pay them, get sued and blame Biden for his former attorneys suing him for their fees. After all, Biden is the president of New York or something... Total nanu-nanu case!
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  2549.  @MonkeyJedi99  actually, it's extortion.
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  2550.  @mikekelly5869  I've tried it and a Chinese sausage made with blood. Can't digest the things, despite their being tasty. So, I stick with Yorkshire pudding. Hmmm, gotta grab a nice chunk of meat to cook, then use the juices... :)
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  2551.  @PeterLorimer-ji5ut  heh, immigrant that was a draft dodger from the Fatherland.
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  2552. There's value with temperature, but there's also noise. Cheap and seconds are going to be noisier. Not too big a deal in a logic circuit, but anything with significant gain and that noise could overwhelm signal.
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  2553.  @FUBARGunpla  not at all similar. She was working under what was considered the epitome of safety considerations when exposed. Slotin was short thrifting the reality of safety and slipping, was already lethally exposed and only by separating the sphere halves was the location spared a fizzled detonation, at a time when full yield was anticipated.
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  2554. I learned long ago, if you want to really understand a subject, teach a class in it. :D
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  2555. Our youngest, finally recovered from long COVID from his first turn at navigating aground, now has it again. But, it's now illegal, per god-king decree, to track or report on the virus spread and severity. But, he's happily promoting pogroms, golfing, cutting off food to the US, raising prices for everything insanely, but ammunition prices seem to remain stable. No, I just track prices normally, actually. The government does as well, don't know if they correlate ammunition to food prices though, I do know that they track firearms and ammunition sales figures though. Pre-Trump, the GOP would reel things back in when the ammo and firearms sales spiked. Now, they seem to lean in. Maybe scare the hell out of the Powers That Be, buy a gun (doesn't have to work), buy a shit ton of ammunition (if you're not big on target shooting, get whatever doesn't fit, but is cheap), see if they start to scramble throttling and distracting him. I'm trying to figure out what works for Elvis and the Beatles and Trump, given Elvis and most of the Beatles are really long dead and he's only long brain dead. Oh wait, Nvidia, great branding, good security, China blew their stock out of the water with their AI, but the US company Nvidia has their chips made in Taiwan, so he just fucked a major US company harder. Maybe he'll nuke our own cities next, to Make America Groan Again. And with the food tariffs, Make America Gaunt Again. Now, excuse me while I buy a gun - a mini-grease gun. Need to repack some bearings I'd just replace, but this jackass just fucked that market and supply up as well. And some grease, lithium is generally recommended, going with moly instead though, a little better longevity.
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  2556.  @svenjorgensenn8418  name a statute that places crimes in numerical sets, such as 1 count of 10 murders, rather than 10 murders in one instance, rather than 10 murders over 10 consecutive days or at different locations in a spree, hence complicating such an absurdity by having multiple scenes in an instance.
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  2557. When one loves someone or even something like one's nation, one wants it to continue to thrive and improve, so one finds faults and corrects them gently. If one supports those faults, one is not expressing love, one is expressing contempt by neglecting to care for that which one is falsely claiming to cherish.
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  2558.  @marydevonshire4655  yeah, OK, that worked out well for Germany before and during WWII.
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  2559. Because CO2 turned Venus into the garden world that it is today.
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  2560.  @connormclernon26  nothing is foolproof, for fools are just so damned ingenious.
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  2561.  @timothyjackson4653  get down, stay down behind whatever cover can be found, listen to one's detail's instructions and follow them. Not try to go to the podium, not try to mug for the crowd and potentially draw additional fire and decidedly not stand in the fucking vehicle door to mug for the cameras some more to sniper check the world. Every other VIP under protection detail managed to do that when attacked, save him.
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  2562.  @timothyjackson4653  I met him in person long ago, the closest thing to courage that he actually has is his diaper keeping his pants unsoiled.
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  2563. Just a hit piece on AI, as if it needed any help in proving Artificial Idiocy.
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  2564. Amazingly, the same half that voted for someone to shutter most of the government that they want to serve.
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  2565. There are no federal recall actions allowed by the Constitution.
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  2566. If his parents did their job years ago, the judges wouldn't have had a job to do with him at all.
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  2567. That wasn't a mustard stain, it's a different kind of stain from when he humped the flag.
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  2568.  @90AlmostFamous  USS Donald J. Trump, the world's first lead submarine anchor.
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  2569. Sorry, but she was appointed and confirmed, so by our Constitution, like it or not, she's a judge. A spectacularly shitty judge, but a judge nonetheless.
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  2570.  @dailywithyo  yep! When I was the IASO for a base, I was the first to take all of that training. If I could take it, nobody else could likely produce a credible excuse not to take it (well, save one that was hospitalized). One has a choice in life, lead by example or be an example of poor leadership. We'll see how this one turns out though, I'm willing to bet that if it comes down to wrecking her own career or letting Trump hang, she'll hang him out by his Trumpleforeskin.
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  2571. Hey, it's feasible, it's gonna happen sooner than you think, alongside commercial fusion power, grand unification theory and fire breathing unicorns, any year now.
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  2572.  @tateana5912  I missed one vote in my life, that due to moving between FOBs overseas. My mail in ballot is sitting right here filled out, just have to date it and put it into the mailbox and I'll do that on the first. Just to be sure no shenanigans go on.
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  2573.  @ReginaEarley  you poor soul, you can smell him? When I met him, once again I was highly pleased to have absolutely no sense of smell worthy of mention.
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  2574.  @mateusz_szlomo_gryciuk  the owner of the business my father worked many decades for used to bounce me on his lap and asked me to call him Zadeh. An interesting word, as that originated in Persia. So many languages went into making Yiddish, reflecting some very, very hard travels over the millennia. Yiddish can provide a toehold on an amazing number of languages, easing learning those novel languages. And learning is always a laudable goal, I figure I'll stop learning a week after I'm dead - unless I'm too busy learning and forget to stop. ;)
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  2575.  @CafeBikeGirl  what working fluid is used in the cooling system? I doubt they’d approve anhydrous ammonia for a spacecraft. Water?
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  2576. Hopefully, we can become a much better example. We've been fairly horrible overall... But then, the Constitution states it up front. "...in order to form a more perfect union." Not a perfect union, not that it's ever perfect, but a process of improvement to become more perfect.
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  2577. Oh, George is probably still drinking, well, whatever they drink in the great beyond.
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  2578. What?! Israel certainly could turn it into a regional war! They're spacefaring, so they could insert ODST forces from orbit... Yeah, like that trip through Vermont, "Can't get thea from hea"... About as good a chance of doing so as my attacking Tasmania from Pennsylvania on foot.
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  2579. Well, in the analog era, I could say that with a straight face. Referring of course, to reflected and delayed signals creating ghost images on the TV screen. The only real ghosts now are either due to dry eye or chemically altered states.
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  2580. One difference is, an elder would usually accompany and supervise the first excursion. Keep the kid out of trouble and able to control themselves, while still having a good time. Did the same with my soldiers, if they were old enough to fight and die for their country, they're old enough to have a few brain grenades with their peers, regulations be damned, it's on me. My only requirement, if one gets into trouble, I expected to have to bail out the entire squad or the ones not getting caught were on the top of my shit list. Needless to say, never had to bail anyone out, although I did get a few calls to pick up an entire squad from time to time. Well, except when I was with them, kind of hard to call myself and I wrangled things under control or at least got everyone out the back door in time. Those guys would also shovel shit with a rusty spoon for me, both because I took care of them and they knew I'd be using the rustiest spoon right next to them. And if one got out of control, his entire squad let him know about it, correcting that behavior early on and reinforcing the lesson.
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  2581. He's a bit of both, actually. Financially elite and a common moron at the same time.
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  2582. But, but, but... How will Trump pay off his debts to Russia?! Yeah, don't care at his problems either.
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  2583.  @davidtherwhanger6795  given one vessel's requirement of 390 tons of fuel, that's larger than any truck load. But yeah, that's a month's end or quarterly bill. Which means that the company hasn't been paying their bills for quite some time.
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  2584.  @metaljack866  assuming that they can keep their birds in orbit and prices don't increase to loft those tiny satellites into orbit and frustrate astronomers and orbital planning. The last geomagnetic storm killed 40 out of 49 satellites, which will now make a tiny set of light shows as they reenter the atmosphere and turn into undetectable air pollution.
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  2585. I honestly never thought I'd ever say that I miss the good old days!
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  2586.  @MeriweatherDesigns  the payment of which would outdo any economic stimulus in US history.
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  2587. So, you advocate for giving him special treatment that's above and beyond that of other convicts?
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  2588. Only a fool fights inside of a burning house.
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  2589.  @RohanXVII  odd how Biden still can ride a bike, yet Trump can only go by golf cart or up the ramp with an aging General's help. Oh wait, that's right, the ramp was steep and slippery - which wasn't a problem for a General in issue low quarter shoes, which aren't exactly known for supreme traction. Something that I know from 28 years of military service to this nation.
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  2590. Keeping deterrence measures secret blunts any deterrence one hoped for. Indeed, keeping deterrence secret was part of the punchline for Doctor Strangelove.
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  2591.  @Graveyard-humor  more than likely, it was one of the nearby counties in Virginia or Maryland.
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  2592. You don't want to have me visit and plug in a hundred caps to the outlets...
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  2593.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  you do know that there's lower accuracy with the civilian vs the military GPS, don't you? And they can always turn selective availability back on again, lowering the civilian accuracy even more. The quote justifying the lower accuracy was, "Suppose someone wanted to fly a cruise missile into the Oval Office window?", as if GPS was and is the only game in town for military missiles. Military GPS uses additional data bits and multiple receivers, civilian GPS uses single receiver. The civilian is augmented with WAAS, but that's North America only. Just as my M4 I lugged around in the Army is a wee bit different than what civilians buy, as milspec has specific standards to ensure that the weapon operates under a very wide environmental set of conditions, from arctic to tropical and most civilians don't want to pay for that additional capability and expense.
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  2594.  @krashd  one hole in that theory is, China's new carrier is the Kuznetsov's sister ship, purchased incomplete via a shell game, she was finished in China. Or at least alleged to be finished. Hard to be sure, but I do recall their homebrewed Han submarine was the only submarine in history to need its sonar operator to wear hearing protection.
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  2595. And the UK posts speeds largely in metric, but everyone refers to speeds in MPH. Personally, I think it's just to confuse my fellow dim witted Americans. ;) Once we get used to the UK mixture of measures, some SOB introduces us to a chap from Liverpool and our minds vaporize.
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  2596.  @pdxshadow9819  still in a decaying orbit. Let's wait and see if and where it lands.
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  2597.  @eddieboggs8306  I second the motion, for all the good that a mere commoner can do?
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  2598.  @reginaschellhaas1395  oops, using phone and my eyes aren’t what they once were. 19:18. Recommended from 19:5-18.
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  2599.  @reginaschellhaas1395  or two intraocular lenses now, post cataract removal and both are for distance.
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  2600. Aeroponics are more efficient and far more easily maintained. And both are maintenance intensive to begin with. A bigger ball pain would be to design a closed ecosystem that's balanced.
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  2601. Simply put, it's a religion.
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  2602.  @DickenCider  oh? Point out any mistruth spoken by the host. I'll wait. There has to be something in Putin's playbook to help you out.
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  2603. I look for conflicts with reality, physics, chemistry, etc. Found a few points of disagreement and addressed them above. Both sides have cemented themselves into unrealistic and impossible positions. C'est merde, find a better solution and don't stay married to one viewpoint, for that's a religion.
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  2604.  @cooked9957  I'm pretty sure that Wellington had an army to help with that specific task.
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  2605. Trump and his MAGA Trumpites remind me of another group from long ago. The Zealots at Masada, who rather than actually right the Romans who finally breached the fortress as Masada, as they bragged that they would do, bravely leaped off the cliffs to their deaths, losing the only battle that the offered - against gravity and altitude.
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  2606. Do you honestly believe that your senator and representative read youtube comments?
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  2607. No worries, Krampus gets them on Christmas.
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  2608. Oh noes! We might end up involved in a second world war! Knowing these jackasses, they'd have supported Hitler. And Israel. And never recognize their inherent contradiction.
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  2609.  @lizardog  now, now. It's Don the Con, soon to have dual meaning of confidence man and convict. If I did 1% of the crap he pulled with the classified documents, I'd be so far under the prison that sunlight would take a month to reach me! Instead, he gets to redefine contempt of court as if it's an art form.
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  2610. Well, those satellite signals do go to geosynchronous orbit, for major telecom traffic, a fair bit misses the bird, but it's still microscopic power levels compared to what the sun puts out. The universe is fucking noisier than hell itself, meanwhile, everyone went to fiber.
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  2611.  @CragScrambler  compared to solar noise, it's the equivalent of an ant urinating on an erupting supervolcano. Would anyone even close enough to experience full thickness burns even notice? At interstellar distances, we'd appear to be entirely concealed by the solar corona's noise and only a highly directional beam could possibly detected by our nearest neighbors. Now, put a high power transmitter (gigawatts or greater) in the Kuiper belt, there'd be an increased chance of not being completely drowned out by solar noise - from the edges of the orbit, as seen from any potential receiver. Then, only contending with a phenomenally noisy universe itself.
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  2612. The elevated contamination levels in the air isn't exceptionally hard to understand, as you mentioned partially with tank movement. Watch an armored convoy on tank trails some time, the amount of dust amazes first time viewers every time. So, expect another spike when the Russian armor and truck convoys depart the region or replacement units move with equipment being replaced. I'd not refer to detained workers as hostages, a more accurate term would be slave workers, as they're not allowed to depart their work areas. They sure as hell can't quit and go home!
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  2613. Except that the regulations changed, 14 - 17 is now optional and coverage has to be purchased. Deregulation is a good thing! Leaves kids abandoned in airports, which is good or something.
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  2614. Got caught outside in a couple of microbursts, literally went from 60 MPH to 0 in seconds, with the chassis pushed against the rubber stops. Felt like the hand of an angry god pushing the vehicle down. One was a station wagon, the other a full size Ford service van. The latter requiring my unthreading a tree from the grille and driveshaft. Basically, it's a cloud falling on you, bringing the air with it. Had a tornado chase me out of Huntsville, AL back in the early '80's, one trying to form over my head at Ft Indiantown Gap (strong winds blowing through the gap in the three mountains disrupted it, after it drifted north past the three mountains, it touched down and wiped out a farm) and some touching down in our parish, one touching down after we left a town in Texas. Frankly, I think our ancestors fouled up when they stepped off of the battlestar... ;)
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  2615.  @jmpattillo given the immense size of neutrino detectors and their shielding, suffice it to say it'd be undetectable until warhead maintenance requires testing of the pit, which isn't very frequent.
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  2616. Your AI is showing.
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  2617. Truthers, people who believe the truth is what they're told that it is, not what they've saw and heard with their own senses. Hell, Trump's repeatedly pulled the Groucho Marx defense, "Who are you going to believe? Your own eyes and ears or me?" And they believe him, hook, line and sinker. I'd order a roll of Trump toilet paper, but I want to use it to clean my ass, not smear more shit on it.
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  2618. But, tellingly, they can never indicate what law allegedly banned the miracle perpetual motion machine. Still, there is such a thing as solid hydrogen, there are two forms. Hydrogen ice, which is hard to keep that cold and metallic hydrogen, think Jupiter's core pressures. The last, very very efficient, if you happen to have a Jupiter in your back pocket. In which case, we'll not speak about how huge one's ass is... Hydrogen from the air is doable, but I didn't realize they were making these for people living inside of gas giants or the sun itself. Given their living conditions, they can have anything that they want, as I really don't want to piss off Kryptonians. Hydrogen stored on disc like music, so hydrogen is stored as data? Then you don't need to fill it, just play it again. Yay! Perpetual motion again, third one this week.
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  2619.  @danielwarner7572  he'll follow it or face civil contempt fines and we know how much he hated getting those contempt fines from his last lost trial.
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  2620. Not to mention having a declaration of regex, but no assertions, hence leaving a contextless list of strings without conditionals, filters or well, anything. Looks closer to a half baked idea of what an API might look like to an AI that has no idea what an API actually is.
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  2621. "Can't be an improvement, it's preexisting." "That's OK, we'll retroactively reassess for the back taxes owed".
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  2622. They still hold those contests and the American Society of Civil Engineers sponsors those contests and has tons of resources available for participants.
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  2623.  @aardvarkhole  stepwise progression is a hallmark of vascular dementia, as the vascular damage from the breakdown of glycated end products in the epithelial lining of the vasculature of the brain is global. That said, the paraphrasic errors, odd neologisms and derailment do suggest some focal issues in Broca's Area, the rest also suggestive of some form of possible frontotemporal dementia. That said, having met Trump in person back around 2000, it was already rather well established that he suffered from total anencephaly and craniorectal inversion. A one note choir, where the choir would sing do re me fa so la ti do, he'd sing me me me me me me me me. Understandable, since the only thing he could see was the inside of his rectum.
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  2624.  @freeculture  Soyuz I, far more impressive. It actually made its flight before incinerating its occupant. The parachute got stuck, due to paint and the capsule hit the ground at 300 mph and burned the capsule and cosmonaut into oblivion. The cosmonaut had put in his will that the generals that ordered the unready flight to launch had to be photographed with his remains and they actually did do so, photographed with a charcoal mass that didn't at all look like it was once a human. Good for him! Pity that they launched the damned thing though. Soyuz 11, valve dislodged, venting the atmosphere into space, killing all 3 crew. The valve, right under a cosmonaut's seat, where it couldn't be reached in time. Still, we're ahead in fatalities, courtesy of the space shuttle. Because, complacency kills.
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  2625.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu compared to the foreign rightie, who is a zero target for an entire thermonuclear arsenal?
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  2626. Only her state bar association can disbar her. If you're thinking removal from the bench, that requires impeachment by Congress. The appellate court can remove her from the cases though, as was discussed by our host.
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  2627. So, does your church have Trump in gold on its steeple?
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  2628. Laugh, when you feel like crying...
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  2629. Well, that or I brushed into one of those stupid displays management and employees hate... :/ Hey, stop laughing until I'm out from under all this shit and can safely join you!
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  2630. Well spoken, later speakers, want to meet me and my trusty rusty? Separate your politics from reality or get a rude abruption.
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  2631. Which has what to do with this specific story?
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  2632.  @GailCarmack  ah, but his numbers look good when there are no numbers to report. Who could predict that a physical shortage of eggs would drive up prices? Other than a first grade student...
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  2633.  @Blixey-r9z  all of the others weren't during a TOGA, with zero thrust for the climb and turn. Doesn't matter who made the aircraft when you're trying to climb without engines, then turn reciprocal, as you'll not be able to go around. It's called out of altitude, speed and ideas. The bear of it is, they'd have likely been fine had they just continued with the landing that they abandoned. But, hindsight has the benefit of time, no stress and 20/20 vision.
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  2634.  @TheCrazyMoleMan  or maybe a faster, more common, longer flying thing, like oh, a helicopter? If they only had an Air Force base nearby, say right next to the old Fort Dix reservation...
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  2635. I'm beyond astonished that there was no descriptiveness, I guess we now only allow one German girl at a time into the US, for at least two generations or so? I'm sure other immigrant groups would welcome that change to the Green Card lottery! They used to be a lot more selective than allowing such a broad brush destroying innovation and competition. I think you see two avenues of attack I'd explore, were I in her shoes... I would find it interesting had our host been a German ambassador's daughter, I think we know how that would turn out! That's some really ugly PR, although in reality, it's ugly PR any way in which you slice it. If it were to have happened with me, the young lady from California would run smack into someone derived from original "Hessian" stock, with Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution part of my family line and a branch off of the Reynolds family to make her claim a more significant uphill battle, given first generation vs originating the nation stock. Keeping things tangled enough, for long enough, for them to finally offer some settlement where we'd both keep our brands or we'd keep low billable hours tanglefoot actions and PR disasters running for as long as amuses me and given my age, I can be trivially and easily amused for a very, very long time.
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  2636.  @Rusty_Nickle  not really, where one was raised counts, dual citizenship counts and how one identifies as counts.
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  2637. Somehow, I knew some people would latch onto that. Addicts tend to think that way. Now, excuse me while I empty my ashtray.
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  2638.  @danr9584  who to watch out for? All of them. These days, it sounds like the only way to get a fair shake out of a builder is if you have their family as collateral. Real estate hostages, sounds ever so modern and civilized! If I ever retire, I think I'll retire to a civilized country.
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  2639. @AO OK, we'll not give him a glass of cow's milk. But, given his diet regime, I guess I'll keep the goat milk. Yummy, but fatty as all get out!
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  2640.  @Zeyev  ours was even easier, as meals were at the DFAC.
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  2641. I don't know, I keep calling him sirrah.
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  2642.  @fionaanderson5796  40 federal charges, one isn't charged unless one was arrested. Bail obviously was posted or released on his own recognizance (can't recall now). That leaves people unhappy with having a Constitution, as the eighth amendment comes into play: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Although, I suspect that I could make a good case that the court is being punished by having to deal with Trump and that dealing qualifying as cruel and unusual punishment...
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  2643.  @fionaanderson5796  indeed, had to dig a bit, but no bail or travel restrictions. If it was you or I, we'd be beneath the prison, about a month delay for sunlight to get to us and no bail. Of course, I've had a security clearance going back to shortly after "Let There Be Light". Guess it helps to be able to afford to rent an affordable judge.
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  2644.  @Røn-Ayres  as bad as the one commenting that a jury selecting among charges for guilt or not guilty being unconstitutional. Too many people emote, rather than actually read the law or even our Constitution.
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  2645. You've obviously never saw the Nevada test site. Some parts are open to the public now, it remains a wasteland, despite those opened sections being cleaned up at ridiculous expense.
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  2646. Been getting them for the past four months, typically once per month, all for the PA Turnpike. Granted, my area code does tell that I am in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, however I don't own a motor vehicle.
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  2647. Case dismissed due to no grand jury charging her and judicial immunity. Next on the docket?
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  2648.  @Wesmancan  ah, so you admit to hiding to prevent arrest for committing a felony.
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  2649.  @greenvy2000  there is an incentive. I've cancelled a few orders, had my bank retrieve the funds and avoided the company for over six months repeatedly and things did get a little bit better, until the next misbean counter came along to "improve" things. Jeff, if there is any justice in this universe, will enjoy his balls roasting in hell for accepting such VP's. If not, I'll invent hell just for such CEO's. And shovel coal down for eternity. My version of heaven.
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  2650.  @mauriciochiessi7138  OK, not yet possible, but drilled beyond. Good job, Jethro Bodine.
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  2651.  Hiro Takkan  actually, we've gotten up to around a Richter scale 7 tremor from the Hiroshima nuclear device, Tsar Bomba was a solid Richter 8.8 and a solid 3 from an non-nuclear explosion aboard a submarine (Kursk). Seismometers are part of the nuclear test ban monitoring equipment set. Didn't make much of a structural impact on the planet, but they were recorded throughout the planet. To utterly disrupt the planet, well, that kind of energy is available fairly close at hand - although how we'd accumulate about 12 days of solar output and store it for a single burst is beyond our current capabilities by far. :) The gravitational binding of the earth is rather high, 2x10^32 Joules.
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  2652.  @Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson the ship is a newpanamax, can't get any bigger and still pass through the Panama canal. As for bumpers, you're talking about deflecting a ship with a load of 116,851 tons. Do enlighten us on what would act as a properly protective bumper against 234 million pounds of thump.
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  2653. A modest correction, he's not a lieutenant, he's a lieutenant colonel, properly abbreviated as LTC.
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  2654.  @monad_tcp  not even deep web, any decent college library has the references. Some even have the supercomputers, but oh, not the software. The neutron generator used is also kind of impressive, it's decidedly not a college physics lab kind of model.
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  2655.  @USA-GreedyMenOfNoIntegrity  saying loudly, "Free at last!"
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  2656. No, it's just now that he has the spotlight, what was already apparent in private is now visible to the public. Tesla and SpaceX are assembly line science, Boring isn't going anywhere at all, the HyperLoop is under a small parking lot only, his neural interface is 1970's tech - literally at where we were in the '70's - albeit at a 1920's infection rate in his lab animals. Twitter is just an ASSembly of rubbish so bad I deleted my account in disgust. Elon does have one skill, he does know how to hire people that are competent to come up with ideas for him. That's actually a fairly rare skill, but not one so rare as to make objectionable behavior suddenly acceptable.
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  2657. Weren't those on a 28 nm mask? Any hardening on the carrier? Think they're down to 4 nm now, I'd hate to think about trying to radiation harden one of those!
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  2658. The ship has a draft of 40 feet, the channel depth is 50 feet. Suffice it to say, I'm sure that the bow is resting on the bottom, given the mass of the bridge on top of it and that it's down by the bow.
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  2659.  @justincredible.  whichever one wants. Got a problem with our very first amendment?
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  2660.  @micheleadamson9867  released on compassionate parole, as his neurosyphilis had progressed enough he spent his last year in the prison hospital. Left with the mental capacity of a 12 year old, despite eventual successful treatment in 1942, he died in 1947 of a stroke, likely contributed to by the damage by the neurosyphilis.
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  2661.  @antioneoda1000  the judge started that trial stipulating that she was raped by Trump, but the criminal charges were impossible due to the statute of limitations.
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  2662. Having actually met the man at a social event years ago, I can truthfully say, there is no such thing as an intelligent Donald Trump.
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  2663. Guess I should've denied that cop with the AED entry when my wife coded then, huh? Good cops doing things right don't get headlines, only the idiots and sadists get headlines.
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  2664.  @Sidewinder-xk9sk  well, things worked out ever so well at Masada for the Zealots. Oh wait...
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  2665.  @adria89  reminds me of the film "Civil War" Dementia Donnie obviously nodding off at the ending.
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  2666. I'm from Pennsylvania, I never miss a chance to take a jab at that Tory state myself.
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  2667. And one of the most heinous war crimes that there is. Protecting noncombatants came directly after WWII and Nazi war crimes that literally depopulated entire towns in France.
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  2668.  @babu357  wrong context, who lost is accurate.
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  2669. I'm blacklisting youtube, since it refuses to flag disinformation videos and comments. Pity, I'll miss you informative videos, doctor.
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  2670. Oh, maybe a pillow guy…
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  2671.  @MrJDFallon  there is no entire world. START treaties limited how many deployable nukes the US and Russia have. The current numbers could at maximum destroy a maximum of 1/3 US cities and towns, if they ignored our military and utility infrastructure, which isn't likely and not ignoring those lessens how many cities get struck, as it takes a minimum of six warheads to destroy a military base. Meanwhile, a full countervalue, same conditions, would utterly depopulate Russia of cities and towns, as well as degrade their military capabilities significantly. Nuclear winter was a myth dispelled in the 1990's by Gulf War I and subsequent improved modeling, with some mild summers causing some degradation of crop yields, but nothing extinction level at all. End of the day, Russia would become literally extinct, the US heavily degraded and the winner would basically be China - ish, our fleets would still be afloat, just short a lot of national infrastructure to support them, but plenty abroad to still do so, national leadership on aircraft or in bunkers for a couple of weeks necessary for what fallout there is to decay. I started my military career in nukes, I know the field and doctrines well, as well as the actual results of nuclear weapons. Putin's desperate, but he's not stupid, nor is he suicidal. Nor is the Russian military, political and economic leadership types. Were he to even come close to considering using nuclear weapons, he'd suddenly "retire for health reasons" to his dacha in the woods, not to be heard from again.
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  2672. Phenomenally apt, given that croissants were peasant food. Now, like lobster, they're food for those reasonably well off.
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  2673.  @ScienceNotFaith  no, it's the assholes with the guns. My guns didn't keep my safe, my firearms safe kept me safe, as did quality locks on my doors, cleared obstructions away from windows, good window locks also added to my safety. The only time I had my rifle out was for hunting deer with the one model or when competing with the service style rifle (and once, when convincing a venomous, infamously ill tempered snake to leave my yard and thankfully, I didn't need to kill the snake).
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  2674.  @ScienceNotFaith  and who are "those people"? I seem to recall all manner of civil rights curtailment using those two words. Meanwhile, restricting and banning are two different things, with prohibition proving utterly ineffective and only serving to drive violent crime upward. Meanwhile, if you actually reviewed my comments, I've suggested that which does work, placing semiautomatic firearms that are derived from military service rifles under a new chapter of the NFA, right below suppressors. They sure don't belong as equals to machine guns, lest we get more people buying machine guns.
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  2675.  @BuzzLOLOL  well, you don't have to check them. At least one doesn't, if they don't mind becoming pedestrians.
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  2676.  @davidwilliams1086  and to visit the graves of those they lost and had to leave behind.
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  2677. So, your answer to two boxes being damaged is to deny the deployed military their right to vote. Something we've done since the nation's inception should now be prohibited? Drop boxes for ballots are also as old as the nation. We could get rid of the problem entirely and just let the legislature do the voting again. Nobody has yet burned down a legislature that was in session, although some did try on Jan 6...
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  2678. Current CDC data reflects 100% of the patients tested positive for adenovirus. But, to further muddy the water, six out of nine patients in Alabama tested positive for Epstein-Barr virus, others tested positive fpr enterovirus/rhinovirus, metapneumovirus, RSV and human coronavirus OC3. None were associated with COVID-19, two required liver transplant. Now, is the finding of adenovirus incidental, contributory to the illness or a cofactor? Well, that's why they have infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists.
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  2679. Odd preaching, given his trumpeting a Pax Romana, which was Roman imperial conquest of much of Europe and the Mediterranean. And what he all said was closer to what was described in Revelation. So, he wants the US to take over the world, then force their "kings" to cede to Trump's holiness, despite his being the most unholy man alive. All based upon "Jesus told me", when the bible says the Holy Ghost would speak, not Jesus, not the Father, not my unholy boot socks and most certainly not a dog named Sam. But, I'm also willing to bet that he also preaches the blasphemous prosperity gospel as well. And Jesus is concerned about the Panama canal, which we do use on a regular basis, like everyone else and somehow, the only holy land canal, the Suez is A-OK. Dud's nearly enough to make me consider day drinking. If only I wasn't so damned cheap... Well, I'm off to do something important, spice up the chicken and stuff it into the oven. The rest of dinner's leftovers to clear some fridge space.
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  2680.  @-norsecode-  or perhaps, an H1B visa? I'm dyslexic, so I see those types of errors when I'm fatigued and decompensate. Compensating well, because well, "Thanks, Mom!". Drilled me mercilessly on spelling, vocabulary, phonics and doublechecking myself. One upside to being dyslexic, noticed it in the Army, I see clean through camouflage like it isn't even present.
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  2681.  @regigill7186  and halt reporting on crashes involving his self-driving cars. His, as the very narrow wording excludes competitors in a way only a lawyer could come up with.
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  2682. Because, not reporting yet another contemptuous act really serves our nation well.
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  2683.  @coraleahs  some people are just not worth that great of an expense.
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  2684. Well, we could always say "a paperclip weight", but somehow it lacks the precision of something typically measured in milligrams.
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  2685. Chopped steak dinner. Another term for chopped steak being ground meat, typically as Salisbury steaks, likely from Banquet TV dinners... Oh well, could've been meatloaf. Which pretty much is the same recipe...
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  2686.  @brianhirt5027  nope, still alive and well, I'm quite good at ducking. As for Saint Petersburg, don't know, don't care about their weather. It's mildly overcast and warm here in Harrisburg, PA. Not a good neighborhood though, the governor's mansion's only a couple of blocks away.
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  2687. It's ironic that with methemoglobinemia, one treats the blue person with methylene blue. As for spicy foods, love them, but longstanding GERD introduced enough damage to my esophagus to make those foods problematic, so moderation and occasional use is my watchword. Moderation in all things, including moderation. I'll just get my hat...
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  2688.  @sinkpehnarossfire454  no international laws are involved with disclosure of classified information, as classification matters are national laws only. Still, one can hope he gets Manning's old cell...
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  2689. She can't be fired, since she was appointed with advice and consent of the Senate. That means, she can only be impeached. Arrest would require her being charged by a grand jury, per the US Constitution, which means she'd have to be charged with what? Incompetence isn't a crime. Malfeasance one has to prove mens rea, a guilty mind, that she intended to violate the law and we're notoriously short on quality telepaths. Oh well, at least you didn't blather on about treason as others have done in other venues, displaying their lack of knowledge on what the US Constitution clearly and narrowly defines treason as and she's certainly not taken up arms against her nation and lacking a declared war, we've a dearth of enemies.
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  2690.  @kenchen704  and logistics pilots bring infantry.
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  2691. Drop something in orbit, it'll stay in orbit. Nothing decelerated it so that it'll stop falling around the earth.
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  2692.  @juliettebobcat704  weapons can point in any direction. And unlawful orders are first to be questioned, then disregarded.
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  2693.  @Shaolin91z  odd moniker, a Chan Buddhism name for a Christian. But then, odd is your trademark, as you invoke all manner of blessings about a story surrounding three young women's deaths. And a clickbait headline that contradicts the entire story. The essence of the story being the cause of death was not being alive. Oh well, another day, another channel blocked.
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  2694.  @maryburrell3948  that'd be a boss that'd get an offer he couldn't refuse to never, ever consider, think or utter such a thing again about my child.
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  2695. Just put it where he can have it read to him, make sure you laugh at him, remind him of his innumerable failures and give him assurances that once he's gone, he'll literally be forgotten in mere days, his Trump signs in the landfills in under a day, his businesses dissolved in bankruptcy. It'll literally drive him the rest of the way around the bend. He might even break a golf club, assuming he can find the strength to do so.
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  2696. Almost as wonderful as a judge that ordered a defendant to plea guilty or face contempt.
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  2697.  @stevevrismo9842  others do wander past and look, so reinforcing the truth, without silly "vote for" jingles can only reinforce the truth.
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  2698.  @tested  shrink it down much more, they'll be needing a new impeller again, probably eventually get to flagella. Although, they might eventually want to switch to part of the IR band, to better tell the pink healthy from inflamed tissues.
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  2699.  @w1ndgeneral226  win at golf? Win in court? There are ever so many things Trump can never do...
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  2700. And so, every attorney that's had a client lie to them is disbarred and the nation no longer has defense attorneys, only prosecutors. That'll work out well. The attorneys in this case offered an affirmative defense in stating that they were misinformed by their clients and presented their clients statements as factual until their due diligence uncovered the fact that the information they were provided and provided to the court was incorrect. Now, you have to prove mens rea, that they knowingly did so vs their claim of being misinformed. That said, it also means that the jurist is certainly justified in looking at anything presented by those attorneys with a highly jaundiced eye. It essentially violating the very first rule of the court - never piss off the judge. Last week, I estimated it at 80% probable, now we're exceeding 90% probable that this is all literally going to end in gunfire. Emperor Musk and Empress Trump have gone so far off of the reservation that it's most probable that that is the only way that the US will retain a Constitution and laws. And alas, the courts lack armed personnel, that is defectively exclusively under the executive branch. And somehow, I don't see Melania grabbing Washington's portrait from a burning White House. But, I do know what my oath was sworn to uphold and protect.
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  2701.  @vladpadowicz5946 interestingly, the US legal definition is slightly different. Any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; The frame or receiver of any such weapon; Any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or Any destructive device. That said, a crossbow is as much a firearm as my bathroom scale is and that scale is a properly silent model, which only displays numbers in exponential notation. OK, not really, my bathroom scale certainly lacks exponential notation, it just displays "One at a time, dammit!" or once, "Maximum capacity 20 persons".
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  2702.  @A_piece_of_broccoli not in the US, hell, my glue gun fulfills your daffynotion of a firearm, as does my drywall screwgun. In the US, a firearm is defined by utilizing an explosive to expel a projectile. Hell, your notion even describes a caulking gun as a firearm! Muzzleloaders are not defined as a firearm under US federal law, if it uses loose powder, it's not a firearm. If it fires a cartridge, it's a firearm. That's per the Gun Control Act of 1968.
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  2703. Yeah, totally a big red light when you break a rubber. The tracking got broken by the submarine striking the towed array and breaking it.
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  2704.  @starling5188  no, by her own admission, she wants to fake it.
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  2705.  @NotTheSharpestKnife-mh  question, is it suborn in a complaint against them or misprision of perjury? Huh, searches come up with subornation of perjury. However, misprision could also be laid for not reporting crimes she became aware of beyond the case at hand. Boy, oh boy, talk about tiptoe through the minefield...
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  2706. Well, I'm 60 and I most certainly need a high school girlfriend - like a hole in the head. That's like promising me a bunch of virgins, yeah, no. I'll take a single harlot, who at least knows what she's doing and won't bring unnecessary drama into life.
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  2707. The last time I tried that, it was after they bitched a blue streak about paying for hurricane flooding of a port. Their response was to suggest moving all ports far inland, away from large bodies of water. I'm literally not joking.
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  2708. No, she has a great idea, cut off New York from federal money, New York can and will reciprocate and the federal government loses $361.8 billion per year in taxes. Then, after putting that bullet through her own foot, we can all hear her moan about the limp. As for Laken Riley, I'd ask MTG what color Laken's eyes were. She cares ever so much, she should be able to describe her, since she's invoking her name to try to invalidate state rights. Oh, I forgot, Trumpites have an inverse Burger King menu, "Have it our way or not at all, have it our way or fucking else". She really needs to return to her old job, as a harpy.
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  2709.  @nicemovies7461  I prefer the long barrel, but I fire at longer ranges than most. Whatever works for you and you can accurately hit your target is precisely the right tool for you. :) Am in the market for a new M1911, probably go with a Tisas. No race gun crap, just match barrel and bushing work, the rest being GI specs. And maybe an S&W 686 in 4 inch, just in case I go out for mother-in-law season. ;)
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  2710. Soon, he'll issue an EO to fire Congress and assume control of legislation and budget. Since he's already EO'd Marbury v. Madison away. Long live Emperor Elon Musk and Empress Donna Trump, long may they wane! Somehow, were this 1812, I suspect that Melania would allow Washington's portrait to either be captured or burned... An interesting thing, the USPS. Trusted not only with our mail, but also to courier classified documentation and parcels up to secret via registered mail, implemented to reduce the need for special couriers to carry such sensitive items to their destinations. Without the USPS, there'd be no trusted authority that could convey such parcels and messages, save for couriers, of which the government would literally require tens of thousands of. As an example, if I decommissioned a computer that's used to process secret information, the memory and hard drive would be removed and sent to the NSA for destruction via registered mail, inside of a properly packaged parcel (there are strict instructions on packaging and inner labels). Without the USPS, such would have to be hand carried by a courier, likely by air, then via rental car, uninterrupted to the destination for delivery of the sensitive contents. Additionally, the USPS post offices and post roads are both only to be controlled, created and funded by Congress, per Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. So, the Emperor and Empress are strongly advised to just sod off and kick a rock.
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  2711. I dunno, I vote for Trump for Sheol. I may be pure Sicilian-American, but well, I grew up in a neighborhood where I was able to pick up a bit of Hebrew and a fair amount of Yiddish. Was always great eating on the holidays too! As I tell many truthfully, I eat in many languages and I love my leafy greens, they keep me regular and taste great to me. Epidemiology, my condolences on the pandemic, burned a lot of professionals out. Our eldest is an RN and was fried badly, between the virus, a teen burn victim and one teen suicide, she had to take time off and was doing the begging insurance companies to do the right thing regarding patient RX's... She's back taking care of patients again.
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  2712. Trump isn't a sleazebag, he's a scumbag. Quite a big difference.
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  2713. That "joke" needed a lot of dirt thrown on it to cover it up. Alas, the ground was frozen. As were the fishermen's sinkers. Bob ain't been the same since either. Rod said, "Good luck finding me in the cold!", the rest, like the mayor's career is history.
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  2714.  @elizabethh-j2gfurmom  one cannot read that which was never written. The biggest is against lust in general, which was repeated in Old and New Testaments. Onam, the most frequently mis-cited was over his premature withdrawal from his deceased brother's wife, as it was his duty to sire a child in his dead brother's stead and he'd refused to do so. Cherrypicking verses and ignoring the full lesson is a sin in and of itself. Omitting half of the chapter, as severe as omitting a line when one changes the intended message, as you've then placed yourself above your God and that's the path that Satan took.
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  2715. Unless they're speaking about a Unix system.
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  2716.  ralphferley2602  not quite. That fine will impact the company bottom line and executives have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders to generate profit. Lost profit for criminal reasons, such as this are a failure of that fiduciary duty and is actionable, criminally and civilly. The stockholders just need to force that iron to their feet.
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  2717.  @pap4539  after many overflights, there was a sudden interest in dropping certain balloons not all that long ago. Wouldn't be all that surprised if, were these foreign, which isn't exceptionally likely, that would happen in this case. More likely, well, officially, there were never any aircraft launched from Groom Lake. Need I say more? And who would you bird dog, as a military drone, a fishing vessel, a pleasure craft or a military vessel and overfly military reservations, where you have full control over with only a telephone call? While operating inside of FAA regulated congested airspace, using FAA approved anticollision beacons, to avoid losing some really expensive drones. But, what would I know, I've only worked with a number of programs of record over the decades.
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  2718. Money greases many political wheels. In other nations, we call it corruption, in the US, business as usual and the privilege of wealth.
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  2719.  @RadioactiveDrew  yeah, that whole 5.7 kev isn't very spunky, I'd stand a better chance detecting helium-3 from those vials. The only way I'd be concerned about depleted uranium is if it caught afire or, as you said, after impact and well, it would've burned. I do keep one thing that is dangerous about - a can of chili. And of course, a chunk of "highly radioactive" granite. Both, of equal hazard to one's toes if one is careless.
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  2720. Nothing a cobalt wrapped warhead couldn't fix quite well.
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  2721. Alas, we don't permit exile in the US. Despite how tempting it may be at times.
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  2722.  @rachelnyn5543  I was always partial to sending him to Venus.
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  2723.  @danquigg8311  which was more cost effective? Those raids and all those bombs or a fleet of sunken Hoods?
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  2724.  @Edax_Royeaux  and the Bizmark got sunk, the Tirpitz got laid up for the remainder of the war until sunk, leaving only uboats that eventually largely got sunk.
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  2725.  @Edax_Royeaux  without that case, it'd have been a ball of explosives, reflectors and fissionables, with batteries and electronics tearing loose and hence, not detonating, right? And we're talking about bombs that weighed in at 10000 pounds, so a ton and a quarter less isn't much to cut off and risk damage during handling and dropping. Of course, had they waited around 5 years, they could've used boosted fission bombs instead, as long as we're going into the realm of unreality. Personally, I never went into a combat zone counting on the enemy not shooting at me, just call me weird.
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  2726.  @Edax_Royeaux  so, your hatred is so great for the aircraft that your answer is a kamikaze mission? There is out of the box thinking, then there's psychotic thinking, this is rubber room land thinking. And no, drone would be out of the question, as loss of remote control of our most powerful and expensive weapon is beyond the call of out of the question. BTW, you do realize that a bomber descending to burst altitude would be bigger than the bomb, hence a much, much, much easier target? The reason accuracy of flak against the bombers was so bad was due to the bombers being at high altitude, the bombs were detonated at low altitude, where AAA accuracy was rather good. But, a bomb on a parachute wouldn't be engaged, as that would risk having the bomb drop at high speed, causing greater damage, from the defender's perspective.
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  2727.  @Edax_Royeaux  more false equivalence, as the B-29 wasn't created exclusively for the purpose of carrying atomic bombs. It was a long range strategic bomber that remained in service for many, many years. As an example, the B-17 was retired in the 1950's, but the B-29 stuck around until 1960. You've provided zero evidence that flak armor was even on the bombs, you keep mentioning it, while providing no evidence for it. And that the Enola Gay wasn't shot at means it couldn't be shot at? Admiral Yamamoto didn't have his airplane shot at, then it was shot down. You make fragmented chains of cherry picked pieces of facts to support a nonsensical, nonadherent to historic view of what really happened here in the real world. You might want to check out the real world, it's pretty interesting.
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  2728.  @Edax_Royeaux  first, are you aware of what a ballistics case is? It streamlines a bomb so that it doesn't have the glide characteristics of a leaf, fluttering all over and nowhere near its target. Second, at the mass of the bomb, precisely what would you make its case out of, silly putty? That's what mild steel would have the consistency of with 10000 pounds of weight inside of it. Caseless, one then has wires and det cord all strung about to get snagged and torn free, leaving one with a functionless device and gift of an otherwise operational nuclear warhead to Japan. Speak to what you actually have training and expertise in. I worked with nuclear weapons in the military at the beginning of my military career. I've also had EORA training, so I most certainly do know my explosive ordinance.
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  2729.  @neutronalchemist3241  well, even today, unguided bombs will likely miss a warship from high altitude. Same problem then as now, as physics doesn't change over time, only technology does. But, now we've got precision guided munitions to take care of that for us.
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  2730.  @sagunsingh7415  and the LARP crowd remains zero targets.
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  2731.  @sagunsingh7415  give it time. They'll eventually come over the mountains, invade and be defeated by naan.
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  2732.  @user-r.u.sane.70m81m  legally speaking, males between 17 and 45 and females in the National Guard are members of the unorganized militia. The National Guard is the organized militia. The selective service system functions as a mustering of the unorganized militia. It's all covered in the Militia Act of 1903. And training is actually provided via the Civilian Marksmanship Program. I won't do NRA competitions, but I do participate in CMP competitions. Less yahoos at the CMP events.
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  2733. Just waiting for the show trial before we cart him off in the middle of the night to the gulag. Oh wait, we don't do show trials, we do fair trials and only Southern states run gulags.
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  2734. I can picture in poorer neighborhoods, where there are food deserts, a hue and a cry raised over traffic control measures that lower access to the restaurant. Then, a headline appears that reads, "Food is illegal in ___" and riots occur. All over what is actually traffic control issues interfering with the rights of motorists not patronizing the business trying to travel. It only takes one troublemaker to grab attention for advertisements in their publication to fan smoldering flames into a conflagration. Our history is replete with such things, albeit in a time when the populace was less well armed. Yeah, I had that job before, to figure out just what could go wrong with any mitigation attempt. It kept a roof over my head and shit off of my shoes.
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  2735.  @dalailama1405  inheriting money does not prove intelligence. After all, the one who occupied the imperial throne in China last was profoundly mentally challenged.
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  2736. A better case could be made between Africa and India discovering iron working first. Given the timeline between India working iron before Persia, I suspect India learned how to work iron and the knowledge spread via trade routes, with Europe being last, as they were still recovering from Volcanic disasters in the Med. China was also certainly working iron long before Europe, again making sense if India had been trading and that knowledge followed trade routes. Alas, any evidence for Africa has likely been long lost due to colonization and the destruction that wrought. As for the difficulties working iron, much was based upon the color of the iron being worked to determine temperature. Furnace temperatures can be assessed crudely either by experience or even by behavior of clay placed in the furnace, as overheated clay has its own distinct behavior. Mastering carburizing, that's pretty much pure experience. But, people then were as smart as people today are, our only advantage is greater knowledge of chemistry, metallurgy and physics. Now, one to really bake your noodle: How advanced would humanity have been had there been no plagues?
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  2737. So what? The bible isn't actually Constitutionally required for swearing anything. Not even in court, given people of other faiths would hold no credence to the book. It's a symbol, he could've had a Dora backpack held out to swear over for all the legality or real impact it'd have had.
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  2738. I sadly suspect that you'll be better rested than Rip Van Winkle.
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  2739.  @dianevanderlinden3480  the funny thing is, the verbiage behind even the suggestion of that nonsensical check was that it'd be for people that make over $40k a year. The justification is that they're more likely to deposit the money into the bank, rather than use such badly needed funding and that'd slow inflation down by slowing spending. And again, ignores entitlements as a disparaging thing, when entitlements are literally what one is entitled to, as in an enumerated right. But, I guess some rights are more equal than others, just as some income level people are more equal than others. So saith the lord god Mammon.
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  2740.  @bergmanoswell879  one wee problem. Deportation requires a destination. For a foreign national, that's easy, returned to their original or last point of residence nation. For a US citizen that renounced, per international law, we can't involuntarily just transport them to some unsuspecting victim nation. So, they'd need someplace that won't reject him. Perhaps, Antarctica? Only because it'd be too expensive to transport him to the sun...
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  2741.  @tieegg  well, you don't press charges or prosecute anyone, the District Attorney does, whether you want them to or not much of the time. "I won't press charges" literally means you won't testify against them. Still, if they're not under our laws, I fail to understand how they think that the police will come when they call, save under hypocrisy.
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  2742. Not even as a guest.
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  2743.  @Lmfaocj  no, I'm sure that the payment was correct - likely for the last time.
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  2744. Ain't it nice that the god-Trump fired the old God? So, what happens when the god-Trump decides he outranks his former god, Putin?
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  2745.  @jacobmiller6189  I get that, plus heavy congestion that makes me loathe and avoid opiates and opioids. Period. It's just that unpleasant for me. Despite having chronic pain.
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  2746. Are farts wet and lumpy? Although, in my case, it was due to a Crohn's flare. :/
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  2747. Sounds like that office is overfunded.
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  2748. Yeah, but being a standardized measurement like shakes and barns are in nuclear weapons, these mouse farts are standard mouse farts. We're still trying to get fuckton standardized...
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  2749. Sadly, after multiple deployments and finally retiring, contracted in the Persian Gulf region and a handful of years in, forgot to bring water on the commute to base. Got stuck in traffic, AC was inop, got a heat stroke. Hit the gate, at first they thought I was drunk. At the MP station, while being questioned and given a half dozen bottles of water, stopped slurring and a look of horrified realization appeared on their faces and an offer of transportation to clinic was given. A bit late now, it's over. I was a medic. Elevated liver enzymes, BUN high, high creatine and protein in urine. All resolved, save for mild protein in urine and ECG analyzer cries out digitalis effect due to QT anomaly.
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  2750. Google a recipe for whole wheat bread, it demands regular flour due to whole wheat's density and heaviness, not to mention coarseness. The investigators obviously didn't investigate what bread is and how it's made!
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  2751. just taking credit.
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  2752.  @prashnigupta5662  I'm guessing that the doc missed the question. No, there are some highly effective treatments and it takes a lot of teamwork between the patient and doctor to ensure the optimal results. That said, that's about the extent in my expertise in the subject.
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  2753. So, in California, if the legislature writes a defective law, the bench may re-legislate the law. Besides, a bee is obviously a crustacean. Well, there are land crustaceans... California can send the legislature home, jurists have matters in hand. Otherwise, elephants are snakes, rocks are water and up and down are the same by law. Such can only result in the populace holding such laws and eventually, as they accumulate, all laws in contempt. Don't get me wrong, I'm all i for protecting endangered species, but defective laws are fixed by the legislature or we just pack it up and let the bench rule by fiat.
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  2754. Sure, save that there's usually a cap on how many can be deducted for.
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  2755. That's because the guy behind you is on Planck time units. 5.39×10−44 s. Can't get faster than that.
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  2756.  @VideoNOLA  a physicist tried that defense for running a red light once. Alas, the jurist dismissed that argument, when in reality, the jurist should've made an offer the physicist couldn't refuse. "OK, the court will stipulate the red shift causing an erroneous understanding of the color of the light. This also means the court is assessing a speeding violation..." Would've paid off the national debt with massive interest and profit.
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  2757.  @wendyhunter6982  there was another Don, some years back, many called him the Teflon Don, because nothing ever seemed to stick to him. Eventually though, he died in prison.
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  2758.  @debwilson245  a bag, less dignified.
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  2759. If we can't fix it, it ain't broke. And if it's not broke, we can fix that too. Made plenty of bread with that model and its slightly larger brother. And when I didn't feel like bending over to get the mixer, well, I used the old Mark I mixer - my hands. The Mark I mixer does come with a lifetime warranty. ;)
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  2760. I dunno, if he's inside of LAW arming distance, he's likely under their guns.
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  2761.  @bobfall tanks can't shoot close around the hull, the guns won't depress that low. Typically, anything under 10 meters and they can't engage without unbuttoning and shooting with hand held small arms. Downside being, if one is front or rear or within a pivot radius, they can still run you over.
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  2762. From what I've heard, this news is actually quite ancient news, save for now more information is understood about what's going on inside of the cell nucleus. Given, hydras were established as immortal back in the '70's, due to regression. The paper mentioned in the beginning was from 1992, but I recall the trait being mentioned back when I was in high school and I finished that in 1979.
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  2763. Starting with misappropriation, since the funding was already released by Congress and signed into law and now he decided to just grab the money and run to Florida to play with his tiny balls. Given his fixation on odd movies plot lines, thinking they're real life events, I'm wondering if he watched the first half of the film "Civil War" and wants that, not bothering to watch the end of the film...
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  2764. What surprises me is, there were no flags in his record to alert someone generating the roster that he required a line check pilot. The more that you make things foolproof, the less errors that you can make.
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  2765. Then, there's HHV-3, varicella. Aka, chickenpox/shingles. Thankfully, declining as use of the vaccine expands in the covered population. Our kids helped test the vaccine candidate. One, apparently receiving a placebo, as she later contracted the virus some years later. Had it as a kid, pure misery. Had a 1 cm lesion of shingles as an adult, miserable enough, but could've been worse, as I've seen peers with worse cases. Got the shot as soon as I could!
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  2766.  @thenov1944  well, depends upon what charges he'd end up convicted upon and sentencing guidelines, don't it? Either way, a felony conviction would make him ineligible to live in quite a few gated communities. I'll just get my hat...
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  2767. The sad reality of it is, it doesn't matter, what matters is avoiding making the same mistakes again - which already is impossible due to changes already implemented everywhere else and well, phasing out the deficient parts of the design and actually adhering to the standards required and how one mitigates the damages already incurred to prevent worsening the problem. All of which was well followed eventually. Well, until some Russian tourists popped by in armored vehicles, started digging all over the place, then wandered off to track contamination around...
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  2768. I'm 61, I'm the guy that pisses a lot of folks off with one question. What's a hangover? I'm capable of drinking lordly amounts of booze, my preferred weapon being liquor. I also hydrate heavily when drinking and don't do blackout drunk. And when it starts to get boring, I put the bottles in the back of the closest and just forget about them for months on end. Moderation is the watchword, assuming one doesn't already have an addiction, in the latter case, only abstinence works. I also am known, when I can get a good deal on them, to suspend vanilla from beans in vodka, making my own vanilla extract in bulk. It's literally the original method of extracting vanilla. The booze boils off while cooking, which is good, as I loathe booze in my food, but have cooked with various alcohol products, from wine to liquors.
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  2769.  @asheronthedruid  infamous is more accurate.
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  2770. Nah, cite her with contempt of court, due to the weakness of her arguments at that specific level, order she sleep on a concrete floor, with a mylar blanket, lights on, prison AC set to cool, if she complains, make it colder, release to her home, to appear within the hour of release, during morning rush hour traffic and guards are ordered to deny her sleep for the three days confinement. All perfectly legal for a superior court to order, so that the attorney arguing such weak tea to prove personally to the court. Also, essentially a death sentence.
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  2771. Heh, gotta be at last five years since I ate any fast food, well other than pretty much once a year pizza or "Chinese" food (once you've had the real deal, trust me, what we get sold is an insult to that entire set of cultures). Upside, the only nutritional deficiency I ended up suffering with by the time they diagnosed my Crohn's was deficiency in salt and magnesium, all micronutrients and vitamins were dead center of the average bar.
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  2772.  @Dumpsterfireninja  Trump calls those successes. His doing so sending a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function's business owners into eye rolls that had me surprised that the planet stayed on its axis. That one being around y2k. What an ultramaroon!
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  2773. No, because it's really hard to confront an accuser when one is dead.
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  2774.  @imzadi83fanvids7  another video worked with the same cadaver and explained that the bone was hollowed out for a different examination previously. Yellow marrow is normally there, the same stuff you'd see in a beef shank or ham shank bone.
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  2775. If there's a civil war reenactment, a confederate flag is appropriate, the same in a museum exhibit on the civil war. Over a state capitol, then there's a need to send the US Army in and explain matters to them - again. Over one's house or one's vehicle, treated as an insurrectionist. That's cultural as well, ask any German. Removal from a reenactment, you've changed it into something else and just ban reenactments and education on the war entirely, as you wish to destroy the lessons imparted by the entire hot mess and hence, we'll repeat those harsh lessons until we learn and remember properly. Personally, I want to replace and again fly my Serapis flag, one authorized to be flown by my old historic unit and at one point, the only US flag recognized in Europe, despite it being incorrect. Something that I find rather humorous, that our language is so deficient that a letter explaining what our flag looks like could be interpreted so utterly wrong. A humor that recognizes how easily miscommunication can have either humorous effects or as easily, tragic effects.
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  2776. Does the state of NY tell your state what to do?
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  2777.  @nickbreckley4287  not under Charles I. Who wanted to retain an absolute monarchy and well, the House of Lords had other ideas. In the end, regicide was the course that prevailed.
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  2778. Any time there's any form of high powered rocket launch there's a NOTAM out for the flight path of the rocket.
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  2779. As there were no damages, there is nothing to sue for. One sues for damages, not not suffering from any harm.
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  2780.  @zornslemon  AI young? It's beyond young, it's still in mid-miscarriage.
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  2781. Wow, you already screwed up in your opening statement! "Trump's going to screw up in 1000 ways", no, more like 100000 ways. ;) I am confused as to why you're covering last week's news though. I've been calling this either "Biden in the Basement" or "The Biden Under the Bed", as apparently, there's a Biden haunting the god-king's White House and sabotaging him at night and his almighty cannot locate him, despite his infinite impotence, I mean omniscience and omnipotence, no I was right the first time. Amazingly, you could see inflation coming, I could see inflation coming, Helen Keller could see inflation coming. And egg prices are predicted to continue to rise, likely by at least 20%, per the USDA, as bird flu continues to ravage "farms". Using quotes, as we're talking mega warehouses full of battery cages with around 6 million laying hens, one gets sick, they all get sick and bird flu is 90 - 100% fatal in them currently. Canada doesn't get these problems, as their "farms" only hold around 28k birds per farm and are more geographically scattered, so are a bit more infection impact resistant. Yeah, education is shocking, of all people to be shortsighted on the matter, educators. Pasteurized eggs are just rinsed with a high temperature water bath briefly, so that the egg doesn't cook. Downside is, the membrane that protects the egg is degraded, upside is less chance of salmonella that farmers reject vaccinating their hens against. Dunno, I get the cheapest store brand or whatever's on special eggs at the store and a dozen lasts me around a month or so unless I go on a baking binge. But, one thing I can't blame on Trump is both the egg laying factory "farms" or avian influenza. Not reporting on it now, not reporting on COVID spread, trying to hide a measles epidemic I can blame on him. Oh, bird flu was also detected in milk from cows in Nevada and Arizona. Less of an impact with them, it's not highly lethal in bovines yet and pasteurization destroys the virus and yeah, you can't give me raw milk unless the cow's right next to the glass and it just came from Betsy and good luck then - I don't tolerate anything above 2% and prefer 1% fat milk, higher gives me indigestion. And parasites and pathogens, I've enough fun with Crohn's, no need to try to make me shit myself more often, thank you. Matter of fact, get my final induction dose of biologic treatment for the Crohn's this week, unless I get DOGEfucked. I'm mystified as to why the State Department always rejects my job applications... ;) OK, total number of applications for State = 0. But, to be serious, Trump has, ahem, reliably informed us that the steel and aluminum tariffs will help farmers. The rationale behind that was apparently accordion hands. That man's a super gen- no, can't finish that one with a straight face. He's about as brilliant as a 10 foot tall stack of anvils.
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  2782.  @ConalRF  meh, give me a can of beans, implosion wouldn't be the worry. Explosion and asphyxiation would be the danger then. ;)
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  2783.  @beazle86  phosphorus is highly hygroscopic, hence generates dense clouds of smoke. The gas got turned off, but was it already released inside the house?
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  2784. Never cared about looks, care still about capability. That damned thing works like an antique deuce and a half missing even rims, let alone tires. Making it a highway princess, anywhere else, a dunce and a quarter.
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  2785.  @janakiramr7631  some child needs a timeout.
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  2786. Might get some eye watering, but I have no sense of smell - literally. And was an electronics technician for decades.
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  2787.  @tcdan-c2m  California to change policies and laws to be in accordance with his own beliefs given to him by Putin and President Musk.
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  2788. Well, she is one of the few that stayed the course, but didn't get disbarred... Yet.
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  2789.  @lizzieintx  not quite, he's quite conversant on how to manage bankruptcies.
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  2790.  @glens0r  just checked, the lambs are silent. And tasty...
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  2791. And that's how this fraud was caught, right? Do you have a special ID for driving and for owning a motor vehicle? No, just for operating the vehicle on a public highway. Otherwise, you'll be denying our military their right to vote while deployed. Why serve when your rights get absolutely stripped? I wouldn't have put in over 28 years of my life defending that which I could not enjoy! And you'd have ended up praying to Allah.
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  2792.  @Aminata65  well, Commons did explain the matter to Charles I...
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  2793.  @kingsleybates  nonsense and poppycock! Canadians are always polite, even in warfare! Why, they ever so politely indicated the proper path to the US border, both when we were colonies and in 1812! And apologized profusely as to the volume of artillery and gunfire along the way. ;) But, in 1812, we did have a magnificent Great Lakes campaign, possessing all kinds of empty, frigid water... Full disclosure, I'm a US citizen and recognize the ironies and hilarity of some of our military antics - from a US Army NCO's perspective, albeit now happily retired. My back and knees thank me for retiring incessantly.
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  2794.  @stephendobson8784  perhaps you should exhibit the skills of a leader and lead by example, rather than telling others to do that which you have obviously never bothered doing yourself.
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  2795.  @davidb6576  might I suggest he first assemble like minded peers and we borrow an MLRS battery? We called those "grid square erasers" in the Army for good reason.
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  2796. Hey now, he did release some Neuralink stuff, totally up to 1970's successes. We'll be back to early 1950's apartheid in no time at all. Maybe then, he'll release smallpox from its confinement in the lab...
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  2797.  @johnmcmickle5685  it's a dark and ancient joke, the lights and siren are a cloaking device.
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  2798. I've long said, the United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  2799.  @Jedi-Nite  save for two things. People aren't robots, so aren't programmed and for some odd reason, soldiers that are trained to kill oddly don't end up doing that when they come home.
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  2800. I'm reminded heavily of John Gotti, aka the "Teflon Don". Well, suddenly, something stuck and he died in prison.
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  2801. Yep, cameras really extinguish fire bombs instantly. Compared to say, an armed guard that could stop a fire bomb from being planted.
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  2802. The nozzle and combustion chamber, both would've melted otherwise.
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  2803. Whenever someone suggests seceding from the Union, I simply suggest that they're correct and we do need to roll back the clock by repealing Posse Comitatus and re-instituting Reconstruction, as the job was obviously incomplete. And for second civil war buffs, I suggest they'll enjoy the Hunger Games that would be instituted. Freedumb is expensive.
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  2804. In my low 60's, don't recall any equipment failures, but that might be because I can't recall what equipment we're speaking of. ;) I'll just get my hat on the way out...
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  2805.  @mrz6480  wouldn't get that far, as DOJ would have to perform the arrest and the US Attorney to present charges to a court of law. Just circular file the warrant, no need for charges and hence, no need for a pardon.
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  2806. The British need a sense of humor, given that the last human case of smallpox was in a UK university biolab, killing a photographer on another floor. Thankfully, the school recognized that things were awry and isolated, investigated and lead the charge to new, modern standards of BSL labs. Which, given monkeypox virus is a BSL-2 virus, if the researchers labs were lower, they'd only be able to work with fragments that they ginned up in the lab or ordered. Given that the PRC has their own samples of smallpox, including the oldest samples of the virus in the world, as the virus did originate in the region thousands of years ago, it's consistent with BSL protocols prohibiting monkeying about with viable monkeypox virus outside of necessary work in BSL-2 labs.
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  2807. Well, Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share the same god, just different prophets at the end. Apparently though, no other sect than theirs needs apply. Because, they want their own continent wide Reformation Wars, which halved Europe's population.
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  2808. Amazing that Trump has yet to learn court 101: Don't piss off the judge! It's a simple enough concept.
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  2809.  @robinstacpoole2667  I dunno, when I'm going through hell, I briefly stop for the barbecue. ;)
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  2810.  @leonardodalongisland that does sound more gooder. And the only thing more gooder than gooder is butter. (Done in my finest South Philly accent) I'll just get my coat...
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  2811. Even money, while untangling it, apologizing the entire way. We all screw up, how one deals with screwing up tells what kind of person that they are. Most just admit to screwing up and scramble to fix it. Others just earn disrespect for denying their blatantly obvious screwup.
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  2812. It is truly wonderful that the Great White Savior is at hand to designate who is Black and who is Indian, lest we grow confused. Where would be without him? Can we please find out by experiencing it? Hopefully, forever.
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  2813. No, Steve. You'll land in France and be arrested for being a deserter from the French Foreign Legion. ;)
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  2814. The same way he treated infants like terrorists during his first term. I'm guessing that the SuperChristians think that Jesus said, "Make the children suffer".
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  2815. Even worse, with his blathering on Gettysburg, he blathered some nonsense about Robert E. Lee being looked at in a negative light recently. He's been to Lee's old plantation multiple times for official POTUS appearances, as Lee's plantation was seized under a Congressional writ of attainder over Lee's treason. His family paid only after his death and a protracted court fight. Today, it's Arlington National Cemetery. And Gettysburg, so beautiful after the battle, with the Union soldiers graves and the Confederate soldiers left all strewn around farmers chewed up, now stinking fields for local farmers to bury. And mourning the Confederate loss in that same speech! In a suburb of Allentown. BTW, in longer speech excerpts, he's far, far worse. He literally sounds like he was three sheets to the wind, not unlike his brother, whose death was attributed to cardiac issues secondary to alcoholism.
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  2816. Biden is mediocre, Trump was just lousy.
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  2817. Lead pipes haven't been used in new construction for many decades. Lead containing pipes, typically via lead soldered joints remains an issue, but was phased out of new construction quite some time ago as well. That leave old work still in place, which can generate problems like was shown in Flint. Had a lead drain pipe in my old house, it eroded through and dropped my kitchen ceiling. Pulled what was left of that pipe and installed PVC. I live in Harrisburg, PA and the city has been pushing plastic pipes inside the old work, which will isolate any leaded joints in the system once they're completed all of the work. That'll just leave the service lines to homes and old plumbing, which will gradually be replaced by attrition with modern plastic piping installed as replacements for the old leaded soldered pipes. Philly also had a lead pipe abatement program, although the city never used lead pipes, they did used lead soldered lines that they're gradually replacing. That's been an ongoing saga, as the city even had ancient terracotta water mains that literally date back to the civil war era. Frankly, 12 years is an ambitious time frame for all of the lead that's out there, but it's a start. Well, it was a start until it got god-kinged away...
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  2818.  @fitchyyboi  28 years, 8 months. Retired Army now, tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
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  2819.  @thedogtobs9469  lemme get this straight. God owns everything and everything is His will, but he needs to be left out of this because of hand wave? Seriously?! Do you honestly want to try to support this argument? I'll use the religious text of your own choice to dispatch it unmercifully. And for the record, I am an ordained minister.
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  2820. So, courts now must work 24/7/365? No time off at all, like good slaves? Clerks must all leave their beds, the judge has to as well, come in at 03:00 on Saturday to hear a case? Strange country you live in!
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  2821.  @thewoooooo9279  he now, I greatly resemble that remark!
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  2822.  @Melodymaker99  Trump cannot change the Constitution with his box of crayons. The Constitution has an amendment process that is to be followed and that amendment has withstood multiple court challenges in the past. We don't do an optional Constitution under order of god-king wannabe. Congress wrote the amendment, passed it with a supermajority, the states then ratified it and it is the law of the land that's remained unchallenged after the first few court cases established the case law. It's not going to suddenly mean something else after a century!
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  2823.  @PatNeedhamUSA  why don't you go and try it, let us all know how it works out for you when you're released from prison.
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  2824. Next week, suit will be filed for Chinese food not actually coming from China, followed by Vienna sausages not coming from Austria. Then, the danish makers will rename their products to bready kind of pastry or something. Frankfurters? Oh oh...
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  2825.  @raremage  ouch, that is a, ahem, lengthy procedure! And with all of the folds, yeah, beyond ultra-specialized and hazardous. Sounds like you could use a small fleet of these!
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  2826. Just remember, the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Stalin was spying to be the band, even as an ally during WWII.
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  2827. Whatever you claim gets tempered by your own remark of "murderous client's". Why do idiots incessantly undermine their own, otherwise winning cases? Oh! To give the barely competent a chance.
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  2828.  @kingchrystia1417  you're absolutely right! We should've surrendered to King George, rather than resist! We could've formed our own French Surrender Brigade. Talk about scapegoating! Blaming people for calling for peaceful protest for Trump's wiping his ass with the Constitution.
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  2829. I'd love to see the exciter and coil drive wavefoms. I'm willing to bet the waveform shows some complex patterns that could increase efficiency in some modes.
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  2830. Episcopal Hospital in Philly was a stop in the underground railroad and has very similar tunnels going from building to building. While the tunnels weren't used for transportation beyond between buildings, they were used to house escapees between "stops". Then, the escapees would depart onto their next "stop" in the route via the time honored method of heel and toe express.
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  2831.  henewcom50  what would require the DA to file perjury charges, a trial and conviction. If I was the judge, I'd cite the lot, defendant and attorneys for contempt for attempting to defraud the court in a fraud case and let them rot in jail for a month or three - plus fines - plus whatever the DA dreams up.
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  2832.  @sagapoetic8990  well, it gives Netanyahu's SS someplace to play in. Oh, was that my outside voice? My bad.
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  2833.  @nikitovitch5113  well, I've never been known for diplomacy or suffering fools well.
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  2834. Yet another privatization success story, where all of the skills needed to maintain the rails for well over a century got stripped away and discarded, leaving managers that didn't now a rail from a quail in charge. Who could predict a failure under such a system, they're all qualified managers?! Meanwhile, we still don't fully understand the processes involved in such metallurgical failures and such remain a field of highly active study as a matter of critical importance in multiple fields. That solid steel isn't quite as solid as you think it is, with carbon and manganese grains migrating on stress, electrical shot, mechanical shock, vibration, heat or simple repeated impacts. It's nothing new, look up the term work hardening for just one example of changes just from repeated loads and impacts upon steel - it's causing migration of grains inside of that steel. At the mid-life of a rail, it'd make quite literally, one hell of an anvil. Toward its end, great for recycling. Wait too long, it shatters and we get this. A few light fines, look the other way, ignore the dead people. But, those managers get to go back and Krazy glue rails back together... Keep on privatizing, soon we'll end up with DIY brain surgery and we can all become royalty!
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  2835.  @Skooms89 says the one profaning every word that the Almighty said, as well as disregarding the Word of his only begotten Son.
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  2836. What a way to leave the court to enjoy a dyspepsic lunch!
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  2837. No, but they send you to prison for attempted murder, attempted burglary, attempted bank robbery, attempted arson, I could go on and on. Why, it's almost as if they want to discourage people from attempting to do things that are worse and illegal, hence it's illegal to even attempt.
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  2838. Only if she doesn't get paid.
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  2839.  @RichardMcLaren  on one video, audio captured engine noises and it sounded like at least one engine, possibly both at full power. I'm wondering if they had an elevator malfunction. Well, we'll find out soon enough from the NTSB report.
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  2840.  @alandean6930  that depends upon the state, however my understanding is that the resort is considered his legal residence and that he got the city's council and executive to agree to his full time residence in the otherwise temporary residence there.
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  2841.  @combatepistemologist  pedantic goes hand in hand with any quality didactic. Something learned as a military instructor long ago.
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  2842.  @JoshSweetvale  as I recall, most slavery was halted in the 12th century, with complete abolition occurring in 1833. Whereas the US still retains a vestige in the form of forced prison labor and chain gangs to this very day.
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  2843.  @brendanmitri9364  that makes absolutely no sense, as "AI" is quite new, billionaires have been around a while longer, so would require the use of a time machine.
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  2844. Fiscal responsibility, Trump style. They have employment contracts, can't just send them home without pay, lest he put the government in fundamental breach of contract and liable for both their entire contract pay immediately and punitive damages.
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  2845. The most unkind thing one can do to a fool is to allow them to fully speak their mind.
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  2846.  @mattgayda2840  well, one's rights are protected by the second amendment. Just outgun the National Guard. And US Army... I'll sit over here and watch.
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  2847.  @taestott  nice fish story, all about the one that got away... 'The ArmaLite AR-15 was designed to be a lightweight rifle and to fire a new high-velocity, lightweight, small-caliber cartridge to allow infantrymen to carry more ammunition.' Infantrymen are decidedly not civilians or exceptionally sporting. I know that intimately, given I retired from the 56th Brigade Combat Team. And the gas piston modifications and models don't have more or less recoil than the direct impingement system does. Ask any SEAL or Marine that uses the M-27. The AR-15 was originally designed as selective fire, it was later made in the military selective fire and civilian semiautomatic only models. Direct impingement was chosen for both saving weight and simplification of assembly, the latter making the rifle cheaper.
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  2848.  @mauresahagley6307  there is one upside though, classified information ends to be highly perishable. The older it is, the more out of date it becomes and the less useful and accurate it begins to be. Attack plans constantly evolve, eventually and fairly swiftly no longer resembling plans from months at most before. Fail safe codes being another example, useful today, useless tomorrow. And not signing a memorandum of understanding is not justification for revoking someone's bail, which is Constitutionally required. Your suggestion is as constitutionally acceptable as Trump's suggestion of getting rid of the Constitution.
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  2849. Because life isn't an episode of I Dream of Jeanie, where a blink and trouble disappears.
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  2850. Oh, that's an easy question. Our very first amendment guarantees the absolute right to allow a fool to speak his or her own mindlessness.
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  2851.  @tymcfadden8496  but, did he already fill the house with gas? It's not like it magically goes away, it would have to be carefully ventilated out of the whole building if he had a stove disconnected or something similar and it's lighter than air, so it'd accumulate more near the ceiling than the floor.
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  2852.  @JayTX.  OK, let's review. There was enough light to see that a shockwave was absent, which is evidence of deflagration, not detonation. No burning fuel fragments departing the structure, only shattered structural elements. We're starting to run out of potential common causes of such a deflagration explosion. Unnatural gas? No wait, that'd require me and a can of beans.
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  2853.  @backyard_expert  they are, his 31% don't give a shit, as they think they're exempt from his malfeasance.
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  2854. So, the infinitely more common accidents, car and home, that won't be stressful if they don't know how to render basic first aid?
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  2855.  @silentmajority8365  hard to hold office from solitary confinement. But, thank you for your contribution from the noisy minority, a group about as sharp as a bag of mice.
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  2856.  @rockyhill9965  apparently, the US Constitution and federal laws and you are complete strangers. The US DoD has absolutely no border responsibilities and duties. And asylum has to be applied for on US soil, per federal law and ratified treaties.
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  2857.  @lurmieei  well, Iran still retains a sizable Jewish community. Israel keeps inviting any and all to Israel to relocate and they refuse to leave their homes in Iran. Maybe something about living there since 500 BC or so...
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  2858.  @thomassargent-j6e  nope, not before the Great Gift Exchange with Russia. A handful of thousand gifts, all glowingly received.
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  2859.  Detrumpificator4377  while there is precedent with Ford pardoning Nixon, accepting a pardon freely admits one's guilt of committing a felony and does not expunge the crime. Second, there is no Constitutional, indeed, there is a Constitutional barrier to suborning the rights guaranteed to the states and the SCOTUS would then be not only legislating, but amending the Constitution itself. Your ignorance is astonishing.
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  2860. Actually, it guarantees that I'll not view any DaVinci works in the future, just out of spite over such abuses of public domain, which has been under concerted, protracted attack globally.
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  2861. One year prison, one year house arrest. It also depends upon what class of felony the conviction is, as I understand NY statute, which is somewhat poorly, as I'm a Pennsylvania native.
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  2862.  @alvaroq2024  although, Trump could talk himself into hard time, he's been good at shooting his own foot in court, as evidenced in the E. Jean Carroll case.
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  2863. I've far too frequently heard that "facts are relative to one's viewpoint", to which I've always retorted, "Those are opinions, not facts. Opinions vary upon time and individual queried, facts are like gravity, constant and unyielding".
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  2864. Yeah, but I honestly anticipated a larger exemplar of a can.
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  2865. I dunno, I probably would've dove in front of the MG's, just to get the hell away from that abomination of a scene.
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  2866.  @wiretamer5710  and a fair part of the oppression of religious warfare in the UK was literally in the living memories of the founders. Religious warfare within the "religion of peace", Christianity in Europe literally killed off half of the population and festered until the 1800's. Hell, it was controversial when a Presidential candidate wasn't a Protestant, even to within my lifetime, when our first Roman Catholic President was elected - JFK. There were attempts to outlaw Judaism in some southern states, the SCOTUS ordered that nonsense stopped. Grant tried to forcibly relocate Jews from captured territories, generating a huge mess for him legally and he rescinded that idiotic order and stated his regret for the remainder of his life. Amish men were murdered for being conscientious objectors to war, our nation ignoring the first amendment until the SCOTUS got the cases for them, many deceased and upheld their beliefs.
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  2867. PCOS is a complex issue that medicine has finally found the root of, if not an ultimate solution to cure for. Confounding diagnosis is age of onset for significant signs, which can range from adolescence for a few, through successful childbearing and multiple pregnancies, then the hormones finally are decompensated against and full onset occurs. It's also a topic of interest for me, as my wife had the latter version, having two live births, out of 16 pregnancies, one abortion induced by a motor vehicle accident, the rest spontaneous abortions. As well as being diagnosed in our youngest and our eldest has suggestions of it. Lord, I hate endocrine problems! Other than extremely common OB/GYN, all I usually dealt with were structural damage, plumbing leaks and various infections.
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  2868. Been that way since the late '90's, when my wife and I met him.
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  2869.  @Speakfordemocracy  we invaded Canada twice in our history, both times our armies were politely escorted back to our border and their weapons were then returned to them. And JTF 2 can set quite the party table!
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  2870. The CIA is forbidden by its charter from operating within the US. The NSA is military and prohibited from operating in a law enforcement capacity. That leaves the FBI, who investigated Ruskies getting involved with some of Trump's idiot campaign staffers, who ended up in prison for violating the law repeatedly.
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  2871.  Baxter Powel  KGB is extinct, it'd be FSB or GRU, with GRU caught in the act by the Dutch intelligence agency while breaking into the DNC mail server. Interestingly, the dump the GRU made at Wikileaks hash values on signed messages don't match the message, showing some were doctored.
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  2872. Only if they're declaring the US Constitution in abeyance, in which case their authority disappears.
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  2873. The laugh is, if one tries to get a rental in many states, the agent for the rental checks with a background check service. That service only checks if there was an arrest or charge and not the outcome, so she'll now be permanently denied rental. Learned that the hard way after my case was dismissed with prejudice, but that was used as "you were charged with a crime and we won't rent to you" - blurted out in the middle of a busy Century 21 office at a shout. The case, a misdemeanor case, brought in error. OK, reason has left the building? Same here, base housing stopped using that vendor and the office in a military town closed.
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  2874. You want their authority expanded?!
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  2875. He is a treasured rarity in Hollywood, a literate actor.
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  2876.  andrew_koala2974  one problem. Window glass blocks UV. Period.
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  2877.  @alanchoichang8336  don't blame me, I didn't write that holy book!
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  2878.  @limelyte5390  show me one history document that isn't derived from the Christian bible that mentions Jesus of Nazareth. You'll make history if you found one. His teachings were highly inline with what was being taught by the Essenes.
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  2879.  @Michelle-rv9ks  I dunno, after some military, erm, mishaps, smokers smoked, drinkers drank if they had it or could get it. But then, we also dealt with more high stress interesting events.
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  2880. Well, it must be CNN's custody weekend, usually he's on Fox.
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  2881. Entitlements have another name, if you look up the legal definition of entitlements, aka things one is entitled to - they're also called rights. So, if rights are optional, enjoying what you bought and paid for is obviously a mere privilege.
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  2882. Well, it's the Levant, "It's complicated" kind of has always defined the region throughout human history.
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  2883. It was not a problem and my uncles were honored to have liberated one of those accursed camps. They never would say much, but it haunted them until the day that they died.
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  2884. I'm wondering if his goal is to get multiple states to finally move to secession. Not a brilliant move, given a USMC logistics center and a US Navy submarine base being in Georgia. I'm sure that "nobody's ever seen anything like that" either. Cut steel, cut fiber, hell, I'll let them keep control of the highways. The first two already devolved operations to chaos. Worse, he's pissed off 16.2 million veterans, who know how things work and can seriously gum up the works. A little solvent here, concrete there, sand elsewhere, water in the wrong places, missing steel... There's a popular misconception about warfare. Warfare isn't about destroying property or killing people, it's about destroying the will to continue fighting by causing sufficient injury to the other side sufficient that continuing the fight will so degrade their society as to make any benefit of conflict nonexistent. In short, make it as expensive for the other side socioeconomically as humanly possible and any victories that they do manage to achieve will be by nature Pyrrhic. And the best battle one can have is the one one never has to fight. And if your phones and e-mail don't work, your supplies can't get through, you've already more than half lost. And military logistical centers are distributed, their distribution methods are quite channelized. The same is true with communications, if one knows where the nodes are and pretty much everyone in signal knows those. No need to attack anyone, when some solvent down a manhole would do. No need to damage a rail, when every signal can simply turn red. That, in the first hour or two. And oddly, he seems to be specifically pissing off states where those weak points are. I have some suspicions as to why.
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  2885. He's already gotten crop pickers not showing up for harvesting crops again, did that his first term and crops rotted in the fields. Now, two states are reporting workers not showing up to harvest crops. And he still wants to close borders and tariff whatever does get across, so food prices will shoot up 50%, what little does get in, our harvests that actually do get harvested are for export, so they won't go to any tables in the US. We don't have slaughterhouses any longer, so the animals go to Canada for slaughtering and butchering, then reimported and to be tariffed, so few will be able to afford meats. Gonna be a lot of empty tables. Make America Gaunt & Angry.
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  2886. The shame of it is, had she worn an N95 filter mask, she'd have likely avoided infection. It's one of over a dozen hemorrhagic fevers that afflict humanity, with other forms of infection having a much lower morbidity and mortality rate than HPS. The thyroid medication, difficult to say if it contributed. I take methimazole for Graves disease, a form of hyperthyroidism that itself nearly killed me thrice. Soon, I'll be tapered off, as my immune system, being bored with just attacking receptors has decided to attack the entire gland and Hashimoto's eventually destroys the entire thyroid gland - so, I'll eventually be taking thyroid hormones instead. As much as I loathe taking pills, I more intensely waking up dead, it being ruinous to my weekend plans. Methimazole is beyond difficult to overdose on, similar with thyroid hormone tablets. So, self-harm isn't likely and I've spilled my pills a few times just this year. HPS patients are known to suffer sudden collapse, typically having the lungs infected and systemic hemorrhagic fever, literally damaging the epithelial cell lining of their blood vessels, causing them to leak. Headline capturing hemorrhagic fevers being Marburg or Ebola, with an actually similar fatality rate, they're far from as spectacular as Hollywood makes them out to be and far more common and endemic within the SE US being dengue fever. Marburg and Ebola being zoonotic, aka spread by animals like hantavirus, in their case, largely via infected bats, dengue being spread by mosquitos and four strains infect humans. With dengue, if one's infected by one strain, then infected after recovery by the other, the effects are dire, as immune response fails to be effective against the second strain. That said, such dire infections are a rarity, recovery is typically within days and fairly uneventful, well, save for its nickname requiring significant pain relief - break bone fever, because it feels like one's bones are being broken. So, masks and mosquito repellent, people! The biggest killer of man isn't man, it isn't rats or mice, it's the humble mosquito.
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  2887.  @joeshmoe6969  punisher? That's the court's job, hopefully the courts do their jobs.
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  2888. Interestingly, some video of Obama, how much of Harris, but shit tons on Trump. He scammed you into giving him free press again. While Harris has to pay through the nose to get airtime, save if she's talking about Trump. The con man saw you coming from a mile off! And this is the third campaign he's pulled this shit on, you'd think you and the mass media would've caught onto that by now and stopped giving him free airtime! Used car salesmen must really love you!
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  2889.  @VictoriousGardenosaurus  awning angles are made the same way. Block the sun in summer, allow it to warm the wall in winter.
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  2890.  @gowtham8909  go for it. The hogs can use more food.
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  2891. There are three words I've used to get me out of trouble. I. Fucked. Up. We all do, at some point or another, so it's forgivable, even for the unforgivable. Still working on one fuck up, which is unforgivable and forgiven by a mother.
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  2892. Lucky you! Our doctor's 20 miles away. The store and pharmacy is around 2 - 2 1/2 miles away, so walkable in good weather and impossible to walk in winter. For space, a decent kitchen, room for the wife to do her artwork and room for my computer lab (figure one computer rack and desk). The lab doubling to heat the home in winter, in summer would be the cooling pig of our home.
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  2893.  @alanwatts8239  the very source of an old joke of mine. "I've never saw an automatic weapon. Oh, people call them automatic, but if it was really automatic, the damned thing would know to and proceed to clean itself". Typically said while we were cleaning weapons. Always good for a chuckle.
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  2894.  @Ivy-jq6di  that's not entirely accurate. The virus is spreading, but not at all clearly spreading, due to restrictions on who gets tested. Keeps the numbers looking good, which is precisely the stated goal of the occupant of the Offal Office. Or Oaf Filled Office, if you prefer.
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  2895. You've obviously never worked around intelligence and SOCOM types. They're all quiet, as saying the wrong thing can result in some serious problems over divulging classified things.
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  2896.  @NofilterDoctorD  why don't you have the integrity of telling people what country you're bot farming from?
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  2897. On foot. Tell me how I have a right to interstate travel on foot only - right after you hand me the gun. At my age, the deterrent value of life in prison or the death penalty is meaningless.
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  2898. A murder never happened, despite your desire someone died?
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  2899.  @paullalinde9311  the Constitution and laws of the nation, hence traitors to the nation - especially those who swore an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution and laws of this nation.
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  2900. He's also repeatedly failed the mirror test.
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  2901. Entertaining would be, when he inevitably brings up his good friend Hannibal Lecter, ask to see Hannibal's birth certificate. Something impossible to do, as fictitious persons aren't issued birth certificates.
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  2902. All they really need to do is call it bamboo sourced rayon and they're done. Rayon is cellulose from wood, period.
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  2903. My abdomen was pulsing like something from an Aliens movie. Abdominal aorta has an aneurysm, still at watchful waiting stage. Ironically, the very first patient I lost was a 28 year old female soldier with a dissected abdominal aortic aneurysm. She had a adrenaline producing tumor on her adrenal glands, her family doctor had cleared her to go to the field. She collapsed suddenly while talking with friends and her unit, having no organic medics, ran across the road straight into my medical platoon for help. We tried CPR, but while confirming effective compressions, I also felt the pulse fall off, telling me that she had a major leak somewhere. We transported her to air evac, to no avail. Needless to say, I'm watching mine closely, as well as my blood pressure, as my thyroid occasionally decides to feel its Wheaties and shoot my BP up to TILT.
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  2904.  @improvisedsurvival5967  the guard's position was eliminated as part of a manager's Six Sigma project. Saved a ton of money, ya know.
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  2905. It's the old story, "You get away with it right until you don't". The ocean, especially the deep ocean is far, far, far more hostile than something even as tame as outer space.
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  2906. Oh, so now it's corruption to uphold the US Constitution? What a fascinating notion!
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  2907.  @Zariel_999  yeah, had both. Now, have a retiree card that needs to be updated, as the new-new-new one is like the CAC card, minus the chip (dammit). After retiring (we were long on CAC cards by then), I contracted off and on, so got CAC cards each time. All have DOB on them and always did. But yeah, too complicated for some. They have date issued, date expired, DOB, benefits number and EDIPI number (boy, that throws them for a loop). Didn't have the heart to mention to them the Geneva Convention status on the card too. Oh, all are considered RealID compliant. It was funny though, I could sign out nuclear weapons with my active duty ID card, but some places wouldn't allow me to have a drink. Go figure.
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  2908.  @Zariel_999  if memory serves, it was in the early to mid 90s that went away. Just as officers SSN's disappeared from things like arms room authorization letters that were posted to the arms room vault door. Posting someone's full name and SSN isn't a good idea at all, even back then.
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  2909. Wall warts, PC power supplies, modems on POTS lines, phones on POTS lines, radios with antennas connected would be most vulnerable. Least vulnerable, my spare notebook that's happily in its bag, taken out once a month for charge top-off and patches.
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  2910.  @macaylacayton2915  true, but in the UK, a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire blowoff wouldn't be tolerated, any more than it would in the US. Today, a Hillsborough Disaster coverup wouldn't be tolerated in either country as well. For the first, laws were weak or non-existent. For the latter, enforcing the law wasn't quite at the premium that it is today and with both, the populace found it to be intolerable and raised merry hell until something proper was done. They're just poor comparisons in some ways.
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  2911.  @NeergMit which is ironic, given the number of Jan 6 insurrectionists that were convicted of seditious conspiracy, aka sedition. Most weren't charged with that, leaders were and literally were convicted by their own words and deeds that were recorded. Sedition isn't treason, as you said, there's the US code, which had to reflect the Constitution's precise definition, as laws have to be Constitutional, the Constitution does not reflect later legislation that's enacted into codified law.
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  2912. The advice with me and paint is, keep the paint away from me. Paint for me is merely an ablative coating, if that. ;) Well, save when making rockets, then it's also a small space filler.
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  2913. I've always assumed a recovery procedure. My difference is, I want and expect to recover living people. At times, that outlook is all that it takes to make that modest difference.
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  2914.  @LdyVder  and to grieving military families.
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  2915.  @shawnfuzy3191  if she'd do her duty as assigned, there'd be a trial and eventual conviction here as well, lest the government lose all control on its secure information - to include nuclear secrets.
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  2916.  @dwmcever  I'd not consider 13 a disaster, but a mishap. 1 was a disaster, people dying and hull loss.
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  2917. Well, hands, then cubits were ancient units of measure. ;)
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  2918.  @petergerdes1094  even funnier, 8 inch floppies. And wind up nukes... ;)
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  2919.  @ronaldoago-go5907  not odd at all. Totally honest and up front. "We investigated ourselves and found nothing amiss". Honestly, with these types, I'm still wondering just how precisely that they accomplished becoming their own fathers...
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  2920. Nothing is going to go to trial before the year 3000. The United States of America has the absolute system of justice that money can buy.
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  2921. In Trump's world view, losing and death are equal. Hence, why he's rebranded losses as successes - always. He's never learned, one can lose, dust oneself off and succeed when trying again. He has learned, pay a small crowd to cheer, the larger crowd will join them. Just another phase of his many, many cons.
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  2922. Wouldn't that make it properly Trumpy by being the Fart of the Steal? I'll just get my hat...
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  2923.  @Tim_Russert  properly cooked, they're pretty easy to eat too. But then, I'm in a fowl mood. I'll just get my hat on the way out...
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  2924.  @christophershields3788  unless the writ authorizes violence, that'd open the armed individual up to piracy charges. Or do we now seize ships via summary execution of the crew, like the pirates of old?
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  2925. Compared to a quarantined cruise ship, where the passengers being offloaded are grouped together in tight, large groups? Besides, the White House said, social distancing, while elders fly as much as possible (along with everyone else) and stay in as many hotels as is possible is how to respond to the hospitality and travel sector suffering losses. Now, that is insanity, when economics is more important than the health and lives of the citizenry.
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  2926. That's the tip of the iceberg from hell. One venture capitalist bought the rights to the most effective anti-TB drug on the market, boosted the price to the point that mere mortals couldn't afford it and live. As for Ozempic, doctor would have to make one hell of a case with me to consider taking it. For one, despite a massive family history of diabetes, I'm only currently running at diabetic numbers due to taking a steroid for an immune issue and that's temporary. If I needed a drug to control the glucose, I'd want other more conservative drugs first, leave that for those who actually have a medical need for the more extreme and expensive drug. My mantra being, minimal intervention for the greatest benefit. I keep my sugar under control, albeit slightly in the pre-diabetic region by diet, exercise and body mass control. Which also saves me on clothing, I've literally got pants that are over 20 years old and in good condition and fit well. Did have a bit of a moment last winter when the scale complained about maximum occupancy, dropped the extra 25 pounds I'd let accumulate. Just self-control and moderation helps a lot. And a spring chicken, I ain't. I also don't hop into the car to go to the store, it's only two miles, just a stretch of the legs and keeps the arthritis in check. Pisses off a disc, but it needs exercise too or it'll get even worse.
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  2927. What gives you that impression, his headdress, aka the lamp shade? Or did he pee on the curtains again?
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  2928. So, Lincoln was evil too?
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  2929. After the 2016 inauguration, Trump and his staff were handed a response plan for pandemic influenza. Staffers found it was immediately thrown into the trashcan. So, he kept his empty playbook and we filled graves.
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  2930.  @wmdkitty  and Jesus Christ was a carpenter, what's that to do with EMS idiots of questionable judgement stealing government property? That we should trust people with questionable judgement with our families lives? That anyone would question that assessment makes me question their judgement as well. Bad enough I've had to question my own of late, thanks be to hypotension with the newest BP regimen doctor's got me on...
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  2931. @Alexandre Fumo nope, just read the story. Busy Saturday night, they were driving to locations Pokemon were "reported" in the game and were after Snorlax, to the amusement or lack thereof of the court. Obviously, the ancient Greek god Momus was feeling his Wheaties that night. Momus was the god of satire and mockery. Got kicked out of Olympus for his criticism of the other gods.
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  2932. The bitch of it is, it will eventually happen. Then, survivors will be exclaiming, "Who knew that this could happen?!"
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  2933. What if the legislature actually wrote laws that required just that? Or even wrote a law that required telephone companies to inform you of when they're informed of a network breach of their messaging servers that carry your messages? Given it's not the FBI's job, by law, to inform you of when your telephone company has been breached. Or your bank. Or your doctor's office. Hell, they're actually not permitted to reveal the company's name unless the company authorizes it, again, by law.
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  2934.  @lauradoll4248  very few have. As you said, one was taken, out of how many thousands? Besides, I’m a far better shot. Only one of my unit snipers ever outshot me.
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  2935.  @edwardhanson3664  court records, prison records, media reports and then we have your worthless word that none of those are true and the dozens arrested don't exist or something. With one being convicted just yesterday.
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  2936. Actually, some telephoto lenses were and remain classified. I am not joking, they're used in crap like satellites and U-2 spy planes. Had one idiot try that question with me, I introduced them to a brand new substance called reinforced concrete and offered them the opportunity for an extremely close and intensive examination of the substance. Interesting bit of history, Akiko Takakura was 300 meters from the hypocenter of the Hiroshima blast, inside of the bank vault of the bank she worked at. Survived unscathed - well, physically. Mentally, not so much. Went into the vault at work as a ho-hum business as usual day, bright flash, rude noise and shaking building, come out to find insta-cooked people, yeah, that'd mess anyone up.
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  2937.  @Dan-usa1 having a rather intimate relationship with the Creator, I'll simply advise you to prepare for a rather hot existence that makes Venus look kind. BTW, heaven is spelled this way, not heven, braintrust.
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  2938. There was a somewhat extensive east coast railroad network, but nowhere what we've got now. And we've got Eisenhower's secret weapon - the interstate system.
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  2939. Depends on when exposure occurred. Many isotopes were short lived, largely those neutron activated within the core, but radioiodine was an early concern - especially among children and precisely why they were evacuated first. Then, cesium-137 and strontium-90 were of concern, both loving bones to settle down in. Long story short though, if you're still around and don't have cancer already, your chances are damned good to well, you'll never make it out of life alive, but likely have a normal lifespan. If you're really concerned though, there are plenty of radiation health physicists online that can consult with you. Had a few conversations socially with some, since I was born a week after Tsar Bomba and do emit gamma at a higher rate than my children and grandchildren, made for quite a good conversation that was lighthearted. Even money, I got greater exposure from Nevada test site tests during their testing era and being from Pennsylvania, that's an extremely low dosage due to the path of the jet stream.
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  2940. One of our worst failures was a C6509 supervisor engine fail. Fortunately, there was a second supervisor installed and all we got was an error report. The most laughable failure? A flood of the manholes where the fiber came in from the campus - in a desert. A broken water service pipe allowed water to flow along a shallow calcium carbonate layer and straight into the manhole, drowning fiber and POTS cable terminations. Two weeks later, a power transformer failed and out primary backup generator failed - due to that same leak displacing the fuel in the underground tank. Boy, did we have some emergency and normal SOP rewrites!
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  2941. That's an atomizer attachment and "considered" an accessory, despite it being part of the dosing system. Welcome to insurance companies practicing medicine and not getting it right.
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  2942. And the source of a $200 million saga on updating hydrogen bombs. A small change in a component tagged "FOGBANK" during its production yielded reproducible results decades later, when that component had to be replaced and oh, while we're at it, upgraded technologically. The change, a contaminant in the original was important, but never documented and when the aerogel version was tried, wouldn't work, nor could they replicate the original component. So, a rather extended and massively overrun in cost R&D program was needed to rebuild the aging weapons. It only took nearly a decade. Because, guns are easy, compared to thermonuclear warheads. Actually, rocket science is easier as well. Or maybe some things just shouldn't be built... ;)
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  2943. Lemme see, palpitations were likely, LOC ensued after physician notified him of an MI. OK, per the VA guidelines, in this specific case, there are absolutely zero emergencies possible, dead isn't even an emergency, but a desired outcome. While unconscious, one has a duty to report. Excuse me, while I mix more RDX into my political feedback...
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  2944. Sure there will be change, just not for the better.
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  2945. Then, arrest them. Charge the unarmed with sedition, the armed get charged with treason.
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  2946. I'm reminded of the invasion of Italy during WWII. A pair of German officers were captured and being escorted down a valley to be turned over for transportation to a POW camp. Within the valley, of which there are many films and photographs, was the dunnage and tubes from artillery rounds, as far as the eye could see and barely visible ground. It was only then that the German senior officers realized just how badly screwed Germany was. But, for a stationary front, yeah, trash is bad. Worse is, if I can see that trash, I've got a good bearing on where to drop something unpleasant on and if I suddenly see 10 times as much trash, I know someone's got enough company to be worth a few HE rounds. If exceptionally egregious, I'd not be above ordering "repeat" a few times to help bury all of the rubbish.
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  2947. No, not like 2020, he wants to run entirely unopposed. He saw how well it worked for Russia and wants that here.
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  2948.  @Sk8rGamingKei  sorry, checked with the Local Group council, no nearby galaxies are gonna help either.
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  2949. I call it what I can afford. The county's newest inlicensed toxic waste landfill.
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  2950.  @blackbetty-id1zo  convicted is convicted, oh worshiper of a human criminal.
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  2951. here in the US, we do trials, then if convicted, prison. We’re kind of funny that way.
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  2952.  @paulwilliamson2370  he wasn't in jail, he was on probation and already served 4 years for the crimes. It's a classic case of suicide by cop, rather than going back to prison. So, you are against parole and probation?
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  2953.  @Mizelei2012  cool! I'll have to consult with an architect and engineer about clinical depression. I can ask my neighborhood butcher for guidance on hydrological issues. My baker should give excellent insight on constructing sturdy buildings. And Trump can explain more to me about how smelt, a fish I've dined on often enough, cause fires and how their extinction benefits the ecosystem.
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  2954.  @timheersma4708  no, he'd have a business rate tax for his resort. But, it was mentioned here that he has a deal with the local government that was made when he purchased the property for the resort. Which I'm quite certain that the city now greatly regrets.
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  2955.  @martinsaunders7925  true. All things in moderation, avoiding excess.
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  2956. Most places don't offer flood insurance, that's why FEMA has the NFIP program, National Flood Insurance Program, which is underwritten by the government. That's been true since 1968, when the program was founded.
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  2957.  @livinginthepast7085  a lot of the South Philly mafia still live in Cherry Hill.
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  2958. Just like the VA, to demand him call and notify them as to his sudden loss of consciousness, secondary to a myocardial infarction. The last time I looked though, the NIH defines an MI as an emergency, that whole dropping dead thing being a real risk. But, the VA tremendously improves one's sex life, because every time you turn around, you get screwed. Over the course of a 28 year long military career, I watched the VA budget get slashed by Congress, each and every year - including the first year of our GWOT, when men were coming back home missing pieces. Someone clued in the press that there was a shooting war and the VA budget was cut yet again and all hell broke loose and that funding was increased a bit.
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  2959. The biggest problem remains, ferrocement is heavy, a bit over three times the equivalent of steel for the equivalent displacement. That incurs a much higher fuel cost. They're also inherently less flexible in a collision or grounding. Now, would I own one? Absolutely! I'd also look heavily into using non ferrous reinforcement bars and likely, aggregate that'd give more flexibility, while not fracturing the needles from the cement. The American Society of Civil Engineers holds competitions on concrete canoes and has a wealth of information on winning designs.
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  2960. Quite true! Although, I frequently rib Kentuckians that their Kentucky Rifle was only borrowed from the PA Dutch originated PA Rifle, which is really the truth, as German derived people migrated with the westward expansion, bringing their trades and professions with them. Kentuckians proud of their bourbon, the actual roots trace back to the Whiskey Rebellion and people moving farther westward in part to avoid the "Whiskey Tax" on alcohol - a major part of the federal budget until Prohibition eliminated that revenue for a time, necessitating the modern income tax on individual income. Basically, Pennsylvania being the first state "invaded" by a federally assembled military force to enforce federal rights of taxation under the still new US Constitution.
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  2961. Many years ago, I was working on the testing line for a broadcast quality reel to reel video tape recorder, with all manner of bells and whistles, including bleeding edge digital processing. I was assigned to test power supplies as they came off of the assembly line. Hipot testing, visual inspect, etc, then live and load testing on our custom jig made for that purpose. It was an early SMPS, no biggie. Everything checked, just like the drawing, plus out testing sailed through, connected, powered it up, BANG and a mushroom cloud erupted from the Teflon insulated wiring, breaker tripped for my section of the floor. Visual inspection revealed nothing different from the drawings. Set it aside, checked another, exact same problem, as did a third to be sure we had a production problem. Time to earn my money and justify the cost of electronics school! Ended up tracing the schematic, comparing it to the drawings, line by line, from AC input through... the output of the fullwave bridge rectifier, which the drawing had the positive and negative connected to the same filter capacitor terminal, creating a short circuit in a high current circuit. They followed the drawing, alas, the drawing was wrong. Over 100 power supplies ended up going back through the assembly line, once change manglement was done mangling the process sufficiently. And no, I actually like change management. Not having change management leads to pure frigging chaos. They ended up fixing a little over 200 power supplies, as power supply assembly wasn't halted, so by the time change management gave approval, yeah, the number of wrongly wired units had more than doubled.
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  2962. During the blizzard of 96, my wife, I and our daughters were stranded. A nice officer picked us up at the hospital ED and drove us to my parents home, well, a block short, as it was outside of his jurisdiction. Profusely thankful we were, a block wasn't a big deal considering the alternative. Same department a few years later, rookie fidgeting with his weapon... Even his backup and he was backup backed away from him, wanting nothing of what might come. Thankfully, nothing came of the non-event, just some dread memories, got my citation from the original officer, called it a day once I got the car out of impound. Lugged around a sidearm and primary arm for decades, never had some odd urge to wield the damned thing. Had to in extremis, but never wanted to haul the damned thing out and launch lead. That said, if we kissed bumpers, I'd be "what in the actual fuck, over?!". It'd get settled quickly at the roadside peacefully, whoopsie is good enough. We all have brain farts. Never pulled that one, but had enough others over 62 years to cover that ground. No need for the Keystone Cops. Most cops experiences have been positive, including when cops got called on me for assault - by someone that actually committed battery upon my person and well, rightfully so, given what I called her mother. Cops actually laughed at that, already viewed the Walmart video and were as unwilling as I was to prosecute. Got that home health aide fired instead, as I was accompanying someone to the store and haven't done so since. Laughable, she called the police on me after engaging in aggravated battery (aggravated due to local statute in exceeding charges), while all I did was literally raise my cane. And due to military training, I could've taken her head clean off, but was simply blocking further blows. Got two brain cells competing for third, don't need one killed.
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  2963. I grew up in the 1960's, that literally was the case, as well as radioisotopes in the food supply. Still shows up on gamma cameras during diagnostic imaging. The carbon-14 spike from atmospheric testing should fade by 2030 though in the biosphere. By then, TMI will be fully online, so we'll have improved monitoring around here, given the reactor's only a couple of miles away.
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  2964.  @andreaskarlsson5251 erm, given his rambling has been at his own campaign rallies, yeah, it does. Besides, the most unkind thing one can do to a fool is to allow them to speak their mind.
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  2965.  @siikaralli  I do see that and the deleterious effects displayed and ignored in 12 step programs. Attempts to study that are swiftly opposed and suppressed.
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  2966. Well, there is a very real effort of a fringe of a political party to make the US a Constitution Free Zone. I wish I was joking, but it's a very real fascist effort. My only explanation is, the WWII veterans are dying off, so they think recycling eugenics and fascism will work now, being forgotten. I've a solution from their playbook, double tap to the head. Because, summary execution is precisely how amused as I am and I never miss a shot. Wasn't in our unit budget. Don't want rights, don't get rights, double down and your family is toast. But then, I fought terrorists and they feared me. It ain't what you will do, it's what they perceive that they fear that you may do that counts. Although, I do have few limits now. Preserve the nation, intact. As contentious as we can and are. And leave things a little better for our grandkids. Judge should be disbarred and impeached, with damages awarded sufficient to leave judge homeless. Literally.
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  2967. Typical Hollywood producers and directors hiring consultants, then ignoring everything that the consultant said, proclaiming, "I'm making a movie, not a documentary". Then railing against viewers objections and desires to beat them to death using their own livers over the product being an insult to idiocy.
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  2968.  @JC-fj7oo  I suspect that he left his magnifying glass in the bathroom, so that he could find it. But yeah, when doing anything where I want to see up close, such as legal paperwork or examining incriminating evidence, I'll always wear my reading goggles.
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  2969.  @shilombaba  save for that whole the US doesn't cut cables, we tap them and we don't destroy allies gas lines. That's how one makes them no longer allies. But, it sure fits Russia's MO quite well.
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  2970. As a law professor once told me, "You can sue a ham sandwich if you want to, don't mean you'll win anything".
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  2971. You're absolutely right! Local news channels should only report local news, five minutes tops, counting commercials. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Go play with Big Brother.
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  2972.  @TheDramacist  there is more than one vitamin B. B-12 is depleted, the others not so much. As for Ringer's Lactate on the rocks (what sports drinks are, albeit more diluted), no thanks. Water gets depleted far more than electrolytes. Plenty of water, moderation in consumption (if you're passing out, you're wrong) and plenty of rest avoids hangovers. Grab some fruit to replace electrolytes, it's healthier and hell, we get way too much sodium chloride anyway.
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  2973. Actual Republicans are entirely different beasts than MAGA "Republicans". The real ones are typically far more centrist and well, reasonable and capable of compromise for the common good. MAGA types want to tear everything down that they can't control or comprehend and especially, what their god-emperor wannabe wants them to destroy in his unholy name. Most sold out faster than an addict needing a fix, purely out of political survival, forgetting that they'll remain forever stained in the minds of the populace who have an operational memory.
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  2974. "OK, you can't tell me, you claim it's salvage despite legal documents saying otherwise. I'll find out during discovery or Tesla will default in court and I'll get a brand new car for free, as this looks, tastes and smells like fraud. My lawyers are bored anyway". Oddly, one gets any other RV, one isn't under Big Brother.
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  2975.  @jameygroves8561  well, Atlanta is in the CSA, I've had other southerners tell me so. I suggested that reconstruction should be resumed for a century, as obviously the first one was halted prematurely.
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  2976.  @JuanWonOne  not a problem, unless you are American Legion... ;) Seriously, you simply have to treat the water to prevent growth of nasty organisms.
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  2977.  @69uremum  isn't a wireless water transmitter simply a cloud? ;)
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  2978.  @cruelbiscuit62  a swamp cooler doesn't need electricity, only air movement past the evaporator. That can be a prevailing breeze or even mechanically provided.
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  2979. I'll be asking some friends at State to examine the issue. Being a willing tool of adversaries is actionable via sanctions.
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  2980.  @aaronmicalowe  he had what flaps he took off with. The uncontained failure debris destroyed the electrical system before it was time to decrease flaps. Handling that severe a failure, while keeping the aircraft under control and successfully navigating back to the airfield is tough, it's double tough. I'd risk saying, Cosmonaut tough. Because there is one thing worse than every alarm going off in the cockpit at once - total electrical failure removing all information that's telling what is going on with the aircraft. Just thinking :aw, shit" had to wait until after landing, shutdown and evacuation.
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  2981.  @Melodymaker99  you can keep on copy pasta that tripe all you want, it's still unconstitutional for a POTUS to constrain any part of the Constitution. Amendments are to be made only by Congress, with a 2/3 supermajority in favor, then 3/4 of the state legislatures have to ratify. Courts cannot amend the Constitution, nor can a POTUS, who plays no part in the amendment process.
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  2982.  @Rascallyone  rich, but couldn't make bond to appeal that nearly half billion dollar penalty.
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  2983. Well, police arrived quickly. If you'd prefer, you could just walk. NYC isn't that huge for most common destinations... Or is that too dangerous for you as well? Oh wait, your IP isn't even in NY.
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  2984.  @who-gives-a-toss_Bear  so, reasonable suspicion disappeared in the Constitution free zone?
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  2985.  @akboyz1  pythons aren't venomous. Additionally, they're not a suggestion of illegal activity. Why do you hate our 4th amendment so?
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  2986.  @drunkbillygoat  alas, some think that'd be grounds to ignore the fourth amendment and search your property without reasonable suspicion or a warrant. Which would of course, stress the snake, potentially lethally. I miss the good old days, back when we had a Constitution to protect us! Personally, I'm not into snakes as pets, but do have friends who are. For me, snakes are better off patrolling for vermin and making that vermin a fine meal. ;) Well, except for one cottonmouth, who became a nuisance in my yard when we lived in Louisiana. I annoyed it enough that it decided to relocate. While holding a rifle, just in case, their temperament is infamously lousy. It went back to the bayou behind the property and only came back on occasion to molt.
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  2987. Trump treats veterans thus. Mere props. Right up there with the dust broom.
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  2988.  @televishenimoniker5546  yeah, the ID tends to be a sovereign citizen idiocy thing too. They literally fail every time in court and still never learn.
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  2989. Learned of this goat screw from a law professor right here on Youtube. Shouldn't need a lawyer to have one's rights protected in the land of the allegedly free! That ain't what I served 28 years of my life in the military defending.
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  2990. There is one point that the narrator, in sheer ignorance, just glossed over, ever in a hurry to condemn the seaworthy vessels as death traps. Concrete weights in around three times heavier and spare change than steel. That incurs significant costs, as in propulsion, as in everything else, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. They also lacked the flexibility of a steel hull. So, if there was a collision or grounding, the concrete vessel would fare poorer than the steel vessel and well, even the steel vessel's gonna go through hell. Still, I'd happily own one for recreation. I'd just have to watch out for the shallow rocks in the river nearby.
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  2991.  @Vann20F  interesting way of saying it in a decidedly non-native speaking way. As one does not fill out a resume.
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  2992.  @KramerMC5  so, give him a free pass on subsequent or newly discovered crimes? Amending charges to include additional charges is a routine thing in US courts and always has been so.
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  2993. That gets seriously complicated. There is "international law", established by various treaties and agreements. Then, there is Egyptian law and there, things can get... Weird and interesting.
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  2994.  @mrpawpaw7023  well, not entirely true. He does have his word. Zero evidence, just his word. Yes, it was difficult to type that while laughing so hard. I mean, we're talking about the phenomenal competence to astrogate well enough to make it between stars, yet beyond phenomenal incompetence enough to slam into a planet that obviously swerved and suddenly stopped in their path, so they crashed. I honestly can't think of a chemical that could allow me to get so addled as to be convinced of that.
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  2995.  @LisaAnn777  "I saw something that I don't know what it is" isn't a space ship. I saw plenty of craft I didn't know, all were classified military experimental vehicles, so I moved on with shit that was my business, as if I had a need to know, I'd be briefed.
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  2996.  @LisaAnn777  I remember many reports of veteran pilots chasing an object around and never managing to close on it or find it on radar. Turned out to be reflections on the canopy of their aircraft. The F-117 and B2 bomber don't have a visible form of propulsion, obviously they're not from Barksdale AFB, they're from outer space. Satellites don't have visible forms of propulsion, obviously they're magic since they hang above in precisely the same way that a brick won't. Others fruitlessly chased a visible and radar confirmed target that turned out to be an orbiting satellite. So, obviously it's space aliens in flying saucers. Who are so phenomenally competent as to ply interstellar space routes, but so inept as to ram into our planet. Your last paragraph shows that your projection is showing clearly. Facts don't matter, little green men matter or something.
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  2997.  @nightworrior666  I wonder how many will still want to start a fight with a soldier armed with a machine gun?
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  2998.  @MidlifeRenaissanceMan  unlike some, many of us monitor all of the news that's going on, not just the top headline of the day. Why, there's all manner of things going on in the world that aren't Trump! Or a spat in Russia over losing a contract and workers to the military.
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  2999.  @MidlifeRenaissanceMan  I tend to track four news sources, some foreign, on a number of events and topics. Old habit from my military days. Retired from the Army now, but old habits die hard and I loathe getting blindsided.
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  3000.  @thaneoffife6904  for the longest time, after the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended, the navy barely monitored the network at all. Now, it's largely monitored by navy reserves and researchers. But, when something noteworthy deserves it, they do go back and take a look. It's part of how they found the Scorpion.
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  3001. It is amazing though to see him without his obligatory lampshade for a change.
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  3002. Damned dyslexia bit me briefly, must be tired. For a second, I saw the bit about the little shovel to get the pill back to get the fillets...
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  3003.  @guydodge-OMG  a bit disjointed in the use of English, but there's no sign of a loss of visual acuity. That said, your reply most certainly betrays more than a bit of illiteracy. SMH
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  3004. Trump has two types of employees. Unpaid and convicted.
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  3005. Look up the units "barn" and "shake", so why not?
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  3006.  @davidh9638  well, that's what happens when budget cuts result in the state switching to using water colors. ;)
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  3007. 2 1/4 mile - ummm, I mean 3 mile island finally shut down in 2019. One deleterious effect has been losing the navigation landmark of its plume. Yeah, I used to be able to see that plume from home.
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  3008.  @emdxemdx  no, that's a myth. The Conventions began in the 1800's, which somewhat predates WWI. The first Geneva Convention being penned in 1864. And Canadians were and remain very, very polite! They politely escorted the US Armies back to the US border twice, once during the Revolution, once in 1812.
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  3009. And was once used as an anesthetic, until the toxicity to the liver was discovered and it's a suspected carcinogen. Great solvent though, if one takes the appropriate precautions with it.
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  3010. They give bond for one reason - the Constitution requires it. You'd rather we revoke the Constitution and nobody gets to have rights?! Anything else, perhaps allowing cops to just gun a suspect down on sight and not "waste tax dollars" with silly little things like trials? Because, that is what would happen if we ceased enforcing our Constitution, regardless of it being inconvenient to the taxpayer on occasion by allowing an idiot to be released on bail. "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." ~The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution
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  3011.  @SouthBaySteelers  oh? They closed the store? It'll never get cleaned up and restocked?
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  3012.  @sideshowbob  just watch it on the surface. The last wave of flying saucers has passed, it's advanced to flying cups and plates. I really hate going out when the neighbors are fighting...
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  3013. Well, we do! Out of many, one hot mess. ;) What's been forgotten, again, is consensus, not total agreement, compromise, not obstruction until one gets one's way like a three year old having a tantrum. We did have similar in the past - all the way down to platforms, the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing Party, who so obstructed and hijacked things in the Whig party that it disbanded and a new Republican Party was formed to get around their antics.
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  3014. Perhaps they just need to be reminded, their appointment isn't in perpetuity, but only for life, however long that may or may not be...
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  3015.  @judewarner1536  just truthful. Leadership can come in good leadership or selfish leadership, only good leadership leads to good results for a nation. The concepts aren't difficult to comprehend at all.
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  3016. It's also used in drive mode, as a compliance device. So, I guess the Birmingham PD was protecting the public from music.
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  3017. He's not going to release files that illustrate his own visits to that fantasy island.
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  3018.  @danielp28  odd that the actual numbers do not support the claimed price gouging. Figures don't lie, but liars figure. But, since you hate socialism so much, never go to a public park, public library, public venue including sports arenas, don't use any roads and pay for your own water testing and purification, rather than leeching upon your neighbors socialism. When a new disease strikes, pay for your own research teams and accept no drugs or treatments that are derived from taxpayer funded socialism. How do you want your remains disposed of?
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  3019.  @molonlabe9115  Enough glue fixes all, even circulation, which is optional for living tissues. Right? Who needs blood flowing to living tissues when gangrene is waiting to fix everything for you?
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  3020. We're sorry that you were ignored while you dribbled blood and the heart attack, stroke, car accident and victims of other critically life threatening maladies were treated. Obviously, non-life threatening cases should go first before all of those who have seconds to minutes to survive without intervention! I'm sorry that I likely went ahead of you, due to my blood pressure being 210/120, obviously my abdominal aorta could've ruptured and I'd still hold, while your thumb was mended! After all, strokes and aortic ruptures are far less serious than a boo-boo finger that you carelessly lopped off part of (hint: use extreme care while working with sharp instruments and equipment)! I'm sure that my wife's stroke, due to a DVT was of a lower priority than your thumb as well! Thumbs are more important than brains, as your complaint has proved.
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  3021. When I was younger, I was incessantly assigned two man jobs alone - largely due to how much time I spent beside myself. Now that I'm older, I'm definitely worth two of many on the scales of well, anything. When it turned cold enough to warrant putting on a coat, I reached for my leather jacket. Annoyingly, it wouldn't close enough to zip up. I remarked to my wife in disgust that I'll have to get a new coat and she replied, "Why don't you get off your ass and walk off some of that weight". Well, shortly and 25 pounds lighter after, the coat fit again. Damn, but I miss her!
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  3022. BTW, USDA predicts that eggs will go up another 20% by the end of the year. With millions of hens culled in the immense warehouse battery cage egg laying "farms", it takes around 8 - 9 months to raise from egg to hen a laying hen. So, there's no relief in sight currently or well, likely. Compared to Canada and Mexico, where they literally don't have millions of hens in a laying house, maybe 28k or so per farm. Once the tariffs bite, we'll see car prices go insane, with layoffs following as hundred thousand dollar family cars don't sell to unemployed Americans. And if I was a farmer, I'd not bother planting, since nobody's going to be there to harvest the crops, so either way one gets foreclosed on, but at least one still will have slightly lower debt. Compared to having a seed and fertilizer bill on top of one's already mortgaged farm. :/ No clue why he's sending a campaign e-mail to his faithful congregants, given elections were promised to go away. Per his promise... Honestly, I'd be unsurprised to hear the idiot shriek, "DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB!!!". And expect to hear "EXTERMINATE", he's just as rational as that fictitious character. Given his insanity of rights being illegal. Screw it, grew up in the '60's, BURN, BABY, BURN!
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  3023.  @nomore6167  as a wise SCOTUS judge said, "I cannot properly describe pornography, but I know it when I see it", leaving the window wide open, when previously prurient interest was a key qualifier. So, some literally consider anatomy books for physician students pornography and should be destroyed, so doctors can treat things that they literally are prohibited from knowing about. Saw that in other countries and suggested here. And if the body is obscene, then God obviously fucked up, which declaring so by declaring a body obscene is heresy. I tangle preachers in their socks always. Despite somewhat coarse language, I am an ordained minister. One preaches to the audience in their language, not some foreign tongue. And speaking in tongues was plainly, in all biblical versions, described as being understood by the listener as spoken in their language, not interpreted by their ventriloquist. Yeah, the State Department has repeatedly declined my job applications, which is an utter mystery to me. For those whose sarcasmometers burned out, I have a pallet of them, let me know and I'll shoot a replacement along.
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  3024. Vendettas aren't power, they eventually backfire and destroy any power one had accumulated.
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  3025. Jurisdiction is a very real thing, as courts can and do bounce cases where an officer is outside of his or her jurisdiction - where their authority ends, save in the rare case of hot pursuit.
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  3026. Well, the US inherited UK common law after the revolution, hence the similarities. We just lagged in some states as to relaxing religious based restrictions. Still, at least you were spared from a Sunday with weak, nearly tasteless beer. ;)
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  3027. You'd end up in trouble, as one needs a court order to even evict a squatter. So, you burglarized a home, assaulted the occupants with a mob, you could even face racketeering and riot charges in some jurisdictions.
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  3028. Well, Hitler learned from the GOP in the US, eugenics, media control via propaganda, repression of rights, along with the named groups, you forgot the other victims of Aktion T4, the physically disabled, mentally ill and infirm elders that couldn't work, all under the excuse of "sapping the war effort's resources". While acknowledging in writing before the war that he needed a war to justify his eugenics efforts. One plan Hitler didn't get to begin, suppression of Christianity in favor of worshiping Woden. Even his inner circle realized that was one step too far. One advantage we have over Germany or Hungary, our second amendment protects the entirety of our now defunct Constitution.
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  3029. I have a word for non-liquid gold. Gold. It's a frigging solid at room temperature.
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  3030. If we're not careful and wash our hands a *lot*, we all are gonna need them. Norovirus going around big time this year. Hit the youngest grandkid last week, collapsed part of an intestine that was reduced during imaging, hit me last night and I'm over two hours away and had no contact. Besides, the most comical moment, beyond his needing an aging General to help him walk up a ramp was when Trump walked up Air Force One's stairs with toilet paper clinging to his shoe and nobody told him.
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  3031. Hurricanes are big, boats have both limited range and speed, making it beyond difficult to get clear of an immense hurricane in time. There's a chance they might get clear earlier today, but gaining the kind of distance to be safe at sea with a hurricane even a couple of hundred miles away chopping the waters isn't very good and growing lower and lower in chance. At least, not in a small pleasure craft and definitely not in a house boat. Maybe a cruiser yacht with a damned good sea anchor system.
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  3032.  @jorgegaston5391  Newsmax does have an FCC broadcast license, OAN does not. Cable stations aren't FCC regulated, nor are internet sites. Or do you want to have to have an internetting license?
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  3033. Need to know and is cleared to that level. If someone's read in on something above their usual clearance level, the data owner and officer responsible are accepting the risk upon themselves if that trust is abrogated. Although, it is interesting that he was granted a TS, just not the restricted programs, groups and bigot lists. Especially with reported admitted drug usage, which suggests he's admitted to it and the USAF accepted that risk. That strongly suggests some strings got pulled from significant, rarefied altitude. But, discussion here would be decidedly naughty and result in one going to the boo box...
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  3034. You anticipated my question about SAF and seals. I don't foresee that being an easily resolved problem though, as that's basically a problem as old as engines themselves. We used jet-A for fuel in our diesel tugs, which caused our usage of motor oil to increase by a fair amount. Still, with enough research, a solution will eventually be found. Then, we'll only have nitrogen problems...
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  3035. More likely, he's trying for a dementia defense.
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  3036.  @bogbody9952  I remember those from when I was a kid. Cinderblock size was the economy size back then, then they started sizing it down to keep the price the same. Finding those molecules in the morning is a PIA!
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  3037.  @bogbody9952  wow, your government is generous! The US only issues concrete block pills and reinforced concrete underwear and socks. Although, for a modest fee we can upgrade to underwear with an etched corundum lining.
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  3038. He did say that he deserved a medal for not getting the clap during the Vietnam war.
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  3039.  @Don_ECHOguy  to his devout, he’s their god-emperor.
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  3040. Two apologies, one to the victim, one to the Canadian government. If they refuse, close the US-Canada border and refuse all trade, impounding US assets if they wish to persist.
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  3041.  @jackieow  well, we had run-flat tires on our vehicles, available for civilians at an absurdly high price. :/ But, I do recall one incident, where we were looking for a potentially damaged nuclear warhead. But, the detectors we had to search for potential tritium or even plutonium leaking or burning were G-M tube based, hence rather useless for the latter (with the window open, we could detect beta). Fortunately, the warhead was still intact within its carrier. The old saying is a good saying, "The right tool for the right job"! But, with more advanced tools, one requires training or well, there are a number of effects that can lead the untrained astray badly. Things like dead time with G-M, pandemonium in scintillators, yeah, without training, the tools are like handing a brain surgeon's instruments to someone off of the street. Hell, it's been so long, I've forgotten through disuse a great deal.
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  3042. Those last two are spot on, although the last point is an acknowledged phenomena - even by the courts, who blame the legislature.
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  3043.  @5thribroarn304  there are currently no charges for sedition or insurrection. That can be remedied quickly. Currently, he's in hot enough water over his casual disregard for classified documents.
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  3044. And when a man goes on a covert mission, he doesn't bring ID and passports into enemy territory.
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  3045. Only one problem. Such fees aren't set by bureaucrats, they're set by politicians and collected by bureaucrats, who will just as happily not collect those fees, as their paychecks remain the same either way.
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  3046. OK, I'll grudgingly take the job. My first act will be to secure my Imperial Pension, in Imperial Dollars. Then, declare the Constitution back in force and the US dollar our currency. Damned if I know what I'll be doing for a pension...
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  3047.  @mrjerzheel  nope, some laws are delegated for enforcement to the states, elections being top of the list, with case law going back to the 1790's. And what was objected to was the attorney instructing a jury on what it may and may not do, which is exclusively a duty for the judge, not either side's attorney. When the judge sustained the objection, it was an instruction to the defense to continue along a different line, he was ignored and basically in contempt of court and the law. Now, it'll go before the Bar disciplinary board to be handled, as it really is a big deal.
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  3048.  @garyhershkowitz3435  what else would you expect, when the same small group of wealthy special interests pay for both sides campaigns?
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  3049. What makes you think it wasn't Batman?
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  3050. Our eldest daughter beat down an ex-boyfriend in high school while on a school trip. She was found at fault by the school, as she shouldn't have been fighting. He, after all, was only trying to rape her. I showed up in my full Army dress uniform, wearing medals I usually didn't wear (I basically never wore all of my medals, as it tended to embarrass commanders to have less medals than their soldiers) and quietly explained to the principal, his safety was predicated upon my children's safety and from that point onward, whatever happens to them would happen to him. She got a one day suspension, he got one day detention, I took both kids to the zoo on that day. Oddly, there was no repetition of the offense and the school took oddly great pains to avoid their being together. Maybe it was that emerald beret that was convincing...
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  3051. Lack of political will and people idiotically proclaiming their freedumb to throw crap all over the place. Pennsylvania doesn't have that system and the roadside shows it.
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  3052.  @susiemalphurs5212  no, that'd be Trump's lawyers now. His habituation for not paying for services has finally come back to haunt him and as is typical of such things, at the most inopportune time for him. So, Trump gets filings that include Doctor Seuss, Eastman gets competent representation.
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  3053. I'm the best person that I know. That tells me something critically important. I need to find a better class of riffraff to hang around with. ;)
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  3054.  @GC21771  yep. Not even all that unusual, look up the origin of the word zealot for a fine example.
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  3055. Carol, I never make mistaks, I make blunders. ;)
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  3056.  @pulsefel9210  that's gauged upon the degree of harm to the safety, security and national interests of the United States. Has anyone died? Have we lost major assets or relations with an ally? Did it cost US citizens their freedom and properties? Finally, we have precedent. PVT Manning was sentenced to 35 years, served nearly 7 before Obama commuted the sentence. One cannot claim to be fair when someone divulged 700k+ classified documents to a foreign interest, then demand the execution for possessing a few hundred documents and waved around only a few. If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer keeping my Constitution intact.
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  3057. Well, if we're getting rid of eminent domain, are we giving back the land the parks, reservoirs and highways?
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  3058. Yeah, the ricin prevents animals from eating the beans.
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  3059. That's only a small part. We go silver bullet high tech, then try to pack bleeding edge technologies, forgetting that bleeding edge means it's bloody. Your example of the Army's attempt to Star Trek a rifle is an excellent example, as they added a smart grenade that wasn't even a prototype initially and never really got out of alpha test prototype stage at the end. They wanted to replace and update the rifle, they then tried to turn it into a Star Trek version of a Swiss army knife, with all of the attendant failures and overruns, forgetting the base rifle in the process. They lose sight of the overall purpose of the original project, each segment becomes a process queen, turning the whole nine yards into a hanger queen and the damned thing isn't even an aircraft. Build the ship, build the rifle, get it working as a baseline, basic unit, subprojects have to get their components up and interoperating or else they're cancelled. Then integrate the frigging things. Because, what good is ship with photon torpedoes if the propulsion system doesn't work? What good is the rifle is the grenade launcher computer is great, but the rifle can't hit the broad side of a barn from the inside?
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  3060. Well, an oath to defend the nation, Constitution and laws. You know, the big three that civilization depends upon. Now, if we could only master a three or four party system...
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  3061. Me: It's been tried before. Many times, all failed, good luck to you!
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  3062. I'm more than familiar with the phenomenon, for me, it's accompanied with a hovering sensation in a situation where hovering is impossible and late symptoms is an urge to void, absent anything to void. In a crew situation, I learned to ask my crew to cover me as I "reset my mental chips after having my mind blown". Alone, it's a challenge, but first and always ensure I'm not about to select an action that'll be deleterious to going back to a stable situation. Once that's ascertained, take a deep mental breath and step back and while examining something that has nothing whatsoever to confusion, such as a cabin pressure reading or engine efficiency reading, go back to mental square one and evaluate where, what and desired goal. The effect is basically, like looking out of the windscreen to view a runway and instead are treated to a low altitude view of the moon. And landing an aircraft on the moon is an exercise in impossibility, no lift or air to feed the cabin compressors, let alone the engines and provide lift. Essentially, one develops control loops and something happens that's arriving at the moon disruption happens and the mind, losing its reference loops goes gonzo in trying to get a grip unguided. Hence, the distraction trick and taking a mental step back and an "ignore the mind blown event and see where we are and what's needed and stabilize that approach first". Because, waking up dead is really, really hard on one's weekend plans.
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  3063.  @SGTMinguez  heh, just go onto any base and look at the ancient buildings with a T-number on them. T for temporary. Some predate WWII, being built by the CCC during the depression.
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  3064. The letter from Mom, I mean Ronnie actually is pretty good and actually bears out what I've said from day one. He was lightly grazed by the round and in highly technical terms, he has a boo-boo. Actually getting a full impact on the cartilage would've torn the earlobe in half. Graze, it'll be bruised, a cut and a touch of a burn as the tenth of an ounce chunk of lead moving around 2500 - 3000 feet per second just brushed the soft tissue. And like everything Trump, he'll milk it beyond dry. BTW, an AR isn't a high power rifle, it's an intermediate caliber varmint round, designed to kill prairie dogs and coyotes. A .308 is a high power rifle and it's designed to kill large animals like mule deer and humans. This is a nothingburger, ignoring criminal matters in favor of a fucking boo-boo being overplayed. It's a boo-boo and he's wearing a white flag.
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  3065. We're a bit funny on that one, rather preferring to have a crime, an indictment, a trial, conviction and that sentencing thing first. Places like Iran, Russia, China and North Korea do it the way you basically expressed. We kind of consider them "bad guys" for doing such things, as we consider imprisoning someone without charge, trial and conviction naughty.
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  3066. "I don't lie Mondays", sure wasn't a male...
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  3067.  @rylian21  the sad part is, invalidating the election would result in our literally not having an executive branch in our government. He can't stay past the inauguration date, as his term would be expired, perfecting another history book entry for Trump, a major Constitutional crisis. What he's hoping for is that enough Republican voters show up at polling places, while enough Democratic voters fail to go to the polls to put him over the top. But, should he invalidate the election, we'd be in a Constitutional crisis in any event.
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  3068.  @annoyedaussie3942  well, the Lincoln Project are lead by Republican Party members, who are in open revolt against Trump and his Trumpettes, which gives a hint what the heart of the party is thinking. Trump relies upon a minority of the population raising a lot of noise and pretending to be even 1/3 of the population and they're not, they're around 31% at best and quite a few of them are disillusioned by him and his antics. That's especially true when he jumps right over the Constitution and misallocation laws, as only Congress can reallocate money, not the imPOTUS stealing from DoD installation construction and repair budgets to build a wall that Congress refuses to fund. Trump doesn't even seem to realize that two highly advanced, apparently, secret to him, technologies render his wall useless. The LADDER and a TUNNEL, both of which have breached our border barriers in the past. But, he even counted the border wall section that was blown down as additional new construction.
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  3069. When someone is in a space where harm could occur, things get locked down and tagged out. That prevents activation of things that could kill a worker. So, even joking like that is an egregious safety violation.
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  3070.  @benjiro8793  well, once pressure equalization occurs at depth, there'd be no complaint from someone inside of the tube. One atmosphere state human to typical submarine operating depths pressure within seconds well exceeds human crush depth. Other than the lungs, spongy bone would still have the air spaces at one atmosphere, which would swiftly collapse under that pressure. What'd come out most certainly wouldn't be pretty!
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  3071.  @BubbaYoga  for Maintenance and Inspection. Remember the locking units that were greased?
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  3072.  @cuzz63  changing the Constitution is constitutionally allowed, that's what amendments are. They require a 2/3 supermajority in both houses of Congress, then 3/4 of the states to ratify an amendment. Given how big a pain in the gonads it is to get a budget through, you can imagine how difficult it is to get an amendment through. And there is no getting around the Constitution and nobody in the Democratic party has suggested such an absurdity. Only Ruskies have suggested that via their bot networks and propaganda outlets.
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  3073.  @sneakyserpent95  I'm willing to bet that his own wife votes against him - again.
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  3074. One area Trump's shown consistent freaking out over is when his innumerable failures are outlined in a way that have people outright laughing at him. The other area that drives him around the bend is anything that makes him look weak. Double them by having him portrayed as the weakling that he is and an abject failure in one ad, that really puts him into low orbit.
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  3075. I used to love all of them. Now, I can't tolerate how sweet all of them are. And I still enjoy eating anise root. Despite only having three teeth left (thanks, GERD!)...
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  3076. How much? Well, just wait until the trial really begins. You'll be amazed at how many bulls held a convention...
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  3077. Hopefully soon, you'll make an episode on our "second brain", aka the enteric nervous system. Amazing how many functions are managed so well by so few cells! Oh, one other malfunction moment, moderate to severe diarrhea. Had an episode strike right after rest rooms reopened during the first spring wave of COVID, where by the time I got to the necessary in the store, well, that toilet area needed some very serious cleaning - despite my efforts to lower that requirement. I did, of course, report it to the store manager and apologized for the god awful mess. Absolutely zero control once I began to sit down. Never did figure out what so irritated my bowel so greatly. :/ Oh, emergency field hydration, when one is out of IV catheter insertion units or even plain large bore needles, one can use just the tubing (lubricated, of course) rectally and the colon will scavenge the fluid and rehydrate the patient. Given the choice of rectal rehydration and an intraosseous device, yeah, I'll take the lesser invasive method when AAOx3!
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  3078. I remember the old big drum units. One leader sounded like a washing machine loading up, the other major vendor sounded like the 1960's bat mobile starting up, both performed equally well. Of course, I'm a bit younger, so my first minicomputer I got to work with was an old PDP-11/03. Got out of school and worked around a PDP-11/70 in Pershings... Obviously, all back when alarm clocks were either wind up or plug in.
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  3079.  @ZincoDrone  nope, frankly, I'm thinking it's AI inflammatory BS. It calls regex, that's regular expressions, gives a string list, but gives no assertions that would be absolutely necessary in any regular expression. It's like giving the AI a list of users to be listed as strings, tell it to include regex, but without instructions on what the pattern expressions are to be. So, it gives a list of users, the word regex and of course, no filters or assertions to apply, making the file meaningless to any software, but appear to those who wouldn't know an API from asparagus to be inflammatory. That stood out to me the first time I saw the BS, as I worked with regex constantly on a daily basis for years, for firewall filters, mail filters, log filters, general content filters, search filters and well, a lot more. I'd bat off a regex statement that was several scrolled lines long like I was typing a quickly jotted off e-mail.
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  3080. I asked doctor for a prescription for 600 mg ibuprofen, typically for once a day. Doctor revolted, exclaiming, "Do you know what that can do to your kidneys?!". I replied, well, most other drugs go through the liver, inflicting their own havoc in your extreme view and I have hepatitis A damage, as well as heat stroke damage to my kidneys (trace of protein) and liver, so instead, how about an opioid? Got my ibuprofen, 30 day supply lasted a year.
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  3081.  @judithwake2757  can't award Republican party money to either any more than they could seize your property on this matter. The party didn't do anything as an organization, even if some members did. We don't do guilt by association in the US. Otherwise, well, he grew up in Queens, we'll arrest and seize all assets of everyone living in Queens by guilt by association. That previously was done in Europe and precisely why the Founders forbade it.
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  3082. Unlimited, unrestricted, uncorrected free speech is the favorite tool of Joseph Goebbels. Unopposed, well, history speaks for itself and since we've not learned from WWII, we'll get to experience WWIII and even bigger and better camps. We'll all give a wonderful, glowing review of the results, a totally Cerenkov glow. Your choice, folks. I grew up hearing about that war and its destruction and costs from those directly involved in the fighting, although one uncle that liberated one of the camps never would speak about the experience. I heard about it from a few neighbors and later, other elders that had the camp tattoos. Suffice it to say, I'll fight fascists to the last drop of their blood, as I am also a wartime combat veteran. My earliest memory, other than being pricked with a diaper pin, was of JFK being assassinated and watched the civil rights movement gain traction and now, appearing to be reversing. My Twaddle account is long closed, my FB account is now disabled and if he wants to retain a fact free site, in June my charter membership will be deleted. I only kept my account to keep touch with my kids and later, grandkids while deployed. I've long ceased calling these sites social media, they're antisocial media and frankly, they need my eyes and input for the advertisers to spew advertisements at, I really don't need them. Always remember, old truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbilt. Hey, I was only 5 tons and below, as well as armored vehicles of a wee bit more tonnage than that, semis, those I never learned how to operate, although had the opportunity for training been offered, of course I'd have accepted it. I've never declined any form of training. I'll still not decline training, even in my 60's. I've done everything from shoveling, swinging a 10 pound sledgehammer, finishing concrete, electrical work, plumbing work, sawn more wood than I care to think about, refinished furniture, am a certified electronics technician to component level repair service, worked on nuclear weapons, was an SF medic, worked with explosive demolitions and later, evacuation and medical NCO, operations NCO and beyond, IT engineer and IT security. I've taught electronics theory and practical, complete with tutoring flagging students in algebra and trigonometry, land navigation, basic and advanced marksmanship, advanced medical and intravenous and drug therapies in a field environment, field sanitation and hygiene (with special attention to water purification and waste management) and even some nuclear weapons physics. Entertainingly, I was highly proficient in every one of those occupations and activities. My favorites, teaching and running clinics. Next place, cooking.
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  3083.  @thethirdman225  the bane of high speed photography, the need for enough photons to acquire such short exposure images.
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  3084.  @thethirdman225  but, I don't need oxygen either, I require nitrous oxide. ;)
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  3085. First, stop politicizing a monitoring warning, lest we lose the entire warning chain. Trump's still got a hard-on for them over COVID making him look bad. The chance of infection magically appearing in milk cows that somehow incubate H5N1 into a human form is around the same as being hit by lightning while being hit by a meteorite. Literally. The probability of mutation is fairly remote to begin with within a year, which is millions of generations of virus. The probability of mutation to human form in a bovine, beyond remote, due to a difference in the proteins and the inability of the damned virus to infect a cow if it can infect a human (loads of technical there, but it's remote, a pig would be more probable). Their cause du jour is "Oh, the Amish that they're oppressing" over some Amish farmers in PA that were raided for unlawfully selling raw milk. Then, how they carried the state on the Amish vote, which is nonsense, due to their tiny population (which is a fairly high number compared to most states) and how few vote for religious reasons. The actual risk being raw milk being infected with Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, or Salmonella and unpaid hospital bills and unnecessary deaths in children and elders. The unpaid hospital bills passing on the expense to patients and/or being defrayed via medicaid funds to prevent the bankruptcy of the hospital. It'd be more fun and trivial for someone to maneuver RFK into championing the return and deregulation of Radithor - triple distilled water with radium added for health bonuses. That way, he's championing everyone being allowed to drink literal cancer water.
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  3086. More like someone's batshit crazy. I can say that I'm the Grand Leader of the Space Aliens, doesn't mean I'm from outer space or an alien.
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  3087.  @bonnierussell9798  she can still file a new case, as she already had done. Eventually, he'll find no guarantor and be unable to bond for another appeal. He's now just trying to tie things up in court, to his mind in perpetuity.
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  3088.  @BabyMakR  and an old fashioned distress call on VHF. There's always a fairly decent chance someone will receive, even if out of two way range and they'll relay it onward. Which is what was done for generations, before we got all those fancy satellites and stuff. Honestly, with some of the objections, I'm surprised nobody complained that one couldn't e-mail a distress call... Or pop a flare or smoke device if a vessel or aircraft is in sight.
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  3089.  @anonjoeoof2113  Google "US medical bankruptcy", quite common in the US.
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  3090.  @OperationSlap69  anyone not subject to the jurisdiction of the US or their state cannot be detained or arrested, as there is no jurisdiction to do so. That's how diplomatic immunity works and why diplomats children born in the US are not US citizens, as they're subject only to their nation's jurisdiction. Here's a hint, Congress wrote that amendment, requiring 2/3 supermajority of votes for it and obviously wouldn't have passed something flawed, then 3/4 of the state legislatures ratified it and they sure as hell wouldn't ratify a flawed amendment. It's withstood over a century of case law as well. No President can just take a crayon and scratch out any part of the US Constitution. He literally has no place in the amendment process.
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  3091.  @painkillerjones6232  when did they outlaw the very first amendment?
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  3092. In a beer belly, you'll see both subcutaneous fat increased, but also visceral fat around organs and the intestines increased. With the increased amount of fatty tissue comes displacement of the muscle wall and skin. It's all part of the body's energy storage systems, storing energy as fat for when food is scarce. Obviously, not a perfect system, but then what system is perfect?
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  3093. Hybrid, one has partially ionized gases from a jet engine's combustion, ionize that and air, to drive an additional stage of fan driver or even simple turbothrust like an old fashioned afterburner. Now, it's only a factor of controlling ion flow and temperatures within the engine. Simplicity itself - until you try that control... :/
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  3094. Typical huckster. Thought those went extinct when I was a kid.
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  3095. She'd have no standing were the statute worded "any person alleging experiencing discrimination", without the word experiencing, the statute is open even to witnesses of discrimination. That may not have been the legislature's intent, but words do mean something. It makes a difference between having standing to bring an otherwise worthless case and being charged with extortion.
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  3096.  @elizabethlock6169  stellar performance by him, hell, interstellar! Nanu-nanu quality.
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  3097. The very thing that a black hole says at the event horizon. :)
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  3098.  @zwenkwiel816  good question, as RICO cases can get convoluted.
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  3099. Oh, but we've got high speed data now. And a half second and change lag round trip... Used geosynch birds in the military at times, typical lag ranged from 550 ms - 650 ms round trip. Maybe they'd prefer a cooler locale than earth orbit, say, Mars, where lag ranges from 4.3 minutes to 24 minutes. Ignore that sunny thing getting in the way on occasion or when the planet's facing the wrong way, Harry Potter's magical cue stick will fix that. Hey, I'm feeling nice, usually I call it Harry's marital aid, in somewhat less family friendly terms. There are around a thousand things I can think would go well in space, a data center for earth is decidedly not one of them - not even in LEO, where it'd need to be boosted back up fairly frequently or that data center would get decidedly toasty briefly, then go offline in chunks.
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  3100.  @w0ttheh3ll  yeah, space is a huge pain in the gonads. Those are the minor highlights. Add in things like radiation belts, cosmic rays from both the sun and outside the solar system, geomagnetic antics from solar events and we're just in first gear. Then add in that the metal of the spacecraft tries to actually evaporate from both radiation and small micrometeors, vacuum causes metal parts to weld to each other and heat can act as a tiny thruster and create all manner of odd effects...
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  3101. Me: My immune system is already ever so almighty, the only enemy remaining to vanquish is me. So, it attacks some joints, after failing to kill me by turning my thyroid gland on full tilt. Resulting in, after an accidental gamma radiation exposure, a regrettable skin discoloration of an olive drab tendency, increased strength and general irritability.
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  3102. OK, we'll get an arrest warrant for Rush. I don't think he's going to get away anytime soon.
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  3103.  @painkillerjones6232  well, not everyone likes to drink bull milk, like you do.
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  3104.  @madgeologist495  with an extremely high pressure chamber, one could also experiment on various gases within magma. Given the various ice forms theorized within deep magma, it'd be quite an interesting series of experiments. Experiments that campus safety would rightfully say no to. That whole pressures ice VIII forming at resulting in needing a replacement campus if there was a catastrophic pressure loss and all...
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  3105. I'm actually an ordained minister, you'd be dismayed as to how many professed Christians cannot identify any part of the teachings that they parrot mindlessly, not by book, chapter, even testament and well, get what they're parroting wrong - this includes many lay preachers and even many ordained ministers. Ask about the New Covenant, they'll rarely identify Hebrews as one mention, but it was originally mentioned in Jeremiah. But then, I've so frequently heard "Oh, that's Old Testament, it doesn't count", to which I ask, "Oh? Then why did God want it included in the Bible since his Word no longer counts?". You attack a defective framework by showing its foundation is missing, removing what few props support it a little at a time until it tumbles to the ground. Try to do so rapidly, that collapse then falls upon one's own head.
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  3106.  @TheGhostOfSmedleyButler  got a nice golf course on the base across the river, plenty of Appalachian mountains here as well and great Italian food is right inside of my kitchen, not to mention a half dozen restaurants here in Harrisburg, PA. And plenty of high tech deep inside of Pennsyltucky. And even more Italian food in Philly, as well as the best rust collection around...
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  3107. Bleh, Hari Seldon has a plan. OK, will have a plan...
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  3108. Given my well document allergy to weed, such a fiction will be met with a very, very, very vindictive and allergic citizen with a squeaky clean record.
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  3109. There is, just not for jewelry. Industry is gobbling most of the supply manufactured up as fast as it's made. And the earliest gemstone diamond manufacturers literally got death threats from De Beers.
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  3110.  @shoesoffbootson5317  it's OK to autograph a flag, but not to burn it. Which the flag code states is precisely how one disposes of a flag that's torn, tattered or unservicable.
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  3111. The video is online (along with some disinformation videos that contain the unedited video that's relevant). The ship lost power as it was approaching the bridge and without power, lost maneuvering control and drifted into the bridge pier.
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  3112.  @sechsauge  if they cast a vote, they are citizens and inside the country or outside, they remain citizens. And few are the countries that will accept them on a permanent basis without their seeking citizenship there. Also, returning to Puerto Rico isn't leaving the country, it remains part of the US.
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  3113.  @sechsauge  my favorite type was during the early campaign, where some brain trusts threatened me with deportation. Even had it in person, which was more fun, as then they'd hear in my best South Philly accent, "Where ya gonna deport me to, South Philly?!", although the response is the same, the accent really pulls the rug out from under the imbecile. Given my parents were also born in South Philly and on my maternal grandmother's side are sons and daughters of the American Revolution. In many ways, pro-Trump voters remind me of Jonestown, allowed peer pressure to drive them to drink the Flavor Aid.
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  3114.  @angel22893  that'll make the White House happy, good numbers, rather than bad numbers. Reality be damned, Nero has to play that fiddle while Rome becomes a new construction zone for the wealthy to build homes on.
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  3115.  @ealswytheangelicrealms  lately, I've been getting forecasts that generate much jocularity. As an example, 35% chance of rain means in reality, 100% chance of heavy rain. And as is typical of late, today it is going to have a high of 66 degrees and it's currently 67 and climbing, was five degrees higher yesterday than forecast. Yeah, the models are knocked straight into a cocked hat, but the climate isn't warming, the God-king Emperor said so. Of course, he also says that sick people should still go to work, elderly people should still fly and everyone should fly and stay in hotels at various gatherings, as the hospitality and travel industries are suffering losses. I guess having population losses is better than any loss of income over the short term for stockholders! Welcome to 1918, mark 2!
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  3116. That's Empress Donna Trump, with the permission of Emperor Elon Musk.
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  3117.  @davidpotter6119  and, to your horror, found the pool empty. Yeah, know the feeling with the added COVID, erm, mass on my ass. ;) Both of me, to give the scale credit.
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  3118. I'll have to take your word for that, as I've only limited experience with the Meridian SL-100, which was configured to only handle a maximum of 10000 callers. Operable here is, regulations say that if the offending party wants to be masked in, they have to be registered with the FCC with a valid mitigation plan. If not, their traffic is to be prohibited. What you miss is that foreign companies can connect and use masking via their local provider and leverage their provider's contracts. No, it's always the greedy US company, well, when it's not the space aliens or something. But, the US carriers do know the origin of the traffic and could block it, but that takes man hours of work to perform and that work would be essentially slave labor, since the company's now enslaved to perform labor for the government for free. So, what free labor have you provided for the US government this year?
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  3119. @@stevenstrain283 appointed by Obama, who followed tradition of maintaining political balance on the commission by seeking Mitch McConnell's advice. Elevated to Chairman by Trump, who didn't bother with balance in anything. At Verizon, he was there for two years as an in house lawyer. Hardly a full insider, given his being basically a staff lawyer. Indeed, more telling is that he's a Harvard alumni. That school isn't exactly a budget college, to put it mildly. Try using all of the facts, not cherry picking shit to support a failed theory. You want someone familiar with regulatory issues in at least telecommunications on the commission, rather than an engineer or tradesman with no knowledge of communications at all. And it's supremely helpful for such regulators to be attorneys, that way at least regulations and rules will be lawful and not something to be overturned on the first challenge, destabilizing the entire telecom industry. That all said, he screwed the pooch on backtracking on net neutrality, which has finally been undone, but didn't break things as badly as some other Trump appointees have. Like the VA director being directed in what to do by a couple with absolutely zero health care or veterans issues calling the shots behind the scenes, all because of campaign donations to Trump and membership in his club.
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  3120. Be warned, the gazpacho! So, make sure your bowl is ready. Someone save me a bowl for lunch.
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  3121. His behavior in the previous civil trial isn't relevant to this criminal trial. As for your question, the answer is simple enough, we've a two tier justice system, rich do what they please and the Commoner's system, where we get locked up under the jail on general principle.
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  3122. People, stop with the treason crap. Nobody has committed treason, as our Constitution narrowly and precisely defines treason. That was done due to abuses throughout Europe and the UK within their own living memories and to prevent such abuses, they narrowly defined treason. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Jan 6 wasn't even treason, as nobody levied war, which by definition requires the use of arms. We lack a declared war, so we're quite absent enemies. Hence, why seditious conspiracy charges were so rarely applied against the insurrectionists and they were instead charged with insurrection. You do the cause no good when speaking out of ignorance and well, the Constitution isn't all that long, doesn't use complex terminologies, it's in plain English for all to be able to read and comprehend.
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  3123. Glad that you mentioned one of the joys of aging. I get a double dipping, as I'm over 60 and I have hyperthyroidism, which increases my need for proteins. While I've cut back on red meats, I do love my fish and greens - and quite love soybeans. I also enjoy a bit of tofu, having learned to increase surface area so that it'll pick up flavors from foods it's prepared with. It's a great substitute for ricotta cheese in a lasagna. Had to use that to lower phosphorus input for my father when he was on dialysis. Given some weight gain from winter, I'll probably trail off a bit on carbs in favor of protein and given my last blood work, I'll need to boost zinc and magnesium sources a bit.
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  3124. The real question is, what's the policy for a bird strike and possible dual engine loss on final and especially once inside the inner marker and essentially at landing? That might be something worthy of examining and addressing, as the strike essentially took out both engines at literally the worst possible moment in a landing sequence. The usual inclination would be to TOGA, climb, go around while evaluating what damage has occurred and run checklists. But, with both engines out at that point, the amount of energy available for a climb is tiny and the amount of time to clean up configuration to lower drag and try both restart and bring the APU online is vanishingly small, given the APU would likely become available to provide power a few seconds after touchdown on that only option available under those conditions, a reciprocal landing. Training might also be worthy of addressing, as I'm unaware of any training that has a dual engine bird strike induced thrust loss that late in the approach to landing. And one's basically stuck under those conditions entirely with memory items, no time to run any checklists, hell, barely enough time to even pull the appropriate checklist out.
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  3125. I know that weapon well enough, we got one full auto and later brand new DMR semiautomatic only models for designated marksman rifles. Great semiautomatic long range rifle. Fired three rounds in auto and well, I was dubious before and I'm quite proficient at full auto fire, three rounds convinced me it was rubbish. One round on target, the other two shooting butterflies and birds, in damned near any direction save the intended target. Way too light, uncompensated and rubbish in auto. Full auto in .308/7.62x51 NATO needs around 24 - 30 pounds of rifle to remain even an area fire weapon, anything lighter and it's a danger to everyone save the enemy. Semi, rated to 800 meters, I hit reliably at 1 km. A sniper system it wasn't, but it was close enough for a DMR.
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  3126.  @Dr.Mabuse44  since he's not received any significant amount of actual money, that blather makes absolutely no sense. We speak of monetary terms when speaking of weapons and munitions, rather than say, a number of launchers or a specific number of rounds, we'll say $200 million package. That ain't bales of dollar bills. Well, save to our arms companies that made said munitions and weapons systems and I'm guessing that you find employing US arms workers a bad thing.
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  3127. He's still locked up. Are your hands broken?
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  3128. Well, it'd have to be staged. At the final stages of an election, both candidates receive full presidential level Secret Service security. That means that nobody in proximity to the candidate or POTUS without having a Yankee White clearance. Suffice it to say, that's not an easy clearance to acquire. So, they'd have to close and have ringers for their photo ops. Still, I could respect that much effort had he done more than drop one fryer load of fries, manage to set the timer, respond to the timer by removing the baskets from the oil to drain, then dump the baskets into the hopper and get the salt into the hopper, rather than the floor. Say, oh rotate stations and work them as well and at least work one part time shift entirely. In his favor though, he did follow instructions well enough to not injure himself or set the water on fire. That's more than some of my neighbors can say, given how many fire department calls this apartment building gets... :/
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  3129. Depends upon the round, angle of impact and hence, path the round traveled and a bunch of other factors like round expansion. Compared to a 30-30 soft point, which is designed to expand inside the target and expend all of its energy inside of the target. As a hint, similar range with JFK, Oswald's round didn't evacuate his head at that 81 meters or so.
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  3130.  @JudgeJulieLit  I remember the roofing contractor for the Taj Mahal was asking for payment upon completion, per their contract. Local management told them all payments came from corporate and it was impossible to locally cut a check. The tune swiftly changed when the cranes pulled up and crews prepared to repossess the roofer’s domes. Scotty must’ve fixed the transporter, as a check for the amount due materialized. As for which to go with, I’ll stick with the adults in the room and put Trump and his Trumpites in the corner, where they belong.
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  3131.  @fikretahadzistevic9961  true, but military aren't politicians or lawyers.
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  3132.  @fikretahadzistevic9961  the military does not act without orders. An example, everyone knew that WWII was coming with both Japan and Germany, the military didn't attack first, but waited for Congress to declare war. Acting against the Commander in Chief is mutiny, sedition and treason and all are mandatory capital offenses for service members, but not mandatory for civilians, who can get fines and prison instead.
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  3133.  @beno0351  that is beyond impressive, to literal powers of a god level! Given that throughout all branches of service, there are over 900 generals. Even Superman couldn't manage that with his super speed and super reading skills. Notable though, every female senior officer in command of a major command or base he and his staff have encountered was fired under his suppress women and dark skinned people, I mean anti-DEI agenda. I remember back when it was illegal to fire someone just for being dark skinned or a woman. But, that was back when we had a Constitution and laws, now we've only got a tyrant king, who rules by decree.
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  3134.  @craterglass  EDTA isn't the ultimate cure, as it depends upon what metal one's trying to chelate out. There isn't a one stop shop for magical chelation, one selects the agent by what metal one's trying to remove to ensure proper reactions. It is fairly decent as a broad spectrum agent though, until one can isolate the specific metal one wants removed and precisely target it in the case of severe acute poisoning.
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  3135. Oops, forgot to mention the prussian blue, it was way too late for those who died. Massive internal exposure over weeks, it was already absorbed and incorporated in the body, largely the bones. The nastiest dose was in the child, who was playing with the cesium-137 dust and eating on initial exposure. One of the saddest incidents ever.
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  3136. Here are a couple more friends to become acquainted with. The asteroid Ceres and the dwarf world Sedna, both around 1000 km in diameter and notable for their lack of moons. Or the astronomer's joke, the solar system, the Sun, Jupiter and assorted rubble.
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  3137. Somehow, I'm damned sure that Betty would've wanted to avoid that "honor". Especially, given how many hours it took her to be extricated from the wreckage of the elevator, with severe burns and fractures.
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  3138.  @luisadiaz1960  it's a very, very old observation, frequently mistaken for as a joke. It's not, lived in that state for some years, in both Bossier Parish and Caddo Parish. A region notable for people stealing things, just for the sake of stealing, rather than the more common need of those things or money.
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  3139.  @ryanlandry8214  yeah, but that corporation paid off lobbyists to get fines eroded to meaninglessness, penalties driven down to no punitive value and torts virtually eliminated. There was a young man named Finnegan, who broke out of the jail just to sinagain. So foul were his crimes, that in next to no time, the jail that he broke out of he's inagain.
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  3140. True enough, compared to sodium and now, one's a plumber for a dye laser. Here, common diode lasers are inexpensive and excellent excitation sources. And everybody loves to excite their electrons! Microwaves also being much easier to work with, compared to a couple of generations ago and horrific to work with back in the 1940's and '50's. And precision equipment is now far cheaper than ever before in human history!
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  3141. My video of cleaning my bathroom is quite sure. I take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. That also serves reasonably well in cleaning out the fridge at the same time.
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  3142.  @hawkuser604  the problem is that should and may make things appear to be subjective to the officer in charge and that dilutes the authority of shall and will and basically, turns things into a legal clusterfuck from hell. Enough times, similar conversations ended with, "But, you do as you please, Sir, it ain't my OER that'll be getting fucked up". That put the officer's speed brakes on.
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  3143. Well, Russian warships tend to become startlingly flammable in Ukraine waters...
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  3144.  @ElizabethEwins-mj9zu  heh, there, I've an advantage. I have no sense of smell. Downside, tossing a bad fish fillet into the trash late one night, forgetting to take out the trash and a neighbor popping by the following afternoon to borrow a cup of sugar and floor cleaner (obviously, two different cups) and asking what the stench was... Made a sonic boom getting that bag out! Bigger downside, getting food poisoning quite easily, as I can't smell if the food served is off.
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  3145.  @GAK52 there is no jail in the US for libel or defamation. Only civil judgements he either pays or has properties seized by the courts.
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  3146.  @michaellowe3665  very well, then the county gets cleaned out, the state suffers anyway. Authoritarians love collective punishment, might as well let them enjoy it. Do continue with your ignorance of the ADA, you'll make plaintiff lawyers wealthy! The ADA covers a hell of a lot more than wheel chair ramps.
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  3147.  @Sological  and it's worse in the Senate.
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  3148.  @franziskani  it's referred to as the psychology of expectations. We tend to see what we expect to see, rather than what is actually there. Our senses are constantly bombarded with information and to make sense of it all, the brain filters out what it considers extraneous information. The end result could become a disaster, such as misreading gauges on a nuclear reactor, or as harmless as releasing a "duty rooster".
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  3149.  @rigelb9025  yeah, the SEC gave him another talking to about that very subject. Again. He did the same antics with his own companies to inflate their stock price and got stern warnings. Last I heard, they were considering actually charging him. Were it you or I, we'd be underneath the prison, where it takes light a month to reach us.
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  3150. Ask who Janet Parker was and you'll understand his hesitancy at throwing stones. As for COVID-19, both my daughters have it again - for the fourth time and all of the grandchildren have it again, my youngest daughter still suffering from long COVID still from the first wave.
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  3151. File a dispute, bring in the state attorney for grand fraud and an attorney for punitive damages enough to own a fleet. Damages increasing as their corporate types attempt to protract the case. I admit to a character flaw, I am a very, very vindictive man. Let the board explain to the stockholders where their bottom line evaporated into. Had a bogus attempt once on a self-haul vehicle, fortunately the charges got backed out, as they were obviously bogus and that took the bank under a week. The truck company didn't object getting caught and losing out, but then my attorney does write like he's got a set of teeth.
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  3152. Doesn't matter though, violations of the Mann Act remain a felony.
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  3153. Don't feel like editing... Transgender Day of Visibility started in 2009, so I'm guessing that Biden used Obama's time machine again. Because 24 hours in a day aren't enough, one needs to time travel to add to one's workload... The GOP has a wonderful single plank platform, the fear plank. That's it, they've turned into a one trick pony and can't even manage to properly perform that trick. MAGA has successfully done what the nativists did to the previous conservative Whig party - killed it. But, never fear, that minority will likely try to start a civil war, to learn that the military won't join them and that modern weapons neutralize their myth of the super patriot with an AR or commie AK. Yeah, had to go there, since they're so in love with calling everyone commies, while embracing the bastards.
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  3154. Actually, Steve did. Trespassing. Still questionable, as the music was part of the official program. It literally would be like ordering both teams off of the field during the final play of the game.
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  3155. While some of the ANTIFA protests I at heart agree with, violence as a matter of first resort is the hallmark of the incompetent. Violence in defense is acceptable, at an equal measure, you don't shoot someone for punching you, as an example, block and hit back, is a measure in kind. Using tear gas and in one charge, a lethal weapon, big bad karma on that one, enjoy being reborn as a slug or something. Still, 11 out of such a crowd is a very small number to be trying to make international news out of. Deflecting from the 1/6 insurrection with 750+ arrests and hundreds so far convictions, including for sedition?
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  3156. When was Trump paroled? He's out on bail and unsentenced until after the election for emperor for life.
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  3157. And misappropriation of funds is a felony, oh wait, god-kings are immune to the law. So was King Charles I, look up his defense that Trump also vocalized and see how effective it was. Hint: Parliament made sure he got their point, or at least understood the fine edge of their argument while on the block.
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  3158.  @christergudmundsson7465  that's what idiots tell us, leaving many thousands of grieving families.
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  3159. It was studied, not enough room for protective structures that wouldn't obstruct harbor entry. So, really, a poor design that was in part restricted by the technology of the time and budget.
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  3160.  @mplsmark222  even getting the engine back when it did wasn't enough to get the vessel under control quickly, as momentum is quite significant. After all, the ship can stop on a dime, it's just that nautical dimes are really, really, really big. ;) As for litigation, well, I can predict with 100% certainty who will win - the lawyers.
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  3161. Said NASA before getting the bill for a family's roof and upper floor repairs when a battery shelf from the ISS blew through that roof and upper floor. And SpaceX, before a chunk of their upper stage hit someone's roof in North Carolina and a 90+ pound chunk hit a popular hiking trail on private property in the same state.
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  3162.  @siewheilou399  and are typically not appointed, but actual employees of the US Department of State. Would that ambassadors were all so universally required to have such training and professional dedication, rather than having postings treated as a prize for political supporters.
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  3163.  @DHa-og5dx  no! I already did, back on the 4th of last month by mail. Ballot received on the 6th, it'll be counted tomorrow. As I dropped my ballot into the mailbox, I said aloud, "No, Trump!" BTW, met him aroudn y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, where he was the invited guest of honor. Suffice it to say, he was equally popular with those business owners as he is with the business owners speaking here.
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  3164.  @mitchmcconnell3343  not everyone is geriatric enough to be incapable of sustaining excitement for more than two minutes.
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  3165. Well, he helped send us into Iraq. But, we also shouldn't replicate the lack of support for Poland and France against Hitler. Had that been stopped, WWII never would've happened.
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  3166.  @gavinreid9184  now there you go, trying to confuse the issues with silly little things like facts.
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  3167. Those bombs still claim lives every few years as well. As for the vacant properties, I'd suggest turning what can be converted to neighborhood parks and memorials to those lost in the campaign.
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  3168. Well, they already do have that. The neutrino beam experiment.
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  3169.  @user-px7nh7vs4b  bitter almond tones are present, but it seemed to be an odd mixture of off brand kool aid.
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  3170.  @Gerryjournal  huh, never watched a movie? Fictitious characters say whatever the writer wrote, well, save when the actor/actress ad-libs and the director decided it was OK.
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  3171. Well, Truman started "The buck stops here", Trump is starting "The fuck starts here, bend over". Retired Army here. Whenever something my teams were working on went south, my first question was, "How did I fail them to let a winning team fuck this up?". Trump's go to is, "These no good bastards are trying to make me look bad, get rid of them".
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  3172. The consequences of science are serious. They waste billions of dollars, rather than giving them to me! So, you need to support me... Laughably, his objection to the image of the accretion disk glow is trivially, utilizing his own arguments, one to argue against all imagery from an MRI machine. That whole perfect knowledge claptrap used identically against the very technology that he helped advance.
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  3173. Actually, both. Misinformation from both sides and foreign interests (a group I'm affiliated with checks on the latter and boy, are they busy!) and conspiracy theories and wild assed guesses based upon half-reports that are wrong more than half of the time. The first two and last are common in such high profile events, where confusion reigns, the foreign agitation is novel.
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  3174.  @bretloyd8097  one of Murphy's Laws of Combat. Friendly fire isn't. One that's pending is, "When you're damned sure, you're wrong".
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  3175. Now the SCOTUS gets to write amendments? You must have a different Constitution than the US one!
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  3176. Probably is, the trick is sufficient cross checking and auditing to try to trip that up. The biggest plus in open source is, tens of thousands of eyes on all of the code. Maybe George didn't spot the makefile change, but Bob had an odd command he needed plugged in to compile the thing for his specific needs and ran into the unauthorized change. Bob asks about it, none of the devs know what's going on and start prying, then the lid pops off of that jar. All for free, whereas in closed source, all have to be paid, so are lesser in numbers or odd one-off cases that would cause them to go into a makefile. Welcome to engineering 101, where everything is a tradeoff. You've taken your first baby step into adulthood. Beware, there be dragons! No, that wasn't a dragon, I'm just not used to eating beans that much anymore... Sorry!
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  3177.  @Wyi-the-rogue  well, there is one, alas, of limited utility. A maser. Laser in microwave band and actually, the very first laser invented and later, discovered naturally existing in space. Iffy against personnel, more useful against electronics.
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  3178.  @Wyi-the-rogue  not extremely practical, as the energy gets scattered and absorbed by water in the atmosphere. So, one would need multi-megawatts of power for a maser and a lot of illumination by the beam before one would make a subject more than just slightly dizzy.
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  3179. Mine is, it knows when I leave the door open and annoys me by leaving its light on to tease me from across the room. ;)
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  3180. Nerve disruption kills an electocution victim? Good thing, that means we can toss the defibrillators into the trashcan! Given that the heart's conduction system is not based at all on nerves. By the standards stated here, that 100KV shock you get in winter from walking across the carpet is 100% lethal, every time! And yes, it is the current that kills. The current overwhelms signalling in both muscles and myocytes in the heart, leaving both contracted for the duration of the current flow. Disrupt the cardiac conduction enough, fibrillation occurs and the person does that dead thing. I've gotten hit by 45 KV, still around, as the current was low, so it was only painful. A taser delivers 50 KV, only a couple of hundred deaths are accounted for by taser. An electric chair delivered 2KV - 2.5KV at 7 - 12 amperes of current, both cooking the prisoner and fibrillating the heart, resulting in death. A short duration jolt may or may not cause fibrillation, as then it becomes a matter of timing, with around a 50 ms window within the QRS complex to trigger ventricular fibrillation. I drew around 3 amperes, as verified by the circuit designer, when insulation failed and I drew a 1.5 KV AC arc that had 130 V DC riding under it, the 130 V being the high current carrier. Blew the regulator, I survived after an escape beat restored normal heartbeat. Couldn't use my hands for much for a day, was sore for a week, still here. A longer, worse timed jolt, we'd not be communicating without a seance and since I don't believe in those, I'd not bother showing up. Draw around a half ampere of current and your muscles contract strong enough that you cannot release any grasped conductor. But, what would this old Army medic and certified electronics technician know about electrocution? Shall we discuss sodium vs calcium channels? The sodium-potassium pump?
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  3181.  @patkennedy2620  yep! Having actually met the man before Y2k and unreality TV was a thing, yeah, he's got less than no sense of humor. And everything has to be about him and his "perfection". To him, the world and universe has to revolve around him or else.
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  3182.  @duile393  appropriate, given one light offensive unit (LOU) could fuck a star system.
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  3183.  @michaelkarnerfors9545  and have a brain that' largely in hyperspace and weighs in like a gas giant. And can hold 20 million conversations in real time at once without it being challenging.
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  3184. That's why? I thought it was due to people like me, who generate websites using only a plain, vanilla text editor. Want pretty? Get a web developer, mine are gonna be plain, cheap, easy and uglier than an elephant's scrotum. Ugly, but it works.
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  3185. Why, it's almost like there is an entire corps dedicated to signals. Yeah, at one point, I wore a pair of flags on my collar. Pranked our network control NCO once. Slid a FRS radio under his primary radio and proceeded to utilize every CB radio kind of lingo possible over the FRS. Took him forever to catch on, much to the entertainment of our commo officer. The BC quite enjoyed it as well. It took him a while, but he eventually repaid me for that one. Roger dodger, you old codger! ;)
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  3186.  @MrGriak  well, tradition gives "out" to the CO. Did a fair amount of "out" on my brass over the decades. Cleared the net once. But then, I had stripes going up one arm and down another, so I could get away with such antics on occasion. When well and ritually earned. Glad that I'm retired now.
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  3187.  @BronzeDragon133  given NYC and well California account for most of the tax money going into the federal government. They manage to strangle that off and the government bankrupts in next to no time at all, literally starving many states that deny that fact.
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  3188. Alas, far too many traitorous SOB's would call criticizing screw-ups in government as treason, rather than what the founders proclaimed as an invaluable asset.
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  3189. Obviously, the answer is to bulldoze all hospitals with emergency departments, to avoid having to pay those hefty bills, which cover insurance for the facility and providers, equipment to test patients condition and other treatment facilities within the hospital overall. AmIright?
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  3190.  @gggghhhhh100  I see that the term sarcasm isn't in your dictionary. Unless I burned out your sarcasm detector, if that's the case, let me know where to ship a replacement. Got a shelf full of them here. I tend toward complaints about hospital stays and expenses, due to the well documented costs inherent in the US abomination of a system and an utter refusal for people to bother to comprehend the notion of triage. And I get downright ironic when discussing an argument I had with my cardiologist, who swore that I had a heart attack and $50k in testing later (paid for by "Cadillac insurance"), I won the argument. He fouled up in botching the history, as a week prior I had had a heat stroke, which created some... Interesting conduction anomalies and an irritable locus.
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  3191. Most men die of old age with prostate cancer. Few can withstand or require treatment, as most prostate cancers are so slow growing, a normal lifespan is experienced with minimal issues. He just drew the short straw. Hoping for a speedy and utterly uneventful recovery.
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  3192.  @psjesse117  ironically, he was best in his career as a logistics man, not a combatant commander. So, a surface combatant is now named after a land logistician, ironic, but true. One upside is, he had combatant commanders report to him and a battle staff to do the heavy lifting and understood his limitations enough to choose good leaders under him and listen to their input. All good things, as he excelled in politics, which is what is needed at the level of leadership he was appointed to during the war. Could you see Patton in his place? The Allies would have been fighting one another and the Germans. ;) And Omar Bradley said it best, "Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics". Something Patton learned the hard way, when his armor outstripped their fuel supply and sat empty right in the middle of the road. Something recently observed in Ukraine, for much the same reason. Still, they're welcome to name a ship after me, call it the USS Boobyprize.
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  3193. My response would be a deadpan, "well at least that bug's dead". A bug with seniority becomes a feature.
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  3194.  @TheBaldr  two different systems. With the antique mechanical tuner box, "scrambling" was via interference and paid subscribers got a notch filter to filter out the interference. Scrambling, I have a network tuner that can descramble the cable signals, if I purchased the subscription and QAM card. I'm sure there are similar that are dummied to not require the card, but I never bothered trying them. I only needed the network tuner so I could use MythTV to legally record my programs I wanted to watch.
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  3195. I dunno, with the Palmer bit, maybe this is Trump's intro to warm everyone up about his coming out of the closet? Why else would an otherwise cis male have such fascination as to the genitals of another man? The rest, either the worst case of ADHD in the history of ADHD or dementia. The lack of energy and high distraction, still could go either way, ADHD off meds or dementia. Given the fragile appearing skin, when any shines through the spackled on makeup foundation, could be vascular dementia, the skin thinning due to diabetic issues, the blood vessels in the brain breaking down due to glycated end product accumulation.
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  3196. Actually, real hackers do, script kiddies don't know COBOL or FORTRAN. But, can you program in raw object code? Neither can I, but I do know some folks that can and do. Amazingly, they're fun at parties too, script kiddies having all of the charm of a gas station men's room in a bad part of town.
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  3197.  @HughHoffman-ni2ht  nah, let him flee and be arrested as attempting to evade justice and hence, adding to his sentence and getting mandatory behind bars quality time.
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  3198.  @jeffr6206  yeah, now the time is measured in Shakes. One Shake = 0.01 microseconds, formerly largely only used in time measurements for nuclear weapons...
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  3199. Not everyone, some don't like or can't use the heavier rifle. For those who can, yes, of course one should have both a safe and an M1A inside.
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  3200. The policy exists because security guards and clerks occasionally got into gunfire exchanges with petty thieves over stupid shit like spark plugs, causing bystanders to get gunned down over a stupid spark plug, when the suspect could've been picked up under safer conditions for the community. I already saw the video, she's quite prominent setting fire using an accelerant she got off the store shelf. The big deal isn't the property damage, which is insured, but the danger that her fire posed to other customers in the store. I'll just say, criminals aren't very bright, which is why they're so easily caught. If they were bright, they'd be politicians.
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  3201.  @SylviaRustyFae  nope. Mantraps remain illegal for good reason.
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  3202.  @RoonMian  you obviously confuse civilian life with military life, as well as a combat environment and a peacetime civilian environment. You also betray ignorance of what a war crime is, which are clearly defined under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, as ratified by most nations.
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  3203.  @CaseyEm  thank you for making my point for me. If police won't protect, how does one protect oneself and one's possessions without vigilante actions? As for landmines being a ear crime, try learning what the Hague and Geneva Conventions say. Charted, attended minefields are permitted, but should be removed after their military necessity has ended. That's for both manually triggered attended mines and target triggered unattended mines.
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  3204. Funny, back in '82, we used either phaser rifles or hand lasers. Bullets were for bozos. We cooled our weapons with taps off of the LT's tank, not that we told him...
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  3205. The laugh is, years ago when I started out in electronics, 20% tolerance wasn't uncommon, 1% was wire wound and eventually, metal film. Of course, the circuits are far more reliable now, due to much better tolerance and materials.
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  3206.  @jagmarc  usually, true. But, there were some applications where tolerance was a big deal, namely when operating in the nonlinear part of the curve. One could get a hell of a lot more gain in such portions of the curve, at a cost of more problematic selection of tube or transistor. Although, solid state device performance stabilized to much better tolerances over time. Not so much with vacuum tubes, due to their very nature and methods of operation. But, in the majority of applications, you're spot on. Most devices were operated in the linear part of their performance curve. More stable and far less heartburn than requiring matched pair in push-pull operation.
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  3207.  @brainndamage  true. I also remember some applications where the resistor was designed to run hot and iron leads with ceramic standoffs were required. Discussing those in another thread here. In one case, it was due to selection of a lower wattage carbon resistor for noise reasons, the higher wattage being noisier. Engineering is very much about tradeoffs.
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  3208.  @jagmarc  yeah, got my NASA soldering certificate back in 1980. So, I'm familiar with the general specs, if not a more current price per component. So many failure modes, it astounds me that the Voyager probes still retain any operational capacity today! Then, we get politicians griping about the expense of components and why we can't go COTS. Sure, get them from Battlestars R Us. :/
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  3209. The Constitution is not something a Chief Executive can scribble out sections he disagrees with with his crayons. The birthright citizenship was written in part to cover former slaves, but also exempts some via the "subject to the jurisdiction" clause for diplomats, who are not subject to the jurisdiction of the states and federal government, but subject to the jurisdiction of their own government.
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  3210.  @kelperdude I totally agree with Obama's considering network centric warfare a WMD attack and we should reply in kind with the only WMD we field. And since Putin, Trump's butt buddy threatened cobalt salting his bombs, ours should be ubiquitously salted as well.
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  3211.  @_B.C_  that's an idea. Leave him get his prison yard exercise time in a yard full of rakes.
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  3212.  @nwatson2773  we don't exile, nor do we put civilians into military prisons. That's what Trump wants to do.
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  3213. They couldn't explain a bunch of aircraft, such as the U-2, SR-71, F-117, B-2 either, not a one of which ever officially took off from Groom Lake.
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  3214. Lifetime appointment, save if impeached. But, there still is contempt of the higher court. Let him not read in custody, while paying significant fines, while he's also referred for impeachment.
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  3215. I live around 3 miles from TMI, the unit I shuttered a couple of years ago. Pity, the steam plume from the cooling system was an excellent landmark for navigation. I am a bit more radioactive than my kids are, but considering I was born a week after Tsar Bomba, during the atmospheric testing madness era, of course I am. I've actually saw that on a gamma camera when I had to get my thyroid checked. Checked by taking a capsule with I-131 in it. I was ever so tempted to visit the PX at Barksdale AFB after that, but nah, when it comes to nuke capable bases, they have absolutely no sense of humor...
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  3216. I saw a flock of 10 hen turkeys by my gastroenterologist's office. Walked out of the woods across the street from the office, came within 10 yards of me as if I wasn't even there, then proceeded down the walk, across a private lot and into the woodline there. Chowing down the entire way. 20 minutes later, a 15 point buck walked out of the woodline in a small creek valley and started chewing bark from a tree. Given it was late September, I took it as a warning that winter might get a bit annoying this year. Given it was around 3:00 PM, a bit unusual feeding and moving pattern. Of course, come opening day of hunting season, they're always gone off to the Bahamas or something... ;)
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  3217.  @davemccrillis1470  amazing coverage, what with 1,550 warheads under New Start, which both nations ratified and respect! Covering 19200 cities and towns with 1550 warheads, amazing capability to detonate in multiple distant locations. Are they also alive and dead at the same time too?
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  3218. Ours have a superior range, largely via frequency hopping encrypted radio networks and relays. Plus, of course, satellites. As for what's going on inside of his head, that's hard to tell, can't read a mind shielded by a lampshade as much as his head is. https://compote.slate.com/images/40a6c67d-d12f-48d3-89be-7434491d78aa.jpg
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  3219. Well, not quite as good as Daily Fail...
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  3220. Ah, but is that burger still in your mind? Poor soul, have some of my brunch, spinach, sauteed with garlic, a bit of chili pepper and chicken bullion. Leftovers from last night's junk food dinner of mac and cheese with some ham added, comfort food. Tonight will be clams and linguini in white sauce. Preparation time, maybe a half hour, consumption time, mere minutes. ;) Recipe is simple, olive oil, garlic to taste (there's no such thing as too much garlic for me), onion, a bit of basil, saute till onions and garlic are cooked, add clam juice and clams, cook the pasta, drain pasta (yeah, some need to be reminded), add sauce, enjoy. And there's also no such thing as too much onion. ;P Red sauce is similar, garlic, onion in copious quantities, want it sweeter, add more onion, tomatoes (canned crushed or feel free to blanch and peel fresh tomatoes, some whole tomatoes to preference, loads more basil (I tend to use fresh frozen, sectioned off in a quart container and wax paper separating leaf layers, but dried works too), chili pepper to taste, add meat with fat and hopefully bones to thicken and flavor, cook until the meat falls off of the bones and the oil and fat puddles, foam being now gone, sauce is done. I make the red sauce in two gallon batches for home, all stored in quart containers, frozen or canned in my pressure cooker. Preparation time, well, pretty much all day. The stove does most of the work, I just have to stir occasionally. ;) Most good recipes are fairly simple, preparation and cooking tend to be the greater pain in the ass. But, like any relationship, well worth the effort. Sponsors be doubly damned.
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  3221. When did we start getting federal license plates? Or can you not tell the difference between state and federal levels of authority and who is responsible for what laws? Something I've only had to explain to Asian and European people.
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  3222. Obesity is frequently a symptom, not a disease in and of itself and symptoms can bring on other maladies as well. One can have metabolic syndrome secondary to something like Cushing or PCOS. One can be overweight due to sedentary lifestyle and drinking tons of sweet drinks. Ain't the corn, ain't the fructose - we evolved eating fruits and fructose is fruit sugar. We just didn't evolve drinking gallons of the shit every damned day. Address the root cause, stop looking for quick fixes, go for actual repairs to the defect causing a problem. You don't put a bandaid on a bullet hole, you surgically repair the leak, remove dead tissue and foreign matter, then surgically close the hole - then bandage it.
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  3223. Now you know why the conservatives that were sane split from the Whig party when the nativists and populists hijacked it and they formed the Republican Party. Now, for the letter, the credibility is low due to the "home made black powder", given that the majority of the population have absolutely no damned clue how to properly make it and the high probability that anyone not knowing how to would burn themselves badly trying to make such devices. That said, hopefully they'll catch the bastard and introduce them to their new fiancee, Bubba.
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  3224. Once she's no longer an ambassador, I'd refer to the individual as "reformed ambassador". Trust me, the gibe is well received. Eventually, I'll get to tell my governor that I live in a better neighborhood than he does, as I don't have a 7-11 across the street from my house - he does. ;) I just get the Family Dollar a few blocks down from me... And the governor's mansion, a few blocks down from me. Oh well, traffic doesn't get fouled too badly, due to the one way streets. And no protestors, as they get lost in the potholes in the sidewalks.* *Harrisburg selected trees along the curbside that undermined and lifted sidewalks throughout the city. Just what one can come to expect by giving emphasis in hiring from underserved communities like MBA majors. :P
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  3225. Well, that is the entire purpose of internship - to acquire real world experience. The difference between most internships and OceanGate's programs being, most internships have adult supervision, OceanGate didn't.
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  3226. Apparently, Helen Keller.
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  3227.  @jamesr.9852  why, it's almost as if all of the words in a sentence actually mean something. Who'da thunk it? If you need one, I've an entire pallet of sarcasometers here. ;)
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  3228. Don't get me started on water, it's just weird anyway. Go any distance away from STP, find yet another phase for the stuff. As in there's evidence to support the existence of ice inside the earth's mantle. It'd drive me to drink, but I already beat them to the punch. ;)
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  3229.  @razrv3lc  the only realistic way that they can do that is to rule that the Constitution is null and void. Which nullifies their own decision as their authority would vaporize with the nullification of the Constitution. And such a ruling is far, far, far beyond their authority. The founders wanted to emulate the Roman Republic and avoid any risk of becoming an empire. Hence, why powers of each branch are limited.
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  3230. My youngest called me up to tell me about this, since this is our old neighborhood. Sigh, I really need to take up drinking...
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  3231. Had a buddy that sold his car to someone, the buyer never bothering to register it, drove it around without insurance or the title transferred, started racking up fines that got mailed to my buddy. Well, the car was parked one block from my house, so I went with him and retrieved what still legally was his car. Cops got called and they laughed at the purchaser and let my buddy take the car.
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  3232. Italian accent. Hence, the reference to Germanic invaders to Rome. Sounded more mid-southern Italian than northern. A bit hard to tell with the short conversation though.
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  3233. Laughably, Obama ignored him - rightfully so, W had embraced everything he had to say. Frankly, this is the first time I've ever heard Bolton say something that's right, guess the broken clock being right twice a day is true...
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  3234.  @satonna4529  well, Biden's used to following the instructions of a court, he is an attorney. Trump is unused to following any instructions of a court, he is an idiot.
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  3235. Erm, first off, the Pentagon is the headquarters of the DoD, the NSA is part of the DoD. Second, all communications, digital, video or telephonic are subject to monitoring and all devices are placarded with that notice. https://www.dami.army.pentagon.mil/site/sso/docs/infosec/dd%20form%202056.pdf Finally, direct, rather than the usual automated monitoring can be ordered by the commander of the unit in question, be it an individual unit or the entire office complex communications of the Pentagon, that in military circles constitutes a warrant. Hell, when preparing an information security report and gathering numbers and reports to annotate information in my report, I blundered into a directory of text files, one of which contained an automated transcript of my morale call home to my wife. Reported the access allocation error on that directory and it was promptly rectified, as I shouldn't have had access to that directory and files - not part of my job and what I did have access to normally was. Here's a notice for an information system: https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dps/consent Now, the question is, did Hegseth forget when he got his drunk on that he signed the authorization or didn't he check into his predecessor's authorizations? Because, the Pentagon is DoD, not a civilian office and handles our most guarded of secrets, so we kind of like to know if those secrets are being spoken about on the wrong security domain communication channels, like oh, Signal. So, the only questionable thing is that the SecDef was unaware of what his assets were authorized to do. And NSA monitored all of our communications channels when I was working on various US and overseas bases, they also would schedule a red and blue team to evaluate our network's security, blue team to document our configurations and deficits, red team to breach in. Had fun with the red team, both sides learned new tricks. And DISA records all network traffic, that's how Manning got caught siphoning classified information off to removable media, the logs also stored. Although, with Manning, while Manning was rightfully imprisoned, that service member shouldn't have been alone, as the S1, S2, section officer all should've been as well for dereliction of duty. Once flagged for deleterious personnel action, access is to be immediately terminated. Had to do that once to a coworker I was friends with, all due to a suspended security clearance due to not paying overdue child support. So, I'm confused that someone who served in the USMC didn't notice all of those stickers. Too busy chewing crayons to notice? Not criticizing, my Army ass ate all the green ones out of the box before the Marines could get to them. :P
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  3236.  @JW-jh7zv  yet city PD chiefs and commissioners wonder why some officers get ambushed in their cars. We might have a suggestion of a reason for why. Some won't content themselves with court or cannot afford an attorney, so they'll take "justice" into their own hands and the community then has to pay for a murder trial and prison.
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  3237. Well, if you're volunteering to be the 3% that die, good for you, I'll stick with the 97% that survive or the higher percentage that never get infected at all.
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  3238. At least a few wire fraud conspiracy charges, plus various other conspiracy charges. All federal.
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  3239.  @josephschaefer9163  lucky you! I've always loved cherry wood! Expensive as hell these days.
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  3240.  @russjones1561  are you suggesting he hasn't been charged under statutory law?
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  3241.  @JamieSommerfeldt  and can make for some interesting and dense conversations with other faiths, such as with a rabbi. Where some interpret that avatar for the evils of human nature, as Judaism doesn't do Original Sin and inherited guilt. That innovation was a European thing, which was practiced until quite recently by governments via corruption of blood and writ of attainder. I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, learned all kinds of interesting things. Alas, one thing I never learned was how to properly knot challah. Maybe I should make friends at the synagogue nextdoor to my apartment building and see if anyone wants to teach this old guy how to make some, make regular bread all the time... Last week, there was some ceremony going on and I was shocked to see that they felt the need to have an armed guard on premises. No house of worship on this continent should ever have to feel that need! But, some zanies think only they deserve rights and will deny everyone else their rights, by main force if they're ineffective in any other way. History has proved that true, with actual artillery being used by Protestants against Roman Catholics in Philadelphia in the 1850's, took the militia to quell that, after losing some men, the militia brought their own artillery and surrounded the idiots with the port's stolen cannon and made them put it back and patrolled city streets with fixed bayonets. Which was about what it took to keep the same idiocy from happening in areas I was deployed to in the wars... No need for a devil, when people can be assholes all on their own. Then, one reminds them that the Almighty isn't on call that week, but you are and have plenty of white phosphorus.
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  3242. Ah, but draft dodging is a fine family tradition in the Trump clan. His grandfather came to the US to dodge the draft in Germany. USA RET
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  3243. Not all that simple or innocent. Cavitation bubbles destroy propellers on water vessels and pumps.
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  3244.  @Adaephonable  uh huh, that's why I've been literally replacing coffee makers annually. Name brand and all, twice, where the heating element failed after a year.
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  3245. You're absolutely right! Given historic reports of a similar nature in 1938, obviously the Martians invaded.
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  3246. Oh, I'm pretty sure that Russia acknowledges Finland's existence after some Winter war misery. ;)
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  3247.  @jayp2623  you're right, take everything off the air, ignorance is bliss.
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  3248. Well, there's the US model of small airfield layouts. Where at the end of every runway is a school and a church...
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  3249. Well, unless you're in the shower. Your own shower, that is.
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  3250. Last night, a dozen large eggs were $10.00 in Harrisburg, PA. And most of our oil comes from Canada, until they decide to sell it elsewhere. Same with our wheat. Maybe the oil and wine won't be touched...
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  3251. Now, now. He did admit that he doesn't want to show off his body, with the sun and beach and all, "it's not a pretty sight". A feeling that I'm intimately familiar with, given the EPA prohibition for my wearing a Speedo. No idea why, only 50 people turned into stone! But, let's seriously examine public events that were televised live. At the D-Day memorial, every world leader walked to the venue, Trump rode a golf cart. Biden rides a bicycle, trump rides a reinforced golf cart. Trump needed a General to help him ascend a ramp. Still, Chris Christy is rather rotund. And I've room to talk, as Weebles Wobble but we don't fall down.
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  3252. Well, there are videos of after of both prompt criticality accident victims, thankfully, they'll remain classified indefinitely. What that level of radiation did to those men was beyond what a horror film could ever show. I do seem to recall a 6 ton design yield test, can't recall the test name and I doubt there'd be a video released on that silly design. Still, were I asked to fire a Davey Crockett device, "Sir, did you just say that you want me to toss a whatlear whathead close to hand grenade distance?! Sir, I really need you to urinate into this specimen container for analysis, because you have to be fucking high". We jokingly called them what they were, nuclear hand grenades. The test, obscene. Fired the damned thing, had men run right into ground zero's fallout. Actually met some of those veterans, studied for life through the VA. Ignored for life - those downwind of above ground nuclear testing. Properly named Downwinders, there's a Wikipedia article on them. I was born a week after Czar Bomba detonated. I still have a higher background gamma count than my children and grandchildren.
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  3253. RougeGrange , well, nukes are beyond NFA weapons, you'd need to get NRC clearance as well as NFA clearance for a destructive weapon.
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  3254. John Ronkainen , if you're talking about me, I have a drawer of the things, so, thanks, but no thanks. If you're talking about someone else, you'd better be served by talking to the appropriate command.
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  3255. Perposterown , what you are speaking of is an NFA firearm (National Firearms Act), which covers fully automatic weapons, disguised firearms and destructive weapons (bombs, artillery, etc). A Single Scope Background Investigation is performed before a tax stamp is issued so that one can possess an NFA weapon. It's literally the same background investigation used to acquire a top secret or special compartmentalized intelligence clearance. Neighbors, former neighbors, coworkers, former coworkers, family, employers, former employers are all interviewed about the one seeking the tax stamp (or security clearance). Once one is cleared, there is no waiting period. What you think is a waiting period is due to the length, depth and scope of the background check. BTW, one of the other authorities that can sign the application form is a judge. All that signature does is state to the BATFE that the community or county has not outlawed NFA weapons.
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  3256. This rifle is typically used in 1/4 and 1/2 mile precision competition. Believe me, it's tough to strike a target dead center, repeatedly, at those distances. But, at 30 - 45 pounds in weight, you're not going to seeing that one "on the streets". It's used on remote firing ranges, where adequate distance from surrounding communities prevents harm to the innocent, should a round depart the firing line/target area.
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  3257. backwoodsbully , I dunno. If I kept a 155mm gun under my bed and rolled it out, I think that everyone would back off. ;)
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  3258. Perposterown , every .50 BMG rifle until this was developed was exclusively a military weapon that was later adopted by civilians for long range marksmanship. The original purpose was anti-tank and anti-materiel , later, anti-materiel and finally, anti-terrorist. The miliitary already was seeking a semi-automatic, as the M82 series was bolt action only.
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  3259. Perposterown , it could be a good home defense weapon. Just throw it at an intruder and win the day.   ;) As for Jude's complaint of "on our streets", it'd make a decent roadblock. Any car trying to run over it would end up broken. On a more serious side, this is lousy for use in crime. It's heavy, it's large and unconcealable and has a small number of shots per massive magazine. It is good at long range precision marksmanship.
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  3260. Grammer Nazi , why stoop to ad hominem attacks, when well established facts are trivially available? Such as, there have been precisely zero crimes committed with these rifles, partly due to their cost and largely due to their mass and length. This particular behemoth weighs in around 25 pounds, without optics and magazine. Loaded and with the appropriate scope, it's around 40 pounds. Its bolt action cousins start out at 45 pounds, adding 15 pounds for the scope an magazine. Criminals want concealability, lightness, inexpensive ammunition and well, anything other than this shoulder pounder.
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  3261. Robert B , better you thank me. My hearing is bad enough already (our team snipers used earplugs and headsets) and my arthritis wouldn't thank me for lugging that around, let alone firing it.  ;) I'll stick with .308.  :) Some years ago, I watched a National Guard firearms instructor limping around. I asked him why he was limping. It seems, he was on the sniper range and one of the snipers tossed him a Barrett magazine, a loaded magazine. Numbnuts tried to catch it one handed and it landed on his foot. I don't think he'll make that mistake again.
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  3262. +brad garza 3 and a half feet long, it's a bullpup configuration, with a 29 inch barrel. Weighs 29 pounds, so it's easily concealable in cast iron pants. Was offered familiarization fire on it, declined, explaining that my joints hurt enough already, thank you. Not a fast, hard recoil, but it's a heavy shove. I retired not long after.
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  3263. While it's potentially useful against endangered rhinos, elephants and tyrannosaurs, OK, the last is a joke, realistically, it's a useless rifle for most. It is useful for those inclined for super long distance marksmanship and for the military, in niche positions. As for the 5 foot tall woman, my wife is entirely 5 foot 1 inch tall as is as inclined to abuse her shoulder as I am with that behemoth. We'll stick with gentler weapons, like a 7.62x51 round. Seriously, using that thing is akin to being jerked off by an elephant. OK, not quite that bad, but, close enough for government work.
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  3264. David Lawrence , true, but those are NFA firearms in the US.
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  3265. CrimsonSpectre , having fired one, I'd not waste the money on something that abuses my shoulder and spine so. It's fine enough to fire someone else's and help clean it after. It gives one hell of a brisk shove. Nearly 28 years in the Army has given me enough osteoarthritis to not want to carry that beast to the range and back. Add in a bulging disc, it's so not happening. Firing from sitting twists the back. Firing from the prone twists the back and picks up shit for 10 meters on either side. As I already am down 45 db in hearing loss from an IED, needing double hearing protection (plugs and muffs), thanks but no thanks. I'll let the youngsters play with that beast.
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  3266. Jar-Jar Binks, except that the .50 BMG Barrett system is listed as an anti-material weapon. It's used as a sniper system against unlawful combatants who are so delightful that they blow up markets full of women and children. On he civilian side, it's used for long range competitions. The LEO usage is dubious at best, as I can think of no community in this nation that would want their police officers firing these behemoths. The noise that they generate is horrific, the potential for a round to penetrate a brick wall, too high. There are far better ways to stop a car than with this rifle. BTW, a bit of trivia, this rifle develops approximately 15000 PSI in the chamber when fired, just as most other rifles and even artillery pieces do. The only guns I'm aware of that have higher pressures are experimental cannons, such as the one NASA uses to test impacts of micro-meteors against components that will be sent into space.
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  3267. Noliving , let's keep it apples to crabapples, shall we? The firearm vs car argument is a strawman. So, let's see how many people in the US are killed by .50 BMG rifles in a violent crime or suicide vs how many people in the US are killed by violent crime or suicide with a handgun? So, that would be zero vs thousands. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of these rifles in use in competition every year, with hundreds more from other companies that make similar products. You did make one error, these rifles were originally anti-tank rifles, until tank armor improved enough that they became anti-equipment rifles. It's only recently that they've been used as anti-personnel, save in highly limited special operations usage. Of course, when an unlawful combatant (read; non-military, non-uniformed forces fighter) shoots at you with an RPG, protection under the Geneva conventions and the Hauge conventions is not present.
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  3268. Bulsh1tMan , back when I was in school (think '70's), we had a junior and high school rod and gun club. That said, no firearms came onto school property, as the range was a fair distance away. Boy Scouts also had marksmanship and firearms safety training. Both my school program and the Scouts used CMP programs to help them out.
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  3269. Harri v'Jah , I know people who own one of these. Personally, not my cup of tea, the shove it gives is significant (thankfully, not as bad as it could be, due to the muzzle break). None would consider shooting at anything other than paper targets, far, far away. That said, you betray your ignorance, as shooting down an aircraft is extremely hard - even with a machine gun. For an example, look at WWII footage and see how many rounds are fired and most miss the aircraft, even when it's flying low or straight at the gun position. Shooting at aircraft was trained in the military, where we estimated the velocity of the approaching aircraft and aimed football fields ahead of its projected path. We were also told that we'd likely not hit the aircraft anyway, but a small chance was better than no chance at all of surviving.
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  3270. Colonel Angus , well, there is the military, then there are competitors. There are even some who compete in tournaments against the military for prize.
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  3271. +Fidel Castro as you love the second amendment, why do you wish to remove the rights granted by the first amendment to us all? Meanwhile, a sober explanation on the enjoyment of precision marksmanship over great distances and the challenges of that specialty is a civilized way of explaining something to those unfamiliar with the sport. Your response cements the idea of a firearm owner being, if not a maniac, an asshole in the minds of those who have no knowledge of firearms sports.
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  3272. +Fidel Castro what basic control measures? What basic control measures do we have on free speech, assembly or religion? They're all enumerated rights. Got a good idea, let's hear it.
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  3273. +Fidel Castro one instance of selling by a FFL holder to a person without a background check would be the last time that they'd have a FFL (Federal Firearms License to sell firearms) and a serious prison sentence on top of that. Simply put, "I'll buy it somewhere else" gets one invited to go do just that. Now, private sellers are a different beast and are not required to register a sale or perform a background check. Personally, I always did go to an FFL holder and have the background check run anyway, paying the gentleman each time.
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  3274. +Fidel Castro not at any licensed FFL holder's business, they'd lose their license in a New York minute and end up going to prison as well. Straw purchasers on the other hand, do precisely what you spoke of and those have to be cracked down on - hard.
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  3275. +240pixel a really, really long rifle range. The guys that I know that fire this fire at 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile ranges. That said, needs are taken care of in the welfare clause of the Constitution, Article 11, Section 8. The founding fathers thought of pretty much everything, with options to amend the Constitution if any significant need arises.
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  3276. And this is how our own nation has taught one and all to eat their own. Especially when this retired Army guy managed to Google the answers in under two seconds. I've also served with reformed Marines, aka ETS'd and went to a softer MOS, such as US Army infantry. Actually, most were infantry, one was injured LOD and went admin MOS in the Army. In moments of inter-service rivalry, I remind every Marine that their paycheck has Department of the Navy stamped upon it.  ;) Those overlapped with are always welcome for a free drink and vice versa. Interoperation is the rule since 9/11, but already planned. So, if you really feel like challenging, try Marine slang, terms unofficially in use in a specific time period, etc. Otherwise, I suggest slack until you meet face to face and can show a DD2A or CAC card or similar US DoD identification cards. Or more simply, stop trying to eat our own in our zeal to uncover some piece of shit unworthy of such an effort online, but well worthy of doing so in person. Where the suspect can attempt to stand at parade rest. Or recite a specific manual of arms within a set amount of time. Or even the specifics of clearing a jam in a specific weapon. General orders?! WTF, over?! Did you not advance beyond Lance?
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  3277. FenderSchonJPX , I was unaware that police rule this nation!
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  3278. FenderSchonJPX , "This is the BS of the elitist rulers over us who are supposed to be OUR servants." It's hard to not comprehend that as, in this context, your claiming that our police are our leaders. Our problems are multiple. First, we have an annoying habituation of electing police officials and district attorneys that are "tough on crime", resulting in this mess. Second, our governments, local, state and federal, are bought and paid for. Those campaigns don't pay for themselves. The last two Congressional elections had 8 billion dollars spent on them. You can be quite certain that both parties campaigns received funding from the same wealthy patrons, being then beholden for their office to the generous contributors.
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  3279. Christopher , it's been my experience that when someone capitalizes a word in the middle of a sentence, at odds with proper usage of our language, that individual is suffering from ignorance of the proper use of English and far too frequently fails to exercise any form of critical thinking. What has been alluded to above was correct, the United States of America has the best government that money can buy. We no longer have a representational democracy, we have a corporatocracy.
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  3280. Christopher those jobs are lower than a street whore. A street whore will be honest about who and what she does, a politician conceals who buys - erm, pays, erm, contributes millions to billions to campaign efforts. Which is why I've said for decades, the United States of America has the best government that money can buy. It's gotten lower than below that street whore since citizens united. Got any ideas how to unfuck the situaton?
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  3281. bringitonTV , is it not what the food tastes like that really matters? I've suffered through beautiful meals that were bland and tasted like pureed cardboard, but looked like a work of art. I've personally prepared "puke stew", designed to be revolting in appearance (hence, its name), but was an absolute delight to the palate. The presentation isn't nearly as important to a discerning consumer of the food as the taste, it's secondary. For, sushi that looked like it was rolled in dirty sock would be rejected, but the best presented and bland sushi would be rejected upon the first bite. The former may be forgiven if the presentation improved or the taste was beyond exceptional, the latter is an unforgivable offense and few would repeat that experience. Still, from this, I learned a couple of things. I'll still place the ginger on the sushi, but it's the last part in my mouth anyway. I rather enjoy it that way, rather than having a ginger chaser. But, I'll agree. Shaking it is for the bathroom, not for over one's table or sauce. Would that I could spend three months with the good chef to learn a few things and pass along some of my knowledge and experience. For, I'd learn a lot about Japanese culture, culinary matters and especially making sushi. He'd learn quite a bit of various dishes, from all over the world, personally acquired, as well as some personal recipes that are qualitative, rather than quantitative in nature (the recipe varies based upon the desired usage, such as more onion over garlic for a sweeter flavor with certain meats (such as crab) and more garlic over onion for various stronger flavored meats (such as goat or mutton). While he's likely intimately aware of that set of facts, the difference is one of regional cuisine and welcome to many people who enjoy food. He'd also love my lentil-lamb stew, I'm sure. And meet with a fine dish of his own.
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  3282. OK, first, not every firearm is for hunting or self-defense. There are firearms designed for competition, some are also used by the military as sniper systems. In this instance, the rifle is used by certain military units for long range sniper operations. It's also used by civilians for 1/4 and 1/2 mile precision shooting competitions. As for the suppressor, do learn a little about US firearms laws before you make an ass of yourself again. Suppressors, fully automatic weapons, destructive weapons (missiles, bombs, etc) and disguised firearms are NFA (National Firearms Act) weapons, alongside of short barreled rifles and shotguns. To be authorized to possess the tax stamp and hence, the device that stamp corresponds to, you have to go through the same background investigation as is used to acquire a Top Secret or Special Compartmentalized Intelligence clearance. Needless to say, many will not meet the stringent requirements to be permitted to possess such devices. Leaving them with a rather expensive rifle, optics and it should be noted, really heavy rifle, 25 - 45 pounds of rifle, plus optics and loaded magazine (figure 10 - 15 pounds there).
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  3283.  @georgewallot7739  the early Nike were conventional warheads, from Ajax through Zeus were nukes, with the B model Zeus carrying a neutron bomb to fizzle incoming warhead electronics and fissile mass in the warheads. Also, that same company brought us nationwide fiber optic cables, much of which the US government leased from them and only recently handed back the control of (well, what they weren't using, as upgrades over time made the links a lot faster). WWII saw pretty much every company producing military products, from a pilot lamp company producing submachine guns to IBM and Singer (to name just two out of many) producing M2 .50 cal machine guns. After the war ended, quite a few kept parts of their military products divisions and contributed to the Cold War efforts. Companies do, after all, exist in order to make money.
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  3284. evolvedtg , quite cute disinformation. An IQ of 20 - 27 would result in someone incapable of operating a motor vehicle, safely handle a firearm or even hit a target. Indeed, at that IQ level, literacy is absent. Indeed, just to be able to perform domestic work requires an IQ of 50. So, let's look at psychological and legal definitions: IQ below 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot IQ of 26 - 50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbecile IQ of 0 - 25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_%28psychology%29 Meanwhile, I am aware of a study that is closed source, where the US Army attempted to use the mentally retarded as soldiers. It was found that none of the "recruits" would endanger themselves in simulated combat conditions, as they feared becoming injured. It was determined that above average intelligence is required to override one's survival instinct. That is why SF will only accept a GT score of 110 or greater, with the mean being around 120.
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  3285. Jamie Eberling , it's changed a few times, but our friends at Wikipedia are on the ball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Vocational_Aptitude_Battery
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  3286. Robert B , it still ends up around as loud as a .308 or so. But, at the distance involved, well, the supersonic bullet impacts before the sound of the round firing arrives. From a mile or more away. What is greatly reduced is the 25 meter around and behind region of dust, leaves, dirt, sand, whatever isn't nailed down flying around for two meters or so around the firer. Add in the reduced overall signature and add in "special" rounds available for the military, let's call this pretty much the silent wrath of an angry god. Such as APDP and AP-I as sparse examples. Or more simply, this veteran wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of a military sniper from our nation firing at him.
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  3287. Robert B , like anything in engineering, one trades off part of one function for an enhancement in another. If one uses a suppressor, one loses a bit of accuracy, if one is willing to ignore debris flying about and a thunderous report, one gains pinpoint accuracy. The volume of the report of this with the stock muzzle brake is loud enough that the firer and spotter wear earplugs and muffs.
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  3288. Robert B , true. But, the velocity loss also impacts the ballistics tables, as the round isn't traveling as far, it's dropping faster and will begin to precess as its velocity drops further, throwing it further off course. Still, for the under a mile shot, the loss of range and lower predictability doesn't come into play and the suppressor is worthwhile to avoid that cloud of debris and the unmistakable thunder from the rifle.
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  3289. Karsliyu , there were 9mm subsonic rounds available for the MP5 (OK, for any 9mm weapon, but typically were used in SMG's). The ported barrel MP5SD or SK used stock ammunition, which meant not needing the more specialized subsonic, as it leaked the propellent into the internal suppressor, whereas the external suppressor would need the subsonics. The MP5 internally suppressed is one hell of a fine weapon! I do wish I had the chance to try the MP7, but I was getting ready to retire, so missed out the chance to try one.
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  3290. +lordnevetsz actually, I couldn't comment when I read that, I snotted all over the place from a powerful snort. Here's a giggle, would a subsonic .50 BMG round even travel 100 meters? Some years ago, around a decade, a few snipers were training and one had brought out the new unit Barrett system. He offered all a turn if they desired. One individual agreed and the one who signed out the system tossed him a five round magazine, underhanded. Rocket scientist had a massive burst of intracranial flatulence and attempted to catch it one handed. I called him "hop along" for a week. Can't really blame him too much, we all have our occasional brain fart. Doesn't make the story less funny. ;)
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  3291. +lordnevetsz heh, I just thought of two words that shall never be heard together, .50 BMG and subsonic. ;) Seriously though, you're welcome to the weapon. I'm too banged up to even consider that shove the rifle gives - something might fall off of me. :/
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  3292. +Punt66 what did the speedometer say when she panned her camera onto it?
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  3293. I'm still trying to figure out where he got an NFA weapon. Sub machineguns are NFA firearms, so one must purchase them from a class 2 FFL holder, go through a rather extensive background investigation and pay a $200 tax stamp for one. Of course, the media doesn't know the difference between semiautomatic and fully automatic. Oh well, pulling it out and threatening people is a felony. He'll not be permitted to ever possess a firearm again, per federal law.
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  3294. +Stephen Villano my bad, as previously pointed out, class 3 FFL dealer.
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  3295. Amy Johnson , erm, ion pulse engines did begine to become practical back then, but the strongest ion pulse engine put out a whopping 88 newtons. You're not moving an aircraft with that thrust! Now, pulse detonation engines also were coming out around then, R&D on the Air Force's space plane was ongoing at that time as well, with a test flight only recently completed (with an extended period in orbit). Drones were being developed as well during that time. That all said, test pilots cooked onto seats? Not happening, they'd eject before they'd get killed by any heat, save during a crash. Ejecting engines, for safety reasons? By the time you'd realize that a high power engine was getting ready to come apart, it'd be too late to eject it, as the first hint is a RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly). Still, one never knows what "isn't" sitting in a hangar at Dreamland.
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  3296. +jooper99 , go for it. I know for a pure fact, I'll take you down, along with 20 of your peers before you get a round actually in my area. I'm former SF, retired military and feared by our enemies in our recent wars. I'll let anyone talk smack. I'll not let anyone threaten life over liberty of freedom of speech. Our very first amendment. Or have you gotten even that wrong? Or is free speech, the very fucking first amendment wrong in your fucked up world? For me, I have an M1A, M14A4, assorted other equipment, including my favored M1911A1, largely uncustomized. So, idiot may speak, others can educate, none may threaten, without reprisal. The Constitution is my bible, none ever may force their nonsense against it, lest main force of military arms be brought against that. For, my oath of enlistment lacked an expiration, only the term of service in the contract did. jooper99
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  3297. jooper99 , yeah, yeah. Cake/pie argument. I say, COOKIES!!! ;)
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  3298. patrick hayden , largely over "I'd rather be called a 'fucking gun lover' than be an ignorant fuck who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground yet still insists on telling other people what to think about a topic." Using ad hominem things like "ignorant fuck" does a cause ill. Mistaking bear with bare does your cause ill as well. Saying you were a life member of the NRA when you were conceived also does your point harm, the NRA doesn't enroll a fetus.
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  3299. germslover666 , more likely, a one hit "wonder", who hit, missed and continued to drive on. Never consider malice, when incompetence and inattention would suffice to cover incompetence.
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  3300. Valeri Vasilev , are you saying you really are John Allen Muhammad? Or are you comparing a $1800 rifle with one that costs ten times that amount once you get ammunition and optics for it? Or are you telling us a rifle that weighs in at 25 pounds when loaded and its optics on it weighs the same as a 7.5 pound AR-15? As an aside, you mentioned "with a suppressor", not with a suppressor, the suppressed model is an NFA firearm. An NFA firearm may be sold after paying for a $200 tax stamp and undergoing the same level of background check as is used in acquiring a Top Secret security clearance. I'll give you a small hint, Mr Muhammad's Nation of Islam affiliation would be a disqualifying events, due to the extremism and violence affiliated with that group that so heavily innovates in matters of their faith.
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  3301. Hal Luco we didn't finish it at Benning, we finished in North Carolina. Yarborough, it's in my storage unit somwhere.
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  3302. +boogerwelder that few month wait is for the background investigation. As for silence, I've fired .22LR rifles that were fully suppressed, the only noise was the action cycling. You could fully suppress any firearm - if you don't mind having something the size of a trash can hanging off of the weapon. ;) So, it's a balance of usability vs suppression. All that is usually required is dispersing the muzzle blast into something less sharp and hence, less locatable. For a .50 BMG system, there's an added advantage, a hell of a lot less shit gets thrown around, compared to the blast propelled cloud created by the muzzle brake.
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  3303. +boogerwelder silence a round? You don't silence a round, you suppress the report of the firearm. Yes, there is a miniature sonic boom from the round being supersonic, if subsonic rounds aren't used, but you don't use subsonic rounds in rifles. Or do you think that subsonic rounds are fired out of a Barrett .338 lapuna or .50 BMG? Indeed, your ignorance is astounding!
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  3304. +boogerwelder your lack of reading comprehension and recalling of what you started in this conversation is astounding. Allow me to remind you of the start of this: "Anybody can buy a suppressor, and no, you don't need a background check. Just pay $200 for a NFA stamp and wait a few months. Easy peasy. Also it does not make a gun silent, only drops the noise level 20-30 decibels. It is still louder than a jet engine." The first part is wrong, as the "wait a few months" is when the background check is performed. @Matthew, my apologies for the late response, 20th SFG (ABN).
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  3305. +boogerwelder "Anybody can buy a suppressor, and no, you don't need a background check. Just pay $200 for a NFA stamp and wait a few months. " Your words, not mine. Short term memory is going as well?
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  3306. +brad garza how fascinating that you can diagnose a developmental delay condition, merely via a few comments on youtube! So, want to diagnose and treat my high blood pressure?
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  3307. Mostly, we're laughing harder than you are at him. And the minority of idiots who, the popular election loser, managed to acquire sufficient electoral votes to find the maximal level of his incompetence. Now, what would've been a fine moment, would be for a leader to counter his yank toward refused embrace, pull him toward oneself and in a standard dance move, shift him to the right, making him one's own right hand man. Which, by definition is a subordinate.
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  3308. And why, entirely content free, the poseur made a comment that was content free, rhen ran. As usual, for a troll, a paid troll.
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  3309. +I Don't Know oh? Prove some pervert was grabbing some 13 year old's ass while the cop was ascertaining if a federal crime was committed. Yeah, enforcing federal law is stupid.
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  3310. +I Don't Know he was breaking the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, if he wasn't actually a veteran. If one does not report the violation of the law, the law never gets upheld. Or do you want federal agents as plentiful as local cops?
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  3311. +allen Rud Oswald who?
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  3312. Андрей Кузнецов if you say so. Assuming you present specifications, with shot groupings at 2km and better.
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  3313. +Caleb Whittington OK, you use the .50 BMG rifle, the government uses a howitzer or hellfire missile from a drone. Let us know how that works out for you.
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  3314. +Caleb Whittington first, a drone can pretty much take out one target, Hellfire missiles are quite heavy. Let's say it's a single house, with a family in it. That isn't genocide, genocide is an entire group targeted and killed off. The Jews in WWII, the Native Americans in the past century, those were attempted genocides. A .50 BMG rifle or machinegun can take down a drone or even an aircraft, it's improbable as hell. Watch a WWII naval battle film some time and note how many hundreds of rounds were fired at Japanese "Zeros" and never damaged the aircraft, taking thousands of rounds to down a single aircraft. The only way a Barrett or similar rifle could take out a drone is if its on the ground, once it's moving, you'd need a machinegun and a hell of a lot of cans of ammunition.
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  3315. +Caleb Whittington uh huh. So, you're going to shoot down a Predator drone, which flies around 300 - 400 MPG and is at around 20 - 30 k feet up with a rifle. Then you're going to take on MP's, infantry and armed vehicles to "take out the base". You're fucking delusional, Rambo.
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  3316. There's this neat new thing called a search engine. If you do a search for a non-classified project, you'll likely find it. Classified projects might have a declassified version as well. Classified stuff, well, you don't know so that any adversaries also don't know. Otherwise, they'd counter them and the money and effort would be wasted.
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  3317. Instead of boom, there's a nice loud bang. And less shit being kicked up for ten meters on both sides.
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  3318. Sarude Dankstorm, there's a rather strange creature I'm quite well aware of. The creature in question is called an attorney. That is their job, to prove innocent or introduce reasonable doubt in a jury. But, an attorney and a jury are parts of a court of law, not a lawless officer beating down, after choking a minor child. We used to protect minor children, not try to fucking kill them. Fuck! I'm both sorry I defended this failed nation, I'm also sorry I returned home to learn that it failed and minor children are now also targets of extrajudicial execution of summary judgement.
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  3319. sʞɔıʍ ǝʌǝʇs, gee, I always thought religion was the opiate of the masses. "...yet they are told they have the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", that is from the declaration of independance, a document with no legal standing in the US. It was a declaration of war and the Constitution supersedes it. But, you are correct about "patriotic" chest thumping, winning is first, everything for a buck and a spectacularly failing school system. When I went to school, we had an observatory that was donated and used by the students, we had donated electron microscopes that were used by the students, nineteen eighty four was required reading, as was Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The latter, to teach us warnings and about the uglier part of our past. Those are all gone, chemistry classes use M&M's in place of reagents, no required reading and nothing whatsoever on critical thinking.
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  3320. ***** , I personally know of several cops in my county that went to prison for everything from assault to rape.
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  3321. Wow, kindergarteners shouldn't be up this late. Now, why don't you pretend to be adults?
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  3322. Craig Blast, I'll have you know that I'm a happily married man, my wife and I have been married for going on 34 years. Our children are grown and we now have grandchildren. I'll also have you know that that is not an apron, it's a tablecloth from an Italian restaurant. OK, it's not that either. But, it beat the shit out of those shitty dust masks issued to us by the Army and it helped us remain covert by mixing in with the local populace. Sandstorms suck, majorly. Sand is the minority component of a sandstorm, there's a fuck ton more dust that's about as fine as portland cement and worse, acts like it when that shit gets in your nose, mouth and hair. My wife captured that image when I returned to quarters while I was deployed. And to be nice about it, I've killed badder than you wiping my ass in the morning. So, why don't you go away, before I have your woman take your cute little bike away from you. To judge by your behavior, we know that the woman wears the pants in your house.
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  3323. *****, depends upon the cop. There are goood ones, where that applies, then there are the lawless officers.
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  3324. Craig Blast, that's nice. Your mother loves me, son. You'll never have a wife of your own unless you move out of mom's basement. It'd be much nicer with you out of the house so that she can scream like she loves to do when pleasured.
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  3325. restriser, you're right! Merica is better because of nukes or something.
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  3326. jason collins odd that, perhaps with a bit of irony. Your number of those who do not complete their primary education is wrong, it's 20% who fail to finish high school. Also, a language tip, your is not you're. You're is a contraction for 'you are', whereas your is a possessive of you. Examples: You're an idiot, to judge from your statement. Your lousy car dropped parts off on the highway and damaged my car.
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  3327. hi Bayona every feminist hates 50 entire countries?
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  3328. Michael Coulter , at my stage of life, having served for nearly 28 years in the US Army and having fired an M82, along with pretty much every small arms and crew served field arms, thanks, but no thanks, not even for your .300wsm. I'd prefer to avoid such abuse and will stick with .308, 30-06, 30-30, 45-70, etc. But, I'll admit some surprise in the range you offered. For that round, the drop is predictable to 600 meters and frankly, I've long fired over that range with 5.56mm and 7.65, .50BMG was a bit longer, but not as well as the unit sniper. I've even qualified with a non-zeroed, first met M-16, "Kentucky windageing like a motherfucker. Still qualified expert. It came down to a long range miss, shorter range off center hit and knowing the trajectory of the round/sight/mass and propellant load.
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  3329. Michael Coulter , it's all about learning how a round lands at range, then learning ballistics tables, then adapting theory to practice. At 900 meters and less, before 300 meters, it's experience or calculation.
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  3330. Harriscandoit , first, your linked article provided nothing more than the fact hat US arms controls works. All were ar DEA agent paused whitest passing. Now, I"ll provide one entry that has sensitive sources. A drug dealer that had DoD owned M2 .50 BMG machine gun aimed at the door. Each and every DEA agent paused, whilst passing the stolen military weapon. Frankly, as one who has handle and used this particular class of weapon, it's not happening. Foremost is, that of protected politicians, a range greater than a mile. The precise range isn't even available to me, but, it's in excess of two miles. Lacking is the experience in firing over long distances. The reality of it is, firing over such an insane amount of landscape to exterminate a political leader is absurd. I couldn't manage that, none of my team snipers could dot that. The target is, in the few scopes that work without being shaken apart leave that target a dot. Literally. But, remove every threat, the US would starve to death, for US humanity couldn't even be allowed to cut a slice of meat. For, humanity has turned everything into a weapon. So, the "proper" course would be to ban humanity. Or prohibit metallurgy and plastics. The "Founding fathers" had a notion that thew populace could remove a soffllaw government. Their intent was a populace equally armed to the scope of the3 military. That desire is satisfied via the militia act of 1903 and our draft system.. I could go on at great length and great volume; I'll; not, due to a dire NDA.
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  3331. Sam King , first, as a firearms owner with a full dozen firearms, I'll call bullshit on your strawman. A hammer, anvil or sledghammer do not operate over distance of hundreds, or even kilometers. That said, precisely zero .50 BMG firearms have ever been used in a crime. That is due to the incredible mass of the weapon. I'll add a politician's argument that "you could shoot down an airplane" insults WWII veterans, who knew firsthand how hard it was to shoot down an aircraft aimed at them, with a hosing ammunition weapon. The reliable fact that zero offenses have ever happened with a weapon that has peers going back to WWI will suffice, without calling peers with this weapon and a .22 or a household item that was also quite rare in use as a murder weapon, a knife was the most common household weapon.
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  3332. Sally Aston , the suppressor model is largely used by the military. Suppressors and integral suppressed firearms are NFA (National Firearms Act) weapons, which requires a $200 tax stamp and a significant background investigation to acquire one. Some civilians will get one, going through that stringent investigation for reasons ranging from "it's cool" to "it's quieter than an nuke and I'm attached to my hearing". The unsuppressed model is ungodly loud, as in wearing ear plugs underneath headphones.
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  3333.  OGlettuceWEED  I'll stick with parkerized finish models. Far, far more durable.
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  3334.  OGlettuceWEED  personally, never went for decorative wear firearms.
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  3335. *****, first of all, are we a people of law or are we a people of rule by force? When I deployed, we didn't have lawless enforcement officers kicking and choking minor children. Law enforcement officers were firm and calm. Force was based upon an escalation chain. Not choke, then kick a minor child. I've returned home to a land of summary execution, be it "justice" or life. Now, about me. I served for nearly 30 years in the US Army. The picture is one snuck by my wife, during a skype call to her when in theater. We also lived in SW Philadelphia, which is most certainly not the garden spot of the world, but Philadelphia has greater horrors as well. I spent time home, during the early and middle period being a one man townwatch. In a police disciplinary district. Other districts got real cops, we got F-Troop, the ones on the way out for misconduct. A man I personally knew, who suffered from dementia, was bounced on his head down cement steps, resulting in the loss of his life. Of course, the F-Troop officers ended up fired. Gotta protect against liability. The method I used to remove crime from my non-bulletproof house will not be discussed, which should give you a hint. I will admit to ambushing an ambush against my patrols of my neighborhood, via taking my Dutch shepherd for a walk. That dog, a rescue from drug dealers, hated the smell of smokeless powder. He was also fond of "eating" hands. I'll not go on further on that event that marked the retreat of the hardened drug dealers. Personal friends: Many law enforcement officers, one a turnkey in my district. Many, many service members. A significant number of civilians. Today, I've redeployed home in retirement from the Army and wondering whatinhell happened to this nation. It's very, very fascist in nature. That was absent when I departed to defend this nation. So, what in the hell did you people do to my country? If I knew it was going to go this far south, I'd have stayed home and let airplane after airplane or whatever the demented minds threw at office towers with personal friends and family in them!
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  3336. rstevewarmorycom the TSA agent is Pre-departure security. Something both my mother and wife did before 9/11, when they were demonized for doing what they were lawfully ordered to do, ignore utility knives. Today, we have a wonderful organization that made this retired veteran dreading a return home. Being home for half of a decade, I'm sorry that I returned home. Today, this nation is a nation of pussies. Oh, I'm afraid, I need no rights! Fuck the lot of this failed nation, we do indeed have rights. Said two miles from NSA headquarters.
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  3337. Tom Evans oh? How many times was your home searched, your papers seized, your person searched as well? Regrettably, the courts decided that there are other methods of travel other than air, so one can reasonably refuse to be searched by not flying. I'd love to hear how that judge would get to Antarctica without flying. But, I'd love to hear the second amendment you proclaim is being violated, and "as well as several others". Be clear on a claim, not "they violate an amendment" and not enumerate it.
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  3338. rstevewarmorycom , you've failed in your critical thinking then. There have been precisely zero attempts in any flight originating in the US. Every attempt has been inbound flights, with such brilliant things like a shoe bomb (silly, everyone knows shoes are telephones from Get Smart), diaper bomb and not a one detonated, although the diaper did burn the idiot badly. I used the search home and papers for a reason, one paranoid claim was made that the fourth amendment is no longer in effect, when obviously it still is. On a political question, why communism? Thus far, every communist state has failed, switching into a mixed capitalistic system? Effective states mix capitalism and socialism, blended as their culture and society prefers to create a stable society.
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  3339. Tom Evans in other words, you cannot name the proclaimed multiple amendments that are violated.
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  3340. rstevewarmorycom all we have is security theater and TSA agents overstepping their authority. All on the taxpayers dime. Meanwhile, a fundamental right we do possess is the right to travel. So, we should walk across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans?! Should we walk between Los Angeles and Philadelphia? I spent nearly 30 years of my life defending this nation and our Constitution in the military. I didn't defend it so that pussies at home could fuck the place up. The 9/11 hijackers carried their weapons onboard because the FAA stated that those weapons were allowed. The contractors then were castigated because they did what the FAA told them to do and lost their jobs, to be replaced by taxpayer funded Keystone Kops! Zero hijack attempts have been made since 9/11. No bombs have been brought onto aircraft since 9/11, no attempts have been made since the 1970's! What was attempted was attempts to bring in things not looked for, shoe bombs, diaper bombs from abroad. High explosives aren't easily acquired in this country, but in developing nations, they're easily acquired. So, stop with security theater, taxpayer boondoggles and institute that which is effective. Which sure as fuck isn't the bullshit the TSA has been claiming is security and it sure as hell ain't fashion police.
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  3341. rstevewarmorycom foiled by law enforcement, not by the TSA. Barriers have stopped what? Other than passengers walking where they shouldn't, which has been an age old problem that existed long before there was a TSA? Bombs were found from other nations, none originated in the US. The bombs were novel and things not inspected, which means if they did originate here, they'd have slipped past the TSA as well, due to agreements on security arrangements. Hence, why the sue bomber and diaper bomber were only caught when they attempted to detonate their clothing. Let me give you a hint, stop trying to preach security to a man who is sitting inside of a security operations center. We don't practice security theater, we practice effective security.
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  3342. rstevewarmorycom well, who I am is easy enough to see, that is my face - snapped from a video call home when I was deployed to the Persian Gulf. I'm retired military and now work in a security operations center. I'm also rather eagerly awaiting lunchtime.
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  3343. I've been known to forget a handshake. When gently reminded, I do make up with it with a proper handshake and brotherly embrace in apology (spoken while moving to embrace). What I've never done was shake my head like a jackass shaking off flies.
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  3344. +ch70 oh?
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  3345. +Vegan Dutchess, is that fragile or brittle? While something may be fragile and break in half, brittle comes to pieces when stressed. +DragonDyce, odd, as I've found no such documentation, not on NIPRnet, SIPRnet or JWICS. So, where are these mythical documents to be found, the Harry Potter wand vault? Oddly though, your random and likely Russian originated rant had precisely shit to do with the video. And unlike you, do have access to those networks. And more importantly, I have access to reality, which is obviously far outside of your grasp.
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  3346. HaloEliteLegend, which is why contractors were forced to pass evaluations, whereas the TSA has failed 95% of their security evaluations. A repeat of 9/11 can't happen, the best Al Qaeda can now muster is sneaker bombs and diaper bombs, both of which didn't work.
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  3347. orestes samolis a lot of things. First, the US of A doesn't demand hijab. Second, the TSA officer went far afar from his scope of fucking duties. Wearing clothing isn't protecting passengers and as an officer of the federal government, it's a termination offense. But, I don't expect you to comprehend duties, scope of duties or even how to spell dirt. What I notice is your IP, outside of the US. With a specific range that is notable in the intelligence community.
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  3348. orestes samolis tovarich, young women aren't prohibited from wearing a loose shirt, midriff bearing dress. Muslim nations prohibit it, variably.
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  3349. Stephen Villano odd your sudden silence, as your previous response was so lightning sudden. Da? I'm on the US east coast. I know our timezones and I know the various global timezones, I've served in them. You've failed, due to higher command issues. Had some issues in my own higher level command problems.
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  3350. The 1951 Refugee Treaty, of which the US and Germany (and many other nations) signed and ratified directs nations to accept refugees. Now, Article 6 of the US Constitution states "...This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding...". So, you advocate for a lawless government.
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  3351. They can, but not a whole lot of energy. What happens in laser cutting is the vapor plume causes blooming of the beam, defocusing it, rendering it eventually incapable of cutting deeper until the plume dissipates.
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  3352. +Glenn Quagmire erm, the people you speak of don't drive.
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  3353. +Tvarisch Byele it's been my experience that those who include the idiotic "tard" after whatever view, the speaker is most often the chief village idiot, out of a village full of idiots. Or, to use your own language, you're a fucktard.
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  3354. +Tvarisch Byele my point remains intact. As for my mother, she died some years back of old age.
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  3355. +Tvarisch Byele interesting interpretation of what was written. As I said, my point remains intact, as you've entirely failed to argue otherwise. Diversion is not a proper debate tactic.
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  3356. +Tvarisch Byele indeed, you proved my point for me with your idiotic reply, rather than trying to disprove my point, you grasp desperately at a solution via denouncement. Are all conservatives now this stupid? They used to be a lot brighter and could actually debate a subject, rather than stooping to denouncement like a little fascist or communist.
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  3357. +Tvarisch Byele again with denouncement, rather than presenting a cogent argument. Is the best that you can do is calling people poopypants or something? Indeed, logic isn't your strong point, evidence is a foreign notion and your debating skills are nonexistent. Try presenting evidence and we might even manage to communicate. Just a warning though, when I'm seriously tired, the dyslexia kicks in and nobody will figure out what I was trying to say.
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  3358. Well, Brandon, it does make sense. She didn't know where it was last.
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  3359. ikeknights free speech doesn't exist when one is working at one's job. One's employer may restrict speech and in the case of federal employment, one's right of speech on the job is restricted only to that job related speech. What is not permitted or accepted is critique of the attire of passengers being screened by TSA screeners. As there is no dress code for passengers that would be related to pre-departure screening of passengers of security related risk items, his speech was far out of bounds for his interaction with airplane passengers. A TSA pre-departure screener may not engage in religious or political speech as well, which is instructed to TSA employees annually.
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  3360. ikeknights free speech does not fully exist on a job. When you're on employer time, your speech is your employers, when off work, if you associate via uniform, voluntary admission, ID card, etc your speech is your employer's, as any and all could associate the speech with the employer's views. The case law on that is older than I am and I'm far from young. As in having grandchildren and am a bit over a decade from retirement. One does have full free-ish spech when off the clock, non-identifialbe as an employee, barely. Facebook posts have gotten people fired. Where speech is far from free is, sedition, enacting treason, revealing contracted secrets, hate speech (such as dropping the N bomb at an NAACP convention when not black. i.e.; speech designed to cause a breech of the peace). Meanwhile, the case law does not prohibit "crying out fire in a crowded movie theater", it was an example of protected free speech that was a bad idea and ended up actionable in a civil court.
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  3361. Steve Ababan , which is precisely why that speeding officer still has a job, right? Oh, wait. He got terminated for cause. Defeating your argument.
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  3362. Steve Ababan , excuse me for my misreading your comment. Thank you for your patient expansion on that comment. The reasons that motivate me are simple, in hate corruption, abuse of office and dishonorable behavior overall. Law enforcement officers are placed in a position of great public trust, to see that trust abused engenders a loss of trust in all who hold positions of public trust, in short our local, state and national governments. Again, please accept my apologies for a dyslexic misunderstanding of what you said.
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  3363. carly0710 yes. Like NATO, Commonwealth nations, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.
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  3364. duane1567 gonna say that when you're stuck in the middle of a minefield?
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  3365. +citizen privet infowars, ROFLMAO! Infowars is a step below Russia Today for fantasies and bullshit. This rifle has niche applications, not for general usage, but for super long range marksmanship. In Afghanistan, more than a few Afghans were removed from their RPG with the round, fired from a Barrett rifle. More simply, an SVD this ain't. That said, I rather liked the performance of the SVD over some of our similar models.
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  3366. +Shinji Hirako which facts do you wish evidence for, child? The .50 BMG round? the SVD performance? Afghans and their apparently infinite supplies of RPG's? Russia Today being more full of shit than a Christmas Goose, embarrassing the US government through putting out more bullshit than the US government, already infamous for phenomenal output, being outpaced by RT? Or infowars being bullshit on rye, calling itself a Reuben sandwich? No rye, no beef, no cheese, no sauerkraut, only shit. So, which? I am perfectly capable of burying you with respected source links. Which do you wish evidence for, child? For, that is my real face and white beard, child.
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  3367. Sarude Dankstorm, I invented my own name for them. Beyond the usual profanity. Lawless enforcement officers. Enforcing lawlessness by their behavior and deeds.
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  3368. ***** and why snipers don't set up alone, the other is both spotter and security. There's also the scope w/ holo short range sight.. Hell, every time I turn around, there's a new product/system or even guided .50 BMG round for the DoD. It makes me glad that I retired, otherwise, even money, I'd have gotten stuck carrying half of the new stuff. ;) 27 years, 8 months was more than enough. Putting all of that crap on started to hurt too much.
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  3369. solziaboi may I ask why you say that?
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  3370. +steakismy newnamenow I've actually been in hand to hand combat training with law enforcement officers. We were in the same ANG unit. I also look a bit different from my avatar today, as I'm no longer deployed and retired from the military, so the beard and shemagh are gone. That said, I don't recommend those not of similar capabilities to try that. Defense in a court of law beats dead and incapable of defending.
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  3371. +steakismy newnamenow actually, quite a few firearms were designed for military use and later, civilians purchased semiautomatic versions. As for why people carry them, cowardice, perhaps?
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  3372. +steakismy newnamenow let's consider the military engaging an enemy without firearms. The entire military dead, we're now stuck surrendering. Not a good idea. As for pit bulls, gun vs pit bull, gun wins. :/
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  3373. +steakismy newnamenow heh, if you say so. Engagement at 10 meters, three shots, three dogs. I've owned a pit bull, they aren't as fast as a bullet. As for unarmed military, we'd have the only disarmed forces on the planet, the other nations won't disarm their forces. Try to get realistic. Violence is the refuge of the incompetent and there are plenty of incompetent national leaders around the globe.
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  3374. +steakismy newnamenow upset? Not at all, the notion of a military going to war unarmed when nobody else would disarm was just absurd. As for most of the jugheads with firearms, most couldn't hit the broad side of a barn at three feet from it. Guns were originally invented for armies, one can shoot a further distance with even the most primitive matchlock than an archer could fire. In short, more efficient killing. As for me, I have a few firearms, all locked in secure storage safes. Two for hunting in different terrain. The rest for competition for prize money. After a near 28 year military career, I have no interest in harming another human. When we compete, magnifiers and calipers are used to measure the score. :)
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  3375. +Trevor Thrasher pay attention to the caps, where someone was referring to a "SNIPER rifle", not a sniper rifle, sniper system or even a lunch box. Each time the word sniper was in upper case, as if it was an acronym. What date is FM 3-21? The last copy of that manual I read didn't have the XM107, it had the bolt action M82. Glad to see it updated. So, do you usually call it a SNIPER rifle or a sniper rifle or system? For the record, I retired in 2009.
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  3376. +Trevor Thrasher my head is fine, thank you. That is what I went off over, the bullshit using caps on the word sniper each and every time the idiot typed it. Go back and read the comment. I've read those FM"s, but you never did tell me when they added the XM107, the M82 was in the last field manual 3-21 I read. I'd like to know when the change was finally instituted. Random capitalization is a pet peeve of mine and I firmly believe all should be allowed to keep any pet that they can afford to support. ;) But yes, I do tend to be arrogant. But, when I am, I am indeed correct.
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  3377. +The Dark master true, the match lock was a major improvement over the first firearms, the flintlock was an order of magnitude improvement, but the tactics remained like archers by using volume area fire. Precision marksmanship is a relatively new method of battle, which devastated any set piece battle methods used before.
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  3378. +The Dark master today's artillery is far different from its originator, just as archery and firearms, originally, they were area weapons and no precision was involved. WWI changed things greatly, the mass formations were mowed down with machineguns, the same was true of cavalry. Today, there's a mix of spray and pray vs precision marksmanship by individual infantry. Add in RPG's just to make things interesting. As in 50 db hearing loss interesting.
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  3379. +Jack Laurie can you kindly define the word "thugs"? As you used the word criminals, then added thugs, I'm a bit confused.
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  3380. Michael McQ , it's hard to tell sarcasm when people can't see your face. :/
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  3381. Michael McQ , perhaps that is the problem. I do read faster than most people speak.
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  3382. Why, of course he will, just as a bear is catholic and the pope shits in the woods!
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  3383. I'm still waiting for Obama's Great Gun Grab. It's always wonderful to watch Obama use his time machine to do things in the past - frequently before he was even born - at least, per Trump.
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  3384.  @lloydmckay3241  that's blasphemy! One needs to have a priest read such holy documents to you and explain how white is black and down is really up! Or something. Then, we'll learn that the Declaration of Independence is part of the Constitution (it isn't) and well, anything else others decide is right, not what's truly written there. OK, seriously though, that's the very first thing that I advise. For crying out loud, it's in plain English for all to comprehend! It's not as if it's in Latin! It doesn't start with e plebnista, it starts with We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Not that we started with a perfect Union, but to establish and grow a more perfect Union, a process that should continue forever, for perfection can never be truly obtained, only approached more and more closely. The heart of the founders intent is right there in the preamble. Yet people incessantly get even the preamble wrong, then advance on to include all other documents that fits their distorted views into the Constitution, hammering away fruitlessly their square peg into a round hole. Nope, if we need to improve that Constitution, we don't redefine words or insert notions not present, we amend it and it is and should be an onerous process. And it's been good enough that since 1789, we only fouled up once, with prohibition. And promptly, when we realized that made things far less perfect, repealed it with a new amendment.
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  3385. Tandem warheads also have a small blast before the main warhead forms the penetrator. The first blast disables protective measures like reactive armor, the second forms the penetrator and sends it through the armor.
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  3386.  @kognak6640  actually, a millisecond level delay and the standoff depends upon the weapon. Most are under a meter standoff, but some large missiles have a longer standoff. No clue what the Javelin's standoff is offhand. Although, a mine 10 meters off shouldn't have much impact on an armored vehicle. Even an EFP warhead won't be effective that insanely distant from the device!
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  3387. Indeed, from what I've seen from the radar, their collision alert was around a mile separation, that's only 10 seconds at a mutual closure rate of around 300 knots. Add in the RJ was descending, it may well have also been partially obstructed from view by the length of the rotor disc, I'm going to have some unpleasant nightmares tonight!
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  3388.  @Feedback4Utoday  ah, so 300 feet is climbing into major airlines. Is 3 feet too high? Or should we ground all military aircraft and call the universe safe from democracy?
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  3389.  @Jordan-vg5hp  they were nearly head on when the alert was triggered and ATC queried if visual was achieved. Per the included radar, around a mile of separation, which at a mutual closure of around 300 knots, around maybe 10 seconds from each other. Not a hell of a lot of time to decide if the alert is spurious, which isn't uncommon in congested airspace and low altitudes, what range and in the dark, well depth perception is fairly well lost due to few to no visual references, so is that a commuter, a heavy, a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, OK, the last obviously doesn't exist, but yeah. A lot of information, on top of going through a landing checklist and maybe one has the right aircraft in view, maybe the helicopter could fully see it and not have it partially obscured by the blur of the rotor disc as it descends that 100 fateful feet. And if actually recognized and realizing one's seconds from deep poop, neither aircraft is a fighter aircraft, one's landing and about as nimble as an overfed cow, the UH-60 is a utility bird, not the most nimble thing on the planet either. Both fine aircraft, just not things that can go darting around like their jet fighters. My only question is how the ATC software didn't catch the conflict after registering the final turn of the fixed wing. Well, we'll have to await the NTSB on this one, like most and see what recommendations they can offer to prevent it from happening again.
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  3390. Was the prosecutor or special prosecutor sleeping or otherwise closely involved with the grand jury? Oh wait, my bad, I forgot, Trump is a god and a king, who is so wonderful and powerful, he fired the old god for being a wuss for letting his son get killed, hand wave.
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  3391. Did he physically take up arms and make war against the US government? Now, go read the US Constitution, then look up US v Burr.
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  3392.  @yvonneplant9434  obviously, a ship losing power and drifting into the bridge is precisely the same as a truck with an oversized load driving under control into a bridge and going off with a quarter of the information is entirely called for. Or something. OK, let's go with actual questions that are actually germane. What was the posted clearance for the bridge, both on the signage and on the road planning maps? What was the actual height of the load? One common cause of bridge impacts is driver error, the load is higher than what the bridge is marked at. Another, road resurfacing has happened since the last measurement and posting, which is now way off as the clearance is now a few inches less and nothing got posted about it - either on maps or on the bridge itself. So, obviously we need to close the port to all ship traffic or something...
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  3393.  @footballnerd277 he can't remove her, she can only be removed from the bench by the court or impeached by Congress.
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  3394. AI experiences a common failure that's incorrectly referred to as hallucinating. No, it does share a commonality in human CNS dysfunction, it's confabulation. Similar records get recalled as factual events and confabulated into a continuous error train.
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  3395.  @DickenCider  I don't think the response to, "Does this dress make me look fat?" counts. But then, I'd not expect an INCEL to understand why that's a thing, compared to myself, who was married for over 41 years when she died.
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  3396.  @ipsofattso4919  I've long joked that the earth really is flat, gravity only makes it look round. The punchline is in the math, as we'd have a black hole for a planetary core, high enough gravity to be reduced to atoms and well, generally have really, really bad days - not that our extinct asses would notice. The other joke being, gravity is masses way of telling spacetime to go get bent.
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  3397. Stop insulting morons like that!
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  3398. Just a boilerplate non-response. 9-11 happened in 2001, Real ID was passed in 2005 and won't come fully into effect until next year.
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  3399.  @Wisdom24-7  wow, handguns carried by agents are now high powered firearms. Here, I thought it was bad when the idiots in the press called dinky intermediate caliber weapons like AR's "high powered" - a distinctly odd term to use in reference to a varmint round. So, when did you first begin to outsource your delusions to Russia? Why not retain them domestically instead, they'd be fresher?
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  3400. It's far less than a quarter of a history lesson, for even just the few regions discussed briefly, let alone claims of 10k years of "owning", ignoring other occupations of China or Russia, etc. History is a rich tapestry woven full of the folly of man.
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  3401. The VA finally, after a literal decade and spare change of begging, finally got permission for experimental research in psychedelics in conjunction and alone in their patients, especially PTSD patients. Mild to moderate efficacy in psychedelics alone, highly effective but not a panacea when psychedelics and therapy were combined in a session, individual or group. Which makes sense, as one's basically discussing the triggers and guiding rebuilding the memory circuit in a less harmful configuration. Memory being a bit weird, it essentially gets erased during recall, then stored again, so altering the perspective alerts how that specific network configures itself, with proper guidance, less stressors reinforcing the trauma already recorded. Of course, the prohibitionists, who want to prohibit pretty much anything that ameliorates misery hate it and want it banned again. But, some of their more extreme end also want all anesthetics banned. Something I didn't believe until I heard some openly discussing just that, apparently agony builds character. Took all of my self control to not build their character into godhood of agony... They're also at the heart of the "veterans get too much" crowd, wanting to curtail pretty much all VA benefits, even for quadriplegics. But, they oddly demur from having their character improved via their own preaching for some odd reason. Just a bit of a sore subject and a bit fresher in memory, as I just got done with a meeting with my VA social worker. And reminded me of one of my men, who suffered from a mental breakdown, resulting in discharge and homelessness. Caught him sneaking into the unit to sleep, the leadership wanted law enforcement to remove him. I guided him out and took him to the VA hospital for treatment, with the stern NCO's admonition, "Don't release him until he's stabilized fully and functional or I'll be back to discuss the matter in detail", while in my duty uniform. Last I'd heard, he's been years without incident, holding down a decent enough job and has his own place to lay his head at night. That was before the GWOT, where the VA budget got slashed again, for the 30th time I counted, after the first year of the war and men were coming back missing pieces. Another fine reminder, "Veterans are #1", but when one looks, the third digit is usually the one raised. Circling back from the tangent, psychedelics alone are at best moderately useful alone, with therapy, are proven by multiple peer reviewed studies to be much more effective than other more conventional treatments - but, like anything that's actually effective, they take time to implement and become fully effective, there's no quick fix for anything. And the naysayers in the video, who questioned psychedelics usage, "Why would these be effective in so many...", Bupropion (aka Wellbutrin), an atypical antidepressant, obviously used to treat clinical depression, also used in smoking cessation. I can name a half dozen other drugs that similarly are used in similar multi-purpose roles, some entirely off label due to FDA resistance that's largely political. Altering signal processing in the brain causes alternative circuits and networks to form, which can be, if effectively guided, effect permanent beneficial effects. And I've got no dog in this fight, as I was not involved in any of the studies, nor have I required treatment. My only area of concern is of helping others, which is far more than some that proclaim to adhere to Christian values, but effectively ignore their own savior's messages about healing the sick, housing the homeless and helping the helpless. And two things I dearly loathe being, anything that messes with my perceptions of reality and hypocrites. So, for mushrooms, I'll personally stick with my portobello mushrooms, typically with some lentils in a few dishes that I've ginned up and quite enjoy. Still perfecting a lentil/portobello meatloaf substitute for when I want a change of pace from a meat dish. Working out some texture issues, taste is dialed in nicely.
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  3402. Gravitational fields can also brake rotation. And the odd elements are still being argued over, with one side suggesting artifact, the other side insisting valid elemental observations. Proximity to a neutron star would both slow rotation and enrich the star with heavy elements, which is where such elements originate anyway - during a neutron star highway accident. Island of stability, yeah and Gilligan's Island and Fantasy Island are the same place. Einsteinium's longest lived isotope has a half-life of 472 days. So, for it to be detected being dumped, speedy delivery of earth sized amounts of the stuff. Yeah, ain't gonna happen. I'm more inclined to think some odd artifact, perhaps from the magnetic field distorting the EM radiation from the star's corona and photosphere.
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  3403. He had a point about rude introduction, he wanted to be introduced as Massa. A lamented gorilla from the Philadelphia zoo. So, properly introduce him as dicklips. He might as well get used to it before prison. Perhaps, as "The Almighty Soap Catcher". I suspect that the RNC is considering replacing him with a safer candidate - a potted plant. And the sane members of the party are considering reconstituting the whig party... Given the massive parallels between the downfall of the original conservative party to a very similar demographic, which resulted in the birth of the Republican Party and whose candidate's election resulted in a civil war. The man is a human cartoon character, with much in common with Wile E. Coyote currently, with an infinite supply of Acme anvils.
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  3404.  @philyeary8809  that whole getting help, food and housing thing and their own words in interviews, yeah, I'm sure. I've also been on such missions after a disaster, for some reason, people don't object to being rescued and getting food where none is now available.
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  3405. The plants are expensive, concrete is expensive for a reason. Look up what it takes to make concrete, tons of baking rock... Then, it takes around 60 days for concrete to cure. Concrete doesn't dry, it hydrates and forms carbonate rods to form its matrix, that takes time to do. And I actually do like nuclear power. A lot. But, construction takes a long time, due to complexity and well, curing of concrete. Although, I am a bigger fan of thorium power. Alas, the leader of the world, the US isn't leading, as usual, India is leading that push. We'll continue leading by defaulting, as usual, we trailed Europe in germ theory, physics and well, everything social. Now, we've eroded our industrial base, so we'll continue to lead in the only way we've ever done, leading in mediocrity. Off of the political front, it'll take around 5 years to build a nuclear power plant. With significant effort and minimal time to cure concrete and put the massive erector set from hell together. Think royal pain in the gonads to build properly, yeah, that's it. Doesn't make it worthless, just a pain in the gonads to build. Look at how long it takes to build a sizable dam, pretty much the same thing, with a bit less complexity. Oh, we've established gainful fusion at the National Ignition Facility. When I was done laughing and giving a mental pat on the back, yeah, not useful, just gainful. I live only a couple of miles from the now shuttered TMI power plant, of infamy claim for their massively non-destructive meltdown. Watched it live at 5 in high school, with some significant interest, as at the time, well, two hours drive time to TMI, yeah, kind of important to us. Everything worked as designed, save for a human factors engineering error, which made things get really, really, really expensive and well, zero casualties. Miss the cooling tower plume though, the plant was shuttered because burning natural gas makes the world more like Venus, erm, is cheaper. Some think we'll get sex goddesses from Venus, we'll just get a baked penis. But, it's cheaper to die and all. Here's a fossil fuel slogan that's a winner, "BAKED BABIES IS THE WAY TO GO!". And Two and a quarter mile island is still there. A pet joke from the region among engineers. Chernobyl's decontamination, Fukushima's as well, bioremediation and vitrification. Oh wait, plants are expensive, totally impossible to grow. For those with blown sarcasometers, I've got a pallet full of them. Oh, there is a leading injury common in nuclear power. The most significant number of injuries in nuclear power plant injuries, a paper cut. Go paperless! I'll just get my coat... Oh, Fukushima had two volunteers to open valves, who are casualties. Selection criteria was over 50. I'd have volunteered too, both on age, exposure and it was the right damned thing to do. Much the same happened at Chernobyl. Both plants built out of specification, Chernobyl, entirely with a flammable roof, Fukushima, updates not applied that'd have prevented the hydrogen explosion. And I'm worse on my own failures than the scathing review of others failures.
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  3406. What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
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  3407.  @strangereyes9594  I'm reminded of when it was suggested that the US patent office be closed, as new patents were down and "everything possible had already been invented" - back in the mid-1800's. Innovations come in fits and starts, with lengthy pauses between. It's always been that way and likely to continue in that way. And grants are a form of investment, which in and of themselves are cyclical, physics one decade, biology another, medicine yet another with some overlaps and outliers. Not a hell of a lot of novel physics of late, but I just recently learned of some promising antiinflammatory modulators that are showing promise in the treatment of Crohn's disease. Ran into that after being recently diagnosed with it and brushing up, as gastroenterology isn't exactly my bailiwick. I was more trauma, infectious disease and emergency OB/GYN stabilization in medicine, IT and electronics in my primary jobs and being a general "Shell Answer Man" the rest of the time. I suspect that I've rather dated myself with that last bit...
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  3408.  @Time4Project2025  wow, somebody should've told me that it was illegal to possess a firearm when I lived in Philly! I mean, that was six offenses against a mythical law! I also had a CCW permit, as concealed carry requires a permit in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Open carry is permitted, save within cities of the first class, of which PA has one - Philadelphia, where only concealed carry is permitted if one has the permit. Oh, the state is also a shall issue state.
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  3409. Well, it wasn't that Bragg was a Civil War general, after all, were that only the case, renaming it Fort Grant should be acceptable. It was that Bragg was a Confederate general, who had betrayed his oath to the US Army to join the Confederate forces and made war against the United States and that is the only crime described in the US Constitution - treason. That's kind of considered a big deal. Might as well, along with Fort Lee and some others, had named them all Fort Treason. Indeed, why don't we have a Fort Benedict Arnold? Now, it's at least face saving renamed to someone that actually did serve with honor. Hegseth's take on the Russian fleet, well I still have trouble recognizing him without his usual lampshade on his head. He recently had conducted a European interview and was seen drinking from multiple tumblers of what certainly looked to be whiskey. Guess his word to Jesus before Congress had a short expiration date. Still, Russian equipment isn't fully depleted, I'm sure that they still have some lend-lease equipment knocking about, to keep their jackasses company on the ground. Oh wait, if their fleet had rusting problems after the Soviet collapse, their WWII vessels are probably just rust held together loosely by paint. Obviously, our guns and missiles are no match for rust! More interesting, the peace talks, the US, Russia and oh, Ukraine isn't invited to discuss divvying up the carcass of Ukraine. Trump wants those rare earths and even money, some farmland for corporate US farming firms. Russia wants the same for Russian usage, don't see those talks going far and I suspect Ukraine still has quite a bit to say.
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  3410.  @bills.1951  why? They're the Supreme Court, a troop of Boy Scouts would suffice.
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  3411.  @stevelewis8394  nope, that specific species of worm is known to come from undercooked or uncooked pork that's been uninspected.
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  3412.  @carlcherry-zh2hp  that much was readily apparent the first time a human encountered a monotreme. We're still trying to figure out the anencephalitics and monotremes, although we've got a fair handle on the latter.
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  3413. Not to mention that the Iranian drone carrier has been observed by our NRO and Navy operating in training off the coast of Iran, which is just a few miles away from New Jersey, around 6400 miles or so, so right next door. The Iranian drone carrier basically being a converted merchantman, converted to a WWII escort carrier grade vessel and well, I suspect that someone in the NRO and USCG might just notice someone's fucking jeep carrier loitering off of the US coast. There's another possibility, one ham fisted as the exercise theory - some agency testing a drone swarm. Not that we have any bases in the area since Monmouth shut down, the labs beamed off into deep space or dumped off into a Lakehurst or something. Or a Picaninny... Or more likely, most being misidentified, hysteria over the invading Martians and all amplifying reports. Or worse, disinformation amplified by erroneous sightings and the entire hot mess is the full scale Martian Invasion of 1938. Mom told me about the broadcast, having listened to it and her also hearing panic ridden conversations of adults visiting or calling her mother to talk about the "invasion". Were she still alive, she'd likely be shaking her head too.
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  3414. We don't imprison people for defamation in the US.
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  3415.  @CoalMiner-y7v  actually, it's not against the law - it's against the Constitution itself, which guarantees that Congress controls creation of agencies and their funding, not a wannabe god-king and foreign born emperor wannabe that bought that occupant of the oval office. So, what business is it for a Russian coal miner who should be fighting and losing in Ukraine?
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  3416.  @hexahexametermeter  USPS is under Article I, Section 8 and assigned to Congress for establishment, disestablishment and funding. Not a wannabe emperor.
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  3417.  @alexanderericson8628  no, the Constitution cannot be suborned by "one vote in the Congress". Article I, Section 8 gives control of establishment and hence disestablishment of post offices and post roads to Congress, not a wannabe emperor. And this wannabe already quoted Charles I, "the king can do no wrong", his defense at trial, right before he was convicted of treason and beheaded. And the coal miner bot is a Ruskie bot, ignore it. The SOB should be on the front lines losing against Ukraine.
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  3418. There recently were a pair of New Zealand quarantine violations, one shopping for alcohol, the other at a supermarket. That's potentially a source, were they positive. Otherwise, it's unlikely that anyone will be able to do more than just guess.
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  3419. It's uglier than that. One state's forces invading another state is already unconstitutional, as a lawful government's state rights are being abrogated by imperial fiat by a lawless emperor, who was only elected to be president. It'd be a violation of the Posse Comitatus act for any troops to be used in any manner of law enforcement while the courts are still capable of holding session and actions by the executive branch to cause the courts to close would be utterly lawless and without lawful basis. Worse, the invaded state's governor would be within his rights to then deploy his own national and state guard forces against the invading national guard, perfecting a civil war initiated by an imperious leader, who is acting from far outside of the laws and Constitution. Meanwhile, the invading national guard would become criminals under our laws and Constitution for obeying a clearly unlawful series of orders and committing treason against the United States and the invaded state. And that's without civilians getting involved, it's a shaken bag of cats at that point and now adding civilians in, an even more immense shaken bag of angry cats. That all said, Trump's said a hell of a lot of shit, back when he was in office and now, before he's actually entered office again, rarely has he tried to do even 1/3 of the insane bullshit that he's said, as such actions were clearly unlawful and the impacted agencies, including the military flat out said that any such orders were unlawful and would be ignored. More interestingly, something few have considered. How would the nuclear armed nations react to a civil war within a nuclear armed nation, once the control of the nuclear weapons came under threat? I know, based upon over 28 years of military service what my decision would be, neutralize those weapons with our own and our allies arsenals, lest heaven know who get control of them and do heaven knows what with them. Which would trigger a retaliatory strike by what remains of our forces, a thermonuclear war amidst a civil war. I really need to take up drinking!
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  3420.  @alexluv2ify  learn how to properly use your PPE and actually use it. Properly, which means practice and remember to use it.
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  3421.  @klajdizeka1363  SARS was a bit worse, killed a lot more people, around 10%, MERS killed 35%, COVID-19 is hanging around 3% (with much higher morbidity and mortality for the elderly). Still, I don't think pigs and birds are viruses, at least not the last time I checked. ;) Here is a takeaway for you, COVID-19 has sickened as many as influenza has killed in a year. Unlike the flu, this coronavirus isn't killing anywhere near as many people.
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  3422.  @Campbellteaching  true, norovirus is all over many hospitals... ;) Put down that wet trout! Ewwwww...
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  3423.  @alexluv2ify  the lack of maintaining a reasonable stock of masks in hospitals is whose fault? Contagious diseases are well known, for thousands of years, to strike especially hard in winter, so a reasonable stock should have been maintained, rather than the CEO's bonus.
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  3424. One studies, then models what happened, after, one reports. Reporting before one is certain just reports wild guesses. For all we know, the lander flew over a gigantic masscon, overcontrolled and tumbled into the lunar surface.
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  3425. Well, the microwave plasma was used in physics labs for decades too. Hell, the fusor uses that tech to initially ionize deuterium.
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  3426. Wiring and a ton of fiber optic cable. Every communications cable installed to full TEMPEST requirements. The pricing overrun sounds like an inexperienced contracting team treating this as a standard military contract, but specialized requirements that the government had in the specifications makes things get really expensive, really, really quickly. Hell, just the crypto devices are enough to impact weight and balance! Add in power filtering requirements to avoid leakage and crosstalk, specialized mission equipment, yeah, total nightmare for anyone inexperienced with such science projects.
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  3427. I dunno, I'd pay to see 2000 mules - the quadruped kind. Usually, Trump rallies are lower in attendance. Now, just where did I put my hat...?
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  3428. It does make sense though. A prodigious amount of shit comes out of a bull's singular asshole. And step into a meadow muffin only once and you realize the amount of effort it takes to clean your boots.
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  3429. I suspect his birth was some kind of scam for him...
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  3430.  @BrandiDonald  not even that, to sell himself, he'd have to surrender himself to those he was sold to. He just wants the vote, the trappings of power and proprietorship of a nation. Turning a republican form of government into an imperium, which is precisely what the founders sought to protect us from. Simply put, the only real question to ask when deciding who to vote for is, do we really want our very own emperor Nero?
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  3431.  @BrandiDonald  not always, as occasionally, there will be a clearly superior product. Then, what's to con? An example being, older HP printers. Canon print engine inside, but HP electronics driving it that placed their products head and shoulders above the rest in their price range. Fluke 77 digital meters, cutting edge for their time, technically inferior to my Beckman 310 due to a lower input impedance, but autoranging and hold functions putting it head and shoulders above the rest and actually a product that I personally sold. Didn't con anyone to do it, gave a tech the meter, a few lose components to measure and let him or her try it out and well, I was a tech and bought two, the meter sold itself. Today, many being pretty much the same as their competitor and yeah, basically needing a confidence game. Save an actual con, one gets nothing of value in return for one's payment. That different looking burger king burger, does it still taste like a flame cooked burger? Much of the additional grease incinerated off by the flame exposure, rather than allowed to collect from cooking on the flattop? Personally, on the rare occasion I have that kind of crap food, I go with the greasy burger, as the chef's dirtiest secret is that fat tastes good. Yeah, was a chef at one point in prehistory as well. Suffice it to say, change doesn't trouble me excessively, adapt to change, one has greater flexibility in how one proceeds forward.
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  3432.  @BrandiDonald  usually, in the overwhelming number of cases. But, sometimes, things are sold at a loss, either for a public good rationale and the company accepting that loss and balancing it against their other profits or at a loss to bring in additional business. But, in the vast majority of cases, the company exists to generate a profit and corporate officers actually, by law, have a fiduciary responsibility to investors to generate that profit. I had quite a bit to learn when I went into information security about business calculations, as one calculates how much one spends to protect what level of investment. One doesn't spend a million to protect a thousand, but instead one calculates the value of that to be protected, how often one can expect a loss, the risk exposure and well, a handful of other things to assess how much one spends to protect that asset.
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  3433. Not an accident, thankfully, it's only an incident with no injuries.
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  3434. President Musk has no friends, only rented assets.
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  3435. Respectful black folks? Might want to spank your spellchecker. I think you intended respectable. If you find a good discipline for the spellchecker, let me know... Hopefully, before I reprogram mine with a large fire axe, as I really can't afford to buy a fire axe.
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  3436.  @Lance-ef6mg  wow, we actually obey our laws and Constitution, regardless of the will of Putin or his slave Trump.
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  3437.  @jimforrester9776  no it isn't. Your ignorance betrays you and nobody has taken up arms against our government with the expressed goal of overthrowing it, which is how the Constitution defines treason. When did they stop teaching basic civics and government in our schools?! And per the listed charges, 20 years is light, what was listed and that was just for one state/county was more than a century possible sentence and the other state hasn't weighed in, nor has the feds with their own charges.
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  3438. Prime, the best tasting ricin one has never had... Go ahead and sue me, Paul. You'd get as much award as suing Jesus were he alive, you'd get as much truth exposed at trial as well. Welcome to me, the original PR nightmare from hell, making Freddy Kruger looking good. And the Pyrrhic victory of old look good...
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  3439. Ever watch "My Fellow Americans"? "Our dreams are like our children..." "Get a new speech, old man!"
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  3440. Let's see, a billionaire's family and estate, plus a family/estate worth 10 times what OceanGate is worth get into a negligence legal battle. My money's on the money and company folding. Even without Rush's hanging himself with his own repeated statements. I'm reminded of early on after lemon laws were passed and car dealers tried to use waivers to get around the laws. Didn't work.
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  3441. Because it fixed this? Oh wait, it didn't and couldn't, but it could deny deployed service members their right to vote, giving them absolutely no reason to want to defend you in the future.
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  3442. Huh, those "images" that claim to depict plasma they blather about reminds me of what I see through one eye when looking at a point source of light, such as a streetlight at night. Guess I'd better get that cataract removed, looks like it's plenty ripe enough now. :/ Oh well, if I get a similar IOL to the other one, I'll be seeing into UV reasonably well with both eyes afterward. According to a biologist I discussed it with and demonstrated it to, likely fluorescing proteins downconvert the UV to something visible, which explains its lack of focus quite well. Magnetic fields can effect electromagnetic radiation, as evidenced by polarization when light and microwaves pass through strong magnetic fields, such as around youngish neutron stars. That's pretty much it. Cold plasma is a thing, but we're into Bose-Einstein kind of physics there, very special case and conditions that are difficult to achieve and maintain. The rest is well documented and understood real plasma, finger incinerating hot and quite a good conductor of electric currents under some conditions of density. Gravity's something entirely else and fusion is very, very real. Fleeing tyranny, a ragtag fugitive fleet seeks a shining planet called Dirt.
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  3443.  @BROU-bb2uc show me one instance where they waved classified documents around like a fan at a public event, which Trump did in front of witnesses and was recorded discussing. Sorry sonny, Putin can't protect him from this.
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  3444.  @angelachouinard4581  OK, every mother and father in the land without a medical license also has to be arrested too. As are good Samaritans rendering good faith emergency care. One can evaluate someone, basically are they patently stoned on something or just a bit off? If a bit off or wildly off, just as with unresponsive, evacuation to medical care is called for. Inappropriate responses, inappropriate spontaneous responses, well documented ataxia, good old Joe Sixpack knows enough to call an ambulance for that.
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  3445.  @EricSalazar-re9qt  yep, USAID was heavily into influence operations against apartheid and Elon's made enough comments that strongly suggest support of both apartheid returning and some Nazi sympathies. I'm sure that the end of apartheid impacted the emerald mine he inherited. Yeah, that's how he got started, earned his money the old fashioned way - he inherited it. You let him become a citizen while I was busily defending this failed nation, way to keep the homefront safe! Next time, learn how to pray five times a day. Assuming the god-king doesn't turn things into a death cult, where when he pops off, everyone gets executed. My opinion of Trump being so low due to the horrific experience of actually meeting him around 2000 at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce Do. He was the invited guest speaker of honor and it took the Chambers an entire year to overcome a 95% (literally, he was the boor of the party) attrition rate for the next year's event. They literally spent an entire year apologizing to the entire membership for that massive foul-up. Everything had to be about Him and his perfection, crowing at his massive previous successes in bankrupting his casinos six times and honestly, I'm astonished that the planet didn't tilt off of its axis from all of the eyerolls of major business owners. Other invited guests didn't even get to speak and refused to attend again. I will give Musk due credit though, while in business showmanship, he's gifted as Liberace was (medium to good pianist and I am a pianist as well, although only middling), he does excel in hiring exceptionally proficient business and project managers. That really isn't easy, one has to be capable of seeing through fluff and outright bullshit. Trust me, I've had that odious task myself, was reasonably OK at it, but I've had my moments... Then again, there are his exceptional micromanaged successes, like the Boring company, which accomplished a major goal of boring a railway tunnel under one Vegas parking lot and Neuralink, which has successfully achieved the technological mastery achieved in the 1970's. We'll not even go into Twaddle. SpaceX, well, I can land a booster as well, rocketry being one of my hobbies. How deep do you want it landed? On the ground or stand? Out of the question, I've only the ability to make my mark on the world - deeply. And even money, the project manager I'd choose would be the individual behind Deep Impact... :/ Worse, can't even hire Musk to hire my manager, he's too busy being the Doge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title) I'm certain that name was his brainchild, he is about as literate as I am and I'm infamous for my literacy and wide, eclectic range. And a rarely exercised collegiate vocabulary, to be better underestimated. "I'm smarter than the average bear! Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Good, enjoy the claymore mine inside of my picnic basket."
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  3446.  @neuralmute  OK, we'll dig him up and charge him with suicide. Laws against suicide need to be properly targeted. Now, given what was presented here, beyond ethanol intoxication into duty hours, just which suicide attempt was one to curtail his access? I do have an answer - his first exposure. I also noted, he was a loner, which is a potential exposure to risk source. Nowhere a clincher, but one needing to be examined and alas, was ignored instead. That's a major oversight failure, the company wants to keep a worker on duty to make money, which is the company's purpose and its officers duty. Oversight ensures that insulation gets removed and action taken. Missed, after deleterious personnel actions began, access remained and worse, if access got denied, he'd be abandoned while in need. Some years ago, we were assigned a medic that had discharged after a tour in South Korea. SSDD, we were assigned a hell of a lot of reassuring numbers of personnel, diluting some deleterious personnel issues that plagued our organization since the inception of this nation. Long story abridged, the man exhibited outward charm, interacted well with the team. But, when alone, he would argue with someone not present and even strike his own face during a violent altercation. He also made gestures, during a motor movement that I replaced one of my privates in as driver (not suspicion at all, the private was ill and lacking other licensed drivers beyond one new driver, I've never asked that which I wouldn't do, so I drove. Passing a well placarded elementary school, he made gestures, after calling my attention to him, of shooting at the school. He passed one psych eval, he failed a second one after other, thankfully innocuous incidents. After he was discharged under compassionate grounds, he was found sleeping in our armory. The XO of the battalion wanted him arrested for trespass. I managed to divert that and personally drove him to a VA hospital and stayed there, he was refused treatment due to budget, now he's got God and an NCO behind him. NCO prevailed, News at Six or take care of someone we owe, decide now, well and properly. A few months later, I ran into him in town. Working, for a change, sane enough to survive in the presence of insanity of the populace, eating well. He did better than I've done after losing my wife of over 40 years. Took me a week just to be able to eat once a day. Nearly a month before I could tolerate two meals a day. I've only recently been tempted for three meals a day, the "requirement" also being nonsense. Last I heard before moving halfway across the country, he's finally fully functional. Given our knowledge and ability, that's the best outcome. Me vs the loss of my wife, the jury's still deliberating. :/ Add in BS wage lowering, not suicidal, I'd call it homicidal, save for the cidal bit, destroying a dishonorable business that bitches over turnover that's their fault, yeah. It'll even out, learned that from hard won experience.
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  3447.  @tenzinnordron9836  the reality is, does it matter where preserved, as long as they are preserved? Knew a number of atomic vets. All simply wanted to be remembered.
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  3448. For those who forgot, the inverted bible being held up for the photo op was after he sent in the goon squad to clear everyone out of the Saint John's church - including the presiding minister of that church, who was not allowed to return to his own church for hours afterward. You know, invaded a church, usurped the property owner, all for a photo op to show off a bible that wasn't his and being held up upside down.
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  3449.  @jeremiahsams2848  within their jurisdiction. If a cop is, say on vacation or just a day off and outside of their jurisdiction, they have no legal authority - especially when out of state. Indeed, some states prohibit cops from out of state from even carrying their weapon. Look up the word jurisdiction in a legal dictionary, because here, we are talking about the law, not Webster's.
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  3450. Oh, so genocide and pandemics is your selection. The majority disagrees, as you'll find on Nov 5.
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  3451. In the US, we're fortunate, as we fortify milk with vitamin A and D. I'd be quite guarded with megadosing vitamin D, fat soluble vitamins can get into all manner of trouble when one overdoses, compared to water soluble vitamins, which essentially get urinated out. I get that impression from doctor here as well. Blind dosing isn't a good idea, as doctor well knows. The US fortifies milk, most yogurts, breakfast candy, erm, cereals and margarine. Fairly commonly consumed, eggs (not a great source, but it adds up), various meats, Virtually extinct in the US diet, cod liver oil. Some orange juices are also fortified, but not all and orange juice is the number 1 consumed breakfast juice. Doctor, is there any definitive test(s) to diagnose a cytokine storm? Or is it a constellation of results that lead to the educated opinion that that is the only bloody thing going on? This was in my e-mail this evening from the county where I grew up and most of my family lives in. This week Delaware County reported a high number of positive COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 deaths. On Monday, April 13- 117 new cases and 1 death was reported. On Tuesday, April 14- 101 new cases and 5 deaths were reported. On Wednesday, April 15- 84 new cases and 15 deaths were reported. On Thursday, April 16- 120 new cases and 11 deaths were reported. On Friday, April 17- 226 new cases and 3 deaths were reported. This brings the total number of cases in Delaware County to 2281 and the total number of deaths to 74. When I hear deniers, I get angry that their parents would've poked them so hard and so often in their fontanelle.
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  3452. It actually was a team effort. :(
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  3453. That gets a bit... Complicated. Beyond Russian, there are bot accounts from pretty much every nation save Yemen and Somalia. So, you're trying to pick out linguistic and cultural clues from dozens of cultures, from dozens of nations. Military intelligence training is lengthy and intensive. Those who gather intelligence, more so, especially for those who make people spring leaks while gathering such intelligence to feed the intelligence types more than what they need. And we've not even touched the civilian side, with actual espionage agents and handlers, who manage the actual spies. But, there are some civilian training programs about. They'll not turn one into a James Bond, which is actually a good thing, as they instead turn out intelligence professionals.
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  3454. And an immense waste of tons and tons of milk. More concerning was when some of the workers discovered by chance that they were tracking fission products home on their shoes...
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  3455. True, but the reality is, failing the background check isn't a guarantee of not being authorized a clearance. It's rare, but can be overridden. Otherwise, half of the Manhattan Project scientists and all of the Operation Paperclip scientists would never have produced their nukes and rockets.
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  3456. Why? A misapprehension on when xenon would be detected in the core, then deflection of blame to the lowest guy on the totem pole, big plus if he's dead and unable to defend himself? Hell, the video itself contradicts the central assertion that xenon wasn't poisoning the core, as it's a primary fission product. It's a noble gas, so not exceptionally reactive and takes time to diffuse through the dense uranium fuel pellet, then diffuse out of the rod, into the water coolant and be detected. Obviously, one isn't cutting fuel pellets inside of an operating reactor to check xenon levels! Add in the graphite tips on the control does, which act as a moderator and were a bit part of some western prompt criticality accidents. Add in what's readily apparent to be misunderstanding of test conditions and reasons, such as one needs a certain excess of power to actually try to spin steam turbines enough to operate the circulation and cooling systems. And oddly unremarked upon, the rationale for removing control rods that are never removed - ever in the history of that reactor, plus withdrawing rods beyond their normal levels, allowing the xenon to burn off rapidly in the rapidly increasing neutron flux, depoisoning the core and allowing it to swiftly, beyond human ability to react, go prompt critical. Once the pile was at prompt critical, nothing could prevent the disaster, as control rods aren't bullets, they take time to insert and well, you're talking a millisecond or so of instantaneous hundreds of megawatts of anger. I've not reviewed his other videos, but conditionally agree and disagree on the "no hydrogen explosion" bit. There was a hydrogen explosion, an utterly unconfined one, as water hammer dismantled the reactor core and the overheating rods did allow disassociation of hydrogen from the water, which duly did explosively combust in the now open reactor building. As in, a bit less of an explosion than the resultant Hindenburg fire, after the dirigible initially exploded. A bit whoosh and it was over.
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  3457.  @brahmburgers  yep, given scorched earth was a Stalin thing. Well, scorched earth and pogroms.
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  3458.  @bettyjones113  like that document on invasion plans for Iran, waved around a club location a half hour's drive from the Iranian UN mission, the only Iranian diplomatic presence in the US...
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  3459.  @censorshipisreal3153  which is worse? Pardoning one's son or pardoning convicted seditionists that staged a violent attempt to overthrow their own government? The only thing that saved them from a treason charge is that their "QRF" didn't show up in D.C. city limits with the guns they stashed inside of a hotel room in Virginia.
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  3460. Don't forget, groceries is a brand new word for him. And apples go in the refrigerated section, his words, not mine. But, it's all because of the Biden Under the Bed. Spooking the White House enough for him to flee proudly to Florida.
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  3461.  @brontewcat sold who the gun? The accusation was made that the federal firearms dealer sold a firearm, specifically a pistol, which is federally illegal, to a minor child. Which, per all facts revealed in the case is entirely false. The FFL holder lawfully sold the village idiot a firearm, who then violated the law and the common sense that the Almighty gave to a common house brick by letting her troubled teen son have free and easy access to it - again, in violation of federal law. That's as bad as wanting to sue a firearms manufacturer for the proper function of their firearm when it's unlawfully utilized. Yet, for some odd reason, we don't see Ford motor vehicle company getting sued when pedestrians are intentionally ran down by terroristic idiots. Especially, given that despite the hyperbole, I've yet to see a firearms advertisement bragging about how many people that firearm can kill and maim. Although, I do have some heartburn over the advertisements from a marksman perspective. Want to sell me that expensive chunk of steel, one would have much better luck discussing its much greater accuracy and environmental tolerance than the tacti-cool crap currently advertised. I'm far more inclined to consider a product that's, say an AR-15 with 1 minute of angle accuracy than one advertised with a search light, radar set, photon torpedo launcher and a Volkswagon attached to its stock. The same being true for handguns. And for the next gun nut that blathers about an AR-15 in 5.56x45mm being a great hunting rifle, that individual is at great risk of having a magazine shoved up their butt sideways and secured with a sand encrusted eggplant. It was a varmint round, it still is a varmint round and it'll always be a varmint round. Oh, just to be pedantic, swords are also lawfully considered arms. So are spears, archery weapons, well, weapons in general. More worriesome is, the school was well aware that the teen was troubled and was powerless to get the minor child help in the face of a criminally negligent parent. That's something easily addressed, as every other form of abuse currently can be legally addressed. But first, we have to get off of our fat, lazy collective asses and make mental health care of greater importance than dentistry, which itself is treated as inferior to cosmetic surgery! Seriously, it's easier to get a boob job than braces, which are both infinitely easier than to find covered mental health care. I've no need of a boob job, the state capital is rife with plenty of fresh boobs and right down the street from me. No need of braces at my age. I could use a mind, mine has been blown over the last two decades...
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  3462.  @brontewcat restricted knife sales? So, those sensible countries have outlawed food preparation? Germany must be really upset, given they sell some of the highest quality cutlery in the world! And a few of those ever so sensible countries still allow hunting of wild game - requiring the use of a suppressor on the hunters rifles. I could mention the Swiss and their arms controls, but that'd take a fair sized book to factually cover the subject. Still, we're talking about the occasionally United States, where citizens are allowed all manner of firearms, ostensibly to be able to overthrow M1 Abrams tanks or something. And a nation with no mental health care system to speak of. But, to mitigate those factors, we do have a societal embrasure of violence as a means of conflict resolution.
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  3463.  @brontewcat I actually own a pair of switchblades. Military related, now retired, but bought them, they're mine unless the government wants to name an acceptable price to acquire them and well, if I can locate the things. Useful tools, switchblades are banned by many for being dangerous, which they are - to the bearer. Today, I lug around a small pocket knife that has a spring assist, as frequently, I run flat out of hands to open a knife and otherwise, I'd be forced to lug around a fixed blade of greater length. See the balance there? Same balance when I mentioned a National Firearms Act item - a suppressor. In a number of European nations, a suppressor is desired to not disturb residents during hunting season, not banned in the US, they are NFA weapons. Now, I've had my share of Rambo style idiot knives, got seriously tired of getting jabbed in the hip or losing mobility when mounted near my chest, went with a saner US Air Force aviation survival knife for the majority of my military career. Civilian life, I have my assisted opening 2 1/2 inch knife that's around 6 and 1/3 centimeters. Does its jobs, enough said. Now, is that a weapon? A hammer is a weapon, when used as such, as is a common screwdriver. People have been hitting one another over the head with the latest rock replacement since people were mistakenly invented. Now, let's go back to firearms control, which is lacking in the US and needlessly so. First, take the idiot's brigade out of the picture. All semiautomatic firearms derived from military service rifles go under a new chapter of the NFA. Shy of machine guns, lower than suppressors (yeah, there's a legal threshold in the US practical law, as states have input beyond the NFA). Handguns, I'm shit out of luck figuring out, due to Heller vs D.C.. Here's the fun of it, occasionally, I do hunt, using typically either a 30-30 lever action or a 45-70 lever action. I also compete with an AR-15, frequently enough against active military and also compete in M1911 tournaments. And thoroughly hate gun nuts, who prefer "victory via superior volume of fire" idiocy and go beyond hatred of those who think that they can lawfully overthrow their government with their toy vs MLRS, artillery, bombers, tanks and royally pissed off infantry. But, we've also have a rather confounding legal landscape. That whole second amendment being key to governmental function in a national emergency and citizens rights. Idiots fixate upon militia, never following laws, critical being the various militia acts, upon which the conscription system is rooted upon. Military aged men (now, women are admitted, due to legislation), who are fit mind and body, can be conscripted into military service nationwide and are classified as unorganized militia. That's every able bodied male, typically between the ages of 17 - 45, now adding women (formerly, only women in the National Guard, aka Organized Militia). I'm big on law, I've lived under lawless conditions during deployment, ain't fun at all. I'm also big on commonsense, which alas, is an endangered species, courtesy of my national fixation on quick fixes, rather than permanent fixes. I do however, personally advocate for the concealed carry of 105 - 155 mm howitzers. With one exception, Atomic Annie is also allowed, despite being of a higher caliber. Look up the weights and sizes to get the humor. Had a concealed carry permit, long ago, still have the card for it. One night, as I was cleaning, yet again, my M1911 pistol (yeah, I have a decided preference there), I considered how sporting an armed criminal would have to be, to allow me to equalize the odds by lugging my own out. Stopped lugging around that pig iron the next day. Guns, like hammers and saws are tools, to be used for good or ill. How often do you lug around a hammer or saw? And I live in an "open carry state", where very few bother, see the hammer and saw argument... Here, we've got an obvious parental neglect case, initially viewing things opposite, well, suggest it to say, I'd happily beat both parents to death with their own livers. We've got a massive, glaring hole in our mental health non-care system. As a result, we've got a massive number of mentally injured children, teachers, staff and some dead. All because Ronnie Raygun defunded mental health care and funded vaporware of Star Wars. If there's a hell, I hope to be allowed the privilege of shoveling coal onto Ronnie. I've other reasons, but they're classified... So, I'm not against your views, just tempering them based upon prevailing law and that beyond diamond hard Constitution.
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  3464. You forgot the golf courses and signs saying "whites only".
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  3465.  @JoMARKESE-o1x  very well, this way to the back parapets of Masada, have a wonderful flight.
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  3466. Most EMT-P rigs still carry it in the drug bag, it's necessary in some cases, especially some cardiac cases. Personally, had it and honestly, I loathe opiates and opioids, I get a massive MAST cell dump, dropping my BP, congesting me and making me feel far worse.
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  3467. Sticky pages from sticky fingers.
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  3468. That's a bogus headline. Man arrested for the felonious offense of exercise his first amendment rights. They could've gone with aggravated battery for being drunk and the chokehold, but they chose the ridiculous approach and bodily autonomy and the Constitution no longer exist. But, I do wonder, if the kid reported to the resource officer that the father said that he's the devil, would they call out the National Guard? Glad I avoided moving to that state, dodge an insanity bullet there! Sounds like their governments are seriously overfunded.
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  3469. Usually, in fixed wing aircraft, an emergency is something one can first take time out to wind their watch. This was more like rotary wing, where split second correct responses are critical. Which typically only occur at low altitude in both cases. Makes sense, as one cannot crash into the air, but one can crash into the ground or water. Many years ago, I got fooled briefly by a false horizon. Instruments conflicted with my vision and common sense prevailed and I relied on instruments and halted a hard climb before there was a problem. To this day, I'll trust instruments over my senses, save if oh, the great wide world is about to smack me in the face and instruments say otherwise, then I'll go for getting the world out of my view and sky prominent in my view, then figure out whatinhell is wrong with my otherwise more reliable instruments.
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  3470. I noticed a long time ago, if I diluted soda even up to 50% by volume with water, I really couldn't easily tell the difference between the diluted and straight, other than by viscosity. OK, at nearing the 50% point, it did grow more tolerably sweet. I'll stick to having my water without sugar, flavoring crap or carbonic acid. Largely, straight from the tap, as the city's nice enough to filter and treat it. And before someone complains that they want chemical free water, drinking a vacuum is bad for the GI tract, as water's also a chemical. Yeah, I've heard that drivel of a complain before, telling me simply, I'm speaking with an idiot who is seeking a new village.
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  3471. What I never figured out with Chernobyl, how in hell does an operator miss going into an iodine pit situation?! Went from full production power to low power, nearly shut down, then tried to ramp it back up and reactions didn't increase is a Jolly Green Giant thumbprint. TMI did impact human factors engineering, especially hiding important indicators on the opposite side of a console. For once, a safety change that wasn't written in blood! Oh, from the original book, there was another winner, discussing how these type of reactors melt down, but "breeder reactors blow up", something beyond laughable and nearly made me toss the book without finishing it. It was so factually concise, I've forgotten most of the book, save the BS about breeders blowing up... The saddest sight I ever saw was from TMI and later, Fukushima's cores, from a wonder of precision engineering, they became a Greek tragedy. Especially Fukushima, as concrete is alkaline and the chemistry did horrific things to the metallic components! Shot while running away was an actual thing in the '60's and early '70's. Especially black males, survivors being asked why they ran, "I was afraid of getting shot!", so shot while trying to escape - despite not being armed, dangerous, just "cops too lazy to run" turning into the political mess. There was a big to-do about it, eventually it went from glorifying a sheriff with a .44 magnum built into his dashboard and through the engine compartment to kill "escaping criminals" to something closer to what we have today. But, if dealing with a terrorist, the converse remains, as the absolute last option is to allow the SOB to push any buttons.
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  3472. He's totally right! That's why Patton lost WWII. Lacking air superiority, the Germans overcame the Allies during the Battle of the Bulge, slaughtering all of the allies and shortly after, nuked New York city. Oh wait, despite no air superiority, tanks did cover the day with infantry cover. Survivability onion, I'm reminded of an M1 Abrams that was killed by a newer model RPG that made one big sensation in Iraq. One shot, right between the idlers, penetrated the hull, entered the crew compartment, the jet grazing the loader, killing the tank by the jet hitting the "brain box". They junked the tank, not due to critical damage, the CPU box could've been replaced, but to dismantle the hull to analyze the failure and damage done by the new model warhead. A good movie illustrating tanks penetrated and remaining in use was the film T-34. When asking anyone about combat and warfare in general, pretty much the absolute last person in the universe that I'd ask is Elon Musk. He's got zero military training, zero military experience, but somehow is an expert in warfare? He's invented nothing whatsoever, codeveloped one website, "earned" his fortune by inheriting an emerald mine, bought everything else and hired experts in those fields to develop things, but did precisely what Liberace did - be mediocre in everything, save being a showman. Might as well also ask for treatment advice for my Crohn's disease, which is also something he's got no training or experience with - or maybe DIY brain surgery. I can kill a tank in a number of ways, such as a mobility kill - damage the drive enough that the tank can't move. Now, it's a bunker that's well, not as strong as a bunker. I can firepower kill a tank - damage optics, gun, loading system or ammunition storage enough to prevent utilization of the weapon(s), it's a huge metal box now, can use it to ferry supplies on top and inside, the weapons are useless. I can k kill, a wee bit harder on anything not Russian, as Russia insists on putting the blammo inside of the hull with the crews - any major hit that puts thunder, fire and brimstone inside with the blammo and blam! The hatches turn into flaming jets, might lift the turret off, the crew is decently cremated instantly, the tank is now junk. Anything less and one can kill the entire crew and scoop out the cremains and shreds, minor repairs and the tank is back in business.
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  3473.  @Benny_512  when a prosecutor is ordered by the court to not present any evidence and the court refuses to hear anything from the prosecution, that's judicial misconduct. Something Russians are used to, but is not allowed in the United States of America. BennyBot. You really suck at your job, you know.
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  3474.  @SaraShockley  because the appellate court would be even more armed against her than they already are and the Special Prosecutor armed them with a howitzer, as Special Prosecutors have existed legally since Grant was POTUS. So, either every other administration has been unconstitutional or she's as wrong as the sun rising in the west.
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  3475.  @selftaopath  because he worships his god-king, emperor wannabe Trump dutifully.
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  3476. Well, a laser printer is an LED printer, as the laser is in its heart an LED in that case. But then, I remember the earliest laser printer, which used a HeNe laser. But yeah, I remember when Okidata introduced their LED printer and there were no other LED printers on the market. I went with a Panasonic laser, as it printed text at 22 pages per minute, which was blazing for a department level printer. No toner cartridges, it got toner dumped into a hopper by the bottle. Much later, got a Samsung color laser printer, excellent quality, didn't jam much, overall fairly reliable, but it was an personal office level printer. I tend to prefer department level printers, much higher toner capacity. And yeah, my home network is an enterprise level affair. To the point where, if I go on vacation and go away, the electric company wants to change my meter.
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  3477. No, the innocent also have plead the 5th, a fine example of many who refused to answer McCarthy's "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party". Hell, people were blacklisted just for talking bad about the bastard.
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  3478. If only lousy golfing and lying were crimes. Just as well, I'd be up for felony golfing, as I'm really lousy with a golfball bat.
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  3479.  @mehere8038  the real point is, once convicted of a felony, the individual is ineligible for federal office. Not accused, convicted. That whole innocent until proved guilty by a jury of one's peers in a court of law, as that Constitution thingie says.
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  3480.  @michaelc821  if workers engaged in a nationwide general strike, they'd really screw them up hard. Congressional private lines would be ablaze with pissed off campaign contributors demanding something be done about the entwined emperor wannabes.
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  3481. Nope, obviously he was a Whig. Hey, just as stupid, save my response is intentionally hyperbolic.
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  3482.  @sarah2.017  which would've been both an exile, which is unconstitutional and a literal death sentence. And the doctor who was the interviewee was the one Trump was speaking of. Didn't vote for Trump ever, wouldn't even vote for him as a dog catcher.
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  3483. The absurdity being, when I worked at a warranty service center, those stickers weren't available. So, how can the manufacturer tell if it was a warranty center or customer that opened the unit?
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  3484.  @chadmarsh5356  what legend? "Nothing succeeds like excess"?
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  3485.  Jason King  I don't recall any other nation calling their naval forces SEAL. UK and commonwealth have SBS and SAS, as examples. Can't recall what Singapore calls their version. Is memory the first or the second thing to go? I forget...
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  3486.  Jason King  true, frankly, I think the only nation not involved at Normandy was Japan, who had other problems at the time. ;) I honestly can't think of any Allied power not present on those beaches, which was good, as overall, the more help the better! Stupid at the time, not moving destroyers other fire support platforms into range to slam the prepared artillery positions and minefields in advance and until annoyingly late in the initial invasion. But then, that's with the 20/20 perfect hindsight vision. ;) Would that I had such hindsight before we began some of our operations! Alas, that would violate causality and well, likely would break the universe or something.
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  3487.  Jason King  indeed! About the only European, North American or Commonwealth nation was represented, save Russia, who was a bit busy with problems on their front. Without all of those magnificent maniacs, WWII would have ended far differently! That part of the campaign reminds me of a factual joke about my walk to the local store, where due to being in a small mountainous area, I walk between heights of both sides of a saddle - uphill, both ways. ;) The Germans built a set of defenses in depth, breach one, there's another behind it, all to slow advances enough for reinforcements to arrive. Thankfully, the reinforcements were largely withheld, due to Hitler and his high command buying the massive Allied disinformation campaign, which allowed a sufficient beachhead to be built up, so that all of the Allies could continue the party! As I recall, the King of England wanted to be aboard one of the fleet ships, Churchill discouraged that by stating if the King was there, he'd also have to be there.
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  3488.  @ronlackey2689  didn't hear about that one, but it does make sense. It'd work, at the cost of shooting the CEP straight to hell, but at that size projectile, one has no need to apologize.
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  3489. There were a number of personnel from the Manhattan Project that had detectable amounts of plutonium in their urine for the remainder of their lives, amazingly, dying largely of old age. There's another lost warhead off the coast at Cape May, NJ. When the explosives detonated in Spain, the tamper should've also been burned and ejected, it's made of depleted uranium and is the final fission stage, right after the fusion stage liberates tons of neutrons, providing the majority of the actual yield of the device. The tamper being replaced with aluminum (or at one point, lead), sacrificing explosive yield in favor of a blast of neutrons, aka a neutron bomb.
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  3490. And maybe get pennies on the dollar in 20 - 30 years of court games. That's a long time to wait between meals. And at the end of the day, as a law professor once said, "You can sue a ham sandwich, don't mean that you'll get anything".
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  3491.  @bikechainmic  huh, sounds a lot like my last car...
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  3492.  @liberoarkangelos9475  well, I did take the family station wagon up a tank trail once. Was the only good route to a specific entrance onto the Appalachian trail. Fortunately, I knew that tank trail well from military duties. Otherwise, the car would've turned into a trail of spare, deformed parts. Suffice it to say, not a recommended thing. The right vehicle for the specific environment.
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  3493.  @ArkadiBolschek  not only the front, the entire bow. Ow! Hey now, if you're gonna hit me with a wet trout, at least leave it behind so I can cook it for dinner! ;) I'll just get my coat...
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  3494. I've always questioned the wisdom Putin isn't exercising in formenting unrest in such a heavily nuclear armed nation and the inevitable results in the end. Maybe someone should clue him in, gamma radiation will not give him superpowers.
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  3495. Actually, the suggested revision of when death occurs would be quite, ahem, entertainingly aromatic. Given that neuron activity has been detected a week after death has occurred. @angelmendez-rivera351, the problem actually is that a very loud and threatening minority has hijacked the political machinery of our failing, due to their phenomenal efforts, nation. And I say threatening, as in far too frequently, these religious maniacs will bring guns into the discussion - assuming that the rest of us aren't firearm owners and combat veterans. Yeah, had such discussions and suffice it to say, they're paper tigers, talk and bluster, but when the bluff is called, are conspicuous by their sudden absence. Especially when in person and I flop my military retiree ID card down.
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  3496.  @jeffreyt991  if I lived there, their department would have survivability problems until the survivors learned how to be loyal to one another and the populace. What in the screaming fuck that any officer goes missing unnoticed?! And yeah, interacting with the policed populace is unlikely to be correct in any way imaginable. Jesus Christ, it's enough to make me consider taking up day drinking. To the department, you went home while one of your own was absent and unnoticed, I can never forgive that at all. Or trust you in any way whatsoever again. And I was a neighbor, take care of your own and your populace for a fucking change. The wreckage, it just made me want to puke, a wreckage field would've been preferred, that shows controlled flight into terrain due to shit training. Everyone and everything needs to have an instrument rating. And available goofy goggles but not whatever, the fucking things were in the closet. I trained my guys, despite command resistance in using the damned things. The commander, as much as I loathe it, should've lost retirement for due cause. Not due to the crash alone, but not knowing whereinhell his people weren't. And not requiring instrument rating in spades. That bird's planting just broke my heart. God job, Mover on getting that additional information, you honored those lost souls big time. You moved up big time in this old top shirt's books. And as you said, land and live, dammit. For some naysayers on the department, you tolerate them, you earned them, otherwise you'd enforce a superior replacement, do shut the fuck up. I never did consider employment with the state department. Bossier Parish was my digs for a while, did other areas as well, came back to PA due to familial obligations. BTW, I also produce ethanol on fasting, it's called Auto-brewery syndrome. Goes with my Crohn's. And enough gas to play the 1812 Overture, complete with artillery. BRPD, what in the actual fuck, over? Balls on a pike should've been demanded.
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  3497. And you've been with the intelligence community for how many years?
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  3498.  @keshinko  and they justify their viewpoints with citations of facts. That whole training and experience thing. If my blood pressure is high, my waitress’ opinion isn’t worth much, doctor’s is. You’d go with the waitress.
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  3499. @rhamlet5290 nah, send both to Soylent Green. More easily stored.
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  3500. Well, usually kids replace us, save in Alabama, where the birth rate will plummet. The GOP, leading themselves into extinction, like the kung fu dodos.
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  3501. Dual tone horns were largely abandoned in the UK due to PTSD from survivors of WW2. Odd news tidbit I remember from the late '60's - early '70's.
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  3502. I'd happily go to jail for him - to visit and laugh at him.
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  3503.  @shellygasiorowski2707  nah, he's just employee #1 for Satan.
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  3504.  @FurbyParade226  well, liberals are infamous for not running around with guns, hell, most don't even own a firearm. This specimen though, he's unique. Went to Ukraine to fight, was rejected, despite rather desperate conditions. Then, tries to recruit Afghans to fight in Ukraine, without clearing it with the Ukrainian government or having even transportation for them. Total nanu-nanu.
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  3505. Compared to censoring during time of emergency, such as the Civil War and both World Wars?
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  3506.  @bikersoncall  nope, but the folks at DHS are likely laughing at you, as my despisal of DHS is well known.
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  3507.  @bikersoncall  actually, I'm retired US Army. Never worked for DHS and am far from an admirer of an organization that reinvents the wheel with weird color codes in place of security domains that the entirety of the government uses or color codes days. They're basically, the biggest waste of tax dollars in a generation.
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  3508.  @thebiowatchlist  talk about mistargeting! Both get campaign contributions from the same infinite depth superpacs. If I'm Richie Rich, I'd contribute to both to ensure my will be done. First lesson in counterterrorism, think as they do. No resources, plenty of humans, in their case, go on the cheap via religion, in real politics, go money.
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  3509.  @user-ki4ox5bt7n  Ruskie bot, here to stir the pot.
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  3510. Nah, it was Rama.
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  3511. He'll declare protests an insurrection, giving an excuse for martial law. Just stay home. Hard to claim one's engaging in an insurrection inside of one's own living room.
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  3512.  @GaryNumeroUno  well, perhaps it just wasn't all that punny. I'll just get my coat...
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  3513. Odd that you'd crop out his time travel. "We had to go back to 1798", as if the law didn't exist until he jumped into the time machine and enacted the law by himself, rather than it's been there since that time and we don't use it because it doesn't fit with oh, reality. That whole no invading army, which are noted for you know, being an actual army and armed thing not going on. But, apparently, he'll happily incarcerated and execute infants - per what he has repeatedly stated. And actually, my father had some behavioral issues that I raised with doctor. Testing revealed him to be suffering from vascular dementia, which progresses far more rapidly, in a stair step progression, than most other dementia forms. As for the Arnold Palmer bit, I dunno, maybe Trump's thinking of coming out of the closet? That's basically the only reason I can think of for an ostensibly cis male to have such a fascination for the genitals of another man. Not that that's any of my damned business though. Or his diaper's too tight and cutting off circulation to the brain. Or more likely, urinary tract infection, which can also give very similar symptoms in elders with dementia.
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  3514.  @christianglassel9950  they certainly do product phenomenal amounts of vaporware.
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  3515. I have a hard time considering someone who wishes to remove the rule of law in the land in favor of rule of the prison thug. Therein lies the seeds of pure anarchy in a nuclear armed nation. In that lie the seeds of joining the dinosaurs in extinction.
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  3516. I suspect he's trying for a dementia defense, "Not guilty by reason of dementia", then he'd head off to an island resort and laugh. What'll more likely happen, well, Trump tends to get off because his flunkies get the heat, the flunkies get to go to prison. So, he'll be getting to meet his new fiancee, Bubba.
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  3517. As one who has sat on multiple juries over the decades, yes, we watched *everyone*, even the jurist and staff. There were times that such observations were discussed in the jury room and such observations were telling in the extreme. And for those who criticize my attending jury duty, I'm an old retired soldier, I've an especially sensitive and fine sense of duty. One doesn't have to enjoy it, one doesn't have to like it, one does have to perform said duty so that others won't have to and it's your turn. How could I shirk that duty and look my men in the eye and assign them to life threatening duties when it was their turn? It would be interesting to see how Trump would try to play being jailed for contempt though, he may think it's a winning play, but it's a brown, smelly card to try to play and jokers may be wild, but they're not brown and smelly.
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  3518.  @mypointofview1111  given that all data is online and available by publicly accessible trackers, you have no valid point of complaint. Or do you still have mommy cut your food up for you and feed it to you? Do you own damned homework and look for peer reviewed studies and trackers that are available to the public and are used by the political leadership worldwide!
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  3519.  @MarthaJones-v5p  I dunno, I'm highly biased against the rat race.
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  3520.  @jmdec20  give it time, Trump's defenses age quite well, like fine milk sitting in the summer sun.
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  3521.  @Eastcoastbeachgirl  just check on a regular basis that you remain registered to vote. That's long been one of the GOP's tricks, voter registration purges.
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  3522.  @the420golfshow5  it's called crime and punishment. Violate the law, get punished. Violate a judge's orders, get punished. The alternative is anarchy, no laws, no penalties, infinite amounts of crime. At least, that's the theory and pretty much what happens when there is no government in place.
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  3523.  @siswohlslagel8919  show me him levying war against the United States, which requires the taking up of arms against the government.
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  3524. Interesting how many Ruskies are commenting on this story, well largely commenting to comments. Can't wait for a frank exchange of views with cobalt-60.
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  3525.  @grimwhitefang9247  live off the land, when the legion's supplies are nearby? ;) On the way out, a few claymores on tripwires to thin the herd down a bit. The biggest screwup this guy made is, Marines avoid open areas as much as is humanly possible, as does Army infantry. Once in the woodline, you're gonna have a tough row to hoe for sure. Claymores to channelize movement into kill zones, ambushes with interlocking fields of fire and overall pissed off at the insult of such amateurs coming after them would really, really ruin their weekend plans forever.
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  3526.  @grimwhitefang9247  we actually did that during one field problem, the infantry we were opposing had a hot meal, so a diversionary attack got them running from camp and we swooped in and ate their hot meal. They returned and it literally turned into a donnybrook. The evaluators were laughing their asses off.
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  3527. Not really, we used similar in some explosive demolitions situations, both for demolition craters to dispose of explosives and for field demolitions, to both warn of hazard on site and to warn neighbors that a rude noise was about to occur. For the disposal range, we'd also have it scheduled, so people would know around the time it would happen what was coming, the siren just notifying that boom was about to occur. No complaints about it.
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  3528. Not even going to see a potential trial for a decade now. And if he wins the election, the cases will be dismissed and the god-emperor of the New Religious State of the West will begin.
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  3529. OK, military that's deployed is now no longer allowed to vote, who's gonna defend a nation that denies them such a fundamental right?
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  3530. Too rapid an introduction of sodium chloride in chronic hyponatremia can result in the patient suffering from locked in syndrome. They'll be conscious and able to receive sensory input, but are incapable of reacting to that stimuli, not only hands and legs, but even face, respiratory or vocally. As soon as I heard the dosage of 3% NaCl, I knew precisely where this one was going to end up at.
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  3531. Total democracy, totally a great idea! Why, the vote whether to declare war on Japan for Pearl Harbor would likely finally be completed this year.
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  3532. Love that cigar lighter as well! Oh, an odd DIP campaign about the Francis Scott Key bridge. Amongst odd allegations to justify non-expenditure on the mess, claims that the crane and cleanup crew aren't being government funded (the US Army Corps of Engineers apparently not part of our government or something). Also, odd mistargeting errors on antisocial media, such as a story about Elon Musk suing researchers attracted pro-Trump bots as a working group to astroturf with random pro-Trump comments and well, he obviously wasn't part of the news story. Weird inefficiency on that debacle, someone's gonna get defenestrated.
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  3533.  @oldschoolzone5711  erm, who was paid oddly capitalized millions? The White House or the press? So, was Harry Truman also liable for threatening a reporter for insulting his daughter, a minor child? Back when we had a civilized society, leaders families were sacrosanct, now they're a terrorist's target of opportunity. Be happy, if I were in that office and some asswipe came after my family, what I'd do would be equally uncivilized, involve an edged weapon and quite lethal. At a certain point, office and father become quite distinctly different, with entirely different duties.
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  3534.  @RobertoTehJon  because, even if the death rate doubles, that's good for society by having less workers and taxpayers, right?
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  3535. The morphine in the urine is quite low as well, as in poppyseed roll consumption could easily account for its presence. You didn't cover one additional probable factor in the fentanyl level in his blood, tolerance from repeated usage. I had to look up the levels, as you did, that likely was right in his dosage profile, so obviously wouldn't have been a major contributing factor in his death. If memory serves, fentanyl has a lower respiratory depression curve than most other opioids and opiates. Frankly, I can't tolerate the entire class well, get heavy congestion when my mast cells dump from the opiates or opioids. BP stays OK, but I still feel miserable as hell. Thanks for the excellent presentation! Tomorrow, I get to break in my new doctor. It should be fun all around. :)
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  3536.  @drmayeda1930  no, more like putting Andrew Jackson on the Cherokee Tribal Council. You know, the one that sent them on the Trail of Tears, directly against a decision for the Cherokee by the SCOTUS.
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  3537.  @jwenting  it'd show up, as he has to be licensed to perform his duties and that much does get reported and detected during renewal. Not quite as bad as the requirements for a Q clearance, but it's up there, due to the risk of diversion or misuse of radiological sources.
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  3538. It's a logical progression. After all, we've had mobile antiship mines for years. During WWII, the Soviets tried anti-tank dog mines. Yes, dogs wearing mines. That one wasn't pretty. Soviets trained the dogs using Soviet diesel fueled tanks, training the dog to seek shelter under a tank and it wearing a mine that would detonate when going under a tank. Germans used gasoline fueled tanks, so the difference in smell confused the dogs. Worse, getting shot at and explosions disoriented the dogs, so some returned to friendly trenches - detonating after jumping into the trench. The Germans examined a few of the mines and animals and turned them into another propaganda event, but knew it was an act of desperation in the early part of the war. The Germans had their turn to become desperate though, when they couldn't enter multiple major cities and the entire campaign got bogged down by intense fighting and mud. Winter then thinned the herd to manageable levels, frustrating both sides into a bloody bloodletting match until the rest of the Allies finally began the D-day invasion.
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  3539.  @kingspeechless1607  I had worse. A pager and my phone would ring before the alert sirens went off. With the privileges of being military comes the duties associated with one's career choice.
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  3540. Just remind Texans how they shivered in the cold and dark while he and his family vacationed in Mexico. And how he laid on his back to take it while Trump insulted his wife, a real putana he is.
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  3541. Obviously, we're now supposed to deport Mexicans from Mexico or something. And operational brains from all US citizens skulls...
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  3542.  @KenneJ-bu7rr  can't deport a US citizen. Why would you want to use Trump's play book?
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  3543. People hate giving up their religion and god.
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  3544. OK, we'll ban all first aid classes until kids turn 21. I'm sure the Boy and Girl Scouts will be thrilled.
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  3545. Did my basic in '82 at Dix, rifles were worn out, one in my platoon had the ancient split flash suppressor and actual Mattel fore grips. Rarely needed more than a slight jarring if something hung up, even in the sandbox.
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  3546. Well, there can be a USS Donald J. Trump. It'd be an obsolete battleship, equipped with blank firing guns, constructed entirely out of lead. I am to get a vessel named after me, a balsa wood dingy named the USS Boobyprize. It's also to be equipped with vents along the keel line. Oh, notable is, Doris didn't even know how to work the gun he was firing, but still plastered some airplanes. That's actually one hell of an accomplishment! Hitting aircraft is anything but easy, it's damned near impossible, which is why our guns are radar guided and computerized.
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  3547.  @moonwatche99  well, Donald Trump is a man who was born ignorant and has been losing ground ever since.
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  3548. I dunno, is orange the NY prison uniform? Never did bother to track which state has what prison uniform.
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  3549. I look at it this way, the egg shortage will end quite soon, given the sheer volume of eggs he's laying in court.
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  3550. Well, therein lies their problem. An election where everbody no's. No Trump, go with Biden, for at least Biden is sane and isn't quoting Hitler incessantly.
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  3551. Let's see, no food stamps, that consigns 12.6% of the US population to starvation. That'll prove popular with the heaviest armed populace on the planet. Once the MAGAts see their children start to starve, they'll prove a bit intractable and quite vicious. I wonder if Musk could make it to the airfield safely? Meanwhile, migrant workers would be gone, food rotting in farm fields, borders closed spitefully, shutting that source of food down as well. That sets off the cities. Now, nuclear armed nations view the US in flames, questions begin to arise as to who will end up controlling our nuclear forces and one or more will preemptively strike to neutralize the danger to themselves. The missiles pass one another in suborbital trajectories and civilization as we understand it ends in a series of brilliant flashes of light. Won't matter much if Trump made it to the mobile command post aircraft (Air Force One isn't used in a nuclear scenario, there's a special aircraft just for usage in a nuclear war), as he'd literally have nowhere to land. Life would survive, humanity would survive at much lower numbers, technology largely obliterated, a few years of nuclear winter and survivors claw their way through to survive, the superpowers no longer existing. I'll not care much, as I'm effectively at ground zero in an area ringed with military depots, so I'll just be a bad odor in the air. Think that's far fetched? It's not. We're talking about at least 1/3 of the US suddenly becoming homeless, 12.6% watching their children starve and we are the most heavily armed population on the planet. Once the nukes are thought to be up for grabs, nuclear powers will universally feel at risk and a preemptive strike will become inevitable, our reply inevitable and nearly automatic, missile retargetting occurring literally in mere minutes. Those plans are quite comprehensive and it's a hell of a lot more than "nuke Russia" or "nuke China", as in a literal book of various options for every nuclear armed nation as a target, because that's one thing that the military does - plan for being attacked and attacking/counterattacking. Survivors will essentially be back in the stone age, fortunate ones in the bronze age, as steel working is too modernized now to fall back technologically to any degree of iron age for quite some time. Family sizes will snowball, figure 5 - 10 children so that two can survive to adulthood, just as it was only two centuries and less ago. Disease and accidents claiming most in childhood. Starlink won't be worth much, the EMP's claiming those satellites early on via the artificial radiation belts created by the devices.
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  3552. Well, two different authorities were asked, three technically. State, FBI/DOJ and military. And well, there was no national security threat in 1938, during the Martian invasion either. Tons of eyewitnesses called in on that as well.
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  3553. Actually, airmen is used to refer to all USAF military service members, not only pilots. No sexual determinism there, but man/men referring essentially in mankind and when speaking of the species, one typically won't refer to womankind. Save when one's dealing with a medical issue that involves hormones or reproductive organs or mutual off duty private activities, that matter really shouldn't come up in civilized company. But then, I'm just an aging US Boomer, trailing edge Boomer. Just as "race" or ethnicity usually isn't something I consider, save for some cultural subjects or medical, such as if I'm preparing fava beans, specific groups would not usually be blindly given them, as in certain ethnic groups, there's a genetic predisposition for favism. Now, what was a fine meal dissolves their red blood cells and they're hospitalized in dire condition. Entertainingly, I'm of an ethnic group where favism may occur, but I don't have that enzyme deficiency and quite happily enjoy fava beans. Note how vanishingly rare such needs are? I use quotes on race, as there are only two races in my humble view on this planet. The human race and the rat race, not too fond of the latter due to their destructiveness to human foods, homes and a few diseases they may carry. Not too fond of the human race at times either, due to boorish, violent behavior. Usually the only time humans behave is during and after a disaster, but it seems that issue is being worked on in a deleterious manner of late... Can't we all just get along? Or are you all going to make me pull my finger?! ;)
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  3554.  @Progressive_Canadian  no, to me, I don't give a tinkerer's damn what organs one possesses. Is the individual competent in their duties? Are they physically capable of performing those duties or do they need to be reassigned to duties that they can perform? Those matter, not which organs dangle or not. I actually do know how to fly certain aircraft. I'm also medically unable to do so, so I'd have to be reassigned to duties that I could perform, rather than try to fly the damned thing and turn it into a drill when my aorta exploded. Anyone capable, competent and fit to fly, don't care if they can't reproduce, won't reproduce, reproduce by binary fission or budding, as long as they're fit to task and duty and competent. I've served under male officers and female officers, what I paid attention to was their position and rank, not which specific sets of organs that they had. They were colonel or general, not a label indicating sex. And a bit of trivia, unlike the civilian world, their base pay was the same, plus longevity pay.
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  3555. Well, given that Trump thinks that Puerto Rico is a foreign country and not a US territory, yeah, understandable. Hate to think what he thinks American Samoa is!
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  3556. Noise is part of the human model, current AI's are well, as I've frequently said, Artificial Idiocy.
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  3557. Astroturfing does not convert people, it turns them off. So, do a veteran a favor and stay off of our side if you're going to behave this way.
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  3558.  @scriptles  so, it'd be a democracy under your definition if say, the former candidate choked to death on a cow femur and obviously wasn't eligible for the ballot and no other candidate is available save their opponent? It's then still a democracy for those now disenfranchised because their party no longer has a candidate? You spent considerable time typing up that drivel, but entirely none thinking other permutations through. Because, under your suggested system, we'd be Russia, where candidates can disappear on mythical charges, "fall out of a window" or all other manner of mayhem, but it's a single candidate democratic election. Meanwhile, you omitted one part. The voter still has a ballot if a candidate is replaced and can vote for whomever they please. But, giving voters even that level of choice after losing a candidate is not democratic and foolish. Got ya.
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  3559.  @HawksDiesel  totally applicable, given he isn't NYPD.
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  3560.  @victoriawalsh3243  laws do not and cannot suborn the Constitution and the rights protected and enshrined within her. Otherwise, Pennsylvania can strip the citizenship of everyone in Tennessee by simply passing a law, US Constitution be damned and it just doesn't work that way. What would've been proper is to refuse the Real ID, renew his operator's license, as he had other states licenses and faith and credit is granted under the federal Constitution and let whatever snafu get fixed. Not revoke an operator's license because they don't approve of veterans or something.
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  3561. Elon, first Rezident of the Lincoln bedroom.
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  3562. So should Flomax and even prostate examinations and PSA tests. After all, cancer is an inalienable right and God's will or something. Now, put that burka on! The Taliban won the war.
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  3563. Part of the problem is implementation. When you buy that car and dog, get a cart dog to tow the car for you.
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  3564. Given that obesity and hypertension were also part of the group, type 2 diabetes is essentially a given.
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  3565. Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the defense countering the court's finding that there was a threat of arrest, isn't that attorney calling the court a liar? This is how the trust of our courts is undermined, rendering such a threat to our entire system of justice, both civil and criminal. So, what else will the sheriff threaten arrest for, perhaps political speech? Are the rights to a fair and speedy trial or right to an attorney also be suppressed? Frankly, he'd get the door slammed in his face. Forced entry, as exigent conditions do not exist, would simply be a matter of home invasion by an armed intruder intending harm. Evidence is not going to be destroyed and words are not nuclear warheads. Now, the case law is mixed on suppression of rights in a national emergency, but in that, the courts did state emphatically that the emergency must be dire enough that the republic itself is in danger. COVID isn't that type of danger and we're fresh out of civil and world wars.
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  3566. One upside of all of these Trump cases. Given the sheer volume of eggs he's laying, our nationwide egg shortage will end early.
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  3567. Oh, want to really have fun with Trump, mention his catch and release that's ongoing, then ask how his great war is going against Taylor Swift. Remember that one? And how it self-destructed and just disappeared while he held up a new shiny to distract the idiots? Then, allude to each of his failures by an invented "operation" name, such as "Operation Trump Vodka", "Operation Trump Steaks", etc, each of his operations given its operation name by his ever so many epic business failures... Even money, press well enough he'd throw himself on the floor and have a full on toddler meltdown tantrum. And have the GOP further undermine themselves by proclaiming that's normal adult behavior, forcing his faithful congregation to nationally throw themselves onto the ground and tantrum and end up on psych observation floors...
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  3568.  @TheWebstaff  two impeachments and the SpendIt refused to perform their duty. Oh well, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Given my disability and promises to cut the VA disability budget, I'm pretty much assured to be dead soon. Yet another fuck you for your service from an ungrateful nation.
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  3569.  @DevPythonUnity  no, we can't, as that's literally illegal for us to do, both by US law and international law that's established via ratified treaties that the US Constitution plainly states are the law of the land. We're not 1930's Germany here and we're not about to suddenly become so.
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  3570. There's only one problem with all of that gear. If you're needing all of that protection from carrying around fallout, you're walking through an intense radiation environment unprotected. Yeah, you're not contaminating your clothing or eating or breathing particulates or iodine gas, but you have no protection against hard beta, x-ray and gamma, not to mention neutrons. The crew from the Castle Bravo shot cab became trapped, due to a shift in the winds and the yield of the device unexpectedly being doubled. The ended up sheltered in place beneath around a meter of earth for around 8 hours, improvised sheets to keep the dust off of their clothing and ran to the evacuation helicopter. Around two weeks later, it was safe to walk around the atoll without protection. But, during the peak after detonation and fallout, those first 8 hours had lethal levels even within the less buried areas of the shot cab bunker. One can now safely remain on the islands exposed, but the food and water remain unsafe due to cesium-137 contamination. As for protection for me. I live around a mile from TMI, in an area ringed with military depots, within a state capitol. I'd be right in the middle of the fireball. Oh, a note of caution with potassium iodide, the Wolff-Chaikoff effect occurs when one receives a massive dose of iodine - it literally shuts off the thyroid gland, inducing instant hypothyroidism. That's great if one is in a thyroid storm, not very good if one likes remaining mobile and conscious. Dose with care and as directed. Doctor was considering using the Wolff-Chaikoff effect with me during a severe thyroid storm that nearly killed me. Fortunately, the thyroid blockers took effect quickly enough that it wasn't needed.
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  3571.  @richardmisicka2903  well, if not, an offal cell would suffice.
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  3572.  @th4759  only by the voters themselves, by voting their conscience. Which is precisely how it's supposed to be. Was the attack on the Capitol building on Jan 6 an insurrection, the planning of it sedition?
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  3573. Whatever are you going on about?! I like DonOLD. On a spit, over a low fire, turned slowly, with an apple in his mouth...
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  3574. Wow, just checked inventory. I'm flat out of fucks or shits, so can't give any. What am I to say if I hit my thumb with a hammer?! Oh yeah, "Dumbass, you ain't supposed to hold the nail that way".
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  3575.  @20chocsaday  where was that? In Qatar, had one done that, one would've gotten a bottle full of dusty water. Never could eliminate the dust there, only lower it slightly and things like pools always had dust in them that one couldn't filter out.
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  3576. Indeed, yet another Constitutional crisis, courtesy of the executive branch's malfeasance. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013300/ As an official act, he was asking Noem about her agency's misdeeds and was arrested by the Tangerine TACO Tyrant's flunkies. But, I'm nastier than arresting or suing. Rescind the entirety of the executive branch's budget for 2025 and rescind the Senate's consent for Noem's posting. What Congress giveth, Congress may taketh away.
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  3577. Instant alkaline water... CsOH, perhaps? Never forget, folks, Libertarians tell us that we don't need the FDA, as business and the free market would nip it in the bud. You know, ignore radium and thorium water and well, history.
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  3578.  @solarindependentutilitysystems  there are some new battery classes coming down the pike that make current lithium based look paltry. I suspect that shortfall will be easily made up with those, once the price approaches human affordability.
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  3579.  @JeffTheHokie  well, Sir, given his performance, demeanor and overall conduct, I would be forced to admit that very well may be true. I'd have to review his orders in order to be certain. One does get a certain leeway when one has served since the ice age... ;)
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  3580. Two factors come into play in any hypothetical space aliens receiving a signal, assuming that they're even listening. The inverse square law and the fact that space is damnably noisy. Together, at our current technological level, we'd have trouble even hearing a signal from our closest stellar neighbor, given the volume of noise out there. As for the SETI signal, remember that beam isn't a pencil beam, it will spread over distance, even as it attenuates. I figure that an alien would know to listen at their frequency, be looking in the right place and actually detecting that signal about as equal to my being able to pet a unicorn within the next five minutes. As in, you're trying to hear a whisper from 10 feet away in the middle of a rock concert and you're sitting close to the speakers. Edit: And those rock concert speakers has a name - Sol. It's shouting, we can't really even manage a whisper.
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  3581. Well, Musk does still have Neuralink, which has finally blazed a path forward and matched the level of technological mastery present in 1972 (not kidding, cartoon news break had a report on literally the same mind moving a mouse via signals from electrodes in 1972), OK, not worth that much. Ummmm, Boring company, who last bored a tunnel under a Vegas parking lot? Huh, maybe HyperLoop, who last ran a train under a certain Vegas parking lot... Yeah, he's screwed himself seven ways to Sunday, save for being firmly latched onto the US taxpayer's teat and he's killing the rest of the litter to ensure exclusive access, like any fine cuckoo would do. Yeah, mixing species, but I think we've found proof that changelings exist. I do wonder at what purpose those Cybertrucks he managed to get a contract to provide are for, perhaps monoxide vans for what's looking to be a rerun of Aktion T4? All of those eggs, only one basket... And government contracts have one clause at the end, "at the convenience of the government" to abruptly terminate said contract.
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  3582.  user-wi4zz9bp2z  it's always great when you can schedule your emergencies in advance. If you get direly ill or have a house fire, make sure you've gotten it scheduled in advance!
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  3583.  @sandyjuntunen4088  so, you'd prefer that the DoD announce to the world, enemies and all, that the SecDef is out of commission due to a medical emergency? And not announcing a deficit in our defense, however transitory, is pride. Got ya. Did you ever serve this nation?
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  3584. No, there is a segment that cares about what Herr Himmler cares about. Sorry, kid, but they are using that method.
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  3585. In one video, you can see a wave traveling backwards, likely rebound from the shock front collapse.
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  3586. Lesson learned, don't allow a fucking quarter inch thick crack in a major stress component. What was the problem with the compressor? More cracks, which was a major issue in rotors even today?
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  3587. Ignorance is bliss and potentially lethal. I don't even consider taking a new drug without reading the entire package insert. Alas, most people never had the opportunity to receive the training I signed up for.
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  3588.  @sidgarrett7247  not necessarily, a VP can then be appointed, it's not a linear chain in the line of succession. But, realistically, there's no lawful way to stop Trump from being inaugurated, any more than there was an option when Biden was inaugurated. Still, there is the hope that the disruptive choices Trump tried with cabinet positions and the resistance from both aisles will continue and mount, as blank check support would be political suicide for the GOP once the full impacts are felt. After all, the MAGAts think that all impacts will be on blue states and regions, once they realize that programs they rely upon are also getting chopped, yeah, things will get ugly for the GOP.
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  3589. Moons can and will rob a planet of its rotational velocity, causing tidal locking in the moon and slowing of rotation of the planet. More importantly, a planet would have to form and survive a red giant environment, rife with protons blasting out of the star, beta radiation and x-rays at an insane rate, as the planet slows in the cloud of the expanding planetary nebula and hence, heating even more. Life, yeah, nope, just ain't happening.
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  3590. Responsible, perhaps? Or is teaching basic first aid now evil? Frankly, without a threat of a thus far rare mass shooter or even single shooter incident, first aid should be taught in schools and not basic bandaid nonsense, but for when you are confronted with a real world serious injury. Rather than standing there gawking as someone preventably bleeds to death from what otherwise was a survivable injury.
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  3591. I just look at it this way. Musk spends $20 million a year on personal security. That ain't enough to hold off even a modest percentage of the local population.
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  3592.  @QuiteSimplyMyChoice can't wait for Putin's "health issues" to happen.
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  3593.  @jeradblazek677  OK, I'll do so again. Foreign nationals might still have a problem. But, far from Yankee White, I still managed a tour. The wife insisted.
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  3594.  @scottharrison8701  OK, you agree to suspend forever the Constitution. Got ya.
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  3595.  @Dewdrops7560  as us the House of Representatives. Invaded under god-king wannabe's insistence, attempted carjacking of a federal vehicle and afterward, silence during the literal siege.
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  3596.  @9999_IQ_Carrot  the rule of thumb with Trump is, whatever he says, he actually intends the opposite, plus a dollop of projection. Met him in person decades ago, he's shallow and he's literally the idiot you see on TV, as I met him long before unreality TV was a thing.
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  3597. Here's some help for you. Google "nox control turbine engine". Plenty of process controls for turbine engines. Guess who studied that one? The US Army.
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  3598.  @MetroidChild  not fully, regeneration via recycling hot gases can lower the soot output, downside is increased nitrogen compound exhaust. The US Army experimented with ceramic bladed compressors for energy generation via high temperature turbines with fair success, albeit with increased nitrates and nitrides exhaust. Greyhound also experimented along the same lines, with some contributions from the US Army, given a common interest in the technology. The magic trick is, run entirely sootless, one generates nitrogen pollution. And the standing joke in the field is, NASA discovered how to avoid those nitrogen pollutants - eliminate nitrogen from the air supply. A joke, because it's true, both chemically and well, NASA actually did report that finding and for those chemically challenged, 80% of our atmosphere is nitrogen. Kind of like eliminating the risk of drowning in the ocean by eliminating all of the water. Still, what floors me is, multiple scandals and massive fines later, Cummins actually tried to get away with such easily tested for fraud. And counterintuitive, diesel NOx emissions control by injecting urea, a nitrogen compound, all courtesy of catalytic processes. But, as I joke when taking my blood pressure medications, "Better living through chemistry".
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  3599.  @canislupus7463  he'd stop at Truman being a Democrat anyway, so obviously anything from that party is evil and everything from him, the god-king is good.
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  3600. Some English lessons might help. Especially, given that closed captioning was never bothered with.
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  3601.  @lilliechternacht79  Trump reminds me of the Mark 14 torpedo. Introduced during WWII, the torpedo was never actually tested as a live torpedo under operational conditions due to cost savings during the Great Depression. The torpedo was notorious for either ineffectually shattering the warhead against a target vessel's hull, alerting the Japanese to the presence of the submarine or as common, turning around and homing in on the submarine that launched it. Several of our submarines sinkings were attributed to the Mark 14 turning around on them. Just as Trump torpedoes his own defense team's efforts.
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  3602. The King can do no wrong. Insisted upon by Charles I, right up until he was beheaded. It is unknown if he changed his opinion after he was beheaded, as he was unavailable for comment.
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  3603.  @davidreed3357  yeah, insurance companies really profit big by paying for immense claims. In Trump math. The insurance companies will do what insurance companies do - do their level best to avoid the loss of paying out a claim, tying things up in court for a generation - literally. The big bucks will go where they always go, the lawyers involved. My wife asked me after jury duty once, "So, who won the case you were on?". I replied, "The lawyers". They made their fees, properly so, either way. In one trial, we decided for the plaintiff in a symbolic action where the widow received a token amount for her husband's loss (heavy smoker that had advanced emphysema and asbestos related complications on top of that, the case revolving around an asbestos claim), which was calculated to be around 10% of the attorney fees involved in the defense. After the case was closed, the judge asked for volunteers to remain to discuss our decision in an unofficial, information panel discussion. We explained the reasoning for the award amount, preventing a deadlocked jury and one defense attorney laughed aloud and exclaimed, "You got that right!" in regards to the percentage and fees. The lawyers won, as they inevitably do. Insurance is a form of gambling. You're betting the insured event will occur, the insurance company is betting that it won't. When faced with a claim, the company will do what is required by statute and try to limit or eliminate a payout due to responsibilities that are codified in law requiring they look out for stockholder interests. That's the law and how it works out. It ain't pretty, but then making sausage ain't pretty, but many of us enjoy eating it.
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  3604. Good job! One lung, neck and throat cancer vaccine was just shy of approval. Approval was extended after a previous delay after Trump fucked it up, now it's cancelled. I wonder, is he going to release smallpox, since he's shuttering the CDC? Welcome to the world's newest third world nation. One upside, soon enough, nobody will know how to fix our nukes when they need to be repaired.
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  3605.  @denying101  well, it ain't the brains, it's the lack of oxygen to the brains due to sitting on them too much.
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  3606.  @DuaneHallinSD  erm, the Ruskies are for Trump and his all girl band. And you missed the mark on buildings, their trademark isn't off of buildings, but defenestration. That's out of windows. With them, even a ground floor would do.
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  3607. Unlikely. :(
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  3608.  @RebelOfDaNew  no, the prosperity gospel cult might get mad and call down Machine Gun Jesus on us. That's where the support in the US comes from, to try to force the Almighty to come early. And the funny thing is, I'm not joking, actually heard preachers and pastors both say that crap. Ignoring lessons in the Old Testament against attempting to force God's hand. Num 14:40-45, 1 Sam 4:1-10, Exodus 2:11-15 for a few examples, never turned out well. Oddly, I know the scriptures better than most of them. Perhaps they'd profit more internally if they learned more from their own scripture's lessons and actually applied them. After all, the majority of what Jesus preached in the New Testament was all contained within the Old Testament.
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  3609. In my experience, having ran ranges that local LEO's used along with us during weapons qualification for my military unit, only the upper floors would be in danger. Most of them can't shoot worth a damn. That's why you'll hear of shootouts where 67 shots got fired and nobody was injured. Well, property was damaged, but that isn't an injury to cops, only courts were cops not immune from litigation.
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  3610. 35% hydrogen peroxide is nasty and for babies anyway. Go with 85 - 98% hydrogen peroxide, heat and agitate before usage - I'll be down the road talking to the fire department. High test hydrogen peroxide was used as an oxidizer in torpedoes and in every case, submarines carrying such torpedoes were either nearly lost or lost with all hands - it can explosively decompose on contact with many items, including brass. Attempts to use even 35% peroxide in rockets ended in a loudly comical way...
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  3611.  @tip00former1  try harder. "Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method?wprov=sfla1 Covers the scientific method, zero subjectivity involved.
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  3612.  @tip00former1  that holy grail is precisely what that computer you typed that modest screed upon relies upon to operate. Paraphrasing isn't a crime, it's a compliment to those whose prose is superior to that in an online dictionary.
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  3613.  @dafu5704  linguistics is a science, but English is a weapon designed to cause insanity. ;)
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  3614. One billion dollars? That's four times their full budget for global operations. But, it's interesting that he's turning on one of Trump's faithful, wonder how many more he'll turn on? Just because if he can't figure out what they do, they have to be destroyed and now we don't even have security for our enduring stockpile of nukes. And while Trump is mobilizing US military forces for immigration shit, Musk wants to slash their budget by 50%. Guess he's going for the Army of One, just him.
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  3615. And somehow, everyone muddled through without denying our deployed military their right to vote. Or was I supposed to have Scotty beam me from the sandbox to the elections office to get my mail in ballot during the war? Or just go without my rights, in which case you'd better be ready to start praying to Allah next time, we don't get rights, you don't get defended.
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  3616. Actually, it's literally in progress as we speak. Was in the news a couple of weeks ago.
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  3617. Just had a UAL flight that dove from 37000 feet to 9000 feet in 8 minutes. Pressurization problem and pilots doing their job.
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  3618. Well, there's preexisting construction there - the Dome of the Rock. And you're wrong. He Himself said, "I come like a thief in the night", not heralded for you to expect when he'd reappear. Peace and security can come when destruction comes, but it's frequently followed by more war and insecurity. Peace and security comes from rebuilding and helping those injured in war, as was proven by the aftermath of WWI vs when assistance was freely given after WWII and we've had over 75 years of peace and security.
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  3619. Not in DelCo, not since the Sunoco got robbed, the clerk shot dead with half of DelCo's PD's sitting 30 yards away at the Dunkin'. Complete with a police chief and nobody noticed. Dunkin' became known of as "the kiss of death" for a cop's career county wide. My wife knew that kid, used to be the bus aid on his school bus.
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  3620. OK, immediate justice it is! And the next city that goes lawless in rioting, we'll nuke to save money, rather than obey our own laws and Constitution.
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  3621. She can't be fired, which pretty much every US citizen already knows. She can be impeached to be removed, she can't be fired.
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  3622. Pretty much, the sand sank and spread the forces around her. Heard from someone involved about a man run down by an M113 APC, figure around 20 tons loaded, which it was. Bruised as hell, but otherwise he was OK, if spitting and sneezing mud. Dry sand, not so much, Gulf War I showed that quite well when someone got in the way of a tank column and ended up several times taller and wider, but infinitely thinner... Trust me, that was an image that's the stuff of nightmares. Although, I've far superior nightmares to replace those, GWOT and worse, nightmares of performing CPR on my wife of over 40 years, feeling her ribs pulverize under my CPR. Last days of March, still ain't sleeping worth a damn. Took me a week just to be able to take a meal. As for prayers, thank you, but if the Almighty showed up right now, he'd be passing the moon from the kick in the nuts he'd get. Then, we'd cross swords on wrath.
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  3623.  @privatecitizenguy2640  now, if you had had a few million bucks in the bank, they probably would've given you a rimjob and sent you on your way.
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  3624. No can do, I'm out and won't be able to get more until my pension check is deposited. Donations are accepted at 1581 Commodore drive.
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  3625. The asteroid, it'd make far more sense for a proximity detonation to ablate one side of the asteroid, rinse and repeat as needed to have it push itself off course. Still, better than other fare in the same time frame and before, where RonCo's Magic Nuke made entire gigantic asteroids simply disappear. Crossroads did have one mast torn off. Not by the blast, but by the water column collapse. Above water overpressure damage was present on close vessels, below the surface, the damage was of course much more pronounced. The fallout was limited in one vessel, which had a wash down system installed as part of a sub-experiment that was later included in new vessel construction that continues today. There is a doomsday launch system, the Soviet Union claimed to have a "dead hand" system, loss of communication with it would trigger nuclear forces to respond to an assumed significant decapitation strike. There was talk of salted bombs, typically with cobalt, resulting in cobalt-60 fallout, none were ever implemented, but Putin did threaten that with his newest physicist killing nuclear propelled missile. That'd only trigger a new arms race with salted bombs, which really takes minimal rework to implement at a cost of lowered yield for the simplest designs.
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  3626.  @RBS314  oh? I thought it was because he was being audited by the IRS...
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  3627.  @UmmYeahOk  OSHA?
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  3628. Why? Are you Helen Keller? She was blind, deaf and dumb, as well as also not from Philly.
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  3629. True, but this was a NY state court, so NY state Constitution and US Constitution. His day in federal court will come in a few billion more years.
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  3630. Most likely, loads of smack talk, maybe some angst and protests. Worst case, some employ violence. In the latter case, remember REFORGER? We've got a lot more men and women in uniform and equipment than you've seen and we all swore an oath to the Constitution, not an individual or office.
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  3631. I think he, given his penchant for making movie plot lines real in what passes for a mind in him, watched the beginning of the film Civil War and didn't catch the end.
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  3632. Making the case for eugenics, one comment at a time, huh?
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  3633. Pity that that kid in Pittsburgh wasn't skilled enough as a basic trainee. Never before was I so disgusted as to suggest such a thing. Now, that worker has the entire lethal support of a retiree.
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  3634. Since this has nothing to do with pricing or fees, you've obviously not watched the report. Shall we cancel the additional lanes and save tax money and enjoy the congestion instead?
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  3635. Totally corrupt, we're supposed to imprison, then have a trial, then get around to sentencing after release. Oh wait, we imprison as a sentence - if it's the sentence imposed by the judge after conviction of a crime. We're not Russia or the PRC.
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  3636.  @johnsmith-eh3yc  I'm sure that he'd call a nationwide general strike an insurrection. He's just that stupid. But, he couldn't get any authorities to round up civilians to force them to return back to private businesses and by a week, corporate contributors will be raising merry hell with Congress to get him out. Or someone else will be in their seat come next election.
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  3637. Frankly, the whole thing sounds like someone writing a paper who failed to learn what a Chinese Room is. Which basically is what was described in the beginning, albeit rather badly.
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  3638. Russia stopped buying their tanks from Ronson, alas for their crews, they switched to Zippo, so there was no real change.
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  3639. As Dad said, many moons ago, "There are plenty of fish in the sea". Oh, I'd have named the novel or series of novels.
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  3640. Well, close to as described in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". ;) Personally, I'd hold a viewing party. Sit watching my sensors and camera that was placed at a predicted impact point and another package a safer distance away and enjoy the data and show. Safely from home. The maximal extent of my self-harm desires extends to smoking and an occasional bottle of booze.
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  3641.  @el_zirb  not very idiotic of a war with Afghanistan for my cousins, who lost a father in the WTC. Al Qaeda attacked multiple US embassies throughout Africa, claiming 1000 lives, then attacked the WTC twice, once causing a garage explosion and fire, killing 3000 the second time. After we paid them a courtesy call, that's often alleged to be ineffective, the most they've achieved is one attempt to ship a printer bomb to a US synagogue, one failed diaper bomb and one failed shoe bomb. I'd call that massively degraded - especially given the senior leadership having experienced severe cases of high velocity lead poisoning. As for the Vegas attack, he suffered at least one, likely multiple TBI's (Traumatic Brain Injuries) and PTSD, was accused of infidelity by his wife (which can be instantly fatal to a security clearance and a 19 year military career, with full retirement available at 20 years). Hard to reintegrate someone that's still serving in SF into society, being busy doing all of those SF duties abroad and all. Taking care of those who have experienced TBI's would help, but that gets shifted to the VA and to hell with those serving as long as thy can still sort of function, largely due to budget and direction not being focused on those individuals by policy and that's guided by Congress. So, the only thing I see coming out of this is more of the same, people thanking me for my service, while meaning "fuck you for your service, now drop the fuck dead".
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  3642.  @RoscoWhite  yeah, because the US has suicide attackers that we specially train. They're the Suicide Squad and they're a total Marvel. Do seek professional mental health guidance ASAP son, you really are in great need of it - before you harm yourself or others. Or are you next going to reference a WWI operation too?
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  3643.  @mrlt1151  well, in the '80's, 18% of the population was veterans and most of the USPS employee base were veterans. Today, the percentage is around 6% of the population are veterans and the USPS has a much lower percentage that are veterans.
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  3644.  @StevenBailey-n6f  how many jails and homeless shelters have you been inside of? How many veterans have you personally driven to the VA for treatment? Oh wait, I already know the answer: none. I have been and have done so multiple times. But, you know far more than this veteran.
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  3645. Oddly, Russia has maintained their low earth orbital observation constellation, which has to be replaced fairly often. China, Russia, the US and possibly Israel have the capability to shoot satellites down. The Space Force is really just a command in the US Air Force, as Congress declined wasting money in creating an entirely separate combatant command service, rather than just making a combatant command within the Air Force. Most of US orbital assets are communications, observation and navigation (GPS is actually a military constellation, civilian which is a bit less accurate than the encrypted military precision GPS). Additionally, there are nuclear device detonation detectors, largely looking for gamma ray flashes, some of that data only recently being released to science on gamma ray bursts and terrestrial gamma ray bursts from high energy lightning. There are a few odd birds out there as well, but I can't comment on that which everyone knows is up there, but not what it actually is. As for governmental expenses, well, around 1/3 of my paycheck goes into payroll taxes, most being federal income tax. Suffice it to say, I earn enough to be quite comfortable, with quite a few computers for each primary room for home theater and web browsing, a pair of data center servers, an electronics lab and quite a few appliances, including home cleaning robots and a fair assortment of various types of firearms, some precision shooting grade competition weapons. Some find it odd that I drive an older car, but I refuse to purchase something that loses $10k or more of its value just driving out of the car dealership. But then, I'm a cleared defense contractor. After all, if one cannot be part of the solution, there is plenty of money to be made in perpetuating the problem. ;) The rods from God concept was insanely expensive, as they would've had to heft that insanely heavy rod to orbit and simply dropping them wouldn't do a thing - it's in orbit, something had to initially accelerate it down and out of orbit, upon impact, the entire rod compressed itself, heated and turned into vapor. A telephone pole, made of heavy metal turned instantly into gas, in short, an explosion. There was also consideration of an x-ray laser, pumped as part of a nuclear weapon, focused and aimed at MIRV buses and individual suborbital warheads, ablating them enough that the fuel for the guidance unit exploded and threw it off course (and the charged particles generated by the high energy x-rays striking dense components destroying the electronics. And there still is a notion, currently prohibited by ratified treaty, of placing a high energy laser into orbit and accomplishing the same thing, for far less.
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  3646. The universe doesn't guard anything, it has no conscious will to do so. So, anyone technologically advanced enough to figure out fission and fusion reactions is free to discover these products from the insanity factory.
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  3647. Actually, doctor is slightly incorrect. We didn't always have veterans disability or even any form of coverage during recovery for an injury that was slow in healing. Benedict Arnold was wounded in the failed Canadian campaign and was incapable of working his family farm after the war was over, so he sold out to support himself and his family. After that, we developed various and slowly improving wounded veteran pension systems. I disagree on neuroplasticity, but it's on extremely technical grounds. It's not only present in children, it remains present within a healthy brain throughout life, albeit at reduced levels as one ages. It's greatest in children, but it remains present in those without significant brain dysfunction and actually slows a number of dementias progression measurably. Again, based upon rather technical grounds. I was fortunate, although I joke and say that I was just better at ducking. Avoided significant TBI, basically via dumb luck, others didn't fare as well. But, even neurologists argue the finer points on that subject, as it remains a highly active field of research. I'll also suggest that Trump is essentially the worst possible thing that could happen to the GOP, literally placing it into the precise position of its predecessor, the Whig Party, which necessitated the sane membership to form the Republican Party to preserve conservatism in a sane and rational manner. He's a one man foot shooting firing squad. And worse, has no discipline, so when pressured, he'll act out worse and worse, essentially switching from foot shooting with his sidearm to foot shooting with a machine gun, increasing his own pressure in the process and dragging the party down even farther into insanity and eventual insolvency of support. His impulsiveness will result in the death of the party if a major readjustment from within the party is not widely conducted. And as much as I may disagree with many conservative viewpoints, we do require a balance of views to advance forward toward a more perfect union in a balanced manner.
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  3648. So, a judge has determined that DOGE can raid and forcibly take over any 501(c)(3) organization. That means that even churches and their charities are fair game as well. The Constitution is now officially dead, we have a god-king, Congress has abdicated and so has this jurist.
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  3649. A very similar to MAGA movement hijacked the original conservative party, which actually helped write our Constitution. The Whig Party was the first conservative party in our nation, in the 1840's, populists and nativists hijacked control of the party and well, most of MAGA's talking points literally are verbatim either Whig talking points from then or fascist talking points. The sane conservatives abandoned ship and formed a new party, a Republican Party. Their very first presidential candidate won the election, his name was Abraham Lincoln. The Whig party quickly faded into the footnotes of the history books. Alas, the GOP has no such people of courage today, so they kowtow to those who will destroy our nation, economically and socially.
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  3650. He probably thinks that he can be bailed out of jail for contempt. Then, he'll be a one man Pryor and Wilder, "We bad, we bad" while golf carting to his cell in protective custody.
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  3651. The CSR is an idiot. It's OCONUS, but it's still domestic. OCONUS, for those less traveled means Outside the CONtinental United States. Anyone who has worked S1, G1 or J1 in the military can speak volumes as to the gonad pain some travel OCONUS can become.
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  3652.  @gmchixx7652  millions of gallons of water from the vacuum of his own mind. Water flows through channels and well, there is no magical channel for those mythical waters to flow through, it goes through Washington state and into the Pacific. So, he's gonna beam that water using Scotty's transporter to California? No, the best he could've managed was bottled Trump water. But, keep on repeating the Ruskie bot line. Can't wait until they're cobalt-60'd into oblivion.
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  3653.  @Greg-io1ip  I'll vote for NRA, but not the modern NRA, the one from the 1960's and early 1970's, before industry took it over because they supported the Gun Control Act of 1968. Until they abandon their con games and embezzlement and go back to sports and outdoormanship, I'll stick with CMP programs. As for AIPAC, I still question and have been questioning for decades that odd allegiance that is over and above the allegiance to the nation they swore to uphold laws and protect by good leadership, of US leaders that hold greater allegiance to a sovereign foreign nation above the nation that they're supposed to be leading. It's one thing to be loyal to an ally, as that isn't expected to override one's allegiance to one's nation one is representing, it's quite another to sell out one's own nation's interests in favor of that sovereign foreign nation. Indeed, in any other nation, that would be treason. We Constitutionally emasculated that charge and for good historic reason that's well exemplified by a failed former POTUS incessantly abusing the word. A good example of proper loyalty to one's nation is FDR in WWII, while supportive of the UK, he did not suborn US interests in favor of UK interests. The closest that ever came to be was moving some operational dates forward, slightly prematurely, to take the heat off of the long suffering Soviets and that was strategically understandable.
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  3654. Well, the sheriff and DA handling that need to get shovels, dig up both of my grandmothers, whose husbands died, as they had siblings babysit their siblings and poisonous snakes could've invaded Philly and ate them up. So, single mothers are prohibited welfare and jobs, hence food, clothing and shelter for their families. The devil went down to Georgia and settled in firmly. So, watch out, space aliens could kidnap the babysat children there! BTW, my GT score is 13, with peaks in other IQ scores ranging from 128 through 158, but have a learning disability - dyslexia. Obviously, I shouldn't have watched my own children in Georgia! Sherman should've finished the job in that infested state!
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  3655. The water injection system is a fascinating design. Most consider water the enemy of fire and rightfully so, but properly harnessed, it becomes a benefit, as with the engine, cooling combustion chamber temperatures and providing additional mass to be ejected by the engine, providing thrust. First capitalized upon by the V2 rocket, which burned ethanol at 85%, the remainder, added water, lest the combustion chamber burn through and providing steam assistance in cooling the engine and ejecting additional mass. This flight, well, buzzing dense residential neighborhoods, looking at a mountain, all near stall speed the entire time, yeah, that's a white knuckle experience. It's a wonder that the crew still has fingers! There's also a chance that the engineer tried to toggle the water injection system. Rapid transits tend to get ignored, even on aged systems. Overall, bad-assed airmanship! No balls of steel there, those are solid cast diamonds all around.
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  3656.  @MyNewUserName47  first, operation of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, hence why one has a license that can be administratively revoked. Hence, relevance isn't present. Second, I mentioned repeatedly established case law. Since that's only reasoning, go ahead and fuck around and find out, you'll have three squares and a nice bed to stay in and an interesting roomie. Finally, show me a right within the Constitution to life. One has a right to a trial and legal representation if one's life or liberty is at risk due to a trial, but nowhere is there a mention of a right to life. The reason is simple enough, it was established as a common law right that didn't require clarification. But, the courts have, throughout our nation's history, whether you agree or not, referred to every right outlined in the Bill of Rights as privileges.
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  3657.  @commonsenseisntcommon1776  every right has limitations, I have the right of freedom of religion, I do not have the right to engage in human sacrifice. I have freedom of speech, I do not have a right to commit sedition or conspire to commit other crimes.
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  3658. Yep, even magazines have a lock to hold them in the weapon. Load is what's done after locking the magazine in place.
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  3659. That is total bullshit! A healthcare proxy is important! If incapable of providing decisions on health care, someone should be available to decide.
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  3660.  @troycopeland4909  you know better than God. ~Satan
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  3661.  @godbyone  it can, if the blast went from room to room or echoed off adjacent buildings. The problem is increased, as news footage isn't really of high enough speed and resolution to fully capture events that rapidly occur. But, wish in one hand, crap in the other, we all know which hand will get filled first. :/ The real bear is clearing the structure afterward, to remove anything potentially dangerous as investigators do their thing.
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  3662. I don't know who was driving, but his copilot, Jack Daniels was doing well.
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  3663.  @mrv9597  no POTUS can pardon someone convicted on a state offense. A state governor would have to and well, few would want to brave the pitchforks and torches afterward.
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  3664. I'd make a better SecDef, largely because I don't need a lampshade to protect my sodden head and don't black out. Pete's Piebald Pate Protection Panamka https://theonion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/282e788ccdf8898d824d430d50fa52a5.jpg?w=1024
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  3665.  @JoshuaKevinPerry  so is being killed by the negligence or malfeasance of others.
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  3666. Nope, Congress won't fight back. They've effectively abdicated.
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  3667.  @thudor1  gotta see whose hands are softer, the softer hands applying the mink oil to their own butt and Daddy's leather.
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  3668. What money is being wasted? They're salaried, so they're paid to hear, not hear or just breathe.
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  3669.  @RandallMoore-x4k  that's a decidedly unhuman way to sense, as humans don't see with ears, nor do they hear by seeing. Sounds more like one is here, but not all there.
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  3670. Only one problem. You don't stage such a thing with live rounds, lest one unintentionally hit the one you're pretending to shoot, you also don't kill and maim bystanders, just in case you get caught at it. Add in, they'd need to get Biden's Secret Service in on it and that'd be essentially trying to say that Biden is trying to make Trump win. You'd fare better with a space alien conspiracy theory that involves the Starship Enterprise and Battlestar Glactica.
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  3671.  @qsquared8833  I get a fair number of system crashes here, every time there's a geomagnetic storm. To hazard a guess, there's a good current path under the river that's literally right outside that induces spikes that puts all of my systems into a tizzy. The only reason I'm aware of the most probable cause is that I'm on the space weather mailing list and have been for years, as I used to track space weather for military operational reasons. Now, it's just basically a warning that I'll likely need to reboot several computers... Arthur Clarke was quite the aficionado of space elevators, yet never quite cottoned to several issues that were show stoppers. He realized quickly that, well, it's a hell of a long trip and in his writing took that into account when writing of trips on a space elevator and some authors also took notes, rather than ignore the fact that geostationary orbit is a wee few steps away. He entirely missed, as most authors do, my magical space elevator speeding along, well, those wheels would be spinning a helling. We're talking about rotational speeds that'd be hypersonic! Think of the rotational speeds involved for the drive wheels and idlers of rollers on a cable system, where the elevator car is moving at a nice leisurely Mach 1. And we thought the cable had to be strong! I'm surprised that Clarke missed that, he was otherwise a fine engineer. Maybe we should pen a few physics jokes about relativistic wheel bearings and oh, a mythical paper on frame dragging in relativistic wheel bearings and the effects upon rotational systems... And do a Star Trek transwarp wheel bearing system. Or how the friction generates so much heat energy it collapses into a Kugelblitz... Headline in the fictional news, "Planet disrupted by Kugelblitz generated by overheating space elevator bearing, foggy film at 11!".
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  3672. I find it interesting that the camera mount didn't fail at those speeds. That's a hell of a lot of force being exerted upon that tower mount!
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  3673. I've gotten heavy mud on the roof of an off road vehicle and drove it through water that, well, suffice it to say I needed to change pants, shirt and underwear. Didn't have any problems with the vehicle afterward, despite belly flopping into two feet of running muddy stream water. But, those vehicles were designed for that kind of insane usage - they were military offroad vehicles. Expecting a civilian road usage vehicle rated for off road usage to go through that is like expecting the damned thing to work fully properly on Mars! Wrong usage, wrong environment, the warranty guide essentially saying, "Tough shit, dummy". In that tough shit situation, one can only chew harder and take one's deserved and earned hit. That's something I've had to do over the years of beating down vehicles and frankly, I could beat down an M1 Abrams tank. I certainly beat down my Stryker... Want to take it mud bogging? There are kits to do just that, but they're not standard and kiss your warranty goodbye. Just like you can't build Bigfoot out of a pickup and try to make warranty claims.
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  3674. I can easily foresee opening statements coming next month, as jurors winnow themselves, plus erm, "juror incidents" and whatnot. This is gonna be a pig wrestling match, nobody's gonna not get covered in shit.
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  3675. Unfortunately for some's sensitivities, no matter how rightful their concerns, it is not the place of the IC to determine suitability and fitness for office. Our military and IC does not have the civilian populace under their command, the converse is true. Fitness for office is a political decision and out of the purview of the IC entirely, rightfully so. Just as, when he was the CIC, it wasn't up to the IC or military whether or not to regularly replace his biscuit and codes, he received them regardless, as he was their commander, not the converse. Concerns are present, they were raised, that's the end of their duties. Going beyond that, such as going to the press is a violation of the Hatch Act.
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  3676.  @beckyeagle8786 yeah, I hate when the gremlins scramble the keycaps on me. ;) Hey, that's my lie and I'm sticking to it!
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  3677.  @DuchessofMar7987  as I am registered as a Democrat, I'm curious as to what a Demonrat is, other than a moronic, childish schoolyard comment one would expect from a first grade student. I'll also remind you, Nixon, a Republican was POTUS for the Kent State Massacre and as POTUS, was ultimately responsible for having an untrained National Guard.
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  3678. On a day that commemorates life everlasting, love and inclusion of all in salvation, I see comments spewing nothing but hatred. Gandhi was absolutely spot on, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ".
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  3679. And God made me, for he wasn't quite done joking around when he made monotremes. I'll just get my coat...
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  3680.  @sleepy-girl  well, for a slightly less grim approach, there is always Randy Rainbow. I've always wished that he'd lampoon me, but alas, he doesn't go for low hanging fruit, only the rotten stuff on the ground. I'll just grab my hat...
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  3681.  @gaiagreen2690  cosplay army meets US Army, cosplay will have brown pants instantly. Real soldiers, with lawful orders and deadly intent have that effect on wannabes.
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  3682.  @sierranevada1265  under Jackson, the SCOTUS didn't either. He ignored a ruling in favor of the Cherokee to remain on their land, saying, "If they feel that strongly about it, let them come here and try to enforce their ruling!". Thankfully, future administrations embraced the rule of law - well, until 45.
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  3683.  @LarennPBel  especially given the HPV vaccine doesn't cover every strain, only the most common and known carcinogenic varieties. Still, the OP has one problem with the order of things, cart and horse wise. Employees aren't the ones responsible for the safety of the employer. That said, suffice it to say, I'd not have any desire to become involved in such an enterprise. Beyond being a mass spreader event for multiple pathogens, it's just idiotic and has a potential for actual disaster that resulted in physical trauma. There's plenty of trouble on my side of the street without my having to cross the street to look for more. Besides, it invariably heads my way anyhow, much to its eventual chagrin.
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  3684. Yeah, but Turkey is playing nice-nice with Russia, both due to a far right leader and well, neighbors and they don't want to become Ukraine II. Unlikely though, as Turkey has a bunch of our nukes on hand...
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  3685.  @thomassicard3733  trapped in the 1980's? Communism died in Russia back in 1991, they're capitalist robber baron stage currently. Besides, I'm sure we've a sub or two there and one helpfully or helplessly rammed into the drone. They run into everything else. The last two submarine collisions being when an undersea mountain swerved into their path and stopped suddenly. Hell, the commies at least could get supplies to the front lines, unlike the Federation, which even had to contract out warfighters. Yeah, I pick on everyone, even myself.
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  3686.  @Wilko11  well, totally incomprehensible! After all, who wouldn't want WWIII starting in their literal back yard? But, to make things worse, Erdogan is more than a little far right, so is closer ideologically to Putin.
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  3687. It'd essentially start at peak heating, since it's originating at the densest part of the atmosphere. I'll assume tumbling adding inefficiencies to movement, sideface being unlikely due to the fluid dynamic, which I agree, are far from static. There'd also be ionized components to further confound trying to calculate matters and he also treated it as a uniform object that would fully melt, then boil as a unit, rather than melt from outside inward as has been observed for other hypersonic objects passing through the atmosphere. The core of a meteor doesn't instantly boil while the surface is being superheated and bolides tend to fail structurally due to the aerodynamic deceleration forces overcoming their binding energy more than anything purely heating related. More probably, the cap would be partially melting, losing strength as it's heated and aerodynamic forces driving pieces off as it traveled until sufficient mass was lost that only fragments were traveling and decelerating much as bolides would be traveling in pieces after a fireball explodes. I suspect a lot of the modeling has already been done that would help in calculating this, but much would be related to railgun work that remains classified. As it was a decidedly non-aerodynamic body to begin with, the stresses would be beyond immense, that the object is a disc and not a blunt body, conic, biconic, etc body just increases compressive strength failure as a mode of fragmentation of the body's chances tremendously. Then, to further muddy the waters, there's a major assumption that the initial estimation of velocity could be wildly off, as even the shape of the cover once it departed from where it was welded is unknown. Did the weld fail and it's just largely cover? Did it bring any parts of whatever structure it was welded to with it? The heating isn't immersive either, it's heated by the inferno just in front of the shockwave and modeling that is devilishly complex with known shaped objects, such as blunt body, aerodynamic body, cone body, etc. Most likely, it'd have come apart fairly early on, much as Columbia came apart, for much the same reasons.
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  3688. Follow the rabbit hole, if application of the fourteenth amendment is unconstitutional, that means the fourteenth amendment is unconstitutional and that by extension naturally means that the Constitution is unconstitutional and the SCOTUS has zero authority. In which case, their cashing their salary is theft. Of course, the SCOTUS has no Constitutional authority, under a strict originalist, verbatim view, to interpret the constitutionality of anything whatsoever. They literally upended case law that's literally as old as the court's first session! As well as every precedent of case law in existence. Oh well, God save the King!
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  3689. Although, we do all joke about the E4 mafia trying to run it... ;)
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  3690.  @lilliechternacht79  decent is a relative term. It's rather like talking about a decent volunteer concentration camp guard.
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  3691.  @sparkzbarca  airports are physical locations, websites are routed, by definition by IP address and don't have a physical location in that one can move a website by moving its files to a geographically distant server and update the DNS record. So, I can have a website that's physically in the US today and by COB, have it seamlessly in Taiwan. When referring to the domain name, that is merely a DNS reference and the DNS server, beyond the top level domain be anywhere in the world. Literally, for a US ISP to restrict my domain name, they either have purchase a server that redirects traffic by domain name, violating the heart of the agreements that are backed by ratified treaty and potentially interfering with valid traffic. Name any law that states that a company or individual must purchase a specific device, costing anywhere from $5k to $100k to satisfy a court case that they're not a participant in? That's literally like saying that Pennsylvania must not allow motor vehicle or air traffic to Miami, Florida and only Miami, Florida originate in the state and has to build a specific highway to accomplish that task. The only way to fully comply is to deny all traffic and shut down. So, a company that owns guide.tv is denied traffic because of two IP address resolutions to that same top level domain? OK, how about we do the same with .com? By court order, the internet is hereby illegal is the essential effect. Your example perfects a digital attack upon a sovereign nation because of two individuals within that nation. Following that logic, we should have invaded Argentina when Nazis fled there after WWII and at a minimum, walled off the entire nation if we couldn't enter it legally. That's like banning red traffic lights by banning electricity nationwide. Or in my example, destroying I-95 to prevent traffic from Pennsylvania from getting to Miami, Florida and once realized there are other roads, destroying any road that can possibly get to Miami, Florida. The order is essentially unenforcable on its face, it requires excessive expenses, essentially punishing providers for no reason by forcing a major expense and literally, per your example, declares digital war upon a sovereign nation for objectively the most trivial of reasons.
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  3692. What I loved is, the judge asked, looked left, then right, nobody had a peep to say, all were... Beyond shocked. Asked again, looked back and forth to the same effect. Took a third try to get a reply from the attorney to break out of her shock to reply his license was suspended - after modest prodding, so shocked that she was. I think the only one in the room not the victim of shock was the camera, which is inanimate. Honestly, the judge probably would've asked me if I was courting a contempt charge, as I'd be hysterical in laughter... Let's suffice it to say, there is one unlicensed driver is decidedly unlikely to develop grand unified theory. And I do know about medical and not being able to afford transportation, had to cancel vascular surgery and cardiology appointments due to a lack of transportation, so I'll just have to learn to get along without a heart and aorta.
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  3693.  @victors8465  he was unnaturally quiet in the final days in court and even outside of the courtroom. It makes me wonder if they retained an additional "paralegal" with a tranquilizer dart gun...
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  3694.  @brittrugg2676  CRJ-900 is a Bombardier CRJ-900, formerly Canadair. OK, Canada didn't make a Canadian airplane, good job making a jackass out of yourself. Now, kindly stop trying to steal my job. Now, ire aside, that's a bad-assed design, to withstand that amount of stress and not transmit it into the passengers or spew seats all over the field during a roll over energetic enough to remove the vertical stabilizer and both wings, that's the epitome of safety design! Aviation sites are already lauding the safety regulations behind those design features. Fortunately, the US is getting rid of those requirements. I'm sure that Trump's final act on the way out the door will be to nuke our own cities.
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  3695.  @paulglawson2866  my point precisely, helium embrittlement, plus radiation breaking down crystalline structures by bond dislocation, Wigner dislocations as well, loads of things that need long term and higher output stress testing to ensure durability of the components. Could you picture uncontrolled Wigner energy release inside of a pebblebed pool structure like that? While there is no oxygen to flow through it and ignite the graphite if the reactor remained patent, were there a seal failure and oxygen were introduced, it'd make Windscale look like a child's game. Although, perhaps a boron layer on the structural inner layer might mitigate any potential for havoc in that scenario, a final fail safe should the worst of the worst of the worst scenario to occur, boron would mix into any modest melt and prevent criticality until the containment could be flooded with heavier noble gases to prevent ignition and provide actual walk away.
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  3696. That you had to explain the one times table, well, it was a Joe Rogan video... Given a choice between watching Joe Rogan and screwing a wood chipper, I'm totally on with intercourse with an operating wood chipper. Far less painful. Still, I'd love to explain Boolean mathematics to that actor, his head would likely shrink into a singularity.
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  3697.  @MrHaighahatta  does he own any unencumbered properties?
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  3698.  @MadFox-jr6by  I know that words are complicated things, just barely within the mental grasp of most conservatives, but climate is long term, weather is extremely short term. Oddly, conservatives here in Harrisburg, PA know that quite intimately, as here, if you don't like the weather, one just waits for ten minutes and it'll change. Climate, that changes somewhat slowly. As a kid, I'd have been able to skate on the Susquehanna River, haven't seen that frozen over in decades. But, that's because ice now freezes at lower temperatures or ice is illegal now or something equally insane, right? Snows aren't deep enough to have a proper snowball fight, whereas as a kid, we had pitched snowball battles. Totally normal, right? Droughts are normal, continental dustbowls are what God intended, right? Folks, this is why we have lead paint abatement programs, to avoid kids getting brain damage!
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  3699. It's scale of response. He IS guilty of aggravated battery. First, SHE didn't throw the drink, a man did near her. Second, he is not in charge of determining guilt or punishing people, he is to arrest them and let the court determine guilt or innocence and punish criminals. He was not effecting an arrest, as he must identify his purpose of approach. Not cold cock a suspect.
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  3700. Add a new problem. Grain is flowing out of Ukrainian ports - on Russian crewed vessels, with their transponders silent to avoid being tracked. So, food will go to black markets instead.
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  3701. Had a spider bite, likely from a hobo spider. They'll deliver envenomation like a mild version of recluse venom. Mild inflammation, sunken area, took months to fully heal, but totally painless and zero systemic symptoms or significant eschar. It resolved uneventfully and I identified the hobo spider, as I saw one previously in the bedroom and subsequently on our bed. I relocated it away from the domicile, where it could hunt for insects. One downside of having a bedroom right next to the back door of the house. NW Louisiana, yes, recluses are there, but never saw one in the house, only the occasional hobo spider.
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  3702. Hey, it was a shitty job, but someone had to do it! And moms usually are a child's first role model.
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  3703. He wants to be seen and to suck up free tax dollars, so he's trying to eliminate all of the competition by killing off the poors and stopping taxation. Once the country collapses, he'll just fly off to a country where he can rent a small security army to keep himself safe from reprisal by the survivors.
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  3704. There's also a misconception of a metallurgical report that stated that the plating was subject to brittle fracture at the temperatures of the North Atlantic at the time of the sinking. A ship's strength doesn't come from its plating alone, but from the frame(s) that the ship's skeleton is made of, plus the plating. If the plating was brittle enough that beyond its normal flexing stresses during it normal journeys, yes, it could fail while the skeleton remains intact, not being as cold or suffering the same stresses by its design and the ship won't break in half, it'd leak like the proverbial sieve. If fracturing on a lager scale occurred in the framing, it still would be unlikely to suffer the later movie's version of failure on the surface - impact with the ocean bottom isn't some 1 - 2 MPH event, it's at speed and hence, high energy, torsion on its way to the bottom adding shearing stresses. Major structural failures are complex beasts, far beyond the ability of most programs and pretty much all entertainment venues could ever hope to portray. To think otherwise is to think that everything is simple and ships are decidedly not simple and never have been.
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  3705. The US now has 9000 students, staff and teachers in quarantine nationally. I suggest that this experiment be booked a failure.
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  3706. More like planted documents. You don't leave on a covert mission carrying ID's and passports to abandon inside of enemy territory. Even developing nations forces know that one! Only the Twinkie encrusted sofa crowd can't figure out when they're being conned by clickbait panic reporting to sell advertisements about a non-existent crisis.
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  3707.  @VulcanLogic  it's interesting that you include Social Security in your list of costs, when we paid Social Security taxes our entire working life, but that should be cut, effectively stealing that money too. Tell me, if I get a CD or other earning investment, gonna steal that investment too? If I pay for a house free and clear, gonna transfer that away too? That's as bad as Trump suggesting elders and infirm/disabled "just should die". Which was Hitler's very words when he ordered such people sent to carbon monoxide vans and the first cyanide "showers" before the concentration camps were built. And cut all the taxes, brilliant suggestion! OK, the highways are fucked up blocks of jutting concrete and impassible, no more police, fire and ambulance, water supplies corrode through and are tainted and all the parks are now landfills. No way to get the children dying of cancer to the hospitals on the impassible roads, as there are no ambulances anyway, but the playgrounds and water have a healthy glow! Although, that glow is hard to see with the raging firestorm sweeping across the city. Not that anyone notices, they're laid up with cholera. Couldn't happen? Love Canal, New York, Chicago fire, Washington, D.C. cholera outbreaks aplenty, Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic that nearly canceled the first Constitutional convention. And who needs a military? Just teach everyone to learn how to surrender in an assortment of languages.
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  3708.  @powertools2375  well, Congress effectively abdicating to him has only encouraged him. So, once he's effectively neutralized the Judicial branch, he is indeed a god-king. At that point, we'll need a Marcus Junius Brutus to stop him.
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  3709.  @rell127  well, we do have multiple parties, but the de facto reality of it remains an effective two party system, with a "progressive" party and "conservative" party, since day one of the republic. The other minority parties come and go, sweeping up dissidents and at least giving them some voice. Of them, the conservative parties tended to be more fragile, as evidenced by the fall of the original Whig party and currently, with the fracturing of the replacement, Republican party. Time will tell if the party survives, but it's looking less and less likely minus a conviction and removal of one certain individual that's turned a circus into a cult.
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  3710. And Mueller's deadliest catch. The SpendIt tossed it back.
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  3711.  @Raztax  sees habitual in that poster, that and multiples on punctuation, wrong punctuation, etc. Weird.
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  3712. Dr Fauci referred to it as modified quarantine. Odd term, to be sure, but he did explain it a bit as he'll largely be at home, with some office presence. I was unaware that hydroxychloroquine caused ionophores to be created that would admit zinc, but I vaguely recall other drugs that are known to do that for zinc. Still, I do (again, vaguely) recall zip1 transporting zinc from the interstitial space through the plasma membrane. Still, I'm aware of two high quality studies that show no effect for HCQ in patient outcomes and one that showed higher morbidity and mortality, the latter seemed to hint that cardiac conduction anomalies might have been exasperated. Yesterday, we learned that our youngest, who was working in hospital housekeeping on COVID floors took ill. She briefly placed us on hold, where her physician had called with her SARS-CoV-2 test results. Positive. She sounded horrible last evening, severe coughing, which seems to have abated today, sounds like she's moving air well, held longer sentences than last night, but retained a fever and now has purple toes. Fortunately, she's now staying with her sister, who is an RN. I've been hearing chatter that initial viral exposure levels may possibly play a role in initial disease severity. We'll have to see if any studies are being conducted and of course, await peer review. If there's one thing I've learned personally about peer review is, peers love little better than to savage shoddy work. That induced me to rapidly produce high quality work!
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  3713.  @ITube4RealFun  yeah, less flavorful than other meats. Besides, you can flock that duck, who wants their beef herd?
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  3714. That's precisely what people said of Hitler, things didn't work out so well for them.
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  3715. Priced a fence, found the 45-70 was cheaper with a box of 450 grain hollowpoints. A lot excessive for deer though. Usually though, I end up with a nice, polite conversation and the nice officer sods off eventually. Or once, "Get off of my property". His supervisor apologized profusely later. We all have off days, oh well. My off days typically end in the letter 'y' in English. The fun begins when two end up having that off day together. Then, it's rightfully a festival of apologies. Beats gunfights. Given my unit didn't have a budget to afford missing the target. But then I'd have to clean the damned thing again... Usually though, as I said, it's conversation of mutual interest, offer of coffee (the mighty elixir of life) and eventually, we both sod off. Occasionally, with "No worries, officer, if the SOB pops by here, he'll be calling you to rescue him". And yeah, did hold one nosebleed at gunpoint, aimed precisely at his dick before until the nice officers retrieved the garbage. My good side is the back of my head at times. The rest of the time, it's chill pill, just don't push the naughty button.
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  3716. Remember, these guys used to be the ones running mud slinging and dirty tricks ads against Democrats. Trump turned them against the GOP as it stands in an effort to save their own party. Which is fine, given we also allied with the Soviets in WWII for much the same reason, to remove a common danger. Because, we miss our old cold war, when it wasn't personal, just a professional exercise in real politics. Might get dirty at times, but nobody was trying to get anyone killed.
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  3717. She's already sued him twice, it's just a form at this point and not even likely to go to a full trial, because of the immense risk to Trump. If I was on a jury hearing this for damage awards, I'd double his current damages amount. Do it again, double that again. Eventually and quite quickly, we'd either hit a statutory limit or he'd be left with only the clothing he's wearing, unable to bond for an appeal and well, the property would be liquidated, the government getting its share from another case, she'd get her share and Trump would get to select the bridge of his choice to be chased from under.
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  3718. OK, when did he pick up a gun and levy war against the US government? Congress hasn't declared war since WWII, so we have no enemies to give aid and comfort to. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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  3719.  @currentuser-r6h  obviously not.
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  3720. OK, US expectation, regardless of reality is, fever s bad, kill the fever, kill the malady. That's the social construct in the US. I am aware of viral testing that is effective for live virus, we both are, it's call cell culture. But, remember, Trump is literally a lawful superior of those treating him, so can give a lawful order to report anything he wants and doctor, nurse or spokesperson is required to report what the imPOTUS requires. Would that I could be able to accept a statin, I'm a 1% type who utterly cannot do so, as in full blown rhabdo, Repeatedly. What has been observed is early on dexamethasone and heparin. The rest, gravy, maybe he muddled, maybe the antibody cocktail worked, also, we don't know the full treatment path. He could as easily claim that playing Tiddly Winks worked for him, his medical officers, upon order, would be required to report such, per US law and US UCMJ. The rest, that's still open research. But, dexamethasone and heparin was, back in April, a golden standard. I know that firsthand, due to a thyroid crisis and hypertensive crisis, with "ground glass" and pneumonia signs, due to the condition.
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  3721.  @teej-h7w  OK, who orders the DOJ to arrest him? I'll wait. Or maybe you want the tooth fairy to arrest him, since the tooth fairy doesn't work for the Executive Branch?
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  3722. Russia took their artillery to battalion level, but entirely failed to address the change in logistical requirements. Basically, good idea, shitty implementation. Which could've been addressed by a meat wave and truck wave of logistical support of those battalions - if properly planned and implemented. But, they're so highly regimented, mentally and organizationally as to make such a change easily. The meat wave in a can attack can be simply explained as probing recon by fire "attacks", seeking a soft spot to try to exploit in a limited manner in, as you said, a non-permissive environment. The choices are highly limited. One cannot form massive assembly areas, lest it rain steel, fire and brimstone. One cannot employ mass formations, as they cannot assemble. That leaves either limited probing and smaller attacks when the opportunity arises or dial the clock back to WWI trench warfare. Which also hasn't worked well, what with modified drones raining steel misery upon trenches. No matter what, it's a quagmire from hell, with attrition being the name of the game overall.
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  3723.  @rhondajones4007  why? Are you looking for a replacement?
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  3724. I still prefer the USS Constitution to lead the way. :)
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  3725. Except that the left loathes the guy. Hell, the only people that like him are Fox and CNN now. Everyone else knows he's a chickenhawk and is always wrong, which I'll give him, he's astonished me now for actually getting a couple of things right. Broken clock and all...
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  3726.  @himhim6135  I do miss the beer and food, especially the fresh sausages and well, Bavarian food in general. Amazed I didn't end up on weight control!
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  3727. Castle doctrine isn't universal, some states still hold that a homeowner has a duty to retreat. I'm in a castle doctrine state, so I'll win. Wouldn't use a hunting rifle though, overpenetrates and could damage the property and endanger the neighbors. 12 gauge with frangible slugs. City stops me then, OK, I'll be back with a demolition permit and crew. Then, have the foreman Helen Keller proceed to guide the heavy equipment.
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  3728.  @samarmisra4922  I remember JFK getting shot, watching it live on TV and a few years later, Johnson running for office. Now, I get to remember this oath apparently not being one to support the Constitution, so that insurrection and sedition is impossible for the god-emperor.
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  3729. What, don't you like a 34 time loser? See? He counts for something - 45 counts for 34 felonies.
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  3730. You mean the new ming clearance lieutenant.
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  3731. With Greenland, well, it's part of Denmark and hence, part of NATO, so we've got a base there and formerly had multiple bases (including one unauthorized nuclear powered base) there. And that reminds one of an ancient adage, "Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?" And one ponders, is Iceland next? Then, perhaps the UK in an island hopping campaign to establish Airstrip One? After all, we've already got our telescreens in our homes, as smart TV's, some smart assistants and our computers. And we're getting a lot longer than our five minutes of hate.
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  3732. Ripe and fertile have departed my mouth, but that was in reference to fruits and vegetables in the garden. A cucumber that's turning yellow is ripe and now decidedly fertile for its seeds, whereas the green cucumber is unripe when we enjoy them. I could also see saying that as a bit of hyperbole and getting bit hard in the ass from it.
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  3733. Give it time for the public to forget, it'll get quietly slipped in and over time, pay a subscription or your car won't start at all. You bought the car, it doesn't have to run per the sales contract...
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  3734.  @carlos.gomez2023  given that two explosions were on the track and suspension, that makes sense. Nobody sits inside of the track, they sit inside the armored compartment. The missile, had it struck the tank with the crew inside, they'd not have survived. There are several kills for armor. Mission kill, where the tank is out of action for the mission before it can be repaired. Mobility kill, where the tank is immobilized, such as broken track, transmission damage, engine damage, etc. Vehicle kill, the tank is destroyed, typically by fire of its ammunition and whatever damage that set fire to it. With a vehicle kill, the crew may or may not survive, but a surviving crew tend to be incapable of pulling another tank out of their back pocket.
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  3735. Jesus! This is well over 20 year old Russian disinformation. Crops get plowed under to keep crop and livestock prices survivable for small farmers.
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  3736.  @prestigevending15 you and the OP betrayed a shocking level of ignorance on the use of our military, specifically the militia to restore order. Or were they "getting us used to seeing military everywhere for the new normal" also being a thing in Philly in 1844, when the Nativist Riots were halted by militia ready to fire their artillery at the Protestants that were using artillery against Roman Catholic churches?
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  3737.  @theeater1756 I see, your ignorance of history is indeed boundless! First, let's review civil unrest and lawlessness, where the militia was called in to restore order. Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon war against civilian authority, the press and whatever suited their interests at the time in 1843, militia called up, restored order. Guess Illinois is still in the throes of civil violence by Mormons today, by your lousy candle. 1857, Mormon war in Utah, militia quelled a theocratic attempt at takeover of the territory. Guess Utah is a barren desert, devoid of human life in your Bizarro world. 1844 Philadelphia Nativist Riots, Protestants vs Roman Catholics, Protestants using stolen artillery against Catholic churches, guess they're still blowing up the city, depopulating it daily or something, huh? 1857, Bowery Dead Rabbits Riots, gang warfare in the streets, militia restored order or maybe NYC is dead, barren of life, due to the incessant warfare between the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys. Pity, would've been a nice city had it not been destroyed by continuous violence once the militia left - oh wait, it's still there. Let's move into modern times. Let's see now, Seattle George Floyd Protests, federal forces called in, because an idiot POTUS proclaimed literally that the city was burning to the ground daily, really impressive builders up there! Order remains or maybe the city is still burning to the ground nightly, rebuilt during the day to bonfire nightly - oh, no it isn't. Or maybe the North American continent is a barren wasteland, order never being restored and we're all dead. Folks, do admire our lead paint abatement programs, children no longer grow up with severe brain damage like our friend here.
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  3738.  @bryanmcfadden4071  you lose, as in a representational democracy, the representatives are elected by the populace to represent their interests. As opposed to a monarchy, which Rome turned into and the Founders wanted to avoid, while emulating the best of the Roman Republic with a balance of the senate with representatives by population size in the house. Everything has checks and balances, well, save with god-king wannabe Trump, who wants to checkmate all balances and rule by whimsy and fiat.
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  3739. Because he's still trying to find where in the refrigerated section apples are stored.
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  3740. These goofballs were warned about for decades, nobody listened, all dismissed them as they acquired power, grew their extremist memberships and grew like cancers upon the society. Finally, now that they've metastasized, some finally begin to pay attention. Now that it's caught early, in late stage 4. I wonder when anyone will pay attention to the armed militants, before or after they take up arms against their nation or after?
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  3741. For those interested, the decision direct from the horse's mouth: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
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  3742. The laugh is, the immigrant crime shit goes back to the 1840's and the Nativist movement, which joined with other zanies to first coin most of the codswallop still parroted today against other immigrant and minority groups. Their efforts literally triggered religious warfare between attacking Protestants against (mostly) Irish Roman Catholics in Philadelphia, where the Protestant Nativists stole a cannon from the port defenses and opened fire on Catholic churches, a school and a convent/hospital. Militia was called in to restore order and the Nativists murdered some of the militiamen. The militia general then ringed the area with artillery and strongly suggested they return the stolen artillery piece and go home or go away in small pieces. The crowd finally dispersed and soldiers patrolled Philadelphia city streets with fixed bayonets. Later, these same wonderful specimens from the bottom drawer of humanity hijacked the conservative party, much as they have today, destroying the Whig party, which literally came with the nation (the Democratic Party essentially remaining today, modestly changing names as every surviving party has to meet the times) from within. The sane departed the Whig party en masse, forming a new Republican Party - their first candidate for president, some Abraham Lincoln guy. The Whig party basically imploded as the Civil War raged, ceasing to exist and fading into obscurity. But, their stupid ideas rage on today. The same arguments against any progress, given a cheap retread, but otherwise parroted verbatim the arguments from the 1840's, be it against immigration, freedom of religion for anyone not Protestant, white supremacy, desegregation, LGBTQ+, hell, even Mickey frigging Mouse. Women as property, oh they got that malady in spades. Hell, yesterday, had one brain trust from that group of zanies tell me he just loaded his AR15. I replied that I know where the ATACMS is, how to use the system and where precisely in the ASP the ordinance for it is stored. One battery will take away all life for one square kilometer, which is over 1/3 of a square mile for the measurement challenged, for anything larger than a virus. That threat terminated swiftly, don't threaten a combat veteran, the only thing stupider is to actually try to follow through on that threat and that's just another Darwin Award. Threaten a war, no problem, I'm very, very good at war, I terrorized terrorists for a living and they're not around, I'm still here and I'm far from alone. And we network - a lot. And the military is on our side, as we're on our nation and Constitution's side. While I'm here, "Entitlements are evil and commie!" is bullshit, entitlements are rights guaranteed within the Articles of the Constitution itself, not even amendments, which some try to claim are subordinate to the Constitution and are not. So, when complaining against entitlements, they're complaining that they hate fundamental Constitutional rights. In my own opinion, campaign against rights, you lose claim to your own rights in further arguments.
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  3743. The last ethics lesson can be administered by the courts and the bar. Then, one ends up seeking a new career...
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  3744. We've got plenty of refineries already. Just take a boat up the Delaware river and you'll see nothing but refineries - especially in the Philly area.
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  3745. Tunnel vision is present, true. In spades. Fortunately, when one is defending inside of one's home, that frequently isn't something to hamper survival. Compared to military situations, where one needs to scan for additional combatants coming from outside of that tunnel vision cone. Our training literally involved running to the range and a significant degree of adversarial environment in order to trigger an adrenaline response. Annoying as hell, but extremely effective.
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  3746.  @garyhouse4432  OK, your bill for your free speech is $1000000 per word and you now owe $23 million for your expressing your right. Wait'll you get your free press bill and your voting bill. Since you are charging for rights. Boy, churches are gonna be expensive! Will schedule your freedom from warrantless search and seizure fees on an annual basis.
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  3747.  @garyhouse4432  OK, treason and sedition is legal, so is conspiracy, since they're all harmless speech. But, rights you don't like are illegal and the Constitution is null and void and Trump is the Emperor. Since you hate rights and a Constitution. Isn't anarchy grand? Anything noisy people want is OK now, there are no ultimate laws, save Imperial law. Everyone's happy when there are no laws, rules or special, inalienable rights!
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  3748. Yep, ball kicking, one cannon ball at a time...
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  3749.  @rustshoo5068  doctors are not FLIGHT crew, they'd be considered cabin crew or specialist crew. They remain, along with flight crew and passengers souls on board. Tragic though, kid on the way home from lifesaving treatment. Saw a blurb that the flight recorder was recovered, hopefully the NTSB will get good information from it to prevent a recurrence of this tragedy in the future. The staff at Shriner's have to be positively wrecked by this as well. And good on the reporter for calling in the finding of that tank. Some wouldn't have bothered. Decades ago, a cub reporter, Walter Cronkite, was covering a schoolhouse explosion. Natural gas was piped for free from a nearby oil well to the school for heating, a basement leak and the school exploded, killing hundreds of kids and the teachers. While covering the story, one of the locals told him, "We need hands right now more than we need reporters". He rolled up his sleeves and joined in the rescue effort. He went on to cover WWII from the front lines and eventually graced nationwide television screens covering the news, but that early tragedy stayed with him for his entire life.
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  3750.  @Votlon  nothing is ever actually verified on 4chan for a reason. It's designed to not be verifiable to prevent self-incrimination.
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  3751. See, now you know where you went wrong. You should never place classified information into its own segregated container, within a marked, properly secured location. You're supposed to mix it in randomly with anything and everything from your household and beyond, taking some of the most sensitive out on social occasions to wave around like a flag. Then, complain incessantly about oppression and witch hunts, ignore that broom...
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  3752. They'll variously blame Biden for obstructing the port and Obama for the same. It's all part of TFG's FNG "method" of misrule by chaos.
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  3753. How do you impeach Emperor Musk? He literally holds no legal position in the US government, Empress Trump annointed him holy advisor and just hand waved him to a federal office, the latter as I recall also being unlawful, as there are terms of use and terms of service that get included in any federal contractor that occupies a federal office space. As for the violations, we're talking about over a century of hard time, solitary confinement for just the classified information spill onto an unclassified and worse, unsecured, non-FISMA compliant IS system and site, add in additional violations for uncleared access, unauthorized copying across security level domains, Privacy Act of 1974 violations, I'm willing to bet that the HD's they used weren't encrypted and that's another violation on data at rest, seriously, we're talking their getting out of prison about midpoint of the sun's red giant phase. Now, due to the breach, a full physical audit of the enduring stockpile has to be conducted and that's an immense mess to have to audit, as we're talking about sensitive warhead components sitting on shelves inside of bunkers whose security now must be questioned. They're not dismantling the government, they're literally scuttling the ship! Any who want to refuse to impeach and convict this merry gang of thieves needs to be impeached with tar and feathers.
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  3754. The reason is simplicity itself. Friction is fun. Old physics educational joke for the formula. F=u(mu character) *N. Normal being replaced in general lever and pulley math by force against the rope, by the rope itself while knotted. Fun game, try to untie that knot under tension. Doing so with a square knot is far, far easier. Math rules the universe.
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  3755. My rules are higher than the state's laws. That is what is the game being played here. If I get a permit that allows an official sign be erected proclaiming that I am the Lord God Almighty, I still do not lawfully have absolute rule within the signs boundaries, regardless of rules or approval of a sign. Now, in that town, as far as I'm concerned, they want to exceed the authority given by the state and give an unlawful tax in the form of illegal fines, Cool Hand Luke had a grand solution. And the folks objecting get a grand ride out of town on a fence rail, in the traditional manner, pine tar and feathers entirely optional and up to the populace.
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  3756. Perhaps it's time for me to file for an honorary invasion visa and request for a license to smuggle to the US. ;) Conditional, the response must be penned while off duty and be appropriately humorous. And if any wish to send a modest honorarium for the chuckles, a few pounds of Canadian barley would keep my 2.5 gallons of Canadian canola oil company. And just anchor the supertanker of Canadian whiskey in its usual spot out front. I've about squeezed the old one dry since this maladministration began... ;)
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  3757. Sugar also desiccates food and by extension, bacteria. Salt or sugar both alter the osmotic pressure, stunting or even killing pathogens. Curing with potassium nitrate preserves the food and leaves meat still red colored.
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  3758. "...through appalling weather conditions..." Based on 28 years of military service, is there any other kind of weather conditions when you're in the field on a real world op? One upside is, nobody's looking for any damned fool to be trying to operate under those conditions. Waco, well, CSX isn't optimal of an agent if you're trying to rescue kids - it can burn their lungs and skin. As for the rest, was at a doctor's appointment. Went in, they were pumping CSX, came out to see the compound fully involved. There's a term we used for Waco and Ruby Ridge, a total goat screw. For those confused, CSX is CS "tear gas" that's powdered, suspended in a solvent. Once sprayed in, it leaves a dust of CS powder to be kicked up as people move about and any breeze picks it up. Most people don't perform very well in any environment with CS or CN (aka mace) in any form. Personally, it was a matter of, "That which does not kill me only serves to piss me off", as all it is to me is mildly irritating.
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  3759.  @paulis7319  go for the gusto!
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  3760. I went into rhabdo myself, courtesy of being that fortunate 1% of persons who cannot tolerate statins. Fortunately, noted the color and what it could be a symptom of, dashed off to the ED for treatment. After, if administered a statin, as soon as I sense muscle discomfort, I report it to doctor and the statin is DC'd.
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  3761.  @palomathereptilian  I'd say oddly, save that I know precisely why I have an aversion to any medication. Speaking as a primary, on site EMS practitioner, well, I'm both extremely conservative and adventurous, depending upon very specific conditions. Typically, the least intervention delivers the least side effects and problems, but in some patients, more intervention is required to simply get them evacuated to a definitive care facility. The worse, under that context, took 12 hours of intensive interventions, over a simple severe allergy event, which consumed the entirety of a Battalion medical supply. One bee sting resulted in depletion of the treatment for many conditions, for over 1200 men. And was the most exhausting day of my life. As for the remarked upon case, she'd have been equally served by not bothering to eat. I do that, on occasion. Not out of disorder, but out of lack of activity. Not busy at all, idle beyond couch potato? Not hungry level, go for base mineral nutrients, hydrate as needed, call it a day. I'm not underweight, not overweight, "just right" to end up the eldest male in my paternal line of the family to not be type II diabetic. By decades. While taking a beta blocker, calcium channel blocker and a thyroid blocker, due to severe hypertension and Grave's disease hyperthyroidism. Another pill? Doc, do make a very serious case for it. Did opioids for a significant issue, the histamine response sucks, badly! Got a better ploy? Annoyingly, no.* *Opioids and opiates tend to share a common effect, activating mast cells, resulting in a massive release of histamine. Inject a patient with morphine, get vomit on your boots, decrease in blood pressure and respiration.
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  3762.  @anushkabakshi4765  compensation is entirely useful, as it offers respite from an otherwise eventful emergency. Keep electrolytes under control, keep hydrated and counter extreme swings of all of the above until things restabilize. A hallmark of senna glycoside abuse is electrolyte imbalance and dehydration.
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  3763. Wow, bumped into a screwballtube video claiming there was a major riot at the White House, as near as I can tell, shouting was an attack that must've leveled the building, killed everyone inside, infected your mind, curved your spine, and kept the country from winning the war. Or I dunno, the tooth fairy is real. Flagged it as disinformation, as what was being said denies the very first amendment's right to peaceably assemble and seek redress of grievances - a right inherited originally under the Magna Carta and hence, over 800 years old until we got a god-king-emperor.
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  3764. The filament currently is at $229/kg. Don't see the 100 g being worth much for any PhD project, for the most part.
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  3765.  @jamescrosby7777  yeah, totally evil of them to respond to disasters! Where Trump held the FEMA funding for Puerto Rico hurricane recovery efforts, but happily threw paper towels as his aid. BTW, when Congress appropriates money for something and the president refuses to send that money to where Congress directed it to, it's a felony called misappropriation. Of course, Trump is comfortable committing felonies and now has Royal immunity.
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  3766. Can't do the no Facebook day thing, disabled that one when they kowtowed to the god-king with shitcanning their fact checkers. If they've not corrected course by June, this charter member will erase the account. They need my eyes for their advertisements, I don't need their bullshit.
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  3767.  @Miapetdragon69  auto-eject, erm, autoerect, grrrr, autocorrect, the bane of humanity. I'll just get my coat...
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  3768. So would every physician on the planet! I'm wondering if the ACE-renin system might contribute in hypertensive patients. The more ACE signaling that goes on to retain sodium and constrict blood vessels to raise the blood pressure, the more receptors would proliferate on the cell surface. As ACE2 is where the virus enters the cells, that might just be it. Alas, we can't blockade all ACE2 receptors, as really bad things would happen with the patient's blood pressure and electrolyte balance.
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  3769. If he's before a criminal court, he was arrested and paid bail, just as our Constitution rightfully demands. Still, if more documents are found, he'd be arrested again and bailed again. It's literally just paperwork.
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  3770. OK, you're asking for the VP and cabinet to invoke the 25th. Yeah, that's ever so gonna happen. And the devil will convert to Christianity.
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  3771. Well, it is a major ball pain to lower diesel emissions. One can eliminate soot, but at the cost of massively increased NOx emissions. One can then inject urea and run that lot of exhaust and urea through a catalyst and lower NOx emissions. But, each stage has a cost and balance to maintain. They tried a gamble, one that's blown up in the face of every competitor that's cheated in the same arena, fraud. Now, they have to explain to investors where a sizable amount of profit evaporated to and why, hoping they're not sued into penury on a personal level by said enraged stockholders. Reminds me of a song, sung to "It Had To Be You": It sucks to be you... Just sucks to be you... I'd rather have glass... Shoved up my ass... Than be in your shoes... Oh well, as usual, the lawyers win.
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  3772. All I can say is, Teeheehee. In those days, I could accurately call out colors. Just on grayscale.
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  3773. Sell them to those who need iron and copper, both valuable and in demand.
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  3774. What they fouled horribly was the actual heart of his defense. The distinction between a lawful order and an unlawful order and the erosive effect a criminally complicit command environment can have on that distinction. It's literally at the heart of what happened at My Lai, but Hollywood always loves to get it wrong or worse, not even wrong. Love the graphic on Rule #1! First time I've saw it, but certainly not the first time I heard it. If memory serves, the first time I heard it, saber toothed cats were still an annoyance... I disagree on who was pushing the code reds, as sergeants and corporals aren't ordering a lieutenant to give that order. But, it did start interestingly with perjury... Marine officers are not gods? Seriously? ;) May I introduce you to second lieutenant god... Wow, I could be charged with reckless endangerment of all personnel hearing that one, due to the extreme risk of dying of laughter. I've gotten unlawful orders in the Army, largely due to poor wording and not listening to an objection to the order not being lawful, what prompted an instant reevaluation is, "Very well, Sir, however I'll require that order documented and digitally signed". Never got such a document, the order was instead made lawful and properly considered. "Going after the Colonel", you know, insubordination for performing your sworn duties. Yeah, totally Hollywood. Although, had the Colonel in a real world court bellowed his career ending tirade, I'd have closed with my own bellow, starting quietly with "Sir, I am a veteran and a honorably retired former service member and military retiree, hence now a civilian and a representative here today of the US citizenry and taxpayers and would like to state, for the record, NOT IN MY NAME!!!", giving my sternest NCO glare. Yeah, wouldn't be allowed, but it would out Hollywood Hollywood and any attempt, rightfully having me ejected from the courtroom, likely alongside the wayward Colonel. Mr Navyman? Just whose department is on the head of a paper paycheck from the USMC? Oh yeah, Department of the Navy, sailor. ;P:p:P:p It's a favorite rub at the VFW, reminding them I was US Army Medical Corps, they are US Navy Marine Corps, the other gentlemen largely being US Marine Corps Judge Advocate General Corps and at some points, I had affiliation with US Army Chemical Corps, as well as US Army Communication Corps. Yeah, long career... High ranking Marine officer? He'd be properly referred to as a Senior Marine Commissioned Officer, which actually means something anywhere but a court of law, where that only comes into play under very special conditions - such as the Colonel's upcoming general courts-martial proceedings. I don't even think senior officers can receive a summary court martial at that point, it'd be special or general, both due to rank and nature of the charges. While on a jury, we once did have a situation where shouts were needed - by the jurist to order a recess until the nearby noise could be abated and examination and cross could be conducted at levels below a bellow. After an slightly extended lunch, the noise had ceased, although I don't believe it was by direction of the court, just that the conditions requiring the noise be made had ended (aircraft overhead, which was unusual for that location and probably was due to some emergent or contingency conditions that had ended). Memorable only because, as a juror, we were fairly well bored out of our minds and seeing a judge shout to be heard yielded entertainment to the spectacle. Military justice is... Complex, due to the unique nature of the Armed Forces (not my words, but the words of the SCOTUS). A number of offenses that are lesser felonies for civilians are capital offenses in the military. Some of the biggies, espionage, mutiny, sedition and treason, typically get civilians a lengthy prison sentence at most, a service member could actually be executed for. That reflects the position of public trust granted to our military, both to represent our nation and her values, as well as being entrusted with our most lethal of weapons. Hence, the need for a level of discipline unheard of in the civilian world.
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  3775. Well, contracts are now illegal, along with that stupid Constitution thingie for the god-king and his minions. All hail the god-king, long may he wane! I've already prepared my insurance packet. Something amiss happens, the entire planet learns how to build a "suitcase nuke", it all comes down to a small x-ray laser that was initially accidentally created due to a contaminant in the processing of a component code named fogbank. It took the DoD $200 million to replicate it during a warhead refresh, as they lost the manufacturing records for the component. Amazing what a specific fluorine compound can do. It was the heart of Teller's zany scheme for SDI magic lasers that could never work, working inside of the tamper case is one thing, focusing and directing it in space was and remains pure insanity. But, inside of the tamper, guided by shadows of ionized components, quite useful for sub-meter distances. Caring is sharing, that goes with fates as well and knowledge is power. AKA, MAD. It happens to me, it happens to all. Iran would be all of "who cares?", North Korea and other zanies, highly interested. Yeah, I believe it's gone that far off the reservation. Reminds me of the ancient film, "The Lost Missile", magic missile spewing nuclear poop and destroying everything it passes. I really need to take up drinking!
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  3776. Not necessarily. Insanity isn't always inherited. But, it's a reason why some may never *retain* their children. In some cases, never, ever see them again.
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  3777.  @benjaminsmith6411  indeed, given the amount of trade going into the port and the phenomenal number of cars imported through that port as well, delays would simply severely harm the US and especially the East Coast's economy. Which makes any GOP battle decidedly odd, as any victory they'd enjoy would be entirely Pyrrhic in nature. One victory so costly as to make the risk of a second one with similar cost more destructive than utter defeat. In short, beyond idiotically self-destructive.
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  3778.  @benjaminsmith6411  heh, for them, the long view doesn't extend as far as the end of their nose.
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  3779. The Medal of Honor is our highest award to our service members. The majority of said medals, awarded posthumously. For our military, 9/11 was our worst, as I can clearly remember my thoughts when the attacks against the WTC was reported, "We failed". We failed to prevent and intercept, civilians going about their daily lives died. Long after, I learned that one of my cousins died in the attacks. The Soviet-Afghan war, well, that mess was made worse by the same guys who trained me in certain types of action. Yeah, The Company does train segments of our Armed Forces, due to interoperability needs. End result: We had to help clean up our and Soviet messes, where most places that are the biggest mess, civilly, are directly attributable to either or both proxy warring nations. Totally turning a fair part of the world into a total goat rope. BTW, Afghanistan is about as much in the Middle East as you are, it's in Asia. There are elements of culture that make that distinction important when actually interacting with the respective populaces and trust me, been in both regions.
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  3780. BTW, Afghanistan isn't a stranger to conflict. Even Alexander the Great went through. Never "pacified" the region, merely got negotiated peace enough to ensure open supply routes to eventually reach what is the Indian subcontinent today. Much, much later, the British had their go, didn't end out well for them, being a death by a thousand cuts for them.
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  3781. "You're out of sick days." "Oh, my bad. I can't come in today, I died, I'll be better like De Jesus did - in a few days."
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  3782.  @BrainRotKills  I see! So, safety is amoral. That means that endangering the public is moral?
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  3783.  @BrainRotKills  nope, but what do you say when you have yet another negligent discharge? Oh wait, "Not guilty, Your Honor" is what you usually say. Had precisely zero negligent discharged over my military career, because we followed safety guidance and had a safety culture.
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  3784. Calm down, take a deep breath, take a brief walk and rediscover the joys of punctuation. You're better than this!
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  3785. Yeah, COVID taught me to avoid exposure unless there's a vaccine, as I've got a hosed mitral valve from the virus and buried two friends. Why don't you go tell their families that they're faking being dead? First, how do you want your remains disposed of?
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  3786. Which explains why Stalin had daily reports on his desk from the Manhattan Project faster than D.C. did. Literally. What slowed Russia down was fighting Germany, they didn't have the resources to put into place to also build nuclear infrastructure.
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  3787. Why, it worked out so well that Lee Harvey Oswald even returned back to the US.
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  3788. Centuries ago, when I worked the ramp, I was beyond paranoid around running engines. Too easy to lose situational awareness and end up in the ingestion zone or get caught by the exhaust and fly precisely unlike Superman - straight into stationary ground equipment. At PHL, between terminal C and D was the commuter aircraft, right along the concourse. Eastern had powered back (power back was their thing, as otherwise, their mechanic's union required a mechanic to push back and cost saving...), then as they waited on the taxiway entry to cross the closest runway, while tail still facing between the terminals, the pilot in control left the engines at at least 30%. Commuter aircraft were blown free of their chocks and into ground equipment, their baggage carts were blowing around, some striking the building and other commuter aircraft, I sheltered next to a 727's gear with the FO, who was doing his walkaround. The 727 was blown over its chocks and one cabin service crew member, who had just opened the rear door for servicing, lost her balance and fell to the ramp face first. I was on a baggage run, thought it was a loose bag, which I'd get on my next trip, as the passengers were waiting on their baggage. Late bags means missed connecting flights. Thankfully, a fueler was present, saw her and rendered aid while radioing for help. That was quite an expensive event for Eastern, who folded not long afterward. Good thing I decided to park along terminal D when the blow started, I'd have not cleared that ramp before my carts would've taken me for a ride. Those engines are powerful enough to push an aircraft that weights anywhere from 130000 pounds to 1.25 million pounds to 170 mph or more to take off. That's a lot of force, folks! And if it's blowing with that much force, that much air is coming into the front as well, where the giant fan awaits meeting whatever it can bring in at 2500 - 3000 rpm. That's a lot of mutual shredding, as the fan won't withstand a human body's being shredded, placing the aircraft and passengers at risk as well. Anyone going into the engine pretty much has nothing to worry about - ever again.
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  3789.  @Uzziah33  didn't realize he was born in the US, largely because I really don't track what celebrity was born where. Was aware of the lack of that eatery in China, lucky them! I've had actual Chinese food, quite tasty and varied tremendously by region. As for eating cat, I leave sexual practices to those practicing such privacy preferences, same with the long dog... I'll just get my coat... As for the PRC knowing if someone's late, frankly, I think they care about that as much as I don't care about it. Well, maybe if you had a government position, they might care. Or had a financial officer position. Or network administrator position. John Q. Public, nobody cares save the boss and nobody cares what the boss thinks anyway.
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  3790. I'm truly astonished at the sheer volume of aviation experts here, proficient to mastery of both rotary wing and fixed wing, as well as ATC policies and procedures! Why, however does the government get by without your expert consultations? All here know well how easily one can see in pitch darkness, with city lights and dozens of aircraft flying about and can see better than puny radar! All here know precisely how to fly at a fixed altitude, within a hair's breadth of a dime at 150+ knots! And all here know how trivial it is to dodge anything whatsoever, using the might of the fighter jet performance of a UH-60 and CRJ 700, indeed, both capable of trivially outflying the best fighter jets on the planet! And how long it takes to traverse one mile at 300 knots of mutual closure, given that was the distance at warning of a conflict! Why, War and Peace was written in that eternity of ten seconds! The bible, even in less time! So, do regale us further on your infinite knowledge and experience, as acquired on your Twinkie encrusted sofa, about all things flight and indeed, about your DIY brain surgical techniques you perfected upon yourself as you gave yourself mere flesh wounds.
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  3791.  @darkmantlestudios  you'd have to ask the prostitutor. :P There is prosecution and there is prostitution of prosecution, just to prove one is "tough on crime". Oh, I'm shipping you a replacement sarcometer, as obviously the sarcasm blew yours out. I've got a pallet of them out back. Alas, for bad jokes, you're SOL and just have to groan with everyone else.
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  3792. Well, sand castles for the engineers, infantry will still be chewing the crayons. The medics will make Barney sand castles and watch everyone expend their ammunition on them and the cooks will poison the survivors with cholesterol.
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  3793. Nope, that thing would be a rollover waiting to happen. More likely, it was someone screwing around with antiques and it got turned into propaganda.
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  3794.  @mrkeogh  the bearings and bearing seals would fail first, but that thing's a rollover just waiting to happen.
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  3795.  @ktiger1766  honestly, if I was going this route, I'd figure out how to put a howitzer on it, at a minimum, might go with concrete and a battleship gun.
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  3796.  @Brian-om2hh  nah, they've got gigatons of antiques, some coal fired, others require key winding. Well, Cold War relics, but then I repeat myself. They did learn an important lesson from WWII, quantity has a quality all it's own.
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  3797.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  quite true, but it'd be entertaining while it lasted.
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  3798. As federal law requires that detail, he'd still have them, as a state does not outrank the federal government, courtesy of the Supremacy clause and no state or even the federal government outranks the Constitution.
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  3799. Why, I do indeed love you, Donald! Over a low fire, with an apple in your mouth.
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  3800.  @netherkevin  Russian votes aren't allowed in US elections.
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  3801. "How much is it going to take for..." "Contempt of court, 30 days". "60 days, keep going". "90 days, want to shoot for the year?"
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  3802. Easy. Bread and circuses.
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  3803. I do wonder though, how many executed prisoners were also innocent? If it's found that they are innocent, will the judge order them undead?
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  3804.  @Adam-fl9uc  I've worked in many US government officers over the decades, most where classified information was processed and accessed. That complaint to a janitor's office would just get security called on him. Indeed, reporting a lost access card is done through security, goes through to information assurance as well and the facility security manager's office as well. And entertainingly, I had in my last position a half dozen security cards to wrangle and use. If they weren't used on a very regular basis, the accounts linked to them were deleted. I've also requested and was granted access to certain programs, purely for the purpose of diagnosing a user's access problems. I was also quite happy once that was completed and I could have them remove that access, as I had enough on my plate without jumping into someone else's circus.
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  3805.  @OldMtnGeezer  it'd be nice if I could find my glasses, but I need glasses just to find them. And need a cataract removed now, the other was removed years ago, now the other one is finally giving me trouble seeing.
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  3806.  @tdgdbs1  and the fire bottles have to be manually triggered. Not sure if that model can reenable fuel flow if it had fully engaged the fuel shutdown valve though.
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  3807.  @richwightman3044  you're right, was thinking of a different model and manufacturer (and much older) aircraft. One problem with going back to the ice age...
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  3808. Want a good LCS? Ask the folks at Homeland to develop it, you know, the Coast Guard, who go Navy in wartime. That always was the bread and butter of the USCG and they know where they'd be in time of war. Although, I suspect that reinventing the PT boat might well be in order. An LCS shouldn't be a destroyer, it should ding and dent and dodge to continue, which well describes our old PT boats jobs. But, I'm not an SME in that field, the CG is, the Navy is blue water and needs to stick with its strengths.
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  3809. Paid $6.50 for a dozen eggs last week. That'd put eggs at $108.33 a dozen. As with everything else he says, he has proved with all statements that he's more full of shit than a Christmas goose. "Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had,'".
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  3810. They can threaten civil war to their heart's content. It's if they act that it becomes a problem for them. Once weapons are taken up against their nation, it is treason and a full writ of attainder and corruption of blood can then be levied against them and their extended families for the duration of their lives. That means, taking every penny, every inch of property, even their very clothing and ejecting them onto the streets as literal outlaws. Any who help them gets charged with the felony of undermining the sentence and sharing the sentence. That's an awfully pretty family to be flat broke, propertyless, naked and under a bridge without any protection of law. It's also inherited common law that's never been legislated away and mentioned in the Constitution as only allowed in case of treason. The writ of attainder last applied in full against Robert E. Lee's plantation, which is now Arlington National Cemetery, not by his or his family's wishes. Ben's "Fight, fight, fight" nonsense literally put me in mind of Rick Moranis for some reason. What next? Gonna compare Schwartz sizes? Want to see things get really hilarious? Have Harris debate Trump and when going on stage, just have her speedwalk around the stage three times. That's more energy than Trump's expended in a year and would unnerve him, since the best he ever managed was to lurk behind Hillary in their debate, looking like some shambling Sasquatch reject. I'd have tripped him with my cane when he wandered behind me that way. One other area of concern. In the closing of the RNC, his speech was badly slurring in the closing speech he gave at the convensssssion. Interestingly, zoos nationwide have also began to complain of a dearth of elephant tranquilizers. Sure it's a coincidence though. I do have one upside against him. He can't accuse me of cognitive decline. One cannot have a decline in that which does not exist.
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  3811. Next, Congress will order a USS Monitor modernization program, as there is currently no vessels capable of launching the PGM-11 Redstone. But hey, the Congress knows far more about naval warfare than those amateurs in the US Navy. But, upon completion of the finally completed refit, we'll have an entirely new class, the Corrosion Class. The first, to be renamed as fitting its sensor suite, the USS Helen Keller.
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  3812.  @Ericbjohnston5150  for one reason that even a now no longer apolitical SCOTUS stated repeatedly throughout the nation's history. The courts should remain political, political questions remain with the legislature and executive, legal with the courts.
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  3813.  @Ryan_DeWitt  that's how you lose completely, calling facts nonsense and nonsense and losing facts and winning.
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  3814.  Joe Costantino  I read your transmission broken, distorted and gibberish. Please say again in real English, over.
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  3815. It already did, it's called the Former Presidents Act that provides lifelong Secret Service protection.
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  3816. I'd be forced to use the Spartan method, which means that the paint would be blistered and peeling from the walls swiftly. Although, that's rather a given anyway when a solid product is being emitted...
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  3817. Remember, legally speaking, Donald Trump is 91 times innocent until convicted in a court of law. That's 91 times he's ever been innocent since the day that he was born. I'll see myself out...
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  3818. Monopolies are good, just look how fast the internet was in the 1960's when AT&T had a telephony monopoly! Oh wait, it took until after they broke up telecom to even get fiber... Monopolies are good, they suppress innovation and rapid development! Stagnation is good, it gives the rest of the world a chance to take their turns at leadership. BTW, are they also going to bring back the rotary dial?
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  3819.  @jimle22  it always comes back to management, because most failures are found to result from a lack of leadership being present within the organizational culture. If the leadership does not buy in and fully support safety programs, as just one example, support for those programs erodes, corners get cut in an ever narrowing spiral until one gets components falling off, O rings freeze and fail and well, it starts raining aircraft and spacecraft. Oh, just heard another 1 in 10000 chance event involving NASA. A family found some odd junk raining down on their home, turned out to be batteries ejected from the ISS three years ago. Estimated chances of that debris landing in an inhabited area, 1 in 10000.
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  3820.  @WM0915  in other words, sane is voting for the demented and insane is voting for a former prosecutor, attorney and oh, fuck you for your service Sergeant Major, you're a sucker and a loser. Foxtrot Uniform, Alpha Hotel.
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  3821.  @MMADeepend  you first, I at least served for a generation and change defending this nation. Head to North Korea or Iran, you'll fit right in there. Just renounce your citizenship first.
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  3822. I can taunt and not get served. The difference being, he committed a crime, I have not. Worse, he committed crimes for Trump, which leaves his ass hanging alone from the hook and thus far, every one of Trump's flunkies have gone up the river. Oh well, hope he comes to love his new fiancee, Bubba.
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  3823.  @nunyadayumbusiness591  that law, being born in contradiction to the very first amendment, is unconstitutional and should be immediately ruled so by any judge with integrity in the land. Although, we do have a certain candidate that wants to permanently suspend the Constitution entirely, the name beginning with the letter 'T' and rhyming with dump. Not to name any names... And a SCOTUS that has ordained the POTUS with the authority to do anything that he wants, order anything that he wants, with full legal impunity, with powers the likes of which haven't been seen on this planet for a literal thousand years.
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  3824. Thanks! Hearing loss makes subtitle lacking videos problematic for me.
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  3825.  @user-ik4yu5mn1j  or Privacy Act of 1974.
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  3826. Save, they were protesting oppression, invasion and war. From what little I've found, the papers he had strewn about blathered something about education and corruption and known to be a conspiracy theory. In other words, his elevator wasn't making it to the top floor, so instead, it's tragic.
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  3827. And those can only be perceived in this universe as entirely square gears.
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  3828.  @yourstruely9896  like the gravitational constant, which is well, a constant throughout the universe and verified by observation of orbits? Like Maxwell's equations that explain how electromagnetism works and date from the 1800's? Yep, totally a mystery, even the atoms that we split for nuclear reactors and atomic bombs are mysterious and rarely work - well, save whenever we detonated them or pulled the control rods partially out of the reactor core.
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  3829. As magnetic as aluminum. The proper term gives a hint, ferromagnetic, ferro referring to iron.
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  3830. One problem with fusion of the rounds is, civil war bullets were soft lead. Modern bullets use lead-tin-antimony for lead bullets to lower lead fouling of the barrel and also hardens the bullets. I'd doubt the propellant difference of modern smokeless powder vs black powder would make a realistic difference, as that'd be more an acceleration curve while inside the barrel and be irrelevant to the rounds impacting one another. Velocity, as in range the civil war rounds traveled likely was much lower though, as most battles weren't fought at point blank range. So, emulating that, one could use a lower propellant charge and slightly larger bore barrels, while going with pure lead projectiles, as finding non-alloy rounds is beyond unlikely today.
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  3831. There are a great many parallels between the birth of the Republican Party and what is likely to be its death. The Native American Party, like the Tea Party, infiltrated deeply into the mainstream, corrupting it from within, just as the nativists did to the Whig Party. The Whig Party then imploded and conservatives jumped to the newly formed Republican Party, to include some obscure guy named Abraham Lincoln. The nativists already earning a bad name from their religious warfare that literally used a stolen port defense cannon against Roman Catholic churches and murdering responding militiamen, resulting in the area being ringed with militia cannon, whereupon they returned the stolen cannon and returned home. Americans really tend to dislike people that get military patrolling US city streets with fixed bayonets. Within five years, they'd invaded the Whigs and imploded the party. Any day, I expect to see the RNC letterhead replaced with a great big golden TRUMP. I wonder what the replacement party will be called?
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  3832. Well, that should be determined at the initial block diagram phase of design planning, not after implementation. That'd be ass backwards designing of the systems.
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  3833. 28 years in uniform, retired at the end of 2009 and contracted for DoD. Yeah, get Big Army involved, it gets complicated. @robinstewart6510, I used the hell out of the forward assist in basic training, back in '82. Largely because the weapons were just worn the hell out. Rarely needed it in any of my units, just jarring the weapon usually brought the bolt into battery just fine, despite desert dust.
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  3834. Absolutely! Japan hijacked Dr Who's TARDIS and went back in time. But, we intercepted with more common TURDIS units and won the war.
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  3835. Can't deport US citizens, the US doesn't exercise exile.
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  3836. Silly me, I'd have kicked it into the water and got back to avoid getting excessively wet.
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  3837.  @seanhazelwood3311  courts order removal, not cops. It's only Constitution 101, otherwise we get summary execution of randomly imposed cop orders on our streets. Which really is what you want, isn't it? Right until those guns get turned on you...
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  3838. The most unkind thing one can do to a fool is to allow them a full and unabridged opportunity to speak their mind.
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  3839. Nah, they have flex hours for the poster child at the birth control clinic.
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  3840. I dunno. I can peddle or even hand crank operate a sewing machine. Can't quite get that flexibility from a fusion reactor, which really can only boil water for tea. ;)
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  3841. That's the problem. He isn't a complete douche, he's an incomplete douche. At least a complete douche is useful. And a complete douche doesn't try to sell the world on "The US government doesn't use SQL", when it's the world's largest Oracle customer - a SQL database, plus PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL... Or fire critical workers, like epidemiologists during epidemics, cancer researchers mid-approval for a non-small lung cancer vaccine trial, weathermen that predict major storms, nuclear weapons security personnel, air traffic controllers, etc to save mythical money that is being spent even more rapidly in their absence because critical work isn't getting done now.
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  3842.  @goncas1300  what the hell are you going on about? He didn't hide those documents, he waved them around for uncleared persons to see. If I did that, I'd be beneath the prison, where light would take a fucking month to get to me. Hell, know how much money I can make once he's cleared of the classified documents case charges and the government no longer has control of nuclear secrets? Fogbank alone is worth millions. Largely because it took over $200 million to duplicate the magic recipe that got lost...
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  3843. The current crop of Democratic voter only knows how to talk and protest quietly. Gone are the days of general strikes and tar and feathers.
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  3844. Once a Marine, always a Marine.
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  3845.  @Domj618  what a fascinating take! Vote for Beelzebub to vote for God. Sorry, one doesn't vote for the devil to vote for the Almighty, it just don't work that way, child.
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  3846. Modern cars are designed to crumple and bend in specific ways that protect the passenger cabin and its occupants. The front and rear will crumple in, absorbing impact energy, rather than passing that energy along to the passengers. The roof is designed to fold in ways to protect the passengers in their seats (all bets tend to be off if the passenger isn't wearing restraint belts). It makes for some gonad pain to extricate someone from the wreckage, but it avoids the car transferring the impact energy to the passengers or folding into the passengers, as well as retaining fuel and preventing a fire in the now piece of modern art that once was a motor vehicle.
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  3847. This is just the latest symptom. Science journals are also getting similar pollution, which is being well documented by Retraction Watch. I think you're describing the auditory version of the uncanny valley. With many, thankfully a valley the size of the Grand Canyon. They're what far too many actually are, trapdoors of mistrust in all factual authority, thereby undermining all forms of authority other than their convert sponsor. Or maybe I dealt with the intelligence community for too long. No, I've been right far more often than wrong, sadly. Google will ignore it, they're making money - right until their brand is so badly damaged as to make their product penny stock value packaged.
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  3848. AI ships, my balls, he named them after Mind ships. There's a difference, AI was self-contained, Minds had pretty much a gas giant mass sitting in hyperspace to use for processing. It's pretty much comparing intelligence of a paramecium against a human.
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  3849. His monologues he delivers reminds me of "My Fellow Americans". "Our dreams are like our children..." "Buy a new speech, you're done old man!" "I have an idea you can make tons of money with". "Is it even half as good as Trump steaks? I'll pass, I prefer to keep my shirt". Someone needs to hand him some bread and cheese to go along with his whine.
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  3850.  @monicabelanger7807  he'd have had to turn in his passport to make bail.
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  3851. Cute Uh-60 in the background of the interview, I liked that bird better with a fully stocked ESSS. And an AH-64 and AC130 series friend to properly introduce myself. Well, if a nicer introduction failed, which was rare. Oddly, I was once investigated, actually had to authorize said investigation, due to some peculiarities of the infrastructure that have since been corrected. Authorized it, learned of my own errors, corrected them, everyone moved on and SIPRnet infrastructure was improved. What I didn't do was eliminate the supervisory infrastructure or obstruct the investigation, I fully cooperated and even contributed to it. And I literally could've gotten 20 large in prison. Due to a procedural error that was caused by previous in war theater lapses that were cumulative and once arrested, strengthened overall security. Defense attorneys would literally shit themselves, but my strategies always work until they don't. Same with theirs. Everyone being honest helps in that specific scenario of a massive goat screw of my own origination. Got caught out, fixed it and sent the fix downstream, case closed. Not kill the messenger. Hell, if memory serves, the kid that reported me got promoted and rightfully so! And oh, "He was federally investigated", yeah, big shit, anyone with an SF85 or SF86 is investigated. Here's your big kids pants, child. Stop pissing yourself. That's my job in my dotage and injury status. Dammit... There is one thing worse than growing older, not living to get older. Nobody I know reported back on how great dead is, only living people have suggested I investigate that option and I suspect that they don't have my best interests at heart. I'll just get my coat... Where my spare quantum torpedo is stored. ;)
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  3852.  @jim2498  no, people see that because they have both operational eyes and more than two brain cells competing for third place.
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  3853. No, file the appeal, seize the assets first.
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  3854.  @murphy903  well, the upside is, he's displaced Buchanan, the first President from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the rating of worst POTUS in US history. Instead, a New Yorker holds that dubious distinction, where every other POTUS from NY was a successful President.
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  3855. It's starting to look that way.
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  3856.  @lindaj5492  I've literally been checking my registration to vote weekly.
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  3857. Kings have rules that they abide by, laws that they obey. At least since Charles I's, ahem, shaving accident. What Trump wants is to become a tyrant king, which we've not had since 509 BC, overthrown by Lucius Brutus, whose descendant killed Julius Caesar after he declared himself emperor.
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  3858. Ensolation of course, is brightening of the sun. But, no need to be silly and move the earth. Mirrors or a big lens would do. Around the size of Saturn would do. I’ll just get my coat…
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  3859.  @gilian2587  dunno where you'll get the rock from, let alone metal. The entire asteroid belt literally couldn't build our moon. Might manage an O'Neill cylinder or three. Well, Ramans do everything in threes...
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  3860.  @TarantulaC4-24  well, God isn't good enough for Amerikkka. Maybe Odin would be OK, not that Jewish god though, totally no bueno. Yeah, I went to both theres. Why rub one face in their own shit when one can get two for the price of one?
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  3861. I'm reminded of this time of year in Grafenwoehr, aka, exploring the wonderful world of deep mud. That's OK, didn't like the weather, wait 10 minutes, it'll change. But, the food more than made up for the misery! Yeah, back in the early 1980's, education was excellent on WWII and the Holocaust. There were some things my uncle never would talk about from that war, which was something exceptional for him, so definitely it sounds like an experience best avoided by all. I only advocate for total war against ignorance and disease, which are worthy of being eliminated and are far less expensive to wage. Back to the food, the Bavarian table is about as dangerous as the Lebanese table, for there is a very real risk that one will arise twice the person that arrived! ;) Well, off to create my own dangerous table. Made up a gallon of pasta sauce yesterday, so it's time to use some of that sauce and I think I'll try that lentil pasta someone gave me. I'll save my left over gallon of chicken and barley stew for lunch.
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  3862.  @liberalshaveitallbackwards4667  yeah, because Democrats knocked the bridge down?
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  3863. The Hitchhiker's Guide got on the list because the Vogons are doing the reviewing. Also soon to be banned in Florida, Booby birds, Tata trucks and Volvo cars, as they all are naughty parts or the last, confused as such... Then, the word Democrat will result in imprisonment. Consciousness will also be prohibited, as that's obviously way too woke for Florida's delicate sensibilities. I say, eject them from the Union and gift the place to Cuba, for them to briefly enjoy before it submerges.
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  3864. BTW, while deployed to the Middle East, I happened upon some medical textbooks for a medical school library. The books on OB/GYN had every illustration of female anatomy black markered out by the religious police. OB/GYN students were not allowed to learn anything about female anatomy. I wish I was joking, but I'm as serious as a heart attack.
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  3865.  @Evad-xp7xz  I don't think that there is a GED program in Saint Petersburg and bot is a job of sorts. As for the OP, judges cannot be "barred off the bench", they must be impeached by Congress to be removed. The hint is, when one needs confirmation by the Senate, only impeachment can remove them, as they're not civil service.
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  3866.  @duramaxdad  the Privacy Act of 1974 and HIPPA are being violated wholesale. But, you'll just roll over and surrender. And so a nation dies.
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  3867.  @pallidavisholubar7273  treason will never be part of the dialog. Period. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Has either Trump or Musk levied war against the US? There is no enemy, as Congress hasn't declared war on anyone. Now, one can make a case of sedition and massive overreach beyond his authority under the Constitution and he literally can be impeached for any reason that the House and Senate come up with, even for having mussed hair, as the SCOTUS found long ago that impeachment is a political act, not a criminal or civil matter.
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  3868. Out of CLP, believe it or not, I've used diesel for lube. It actually worked quite well, got good mileage out of mileage jokes about it too. The ugliest I had was using bacitracin ointment to lube a pistol. Ugly, PIA to clean later, but it worked.
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  3869.  @MaggieKeizai  the majority of my failure to feeds were all not rifle related, but magazine related. Those issues disappeared completely with our M4's, as when those arrived, so did brand new magazines, replacing the entire brigade's mags on a 1:1 basis.
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  3870. I'm aware of only one form of life on earth that uses silicon biologically, diatoms. We still don't have a handle on what proteins handle silicon, induce biogenic silica to polymerize into a cell wall or how in blazes it moves that mess through the cell to get it to the cell wall. It's a highly active area of study and like so many cool things, a cast iron biaotch to figure out. Amazing what a butt ton of carbon can do, when properly organized!
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  3871. What's worse is that these idiots vote. I'm growing to believe that the ancient Athenians had the right of it in not allowing the idios to vote.
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  3872. Complacency, the enemy of humanity! :/
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  3873. Poppycock! Two entirely different and opposing stories only happen on those rare days that end in the letter "y" in English. Seriously though, crazier and stupider stories have been used in defense, occasionally, they even work, as life itself can get crazily stupid at times. Frankly, it sounds like the wife set her paramour up, along with her jealous husband. But, that's only a suspicion. As a former juror, would I buy the story? Probably not, but I'd certainly rent it and take it out for a test drive. Questions I'd expect answered by the prosecution would then be why a loaded pistol was left outside and on a gun safe in a "sanctuary room" and why the window he couldn't bolt through wasn't capable of being opened. But, this case is nearly as bad as a jurist instructing a defendant that only a plea of guilty is permitted, under threat of sanction. The term Kangaroo Court comes to mind.
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  3874.  @JustTooDamnHonest  well, Hitler killed himself, cyanide and shot himself before the cyanide could start to work. Now, Mussolini, what happened to him was epic. Ran off to escape to Switzerland, hoping to fly then to Spain, was captured by communists, summarily shot the next day, body dumped in a plaza in Milan and a crowd hung him up by his heels, stoned, spat upon and beat upon the corpse. I suspect that those folks didn't like him very much. Hitler's corpse was exhumed by the Russians, identity was confirmed and the body cremated, the ashes tossed.
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  3875.  @jamesdana1273  heh, sound goes out occasionally on a PA system. Now, if my team was scrambling to get and keep the accursed thing back online and he stated he was going to stiff us? I'd have turned off his mike again, then loudly asked him if he wanted to rethink the payment of his debts or are we repossessing the equipment immediately. As soon as he mentioned litigation, everything gets broken down and removed. Sorry, passed a corporate point where from then on, everything is between attorneys. Then, they have a choice, try to commit grand theft on national television, with hundreds of witnesses, try to kidnap the sound crew or allow our property to be repossessed and he can try to be heard the old fashioned way - the way people have been heard for thousands and thousands of years.
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  3876.  @stephanweinberger  save that a trusted individual could as easily then generate a new hash for the Makefile, save it and it appears as valid as everything else in the repository. So, timestamp auditing would also be necessary, as its hash would be saved at a different time and date than the rest of the files. Well, unless that also was altered. My first rule of information assurance, trust no one, not even myself. So, stumbling blocks, such as checks and balances, auditing before publishing, etc always get inserted, regardless of my gonad pain. Never had a persistent compromise on networks I was in charge of, so I obviously did something right, given we were repeatedly targeted by multiple APT's.
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  3877. Lightning isn't much of an EMP, which is a regional phenomena. Geomagnetic storms are also regular occurrences from solar outbursts, thankfully nothing like the Carrington event, but still plenty spunky and causes some hair loss in the load protection and management centers. Radiation, yeah, a few days and everything's fine for a fair bit of time outside. Give it two weeks, you're pretty close to background radiation levels again. New Orleans, kind of a poor example, when Houston would be more damaging to fuel infrastructure, as was illustrated a few years back after a hurricane hit there. AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud management centers, although a cyber attack would be just as effective and a lot cheaper. Another misconception is one bomb per target. For large targets, both CEP comes into play, as does the nature of a target. An air field needs multiple devices, with a military air field likely needing up to a half dozen devices to entirely destroy. Degradation vs destruction are also facets to consider. MAD becoming a component, what we'd get is what we'd send. Upside is, deployable warheads are quite limited compared to the height of the Cold War. Still, it's moderately likely my area would get some licks, as we've Chambersburg not far away and the area is dotted with DLA and NSA (Naval Support Activities, not the Puzzle Palace) depots, if things went toward countervalue. Slightly more likely, which remains extremely unlikely, a strike on a NATO member with a tactical device, which would earn a reprisal strike of a like nature. An analogy for that is, two prize fighters in a heavyweight boxing match, both having anvils in their gloves. Nobody's going to want to swing first, as they know a swing is going to then be coming their way. Circling back to EMP, due to the geology of the area I'm living in, whenever we get any halfhearted geomagnetic storm, my computers crash due to power spikes riding past my filters. For what I've got, not worth getting a saturable reactor to try to block those odd spikes. A data center, yeah, worth the expense of protecting, even a main office, a home office, yeah, not worth spending more than all of the computers are worth to protect them.
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  3878.  @vincedibona4687  given that I was an NCO, one of my primary duties was teaching.
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  3879.  @rebeccamacias  as one that was born and raised Roman Catholic, I'll just reply in one word. Bullshit! Every church of every faith talks politics, some less or more passively than others, but the Catholic church and evangelical Protestant faiths don't do passive, they do aggressive and conversion by force, if allowed. They did it throughout their histories.
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  3880.  @mamaahu  wait, isn't that heresy? "Give unto Caesar" and all that? That's black heresy to the prosperity gospel faiths! You know, where were Jesus around today, they'd brand him a commie.
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  3881.  @PerryMarshallScott well, a cookie from the bottom of the cat box has more nutrition than a Big Mac, so you're not saying a whole lot. With cannibalism in those folk, well, that's an extremely high fat diet and that'd decidedly unhealthy. I'd not recommend allowing them to utilize your bathroom after eating. Largely, because you'd have to allow them inside of your home...
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  3882.  @Noconstitutionfordemocrats  wow, abandoning equipment to avoid paying three times its replacement value is now giving money. OK, next time, we'll bankrupt the nation and bring home every damned paperclip and raise the shit out of your taxes to cover it. Enjoy a 90% tax bracket for minimum wage.
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  3883. There are precisely two races on this planet and it's readily apparent which one is which. There is the human race, a tailless offshoot of monkeys that define themselves as not apes, but are just bald apes that use slightly more advanced tools than their cousins. There is the rat race, which decidedly have tails, burrow, trash things, have constantly growing teeth and can either play cute or be exceptionally disagreeable and known to carry a few really unpleasant to human diseases. The ears and nose kind of gives them away, along with that disagreeable thing. Rats are also known to run scientific experiments on humans, pretending to be test subjects and randomly dying just to see what their human test subjects do. Kamala is obviously a human. Trump's staff, obviously... Dammit, human. With ratlike characteristics. Seriously, the only time ethnicity comes to my mind at all is in regards to medical issues in need of treatment and really, that's the only time such things should come to mind.
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  3884. It most certainly was reported back then and even earlier. Google "Clear air turbulence", it's been known about since aircraft could approach jet streams.
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  3885.  @g00bers24  odd, if he was sleeping on the beach, why didn't he get a tan? Oh, fiction, that's why. Why aren't you at the front in Ukraine? You really suck as a bot, you know.
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  3886.  @blackout07blue  and Biden did have the symptoms of having a cold, so it was a guy with a cold vs a guy with dementia.
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  3887.  @mariamaria2751  well, that and lead were both common in cosmetic products. We didn't regulate foods or drugs at all until a rather wealthy young woman was poisoned with thorium water. Then, there suddenly was an interest in regulating foods and drugs. And alas, I'm actually not joking.
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  3888. The entire lecture was bogus, likely entirely out of ignorance. First, the entire train of objections is akin to complaining that Linux isn't a hammer, when a screwdriver is required. It's neither, it's a general purpose OS, for the most part. Aerospace requires a realtime OS, with the smallest of jitter in task processing possible. Jitter being the variable time between an input and answer from the software and delayed answers are considered hard bad answers. A good example was Apollo 11, with the approach radar on while landing, the computer overloaded and incessantly rebooted. Thankfully, Armstrong had taken full manual control early on, not trusting the relatively new computer. Had he not, the reboot would've cut power to the engines and history would've recorded a fatal crash on the lunar surface. The cause, radar data simply overloaded the computer with data, buffers overflowed and the primitive computer simply kept rebooting and alarming. Which on errors, it was supposed to do. Now, there are realtime Linux distros available, one is actually in use by the US Air Force, which puts to lie everything in their presentation. It already exists, it's in use and it's certified. It's also novel enough to fly under their radar, which is unsurprising, as novel things aren't exactly welcome in aerospace. New can mean buggy, buggy can mean failed projects, as nearly happened with the F-35. Remember when they had trouble booting up the entire airplane? AFIK, there are around a half dozen realtime OS vendors out there, two are Linux based and relatively new. Not a one will ever even remotely become popular, as they're not designed for regular server usage or workstation usage, they're for specialized custom applications like running equipment like airplanes and their subsystems. They'd suck at, say, running sendmail, but excel at their purpose of monitoring a thousand sensors and balancing an aircraft's flight. And the Wind River VxWorks OS, also open source, has gone to Jupiter and Mars. The RTLinux line was acquired and revamped, but originated in 2007, languished a bit around 2011, acquired and reshuffled a bit, but has managed to have annual releases since its origination. Their RTLinux product is used by Schneider Electric and Toshiba, their VxWorks used by the USAF, NASA and more. Linux is a general purpose OS, it's great as a server or desktop, even for fairly non-critical non-realtime tasks. Inside of a datacenter, it's a major workhorse, happily sitting alongside *BSD servers and more. But, in aerospace, one needs an entirely different animal, we're into round cow land, compared. Comparing the two entirely different technologies is like comparing a round cow to a bowling ball. Both are round, but that's about it. Well, off to fix my MythTV box. Looks like a kernel update borked the boot. Not ideal for an aerospace system, where borking a boot system in orbit around Jupiter would kind of be a big deal. But then, space probes tend to make really lousy home entertainment centers. Because, a hammer is not a screwdriver. A general purpose OS is not a realtime OS. And while I could take over Johnny's paper route with a large dump truck, it'd hardly be practical. Hell, Johnny got made redundant long ago anyway. I'm sure that before long, my morning paper will be getting delivered by a realtime OS operated drone to my neighbor's front door... ;) But my space probe will happily orbit Jupiter, studying away in a radiation environment that's absolutely obscene.
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  3889. El Salvador is now giving people Philly Flyers tattoos? That's taking transnationalism to a whole new level! So, did your mommy and daddy ever have a child who didn't suffer from brain death?
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  3890. Once disbursed, then magically clawed back illegally, without any due process, that's another area where it's entirely opaque. Should go into the budgeted account it originated from, but without the usual procedures, Christ only knows and maybe Emperor Musk and Empress Trump. We're completely post-Constitution and post-law here, into utterly lawless land of executive fiat laws and Congress has effectively abdicated, leaving us with literally no lawful government beyond a few federal courts.
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  3891. What is a pressure cooker? The problem isn't in heating a sealed container, if said container is designed to be heated. It's when one hires Homer Simpson to be facility manager that problems begin.
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  3892.  @DisaffectedLiberal  all, while incessantly sabotaged by Congress. Such as fully vesting employee pensions on day one, something no federal agency or private company has to do. Which is idiotic, get rid of the USPS, actually named in the US Constitution, get rid of interstate highways that are postal roads and require hiring tens of thousands of federal classified document couriers, as documents and parcels up to secret are carried by registered mail by the USPS.
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  3893. That is decidedly odd, no articles on what underwear brand he was wearing. If one's going for guilt by association of purchasing products, we'd need to go after Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, BVD, etc... Not to mention his shoe company, his sock company and his pants company.
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  3894.  @Bertiesghost  they are double rough. I've the good fortune in being allergic to the damned things. Best wishes, do be well and leave them alone.
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  3895. No, that's management level idiocy and greed. It'd potentially impact the bottom line to fight or pay, so pass it off to the riff-raff, screw everyone in favor of one's bonus. Trust me, been working for years in that suite. The worst part is, the lot knew that I'd gladly testify against them, shaken faith, but not stirred, as not a one got litigated against or prosecuted. So, not laziness in my experience, moral bankruptcy is more appropriate.
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  3896. Exactly what Al Capone said. I guess that the IRS unemployed Chicago, right?
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  3897. For signaling, I'd go with small trains to indicate various signaling hormones and modulators. It'd likely draw enough current to power a large town... )
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  3898.  @cam0227  I offered to donate my body to science when I'm done with it. They said that science doesn't accept joke gifts. ;)
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  3899. In fundie speak, "the enemy" is Satan. So, he's praying to God for God to not be incompetent and get out thought or outmaneuvered by Satan, because apparently in his faithful view, the Almighty is a blithering idiot. Now, if some loose in the head lugnut goes and kills some of the SCOTUS, especially those whose "names were called out in the mass", he'll proclaim God's angles or angels or something helped the idiot commit murder, in His Almighty name, all for the tyrant god-king. Or to paraphrase, per other Christians. Oh, Lord! Please help the antichrist to overthrow you... Me, I just say, "I just don't drink enough".
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  3900.  @frotobaggins7169  that's unusual in what way for a District Attorney?
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  3901.  @devorah711  well, that is a tactic every lawyer will tell you. If you lie about facts and get caught, you're screwed. Lie by "I don't recall", nobody can prove what you do and do not remember. Today, not strictly true, but courts aren't ordering functional MRI to evaluate memory or truth yet...
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  3902. OK, go for it! First, you need a Constitutional amendment to that effect. I'll wait.
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  3903. If the Secret Service is investigating him, but haven't interviewed him, it bodes ill for him. That's typically what happens when they're entering into a criminal proceeding, with indictment to follow. Then, his contracts get into a funny place, as they'd be contracts with someone on indictment for conspiracy to murder the senior leadership of this nation. Conviction and he remains associated with those companies is the kiss of death to all of those federal contracts. And run after conviction, don't be surprised if a wet team gets dispatched due to the threat level. And given his track record, he'll try defection, doubling down and all is admissible in court, he'll screw himself into becoming Bubba's new fiancee in the supermax. In the end, got fomenting assassination of our national leadership. Might even nab him on sedition. Treason can only be gotten if he is proved to help an enemy in a declared war or takes up arms against his nation, but the first two are both life sentences anyway. Then, likely State will strip citizenship and send his newly penniless ass back to South Africa. Never, ever, ever piss off the top shelves in the federal government!
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  3904.  @Memento2mori  the Constitution and laws are the guardrails against despotism.
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  3905. They'd not ask then either, nobody wants to get sent to stare at trees.
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  3906.  @chingron  and betrayed your nation. Good job voting against your own interests. Time to impeach, convict and remove the scofflaws. While we still have a Constitution.
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  3907. And Altzheimer's runs in families. Just sayin'.
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  3908. So, red is the new orange.
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  3909. Well, most of their top PR/advertisement people are the same ones running similar ads against Democrats in saner times. I look at it this way, we allied with the Soviets against Hitler, as there was a bigger evil to fry.
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  3910. Well, they worship the VP Trump, who thinks apples are sold in supermarket refrigerated sections and that smelt are inedible, worthless fish that start wildfires. And oh yeah, nukes could blow out hurricanes.
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  3911.  @ecksearoh6283  and things could get downright interesting if control of the nukes comes into question. I'd be entirely unsurprised if there was a preemptive strike to neutralize them were that to come to pass.
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  3912. The "This is my first day at" one was a joke, saw it when it was fresh. People dutifully followed on with other ways to impress the boss... Mine being, "Don't forget to pour around the gasoline on the way out the door". True though on never push updates out on Fridays. You push them out as mandatory immediate at COB on a holiday weekend Friday, then pour the can of gasoline out on the way out the door. One thing that really didn't sit well was, those companies that had test groups and deployment staging configured in Falcon's updater found to their horror that Crowdstrike had overrode the client organization settings and pushed the update as mandatory and immediate. That went from one lead balloon to a Blitz barrage balloon squadron full of leaden balloons. I've used their software, got our organization out of a jam with a very longstanding APT attack that was ongoing for long enough that we joked that the APT was eligible for a retirement pension due to the amount of time spent within our network. Went from loggers with delays of 19 - 26 hours to instantaneous alerts and accessible logs, literally capturing one attack in realtime, buffering it in its entirety and leveraging packet captures, submitted their latest PE software to the FBI and DHS for submission to the vendors, halting a major attack on our network and apparently, a half dozen other organizations. Attack being via RDP and novel(ish) an ancient method being revived - buffering into notepad the binary, something I'd not saw since the Windows 3.11 days. I know about that one in detail, as I ran that one down and wrote the report on it. Downside, all it needed was a repadding and recompile and they'd be at it again, but that was long enough to get the behavioral software to recognize it and jam it up in IPS. A bit later, we found the entry point - a long forgotten, unpatched DMZ test machine on a multinational network. Once it went offline, the attack was over. All, a side effect of having a network that happened, rather than one that was planned. If I'm at BSOD, yeah, lemme click on that one. Gimme a minute to grab the disconnected keyboard and start typing in commands. JLOTS, reminded me of the Mulberry harbours at Omaha. And precisely like with the Omaha one, a storm came in and knocked the snot out of it, forcing it to be abandoned. Maybe next week, we'll try the charge of the Light Brigade... Circling back though, I'd not include the A-10 being eliminated in favor of fast movers with lighter capacity overall. For CAS, it'd be inferior due to lower loitering time, less rounds for the cannon and generally just ill suited in that role. It'd be like trying to revive the museum ship battleships to assume the role of a cruiser. They could sort of do it, just not very well in that role. Sure, you can try the new guy, but I'll stick with Frank Moses. ;) And don't tell me "it's old", the BUFF is even older, both run on coal, so what, they still work and work well in their roles.
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  3913.  @KristinBagani  except that Bannon already plead guilty of fraud and is awaiting sentencing.
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  3914.  @samholdsworth420  pretty sure it's spelled Nazis. Lemme check the body count book... Yep, that's the correct spelling. Next, Russia will uncork their penultimate weapon, WWII weapons. If they can find the keys to wind them up in the morning...
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  3915. There is a video, unless you are blind, a description would serve no purpose - especially to someone not from Philly and especially not from the neighborhood. Or do you want me to get involved in your social and political issues where you live?
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  3916.  @timower5850 the description is the video. Ask eyewitnesses, they'll do what eyewitnesses usually do, identify the precise characteristics of the muzzle of the weapons. Again, what benefit is it to you? Are you a member of that community? Do you think that you'd be able to identify them, leading to their apprehension?
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  3917.  @jaycee30865 nope, no black ridges in that neighborhood.
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  3918. I mentioned this last week, after a call between Murdoch and Trump went south, suddenly his media outlets began skewering Trump, Fox pivoting slowly, as the departments either adjusted or were told to adjust or be escorted out the door by security. Initially on Times Radio, some skewering on one or two Fox shows and it's been spreading. Basically, he's lost control of his monster and thus far, he's spanking it. Suffice it to say, I'm fairly certain Trump won't react as desired and reconciliation will quickly become unlikely as he reacts. Price of eggs bit, that alienates everyone that understands US egg production and the uselessness of criticizing any POTUS over bird flu culling losses - on both sides of the aisle. When I get people on the street completing sentences about how long it takes a chick to grow to egg laying age (8 - 9 months), you're beating a dead horse and driving them away. Every other price, yes, eggs, only focus on promises, not results, as in promising something beyond the power of humanity to alter. Save, if your candidate can shit out laying hens by the millions. Choose your targets to devote shots to more narrowly. You don't create a cat hole to crawl through a wall with a .50 cal by shooting the entire wall, you fire at a foot to foot and a half area and pound the hole through there.
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  3919.  @acc4465  I question who the dummy is. The dummy giving a report on what's known and getting paid to do it or the commenter who is doing so without getting paid? Obviously, I'm not exceptionally bright, as I served over 28 years in military defense of what's swiftly turning into something worse than a Banana Republic. What's your excuse? Well, other than you've not gotten drafted yet for the Western Front...
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  3920. Until that gets locked into a subscription.
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  3921.  @FR-tb7xh  how odd that my wife, I and our children remain not extinct without fobs, which formerly were luxury items in cars! Why, we even managed to survive cranking down windows with a crank, instead of a button, optional air conditioning and having to lift the trunk lid and hood manually.
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  3922.  @edg5218  I call such types god-cops, for they act like they're the Almighty himself. I've dealt with such types in the past, being the voice of reason, they the voice of unreason, then they learn also, I was a US Army NCO and am fluent in both languages and escalation spectrum for me is beyond their means. Thankfully, violence didn't occur, but I was within a half second from it a few times and their peers reigned the idiots in. And I accepted my citation and moved on. One telling point is, fidgeting with his sidearm. Trust me, that's not a good thing around me, it just made you target #1 and I begin scanning for next dangers and that's apparent to any veteran officer or military service veteran. And the veterans, not wanting to become part of a major incident, which is a royal pain in the balls if one survives, want what I want always, peace and quiet. We can argue about it in court. Where arguments belong.
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  3923. Oh, what a terrible and tragic price that we're paying for holding Amateur Night at the White House.
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  3924.  @billyyank5807  well, prison time is for someone that was convicted of an imprisonable offense, after being indicted by a grand jury. The OP seems to want to just toss all of that out and go for summary execution.
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  3925.  @freebird3348  yep, could've saved a major injury in someone else and criminal charges had he just taken his shoes off and floated on home.
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  3926. Nope, don't read it that way, sounds more like an amoral moral argument that's in direct contradiction of established law. What's worse isn't that he started off with it, got an objection, but that he continued despite the objection being sustained. What he was supposed to do was nip that in the bud immediately and proceed along a different path. Instead, he consciously chose to plant his foot firmly upon the now visible landmine and well, unlike Hollywood, they don't go click and leave you hanging, they become instantaneously rude and terminate one's career.
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  3927. So, your answer is to upset the entire history of this nation and deny our deployed military their right to vote. OK, that also means you'll have nobody to defend the nation.
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  3928.  @jonathanvachondechevigny1020  first, you really should introduce yourself with the capslock key, it is your ally. Second, there are no such words as treator or beging. I can only assume, grammatically, that you're attempting to use the words traitor and begin. Traitor implies treason, which is precisely and narrowly defined in the US Constitution as taking up arms against one's nation or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As there is no implication of taking up arms against their nation, that only leaves giving aid and comfort to an enemy in peacetime, which is a decidedly odd notion. Howinhell do you have an enemy when at peace? One can have an adversary, but that isn't by definition an enemy. When playing chess, my adversary is not my enemy to kill, just an adversary to defeat in that contest. One can have adversarial relations in many ways and still not legally be enemies, as there has been no declaration of war by Congress, as is required by our Constitution. Although, we'll really get into the weeds on one of my pet peeves on war and the dearth of declaration of such, while still engaging in massive hostilities. The last time we declared war was WWII and frankly, we've played quite free and loose with the Constitution ever since, skirting a duty of Congress while lives are lost... But, we're far beyond the scope of this discussion there. One may betray a sworn oath, such as in these cases, sworn public servants betraying their position of trust by presenting fraudulent documents designed to usurp the very basis of our government, but that's not being a traitor, it's simply a betrayal of public trust and proof that such a person should never, ever be trusted again and that criminal charges for fraud, perjury, forgery and conspiracy should be filed, with additional charges applied under the discretion of the prosecuting attorney.
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  3929.  @kelbatt7729  there are plenty of cookies in the cat box for such people.
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  3930. The Iroquois Confederation was a democratically elected government of the Iroquois nation, complete with a constitution that the US Constitution was modeled off of. The largest difference between the constitutions was the US Constitution disenfranchised women, whereas the Iroquois women elected the male leadership and were expected to remove an abusive leader, at the cost of their family honor.
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  3931.  @unknown5150variable considering that is pure fiction, I'll disregard the remainder. What was said, quite late in his teachings was to for two followers to buy swords, so that he could be counted as amongst criminals to fulfill scripture. Not "hey, go shove a sword up the ass of anyone who won't follow me". "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send [or bring] peace, but a sword." Followed immediately by, "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me". Kinda hard to be swinging a sword about while lugging a crucifix around. As for Genocide, that's repeatedly in the Old Testament. Indeed, there's a whole part about killing everyone and everything in a city-state during a battle being ordered by no less than the Almighty. Decidedly odd, given he was already notorious for being alsmitey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence Now, excuse me while I go smite some bread dough for dinner...
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  3932.  @joanclayton1181  the GOP whored out to the MAGAts.
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  3933. Probably some crud on the leads themselves from when they were made or packaged.
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  3934. I've got precisely two Pringle regrets. Seriously, for a change.
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  3935.  @TheRealCrimdor  save we don't practice, until now, sovereign immunity to a man, only a government and never practiced absolute immunity until the SCOTUS anointed a god-king. Next, all churches will need golden Trump calves on their steeples.
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  3936. First, ANTIFA isn't a fixed organization, hence it cannot be indicted. 11 idiots were indicted and rightfully so. I don't want the book thrown at them, just the entire law library. Protest is protected, counterprotest is protected, violence is not protected, save in defense of self or others.
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  3937.  @Maryam_Noor_T  my cousin's family has some extremely impolite things to say about you and your family, having lost a patriarch of their family in the WTC, along with 3000 other families that died. I'm sure that those 1000 dead in Africa from the US embassy attacks would also have some unkind words for you as well. Personally, I've no more time for you, I've got soup cooking for dinner and that's far more important to this veteran than correcting your idiocy.
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  3938. Odd that you didn't hear of it, we heard of it when it happened and for a month and change since.
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  3939. And still not having the courtesy of giving a reach-around.
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  3940. The banks own more of his buildings than he does, they're mortgaged to the hilt.
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  3941.  @bryanhuseboe539  no, he called out dead again for the holiday weekend... ;) Last time he did that was for May 5th. Oh well, we needed the OT to cover his shift. :P
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  3942. They're already up to their shoulders in the VA system, we don't count, as usual. Just you civilians count. He already pissed all over the Privacy Act of 1974, which once was the bastion of privacy for US citizens, now it's ignored and only a union challenges it civilly. It's not time for playing around with "don't buy anything day" bullshit, it's time for a national general strike, to run until Congress surrenders to the populace and does their fucking jobs for the public for a change.
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  3943.  @LostintheTwilightZone  that's been tried since well, there's been an internet. Ain't happened in any meaningful way yet.
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  3944.  @andiward7068  no, they got Treasury payment data, not actual full Social Security data for those not getting a pension of any sort.
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  3945. All the Afghanistan problems were a turd buffet set by the previous maladministration. As for "military grade equipment", most are trucks and firearms, not worth the cost of repatriating. Are you implying that China doesn't know how to make trucks and guns? That they don't have Cisco routers and switches? That they had no access to computers? But, no, it's all this administration, the god-king, emperor wannabe was perfect and didn't set anything up to fail. Well, anything beyond every damned thing that he could sabotage. Sorry son, you worship a flawed man, not a god. A man who set the timetable for withdrawing US forces that the incoming administration was saddled with. A withdrawing of forces that was scheduled, not briefed to those who needed to implement it and as the date approached, we'd be leaving our forces abrogating the previous maladministration's agreement. Hell, the only one that administration briefed was China and Russia, FVEY got to suck vacuum, as usual for that maladministration. And who, by the way, put roadblocks in the way of issuing green cards to translators and other allies again? Oh yeah, the previous maladministration. But, what would I know, it's not as if I was with CENTCOM for most of the war - oh wait, I was! What would I know, I don't know nothing, I'm fucking ignorant and you're the shining voice of wisdumb for the entire benighted planet. Hey, I hear Putin calling you, better run quick!
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  3946. Being a US based corporation, they're bound by both US law and Costa Rico law. Just as a US citizen that travels abroad is still governed by US law, so a violation of federal law can result in one's arrest and incarceration. There are quite a few US citizens in prison for violating federal law, including terrorists.
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  3947.  @KayKay114  it was repeatedly mentioned in every one of the films that the island belongs to Costa Rica.
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  3948. First, Musk isn't a government anything, his "agency" doesn't exist legally. He bought the White House and now runs a shadow government that he claims to be hunting down and getting rid of, so our Constitution and government is moribund. Welcome to the kingdom of Musk. The Doge of D.C. decrees government agencies are closed, his puppet signs an illegal order and the legislative branch sits on its hands and wiggles. I'm growing tempted to come out of military retirement to uphold my ancient oath to protect our Constitution and laws, as my oath, my sworn word of honor knows no expiration date.
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  3949. Don't know how many chickens they had, but when he was growing up, one of my father's chores was mucking out the chicken coop in the yard. In a South Philly row home. I've also saw chickens on the street up in North Philly.
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  3950.  @CruisesAndCasinos-Cruising  well, Russia needed to mix things up. Defenstraion was getting old, after all of those doctors went out of their ICU windows.
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  3951.  @deloresbusher-miller5384  well, that's what the Ruskies say, anyway.
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  3952.  @deloresbusher-miller5384  uh, huh. A tape that none seem to be able to find and play. And a virtual server is actually hardware that mysteriously was moved to another country, the FBI doesn't have the virtual server that they report to have, down is up, white is black and Big Brother Knows All. Can't wait until we get a real President in the White House and Russia gets nuked.
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  3953. Pity! I rather like it when someone corrects me when I fuck up. Otherwise, something wrong gets on an official record and that's utterly unacceptable!
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  3954.  @rickkwitkoski1976  the best way to learn a subject is to teach that subject. :)
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  3955.  @salvationxtruth4701 the piers will have to be inspected and imaged, probably by a gamma unit to ensure no major defects are present.
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  3956.  @ChangingAperture first, the foundation is below the water, the pier was struck and likely damaged, leaving others to take impact and shearing forces as the bride collapsed down upon them. Tell me you know nothing about bridge and highway construction and engineering without telling us all that you know nothing whatsoever about them! *Maybe*, after thorough inspection and gamma imaging to ensure the piers are still usable after minor repair - with some likely needing replacement. Not that replacement would delay construction by that much. Six weeks for concrete cure before loading with the bridge support elements, about the same for preparatory work to construct replacement foundations and piers, pouring over a week to keep the concrete volume controllable and hence, temperatures under control. Slinging a bridge structure, then deck, welding rebar, pouring decks will take the lion's share of time.
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  3957.  @konradyearwood5845 that's about what I was thinking, with an option to reuse some piers if possible. The steel, that's all recyclable and useless for anything else after that much abuse. The Delaware Memorial Bridge has protective measures installed at significant cost, but it has a wider channel opening and it's a suspension bridge.
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  3958.  @ChangingAperture I heard what the chair said, obviously he omitted for simplicity inspections, repair and potentially widening the channel a bit. As for the steel, I got that impression as well from the comment. The only thing that steel is good for now is for scrap to be melted down and recycled. I suspect a false sense of security was instilled after the 1980 collision with the bridge pier, which caused $550k in damage only, never taking into account the increasing mass of newer cargo ships. Downside being, due to the proximity of the shipping channel, protective technologies are quite limited as to what could be deployed to protect the replacement in the future.
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  3959. I'm reminded of a few things, for one, how lordly he is treated, far above and superior to how all we serfs are treated. For another, the courts awaiting his Royal Boon before applying any realistic standard, when any serf would've been beneath the prison for contempt on day one. Finally, I'm reminded of something he said during his last campaign, speaking of Biden, how Biden would hurt God. I've come to realize, the God wasn't the Judaeo-Christian God, but the Lord God Trump. His followers already knew this and hence, their repeated reactions. Let him acquire the power that he so desires, welcome back the tyrant god-kings of the ancient city states back, setting humanity itself back thousands of years, albeit with thermonuclear weapons that they, nor he comprehends. After all, he never did read the SIOP, which is the instructions on using the infernal things, but did ask the military to use a nuke to put out a hurricane.
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  3960. As someone who has sat on multiple juries, that "psychosis of a jury"... Is spot on. Courts have that effect on we commoners. ;) Trump seems incapable of learning the first two rules of court. 1: Don't piss off the judge! Ever! At all! Just don't do it! 2: Don't piss off the jury, asshole! Why do I even need to have to tell you this?! I can see him falling asleep during selection, nearly fell asleep during jury selection myself and I was eventually appointed to those juries. Watching paint dry is far, far, far more exciting and interesting. It's necessary, but courts are designed to not be exciting, want exciting courts, watch Matlock. Still, there's an old proverb of non-biblical origin, "Never interrupt one's adversary when they're making a mistake". Give him time, he'll assert that the jury is paid off by Biden and the "Deep State", the latter of which as far as I can tell decodes as the Civil Service. An odd position, given his claims of their utter incompetence, but yet they've the phenomenal competence to plot as an unorganized group against him so effectively. Must involve space aliens or something.
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  3961. How is that military personnel, if he's a former Navy pilot? And nothing flies for 7 hours in that size class unless I'm aboard to power it with my flatus.
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  3962. Not a toilet, but a latrine or septic tank. Before settling in, you're supposed to write you weight on the wall. That way, if you do fall in, they know how much to dip out. Upon recovering her phone, summoning help and extrication, she departed with a shit eating grin.
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  3963. Can't manage that now. Ballots haven't been mailed yet, to be "lost in the system". Laughably, my polling place is literally across the street from our home. And it's a given that I'm voting, as I've voted inside a war zone and never missed an election.
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  3964.  @toyuki1515 well, acting like she's performing bad acting. They confuse what bad actors are, given their inability to recognize criminal behavior from lawful behavior.
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  3965. Wanting to cry on August 20. But, there's no crying in SF. Maybe infantry...
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  3966.  @ryonlyon  there are some actions that are by nature permanent.
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  3967. One thing about Greenland is, the US had multiple bases there, now we've just got Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule AFB. The other bases, well, the Ice won, as usual. We even had, much to Denmark's ire, an attempted ICBM base buried in the glacier. Didn't work out well, differential flow in the glacier caused many corridors to suddenly not stay continuous, becoming blocked when flow moved the corridor edges away from each other laterally. The nuclear reactor had many hot loop leaks, resulting in many barrels full of radioactive waste and eventually, the entire mess was abandoned. Denmark made the US go back and clean up the radioactive waste that was abandoned there, with some rather blistering comments. We've other posts there, scientific ones that have absolutely no military usage. One recently observed the fastest movement of a glacier ever recorded, the glacier accelerating to visible movement speeds to even a casual observer. Now, if I was Denmark defending my territory, first declare Article 5 for NATO against the US. Then, have trawlers drag anchors across the SOSUS sensor lines between Greenland and Iceland, rinse and repeat between Iceland and the UK. That'd tie up US fleet support. Then, mine the piss out of the region, cutting off SLOC for the North Atlantic. Now, the US is spending billions to mere millions in being an annoyance. Toss in some anti-aircraft batteries, now it's a no-fly zone and fucking up the airlines. More billions lost. Might end up with a US victory, but it'd be trivially turned Pyrrhic. Panama, easy as well, mines and blow the locks. All you win is a trench and yellow fever, bon appetit on the turdburger. With one's forces surrounded on two sides of a really big stagnant trench. Then, Trump can move on Airstrip One and he can order mandatory telescreens installed in the proles homes. Damned shame that kid in Pittsburgh couldn't make a shot that any first week of marksmanship basic trainee could make.
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  3968. In my experience? Around 95% or more. The Navy absolutely loathes getting a black eye more than losing an entire fleet.
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  3969. Many words from German are part of English originally, given the, erm, amount of "cultural interchange" between the UK and Europe over the ages. American English further incorporated words from "Hessians", some from Hess, others from other regions, Swiss, etc and still more from Yiddish, from mostly Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated in several waves as has historically happened (most of our immigration has arrived in waves over the years, typically generating a wave of xenophobic resistance to that which is the primary nature of our population growth throughout US history, from colonial times to the present). Many Hollywood films reflect that the immigration wave phenomena with specific jobs as a stereotype, with various occupations increasing around the time of arrival of a wave, such as the Irish cop, Italian bricklayers, Chinese laundries, etc. A niche occupation had its inception around the time of a wave, the new immigrants took those poor paying jobs as a matter of course and mutual assimilation occurred. As you can tell, the Blarney stone obviously kissed me! ;) We incorporated rather common foods in the same way, such as my breakfast favorite, scrapple, aka Pannhaas in PA Dutch, derived from panhas or the Dutch versoin, balkenbrij and even sauerkraut, which the use of the latter originating in the US before the civil war. Suffice it to say, loanwords and culinary history run apace in the US, although English in general is the child of many fathers. As for the "beer stein", that seems to have been an imported concept and a version becoming the beer mug in the US shortly after WWII, likely imported by returning soldiers from the war, occupation and later, from our mutually agreed upon bases in Germany. I can still remember my first Oktoberfest, where to my horror, I found myself with little room for bier, due to the culinary delights the harvest festival produced! OK, maybe not horror. ;) I'm still hard pressed to find a preference for regional specialties, although I do lean toward northern Austrian and Bavarian in preferences, most of which tend to be derived from farmer's derived dishes, hence would incorporate offal and heavier on the carbs (even if, when my wife was still alive, I was the only one in the house to enjoy beets - more for me!).
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  3970. First, the photoelectric aren't a panacea. Period. Fog, such as from my neighbor's meat locker set air conditioner and her cigarette smoke would set one off incessantly. Dust will set them off incessantly. Mist and steam will set them off. Now, the magic sauce has been available for as long as both types of detector, ionization and photoelectric and it ain't Harry Potter's magical fuck stick, it's a combination photoelectric and ionization detector, which is commonly used in commercial grade detectors in businesses. Downside being, the cost a fair amount more. My ionization detector failed silently, which is plain evil of it, silent failures are bad. Maintenance tried just popping a battery in and running, I poked it with my cane, it stayed silent, maintenance was annoyed in having to go back up the ladder and pop a replacement in. In irritation, he handed it to me. Good, I'm an electronics guy, component level, I stripped that board down. In mid-build for a radiation detector and cloud chamber for the radioactive source, the rest are loose components. The ionization circuit unchanged in well over 30 years (and basically the same detector for photoelectric or ionization, it's a comparitor and well, it compares the level read, say a quarter second before and now). The Americium source shrank by over half, which is fine. Oh, my sense of smell has been out on a powder for decades, awake or asleep. So yeah, I need that detector and well, if some food is dodgy, someone to sniff it... No cheap detectors for that yet. But, 90% of what he said on ionization, hyperbole, likely for pay. The rest, overstated, but loosely accurate. Get the dual model, minimal falses, it'll detect great. Oh, figured out the silent failure by spilling some instant au gratin potatoes in the oven unnoticed, then was reading e-mail. Looked up to see a pall of smoke and had an "Oh, shit!" moment, as I really didn't want to set off the entire apartment building alarm system over a cooking mishap. So, popped the windows, ran the fans and ignited some fumes with profanity. OK, maybe not that last part, but profanity was involved. Aired the place out, no annoyed neighbors and fire department, a wee bit less of a red face. Detector was replaced by maintenance, mischief managed. And thanks to maintenance, a new science project was born that'll make a great conversation item at parties, as the radiation detector I'm building is of a CERN design for a particle spectrometer, so it can identify the element based upon its radioactive fingerprint (specifically, energy level). Not too shabby for $50 in parts. The cloud chamber is just a couple of shitty busted lid Amazon food storage containers that are getting repurposed, a chunk of heat sink, some blue freezer packs and that super secret ingredient, hot water. Shhhhh... See PhysicsHigh for details on the cloud chamber. CERN's education outreach website for the experiments. Me for a 62 year old guy with a cane on a stripper pole, I need the money putting it back on again... OK, not the last, really, I've no desire to end up in traction for the next six months. Yeah, dad humor meets EMS humor, deal with it.
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  3971.  @david4096  naw, truth and reality lie, insanity and stupidity tells the truth and Trump and the Everglades are both great investments.
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  3972.  @happ-hobby  actually, reinforcing your comment point in agreement. I considered such a self-declaration, but then I'd have to become an atheist.
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  3973. I loved one of those "influencer" idiots, who tells her viewers to just start running. In one case, a 16 year old girl took off running from an aircraft that was evacuated for an engine fire. She ran through the smoke, to be run over by a fire truck and killed. The driver didn't even know that he hit anyone. Instead, hit the ground and find someone from the crew for directions, as there are standard assembly areas that are safe from both emergency equipment and any misbehavior on the part of an emergency aircraft. They're there for passenger safety first and foremost.
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  3974. Actually, yes. VP and cabinet inform Congress that POTUS is unfit medically for office. I recall one such advice given when POTUS went in for a colonoscopy procedure (think it included polyp removal), only lasted a couple of hours, but it's actually the procedure. The 25th amendment, section 4. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB11131 Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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  3975. Manchuria then belongs to the Mongols, of Mongolia. Or did we forget about Genghis Khan? Hell, based upon such ancient claims, Mongolia owns everything through the Middle East and over half of Europe! Now, China invades, Russia launches their nukes from their bases on the Peninsula, their forces glow. Not a good idea or option. Worse, it destabilize the region, which isn't in the PRC's interest, potentially bringing the Kuril islands into question more than currently, bringing Japan into the mess, again against PRC memories and interests, North Korea then jumps off while everyone's distracted and the entire Pacific powder keg goes off, to the harm of Russia and the PRC. All, before the PRC has completed their blue water navy, again to their disadvantage. Of course, most of the predictions here have aged well - as milk left in the summer sun for a week. Like every other prediction since the dawn of time... Humanity just sucks at predicting things that are complex, largely due to insufficient information.
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  3976.  @pansepot1490  socialist was in the name of Nazi Germany, there was no socialism present. If Bob was in the name, think it'd be a fishing line float?
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  3977.  @scottmcshannon6821  whatever are you talking about? ChatGPT has proven eminently usable for marketers of all manner of vaporware products, from cryptocurrency to even job searches and resume boosting. Indeed, courtesy of multiple e-mails from assorted firms suggesting ChatGPT update my resume and help with job searches, I've improved my spam filter tremendously. Not only has ChatGPT proved me correct that AI actually stands for Artificial Idiocy, it's also proven to expose village idiots globally.
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  3978. Actually, as much as I loathe the SOB, I knew quite well he couldn't and can't bring egg prices down, no matter how many eggs he lays in court. The rest, he could've avoided and entirely caused.
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  3979. So, I've stumbled upon the Masochism Central Channel, got ya. :P:p:P:p:P:p Obviously, I'm a masochist, why else would I put in nearly 28 years into a military career? I only retired because, it just started to hurt too damned much to put all of that gear on in the morning. Don't get me started on AK's built in blacksmith shops (or is that shoppes?) in the rural Afghan regions... Rust control, I take it you've never been to Iraq... Overall, I'm well known to imbibe truly legendary amounts of distilled spirits, but I've never been drunk enough to build that or fire something that abusively malassembled - outside of from a vise. Given that ethanol, firearms and myself remain amicably strangers, yeah, vise testing only. I like having forearms and hands! Total frankenbuild from below hell. Pretty bad when one is building shit from seven floors below hell. But, it proves, some people should never be allowed to assemble metal of any sort.
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  3980. I've burned the flag many times, as it was worn, tattered and unservicable and that's the US Flag code method of destruction. As mentioned, protest is allowed, so when I see foreigners protesting in their home countries and burning the US flag, I shrug, as that's permitted here and anyone objecting is objecting to our very own, very first amendment. As for profanity on public display, were that unlawful, what is to prevent someone from deciding that a specific political party's name or candidate's name is profanity? Now, we'd have a monarchy and anarchy would ensue - rightfully so, as we are decidedly not a monarchy.
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  3981.  @marksainsbury2422  got caught that way myself. Doesn't make it invalid, cherrypicking data is a favorite pasttime for pseudoscience types. Rather like religious fundies that run around screaming about end times, because of "wars and rumors of war", to which I laugh and ask for them to name any time when there weren't wars and rumors of war. As for accelerationists, they think that they could accelerate a downfall of civilization, ride the tough times out in their gilded bunkers, happily sipping champagne and nibbling caviar, then emerge and start running things and everyone will happily follow them. More likely, those who starved, watched family and friends die and shivered through long, cold winters will be waiting for them with a brand shining new National Razor.
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  3982. From what little has been said, there was one critical thing present that created a major liability risk. As proved by two unintended discharges previously, there was absolutely no culture of safety within the entire project and that always is the fault of the senior leadership. That, from a retired soldier, small arms expert and multiple firearm competitor. From my chair, accidental discharges are only such due to a malfunction - everything else is regarded as negligent, regardless of laws to the contrary. It's that mindset that creates an atmosphere where all consider themselves part of the safety chain.
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  3983. Most resembling Idiocracy.
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  3984. The US Constitution defines treason extremely narrowly and precisely as the employing arms to overthrow the government or giving aid and comfort to an enemy in a declared war. I'll wait for you to prove that they've taken up arms and shot at government officers. Or are you advocating abandonment of the Constitution?
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  3985. Yeah, the simple accident of dropping a ham sandwich turned into a major conspiracy theory. Or something. You know, sneaking off to spy in an antique reactor, climbing through a few feet of stainless steel, control assemblies and fuel, to gnaw on a sammich, when the flying saucers and worse, flying cups upset a wife due to a fractured tea service. Between the dropped sandwich and the profanity of the enraged wife, the reactor overheated, melted, then had a massive explosion. Or one could go with what actually happened, a comedy of errors resulted in an inevitable tragedy. Oh wait, that couldn't happen, because governments are all perfect and never make mistakes. The radar crap makes jack shit of sense either, as the US and Soviet Union had those since WWII and both operate a fence type radar to this very day to track all of the junk we've tossed carelessly into orbit. A US version shutting down in 2013 in Texas, as it was replaced by a global version with more stations over a wider area to better track the junk in orbit. Feel free to look up "Space Fence" and the Russian counterpart, who share information between them to ensure orbital safety of modest projects like the ISS. Then, there's one not touched here. Chernobyl is a total dead zone, nothing can live there. Ignore the tourists visiting pretty much daily. Or those, ahem, Russian tourists in the tree looking clothing and armored vehicles that dug all over the place, they all obviously dissolved or something. Reality is stranger than fiction far too frequently, so some seek to make fiction even stranger. I'd pop these idiots in the head with my cane, but it's far too much fun tripping them incessantly with it instead... OK, I can wish. Trip them or just tie their shoelaces together, which would likely occupy them constructively for a decade untying them again.
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  3986. Yep, a fine firearms instructor, providing the bad example of what not to follow. Odd how I've given hundreds of firearms classes in the military and somehow retained the use of all ten thumbs and both eyes, leaving the classroom entirely unperforated. I did send one of my classes back to the classroom after they hit the range though. Was monitoring the M2 .50 BMG range after giving a class in the weapon, use, firing and preventative maintenance, including headspace and timing adjustment. Heard the gun begin to fire erratically and just as I'd shouted CEASE - BOOM! The barrel blew off and flew 25 meters downrange. I'd harped on checking the detent spring, as it's a common failure item, which prevents properly setting the headspace for the barrel/gun and holds the barrel in from unscrewing when firing. Obviously, nobody checked, as the gun was also out of time by two notches. So, I asked who didn't perform their pre-operation PMCS and headspace and timing checks, nobody raised their hand. Had they done so, it'd have been a lesson learned. None admitted to not doing so, so they obviously hadn't learned and they went through my class again and the next time, under my highly irritated glare, properly checked their gun for safety. It could as well have fired partially out of battery, blown the feed tray cover off and injured the operator or assistant gunner. I've also witnessed what that half inch wide, two inch long bullet can do to a human body with its 13000+ foot pounds of energy at 3000+ feet per second energy. Think Superman putting his fist through someone. And I am one of the original "Safety Nazis", do something unsafe with a weapon, you'll think the Almighty just started thundering at you and you'll be off my range before you realized that your feet left the ground.
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  3987. Where is Cleon when you need him? Blaster injury? Crap... Still like the books better than the implementation of the series.
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  3988. I do like magnets on lines and better, inside of sumps. They are useful inside sumps, where filings will be trapped and removed from fluid flow in transmissions and engine oil. Magnets to move liquid, only useful in the lab, but measuring magnetic interaction of movement is useful in production petroleum facilities. Magnetic fields measure movement of the fluid, which is about all that the effect is useful for. Every other gadget and "technology" (it ain't a technology) is magical thinking and hence, a con.
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  3989. Get a national strike going, once their corporate campaign contributors start calling and getting directly through, they'll start paying attention. Now, protesting en masse would probably just get declared an insurrection and numbnuts would just declare martial law, as truth and he are unfamiliar with one another. But, staying home, they're sure as hell not going to be sending the US Army to individual homes and force workers to their civilian jobs at bayonet point. Not the least of which is, the Army wouldn't piss on their oaths and the numbers just don't exist. Not enough soldiers to even visit half of the population's homes to see if they're not at work and employed. And every day people are home, billions of GDP get lost and corporate profits are lost, in organizations long cut to the bone in "fat trimming", leaving zero redundancy.
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  3990. Medicine is unpredictable, that's why it's an art, rather than a science. That was their defense, something diametrically opposed to what medical schools teach - that medicine is a science.
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  3991.  @Bigredfitnessmoshe  with that great a warren of tunnels, finding an entry or shallow point to make a new entry that is outside of a cemetery should be trivial. Instead, they wiped their asses with the Geneva Conventions, opening themselves up to lawful reprisals.
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  3992. Actually, the Army has added stress based shooting in the training for all special operations personnel. There's been talk about expanding it service wide, don't know if it gained traction, as I retired two years ago. But, true, training is necessary. I'm only saying that without stress based training, accuracy is pretty much out the window. As evidenced by police firefights where 60+ rounds are fired, no target found. :/ But, some training beats no training at all.
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  3993.  Secret Profile  Apollo ran about the same way, so has most of the US space program. Everything tends to be contractor or subcontractor driven.
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  3994.  @okaro6595  not quite. I voted while in Qatar and other nations in the theater. I voted in my home state by mail. Something Trump wanted to eliminate, which would've stripped the right to vote to all deployed military.
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  3995.  @johnathonrusk5853  as I said he said that after losing, how could he issue an executive order canceling all mail ballots? His statements to the news media are online.
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  3996.  @mocrg  there is worse, doesn't know, learns and refuses to accept the law. Therein lies the path to violence and anarchy.
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  3997. I'll remember that, as I wear my black veteran's hoodie and mask to avoid freezing my balls off or getting COVID again.
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  3998.  @silentnight9655 I dunno, personally, I've learned to hate, with all of my heart, one unfair and oppressive law. Repeal gravity! Unfair and oppressive law that keeps the people down! I'll just get my hat...
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  3999. Not at all unusual, as highways are crowned to allow water to run off. Now, one major problem has long been road surface resurfacing, which changes the clearance and if there's a delay, well, the posted and registered clearance is fat out wrong. Saw a few bridges in PA nailed that way over the decades.
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  4000. Heh, they'd need WP to equal the smoke of a few volleys though. Black powder comes with its own complimentary smoke screen from hell. Honestly, I believe it's more of an obscurant than zinc oxide dispensers are. The only thing superior is WP and nobody in their wrong minds wants to be near that.
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  4001.  @dorettecarlson8804  in the European presser, brown fluid in 1 ounce quantities at the bottom of a tumbler, repeatedly, showing that he had quite a few glasses of, erm, libation awaiting his attention. Might as well had a bottle inside of a brown paper bag and worn his trademark lampshade. And that's said from someone who is known to consume lordly amounts of ethanol in one serving, but manages to not try to hop onstage with the ladies at the jiggle joint or stand in the corner wearing a lampshade. But, that's just due to having a really weird metabolism.
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  4002. My reading of the SCOTUS decision is the outright denial of the entire ninth amendment, effectively repealing part of the Bill of Rights from the bench. This is unique since the ratification in 1787! The day prior, denial of second amendment regulation of the "well regulated militia" under all interpretations of the militia by case and codified law. Followed after by undermining the first amendment separation of church and state and another attacking Miranda. I postulate a full on assault upon the entire Bill of Rights. Next, we'll see. Perhaps they'll mention that women aren't mentioned in the Constitution, hence are not people under the Constitution and have no rights or even that no one has a right to life codified in the Constitution... Welcome to the United States, a nascent Constitution Free Zone. Where all aren't true citizens as we previously understood the concept, but chattel property of the state or its appointees. Perhaps we should call France to borrow their national razor...
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  4003. Aw, landing is easy! How deep do you want me to land it? ;)
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  4004.  @ssfbob456  there are two primary jammer types, old and new. Old models were wideband models, like spark gap units with various antennas, later targeted frequencies was used, but evaded over time by spread spectrum. So, step or sweep models became more common, with the military getting ones with more bells and whistles to make the other side have to work at getting signals through. That's the ultra simplified version, without going into barrage jamming, carcinotron (aka backward wave oscillators) and more technical stuff that gives even me a headache. The carcinotron was named that way, as it was "cancer for radar". Technology left that in the dust as well.
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  4005. Yeah, tell me about it! I'm part of the 1% who can't tolerate statins at any dose. My muscles start to break down. :/
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  4006. We did not all survive any presidency, any emergency, any war or hell, any day. The nation survived, but I guess that doesn't count in your book of nirvana fallacies.
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  4007.  @mhammer3186  one thing I've learned is, there are precisely zero unaccountable bureaucrats in the US. Piss of a VIP, you'll find the most protected of positions at risk instantly, as there's always some out for HR to drop the hammer onto if they need to. Even money, it's some dipshit that loathes the military. Shred a few of those historic vehicles in a public way, on memorial or veteran's day on live TV, watch how quickly they find that idiot's name out and they're gone, as now that individual made D. Boss look bad to the public. It's called being a PR nightmare. Meanwhile, they fucked their medical professionals during major storms, as now the folks that volunteered to drive them to and from work are no longer allowed to do so, so hospitals won't be conducting shift changes and could potentially be unable to care for their patients. Again, right at someone's ogre feet...
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  4008. My wife and I have two grown children, well, she died three years ago, but... Out of 16 pregnancies, one being an ectopic pregnancy. We wanted just one more child, but that was not to be. Had I returned, as I did after she had the ectopic aborted with much drama due to the nearest hospital (a military requirement at the time) having religious rules that required my consent (that's still a mystery to me and I'm intimately familiar with the bible) and I was utterly incommunicado due to our military mission and found her locked up, I'd have turned my military training and skills against that facility and extracted her and my team would've joined me. There would have been no quarter given and the building would've been leveled after.
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  4009. Save that a whale can't breathe under water. Has to surface, just like us.
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  4010.  @ByzantineDarkwraith  as mentioned, addiction may not have a harmful effect, but mere dependence. As an example, I literally have a caffeine and nicotine addiction, but there is no harmful effects from that present in life. Withdrawal, then the headaches and palpitations happen, totally unfun. The palpitations from nicotine withdrawal, the headaches from the caffeine withdrawal.
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  4011. I've always had one niggle over "fifth amendment privilege". Privileges can be administratively revoked, rights require the orders of a court to encroach upon them. When did we suddenly acquire a Bill of Privileges? Doesn't that erode all rights by making them administratively optional, so rightly should be called the Bill of Optionals?
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  4012.  @TruthBeTold6573  as in the directive ended in 2016 and was recently reinvoked. Uncertain as to the scope of that directive currently, but it likely doesn't include hostages. Unless that administration wants to explore an Israeli version of the National Razor.
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  4013.  @romithromith  thanks for covering that! MDMA is currently still being heavily studied, with the VA sponsoring a significant number of studies on PTSD treatment via several approaches that involve MDMA and early results do appear promising. Now, to see long term, as early results have disappointed before in many other complex illnesses.
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  4014.  @tabularasa0606  I disagree. One might become a billionaire by being a good person, but one would have to share that wealth to remain a good person. Massively and due to the personality type involved to acquire such mammon, well, that's beyond rare, right up there with the jackalope.
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  4015. He's not supposed to be able, but the SCOTUS has decided that the United States of America is a Constitution Free Zone.
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  4016.  @marcyking461  well, since the Constitution is not protective there, it's non-protective for them. Not only the deputies, full corruption of blood should be enforced and their families also enjoy said custody. And the same level of efficiency in locating them for release as was utilized in said apprehension and unlawful confinement.
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  4017.  @DanielsPolitics1  libel in Europe vs the US are vastly different arenas. Official secrets, thankfully less misused in Europe than the US (being actively addressed, most US misuse being ignorance driven). I’ve actually read emails tagged SECRET//FOUO. For Official Use Only flags something FOIA exempt. Anything FOUO and above is FOIA exempt and flagging as both nonsensical and against regulations. Root cause of the nonsense found to be profound ignorance. When provided the classification guide, those who refused to follow it ended up being encouraged to find other employment. Cleanup will likely take a literal generation. :/
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  4018.  @flyoverstateresident2890  the Declaration did actually issue a declaration "all men are created equal", not anything about equity and the fourteenth amendment makes no mention of equity, but equality of treatment. Why do you try to change what the Constitution and Declaration both say? The words were chosen with care for a reason, one you seek to undermine by falsely altering the verbiage.
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  4019.  @mitchellspanheimer1803  metal shielding is even worse, especially with beta. Remember, Cs-137 is a 0.5 Mev beta source and a 0.6 Mev gamma source. Bremsstrahlung radiation will be emitted by metal when a particle impacts the metal atoms, which can then ionize a path through the chip itself. Some plastics would be far more effective in protecting the circuitry than metal. In space, one faces mostly protons and beta, along with x-ray and a touch of gamma, all save the EM generating bremsstrahlung radiation from the spacecraft hull. Thankfully, one doesn't have neutrons or protons to really foul the camera in the case of Cs-137, but damage from gamma should be minimal to absent at that energy level. As a hint, thunderstorms can generate gamma in the 100 Mev range, we don't see cameras failing from that. Pair production is quite unlikely at that flux and energy level. Oh, another tidbit, I-131 is used in nuclear imaging, had such testing done for my thyroid. It puts out around 0.364 Mev, which goes clean through the body to be easily detected. The Cs-137 is harder by a little, but magically was blocked by a hand that should've only barely attenuated some of the beta and not a lick of the gamma. Were such an offer real and I ran into it and could verify it as a source of some type, I'd buy it and call a friend who's a nuclear health physicist to verify by a proper survey. Then, if it was something like Cs-137, call the NRC and the military installation he works at to see who wanted to take custody of the damned thing. Better to get it off the street and market and into proper custody than pray it doesn't turn up used in some terrorist attack or irradiating a neighborhood. I'd also get the tag number of the seller and if possible, the VIN from the dashboard. The NRC would certainly want to have a conversation as to where such a hazardous source originated.
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  4020.  @trustinsynchronicity  just what the Jews that helped build their own concentration camps said, just before their blue shower and quality time inside the ovens.
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  4021. Arson that risks every employee and customer, yeah, she'll get time. But, in many communities, cable theft is also a felony, so it's telling if they mention felonies, but not what they were or if they were violent or non-violent. An ounce of weed still is a felony in many states, totally equal with arson and reckless disregard for the lives of others, amiright? ;) If they don't point out what the felonies were, they were likely non-violent BS charges and the news outlet is playing you for a fool using the "she was no angel" bullshit. If she committed 21 violent felonies, the people really need to seek redress of grievances with their government over a catch and release system for violent offenders. If the individual has 21 arrests for an ounce or so of weed, the people should seek redress over the waste of sparse tax dollars over penny ante offenses that should've been summary offenses paid for by fines.
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  4022. As that isn't what the law says, your opinion is noted and discarded. The ones to tell are your senator and representative, who will happily log your opinion in file # 86.
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  4023. The US never learns. We sent steel over to Japan, it was returned in Pearl Harbor and WWII. So, not learning, we're still sending steel over to China... But now, we've allowed our steel industry to fail. Hopefully, Chinese is easy to learn, given how we're also now attacking veteran benefits and pensions, won't have anyone to defend the nation or steel with which to defend it.
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  4024.  @seldonwright4345  so we're now ignoring the Constitution and exiling people for simple and armed assault?
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  4025. He pulled the fire suppression system handles, which immediately shuts off the fuel to the engines, leaving only what's in the lines until the fuel is turned back on (which the flight crew immediately did). The next step gets messy, as the next step in the sequence is to discharge the fire bottles into the engines, which apparently didn't get to occur. Much akin turning the key off on your car while driving down the highway, save that the jet engines still have fuel flowing from the lines and filters, so they keep on briefly operating.
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  4026. I nearly ran over a standing First Sergeant while driving a Hummer, my assistant driver saw him, as he was hidden by the windshield post and warned me. Got some glares from Top, but he was only in an acting rank and never got promoted for some other reasons... Not the least of which was that I had time in grade on God, so even Jesus couldn't get promoted before me and I didn't want the job. ;) In a congested environment and in a utility vehicle, you need someone in the passenger seat to guide you from outside to avoid running people down! Period, end of story. The blame isn't on the deputy, it's on the leadership, or more precisely, the lack thereof.
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  4027. As the statute is missing the word experiencing, even a witness to potential discrimination can bring litigation. Or have we repealed the first amendment's right to redress when I wasn't looking?
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  4028.  @jackabug2475  true, extortion is so undervalued. /s
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  4029.  @jackabug2475  I guess that you're new here. Welcome to the US, where we have rules for thee and none for the wealtheeee. There are penalties though, rather expensive ones, but alas, we also get prosecutorial discretion that protects those who pay their brib-erm, campaign contributions. We disabled people can't afford those kind of payments, so we're just screwed.
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  4030.  @robertthomas5906  thank you, my goal was to have someone make my point for me. Of course, we currently have a state who has deputized the citizenry to enforce their laws, rather than the state doing so. I call that one what it actually is, anarchy.
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  4031. I've actually met the man, long before unreality TV existed. He's a blithering idiot and a narcissist. Everything had to be about him and his genius, telling a gathering of business owners of our tri-state Chambers of Commerce all about his great successes in bankrupting his casinos. The eyerolls were so frequent that I still am astonished that the planet stayed on its axis. Donald Trump is a man who was born ignorant and has been losing ground ever since.
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  4032. Odd, the courts have repeatedly, for well over a century disagreed with that bullshit. All the way up to the SCOTUS. For such a reversal to occur would mean that the judiciary is now in the amendment writing business, which is the sole province of Congress.
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  4033. Well, there's always Russia or China. Although, Iran remains free-ish.
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  4034.  @diamondjim7560  not really, Canada is not a US state, Hawaii was and remains a US state. Didn't stop conspiracy theorists though, who were so attached to their conspiracy theory as to then proclaim Hawaii isn't a US state and that a republican governor and republican surgeon general conspired to put a democrat in the Oval Office because of hand waves or something. Honestly, I wasn't surprised when some then jumped to space aliens...
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  4035. Another ruskie bot account. Can't say more, as whenever I say anything against Putana, they lock my account, as only praise is allowed for Russia lately. Which has been noted on contract evaluations by FEDRAMP with Google's bids.
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  4036. Well, if you're worried about something that might happen in hundreds of years and has happened repeatedly without mass extinctions, you really need to be speaking with a mental health care professional.
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  4037. @PatroitOFsCIC of what? His toilet or his diaper? Biden is Commander in Chief right now, do try to keep up with the year.
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  4038. He took up arms against his nation or gave aid and comfort to an enemy in a declared war? Why not charge him with heresy while you're at it, just as nonsensical. And the word former is kind of important as well. I am retired military, anything that I'd do today would not be viewed in a military context, as I'm decidedly not under my enlistment contract. Why are these basic Constitutional concepts so difficult to comprehend? Treason is very, very, very narrowly defined in the Constitution and service members are not lifelong slaves.
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  4039.  @funsizedtom  in other words, never try to make America better, surrender and retreat like a good coward. Trump's been voluntelling many countries what to do with their own borders. He even tried telling Israel and Hamas to send every Palestinian on the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan, without either nation being consulted, asked or even oh, an e-mail letting them know of his idiotic pogrom suggestion. Israel and Hamas wisely tousled his hair, patted him on the top of the head and sent him back to bed, while the adults talked. Egypt and Jordan paid no note, when asked, "What, someone spoke? I thought that was just a fart". What he pulled was, sending some group of people that nobody in the neighborhood knows about, to enter the next door neighbor's house without warning, then threaten the neighbor's family because they didn't open the door to a crowd they didn't know was coming, why they were there or whoinhell they were, but the neighbor is the bad guy. No, the neighbor sending the crowd would be pulling buckshot out of their ass if it was my home being banged on by a crowd of unknown, unexpected strangers.
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  4040. If you flew a supersonic aircraft over 60000 feet in altitude, you'd also be in trouble. Of course, nothing ever flew that high or fast, especially nothing that never took off from Groom Lake...
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  4041. The UN has never cursed anyone, now your penance is to look up the word curse in the dictionary and write it out ten times in invisible ink on imaginary paper.
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  4042. Because developing nations women normally get passports and ID cards? Not in any that I was deployed to. Oh yeah, that's right, being deployed all over the planet, I'd know nothing at all about the real world. That's the exclusive domain of the wise and highly experienced folks on their Twinkie encrusted sofas.
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  4043. We had a more laughable case. The IRS seized and kept running the Mustang Ranch, a Nevada brothel. Boy, talk about a political shitstorm! They managed to destroy the business, being utterly incapable of operating such a business and dealing with catching hell from all sides.
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  4044.  @IamTessa5.5  most of those doing the threatening either won't pay for the technologies that'd work or know how to implement that technology. We're not talking IT security types or network engineers here, we're talking Joe Sixpack, who has trouble getting a USB mouse to work.
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  4045.  @edgemonsiteworksllc3369  better to have a small, but functional brain than to have a non-functional brain. Because, the courts don't call everyone and announce cases and decisions, the press however does report on both. There is a reason we have lead paint abatement programs, so that children can grow up retaining a functional brain.
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  4046.  @kevinpantera4429  ignoring yet another conviction this week for such threats.
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  4047.  @RealHomeRecording  I doubt they’ll allow YouTube videos to be filmed inside of the federal penitentiary.
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  4048.  @scottishdude9161  it's nice to know that our murder rate is really, really low. Guess we can let all of those homicide detectives go, as they're not needed, as murders only occur when someone is "that important", courts and prisons can close, as only "important" people are threatened. Alas, our societies will continue to suffer, as we continue to allow idiots to have the vote.
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  4049. Actually, a full assault rifle is selective fire. Either full automatic or three round burst and the other option being semiautomatic. The majority of the time, we kept ours on semi. One can only carry so much ammunition when on patrol, full auto or burst wastes ammunition.
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  4050. Indeed, but he's small fry, so everyone just throws him back, not recognizing the industrial diamond in the rough.
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  4051.  @Dem0stumblers6726  save that he's ended none. And he would've surrendered after Pearl Harbor, which he didn't understand what had happened there when he visited the Arizona memorial.
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  4052.  @Sarcasticron  trying and failing to appear human. Which is odd, given the only sapient and sentient life on the planet at human level are humans. After all, if you were a space alien, would you be stupid enough to land on this planet full of insane critters called humans? ;) But yeah, keeping up and well, keeping wrangled. Never had to resort to shoulder carry, but I spent enough time with our kids, as in most of my time at home, playing with them and keeping them wrangled. I was also the preferred babysitter for the grandkids until I had to relocate far away due to my job. And also was the only one that could keep the colicky infants happy. Now, they're tweens, nothing keeps 'em happy. ;)
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  4053.  @Sujowi I think of her as the avatar of blonde jokes.
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  4054.  @mickcindysal6264  frankly, given her performance and public statements, I'm sure kneepads were heavily involved.
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  4055.  @burn1gotbeats  no, they closed under Saint Reagan. I remember those days well, Haverford closed, Byberry literally put the patients onto Philly streets, all because Saint Ronnie Raygun decided that funding the promised community based mental health care was a bad investment. So, now we appoint the mentally ill for the incoming administration. He just got lost after borrowing transport for his cabinet officer interview.
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  4056. Frankly, he served 4 years, was on probation for the D.C. offense (the first being a federal offense), so he was a felon in possession of a firearm, which was what the stop was over. He drew the firearm, but didn't discharge it, which suggests suicide by cop, rather than going back to prison. According to all reporting I've seen, he still believed in the pizzagate crap. Gonna be a long four years. I think I'm going to need a few spare canes to replace those that'll probably end up badly bent... Anyone know where I can get a titanium cane?
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  4057.  @FixNewsPlease  and I'd lead the charge for mistrial and impeachment of the judge. There has been no treason. Sedition, yes, treason no. Our Constitution clearly and plainly states that treason shall consist solely of taking up arms against the country or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As we're not at war, we're fresh out of enemies and both are too pusillanimous to ever pick up a gun against their government. Hence, he'd have convicted them without the two required eyewitnesses testifying in open court (another Constitutional requirement), for a crime that they never committed. That's both mistrial and denial of rights under color of law. And treason doesn't have a mandatory death sentence, the punishment is set by Congress by law, per the Constitution and is the only crime for which writ of attainder and corruption of blood may be ordered. The latter last exercised against Robert E. Lee against his plantation, which remains US property today and was only paid for by Congress after seizure after his death. You might have heard of the place, Arlington National Cemetery. Oh, for the trivia hounds, the actual penalty is under 18 U.S.C § 2381, states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Seditious conspiracy is 18 U.S.C §2385. Advocating overthrow of Government. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. And we've multiple seditious conspiracy convictions, with sentences being served and more cases pending just for Jan 6 currently, just add a couple of more onto the pile-on. The mental image of both in solitary inside of a supermax is quite appealing. They don't allow cameras to be present on visiting day.
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  4058.  @Arthur-ke9vz  this old white veteran says, yep! Wanna argue? Ask my ship, "Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again".
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  4059.  @damon22441  you made a fairly blanket statement that's a lot absurd and insanely expensive to needlessly implement. I worked at a DoD depot base, your statement would have an office building of logistical workers wearing body cameras for no reason. Law enforcement makes sense, communications and logistics workers makes zero sense and those are far more common in numbers than those in positions of public trust.
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  4060.  @guts-141  he said an undefined "few and obvious exceptions", if one is making exceptions, one needs to define them, especially given most federal employees are not armed, not law enforcement and have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with a local SWAT team. What would logistical officers for a federal agency have to do with a county SWAT team? What good would federal agents in law enforcement wearing cameras do when a county SWAT team is shooting a minor child that is sleeping?
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  4061.  @nightnight9164  so, it's OK to spend $2k for a ballistic vest, but too much to spend $100 on a camera per man with a gun, thereby missing a fatal incident. That's the equivalent of buying a condom, then leaving it at home, but saying you have one. Worse than useless, save at home. But then, Rosey Palms will remain safe and protected.
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  4062.  @nightnight9164  "If you used common sense you would know he means any Agent, SRT, officer, etc should be wearing a body cam when they are about to conduct a search or out on the field in general." Is there a disagreement present? Poop, re-read, I meant to mention the counterargument isn't much of an argument at all. Damned dyslexia! Too often, idiots complain about a $100 camera, after funding a $2k vest, $1k rifle and ludicrous maintenance fees for unused armored vehicles (trust me, I've operated them in the military, armor is heavy, which increases seal leakage and hence, maintenance costs), etc. Penny wise, pound foolish. I know a hell of a lot of cops. Old Army buddies, for the most part. When sitting with them, tipping back a few, once a conversation started over armored vehicles. I asked, "What does God want with a starship?". He blinked a few times, thought about it and said, "I have no fucking idea why God would want a starship or my department would want an APC". Then, we returned to stomping a few more recalcitrant braincells. A rifle makes sense, as it has range over an imprecise handgun. Armor makes sense, as does a camera, as that provides evidence in court.
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  4063.  @lazyfingrz  yep! Because overdosing on vitamin D is ever so much fun, what with arteries clogging up and all. Vitamin C doesn't do jack shit for any infection, as was proved by the same researcher whose flawed study initially claimed that it did. I'll not even go into overdosing on metals, where you'd then have to be sickened by chelation to clear the overload.
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  4064. "Hey, Joey, if I start clapping, my artillery batteries will finish applauding for me with white phosphorus. Got any problem with that?"
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  4065. Ah, but would it not be an affirmative defense to prove that a dearth of trash receptacles was why it got dumped? Please excuse me while I get my coat...
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  4066.  @atom069  more like 6 million years, as many of the systems in those precursors to humanity had quite similar organ systems to ours. But, to further blow your mind, those papillary muscles are energized to contract by the electrical system of the heart, which is independent of the nervous system (OK, regulated a bit by the vagus nerve, but it'll beat all on its own without any nervous system interaction). And the poets proclaim how inconstant that the heart is. Nonsense!
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  4067. Because he always was and always will be a complete idiot that does the opposite of what will be effective, explaining why he's bankrupted so many of his businesses. Whenever you hear Trump claim success, he really means abject failure by any real world metric of performance. Learned that around y2k, when he was speaker at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, as did every other business owner. So wonderful was his performance, the following year experienced a 95% attrition rate and the Chambers had to spend an entire year apologizing to its members.
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  4068.  @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT  or politics in the state of Texas.
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  4069. I'm reminded that Obama had classified all cyber operational attacks, which include disinformation, as well as "hacking" attacks as WMD attacks. We still only field one WMD to reply in kind with, the use of which requires the SIOP, a codephrase card, confirmation of identity by a member of the chain of succession and one telephone call. I'd only suggest one improvement on that system, the addition of cobalt, since Putin already opened that door in a threat.
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  4070. So, god-king has declared war and Congress has abdicated. And now wants to suspends habeas corpus in favor of military tribunals? He only needs to use weapons now to perfect the crime of treason.
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  4071. Can make the corned beef work, would want some bones, Sir, wanna volunteer? Shit tons of hard tack, well ground. The bread-ish is gonna bind with the fats from what's left of the meat and the bones and for the record, I really want some corned beef and swiss... And note to self, grab a few guilty cans of corned beef and spuds...
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  4072. "They can't disenfranchise thousands of students, can they?" Why not, they wanted to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of deployed military to kill off mail in ballots. I say disenfranchise away, but no taxation without representation, so entirely tax free for a decade per denied vote - from local property and school tax to sales tax, booze and cigarette tax, income tax, excise tax, zero taxes, to be paid for by the denying authority's budget. Wanna fight, fine, I fight dirty.
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  4073. She now owns the city's newest unlicensed hazmat storage dump. I'd see about storing some chromium and other heavy metal salt compounds, while seeing about storing cobalt-60 stored in lead containers. By the time I'm done, nobody will want to live within 20 miles of the place. Of course, the city and county can avoid that problem by financing building a replacement house there at city/county expense. If they want to escalate and require security for the site, I'd unshield the cobalt-60 sources. That much gamma radiation is security unto itself.
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  4074. Indeed, this is one case where, I do believe firmly, his demand for victimhood, should be honored. Let him be the martyr that he proclaims he already is, while experiencing sitting on a stainless steel toilet, rather than his usual gold plated toilet, with no privacy, lowest bidder bunk and enjoying a month of prison food. If he makes it a week without a major mental breakdown, I'll be more astonished than if Marvin the Martian landed on the White House lawn. Especially if he has to share a cell within the general population and not getting fast food and Cokes at a motion of his fingers. Now, I see one of three chances that'll happen to his affluenzaness, slim chance, fat chance and no chance, as our two tier system of injustice goes fully onto open display to the world, showing our third world underbelly. In the old days, the Soviets would've had a field day!
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  4075. She's an embarrassment to inbreeding.
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  4076. Money Rules Always.
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  4077. They can tell me to shut up until the cows come home, I invite them to just pop on by and try to shut me up. They'll be wondering why the ceiling is in front of them and they're awakening to a harangue by a poor defenseless old guy with a cane. Something that's happened in the past with a "tough" in his 20's, who also thought he could shut me up and make me do what he wanted. Instead of his expectations, he punched my cane, then got nutted and crowned, to find the ceiling before him and his friends laughing at him. Since I kind of liked the kid, I didn't give him the South Philly stomp while he was down. People mistake me for being a nice guy, usually I am and try to be nice, but there's another side to me, the side that served for over 28 years in the US Army. And I'm decidedly not in the shit business, so I don't take shit and don't give a shit. And I definitely don't appease. I'm also firmly of the belief that we do have a right to express our political views in the polls, by ballot, not bullet. Bullets belong on the range or in the field when hunting. Not fairgrounds, not goddamned golf courses.
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  4078.  @AdmiralBlackstar  complain to the architect historians. Not my circus, not my monkeys. I don’t correct them in their field, they don’t correct me in mine. Edit: my apartment building has 13 primary floors and two utility floors. Big if it was just brick and mortar, small given its brick facade over concrete and steel.
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  4079. It'll likely decline more since the Truth Social SEC filing. Lost a net 400 million, total gross income was 3.5 million. Also stated that DJT can't expect profits and that inflation will increase dramatically. Which suggests conspiracy to predict inflation so comprehensively as they did in the filing. They also thoughtfully (OK, are legally required to) included every bankrupted and failed business Trump has owned. Talk about a parade of tears!
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  4080. Largely because the primary has passed, he got the nomination and doesn't want Putin Jr to win the office and trash the nation entirely. What the nation needs now is a new Marcus Junius Brutus.
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  4081. I'm afraid that I have to call this a fish story. Alcoholics that are still drinking are declined an available organ by the transplant selection committee.
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  4082. When people start mixing measuring systems, I'll really have fun. I weigh 13 and a quarter stone. Most get the hint, before I have to start converting to exotic measurements, especially if I start discussing nuclear physics and I'll happily discuss shakes, dollars and more.
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  4083. What will happen in 4 years is, those that levied this nonsense will wonder at the precipitous drop each year, then a drop as owners sell their cars off, then claim that owners aren't registering their cars and increase penalties on unregistered vehicles and make sure private property, such as farms are patrolled. The courts will, of course, reject such charges, as vehicles exclusively operated on private property are exempt, but seeing the prosecution numbers go up was the goal. That kicks the can farther down the road, hopefully long enough to pension out.
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  4084. You traitorous bastard from hell! You've got a happily willing partner in crime. Although, I am holding out on Mexico slightly, pending the free exchange of one recipe... ;) Being an alien or interacting with an alien means one good thing: an opportunity for a recipe exchange festival. Find common ground, a mantra in contacting people for the first time in an operational environment. Nothing's more common than eating and enjoying good and new food, well, save for Hare Krishna or Seventh Day Adventists, when you're just SOL and need to get inventive. ;) And well, both of those groups support vaccinations and especially did have some significant leadership in vaccine clinic establishment during the COVID-19 pandemic, so again, common ground.
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  4085. Now, now. That wasn't an invasion, that was Russian troops going on vacation and their commanders generously allowing them to take their vehicles and equipment home with them on vacation. Remember that nonsense being press released from the Kremlin? Yeah, I agree about the Crimea part, started there as a test, we failed and well, one failed President that also ignored a pandemic encouraged escalation by Putin. You missed one other use of nuclear weapons, typically neutron bombs - area denial. Then, one channelizes adversary movement into a desired direction and area. Also, we've not used Cheyenne Mountain Complex for a C3 center for ages, the C3 center is now a standard office building and the old bunker is just communications switching for the most part. I've also ungently reminded some Russian stooges that only one nation in the world has ever used nuclear weapons in war. And that that country tested cobalt-60 releasing warheads first. And that countervalue strikes would be preferred to wasteful counterforce strikes, as Russia would run out of population centers down to village level before we'd run out of warheads, leaving the population depleted below survival levels. They attempted then to shift goalposts, counting large cities in the US only, upon which I reminded them again of village level raising the number from 1300 to 19000+ vs our number of cities exceeding the numbers of cities, towns and villages in Russia. They did the smart thing and went for a nice hot cup of STFU. I grew up in the Cold War, I trained and operated in the Cold War, much of my career specifically targeted at Soviet, essentially Russian forces. Diplomacy isn't saying nice doggy until you find a rock, it's saying nice doggy until you can pull out the gun and fire. And blathering veiled threats of nukes, ancient news and flat out boring, Putin ran off at the mouth at his supermissile we're not hearing about since it blew up its scientists and irradiated its water based launchpad, but he had during his brag sessions threatened to salt the warheads for port attacks, which would really foul US ports and coastlines - plus our largest population centers. I countered then with, the only reply is a full level countervalue response and between his missile blowing fissiles all over the place and such responses, he STFU. And as I've happily informed all readers that I live at ground zero anyway, I really don't give a fuck kind of set the tone, as I was born a week after Tsar Bomba. I'll definitely outlive Putana. Oh, one did suggest I'd discover Novichok, I reminded them that we have long had samples and a standardized detector, so the most likely outcome from such a thing would be a redelivery in a Russian styled gift package to a very inconvenient location, at a sensitive time, resulting in Russia having a really bad day from an inconvenient and usually troublesome part-ally. Because, we trained to fight dirty and think much farther ahead than they're used to dealing with. They really hate reply in kind with high explosive babushkas. Just to remind them that I remembered the bombs in children's toys in Afghanistan that they used.
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  4086. He already said why, veterans are saps and chumps, since they didn't gain anything special for their service. He said that at, of all places, Normandy.
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  4087. Design started in a bid for requirement in 1982, start of development in 1983, selected in 1986 and prototypes selected and authorized in 1991 and 1994 was the rollout date. Budget wasn't there, so it was finally accepted in 2005. As technology advanced, various block upgrades get installed, either on the assembly line or for any fielded, via assorted programs that install the upgrades.
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  4088.  @samiraperi467  or Master of Public Health, but the former is a tad more entertaining if there wasn't a major public health emergency in progress.
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  4089.  @micheldiaz3359  yeah, nobody trained in how to wind them up in the morning. Crazy though, using thermonuclear warheads to destroy thermonuclear warheads over our cities, although most were dedicated to protecting military bases, not cities. With the Zeus hefting an early version of a neutron bomb, so it could fizzle incoming nukes, as well as fry their electronics. Thankfully, technology has improved and only conventional explosives are used to kill an incoming warhead.
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  4090.  @alexipestov7002  with extra crap covered feathers, to protect the hot pine tar.
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  4091.  @Elenavkuznetcova  funny, as the speed, reaction time, stopping distance claims were all weaponized against those insanely fast 10 speed demonic racing bikes back in the 1970's. And trust me, I dented the hell out of a car with my Kia 10 speed when the driver intentionally stopped in my path, then drifted forward to ensure my path was obstructed. So, now that we've required a license for mountain and 10 speed bikes, when do we require a walking and talking license? When do we then require a voting license? Gonna need gun licenses too, as well as assembly licenses and speech licenses, plus press licenses and church licenses, given the literal death tool historically associated with all of those activities. So, if someone lacks their magical license, do we give them life in prison or summarily execute the offending children at the curb?
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  4092.  @CakePrincessCelestia  tanks and guns don't make for having an army. Armies were boots, tanks and guns without troops just rust.
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  4093. I've still got an active security clearance, but giving it brief thought, decided against running for that office. For one, I'd be the second least qualified individual in the land fit for that office The other, too much of a temper, would just embarrass the office. And the majority of citizens of this land know how the absolute least qualified person is in the land, his already having befouled the office once.
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  4094. He's just seeking free publicity and the idiots in the press give it to him, rather than charge him for advertisement time. Who is going to attack him in his airplane at 40000 feet, the Martians and Venusians?
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  4095.  @brucecarraway7929  free handouts, do you mean entitlements? Entitlements are Constitution speak for guaranteed rights, why are you so keen on eliminating rights? BTW, there's this neat new invention called the capslock key, you should try it and join the 20th century, since you've not cottoned to the 21st century yet.
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  4096.  @phoneman91  yeah, amazing the cost of ignoring a pandemic that killed a million people. Gotta be the next guy's fault, who took office after the worst of the pandemic finally ended - a year later.
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  4097. Uranium pigments under glazing have been used for literally centuries. Somehow, we've survived.
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  4098. There is no accountability, as Congress did not create any such agency, authorize the creation of such or even authorize any contracts for the same. It's a literal shadow government, in the darkest sense of the Star Chamber meaning of the phrase. All, because one moron can't figure out what the Civil Service does and is literally like walking up to a running nuclear reactor, not knowing what the cooling towers are, bulldoze them because they obviously have no purpose than to make steam and one has a melted down reactor and no way to even begin to attempt to cool it ever again.
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  4099.  @beyondhuman3148  you are absolutely right! DISBAND THE BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS!
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  4100. Well, panem is Latin for bread.Romance languages then shared the word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_world_of_The_Hunger_Games#Panem The Hunger Games based the national name of Panem on the Latin phrase "Panem et circenses", bread and circuses. There's a load of chemistry in breadmaking, including the Malliard reaction turning starches into sugars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction Which people tend to notice is associated with browning foods by heat with oxygen present. So, I'll give the crumbs a try, if they, ahem, pan out, I'll upscale things and make my own. I do make my own bread by hand or mixer, depending upon batch size, electrocuting it for a certified electronics technician at the appropriate temperature known to a breadmaker is trivial. Then, determine if it's cost effective to do so or simply buy the damned crumbs. ;) Now, proper brown bread, that's an art and science, requiring lower temperatures and extra long cooking times to properly make that bread, which is in part, steamed by itself. The Malliard reaction is critical on that bread!
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  4101. Had a $1k package from Bose misdelivered by OOPS, erm, UPS. Claimed that it was delivered to our porch. The multi-tennant building does have a porch - only accessible to employees and on the second floor, so that was bullshit. Filed a claim, UPS insisted it was delivered, but wouldn't provide a photograph, ended up out $1k for a never delivered product and I've not ordered a damned thing from Bose again and refused, whenever possible any offer of delivery by UPS. Given the performance, if I need to ship classified documents, which I have had the occasional need to do so, I'll either go with FedEx or my preferred route of USPS registered mail. Yeah, classified packages routinely go via UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and a few other approved vendors, via specific required methods within the continental US. Overseas, either via diplomatic parcel or via the APO system.
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  4102. Actually, it's probably not a contaminant, just overstrength. Botox is an extremely powerful toxin, it's heavily diluted and when used medically, sparingly and precisely. And the biggest hints here, spas and botox parties, which are decidedly not medical clinics authorized to administer the toxin for medical purposes.
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  4103. I'm entirely unconvinced, I'm absolutely certain that the entire SCOTUS consists of illegal space aliens. The legal ones being in Congress.
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  4104. Yeah, a massive robot spider network really is hiding results of its global web spider network on news that's only hours old. And Harry Potter's magic fuck stick is real.
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  4105. I grew up in a predominatently Jewish neighborhood in SW Philly, so I had a fair exposure to Yiddish. In some real ways, it's comforting on Sabbath day walking past the synagogue next door, because I'll still hear it spoken. Of course, having a wide diversity of friends, preparing foods can be a bit of a challenge. Besides religious requirements, there are just some people one should not risk exposing to fava beans, for one example. That impacts my falafel recipe... For those confused, fava beans can be lethal to certain populations from around the Levant (mostly), due to an enzyme deficiency that will destroy their red blood cells. I don't have G6PD deficiency, but being a good host, I do have to take that into account.
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  4106. There is a bit of borderline though. I've literally been spinning, mumbling in response and overall, quite decidedly not home, despite the fact that nobody was home. No ethanol or other intoxicants. Blood pressure crashed, I was in shock with BP below 70/40. Other similar cases, the person might smell fruity or even like nail polish remover. The latter cases, diabetic emergency. Time to call the boo-boo box. That staggering and BP, just last week. Still working on getting the damned BP meds regulated... :/ Needless to say, I'm not operating anything larger than my folding shopping cart and cane!
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  4107. Welcome to having freedom, there are known side effects. If they can be detained or arrested, they're subject to the jurisdiction and hence, born here are citizens here. Why would you want the US to have less citizens, rather than more?
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  4108.  @saywhatnowcomon3426  it was an asteroid that became a meteoroid, which then turned into a meteorite upon impact. Each name has a specific definition. It started school bus size, blew apart as a meteoroid, the fragments landed and became by definition of landing, meteorites. It didn't need to be much larger or hold together a tad longer and it may well have smashed the entire city, just from its blast wave. As it was, dozens of buildings were damaged, some quite badly, thousands of windows were shattered and around 1500 needed treatment for injuries (mostly from flying broken glass).
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  4109. Float like a butterfly, sting like a sash weight.
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  4110.  @jblyon2  a couple of bypass capacitors would send the signal to ground, rather than into the wiring to be broadcast. That's the fault with the cheap cell phone chargers as well, no bypass capacitor to drag the high frequency noise to ground instead of being radiated.
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  4111.  @RideGasGas  laughably, a couple of small bypass caps would resolve the lamp interference issue. Be used to prohibit such designs being imported for sale, now we ignore it.
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  4112. The 1960's wasn't a history lesson for me, they were a personal experience growing up in them. And I remember a mindset. It takes a special part of the female reproductive anatomy to use a firearm in a dispute. Guns were for hunting and ranges, not dispute resolution. Well, one other use, but that was a different gun - greasing one's car and these days, there ain't any grease fittings. Besides, we were tougher in those days. We didn't need firearms. We inserted the bullets by hand.
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  4113. That's OK, these are the same ones that scream bloody murder when FEMA isn't at their doors before a disaster strikes. Or some really special brain trusts, who actually want FEMA workers, equipment and supplies waiting for the oncoming flood - within the flood zone, because their flag will wave away the flood waters from the relief workers, equipment and supplies like Harry Potter's magic wand. But, at least we know that US schools civics classes are abysmal failures. After all, they want to deny the states their judicial system, in favor of a Royal institution of justice. And another complaining about "too many handouts that we can't sustain", while wanting to collect more from Social Security than he paid in. The same types will go on and on about entitlements being evil. Another word for entitlements, per every legal dictionary around is rights. When shown that fact, usually one gets "yer a commie". Or course, most of them want Trump to close the boarder, rather than the border...
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  4114. Well, now the police there have to pay for refreshments for the Christmas party, for they're unfairly denied the booze from the evidence locker. Next, people are going to tell them that they're unfairly not allowed to gun down whoever they want to, planting a gun on them from their evidence locker. Which, BTW, is an interesting concept to a defense attorney, as all evidence is now suspect as to chain of custody. Maybe that cocaine was originally powdered sugar, but after the party, was replaced with real cocaine.
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  4115.  @gersonbn8415  explain which? Pony play? Radiation artifacts in digital imaging? Altering the image making an image search problematic?
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  4116. Interesting blurb came across Fox. Oddly, factual reporting that DOGE wants full access to the public's IRS database records. Beyond actually factual reporting that was utterly neutral, what was interesting were the sheer volume of Russian bots going nuts for it. Not a lick about the Privacy Act of 1974. I dunno, does Trump want his very own, personal Wellington? Or just a Brutus? Telling, watch CNN's coverage of the "peace process", they go on and on about Russia-US-Ukraine meetings for peace talks. Factual reporting, Ukraine hasn't been invited to these "peace talks", so it's about divvying up the corpse, not a real peace process. Not that such talks are going anywhere, Putin's pushing hard now militarily to gain leverage, but won't want to lose mineral wealth or cropland. Trump won't want to lose mineral wealth or crop land to sell to corporate farming. A great process of going nowhere. And he's still going on about the Biden Under the Bed? I thought by now, he'd have progressed to the Biden In the Closet. You're in the office, inflation is yours, not the guy who's been gone for a month. Although, to give due credit, he's done nothing to egg prices, nor could he, even he can't lay that many eggs. No president can change the rate of infection of chickens with bird flu. Which reminds me, gotta run to the store anyway, gotta schedule an armored car for the delivery of a dozen eggs... Although, a wise president might want to have the USDA examine current production practices with an eye to limiting infection spread in battery cage egg laying "farms" (they're immense warehouses full of crates that chickens literally spend their entire lives in to lay eggs, with around 6 million chickens inside of one building, so one gets infected, the entire building is infected). Canada only has around 28k per such a "farm" and they're geographically distributed due to the nature of the population distribution in Canada, the same with Mexico. Don't have all of your chickens in one basket, to mangle a metaphor. There are a few ways to address a problem. Acknowledge a problem and try to find a solution. Deny the problem, then try to blame someone else and watch it blow up in your face. Pretend there is no problem and blame someone else and watch it turn into a nuke blowing up in your face and we know Trump loves this method, it's the Biden Under the Bed. Not an immense warehouse full of infected chickens. BTW, USDA predicts prices of eggs to go up another 20% by year's end at a minimum, as bird flu isn't slowing down much, if at all and it take 8 - 9 months for a chick to mature to laying hen. Which will also be the fault of the Biden Under the Bed. Doesn't care about everyone in the world rejecting US produce, "I gots mine" being the attitude. Wonder what his attitude will be when farmers start driving up-armored farm equipment into D.C.? That's happened before, usually in one or two numbers, when farmers look at unpurchased crops, they're literally seeing foreclosure on their farms in the near future and that means homeless families... Oh wait, I know what his reaction would be, hide in the bunker while forces gun them down without mercy, as happened every other time a pissed off farmer showed up inside of the city with farm equipment. Dealt with several forms of dementia during my clinical rotation, dealt with vascular dementia in my father's final years. Suffice it to say, I'm fairly sure he's diabetic, right diet, age, body mass index for type 2 and poorly controlled, vascular dementia is a significant to severe risk. Vascular dementia is a dire diagnosis, as it's rapidly progressing as a dementia, with stair step progression as the blood vessels inside of the brain break down due to the accumulation of glycation end products in the blood vessels epithelial layer, rendering the vessel walls delicate. Basically, constant micro-strokes. Add that with his malignant narcissism, he's beyond dangerous. Case in point, got his eye on owning Gaza and he's got an army. Trump's birthday, but nothing for Saint Reagan day? "We reversed the firing", nothing about if they actually contacted anyone or got them to agree to return, meaning they turned on payroll, not that anyone's back to guarding that enduring stockpile of nukes literally sitting on shelves. Somewhere, there's likely someone's cat rolling around a plutonium core on the apartment floor... Which for those that don't get the image and joke, that core would weigh in around the weight of a heavy bowling ball, while being around the size of a grapefruit.
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  4117. The Nativists have disagreed since they made religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets, bombarding Roman Catholic churches, schools and convents with a stolen artillery piece from the port defense post and murdering responding militiamen. Google the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. It took the militia commanding general to call up a full regimental artillery unit to ring the protestant Nativists with artillery for them to return the stolen gun to the port and finally go home and soldiers patrolling with fixed bayonets to keep the peace. The Nativists then hijacked the leading conservative party, the Whig Party, turning it into the same kind of caricature of unreality we're seeing in the Trumpite ridden GOP today, resulting in that party's collapse and the formation of the Republican Party. The Republican party's first POTUS candidate, some Abraham Lincoln guy, who wasn't treated as bad as Trump, since Trump was shot in the head with artillery, rather than a handgun like Lincoln was. But then, Trump is too good for God anyway, he already made a public statement that God was a "pussy" for letting his kid get killed, something he'd never allow, entirely missing the point of the entire faith he claims lip service to, while following the other guy's teachings...
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  4118.  @Carole-f5z  Jesus would've whipped him out of the Temple with the rest of the moneychangers. But, Trump is preaching to the machine gun Jesus crowd, who firmly believe that Jesus would own a machine gun and use it.
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  4119. He just invents "history", then demands all those who actually experienced the events believe him and not their memories, videos, audio recordings, photographs, etc.
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  4120. With due respect to Colion, the AR15 is among the last firearms I'd use in home defense. My primary choice is my M1911, but that's because of preference and the fact that I routinely fire a possible with it. My second choice is a 12 gauge shotgun. My absolute last choice would be my .308 rifle. The right too for the job and one with significant stopping power and less potential over penetration of the target.
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  4121.  @Michael-0000  it's interesting that the first two agencies that Musk went after were agencies that were investigating his companies. And what services? Health for one, food for another and it's always nice when it's not raining burning airplane and passenger pieces. And again, Musk has no legal power whatsoever, the President cannot create an agency out of whole cloth, as that's the duty of Congress to create and fund agencies. It's past time to impeach, convict and remove.
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  4122. We all have our own "devils", our own inner monsters within us. As civilized people, we keep them firmly repressed for the common good, which in the end is our own good as well. One only releases that repression when confronted by a predator intending harm, then brings that monster back under firm bond. Thankfully, despite fearmongers selling fear to acquire power, predators are rare. Trump is a human predator, one that lacks that filter to keep the monster under control. That doesn't mean one releases one's own, but that one monitors him and does everything one can to ensure he is never allowed to gain a position of power where he could create a danger. After all, we have people we retain to hunt our predators and restrain them, that's also a benefit of civilization. What one never should allow is to allow one's fears to drive one's decision making, regardless of how terrified you actually are. You acknowledge that fear, know that it'll color your thinking and guard against that from happening, so that your rational mind controls your decisions and actions. That simple thing is the difference from mere sentience and actual sapience, being self-aware vs thinking and using reason.
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  4123.  @jailbird1133  no, but they do check for traces of explosives, sniffer dogs are used, etc.
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  4124.  @herrhaber9076  aka 6.5 ounces, for those of us who use hammers and pounds. Did I say something dyslexic?
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  4125. Not an Apple user, but vendors use what connectors they will and it never was a problem until now, when it's a big emergency to micromanage. Especially, given that the Lightning connector has been in use since 2012. Fine, abandon the entire market, rather than slavishly change your entire product lineup's design and be forced into a licensing agreement against your will. 100% embargo of Apple products, anyone violates it gets nailed on licensing violations. Although, I do wonder how much it cost the USB consortium to get this shoved through... Removing all ports, thereby lowering efficiency in charging, as obviously the speaker feels that energy production has plenty of excess capacity! Gotta love when someone that is ignorant of technical limitations reports on technology and licensing. So, if there's a new USB per year, that won't generate the waste that they complained about. Yeah, paid off.
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  4126.  @Syncrotron9001  I'm less concerned about tasered or pepper sprayed. Those get the administrator hammered down by a very angry, surprisingly fast and strong elder. Shot at gets one dead. Lethal force is met with lethal force to the bitter end and real terrorists have tried to kill me. I'm still here. I've experienced tasers and pepper spray, can't utilize them without experiencing them, civilian cop or military. Bullets, I'm good at ducking until it's termination of threat time.
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  4127.  @eclipsehorse8693  you should see Ivana's grave, it's overgrown and a disgrace. So, it's an unlawful long term residence, hotel, resort and graveyard.
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  4128. Well, he also wants to dissolve the CDC into a puddle of unrelated agencies to create the US Healthy America Administration. I suspect they'll peddle vitamins over preventing diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio, RSV, anthrax, ebola, malaria, yellow fever, etc. Wouldn't put it past him to direct the BSL-4 "hot labs" to dump their samples of smallpox and ebola onto the streets as refuse to be picked up with municipal garbage, to then spread throughout the land and be met with vitamin dispensers. and literal snake oil. Maybe even reintroduce radium water or even Hulk Water, containing cesium-137 to imbue kids with Hulk powers of disease fighting... And reintroducing the public to what livor mortis looks like again.
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  4129. If he's actively discussed this bizarre plan with any of those county officials, he and they have committed sedition and should be charged with seditious conspiracy. The last people convicted of seditious conspiracy were leaders of the Oath Keepers and the trial for the Proud Boys leadership under the same charges is ongoing.
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  4130. Disasters never are traced back to a single event, but always end up being a chain of events, any of which if acted upon properly, would've averted the disaster.
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  4131.  @roeko10  welcome to the wide world of irregulars. Not every "military" force can afford uniforms after buying weapons. And their training and professionalism also betrays that weakness. Hamas, by definition is civilian. Similar was Taliban and AQ in Afghanistan, hence why we classified them as unlawful combatants, but still afforded them Geneva Convention protections as a matter of course. But then, we dealt with non-Convention forces in the past with Japan, who wasn't signatory and ratifier of the Geneva and Hague Conventions, but had agreed to abide by them (and largely didn't). Easier to stay playing the good guy than pretend to be the good guy and rely upon everyone recognizing the white hat. With a few gaffes along the way. WWII Marines wearing Japanese ears on a string as a necklace a few times, a few in Vietnam, one arrested for making such in Afghanistan. But, we also had press along to keep us honest. IDF, not so much. Minimal to no press, total obscurity, obstruction and zero visibility, save what they want released and this, being an exception they couldn't hide on a bet. Yeah, not a fan of how they're fighting this war. And I'm the farthest thing in the universe from gentle in war. But, it's good to have oversight and to have civilian control of our military, rather than "sic 'em" and walk away. And flooding tunnels hostages are known to be inside of, yeah, no. As much as I'd dread it, I'd personally be going into those tunnels to ferret out the hostages. Once they're out, fuel-air the damned complex comprehensively, after obscuring exists with WP smoke. While trumpeting a slogan far and wide, "khalas, Hamas!". Arabic for, "Enough, Hamas" and well, not in the passive. Yallah, Wallah, I do know a bit of Arabic. English equivalent transliteration, "listen, swear to God..." Although, I'm a bit more fluent in Arabic profanity. ;)
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  4132.  @lindatalarico5441  I do believe that is the point. Are you trying to establish the highest possible maximum density before collapse into a singularity? If so, you needn't bother, I established that one long, long ago, when arguing with my now long grown kids.
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  4133. I wonder if there are any operable prototypes? They'd be excellent for augmenting some speeches and ameliorating the effects of my singing. ;)
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  4134. I do wonder, how will the Russian oligarchs react to Putin bankrupting Russia again? Will they simply allow him to have a health based retirement to his dacha in the woods or will they demonstrate defenestration for him?
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  4135.  @Starset1881  how is manufacturing a sensor a risk to one's life? Or do you consider someone assembling a car also endangering their own life for money, as car accidents are quite common?
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  4136. I'm scratching my head, as there has not been an indication that a pressurized core split open and spewed irradiated steam. The core melted, the the reactor vessel remained intact with a puddle of corium at the bottom of the pressure vessel. Where "The China Syndrome" tells us it melted straight to China despite China not being an antipode and destroyed all life in Pennsylvania. Something quite disconcerting to me, as I currently live three miles upstream from TMI and am obviously dead or something. Or, the author was full of shit - having read the book and discussion on how breeder reactors simply explode in nuclear detonations (despite three breeder reactors that also melted down and entirely refrained from detonating). I do remember the entire mess quite well, was in physics class watching it all go down and discussing precisely what was going on, with some insiders feeding us information out of band. As bad as the handling of the LOCA event was, the response was a total goat screw, with PR having greater value than informing the leadership of the state and federal response, causing mass confusion and opening the door to so much hyperbole as to render any PR effort utterly meaningless. Meanwhile, no significant amount of fission daughter products was detected, despite hyperbolic claims to the contrary (hell, I'm still waiting to see a photograph of an alleged two headed whitetail deer...
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  4137. Today's Trumpites are literally the Know Nothing Party of the past. What they did only resulted in strife and the literal destruction of the first conservative party this nation had and well, in the end, resulted in a civil war.
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  4138. Hey, the best candies are indeed the ones we enjoyed during the Ice Age! ;)
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  4139. It's a lot worse than emotionally scarring, it's destabilizing of what few governments remain stable in the famine afflicted regions. That spreads outward, both due to refugee flight and genuine anger over their needs not being met, their loved ones dying and they'll strike out at whoever appears or is doing better than they are. With plenty of online fingers pointing exclusively to the west, ignoring Russia stealing most, if not all of Ukraine's grain stocks as we speak. As far as I'm concerned, send those pirate vessels to the bottom, switch them with US excess grain, paint over the vessel names and fly no flag. If something needs to be on the hull, put a banner up saying MV Grain Fairy. Pull it from what I'll use, I'll not be alone volunteering it and I can stand losing another 20 pounds. One fee for the grain - recipes. We've had enough food to not only feed the entire planet, we've had enough food for my entire 60+ years of life to literally make the entire planet morbidly obese. Oddly, those against feeding those who hunger claim ever so loudly to be fine, upstanding Christians, who as Gandhi said, are ever so unlike Christ. Now, a bit of homework for most. Look up "Scarcity economics", which is the actual economic system we live under. Add in lean practices, such as just in time delivery keeping stocks low, it's no wonder that the US has an infant formula shortage due to 30% supply halting for contamination issues at the main plant. Not stocking warehouses means, any interruption in the supply chain leads to shortages and in scarcity economics, increased profits at everyone's expense. And there will always be interruptions in the supply chains, an earthquake here, typhoon there, volcano blowing its top diverting traffic over there, pirates in the underwear...
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  4140. It isn't about naming, oh blind one. It's about *both* naming of the children *and* wearing a Nazi uniform to court and further espousing a Nazi view. Sorry, spacekid, but in the real world, that counts as insanity. My uncles fought in WWII. I also saw still classified photos of the war. Still, you've produced nothing in evidence to support your claim that Karl Marx is removal criteria, Adolf Hitler is removal criteria, Josef Stalin is removal criteria, etc. Indeed, Marx personally harmed none
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  4141. What else is required for science in the experimental fields? Not replication, per you, no need to replicate the results of others, innovate new only for grant money! And we'd still think the Spanish Flu was H. influenzae... All because one leading expert claimed to have cultured it from his patients and he didn't. Pain in the ass to get grant money for, but needed. Not as sexy as novel work, but it needs to be done. Meanwhile, her frustrations have indeed lead her to forget one critical life lesson. When you want to get out of the hole, first put down the goddamned shovel. Not keep digging more and more wildly, you're only tossing dirt into the air to land back upon you and not really impressing anyone. Or succeeding in anything other than getting dirtier and dirtier.
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  4142.  @craigh2980  yep, why Biden jumped right into his time machine and used his machine gun nukes to start global warfare, starting with Ukraine in 2014. Trump strengthened Ukraine by cutting their military aid off, because a lack of supplies always makes you stronger. Then, Biden killed God, as god-Trump said that he would. And how do you besmirch cannibals? Or do you think that people eating other people is a normal, civilized way to live in your Trump Imperial Bizarro World? The smartest move now is to start converting our arsenal to cobalt-salted devices, given Putin's repeated threats.
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  4143. You'd love the film "Last Breath". Saturation diver loses connection with bell and umbilical, exhausts emergency tank and suit, still is recovered alive. Having gone through a malfunction in breathing supply that induced both tunnel vision and full gray out before I recognized and was able to recover, yeah, it resonates. Eventually, I do want to explore scuba. Already have the first emergency lesson down pat, shit yourself afterwards, not now, you're busy trying to survive.
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  4144. Oops, was thinking of a different video when commenting.
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  4145. Dream on, to force someone into treatment requires a court order, not family demanding the curtailment of rights like we once used to do and was repeatedly abused.
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  4146. Huh. My compass only tells me which way magnetic north is. It's on me to know the azimuth to true north. Not particularly relevant here for this attorney, who is likely looking at accumulating legal bills going unpaid, unlikely to be paid and his former client incessantly undermining his own defense, all of which are enough to legally justify his standing down. Or as I've frequently said, "Call me anything that you want, save for late for lunch or unpaid".
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  4147.  @victors8465  "I can fake being smart". No, ya can't kid, you're a walking blonde joke.
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  4148. No, he tried to drain the swamp by pumping in sewage.
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  4149.  @FastSloW-qt8xf  which is why I'm not getting an abdominal aortic aneurysm fixed. Being in PA, I could get it fixed, not be able to pay the lordly medical bills and end up in prison. So, when it ruptures, I'll literally drop dead.
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  4150. Here in PA, game wardens can walk onto private property without a warrant looking for poachers. Been that way for well over 60 years.
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  4151. Well, we have a rather odd common law tradition that since been codified of waiting for a jury to convict, then a judge to sentence those found guilty. Think that's so under your King as well, some Magna Carta thingie and due process. Although, given Parliament, I shudder at the thought of how long it had to take for them to actually define due process, they're nearly as bad as our Congress! And to think, we revolted just because we couldn't get a seat there, when we did so well generating our own cloistersmurf...
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  4152. Well, at least she did address the sanctions - by quoting Buzz Lightyear.
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  4153.  @outtakontroll3334  Trump is under the delusion that a POTUS can order state court charges dismissed and that a POTUS can pardon state convictions. Hell, even most foreigners understand that isn't a real thing at all and they're usually confused by federal, state and county judicial systems.
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  4154.  @maeburekaiser  yeah, the awareness that she doesn't have artillery to bombard the "wrong" churches yet. Happened in Philly with a very similar crowd destroying the nation, the "Know Nothing" party. They imploded the conservative Whig party, causing everyone with two operational brain cells to form a new party, the Republican Party. The new Republican Party then picking a candidate that was unacceptable to the Know Nothings and when Lincoln was elected, well, a bit of a disturbance occurred. That Know Nothing group stole a cannon from the harbor in Philadelphia and proceeded to bombard a Catholic church, school and residence hall for clergy. When the militia was summoned, the Know Nothings attacked and killed militiamen, causing the militia commander to summon the regimental artillery and ring the area with cannon. Totally aware that they don't have cannon yet, but give them time and they'll convert by the sword and have our very own 300 years war. In the nuclear age, I'm sure things will end well.
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  4155.  @WayofYahushua  amazing how you know ever so much more than not only the first SCOTUS ever in the land, but the very men who wrote our very first amendment that says the entire fucking opposite of what blather that you say. I mean, seriously, when the men who wrote the first amendment said that in every speech and written word on the subject, that is insufficient and you want religious warfare for centuries in the US, perhaps they fouled up in redefining treason and you've committed it under the old European definition as well! Nothing means what was written, after all, it means whatever you wish it to mean, so enjoy being bound to a burning stake!
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  4156. Animals are animals, indeed, you are an animal. Some just help out those smaller, having no realistic loss in doing so and overall, passing it forward. Their young are closer to our size, to shark senses. Vibration and electrolocation in some species.
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  4157. It's literally part of the century and change old Nativist movement from the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing Party. They hijacked the conservative Whig party, imploded it the exact same way as is happening now, forcing conservatives to form a new party known of as the Republican Party. Lincoln being their first fielded POTUS candidate. The Nativists then supported a certain war, which well, blew up in their faces badly. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.
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  4158.  @ShutchyerLips  entertainingly, Murdoch has turned on Emperor Musk and Empress Trump after a telephone call last week went sideways. Started on his UK radio, it's been spreading rapidly through his media empire and boy, it ain't making happy faces from Fox viewers or Ruskie bots.
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  4159.  @planecrazy6039  good job surrendering to Hitler, throwing away the gift the Greatest Generation gave to you.
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  4160. Never fear, resegregation will be his next order. Undoing what that commie Eisenhower did. I'm not joking on the commie bit, already heard MAGAts go on about how they think Ike was a communist because of that whole military-industrial complex bit, so obviously extend that to desegregation and help make America White Again and Trump long ago dog whistled Blacks and farms as a hint most didn't manage to catch. Never give a Trump the benefit of the doubt. And he's infamous for claiming plot lines in films were real things going on. His first term, using a scene from "Sicario Day of the Soldado" in a claim of actual events, suggesting "The Purge" plot events actually was occurring and more. I'd not be surprised if he wants "Civil War" to become real, apparently never perusing the end of the film... Utterly delusional and demented and given late night antisocial media blasts, sundowning to beat the band.
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  4161. Not quite clickbait, but fairly close. The question was indeed asked - twice. In a ten minute Q&A video. Clickbait would usually not have the question asked at all or maybe glancingly once. Laughably, the responses were soft-peddling back and glossing over with a literal hand wave for the other.
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  4162. He's upset, he got rid of an opponent and wanted to run like his dictator buddies ran, unopposed so he could proclaim his godhood and supremacy to all gods due to no opposition. That denied him, he's having a hissy fit, like well, many a toddler. The old polite name for it is second childhood, the technical term is senile dementia. A rather aggressive form at that, given the rapid progression just in aphasia symptoms alone. Oddly, we were supposed to want Biden out absent such symptoms of actual disease, but vote for Trump who has symptoms in spades. Because one really wants someone with advanced dementia in control of a thermonuclear arsenal that literally only requires a telephone call to launch and absolutely no recourse to stop. No office of government can halt, delay or ignore the order without being charged, convicted and executed for mutiny. Congress has no authority over those weapons, only the POTUS. Might as well just put them all onto a real button and stick that button into the monkey cage at the zoo.
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  4163.  @suedenim9208  as someone who has experienced identity theft that5 resulted in the initial loss of the entire contents of my bank account, I'm quite aware of what identity theft is. The transactions were swiftly reversed, as no identification was ever presented by the fraudster to support his transactions. Some nice law enforcement officers did pop by to have a very long chat with him, with a firm offer of a fine place for him to reside in, meals inclusive.
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  4164. Where something similar might work is, if we suddenly went into "Mars or bust" mode, dozens to hundreds of probes, a constellation of comms birds in orbit, one data center on the surface, where one has the thin atmosphere and even the lithosphere to help reject heat would make more sense. For this, heat rejection, ridiculous size that'll be an instant Kessler syndrome, absurd lag, don't get me started on restocking reaction mass as it's exhausted, just for the top few problems that come to mind says, "a great big nope". Add in Murphy's Law with space weather, yeah, Murphy says, as soon as you deploy the panels, Sol will have a tiff and now half of your panels got crispy. But, great scam.
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  4165. Probably the parents car. At that age, I had a jalopy that barely ran, when it was broken down and I really needed to get somewhere, I was able to borrow mom's car, which I hated, as I had trouble controlling it due to extremely sensitive brakes. After watching my wife entirely fail in instructing our eldest in driving, way too nervous and excitable to properly coach and instruct, I took over. She never had a problem, even when she literally had a wheel fly off at highway speed on the way to college (we were driving our own vehicle helping her move). Impressively controlled the car, despite losing the driver's front wheel and managed to get the vehicle pulled over. I also trained every driver in my platoon in the Army on our manual transmission vehicle.
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  4166. Has Trump had any case that he hasn't fouled up for his attorneys by opening his mouth? Because honestly, I'm literally unaware of any thus far. Still, there is one upside. Our nationwide egg shortage will soon be ended, courtesy of the sheer volume of eggs Trump is laying in court.
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  4167. First confirmed U case in San Francisco, traveler from South Africa, vaccinated, mild sore throat. Given the phenomenally huge sample size of one, not especially meaningful in regards to vaccine protection, but a handful of similar foreign cases are adding to the knowledge of this variant. Gonna take a month or three to actually get proper data.
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  4168.  @HossBonaventureCEO  frankly, given the statistics I've saw available, calculating the R0 or CFR is essentially impossible, given that subclinical cases are fantastically under-reported and worse, in the US, many possible cases are simply not tested due to test rationing. Got any sources where the missing data is available?
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  4169.  @erinlennon6036  mutation would more account for it. The rate of mutation of this virus is worrisome in the extreme!
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  4170.  @HossBonaventureCEO  nope, not implying that you are. I'm just hoping you've found numbers that I've not yet found. One can't model anything without good, intensive and inclusive data, which is quite lacking overall, due to unreported and under-reported subclinical case counts. I'm no epidemiologist, but I do count several as close personal friends and they're griping over the same thing, once I had griped about it and they entirely agreed. Something shared among other ProMed list subscribers as well. If you do bump into that kind of data, please do post it here so that I can share that information!
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  4171.  @HossBonaventureCEO  I know that feeling all too well. Climbed up that wall, fell down the other side. Of course, my version of panic is, "please pass the pepper, don't need any salt". ;)
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  4172.  @Closil4rel  do you mean like this study? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31607599 Which disproved any such notion. Stop buying antivaxer swill, it's toxic.
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  4173. What's that about Jesus? I remember Trump saying how Jesus' dad was a wuss, as Trump wouldn't let his kid get killed by anyone for no reason. No, not making it up. He literally thinks he's stronger than the Creator.
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  4174. I'd have quietly recorded his attacks, yelling and aggression, then forward it to Toyota explaining why if anyone even suggests buying their product that their employment would be terminated. It isn't what you will do that counts, it's what others perceive that you may do that really counts.
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  4175.  @Boobtube.  I never get mad, I don't get even, I get ahead and sometimes I take the shoulders off with it. ;)
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  4176. Your medical information is protected by HIPAA, the PII is protected under the Privacy Act of 1974, which has a very sharp set of teeth. Did a quick calculation just on fines for the Privacy Act violations for every US citizen, $1.705×10¹². That's quite the stack of pennies! And five years hard time for each offense, when counts computer records acts and a few other acts that should've protected all of our data before President Musk instructed the god-king to rescind the US Constitution and all of our laws. I say, everyone stay home from work for a week or so, the campaign contributors will raise merry hell with the Representatives and Senators they bought and paid for and eventually insist that they surrender to We The People, lest the economy completely evaporate. Rather than some idiots, who think that their dinky AR's and AK's would win against armor, gunships, bombers, drones and artillery.
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  4177. Both the SCOTUS and now our Congress have abdicated. Period, end of story, end of nation, Constitution and rule of law. Welcome to the Empire of Emperor Musk and god-king Trump, his faithful servant.
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  4178. Japan was in expansionist mode, Europe was doing its own mass destructive thing. Yes, FDR figured out in advance what someone blind, deaf and dumb figured out, we'd inevitably be forced into war. We scheduled a number of insults, Pearl Harbor happened, despite some guarded warnings. Another side is, sales are sales. It was what it was, I'll not defend sending Jews back to be murdered, ever. That said, my parents worked in scrap drives to support the war, my father lying about his age and my grandmother reporting his forgery and he, when he became of age, ended up unique among his male siblings in missing the war, training out after the war was over. As a veteran, I said to him, "You didn't miss much that's welcome".
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  4179. Given the alleged crimes were committed while he was a NY resident, something an old mafia type told me comes to mind. "You don't shit where you eat". Trump never learned that lesson.
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  4180.  @SearTrip  I'm reminded of a service company, whose slogan on their signs and vehicles was, "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke". A coworker in the electronics service company I was working for and I were in a diner enjoying our break as he remarked on the slogan and I quipped, "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke and if it ain't broke, we can fix that too". Well, it ain't broke, so they fixed that problem and are now fixing the problem that they created, likely by breaking it in a new way. Because, if you want something FUBAR, give it to a politician to implement. Those that can, do, those who cannot, teach, those who can do neither, manage and those who can do none of the above go into politics.
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  4181. Given that the report repeatedly said there'd be no fees, I fail to see what they even brought it up at all, save once to say it had nothing to do with congestion fees.
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  4182.  @alexj9603  as I mentioned previously, in some cities, such as Dresden and Hamburg, what was available initially was only the rubble of other buildings. So, they collected the bricks, cleaned them off and reused them. @fermis paradox1, the Marshall plan came a bit after rebuilding had already begun out of sheer necessity. First, it took a while getting the plan together and approved, then funded, staged and initiated. Then, came the larger projects. But, initially, governments and citizens both needed a roof over their heads, as the weather respects no human.
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  4183. Don't like cobalt? Stop eating foods with vitamin B-12. Don't like the mining practices of it as an industrial metal, raise merry hell! Now. Yeah, cobalt is at the heart of vitamin B-12, necessary for life.
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  4184. @icu64x all it takes is Trump sending a crowd the wrong way and a few pull out weapons to perfect a charge of treason against Trump. Then, the government can, on conviction, attainder everything he owns or will own and prohibit his children from any inheritance for the remainder of his life. The US having done that to Robert E. Lee and his plantation, which is now Arlington National Cemetery. Took 20 years after his death for the family to get paid for the plantation, a mere $18k from Congress. Treason is rare in the US for a reason, it's narrowly defined, requires two eyewitnesses to testify in open court and well, the penalty is expensive by any measure, the prison term variable (unlike Trump's representation that it's universal death penalty, it isn't).
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  4185.  @trumpcard4182  07:20 public appearance at press call. 8:00 press appearance on south lawn. 10:00 public appearance national security discussion. Tomorrow, eulogy, reception, various press engagements. So, how long have you been brain dead for?
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  4186. The largest solar array in the US is 7.28 square miles, if it's a full square, it'd be 2.69 miles x 2.69 miles, which is 10 miles in Trump measurement magic miles. Meanwhile, coal plants got shut down because coal cost more than any other energy source. I'll not even go into bodies of water that had total fish and bird kills when coal ash spilled into those water sources. And he'll change energy prices, supermarket prices and the price of unicorn rides, because the POTUS fixes all prices in the nation using Harry Potter's wooden magical marital aid stick. But hey, he's helping Americans get well paying jobs by halting federal employment that's only open to US citizens, but really loves H1B workers coming in to take well paying high tech jobs. Thus far, he's fully gone over to opposite land, total Bizarro World, where everything is opposite what he says. Down means up in his lexicon, win means lose, enough said. But, at least he banished Musk from the White House, much to the irritation of President Musk, who is now consigned to the executive office building off campus. And he got Hegseth, who will be easily found if he needs his SecDef, such as if we're under nuclear attack, as he know which lampshade his town drunk wears when it's Miller time, which is all the time. And the Army is getting rid of, as of his taking office, their sealift capabilities. If we need to move an armored division somewhere, they'll have to drive their tanks across the Atlantic or Pacific. And the commandant of the Coast Guard, well she got fired for not stopping the previous commandant from misbehaving while he was in command after she took command, I guess she should've used Obama's time machine. The man is dumber than a 50 foot tall stack of anvils. I really need to take up drinking. Alas, can't afford to and I'm sure that Hegseth won't share.
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  4187. Actually, no. They'd potentially have fires, but Hindenburg sealed public opinion in a vacuum of facts. The Hindenburg was essentially painted and sealed with what essentially is modern solid rocket fuel. Get a gas leak, ignite it, the fuel catches and enjoy the lightshow.
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  4188.  @ddegn  yeah, they didn't have proximity fuses back then, now we do. Proximity cannon fire detonations near the balloon would be enough to give multiple holes and with autofire, well, holes leak gas cumulatively.
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  4189. Naw, those camps he's quietly thinking about are really summer bake camps, which is why they've got such gigantic ovens... Yeah, totally believable, with Trump. Fortunately, it's been quite well established that he's more full of shit than a Christmas goose.
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  4190. Well, surrender worked out so well for the Jews in Poland and France. Some people, were Jesus alive today, would be handing the Romans the nails.
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  4191. Just send them to the Wikipedia article on Fogbank (a nuclear weapon component). One thing wasn't documented, took a decade and $200 million to finally reinvent that critical component. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank The last batch of the original was last made in 1989, so they figured they'd upgrade a plastic foam to aerogel. Missed, one step and a contaminant that turned out crucial. Oh well, at least recovering from that mistake was cheap. I'll just get my coat...
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  4192. It was the 4G rollout - they all had strokes trying to get a decent signal, when even 3G, which 4G was to save us from, barely worked in so many areas. Oh wait, that was me, now experiencing the same disorder with 5G... Seriously though, some inverse rocket scientists blamed 5G for CCD, which would require a time machine to achieve that one, given CCD began a fair bit before 5G was even out of the testing lab. And in a way related to my joke, that's been a confirmed issue in a number of species. Rather than one stressor causing a decline, it's more often a handful of issues that synergistically impact their survival. In the southern and eastern US, feral honeybee numbers have dropped precipitously over the past decade. We're starting to see a rebound, which suggests a combination of a parasite and virus stressing the hives into collapse and likely, the lower numbers broke the infection chain long enough to allow recovery to begin, just as with corvid numbers after West Nile virus became endemic in the US. As for 5G, in some ways, it reminds me of the early days of cell phone popularity. Get into a suburban and toward a rural area, you run around looking like a Star Trek landing party with your tricorder scanning away for lifeforms. :/ My other primary stress source was easily eliminated. I moved all of the mirrors out of the house. ;)
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  4193. Oh, he still has McDill AFB to chase away, with SOCCENT, CENTCOM, AFRICOM, MARCENT and mobility command, to name major commands HQ'd there. And one military resort, which is across the water from Disney and would lose attraction with DeDodo's "improvements". Which is really a big deal nationally, as he'd chase both the DoD and the largest corporation in the state away, while being affiliated with a party that has historically been aligned with the military and big business. I'm sure PAC donations would reflect that loss of party loyalty to those who pay for campaigns nationally. This would be the first time in my life I've heard of someone shooting themselves in the foot with a howitzer.
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  4194.  @ramblinbananas888  minimum maintenance, any significant care belies one's intent. So, the bare minimum to keep vermin back and "reduce eyesore" crap. Which means, allow some cosmetics to begin to degrade in a highly visible manner, inducing panic in the populace due to the visual impact and reinforcing the mental impact of their loss and novel poverty.
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  4195.  @brandexample1776  yep, totally, he was bipedal.
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  4196.  @ian.swift.31614  only way too many RPG's. A couple of ribs still bother me some mornings from fragments shifting the ESAPI plates enough to break some ribs. But, what's the relevance to a NYC cop or someone faking that ridiculously far from NYPD's jurisdiction? Dude might as well waved around a papal badge and gun for all the authority it didn't authorize him.
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  4197.  @aarondavis8943  if the government had aircraft, drone or otherwise operating, they'd neither confirm, nor deny. It's boilerplate and required for addressing a program of record that's sensitive. But, testing a sensitive system isn't done over densely populated areas, as one's then exposing capabilities that are being tested. Hence, why the U-2, SR-71, F-117, B2 all were tested out of Groom Lake and officially, nothing ever took off from Groom Lake. Hell, the best case study is the insanity from Roswell, where an atmospheric sampling balloon, collecting samples of air after Soviet nuclear testing, crashed. Generations of hilarity ensued, while the DoD remained silent until the declassification date expired and even today, the actual report remains rejected by the faithful. The greatest evidence of space alien presented by the faithful? Honeycomb aluminum - something classified at the time, now a common substance utilized in refrigerator truck walls. And pretty much the worst thing one could ever want to utilize in a pressurized aircraft, let alone a spacecraft.
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  4198.  @MrPanama9red  he can wish in one hand, shit in the other, without Congress creating and funding his alleged agency with illegal hiring practices of pay to play hiring, the brown stained hand will get filled first always. There is no such agency, POTUS lacks the authority to create an agency out of thin air, POTUS cannot fund a POTUS ginned up agency, both are powers of Congress. And Congress has a survival instinct and knows, fucking with the VA and Social Security is literal and political suicide.
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  4199.  @KariN-or3sc  well, extra large eggs are $5.00 a dozen at my local stores, only two of which carry extra large eggs, everyone else switched to medium and large at most in selection. Still, valid enough point, given we don't imbue the POTUS with price fixing powers in supermarkets or well, any other market, some free enterprise system thingie or other, price fixing being a commie thing to conservatives, save if competitors illegally do so and pay good campaign contributions, then it's OK. They thought they were voting for Ali Babba, instead they voted in the 40 thieves.
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  4200.  @timower5850 why? Are you a local, hence could identify them? Then stay out of Philly's business, PPD already has the car intact, fairly short steps to find more evidence to support arrests and charges.
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  4201.  @Deno-x9b  this is actually causing a massive schism in the religious fundie communities. Largely centered around Trumpite prosperity gospel types and mainstream fundies, who have always considered prosperity gospel as actual heresy. What festered, but was conveniently ignored in order to have wealthy allies is now out in the open, where the mainstream reject Trump's hatred and going along for the ride down, the allegiance of convenience with their loathed prosperity gospel types. For the prosperity gospel types, Trump is literally viewed as a Jesus surrogate. Hence, the indulgences of allowing hatred for the poor, the disabled, the disadvantaged and the weak and meek is well received and to the mainstream, beyond objectionable and an outright rejection of all things Christlike.
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  4202. Yeah, he really needs to wander off and go play with his tiny balls.
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  4203. What's the first group of amendments to the Constitution called again? The Bill of Optionals? Because, I recall entitlements being Rights. Long ago, I swore an oath many times, to protect the Constitution and laws of this nation from enemies, both foreign and domestic. My enlistment has expired upon retirement, my oath can never expire.
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  4204. It's unfortunate that we have to pay for rights. Next week, a tax on breathing air.
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  4205. Stop insulting crap, at least it's useful after composting, these creatures aren't even useful as compost - they're far too toxic.
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  4206.  @eby2257  given that not one single case of fraud has been presented, what an odd thing to say. Fraud is illegal and would be instantly criminally charged. Instead, we see a press secretary wave some papers around and claim fraud, then on the next breath, explain that the "fraud" were authorized US government contracts that had DEI baked in. Hence, passed through multiple counsel offices, full to the brim with lawyers and accountants, hence not fraud. "I don't like this" and "I don't understand this" aren't fraud. Or do you think that heart and brain surgery are also fraud? Now, go back to your room, the adults are trying to talk.
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  4207. Likely a spy bird. We have them, Russia has them, China's using balloons and Russian spy planes have overflown our ICBM fields, both as part of a treaty that Trump withdrew from and on a clandestine basis for years. The clandestine side being denied by the US government, lest the populace become alarmed that spy planes could overfly our nation without our knowledge like ours did with so many adversary nations. Hell, they even declassified the Roswell crash - a US balloon that captured fallout from Soviet nuclear weapons tests. The strange "alien metal" skin - honeycomb aluminum, which was a new invention at the time.
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  4208. Difficult to analyze anything without all of the pertinent facts available yet. Known, a warning was sent to the accident flight to warn of a potential bird strike threat. A literal minute later, the aircraft radioed a mayday call for a bird strike. Insufficient time during a stabilized approach to escape that kind of risk, engines take time to spool up thrust enough to begin significant maneuvers. Aircraft attempted a landing, landing gear failed to deploy, TOGA was engaged (hopefully, as they did go around for a missed approach due to landing gear deployment failure), reciprocal approach was approved for the mayday flight (otherwise, they'd have had to circle the airport and begin a whole new approach on the original course). Belly landing was attempted, flight was without flaps or landing gear, thrust reversers did engage, but were ineffective. Video exists of a compressor stall in the #2 engine (starboard side). The reversers indicate at least partial hydraulic pressure was present, as they're hydraulically actuated, no out of balance thrust observed on landing when the reversers were engaged, indicating failure of the remaining #1 engine. One odd report was stating something about a bird lodged in the wing, but I've not observed any further reporting on that, so that may just be noise. It is beyond unusual though for a bird to penetrate a wing, damage a wing, damage control surfaces, destroy an engine, but I'm unaware of any flights that have had a bird actually penetrate a wing and damage the hydraulic lines and/or actuators and aircraft are tested and certified to survive bird strikes to the wings. So, open questions that the flight recorders will reveal, did #2 entirely fail, which appears likely? Did #1 fail and if so, when? Did the crew engage the APU and get it up to speed in sufficient time to retain full hydraulic function, which does take a fair amount of time during an emergency? Why did the crew fail to pull the landing gear manual deployment controls, which would have allowed the gear to drop and lock under both gravity and air flow assistance? With the gear down, they'd have lost airspeed rapidly and may have then avoided an overspeed landing that was extremely long - especially with no wheels with which to brake with. Also missing, the speed brakes, which automatically deploy along with landing spoilers when the gear is down and otherwise would have to be manually activated. Panic isn't really a first consideration, pilots operate and survive by following checklists and checklists take time, hence reliance in time critical emergencies on memory items. In either case, quite a few disasters have been traced to not following a checklist or missing a memory item. Basically, the accident occurred in absolutely the worst possible time, at the end of final approach and at a cleared to land time frame and that is where most fatal accidents do occur. Losing engine power on one engine is recoverable, it's literally part of the design of the aircraft and is necessary for certification. But, bird strikes can and have damaged both engines and damaged engines can manage to operate for some time after initial damage, we'll need the flight recorder data on the EPR and maybe EGT to be certain if the turbines were catastrophically failing or failed, but #2 is likely due to the observed compressor stall and consistent with fatal damage due to ingestion of a sizable object, specifically, a large bird. We're not talking sparrows or pigeons, we're talking geese or even larger, so twice the weight of a chicken or more, depending upon what species is being struck at a couple of hundred miles per hour and turbines spinning at 10000 - 25000 RPM, the fan spinning at 1000 - 4500 RPM. And in a high workload, information overload environment, where CRM (Cockpit Resource Management) is critical to offset the massive workload between crew members. Landing is already a high workload situation, pop a sudden emergency and multiple problems into the mixture during one's final leg of landing, it's a hot mess of tons of information, only some being critical, flooding the displays and computer and without teamwork, has often resulted in disaster. It certainly didn't help having the antenna array for the approach system resting on top of a tall double reinforced concrete wall, which is unconscionable to every pilot I've spoken to. Normally, they're on low concrete pads and on steel towers, which at least will shear off, even if they do damage the aircraft badly. Concrete, one may as well rammed into a mountain and frankly, it's a bit of a miracle that even two survived that crash. But, panic would them imply rash and hasty actions and there's no sign of significant control inputs that would indicate panic. There was little time and as was noted with the Hudson River forced landing, both engines can be fatally damaged by a flock of large birds and there are a plethora of examples one can find where one engine immediately failed, the other failing later and again, on landing, that's doubleplus ungood. Still, I'll await the report on the recorder's logs, which will fully tell the sad tale. That the pilots accepted coming in hotter than a two dollar pistol suggests a loss of thrust though, but that's an educated guess from someone that hasn't flown in quite a few years. But, I do remember there not being a hell of a lot of time available to even panic when things go sideways and one being quite busy analyzing indicators and messages, while going through checklists and worst case, memory items. There is a very real possibility that things went so disastrously wrong, in a worst case scenario way, that the checklist and memory items just couldn't be completed until a half minute or longer after the crash and if thrust is absent, a missed approach then won't get you a go around, you're not going to miss the ground. Because, gravity always wins.
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  4209. I told them long ago, way too many moving parts, it'll never work. ;)
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  4210. Well, Trump can't share his income tax information because he's being audited perpetually... And the Epstein files will stay sealed to protect the "innocent" men, to hell with the minor children, since they're girls and hence, property. OK, news flash for any MAGA voters, Donald Trump is more full of shit than a Christmas goose. The only egg prices you'll see decline are for human eggs as women try to sell them to get enough money to be able to feed their families. Good job Making America Gaunt Again.
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  4211. I can see an Act of God defense potentially working, as there was no reasonable way to predict what happened when the battery shelf was jettisoned. That said, there is the optics and cost, which even for cash strapped NASA, is a pittance and potential political fallout in the form of even greater budget reductions...
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  4212.  @firepuppies4086  $60 can get me an heirloom quality, old illustration containing illuminated bible. Prices for plainer leather bound versions can be had for $20 - $35. There are $300 versions, but those are for collections and the altar. Basically, a tuxedo version.
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  4213.  @firepuppies4086  Yep! Trump tacked $10 on top of it, gotta turn that profit! I'm sure there's additional fees for shitting and manhandling, but that's typical of everything these days. After all, he's the guy who made Mexico pay for a wall by making shit more expensive for US purchasers via tariffs, not having a clue how such things (or pretty much anything) works. That man could fuck up a wet dream.
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  4214. The President may not amend the Constitution. Period. That's the job of Congress and the state legislatures. Amendments are a cast iron pain in the ass to get passed. They need 2/3 supermajority of Congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures majority to pass. And Presidents have absolutely no part in the process. At all. No matter how many crayons this one tries to use to scratch out a century old and change amendment.
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  4215. SCOTUS already held that the Constitution is unconstitutional, Trump has total immunity and even money, will anoint him as king and Congress no longer has authority.
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  4216. Well, Rush and the Amoral Majority. Well, they called themselves the Moral Majority, but each and every one ended up in embezzlement and sex scandals. But, the actual decline, as skip mentioned, was with the traitor Nixon, who sabotaged and was recorded in NSA intercepts sabotaging the Vietnam War ceasefire negotiations. Then reneged on his agreements with the North Vietnamese. Then came Ronnie Raygun and his Welfare Queens nonsense, all over one fraud case in the entire nation and history of the program. Which was echoed by a MAGAt in my presence, as he trumpeted about welfare caddies "he personally saw" to a young gas station/convenience store clerk who happened to be Black, terrifying her. I pinned his ears back on the bullshit and flat out called him a liar regurgitating what he heard from Reagan. He quickly retreated and the clerk thanked me. If I want bullshit, I'll go to a pasture.
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  4217. Yeah, it's now on my very brief consideration list for a reference oscillator, just because my apartment window faces north just so to make GPS a pain. Unless I set up a bunch of reflectors and alarm the building manager again... Yeah, older guy gets bored, next week's headline. Me, the right scrap parts, boredom leads to confused folks growing even more confused as to who to ask whatinhell I'm building now. Easy solution, just ask. Last project was a scintillation radiation spectrometer. Not hugely precise, but did display the concepts and ID common household isotopes. The project started, was bored and maintenance gave me a deceased smoke detector and why waste the americium? Just needed to order one photodiode and an op amp.
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  4218. I'm just thinking, I've got orders to get Daddy O'Baddy. Informed he's got a limp and is heading toward a white SUV, my luck is that the parking lot will be at a busy sports medicine clinic full of people with limps and the entire damned parking lot looks like a white SUV dealership. Because, Murphy was an optimist. As for media "edited for time" video, I recall a few instances where "they obviously weren't armed" involved a man with an RPG launch tube and at least three rockets in the shoulder bandolier, another removed the content showing clear secondary explosions of the "unarmed" bodies. So, I take the press and IDF reports with a grain of salt the size of Gibraltar.
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  4219. Fortunately, Americans don't eat fruits and vegetables, they eat rocks and meat. Fortunately, I've stocked my freezer and pantry until the revolt occurs. See 1789 France, "Let them eat brioche!". No, it wasn't cake. It was a rich bread with cream, butter and eggs.
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  4220. One problem. The right to run for office goes hand in hand with the right to vote. So, requiring that of a candidate would also be requiring it for each and every voter.
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  4221. Well, they'll keep doing it until they insurance companies refuse to insure them and their budget goes to zero, due to insolvency secondary to settlement payments.
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  4222. So, he's king because he wants to play traffic cop? OK, he can be king traffic cop of Manhattan. That'll be even more effective than the congestion fee for discouraging traffic. And it'll keep him out of the White House and away from the golf course.
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  4223. I'm more partial to a Roman practice, damnatio memoriae. Delete any mention of his name everywhere. If one is forced to refer to him, his name became Repeat Failure or Imbecile #1, etc. Want your name in lights and most stinkers do? Have it erased and forgotten instead.
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  4224.  @rspro575 now, now. Record low unemployment, pandemic wrangled, stock market booming, obviously all bad news. A depression and record inflation going hand in hand with a lethal pandemic, flashlights up the keister and injecting bleach were good ideas. Yeah, Trumpites are all totally from Bizarro World.
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  4225.  @lloydmckay3241  OK, tens of thousands of scientists examined the organism throughout the world, the giant purple people eater space aliens all made them lie. Nanu-nanu. There's an old truism, if there is a conspiracy of 3, the only way to keep it secret is if two are dead.
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  4226. In other words, the right to redress of grievances shall be suppressed. Rights denied? Tough shit. Removing the right to have a court tell them to chew harder. Slippery slope and all that, something the right loves to drone on about, so turnabout is fair play. Then, there's Roe, with verbiage that states by denial, that the ninth amendment does not exist. And the day previously, prohibiting the states from regulating the second amendment's activities, as well regulated means not regulated at all. Sounds to me like an incremental legislative repeal of the entire Bill of Rights. @Steve, have you reviewed the SCOTUS decisions yourself? That's been my habit, as well we know, the media typically turns many such reports into a pig's breakfast, getting ever so much not only wrong, but not even wrong.
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  4227. Well, literally each month she submits a bill to expunge Trump's two impeachments. The bills then dutifully get shuffled off to committee to be ignored and die.
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  4228. Superchemistry, wait a bit for more sensitive equipment and see ringing. Really, it's in the math. Eliminating contrails is good, eliminating chemtrails is better, as the exhaust is pollution. Anyone figuring out that one, well, my hat off and a Nobel prize for them! Model the same thing with a plastic ball, but changing plastic with neutronium, learn a lot more. I'm serious. The math's a cast iron bitch, but it's illuminating. Downside to replaceable batteries, water resistance. Not a big barrier, given USB/thuderthud connectors. Gilling a mushroom is easy. Genetically sterilize the mushroom. No clue where the next mushroom is coming from... Hurricanes are easy, God-Trump said to nuke them and hand wave... I'll just get my hat...
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  4229. That is totally and entirely false! He's won contempt of court sentences, he's won the duty to pay a large settlement, why the hits just keep rolling on for him! The only way he could improve on his performance is to get control of nuclear weapons and he never could get past the first page of the instructions.
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  4230. "Go talk to and find out". <Kraken returning>"I don't eat ass".
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  4231.  @PhillipJackson-n7m  Biden didn't have preventable mass deaths, Trump did.
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  4232. It does speak to desperation on the part of Putin, not so much the motorcycles, which have been used effectively in the past, being difficult to target in the past. The desperation part being first launching IRBM's with MIRV warheads, which are indistinguishable from nuclear versions by any means until the warhead reaches its target, posing a risk of misinterpretation of strategic nuclear weapons being launched and a response by every NATO associated nuclear deterrent force. Now, attacking when a NATO head of state is visiting, with full knowledge in advance of said visit, risking letters of last resort authorizing the launch of SLBM's from effectively point blank range onto Russia. The letters directing countervalue or counterforce options and currently unknown to even allied NATO powers. As for armor, the current delay is likely due to getting their old WWII stock running and operational again. Yeah, they still have those in stock. They've largely depleted all of their modern stock and most of their Cold War stock. Maybe horse regiments after that, in conjunction with nukes? And if a nuke goes long and into a NATO nation, Article 5 and NATO replies in kind are inevitable. And even money, given YT policies as observed, this will get deleted and I'll be in YT jail again. Because, anything anti-Russia gets poked by YT with a sharp stick. Well, let's see next Monday, Vice President Trump did promise to stop the Russia-Ukrainian war on day one. Assuming that President Musk will allow that. Someone will have to tell me if it happens, as I'm scheduled to walk my unicorns, then go for a long flight on my pigasus, then resolve a fairy strike.
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  4233. Now, the question is, would 11 grams or so of mannitol IV also accomplish a similar recovery? Or would the wide open kidney channels further upset the electrolyte balance uncontrollably? 'lytes would be lost, that's a given. Or just a balance of effects and sodium chloride's effect is pronounced enough to now allow imbalance to occur to significant levels? And how does one counter the hyponatremic state and avoid locking the patient in? I did cheat a bit on nutmeg, do my shock, I had entirely forgotten the MAOI component, but did remember the anticholinergic effects and symptoms. Yeah, I really do love discussing such things with toxicologists. :D
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  4234. Well, the USMC is a corps of the US Navy and hence, on the rare occasion that you'd receive a paper paycheck, you'd see proudly emblazoned being issued by the US Navy. As for reprisals, I've been with many joint forces on our now ubiquitous joint bases, "Fine by me, we'll kick each other's asses for a while, no matter what, I'll win, as I've rank, time in grade and time in service on God. Jesus can't get promoted before me". And hell, I can chew the crayons with the best of them, despite being Army.
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  4235.  @Idiotsincarshere that'd be a vertical lift bridge. Any movable bridge costs a lot more to replace. Vertical lift bridges cost more to build, more to maintain, take more maintenance than either swing bridges, bascule bridges or fixed bridges, but are a better alternative in some locations. A local Baltimore paper is trying to make hay over the bridge piers needing dolphins to protect them, basically concrete piers that'd block the ship, but in the case of that bridge, would also obstruct the port entry entirely for large ships. Not sure what one does with a port that one obstructs, other than admire a useless port. They could've gone with starlings, but again, there are limits to the strength to repel a large container ship and they'd want starkwaters built to cut ice, preventing pier damage. Like any engineering problem, it comes down to what is able to be done, practical to implement and what one can afford to spend.
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  4236.  @Atticusnme  firearms are just one more tool to be used and respected. Exercise proper safety measures, they're as safe as your household hammer. Always respect the firearm and the end the thunder, brimstone and owie comes out of is hazardous and don't point it at anything you don't want obliterated. Keep safely handling it until it becomes like an instinct and practice, practice, practice. Be comfortable enough firing that you're certain that you'll never miss your target, then keep on practicing until you won't. For me, it's an exercise in muscle memory and applied mathematics and I'm proficient to a kilometer - even with an M-16, better with a high power rifle and pistol I'm good to 50 meters from an old M1911 (my preferred sidearm). Shotgun, well, I can hit door hinges and locks... ;) And take up honing knives. Not for military usage, conservation. A good knife should last a lifetime with proper honing. And a dull kitchen knife can really mess you up. Dull knives injured me badly enough in the past, my razor sharp kitchen knives left me alone with only minor nicks. And a good heavy weight cleaver, great to tap around a bone to cut it and bake it into submission for boiling into stock. Hey, even if the poop hits the fan, which I really hope it doesn't, ya gotta eat! And I eat like a king for under $350 a month. Balls! Just realized, forgot to grab coffee at the store earlier and a winter storm's blowing in. Oh well, pantry reserves it is! Yeah, got four shelves of food and a stuffed freezer. Not a prepper, just well, lazy. Shop once a month for basics, get fast turnover weekly for milk and whatnot (used to include eggs in that list, but can't afford the armed guards). OK, got a dozen, don't tell anyone. ;) Knowledge is power. Acquire as much knowledge as you can, from food preparation from scratch to which end of the firearm the thunder, brimstone and owie issue from and how to safely handle it.
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  4237.  @canuckhead-q6k  bleh. The US invaded Canada twice, didn't end very well at all, with the US Armies being politely escorted to the border, then their weapons being politely returned. And the last time I looked, it'd be fairly even, one US forces vs one Commonwealth forces and NATO allies coming to play as well. Now, ask yourself what's happening that you're not noticing due to Trump's smokescreen of bullshit?
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  4238.  @BradloRaul  he's suffering from acute butt hurt. Someone said something bad about the god-king, which is a treason and not allowed. Expect him to grow worse and worse as he's allowed to continue.
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  4239. Given the list and how toxic foods are on earth, I guess everyone should've stayed on the battlestar. Kidney beans, when rehydrated one has to toss the water or their toxin accumulates. Fava beans dissolve red blood cells in those with a common enzyme deficiency. Cassava contains cyanide. Just to name a few. Sugar is so toxic, it's as poisonous as salt, for the same reason - literally. Yep, confronting Cylons is safer. Or remember toxicology 101, the dose makes the poison. Now, excuse me, got some potatoes that are turning green, gotta peel them...
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  4240. I've always saw IR illuminators well. Not as in using them as a flashlight, but the source I can see well at a distance. I suspect it's just part of the range of normal red wavelengths that many can see, as they're not exceptionally far from our usual wavelengths discussed in usual conversation. But, UV, long wave UV is quite bright to my eyes, a deeper shade of violet, fluorescent marking, such as counterfeit detection on US currency is also blindingly bright under a long wave illuminator. UVB, I see in a pinkish-purplish tone. Neither being well focused at all, one actually appearing quite foggy, suggesting something a biologist I discussed it with suspected, fluorescence of proteins downconverting the UV into ranges that I can detect. No clue what UV-C looks like, you explore it, I'll stay at home. That's damned near x-ray wavelength and quite unhealthy for humans. Oh, seeing in x-ray and gamma would be even more interesting during powerful thunderstorms. Regular strength thunderstorms are fair x-ray sources, strong storms are good enough gamma sources as to be detectable easily from orbit. I did get to see my femur in gamma, when I had a thyroid scan using I-131. Before dosing, they needed to determine my natural background level. I'm slightly hotter than those junior to me by decades, but given I was born a week after Tsar Bomba and the idiotic amount of atmospheric bursts, plus underground bursts that leaked fallout to the surface in the US, not surprising. Oddly, I don't turn green or get larger when angry. But, there were a few Privates that were certain that if angered, I'd likely beat them with the 20 ton APC they had to clean after using it... ;) Naw, they'd just have found themselves with all kinds of things to do that they'd loathe while everyone else was chilling with ice cold beers.
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  4241.  @JurekOK  well, there is the missile fuel unlock code to enter as well for ICBMs. Otherwise, all one could do is launch an unarmed lawn dart.
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  4242.  @tomnguyen9931  quick! Change the combination on my luggage.
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  4243. Well, from the sound of it, the postal investigators would have a field day. Opening then an avenue for investigation under RICO, which doesn't require the criminal organization to be very organized - which would be entirely appropriate. Given that the party appears to be a thoroughly disorganized criminal organization. Of course, long, long ago I had told some foreigners that we put our best, most proficient criminals into political leadership, where we could keep an eye on them, lest they rob us blind.
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  4244. Could an F-15 safely perform a go around with zero hydraulics?
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  4245.  @CWLemoine  cool. I know they have three hydraulic systems, don't know how they interconnect or which controls which system - especially on a combat aircraft. Yeah, go around would've been the most prudent. Odd decision, but then, we've all had off days and it only takes one. Might've gotten mentally locked into a cycle of thinking hydraulic leak equaling all three systems or something similar and within the time frame involved, it's all memory items, not checklists. Hence, why one plans approach and landing in advance, along with contingencies. Also, still trying to wrap my head around ATC hearing a partial signal "cable" and the only thought was to withdraw the arrestor. Did the pilot owe him money? ;)
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  4246.  @MtHoodMikeZ  well, they have the Queen of England on their money, so they're obviously from England. In Europe. Where the commies from China are.
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  4247. Not in pleasure craft though, MV's and naval warships, yes, not in gigs though. That'd be the recipe for doggie paddling for a long, long time. On shore, they've already had a super soaking from the previous hurricane, so the soil isn't going to absorb much more, add in the category and 10 - 15 foot anticipated storm surge, this is going to be the worst kind of a disaster. A disaster on top of a disaster.
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  4248. I don't have to simulate that, I just remember learning how to understand other languages, with the additional challenge of processing them, when their rules make sense - unlike English. I'm firmly of the belief that English is not actually a language, it's a weapon of psychological warfare designed to induce madness.
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  4249.  @Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove  every rule has an exception in English, including that rule. No consistency throughout the language. Indeed, the first man to document the English language went mad and committed suicide. Enough said, yes?
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  4250. That's a primary failure mode for a continuous truss bridge, as the entire bridge supports the load. It's basically a gigantic single point of failure bridge. Yeah, first is search and rescue, then clearing wreckage and recovery. It's uglier in that the bridge carried hazmat, leaving one other bridge for hazmat or traffic with hazmat would have to bypass west of the city. Used the bridge frequently enough in the military, when our convoy either had fuel pods loaded or fuel and explosives, as otherwise it was one other bridge or bypass west at a higher road distance.
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  4251.  @gamezonereactions8388  paid bots don't pay taxes, humans do.
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  4252. Actually, the hardest part is surviving the utility triggered fires. Downed power lines, broken gas mains, even broken water mains that undermine gas mains causing a delayed leak and explosion.
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  4253.  @m2hmghb  if a wildfire causes me problems here, I've worse problems than landscaping, as the river is right outside of my window and concrete surrounds the building. I'd obviously have a major superoxidizer spill that caught the water and concrete on fire. The hydrogen fluoride alone would create problems, what with massively etching my windows and all. But, I'm well prepared for a metal-fluorine fire, I've a pair of good running shoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride#Rocket_propellant I'll see myself out...
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  4254. JD Vance has advocated for summary execution in our streets, that laws are illegal if Trump don't like them, but executive orders that Trump so loves are also illegal. Trump doesn't want to be president, he wants to be emperor.
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  4255. The British discovered that first, with quite similar results.
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  4256.  @elhoward7440  no, the windows are just too narrow.
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  4257.  @user-iw6bu4iq4r first, he's not been declared an enemy of the nation or convicted of insurrection. So, you'd be charging someone with aiding and comforting someone never accused of or convicted of a crime, thereby eliminating all habeas corpus. That's as bad as the SCOTUS decision that the Constitution is unconstitutional because there is no authority to enforce it given by Congressional fiat, which is bogus and entirely circular with the most trivial of arguments. But worse, this decision undermines states authority to enforce civil rights of citizens over their police departments, since there is no such statute to allow such a mythical enforcement.
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  4258. The GOP follows only one religion, a very dark one indeed, for it is simply money and power. In a Christian view, they'd be the Sadducees of today, ruling class and wealthy. Sadducees believed that there was no resurrection of the dead, no afterlife, no spirit realm, no angels. Most Sadducees were priests of the Temple. Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead and the afterlife. They believed like all Jews that God created the world, chose Israel as his chosen people, and rewarded and punished them according to his law. They also felt that the Law of Moses contained ambiguities which they strove to fix by developing rules and regulations for every possible human action in order to adhere to the will of God as outlined in the Torah. Yet oddly, Jesus had Pharisees as followers, who he recognized as following a righteous path. Given the political environment at that time, Pharisees tended to be more for the people than Saducees, who were for the wealthy establishment and there was tremendous amounts of unrest due to their political differences. The Romans wisely stayed out of things, save when tax money was interfered with by unrest. The problem is, playing politics with one's faith is to prostitute that faith, gradually at first, increasingly over time. There are quite a few stories within Judaeo-Christian scriptures where politics overruled lessons considered law and the results were always disastrous. Stories where the lessons were followed, the results were wonderful. Whether they were literal events or tales of wisdom is up to the reader to consider as an intellectual exercise, the lessons remain the same of attempting to impart some modest wisdom upon the learner that desires that wisdom. The foolish simple consider it verbatim law, no reason required for that law, it just is, as surely as an altar gets its gilding.
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  4259. Which means, it's alarmed Trump and his boss, President Musk.
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  4260.  @SurprisedCroissant-lm2ct  so, 30 documents is worse than 300 highest level security documents. Got ya. So, when are you going to force your church to hang a Trump sign in place of its cross?
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  4261.  @Iansco1  would that we had a thousand of him nationwide. Most of the lunacy would cease!
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  4262.  @mikepool-USA  for hire. So, either the companies get a percentage of the veteran's rightful benefits payments or the veteran has to be able to afford to pay them to receive what is rightfully theirs. OK, how much do you want to pay for each and every other one of your rights? Speech, religion or irreligion, assembly, voting, weapons, right to a trial and attorney, even life? How much per right, aka entitlement? You get none whatsoever until you pay in advance. And even with a VA social worker, I'll be literally waiting for years just for hearing aids, after waiting a year for access to said social worker. Blow sunshine up someone else's ass, this veteran know far, far better.
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  4263.  @rkeller8141  we have an amendment, SCOTUS decided amendments without a law are not law, which basically declares the Constitution null and void.
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  4264. At least the astronauts know what components were what and precisely what was needed to be made. While CO2 was poisoning their bodies and brains. That'd not just tough, double touch, it's quadruple tough, as they knew that failure would soon be lethal.
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  4265. I watched it live, from launch to splashdown. NASA did themselves proud, with equal measures of perspiration and inspiration.
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  4266.  @AwesomeBlackDude  they weren't scientists, which would've been a heresy of its own at the time. They were worse. They were and remain mathematicians. Physics just doesn't get done without them today. Although, by Apollo 13, they were mostly computer operators/programmers and a few went into engineering. Moon, hell, we'd not have gotten into true orbit without those human computers! Mom told me about them in the late 1960's. So, they weren't a secret, just not talked about enough. An era when humans could out compute computers.
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  4267.  @gregorykayne6054  I remember watching it live too. I'm damned sure that they held off responding to Mission Control until their parachutes opened, likely to avoid having hopes raised to celebration to be dashed when they slammed into the ocean at 300 MPH. Once they had full deployment, suddenly they radioed in. It's what I'd do, for that reason. The saddest missions were Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11, both missions that had no survivors.Soyuz 1 was a parachute failure, Soyuz 11 a valve dislodged and vented the cabin and wasn't able to be reached by the crew. Although Komarov did get a last word in, knowing the capsule wasn't flight ready, he demanded that the senior officers who authorized the mission view his body, which was quite carbonized.
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  4268. Typical Trump, frankly, if he showed up at my door and told me his name, I'd card him and still never admit him into my home. But then, met him around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce do. He was a guest of honor and spoke, the event suffered a 95% attrition as a result. The only thing he's proficient at is abject failure. See Trump Steaks and Trump U for examples, he's over a dozen more failures.
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  4269. When the half of you that are tired and depressed feel like rejoining life and when the other half, who want to shred the Constitution and use Trump's tactics, techniques and practices feel like rejoining reality, where it's more conducive to life, then come back and read my warning. Health warning: Leopard heads are tasty and one can easily engorge oneself on them when they attempt to dine on one's facial features, their forgetting that's where our mouths are. One must pace oneself when dining, lest one suffer constipation like I currently am, due to a slight logjam of still digesting leopard skulls. Never fear, you won't run out quickly and leopard heads make an excellent egg substitute that's entirely free and incessantly volunteering to become a meal. So, we had our asses handed to us in the election. Dust yourself off, get up and get ready to fight to preserve what remains of our nation. George Washington lost most of the battles against the United Kingdom, but kept on slugging, preparing, slugging some more and eventually won important battles and guess what? We're not singing God Save the King, we sing our National Anthem. We lost many battles in the beginning of every damned war that we fought - literally, tragically in many cases, laughably in others, stupidly in many cases, we dusted ourselves off, trained up, prepared and slugged away and won the important wars, walked away from the unimportant, stupidly chosen ones, stalemated one that had an impossibly large army backing the adversary that remains a stalemate to this very day. We defeated Spain and her empire, Germany and hers twice and the aggression is largely gone from Europe, save with Russia who's desperate to actually mean something and make more acquisitions to recapture their Soviet empire glory and that played heavily into our election debacle. We never were a nation of quitters, there's no damned reason that we should suddenly start and become a satellite of the Russian Federation. So, as I've done when my ass got handed to me, snap the damned thing back on, get up and get back to slugging. I would recommend stocking up on shelf stable foods for the early months of the upcoming disaster - during this administration, because things are going to get stupidly crazy once he swears in and your sudden non-purchasing at war pricing is gonna really kick him and his cronies in the wallet hard if you're already stocked up. I always keep a couple of months of basics in the pantry and freezer. Not some doomsday prepper type, I'm just lazy and when the weather's shitty out, why go out shopping when I can pull some UHT milk from the shelf, bake my own bread or whatever else I need gets pulled out of my pantry? Don't have some chest freezer or anything, just a regular full sized fridge/freezer, around four pounds of beans, four pounds of lentils, couple of bags of flour, veggies I can for myself because where $.99 for a can of veggies, half might go to waste for myself alone and the half cans are $2.00, screw that, canned my own in 8 oz jars for a couple of cases worth. Pasta sauce is in 4 gallon batches and pressure canned with the meat in a case of quart jars, mostly because I loathe that store bought crap marinara swill. And hungry leopard heads are tasty as well, since I can't find some powdered eggs for backup for when the weather's iced up... ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozCoq4osSwk Bad days pass, want the good days back, it's on you to make them come back, being an adult is accepting a setback and moving forward, adapting to failures and moving forward. Because, going backward only results in being backed into the ocean and getting soggy.
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  4270.  @blakeuurainen6045  yeah, gotta put my fingers on a diet as well. ;) Don't even get me started on fatigue and my dyslexia...
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  4271. Can a block be a triangle? Why not? I've also lived near a block that was part of a circle. Traditionally, a city block is 1/10 mile, but also referred to at the arbitrary length of the street between intersections. So, a block can actually have any shape, even the shape of a drunken, meandering walk. Had a similar issue at one place we lived. The neighbor couldn't get the high speed cable. So, having a spare ethernet switch, I ran a fiber over to their house and put them onto their own vlan that was just for internet, then we split the internet cost. Needless to say, my switches aren't consumer type switches, but those used in corporate campus networks... ;)
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  4272. To remove her from the bench, Congress would have to impeach her. Removal from the cases, that's only the appellate court that can do that and the hearing/decision is scheduled. The court can't decide before it's in session, that's putting the cart before the horse.
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  4273. Normally, I'd advise to never interrupt an adversary when they're making a mistake. But, these aren't normal times and Abby Normal is at the helm and hence, will double down on those mistakes. Still, Donald Trump has done the legal profession a tremendous service in helping to get so many shysters disbarred, while simultaneously snatching defeat from the gaping jaws of victory the majority of the time. May that fine tradition continue indefinitely.
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  4274. Kind of difficult to reach a destination beyond a conflict area, especially for national airlines primary routes. When I flew from the US to Qatar, the aircraft had a connecting flight in Europe, then to Qatar, flying over Iraq during the war. All windows shades had to be closed while over Iraq. One isn't going around that long a distance, so overflight was necessary.
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  4275.  @dlc2112dlc  so, you'd also like to disband our military? That's spending more of your money, surrender being cheaper for wussies.
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  4276. ...shit...that's my back yard...
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  4277.  @icebreaker9006  why ever would anyone take the advice of someone incapable of following a thread subject, video subject or even know where the goddamned capslock key is? Indeed, if I'm promised to go to any heaven that you inhabit, I'll happily jump straight into hell and be better for it.
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  4278. Yes, they were cannon fodder. Have you never studied Sun-Yzu? I taught him and I'm a bit more experienced now.
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  4279.  @disorganizedorg  Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 , obviously you missed one. There was actually a helicopter design with ejection seats - they actually had two designs, one ejected the rotor, then the crew, the other ejected out the bottom. Neither design was accepted by the military for some strange reason.* *I'm actually not joking about the helicopters. I can only imagine how the military viewed subsequent designs from those folks... So yeah, there are things too stupid even for those of us who served in the military.
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  4280. The GOP, promoting more children by lowering the birthrate by 23% and climbing. Might as well call them the Dodo Party!
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  4281. Yeah, they really needed Wigglytuff.
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  4282.  @zilfondel  only from a distance.
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  4283.  @brianhirt5027  thank you, AI. I'm not allowed to suggest thermonuclear bombardment of Russia by YouTube, enjoy cobalt-60, per Putana's suggestion.
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  4284. I happily remind Ruskies on a quite regular basis that Putin opened the door to cobalt devices when he threatened to use a cobalt salted warhead in their newest missile. And reminded them that switching out the uranium tamper for cobalt is actually trivial to accomplish... They typically seem a bit anxious to avoid their vitamin B-12 with cobalt-60 in it for some odd reason. I guess they don't like turning green when angry. I suspect that I'd not be very welcome in Russia.
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  4285.  @mile_high_topher  does ramming it with his golf cart at low speed count?
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  4286. Well, I really don't think that we need evidence to present to a court of law, to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. We don't execute or imprison corpses, especially when they've been converted to ash.
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  4287. Yeah, but the UK is civilized, the US isn't.
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  4288.  @edthebumblingfool  no, it isn't treason. Treason is narrowly and precisely defined in the Constitution. It's the only crime defined in the Constitution and requires two eyewitnesses willing to testify in open court to the act of taking up arms against one's nation or giving aid and comfort to an enemy in a declared war. We're currently out of stock on Congressionally declared wars and have been since WWII ended. But, she'd be an accessory after the fact to sedition. More entertaining, should Congress subpoena the volume 2 report and she denied it, she'd have actually demolished one pillar of our Constitutional government by destroying checks and balances via judicial fiat law, freshly crafted from the bench and suborning the Constitution itself.
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  4289.  @333mmmmm  Congress is good at solving problems? Maybe a decade ago, not any more recent than that and honestly, not since Obama was elected.
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  4290.  @toriless  which a cop, who couldn't see a differential and transmission, let alone seats inside the car could determine. Did you expend even three brain cells efforts in thought in that comment?
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  4291. Pity that so many forgot what the fourth amendment says and means.
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  4292.  @0Rookie0  that's OK, as usual, the rotary wing guy wants to fly through a fixed object to loop a liver.
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  4293. Mexico is on the phone, they don't want Texas back.
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  4294.  @stormyweather9917  which is why they already did so, because of hand wave.
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  4295.  @neonfox582  well, that was in the late 1970's...
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  4296.  @neonfox582  knocking on the door of 60 here, alas, there's been a response. Upside of that is, I know how to fix a lot of shit that's broken, the downside is finding an ever increasing pile of shit that can't be fixed. ;) Sorry about the mess we left.
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  4297.  @davidwiggins3461  I learned everything about shit before I became a toddler. Let's face it, there ain't all that much shit to learn about shit.
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  4298. "He was only talking about the auto industry", because Ford actually elects Presidents, not the populace on Bizarro World. I wonder what threats he'll issue when the courts seize his properties, since he now admits that he can't pay the bond required for his nonsensical appeal.
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  4299. Honestly, someone needs to hand him some Midol.
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  4300. I'm reminded of the Fukushima meltdowns. CNN had Bill Nye on to discuss when they were injecting boric acid into the reactors to prevent criticality. Bill, being a good engineer and generalist totally flubbed things, confusing cesium-137, a fission product for boron, a neutron poison. Now, on day one, that'd be a no biggie, not enough time to line up any consultants that knew a control rod from a fuel rod. After that, not exceptionally excusable, as people who worked on nuclear reactors were lined up around the block to talk about what was going on and were studiously ignored. Instead, they had "whistleblowers" that were crackpots or well, a mechanical engineer who once worked for Boeing on hydraulics discussing the physics of a nuclear reactor. With the efficacy of asking a barber about constitutional law technicalities. Better off asking wait staff, oh wait, I'm sure they would, rather than ask an attorney. Being right has a low return on investment to the MBA crowd, being first is what counts and well, we see what MBA attitudes did for Boeing's profit margin with the 737 MAX debacles. And the booze bottles in the under construction Air Force One candidate... Pity, as MBA types are invaluable within their fields of expertise, but lousy outside of their lanes, as are every other specialist around. You don't ask a network architect to fix your car, you don't ask your barber for legal advice and you certainly don't ask your attorney to remove your gallbladder, you go to the appropriate expert in those fields. Or do your own research and remove your own brain tumor. Sure that'll work out well. Although, one's next career would be as a second lieutenant/ensign. ;) I'll just get my coat...
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  4301.  @stevenobrien2596  explanations define a problem, from there one can then proceed to plot a solution. Rather than bitch about a problem, never define it or its cause and wonder why it keeps on happening. Years ago, 747 aircraft kept falling from the skies, people bitched and that was it. Then, enough fell that people really bitched, the problems were defined and well, engines falling off and ripping other engines and a big chunk of wing was found out about, the cause found and it fixed. Defective door designs got fixed. Proper repair procedures got followed. The airplanes stopped raining from the skies. Now, if it wasn't for asshole passengers, most air travel would remain downright boring.
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  4302.  @utjason8  some, some are fixed wing. We used the shit out of the fixed wing, literally tossing them into the air in Iraq and Afghanistan. My unit also tested them before the GWOT in "customer friendliness testing" and boy, did our people initially suffer from information overload! Took longer to train the officers and NCO's on how to filter out noise from data than it took to outfit everyone and train them in using the equipment. We'd have given a solid organ for the helicpter/quad copter models, but they weren't anywhere near prime time yet. Had to wait for battery technology to improve a bit more.
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  4303. No, child abandonment. Make it the full felony.
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  4304.  @mnomadvfx  never interrupt an adversary when he's making a mistake. Or in this case, a colossal blunder. Most Republicans are repelled, but habitually vote Republican, Trump is rapidly curing them of that habituation, just as the Know Nothings cured Whigs enough to have them form the Republican party in the first place. The only real difference currently is, the GOP hasn't saw the handwriting on the wall yet and split off to form a new party. The more batshit crazy their wingnuts go in hijacking the party, the better it is for progressives and mainstream Democrats. The more they talk about overthrowing democracy, the more they speak of violence against their own government, the better it is for even a potted plant to defeat them in an election. And should they pick up weapons and actually engage in violence, well, I'm a veteran, an AK or AR vs howitzer is really not much of a competition, add in rockets, bombs, tanks and trained and experienced infantry, that fools mission would be swiftly put to paid. Because, mutiny, sedition, reason and espionage remain capital crimes for those in the military and pretty much no serving service member is going to get themselves executed in support of god-emperor wannabe Trump the buggier than a baitshop.
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  4305.  @leyrua  very low dosage is good for some cases of clinical depression and chronic pain. Higher doses good for anesthesia. Dunno why they'd shoot for a middling dosage for a dental procedure, propofol would've been better. Guessing they screwed up calculating the dosage. Had propofol and midazolam for my colonoscopy. Induction took twice as long as expected, my metabolism is a bit weird. Recovery took about 1/4 the expected time, I literally was dressed when the nurse popped into recovery to tell me that I could get dressed and ready to leave. The entire staff, jaws agape as I walked out the door. But then, I have a weird metabolism, CNS depressants wear off quickly in me. Most anesthetics operate either by playing with the NMDA receptors or the GABA receptors, blocking them for the duration of the procedure (hopefully). I'm guessing whatever enzymes clear out those receptors just are a bit better at their job than usual. Just as my liver function is unusually high. Downside is, in other areas, my genetics aren't as kind and that ain't a Hershey bar at the bottom of that gene pool...
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  4306.  @pieceofpeace35  Musk was gifted a chainsaw by a South American dictator. He waved the saw around at a public appearance where he slurred responses, wore dark glasses during that nighttime appearance and was behaving rather dully, as in stoned out of his mind. As for ketamine, Musk's admitted drug of choice. Something that's also utterly disqualifying from any position of public trust. As for the drug itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine NMDA receptor antagonist, so it blocks the action of the neurotransmitter NMDA, anesthetics either blocking NMDA or GABA. Hell of a useful drug in a medical environment, promising in some cases of clinical depression that are refractory to other treatments, good in anesthesia that preserves respiratory function, exemplary at low dosage for chronic pain, absolute nightmare if improperly administered and hallucinations occur. But then, anesthetics are a nightmare in an abuse environment, as Michael Jackson could attest to, had he survived his propofol overdose.
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  4307. Exploding.
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  4308. But, he provides a fine example. An example of what happens when fathers breastfeed their infants.
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  4309. They and the Offal Office are bought and paid for by brib- erm campaign contributions. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  4310.  PoliceManHat  the point is, the WTC was an exoskeleton type of building, the Empire State building is a endoskeleton, all strength in the core type of building, so direct parallels cannot be established. Additionally, with either type of construction, one has to remove much of the supports to the point of near progressive collapse before one can use explosive demolitions or structural cutting (can't recall thermite ever being used, as that'd cause a fire in the debris to be removed). Finally, progressive collapse is a fairly common failure mode for large structures that have significant fire damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_collapse
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  4311. I'm 62, my body feels a fair bit older, courtesy of 28 years in the military. That said, I can still write scripts around younger system administrators, outshoot most competitors half my age in competition and have definitely by know quite well inventoried my own limitations.
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  4312.  @johnryan8859  that is absolute nonsense! The day that he summarily, via fiat order, did order everyone displaced from a house of worship - to include the minister in charge of said edifice, then criminally trespass on said property, holding the bible up inverted is accurate. Yeah, he had federal agents chase everyone, including the minister who had legal control of the church ejected from the property, under threats of physical violence and criminal charges. So much for the rights of the public to their religion, the rights to enjoy one's owned property and the right to control the activities that goes on on one's real property. Frankly, after having my house of worship so profaned, I'd declare it sullied and irredeemable and order the razing of the National Cathedral, just to ensure no god-emperor wannabe can occupy it by force again. Just replace it with a lot with a tent, which could be stricken rapidly to prevent a recurrence. With a memorial to the place prominently in its place. With Trump's unholy name prominently mentioned as to suppressing property and religious rights and his unholy right to hold holy books inverted in the proper way of Satan... I freely admit to a major character flaw, I am a very, very, very vindictive individual. And I get ahead, not even, occasionally taking the shoulders with it.
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  4313.  @ln8116  and we get the shitlicks too. Yay, wonderful to win, ala Trump style and call it a victory! Like the Japanese Emperor proclaiming victory in WWII.
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  4314. Doubt it'll return to sanity. It literally followed the course quite similar in the final days of the original conservative party, the Whig party, which died shortly before the Civil War. The new, at the time, Republican Party then fielded some stranger for President, some Lincoln guy. Thank the Know Nothing, erm, Tea Party for chasing this middle of the road guy away from the party, never anticipating the man wounded by the sword to the head and still lived candidate of lies.
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  4315. Free press coverage every time he uttered yet another howler.
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  4316.  @publicuser2534  well, DOGE shuttered part of the FAA, starting with the safety department that was investigating SpaceX after they had to scramble to get airliners out of the path of off course flaming rocket debris. Total mystery though. And he's alienated the folks that run our defense early warning radar facilities. And fired the folks that guard our nuclear weapons storage facilities. And fired the CDC department that tracks and warns about epidemics and the research department where smallpox is stored.
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  4317.  @clarkstrange2142  how does it feel, not how does it feel, it. Do you actually speak English natively?
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  4318.  @QuaxC42  yeah, out of altitude, speed and ideas, there is no time. Afterward, it's code brown time, but not during. The most heartbreaking words I've heard from a CVR were, "Tell my wife that I love her very much", followed immediately by the sound of the aircraft breaking apart.
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  4319.  alias19  turning it into a different problem. Spending a million dollars to protect a few hundred dollars worth of assets, while alienating customers. One reason that I won't shop at HD, Costco and those others, as I really don't like being treated as a public enemy by those that I'm paying. So, I pay the others that won't treat me as an enemy. Still, I can picture Home Depot now suing the man, on the pure basis of being stupid and getting taken to the laundry. My luck, I'd get stuck being on the jury.
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  4320. As far as I know, every state still permits pump shotguns, even NY. Indeed, they're still quite popular for hunting in may states.
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  4321. I'm reminded of the fact that President Musk turned off Ukrainian Starlink during the conflict and only turned it back on when the US government rather threateningly reminded him that they held the contract to provide Starlink to Ukrainian forces and that cessation without the US government's approval is a fundamental breach of contract and a fully recoverable injury to the government. In other words, "Turn it the hell back on or we'll sue your company and you into abject poverty". But, he had no political goals, ignore his repeated anti-Ukrainian creeds, he's really neutral and can be trusted as the purchaser of the highest office in the US. No, not joking about either. The fun part is, there's plenty of public record and even YT videos on both subjects, but some will refuse to see the evidence of their own senses and only follow their religious devotion to a specific man. As for affordable access to the masses, everyone that ever said that obviously never priced the service. Suffice it to say, priced double what average home high speed internet is in cities and rural folks are not exactly wealthy or even simply well to do, with farmers being notorious for being broke. So, the claims of access to all are as well grounded as one expecting to receive a dragon ride anytime soon.
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  4322. Yeah, it's not as if we have air corridors, airplanes just fly any old place they want to. What you're seeing are photon torpedoes, which detonated, killing everyone on earth. Now, shaddap before I haunt you.
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  4323. Doing PC support, I've entered an area where an alarm was going off. So, I called the responsible party and reported the alarm. Beyond that, not my monkey, not my circus. Fuck with that monkey, get bit like this company that's going to fail now did.
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  4324. We'd likely run out of legislators and leaders. My tired joke abroad has long been, "We put our brightest and best criminals in office, so that we can keep an eye on them. Otherwise, they'd rob us blind". The reality now is, we stopped watching and accept out of complacency and are at risk of empire, with a god-king "ruling", at all of our peril. Our nation was literally designed to emulate the Roman Republic and reject the Empire, for good reason.
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  4325.  @RhodokTribesman  that G load is nap inducing in and of itself. Still, surviving the night after such a reentry, well, touch spacecraft get tough cosmonauts. Still, I'm betting being balls deep in snow was a blessing after 21G's worth of abuse...
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  4326. Just what Neville Chamberlain said after Poland and France, didn't do so well and the notion aged as well as milk in the hot summer sun. Investigate, present to a grand jury, accept the grand jury's decision.
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  4327. How odd, given that it was a large business that was being robbed. On a Saturday night.
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  4328. Except that Russian ICBM's are mostly out of ATACMS range.
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  4329. Yeah, because the fluoride in the water from the late 1950's killed everyone and sterilized those who are undead or something.
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  4330. What flux is used with the process?
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  4331. BTW, wouldn't induction heating be more efficient than resistive methods like arc or bombardment/resistance beam melting? That could be conducted under either a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere as well, hell, might get away with using nitrogen, which could be generated locally.
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  4332. Well, whenever you're feeling more comfortable about life, remember, potato, tomato, eggplant, tobacco are all members of the nightshade family and well, toxic in their own special ways. Belladonna being another member, producing atropine. Interestingly, some wild potato cultivars are being experimented with as a food staple, researchers using varieties originally grown by Native Americans. They're low in the known toxins from potatoes, but their native toxin is fairly low and in much lower concentrations. The toxin, tomatine is also present in tomato plants. Nasty, nasty plants! I think I'll eat some tonight, just out of spite. OK, they're tasty staples, when properly stored and prepared. I just keep thinking that, as I keep forgetting about the small eggplant in the fridge... I make a kick ass eggplant lasagna with homemade tomato sauce.
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  4333. What most civilians can never grasp is, armored anything afire becomes a metal box that's heated - an oven. At times, even to the point where even steel begins to burn. The hanger deck had to have been filled with rivers of molten and boiling aluminum quite early on! As for Illustrious, I'm not sure which caused more damage, the attack you're speaking of or the last attack on her, which was a 2200 pound bomb detonating 50 feet away in the water, cracking multiple transverse frames. Most of the bombs that did strike her, well, they only struck her, didn't penetrate. Excellent armor on that deck! Although, I don't recall that many warships that had the ship's bell shot up as much as hers was, which is telling as to the intensity of the attack.
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  4334.  @liyon316  well, the Committee for Public Safety pretty much did that in France, after removing the ringleaders of the national corruption that was literally starving the populace.
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  4335. There is one thing that I fear about immigrants, that they'll not share their recipes with me. ;) Other than that, I don't give a damn where someone came from, what counts is if they're a decent neighbor. Of course, the two draft dodgers don't care or want to know about those things. They only care that their will be done. One upside though, Murdoch has turned against Emperor Musk and Empress Trump, Fox is slowly adjusting, the rest of his media empire is already moving into higher gear against them both. Dunno what happened in last week's phone call between Murdoch and Trump, but it created a massive rift and Murdoch is now snapping the whip.
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  4336. Wow, didn't realize he was Pharaoh. Go back to the lab, adults are trying to talk here.
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  4337. And the bitter cold and snow previously was warm. Gotya.
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  4338.  @ffggddss  odd that that didn't happen before qualified immunity was put into place! Amazing how many were arrested, tried and convicted before 1967, when that doctrine first saw its early stirrings! Why, it's almost like it's propaganda from police unions... I don't even need a history book to find that, other than my clear memories from that period onward, we have newspapers or digitized newspapers/microfiche records of those newspapers. From an era when civil rights marchers were still being beaten and police dogs loosed on them, so that doctrine was needed to protect their civil rights being ignored. That, also quite well remembered, as I witnessed such events with my own eyes. When men were gunned down by police for "trying to escape being arrested" and survivors asked why, "I was afraid that he was going to shoot me". And cops were finally told to stop being lazy and chase the suspect down, rather than summarily executing them.
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  4339. It sounds like the California legislature needs to further regulate insurance. Heavily. Impossibly and punishingly. Otherwise, insurance is simply a scam that the state is complicit with. Or perhaps, if one lives in an apartment building, give a list of every many, woman and child, infants included, who live in the building, then a census of the entire neighborhood. With a request if one needs to further list the entire county or state's population. While awaiting their response, attend the insurance company's fire sale, which occurred while eating dinner with a judge...
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  4340. The problem is, he's a downright shitty liar and caught himself twice over by my count.
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  4341. Wow, King George VI was God?! Why didn't anyone tell me? England gave part of Palestine to Jewish refugees that wanted to leave Europe after the holocaust. They got a lot land grabby and literally ejected Jew and Palestinian alike from their homes, taking over homes that their families held for centuries. The rest is history. Not that they ever really got along, all the way back to Ishmael and Isaac, being half-brothers. One of the few things Jews and Arabs agree upon, that small bit of shared heritage. Grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, learned a lot. Mystified them though, I was the only kid that they knew that loved eating the maror and horseradish, two favorites to this very day, probably some nutritional thing my body really wants, I'll crave those on occasion, mussels I did figure out was a zinc and selenium deficiency that crops up from time to time. Learned even more from Arabs on their subcontinent. And just the respect of learning about someone frequently can incline them toward friendship.
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  4342.  @SeedFactoryProject  not really, buying isn't the same as hiring, as one buys the company, but one then has to retain the workers. Been in outfits that were bought out and all employees summarily dismissed, the organization then failed and only the name, which the purchaser only wanted, remained. In Musk's case, he bought the companies and in many cases did hire quality managers, which is a fine art in and of itself that very few ever master. Lord knows I am only mediocre at it, because bullshitters abound in many circles, management especially. He's also a very, very highly skilled showman, much like Liberace. Liberace was a moderately good pianist, not exceptionally good, but good enough for popular appearances. Where he excelled at was as a showman, in that he shined. I still remember wondering at women going insane about "Liberace in hot pants!" for one concert, was all the rage and raked in tons of money. And I noticed every blunder he made during the performance, as I was a pianist as well. Haven't touched an instrument since the war, hearing loss has ruined that. But, Musk is seeing to it that I don't get my hearing aids, as a hearty "fuck you for your service, no go away and die". Once they come for my pension, well, got nothing left to lose and a hell of a lot of training in a specific skill set arena and I shan't be alone, things could get downright interesting and a society about to evolve in one direction or another.
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  4343.  @kakashiofthewhitewolf8679  who cares, Hitler was his own person, so what? That's your defense? The environment that a child is raised in will be reflected in their learned behavior. This is a very well observed, documented phenomenon. It's like you are denying the law of gravity even existing! Is your faith in your boy-god so strong that you cannot admit to any evidence to the contrary that is presented before you? I've been confronted with religious zealots during the war, it wasn't pleasant and their actions drove things on occasion toward unpleasant conclusions. Usually, I've managed to reach many and avoid such conclusions, but not always - some insist upon remaining of fixed views, despite all evidence to the contrary and things ended up concluding unpleasantly. After all, people have to decide for themselves how they'll proceed, try to shoot it out with the sheriff and the posse or give up an unsupportable, untenable position.
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  4344.  @ralphdrees4413  odd, I see them every day, have yet to hear one support Trump. He's universally despised, for talking down fallen veterans, wounded/captured veterans and dodging military service with a lied about malady that typically only strikes diabetics at that age. Yep, you don't see such overgrowth in the young absent advanced diabetes, which he decidedly did not have at that age.
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  4345. He had weapons of mass destruction? So, he had what, a nuke, nerve gas, what? Please, do entertain me with your conspiracy theory, where gunz are now nuclear weapons.
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  4346.  @velikovskysghost  sounds like the makings of a fun honeymoon!
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  4347.  @velikovskysghost  good question, my wife died a couple of years ago. Otherwise, it would've sounded like a fine holiday weekend.
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  4348. He can get whatever the prison commissary has in stock, so plenty of ramen and soap to drop in the shower.
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  4349. Denial of the vote is never an answer. Besides, why would you want to profane libraries, colleges and universities? I'll just get my hat...
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  4350. Well, his brother died of cirrhosis from drinking...
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  4351.  @scott-n8w5d  old myth, literally copy and pasting from a Japanese pension scandal that oddly had zero convictions over, telling how false it all was. Just an excuse to steal from the public.
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  4352. I've taken to using an appropriate epithet for Tucker, Typhoid Tucker. The Mary Mallon of the mass media.
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  4353.  @larryrowe5259  personally, I call them zero targets.
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  4354. In this case, not so much like a cult, more like The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Only, far less competent. You know, Republicans. Their most competent role model, Dick Nixon and his Plumbers...
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  4355.  @hodaka1000  CCCP, the old abbreviation for the United Soviet Socialist Republic, aka Soviet Union. Used to be, they'd pretty much burn people at the stake over any Soviet entanglements, now it's a selling point to be a traitor.
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  4356.  @vincentsnow8436  since the alpha and beta shit was proved bullshit over 30 years ago, keep on promulgating antiquated, wrong bullshit. It entertains the knowledgeable. Hell, most of MAGA bullshit and well, their Russian partners and consultants both put out bullshit that's lousy quality retreads of bullshit that was discarded back in the 1850's. A different sticker and a slapdash Earl Scheib coat of paint don't make it new or right now, when it was old and wrong back then. Lemme guess, you think he'll also won't pop in your mouth? The check really is in the mail? Boy, are you gullible, sonny. Trump will fall, Russia will glow in gamma and life will return to normal, one way or another.
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  4357. He's since replicated the accident with a replacement rifle from a friend, secured in a vise and fired by a rather long string. He had 12 additional SLAP rounds, which he fired, with over half requiring a strap wrench to unscrew the breech plug and a lot of effort extracting the fired cartridge. The primer was ejected from a couple of rounds, several more the primer was pushed partially out of the cartridge. He got the rounds from a somewhat dubious source and it appears that the rounds were massively overcharged, I'd estimate twice normal or thereabouts. He finally loaded an insanely overcharged round and replicated the explosion of the rifle reasonably well. The lesson is, buy your ammunition from known trusted sources, not random good price sources, lest you get a bolt in your throat or skull. A fair amount of the surgical techniques used to save his life were pioneered by military surgeons, for fairly obvious reasons. He had hemopneumothorax, lacerated jugular vein, the skull injuries to wire back together, so he was incredibly fortunate to survive the trip to the hospital! I'd hate to see what his copays look like though.
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  4358. You don't understand! Laws are illegal for god-emperors. He's the Lord Trump Alfrighty, who fired the old wussy God for being incompetent for allowing his kid to be killed. Trump would never allow that, save to save himself from inconvenience. Yeah, that's how they think. He wins, expect a fiat decree that all churches have to have His unholy name in gold on their steeples. Right after the decree ordering the construction of really big camps, with really yuge "bread ovens"...
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  4359. There are commercial traps like what was described. It's designed to fire a 12 gauge shotgun blank toward the ground, originally intended to discourage animals, but also used to discourage trespassers. Harmless, save if it kicked up some dirt into the low crawling trespasser's eyes, put a live round in it and it'd likely explode - they're plastic or sheet metal and could then be considered a mine. I've also used old fashioned magic cubes and a thin pin to trip the snapper inside that actuates the bulb. Taped carefully to a fencepost, trip lines six inches inside and down, on two adjacent posts, whoever's coming over the fence will likely be looking into the bulb when it flashes. Their night vision would also be shot to hell and gone. Hear the idiot coming over the fence, hear the distinctive pop of the bulbs, going back over and trip and fall into the concrete outside of the fence, snicker like Muttley. Worked great for one doper, who for some odd reason, would come down the alley and shoot up in my yard, leaving his works behind and at the time, we had small kids. He left a blood trail from his shins meeting the retaining wall outside the fence that lead straight to his house. He didn't return. We also used the same thing in the Army to discourage infiltrators trying to scout our site. For the remote controlled device, that'd be referred to as command detonator and as far as I'm aware, remains untested in the legal system and usually is used with actual mines, like Claymore and other antipersonnel mines. Dunno if I'd want to test a prosecutor and court's Wheaties...
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  4360. Cain killed Abel! Biden didn't prosecute! Won't anyone think of the children?! I'm amazed that she didn't simply scream out, when pinned down by the interviewer, "your a commie!" and storm off the set. Yeah, that's a typical Trumpite response, not knowing the difference between you're and your, as well as that literal response, as not a one know what communism actually is.
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  4361.  @SpaceBethC131  ectopic pregnancies have only one treatment, abortion. Otherwise, the Fallopian tube ruptures and since abortion would be prohibited, sealing the bleeding tube would be considered an abortion and now allowed, causing her to bleed to death. Go pick up a copy of Benson and Pernoll's Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It's literally the textbook most OB/GYN physicians learn from. Maybe you'll get a clue after you actually read it.
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  4362. Here's a funny one, apparently our god-emperor Grant had his god powers usurped by metropolitan police for arresting his royal indemnity while he was in office. Obviously, those officers should've been machine gun nuked! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrests_of_Ulysses_S._Grant Oh wait, he was a grown man and owned up to his offenses and paid his fines. But, now we've got a god-king, wannabe emperor, who is already chafing under President Musk's rule.
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  4363.  @williamalmendarez9157  not at all. Attorneys are required, upon pain of losing their license to practice law, to promote the desires of their client. Do a lousy job, just because you hate the ideas behind it or the morality of their side, lose your license. That's how we have her less than stellar defense of the essentially indefensible and also how Charles Manson managed to find a good defense. Ain't perfect, but it beats every other model I've observed.
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  4364.  @sarahm2566 yeah, she probably still has the microforceps.
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  4365.  @Zornotfugen  because the US government will declare war upon a foreign nation that has that scammer as either a citizen or resident?
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  4366.  @BigBadDodge4x4  first, a business that's genuine and not a scam will request a review and typically does so in advance, not send an unsolicited product. Second, the review isn't being written by the package recipient, their account is accessed and the company writes their own review under that account, which makes it fraudulent. So, this is closer to that door to door salesman entering, giving a presentation and stealing the homeowner's personal phonebook, then pretending to be them to scam that person's contacts by pretending to be the homeowner.
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  4367.  @yeshiadmasu2563  odd, as the WWII and before maps had it marked Palestine. Then, the British fucked things up by allowing uncontrolled mass migration and the Jews forced Palestinians out of the homes their families owned for centuries. Can't figure out why their cousins got so sore with them... Do you really want to go into the history in detail?
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  4368. Meanwhile, his guilty plea stands, so he's no longer himself. And he's ordered by the court to use his real name, so that they can arrest him again for using that name. If it happened to me and they told me of the imposter's arrest, I'd ask if I could bail him out... Wouldn't get the bond money back, but it'd be worth it.
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  4369. The wealthy Lords and Ladies can take whatever they want, they are the public, the chattel populace don't count. It's just odd that they still permit that chattel to be armed...
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  4370. The Gulf War was and remains in the Persian Gulf region, Afghanistan isn't very close to the Persian Gulf, something called Iran being between Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf and our bases there. Historically, well, ever since a certain invasion by some Mongols, was easier to invade after, the populace realizing that being conquered wasn't as bad as what happened in a total war, was a lot more easily won. Even with what now is Iran. CIA, because they have a covert operations division that we can have plausible deniability and save diplomatic face sufficiently enough that everyone knows we got caught with a hand in a cookie jar, everyone knows it was one of our hands, we cut it out enough to deny knowing that hand. Soviets did the same thing, as do many other nations. Diplomatic dancing dirty. Afghanistan even gave Alexander the Great a hard time "retaining it", which basically was a bloodletting exercise and eventually, abandoned. The Mongols suffering a similar experience. The British Empire suffering a similar experience. They cannot be ruled, because they are unruly! Thanos invades, suffers a similar experience and loses most Infinity Stones. At least I got to keep my stones, even if I did long ago lose my marbles... ;) Oddly, both sides have an open invitation for me to come back and visit. One side, I suspect, doesn't have my best wishes in mind for such a visit. The other side, not at all noisy, but I'll likely have to lose weight after and not from any form of metals or minerals. It all comes down to who got on my bad side and who got on my good side. Life can get really weird at times, given what tag some placed on some of each. My attitude is, if you want to misbehave, do so quietly and cause minimal destruction, make a noisy wreck in a way one cannot pretend to ignore, now, we've all got a problem. I don't give a damn which started the fight, now I have to stop it immediately and still have to deal with pissed off Mom. I'll be hearing about for ages! And sorry, kids, but my parents were indeed married. ;) Having been in both theaters, I am quite firmly convinced, somewhere that we've not located, there are vast fields, where RPGs are gently swaying in the breeze, awaiting harvest by a certain Slavic nation for delivery "south"... Tomahawk missiles are precision missiles, which can deliver several forms of havoc, the nuclear variety, retired, cluster bomb, HE, a few other sorts of bomb delivered, with GPS precision, some having additional option kits added to further inform accuracy from indicated guidance that's shared with a JDAM bomb. They were most recently and famously, used against aircraft shelters in Syria and did a hell of a job against hangar queens that were left behind after we deconflicted things with Russian Federation forces. GPS can inform guidance, terrain mapping radar as well, plus of course, the usual autopilot style guidance. Precision guided junk removal service! Anaconda, "We knew you were coming, so we baked you a cake!", total goat rope, but we most certainly left an impression on or with them. Well over 3000, in well prepared positions, with overlapping fields of fire, mine fields and prepared choke points. It was prepared by the same SOB's that trained me. But, as usual, US training and equipment comes in two models, export models and our own models.
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  4371. There's only one problem in accusing anyone of being a lemming. The entire myth of lemmings running off of cliffs was a Disney invention and to support that invention, the film crew drove a colony of captured lemmings off of a cliff while filming it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy Lemmings are strong swimmers, so the migratory species can swim quite well, but don't leap off of tall cliffs to do so. As someone who has personally met Trump at a Chamber of Commerce function long before unreality TV existed, what you see is precisely what you get. A narcissist from hell, all subjects of discussion must be him and his greatness and successes, even the bankruptcies of his casinos he billed as successes. So successful that he was prohibited from owning casinos in NJ. The only thing you get with Trump is an incompetent version of Hitler. In closing, I'll rarely vote against my own self-interest and that of my family. When I have, it was for the good of my nation, our laws and Constitution. I'd never vote out of spite, as that's in no good interest and simply potentially destructive. I'll never, ever, ever vote for a fascist SOB that wanted to emulate both Hitler and Stalin! I didn't serve for 28 years in the US Army to ever support such a thing!
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  4372.  @wolfgangkranek376  who would trust the word of a nanu nanu? I'll just get my hat...
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  4373. OK, if Biden rejects the SCOTUS decision, recall the US Navy from its foreign ports and especially from the Red Sea, pending Congress approving their deployment. Because it's currently deployed under that sovereign immunity and that's unacceptable to Biden and you all. Let the tankers and cargo ships be pirated or sunk, god-king-emperor won. Congress can prepare the surrender documents for the Somali pirates.
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  4374.  @Hexus99  oh you sweet, sweet summer child, no they do not. They come in second, the lawyers always win.
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  4375.  @littleladyd1  OK, everyone that has or shall ever have a medical emergency is permanently ineligible for any job anywhere whatsoever forever. Enjoy living in a dryer box, you'll have 7.7 billion people as company. BTW, what's WiTh ThE rAnDoM cApItAlIzAtIoN? Seriously, bot, what's your logic malfunction?
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  4376.  @AureoleWebweaver  so, we now have repealed the Constitution? Rights are administratively revoked on dislike of someone, all accusations, no matter how outlandish and wild are treated as true until proven false in the court of idiotic opinions? For one thing, you've quite the uphill battle to repeal rights, as assholes like me won't allow you to - even if force is necessary. I didn't serve for 28 years protecting our laws and Constitution to consider it otherwise, I did swear an oath, my word of honor and while my terms of service have expired, my word of honors never shall. For another, I'll be immensely entertained as you define these alleged war crimes. This should be immensely entertaining, as most people don't even understand what a war is, let alone a war crime. So, enlighten us all as to his mythical war crimes.
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  4377. It is ironic, one will need to produce identification superior to the requirements of purchasing a firearm and ammunition. So, one cannot cast a ballot, but can fire a bullet easily. Not a problem, on election day, I'll bring a firearm and if denied my ballot, a bullet will go through the ballot box lock, invalidating all of the ballots. Only hearing will be injured, mine more egregiously, given my service related hearing loss that the VA likes to ignore. Although the governor might be disturbed, my polling place and home are only a few blocks from his mansion and there is an acute disinterest in that dwelling of firearms, which I rather share outside of competition with said instruments of noise. But, useful instruments, as they do earn me a turkey and ham at tournaments. Used to hunt with one of them that I've since no longer possess, alas, the deer were far smarter than I and they evaded me so successfully that I started to not even bother loading the rifle. And now, unarmed, the fuckers actually walk up to me, go figure. Oh well, we don't have a rock season and I'm in no condition to be dragging a stoned deer from the woods and the butcher doesn't require oiling. Yeah, I do literally live three blocks from the governor's mansion and I'm fairly certain that his security and my firearms should remain disinterested in one another and given the firearms are inanimate, I suspect their happily being ensconced in the safe will remain appropriate. And general laziness means, if the safe is opened, they get cleaned and well, the safe only gets opened when I compete for that turkey and ham. And now, if necessary, ballot day. Although, a small shaped charge would be lighter to carry and just as effective... Were the Founding Fathers alive today, they'd be shouting "God Save The King!".
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  4378. The real question is, if they've been actually authorizing and following a budget for all of these years, who wasn't following that budget and hence, not spending the funding received for a specific purpose? It's called misappropriation of funds and besides spending that which isn't authorized, not spending it is also a crime. So, did bridges dangerously go unrepaired? Was welfare authorized and never paid to deserving recipients? Did school funding not go where it was supposed to go?
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  4379.  @PACbelltech1  odd choice of term, given their epitome being a man whose version of working is swinging a golf club skilllessly. Seriously, zero skill, he only wins tournaments at his own clubs - by his own fiat. Actual winners get send home and barred from the club, then he claims the prize for himself in a ceremony proclaiming his win. And that's work for the GOP, rather than doing anything you know, useful.
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  4380.  @dkx6841  it's a frequent enough thing to do, more to avoid pension payout than anything else.
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  4381. Well, military officers retain their commission, so one starts off rescinding that commission, then torpedoing his pension for undermining the trust and faith of the populace in his Commander in Chief.
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  4382. Meh, not necessarily being given bad information, but perhaps a lag getting the most current, non-peer reviewed data percolated up. Or, as common, an acute burst of intracranial flatulence results in old data being repeated. We've all had one of those moments. :/ I will say, that virus is good at adapting to our species, dammit. Still, I'm waiting for more mature numbers to guide actions, rather than a still fairly small sample set. Give it a couple of weeks for the data to properly firm up. Still, I suspect a second booster may well be found warranted. Sigh, life... Nobody makes it out of that alive.
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  4383. And negligently firing into bushes qualifies as a shooting incident. And the child, the would-be assassin, having committed a felony would go up the river on murder one charges. Just as if he'd robbed a bank and someone died, even from a heart attack. That doctrine is literally older than this nation is.
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  4384.  @goldenhate6649  it isn't so much a lack of biodegradation, but of re-uptake of radioactive elements as vegetation dies, decays and new generations take up the same isotopes. It takes time to lock what's on the surface layers of the soil deeper into the ground, away from most foliage. A decent guide that's of historic note is the area contaminated by the Castle Bravo shot, as that remains a current contamination of foliage - especially in coconuts and in ground water.
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  4385. So, the use of force is acceptable to ensure that a summary offense, frequently addressed by mail, is acceptable. If the cop's out of pepper spray and doesn't have a taser, I guess he can use his M4 instead and shoot the suspect to death to serve that summary offense notice. And nukes should be allowed for citizens suing. Yeah, as in, what in the actual fuck, over?! God-cops need to be replaced, as god-cops seem to believe that courts of law do not need to exist, so it becomes a use of force game. And honestly, were I to witness that, those cops would be obstructed - permanently, as they escalate. Upside is, the economy would be slightly stimulated, as there'd be vacancies in the local god-cop force. And the undertaker would be fairly busy as well. Capital punishment and life in prison aren't much of a deterrent for those who are aged, militarily experienced and just out of fucks to give any longer. We just want peace and quiet and obedience to the laws and Constitution. Back in the formerly real world, refuse the summons, get served by mail again, ignore that and meet the constable who will forcibly escort one to court, by court order. No god-cops needed to Roy Bean shit and invite Range Wars. Excuse me while I check my nuke stockpile... Cool! Got a few left, all prominently marked and properly marked Chili with beans. I'll never lose in that contest, I'm US Army, REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. Seriously, we've a major problem when cops decide to be god and become punishers of pseudo-offenses. For then, the courts lose authority, law enforcement as well and we've just gone feudal. Literally. Now, excuse me while I go vomit.
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  4386. OK, we'll shut off much of our food, electronics and car parts supply and say proudly, "We wan".
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  4387. Hydrogen compressed into diamond? Interesting, so hydrogen becomes carbon in a gas giant by magic. No, the methane disassociates, the hydrogen becoming metallic and the carbon compressed into diamond. And chemistry as we know it goes right into a cocked hat, due to the insane pressures. All of which can create interesting magnetic effects.
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  4388.  @mkatal8329  that's been something that hides under the surface since the tea party days, the view that they'll happily express that retirement should be forbidden. All, happily agreeing with Trump's mirroring of Aktion T4, killing off the mentally disabled, physically disabled and elderly unable to work right after Poland was invaded. The Nazis send carbon monoxide vans to nursing homes and homes of disabled persons and literally gassed them to death in the streets. Vance just has the red ass because a paper cut didn't make him eligible for a purple heart.
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  4389.  @annewandering  naw, he fired God for being a part of the female anatomy commonly referencing the genitalia. Because he let his son get killed, which he'd never allow. I'm not joking, he actually said that. And the evangelicals still love him.
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  4390.  @rmar67  there's one thing I've noticed about the bible at a very early age. God isn't of the habit of repeating himself. A lesson is taught, it's not repeated, instead things get terminally unpleasant. Honestly, the entire thing could trivially be mistaken for a cold opening of SNL. Save that His Humorlessness Himself shared it from his official god-king account. But, it is indeed telling. Let's review some of Trump's bigger shows. Fellatio on a microphone. Discussing repeatedly and at great length Arnold Palmer's, erm, package. Admiringly at that. YMCA playing at every possible opportunity. Now, bearded ladies dancing. Dude's obviously coming out of the closet incrementally. I'm sure he'll make a lovely wife for Elon when he grows up.
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  4391. Congress has abdicated, the courts are ignored, leaving us only Emperor Musk and god-king Trump. Welcome to the death of a nation and Constitution. And Vance should know better, he did attend law school. Courts don't tell generals? Lemme see, Nuremberg trials ring a bell? The Pentagon Papers case? Should I continue, because I can literally go on all day, including when martial law was attempted to be implemented and the courts told the Executive Branch to sod off since the courts still were in session. But, it's gotta be nice for Emperor Speedball Musk to be able to shutter the two agencies that were investigating him. Now we can get burning rocket parts nearly wiping airplanes from the skies and burning babies and aircraft parts raining down upon our cities. And jets playing bumper cars on the ground as an added bonus. Yay! I'm getting really fucking tired of this style of Pyrrhic winning.
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  4392. What blue people are running?
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  4393. Just as with her ilk, I equally pin back the ears of your ilk. Name precisely how Trump committed treason. I'll be waiting until the sun goes out and cold. Treason is narrowly and precisely defined in our Constitution. Trump has not taken up arms against his nation. Lacking a declared or de facto state of war, we lack an enemy for him to give aid and comfort to. Now, sedition, I can support that claim, as there's ample evidence currently to actually support, if not quite convict upon that charge and the current trials will likely uncover enough to convict for it by the time they've completed.
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  4394. If you ever tracked Trump speeches, he never mentioned Black people, save before he spoke of farmers, both clearly linked mentally.
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  4395.  @LorraineHarris-pl6qm  do buy it. Not the product, the company. Issue me a few million subscribers that we'll contract as to membership, I'll likely wrangle an equatorial launch site as well. And hopefully, I can get a membership as well. I don't do the right thing for a fee, I do the right thing because it's right and simply hope to get a solid back occasionally. Thinking outside the box means you're living confined within the box. The box should be a set of definitions only, not a mandatory confinement zone!
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  4396.  @vapedbicep7816  should the governor put on a cape and used superpowers to intervene? Governors govern, police enforce the law.
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  4397. They shouldn't be allowed out of a padded room and only fed with a specially blunted infant feeding spoon.
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  4398.  @Vicki-y4g  the difference being, per Canadian authorities, a difference in farming. The US has around 6 million hens inside of one gigantic warehouse sized laying house. Canada has around 25k birds in one laying house. That distributes the number of hens much lower, so that when one's infected and the entire flock is now culled due to the high lethality of the virus, far less per capita are culled, compared to one US laying house where they could lose millions of hens, hence millions of eggs.
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  4399. Willfully distributing counterfeit money is indeed a felony. Doing so with the express purpose of undermining a nation, sedition.
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  4400. OK, that means, under your misinterpretation, that these aliens cannot be detained or arrested and charged with a crime. Like diplomats, who are not subject to US jurisdiction and laws. And why diplomats children that are born in the US are not US citizens, since they're under the jurisdiction of their own nation. Anyone here that can be detained or arrested for a crime is obviously subject to the jurisdiction of the detaining or arresting power.
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  4401.  @MikeysChair  yep, that's what they said while being marched to the gas chambers.
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  4402.  @brandonbrown1752  maybe. He's had four years before, he might just manage to figure out how to work the nukes...
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  4403. What is laughable is, they then try to tell a court that the video lied and they're the only one that is telling the truth. All of the witnesses lied, all of the cops lied and every frame of video lied under oath or something. Oh well, nobody ever accused criminals of being bright. Those are politicians... ;)
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  4404. And the attorney promptly and rightfully appealed. Now, the supreme court is aware of shenanigans by a subordinate jurist, let's just see how crooked the entire state court system actually is now. I blame a premature end to Reconstruction. Because now, having a defense is illegal in that kangaroo court. Even Roy Bean did better than this! Hammurabi is turning over in his grave.
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  4405.  @dr.emilschaffhausen4683  at least that "potato" manages to speak cogent, concise sentences and doesn't proclaim hit squads were sent to murder him, but suddenly couldn't find New Jersey. Or go on about his opponent getting us into World War II.
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  4406. She did not. Review the video again. A man near her threw a drink. Battery is not permitted, it is a crime. He was not effecting an arrest. He was committing a crime.
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  4407. How many "discrepancies" were planted evidence on arrested suspects too? Falsify one document, why not falsify an arrest, which is even better for a career?
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  4408. I'll replace those two words with one that's equally operable. Prostitution.
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  4409.  @athlonen inapplicable. Espionage isn't insurrection or rebellion, so let's look at Lindh's crimes. Supplying services to the Taliban (50 U.S.C. § 1705(b), 18 U.S.C. § 2, 31 CFR 545.204, and 31 CFR 545.206) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony (18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2), oddly neither conviction was insurrection or rebellion. So, would you also try to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 for jaywalking, which would be equally inappropriate? Oddly, you entirely omitted those who would be objectionable, but apparently, unenforceably so, because the Constitution is apparently unenforceable under this SCOTUS, the Jan 6 insurrectionists convicted of seditious conspiracy. I miss the heady days, when our Constitution was enforced and worse, their decision now endangers federal civil rights cases against local and state lawless enforcement officers.
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  4410.  @athlonen irrelevant, as what he was convicted of, via his pleading guilty was not giving aid and comfort to an enemy, which if you ever read official documents, the Taliban and Al Qaeda were never described as (the word adversary was always used). I know that one intimately, as I authored such documents during the war in my filed reports on our operations and enemy was a disallowed term in official reports. What he was convicted of is what operationally counts. Hell, Trump's affirmative defense against the 14th enforcement would be that he was never charged or convicted of insurrection or rebellion and BTW, giving aid and comfort to the enemy is also not insurrection or rebellion and the 14th makes no mention of anything other than insurrection or rebellion. Like I said, going for jaywalking next? And the SCOTUS did shoot the foot of civil rights enforcement by states, as without specifics including say, law enforcement, state and local law enforcement no longer need concern themselves in abiding by the entirety of the Bill of Rights that doesn't have a codified law to enforce the meaningless Constitution. I do wonder if Congress wrote any law establishing the SCOTUS? If not, by their case lawlessness, aren't they illegal and hence, have no authority? For that matter, interpreting the Constitution was never codified, it was original thinking of the very first SCOTUS, who considered the Constitution self-executing. But then, the SCOTUS has long called enumerated rights privileges. A key difference between a right and a privilege is, a right requires law and the action of a court to abridge, a privilege may be administratively revoked. An example of a privilege being operating a motor vehicle, that privilege can be administratively revoked, for one example, if a licensed physician finds the operator unfit to safely operate a motor vehicle. But, one has a right to speech, until a court issues a gag order.
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  4411.  @cynthiamackenzie2273  thank the Democrats for the deployed military having the right to vote. Now, want voter ID? OK, we'll also need a first amendment ID for reach right enumerated there, a second amendment ID for the right to keep and bear arms, might as well get an ID to show that police need a warrant to search or confiscate your property and papers... All because someone wants an unnecessary ID card to catch those who have just been caught, hence bigger government, more government spending for absolutely no benefit other than gratification of their fever dreams to deny their peers their rights. But, once the military can't vote, do enjoy praying to Putin or Allah or whoever else comes down the pike, because we'll not defend you.
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  4412.  @MountainmommaWV3  they should have their voter ID on the voting form? There is no place to put a voter ID or any other ID on the form. There is no universal voter form either, each state has their own form and own laws in regards to voting, per the Constitution itself. And in my over 28 years of military service, we never had any kind of form dedicated to voting, only check boxes on a state mail ballot request form.
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  4413. Don't worry, I'm sure Putin has an AI team right now generating a modified video of Trump serving a meal at a McDonald's drive through to Putin. If not, they will now, I'm sure. And of him praising Hannibal Lecter, a fictional character as a personal friend. Probably something about imaginary friends in NATO or similar propaganda. Expect to hear more about cobalt-60 warheads from Putin too, he last did it with Trump, then tried it on Biden, he'll go back to who it worked on - Trump.
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  4414.  @DivineFalcon  Marjorie Traitor Queen, get the best of both worldlets.
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  4415. Foam insulation and air, deadly enemies to those in space. The Italian tethered power generation experiment failed directly due to air trapped in the foam insulation causing the tether/power cable to fail.
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  4416. Well, technically it'd be "eggs AND (XOR toast, hash browns). Exclusive or is either, but not both. But, common language typically doesn't give an exclusive or, but implies it by convention.
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  4417. And an invasively intense examination of the jurist's finances...
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  4418.  @davefrompa5334  try talking to your peers, it shines through in some. Not all, but ever far too many, who should've never been overlooked while in uniform in favor of retaining end strength that ended up weakening us. Also US Army retired, 28+ years and retired when it just started to hurt too much to put all of that equipment on.
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  4419.  @TheDarkGospel  to clarify further, for the historically challenged. The right were monarchy loyalists and sat in the legislature to the president's right, those favoring revolution on his left. After the revolution, the practice continued based upon political views, largely conservative being on the right and progressive on the left. Things got weird for a few years after the revolution, but the practice resumed again during the Bourbon restoration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum#Origins_in_the_French_Revolution
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  4420. Eventually, insurance companies will get the samples, just to deny coverage. But then, this is what happens when rights get referred to as privileges. I miss when we had a ratified Bill of Rights, rather than the current Bill of Privileges that get administratively revoked by caveat of the absolute monarch of the office. Where search restrictions against fishing expeditions are now absent. Makes a good case for the ultimate fate of King James I.
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  4421.  @gulliverthegullible6667  and only the US has ever practiced democracy in the 20th century alone? Italy was an empire, perhaps? Germany remained a monarchy, despite the results of WWI?
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  4422. His weave is a symptom of apparent dementia, where he literally cannot stay on topic or even within the same astral plane of the topic. Rather akin to his wandering off topic to discuss Palmer's Shmekel, something odd to hear a putz discuss such a thing... Yeah, suffice it to say I've some exposure to Yiddish, despite being pure Sicilian-American.
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  4423.  @rhenamaharrey1137  as I personally do business with a fair number of Amish, do enlighten me what the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is doing. I know that there was a federal action against a very small number of individuals over their unlawfully selling unpasteurized milk, which has resulted in a number of hospitalizations, but you failed twice in one sentence. Apparently, in your country, public health threats and epidemics are totally cool, like any other third world nation. First world nations intensely dislike such threats to their population and protect their citizens and residents, unlike second world and third world nations. First, not knowing the difference between a common wealth and commonwealth, each distinct legal entities, where a commonwealth's goal is to secure the common good of all citizens and residents and worse, not comprehending the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is decidedly not the US Federal government.
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  4424.  @robertcross5794  desktop support at DLA was able to look up the cockblocker key. This isn't rocket science, nor does it require some gyrations to set up. Of course, the DLA is part of a small organization, the US DoD. And obviously, they only had the finest minds working there, after all, they had me. Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face any longer.
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  4425. Just a replay of the Native American Party hijacking of the Whig Party. The Native American Party was AKA the "Know Nothing Party", notorious for circus stunts, obstruction, brinksmanship and distilled incompetence, pure nativist, decidedly against Native Americans, well and anyone else with skin darker than bleached paper, anti-anything not Protestant, white or Anglo-Saxon and was even involved heavily in religious warfare in Philadelphia when Nativists stole artillery from the port of Philadelphia and fired it at a Catholic church, school and convent with hospital, then murdered responding militia. Their hijacking of the Whig party caused it to implode, resulting in conservatives forming a new party, the Republican Party. Their first POTUS candidate, Abraham Lincoln. We saw the Nativist response... And we hear their ilk today threaten civil war again, to which I've happily replied, "Fine, Reconstruction II will last a minimum of one century and be happy if we don't include Hunger Games". I never did claim to be a diplomat, I'm as diplomatic as a shotgun at a wedding.
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  4426. Chewed lead paint chips and mercury thermometers as a child, perhaps?
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  4427.  @SweetDogMiki  given how much of history is repeating, only with the US taking the place of Germany, it is indeed! Heh, just got a spam from a Ruskie scammer via SMS, invited him to collect the fake fee from Kuska's mother. I remain mystified as to why the US State Department rejects my applications for a diplomatic posting... ;)
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  4428. No, not every aircraft carrying the POTUS is callsigned Air Force One. There was one aircraft designated as Navy One: a Lockheed S-3 Viking, BuNo 159387, assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35, which carried W to board a carrier. Army One was Army helicopters, which carried the POTUS from 1957 until 1976, although prior to 1976, helicopters alternated between Army and Marines and currently, his helicopter that picks him up at airplane inaccessible locations, such as the White House, is Marine One. If the Space Force is issued an aircraft and a POTUS would ride on it, it'd become Space Force One, which would be intolerably cool for the office. ;)
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  4429. I've always said, people should feel free to burn any Constitution that they are wearing.
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  4430. I still use some of the methods in small yard plots, such as having means mixed in with the crop to increase the nitrogen in the soil. Can't make proteins without nitrogen! Can't make DNA without phosphorus as well. I've also used barrier crops to keep insect pests at bay, many of which loathe the toxic potato leaves. Although, pillbugs love any exposed potato tubers.
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  4431. Uranium was used as a pigment in the paint under the glazing of both tiles and dinnerware from around 1900 - 1942, when the Manhattan Project diverted all uranium (formerly a waste product that took 3 metric tons of uranium ore to produce 1 gram of radium, the rest was considered waste and plentiful. That, on top of being used as a pigment for literally centuries. So, either humanity is extinct due to the ubiquity of uranium glazed tiles or homes have never burned until the LA fires. Or traces of uranium oxide aren't exceptionally harmful, given we evolved alongside them in the environment in granite, for one example, making it into granite bound aquifers and hence into our drinking water, into the soil when the granite erodes, into plants that we eat from that soil and more ubiquitous, potassium-40, which trees love to take up and bananas and Brazil nuts are high in. Indeed, a great amount of the heat of the earth's core is from radioisotope decay, largely potassium-40 and uranium/thorium decay. The reality of it is, there's anything from 0.25% to 25% uranium pigmenting the paint under the glaze and if the glazing is intact, the only thing one could have as a risk is if one's laying on the tile 24/7/365 and receiving beta radiation, as the gamma is too low level and rare to even escape the glazing and alpha particles certainly won't escape the glazing. Radon is a modest hazard, if there were tons and tons of the thinly painted tiles around - say, in a warehouse and such warehouses are long emptied of such tiles.
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  4432. @ well, early on they didn’t realize there was any hazard. Additionally, as long as the glazing was intact, the risk was minimal. Remember, things like Radithor, Tho-Radia and even radioactive toothpaste were household products globally until the late 1930’s.
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  4433. There are two choices now. Impeach and remove her or enjoy joining the third world, a much more wonderful world, where nuclear secrets are public knowledge. But, that's OK, I'm sure Iran and North Korea can be trusted with our most modern weapons designs.
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  4434.  @bobeeman9730 bots typically won't reply to a fact check, it's a wasted effort, when there's so much low hanging fruit for them to pick. Only the true believers here will respond, typically with such brilliance as, "your a commie!!!". Anyone disagreeing with them agreeing with former CCCP handlers being automagically a "commie" to those who cannot even describe socialism or communism, let along distinguish the difference between the two systems.
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  4435. So, we now know that to harass any Chase customer, give them a suspicious check and their account will be closed and their money seized by the government of Chase. Who has no duty under the Taking clause. How much does it cost to rent a bulldozer again?
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  4436.  @caldodge  it’s weathered basalt. But, it isn’t heavily oxidized like would happen on earth.
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  4437. Naw, it's totally true! Why, the FBI showed up with machine gun nukes and blew up Florida! Fortunately, the souper seekrit service had their cloaca devices on, hiding him in New Jersey, where the FBI has yet to discover that new state. Or something. No, I couldn't do that with a straight face at all.
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  4438.  @StevenWolfe-lx8js  like people never saw before. As long as down equals up... Like every other Bizarro World version of Trumpian directions. Like Trumpian success, right up there with Trump Steaks. And Trump vodka. And Trump U.
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  4439.  @CarlGerhardt1  yep, we've got nine more days of law and order, then President Musk takes office and chaos will reign. Thee funny part is, I've met Trump decades ago, I'd have no problem calling him VP to his face and stating to his face that Musk is universally acknowledged as POTUS, despite the laws and Constitution. It's not like he'd try to take a swing at me, that yellow down his back restricts such motions.
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  4440.  @claritapadilla7110  Iran what? They're in Russia's pocket and as importantly, 6400 miles away. And oddly, despite Trump's worst efforts, still not with any nuclear weapons and by now, they should have at least a couple of thousand. They do have their own high grade uranium mines and processing plants. Oh wait, their drone carrier? In WWII, they were called jeep carriers, merchant vessels given a flat top and called aircraft carriers, but couldn't hold a candle to a fleet carrier. Which is why the fleet carriers went out after the Japanese fleets, leaving the jeep carriers in Leyte Gulf. The only thing saving that fleet being the tin cans, aka destroyer escorts, which were about as heavily armored as a VW bug.
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  4441. In the United States of America, we're a bit weird. We don't just grab people's assets, regardless of how obnoxious, disagreeable or how big an asshole they are. If there are financial assets that require seizing in order to secure and pay a legal debt, the matter goes before the courts to ascertain if that is a lawful action, merited, then if appropriate, the court can order the local sheriff to seize said assets. That would require a court, likely in another state, to apply to the local Floridian court to secure said assets for a stated debt, with documentation from the originating, owed state, proving that the claim is valid and part of a legal proceeding. Ran into something on that very subject in regards to Florida some months ago, just can't recall how I ended up reading about that matter.
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  4442. I've watched crows land on scarecrows.
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  4443.  @LeeMooEez  were that so, actual howitzers would massively alter the weather. Instead, only one weapon or technology we have can alter the weather, very locally, within a few miles at most. Nuclear weapons, where local precipitation has been observed due to the effects of the bombs. Observed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in detail. "First, a cloud of soil and dust was stirred up by the blast and carried upward by rising air currents heated by the fireball. This cloud rose 4000 meters into the sky and formed the column or pillar of the "mushroom cloud." Next, the cloud spread out high in the sky, forming the cap of the mushroom cloud. As the cloud spread, the temperature and pressure decreased, and water vapor in the air condensed to form droplets. The third cloud was caused by huge fires that were started by heat from the bomb. The air currents rising above these fires lifted more hot air and water vapor 800 meters into the air. Rain produced by big fires isn't associated only with atomic bombs. Emeritus Professor Hitoshi Koyama of Kansai University, writing about the Osaka air raids, noted that "after a big air raid, black rain almost always fell."" Not some toy cannon in someone's back yard. Or by the rainmaker's cannon. Or even my almighty flatulence.
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  4444. The original plan was for a third wave, targeting ammunition stores and more importantly, the fuel farm. Without that fuel, our carriers would've been worthless and recovery would've taken far, far longer. The dud rate in that era isn't really all that unusual, impact destroys the fuse before it can detonate the bomb. Additionally, the bombs and torpedoes were customized for the mission, the torpedoes had to be shallow within the port, the bombs designed to penetrate the armored deck of the warships. The worst part of the attack was, due to the security measures enacted pre-attack, the ambassador had to manually decrypt the declaration of war, resulting in an official declaration of war to be delivered long after the attack, resulting in a sneak attack before war was officially recognized as being declared, enraging a pacifist population. Interestingly, US intelligence already knew the contents, as the diplomatic codes were cracked and the declaration known to the military. Chain of command delays essentially ensuring Pearl Harbor had no inkling of an upcoming attack. The US, having significant losses, additionally added pocket battleships, destroyer escorts and escort carriers, all with minimal to no armor. In the battle of Leyte Gulf, those destroyer escorts, despite being unarmored, turned back destroyer, cruiser and the pride of the Japanese fleet, a dreadnought class battleship. The Japanese mistook destroyer escorts for full destroyers, selecting armor piercing rounds, which literally punched through the ships, to land on the sea bottom. Aggressive action on the part of the unarmored destroyer escorts reinforced the mistaken impression of the Japanese commanders, resulting in their failing to punch through and destroy the escort carriers and their aircraft, essentially sealing the fate of the war for Japan. Proving the adage true, "Never interrupt the enemy when they're making a mistake". The Arizona remains a war grave to this day, slowly leaking fuel oil, but her guns were salvaged and used by the Navy.
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  4445. I'll add that the attack was ironic in one way. Japan bought immense amounts of scrap metal from the US. Much of the metal used against Pearl Harbor was recycled US metals. Just as we used titanium that was purchased from Russia to build the SR-71 spy planes to spy on Russia. We also had submarines that tapped the Soviet north fleet's underwater telephone cables.
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  4446.  @ferretyluv  I can tell that you have zero experience with contract law and contractors. Yes, some may indeed try to cut corners, which is against the contract and hence, a breach of contract. Get bad enough, it's a fundamental breach, which is not only fully recoverable for funding paid, but with punitive damages awarded as well. With contracts comes contracting officers, to supervise the work and ensure that the contract is being obeyed.
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  4447. Nah, a lawyer that represents himself has a fool for a client. Rudy can trivially be that fool. Then, he can sue himself for incompetent representation. Judges need to laugh too.
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  4448.  @stephj9378  I don't watch Russian funded propaganda sites.
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  4449.  @Tahgtahv  actually, quite a few tuners do emit in their IF frequencies. But, that's beyond this context. In over 28 years of military service, I never used a receiver only in the military, only transceivers that could by definition, transmit and receive. It's called communications, it's bidirectional to be able to ensure proper communication. And powerful receivers, well, no such thing, transmitters have power, receivers can only be efficient in reception. Now, I've saw transmitters that were detuned and had a higher effective power, this was at the cost of inefficently splattering signal over an entire band, making that transmitter even more easily located. The rule of thumb with military radios was the lowest power setting that gets one's signal to its recipient, not scream across the entire solar system and get incoming aircraft, missiles, artillery and very irritable infantry visiting in large numbers.
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  4450. I have to admit that the king does have exceptionally good command of the English language, despite his biting his tongue the entire time. I've not mastered that skill. As for the beautiful land he wants to pogrom the Palestinians to, would it be perchance named Auschwitz? As for the Greenland thing, it's consigned to committee, given there are two, H.R. 361 and H.R. 1161 (the latter being the idiocy about red, white and blueland), with 1161 assigned to two committees and well, given how bills introduced literally monthly by MAGA types to expunge Trump's impeachments, yeah, call it the circular file, aka file 13, aka file 86, aka the shit can.
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  4451.  @georgeburns8447  yeah, Ruskies never did care about the law.
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  4452. OK, we'll start jailing people without charges, it'll then be good practice for when Trump gets annointed Emperor.
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  4453. But, some want to close our borders, leaving us without any food.
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  4454. It's easy at the heart of it. Trump is actually Bizarro in the real world. Everything is opposite.
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  4455. CO2 is good, it made Venus the garden world that it is today! More seriously, CO2 is one component in photosynthesis, at night plants consume oxygen and exhale CO2. Meanwhile, photosynthesis also requires phosphorus and nitrogen for the cycle to work, so soil nutrients remaining the same becomes a problem. Add in, we need O2 to live, so O2 is people food in the same non-rationale. Pure O2, not so much, at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature, pure O2 verges on toxic, elevate its partial pressure more, you're talking actual burns of the respiratory tract. Something everyone that works with oxygen and especially hyperbaric oxygen therapy knows quite well. But, nothing can be done about disinformation? OK, nothing can be done about greenhouse gases. Enjoy Venus mkII.
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  4456. True, the POTUS should've sent the Army in, as was done by George Washington in Pennsylvania, to suppress that police insurrection. Shutting down all federal operations in the county until full compliance and restitution was assured. That's a couple of major DoD depots, FEMA hub, government communications hub (there are alternates, might as well test the redundancy) and a hell of a lot more. Suffice it to say, AT&T would be immensely pissed off when that much of their lit fiber goes dark, with a suggestion it could become permanent and some pressure would be applied to local political leaders by them. The public has a substantial number being employed by those federal operations, who would be on furlough and they'd be clamoring at their political leaders as well. Hey, your guys think that they outrank Uncle Sam, now you get to learn as a population center that that uncle can be a real nasty SOB when he wants to and there are plenty of other states that'd enjoy our patronage. Dayton would get some backsplatter and be applying their own pressure as well. The state, even more so, as it'd put a major ding in the state's tax income. And if they don't comply, well, there's plenty of room near Site R, which already has much of the fiber running through it... Yeah, I fight dirty.
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  4457. Well, there is one snake oil that was confirmed to work, it's a species of Chinese snake, every other snake in the world seems to be absent that effect. One of those weird, but confirmed true. In the US, well, snake oil was pretty much anything, due to no regulation, disproving Libertarian nonsense, as in some cases, "snake oil" was booze and motor oil... I've found plain hemp oil seems to exhibit mild anti-inflammatory effects and mild pain relief, that and ibuprofen tend to take the edge off, although I dislike having additional pills to take - especially a hemp oil horse caplet. One confounder is, unregulated equals Christ knows what's really in it and he ain't talking.
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  4458.  @jimmyjames6487  yeah, a standard boilerplate warrant. Or do you want a god-king warrant for Trump and commoner mortals get regular warrants?
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  4459.  @jesse_-  actually, they do - indirectly. Views generates ad sales, ad sales bring in the big bucks, non-views don't pay at all.
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  4460.  @stoppin2look impossible. The Antichrist is supposed to be competent.
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  4461. The best cellular level explanation I saw was a Canadian food service paper on the subject and countering it in meats - rigor mortis is why we age beef after slaughter (well, one reason). Another extension course I saw discussed proteins, cooking and hence overcooking. Can't remember if it was there I also saw a study on pork, stress and degradation of meat quality at a molecular level. Google Scholar is cool, makes finding that stuff far easier than when I managed to blunder into it.
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  4462. Da, da, dum! It's Captain Chaos!
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  4463. So, the first amendment is only allowed in Tennessee? Send the US Army back in for more reconstruction, repeal Posse Comitatus. A recorded threat to abuse his discretionary authority, but qualified immunity applies? General lawlessness by a lawless enforcement officer. Mom raised me that when one's right, one is right and should always be supported, when one is wrong, one is wrong and trying to defend being wrong, well heaven won't bother trying to help you. As a juror, which I have as a civic duty a number of times, I apply those lessons.
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  4464. Ah, but if I want my home raided, which documents are recommended for me to steal? I'm thinking, maybe a bill for paperclips. Less paperwork to fill out afterward... I'll just get my hat...
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  4465. I'll give Trump credit where it's due. I was beyond shocked that he said "In Vitro Fertilization". I doubt he knows what it means, but he actually said the words and didn't mangle pronouncing them - as a sudden clarification that probably was flashing bold giant letters on the teleprompter with handlers waving and pointing wildly at it... Which would be par for the course for me, but I don't do television appearances.
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  4466. Interestingly, Hunter hasn't had any input on national policy. We couldn't say the same with Trump's brood. And he never divested, which he had promised that he would while in office. So, he profited quite nicely, with his D.C. hotel literally selling out to foreign interests for his entire presidency, then suddenly going vacant when he left office for some mysterious reason.
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  4467. They'll do what they always do, ignore the calls. Everyone stay home from work for a week, watch them beg people to come back to work as their corporate campaign contributors raise merry hell until they concede, lest nobody fund their billion dollar election campaigns for their party.
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  4468. I am. I really do need to lose those extra 10 pounds though. Damned steroid and winter storms have conspired to add to my greatness... :/
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  4469.  @davidedbrooke9324  I don't want to get sanctions, so god-king God, god-king God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laws say speech is god-king God's word, so speak it only or else laws will be enacted, the Constitution is God-King GOD KILLED AND DEAD! You know, the difficulty in fusion isn't the initial confinement, but in retention of confinement during the fission phase. This is accomplished via ---- via FOGBANK emitting ----. Free speech, wanna know how to make a fusion weapon from a generation 3+ device or is that god-king dead, while any other speech is allowed per god-king allowance? When an arm of government oppresses political speech, the first amendment is dead. I do know the limitations, as exemplified above, in that right. You want all speech regulated, god-king deluxe, fuck US anything in favor of your god-king. And the dopant of FOGBANK isn't all that complicated.
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  4470.  @cgi2002  OK, my reading of what was said was that that wasn't updated. Hence, if one updates the registration data to reflect the block installed, the complaint that inspection is impossible is a non-issue. In short, start out with say, a Detroit Diesel, replace that engine with a General Atomics nuclear flatulence engine, as long as the state isn't objecting to nuclear farts as exhaust, once the state database is updated, one has a nuke fart engine and life is good. That makes a hell of a lot more sense that reflects reality than, "Oh, ya can't change the engine out or it'll never pass inspection". Just to use silly examples... ;) Honestly, this sounds like a law where politicians went a bit wild writing it, resulting in a law that does unintended things that break things and eventually gets updated to well, meet reality. Not uncommon in US legal history, to the point where I've often said, "Got a problem? Want it to get a totally fucked up solution that never properly addresses it? Give it to a politician, they'll FUBAR something and proclaim 'See? I'm doing something!'". See the "assault weapons ban" for an excellent example, change a few cosmetic items, the same rifle is for sale, one then changes out a few parts with simple hand tools and gets the original rifle that's incorrectly claimed as banned. A side effect of well, having no comprehension on what one is attempting to legislate, due to sheer ignorance on the subject being legislated upon.
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  4471.  @lewisner  well, having a basement requires some specific requirements in geology. Easily dug, one has components for a strong enough foundation to hold up the structure without the foundation collapsing into the basement and dragging the house down into it and a low enough water table. Then, there's what was easier to build after so many wars, when left over explosives can collapse the foundation into a basement, so that basements were selected against in favor of a stronger structure. And of course, available labor and components being available. Few houses in GCC nations had basements, that whole calcium carbonate layer in some countries, just sand in others, high briny water table in quite a few prohibited it. In the US, they are more common as a storage, initially for foods that required modest cooling, rather than above ground, where warmer conditions could cause decay and space on land was limited initially to what one could manually plow. Well, that and tornado alley being a thing one needed some protection from.
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  4472.  @HighHolyOne  I was unaware of the fact that Georgia counties swear an oath of poverty. Guess they don't collect taxes either, right? Nobody with influence can ever get to anyone there, as they're all hermits that live inside of a minefield, right?
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  4473. Then, check again a few more times. Never killed anyone that way and I was only dealing with drugs that could trivially kill a patient.
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  4474. The Army did a study on the burn pits and found the exposure within occupational limits, ignoring the housing that'd incur residential limits, which are substantially lower.
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  4475.  @miloqtdidanoopsie1260  The injurious events occurred overseas during a wartime deployment, mirroring the same shit that our atomic veterans and agent Orange exposed veterans went through. All backed by Congress to save tax dollars.
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  4476. Removal requires impeachment by Congress. Disbarring requires the bar association of her state to disbar her, not the government and decidedly not the courts. This is Constitutional law 101 stuff, taught in high school.
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  4477. We know what Putin wants, whatever is worst for the US, as usual.
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  4478. Or a bit, tripwire, tarp and fogas. Dress to impress!
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  4479.  @janedoediddly1314 indeed, the posts were classic Sundowning. Common in dementia patients. Sundowning and in control by telephone (the normal method of command and control) of our nuclear arsenal. If he wins, do enjoy the glow...
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  4480.  @corner2officetv  right after we nuke Trump's masters, Russia. Hopefully using cobalt-60 salted devices.
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  4481.  @bsherman8236  been like this for over 10 years, when we became extinct, right? Here's a big hint, if even half of the claimed numbers were accurate, we'd be far, far, far outnumbered. Given that I'm in a largely Hispanic neighborhood, I see astonishingly few people from South and Central America. I see most from the Caribbean and especially Puerto Rico, a US territory. Which Fox keeps trying to portray as a foreign land, despite PR National Guard serving in the military in our wars.
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  4482. BTW, noticed on Saturday, Trump wants to empty state coffers with his imPOTUS fiat tax to tax states for his mythical UC. Wouldn't that effectively defend the police, fire and EMS?
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  4483. I can think of a few ways to inject an electron in, but they'd all introduce lattice defects, which would be double plus ungood. :/ What energy level is the outer shell electrons at? Maybe resonate them a bit in the presence of an electron donor?
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  4484.  @Sader-xj2zc  and those audits belong to Congress via their oversight powers. So, it's also an unconstitutional power grab from Congress.
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  4485.  @vickipadavic6643  at this point, around two dozen federal felonies.
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  4486.  @deadtoadsoup  I'm unaware of any business that the US government has ever gotten away with nationalizing, however it has managed to utilize eminent domain effectively throughout its history. And with eminent domain, it'd have to be for the public benefit.' Now, manage to get Musk to engage in levying of war against the US government, won''t even need that. Writ of attainder would apply, with full corruption of blood exercise for his lifetime.
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  4487. Not quite, more like high end gentrification.
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  4488. $150 on ebay. Amazon is notorious for juicing up the prices. Saw one book that they claim was a malfunction in their software that they were pricing at $23 million, caused quite the media sensation...
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  4489. That's not democratic, republican or any other political persuasion, it's simply factual. For us, everything's nearly automatic, just needing a phone call from POTUS. Russia has a dual system, either orders from Putin or a fail lethal "Dead Hand" system, where no contact for a specific amount of time results in an automatic launch. Call received, alphanumeric codes verified, codes get entered, keys turned and buttons pushed and off the missiles fly.
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  4490. The novel "Year Zero", by Rob Reid explores that notion. Humanity is the only species to develop music, which is a smash hit throughout the galaxy, so the aliens download everything that they can find. Then learn that such is illegal, with an attached fine of $150k per infraction and due to their intense habit of following local laws, would literally bankrupt the galaxy. So, some consider human extinction... A fairly light read, but entertainingly satirical.
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  4491. You've never had guard duty, huh? You're on gate guard, you guard the gate. Not the OP, not the foot patrol, not the TOC or CP, the gate. You don't allow diversions to distract you from what you are guarding, the gate and fence line. The same is true for the Secret Service, who were guarding the venue itself and Trump, not the OP, not the foot patrols, not the TOC or CP, the venue and Trump. Outside of the venue, there were hundreds of local and state cops patrolling the grounds, controlling the crowd outside, keeping the lines entering the venue orderly, controlling traffic, inside of one building over from where the idiot fired from as snipers and somehow, he wandered past hundreds of cops with a rifle just five inches shy of a yard long, that's 31 inches of steel, entirely unnoticed by those hundreds of cops, to climb an AC unit to the roof and set up shop. Somehow, it's the Secret Service and not the hundreds of keystone cops, why not blame the Air Force and Navy too?
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  4492.  @cafeapaka7501  AI vs AI, then the real fun with Artificial Idiocy begins.
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  4493.  @jupitercyclops6521  wouldn't that be a genuine imitation judge?
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  4494. OK, he wants the NE US to go without electricity, all of the US do go without wheat and all of the US to go without oil. Then wants to ban all produce in the land, since that comes from Mexico. And the Privacy Act of 1974 is evil, all social security numbers and private financial data should be commie property. Now, who on this planet uses groceries to any realistic extent while TRAVELING EXTENSIVELY? How are his eyes not brown, being so full of shit?
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  4495.  @agme8045  not quite correct. Obesity usually isn't a disease, it's a symptom of underlying disease or dietary/activity imbalance. Metabolic syndrome is fairly common, can be due to sedentary lifestyle and carb heavy diet over the period of years, can be from Cushing Syndrome or PCOS as well. Addressing the root cause frequently will address the symptoms, including excess body fat and glycemic imbalance - well, until everything starts to break down due to overload. But, UrbanShamanDK points out one major addiction that the US also faces, an addiction to the quick fix. Not an actual repair or adjustment, just a quick fix. Stick a bandaid on a bullet hole. Yeah, covers that unsightly hole, doesn't stop that leaking red stuff until you run out of it and do that dying thing. My ship has a hole in the side, I stuff a mattress into the hole staunching the worst of the leak, it ain't fixed, it still needs to be fixed, it's just controlled for now. We've been wandering off calling the mattress in the hole fixed, ignoring the increasing leaks until we're flooded. No, you then weld in a patch over the hole, remove the mattress remains, repaint and check frequently to see that the actual fix is permanent. Or learn to doggy paddle across an ocean, which usually doesn't end up well. Lose weight by first seeing doctor, if doctor's first move is to go with this drug or one related, find a competent doctor that hasn't given up on you and actually follow doctor's advice. Lose the weight gradually, not quickly, as quick fix fast loss is short term loss and regained with a vengeance. Get back in shape, yeah, round is a shape, just not an optimal one, just don't go to the other extreme and go to skin and bones, for moderation is the key to a healthier life. Get imbalances like PCOS addressed, it's long term, frustrating, takes a lot of effort, but is controllable. It's not gonna be simple, it's a complex problem and complex problems don't get effective simple quick fixes, they get complex solutions to each sub-problem that's part of the big problem and gradually controlled.
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  4496. Not to mention that the regex gives a string list, but no regular expressions, so, it's a regex without regex. Claiming regex, but oh, no assertions does not a regex make. This is like veggie meat being found inside of a fish market.
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  4497. Well, there are chemtrails - for specialized aircraft like the U-2 spyplane, which obscures their vapor trail from radar. About as harmful as punching tiny holes in the ionosphere, which is slightly less injurious to our ecosystem and atmosphere as a mosquito bite is.
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  4498. It's far more likely that U-Haul mistakenly put the wrong tag on the wrong vehicle and it just stayed that way. To hell with their customers, there are plenty more suckers to come along and replace them. They should be sued into insolvency to send a message to their industry, but politicians will instead restrict all torts into uselessness until lawlessness prevails instead.
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  4499. Erm, for me, the business end of the lathe is the cutting tool. Guidance, well, that's operator and equipment. I've watched operators do their thing as senior machinists and accomplish what otherwise would be considered impossible. They all required knowing material, knowing equipment, knowing specifications, then it relied, when things went beyond that, to experience. I understand the basics, don't know names of tools of when or how to employ them, would love to learn. Figuring out the machine malfunction, trivial once conditions are established that are being violated vs normal conditions. I am quite good at figuring out mechanical things. I disassembled a Baby Ben alarm clock, Dad's primary alarm clock to components when I was 8. Reassembled successfully before dad got home. And calibrated it. Adam failed in examining parameters of failure, then examine scope. I tend to go Boolean, if that fails, go RegEx, if that fails, go freeform. Adam fixated. Proper examination, examine every function, then examine malfunctions. Especially when he gave a combination lock failure code... Which is a logic tree failure.
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  4500.  @wvvwwvwvv  yep, total GOD KING, GOD KING, GOD KING GOD, Jesus was defective, so GOD KING GOD. PUTIN is GOD of all sub-gods. Jerk off to your god-king and enjoy cobalt-60 god.
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  4501.  @spritemon98  one can make the attempt to do so, but in the real world, if you try it, you find that your dinky little AR or AK isn't a great match against a tank and ATACMS missiles launched 100 miles away and erasing a square kilometer.
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  4502.  @Carole-f5z  I usually do that joke in reverse, him bursting into flames. Still a non-issue though, there's no statutory requirement for a bible, Quran, encyclopedia, dictionary or even a lead pipe to be present when swearing in. It's just a tradition.
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  4503. Turds are useful after modest composting, they're far too toxic for composting.
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  4504. But oddly, ignoring the Mann Act, which a woman named Maxwell just was convicted under.
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  4505. It would have been nice to have closed captioning for this, it would've been nice to hear everything said.
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  4506.  @stephaniegalliart859  really? Given your justification, statutory rape of one's own daughter would be OK. I've killed animals to live, I also, unlike you, know right from wrong. And Stalin and his all girl band are really long extinct. Only their methods survive, deficienty.
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  4507.  @carolekowcun7607  that reminds me, gotta put canola oil and barley onto my shopping list - both grown and made in Canada. And boy, did the prices jump! Gonna have to go across town to get a decent price on the oil, as I'd just bought a 2.5 gallon jug of it before I moved and it was forgotten along the way...
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  4508. I met him back around y2k. He's essentially the same man today that he was back then, minus a few filters. Some likely fading due to age, some fading due to pathology and I'll leave determining which is which to those whose field of study gives them the understanding to do so, it's far afield from my own education. My level extended to refer in restraints or or without, without being preferred.
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  4509. Well, there was a lot of garbage, right after Maria. Thankfully, Trump saved the day by tossing the paper towel in. I was with DLA during that mess, that's where the wires, poles and transformers came from. Can't take credit for that, was just keeping their computers working. But, they jumped to full 24/7 for the duration, despite POTUS ignoring everything. Oh, good job cleaning up the local embarrassment in contractor selection, glad they got hard time for their crimes! Now, when are you folks gonna vote for statehood again? I want to get a flag with a new star!
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  4510. Indeed, it's going to be a hell of a long wait still for the VA, well both remaining employees due to DOGE bless my hearing aids. I've stopped recommending to young people any form of military service. One can only ignore "Veterans are number one!" being signified by the raised third digit.
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  4511. So, the argument is that no criminal cases or emergencies are allowed to be addressed over one religious holiday? Justifying it with a reading from the Book of Grinch. Coming next week, Green Eggs and Ham and we need a continuance, Your Honor, as ham is not kosher.
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  4512. "Obviously harmless, it's in the body!" Google levophed overdose, aka norepinephrine, also a neurotransmitter. Really bad things, including deaths have occurred from that. Iron is healthy and good for you - unless it's a damned safe falling on your head! That's a really serious overdose! I'll just get my hat...
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  4513.  @TemperTemper...  obviously, can't. Got DOGEfucked.
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  4514. Benedict Arnold was a war hero, who was injured in the line of duty and had no pension in which to support his family and farm, despite being disabled in war. So, he turned traitor to provide for his family. And oddly, after that decorated and respected war hero turned to support his family, the Continental Congress founded the precursor of the VA. So, any traitor lacking such a reason is far, far, far worse of a traitor. But, we do not have a Constitutional provision for exiling people, as exile was abused by England for centuries. Still, if you object to rural people, don't support them. Stop buying food from farms, that'll show them, when their produce and meats go to waste or go unpurchased.
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  4515. I'm sure that the worms will show him the proper respect. They love eating rotten meat.
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  4516.  @gustavodeugarte9460  defamation is precisely defined in civil law. It is decidedly not what random people's opinion that something is, as vague laws are routinely struck down for being vague and arbitrary. I give the same heat back when idiots accuse someone of treason, for all manner of activities, not a one being actually taking up arms against their nation or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Treason, again, being precisely defined in precisely that way in our Constitution. That said, such reposts, should he begin anew with personally posting such content would show a pattern of defamatory behavior that'd aggravate the crimes in the eyes of the courts and increase the punitive damage amounts greatly.
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  4517. That's what Frank Serpico said and still says.
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  4518.  @claraj.751  you also have to prove Mens Rea, innocence of mind can be a definitive defense. Basically, innocence being proven by total knowledge that the act was unlawful, compared to knowing something was unlawful in all likelihood and still continuing. Hence, why we shouldn't convict a person with an IQ of 50 for taking a leak on the school ground bushes as a sexual predator and put them on the sex offender list. A pool of jizz and binoculars, well, those would prove mens rea quite efficiently.
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  4519.  @savlosavage  civil contempt fines. Can't be pardoned, compared to criminal contempt sentences, which can be pardoned. Then, if he wishes to usurp the Judicial Branch, as he has with the Legislative Branch, it's time for the populace to replace their government in the manner of 1776.
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  4520. Did... Did you just take my batter- battery?
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  4521.  @katiekane5247  with many dust sources not normally considered flammable, as in bulk it's not considered flammable at all.
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  4522. There's an old Russian saying, "China's final warning". Google it for the humor and irony.
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  4523. Actually, on a few occasions, they were just so and more. Bitch only after you've experienced war.
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  4524. I'm reminded that disenfranchising North Carolina is a bad idea several times over, given Fort Bragg and a lot of our Special Operations and Delta Force live there. Not a recommended idea, but hey, it's currently still a free country.
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  4525.  @ElizabethEwins-mj9zu  sounds great and since voting and running for office are rights, that testing for candidates will fit right well alongside of poll tests. Maybe we'll even start to tax those rights and we can have poll taxes and office taxes, only those who can afford those taxes get rights. Not bad, your idea sets the roots to restore Jim Crow, want to bring back slavery and women as property again too?
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  4526. Dud's packing. A pair of socks packing, pretending they're nuts. Seriously, he wears a diaper, literally shit in it during interviews. Can't keep track of his speeches with a teleprompter, but somehow Biden was senile and he's a very stable genius that wanted to nuke the African coast to put out hurricanes. What an ultramaroon!
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  4527. Love most of your messages, you missed the target here though. You could've done far better. Stealing religious lands, like Trump stole a cathedral, build upon that and the upside down Bible (we all know where the ribbon starts and trails), etc.
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  4528. What are you smoking? I was a soldier for over 28 years and intimately know the provisions of the Geneva and Hague Conventions, as it's literally part of our training. What are your qualifications? Twinkies stuck to your sofa?
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  4529.  @paim689  that or some highly experienced gamer, who speaks from the vast experience acquired on their Twinkie encrusted sofa. As opposed to myself, a retired soldier of over 28 years of military service and incessant Geneva and Hague Convention training in our professional development programs.
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  4530.  @VetoSerra  Victoria Victoria Victoria See? I can name foreign states/provinces that have nothing whatsoever to do with the subject at hand too.
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  4531. When has he engaged in actual war? Took up arms and fought the national government, per the Constitution's only definition of treason, the only crime defined and narrowly. Can;t give aid and comport to an enemy, Congress has not declared war since WWII.
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  4532. Not necessarily, it could also just be bad dental work and proximity to a high power transmitter. ;) I also routinely hear voices. I've got a few noisy neighbors, so I usually ignore them. I also hear loudish noises at all hours, but then my apartment is only 10 feet or so from the building trash chute. :/
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  4533. I love how he said that Biden was corrupt, when he's the one awaiting pee-pee smack for committing 34 counts of felony fraud. As for McConnell, he just insulted the entire state of New York. Laws are illegal for New York because of Mitch the Bitch's god-king wannabe emperor for life. Sorry, we don't do absolute monarchies here.
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  4534.  @MaggieCastillos  then, there's that whole waiting for July 11, the sentencing date. We don't have convicts serve a non-sentence, we wait for the judge to pronounce the sentence. Hell, we have idiots wanting to send Trump to GITMO, a federal POW holding site, because they can't tell the difference between state court and federal court. An indictment of our failed educational system.
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  4535.  @criticalthinker3855  surprisingly quickly, July 11 is the sentencing date. Likely, no prison time. The rest, uncertain, to a large level, due to Trump himself.
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  4536.  @sarahdawn8114  the shame of it, she's both auntie and cousin. And sister and grandmother... Although, DNA testing revealed he's utterly unrelated to himself.
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  4537. It's not identity theft, they're not taking anyone's identity. They're stealing personally identifiable information, which is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974. The secure storage of said information covered under a handful of other statues. We're talking 5 years hard time for each case, though god-king would just pardon them and hell, probably refuse to charge them with any crimes, because he's crafted a Constitutional Crisis that neutralizes all law enforcement, save by his Imperial Decree. The only thing remaining is Congress to impeach him, before he finally figures he can just discharge Congress by decree like Caesar did. Now, one way to fight that, without using guns and then one faces dinky guns vs artillery and tanks is to just stay home from work. Enough do, the economy shuts down. If one needs to escalate, one blocks entrances and exits to refineries and petroleum storage facilities, halting fuel deliveries and hampering transportation and trade. Then, the wealthy campaign contributors start screaming at Congress to do something because they're losing money. The Army and federal agents sure as hell can't round up half of the population and force them to go to their non-federal jobs or even to their federal jobs.
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  4538.  @buhmand  it's a sure sign of losing an argument when one has to resort to remote telepathy.
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  4539.  @buhmand  words have meaning, "he was about to say" implies that he never said it, so you've expressed an unfulfilled intent to speak, hence thoughts.
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  4540.  @buhmand  apologies if I missed that, I do have some hearing loss. Shouldn't have listened so closely to that IED. :/ I wish they would've switched to nitrowhisperin for wars.
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  4541. Alcohol and tobacco taxes, plus inheritance taxes funded a lot of the government. Add in some excise taxes beyond tobacco and alcohol, was a rather large chunk of cheddar. And we had income tax twice before, implemented once, to pay for the War of 1812 and to pay for the Civil War. But, he's saving taxpayers money by purchasing 100 foot flag poles, because he's a real estate guruilla. See my shiny? Watch me wave it, ignore that raging wildfire all around us that I set, that's only the Constitution burning, nothing important. But, he also wants his Armies to cross the Rubicon, erm, Potomac, to tear up the highways, crush sewers, water mains and gas mains the entire way, for his birthday. Like every other tyrant king throughout history until they were finally dispatched by force in 500 BC. Are there any surviving descendants of the Brutus family?
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  4542. Never fear, once Trump assumes the office, a prompt response will be had from the guy who thought hurricanes can be blown out by a nuke. I'm also sure he'll issue orders to exterminate all smelt, which he blamed for the fires. After all, the fish is worthless, since it isn't in a hamburger. But, he's been convicted and sentenced to being called naughty. But, President Musk is proud of his VP.
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  4543. Boy, does all of that bring back memories! And when the 4000 series came out, with claims of how sensitive they were to ESD (not all that sensitive as was hyped about)... Was in 7th heaven with the 4016, then the 4066 came out, total geekgasm! Gimme a few minutes, I'll still be able to build a shift register, both from a few chips or a bunch of discrete components...
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  4544. And military crypto requires GPS precision timing as well.
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  4545.  @エケンタ as I usually say it, it's the best theory that we have until a superior theory in explaining observations and making predictions we can test comes along.
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  4546. They also have the record, outdoing Oak Ridge, which took some serious effort!
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  4547. Sure he learned. He learned not to be blatant and get caught. He was busily scamming away selling colloidal silver to cure COVID, ended up in court over that as well. Now, he's trying the Oral Roberts gambit, because it worked for Oral. Got him yanked off the air, but it got him his $8 million (actually, something like $9.1 million). Oral loved his diamond rings and jewelry and Italian suits, his staff busily airbrushing the jewelry out of publicity photos. Opened a fine Beverly Hills "office" he used for vacations. True man of the Almighty... Dollar. Bakker, just ask about air conditions doghouses... Yeah, it happened. He scammed money blatantly, got caught and was sentenced to 8 years, served 5.
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  4548. Because, your politics means world worth, just like Hitler's BS.
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  4549.  @patriciamantooth2638  frankly, we call them "Pavement Princesses", as they're billed as off road capable and well, are useless in anything that isn't paved. Not using the automagics and they're reasonably safe for the class though and one did prove resistant to thermal runaway when an incendiary device was detonated in the bed, which I'll admit did impress me a bit. Frankly, I'd not go with Tesla due to the autopirate mode bullshit and non-standardized connector, preferring a safer model that utilizes a standardized connector. But then, I remember the old Beta/VHS wars and a few similar marketing wars... I've even fixed both Beta and VHS machines, Beta being technically superior in many ways, but also more complex and expensive to make and maintain by a fair bit.
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  4550. That the GOP continues to embrace MAGA has cemented the party's place alongside its predecessor, the Whig party of the 1850's. Agitating, losing effectiveness and the sane members that actually cared about their nation have already departed the party rolls. The only realistic difference between the events of history and now is, there is no replacement from the remnants of the actual conservative party forming a new party to replace the failed, hijacked party. That in and of itself is destabilizing and breathing false life into the otherwise ersatz party and creating a vacuum in power.
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  4551.  @arcanewyrm6295  nope, 25th amendment, then we get President Vance. And Musk tries to push him too, since Musk paid for the election in the end... Two rats going at it, should play out interesting, total girl fight.
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  4552.  @lisafrequency55  yeah, it's liberal republicans that banned dictionaries from Florida schools. Yup! At least, on square planets like Bizarroworld.
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  4553.  @ericjones6729  nope. I'll be eating beans instead, let him enjoy the miasma that follows. I've enough beans here to depopulate the eastern seaboard.
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  4554. The Abrams doesn't use gasoline or diesel, it uses JP-4 (Jet-A) jet fuel. Mortar fire for air burst has a timer on the warhead, as the trajectory and flight time is known, one knows what altitude it'll be at, at a specific time. Other methods were ground proximity sensing, similar to radar. Depleted uranium is extremely dense, hence it's useful inside of an armor package, as well as a penetrator against armor, where its pyrophilic nature is useful. It is mildly radioactive, largely being an alpha emitter, with a half life of 4.5 billion years. A fair amount of our depleted uranium stockpile is from our nuclear weapons program, where it is separated from U-235, leaving the depleted uranium. It's also used in some aircraft and elevators as a counterweight. U-235 naturally occurs in uranium at a rate of around 0.7%. We were actually surprised that our Bradley fighting vehicle's chain gun managed to blow the turret off of the T-72's, as our intelligence thought the armor was tougher.
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  4555.  @susanohnhaus611  naw, the Russians and Chinese give a better return than terrorists, who are notoriously cheap.
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  4556. Only one problem. Getting the geological record of those other planets. We can travel a few days for the most part and grab geological samples and ice from all over this planet. Not at all so with other planets at present. If at all. I don't see us getting samples from Venus anytime in the next couple of centuries. :/
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  4557.  @patrickvolk7031  the SIOP was replaced in 2012 by OPLAN 8010-12, that was updated in 2023 by OPLAN 8044. Same basic beast, streamlined and updated and someone justified their job by renaming it.
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  4558. First, the plane hadn't just landed, otherwise a baggage tug would've been on the runway. He was on the ramp, where he should've been and clipped the wing, flipping the tug and getting pinned underneath the mess. Unless you're going to now blame Trump for shitty driving on the ramp, you're barking up the wrong tree. That'd be putting POTUS in charge of a ramp operation at a small airport - along with every other airport in the land. And oddly, you're not bitching about a week before the god-king wannabe took office and started fucking up the world, a 66 year old American Airlines employee died after being hit by an airport ramp vehicle at North Carolina's Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Guess that's Trump's fault too? Putting the blame on him for everything is just taking a page from his dicked up book, making you no better than he is. Both of these cases were tragic accidents that I know from firsthand experience, are not uncommon on airport ramps. They're congested, high speed operations to get passengers off and on their flights with their baggage and the aircraft turned around ASAP, as they make money in the air, not on the ground. And if you've not guessed it, I have worked the ramp, back when Piedmont was its original independent Piedmont, during the ice age. ATC doesn't control the ramp, airline operations controls the ramp. The closest that ATC gets involved is when the aircraft is requesting to taxi away from the gate, initially usually being pushed back by a specialized push-back tug. The NE Philly crash, ain't ATC, so unless you're wanting the god-king wannabe to wave Harry Potter's wooden marital aid to whammy everything perfect, it's likely either mechanical or a ghastly pilot error, I'm leaning toward mechanical or a forgotten locking pin that got missed on walk around in shit weather and oddly, that's also not magically the fault of the POTUS. Who's got a smorgasbord of shit that are abominations he's responsible for, from establishing his own personal concentration camp at GTMO to bidding on sending US troops into Gaza for a Palestinian pogrom, ala Stalin. He's also threatened if anything happened to him or anyone close to him that he'd obliterate the entirety of Iran, which I can only presume would be via thermonuclear means, given the place is fairly large.
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  4559. Given Rush hated interrupting his dive for topside comms, it's awfully chatty. Add in, when was the last time you received any kind of text message with the word superb in it? Finally, in the midst of likely litigation and extreme governmental scrutiny, would you risk your entire career to leak such a transcript? Not a soul on the planet would ever trust you again, you'd get sued into abject poverty by OceanGate, who has already sued a former employee for violating the NDA and you'd have tampered with evidence in a government investigation.
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  4560. Drunken homing is now a crime to some morons. Search and seizure once required a warrant based upon reasonable suspicion, well, save to those cops. Legislating from the patrol car. Peeping Tom isn't a reasonable suspicion. No, I'll not answer your questions, your business has been completed, this interview is terminated and kindly get the hell off of my property - now. Continue, well, "Greetings, this is the M1911A1 .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. It is a magazine fed, blowback operated pistol currently loaded with custom 230 grain hollowpoints and aimed at your groin". Why the State Department refuses to hire me is a complete mystery. Now, sue for damages consistent with at least a decade of the entire town/county budget. Then, really make them happy. Go through the full NFA process and buy a machine gun and a few cases of the wrong ammunition. The weapon sale gets tracked, due to the NFA firearm, the ammunition purchase is noted, not the caliber. When they investigate and they will, out of habit of excessive policing, sue again for a half century of budget.
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  4561. More like a minute by minute reminder to the jury that the counsel for the defense is always not only not right, but not even wrong.
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  4562.  @jillionairess  old reference to something Pauli said about some, ahem, not very good theoretical physics work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong Not only not right, it's not even wrong.
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  4563.  @waynegnarlie1  alas, the option to defend against the commander in chief is not included as an option for our military - that is what we retain civilian authorities for, including the whores in Congress.
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  4564. That's my read of the situation. CYA for her career, as everything pro-Trump is a career risk with no net gain.
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  4565.  @williameverhart683  shall I take you to Arlington and you can say that over some of my buddies graves?
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  4566. Except that our refineries aren't configured to take US crude oil. Much of our oil actually comes from Canada.
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  4567. I dunno, he paid out $10k per offense after the initial $5k, paid out $25k and STFU, so it must sting. Trump isn't anywhere as liquid in cash as many think, as proved when he failed to bond for his appeal.
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  4568. I'm curious, what happens when Trump, a convicted felon goes to vote?
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  4569. Impeach her, then give Florida to Cuba.
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  4570. When did the FBI become responsible for the network security of telephone companies? Do you think they're also responsible for the security of your door locks too? Now, how the real world works. They may notice traffic at landing points for overseas to US fiber, trace it as it's going and get a warrant for a tap, which just mirrors that traffic to and from the US destination of interest. You know, that cell phone company. They'll more likely want to mirror all traffic from the foreign IP or even VPN. They typically being the NSA, whose actual job such things are and actually do work closely with the FBI when traffic goes domestic, since the NSA is part of the DoD and hence is prohibited from police functions within the US by the Posse Comitatus Act. The analysis will eventually show information about the internals of the telecom's network, specifically what's being compromised and how by that foreign traffic. The business is then notified by the FBI and their security people (the business, not the government, since it's not the government's network) investigate and respond. How do I know that? I am an information security professional and have been on the receiving end of those visits, with a full briefing and report, then had to dig away, trace and analyze the attacks and spread, literally recording network packets and analyzing them in real time, extracting their malware used and submitting copies to corporate for inclusion into antivirus, the FBI as evidence and report to the management and executives in both the company and FBI. In one attack that lasted a full seven years for a low number Fortune company, I traced traffic coming from a network blind spot to financial servers, where I captured an entire RDP (remote desktop protocol) session to a server, captured their latest and greatest version of software for submission, alerted the administrators of the server and their management. We installed sensors to monitor that blind spot and captured the entry point - a literally forgotten test server that'd been left on and connected to the DMZ for nearly a decade. Once that went offline, they lost their beach head and the attack was finally ended. Royal PIA from start to finish, as it's not a magical window where I visibly see the session, I see the raw packets and analyzed them. Tens of thousands of them. The attack actually lasting only minutes at most. Only after would notification of end users be considered. You don't rebuild the house while it's still on fire, you put the damned fire out first. You also don't shut down a Fortune listed company network that's performing critical services for governments and corporations over a modest network breach, that's how you shut down entire nations. The organizational flaw, accepting modest attacks until a couple of Sarbanes-Oxley audits, as financial servers were being breached and copied by a foreign advanced persistent threat. The entities involved remains classified. The attack was actually publicly reported long ago. The fun part? This is happening every day, all day, all night. And I'm not changing my SMS habits, as I don't transmit my PII in unencrypted form - ever. It goes by encrypted e-mail or encrypted e-mail attachment. Otherwise, well SMS is pretty much like skywriting, it can be received unencrypted over the air with a standard microwave antenna and receiver. Biggest players, China, Russia, Romanian gangs that contract to foreign powers and just rip people off, Iran, Cuba, generic annoying people that have a vague clue, bored kids, of course every major Western power as well and some numbnuts in an internet cafe in Gabon or something. The gangs and larger nations being a wee bit better, by both skills and number of players working.
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  4571. Uh huh, Biden's launching missiles? Oh wait, Biden blessed a country being allowed to defend itself against a Russian invasion and obviously, that's evil. So, how long did you serve in the French Surrender Brigade?
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  4572. A typical US Army operation then.
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  4573. First, "I am not aware of", one would have to prove before a court mens rea and what someone knows and that would either require public statements referencing the specific quote/event or telepathy. Additionally, there's the nearly insurmountable hurdle of proving that a blonde is even self-aware or aware of their surroundings. Second, I heard the testimony with the Georgia Secretary of State telephone conversation and she stated "I have not heard the entirety of that recording", not that she was unaware of that specific quote. That was an evasion, true, but likely factual and well, admittedly, I've not heard the entirety of the conversation myself. Only the damning sound byte that well, knowing Trump from actually meeting him, is consistent with the charges alleged, but lacking in the full conversation that'd likely be even more damning. Well, it would've been, before the SCOTUS elevated him to monarch. After all, Nothing the King does can be illegal. For the hostages nonsense, granted, weak tea blonde awareness joke aside, weak tea answer, where I'd stipulate that he is entitled to his opinion and his opinions aren't relevant to the matter before the committee, since he's not being reviewed for consent of Senate. Patel's book, well, I've not read it either and what would remain relevant for her is, would she supervise him and not allow abuses of office and authority, her views on a book you'd then have to prove she had read aren't exceptionally relevant, save if one were to be instead asking if she embraced that enemies list and include said list in one's question and eating up one's questioning time on the floor. Meanwhile, the Senate doesn't have to give a cause for rejection of a candidate for the cabinet level appointment or certain officers, they can literally vote against someone based upon their eye color or what kind of shoes they wear. As for the 1001 bit and "I don't know", yeah, dumb answer, the proper answer as coached by every attorney I've known is, "I do not remember" or "I do not recall", one's conversations with others being easily investigated, memos and e-mails also trivial to print out and submit. One cannot prove what is remembered without telepathy. The hypothetical question, got asked one myself that was rather broad in scope and essentially impossible to refine as asked, so I loathe hypothetical questions. "That order, was it with the space aliens overhead in their flying saucers menacing us or Genghis Khan's hordes risen from the grave? If I'm given an plainly unlawful order, I'll question the order and explain my questioning based upon law, if persisted, I'll refuse the unlawful order and if confirmed, would be forced to report said unlawful order to the House, however I sincerely doubt such a situation would ever occur so clearly and plainly". But then, I've never been accused of being a yes man and I have indeed questioned unlawful orders, in many cases insisting on a digitally signed e-mail from the offending officer, who oddly demurred from issuing said order in writing. Digitally signed e-mails effectively being a signed written order, the signature being a DoD and court accepted nonrepudiation token and admissible in court. And yes, I've some familiarity firsthand with both federal civil and criminal cases, thankfully from the periphery. Now, if I were a spenditmore, would I vote to approve her for the proposed office? Not a chance in hell. From testimony I've heard from the proposed SecDef and now her, I'd trust neither as far as I can throw the entire District of Columbia. I'd at this point have serious qualms as to his other proposed candidates for the various offices he's requesting consent of Senate for. And that first bit I refer to as a fraudian slip, a false Freudian slip, as I've little respect for any politician, earned richly by far too many. Reminds me way too much of both "My Fellow Americans" and worse, "Liar, Liar".
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  4574. Well, could be worse, could have to deal with the cube root of infinity. Although, the first measurement being met with disinterest sounds a lot off, given the phenomenal effort to figure out superluminal neutrinos that was reported in a way that basically said, "guys, I know these readings are wrong, but I can't find the cause, so what's going sideways here?" and got a swift answer that repaired the problem. Especially when the math is claiming infinity, which means all of the particle accelerators are wrong, because of the godwhammy force holding protons and neutrons together under all conditions and hence, zero evidence of quarks, which is obviously wrong. Eh, maybe a one off due to illness, don't do my best work when feeling ill and that typically only happens on days that end in 'y' in English... Yeah, I'd call it a godwhammy, or a Harry Potter wand whammy, anything whimsical that makes it obvious that it ain't magic and irritate enough for someone to correct the math to match observations. Maybe even name something unexplained, oh, planty. Largely because, WTF effect being a rather ill received term... And the explanation does need more clarity as well, as otherwise, if I go to rip a baryon apart, I'm getting something from nothing, which is nonsense, but the energy matches the input, it's an of course. I'm not going to get the excess in mass-energy within a confined region of spacetime with any reaction that isn't already there, but the laws of conservation remain alive and well. It's force and energy interacting via carriers that trigger particle generation, otherwise electrons are magic and they're merely mildly annoying at times. The laws of conservation are only violated within the constraints of my finances. Well, there and within the constraints of single Planck units, where there still be dragons. At least, until better math is discovered.
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  4575.  @scrambler69-xk3kv honestly, I think that the founders royally screwed up when they so narrowly defined treason. Well, at least they did leave sedition open. As for running out the clock, that's only for federal charges, despite what Trump's blathering lately about states being part of the federal government (they're not), state charges are still pending in two states. And frankly, if he gets away with the classified documents debacle, I could make a pretty good living off of what I know, since handing out classified information would be then de facto legal. No, I'd not sell information on what goes where and why inside hydrogen bombs. Just a hyperbole ridden example of the chaos that could ensue. And I can neither confirm, nor deny the existence of the hydroscillator. :P
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  4576. Legally speaking, yes, they're the same gravity in breach of law. Also considered, scope. As a thought experiment, I kill family members of your family at the numbers of documents that were astray. For Biden, we're talking immediate family and some cousins, for Trump, a VFW hall sized venue. We're talking a mass murder vs Joe Mengle level atrocity. Going into improperly classified data, well, that's an atrocity well known in government and essentially intractable, to the point where I've read documents that were proudly marked SECRET/FOUO. Secret is special, in it could harm our government's interests, FOUO is For Official Use Only and hence, not subject to summary declassification and release under law. An IP address could be FOUO, the base chow hall roster and those consuming meals roster certainly would be. An entire network's IP scope and base roster is secret for plainly obvious reasons. The massive difference is, if I took any of those documents home, I'd be in a maximum security prison, likely close to Manning's old cell. Executive branch, like seniormost military leadership both realize the overclassification and deal with rivers of such documents, so behavior is decidedly more casual. Welcome to the real world, where some things are a major pain in the gonads for rank and file, not so much upstairs. And if I see another anything not UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO, but otherwise marked something higher/FOUO, there very well may be a death or severe bodily harm involved... And yeah, I Goobered security stuff down a lot, not that it's a classified thing, the guiding documents are unclassified and publicly available, bur boring as hell. But, lawyers who specialize in such things, well, they're rare and about as expensive as live Dodo birds.
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  4577. He's a very generous co-conspirator, naming in public his co-conspirators in seditious conspiracy to overthrow the US government. The lot of those that follow his misguidance can join the Oath Keepers and soon, Proud Boys leadership in federal prison, the Proud Boys trial still ongoing, the Oath Keepers leadership already convicted. Plenty of room in the supermaxes.
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  4578.  @AnatFlowers  perhaps you can to being to be trying that in englishing? Seriously, dude, that sentence makes dick all sense in any language. And I'm super fluent in both English and bad English.
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  4579.  @DONALDPIRAGIS  oh no, they brought the Wabbit, we're screwed!
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  4580. She was literally his protege, then he went seriously off the reservation enough to be considered hazardous, so she jumped off and remains radio silent. I've two sides of my personality, my sociopathic military side and my really nice guy usual side. Of the two, I hate, but value that first mentioned side, the other side, well small animals and young children trust me naturally and are protected and well played with and fed well, I'll eat the leopard's face off when it tries to attack. I was often the designated babysitter. And literal killer of terrorists. I preferred running clinics, schools and babysitting and still do. Far easier than being a monster. A lesson that frankly, having met Trump, hearing her briefly and his sons incessantly (save the youngest, who's still in college), they're pretty much Monsters, Inc, minus having an actual soul or conscience. At least I do have a conscience.
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  4581. Newsmax and RT have the same founders - Russia. So, anything to destabilize the US is good. Never figured out how that is considered wisdom, to destabilize utterly a thermonuclear power that has thermonuclear missiles aimed at you.
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  4582.  @johnhenry5071 I think Biden lost count at none. ;)
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  4583.  @johnhenry5071  you are fortunate! I have to take off my shoes to get to 20. The last time I got to 21, I was arrested.
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  4584. Yeah, but he's got the prosperity gospel crowd behind him, complete with the Christian Nationalists, who literally say that they should rule by terrorizing those who do not comply with their beliefs and rule. The fine folks that brought the world "Machine Gun Jesus", do Google it if you want to be nauseated.
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  4585.  @electrictroy2010  so, fuel and field rations are free? Medical expenses don't increased, as opposed to when not operating equipment? You've obviously never served in the military!
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  4586.  @JB-lp9xr  not to mention that methanol is also energy expensive to make. Downside, ethanol has one more carbon atom than methanol, but also has a greater heat of combustion. I can get tons of methanol easily enough, just from charcoal production. Baking the wood releases methanol. Don't have much baking involved in making ethanol and well, both need distillation. And both release far less greenhouse gases than gasoline, albeit at a lower energy production for a piston engine.
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  4587.  @xfiles4792  wow, for some odd reason, I was thinking USDA, but you're right, it is the EPA. Now I know I'm feeling under the weather! I rarely foul up on which agency does what. I'm still scratching my head what a pesticide against weeds has to do with botox, one of the most poisonous toxins on the planet, but occasionally used in medicine has to do with one another, other than maybe someone spilled their drink into the bot.
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  4588.  @Alfonse-v6f  most states, unlawful confinement is kidnapping. One numbnuts was just arrested and it was reported nationally, where he accused a car with several Hispanic men of being illegally in the US and took the driver's sunglasses and car keys and refused to return them. The US citizens will be happily testifying against the numbnuts in court, hope his new fiancee Bubba and he get along.
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  4589.  @scribe712  oh, there's a chance, along with the rest of the law library that the DA will drop on her. Aggravated elder abuse, aggravated battery resulting in physical injury, unlawful restraint and kidnapping for starters, all to force a plea deal or enjoy a century of prison.
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  4590. One thing that I immediately took away, The hammer over the file. Yes, file.
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  4591. If the hitch obscuring part of the plate is unlawful, then towing a trailer is, by definition unlawful, as the entire trailer obscures the license plate.
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  4592. Had different actors for the movie version.
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  4593. OK, their policies don't apply to you, they don't have to transport you on their airplane. Their airplane, their rules, as idiotic as they might be.
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  4594. No! We need their Wurst! Lemme get my hat...
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  4595. It's all OK, as the FTS village wasn't Moskva... That could've raised some eyebrows and blood pressure.
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  4596. Usually, they investigate after the emergency. Kind of like with a fire, the adjuster comes after the fire is out, not wandering inside of a burning building. Then, the court cases begin and a generation later, payouts. Way to return back to pandemic shortages for an entire generation! Who needs that $80 billion in cargo every year? Which is the amount that passed through the Port of Baltimore in 2023.
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  4597. Toxicology is good to know. I just looked over at my pantry closet and saw a bag full of poison- dried kidney beans. Raw or undercooked, they are toxic with letting. Properly prepared, tasty. Wild cassava is toxic as well. A popular famine food, common, lousy with cyanide compounds if not properly prepared. Peanuts, soybeans and even potatoes carry toxins that can kill.
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  4598.  @Sal-tripin  I'll have to pop by the VA and tell them that you insist that they don't exist. I'm sure they'll be amused. Still, there is a point. Adam missed the mark with Benedict Arnold, he betrayed his country after being wounded in battle when we invaded Canada. With no wounded veteran pensions available, he was looking at returning to his farm that he was now no longer able to work, then he and his family starving to death. So, he sold out. He at least had a reason, Trump's got no reason other than the fact that as a person, he's utterly broken inside. And Franklin's script was to be backed with money received from the locals, mostly Quakers, who refused to donate the money to pay the troops, leaving him with worthless script. Give the complete history, not a cherry picked Ruskie version of it. It's ugly enough without half-story telling, such as how long it took after Arnold's betrayal before wounded warriors received any compensation to keep them alive after being wounded while fighting to protect their nation. Or the fact that during the revolution and again in 1812, we invaded Canada, only to be politely escorted back to our border, had our weapons handed back and a pleasant goodby tendered...
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  4599.  @fifermcgee5971  save that he doesn't. Can't order a state court to do dogshit, before or after. He can still order, now with case law, a supercarrier to intercept missiles from Yemen. Still can't order military tribunals for well, anything non-military. And committing a crime outside of the scope of office, like hiring a woman to do the nasty, then paying her off for silence remains outside of the official duties, pending a junior court's decision otherwise. Per the text of the actual SCOTUS decision, not some press filtered BS session. Their version, POTUS would need to hand over all military response codes to Congress for debate. Maybe Pearl Harbor would get responded to today...
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  4600. I'm reminded of what Caesar did once he assumed power as emperor of Rome with the Senate, disbanded them and only reconvened them once their power was neutralized. I doubt this Congress will sit idly by and lose their authority and powers. Downside, we'll end up with Vance as POTUS.
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  4601. I do rotate my foods literally daily, as I honestly can't comprehend eating the same thing every day. I also hadn't salted my foods in decades, as there's plenty of salt in things like canned vegetables and that's worked well for me for decades. I did however, despite ample sources, chronically run low in magnesium. Mystifying, but a supplement helped when it dropped extremely low - once doctor actually followed his treatment plan. Then, four months of continuous or nearly continuous diarrhea arrived for an extended visit. Bristol 6 -7. Doctor was a bit distracted with some other issues that could do that killing me thing, so overlooked the overloo complaint for a couple of months until I reinforced the complaint a bit more strenuously and blood work came back with a severe sodium and chloride ion deficiency, as in I should've had severe cramping and possibly some entertaining cardiac conduction issues. GI consult it is! After a number of entertaining misadventures resulting in missed colonoscopy appointments, largely involving a rather comedic number of transportation issues of the most improbable, crap for luck sorts, this appointment stuck. Crohn's and of course, erosion right were salts are scavenged. On a biologic now, last induction dose is just shy of two weeks from now. We'll see if that's effective, as there was some annoyances with what the GI specialist wanted to utilize and what the insurance company has a warm and fuzzy with and for once, due to efficacy rates, I rather agreed with the insurance company. They did check for some micronutrients and folate and B-12, both star spangled happy mid scale. I've identified one flare trigger, <grumble> <grumble> <grumble> chili peppers. Love them, but the neighborhood around my ileocecal valve really wants to run that stuff out of town. And for entertainment's sake, my endocrinologist informed me (well, the blood tests did as well before my appointment) that my body got bored with Graves' disease and instead is visiting Dr Hashimoto. And if one couldn't take a guess from the maladies, yeah, I'm a desiccated smoker. OK, my hydration is fine. But, given those issues and their linkage and some lumbar issues that'll likely require surgery or my switching to permanently seated and needing a diaper, yeah, think it's time to toss one bad habituation. So, the sex swing goes! OK, the smokes gotta go. Never got that other thing, as neither my wife or I had a yen for being in traction. One needs to retain one's sense of humor and my ancient EMS humor remains alive, imbalanced and unwell. ;) And at least my herbal teas are well tolerated - drank not for some medicinal value, but because they just taste so damned good. Favorites being artichoke tea, ginger-tumeric and hibiscus. Might try some rose hips, if I can clip some when the Rabbi next door isn't looking... ;) And note to self, discuss with doctor some forearm novel behavior, sudden 5 - 6 cm inflammation and intense itching, with sub-centimeter hives that hemorrhage and resolve in about a week, a bit longer than my usual healing time and I clot quickly, as observed in bleeding time measurements and when using the glucometer due to the steroid I'm briefly saddled with. Was just finally clocking at pre-diabetic at age 63, in a family where diabetes is usually diagnosed in the age 30 - 40 range and dialysis is needed by age 50 - 55 ("It's in the genes, why fight it" being their mantra and mine being, over 28 years in the Army, fighting's what I'm best at and loathe). Shit. Forgot to pick up coffee when I was at the store, gotta dip into my pantry reserves, as a winter storm is coming. Probably revenge from Canada for those tariffs... ;) That's OK, I pre-pre-retaliated by buying 2.5 gallons of Canadian canola oil. But, the good news is, eggs in the US should be coming down in price, given one certain POTUS incessantly laying eggs... I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  4602. Massive mountain built out of an ant hill. Given the sheer volume of Apollo third stage boosters orbiting the sun on an earth crossing orbit (one of which was briefly a "mystery moon" captured by earth, then ejected back into a similar orbit again). Still haven't figured out the blather about satellites and the moon, as there are very few lunar satellites and well, any earth orbiting birds boosters would tend to reenter the atmosphere and could never, ever reach the moon.
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  4603.  @kellytourigny4228  not exceptionally uncommon in some parts of Europe at the time. Einstein divorced his first wife and married his first cousin, to give an example. I'll not even begin to go into royal families, which are quite closely, ahem, entangled.
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  4604. No, they couldn't. Their maximum range was in the hundreds of miles, so they'd only end up hitting something in the US and that'd have been counterproductive. These protected bomber bases and ICBM launch sites.
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  4605. In my experience, justice slumbers like the senile elder she is, injustice never sleeps. But, seeking redress of grievances is unlawful? OK, any court declaring that has zero authority, as it denies the Constitution and bereft that, has precisely zero authority. And we have anarchy. That means gunz. OK, I'll bring the DoD. What've they got? Thankfully, appeals courts don't enjoy considering extinction. Assuming punitive measure are actually punitive and not a slap on the wrist, coupled with a severe "naughty, naughty, no go and sin some more". Now, after replacing everything in my household three times, due to theft while deployed defending this faithless nation and abuse of office under color of law, I'm out of fucks to give, next attempt will bring my entire extended network in actual warfare. The worst thing possible to face is someone who has nothing left at all to lose. And perhaps, a major spill, in a significantly adverse scenario. Think supertanker full of Ft Knox. That last is incorporated offline, via a last testament. Aka, I'll take the lot with me in the end. I'll be shoveling coal on heads in hell.
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  4606. The KN-23 is supposed to have a 200 meter CEP, so this would qualify as a gross violation of the prohibition on attacking noncombatants, as there were no military assets anywhere near that home. That sacrifices the Geneva Convention rights of captured Russian forces, as Ukraine is now permitted to engage in reprisal summary executions under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, to which Russia is a signatory of. More telling is, Russia is using technologically inferior missiles from North Korea and Iran, proving even further how much of a paper tiger Russia actually now is. Meanwhile, we now have evidence that the PRC is violating sanctions against North Korea and smuggling US technology into North Korea, opening them up for sanctions. Boy, all of the bullies are screwing themselves this week, is this an early holiday gift to the West? "Russia retains surprises", yeah, it'd be like the US firing missiles supplied by Somalia. If Russia attacked a NATO nation, it triggers Article 5 and a full NATO strike with all options goes on the table. Russia nukes with tactical nukes, as they threatened in reprisal to conventional weapons, any fallout on a NATO member triggers Article 5 and NATO nukes back. Putana's painting himself into a corner, pants down and bent over. It'd be far more prudent to withdraw his forces. But, he won't and he'll escalate oddly, at least until the threat of a NATO reprisal grows sufficiently that he's forced to retire "for health reasons" to a dacha in the woods, to not be heard from again - assuming he doesn't fall out of a window in a windowless building.
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  4607. That's 9206250 pounds or 4603.125 tons. Better pack some really big pants and super big pockets.
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  4608. Maybe we need to rent the baby Trump balloon and fly it where he can see it every day, I'm sure he'll label that government oppression as well.
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  4609. Well, we've actually had cold fusion for ages. Not gainful, hell, it's a hell of an energy sink, but then neutron generators aren't energy sources, they're neutron sources. I remember one model at a national lab that is literally smaller than the end of one's thumb, generates quite a lot of neutrons for a bit, draws tons of power, produces really nasty electric bills. ;) Farnsworth fusors are excellent cool fusion devices, only raises one's electric bill moderately to massively. Hollywood, well, they've forgotten the first law of thermodynamics, TANSTAAFL. They're also clueless about neutron embrittlement, but then they also still rely upon high explosive automobiles (all cars explode in Hollywood, at the convenience of the script) and electricity is magic. Weird Google experiment though, if I'm checking for fusion reactions, I only really need to look for two outputs, thermal and neutrons. Want cheaper cold fusion? Go lithium. Won't generate gainful power, but lithium is weird, will fuse or fission fairly easily. Fission it, get tritium, fuse it, get a really big electric bill - oh wait, you'll get that either way. Don't get me started on their infinite supply of ammunition and most of that genre's infinite supply of smokeless powder (if it was actual gunpowder, well, it'd be patently obvious given gunpowder's notoriety for its complimentary smokescreen on firing even a single round)...
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  4610. There is another word for entitlements, one forgotten by most. An entitlement is another word for an enumerated right. They're rights by both Constitution and statute, so they simply want to wave away literal rights. And in the case of Social Security, they're wanting to literally do away with the actual right to life itself.
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  4611. Because we don't do coups by arresting incumbent at the time Presidents. Period. Now, Jan 21...
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  4612.  @M.J.212 well, that and the blatantly obvious to US citizens, but entirely missed by foreigners that state governors have no responsibility for crimes within counties and cities that are their own counties. The notion of a weak central government being entirely foreign to them.
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  4613.  @torndown9781  nah, I'm sure that no such agency wouldn't notice... ;)
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  4614.  @Savvy_boomer  do you? They thought as much as well. Their predecessors did as well, when conservatives were members of the Whig Party. Another party usurped by demagogues, religious fanatics, racists, white supremacists, religious extremists that wanted only Protestantism, nationalists, anti-immigrationists and caused the sane membership to abandon the party, which then imploded. The sane membership formed the Republican Party, their first presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln. Presuming immunity only means that you're driving at high speed with a blindfold on, for only by watchful wariness can one avoid such pitfalls.
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  4615. OK, got it. Engineers and physicians don't need to understand how to communicate effectively with diverse groups. Resulting in projects never being accepted by management and patients rejecting doctor's treatment. In engineering, I know that I have to make a good business case, proving profits or decreased losses by implementation of my project. In medicine, I have to prove to the patient that my treatment will give a greater benefit than the patient having nothing done. That said, in medicine, I was military EMS, so patients tended to prefer fractures being splinted, rather than dangling painfully about and holes being sealed off, leaking red stuff stopped from leaking before that dead thing occurs.
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  4616.  @vincentclemente8405  it's infectious, transmitted by Trump himself. I know, met him in 2000, was the boor of the party and literally the stupidest creature in the room, potted plants were smarter. He was such a boor that the Chamber experienced a 95% attrition of business owners signing up for the following year's function, citing his attendance as guest of honor as their reason. And most of them were highly conservative men and women, as well as quite well to do. Oh well, first Putin gets destroyed, then he'll get what he deserves, while I dine with a judge.
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  4617. So, they'd have incarcerated Mary and Joseph for fleeing to Egypt when warned by an angel about Herod's orders to kill every firstborn Jew. I imagine also, they'd order the SS St Louis sank in the ocean by our Navy, rather than allow those Jews to approach our shores seeking asylum as refugees from Hitler in 1939. Rather than oh, what we did, send them back to Europe to be sent to Auschwitz. Yep, totally a Godly people, if one's god is Satan himself. And worse, condemning someone for utilizing their very first amendment rights, because the Constitution is illegal to the god-king Trump and his Emperor, Musk. Embrace that and embrace your eternal condemnation to hell, you've richly earned it.
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  4618. Well, his grandfather's being allowed to immigrate to dodge the draft in Germany makes a case for decline and accepting garbage... Being a clown is an honorable and respected occupation. Trump's got neither honor, nor respect. Indeed, he's richly earned only one thing over the course of his lifetime, dishonor and disrespect.
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  4619. What was the hundred years war again? The religion of peace and love of Jesus or something?
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  4620. The story plainly mentions a court order, so this is about the stupidest question in the history of questions.
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  4621. Well, obviously, the state does not want doctors and nurses to come in during inclement weather. Now, it's time to scrap them by shredding on Memorial and Veteran's day, on live TV. Whoever the turds for brains individual was to make this odd finding likely would jump at also prohibiting the military from operating their vehicles on the interstate system - which is one of the primary reasons we spent so much money creating the interstate system for in the first place.
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  4622.  @tim1883  OK, we'll forbid all reenactments, veterans ceremonies may only be conducted with brand new commercial equipment or are cancelled and all museums for such equipment are to be closed forever to ensure "that crap" ain't on the road. The military must also only use commercial transportation, their equipment not allowed on public highways. And when you need rescue from three feet or higher of water, learn how to swim, the equipment that you'll need is illegal. Thank you for your service, veterans, now go fuck yourself is one hell of a message. Looks like we'll need the selective service system again, once the word gets around to those serving.
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  4623. While there are risks within even a high therapeutic dosage level with diphenhydramine, it remains my antihistamine of choice, due to its slightly higher efficacy level and being common in our military drug chests. When it's not quite effective, one can rapidly follow with dexamethasone or other steroid and of course, to close those leaky, dilated vessels, good old epi, followed with a rapid MEDEVAC. Once, I lost the advantage of rapid evacuation and got saddled with severe anaphylaxis, secondary to longstanding beesting allergy and several stings. Yeah, that man kept me busier than a one armed paper hanger! Used up a fair number of drugs in a kit designed to supply stabilizing care for 1200 men. Our surgeon was supervising and only offered a sparse few suggestions of odd one off uses of some drugs, after he noticed that I was calling out using Promethazine for its antihistaminic properties, synergising it with an analgesic to ensure that the patient not injure himself. It also meant that I was beginning to scrape bottom in the drug kit and my knowledge base and doctor suggested a few drugs, even adding atropine to counter the recalcitrant bradycardia. Learned a few things from that, mostly, on how to more politely indicate outrage over unnecessary delays in MEDEVAC requests, some of which made it up to division level as the most polite alternative usage of terms that otherwise would be translated far more profanely. Worst twelve hours of my life! But, he finally stabilized, was hospitalized anyway, as I wasn't having a warm and fuzzy over the encyclopedia of drugs utilized to stabilize him. Suffice it to say, the surgeon gave due credit, which I honestly didn't give a damn about and had some interesting words to say to command over unnecessary delay of evacuation of a critical patient during a training exercise. He also had a touch of ethanol, for medicinal purposes that he prescribed a strong dose of for both of us. Largely, as we both wanted to hit a specific individual over the head with a flung M1 Abrams tank.
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  4624. Any ETA on the promised video on opioids and opiates effects?
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  4625. The clearance is granted for a specific domain level, aka Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, PII, etc. Access to the information is on a need to know basis, the clearance is not. One can hold a clearance and have access to little more than one's own zipper, if that. But, anyone making any NCO rank is guaranteed to know to report unsecured or improperly stored (but, I repeat myself) classified information immediately after securing that location.
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  4626.  @bakerkawesa  so, Iran is socialist? Their Parliament will be shocked to learn that! Wouldn't work in the US though, the government isn't configured for such enterprises.
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  4627. Well, does it matter? Just saw two reports that claimed massive rioting at the White House and to hear what was being blathered, the building must've been leveled and everyone deceased and that there is no right to peaceably assemble or seek redress of grievances with one's government. And oddly, the building remains intact, nobody had as much as their feelings hurt, well save the god-king wannabe, must've been Harry Potter's wooden marital aid fixed everything as he rode around propelled by unicorn farts. And eggs remain $9.00 for a dozen jumbo, $8.00 for extra large, $7.00 for large, maybe they'll be selling human eggs next for cheap. Well, my $6.00 10 pound ham is in the oven, pretty insane when hams are cheaper than a dozen eggs, damned bird flu. And that flu, one that causes serious infections in humans and is highly infectious has been detected in herds of milk cows. But, raiding of the treasury, transmitting classified data unencrypted via unprotected channels is of greater importance to the god-king and Emperor Musk than the populace having anything to eat. Because a hungry, angry populace worked out so well in France in 1789. Although, I did have one tool tell me to "die with dignity", I strongly suggested that they lead by example and go first. I remain mystified as to why my applications for employment at the State Department go ignored... OK, not really, never applied, I'm decidedly not a diplomat.
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  4628. Perhaps a weekly impeachment should occur.
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  4629. You shouldn't have chewed those lead paint chips as a child. Since you can't tell FBI from Secret Service or local police. Do you also think that the mailman is from the Navy too?
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  4630. And thousands more infected.
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  4631.  @thatcrazywolf  and those will be from estate liquidation, so they'll be going for cheap. Alas for me, I need all of the steel that I can get around me to keep me safe and intact.
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  4632.  @peetsnort  the only problem is, even if we're lucky and only 10% contract COVID-19, that's 25000 newly sick, on top of the current average of 40 - 45k new cases per day and they're spreading that farther along, at a minimum of 1.7 infections, possibly more. The hospitals are already stressed in areas that are still rising, some area hospitals are full and have no more medical beds, let alone ICU beds, all while waiting for patients to heal enough to be sent home so that they can bill and get screwed by the insurance companies. That will result in hospitals going bankrupt and being forced to cease operations - while they're still full of patients, most COVID-19 cases! Once we're at capacity and bankrupting hospitals, the case fatality rate will increase dramatically and we'll quite literally have people dying in the middle of the streets, like had happened during the 1918 influenza pandemic. That's when you'll see at a minimum, ten times the current death rate, as we don't install ICU equipment and nurse monitoring inside of private homes, so no O2 for people who need it to survive a moderate case of COVID-19, let alone installing ventilators inside of private homes. Currently, conditions are basically turning this pandemic into an Acme dynamite kit and we're all sitting on the pile of explosives while Trump keeps whaling away with a seldgehammer.
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  4633.  @peetsnort  actually, there are several comparisons to be made. Both had circulatory damage, both have cytokine storms wreaking havoc. This bugger just happens to trigger a touch more widely distributed of a cytokine storm, complete with cardiac and kidney damage, making it a fair bit higher in the fatality department. Now that we've got a handle on some effective treatments, the CFR should drop down by a lot. A couple of months back, I was hospitalized with respiratory distress with SPO2 bouncing around 83 - 85. CXR revealed atelectasis with infiltrates. So, while working up the differential, TX was initiated for presumptive COVID-19 pending further testing and DX. First up, dexamethasone, followed with heparin. Sputum and nasal membrane swabs were taken. Speaking with doctor, I simply asked, "Presumptive pending differential and testing proving otherwise, huh". Doctor, shocked simply confirmed my suspicion. What had made me ill, thankfully was not infectious, but a full blown thyroid storm with hypertension and decompensation resulting in the pulmonary issues. Never before had I ever thought that the words, "Thank God it's only a type of heart failure!" would leave my lips. Oversimplified, that's what happened with me, loosely resembling part of the symptom set of COVID-19 and I entirely agreed. Were I still treating military patients, that'd have been my approach while ordering testing and getting doctor on the radio, as well as scheduling MEDEVAC in a New York minute, then decontaminating my treatment and waiting area of my BAS.
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  4634.  @peetsnort  one calculates not on total global population, but per capita so that apples to apples are compared. Currently, for hospitalized patients, the CFR for COVID-19 is higher than for 1918 influenza. That said, there are confounders present for both, as both have cases that never are hospitalized and that skews the numbers. One upside is, we've yet to have people expiring on city streets, whereas with the 1918 influenza pandemic, that was a regular occurrence. We also now have dexamethasone to tamp down cytokine storms and heparin to prevent clotting issues, where in 1918, we only had hopes and prayers. Downside, thus far, per capita, Coronavirus has a higher per capita CFR than the 1918 influenza pandemic. Upside, as I said, we now have treatments, although I really would have a much warmer and fuzzier feeling in regards to one antiviral with additional studies on the efficacy, as the studies I've reviewed are rather weak tea. That all said, at the beginning of any pandemic, all studies are weak tea or non-existent, we learn as we go along, as life isn't a Doctor Who episode where one has a time machine to violate physics with. ;) A couple of months ago, we were embracing dexamethasone and heparin for preventing cytokine storm and clotting cascade failure, resulting in DIC, which has proved quite effective in preventing worse sequelae advancing and some studies suggest cardiac, CNS, peripheral circulatory and nephritic damage is far more limited when such treatments and possibly one antiviral treatment is initiated. At the time, I was hospitalized with dyspnea, SPO2 on room air 83 - 85, swiftly improving to 95 - 99 SPO2 on 5 LPM nasal cannula. Admitted for that and a hypertensive crisis, atelectasis with infiltrates. Immediate TX, dexamethasone and heparin, doctor was surprised that I asked if that was presumptive to possible COVID-19, pending labs and differential and shocked, he concurred. That's been the gold standard initial treatment. I was dubious that it was COVID-19, due to any possible exposure was over 30 days previous, due to one burst of intracranial flatulence on my part and since, I've been my usual cautious self in regards to contamination. Additionally, I have a HX of Grave's disease and hypertensive crisis and had fallen complacent on monitoring my BP and pulse, as well as remaining afebrile, retrograde or common fever at all and no precursor symptoms of a respiratory infection. A few allergy attacks, but those aren't unusual with me upon return to the US after five years. Well, the usual battery of tests, including nasal membrane swab drilling for oil in my sinus, a sputum test and my FT3 and FT4 being ridiculously high, it was confirmed to be a decompensation after initiation of a thyroid storm. Honestly, I never before thought I'd ever utter, "Oh, than God it's only a form of CHF!". But, the protocol matched and the dexamethasone also would be effective for limiting damage from the circulatory inefficiencies present due to the hypertensive crisis that turned things into an acute decompensated state. It's also right at the edges of my understanding and capabilities from when I was treating military patients in the field and I'd be getting doctor on the radio, after scheduling a New York minute MEDEVAC (basically, I'd brook no delay, urgent means what I *@&!%!!! said), TX to stabilize and advance doctor's efforts before arrival. And I've actually performed cut downs to gain circulatory access in some cases. So, I'm rather adept at knowing my limits, I'm also quite adept at anticipating what doctor will call for at a SF military level. I've also responded to more than a few outbreaks of infectious diseases and raced to get in front of them. Where I excel is, I know when to call in an SME and that's always before I'm well and truly in trouble - it's far less damned work! Even today, now that I'm retired from the military, I have my network of SME's available by telephone, personal visit or e-mail, counting PhD epidemiologists, some personal friends who my wife and I have enjoyed many fine meals with. Still, there are comparisons. Cytokine storms, DIC seems to have been present with both due to probable peripheral circulatory system damage, high unmitigated R0 and the only real difference is COVID-19's unmitigated hospitalized CFR being twice the CFR for hospitalized 1918 influenza pandemic patient rates, adjusted for per capita, rather than total number of ill. For, comparing outside of a per capita rate adjustment isn't even an apple to apple comparison, it's apple to bowling ball.
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  4635.  @peetsnort  there was no concern at that time about overdose, the patent was confiscated from a German company, something about enemies and a World War, you might've heard a little something about that. Aspirin does not cause a cytokine storm, try looking up the germ cytokine storm, then look up what cytokines are. That's medical knowledge, not hypochondria, which is a psychiatric condition involving a pathological fear of being ill. We don't hospitalize people for hypochondria, we do hospitalize them for major illnesses. Nobody had antibodies for smallpox until they contract the disease, the same for influenza, which is most commonly carried by birds, which the Native Americans were most certainly familiar with. Measles, mumps, varicella and smallpox were unknown to them. Peanut butter allergy has already been figured out, underexposure when young resulted in allergy when exposed when older, it was repeatedly written up in every pediatrics journal in the world. Not microdosing, but microexposures to promote tolerance to the allergen, which is a standard desensitization method that's been in use for decades. No, COVID-19 isn't some emotional overreaction, we don't put people on ECMO or ventilators for emotional illnesses, we put them on such invasive technologies when their respiratory system is so badly damaged that they'd die otherwise. Even then, a fair number still die, which most assuredly is not an emotional overreaction! It's been globally, even within Sweden, to be acknowledged that the Swedish approach was a dismal, abject failure that resulted in excessive deaths. Only one political leader in Sweden supports that failed view, well, that leader and Russia, who's always contrary to those not their friends. Again, we don't hospitalize people for a mental condition as minor as hypochondria, we do hospitalize people for life threatening illnesses. So, why do you go on at such length about things that you repeatedly prove with your own words, of which you know nothing whatsoever about? Are you proud of such alarming and excessive ignorance?
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  4636.  @ivanborsuk1110  everything's fine, farted it right out.
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  4637. And concepts of apples in supermarkets being sold in the refrigerated section...
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  4638. That's OK, I remember hearing one ordained minister go on at great length about the decline of law and morality in our nation due to removal of religion from public schools, going so far as to pin JFK's assassination on that removal. Given Oswald's age, that'd require a time machine. He also had fascinating stories about US history, I ended up nicknaming him "Minister Fractured Fairy Tales".
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  4639. I've had my, ahem, interactions with TSA screeners. "You do realize that I can _____". "You apparently failed to properly screen my pocket contents, otherwise you'd see my federal identification card showing I have more than enough decades of federal service to this nation to be trivially able to make one telephone call and effectively end your career - in anything and everything. Now, move along, these are not the droids that you are looking for". Trust me, every time they glance over and see the now offending ID and they do what should've been done to begin with, leave me the hell alone. Well, all save for one, whose career as a security guard in a boarded up mall appears to be proceeding as can be expected. You serve long enough, your network eventually has people pretty much everywhere. Everyone who has served in government service knows that and knows that if you're going to piss off the right person, you'd better be damned right or that mountain you constructed from a molehill will bury your future.
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  4640. One cannot hold a god-king-emperor forever with contempt. :/
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  4641.  @OnTheRiver66  dunno, gonna not be low amounts though. I think the unit of measure is the WTF... :/ Of course, the Russian soldiers had a choice. Go play in the radioactively laced dirt or experience high velocity lead poisoning. In their shoes, I suspect there'd have been a sudden officer shortage...
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  4642. Honestly, I do believe that a civil war may be looming. :( Things would get mighty interesting though if it did and who is control of our nukes comes into question. :/ And alas, I'm for once being serious. Had to take a break, due to a Crohn's flare and got irony nibbling at my heels. Was preparing to hone my ulu, as it's in need of a touch-up and realized my honing oil was empty. While examining the bottle from an Arkansas company, I noticed that the label was tri-lingual, English, Spanish and French. And billed as non-petroleum, while its MSDS says 98% mineral oil, which is decidedly petroleum. Mostly from Canadian crude. Fortunately, I've a larger bottle of plain food grade mineral oil on hand that I use to make wood butter for my cutting boards and wooden spoons. Gotta still get the board/bowl for it, neighbor set out the blade and I rehoned the much abused treasure. I'd make my own board, but I'm feeling a bit lazy. Got many a fine kitchen knife that way and the losing neighbor never realized, I'd happily hone them for free for them. Oh well, waste not, want not. And a fine kitchen work cart that has an excellent cutting board top that a neighbor never installed all of the hardware for and worse, covered the butcher block with contact paper. Stripped the crap off, installed the missing hardware for a few bucks investment, refinished the cutting board top and coated it with that abovementioned wood butter. Bleach it clean, re-butter it. Circling back to the subject at hand, I suspect you folks might want to spool up JTF 2. Served in an overlap region with them, did some mutual assistance jobs in both directions when a bite was a bit more to chew than was called for due to some faulty intelligence, they can set quite the party table! And that's meant in a most unpleasant for the other folks way. Canadians are polite as the day is long, right until they're riled up, then they're as nasty as the rest of us until the unpleasant business is concluded. And just as happy when the other guys just go home. I'm a pacifist by nature, but was a warrior by trade. Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent, it's a final recourse when one didn't do one's job properly. Because, nobody in their right mind wants a war. Now, to important stuff. Wood butter is easy, about 1/3 beeswax to the rest mineral oil, more or less oil to desired consistency. Melt over low heat in a pot that's expendable (I keep one small pot just for that purpose), jar it up and it'll keep indefinitely. Just as a good steel blade will, keep them sharp or get injured, they should last multiple lifetimes if properly cared for. Guide for a quality blade, if it's shiny as a mirror, you're looking at the wrong thing, if it's the hue of a US nickle, you're on the right path - it's high carbon and will take an edge, the other crap needs a whole intensive care unit to hone. Ceramic blades are good, but really a bastard to re-hone. Note a preference for the useful over the worthless?
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  4643. Thermonuclear bombardment. Good luck getting one. Hey, work with me, it's just that damned hot outside right now... OK, close. Not quite as hot as Djibouti got, there, walking on the flightline for five minutes or longer literally melted combat boots.
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  4644.  noosphericaltarzan  definitely a tootsie toaster! Got similar in Qatar, not that they usually admitted to the temperature due to their labor laws. Still, had me wonder how the boot soles melted, yet the aircraft tires didn't... Gotta be a really tough formulation of rubber! We're only at 92 degrees here, with high humidity due to the river being a literal stone's throw away. Damned near passed out yesterday, think it was a combination of new BP meds and the sudden heat from walking a few blocks to the store. Correction, temp jumped up 2 degrees. Maybe it'll cool with a hot wave of profanity... ;)
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  4645.  noosphericaltarzan  I remember the boots. The earliest models wore out in no time at all, so they "improved them" invisibly, then actually started to turn out some halfway decent boots. Got to keep my heavy assed Danners that I had had for years, those held up a bit better. Odd, given they were heavy cold weather Vibram soles. So, ended up with a choice, my lead boots or molten boots. Eventually, I retired and went with sandals.
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  4646. Don't worry, their plans include eventually doing away with VA benefits. The direct quote is, "They already get too much as it is", because we're just suckers and saps. Elon spends $20 million a year on personal security, that really ain't very much against a small alpha team.
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  4647. Without that shoe repair battalion, our soldiers would've been trying ineffectively to march across obstructions, minefields and through machine gun fire. Without the supply battalions, our troops would've been yelling bang at the enemy, rather than projecting rounds. As Patton learned the hard way, without fuelers, the tanks remain parked and immobile on the road. Without medical, our forces fear engaging out of concern if they're injured and no treatment is available. Without the whole, one doesn't have a military force, one has a rabble. Rabbles don't win wars, they simply get mowed down by the professional forces.
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  4648. Nope, it's literally their only means of feeling superior, so complete and comprehensive have been his innumerable failures. DonOLD Trump, a man destined for supreme obscurity. Forgotten before his body grows cold.
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  4649. Well, they're emulating Tasmanian Devils, who greet one another by biting each other's faces. Which is killing them off, due to a communicable cancer that's being transmitted via those bites.
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  4650. We never really discussed who we voted for. We already knew our opinions on the candidates and each voted their conscience.
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  4651. I wonder, if President Musk has his way and we conquer Greenland for strategic access, do we then invade the UK and call England Airstrip One?
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  4652. Another question, in 2017 China opened a military base close to the US base in Djibouti, promptly attempting the laser blinding several aircraft attempting to land on the base/Djibouti airport. So, given the strategic location guarding shipping lanes into the Red Sea and hence, the Suez Canal, are we going to invade Djibouti and conquer it? Maybe it'd become Airstrip Two?
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  4653.  @SummerOf1987  I've buried a few friends from COVID and personally have a fucked up mitral valve from the virus. So, I'll happily give you a reason to cough.
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  4654.  @mickdonedee1  OK, you'll never borrow anything from me. Period. You've got an odd daffynition of what the word loan means. Just in case you've not turned the page on your calendar recently, it's been 4 years since the pandemic, a loan of 4 years of a technological device isn't a loan, it'd be a gift. And the "advanced drones" simply used FLIR cameras, not exactly bleeding edge technology, given you can get a FLIR camera for your phone for $400 or so.
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  4655.  @ReasonableNews  more like 11 out of how many hundred antifa counterprotestors there were. Peaceful protest should always be protected, violence, never protected, save if it's in defense of self or others.
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  4656.  @alphagt62  if only there was some kind of legal defense for that purpose. They could call it something creative and new, like self defense. Alas, the Constitution requires one suicide when attacked, right? Do you have anything else stupid and entirely opposite reality to say? Given no less than the SCOTUS acknowledges the right to self defense and always has?
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  4657.  @epicelements5528  my youngest daughter has finally recovered from long COVID, contracted while she was working the COVID floor during the pandemic's first wave. I contracted COVID, thankfully a mild case, as I was fully immunized against the virus. So, I ended up with some mitral valve damage only. Our eldest is an RN and worked the COVID floor, she had to take a year off to recover emotionally, as she literally had patients cursing our out and denying the existence of COVID with their literal dying breath. I also remember Trump blathering that that very physician that was a guest in this interview, had he been in power, would've been denied entry back into the US. He'd have literally exiled a US citizen because he became ill treating Ebola patients. And Ebola isn't exactly easily transmitted, basic PPE is more than sufficient to prevent it from infecting someone. It spread to healthcare workers in the endemic regions because of a lack of PPE availability, once PPE was made available, worker infection rates plummeted. And now, notifiable diseases will go unrecorded, because DOGEshit firings by someone who legally isn't permitted to hire or fire anyone, as he's a pseudo-cabinet level, unauthorized agency that Congress never voted to create or fund. And OPM isn't authorized to hire or fire anyone save with OPM, so their mass firings were also illegal, as a court has already decided. And now, he's setting his sights on the VA and Social Security.
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  4658. There's a video on youtube of a bunch of Trumpites that formed a caravan to the border to see the alleged migrant invasion. Self-reported by them, disappointment in seeing nothing but one or two people trying to cross. Pretty much left, after kicking a rock about.
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  4659. It's pretty bad when automobile manufacturers end up making Earl Scheib look like top quality. And when those companies go on, "Oh, it's out of warranty", it so imbues customers with such trust, be ready to see one's company name on display in the Museum of Lousy Business Decisions, sandwiched between the names Edsel and Enron. But, feel free to have a LLM AI help you decide, I'm in the market for budget state of the art office equipment.
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  4660. Now, let's have a stroll down history lane. In the years 1937 - 1939, the first Social Security pension payments were sent out - a one time payment to those of pension age or older. That was it for them, but according to god-king, they're still getting paid, probably by Harry Potter's magical wooden dildo. And all contracts you can underpay, because contracts mean paying whatever you want to pay if you're a god-king. Your electric bill and rent, both contracted, try to pay half or whatever you want to, let us all know how well that works out for you. Mortgages are also contracted, pay half and keep paying half, keep on saying you'll only pay half and never, ever the contracted amount and hell, do it in writing. Let us all know how nice it is to live under that bridge. Breach of contract is a really big deal, save for god-king, who has his lawyers keep continuances abusing the system until anyone suing either dies of old age or goes bankrupt and can no longer afford to collect. That's why the roofer at the Taj Mahal started to remove those onion domes when Trump attempted to refuse to pay by "Oh, we can't pay the agreed amount today, it has to come from the corporate office only and they didn't cut the check that's due today" card was flipped. Cranes and workers came up, workers scaled the roofs and began to dismantle the roofer's roofs and wonder of wonders, suddenly that location acquired the ability to print and possession of company checks and one was immediately cut. The roofers stopped, reattached what was disconnected and left to a happy payday. And DOGEshitters have yet to provide any evidence of fraud, waste or abuse, only waved around some pages that finally were admitted to have DEI baked into the contract BY THE GOVERNMENT. If we can find 1.5 trillion, yeah, he said the same thing about votes, but one AG couldn't be assed enough to push the case forward, so we're living the life of Wile E. Coyote at the Acme plant. Want to have fun interviewing him, have him provide some numbers, wait five minutes, have him repeat those numbers, they'll be different and his dementia won't allow him to remember what he invented. Then, "Oh, Hamas, Gaza, Mozambique, Israel, nice town"... Yeah, BRICS wall to the face. He was truthful about his approval rating, he's not heard those numbers before he pulled them out of his ass, won't hear those numbers again if nobody plays the video for him either. I did notice one odd trend in retail. NICS background checks for firearms sales is a fair bit higher this month than last and this month isn't over, despite it being a short month. Ammunition sales are also up. No idea what that means though. Maybe that's connected with the approval rating or something. Feel free to Google it, the FBI reports on how many NICS checks are done and the firearms industry does track ammunition sales and report on that more often than on firearms sales, as ammunition is consumable and companies like to know if they need to make more to stay in front of demand. BTW, the Hanford nuclear site is now short staffed, the workers fired by DOGEfuck, those maintaining the NW power grid, especially the hydroelectric power stations at the dams, also shitcanned, so it's a matter of time before the west coast goes dark. I'm sure that Silicon Valley and Vegas won't mind being in the dark for a month or two until they can reassemble the power grid. And has anyone confirmed if he got back the bird flu tracking team that they'd just fired? How about the NNSA security teams for our nuclear warhead security? Just saying they're unfired does not mean that they've even actually gotten contact with those fired workers, they could've as easily and quickly reactivated their e-mail and cell phone accounts and a box of cell phones in the abandoned IT office at their site now have full inboxes and nobody guarding our nuclear weapons stockpile. Don't take his word if he waves a receipt, that receipt for recalled workers is more likely a McDonald's receipt. Or the tape from a young lady's maxipad... Yes, having met him in person, I trust him that little.
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  4661.  @absalomdraconis  wouldn't help. This is due to hyperthyroid going out of balance. All of the fiber (of which I get plenty, as I love my greens) in the universe won't combat that. If my immune system got a clue, that'd end the problem for good. Alas, it mistakes my thyroid stimulating hormone receptor for an enemy, activating my thyroid.
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  4662.  @absalomdraconis  the additive in question was called Olestra. Not especially relevant, given it was dairy products, specifically milk, butter, cream and many cheeses that all contained lactose. Additionally, lousy example, as the only people who did suffer that seepage were those who consumed ridiculous amounts of potato chips with Olestra as their fat. Every investigatory study found that one, not a one had such problems with average consumption, only with those who ate absurd amounts. I actually tried the products, including Pringles potato chips with Olestra, didn't have a problem with them. Still, a moot point, as Olestra was never a milk or other dairy product adulterant. But, there was one further thing against Olestra, it suspended fat soluble nutrients, such as vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, and vitamin A, along with carotenoids. Those then had to be added to the product as supplements to offset what otherwise was excreted. Olestra remains in use today - as an industrial lubricant and paint base, as well as a deck stain base, as it is environmentally friendly. Laughably, lobbyists against Olestra used chemophobia to fight the product, long before excessive consumers complained. One attack, calling it what it is, a polyester. So is cooking oil, of course, but one does have to shake one's head over proclaiming general health and championing knowledge by capitalizing upon ignorance and the promotion of said ignorance. And a tidbit of later follow-up studies, those excessive consumers had the same seepage with regular fat chips, as there are limits to how much fat the body can digest, process or absorb. Rather like those who consumed low calorie sodas to lose weight, but turned around and drank hundreds of gallons of the swill, then complained that their weight remained the same or higher. They offset the caloric loss by overconsuming and obliterating that otherwise health gain.
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  4663. @nothanks9503 have yet to see a palatable algae product, counting gelatin products containing agar. I do enjoy edible seaweeds though! Lacking access to affordable edible seaweed, I'd happily fight seven strong men for a basket of broccoli rabe or curly escarole for soup. Alas, can't find even a leaf fragment in my neighborhood, our stores largely are geared toward Caribbean cuisine. Which has its own delights. Oh well, guess I'm stuck with collard greens and a few other greens (big grin).* With either, I'd be unlikely to ever be zinc deficient or magnesium deficient though. I tend to run deficient on magnesium, occasionally on zinc as well, but a dish of mussels fixes the latter. Haven't figured out why I run deficient on magnesium (yes, proton pump inhibitors and all, but even months after being off of them, I was still deficient), so I boost foods with both in them. *Lost my wife of 42 years a couple of years back this March. Still, for Thanksgiving, I cooked a full thanksgiving dinner (albeit with a smaller turkey), complete with collard greens. One of my neighbors, while discussing our dinner preparations scoffed at this white boy making collards and asked, "What do you know about making collards?!". Gave her my recipe, ended up having to share some of the greens with her, much to her delight. Learned how from my mother-in-law, who came from rural Kentucky. :D And this Philly boy loves his greens! Meats get a small serving for me, around the size of the palm of my hand or so.
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  4664. Uglier, deployed military would get suspended for not taking the test that they can't exactly commute to. That automagically suspends their military license. That could, in some units, result in the loss of a mission essential vehicle. Guess we need to send in the surrender brigade in their place. Mr President, we can't deploy the Super Trooper the Pooper Scooper Missile System, as the only person licensed to move it lost their license due to not taking a driver's test. Ah well, it was a good try, tell the the Dutchy of Grand Fenwick that the United States of America surrenders.* *Not to be confused with the Souper Dooper missile.
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  4665. True, but during WWII, we still allied with the Soviets against the Nazis.
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  4666.  @frontgateloadingdock8871 now, they used to be independent. I was a happy user of their rectal thermometer, aka high voltage probe. Back then, we usually called it the RETS rectal thermometer. But then, I am a RETS graduate, before they sold out, whored out and generally destroyed their own reputation. The school started turning into shit after the old president died, literally in his office and the VP slowly began running the business into the ground.
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  4667.  @toobigtofit3584 the good clips, formerly known of as Kleps clips, are beryllium-copper bronze. They hold up well, as you said, but do eventually suffer from brittle failure.
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  4668. Is that Moscow's review? Here is another thing for Moscow to consider, a nuclear armed nation in civil war, what does one wonder would happen to Russia eventually? Frankly, I'm thinking cobalt-60 salted devices. 1550 warheads, all cobalt-60 salted would do quite nicely.
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  4669.  @UnderTheFloor79  uh huh, propaganda that came with prison sentences for all involved, save Nixon, who cut a deal to resign or also get prosecuted and convicted.
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  4670.  @JFS-v1r  there is no deal whatsoever possible with the classified documents case. Otherwise, we ignore rule of law entirely and not a single solitary secret would be safe - per the debates on the laws that prohibit such double dealing.
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  4671.  @JustNarge  seriously, don't you want to insult Russia one more time? You, of all people would know the insult Nazi is to a Russian. And besides, they're their own fathers anyway, so what does it really matter? Wow, those artillery rounds still sting a bit!
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  4672. @2brntb your father is not your mother, nor should have he been breastfeeding you as an infant. It's obviously caused you significant brain damage.
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  4673. So, we form grand formations and march into battle in precise ranks? Must've been a different US armed forces than the one I served in. The only ones to move in specific formations in combat is armor, essentially for the same reasons that legion ranks moved in formation - capitalize on armor and shielding. But, don't forget, M-16 firers are trained and qualified out to 600 meters.
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  4674. Ironically, Alabama looks to be a safe bet.
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  4675.  @Stirrl  it's also interesting that the press needed to use extremely long lenses to video him. Guess his ear is still ringing.
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  4676. ...before he was tortured to death by radiation. One can't be more spot on, every fatal case of radiation exposure was a fugly death, redefining agony in many cases. Bad enough that the DNA was badly damaged in the exposed cells, even the cellular machinery was badly damaged or destroyed. Sounds like major depressive disorder or severe bipolar, coupled with easy access to a cat 1 source. That's already a potential disaster, add in ethanol, it's fortunate that he at least had a conscience. Ir-192 is plain out evil, due to its short 78 day half-life. Just maintaining the things had to be challenging, due to the brevity of the source's utility! But, why those sources went home on company vehicles is beyond me and now, the fodder of my nightmares. Way too easily stolen that way! "So, what do you have for show-and-tell, Johnny?"
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  4677. Yeah, tens of thousands of reporters from competing organizations all work together, in conjunction with Harry Potter's magical wooden fuck stick and get all the same stories 100% the same in content, from 200 different countries and all under the same magical dildo's mystical leadership, while wielded by unicorns. Totally a fact, or maybe it's the space aliens, right? Who are so competent they don't get caught magic influencing, but keep incompetently crashing into a great honking planet. Go get help, child, you've lost what passes for a mind.
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  4678. I dunno, distilled idiocy?
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  4679. Sociopaths by nature consider *none* members of their herd. They are the types that do whatever they want to and screw any natural or legislated law.
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  4680. Game wardens have effected warantless entry on private property for longer than the six decades that I've been alive. The only novel thing is the game cameras. Hunting in Pennsylvania is by license for the game in season, with the only exception being public safety for designated agents and for farmers. Again, code older than I am. Now, untested at a federal Constitutional level, suspicionless searches and installation of cameras, taking soil samples without suspicion or warrant. Now, as a Pennsylvanian, if I have a substantial property and see an armed warden, he'd still be met by an armed me and challenged. I can get uniforms easily, so present credentials and state one's purpose for entry. So, a challenge and demand for credentials is both lawful and reasonable. Obstruction then is not lawful. Refusal to credential can then lawfully result in detention and the summoning of law enforcement and becomes a game commission disciplinary matter. Then, most typically, there will be a requirement. Stop by for a cup of coffee. We'll discuss cameras and acceptable placement and my request for good wildlife shots from those cameras. Got some really good shots of a fox from one of my cameras, as well as some shots of a neighbor's kid trespassing that we ignored and simply pinned up next to the fox. The shot's value, well, the fox looked smarter in the pictures. Lousy shots of deer, typically the south end of a northbound deer...
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  4681. And most of them, due to puritanical bullshit. Many to most turn into "her cunt belongs to me". And followed with, "If I can't have it, no one can". Not her, a body part. Another part of puritanical thought, women are allowed no agency. Which makes one wonder, abortifacients were well known in Jesus' time, to the point that an angel was sent to comfort her, which means they'd want to kill the angel and God or something? I dunno, was never good at doublethink.
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  4682. Oh, I could stage it quite precisely. Of course, everyone would see the rails that the round would be sliding along. The rifle he used is a 4 - 6 MOA rifle and round combination, the best that model can typically achieve is around 4 MOA. At 150 meters, that's around 5 - 7.5 inches circular error for the round with perfect marksmanship. To hit a quarter inch ear lobe to give a boo-boo. With perfect marksmanship, the head would've been struck with likely lethal effects and well, suffice it to say that perfect marksmanship was conspicuous in its absence and further removed after a few deliberate rounds by a high volume of fire one typically sees from those who just can't shoot worth a damn. The problem with most who claim it was staged is, they've absolutely no damned clue in the world what they're talking about in terms of ballistics, many also getting lost in weird weeds on terminal ballistics that are fanciful at best. They're bullets, not some science fiction guided munition that still don't exist, this ain't Star Trek. They're also bullets, not ICBM's. But, there are those who know far more than those of us who have used these very weapons and ammunition for years, multiple decades in many places, for they've acquired far more experience and knowledge from their vast experience acquired on their Twinkie encrusted sofa. And most of those "experts", incapable of hitting the broad side of a barn with the entire weapon at point blank range.
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  4683. So, one doesn't schedule a revolution, the Colonial Armies were wrong, they just needed to randomly pop up here and there, ignore that big assed organized army. After all, they had air superiority, having good airport security and thousands of wings of Colonial Vipers. Or something. Yeah, I don't think I need say more about that idiotic notion. It is as bad as Trump claiming we had excellent airport security during the Revolution. Of course, he's also the stable genius that knows all, who had no clue what happened at Pearl Harbor. Annoyingly, his MAGA devout then proclaiming that Pearl Harbor was actually invaded... Dumbasses aren't notable for their brilliance, hence why they're called dumbasses.
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  4684. Obama had the right of it when he stated that he considered cyber operations against the US as a weapon of mass destruction attack against the US and we should reply with the only weapon of mass destruction that we field. If their arsenal works as well as the rest of their weapons have in Ukraine, they'd be defenseless.
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  4685.  @johnduffy8532  well, one takes courses in school and in general, I've never declined free training opportunities in multiple fields. So, I'm a certified electronics technician, IT systems administrator, EMT-P, explosive ordinance reconnaissance agent and NBC reconnaissance, not to mention an information security security officer over the course of over six decades of life. I've also been known to part the seas with a toothpick and loads of profanity and walk on water when it's been really, really cold outside for a while.
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  4686. Well, I do have to agree, Critical Race Theory does not belong in primary or secondary schools, any more than advanced brain surgery techniques does. Since both curriculum subjects are at equally advanced levels of postgraduate degree courses. Just as PHYS 531: Galactic Astrophysics from Drexel University shouldn't be part of primary or secondary school courses, as it too is part of a PhD program. Pity, it'd be pretty cool if we could get kids graduating with a PhD... ;) When Trump says "I hear people saying" or "people tell me", he's literally talking about what the voices inside his head are saying to achieve a gain for him, regardless of the cost to others or an entire nation. I learned that quickly enough when I met him around 2000 at a Chamber of Commerce function where he was a speaker. The following year experienced a 90+% attrition, as no business owner forgave the Chamber for that debacle. But, if he wins or loses the election, he'll still do the same thing. Play golf - poorly. To the point of not only incessantly cheating, but even cheating a child when playing against the small child and his father. https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/ Frankly, he's as welcome in my home as an elephant fart in a church during the sermon. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about him entering my home - I live in a castle doctrine state.
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  4687. What a fascinating unconstitutional EO! So, what's next? He'll EO declare that the legislative branch and judicial branch are part of the executive branch and hence, subject entirely to his Imperial Orders?
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  4688.  @valkimura1053  or one's reflecting the other side's projection, given their habituation for projection...
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  4689.  @robertthomas5906  I dunno, a foil guy vs someone with an actual sharpened saber, things could get annoying. Especially as lawyers tend to be epee guys... I've done all three, so just some adjustment to remember what is and isn't a target and how, which isn't much as most touches ended up being a thrust anyway. Some years back, the eldest came back from college bragging that she was captain of her school's fencing team. Those lessons paid off, I guess. Took her outside with our foils and equipment, still took her on points. Knee was twice normal size, but not too shabby for a guy in his 50's.
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  4690.  @thecastle09  you've obviously never worked in EMS. One develops a unique, if rather warped sense of humor or one decorates the kitchen ceiling with one's brain. I suggest that warped humor is a superior approach. And to be blunt, I'm not the designated approving authority on the behavior and activities for anyone other than myself and after having to do so at some levels in the military for decades, I'm quite satisfied in remaining away from such authority in the future as well. If that's what you yearn for, I can provide you a fine list of totalitarian governments that you can relocate to live under.
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  4691.  @gordongekko2781  nope, that title was trademarked and copywritten years ago by my wife and myself in describing our love life. Now, it only describes my medical condition. Still, at least I'm now on the sanctioned parts list...
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  4692. At least Benedict Arnold had a reason to commit treason. He was disabled from wounds suffered during our invasion of Canada and incapable of operating his farm and we had no wounded veteran pensions in place. So, to avoid becoming homeless and penniless, he sold out to the British. Dumb Donald has no such excuse, he just does such things to acquire power and hopes he can steal money any way in which he can steal it, given how much of his inherited wealth he has squandered. Hell, he couldn't even throw his own bond to appeal his fraud conviction and had to go to a friend to gin up his reduced bond.
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  4693. There's been worse, look up Jackson and his cane. Or the caning of Sumner... For one, POTUS nearly beat a would-be assassin to death, the other being a sitting member of Congress was nearly beaten to death by a peer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
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  4694. The question is, for that last positron and electron, is the attractive force a real force or a convenient analogy for the increase in probability of interaction once one's proximity to the other is within twice the Bohr radius? At a certain range, the probability of interaction is essentially 1, but never quite 1, as otherwise we'd be discussing infinity again and one really is only stuck with that when working with Planck units, where our math remains a bit fuzzy. So, is it a real force that measurably increases or an artifact of extremely high probabilities reaching the top of the curve? So, we inject more energy to narrow it down and measure the two photons... In this instance, it's essentially the inverse of the problem and it's easy to make the defective analogy that with increasing distance, the force increases, but that would lead to one quark being here on Earth, the partner being orbiting Sag A* and infinite force now is accelerating the partners together, which of course falls apart due to scale and the path, it's at close ranges such things seem correct and distance confounds things as it gets macroscopic. Which is precisely what was observed with that plateau. The only reason it doesn't yet be observed to fall off as distance increases isn't that it won't, it's that we've only hit the limits of what we currently can observe. The math never needs to meet some intuitive expectation, it just has to match up with observations, if it doesn't, we have to change the math to match the observations, for if we change the observations to meet the expected math, it's no longer science, but fiction. So, if one gets results that don't meet one's expectations, replicate it, have others replicate it, that is a good thing, as we're closing in on a superior answer. ~There is no such thing as a force of gravity. Gravity is merely mass-energy's way of telling space-time to go get bent. Me
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  4695.  @thomasmaughan4798  and fun for a joke. First FAT Table Corrupted. Wanna Try The Skinny One?
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  4696. Well, it's a driveway, not a parkway. Obviously, they need to park in the parkway. As they showed a nearly four decade old photo of parking there, but it wasn't old enough, they obviously have no specific code as to what historic means and frankly, sounds like the court needs to examine their vague code... And meanwhile, consider their age and any infirmities, for potential ADA leverage. The per day violation penalties for ADA violations are budget killing quite swiftly. Then, I'd consider fighting dirty. The pad being graced with anything aesthetically displeasing that I can find that still falls within the city's arbitrary guidelines and I can be damnably creative, as most former military types can, when confronted with such idiocy.
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  4697. The EMP wasn't the problem, the test injected high energy particles into the magnetic field lines of the Van Allen belts, which killed the very first commercial communications satellite. Honolulu also lost lightbulbs, burned out by the EMP, as well as a microwave relay station.
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  4698. Nah, I'm thinking he's going to go for a dementia defense. We'll see, if he first tries to employ the Chewbacca defense, it's a definite.
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  4699. Because it is not treason. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Founders very narrowly defined treason, as such charges were so heavily abused throughout Europe within their living memory. Hence, even Jan 6 wasn't treason, it was insurrection and in a few cases, possibly sedition.
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  4700. Another difference is Japan supplies 100 volts three-wire single-phase, the US 120 volts three-wire single-phase. One potential issue with the Japanese system is a neutral fault, as both require the neutral center tap be grounded at the transformer, the US also at the home and neutral and ground bonded. That lessens issues, but fails to completely eliminate them in the US system if a neutral fault occurs, from your description, the Japanese system would exasperate the problem by a fair amount due to load imbalances in that same scenario. Given the technical descriptions I've read thus far on the Japanese electrical distribution system for residential power, it looks pretty much the same until the breaker panel, although the neutral - ground bonding is likely done at the service entry/meter, rather than at the breaker panel. Still, it makes greater sense to GFCI the entire home electrical system and Japan had an advantage in doing so early on, given the nation had to essentially rebuild most of their infrastructure after a bit of an unpleasant disagreement back in the 1940's. The US, well, we tend to hold onto things, so we've got parts of Edison's original DC system still in place, retrofitted to AC, terracotta water pipes in some cities (I know for a fact Philadelphia still has many) for water supply, lead pipes still persisting in the water supply in some cities, etc. Total Frankensteinian systems here, bastardized to pseudomodern "standards", with tragic results at times and pretty much an attitude of "let someone else pay to upgrade things to modern standards" until they fail utterly. So, we'll get water main breaks in 150+ year old pipes leveling parts of city blocks by undermined foundations, an electrical system that's a century and spare change old and don't get me started on our sewage systems in older cities... And occasionally, somewhat comedic events, such as when we had a power outage in my apartment building, where half of the building remained lit, somewhat chaotically (some floors had no lights, others had half the building lit), my own apartment in the dark, but the 220 volt AC unit behaving rather oddly due to logic failures, LED night lights operated, nothing else did and really odd voltages, as the outage was due to a neutral fault from pole to building. So, the entire building of hundreds of apartments lost neutral to the pole, the neutral then completing a circuit back via ground and/or via conduction between loads from hot to hot via the 220 hots. There are videos here on youtube about "neutral fault". Can create interesting issues, to put it mildly, each circuit's hot-neutral voltage was entertainingly different in different parts of the building and well, it took me a couple of minutes to figure out the problem and call the power company about it, as it was at the pole and not the building's service lines that the apartment owned and I'd have had to explain to rather sleepy maintenance personnel what was wrong... It was fairly late and I don't sleep that many hours, rarely have. And I was bored anyway... I suspect that the Japanese system would trip the power and protect the equipment in such a scenario. If anyone is intimately familiar with the Japanese power system and the precise protections of the main breaker, please do respond on if I'm correct. It would be quite along the philosophy of Japanese engineering, "why solve one problem when we can solve three with one solution?". I'd also be curious if arc protection is also in the standard or soon to be.
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  4701.  @hccheng6248  way cool! I suspected that was the case. It's a shame that the video's CC didn't work though. Alas, I speak only a couple of words of Japanese, not even enough to gain cardinal directions. I'd still go with outlets with the grounding screw though, for specialized equipment's protection usage. Always better to have more options than less, as long as one properly utilizes those options when called for and not just to just use something that's available for no valid reason.
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  4702.  @SeanBZA  wow, who knew that a corporation is now the state! Can I live in the state of IBM? Now, for your penance for saying something stupid, learn the difference between income and expense. Here's a hint, if the money goes out, it's not "making money", hence paying money out is an expense. Income is fines, fees beyond expenses involving said fees and processing and taxes and maybe any federal funding. Prisons are largely ran now by contracting companies, not the state and well, don't typically return any profit, but still operate at a loss. Because, here's a news flash for you, prison workers, clerks, guards, medical staff, etc aren't free, they are paid, have benefits and administrative costs themselves. Does no one remaining alive still learn civics 101 and business 101 any longer?!
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  4703.  @HO1ySh33t  except for that whole chlorine being neutralized and removed from the water plant's output. Used to do water purification as part of my military job. The only place one could find any chlorine residual was in field water supplies, where free chlorine at 10 times the level allowed in a swimming pool was required to prevent water borne illnesses. And those nitrates are present naturally in many meats without any curing, that whole proteins being lousy with nitrogen and 80% of our atmosphere being nitrogen. So, if you're still upset about that fact, maybe your family should've stayed on the battlestar. Because, in the end, Paracelsus got the right of it. The dose makes the poison. Pure oxygen is ungodly poisonous. Too much water is poisonous. Too much salt or potassium salts, poisonous. An absence of any of those, also absolutely lethal. Phosphorus, totally lethal, right? Try making a cell membrane, DNA or a bone without it. Calcium, really nasty element by itself, it'll literally burn you. Can't move a muscle - literally, without it. Used in all manner of high energy processes that sodium-potassium lack enough energy for.
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  4704. He will promptly investigate himself, of course! He'll also properly find no wrongdoing. And given the current numbers on the House, even if they found during an investigation that Trump personally committed a mass murder, they'd still not get enough Republican votes to submit him for impeachment trial in the Senate. The Party of Law and Order now being utterly lawless.
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  4705. Give it time and continued hard work on Google's part, YouTube will be back to kittens and puppies and worth penny stock again in no time at all.
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  4706. OK, which crimes? Can't charge someone with "a crime", one has to charge them with a specific crime that's a violation of codified law.
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  4707. What other nation tried that absorbing entire nations that didn't want to become part of that nation again? Oh yeah, Nazi Germany with Poland and France, then continued to seek "breathing room" to well, all of Europe and later, Russia. Fortunately, that was only a minor spat, it wasn't like it triggered a Second World War. Oh wait... And two other NATO members are also nuclear powers, complete with a submarine fleet we have grave trouble tracking, as much as they have trouble tracking ours. That'd end well!
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  4708. Here's the fun part of it, she has minimum to nothing to do anything for Trump. If she helps, what gain can be had? If she shafts him, what loss is there to be risked, a potential SCOTUS slot in 20 - 30 years, which is beyond unlikely anyway?
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  4709.  @jadedkratos5528  CPS doesn't license physicians. Basically, the state recognizes a medical board of physicians to police the ranks of physicians and discipline professionals who have been incompetent or display malfeasance accordingly. For some, training would be required, for this, delicensing. As an example, unprofessional behavior is addressed first by training, for fraud and malpractice, termination of the offenders medical license. Downside, in the US, quacks just move to another state. :/
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  4710.  @iansaliba-curtis1041 sure he is! As prophetic as the profit from Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Water, hell, pretty much anything else he stapled his name onto to brand it and nobody but he bought. All should've been reconsolidated under a new brand, Trump Misteaks. I'll just get my coat...
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  4711. I went through something similar with wild rodents inside of an outbuilding. After a bit of comedy chasing it around, I finally got irritated and went inside the house, slapped together a quick oscillator tuned to around 20 khz, plugged it into my stereo, lugged the whole kit and caboodle out with some leftover supertweeters from an old project and cut loose. The critters wanted to quickly relocate to a quieter artillery range, the pressure on my ears was like drills on my eardrums and well, the neighbor's pets really didn't like me very much, but the building was cleared. I swiftly closed the door when done inside of that building from then on. Thankfully, it worked. Plan B involved a .22LR with subsonic rounds. Not optimal, but effective.
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  4712. The hard part is to make erased data unrecoverable. Magnetic media is trivially recoverable, flash memory still can be recovered under the right conditions, assuming proper deletion to begin with.
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  4713. OK, ban all virology globally, anyone keeping a lab gets nuked. Vaccines against viruses are also illegal products of forbidden research. Welcome to the 1600's again. Speaking plainly, such idiocy makes me wish we'd just nuke the entire planet with cobalt-60 devices, thereby improving the cumulative intelligence on the surface of the planet.
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  4714. He was, alas, the best part of Donald stayed inside of the condom.
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  4715.  @BruceRickett-vr4tc  depends on how long it's allowed to continue. Backups can be restored to computers, funding clawed back and put where it belongs again, markets eventually settle, trust eventually rebuilt (even if it takes decades to do), workers rehired and compensated, etc. If it came to warfare, well, that took a generation and change to largely recover from... Doubt it'd get quite that severe though. With just food stamps, medicaid, medicare, Social Security and VA pensions, that's well over half of a very well armed and pissed off population.
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  4716. Laughably, close. It's Faraday shielding paint, have to paint the inside and outside walls with the crap or one has to install the mesh inside of the walls and ground it well, which is even more expensive. Oh, USDA says that eggs are expected to go up another 20% at least by the end of the year due to bird flu wiping out entire flocks inside of the mega warehouse battery laying "farms" that contain millions of hens and it takes a good 8 - 9 months for a hen to grow from egg to laying hen. <grumble> <grumble> <grumble> Oh well, don't eat all that many eggs. Hmmm, maybe I should price turkey eggs...
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  4717. Oh good, I'm not the only one to think of earth farts. Airline ticket prices are total justification for Libertarianism, where all things are rational - in an utterly irrational way of randomness and price fixing... Just do tons of hand waving to justify it. Electricity is magic, so it'll always work magically or something. AI, again not bothering to show its work, precisely the polar opposite of well, anything science and math. You know, Artificial Idiocy. And a plate that repels food, what a grand idea! But, the surface will erode faster than a non-stick pot or pan. And a kick in the nards VPN.
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  4718. I tried getting rid of Elon, but no garbage dump would accept him and no hazardous material site wanted him either. Impeaching him, well, that didn't work the last two times and now there are even more Republicans in both chambers. But, if it makes you feel any better, Trump has sole control of the US thermonuclear arsenal, only needing a line of succession officer to confirm his identity and that's mandatory by law, then the joystick and bag of quarters are all his. He ever decides to launch, you'll have a most entertaining light show as missiles go past one another in your night sky. I really need to take up drinking...
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  4719.  @ygrittesnow1701  yep, yet it was the tar of choice when traditionally tarring and feathering people.
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  4720. 'He didn't fill out an application that doubles as a place mat at McDonald's", because this is the 1860's, so out of touch that they think companies still use paper applications. "You can't define fascism", how entertaining if they actually took the insane risk to actually ask someone. Especially me, their stereotype, non-college educated and I most certainly can define fascism, communism, socialism and capitalism quite well. I did have social studies, aka civics and quite well remember my lessons from the ice age. In detail. Well enough to literally satisfy college professors. Then, pivot to "close the border before another 9-11 comes", because so many of the hijackers came across our borders through the desert, rather than as privileged students and such by air. Oh wait, some of us remember 9-11, having fought your wars for you. I'm a dick though, I'll give you closed borders. Utterly closed borders, making sure the entire planet gives the GOP due credit for failed supply chains - again, no produce, missing meats, no car parts, no imports from China, chronic shortages of everything and pissed off starving people picking up torches and pitchforks heading directly their way. Then, pivot yet again into mythical handlers steering opponent candidates into, whatever hand wave bullshit they're plying. Know who used handlers extensively, which is telling that one would refer to when doing one's master's bidding? The Russians. We didn't have handlers steering tons of agents, well, we had a few, but the CIA wasn't the size of an army, the KGB and GRU were army sized. The more the right speaks, the more they tell on themselves. They forgot that they have the right to remain silent, which any attorney says at the onset, is always the best idea. "You're gonna do it anyway, when nobody can see", such a stalwart position of honor, denunciation without cause, again, out of the old Ruskie playbook. Traded in commies for Nazis, good job, traitors. Then, segue into the strange, bizarre and unusual, log splitting. Back to the roots, perhaps, given the GOP's first candidate was Lincoln, of log splitting fame? Oh wait, no, something insane about sex changes of illegal immigrants in prison, because there's ever such a line around the universe for such services - in a galaxy far, far, far away. But, they'll be quite an impressive army, locked in prison, stooped over from groin surgery, were they not fever dreams from too many methamphetamine doses, another Nazi failing that literally cost them a war. Yeah, Hitler's command staff and himself were delusional by the end of the war because they were constantly on meth, a new drug that swept through their social circles that gave their "supermen" superhuman no sleep, along with paranoid delusions that undermined any actual sane efforts in their losing war effort. Pepperidge Farms remembers, so do we. Then, go with the time machine gambit. "Harris broke it all", hoping nobody notices she wasn't in any office that could influence events in the way that they claim. Saw another one blaming Obama not being inside of the Oval Office on 9/11, you know, when W was President... Need a time machine to make that work, dipshit. Then, thank veterans for their service, then try to tar and feather them if they report what they heard with their own ears. Next then comes threats of violence from their looser wrapped peers, who never question the wisdom of threatening to shoot someone good with the same class of arms out to two thirds of a mile to a mile. Their best offering, one that went after their own candidate, firing at a distance that any basic training trainee on their first week with an M16, missed by a lot and their other key brain trust, one that thought bushes naturally sprout $90 rifle barrels... Their best and brightest, easily disarmed using only basic stealth maneuvering and a frigging screw gun shooting a bolt down the muzzle. Then, sit back and watch them take themselves out.
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  4721.  @joekulik999  alas, far too many do. I remember back when the press did convict people, that got changed after expensive litigation re-introduced the press to the Constitution and the fact that their exercising their rights does not suborn the rights of others - even suspects.
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  4722.  @chrishales3280  how fascinating a concept, rights that can administratively be expired, rather than have the orders of a court to interfere with. Turning a Bill of Rights into a Bill of Optionals.
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  4723. When you want to get out of a hole, first stop digging. When I tell a joke via text, it's easy to miss dry humor. When doing so when visible, such as in person or on video, it's far more difficult to miss humor, dry or otherwise, as I have a naturally funny face.
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  4724. Honestly, I'd have answered the first question the same way. Then, pin the Senator's ears back on her response, while confirming that Biden won and I'd said as much by confirming that he was POTUS. Second question, I'd have to answer that yes, there were irregularities, onesies and twosies that really didn't matter, save to the penal systems of a few states, who had to accommodate a very few new guests. My evidence is the handful of Republicans that are convicted and serving prison sentences for election fraud. I'll not go on further, as I'm even more unqualified than well, any of Trump's picks and I'd not accept an offer for such a position, as I refuse to set myself up to fail and worse, fail my nation by accepting such positions. Although, she'd really hate life when she said, "I was in Pennsylvania", as my first question would be what county she was in. Because, this Pennsylvanian didn't see her sorry ass anywhere around the capitol. Nobody I know in Philadelphia and Delaware County saw her, nor did anyone I know in York, Cumberland and Lancaster county. And interestingly, every case of election fraud in Pennsylvania, save one, were Republicans and we've cases pending for the recent election in several counties as we speak. Unlike MAGAts, some of us do pay attention to events, people and things that are not Trump.
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  4725. I find it somewhat odd of a class. So, there appears to be a bit of hidden present, Sweden leading the world in how to hide bodies... ;) Seriously, I've never heard of a grade school class in forensic studies. But, married with Swedish military arms, total support for admission to NATO! I'll just need to collect my hat on the way out...
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  4726. Amazing how popular Russia is. They'll be bankrupt again soon, between Ukraine and paying out the nose for their troll operations.
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  4727.  @liamsdad33  an awful number of words to fall off on just one. Where you also failed.
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  4728. She implies a He by definition, the converse also being true. If there is a singular, there would be neither a he or she, due to the plurality implied. That said, were there a Creator, evidence of mirth already also exists, which explains monotremes. I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  4729.  @FLQueerLiberal1982  just over a year old account, no followers, no content, stirring the pot, smells like a foreign agitator bot stirring up trouble. Youtube allowing it will do wonders for their business, they can consult with Musk about how well X is earning lately, what with advertisers running off to avoid getting splattered with the mess.
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  4730. Because campaign contributions support only certain types of politicians.
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  4731. There is a pressure release detonator, but that's to prevent tampering. Stroking off an IED... Nearly as effective as recon by hammer. Trench down to protect foundations, sandbag around and blast blankets over the device (first, having gained spectrum control and cell tower control), blow it in place. The toilet in Lethal Weapon mecause it's American Standard. ;) Im Juggernaut, the man telling the tech to cut the blue wire is the mutt who built the thing. Yeah, I'm really going to take his word on it - if there's a thermite grenade strapped to his nuts. The VX bomb bit? All that C4, no VX out, thanks for the high decibel decon, Mr Bomber. Love his taste testing an unknown plastic explosive. Did he also figure out the plant and lot by taste?
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  4732. Now, now. Fair is fair. If there's a national emergency, shit out your own army, the National Guard belongs to the state and won't be available to the federal government ever again. And Kentucky can have Fort Knox... And egg prices went up because of the Biden Under the Bed. It's always BUB now. Previously, it was Obama and his time machine, now it's the BUB. DOGE is next going to cut the National Anthem to one note, for efficiency's sake. BTW, where are those security guards for the nuclear enduring stockpile? Or is that getting DOGEfucked to the lowest bidder while everyone's watching Trump's antics in Daytona?
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  4733. Yes, Your Honor, it is true. This man has no dick. Happily stolen line from the original Ghostbusters movie.
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  4734.  @hannah5245  I dunno, one judge nailed him for $5k, shortly after, nailed him for an additional $10k, leaving Trump spitting bullets quietly for a bit. Decidedly odd, given his proclaimed worth, as that should be like a drop in an ocean. Oh wait, it's self-proclaimed and the very subject of NY criminal charges for which he's already found guilty at the trial opening...
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  4735.  @JamesAllmond  so, because nobody has machine gunned him before all of those niceties of a trial, justice is a lie? Got ya.
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  4736.  @glennmartin1632  yep, alas, my sarcasometer burned out the other day. Got a pallet full of 'em, just waiting for the next reboot, when I'll install the replacement and my replacement CPU fan.
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  4737. OK, it also follows a grand GOP tradition. Nixon with Vietnam negotiations, Reagan with Iran hostages that rotted for a year and more. The truth is, laws are illegal for the GOP, molest children and be protected, as Gaetz and his Mann Act violations.
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  4738. Elon mentions Clinton, but oddly omits Dementia Donnie bringing his kids to child rape island. And oddly, Carter never patronized Fantasy Island. And following and unfollowing, got my own list of doing the same with individuals and groups, guess I am a maoist or something and the devil himself, which would be odd, given he is my best employee. Love the USA and love means correcting when one's loved one goes astray, not abandonment or harming one's loved one. Used that doctrine with my wife of over 41 years, more often, she used it on me to stop me. With superior effect to my military superiors, her memory still constrains my actions and reactions. Pavlov had short term effects, wives, longer lasting effects. ;) Psychology types will appreciate that rarely expressed psychological humor. I'd have refined it better, but it's a royally off day. Crohn's attack of mild-ish level, weather change causing significant physical pain due to neurological compression issues that thankfully are less severe than the previous storm and nearing the third year mark of my wife's rapid and unanticipated demise.TP supplies Compensating a bit deficiently, due to exertion and weather issues and well, 10 poop trips now, worrying me about TP supplies, being down to three rolls. Someone one loves fucks up, one, out of love corrects them, not loving them into a well understood pathway to destruction, that ain't love, it's hatred.
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  4739. They used technetium for my testing. Likely due to it being a hair more convenient and hence, cheaper. And that test was a hair more expensive for them than usual, as they had to switch from treadmill to chemical stress test after the treadmill was damaged trying to elevate my pulse enough for the test. They're really going to have to get better prepared for fitter over 60 types! Chuckle fest, resident radiologist ended up on the carpet over his report on the test. Hit the panic button unnecessarily over some mitral damage from when I had COVID, mistaking moderate for severe reflux. A hint for the actual severity, I broke the treadmill and right after the test, walked two miles to a supermarket usually out of my usual range to pick up 25 pounds of supplies not easily available locally, loaded them into my backpack, walked two miles back to ride my medical shared ride home. And cussed myself out for a couple of days. Damned dyslexia, I'm 62, not 26... ;) But, that lentil based fake meat loaf was worth the effort. Not vegan or vegetarian, just for a change of pace. Mild texture deficit though, next time I'll either add flax seed or more likely, oat meal for texture. Yeah, I do medical, built a cloud chamber because I was bored, same with a scintillation radiation spectrometer (OK, a bit crude, but works and is good for parties) and cook. And fix electronics when I'm bored, it's only physics, after all. :P Just like chemistry is. FOOD FIGHT!
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  4740.  @marasmusine  not if it's a civil contempt finding. Civil contempt isn't subject to pardon, criminal contempt can be pardoned per the SCOTUS.
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  4741.  @MexiSword  doubt that'd pass Constitutional muster though, Trump and that whole immunity thing. But, he could be fined by the court and he really hates those fines.
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  4742.  @Psy-Krow  and the US Marshal service is an executive agency. Trump could order them to not service any warrant and trigger yet another Constitutional crisis.
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  4743. Ah, but if you did get jacked up for something, would you be poking fun at yourself?
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  4744. Mortgage foreclosure laws are similar. Foreclose on $10k, keep $100k, all is good and godly. Got a chucklefest coming in. Wells Fargo owes me $10k for payments on my father's mortgage, which they foreclosed on despite my payments. The payment, lost in the shuffles of multiple moves, courtesy of an attempted identity thief's efforts to steal. The SOB nailed me for $3k from my bank account, which I swiftly got back, so all his efforts literally made me money at the end of the day. I'll still vivisect him if I ever see him again.
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  4745.  @waytospergtherebro  actually, I do have friends, from the CDC through state epidemiology, vaccine research, general medical research and physicists as well.
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  4746.  @michaelcoughlan5727  by experimental, do you mean emergency authorized usage? Or that all medications are considered experimental by idiots?
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  4747.  @johnmcclane4430  not that will unbind nicotine. Pralidoxime works for organophosphorus toxins, such as insecticides and nerve agents, but is ineffective against nicotine, as it can't bind with nicotine. Atropine can counter some of the symptoms, benzodiazepines can help with the seizures, but still can't unbind the receptors. Add in excitotoxicity and lowered oxygen, wreaking havoc in the cellular respiration chain, well, humans can be fairly evil with chemistry, but nowhere as evil as plants can. Plants have a 700 million years of practice on humanity and excel at chemical warfare between one another and animals. It is a bit two way, as the use of nicotine recreationally, as well as a number of other phytochemicals prove and well, many of our spices either work as antimicrobials on foods or work as antiparasitics in our GI tract, as well as make foods taste good. ;) And of course, some phytochemicals are medicinal, atropine originating from belladonna, as one appropriate example. Nicotine being present not only in tobacco leaves, but also in tomatoes, aubergines and potatoes leaves in much lower content and with other toxins to discourage herbivores from consuming them. Worse, even dialysis or similar filtration is ineffective at removing nicotine from the blood, it's downright pernicious. Note, I didn't go into phytochemicals commonly abused for good reason.
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  4748. I'm confused, how is there a shortage of Halon, given FM-200 is a drop in replacement for the old and banned Halon? Also, is there a recommended and actually safe transport container that can carry lithium batteries and would contain burning battery packs? A few that I looked at were dubious at best.
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  4749. That'll be after his classified documents case conviction. National Security violations are mandatory solitary confinement, as they can't be trusted in a general population to not divulge more classified information. You can ask PFC Manning all about that one.
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  4750. Yes, she showed it to Trump, telling him, "This might earn you that tower in Moscow".
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  4751.  @ThomasWalker-m2y  a formerly known of as Twitter president's what?
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  4752. Odd, no mention of President Musk making the straight arm salute. Today, we've officially lost the second world war. But at least now, I understand why the synagogue next door has to have an armed guard present for services and functions.
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  4753. I've got only one major problem with immigrants coming here. Storing all of the new recipes. Always can use a change of pace in my meals. :D
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  4754. What makes them say there are dwindling crowd sizes? That he can now call out each attendee on a first name basis?
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  4755.  @toddcorrigan4874  hit? I sincerely doubt he's got the courage required to hit a pillow.
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  4756.  @SamPoole-yj3yj  frankly, I'm surprised that the lie speaker could even spell nystagmus. Even money, like the few that obviously copypasta the word (hence, the capitalization of the first letter), typically can't even pronounce the term. For the few that manage, none yet have been able to describe the three most common types. Oh, for those wondering, vertical, horizontal or torsional (basically, sort of circular motion). The causes, well, frankly that was doctor land, I'm not a neurologist and didn't have the facilities for such patients, so it was swoop and scoop.
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  4757. No, while complaining about fraud, waste and abuse, they abuse the shit out of the system to play seek and find for mythical agents and in the end, the mythical agents obviously rode the Jewish space laser onto their unicorn piloted spaceship and flew off into interstellar space or something. Or more commonly, the "investigation" doesn't pan out, despite tens of millions of dollars spent and they'll just pretend that it never happened, pop another howler out for a shiny to distract the press and continue on as usual.
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  4758.  @vendetta1922  you mean the utter absence of evidence? Indeed, inspector general reports that clear the FBI of wrongdoing, other than typos on a form?
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  4759.  @micheypatsa  and you obviously don't believe the inspector general, instead you'll believe partisan hacks who claim things in a publicly available report are present, but actually are not present in that report.
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  4760. And deny the vote to expatriot workers and our military? Why, when this was obviously caught and hence, another special government ID is unnecessary?
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  4761. One other benefit of German bases, we evacuated patients to Germany from Iraq and Afghanistan. One idiot wanted to instead make their emergency evacuation 24 hours or longer to the US, literally killing service members. But, what else would you expect from a guy who wanted to nuke a hurricane?
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  4762. I'll ask again what I asked then. So, a Republican governor, with the help of a Republican Surgeon General conspired together to falsify a Democrat's birth certificate in order to put a Democrat into the White House? And MTG, what're ya gonna do, impeach Obama? Aren't you past due filing your monthly bill to expunge Trump's impeachment? Yeah, she files each month a bill to expunge Trump's impeachment, which is promptly consigned to committee to die. At least she's on top of the important things, rather than playing around with trivial things like the rights and duties of Congress that are being usurped, the budget or well, her duties.
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  4763. It's actually entirely within the Trump playbook. You see, bankruptcy is in common views, a failure. Trump bills it as a great success. Failed businesses, also successes since his investors lost money, but he managed to not lose his shirt. So, defeat = victory. It's all standard Trumpian Bizarro World logic, where everything is opposite. And if you follow the ancient comic book series, Bizarro won against Superman once, having Superman then make Bizarro World a cube, rather than the sphere it originally was. And remember from WWII, Nazi propaganda kept proclaiming victory, even as Berlin was under assault by all of the Allied forces, right until Hitler committed suicide, I imagine unimaginably bravely so, by taking cyanide and shooting himself heroically. And that's still a winning proposition for President Musk, while his puppet draws fire, even fatally, he's only lost a tiny amount of his fortune and little is blowing back toward him. And as well, remember that President Musk has a security army of around 20, complete with a doctor, with more available as needed. So, as I said, no risk to him in any way whatsoever, his puppet VP Trump assumes all of the risk, as does every citizen of this benighted land. And I'm sure Trump has his own Trump Youth and Volkssturm as a final defense for President Musk and himself.
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  4764.  @cindyhodges4766  honestly, many believe firmly that he'd have burst into flames. Patently nonsense, given he held a bible aloft, if inverted, on national TV during the protests and his subsequent storming of the National Cathedral and ejection of its pastor for a photo op.
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  4765. @Jane Tannerevans I dunno, more like being an incompetent toady to the core, so doing whatever abominable thing that was asked of him. His defense of "I was only following orders" was his own damnation and one thing that set me off when Bush the Lesser tried to offer that as a defense for torture. He should've been able to tell when his own generals flinched with that announcement!
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  4766. Does Monster Energy have any ties with Mary Shelley's estate? Or do they now own Frankenstein's monster too? Obviously, people might get confused and accidentally drink that monster or something. The 389 day long pregnancy that birthed an anencephalic monster obviously was a product of Monster Energy Drinks, even though it predated the company.
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  4767. A goodly number were plainly helicopters, for one, a great bloody dome perspex canopy being clearly visible, for a lot, the landing skids plainly illuminated and tail boom and vertical stabilizer being also plainly illuminated. The size, I discard that "data" immediately, as it's dark, night vision and distant object size estimates are just nonsense due to the limitations of human night vision. There's nothing to offer size comparison to in the dark, hence the estimates are pretty much always wrong. Or it's the second wave of the great Martian invasion of 1938, they just got hung up on confusing signage on a cloverleaf exchange and are just a bit late. But, there are some drones that do have the required illumination and beacon set required. Some experimental Amazon delivery drones, which are not in the areas of reported "activity" and some military drones, which aren't being tested outside of remote and restricted military reservations. They're not Iranian drones, as the Iranian drone carrier is quite literally what the US slang term was a "jeep carrier", merchantman converted to an escort carrier, about 1/3 of the fleet carriers of the time and oh, that Iranian "carrier" is 6400 miles away. The only thing Iran has with that kind of range is e-mail and telephone calls. Haven't heard the KC-46, which makes no sense unless the mythical carrier is now a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier that needs refueling. A P-8 would make more sense, but know nothings will just pick some random aircraft and hand wave it into the Federation Starshit Boobyprize. Did hear of some "sightings" in Delaware County, PA. You know, where PHL is located, as well as Boeing VERTOL, where they build Chinook helicopters and their parts at - about a half mile from where I grew up and where my kids live near, who oddly saw nothing odd in the sky beyond a few kids drones on rare *days*. Well, other than the usual flying saucers and occasional flying cups from a neighbor's domestic dispute. I am reminded though of the panic Mom told me about in 1938, with reports even that Concrete, Washington was attacked - what actually happened was a substation transformer failed, but the town police called the wire services for unfathomable reasons. There was quite a wrestling match between radio station personnel, management and supervisors with NYC police, who wanted to arrest the entire crew of the War of the Worlds broadcast, as apparently radio plays became illegal to the god-cops of the time, but they were overcame by the radio station personnel, the puny gods. Didn't even need a Hulk. Idiocracy is being overly kind. Folks, don't let anyone poke baby in the fontanelle, consider it a great public service to the future! Sigh, I really need to take up drinking...
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  4768.  @user-rq5lh9st2g  oh? So, why is inflation still increasing, unemployment increasing, gasoline prices increasing and egg prices still increasing? All promises made during campaign season to be fixed on day 1. Instead, he's killing funding for the VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, halted free volunteers that fed VA dementia patients and oddly, it's now difficult to get in to visit them since their feeders were barred from entry to the facility. When did he promise to starve elderly VA facility patients to death?
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  4769.  @henkholdingastate  "Who are you gonna believe? Your own eyes or me?" ~Groucho Marx and Donald Trump.
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  4770.  @rongravelle603  given the many violations of the Mann Act, I'm sure it will be NSFW and then some. But then, most that got prosecuted for violations of the Mann Act were black men and recently, Epstein's "partner", who was convicted and sentenced. Guess it's OK for wealthy white guys though.
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  4771. No, it's worse. They're actually mocking the moron in the Offal Office. Murdoch has turned his media empire against Trump and Musk and Trump ain't feeling the love on that one as they ramp up skewering him. Don't know how long that'll last, but it's always entertaining when they eat their own.
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  4772.  @c123-i6n  they don't and never have. They sell to the market, his company buys from that market. The only way to cut them off would be to remove one's products entirely from the market.
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  4773. I've been quite busy dissuading people from moving to adopt extreme measures to address their concerns over threats to our Republic and Constitution. I've been successful thus far, even if at times, a suggested threat of the use of the force of arms was met by a counter suggestion that the very arms used to defend this nation would be wielded against those behaving in such a lawless and harmful manner. I believe that, should no motions made, no efforts to counter such blatant corruption not be proactively addressed, that inhibition will cease. I and my veteran peers will simply kick back into play any idiot that heads in our direction and when the smoke clears, we'll reestablish order in our own way, then re-institute our Constitution upon what remains. Yes, they're that angry on both sides right now. And honestly, I was trying to enjoy my military retirement. Our jurists and attorneys enjoy a highly special position of trust and are allowed to self-police their ranks. Do so, lest others take their notion of the law into their own hands and we just step out of the way. What's holding these people back is, unlike them, we know where the ordinance is stored.
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  4774. No, I'm sure that if you put your ear to the ground, a lengthy string of profanity would be quite audible. Animals avoid his grave, lest that profanity singe their feet...
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  4775. Indeed, it's just to cost of doing business - for a crook and doing so illegally. So sad, too bad.
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  4776. It's far from the most important bridge in the nation. It is currently the most important port obstruction on the East Coast and regionally, it's the primary hazmat route to bypass the bay tunnels. I used that bridge frequently in the military, as our convoys with fuel and high explosives weren't permitted through the tunnels. Now, all hazmat traffic, to include RV's with propane cylinders have to make an over 30 mile detour around the west side of the city. Now, if we lost the west side of the beltway, well we're talking about interrupting the I-95 corridor at Baltimore, effectively halting the majority of north-south trade for the East Coast. Frankly, the blocking of the port is the bigger deal, rather than the highway route being detoured. That said, once recovery begins, rebuilding the bridge does need to become a priority and I'd personally recommend 24/7/365 efforts to rebuild it ASAP. Otherwise, why bother even having an interstate transportation system?
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  4777. Well, overall, criminals tend to not be exceptionally bright. When they are, we usually call them politicians, as we like to keep them where we can see them, lest we be robbed blind.
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  4778.  @jumperstartful  because witnesses would result in conviction for extortion, which is a felony.
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  4779.  @rongravelle603  oh? Do explain to us in detail. I for one, eagerly await hearing your thoughts. Just to assess the level of intellectual vivisection to engage in.
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  4780. Given his previously proclaimed anti-apartheid and now plainly pro-apartheid commentaries, yeah, there's some oddities going on with Elon, to be generous. But, we've witnessed that even in the US with hippies going far right conservative in their dotage. As for generational trauma, I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, with neighbors that had tattoos from the concentration camps. Let's say that it's a given that I've witnessed what generational trauma looks like. OT, CRJ-900 crashed in Toronto. No fatalities reported. At least the port wing and both horizontal and vertical stabilizer are torn off, the aircraft literally on its roof. No further specifics currently, but given the degree of damage, that's one hell of a great design in that aircraft! Aircraft can be replaced, lives cannot. Best wishes to all involved!
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  4781. Good thing too, ever see what greasy fingers do to the Yellow Pages?
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  4782.  @druu988  HUD-VASH helped me get a place. Kind of gave up after my wife died, ended up in a shelter, a local YWCA veterans team scooped me out of the shelter and got me into an apartment.
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  4783. A chain gun does not need an electric motor, it can be any kind of motor, hydraulic or for aircraft, where most early chain guns were used, the main propeller motor (aka, engine). The energy source is just an external motor. Initially, the chain gun was used to both drive the action and time firing, as it's kind of embarrassing to shoot your own propeller off. A couple of problems with a man portable chain gun is, well, blammo kinda weighs ya down - a lot of blammo, loads of testicles inside of one's socks. Then, there's the power source (I'm assuming a non-human motor here). Not a hell of a lot that one could call useful or man portable when you're up to a quarter ton at the non-starting gate. Think a can or three of blammo, plus batteries are not included. Then, there's recoil. Something I'd do just looking at being asked to lug a quarter ton, but I'm talking weapon recoil. You know, "Stop shooting up there, He might just start shooting back and He's a lousy shot!". I can see them on vehicles, especially given remote weapons station equipped vehicles. Why have a weapon a crew has to exit the vehicle that's protecting them, hence it being remote, just to clear a misfeed or misfire? The chain can be trivially replaced as they were frequently in cars with a timing chain, a cogged belt.
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  4784.  @painkillerjones6232  what a fascinating experience base you have, it's as though you have no real world experience, as those of us who live in the real world have the entirely opposite experiences that you have under Putin.
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  4785.  @bazsnell3178  depends on the state. Convicted felons in some states are allowed to vote once their sentence is fully served, in others, they have to petition the court to regain their franchise. The rest is supposed to be true, but in the last election, there were attempts suggested by the Trump campaign to violate that secrecy and states had to halt any attempts at such interference, as it is illegal.
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  4786. Theft and extortion is legal now, when is murder to be legalized? Oh, my bad, I forgot, they're god-cops. She screwed up because she didn't make her protection money payment. I think it's time to abandon ship, as the nation I fought to defend is dead and gone.
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  4787.  @2012-JAF  how dare you insult buffoonery in such a way! Honestly, if we sat him next to a potted plant with two copies of an IQ test, the potted plant would outscore him. Donald J. Trump, a man who was born ignorant and has been losing ground ever since.
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  4788.  @afry6400  just another Ruskie bot. Note the join date for starters, more advanced bots will also have fake followers with close to the same join dates and a few other indicators.
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  4789.  @bobheck8326  it's easy for toddlers, they cover their eyes and proclaim that they don't see anything. Most mature enough to learn that that doesn't work, but others grow up thinking that covering their eyes works and they're Trump voters.
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  4790. What state has parking lot speed limits of 40 MPH?
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  4791.  @judymawhorter7301  except for one problem. The culling was in Feb 2022, this is Nov 2024 and it only takes 40 weeks to grow large enough to produce jumbo and extra large eggs, sooner for smaller grade eggs. So, it ain't the farmers, it's profiteering, as usual. Just like the COVID toilet paper bullshit, nobody could get music roll for their bathrooms, I had no problem, went to industrial/janitorial supply houses and got it by the case. Different supply stream, but there never really was a shortage if one simply resourced the supply stream, rather than artificially keep scarcity and prices higher. Eggs in bulk for bakeries aren't that high, just stupidmarkets.
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  4792. Not to mention, they removed the roof, it's gone, isn't that grand theft?
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  4793. Depends upon the caliber, angle and a few other factors. Not too many bullets get used on ships though, the rounds are more artillery than like a bullet, with high explosive surprise gifts enclosed. ;)
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  4794.  @ripvanrevs  well, now you have even less interference, for food can have shit inside of it that can kill you. Enjoy your ricin chicken, with a side order of strychnine free tea that includes pure strychnine legally.
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  4795. It became unsafe. For them. We have a first amendment, that cuts both ways, so try to suppress me, enjoy the mayhem of a counteterrorism professional. Preferred, polls, less preferred, well force of arms. Do look up Quigly, down under, don't have much use for doesn't mean lack of proficiency with..
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  4796. And ethymercury is also not the same, it's rapidly excreted by the body, but traces were used in various drugs and vaccines to inhibit bacterial growth and also was used in the antiseptic Merthiolate.
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  4797. DonOLD remains an epic failure, failing while flailing, turning what could be a basic meat and potatoes race into Trump Steaks. His performance is weird because his noodles are scrambled and have long been scrambled, now dementia has cooked them softer. Soon, he'll be so far gone, he'll even be impossible to be laughed off the stage, only sadly escorted to a rubber wallpaper covered van. At least they'll not need to worry about a bed alarm, they don't allow golf carts inside of nursing homes for dementia patients. Still, if anyone sees him on his now only once per week low energy sojourns out, ask him how the shoe sales aren't going. Seriously, the man's so far from reality that he couldn't even sell life preservers on the Titanic.
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  4798. Pretty sure it's 20 years and a hefty fine. And if USPS was involved, another 20 years and $20k fine - per offense.
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  4799.  @charlesgibbens-il9ei  that would require a bill of attainder, which is prohibited, save in cases of treason under Article 1 Section 9 and Article 1 Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution. Would you like to also exercise the corruption of blood too? Maybe declare their family outlaws, utterly unprotected by any laws?
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  4800. Mach number is the velocity of sound. Oddly, we still fly U2's. Also, consider when we first built the U-2 and SR-71, our rockets mostly had a reverse gear, while Soviet rocketry was far more advanced. Obviously, both nations moved forward in regards to rocketry. Hell, the space race, especially to the moon was basically proof that our missiles could reach anywhere we wanted to reach, complete with Carl Sagan being part of a program to detonate a nuclear warhead on the moon. Thankfully, it was observed that the moon is big, a warhead detonating in a vacuum, tiny and likely not even noticeable. The SR-71 was constructed with titanium that was purchased from the largest producer of titanium at the time - the Soviet Union. It leaks like a sieve on the ground, so it gets only enough fuel to climb and meet a tanker aircraft, where it tanks up and gets to altitude and speed, with everything expanding and sealing up. You don't want to touch the cockpit glass, you'll be badly burned.
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  4801.  @androsc1418 nope, I only advanced to salad chef before I went into electronics. So, have you advanced in the adult entertainment industry beyond fluffer yet?
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  4802. Up to date on their bills in real life meant, "I know that there's a balloon payment due on your mortgage in two years, SO PAY IT NOW OR ELSE!". Seriously, what he was and still goes on about wasn't due for two years, so he was trying to extort NATO partner nations for money that wasn't due to be invested in NATO military expenditures for two more years.
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  4803.  @czander75  "We in David when you can put together a complete sentence. And tell them maybe your opinion doesn’t mean much." Indeed, the pot calling the kettle black. BTW, Robert DeNiro is also vehemently antivax. Blames vaccines for autism, which has been disproved for decades and the crook quick lost his medical license over it and now only grifts off of the parents of autistic children to maintain his mansion in Texas.
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  4804. So, everyone staying in an airbnb is a criminal under such a statute. But, going back to simpler times is a good thing, so bring back smallpox and bubonic plague. As for lewd and lascivious conduct within one's own domicile, all I have to say is, Bowers v. Hardwick. Oh, I forgot, states outrank the federal government, which is why states have nuclear weapons and can declare war and the federal government cannot. If only we had a supremacy clause in the Constitution. Oh wait, we do. I'd not be surprised to see states try to bring back slavery. Given this crap is done to pander to a minority of the population, entirely against the will of the majority of the population, perhaps it's time to place all tax monies normally deducted into escrow accounts until such time as democratic function is restored to our government. Because, that minority can't even manage to pay their state, let alone federal legislature alone.
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  4805. Because the US Attorney said he'd prosecute anyone that tried to stop President Musk. They won't be voted out though, did you forget Trump's words? You won't have to vote anymore. Laws are illegal for him now, such as the Privacy Act of 1974.
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  4806. Actually, there's a fixed contract price for converting specific types of homes single room into a SCIF. You don't want to know how much the shielded windows and window coverings cost... As a small hint, the lock to the door costs $1000, the telephone costs $3000. The ceiling, roof and flooring also get treatments to shield them from RF leakage. I'd pay them to audit his access logs though. ;)
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  4807.  @radchad4588  yeah, cities burned to the ground daily, heard all about it -daily. Odd though, cities burning daily on consecutive days.Ashes burning? Oh, Guinness, Guinea is a nation, jackass.
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  4808.  @bobbig.793  have you been comatose for the past week? It's been all over the media, even on Fox. She spoke up in the meeting, was dragged out by uniformed men who refused to identify themselves or who they worked for, roughing her up along the way. They were found to be working for a private security firm that violated its licensing terms in doing so and they've lost their license. They're also looking sternly at a senior law enforcement official who was in the middle of the entire spectacle that's attracted global attention. And I'm willing to bet, when the numbers come in for this week, NICS background checks will likely have spiked yet again. They've been rising rapidly all month long.
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  4809. @Miles Bennett Dyson the brain isn't a binary "digital" computer at all. It's nested neural networks that are pattern recognition engines. Current AI can't even hold a candle to that and won't come even vaguely close for a long time to come.
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  4810. @Miles Bennett Dyson show one binary circuit in any organic brain on the planet. Every neuron has neuromodulators that alter firing away from simple binary and into multiple state processing that's far more complex than our binary boolean logic operated computers.
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  4811. It's actually worse, as the first and fourteenth amendments were willfully violated and he also threatened to exercise the corruption of blood. I wonder if he'd have also sought to attainder the parents sufficient to take their home and all other property from them as well.
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  4812.  @Noushki look up the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing party. Destroyed the Whig party, then itself and entirely reflect Trump’s GOP hijack.
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  4813.  @hvillarreal8181  racism is a false Christian's way of stating that their God fucked up, which is flat out blasphemy. The last time I checked the bible, that was one seriously hot ticket for the afterlife. That said, there is one race I loathe - the rat race.
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  4814. There's also a mixture, counter-value on military assets, essentially crippling them without destroying them and inviting the same back home. Think hitting comms nodes, such as Site R and a few less hardened sites that are colocated within medium urban centers.
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  4815. One small, but critical problem with your argument. Before he could charge Biden with his mythical charges, he'd have to charge himself. Trump negotiated the withdrawal, timing it for when Biden took office and refused to allow any planning or staging for said withdrawal. As for treason, I royally piss them off by showing them the Constitutional definition, one unique in the world, of what treason is and explain that one cannot give aid and comfort to an enemy when one is absent an enemy, as Congress has not declared war on any nation and hence, there can be no enemy in the eyes of the law and Constitution. Regardless of what the division of hate out of the ministry of love says. As for commies, yeah, more times than I can count, I've been denounced with the proud and well educated and thought out accusation, "your a commie". An odd take on my quite capitalistic income, which typically exceeded the speaker's sub-minimum wage income. Marxism, there is one form of Marxism I am endeared to, Groucho Marxism. ;) Alas, can't walk around with a cigar, does really nasty things to my blood pressure when I try to smoke the thing. Pity, I do enjoy a good cigar, just don't like the nosebleeds by the literal pint and the expansion of an aortic aneurysm. Oh, for those unfamiliar with the US Constitution... Constitution's Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 defines treason. Very, very narrowly and precisely, because such a charge was so heavily abused by the British Empire in its holy wars against other Christian sects.
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  4816.  @johnathandavid5956  well, the Keystone State can always secede.
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  4817. I remember back when it was literally second to treason to parrot anything out of Moscow, now it's a GOP requirement. I'm just surprised that they're not championing our surrender to Russia yet.
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  4818. Or as I call some of them, patient proof seals. I've had some that I've never successfully retrieved from the packaging and the dust literally went into the trashcan. Pity they never caught the turd.
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  4819.  @Lonewolfmike  well, the doctor doesn't administer a mental assessment in a vacuum, they administer one when dementia is suspected.
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  4820.  @stevenamster6686  that sunsets next year.
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  4821. He is decidedly not a waste of space! He'd just much better used as fill for a large stinkhole.
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  4822.  @lillianshaver24  so, that means that fixed wing aircraft cannot achieve a stabilized approach, since they cannot change direction due to the tracks they're riding upon. Got ya. Both can take evasive measures, it depends on time of warning and initiation of evasive actions and that's pre-established for which direction each aircraft turns to. That said, the aircraft would have the maneuvering ability of an overfed cow, due to low altitude and speed, it being in a landing sequence. The helicopter would be in stable flight on its assigned course and slightly more nimble, but neither aircraft are fighter jets to begin with, so they're not going to be making any Top Gun kinds of maneuvers. Worse, the radar shows that they first received a potential collision alert at around 1 mile distance, with a mutual closure speed of around 300 knots. That'd give them around 10 seconds to locate each other visually, as requested and queried by ATC, in the dark, in a congested environment with significant air traffic and light pollution. An environment where human depth perception is infamously poor to begin with. Frankly, I'm more curious as to why the ATC automated systems didn't begin alerting after the fixed wing aircraft completed its last turn, as at that point, they were several miles apart. Regardless, experience has shown that there are no single points of failure in accidents like this, but a slew of multiple factors that all line up to create the conditions of the accident. And that's most of what the NTSB is there for, to ascertain all of those factors, figure out what part they played and offer suggested measures to prevent such an event from ever occurring again. Circling back to your comment, there is no fixed anything when a collision alert is sounded, the local flight computer takes priority over all, including ATC and standardized maneuvering is to occur once a potential collision is confirmed, as spurious alerts do occur often in congested environments.
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  4823.  @timothyjackson4653  one image I've seen shows the displaced air distortion from one round. More than one round was fired. As in 8 shots, per multiple accounts. That's 8 bullets aflyin', after the first few, most likely wild and well, his marksmanship began by badly lacking, thankfully. I averaged around a 2" group with GI ammunition on an issue M4 in the Army at that range. But, I'm also a competition shooter, the average marksman would average that or maybe 2 1/2" grouping and they'd also know, shoot fast, miss always. End of the day, he has a boo-boo that wouldn't merit a purple heart in someone engaged with an actively firing enemy inside of a war zone and yes, he's milking it like it's a cash cow.
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  4824.  @ianmontgomery7534  that is a question for the ages and one that is unlikely ever to be answered. He fired 8 rounds, five wildly at high rate. We might learn if someone managed to capture the moment the round hit the victim, but in the end, does it really matter? It's just a shame that he didn't realize that a rally is not a rifle range and we use ballots, not bullets to select leaders.
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  4825. And blaming the Jewish Zelensky for being a Nazi, which was Putin's second choice in casus belli, the first being some gay pride parade until he saw how poorly the Patriarch of the church was received, yeah, that rings totally true as fire puts out water. It's right up there with blaming the US for Japan bombing Pearl Harbor because the sailors there were breathing.
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  4826.  @Mark-jy6xd  pakka mat, chod. Or if you prefer, bint haram bin Ibils. Or putana su mama. I've got a few other languages to discuss your lineage in detail. Trakhni tvoyu mat'. Just being polite, mind you. And for the record and full disclosure, my medication list is a beta blocker, calcium channel blocker, thyroid blocker, a steroid, a proton pump inhibitor, magnesium oxide and oh, ran out of drugs that I'm on. So, feel free to pull my finger. That ain't my finger, strange man.
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  4827.  @alltoohalliwell  got Grave's here, know what mine looks like in ultrasound and when, ahem, internally illuminated with I-131. Although, I suspect some things have changed, as I've began experiencing moderate weight gain, suggesting a possible shift to Hashimoto's. We'll see once COVID risks are lower, as I'm not really interested in bringing something home that'll kill my wife.
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  4828. Saw the inane headlines of "criminal charges" that never were filed, since no crimes have been committed, civil cases were filed instead to force states to illegally enforce federal laws, jurisdiction be damned, god king and all that. Meaning, the cases will be yet another Trump egg getting laid. As for the juniormost maladministration snot nose, picking and wiping is normal with that age, they're like Trump and have no sense of context yet. Not good at lip reading and frankly, don't trust meme videos that are ever so frequently faked. It keeps me from wearing egg on my face, unlike some that jump at an opportunity to do so.
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  4829. Name one invention of his. One will suffice. He has a rarer talent, hiring competent professionals and not hiring bullshitters.
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  4830.  @Ipetam  not quite. He did invent a new way to turn $44 billion into pocket change, soon enough, penny stock.
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  4831. I am totally in favor of MTG. Seize all assets of Trump for violation of the 14th amendment, under the treason charge and corruption of blood and writ of attainder clause. Per her own testimony.
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  4832.  @pipermaisiemae1999  no, she's a living exemplar or a blonde joke.
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  4833.  @NauerBauer  whyever would you cast the first stone? Are you just that holy? And yeah, as much as I loathe her, I'm well aware of her history and Christianity, which you obviously are not. That said, I do agree fully with your last sentence. And will qualify it with, she's a living example of a blonde joke.
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  4834. I used a product labeled "minus 62" freeze spray, to diagnose thermal intermittent conditions in circuits. It was basically, regular, now banned Freon. I also used it to cool a six pack at times, until its ozone depletion effects became well documented. Later, warming effects became documented. Still, if you're done with the unit, I'll happily test it. Against thermite. Twice, just to be sure. ;)
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  4835.  @taraswertelecki3786  well, there isn't enough water anywhere to deal with prompt criticality. That's just an insane amount of energy in a small space to dissipate!
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  4836. So, basically the litigation is against the criminal and unconstitutional constitution itself allows the government to unlawfully seek charges against the god-emperor forever Trump, who can never do anything unlawful, for he is the source and origin of all laws. The mighty firer of the Old God, who he ordained as "a pussy for letting his son get killed" and then fired, replacing Him with Himself, the savior of the Savior, the holiest of hollies, ultimate source and origin of all compost in the universe. Shall we hold a pool for how long the jurist can hold a straight face for this imbroglio?
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  4837.  @ScorpionXXXVII  personally, I have a significant aversion for opiates and opioid. My mast cells dump tons of histamine, dropping my BP and generally making me feel like hell warmed over. The only way it's barely tolerable is with 50 mg of diphenhydramine as a pretreatment. Although, promethazine would also block histamine and potentiate the opioid, lowering the required dosage for the opioid. Promethazine being Phenergan. An older drug that's a Swiss Army knife in an environment where one's pharmacy is quite limited, such as in military field medicine.
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  4838.  @petergerdes1094  no, that's included in a background check. Do you really want to go there?
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  4839. GOP once stood for Grand Old Party. Now, it's Groping Obnoxious Pricks. Lead by someone with tiny hands and having a member indistinguishable from a finger... Oh, was that my outside voice? My bad.
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  4840. Only one problem, he was 20, that's 4 years of voting Republican. Guess Trump's own team is now lying about his assailant? Oh, for the record, I'm in Pennsylvania too, literally 3 blocks from the governor's mansion. Couldn't afford a better neighborhood.
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  4841.  @Dr.Acula76  yes, age of voting in the Commonwealth is 18, he was 20 when he got his dumb ass shot. That's 4 years of being a registered Republican. I don't count school opinions, as underage isn't anything when it comes to voting. His voting and reasoning were as deficient as his marksmanship, thankfully, in the latter case. My shot grouping at 150 meters with an issue M4 was around 1.5 inches. With a precision system and NM rounds, tighter. Let's just hope that any future idiots that wish to follow in those footsteps are equally deficient in their marksmanship skills.
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  4842. Yep, totally one billion people in that individual, right? Now, look up the Nativist riots, artillery used by Protestants against Catholics in Philadelphia, murdered militia, finally was stopped when the neighborhood got ringed by artillery and they were forced to return the stolen cannon to the port defense battery.
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  4843. She was dismissive of some things, such as "lose a hive, buy another". That's like going out and getting some nice dinner dishes, then tossing them into the trash, rather than washing them, then wondering why you don't have enough money to get some of the choicer foods that you wanted to enjoy like before.
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  4844.  @Kryptzonl  meh, one of my two kids checks in typically once per week, usually by MMS message, occasionally by voice. The other rarely does. The one that does has a regular job, the other is a medical professional with variable, long hours. So, the chances of my waking up dead and undiscovered for close to a week is moderately high, given the fact that geographically I'm at minimum of two hours of hard driving away. Don't really think I'll care once I'm dead though, never had any buddies come back and mention how good or bad being dead is and well, only living people recommended dead to me and I suspect that they've not got my best interests at heart. I look at it this way, my wife of over 41 years died coming up on 3 years ago. When I go, I'm most likely going to be dead for a really long time, so a few days or even weeks won't really matter much in the totality of that eternity thing. And as for my remains, use them for fertilizer, it's not like I'll be using the rotten, worn out thing for much. If anyone needs to find my bones after, well, the radioisotope signature is charactistic of the atmospheric testing era and confirmed still present in a gamma camera background scan. Based upon that background gamma scan, the age is easily enough calculated.
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  4845. Somehow, I think that the last one's name is a keeper. But, not a bottom dwelling lobster or target...
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  4846.  @supertouring1  and for you, USS Sandy Trail.
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  4847.  @mr.powell8817  don't ask, don't give a shit.
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  4848. As has been proven after every disaster, when neighbors that usually don't get along fight to the death and humanity became extinct. Oh wait, the opposite is true, they come together and dig out of the shit that nature threw at them, rebuild and go back to fighting when things stabilize again. Amazing, what happens when one actually looks at reality and history, rather than listening to one's betters.
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  4849. C3PO and R2D2 are heartbroken.
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  4850.  @dailywithyo  on the possession of classified documents, we agree completely. The only time I had classified documents outside of a secure facility, it was double wrapped, properly marked inside and I had my courier card on my person and a damned good reason to be couriering them.
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  4851.  @michaelellringer5600  because Scotty is going to beam him there? He's had to turn in his passport, suffice it to say that he's on the no fly list, his jet won't be available to him and if any pilot flew him out of the country, that pilot now is a criminal and all assets get seized. And both nations get a hell of a lot of military aid from the US, which would instantly evaporate. As in, "What F-35? All we have for you is an F-U".
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  4852. A bump in antibodies could be from both the number of cells signalling that they're dying and from malformed proteins making their way to the cell surface, triggering an immune response. Let's face it, with massive irradiation of a body, all kinds of cellular malfunctions would be happening as DNA in protein forming genes is damaged and producing wrongly coded proteins. Add in T cells malfunctioning, heaven knows what antibodies could end up produced by some! The lack of GvHd makes sense though, the host immune system was essentially destroyed, the marrow likely watery and cell free or dying cells only. But, in experimental animals, blood types were literally switched after marrow irradiation with great success, with the host acquiring a new blood type after the irradiation. Not a clue how GvHd was avoided though, unless the host thymus somehow accepted the new white cells... Still, if things were easy, we'd not need scientists and medical professionals.
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  4853. Sounds a damned sight better than state of the art of 15 years ago, when one either had to find where a robotic mower got lost or stuck on one's property or worse, had to track down where it wandered off to off property and in some cases, was still merrily making great time while utterly lost. Thinking of looking at a vacuum/mopping robot now, downsized to a small apartment since my wife died, probably will avoid irobot, as frankly, after incessantly fixing circle dance (cleaning sensors frequently and in one unit, having to replace the damnable things twice in the other unit), got a bad taste in my mouth that might still be residual dust... And if the programming interface is decent enough, might program it for Cylon mode. Break in, your shoes will get cleaned extremely well, incessantly. Or maybe a few units and have a Marx Brothers defense mode, swarm around mopping around the unauthorized person... ;) And maybe I might build a domestic bot, something to go to the bathroom for me in the middle of the night... OK, that won't work, but one could wish.
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  4854. Oh, he already blamed the Biden in the Basement this morning. Was on Twaddle blazing away that Biden raised the price of eggs.
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  4855.  @chefboy-r-lee4495  why? We're incarcerating based upon political views? OK, the Constitution is in abeyance, corruption of blood upon your family. Enjoy. Oh wait, moronic rule hasn't been in effect since Trump left office.
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  4856. Firing guns at all says that the individual was armed. So, seditious conspiracy is the wrong charge. They took up arms against their nation and that, per the US Constitution is treason. Only two witnesses are needed and I believe that cameras count as witnesses. Upon conviction, it's the only crime for which a writ of attainder may be filed and all properties in their entirety can be seized. That's how we got Arlington National Cemetery, which originally was Robert E. Lee's plantation. His family was paid after his death, in accordance with the Constitution.
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  4857. Romans didn't have an emperor during the republican era, it wasn't until the imperial era that they had an emperor, who tended to avoid battle zones. I'd go for supply points and command tents with 40mm rounds or larger, around 03:00, which is the time most are least alert.
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  4858.  @cajunguy6502  My Lai and you're the newest LT Calley. Where everyone in the military learns your name in NCODP and officers development training.
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  4859. Can't do that, it's residential. Might I suggest either the Tower of London or Scotland Yard? Neither are registered as residential.
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  4860.  @utjason8  that's OK, for safety's sake, we're disguising our airliners as Iranian drones. Trump's mad because nobody is telling him. Yeah, nobody's telling him today's failsafe code either. Not that he ever really listened to the daily brief anyway, he already had his view of reality fixed in what passes for a mind.
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  4861. Vomiting a little into my mouth, but... Elon does some things very well. He's a hell of a showman, right up there with Libarace with moderate skill in a narrow area, but a master showman. He also has proven twice, massively disparate fields, that he can pick management teams and engineering teams and avoid picking bullshitters, but instead picking highly competent staff. In everything else, he's a walking clusterfuck. So, do give credit where it's due.
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  4862. It's under the command and control of the executive branch, of which Trump is commander in chief.
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  4863. I remember one entertaining case that was a lost opportunity for the jurist to have some fun turning a defense sideways. A physicist was issued a citation for running a red light. He then claimed in court as a defense that at the speed he was driving, the red light appeared to be green due to blue shift. That'd be around 0.1 - 0.2 the velocity of light in a vacuum, which would be decidedly speeding that would require a departmental hearing... ;) Or in our measurements that mere mortals use, between 67,061,663 mph and 134,123,326 mph. The fine might be a wee bit high as well... Instead, the judge rejected the defense and found him guilty of running the red light. Had the jurist considered the math, well, we both know judge humor, "Are you certain that you want that to be your defense?" Then, a choice, pay off the national debt several dozen times over or admit to running the red light and get laughed at by all present.
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  4864. Because, most sane people cannot comprehend insane. Why do people keep trying to translate the English version of the bible for me? I'm fluent in both Middle English and contemporary English. Few are fluent in the former or would even understand it if it was spoken to them, but most claim to be fluent in the latter.
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  4865. A&P, daunting to many, but oh, so totally cool!
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  4866. Trump, no finer example of Artificial Idiocy exists than he. As for him playing at POTUS, well that won't happen, it'd cramp his golfing time. The man has a driving need to play with his little balls and tiny sticks.
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  4867. Our Constitution requires that the defendant receive the absolute best defense possible. So, the only reason Habba isn't unconstitutional is, Trump selected her for his attorney.
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  4868. OK, we've locked up everyone who has sworn an oath to uphold our laws and Constitution. What did we gain, other than to allow seditious individuals to now run free and no law enforcement around to arrest them? Now, had you used "Patriots", the intent is properly clear that one's not demanding actual patriots arrests without charge, but pseudopatriots that proclaim patriotism, but are demanding treason. And if you knew me personally, I don't drop the treason term lightly, treason is narrowly and precisely defined within our Constitution. Taking up arms against the nation or giving aid and comfort to an enemy. Lacking a declared war, it's a wee bit hard to have an enemy, legally speaking. Hence, why we so frequently utilize the term adversary.
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  4869. The torch phase, it's called annealing. Heating the steel just below its Curie temperature removes hardening and tempering. Frankly, I'd have forged it. A few less major steps, I get to control tempering and hardness. Oh, Curie temperature is when steel loses its attraction to a magnet. Loads of physics involved...
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  4870. OK, show me two eyewitnesses to Trump or Musk picking up guns and shooting at federal officers to overthrow the US government. I'll wait. Treason is the only crime that's defined in the US Constitution and it's extremely narrowly and precisely defined to avoid abuses of the charge that occurred in Europe. Now, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, not an option, Congress has not declared war on anyone, so there is no enemy. So, we've the statute that you cannot make the charge with - the statute being no less than the US Constitution. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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  4871. I have to accept him by law, that doesn't mean that I have to respect him. One upside of military retirement.
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  4872. Entertainingly, the insurance company and bond company have the same owner and share a CEO. A one horse carriage company, renting out four horse carriages and certifying the additional needed horses are somewhere, but don't actually exist. Rather like Trump in business practices too, self-certifying values with nothing to support the claimed values. Which well, OK, I'll hereby certify that my iPhone SE is worth one trillion dollars. Honestly, would I lie?! And I have a prehensile tongue and breathe through my ears, ladies. And have brown eyes for a damned good reason. Yeah, I'd be getting some extremely stern warnings from a judge. But then, I've never suffered fools well.
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  4873.  @michaelc821  I doubt that Holland wants him. For that matter, can't think of a country that would want him. Perhaps we should just create a colony on the surface of Venus and send him there.
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  4874. "Would you vote for me if I'm arrested?" is a decidedly odd question, as one holds a trial only after one is arrested, not before. Hence, he's asking if people would vote for him since he's been repeatedly arrested for each case. But then, Trump's no stranger to bizarre claims. He also tried to claim that felonious acts are protected due to an NDA being signed. No, NDA's don't cover felonies, otherwise we could never have prosecuted and convicted mafia types over contract killings.
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  4875. OK, thank you for your contribution to insanity. We never stole Iraqi oil, we bought it. Hell, Trump ran promising to steal their oil, then learned that he couldn't.
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  4876. Yep, totally "LAW AND ORDER!", right until he's supposed to obey the law, then he's a god-emperor, beyond all laws. Hopefully, he'll try to flout the law of gravity from altitude next.
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  4877. If Trump threatened to nuke, I'd call his bluff. First, there's no way in hell he could get through page one of CONPLAN 8044, no pictures or bullet points. Additionally, his choice of SecDef would be wearing a lampshade and way too drunk to authenticate off of his code card inside his biscuit and verify that Trump was actually Trump. So, lacking both, no nukes would be able to be used, no matter how much he rails. I started my military career in nukes, trust me, I know the authorization chain and procedures quite well. There's no magical button, it's literally a written and telephonically delivered authenticated order, using a specific format from the CONPLAN. Incorrect format being an invalid order and disregarded. No two man rule for verification or launch orders, orders are disregarded. Disregarded orders being duly logged for record of the unlawful attempts. But, Trump ignoring campaign promises is a given, he did so last time he was in office. Besides, he'd need permission to actually fulfill any promises he's made from President Musk, who is unlikely to authorize his VP to do anything he didn't originate an order for, having duly paid for the office he now holds and owns.
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  4878. Give the SCOTUS a little time, they'll declare the laws and Constitution of the United States and the several states utterly unconstitutional and hence, null and void and only the god-emperor has a legal voice or standing.
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  4879. So, the guy that cut a cable company line down and a murderer get equal punishment in your version of the world? Trump was convicted on a class E felony, the lowest level felony NY has.
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  4880.  @DarrinRose-k4r  usually, not always, it's a dice roll to go to trial.
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  4881. The only problem with "vote counting computers" is, they're not networked with external access possible, so someone would have to have physical access to each vote counting location's computers, which is 67 counties, so 67 locations. So, Elon must've been really busy, breaking into those counting offices, hacking into the computers, all unnoticed by the workers counting those votes. Still, a claim was made, now must be investigated to see if Musk bribed a shit ton of people. And if proven that he did, allow him to go uncharged and Trump to remain in office, because no one may dethrone a king.
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  4882. Well, let's review some of the initial objections. Ignored, those who lived downwind of the bomb testing. Mentioned, the folks who worked at the site and service members exposed, but not the civilian population - a group still ignored today. Most of the victim photographs and films from Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain classified today. Civilians were most of the victims of the bombing, true, they literally were taking work home, Japan wasn't honoring the Geneva and Hague Conventions (they weren't signatories of the Conventions, but did agree to honor them at the beginning of the war and entirely didn't) and having components in their home as secondary manufactories did make them targets under the Conventions. Odd that the firebombing of Tokyo never gets mentioned, as that series of bombings killed more than both atomic bombings combined. The Emperor himself said that the bombings were necessary to convince the warmongers to come to the peace table. I suggest that the Emperor knew his people a tad better than you or I do today. Finally, Nagasaki got short shrift in the movie. true. OK, who was the third man to walk on the moon? Yes, it cheapens their loss, but Hollywood watches time like the proverbial hawk in running time on films and the film is about a person, not the damnable, thrice becursed bomb. I began my military career working on nuclear missiles. For reasons beyond my comprehension, we were shown those classified images of the victims and suffice it to say, I fully support their remaining classified. People have harmed themselves after seeing those images, for they haunt many a nightmare. And I can think of only one use for a nuclear or thermonuclear warhead - asteroid ablation to divert a decade or longer distant asteroid from earth's orbit. Beyond that, I fully support Oppenheimer's views on global disarmament of nuclear weapons. They're products of the insanity factory and have no realistic utility in a civilized world. And it'll never be able to be a civilized world with the damned things around. And before some pinhead nitpicks over "suitcase nukes", the lightest warhead was a 60 ton yield, 70 pound dirty fission bomb, the rest weighted in at 120 pounds for 600 tons yield, then jumped rapidly to quarter ton and most weighed in at a half ton. All need a pretty bad assed suitcase to handle that weight and the Incredible Hulk to lug it around. The MADM and SADM warheads weighed in over 100 pounds, plus support components and used a duffel bag sized carrier.
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  4883. If there was an audible failure at dive 80, there'd likely be damage observable at dive 50 - discernible after sectioning and proper microscopic analysis. Frankly, I'd have cleared it only for use as an experimental ROV, then at dive 50, withdraw it for full sectioning of all components to examine for degradation. Especially since the viewport was also woefully underrated for the depths it went to. And the carbon fiber fabric was expired and sold as excess expired product by Boeing. If the fiber wasn't expired due to resin age, the viewport fit for the depth, I'd still sacrifice a few units every 50 dives to begin acceptance testing with a few for experimental, non-revenue dives. Manned testing, probably around dive 300 and no damage or degradation observed. That's a hell of a lot of forces at work against the hull and massive changes from surface to depth and back, hence why one approaches things cautiously.
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  4884. Especially when that country literally relocated all of their heavy industry over the Urals while being invaded during a World War. They're exemplars of the Peter Principle.
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  4885. If you want a hint, some chemicals look to be able to last a century or so, for some fluorine containing chemicals. For even more joy, look up blood DDT levels in humans, it's still present in many people's blood.
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  4886. I vaguely recall a railway bridge that was struck by a barge, causing a track misalignment and derailment of an Amtrak train. I think it was in Alabama. I've long said, nothing is foolproof, as fools are so damned ingenious.
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  4887.  @johnconnor7131  only if they were willing to get out and push.
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  4888.  @donsryche1 it's repeatedly been aired on the news, well, other than Faux news and the Ruskie established networks.
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  4889.  @VeteranforTrump  tell this retired veteran about how that is? Indeed, your MAGA crap says clearly that you hate your country, your desire to thwart our Constitution, something every actual veteran swore an oath to uphold and protect, shouts your hatred of our nation. Your word of honor is worthless, your sense of honor perverted to the unholy, your sense of right and wrong inverted, you've damned yourself by your own words and deeds.
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  4890. OK, they get malpractice insurance, they aren't penalized beyond slightly higher insurance rates and continue to sin. Qualified immunity needs to be more tightly governed, lest the populace eventually grow so frustrated in a lack of being penalized for misdeeds that the immunity gets tested by bullet instead of a court of immunity from law.
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  4891. End of story, he exploited, likely unknowing, Murphy's Law. Barriers were down for maintenance, he showed up just in time. For the religious malconversion, there's a specific set of personality defects that are present in terrorists and I've real world experience there. Sociopathic and narcissistic being primary, schizophrenia helps, but are typically rejected by planners due to unpredictability and false triggering. I'd go on, but the audience would grow glazed eyes. His erratic behavior was reported by a second husband, not the wife herself, there might be bias, not a good house to stack cards on, hell, at this point the lot of "evidence" available is questionable, to put it gently. Consistent, likely, but weak tea. I've, as I've said, dealt with such people, both militarily and well, socially. Unpleasant, in some ways, to put it gently. But, one has to respect the culture and society or engage in hostile actions that are literally suicidal. Easier and safer to drop a JDAM on the SOB after departing and being beyond sight, as is the cultural norm in such an environment. I've argued religion with both Christian and Muslim fundamentalists, having read both religious texts. Understanding an opponent can frequently result in the ability to convert those willing and capable to something safer for all. The others, well, as I said, military and those not "disarmed" via ideas, remained a threat that had already killed multiple civilian non-combatants, so mischief managed via high explosives. In one case, we were able to help dig out non-combatants from the rubble of living next door, a decidedly unpleasant experience, but the villagers respected us for doing so alongside them and greatly appreciated the removal of a monster in their midst that they rightfully feared. Still have some nightmares of that dig out, more on other experiences, but I'm dealing reasonably well overall. Although, there is some threat to the VA budget by some amateur night at the White House again... Don't get me started on electrics, I've -45 db hearing loss, many internal combustion engine vehicles are quiet enough to be a threat at times to my deafening ass, electrics add to complexity and actually add to PTSD issues due to processing overload. As for a life of failure... One only succeeds if one fails and recovers and learns and advances. I've four careers under my belt at age 63, all being proficient at those careers, per evaluations. The career path failed economically, moved onward to more complex fields, from TV repair to IT security, on top of a military career. One lead complained to our trainer once, "He keeps making mistakes", the trainer replied, "Yes, but he never repeats a mistake, he makes all new mistakes and guided in the right direction". Said lead, also an infamous team wrecker, if things didn't go his way. Long story there, he found more fertile grounds for his toxicity. One odd thing reported, "They were at the same military base", that and a quarter won't get a phone call. There can be 25000 - 50000 employed and assigned on some military bases and nobody has a time frame. If I was assigned to a base that Benedict Arnold was assigned, did we know each other? You didn't address that, thankfully, as well as maybe a later awshit... And oh, my differential blood pressure is quite low currently, due to a flaw in my health system's communication between patient, pharmacy and resident. So, I'm far from at my best. There's one thing worse than aging. Not living long enough to age. <grumble> <grumble> <grumble>... Context, got about a half dozen medical issues that are trying to kill me, from a mitral valve blown, through AAA and more in between. While stressed by being so poor that a church mouse stopped off to drop of crumbs. Shared another moron's cultural and military history, but oddly refrained from renting an expensive vehicle, shooting myself and detonating a rather shittily designed bomb. I'll stick with my glue gun, "Got a gun and know how to glue your shoes to the floor with it". The rifles and handguns, safely inside of the safe. They only come out on hunting season, when I can be assed enough to consider dragging a deer or competition for cash prize. Hint, it's only competition now, when I have to calculate trajectories, wind, barometric pressure and the spin of the earth. In a way I can only suggest to being courtesy of my dyslexia. Want to meet up? <grumble> <grumble> <grumble>... :P
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  4892. Insurance companies, well, the phrase due diligence and due care come to mind... As in lack of. Then desperately defending. Oh, my aching foot, from the self-inflicted gunshot, however can it get cared for?!
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  4893.  @meferswift  so can sexual orientation, wanna bet the farm on either? I won't.
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  4894.  @meferswift  I can't help transliteration of whatever your native language is into American English or UK English, as I don't know your language to help transliterate. Tradition vs reality, as old as humanity, some idiots think it's novel. My remark was to "traditions can change", ignoring well, reality. Set course with the unreality drive and travel to insanity! I'l mock my own side or opposing sides, but rights are best expressed by expansion, protecting edge groups by buffer of novel protection. Do argue for rights being rationed, you'd be dead by morning in a civil war. I do note, with alarm, Russia's pushing things, which such arguments are largely based off of, triggering a nuclear armed state. Does Putin really want a thermonuclear war? I'm down with that, lost my wife of over 40 years at the end of March, let's play, I'm at ground zero and know shelters and C3 nodes. That gives me a pocket full of quarters! Let's play. I go for farmland and transportation, secondary communication. In person, I'm a nice guy. In combat, I'm a monster. Get over it, I did, as did my wife of over 40 years. She's dead, I'm adapting poorly, let's play. I'm less than a mile from ground zero of a nuke. Let's Putin and cobalt-60 the fucking things!
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  4895. Yeah, more like someone that's batshit crazy.
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  4896. Oh, drone talk is all the buzz these days.
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  4897.  @richardhauer7354  hmm, do you mean like the Irish blight? The citrus greening pandemic? The Cavendish Panama Disease pandemic? Oh, it's spelled wheat, not wheet. Just a bit of help, English is a royal pain that I honestly believe is a weapon of psychological warfare... With monoculture in place, the vulnerability is increased for any pathogen to wreak havoc over time, whereas with multiculture, assuming proper planning occurs, disparate crops prevent the easy spread of disease between fields. Better to lose one field than one province or state, let alone primary cultivar of a food. Not that I consume much of citrus or banana, getting vitamin C more from other food sources and potassium from a wider assortment of fruits. Which reminds me, gotta hit the store soon. Down to one white yam and canned goods. And the decision of green beans or asparagus with my leftover ham and mashed potatoes for dinner... Overstuffed on spinach the last two days and I was sure I had another can of beets, but seem to only have pickled beets left. Probably use those for dessert... :)
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  4898. We had utility check initially go MIA, then a $900 check got cashed for $90. When we got the check back, the amount in the number box had been erased hard enough that it eroded through the paper and the $900 was replaced with $90, while nine hundred dollars and whatever cents was still written out. The utility company applied $90, then disconnected our utility. I asked why they fraudulently altered, hence forged our check and after some blustering and my offer to contact the Secret Service, they reconnected at no charge, gave a modest credit for the day of no service and accepted a replacement check, which was properly inputted and not altered. Nobody wants to get the Treasury involved, which is what the Secret Service belongs to and primarily deals with crimes involving banks and banking. Their cases do tend to be more watertight than a DSRV.
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  4899. Lost my father to vascular dementia, which is thankfully, a lot faster and stair step progression, compared to most other forms of dementia. And he'd get nuclear launch codes? Upside, he'd have to remember which code sequence on a card full of them to read to prove it's him... Unlike Hollywood, nuke launch if literally done by phone, read ID proof code, then line of succession officer confirms it's actually him, then they process the orders. There are no checks and balances for that part of his authority and there never has been.
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  4900.  @Hendrix04974  this time, eventually Trump will hit a wall and we're fucked again, as usual. Damned shame that kid in Pittsburgh couldn't make a shot that a basic trainee has to make on their first week of BRM.
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  4901.  @vinvinvichii  do you really want us to name every industrialized nation on this planet, save the US? Seriously? You can ask any service member that's deployed to a friendly nation, they'll all give that same response! Of course, then the moron brigade will go on about how "they're all communists", never comprehending that monarchies in their list by definition cannot be communist, as communists don't have royalty and especially kings and queens. And two idiots above can't tell what fascism is or a religion is, one not realizing that he's insulted Christianity by definition, as Jesus was a Jew - he sure didn't worship himself. Fascism being hypernationalistic, state control in a way much akin to communism, but with an industrial elite running business. I know fascism well enough, as we've a strong family tradition of ending fascists. Probably out of shame, as the capitalists didn't get a chance to end Mussolini, the communists got to him before we could...
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  4902. Should be tried under the first amendment, as the law violates religious freedom by nullifying Matthew 25:35 - 40.
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  4903.  @alanmcentee9457  so, the government restricts the practice of religion then, directly against the desires stated by the founders. And the government supports repression of an enumerated right under Article I, Section 8. Very well, the Constitution is null and void, as is the government in its entirety, lacking any foundation for authority. One's religion may not suborn the rights of another, beyond that, the government is to leave one alone with one's religion. That is the case law. In feeding the hungry, homeless or not, one is both obeying certain religions requirements and supporting Article I, Section 8, Clause 2. A community attempting to nullify that is irrelevant and a matter settled via a civil war.
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  4904.  @alanmcentee9457 how fascinating it is that for the first part, you stop and ignore the remainder, particularly the general welfare of the US, which previously was defined as We The People. Yet, when examining the second amendment, you parse the final part. It's as if you cherrypick what you want, ignore the remainder and just pervert that perversion into some odd damned fiction that meets reality in absolutely no imaginable way. Here's a hint, ever heard of a section 8 discharge from the military? Section 8 housing? All entitlements under section 8, entitlements being a fancy word for rights. The entirety of Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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  4905.  @paxhumana2015  tactics are how one operates, logistics are movements and distribution of men, equipment and supplies. Without logistics, one's best tactics are impossible. For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost...
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  4906. I can, as it's still happening. He pulls a howler, the press scramble to cover the shiny, giving him free advertisements, while charging his opponents, we get a Trump win of flashlights up the ass and drinking disinfectants, as well as take worm medicine that doesn't work on a virus and advice that guaranteed spread. Frankly, I doubt this nation will survive another Trump rezidency.
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  4907. Immediately after my gallbladder was removed, I experienced around 9 months of lactose intolerance. Medically speaking, it made no sense, as lactase is produced in the intestine, nowhere near the gallbladder. I also quite enjoy milk, especially in my coffee, which I still drink a fair amount of. So, at the time, all of the current milk alternatives were quite expensive and goat milk was stocked by my local stupidmarket. So, I quite enjoyed the goat milk. Oddly, the indigestion I get from 4% cow milk wasn't present in the much higher fat goat milk, yet another case of, the body, have to live in it, ain't got to figure the infernal thing out. Eventually, the lactose intolerance passed and I was able to switch back to the much lower priced 1% or grudgingly, 2% cow's milk and butter again. But, on occasion, I'll cheat a bit and grab some goat milk. I've also got a case of quart Mason jars full of pasta sauce, pressure canned with goat meat. Something I do remind goats that I occasionally meet of, should they grow a bit mischievous and rammy. Largely, as my cousin could've used your advice in not getting a goat, for pretty much every reason that you gave. And I'd had the dubious wisdom of getting to eye level with the goat once and it rammed me straight in the forehead. Until the day she died, my wife swore that the goat's eyes crossed. I was a trifle preoccupied with exclaiming "Ow!" and rubbing a rather sore forehead, looked up and noticed the goat wobbling a fair bit, with its legs crossed as it sat on the ground. Sicilian-Americans do have a well earned reputation for being quite hard headed. The goat rammed my cousin in the thigh about a month later, giving her a dinner saucer sized deep bruise, never did learn who got the goat after that. Yeah, I'll leave the goat rearing to you and your peers. Laughably, I'm quite certain that the goat was just being playful and didn't anticipate that I'd be quite as massive in comparison. But, ever since, I have taken to remind goats that I'm an omnivore... ;) Not that they understand me. I'll stick to raising dogs, who I'll train to verbal directional commands and a few useful tasks, as they train me to walk and exercise with them. They've advised me that I'm highly trainable. Something that my wife agreed with over the course of 41 years.
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  4908.  @heppo6  even money, a term in gambling for equal chance. EUCOM is US EUropean COMmand.
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  4909. They pull the same bullshit with non-racial non-profiling that only results in stops of people with deeper skin tones.
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  4910. Especially for a crazy, a serial liar, and profiteering off their accusations against him.
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  4911. Well, The Duffel Blog is a militarized version of The Onion. You know, The Onion with garlic.
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  4912. I have fun with the "The King James Bible is the literal word of God". I ask, "as spoken?". When routinely answered, "absolutely!", I exclaim, "No wonder there was so much trouble back then! Why, Middle English hadn't been invented yet and most of the folks Jesus spoke to only spoke Aramaic and early Hebrew!". Eyes typically cross, then the excuses flow like the waters of a raging flood. The bible, thrice mis-transliterated, from transliterated sources. As a hint, there is no Hebrew word for either unicorn or dragon. Oddly, they're in the bible.
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  4913.  @amandalewis3898  UK uses an odd admixture of measurements, with a fair amount of metric, some UK Imperial and for heaven's sake, still using the English Imperial Stone measure for weight?! ;) At least, the last time I was there, that was the custom and granted, it's a bit over a decade since. I'd hear my friends discuss their weight in stone, distance markers to cities in miles or kilometers, pick up a kilogram of luncheon meat (yeah, I enjoy sandwiches and meat in my omelettes) and I've still no idea what is being said in Wales or Liverpool. Oddly, explaining the US governmental and legal systems became substantially easier after a few hours in the pub. I suspect that's due to the fact that's precisely where both were originally designed.
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  4914.  @minerran  oh, where's your sense of adventure? Why use metric, with everything in decimal when you can use such wonderful things like 3/32" and 1/64"? Yeah, my sense of adventure left on an adventure and hasn't been heard from since.
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  4915. I dunno, I'd go for it. But, I'd work a full shift, rotating to each station and work to proficiency or at least competence. That's more respectable than dropping one fryer load and well, to his credit, he at least followed instructions well enough to not burn himself or set fire to the water. It's literally more than I expected from him. Wouldn't vote for him for dogcatcher though.
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  4916. Because, morally correct and legally correct are two entirely different things. We codify laws to outline what is lawful and unlawful, we don't typically codify what is moral.
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  4917.  @kennethyoung2077  for many, it's a lifetime appointment, so firing them would require real fire and a subsequent murder charge. As incompetence isn't a high crime or misdemeanor, it's not impeachable, otherwise most of our elected officials would've long ago been impeached for incompetence. For those not appointed for life, they're elected and reelected, as the public is even more incompetent than the incompetent jurists.
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  4918.  @brwi1  so, income tax, tariffs, excise tax, authorization of post offices and park lands, selective service, treaties, the federal budget and the authorization for a military and thermonuclear weapons are based on morals, to name just a few laws?
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  4919.  @Lettuce-Leaf  yeah, keep the wimmin and darkies in line and plans and procedures rain like manna from heaven. Sheets belong on the fucking bed, not as apparel. And not having an environment means becoming extinct ourselves. Without that environment, we lose our sources of food and starve to death. And I've dined on smelt more than a few times in my life. But then, you keep on getting your guidance from the guy who thinks that apples come from the refrigerated section of the supermarket. That hamburglar knows all that his Muskrat superior tells him. And it all burned down anyway? Like Seattle burned to the ground every night for a month straight, what amazingly efficient construction crews they have! Try opening your mind to reality of what's actually there, not what some malignant narcissist tells you is there, despite the evidence of your own senses.
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  4920. I only have one complaint with his assessment and that being, there is absolutely no good reason to insult asses so by associating them with that walking, talking foreskin. I sincerely hope that the Navy made his remaining remnant of a career a veritable living hell.
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  4921. Senators are congressmen, as are Representatives.
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  4922. If you get wheeled in by ambulance, wake up and leave, you're still on the hook for whatever they gin up in charges. One of the reasons I actively avoid hospitals and EMS. Even when I have good coverage, as one gets economically raked over the coals with copays anyway.
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  4923. First, before I'd run out and play in that traffic, I'd grab the map and figure out the general bearing of the ridge, gaps and how far the ridge extends for. Losing visual reference and lift source, begin compass and altitude loss guided serpentine course and choose an altitude of safe egress, hopeully it'd be in the right direction to not taste the mountain. Go 30 -45 degree relative to what inertial course at loss of reference view would bring me and that relative magnetic couse is the way to hopefully egress. Call it the Helen Kellar maneuver. As an instructor, unless I was comfortable in entering those conditions with my entire family, I'd not allow a student that degree of risk. There are a lo of less negatively loaded dice to choose from! A GPS map device in the instructor's lap would also mitigate the exceptional risk. But then, I have gotten lost ib the woods once. After, I learned how to navigate on time traveled, bearing and sparse observations of landmarks using a map and compass only. And can accurately call out a ten digit grid accurately.
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  4924.  @magicwordxyzzy  that only happens for rich WASP types.
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  4925.  @JStorm13  since the trash on his property is a public place, where is he supposed to dispose of them? His private incinerator? His private steel mill? His private landfill? Just accumulate junk until the house is condemned as a junkyard?
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  4926.  @JStorm13  Autozone is public property? When did the government take over car parts? It used to be a civilian business and private property..
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  4927.  @JStorm13  as is the curb where many of us place our trashcans. So, how to dispose of it? Have one's own steel plant, scrapyard on the property or perhaps, detonate a thermonuclear warhead over it to be rid of it?
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  4928.  @JStorm13  so, he used one trashcan in preference to his own, his own being protected by landmines and machine guns?
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  4929. I love the shirt. Send guns, people, preferably full of good quality grease. Mine got stolen during a move. And my favorite saying, "No applause please, just throw money". If any feel the need to throw fruit, dorian fruit is quite welcome. :D Like catching a porcupine, but I'm good catching them. Whether I want to or not...
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  4930.  @Spacemonkie42  and most are foreign, alien even, given they're proudly stamped MADE IN CHINA. Obviously a conspiracy to buy cheap products, how dastardly!
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  4931. First, a Tweet or Xhit does not an executive order make. Second, if autopen were disqualifying, we're going to have to return the entirety of the Louisiana Purchase to France, which is literally both our most productive farmland and around 1/3 of the country, as Jefferson signed most documents by polygraph, an early version of autopen. Finally, pardons have even been granted by telephone, which was contested in court and won - the telephoning president being Trump. And just which president was given a Montreal cognitive assessment again? Oh yeah, Trump and physicians don't perform those in a vacuum, they perform them when they suspect disease is present.
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  4932. Well, I'm sure that his favored prime would've been picked, but alas, Charles Manson died in 2017. Genghis Khan also is deceased and Atilla the Hun remains unavailable. I'm surprised he hasn't picked himself as his own cabinet.
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  4933. Well, when that didn't happen and in quite a few cases, OK, many cases, things were stable. But, there were exceptions, one being Syria, where al Assad brought in Palestinians in favor of Syrians, which started a lot of the frictions that built eventually into civil war. And once his outside support crumbled, well, he's a wee bit north shivering now. Hopefully, Syria will pull it off and get back to modern stability again. Nice enough folks, not as friendly as Lebanese, occasional attitude issues, but what can one expect from a people with such small olives? I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  4934. Because they didn't have a working time machine until that commissioner used it. After all, he tried to bake a 2005 law in 2001 and that 2005 Real ID act won't come into effect fully until next year! Likely, some state workers making a political statement against "travel papers" using someone's life, veteran or not be damned.
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  4935.  @Blazer6571  obviously, the worshiper of the god-king wannabe believes His Worship is Emperor of the US.
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  4936. But, where to you plug in the BS-USB? OK, who's the wise ass that's throwing meatballs?
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  4937. What is a count, such as seven counts of theft by unlawful taking?
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  4938.  @M167A1  you've failed Constitution 101. Innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Otherwise, why not go the rest of the way in your scenario of all are guilty, so don't need a fair trial and simply shoot one and all right at the scene of arrest? Oh yeah, that pesky Constitution, which also prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, which seems to also be something that you desire.
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  4939. Most of California's wildlands are federal protected forests. So, once they're burned clean off, I'm sure they'll be converted into Trump golf courses.
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  4940. Never wanted one of their anti-emergency vehicle missiles to begin with.
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  4941. Oh, the tariffs will help Detroit, after all, a $49k car costing $198960 would stimulate car sales and profits, as parts cross the border a half dozen times during processing. Just tighten your belts as new US factories are built over the course of a decade. I'm sure that the kids won't mind waiting a decade between meals as they freeze on the streets. Oh, the judges are all being unfair. Used to hear from the kids how the teachers were all being unfair, just because they didn't do their homework. It was uglier than what you said, Musk had referenced the condom bullshit earlier, spurring her question. Now, a proper answer, "You're absolutely right, I really screwed the pooch on that one and do keep my heels to the fire when I screw up - Americans need accurate answers, not wrong answers". Not, "Oh well, I fucked it up and who gives a flying fuck?". Oh well, someone go down into the White House basement and thank the Biden in the Basement for the sabotaging of the god-king and Emperor Musk. Although, shouldn't Big Balls have caught that sabotage for Emperor Musk? Guess those balls aren't eyeballs or associated with testosterone. The sheep wonder why he has cowboy boots... Hegseth, so that's what he looks like without the lampshade? Thank Mr Chamberlain for his contribution again, if it's all the same to him and even if it's not, I'm unwilling to try WWIII on for size.
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  4942. I said it previously, Murdoch has turned his media empire against Emperor Musk and Empress Trump. Emperor Musk already promised the nation pain, prices are still skyrocketing, housing prices soaring, now with tariffs, car prices will increase enough to collapse Detroit. Family and elder homelessness will increase and hunger will increase. In the most heavily armed nation on earth, they're trying their level best to replicate May 1789. Hope that they enjoy the world's newest National Razor. I am certain of one thing, Melania won't be carrying Washington's portrait out of a burning White House.
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  4943. Another joy is, with negative energy you can have stable wormholes. Something not observed in nature.
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  4944. Her parents had to give permission for the interview, so if you want to gripe, do explain why you are interfering with parental rights. Additionally, many who are bitching a blue streak are also the very first ones to claim it's fake news because no witnesses were interviewed. Now, you bitch that an eyewitness was interviewed. Maybe these stories should instead be classified and go unreported instead, it'll give you less to rag on about.
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  4945.  @goolsen5630  when did he take up arms against the nation? Or when did he give aid and comfort to an enemy in a declared war? Treason is very, very narrowly and precisely defined as either of those two offenses and requires two eye witnesses to overt acts of treason. Nothing else will suffice, due to the precise wording used in the US Constitution. Now, what these commissioners are alleged to be planning, that still isn't treason. It's seditious conspiracy and quite a few people from the Jan 6 attack on the capitol have been convicted of seditious conspiracy already.
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  4946. Corn was offered, but the British refused it.
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  4947. Well, he briefly spoke in court, but the contempt fines finally convinced him to STFU there. And eventually, toned down his outside statements as well, since those started to get expensive as well. Suffice it to say, he's no longer financially liquid at all, couldn't even throw his own bond for his last fruitless appeal.
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  4948.  @rumls4drinkin  well, find my last garage, you'd have to drive through my house and well, I don't think I'd want your pizza. I had numbers on light under the door and on the mailbox and curb. Oh, oddlty, never had a mythical problem in delivery. Amywhere in the continental United States. Well, save once, when a neighbor 100 yards away had a misdelivery and I got his yummy crabs and I got an announcement of my delivery. Knowing that, waited for someone seeking and confused, he confirmed information on the receipt and well, transferred our dinner. Called it q day. Did note a crab source for a dinner, as that's a thing for me.
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  4949. Even money, it's an amount backed by one of his superpac organizations that aren't dedicated by law for only political campaigns.
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  4950.  @DiscoGirl1013  oh? Show us all how you're trusted to be near the man, which Brutus was.
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  4951.  @desertengineer1  and also popular for quite a long time, uranium glass.
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  4952. Just proof that the United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy. And proof that some whores will indeed stay bought.
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  4953.  @km077  what's what happened in the Middle East with a ship's captain, the crew detained for a few months after they ripped the cables from the Ring Around the Gulf.
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  4954.  @StonedtotheBones13  that and the bit about them getting his mother down pat. He's got a lot of issues with the past, many obviously unresolved. And I see that he has a few tells.
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  4955.  @StonedtotheBones13  we have an old saying about that. A broken record.
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  4956.  @StonedtotheBones13  relatively is an odd term, as one needs comparisons to make a scale and nobody comes out of that business unscathed.
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  4957. If they're even half in quantity and quality as his tanks, it'll be the most pedestrian motorcycle force in history. The orange helps with targeting. A bit of piano wire, trench and tarp, trench and fogas, hell dozens of unpleasant surprises for bikes and well, that cleans up things nicely and Mischief Managed. A bit OT, The Register had an interesting report on a Navy E-8, now newly minted as an E-7, that hooked up a wireless network aboard her littoral combat ship, hid it, attempted a reprisal on a subordinate that tried to report her and well, things ended epically badly for her and her career. No clue what the IA team was doing that they didn't spot a rogue device at the get-go...
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  4958. Totally, because NYPD has jurisdiction everywhere, even on Pluto. Unlike commie nations, cities have jurisdiction only within their boundaries, the same true of counties, the same true of states and we don't have a strong central government. You should learn a bit more about the United States of America before you comment on its government.
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  4959. Trump's new theme song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc
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  4960.  @IRISHnPHISHY  I'm dyslexic, so when I decompensate, my misspellings are legendary. And fairly comical.
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  4961. They're really busy fighting the Alien. ALF keeping them scrambling with, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)
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  4962. Using real fire for lying about an Act of Congress that still isn't fully in effect and didn't date to 9-11, but was enacted in 2005. And effectively stripped a US citizen of all of his rights and privileges. Cut off every federal penny to the state until they unfuck this.
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  4963. Missed was the most important reason for airfield selection for an aircraft in distress. The field most well equipped and prepared to handle that emergency under a worst case scenario. If one field isn't as well equipped, doesn't have a large and capable hospital nearby, etc, one selects one better suited for the emergency and diverts to it. Although, one of the more absurd theories I've heard was no engine power at all, so somehow the airplane glided several times over its maximum possible glide, guess Harry Potter was waving feverishly out the rear cabin door or something... Or maybe a New Jersey drone shootdown went wrong. :P We'll see, assuming that Russia doesn't try to bury the flight recorders data, as voice recorder and flight data recorder will tell the tale for missile damage. And if it was a drone interception that went sideways, it was massively sideways, as drones and passenger jets fly quite distinctively differently.
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  4964. Save for that whole not filing impeachment proceedings. He only made a speech saying that he'd file and he never did file them. https://www.congress.gov/member/al-green/G000553
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  4965.  @gheenoe51  yep, he totally capture the Prick Bastardly metric.
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  4966.  @tuckerbugeater  the less one pays, the lower the quality and longevity of the product. Cheaper, faster, better, pick one. If you want all, you get none, as all you really got was single use junk.
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  4967.  @AHDBification  exactly what I did, reported it. Not worthy of commenting to without a sock full of bricks. What's astounding is, as a senior NCO, she knew damned well better and had to know the regulations in order to gain promotions. Annual IA training is mandatory for all networked computer users as well. I'm astounded that this NCO survived 10 seconds in the goatlocker!
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  4968. Unsentenced, he's convicted and the felony conviction is not yet in effect. And given that the SCOTUS has decided that the Constitution isn't a law without a codified law, which inverts the entirety of the notion of a Constitution, an amendment has no power whatsoever without a law codifying it - per the SCOTUS. Feels like they've been shopping at the Acme company for dynamite...
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  4969.  @ramonriveraalamena1180  not quite. They were conservative from inception, from those who fled the Nativist hijacking of the Whig party, which destroyed it utterly. After the Civil War, the Democratic party had two parts, the southern part that went with Jim Crow to retain a part of slavery and the Northern party of today. Nixon did shift the GOP away from straight conservatism to a more radical, anti-civil rights and farther right stance via his "Southern Strategy" (I'll not even go into the sedition behind his first successful Presidential campaign via sabotaging peace negotiations with Vietnam, but yeah, it was a felony and the tapes remain in the archives). What more would you like to know about history? I got to witness and participate in quite too much of it, to be honest.
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  4970. Headline: My boss is an asshole. Harder point to make, proving boss is an asshole, which usually ain't that hard. Not because bosses are assholes, but the real assholes tend to leave a trail of ruin behind them for everyone to have to inhale. I'm continually reminded of prohibition. And historically, of Whig vs Republican insanity that lead to a civil war. In a nuclear world...
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  4971. Because, once someone's elected POTUS, they automatically get cleared. You'd prefer insubordinate agencies, who refuse lawful orders on a whim? Or flat out coups?
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  4972. You, when your purchase your ticket, agree to be bound by their policies.
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  4973. It's interesting that he warned about the destruction of WII. Odd that he warned about joining WWII. Camera, handful of crap in a napkin, magical wish-bringing. But, he defeated your god, he showed up, hand wave. Not an issue most of the time. Usually. But then, I've got grndchildren, not whoring them out to you and your all grabbing band.
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  4974.  @NYKevin100  especially when, given the new technology and one would hope the understanding that new tech will frequently shit the bed, a dual exception to policy - one for the passenger, one for the technology would've been the least expensive option - both in PR terms and fiscally.
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  4975. "If these are the best lawyers..." Well, nearly every other attorney that's defended the god-king wannabe has ended up disbarred, in prison or both. So, the field is wide open, want the job? Yeah, didn't think so, I've had a few rare attorneys that weren't exactly the sharpest tool in the box, indeed I wondered that they both acquired a law degree and passed the bar, but even they wouldn't touch anything Trump with a stick the width of the planet Jupiter. But this one, it reminds me of a scene from Braveheart. William Wallace and his army facing the Royal army, the Irish prince beside him saying, "The almighty wanted me to tell you, he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18
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  4976.  @stgigamovement  the EU ban is relatively recent and largely in response to bath tub refinisher deaths from inhaling the fumes inside of the confined space of bathrooms. It only metabolizes into carbon monoxide, no big deal... ;)
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  4977. Well, today, the US is a minority rule nation, unless that minority has darkish skin, then they're rejected at the voting booth by force.
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  4978. In a fair number of cases I'm familiar with, they literally don't know how to.
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  4979.  @cybrthret  no, many are aircraft at a distance, their navigation/landing lights oversaturating the camera CCD, but no, it's really Martians invading again and they killed us all and we're actually dead. So, obviously since we're dead, it's time to panic. Most of the videos I've seen so far are airplanes and helicopters, eventually coming into focus and the red and green beacons become apparent, tail stabilizers with logos on them, landing skids on helicopters and in one case, a bubble canopy on a helicopter plainly visible. Totally, a flying saucer, because flying saucers and drones have FAA beacons, logos and rotors or jet engines. Amazingly, none have pointed at a satellite yet. Hell, I've even read one idiot proclaim that birds aren't real and not realizing that that "movement" is a satire on their idiocy.
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  4980. Sandstorm, my balls. Those were portland cement dust storms, shit got damp, it turned into concrete. BTW, seen the new M-27 DMR? I asked Santa for one for Christmas, he told me I was too fat, get the fuck off of his lap... Why does Santa hate the Army? ;)
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  4981.  @namenotfound8747  they toyed with a half dozen names when testing it. It was to be a DMR with full automatic capability and well, it's been expanded a bit beyond that, largely to be well and truly rid of the direct impingement mistake Stoner made. The problem with the SAW is, well, it's a SAW. Great when new, lousy when used and well, worn out. I literally danced a drink can at 100 meters (I'm still mystified as to whatinhell a soda can was doing downrange on a US Army range) with a brand new SAW. Old ones, I danced for joy in not having to lug the damned thing. As for logistics, lose logistics, what are you going to do, shoot dirty looks at the enemy? Besides, for most of our nation's history, the Army was job security for the USMC. Marines would come in and take the land, Big Army would move in, set up a nice sexy fire base, give it back to the enemy so that the Marines could come back and take it again. Otherwise, the Marines would run out of things to break and take and be out of a job! Yeah, I fucked with everybody, even my own branch. Including reminding buddies who were ever so impressed with our Strykers that nobody else had, it's really a LAV 3. ;)
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  4982.  @namenotfound8747  never had anyone complain my uniform was dirty, just after a day out with scouts getting asked why my uniform wasn't pressed and starched. He wasn't exceptionally happy about his career outlook when I turned around and he saw I was two grades superior to him. And your weapons were a wee bit better in quality. Nice custom shop pistols, tighter group capable rifles, why, it's almost as if the Corps expected you guys to actually hit your targets, rather than do what we did - make a shit ton of noise and behave as if we were static displays when engaging. Oh well, we promoted quickly, not based upon competency, but PT scores, so fire and maneuver tended to be beyond the capabilities of thought in many leaders. "Like, flank them with the gun, keeping them occupied and approach from here, here and here." "But, the gun isn't in that position." "If only it was on a vehicle that could move..." "They could engage it!" "It's armored, braintrust! And our rich and retarded Uncle has plenty more that look just like it. Now, move the goddamned vehicle, engage them before they bury us and that isn't a fucking request!" Covered in Kevlar, got more fire support than God and afraid to move at times. Peacetime fucks infantry up - always. Took months to get them to actually stop being pretty and capable of breaking shit again. Got in country and they fought like REMFs for far too long. If my uncles had fought like that in WWII, there wouldn't be a synagogue next door to my apartment today and a different flag! And be completely united in loathing our political leadership - oh wait, that's a constant throughout human history, disregard. ;)
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  4983.  @nonsequitor  even with blood, they'd bleed out then. One controls bleeding first, then administers fluids, be they NS or blood products. Which are on the damned MEDEVAC bird anyway, along with someone trained to select properly and properly administer them. Case in point, what's the minimum gauge catheter needed to administer whole blood or packed red cells? Which blood types are compatible?
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  4984.  @brucesexsmith3222  yep, US oil isn't suitable for our refineries and it'd take a decade to try to switch them over to take our oil. So, we import the lower grade oil for domestic consumption. Mostly from Canada. We also take Canadian electrical power for most of the NE US. The last time we dropped that grid, lights went out from Ohio, northern Pennsylvania, half of New Jersey and everything north. All from a few sagging lines in Ohio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
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  4985. The entire city, huh? So, how badly was the CDC hot labs in Atlanta trashed and burned? The city hall? Most of the homes? Oh, not the entire city. Stop lying.
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  4986. And if you can't get through because they blocked the road, tough shit, you're guilty. I've nearby, tough shit, you're guilty. Your driveway is part of the crime scene, due to the nebulous daffynition included in the law. Just more diversification of police, first they went into the real estate business, then into property forfeiture and now, motor vehicle resale. But, they need a larger budget anyway...
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  4987. Nope, not a scandal at all. It's literally a nothingburger. Literally, the SecDef got a SCIF installed inside of his home, which he's entitled to. Frankly, they're such a huge pain in the scrotal contents, I'd move heaven and earth to avoid having one inflicted upon me, but his choice. Oliver North had one inside of his home when he was in Reagan's White House. EmCOAT. Literally RF shielding paint for a SCIF. The $1k door, a secure door that's also required for a SCIF. Then, there's the X-10 locks for the door and the safe for the encryption devices, figure abour $1500 - $2500 each, depending upon the lock style needed. Yeah, I've some familiarity with the infernal places. Full TEMPEST compliant wiring, sealed conduits, shielded cables and a fair bit more. And enough of a scrotal contents pain that I'd never want one inside of my house. Whatever it is, it can wait until I get into the office.
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  4988.  @robinvanderburgh  yep, facts are irrelevant. Truth is irrelevant, one side is literally just as bad as the other in bullshitting.
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  4989. That fruit is on my to-try list.
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  4990.  @johnnyjericho8472  leaving most wondering that you are actually capable of thought and well, arriving at that capability, found emotional mirroring enough to decline from it.
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  4991. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. The House of Representatives have to vote for or against impeachment, if they vote for impeachment, the impeachment gets sent to the Senate for an impeachment trial. And not only a warmonger, he wanted to actually hold a pogrom against Palestinians in their homeland and that's something every Jew on earth should remember and loathe. The Czars and Stalin held enough of them against Jews in Russia. As for this, he never presented articles of impeachment, only claimed that he had plans to and his office had nothing to say on if or when he might or if he'll table them, like he's done before.
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  4992.  @brentfarvors192  in large part due to it being a PR nightmare and unlike with police, people can take their business elsewhere.
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  4993.  @paxhumana2015  odd, the Hindu neighbors don't have that in their religious texts, nor do the Zoroastrian texts say that and the Zoroastrian faith is older than Judaism, on which Christianity is based. Or are you of the view that your god can beat up their god any day? Oh, do grow a sense of humor, since there never was such a real thing as a battlestar, if you're unfamiliar with the television series, a Google search would've revealed the context behind the joke - which most viewers found to be an absurd way in which to end the series.
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  4994. Save for that whole refit time at dock or dry dock, when a beam could degrade the warheads. The theory expressed here is shortsighted, as they consider only massive reactions to hopefully fizzle a warhead, but one could beam at much lower intensities and degrade the highly pure weapons grade plutonium or uranium core to a level that, even if used, the weapon would fizzle or even entirely fail to detonate beyond the initiating high explosives yield. The only way to detect it, a neutrino detector at the weapons sites or to physically test all weapons cores on a highly frequent basis that they're still weapons grade. And no need for James Bond crap, everyone knows where everyone else's warheads are stored, where the bombs and missiles are stored, that's ancient news from the Cold War and hell, part of various treaties for verification purposes. Hell, we used to allow Russian surveillance aircraft to overfly our nuclear weapons sites for treaty verification purposes, then Trump came along and derailed that treaty.
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  4995.  @Kranebitter81  yep, it's referred to as the Prosperity Gospel, a heretical nonsense view that opposes Christ's view of poverty in favor of profit. Rose with the rise of the megachurches.
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  4996.  @dewardroy6531  well, the last man I heard of that held that specific rank was Franco of Spain...
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  4997. Yeah, show me how to clear Joe Sixpack off the street for a Yankee White clearance in minutes to hours, I'll wait. Welcome to the real world, where security matters, even for blithering idiots that made it this far into the election. Both Harris and he get full POTUS level security, which means nobody in proximity without a Yankee White clearance. I doubt I'd get one, as it's well known that I loathe the man and well, having a more useful clearance, won't lie or conceal that fact. But, I'd also discourage anyone for putting me in for that clearance, they don't make enough money to have me want to work at that level environment. I was always more a field ops guy. And since I've identified a government affiliation, I cannot endorse a specific candidate. So, everyone, vote for *somebody*.
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  4998. Not all that lucky. What month is REFORGER in again? During which anticipated wave? I think we'll need an apology letter that is as long as Encyclopedia Britannica... :(
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  4999. So fucking what? Is God gonna whammy him for violating his oath? There's absolutely no legal requirement for a bible, Quran or even a fucking lead pipe.
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  5000. Lasers move at the speed of light for a reason, the L in laser is light. Coherent light, all waves fully in phase, which helps keep the beam from expanding excessively, as all photons are moving in the same direction and phase once they leave the laser output mirror. The laser is invisible because it's infrared, which the human eye cannot see. In theory, one could use an x-ray laser or UV laser and they'd be more efficient - outside of the atmosphere. The oxygen in the atmosphere doesn't like high energy photons, like x-rays and UV-C band light and ionizes, blocking propagation by blooming the beam, scattering it to hell and gone. So, x-ray lasers and UV lasers, largely would be confined to space, where ballistic missile and spacecraft threats could be intercepted. Masers are also of potential usage, but IR is more energetic, so why go to a lower energy microwave photon? For a rail gun, even Chuck Norris would be vaporized while trying to catch the slug. The biggest problem they've had is massive slide erosion, plus the capacitor bank is the size of a small village. OK, not really village size, it takes a industrial building sized generator and capacitor and cooling bank, the capacitor bank the size of a large heavy weight moving dump truck. Conductors that go to the rails are around as thick around as your arm, many times they're hollow, as the center of any conductor won't carry a current at all, due to magnetic effects and repulsion that electrons have for one another. I have some ideas for the rail gun erosion problem and the rail price would essentially be three times higher. Still, well worth the price, given that that projectile would literally blow clean through a WWII dreadnought class battleship. Plus, the railgun would still have a bank of capacitors on a ship, the old ammunition magazine spaces.
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  5001.  @IronskullGM  they didn't serve in the military, but do observe the principle and traditions of the holiday, whereas Trump just treats it as another day to behave boorishly. But then, that you cannot ascertain the difference is damning in and of itself and this veteran is glad to not know you.
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  5002. No, Kobe was too young to be allowed to operate the time machine. Given that I was coming up on age 3, obviously it was me.
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  5003.  @Vincent_Beers  yeah, the two competent officials that exist in most agencies.
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  5004. Holy Loch, Scotland, wasn't it? Or was it Munich, Germany? At least, according to the various "portraits" of him... No wait, he spake Middle English. London, perhaps? Can't be Liverpool, definitely not English spoken there...
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  5005. Farmers knew under Trump's maladministration, when their crops rotted in their fields because migrants disappeared. Because under Trump, it nearly became, Make America Starve Again.
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  5006. Well, I used the trifecta to Trump on Twitter, if that's any help. ;) I also find it quite interesting, how his children look nothing like him at all... Maybe that's why he's so hostile to the USPS.
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  5007. A proper response would've been to thank the reporter, check, get back to the reporter and confirm the decade long security failure, mention that a full information systems security review, starting with the @&!%! website was directed and thank the reporter again for the tip. Ass covered, being seen getting something fixed when it was identified and acting like a leader, rather than that beauty contestant, Mismanagement.
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  5008.  @chriswheeler6092  to be pedantic, we've not been officially at war since WWII. That was the last time Congress declared war. That said, one can't find very long periods where military action wasn't engaged upon. Hell, Yemen fired missiles at the Eisenhower just this week, missed, but they fired and they in turn received an unfriendly visit by Ike's jets. Above, there was a suggestion that only R&D and tooling was all that was needed, so that weapons could be built in time of need. OK, using that notion, we'd have no aircraft carriers built, so while our merchant vessels are burning and sinking, we'll have to build a supercarrier, combat aircraft, bombs and missiles, train crews, figure five years and we can respond. So, yeah, we need a standing ready force to respond in a sane amount of time. We also don't need an excessively large force that remains idle, as that's an insane waste of resources and funding. So begins the magical balancing act of well, human existence, balancing military readiness against available resources. One area Ryan skimmed over a lot on was WWII. That was a time of total war, the entire national economy was dedicated toward winning the war and that was true with all participants. Anyone thinking that remains true today via the mythical MIC, well, please show me a recent model Singer Sewing Machine Company machine gun, how about an International Business Machines machine gun? A pilot lamp company submachine gun company perhaps? All true in WWII, I've fired all three during my military career. Kind of missed that ancient grease gun... Nope, once the war was over, the demand of their rather novel product lines ceased and they went back to making sewing machines and adding machines and light bulbs for radios. There is a sizable dedicated defense arms and support corporate presence, there pretty much always was. Think that those ships build themselves? Think those M4's replace themselves sexually or something? No, they only fuck the folks they're aimed at and occasionally, their operators. Think those base showers fix themselves? Nope, they need contractors to electrocute troops in the shower, huh, bad example. Think those troops can run their own networks worth a damn? Trust me, they can't, they get top notch training, then become ComSec custodians and never touch the equipment beyond end user again. I know that last part from firsthand experience, as I offered to train them and give them an opportunity to do their jobs, but their commander declined, despite their desire to train in their actual military jobs and well, frequently, that turned into a retention issue that remains a problem today. So, we retain what we must to continue to conduct trade, keep our military ready to confront any adversary with current equipment, rather than as we did bloodily in the past, with obsolescent equipment and training, balancing that upon our available resources. It ain't easy. But, a truer thing was never said, "It's never easy". Otherwise, someone else would've already done it.
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  5009.  @danielwardlhl5d900  gotta admit, I did that once - as an E-I-owe-ya-one, never again. Slammed the flash suppressor to the ground and the bolt carrier happily came forward again. Sarge only laughed at me, "Bet ya won't do that one again!". Nope, never did, I never make the same mistake twice - I make all new mistakes. ;)
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  5010. No! We The People needs a super majority first, then replace the ancients and idiots. Hey, a positive for me, didn't refer to them as whores... Oh, was that my outside voice, my bad.
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  5011. In Pennsylvania, we retain a coroner or a medical examiner. As near as I can tell, it varies by county. I met one of our coroner's office investigators last evening, when my wife passed away at home. I also learned, if our doctor doesn't sign the death certificate, the coroner has to decide whether to autopsy or not, then sign the certificate. Don't have the stomach for food, so might as well learn something.
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  5012. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world we still have an egg shortage. After all, he's been going to court and going to court, case after case after case and in each and every one, laying an egg. We should have an excess of eggs nationally by now! I'll just get my coat...
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  5013.  @FloridaCapt  I said that then, then got properly mortified repeatedly. Given my blunt candor and somewhat brash behavior at times, that speaks volumes. He's the least suited for the office in the land. I'm only a distant second place.
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  5014.  @Granluco  he could've asked, I'd have told him, that much composition B will shred the thing and you'll spend the rest of the afternoon collecting chunks. Even for a grenade that only has a 5 meter kill zone.
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  5015.  @sv_seveniron  yep, totally no clue. That's why we never had a probe fly by Pluto. Oh wait, we did!
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  5016. Trump, the huckster.
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  5017. Few have been the times that I've heard the US government argue that the Constitution is an undue burden. Once, a unit I was in had pork contained in each and every menu item served. This resulted in Jews and Muslims foregoing their meals. When challenged, command stated that their religion was their choice and the menu would remain unchanged. I mentioned the issue to the chaplain, who got zero traction as well - right until he went up his chain of command and no less than the US Army Chaplain General called division. The menu changed to segregate pork from every menu item.
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  5018.  @NikoBellaKhouf2  not Hashemites, who are basically part of the source of the indigenous peoples of the Levant, Jews were a branching at Abraham, the rest from Ishmael. That's readily apparent when one consults their names proper pronunciation in Aramaic. The Europeans managed to bollocks things up after the holocaust during WWII and rather than plan and incrementally assist migration, allowed mass, uncontrolled migration that turned into a debacle and two groups creating a new sport - killing each other. But then, I've lived in the region for a number of years, what would I know? Those who speak like they're of bint haram know far, far better. Today, you're stuck with each other, like it or not, neither is going to manage to get rid of the other. And today, there's been a bit of an advance, despite Trump's worst efforts, when both sides patted him on the top of the head and sent him back to bed while the adults speak. Maybe one theory of mine is correct after all, you both need a common enemy.
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  5019. Representative Van Drew would hate my interviewing him, he'd feed me that Iranian drone mothership nonsense, I'd be inviting him to urinate into a cup to see precisely what he was stoned on. Iran and New Jersey are just a few miles apart, 6400 miles and change. While we ignore Lakehurst NAS R&D labs, some R&D labs near Monmouth, etc. And the fact that helicarriers are a comic book thing, not present here in the real world. Oh, Representative, MegaMaid is also a work of fiction. There is such a thing as the USS Boobyprize, here's a mirror. Man must've gotten his brain from Temu. Damn, I really need to take up drinking...
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  5020. There are 55 earthquakes per day on earth, that's over 20000 per year, God's sure sending a hell of a lot of messages! Not Morse code, must be moron code if MTG is deciphering them. Wait! My computer decrypted the messages! "MTG is my edition of 'dumb blonde jokes', sorry for the Dad jokes". And that, of course is a lie. There's no Godly earthquake code, eclipses were scheduled by the earth, sun, moon and giant planets right after the moon formed in orbit and MTG was, will and shall always remain an idiot, welcome to the short version of some fundamental laws of the universe. Damn, dumber than a bag of hammers. But, at least she's as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
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  5021.  @johnnytaylor5398  I've never hated firearms. They're inanimate objects that do nothing of their own volition. It takes some asshole to cause harm with one, either by negligence or malice. And I'm even counting mechanical malfunctions, as one always treats a firearm as loaded and about to discharge, so muzzle discipline should always be foremost.
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  5022. I sued a ham sandwich. Alas, it was thrown out of court, as it was determined to be a turkey ham sandwich...
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  5023. Sorry, it is consistent, just as when he had COVID and nothing was released... There is imagery of his injury at the time, it is consistent with a graze injury to the top outer ear lobe. In military EMS terms, we'd refer to it as a boo-boo. As in, if in time of war a soldier was similarly wounded, that service member might not even be awarded a purple heart. That said, the last time I looked and I do intensely dislike uncovering my mirrors, as replacing melted mirrors gets expensive, ears are part of the head. And in Trump, any head wound is only a flesh wound. It was and remains a boo-boo, with a gigantic bandage that is only worn during public speaking engagements, probably for two months to properly milk that cow dry. So, what you've got here isn't a gotya, it's really a nothingburger, being examined minutely while he's swimming in various other felonies that he now has a divine right to commit. I thank the SCOTUS for giving me the lowest level of contempt for the entirety of their branch.
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  5024. For a nominal fee, erm, campaign contribution, this government can be affordably rented.
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  5025.  @gmrubentheman9767  oh, tomato, tomaato. Next, you'll try to convince us that people go to a hospital to be treated and recover! ;) One works with what one has, occasionally, one has to sort through what is literally rotting, just to find viable tissue to join with the remaining viable tissue. Or one could try joining dead tissue to living, because that worked out ever so well in Mary Shelley's book...
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  5026.  @JonWaters-o2d  as was Musk, who inherited an emerald mine that he leveraged to buy the companies people think that he invented and well, didn't.
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  5027. Oh, I've plenty to say about New York state, the raccoons are murder at Fort Drum, the weather's a bit colder than I prefer and I loathe cities in general, the rest of the state, well, from Pennsylvania, so got plenty of pretty much the same and the entertainment of Pennsyltuckey on one side, Amish on the other. You know, idiots on one side, good furniture and excellent manual hand tools on the other. Being in the middle, would that make me an idiot with a hand tool?
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  5028. Never fear, the law enforcement agency will use the only successful in the US Nuremberg defense, "I vas only vollowing orders! A few German officers got shot, a few more got their necks stretched, the largest portion became permanent guests of the state in a fine establishment with bars. The courts in the US, "Ja!". And trust me, I can be a hell of a lot more inflammatory than that. As in retired Army NCO inflammatory. Especially with that entire guilty until one proves one's innocence, which is precisely the opposite of what I swore to uphold and protect against enemies, both foreign and domestic.
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  5029.  @SpreadAU  only has a genius for fucking up everything he touches.
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  5030. Which amendment authorizes a re-vote again? Is that the 947th amendment or something? Here's a hint, there are only 27 amendments.
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  5031. During basic training, way back in '82, I needed to use the forward assist incessantly to close the bolt against sand. That said, the weapons, like all of our weapons at Fort Dix back then were worn the hell out. Got to my units over the decades, rarely needed to use the thing. Not never, but rarely. Most of the time, just jarring the weapon allowed the bolt to slide forward into battery. As for the decision, let's face it, which generation ordered the specification for a forward assist? The generation that used those M1 Garand rifles when they were brand new during WWII. The WWI veterans had tried to order them bolt action rifles, rather than those new fangled Garand rifles. Let's suffice it, some of the more senior personnel in charge of such programs, well, not exactly optimal for the task at hand. Need I mention the mark 14 torpedo? The modification of the powder bags for the Iowa that cost a turret crew their lives? We're just lucky that the M16 didn't come with a T&E, since it had automatic... ;)
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  5032.  @theresarossi6306  nah, has-been president.
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  5033.  @Officialamare  totally! Why, COVID has killed 600 million people in the US out of a population of 320 million people! Supply chains are utterly disrupted due to the plague and we're dealing with fallout from nukes trying to blow out hurricanes. Oh wait, COVID was under Trump and ineptly mismanaged, despite his people being handed plans to respond to a pandemic, supply chains are restored and only greed is driving inflation, we're energy self-sufficient, totally terrible!
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  5034. Concrete, which both tarmac and asphalt paving are a form of is a substance, upon which one walks upon its surface. Well, save when it's being installed... ;) But, if I'm walking across a wooden bridge, I'm still walking upon the surface of the substance known of as wood. And yes, both are concrete, just that the portland cement or lime plaster got replaced with either tar or bitumen as the cement binder for the aggregate. And the video only scratched the surface. Plastics recycled into aggregate, assorted other substances being experimented with as well and common today, recycled rubber from old tires being used in the aggregate, providing some flexibility, but more importantly, improved traction. Even such basic technologies evolve for greater durability, expanded utility and enhanced usability.
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  5035.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu zero target, one utilized to zero in a firearm sights. Why does Putin incessantly talk about and threaten their usage? Telling that you don't deny that you're not from the US, per your own phrasing.
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  5036. Because we used to support other democracies, now we support dictatorships.
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  5037.  @foxysil52  yep, the death of a nation and Constitution. Now, we're stuck with President Musk and his ventriloquist's dummy, VP Trump.
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  5038. Oh, the VP. Who likely is adding to his bodyguards.
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  5039. OK, but fuel prices will skyrocket without being able to use the Suez Canal. And all treaties are by nature outside of nation, we don't do internal treaties. So, no more trade agreements, so all exports and imports half. That stops Detroit entirely, our foods still coming in, our exported farm goods rot.
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  5040.  @dlariby  yep, Jesus, the Son of God was wrong! Good job denouncing the Almighty and your Savior, enjoy hell and eternal damnation.
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  5041.  @AlchemiUnlimited  do wanna go there with a peer, sonny? we know what fogbank is. Wanna play? Fluorine plays a part, since the Constitution is dead.
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  5042.  @kittymervine6115  given I've seen lithium battery explosions, yeah, I see her point. Suffice it to say, I don't store old cell phones or anything with a lithium battery near anything flammable or potentially explosive. Still, to be sure, I'd not mind getting a code from those folks after they, ahem, tuned my cell phone up a bit. Just for when I've had enough of the damned thing, toss it in the river and send the code, collect some fish for dinner. Total win-win-win. But then, I've got a rather complex hate-hate relationship with any hell phone...
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  5043. Well, you could always build a fusor in your garage. I suggest scaling up the voltage, once you get it working, then switch the negative electrode with one coated with lithium deuteride.
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  5044. How entertaining, "The Dogefather", actually admitting to his view that he holds a royal title of king of kings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title) As I've said, he's literate. An idiot, but a literate idiot. I say, as many as can, buy a gallon of pine tar and some chicken feathers. Might need them to help remove that wide streak of yellow down Congressional backs. Just remember, before application, it does have to be properly boiling and a whitewash brush is recommended for application. Some traditions never should have been abandoned. For the rest, just pick a day together, stay home on a nationwide general strike until our own government is forced to surrender to the people who are their lawful superiors. Assembled, he could just lie, as he's done before and proclaim an incident free peaceful assembly is an insurrection and declare martial law. Home, well, it'd make an interesting case of insurrection inside of one's own living room. Even more fascinating if the accusation was made when one's enjoying one's own bedroom. Not that the government ever had and most certainly no longer has any chance of knocking on each and every striking citizen's door to compel them to report to their private sector employment and shop at our stores. Especially, given we've now witnessed what happens when sedition is met with silence. Stay home, let corporate America, in fear of bankruptcy, pressure those they bought and paid for via "campaign contributions" do their damned duty as they swore an oath to. And have each governor prepare articles of secession for their legislatures, dated to Julian date 2460767.208333. The date on the calendar saying it all, but the humorless idiots won't have a clue and respond to nothingness. After all, Musk shouldn't be the only one allowed to go for a literary pwn.
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  5045. Jorge asked about migrant laborers being deported, he remembered Trump stopping migrants and crops rotting in the fields, harvests down, prices started skyrocketing. Which Trump ignored then and now in his nonsensical, lying and evading non-answer. Because, $2 = $1 and the loss is a win to Trump. Which explains why he's got 1% of the wealth he inherited. Bankrupt and foreclosed on farms are productive farms in Trump's world. No, they're empty tables. I'll admit, I'm a bit odd, I like food on my table, not having an empty table at dinnertime.
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  5046.  @handsfreeJD  or a new revival of Goatse.
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  5047.  @shadyscruples7161  enjoy starvation and poverty. Eggs have gone up again by 40% since he took office and they're not coming down. All of US wheat comes from Canada, so when the tariffs start, expect bread to go up by 50%. The gas prices? Going up by half as well, since our oil won't work in our refineries, we refine Canadian oil for our own use and expert all of our oil.
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  5048. As near as I can tell, the Constitution is unconstitutional, save if Congress legalizes it, at least for provisions and amendments and until legalized for each provision, is not in force. So, what happens if Congress repeals legislation authorizing a Supreme Court? Is it then null and void? If Congress repeals all legislation regarding the POTUS, is that office then null and void? If the first amendment had no legislation, we can have only authorized assembly, press, religion and speech? And apparently, if one state swings the vote for POTUS, that is evil - for the first time in US history. Guess we'll have to toss that state's electors votes out, along with that state from the Union or something equally absurd. Or wait for the decision, which is as often in divergence from the questioning as it is along the course of said questioning.
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  5049. Won't have time for mental health, we'll be too busy swinging hammers rebuilding things damaged by the exchange. Thankfully, the treaties limited the number of usable nukes to something sane, so it's pretty much only military targets will get hit. It takes a few nukes to take out military sites, think a half dozen to ensure an air base is toast, the same is true for comms centers, such as site R and Cheyenne Mountain. Yeah, Cheyenne Mountain hasn't held a command for decades, it's now a communications center.
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  5050. Are you talking about guilt by association or just for the actual offenders? Offenders, yes, scoop them all up and drop them into the deep end of the naughty pool for a lengthy time-out and hefty fine. Those not offending, but counterprotesting, we've not repealed the first amendment yet, so that is their protected right. Hopefully, the scoop used is the one used for dog shit...
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  5051. It is decidedly odd, saw a different report that also claimed adverse weather, but interestingly, no adverse winds, which makes about as much sense as reporting the aircraft landing in a vacuum. That same report also blathered something about a bird stuck inside of a wing. I've heard of wing impacts, damaged control surfaces, but never, ever a wing penetration and hampering of flight controls. That report also claimed that the aircraft had performed a missed approach, then declared a mayday for lost engine approach, authorizing a reciprocal approach and landing any runway and direction. Perhaps coming in single engine and a subsequent failure of the remaining engine during TOGA and no APU to provide hydraulic power, save they had remaining hydraulics enough to have the aircraft under control. But, that could explain the configuration and excess speed. Everything is a head scratcher on this one, way too many things have to align the holes in the cheese and the media distorting reports via incomprehension hampers rational analysis. So, we're stuck with conflicting and/or nonsensical reporting until an investigation is completed, as usual. Well, at least no media outlet is proclaiming the phantom New Jersey drones caused it, being only slightly farther from the Iranian jeep carrier... As for the wall, it's an absurdity that's also an obscenity, the only thing missing is including a minefield! I'm sure that an excuse will be that the war is only in an armistice, not ended or something along those lines. Because a tiny wall is a major defensive structure in some imaginary realm.* *I'm retired military and a veteran, suffice it to say, that's in distilled sarcasm mode. Especially given the apparent construction of a double rebar, which implies high test concrete wall that may as well been solid steel.
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  5052. Which Donald Trump went to the hospital for COVID treatment again? And authorized White House COVID screening? Don't only listen to what is said, look at what they actually do.
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  5053.  @blindkimberly1360  naw, they believe in Machine Gun Jesus, who revealed the Prosperity Gospel to them, as well as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Reaganomics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
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  5054. No, the bibles with the sticky, incorrectly formatted, illegibly large printed pages are supporting their god-emperor wannabe's self-inflicted legal woes. Although, I do object to the epithet. They're RepubliTaints.
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  5055.  @Mark-ok8ss  same tactic he used in the last two elections toward the end. Blather a few howlers, ramble incoherently, slur speech occasionally, "fail to keep track" of the teleprompter, get free press coverage while his opponent pays through the nose for equal airtime. Just another scam from him.
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  5056. OK, who's to impeach him? The GOP in Congress, who greatly resemble skunks, save that the stripe down their backs is yellow? And we don't exile US citizens. Stop trying to use Trump's play book, it makes you as bad as him, not better than him.
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  5057.  @AlanKelly-nm9lx  so, all organophosphates are bad? Think on that very, very carefully. Because cell membranes are organophosphates, specifically phospholipid membranes. DNA is also an organophosphate. So, in that simple statement, you're saying that every cell in the world is poisonous. Guess we're safer then eating rocks? Now, a couple of things to remember. First, from Paracelsus, "The dose makes the poison". Oxygen is poisonous in high concentrations and indeed, increase the pressure and concentration and you'll swiftly do that dead thing. It's one of the biggies in limitations on how deep divers can go. Too much water is lethal as well, upsetting the electrolyte balance that's necessary or cellular respiration. Some spices are literal nerve agents, similar in action to nerve gas. Tasty though in their diluted form we enjoy as a spice! And some things, such as well, insecticides that are commonly utilized are very literally derived from nerve agents, they're acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, which leave acetylcholine bound to the receptor in nerve cells, leaving the cell turned on. Humans would suffocate with a lethal dosage, insects tend to starve to death, paralyzed. Yet, the Orkin guy came in, sprayed my apartment and somehow, I didn't end up on the floor doing the Funky Chicken. Oh yeah, the dose makes the poison. Big assed me can dilute any traces that I'm exposed to of that far less than 1% solution, bugs can't manage that dilution factor and they do that dead thing. And Mom taught me, wash your produce to get the insecticide off of the produce, even though it's usually washed coming in from the fields. Now, for glyphosate, another phosphorus containing herbicide, it blocks the shikimate pathway in plants, bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae and some protozoans, but not mammals or well, vertebrates or even insects. So, are you a microorganism or a plant? No? Then it's not toxic to you unless you get a dose high enough to drown in the shit. I've used it for weed control on concrete, in my garden, I use barrier crops that are toxic to pest insects and some that actually tend to repel pest insects, but that's a home garden plot, not a big assed farm that feeds tens of thousands of people. Heard the same bullshit arguments about fertilizers years ago, they old water as well as a colander. Now, want to argue about Monsanto's saving seeds for planting next year prohibition for farmers, yeah, that's just beyond wrong. But, spreading fear and misinformation, that's just as wrong. It's as bad as the bullshit that soybeans turn men into women, which ignores the fact that humans have been eating soybeans for quite a few thousands of years and obviously everyone didn't turn into a woman. That took an Executive Order's tortured illogic and poor language to accomplish, the ink on that drivel might just be dry by now... ;)
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  5058. I remember when the tea tards kept going on about how Hawaii isn't a state and that a GOP governor, GOP surgeon general for Hawaii and GOP secretary of state for Hawaii conspired to put a Democrat into the Oval Office.
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  5059. Interesting tap dancing around what is and is not obstruction, entirely missing intent and proof of mens rea. One can argue until the sun goes out, one has to prove a guilty mind in intending obstruction to support an obstruction charge. Specifically, not obstruction of a public highway, but intent to obstruct an official governmental function in specific. Otherwise, you create the example asked in the title, equating being shackled seated to block a public highway being precisely equal with assault, battery, forcible entry, burglary, theft, ransacking the capitol and threatening the murder and unseating of one's government, so that legally blocking a road is sedition. Which, frankly is the dumbest goddamned thing I've ever heard in my life. Fortunately, not precisely what was said, but will likely be interpreted that way anyway to support their god-emperor wannabe.
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  5060. Yeah, you'd far prefer more modern news, like from Russia Today. Where Trump gets his news and orders from.
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  5061. Well, eggs are way up because bird flu obliterated entire warehouse sized henhouses of chickens. But, one upside, at the rate DonOLD is going, he's gonna lay enough eggs to supply the entire planet twice over. Maybe then, I'll not have eggs so old that they literally explode... As for housing, that boat's long sailed. Owned a house some years back, deployed to some war thingie, redeployed home to find it empty, stripped of every inch of copper, walls torn out and windows left open. Fuckers even stole the water heater. I let the city have what was left, as costs to repair at cost of just materials was greater than a new house and it was fully paid off. Rented since, save for a brief period when I was homeless after my wife of over 41 years died.
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  5062. The judge is receiving his federal salary to enforce an over century old, well tested part of the US Constitution. And Presidents don't get to scratch out parts of the Constitution that they don't like. They have absolutely no part in the amendment process by design.
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  5063. Oh, the cheat nonsense is alive and well, you've obviously not been actually looking to see it going on on various news commentaries pages. The biggest bit being a misapprehension that "called" the race being some official thing, which it isn't, per even your own content description describing how "AP has called...", largely in response to state counts not being officially announced for senate and house races, but of course were "called" by various media sources and pollsters. Not a lick of whom have official standing to actually make such an announcement on an official governmental basis, as counts and mandatory recounts are ongoing on some tight races. And with the GOP, that which matters most is, as long as there is even one vote against their candidate, it's cheating.
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  5064. That was not a subject raised in the report. What was raised was a defense attorney giving a jury instructions on law, which was objected to and sustained, as instructing a jury in matters of law is exclusively the duty of the judge. Still wouldn't be a story, save that the defense attorney persisted despite the sustained objection, thereby ignoring the orders of the court and law. It's serious enough that even experienced attorneys state outright that it needs to be addressed by the Bar disciplinary board. Courts exist to bring order to disorder. They cannot do so if things within the court are disorderly via scofflaw behavior.
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  5065. Wasn't only his nephew, Alex Azar reported the statement as well. He stopped just shy of Aktion T4, Hitler's start just prior to his Final Solution, where the elderly, mentally ill, mentally challenged, disabled were all rounded up from care homes, hospitals and private homes and literally gassed in carbon monoxide vans in the street. Yep, a real treat, trying to bring WWII back. Along with all of the atrocities and crimes against humanity. The beast, who was wounded in the head by the sword and did not die. Cursing in church, profaning and blaspheming daily, but the damned calling him the Chosen One. Yeah, the beast was chosen, but not by the Almighty.
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  5066. Oh? What's the massive evidence? Not rumors, not whispers, actual facts in evidence, documentation, recordings, witnesses, those things accepted in a court of law, not a Ruskie Rumor started online.
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  5067. Dammitall, now you've gotten me hungry! Well, it's before midnight... ;)
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  5068. We had one better example. One of the ramp supervisors was struck by a spooling down propeller, right in the face. He managed to recover and well, became the greatest proponent for safety that there was. Any who would be inclined to argue just needed one look at him to be quelled. A fan can only do far more damage before it fails in milliseconds. Now, we have two cases in two airlines, one in Alabama, the other in Texas, in six months. I'm not thinking it's time for a stand down and safety reexamination - yet. A third within the year, I'd seriously consider it, economic damage be damned. Bad enough to lose workers and have damaged engines, but the risk of an uncontained failure increases with the mass impinging upon the fan and turbine blades. Back when Piedmont was still independent, I worked the ramp and we had fuel pods, one with motor gasoline, the other jet-A substituting for diesel. Uncontained debris puncturing one of those would spill and atomize that fuel around running equipment, risking a substantial part of the terminal and all aircraft at the gate. Add in psychological harm to pax who witnessed the accident and its aftermath, something needs to be done to ensure compliance with safety standards. Yes, there is time pressure to get the aircraft serviced, but a fatal accident only delays all by far more than waiting for the damned things to be spooled down, the beacons extinguished and the ground crew waved in.
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  5069.  @HardRockMaster7577  we got to see a teacher incinerated when his car was T-boned back in the late '70's. Got to see that and worse on the road over the decades, especially when I ran with an ambulance. My wife saw worse once, a burning wreck and one child had escaped. Before anyone could stop him, he ran to the burning wreck and dove in with his family. She also saw someone drop something from the curb while he was waiting for a bus. He bent to pick the object up, his head in the street and caught a car bumper to the head.
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  5070.  @michaelwilleford8367  if they make it past the fan. Doesn't happen too often, as most jurisdictions have a minimum exclusion zone of 10 meters. Last one I recall was in India in 2015. This latest in San Antonio is being billed as a suicide by the local ME, I'll hold off for the NTSB report.
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  5071. 162 MPH in a Cessna, a bit much, but OK.
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  5072. Nope. Jackasses pull the plow, they don’t steer it.
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  5073.  @Alex_Mitchell  Arthur Clarke said that, long ago. Do become literate!
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  5074. The AG is tough on crime and even tougher on innocence. Habeas corpus is dead in that state. Sounds more like Judge Dredd than jurisprudence.
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  5075. And going nuclear would take a decade of construction to accomplish. Hell, they're bringing TMI back online and that refit will take another two years. The 60% melted down reactor already has been removed and only the core shell and containment remains, leaving the one intact reactor available once the refit that was originally scheduled is completed. And molten salt designs also date back to the 1950's... I am waiting to see how some of the improved pebble bed reactors will do, there have been some marked improvements on the pellet design that looks very promising. If the deformation issue is finally resolved, they'll be a hell of a good solution.
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  5076. There's a reason I keep the VA an arm's reach away. Many charities do better, despite depressions, recessions, etc. Whores in Congress incessantly cut VA or fuck up VA budgets and efforts. Let a politician do it, watch it get fucked up. Let a specialist in the field manage it, it gets done and now declared foul as some mythical shadow government. They kept everything stable for our nation's history, despite whoever ruled.
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  5077. As near as I can ascertain, Judge Cannon has legislated from the bench that I can now sell nuclear secrets, since Trump can do whatever he wants with our secrets. Interestingly, the remainder of the federal government disagrees, she's the singular outlier that will undermine our entire national security system. Let's see now, one component for a modern thermonuclear warhead cost the government $200 million to update... Better yet, impeach her and get it over with, while we still have things that are rightfully classified.
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  5078.  @a.deadgirl  I dunno, I'm more of a function over form guy myself, so what someone or something looks like isn't as relevant as what someone or something operates like. So, that my physician at the hospital having body builder muscles wasn't of relevance to me, that she had a clue how to keep the treatment team of cardiologist, pneumonologist and endocrinologist working together to get me breathing well again was the priority, not hair style or lifting technique (actually, the muscle build is more of an orthopedic surgeon's build). Went in breathing around 60 breaths per minute, due to mild pneumonia, left stable, breathing room air comfortably and while still dropping weight, now I'm dropping about a pound per week, rather than ten pounds per week and that'll taper off as the thyroid is wrangled the rest of the way under control. Just as well from my seat, as I dealt with plumbing, structural and infectious diseases in my military career, dealing with things that aren't plumbing was and remains well above my pay grade.
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  5079. Whatever floats your boat, sparky. I worked on them.
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  5080. Anyone else would be charged with dereliction of duty and be looking at hard time in prison.
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  5081.  @berlinkozyreva  hilarious is, he claimed Hannibal Lector is a friend, a fictional cannibal is a close friend. As fictitious as his last erection.
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  5082. Perhaps, he should've been reassigned to Thule or Antarctic research and, ahem, accidentally locked outside. But, only because hell was and remains overstaffed.
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  5083.  @chadmarino2741  I always got mine from body shop suppliers. Used it to clean video heads.
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  5084. Go onto any older (which is most) Army basis, note the building designators and look for the T. Temporary. Some, literally predating WWII.
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  5085. I was just mentioning Dr Karen Wetterhahn in another comment. At the time, it was presumed that the latex gloves she wore would be effective protection and alas, they were not. Two compounds are pretty much the penultimate in evil, dimethylmercury and chlorine trifluoride. I'll happily work and play with either or both, as long as they remain on a different continent than I am. The one, even a single drop is lethal for, the other is so much better an oxidizer than oxygen is, it'll not only burn ashes, it'll burn glass, sand, concrete, water and any soul coming into contact with it.
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  5086. Haven't seen an order made for one in 12 years, only for parts. Go price in modern dollars what the Apollo program cost.
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  5087. I want a pony. How's it feel to want?
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  5088. NYC won't take him back.
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  5089.  @teflonmusk11B  and there's no CEO playing PR games to influence the stock prices, nor do their vehicles ram into obstructions and emergency equipment.
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  5090. No, not even a Republican, he's obviously a Trumpite, attempting Trump's previous attempts at turning the DOJ into a political weapon.
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  5091.  @fionaanderson5796  there is jurisdictional issues with protective services vs FBI (NARA being non-law enforcement and hence, not directly relevant in an LEO perspective (beyond their reporting breaches)). Sounds like something that should be looked into though. One thing is though, the executive branch is weird, as such an investigation would be the executive branch investigating itself, creating a conflict of interest that cannot be easily resolved.
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  5092.  @paulao7022  OK, lawyers and FBI agents lied. His property belongs to Allah or something and Silent Bob ordered the lock on that singular door changed. And the world is a cube.
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  5093.  @paulao7022  OK, disbelieve someone reporting that the building is on fire until God tells me, gotya.
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  5094. Yeah, the FBI has an entire warehouse full of nuts. Which explains your presence. So, did your mommy and daddy ever have a kid that lived?
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  5095. Well, the god-king wannabe just signed tariffs against the EU and UK, just because. It's a damned shame that kid in Pittsburgh couldn't make a shot that a first week BRM class basic trainee has to make or be discharged. Now, we're stuck with President Musk, Rezident of the Lincoln bedroom. I wonder of his puppet Donnie is letting him have favors from the First Lady. Nevermind, that's a nauseating picture. Someone get me some brain bleach!
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  5096.  @zgadgets  guess Dominion is gonna win another billion for defamation.
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  5097.  @johanneshutter6208  oaths don't matter for Privacy Act violations, the employees cooperating, the DOGE workers and Musk himself are all guilty of a fairly lengthy list of crimes, from Privacy Act, Data encryption at rest laws and around a half dozen other related Acts that are all long signed into law. And for Trump to authorize such a breach is impeachable as well.
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  5098. Welcome to the revenge of McNamara's Morons. Their children now ruining the Offal Office, with the willing assistance of the Oaf in Office, under the direct guidance of President Musk, current Rezident of the Lincoln Bedroom. A hint to use their own tools against them. Having worked in counterterrorism, I learned how to become the bigger bastard in the room.
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  5099.  @chrisgraham2904  such people really hate me. I'll go down the list and narrow down her waffling until the Waffle House goes out of business. Then, I start to hammer inconsistencies and contradictions, thoroughly confusing them.
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  5100.  @thomassargent-j6e  OK, the Constitution is made up lawfare. Got ya, can't wait for that gift exchange with Russia...
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  5101.  @nicholasholloway8743  actually, the entire series is hyperbole anyway. The main fallout from actual nukes lasts pretty much two weeks or so, the cesium-137 and strontium-90 being actually in small quantities, as there isn't all that much fissionables actually fissioned inside of a nuke - it's actually one of the main selling points. It's fission, not Harry Potter's magical fuck stick.
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  5102. I say to return to sender - via the Chinese embassy. When they inevitably object, give Amazon's excuses verbatim. Or contact the postal police to report review fraud and fraudulent ordering/receiving of unwanted property. And property rights allow one to reject a delivery, turning an attempt into trespassing once the driver is informed.
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  5103. Nothing a National Razor wouldn't fix.
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  5104. Nope, Congress owns the checkbook. No funding, no executive actions at all, not that President Musk cares about what he paid for.
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  5105. It'd also remove his primary escape route for his criminal trials.
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  5106.  @giennefarcais6834  there is ample room in the waste tank to store a Trump.
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  5107.  @kamma44  and even more don't bother with realizing that honey is diluted, otherwise it'd not get out of the comb and into that convenient bottle. But then, this is a random statement. Oh wait, it's not and I'm decidedly not a bot. I'm a mandroid. :P
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  5108. It's boycotting and cronies, for future reference. Never fear, I mangle my own language and a few other languages myself and appreciate corrections immensely. After all, life is learning!
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  5109. That'd make it a saurian bigfoot. ;) That's one creature that I'd never want to step on my toes! Good thing they were extinct long before people were dreamed of.
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  5110. To hazard a guess, he must like the taste of shoe leather and dogshit.
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  5111.  @Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson  interesting, given engineers reviewed dolphins previously (the artificial islands) and found insufficient room for them and the shipping channel. Guess the universe expanded enough to magically allow them - despite universal expansion not occurring in gravitationally bound bodies. Bumpers, yeah, because bumpers are ever so magically effective against millions of pounds of impact upon steel - they're magic! Maybe using Harry Potter's magical twig.
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  5112. Congress has effectively abdicated, that leaves only the courts keeping any shadow of the US Constitution and laws alive and honestly, not sure how long that'll last. Might take jamming refineries entrances to prevent deliveries, red lighting all rail signals and blockading ports to make an impression, there are some dirtier tricks, but that borders closely on treason. Learned a hell of a lot of dirty tricks to apply when I was in the military. The more effective methods had zero casualties, beyond antacid consumption by the other side.
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  5113. Eventually, that cop will need EMS. Hope that they're not all in custody at the same time for his sake.
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  5114.  @imixupfh9053  I have a term of art and actuality, god-cops. Akin to the tyrant god-kings...
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  5115. Nope, the magnetic field generated a spurious signal that appeared as if it was data. And magnetic fields generate all manner of merry havoc, both in particles and x-ray/gamma radiation. That's what powers the relativistic jets from black holes, especially quasars.
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  5116. "I think everybody gets that test", yeah, nope. Didn't get that until my Army over 50 physicals. Even then, they'd only notice enlargement and well, aggressive cancers move... Aggressively, as in fast, spread wide, think nasty, then think nastier than a Trump diaper. The diaper being stage 33 1/3... Mark, well... Biden Under the Bed and all. Or maybe he thinks Biden's the shadow president and the Shadow World Destroyer will come if he summons it, because of chewing too many lead paint chips as a child. The reality is, they want to scream BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN, all while they're cutting food stamps and medicaid for their constituents that are largely MAGA. Then, when caught, likely they'll still try to blame Biden, rather than Tyrant Trump, the god-king of gods and man, worshiped by all, long may he wane. Come on, ya knew I was gonna stick a missile up that one's tailpipe, didn't ya?
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  5117. Farmers are going to do better because he's tariffing aluminum and steel? Oh, I know, he means the aluminum and steel farmers, whose products can be acquired in any supermarket's refrigerated section, right next to the apples. The cities are laying on their sides? Must be those Chinese gravitic drives from Harry Potter's magical wooden marital aid. Oh what the hell, someone ask him about our super dooper missile again. BRICS is dead because he god-king pronounced it so and the universe must change according to the will of the god-king. Have him call the Rocky Mountains to kneel before him. Which confuses me, with such godly powers, how does he have such a problem with a Biden in the Basement undermining his godliness and immense godly impotence, I mean omnipotence, no I was right the first time? Interesting and telling, he cites only one person about the G7 that 'agreed with me', someone that's deceased. And oddly never stated any such agreement verbally or in writing. More voices from within his empty head? Crimea and Ukraine and Trump and I dunno, he got stuck in tanglefoot on that one, didn't quite complete a circle, just a frigging tangle of Obama and Bush and rambling, I mean 'the weave' of a dementia driven confabulation or maybe a covfefe.
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  5118. There is one problem. If we require a test to exercise the fundamental right to run for office, what other rights then can have tests required for to exercise them? Do we also test for the right to vote? The right of association with others? The right to speak? What kind of test is required to retain the right to be protected from warrantless searches and seizures? Is there a special test to have the right to write a letter, article or book? A special test to be protected from being tortured to death or summarily executed? I'm not even partway through enumerated rights and the Constitution guarantees rights beyond what it enumerates! What tests for those undocumented rights or are they now alienated? Who determines the test areas, where such a test is to be located, under what conditions, who assesses the results, removing from the hands of the voter such a determination? What doctor is now the sole determiner of who is fit and unfit to even run for office? Freedom is a risky thing at times, to what level do we remove those freedoms for safety, when we have a king or emperor?
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  5119.  @pourquoipas971  that would require voiding the entirety of the US Constitution, a constitutional convention, the states to ratify a new US Constitution and a new government installed from ground to top. As rights come unhampered by testing and qualifications beyond a minimum such as born citizen for POTUS or US citizen to vote in federal elections. The rest of our rights go to all unrestricted. Largely due to abuses that disenfranchised a minority, attempted religious warfare in US city streets and more. And restricting rights runs a risk that we'd end up with our own National Razor in use, even worse than happened in France. Save, for even nastier, as we're a nuclear armed nation now.
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  5120.  @willythemailboy2  only when properly mixed with air, otherwise hell, every demonstration where they spark a balloon even shows a red/orange flame, as the gas isn't fully mixed with air and is basically burning slow and lean as it mixes and burns.
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  5121.  @m.gardner6173  well, that's true for literally anything. As a law professor once said, "You can sue a ham sandwich, doesn't mean that you'll win anything". And frankly, governments don't really care about litigation, they have attorneys on staff. They care more about optics and PR.
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  5122. Regarding the shameless plug on the store/site, I'll only ask, is the memory the first or the second thing to go? I forget. For that matter, what's the other thing to go again?
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  5123.  @elizabethreed3358  well, let's try critical thought. One's talking about stealing 4603.125 tons of gold. Hell, if it was that much in goldfish, it's still a wee bit of mass to stuff inside of one's pockets. A semi trailer carries around 40 tons. That's one hell of a fleet of trucks to sneak in and out. 115, to be precise and a small amount would be left over. Meanwhile, trying to sell it off would depress the value of gold.
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  5124. For thinner slices, google "diamond optical window". This process actually uses such windows to transmit the microwaves into the growth chamber. I'm still waiting for one other application, a heat sink interface compound, you know, like heat sink grease or strips that are near the same thermal efficiency as the diamonds for heat sinks. Once the right compound is found and affordable, I suspect we'll start seeing diamond CPU's and GPU's hit the market.
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  5125.  @ghostpine  excuse me while I piss a river of laughter for his multiple convictions.
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  5126. I’ll never ding someone for being a farmer. For one, it is an honorable profession and yes, given modern farming, it is indeed a profession. Let’s see you evaluate soil analysis and also fire up that combine and operate it. Doing both would pretty muck kill an afternoon for me and I’m a fairly bright fellow, given a quarter of a chance and love a steep learning curve. For another point, farms are where my food comes from and I’m a bit weird, I kind of like being able to eat. Without those farmers, we’ll get real chemical free food - vacuum.
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  5127.  @Mr.Rich-k9h  so, Ford isn't an American company? I guess no Clint Eastwood film was American either, since the Hollywood studios shot some in Italy and all used German lenses on the cameras. Boy, I can't wait for the nuclear exchange, we have more cities than Russia has nukes, the converse is entirely incorrect.
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  5128. He'd have likely lost his mind if he found out that it also didn't have emissions inspections or a catalytic convertor.
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  5129. How utterly predictable and alas, repeated, since the days when the amoral majority was a mover and shaker, only to finally lose their moral status after scandal after scandal after scandal. Although, even more predictable with Trump, given a few other peers doing much the same and oh yeah, that Epstein guy with his prepubescent island...
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  5130. The ten commandments are unconstitutional for the god-emperor Trump.
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  5131.  @pamroberts340  Cannon, Fodder, Individual, quantity One each. Yeah, I'm sure that's foremost on her mind, because by now, everyone with three or more operational brain cells have seen how well Trump supports his sacrificial mutton.
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  5132. To be honest, Trump has revolutionized one specialty of medicine. Never before, in the history of humanity, has one man done so much, so thoroughly and comprehensively, as to advance the medical treatment of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to his own feet. For, he's never learned the first rule of court: DON'T PISS OFF THE JUDGE, thereby shooting himself in the foot - repeatedly, in multiple courtrooms, in multiple levels of federal and state courtrooms. Then, blaming everyone else for the holes in his bone spurred feet.
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  5133. I made one safety violation when I worked ramp years ago. Protocol was to open an F28 cargo bin hatch with one hand guarding in case the strut failed. Once, I didn't, which means many times I didn't and failed to notice. A failed strut educated me when that massive hatch crashed down on top of my head. Embarrassing to report, but a quick inspection and it was cleared. It'd have been a lot more embarrassing not to and the aircraft suffer a decompression event. Had to endure hard head jokes for a while, but I'm used to that from the Army, where unit legend said that I had a built in Kevlar helmet.
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  5134.  @Jeff-us4dr  I read the court decision, are you saying that the court lied?
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  5135.  @ConfiscatedZyra  ah, Laws by Ronco! For a limited time only, this can be yours! Then, you wake up and join the real world, where that is bullshit. First, the statute of limitations expired for the assault, leaving only damages and libel, both of which he was convicted on and has to pay for. The criminal charges never could be filed, but the judge ruled that the assault was proven. No change of laws required. The damages award part was expanded, not for some mythical limited time only by Ronco, but expanding the time farther, as laws can be changed to fit the time. Why, we even changed laws and now allow wimmin to vote, ding dang it!
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  5136. You missed a lot on the Nazi eugenics program, 375000 forcibly sterilized began the program. Then, "Those unworthy of life", which was the elderly incapable of work, disabled, disfigured, mentally ill, social misfits and mentally disadvantaged were first denied food and water, then when that was too slow, the hard acid phenol was injected, causing massive muscle contractions, then nervous system collapse. When that was too slow, they moved to carbon monoxide trucks to gas patients in care facilities at the curbside. Over a quarter million were murdered in Aktion T4. Then, he moved to the death camps. And in paranoid moments, I consider the mysterious cybertruck federal contract... Easy to evade those though, cybertrucks are pure pavement princesses. Go into any kind of rough road and terrain, it'll get stuck like Chuck. As for deporting citizens, one isn't deporting them, they're exiling them. Already by Constitution unconstitutional, without due process, again neutralizing habeas corpus, the body of law, hence utterly lawless and literally placing the Constitution in abeyance. And to reinforce fear, now arresting judges and threatening all levels of public officials for "obstructing government officials". And an EO authorizing the tyrant god-king to command local police forces. Two words come to mind, well two sets of two words. Batshit crazy. Civil war. Looks like one condition being present, the other seems to be what he desires. I suspect, based upon comments when the film first was released, that Trump watched part of the film Civil War, but obviously missed how it ended.
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  5137.  @jakehutchison5761  odd, just did a Google search for "UK income tax rate". Band Taxable income Tax rate Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0% Basic rate £12,571 to £50,270 20% Higher rate £50,271 to £125,140 40% Additional rate over £125,140 45% Maybe that's that New New Math, where 45 is greater than 60. Denmark has no allowance and a 14% higher tax rate standing at 42%. Canada: Federal income tax rates in 2023 range from 15% to 33%. Ontario income tax rates in 2023 range from 5.05% to 13.16%. Why, it's almost as if you are lying, rather than just not telling anything truthful.
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  5138.  @alexandradaniele  nope, he's Booby Kennedy. Honestly, I'm waiting for him to suggest reintroduction of smallpox...
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  5139. And his magical drones would have to fly a wee bit low. To detect alpha radiation, well, it's got a range in air of around 1.5 - 2 inches, gonna have to get a tiny bit low - inside of homes low, ramming into furniture low. Oh wait, maybe beta radiation, it's got a longer range and some nuclear components are beta emitters - oh crapmuffins, that's a whopping six inches. Plutonium and uranium primarily decay by emitted alpha particles, with plutonium emitting at a 3 - 5% rate gamma, which wouldn't escape the reflectors and tamper of the weapon case. Nukes don't generate gamma radiation in detectable amounts and again, we're talking a few feet if someone suddenly made a special gamma tagged nuke for no reason. A mythical nuke that would have unstable high explosives, long defunct tritium and oh, those were strategic missiles, weighed in at at least a half ton to a ton. And I actually have had my hands literally on a nuclear warhead. I started my military career in Pershing missiles. Thus far, the overhwelming majority of "drones" shown in videos online have been either passenger aircraft or helicopters. Most, requiring watching the extended video to see the autofocus finally overcome oversaturated sensors to actually focus on the point source that's the navigation lights. Then, one sees a tail stabilizer, skids, a canopy or wingtip beacons and tail logos. Telling though is the mythical warheads are from Ukraine, not any of the other republics. Who is Russia a bit miffed with this week and looking for an excuse to escalate to literal nuclear weapons - per Putin's own words? And no, they're also not mythical Soviet suitcase nukes, if they brought those into the US, we'd have done the same to them and we'd both have forests littered with really, really expensive paperweights that are toxic as all hell, with unstable explosives, as radiation and RDX are incompatible. That's one of the reasons for our bomb modernization program, the other being some other components that also have degraded.
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  5140. Which would mean, the SCOTUS would have decided that the Constitution is unconstitutional.
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  5141.  @edwardcunha1629  we had an assigned vehicle, so no junkyard derby rides for us, just goat avoiding radar equipped stick out like a sorer thumb rides. Didn't get into town much, usually we were a bit farther south or if bad luck was upon us, a ways to the east, in Navy world (hell of a thing to do to Army types!). Pretty much just hit the hotels when we got tired of drunk monk and wanted some fire water. Then, RTB and fart up cluville. They still have that no sandals policy there?
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  5142.  @rebevera3699  well, other than the small minority of the nation that are his religious camp followers, that makes it unanimous in having no use for him any longer. Not even for spare organs.
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  5143.  @takashishin8282  well, once they got used to dismounting, air burst artillery cleans them out. They adapt, you adapt.
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  5144. Oh, but they're under perpetual audit, due to the god-king's immortality. Or something.
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  5145.  @RicoSuave20242  I'm unconvinced that he'll survive this term, given his last physical results being obviously written by his press secretary and well, they don't perform a cognitive assessment in a vacuum and his vacuous responses to questions about said cognitive assessment. Seriously now, a "pretty test"? The porch lamp is lit, but there ain't nobody home.
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  5146. @ well, no-fly except for him.
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  5147. Next up, he'll prohibit K-12 education on advanced neurological surgery. While it continues to rain burning aircraft around our ears and food is under armed guard.
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  5148.  @livenhfree  and why it was effective enough to prevent malfeasant access. Got ya. When I pull out the big words for a change, do fear. I love being underestimated and I'm literally battle proven enough to make my own generals fear my response.
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  5149. Anyone who could dream up the Caddilac 8-6-4 abomination is doomed to hell's junkyard.
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  5150. It's BoA, good for taking, never paying. Upside is, FDIC insures the CD, so one can get the federal government involved. Although, by now federal investigators and BoA executives are on a first name basis... Our eldest had a problem with BoA during their robo-signing scandal. They were making moves to foreclose, despite her honest efforts to remain current, usual BS delay tactics. I contacted the VP of the bank directly, which quite shocked them at my even finding a direct contact method. A hint: Never piss of an information security professional. We've learned every trick in the book and a few tricks not in the books to find out information and utilize it, as we have to defend against such things. Long and short, they began dealing in good faith again, nary a problem since. Which saved me a trip and some time infiltrating their building and knocking on an office door... One of my fortes, infiltration. I don't fight often, but I'll admit to fighting dirty. In my initial contact, confirming the office physical address and suite number, in that specific case. And the last thing in the world that an executive wants to hear inside of their own office is, "You've been served" and a packet dropped on his or her desk. Phase 2 being initiating a PR nightmare campaign. Investors really hate those kinds of things and they're quite timid creatures, rendering executives quite timid as well.
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  5151.  @Z_Syndicate  it's nonsensical that politicians are paid for as well, they're only rentals - until the next campaign, then the next payment is due. And such a large commission, so many investigators, yet all remained silent about the Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens or whichever other conspiracy theory is currently in vogue. My earliest memory was mom sitting me in front of the television, saying "Watch him, he's the President and he's important", while she pulled the curtains down to launder them. The memory being of JFK being shot. Needless to say, those curtains never did get laundered that day.
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  5152. We don't exile citizens and he became a US citizen long ago. So, his naturalization would have to be revoked first. Won't happen though, that'd lose his money to the god-king.
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  5153. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Why do you hate your Constitution so much?
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  5154. Jesus was hired by the DOJ? Funny, wasn't in my staff briefing upstairs!
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  5155. So, YouTube does not allow video. Got it. It makes fake become real far easier! Nice commercial for action figures. Can you get me some inaction figures next? You know, figures depicting hurry up and wait. ;) I'll just get my coat...
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  5156. Really want to have your head spin? Consider the congestion costs of all hazmat traffic now diverting to the only remaining bridge that can carry hazmat over the harbor or the cost of bypassing Baltimore entirely. I used that bridge as part of military convoys that carried fuel and explosives, diversion would cost even more, carry hazardous cargo closer to residential neighborhoods and diverting around the city even more in fuel and time costs. It's a tragic case that illustrates that Murphy was an optimist when he spoke Murphy's Law.
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  5157. Just remember the movie when anyone asks you to invest in anything Hollywood. Back when I was actually able to earn money, I kept a nice bag of dildos, just to deliver to a few worthy investment seekers. When contacted to see if I'd invest, I'd mail the package with suckage instructions. I remain mystified as to why the state department keeps refusing my employment applications... And yes, my eyes are brown for a damned good reason. But, I have actually been tempted to actually follow through on just that. I remember two popular series that got cancelled, despite having excellent ratings and hence, earnings. Why? The producer's wife didn't like the programs. That capricious of a management system does not require my financial support.
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  5158.  @andrewwood6285  enjoy your Flavor-Aid with special almonds. Democracy isn't a suicide pact, it's a society with rules and laws. As for the OP, he's not ordered anyone directly killed, save one Iranian general. Before holding office, well, he's much too big of a coward if someone would miss an intended target.
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  5159. Didn't know of the fracture problem. Whoinhell ignores a quarter inch deep crack in a wing pivot?! Glad that they fixed the problem though, even if the Queer model got replaced long after. Taking the gold cockpit along for the ride... ;) Did I give away my age there by a lot?
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  5160. So, if I get his illogic, all Clint Eastwood films are "so called American" films, because something foreign was in each one or used in each one, maybe a German lens, Japanese film, foreign actor? Now I know what such interviews are done split screen from distant locations, to prevent the interviewer from throttling such interviewees.
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  5161. I agree, the more rapidly engaged with precision by small fire teams that are appropriately armed, the greater the impact that they will have. If a full on WWII blitz style attack were met that way, they'd have been immobilized and chopped to ribbons in days at a division to army level! As the Finns taught the Russians during the Winter War. Catch them in the woods, where their already restricted vision is heavily limited, nail their iron coffins shut with them inside, welded with their own fuel and munitions. For a column, find a pinch point, where terrain keeps them on the road, pop lead and trail, take your time with the rest.
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  5162. Now, try that same experiment to see wobble in a vacuum chamber and see how the wobble isn't as severe. Now, find some old laserdiscs and do the same thing. Thicker, more massive, stronger and those have killed technicians working on them after the tech removed the cover and guard assembly.
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  5163.  @dougm7744  what trouble did they have this time? How many shots did the guy fire at Trump again, other than none? But, we do need better security in schools, where people can't just walk in with firearms - especially a damned yard long steel barreled rifle. And parents need to stop giving kids firearms as if they're toys. Dad got me a gun when I was a teen hunter, he locked it up with his in the gun safe. Hell, didn't learn where he kept the keys until I was 30! And had my own safe with firearms secured in it. That all said, this is a false equivalence. The Former Presidents Act requires former presidents to have Secret Service protection for life. So, you're objecting to the existence of a codified law being enforced. Presidential candidates also receive protection and have had that protection for generations. Finally, no school kids have taken pot shots at Trump or any other former president.
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  5164. Can't continue indefinitely, given the amount of rare earths used to make modern products.
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  5165. I was going to mention that different regions of the island have different aents and I have no clue whatinhell it is that's spoken in Liverpool. ;)
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  5166.  @davepage1151  if you're from anywhere distant from Liverpool, that isn't very apparent to the ear. ;) Don't get me started on what is spoken in the mid-Appalachian regions... Get someone started emotionally there, what is said sounds strangely akin to what one would hear issuing from a badly strangled cat. And my area of birth and upbringing refers to H2O coming from a spigot and what comes out is warder.
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  5167.  @missygilly9917  obviously, Trump's people managed to buy CNN off.
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  5168. When the porcelain is unworshiped for too long...
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  5169. Given that the god-Trump daffynotion of deep state is the Civil Service, so the Civil Service assassinated their leader? You forgot to bring in the space alien connection. Where the space aliens blew up JFK, destroying the earth and we're all dead, so STFU and respect the dead already!
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  5170.  @hierophant369  that proves that you're part of the souper seekrit plot! Or something. All questions are designed to be asked in an inquisition only manner, so that all answers are considered incriminating. Therefore, you must be the Emperor or something. So, what is it like to be Emperor of the brown bag lunch?
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  5171. There'd be no legal case for the SCOTUS to hear. But, such a zany plan being implemented would qualify as sedition.
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  5172. I dunno, did I mishear something? I thought Ty said something about a crime being alleged, but never named. That'd get a dismissal of charges on day one and never make it to trial. Indeed, I've never saw a charging document that didn't list statues being violated. So, did my tinnitus betray me again?
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  5173. So, Ohio can now also have sterile bacteria cultures. Yay, good job in turning one state into Bizarro World, where opposites are true. Bonless is bony, sterile is thriving with pathogens, dead is alive, so nineteen eighty-four! And noon is midnight.
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  5174. So, seeding is illegal if the observing LEO is stationary. Gotya. Murder is illegal only if the LEO sees you killing someone, totally cool. Good job, court! Legalized at the bench most crimes. I do wonder how much it cost the driver... Still, since law enforcement didn't witness Machine Gun Kelly killing, he is now lawfully innocent in that farce of a state that thinks it overrules the Constitution. After all, if officers encountered him with only revolvers, he'd have gone free.
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  5175. Dunno, took apart his Baby Ben alarm clock when I was 8, fully dismantled, then reassembled it. Recoiling the mainspring was a bit of a bear, but when I was done, it kept better time than before. Told him a week later... He asked me what I would've done if I couldn't put it back together and I replied that made no sense, as there was only one way it could go back together - the way that it was and worked. Still, there are some things that you just do have to break to verify the contents. You can ultrasound and x-ray a geode all year long, eventually you'll have to open it up to confirm the contents.
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  5176. Entertaining, Bannon going on about indentured servants and their getting paid, when indentured servants were not paid, any labors went toward their indenture only. As for the throttled "offenders", they offended and violated the fiat laws of President Musk, VP Trump fully supports his master and President, as he's been paid to do.
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  5177. Well, they had to. They had anarchists on one side, communists on another and fascists on another, people were flat out running out of sides to turn to, so had to learn how to winnow out the bullshit from reality.
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  5178. With IVF, it's obvious that the parent(s) wanted at least one child. Now, parents get a freezer bill for the remainder of the life of their now perpetual and bankrupt estate. So, what happens when the parents die, the estate is bankrupt and there's nobody to pay for the freezer storage space? Is the hospital now required to buy warehouses to fill with freezers, to perpetually grow until Alabama no longer has room for the populace, due to all of the embryo warehouses?
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  5179. Perhaps we should, as a world, chip in and ship him to a new colony on Venus...
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  5180. Not a lot of easily reachable rocks in that area of Florida, so maybe we should listen to the National Weather Service about evacuation, rather than the Jesus character construction service. Because, your minister should've made it clear to you, he wasn't speaking about building construction, but about building one's character based upon scriptural guidance and faith.
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  5181.  @cynvision  Easter's date rolls, based off of solstice and lunar calendars. The transgender visibility day was started in 2009 and has a fixed date. The next time it'll fall on Easter will be around 2089. I'm sure it'll be Biden's fault then too.
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  5182. Which is one reason I stopped buying Macs.
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  5183. It's preparing the grounds, first undermine the authority of Congress to pass laws. Then, declare the Constitution unconstitutional because of the fourteenth amendment.
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  5184. @mr.m.o.g.o.m. who is we, as you are obviously not a native English speaker. While we're at it, can you explain to everyone where Prussia was and its current name?
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  5185. Whatever are you talking about? Mass deportation worked - at getting crops to rot in the fields unpicked. Meat shortages, as the slaughterhouses were raided and shut down with not enough employees, the animals euthanized and disposed of as they couldn't feed them. And Trump is a godly god-emperor wannabe, worshiping himself. I'm amazed he didn't issue a decree when he was in office requiring church steeples to have a giant Trump sign made of gold installed. And he's as godly, in a Christian way as well, nothing, living the antithesis of everything Christ spoke of. Indeed, he actually made public comments that the Almighty was a sap for allowing his kid to be killed and went on about how he'd never have allowed that. I met him at a Chamber of Commerce do back around 2000, where he was a guest of honor. All subjects of conversation had to be about him, he was flush bragging about his several year old "success" in filing for bankruptcy for his casinos, which in a room full of business owners, generated Guinness level numbers of eyerolls, total boor of the party. The following year, there was a 95% attrition for that event. At least then, when he spoke, the sentences were cogent. Not what we see at his campaign rallies today, where word salad is served up about his incessantly losing court cases. A hint for Donnie, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time". Still, he is a champion shot, never before has anyone scored so high in the NRA foot shooting competition!
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  5186.  @MarkusMöttus-x7j  it's not even as long as the US Constitution, which is a short document. Lemme guess, you don't read books or magazines either, preferring low to no information?
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  5187.  @KAREN-y5j  if Congress subpoenas volume 2 and she refuses it, she's violated the cornerstone of our pillar of checks and balances. At that point, she'd be abrogating the Constitution in its entirety and be in contempt of Congress. Fastest path for Congress, reallocate the judicial branch's entire budget down to $0.99 for this fiscal year until the judicial branch decides to be bound by the Constitution and laws. No security, since the judicial branch wouldn't have the budget to pay for security. No utilities in the courthouse. No courts in session, due to their being defunded. Downside, that'd give Trump cause to declare an emergency and martial law, since the courts could no longer hold session - per SCOTUS under Lincoln (specifically, against Lincoln's wanting to declare martial law in Illinois because of the Confederate POW camp there). History and laws, both weapons as powerful as anything military.
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  5188. He was a sonarman, those aren't issued without a baked in TS clearance. His ancient military ID also qualified as a REALID. But, it'd be expired and that makes him unborn or something. Hell, I'd have a triple tough time getting that damned ID today after a few moves. Frankly, Reconstruction should've gone on for at least a century. Given the US government certified him and Tennessee is now usurping citizens rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.
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  5189.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  his biggest problem is, alas, a common one. A loose nut behind the wheel.
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  5190.  @herbie_the_hillbillie_goat  mail voting was used continuously for the military, hasn't changed since the Constitution was ratified. Drop boxes were common always, as farmers didn't come in to vote when polling places in town were open, something about daylight and fields. Oh I know, the sun took time off just for the farmers to vote! Or didn't landed farmers have the right to vote?
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  5191. You are suffering from a fallacy. Lawyers never have to believe what their client says. They have to represent their client to the best of their ability and in Trump's case, provide the best possible defense that they can provide. Nothing less than the Constitution demands it. However, an attorney also may not lie to the court or be unethical in many, many ways. So, one can spin things, one cannot allow perjury. Rudi and many of Trump's other convicted sycophants failed, in that they lied under oath, evaded taxes and more, resulting in their downfall. That said, there are some cases that are just such turkeys that the best defense possible remains shitty. Welcome to Trump World!
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  5192. Lawyers won't take the case, seller won't support the warranty, manufacturer ignores warranty, customer rents helicopter and delivers returned merchandise from 5000 feet... Sears Kenmore appliances were never made by Sears. They were name brand, wearing the Kenmore badge. LG has an apparent run of bad compressors. GE had a problem commonly called black powder syndrome, bad compressors degrading years ago. The difference being, GE covered under their warranty, LG ignoring their warranty.
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  5193.  @ogi197  he's already literally applied the Groucho Marx defense, "Who are you gonna believe, your ears or me?". They believe him over their own eyes and ears.
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  5194. Well, there is one upside. There were no mythical militias out hunting FEMA workers. More conspiracy theorist unworkable conspiracies. If FEMA and local authorities couldn't get around, howinhell were militias getting around? Borrowed Harry Potter's magical flying broomstick?
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  5195.  @ADZ01982  China has long had its own problems. They cater to the interests of the industrialized trade centers, the rural agrarian regions grow frustrated. Then, they cater to the agrarian regions, the industrialized trade centers grow restive. So they swing back and forth, hoping to keep their half dozen flaming chain saws properly juggled in the air.
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  5196.  @JargonGigantus  Bill said it himself, what every scientist on the planet has said for generations, hurricanes are heat engines. Obviously, engineers don't know anything about heat engines, heat is magic. It needs Harry Potter's magical screw stick to make them work, not heat moving to cold. The laugh is, big oil is literally using the same tactics that big tobacco used in the 1960's to try to curb any legislation against smoking, because smoking is good for you and CO2 is totally safe too - ignore the fact that submarines have to monitor and scrub it away or their crews suffocate. Or that even plants will suffocate if the CO2 is too high. Something also known for well over a century.
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  5197. I personally know some reenactors. Oddly, they're well aware of that fact and use their reenactment to remind others as well. So, why is reenacting history to remember it bad?
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  5198. And more useful, as one can grow them to shape and thickness desired. Optical diamond windows are now commonly available and used for high power microwave device windows and more.
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  5199.  @soup31314  OK, the US is being invaded. POTUS can't declare war, so he sits by idly waiting for Congress to come back into session and declare war and authorize hostilities. Great idea! The Big One hits California, the state is in ruins and burning, but the POTUS doesn't have the money or authority to send in help, see the above example of waiting for congress to come back into session to act. Those are emergencies and POTUS is authorized by law to issue emergency orders, as well as executive orders necessary in order to run the country in general. A real world example, beyond the GWOT, was FDR, who sent help to Pearl Harbor, despite not having the money issued by Congress to do so, but then asked Congress to declare war and authorize the funding of his response. Now, in this case, it's a copyright law case and like it or not, copyright law is a real thing and copyright law treaties are ratified treaties, to which the Constitution states simply, "Ratified treaties are the law of the land", making ratified treaties subservient only to the Constitution itself, which is ultimate in authority. The judge issued a default judgement, as the defendants didn't appear before the court and issued relief to the plaintiffs. I strongly suspect that the reporting is in error, as SDNY does not speak for the nation, as there are many, many other districts and 11 circuits. So, an order to remove the .com registration goes to Verisign, who owns that top level domain, who ignores the order, as they're under the 4th circuit, Eastern District of Virginia. For the .tv address, the people of the sovereign nation of Tuvulu would simply laugh and shake their heads in confusion over how a US district court could order another nation around without a means of enforcement and just go about their daily lives, as I highly doubt that the US Navy would even want to bother finding that island and enforce a court order that would be legally an unlawful order. ISP's in my home Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would simply circular file the order, as we're under the 3rd circuit, Central District of Pennsylvania and hence, not under the jurisdiction of SDNY. They could order their personnel to blackhole the domain, save that that violates an international treaty on the internet, would require them to acquire a blackhole server, pay someone to configure and install it, then pay someone to block that domain and hope like hell it doesn't block all traffic, destroying their business and hence, unenforceable.
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  5200.  @matrix-teknologies  one can typically find the quality of an argument just in how it's laid out. In this case, de facto is two words, not Defacto, which isn't a word in any language. If you get that wrong, then go into a rant, you really lack any point, otherwise you'd provide an example. Qualified immunity has existed for a long time, specifically, since 1967 and limited immunity to qualified, rather than absolute immunity or sovereign immunity. Immunity was needed in order to perform one's duties, but qualifying it limited it to certain conditions and specifications that can be removed for cause by a court of law. Oh, for the record, you obviously fail to even understand the most elementary of concepts. De facto means "in fact/by deed", it has a partner called de jure, meaning "by law" and decidedly does not suggest "in theory" or a capricious act by a court, but a policy for a specified reason that permits the operation of both law enforcement, government agents, agencies of the government and the courts, lest all be tied up incessantly with litigation because they performed their duties as assigned to them by law, but could also be stripped if they abuse their position of trust.
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  5201. The Ramans do everything in threes.
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  5202. That could run afoul of some state laws on destructive devices. If they were muzzle loading black powder cannon replicas, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, the BATFE doesn't consider them destructive devices, but some states still do. Just looked it up, Pennsylvania prohibits such, which makes sense, as muzzle loading cannon were used against churches during the religious warfare in Philadelphia during the Nativist Riots. 50 states, 50 entirely different criminal codes to contend with. Not to mention that the bullet shields would have to be upgraded to armor plates of significant thickness.
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  5203.  @nadinabbott3991  which is something that I do daily. :)
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  5204.  @twain103 fair point, the proper background would've been the toilet tank, to reflect how full of shit she is. She's a fine example of why inbreeding is bad.
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  5205. Where they've always been, the wealthy's checkbooks.
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  5206. Now now, he obviously didn't lie to FBI agents. He unknowingly took photographs of classified documents, then unknowingly selected De Alavars address, then unknowingly selected send and obviously, any text that he sent with that was unknowingly typed in and sent. Yeah, false statements to a federal investigation, another felony. Dude is obviously going for prison until the sun completely goes out and cools.
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  5207.  @joser3184  well, it'd be God Save the King now. And helping us helped France with what essentially was a cold war with the UK at the time as well. It was quite mutually beneficial, especially when the French warships arrived with supplies and arms.
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  5208. Well, the electoral college system was created under the notion that the populace was too ignorant to choose a President wisely. Given TFG as their choice, I actually rather agree. Maybe the ancient Athenians had the right of it, now allowing the idios to vote, so only educated land owners could vote.
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  5209. Trump couldn't even pay his own bond for his own appeal. Had to have someone else do it, with initially phony paperwork that was rejected twice. And he apparently isn't worth President Musk's time, so he'll definitely not be worth VP Trump's time.
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  5210.  @JaneJetsin  one can find a religion ridiculous, absurd, stupid beyond belief, but when faced with a true believer with explosives and a gun, ignoring the foolishness is a guaranteed way to ensure one wins a Darwin Award.
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  5211. Always remember one deficiency in testing Schrödinger's catbox thought experiment. One cannot find willing observers on whether or not the box stinks. I'll just get my hat... I have learned one critical thing about reading papers from any field. Wait for peer review, it safes a hell of a lot of time that would otherwise be wasted on drivel that's not only not right, it's not even wrong. I am not trying to lose weight. I'm actually just trying to find the earth less attractive to me. My hat, please?
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  5212. And alas, far too many turned into this kind of exhibit. Burned out, hateful because they’re frightened and just not only not right, but not even wrong. And MLK was no more a Republican than I am a unicorn. He didn’t blindly support either party and remained silent as to his voter registration, but decried both parties lack of faithfulness to the Almighty.
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  5213. Already saw them, long ago. Yeah, wasn't pretty at all, the microscopic was ugliest, but least recognizable for those unfamiliar with what normal blood and cellular samples look like.
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  5214. Ain't it wonderful to have a workshop the size of a warehouse. And likely ignore the anvil use by the jeweler.
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  5215. Gotta save money by hijacking a Constitutionally named agency, guess the interstate system also gets sold off, as those are under postal roads. Then, the US government has to hire tens of thousands of classified document couriers, as the USPS carries via registered mail classified documents and parcels up to secret. "Save money" by spending 100 times more and for an agency that's not executive branch.
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  5216. Stop being silly, conspiracy theorists are real! Birds aren't real! I'll just get my hat...
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  5217. The standard was the problem. Surviving three consecutive hits from a 7.52x51 NATO AP round to the same location. Worse, the Dragonskin plates migrated under normal field conditions, due to adhesive failure at higher temperatures. Hence, when it was hot and nasty, which is the nicest description one can give to summertime conditions in most of Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceramic plating would start to slide down inside of the vest, removing the protection. If it took a hit and hadn't come loose yet, it did after a hit, leaving that area unprotected for subsequent hits. That wasn't a problem with SAPI plates (which had their own problems, necessitating a recall and replacement with ESAPI plates). Of course, we all want that which doesn't exist, a vest that stops at least up to .50 BMG AP/whatever, weighs as much as a single ply MRE toilet paper sheet, breathes like a t-shirt.. :/ Alas, currently, all are made of one form or another of unobtainium - the engineering catchall for shit that is currently far outside of our technological capabilities. Like transparent aluminum was, until aluminium oxynitride was discovered.
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  5218.  @majermike  there's also direction, internal overpressure is unusual, but tends to relieve through windows blowing out. External considers windows failing, but whole surface burden remaining and window failure not having much relief due to the pressure wave having nowhere to go through to. Still, 3-12 psi is insanely low - if you're talking about a bunker. ;) Although, as I recall, loads are calculated in psf, not psi and consider lift for roofing, as well as positive and negative pressures for walls.
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  5219.  @majermike  true, you can convert between units, but as an example, 32 psi comes out to 4608 psf, whereas 30 psi comes out to 4320 psf, a bit of a loss of precision. Of course, that's a bigger deal in large structures, compared to single family dwelling sized structures, doesn't account for gusts and going into resonance effects, therein lies the pathway to migraines. I'm only glad what I had to keep upright was that way until we launched the rocket, but that was only as a hobby. Although, if it collapsed after ignition, well, more interesting things can happen than a collapse.
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  5220. Equally dangerous, the "deep state" bullshit, as that's actually the Civil Service. The folks that keep the wheels spinning on the cart between sessions of Congress and administrations. And send disaster relief during the chaos that are disasters. We require both for a healthy republic to remain viable.
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  5221.  @sam-by6sq  granted, his medical videos are "Goobered" down by a lot, but are on target, if not accurately following the original, fatal cases. And telling, I see no medical diagnosis or treatment videos in your playlist. I've actually treated patients in extremely grave condition, stabilized them, kept them stable until they could arrive at a location to receive definitive care and once, had a nightmare of a 12 hour delay that required medications sufficient to supply 1200 men, which had specific classes exhausted. You?
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  5222.  @sam-by6sq  yet you feel competent enough to give a medical criticism of a practicing physician. How Dunning - Kruger of you!
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  5223. He's championing a Palestinian pogrom, like Stalin and the Czars of old. And he openly spoke of genocide against Iran "if anything happened to him or anyone close to him".
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  5224.  @ld3511  take his commission, pension, public trust credentials for perpetuity and his medical license. If his state doesn't want to do so, the legislature needs to address their physicians lack of self-policing of their self-licensed ranks, as such undermines faith and credit in the state's licensing authority or lack thereof.
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  5225.  @ryanlasenbby3974  wow, amazing that I served for over 28 years in military service to this nation and never knew that the media was subordinate to us! Rather than the corporations that oh, pay their paychecks. You do realize that our history and Constitution are trivially available online for free?
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  5226.  @bethwaller1789  we are moving back into the Yellow Journalism days again, where the press reports what their far right wealthy owners insist on tell them to report, true or not be damned. That had faded after only a few media outlets got the US into WWI, due to public anger at being manipulated, now they're back at that game again after Murdock's successes with Fox and his other holdings.
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  5227. We didn't call them charges on mortars, they're referred to as increments. They're typically smokeless powder, same thing that's in modern small arms cartridges. So, they don't explode, they burn rapidly via deflagration. Detonation results in a mortar tube becoming a pipe bomb. There are plenty of increment fires on youtube, where improperly disposed of increments catch a spark from the gun firing and catching fire. Fire bad around explosive rounds, says Frankenstein. Germany vociferously objected to US usage of shotguns during WWI. They cleaned out trenches quite efficiently. Disassembled, not so much, but short barrels equals wide dispersion of pellets, precision aiming just wasn't in the cards in trench warfare when inside of an enemy trench. But, at 100 meters, a shotgun's just weight to lug around. Great master key though. I don't get the question about ID plates from expended munitions. Does the questioner think that an enemy is going to order that part number for their own usage? Munitions are tracked by lot numbers and for some systems, serial numbers. It's nice to keep track of ordinance, it's even nicer if one batch is recalled and we have a serial number to say "yep, that goes away, it's recalled". Not worth the effort to remove plates before usage and well, the enemy don't know who fired what serial number bit of ordinance. Yeah, we didn't just train once and get stuck on a shelf. We trained, returned to unit, cleaned and maintained our equipment we trained on, train with the equipment, use that equipment, rinse and repeat each year in quarter year increments of each phase. The wider the variety of equipment one fields, the more crap you need to acquire and distribute to maintain and supply it. So, six models of tank means six models of tank parts and specialized munitions for each different type of gun used. It's called what it is, a logistical nightmare, as well as a training nightmare. As for doctrine, for much of my military career, the world largely concerned itself with two doctrines. NATO fighting doctrine and Warsaw Pact fighting doctrine, with small bits of North Korean to be a distraction. Across dozens of nations, it simplified things a lot and enhanced interoperability. That got honed during the GWOT by a lot. Warsaw pact is gone, but Russia remains, although to study performance thus far, I don't think that they know or train to any known doctrine...
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  5228. Cohen didn't have a machine gun armed Secret Service detachment assigned to protect him under federal law.
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  5229. I'm of the belief that some techniques work well with Russians. Such as, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” Boy, did Ronnie Raygun royally piss off a lot of people that day! As a hint, the Russians did go on nuclear alert.
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  5230. Trump appointed her. She can't be fired, she can only be impeached, although she can be removed from the bench by a superior court order.
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  5231. With no due respect, a regional rail train having a problem, currently appearing to be due to a malfunction on the train itself or it's a magical fire that followed the train for over a mile, isn't the moron's problem or fault. Do try to stay focused and not blaming the wind and rain on him, given he's got plenty of felonies he can take credit for. Such as that wonderful Corps of Engineers effort in washing away a crop and soil, which will magic a fire hundreds of miles away due to Harry Potter's wooden marital aid or something. And Christmas is because of him, he is the Virgin Mary, whose difficulties in early life are well documented, as it's tough to be breast fed by one's father. And he's gotta make concepts of plans to have a concept of a plan for his pogrom, emulating the Czars of old, murdering entire ethnic groups that don't run fast enough. And get rid of anything that helps US interests, then act surprised when terrorist recruitment goes way up. And he's rescinded the Constitution, he's gotta be building up a powerful thirst! And he's been Trumpy winning in court, Trump win after Trump win, which mere mortals would call having epic losses of the most Pyrrhic kind, but he'll not pay for those bills anyway. And Comer just admitted to dereliction of duty, when he claimed that these agencies had no oversight and his branch is the oversight for those agencies, boy I'd hate to be his defense attorney, given such a propensity to confess! And a fascinating Trump style redefinition of transparent, calling opaque transparent. Honestly, he'd have tried to say that to me, I'd have wrapped my cane around his head a few times. And Flood, sure thing, cut what keeps me alive, I'm sure Iran and North Korea would love to learn how to design and assemble a compact fusion warhead that can fit in the trunk of a car or one of their missiles. Since classified things are no longer of importance and are marketable. I'm sure they'd also love to know where the current Congressional bunker is in case of nuclear emergency is, as well as the communication node locations for it. After all, my pain is your pain, come and get it! You might want to ask President Musk for a copy of my classified 201 file sections first. Now, an interesting question on the fake buyout is, could that be construed, in conjunction with the threat of summary termination, as a fundamental breach of their employment contract with the US government? If so, it's fully recoverable and with punitive damages. But, it's nice to know that misappropriation is no longer a felony, stealing is now federally legal, people! Mr Lau seems to have missed the Musk/Trump message, food is to be made illegal and has to be either destroyed or taxed into a range that's inaccessible to the populace, thereby generating civil unrest that can justify martial law. It worked ever so well in France, just ask King Louis and Marie, although they're probably a bit hoarse after their experience with the National Razor. Thinking outside the box, from inside of the rubber room, I'm ever so comforted. Oh well, maybe he'll send some of his thugs in my direction, I'll be happy to store their ordinance for them as I eat their lunch. I always do enjoy light entertainment. Might take a trip if that happened, say kick Ravenrock's extension cord out. Only needs a dozen or so manholes to have an odd accident with an appropriate solvent that's commonly available. Oh yeah, never worked inside the box, so I really don't know what the box is from inside, but I do know its boundaries and constraints. You'd be playing with Briar Rabbit's briar patch, which isn't a good idea. My home literally defends itself and the best place to find me is behind you, picking your pocket of interesting things and oops, sorry about detuning your radio. Now, excuse me, I have to put away groceries. Donnie know groceries, they come out of pumps and apples, from the refrigerated section. Had to top off some shelves, as with winter storms, well, I'm lazy, so it was only about 200 - 250 pounds of them, most shelf stable, some delicacies are frozen though. Was only a four mile stroll across some annoyingly irregular terrain. And President Musk can trivially even confirm the purchases and my residence. On an upside note, I am looking for a low priced, but decent dry white wine for a reduction sauce for clams in an olive oil based white sauce and my local state store employees don't know a white wine from a red. Suggestions are welcome. Uptown Harrisburg is a bit of a confusing market for me when seeking quality wines sufficient for both table and cooking for a casual meal. Every damned wine I saw was unacceptably sweet or fruity. I'll be having a chat with their union rep, that location's employees need some actual training!
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  5232. Well, Fox and CNN seem to be alternating weekend custody of him.
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  5233. Forgery, possibly wire fraud, conspiracy, perjury all come to mind.
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  5234.  @DrinkyMcBeer  forgery perfected in the alleged complaint, especially if said complaint was fictitious. An originating document contained an allegation that did not exist, but had a legal signature enough to list the innocent man. Bad contact information sworn and attested to as valid is perjury by the attorney. Identity theft involves more than mere finances. I'm aware of one attempted identity theft that involved national security information, I guess national secrets are now money? As for defamation, that's the least of it, as it opens the victim up to potential hate crimes against him and his family. Which actually opens an uglier book, the potential for terrorism. That's well within my purview, as I operated in counterterrorism. Investigate, find target, eliminate target. Call it a day, get a signed national security letter after. I'm a really nice, forgoing kind of guy in person, but beneath is a monster built and raised to defend an entire nation. To keep peace, we have laws and customs that are not disobeyed. When such are disobeyed, there's lawlessness and the SCOTUS has openly invited lawlessness repeatedly as it stands and that needs to be rapidly addressed, less the nation entirely descend into lawlessness. And I happen to be quite find of law and order, peace and quiet and things that transcend that, not very fond of, save if it's children being children.
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  5235. Your apology is accepted, backhanded and knuckles and all. They'll heal in around six weeks of immobilization, just don't coat hanger under the cast. One problem I've noticed amongst my peers and well, elders back during the ice age is fear. People grow fearful with age and hence seek authoritarianism. The worse were the peacenicks of my youth, those flowers soured with age. I'm also an odd bird, still a Boomer, not quite blooming if one is outside of the bathroom, but am an IT guru and IT security nazi from hell and oh, old SF type with a couple of damnable wars under my belt that I'm happy enough with to keep them away from others. And well, not joking all that much about a cast, my head is legendary for its robustness, as were Mom still alive, could attest to. Commanders spoke of my not requiring a Kevlar helmet for two reasons, one being legendary for retaining consciousness when all others were unconscious and my legendary stubbornness that withstood strict scrutiny. I am a walking, talking war and wars start and end in the mind. And one cannot defeat that which does not exist. I'll just get my coat... ;) Yeah, I pick on everyone, even myself and well, that's easy, low hanging fruit and all. Now, please excuse me, gotta go remind some big balls that a dick hangs above and has to urinate... We'll start with a nice, fine IT audit, both for access and data integrity. That'll tie the kid up until Social Security kicks in for Mr Pistachio. I really do love scaring INCEL types straight.
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  5236. He already showed us what he can do during COVID, when he ignored a pandemic and allowed it to spread rampantly. Then, topped it with setting up a debacle of withdrawal from Afghanistan, locking by law Biden's inherited mess. But, we do need to be careful, he might just get us into WWII.
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  5237. That's what happened with Poland and France, didn't really help their lives much, indeed, ended a few towns entire populations lives quite effectively. So, fight or suicide is your actual resolution to avoid war. Nope, the other side is gonna get that round, not me.
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  5238. It's interesting. The original detectors were photoelectric. Those were considered less effective than ionization detectors, which you're claiming are obsolete in favor of the obsolete photoelectric. The better units I'm aware of was dual, photoelectric and ionization, which are I guess doubly obsolete... And been in most common usage in commercial settings. As for lifetimes of units, 10 years is what's recommended, likely due to capacitors leaking over time and electrolyte drying out. The Amerecium-241 has a 432 half-life, so it could keep on going, but the detector just isn't worth routine component servicing beyond vacuuming the sensor occasionally.
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  5239. Well, if the first amendment is deemed illegal, then it follows also that the universe was constructed by an unlicensed engineer and needs to be razed, the engineer that built it charged and punished. Just to follow their illogic. But, to follow legal logic, if the first amendment is illegal, court orders are illegal, so is their own authority, as the Constitution is the wellspring from which all laws in the US originate. Therefore, they are illegal and have no authority whatsoever. Now, where did I put that militia again? Aw poop, I left them in my other pants and they went through the dryer and shrank... I have an entire pallet of sarcasm meters for those now in need for a replacement. Although, at the rate that some southern states keep using the Bill of Rights as toilet paper, I may well deplete that supply quickly...
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  5240. You've figured out his true secret. Trump is really Bizarro and lives on Bizarro World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World
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  5241. Law enforcement never says a word about classified matters, they're classified. They build a case when appropriate, but they don't issue press releases and heaven help anyone leaking, as that's divulging classified information.
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  5242.  @sinkpehnarossfire454  erm, having some experience in such matters, yeah, not gonna happen. Ain't happened without a big military enforcing such, ain't gonna happen now. And I passed sick of Trump shit entirely, long ago. But, I do also have a clearance and a hell of a lot of experience, shit goes under the proverbial rug. That which matters most remains, making him just go away and his own hijacked party is working heavily upon that, at their donors insistence.
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  5243.  @helenlucas5274  why would the people have to vote to remove him, when they didn't vote him into office? Electors do that. The people, via the Senate remove him, either via House impeachment and Senate conviction or Senate concurring his incapacity.
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  5244. The border isn't open for illegal entry and never has been. It is open for those seeking asylum, per multiple ratified treaties, which the US Constitution plainly states are the law of the land, subordinate to the Constitution itself. Pity you tried to build upon sand! BTW, one of the reasons we have those asylum laws is due to a ship carrying Jewish refugees, nearly 1000 full of men, women and children being refused entry and sent back to the Nazis, where they were sent to the concentration camps to be murdered.
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  5245.  @alex_p_wiidton417  President Musk won't allow his meal ticket to get sunk. Hell, he's just moved into the Lincoln bedroom. And closed USAID under his own orders that his puppet then signed an illegal EO to close. The legislature sits on their hands, the judiciary puts out small fires and the SCOTUS is compromised and worshiping the god-king. Welcome to the fall of the United States, the world wonders as Babylon burns. Well, the god-king wannabe must be crapping his pants, as the stock market he's so fond of is in freefall. I wonder what "success" he'll go for next, nuking our own cities?
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  5246. In other words, Atlanta is crooked and run into the ground by crooks. I knew a guy who always threw the dog a meatless bone, he'd never give the dog even an ounce of meat. He was shocked when one day, the dog had enough and bit the living shit out of him. He blamed the dog, nobody else did.
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  5247.  Mia Rivel  so, when traveling, dehydrate? Or do you get into a gun battle with the TSA so that you can bring your own water with you onto an airplane? For home usage, I entirely agree. Go with bottled water in an emergency when water isn't available, otherwise, go with the tap.
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  5248.  @therealvirgoqueen6553  as I've informed many a snake and well, a few goats, I quite enjoy both and know how to properly cook them. Oddly, both species appear to actually understand my point, if not words, as even the most ill tempered fo both decided to go away and leave me alone. Which reminds me, cold weather breaks on Sunday, adding goat meat to my shopping list, along with the chicken leg quarters, since nobody sells snake around here.
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  5249. Your first two sentences I agree fully with. Your third, I disagree. New shooters are inexperienced and frankly, lousy at putting lead into a target. An M4 vs pistol grip shotgun in confined spaces, the shotgun wins hands down, as does a pistol. However, I only make a suggestion. I never insist that people purchase what I suggest, I'm not the emperor. We don't have an emperor. As for an AR type weapon, I'd go with 6.8SPC over 5.56, it's far more effective.
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  5250. I still use distilled spirits for an occasional toothache, then eugenol if it's on hand. The minimum intervention for the maximal gain.
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  5251. Oh, never fear, all of those foreign governments are keeping that data safe for him. Now, the entire planet has our intelligence operatives full PII. And someone's cats are batting around plutonium cores and polonium trigger devices, one being a ball the size of a grapefruit, the other a bit smaller than a golfball and detonates the plutonium core. MoronzRus is having a government special...
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  5252. Two phrases drive Ruskies nuts. "Paper tiger", which they referred to China as whenever China gave "China's Final Warning" to Russia. So, now we're getting Russia's final warning, for the 3000th time and we've seen their paper tiger army in use, nearly as good as the performance of the Moskva, their newest deep submergence combat submarine. Really deep submergence.
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  5253. Not true at all, the Russians keep saying that all of the time.
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  5254. The three finger salute is a hardware function, it generates a non-maskable interrupt. Essentially, a slap in the face to the system, so that one gets its attention if things start hanging originally. Hence, many a joke about an OS that needs the equivalent of a slap in the face to get its attention enough to log on.
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  5255. I have faith in Trump, I'm sure he'll manage to talk his way into a couple of nights in the pokey. He literally can't help himself.
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  5256.  @HankSemoreButz  that's what they said about his losing his last couple of lawsuits.
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  5257. Ironically, a likely misstatement is quite literally true. He defended this nation in war on more than one occasion, he defended the nation from war on many more, advising against military actions that were ill advised. Every CJTF has. It's rarely mentioned, then in passing, as it's expected. Because, when generals suggest that war is ill advised, only a fool will not listen. Because, there is decades of experience present in such officers and decades of education in our National War College and their education is not in the fine arts. But hey, what's this retired US Army NCO know about such things, Mr Twinkie Encrusted Couch obviously will know far more about things military.
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  5258.  @achaean7615  go with non-authority then, ask your baker to perform that brain surgery that you need. Let us know how it works out for you.
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  5259.  @Redwhiteblue-gr5em  and that means what? If a cannon cocker doesn't get into a firefight, they're not a veteran, despite delivering their fire support rounds? Do you even think before you comment?
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  5260. Alito flew a US flag inverted, which is internationally recognized as a distress signal. Charge him with false signalling of distress.
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  5261. So, every child operating a motorized riding toy on a road, even in front of their home is operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator's license. They're gonna have to open a nursery prison. Thankfully, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania doesn't go so zany. They rate by power and speed before something becomes a motor vehicle, it's either 20 or 25 mph and a wattage rating, either/or. Basically segregating motorized bicycles from mopeds, with mopeds requiring an operators license.
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  5262. Retired military veteran here. Trump's been undermining our courts authority since the first case brought against him, he'll continue to illustrate our white wealth two tier justice system until it collapses or is corrected. He'll eventually get himself locked up, likely when property seizure begins and he calls for violence clearly against a state and county government, perfecting sedition. Because, at the end of the day, it's a loud and threatening minority armed with AK's and AR's vs mk-19's, MLRS, HIMARS, howitzers, gunships, bombers, tanks, fast attack aircraft, while the infantry enjoy the fireworks display and the FIST teams guide each group. That's less than no contest.
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  5263.  Non sum dignus  anything is more believable than the God-King, Emperor Trump.
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  5264.  @apollovlogs2700  you've obviously never worked in EMS. Maybe we should be serious all the time and all EMS workers end up decorating their kitchen ceiling with their brains, just to keep you happy with us being serious. Or even better, someone like me could show up in person and tie your shoelaces together. Might not be in a bow though...
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  5265. To keep the chains clean, never anchor. Even then, they'll need occaisional cleaning and painting.
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  5266. Yeah, that Jesus guy was totally evil, him and his old man, right?
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  5267.  @soulpower132  I've long called the polls what they are, "reading the tea leaves", albeit with even lower accuracy. Frankly, I don't really know why they bother. After all, this clearly shows how accurate polls are historically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dewey_Defeats_Truman.jpg I rarely vote straight party line, but this election I have, as the GOP needs to receive a message loud and clear that their MAGA kowtowing is utterly unacceptable. I anticipate that they'll still not listen and eventually, the GOP will go the way of its predecessor, the Whig Party, for much the same reason.
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  5268.  @Pilot_engineer_19  indeed, the best agent, like nobody's ever seen! People keep telling me about it all the time...
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  5269.  @JimCOsd55  something falsified by the existence and non-use in tactical combat both our ICBM and SLBM fleets. Maintaining such a missile would be expensive, with minimal gain beyond what our boomers already bring to the table for less.
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  5270. That's what the ATF website says.
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  5271.  @Lousasshol I don't need no stinking helmet - mine is built in. But, I'll continue to wear my seat belt during flight. The only thing more annoying than being awakened to wear it is bouncing off of the overhead, damaging the overhead.
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  5272. Alas, Ingenuity was as popular at NASA overall as genital herpes. They wanted to kill it since it was first thought of. As best that I can ascertain from the arguments, it largely came down to personal dislike of diverting funds to support a whirlygig.
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  5273.  @fritzsmith7794  Dremel has all kinds of tools to add onto the rotary tool. The mini-saw is a circular saw, the multi-saw was the scroll saw that I think is discontinued. There is the workstation that's a drill press and more (such as a router). Hey, if I need to cut a half hole, once it's completed, is it a whole hole? I'll just get my hat...
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  5274. No, nonchalant wouldn't imply pretending to be innocent. And that speaks to mens rea, a guilty mind, which is required to establish criminal charges. That leaves a defense of, "I didn't know that trespassing with a loaded gun onto a private golf course was illegal and especially when a former president was approaching" and that'll fly like a proverbial lead balloon.
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  5275.  @alhoonxor  on a steroid now, just as I was when I got COVID, which was blunted by the vaccine, so only had mitral valve damage. Now, on the steroid due to recently being diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Downside being, now I've gone at age 63 from pre-diabetic to diabetic while on the steroids. Start my biological to wrangle the immune dysfunction that's causing Crohn's at the end of the week and the research suggests the steroid and biological together speed remission slightly and recovery significantly and rapidly. And my immune system lends strength to flagging oxen. And once the biological initiation is done, the steroid will be tapered off and I'll go back to pissing off every one of my paternal cousins and remaining aunts and uncles, as by they reach mid 30's to 40 at the latest, they're universally diabetic. I've only recently reached pre-diabetic. All because I eat a balanced diet, rarely eat heavily processed foods, keep my weight under control and stay physically and mentally active.
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  5276. That's a wee bit simplistic. There are still around 200k systems out there with the Heartbleed vulnerability still present and unpatched. I'm willing to bet that if I used an old IPv4 ping of death sweep, I'd bag many, many tens of thousands of systems. Some can't patch, but far more refuse to patch. As for SYSTEM, yeah, the good old days of when I was an SA. When something misbehaved, sometimes only that account could set things to rights. Now, it's jumping a few flaming logs to access, but I've written scripts for that...
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  5277. Well, the main thing released was HF, which only dissolves glass, so not a big deal if one avoids the cloud. Let me know where to send the replacement sarcasimometer, got a shelf full.
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  5278.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907  nobody uses HF as rocket fuel or, more accurately, as an oxidizer. Just as nobody uses chlorine trifluoride for a rocket oxidizer, which would be incredibly efficient, save for it turning rockets and their oxidizer storage facilities into toxic bombs from hell. The latter being so nasty, even the Nazis left it alone. But, is in use in cleaning nuclear reactors, as it dissolves uranium into uranium hexafluoride, which is the input feed in nuclear fuel processing. HF remains in use in etching glass though, as well as in industrial paint strippers and other highly specialized industrial chemicals and remains highly hazardous. And it's a byproduct of Halon type fire extinguisher usage after the agent is superheated in a fire. Major incidents in the latter were in Afghanistan, where several mine resistant vehicles were attacked by RPG directly into their fire suppression system, resulting in significant crew losses and a major medical debacle on the ground.
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  5279. So, per the squatter's logic, they can equally move into the Tower of London and/or Scotland Yard. Both are equally non-residential. Although, I suspect the the Crown shan't give a tinkerer's damn about squatter's rights...
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  5280. A known gang hangout, a place where a gang hangs out routinely. That said, guilt by association isn't legal in the USA, only in the Fascist States of America. Where shoes are now illegal, since they can come untied. Welcome to the Fascist States of America, land of the god-cops, who can do no wrong. Where their legal immunity exceeds Presidential immunity.
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  5281. A traitor presupposes treason, by its very definition under our Constitution. That is entirely not true, as treason is taking up arms to overthrow our government and that's all that it is, since Congress hasn't declared war and hence, we've no enemy. If you abandon the Constitution like Trump wants to do, how do we tell the two of you apart? Gonna get specially colored hats to wear, like the spaghetti westerns? Try joining us here in the real world, rather than do their fucking jobs in further destabilizing things into a shooting civil war.
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  5282. As the Good Book said, "Sell your cloak and buy a sword".
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  5283.  @Tonym-ey9sl  well, a white flag and an RPG look identical to Helen Keller.
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  5284. But, but... But, production and fabrication are magic and Star Trek! Yeah, more like Mission Improbable.
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  5285. One problem with the scenario. The US and Russia retain the lion's share of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, currently capped at 3000 or so each. China has hundreds of warheads, not thousands, wisely choosing to retain a minimum necessary to ensure deterrence. Given that military targets take six or more warheads to neutralize, that's not leaving a lot of anything to strike civilian population centers. The economic havoc would still be significant, but the death toll from warheads and current cleaner bombs fallout is minimal. Basically, any major exchange is putting the exchanging powers at the bottom rung of global power, due to the military and economic attrition. The worst of the fallout, assuming a few ground bursts, a few days, the next worse two weeks and as noted, Hiroshima and Nagasaki rapidly recovered. Basically, the weapons are far more trouble than they're worth.
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  5286. If it's broke, we can fix it. If it ain't broke, we can fix that too.
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  5287. Ah, Putin threatens missiles, Rocket Man with his super duper missile threatens someone else with his limp heat seeking moisture missile. Given his drug habit, even money that little blue pill won't fix his rickety rocket. And the chances of his actually successfully unlawfully ordering an invasion and declaring unlawfully war against Mexico is one of three: Slim chance, fat chance, no chance, as Milley himself suggested, that whole oath we all take on joining the military is to our laws and Constitution, not Caesar and his mighty word salad. Shoot Patriot antiaircraft missiles at drug labs? Talk about clueless! Not to mention, no POTUS may declare war any more than he can declare himself God. Though, I'm sure that Trump is certain that he can declare both at the same time. And his go-to of "there's a caravan" is beyond tired, even amongst his faithful, as the last one turned out to be one Dodgy caravan that barely ran with a single family inside, the previous a few hundred women and children. Guess those diapers were loaded, they were so dangerous. Looked great on international TV when a certain Texan governor strung razor wire illegally on the border, which states are not authorized to access, when infants were hanging from the razor wire quite dead. God and country, burn the babies once they're forced to be born, in Jesus' mercy. Sigh: Gonna be an interesting four years, all with a choice of Vance or keeping a raving lunatic with dementia and a bad drug habit in the Offal Office. I estimate it even money he'll nuke our sanctuary cities. Oh wait, that'd also be an unlawful order and ignored. Might get a military wide mutiny though, not sure what kind of government we'd have then, but a junta would be assured. I'm sure Russia would love a Russia hating military junta in charge of our nukes, with the shade of LeMay hanging over all to advise them... As long as one American man and one American woman survive, we've won.
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  5288. That's because Fox ignores the same issues when there is a Republican in office. Gotta satisfy the boss, ya know.
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  5289. Even money, they looked at the evidence and remarked, "Shit happens". Then, photographed it, logged it and disposed of it, as I'm aware of no court that would want that evidence, ahem, preserved. Although, it's entertaining to consider a supreme court reviewing such, ahem, preserved evidence... Alas, by the time it'd reach them, it'd have composted.
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  5290.  @Rhiannon-b6k  and he's always full of shit. But no, Trump holds a tantrum only on special days, days that end in the letter 'y' in English.
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  5291.  @joshferguson3113  no, he's the best president for Russia. Someone transfer him.
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  5292. I've learned an important lesson. Never waste my time on a Democratic primary ever again. We The People's choice doesn't matter at all. So, let them vote for themselves, I'm reregistering independent.
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  5293. Most of the MAGAts obey and listen to the words of their betters and take that as gospel. In religion, to exclusion of actually reading their religious texts that are frequently misquoted by omitting inconvenient things in favor of prosperity gospel and in politics, whatever the flashy showman has to wave around. With Trump, I used to say a "straight Libarace", but given the Arnold Palmer shower thing, YMCA and the entire fellatio of a microphone, well, DADT, don't really care when he finally comes out of the closet, although President Musk might become upset with such a distraction... It may take a while, but rest assured, those knuckles are in the package of compliments for some. :P And I'm equal opportunity, I pick on everyone, even myself. Though, the latter is rare, as the low hanging fruit is rarely worth it, compared to the higher hanging fruit, as the low hanging fruit was passed for a good reason.
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  5294. You have sold me! Foam on floor. And actually being in the market for a mattress, yeah, foam on floor.
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  5295. I'll qualify my response. Got a mattress, courtesy of a YWCA veteran's homeless program that literally stabbed me a lot after a year. Yes, actual wounds, boo-boos, but nightly. A neighbor gave me a mattress, turned out it was a rental she couldn't afford, nor could I. Still figuring that mess out, but foam on the floor is an option that I've used in the past. Veterans are #1 is marked interestingly by the third digit being held aloft. And anyone with an excess of foam mattresses, feel free to let me know.
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  5296. I'm not only not buying the catecholamine theory, I'm not even renting it as a primary cause. More likely, stress hormones also play into the equation, otherwise people with hyperthyroidism would be dropping like flies. More interesting is, what evolutionary purpose would such an effect serve?
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  5297.  @DoDoMagic-t3i  that's an ongoing city wide project now in Harrisburg, PA. Watched the city slip line the water main across the street from me. A month after, the apartment building I live in had its water main rupture, they needed around 10 feet of old cast iron pipe replaced. What's astonishing is that this debate is even going on, as the mess in Flint wasn't all that long ago!
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  5298. Philadelphia, the home of the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. Literal religious warfare in our city streets, which required military intervention and the rioters resorted to using artillery within the city itself. Given recent events, perhaps we should've left them to kill each other off...
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  5299. You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it most certainly does help. :/
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  5300.  @ReadMoreHistory-v9u  the real question is, will the GOP eventually experience the fate that its predecessor, the Whig party did at the hands of much the same mindset idiots?
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  5301. I remember the last two Dyson spheres that were detected, their proper names remain asteroid belts, not solar energy collectors. For one example, in our solar system, even if we stripped out the Kuiper belt and asteroid belt, there isn't enough matter to build our own moon, so a Dyson sphere is totally out of the question. Ain't tripping the gas giants, not building a solid solar panel array out of gas. The rocky planets aren't enough matter to build one either. So, the mythical space aliens also have to crap out matter out of nothingness. And well, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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  5302.  @petedafook  they can easily, trivially figure it out with certainty. Assuming that you can raise him from the dead. You can't prove, nor disprove with any scientific accuracy someone's state of mind after they're deceased. Worse, while treating acute conditions, one still cannot. Preponderance of the evidence strongly suggests suicide, science wants six sigma accuracy. That's 99.99966% certainty, not guess, but provable by the facts in evidence.
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  5303.  @andysmith1996  wrong, or did Newton's laws get renamed while I was taking a crap in the bathroom just now? Science gives results in sigma levels, degrees of mathematical certainty, as an example, a recent paper discussed observations and an explanation, backing it up with six sigma certainty, with one's work openly available to prove the 99.99966% certainty. Newton's law of gravitation stands form - with Einstein's correction for spacetime curvature. :P:p:P:p:P:p:P:p Got the emojis now? ;) Waiting impatiently for an emoji for a droll expression... :/
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  5304.  @rhetorical1488  he did, got a call immediately from someone identifying themself as Microsoft.
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  5305. I'm beginning to wonder if the old SADM units are still cached...
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  5306.  @davidmichael1951  well, one upside was, the new perspex panes in turrets and cockpit windows was observed to be blown into pilot and crewmembers eyes. One observant ocular surgeon noticed and later, long after the war, developed the first intraoccular lens. Something that one eye is viewing this with, after injury caused by combat trauma. True story. As for being a gunner on an aircraft, well, I'm quite good on the rare occasions I did engage in full automatic, I'm happy with staying on the ground and surviving a few broken ribs from an RPG thrown fragment. Even happier to have gotten to retire. :)
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  5307.  @bladerunner1458  heh, even money, he'll outlast me!
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  5308. Well, until I can find those episodes, I'll just enjoy the film I just put in, "The Russians Are Coming". Another hysteria based film, albeit comedic, rather than the more typically tragic.
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  5309. The strangest cut was for unpaid volunteers that were feeding dementia patients in VA hospice units. Somehow, unpaid volunteers costed money? So, let 'em starve, all part of Aktion T4. Google it, it was a very real program that killed a quarter million people in Germany at the start of WWII.
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  5310.  @Geoffreydarcy-pv4mq  naw, E.T. was cute, she's just a wannabe monster that can't quite make the grade. Since she can't make the grade, I suggest staying away from being behind her, lest she run you down on her way down.
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  5311.  @markdonnelly1913  hence, her trying to talk tough, which she doesn't carry well. Forgot about suborning perjury, my bad! I dunno, maybe OAN will give her a job as coffee girl.
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  5312. Well, if one learned from one's failures, Trump would then be a very, very learned man.
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  5313.  @jimbalio  OK, have fun. Show us all how it's done. I'll sit over here and take notes. Oh, before you go, which thimble do you want to be buried in? Musk spends $20 million on personal security, the Secret Service is a wee bit more for Trump. A hint, you'll not get within a mile of him. And I'm only good to just shy 3/4 of a mile. Not that I'd ever entertain such a thought. That would be thoughtcrime and I might end up in Room 101 at MinLuv.
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  5314.  @votebluegirl  a big enough protest, he'll just proclaim it a violent insurrection and declare martial law. Nationwide general strike. If even 5% of the workforce just stays home for a week, the impact financially on corporate America would be disabling and Congressional backlines lit ablaze by enraged corporate benefactors. What's he gonna do, send the army door to door to drive people to work, while they've got no clue where they work? We don't have enough agents and service members to handle just one major city's worth of home striking workers.
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  5315. They're not Tweets, they're not X's, they're xits. Properly pronounced as "shits". An entertaining true story. One of Carl Sagan's earliest projects after gaining his degree was a military project in computing the effects of a thermonuclear detonation as a show of force on the moon. Being paid quite well to figure such inane things out and having little better to do than his job, he dutifully did so and showed just how pathetic such a show would be had they tried. You know, moon big, nukes actually tiny in comparison, nobody would likely even notice - just as nobody noticed for many decades impact flashes of asteroids still impacting the lunar surface until quite recently.
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  5316. Oh, that step with the shadow was a woman's shadow. A Japanese military office removed her remains and buried her. Too many idiots insist that she was vaporized and no, it was a very inefficient nuke, not magic. And well, that was one act of humanity under the most horrendous of conditions that will stick in my memory, given that she literally was instantly cooked by that intense heat from the heart of hell itself.
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  5317. Heh, steam gauges. Yep, EMP is rather serious, both local or if it's a major hit above the thermosphere, where it's far nastier. Animal sourced fertilizer, I'm gonna have to steal that one. I am a tiny bit surprised at the 8 - 10 requirement, it was previously a half dozen. Wiring, that's largely fiber now. Can't discuss that further at all. Or booze bottles found inside of an aircraft under construction. Boeing is doing Boeing, it's looking out for its own interests, rather than previous prestige. And I anticipate a change of course, post door blowing off impacting, well, prestige. See excrement striking primary impeller... And right alongside uncontained fan failure.
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  5318. Outbreak in Florida from spas and "botox parties", apparently, the "botox is tainted", which given the symptoms, likely is illegally imported bootleg botox that was massively underdiluted. Meanwhile, I've taken to canning vegetables in half pint jars for individual servings, as the small packages are priced nearly the same as a full sized can and a full sized can would be wasted. But, knowing the bacterial conditions, I use a pressure cooker to prepare the jarred veggies and well, double the pressure cooking time to ensure full sanitization, then monitor a the lot, if one fails out of a batch, I'll be waiting and watching closely, if two or more fail, the lot is getting tossed, the jars and lids blasted in the pressure cooker after bleaching, then reused. If I'm to be paralyzed, it'll be from paralytic shellfish poisoning and given how far inland that I am, that just isn't gonna happen. ;) Although, I have enjoyed some potatoes that started to green, I removed the slightly greened sections and toss the rest as they soften and toxins are accumulating.
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  5319.  @userunknownx  just another expression of Trump's fine fascist values. Hitler followed American eugenics theories closely and actually applied their principles, sending carbon monoxide vans to care homes to kill all of the elders, disabled and insane in the streets. Google Aktion T4. His "Final Solution" began after that was tested and completed without popular objection. The GOP and especially Trump has no new ideas, they just recycle the worst atrocities of the past, retread a shitty tread over it and call it a new wheel to drive upon.
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  5320.  @ObiwanNekody  well, there were two plebiscite votes on the referendums, the first is as you report, but oddly, there is no reference to those deployed for the second. There is one section discussing two pro-conscription brothers, who went on to serve and die in the war. Initially, violently (as in engaging in violence at anti-conscription gatherings) pro-conscription, one brother later stated "The boys are pleased it failed & say they would be sorry to see their friends enlist to come over to fight.", suggesting a change in position. A year in the trenches could trivially accomplish that change. Unfortunately, they died in action "James, Ernest, and another brother, Josiah, all served with the 49th Battalion. James and Josiah were killed at Messines on 7 June 1917. Ernest was killed at Villers-Bretonneux on 25 April 1918". Couldn't find a reference for the referendum voting tallies, which may have further enlightened all. Probably, unfamiliarity with Australian governmental sites on my part. But, as a US Army soldier who was deployed for the recent wars, I was then, as well as now, entirely against conscription. Wanna conscript, send them to the peace corps or civil projects, not to unwillingly fight and risk death. Some might even end up accidentally learning a useful trade out of that. Leave war fighting to volunteer professionals.
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  5321.  @matclairox  well, it won't impact me, Trump and I share a special encryption, 4ROT13.
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  5322. Appropriate, given we accepted the immigration of his German draft dodging grandfather.
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  5323. Worse, apparently, DOGEfuck decided to purge their records, so that personal contact data wasn't available for the employees to be easily recalled. Allegedly, the majority have been called back to work, although no confirmation was available that said workers had received their "recall notice". So, even money, to be able to claim that they successfully recalled the fired employees, they re-enabled their accounts and now everyone has a text message, e-mail and voicemail on their government phone's mailboxes that are inside of a box in the IT department that also has no employees. I don't now why, but for some reason, my mind's eye sees some wayward plutonium cores rolling around, with polonium trigger spheres rolling nearby and someone's cat batting them around a Texan apartment... After all, the plutonium core is only the size of a grapefruit, the polonium trigger the size of a golf ball. and both as hollow as Emperor Musk's head.
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  5324. No, not from the comfort of his couch, from the comfort of his Twinkie encrusted sofa. Trump needed Rambo, got rambutt instead.
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  5325. Meat sucked out of them like an Alaskian king crab leg... The writer obviously never saw this Philly boy eat. ;) Used to get king crab on Wednesdays at Camp As Sayliyah. The staff never saw a man break open crabs with his bare hands like that before or since. As for Japanese industry, I watched it go from "Made in Japan" being a massive joke on zero quality to today's might of quality and quantity. Who knows? Maybe China will catch on to the quality control thing... Assuming they don't invade anyone that Trump disapproves of... Well, at least until his know nothings fail out entirely - again.
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  5326. I said it was a propaganda ploy on day one. First, the MIRV warheads were all over the map, but embarrassingly close to one another as well. If they're close together, if they were nuclear, they'd have destroyed one another. All over the map, well, they didn't have explosives, they were test warheads and the CEP for the missile MIRV bus was rated for 90 - 250 meters, meaning that's how far off target they can hit, that'd be a fairly heavy explosives load to actually damage any real target and the dummy warheads that did strike buildings in an old rocket factory struck warehouses and pretty much only punched holes in the roofs. No fires, no collapsed warehouses and warehouses aren't exactly militarily hardened things. So, it was an OMG, we're gonna have to call in a roofer! Eeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!! Meanwhile, if they'd used nukes, most of their warheads would've suffered fratricide from the first detonating warheads, fallout drifting into Poland would've triggered Article 5 and Russia would have its own wonderful glow. And as a psyop, it was a failure, as it revealed their disinformation dissemination chains. That's like carrying a concealed firearm, then donning a frigging tee shirt that proudly states that you are carrying a concealed firearm and has great big fucking arrows pointing out where the firearm is concealed at. Or being a spy and wearing a hat saying that you're a spy. Nope, they took a test missile, lucked out in getting a couple to actually work for a change, launched their IRBM, called it initially an ICBM and it wasn't, dumped empty weighted warheads onto the area of a target and entirely missed the target, but managed to kill a kid inside of a civilian home. They simultaneously revealed their disinformation chains and discredited their own disinformation chains. That's right up there with foot shooting - using a howitzer. How do you follow that up? Nuke oneself?
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  5327. Had Love Canal been in an HOA, it'd still be giving children cancer deaths to this very day and be fully protected in doing so. Better to live under a bridge in the open than in an HOA.
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  5328. It is not civil disobedience to refuse to obey an unlawful order, it is the codified law to question, then refuse to obey an unlawful order. Any military who do obey an unlawful order are subject to murder charges under Article 92 of the UCMJ and the penalty is death by lethal injection. BTW, it's more than lights out at the White House, Donald Trump finally has his wall - around the White House. Welcome to America, the world's newest Constitution free zone.
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  5329.  @ROF-r5o  who isn't running. Try to keep up in Saint Petersburg, tovarich.
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  5330. @jlh55 the owners of most of the media outlets don't want anything reported against their god-king. I think I need to dig my IRBM out of storage...
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  5331.  @danielkame8455  when and why would judges listen to prominent persons? They are supposed to only listen to arguments and weigh those arguments against the laws and Constitution. Is the absolute best that you can offer in argument only emotionally based like a small child?
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  5332. Known currently. SecDef has prostate cancer and had an elective procedure that had some issue that became an emergency sufficient to earn an ICU stay. So, likely to clear, ahem, flow procedure, possibly ablation (several methods for that), possibly expansion, biopsy, etc. So, either obstruction or sprung a leak of red stuff, the stuff that when you run low on does that killing you thing. Or priapism. The latter, I doubt, as that typically won't land you in the ICU. The treatment will just make you think that you will. Now, you're POTUS, being asked about SecDef's Johnson... Do you really want to discuss Old Blue on your SecDef with the press, for starters? Now, it was an emergency, ambulance and ICU and all. So, there might've been some brief confusion as his deputy gets staged into position, comms get transported and set up, etc, but later that day, not so much, but you're still getting asked about SecDef's dick. While alluding to contingency matters in the NMCC and line of succession. Now, consider POTUS' age and faith, I really don't see him willing to have him or his staff discuss another man's salami. But then, I am a fan of Occam's Razor. Add in, it sounds like the emergency hand-off turned into a goat screw, yeah, tons of rug sweeping under. Especially considering, who verifies POTUS identity in the nuclear chain again? Major? Champ? Commander? SecDef? The Acting briefly in Puerto Rico without secure comms and judging by some concerned delay, perhaps forgot a certain biscuit during a time of high tension between nuclear armed powers? Yeah, the pastabilities abound, all reasonable and embarrassing and should've been handled better. And well, when you want to get out of the hole, it's a lot easier if you put down the shovel.
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  5333.  @Wouldntuwannaknow  you're used to having food stamps and medicaid available when poor. That's going away, per Trump and Musk's own words. Enjoy living with your family under a bridge, getting rousted by cops every day, while shivering in hunger, rejecting Matthew 25:35 - 46, while proclaiming "Christian values" and simultaneously rejecting them and Christ himself.
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  5334. What utter nonsense! He drained the swamp - by pumping in raw sewage.
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  5335. It's literally a last ditch before going full Republican in the face of Whigs. Google that history.
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  5336. It's coming. He just applied to the appellate court to file an appeal with only $100 million, as he would have to fund raise to acquire the remainder of the required bond.
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  5337. Why would he bother, when he's got a superpac laden with hundreds of millions of dollars that's not required to only be for election expenses?
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  5338.  @passportpropertygroup6962  not to mention that the average service member today is substantially taller than the average soldier back then, largely due to better nutrition.
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  5339. They were here, WWII only delayed the Republicans that wanted to bring fascism to the US. Hell, our internment camps were originally named concentration camps, they got a quick paint job on the signs when it looked likely that the Nazi concentration camps would soon be liberated, as Polish intelligence was furnishing allies with reports and imagery of the camps throughout the war.
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  5340. The Commonwealth loves Trump - to stay away and remain quiet.
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  5341.  @pudgeboyardee32  it is rather interesting and distinctive though. When with our forces, he was twice wounded quite severely, once in each leg, resulting in one leg being much shorter than the other. But oddly, when he was with the British forces, he received not so much as a scratch. Given the range of muskets and their lack of accuracy at range, one ponders just where those shots may have originated, which would speak to his quality as an officer. Something more likely and actually probably, compared to your screed of suppositions, postulates and odd reading compared to well, actual recorded history of both sides. And his court martial was ostensibly for doing what the other officers were doing, but in reality, it was because he got caught profiteering, rather than keeping a lower profile with a restive and divided populace. A bit of trivia. George Washington had minimal to no pay during the revolution, instead being compensated with an expense account for the duration of the war. His income, rather higher than his British counterparts. After the Constitution was ratified and he was to become our first president, he offered to do so without salary, only a similar expense account. Congress gave a collective shudder, remembering said infamous expense account and rapidly assigned him a salary.
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  5342. If you were a neighbor, I'd happily dump any I manage to accumulate. Loved them as a kid, can't stomach that much sugar today.
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  5343. Falsified ballots that were "intercepted" and mailed in Colorado were caught on signature check and approach by the county to the voters that had their ballots stolen "cured". Investigation underway and suffice it to say, the state is not entertained. Whoever did it with a dozen ballots is looking at $200k per two dozen offenses and 240 years hard federal time, plus whatever the state gets out of their hide. Now, Lancaster County, PA. Gonna be a bumpy ride during this election. :/ Hope they catch the stinkers all around and on conviction, lose the goddamned key. Good job, county clerks! Keep up the good work!
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  5344.  @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND  so did everyone else on every other continent, gonna deport everyone to Africa?
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  5345. This is what happens when you allow people to poke baby in the fontanelle. Brain damage ensues and they think that an application on a phone is their text messaging app.
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  5346. OK, you missed a cue. You went with prono workers are whores. Totally, a Jesus move. But, way to toss the first stone, wanna go into your own history? Do better, kid. Not go for the low hanging figs.
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  5347.  @saldiven2009  my father in law died literally outside of a bar. He'd had a heart attack and was leaving, went into cardiac arrest outside. Cops came, one cop initially ignored him as 'passed out drunk' without checking vitals, a second cop arrived and checked vitals and initiated CPR. He arrived at the hospital brain dead and badly gone enough that his intestines began to decay due to inertia, telling that the enteric nervous system was deprived of oxygen long enough for the "second brain" to die. The defense apparently, drunks don't breathe or need a heartbeat.
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  5348.  @mph5896  if he was making nonsensical statements, he was not oriented. And AAOx3 is Awake, Aware and Oriented to time, place and self, that's not the ending of an assessment. One can still be AAOx3 and when asked what color his car is and he responds "Thursday", yeah, inappropriate response and obviously there's a CNS issue.
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  5349.  @mattgayda2840  I'll take an inappropriate use of tourniquet 100 times over non-usage of one when it's desperately needed. Orthopedic surgeons can have a limb with a tourniquet on it for 8 - 16 hours without loss of function.
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  5350.  @mattgayda2840  a lot of that is due to military training. Previously, it was as you said, which was an absurdity in the middle of a gun battle to begin with and the training was previously, "use a tourniquet, the limb is lost". Later, a physician was at a military EMS conference and that was being promulgated and he questioned that "conventional wisdom", as orthopedic surgeons have a tourniquet applied for 8 - 16 hours of reconstructive surgery without loss of function. Long story short, the tourniquet guidance was reconsidered and between combat necessities and the availability of rapid evacuation, it became basically tourniquet first and evacuate. Which reduced both limb and life losses by well over 60%. But, you are spot on on correctly applying the thing. Although, I'd be quite challenged to manage to interrupt venous return and retaining arterial flow even intentionally misapplying one, but that's likely due to my instinctively avoiding such locations and simply moving up or down as appropriate for the anatomy. The problem here is the officer is trained to seek offense, rather than consider medical as well and seek medical guidance and treatment. Hell, I'm surprised she didn't try to administer narcan. I've heard of a few of those on MI induced codes... And I'm retired military EMS.
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  5351.  @PaulArtman  fire mission, perhaps?
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  5352. Whoopsie, a poor selection of word, company vs business. And that's your entire takeaway. Not the brightest candle in the drawer, are you?
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  5353. They were indeed fuel hogs though, weighing in at three times the weight of a steel hull for the same capacity. At the time, steel wasn't available for most industry, that whole total war thing going on dedicating the entirety of the economy to warfare equipment and tanks were considered more important than tankers - right until fuel was needed. So, the second best thing was used. As one can wish in one hand, shit in the other, we all know which hand will get filled first.
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  5354. Not until Jan 20.
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  5355.  @marjoriegarland2798  today as usual, there are one of three chances that I'd vote for Trump. Slim chance, fat chance and no chance. And I've only missed one election in my entire six decades and change of life. I've also given Trumpites something to think about when they object to mail in ballots, specifically asking why they want to deny our service members that are deployed defending them their right to vote. They can't untangle that conundrum, as if they deny mail in votes, they do deny service members their right to vote and a substantial reason that they're defending them in the first place.
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  5356. Left wing farnut, right wing farnut, wait a bit and you'll meet them coming back around. Typically, left wing far nuts go right wing as they reach retirement age and realize the fragility of their situation.
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  5357.  @AndersonCrab  more Bizarro BS vs reality. Wall street, record highs, unemployment record lows, compared to Trump's COVID Collapse, hyperinflation, price gouging on foods, rampant unemployment, rampant COVID deaths. Don't think we can withstand his Pyrrhic victories, thank you very much.
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  5358. Where idiots get lost is, upon entering private property, their rights end. Businesses are not a government and hence, enjoy property rights, but are not required to protect individual rights. You have a right to take a shot somewhere, but not on my property and certainly not on my coffee table!
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  5359.  @DustyHoney  the idea behind a penal system goes in one of two directions and history has proven one worthless. Punishment for violating the law, recidivism is high, proving that solution a non-solution. Rehabilitation, which has a much lower recidivism rate. I'm guessing that you prefer the more expensive and ineffective method, then bitch about high taxes.
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  5360. Only after a minute of consideration - a New York minute.
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  5361. This is precisely where such thinking lead us before, with significant numbers of lost lives, including in our militias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots Had the right to steal a public fixture, in Philly, a cannon from the port defense installation, then used to bombard a Roman Catholic church, convent/hospital and school. When militia was mobilized, they murdered several soldiers, then the angry commanding general ordered his artillery to surround them, ordering the crowd to return the stolen cannon, then return home or he'd open fire. Weeks of soldiers patrolling the very cradle of our nation's streets with fixed bayonets. And the Constitution and laws weren't new, it was 1844. The Nativists eventually took over the nation's primary conservative party, the Whig Party, driving off sane members, who formed the Republican Party. The Republican Party's first candidate for POTUS being a relative unknown, some Abraham Lincoln guy. The Whig Party evaporated with the civil war.
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  5362. Because the SCOTUS decided that lies are protected free speech.
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  5363.  @chive229  Christ also didn't teach people to pay their water and electric bills, does that mean Christians don't have to pay them? Or if one's a true originalist, most Christians may worship Christ and the Almighty in Christ's name, but would not be saved, as they're not Jews. That didn't expand to non-Jews until Paul's time, although it's questionable if Paul originated it and somewhat debated still. My biggest laugh is, if one searches the Old Testament, one finds all of Christ's teachings. He only laid them out in a different order in scripture and explained them as a Rabbi would and did.
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  5364. Well, if you ever want to have fun, calculate out cooling for a server room. Talk about tedious! But, get it wrong and things can get really expensive, really quickly. Especially when outside temperatures are 110 - 120 degrees F. Then, get entertained as once out for bids, they upscale the damned thing twice over, resulting in a unit that froze itself under those ambient temperatures.
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  5365. The Communist Manifesto was written in 1847, published in 1848. Although, I was entertained by one MAGAt that proclaimed that George Washington was a communist, or in his words, "a commie". Impressive, given the manifesto was published 49 years after Washington died, he must've been using Obama's time machine.
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  5366. Ah, but every state, territory, possession or protectorate share a commonality with every state of the union. None are mentioned in the federal Constitution, with only the District of Columbia being named in the Constitution.
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  5367. Discovered the word, not the reality. Hence, gave himself away about the woman he talked to having to put apples back in the refrigerated section.
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  5368.  @KathleenBona-bd9jm  what is ironic is, if this was pitched for an idea for a film script before 2016, they'd get show the door as it was too absurd. Now, we instead get to live it. Of course, it wasn't all that many years ago, such nonsense would've been properly thanked by members of the populace, typically using a sock full of quarters and thanking the individual until they were incapable of doing anything from beyond a recumbent position. Largely, because people resented the notion of entirely losing their government and system of justice. Now, it seems one segment wants pure anarchy, followed by an absolute lifelong monarchy.
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  5369. Given the rather embarrassing number of Russian sites of some importance that have recently gone up in flames and smoke, I suspect that Ukraine has pulled out their secret weapon. The heat seeking moisture missile. ;)
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  5370.  @lapislazarus8899  itchy noses are why sleeves exist. Did military EMS, what I'd end up with on my gloves and sleeves, well, that's the stuff of nightmares. One either had clean sleeves and could rub one's nose or one learned to just deal with it.
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  5371. Caffeine withdrawal, aka, migraine from hell - literally. Only, it's a global one, rather than just one or two blood vessels involved. Yeah, been there, done that, although I don't get the nausea with caffeine withdrawal, just the headache and fuzzy feeling, muddled thinking, etc. Thanks to COVID damage (mitral valve regurgitation and some conduction issues), I had to cut way down on my coffee. Literally going from a full 12 cup pot of coffee per day to 3 cups per day, otherwise I ended up throwing enough PVC's to toy with v-tach. That took about a year to finally largely resolve, although the valve leak is one that isn't going to resolve. I'll be getting signed up for a full body transplant soon, my only problem is that they keep trying to pawn off one with a brain in it. ;)
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  5372. Revelation was added by the pagan Constantine, he insisted it be added, despite it being an obscure work at the time. BTW, know whose number was 666? In Hebrew numerology, it was Emperor Nero. Lemme know when you see Nero bopping about, I'm sure he'd be delighted to discover Irish whiskey. He was quite the party animal in his day.
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  5373. When did they ban R-290? R-290 is propane. R-600a is isobutane.
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  5374. To wage psychological warfare, one first must have a mind. I've met him, he's as dumb as a tall stack of anvils.
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  5375.  @jenniferruth8613  President Musk's doormat.
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  5376. Oh noes!!! It's the Biden in the Basement! Whatever happened to the god-king almighty, who sees all and knows all, shouldn't she have detected the Biden in the Basement?
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  5377.  @chrisspellman8545  he's certainly undermining the faith and credit in his state's board of medical licensing. Note the specific words used, they're Constitutionally and regulatorily important. Article 4, Section 1 of the US Constitution important as to state laws and state licensing and when faith and credit are strained, a barrier to interstate commerce exists. That's the beginning of a case against his medical license, then one goes for his Commission in the Armed Forces, where he's actively and seditiously undermining the faith and trust of subordinates in their Commander in Chief. Sedition being a capital offense for members of the Armed Forces. Undermining the faith and trust in the command structure, grounds for revocation of his commission and hence, pension. Not that we can trust the admiralty to do the right thing for a change, they've always been infamous for covering for one another. Leaving Big Navy to eventually end up with a dozen eggs on its face after vessels playing bumper cars, submarines slamming into mountains, guns blowing up and dozens of sailors killed in those events and admirals covering for one another in every case, prompting some Congressional interest and in at least one case, a Congressional threat to defund that entire branch until they complied with Congressional will. Kind of hard to run a supercarrier task group with a budget of $1.98 for the year... Knowledge is power.
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  5378.  @chrisking5692  there's an old saying, "wish in one hand, shot into the other, we all know which hand gets filled first". I constantly detoxify, as I have healthy liver and kidneys.
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  5379. No, we don't exile people in this country.
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  5380. And if they deny registration, does that mean that their first amendment license is no longer valid? Will they next require a special registration in order to vote against a particular party's candidate?
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  5381.  @DavidSprings  never can have too much garlic and onion! ;)
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  5382. I tend to naturally do the Rice Krispies snap, crackle and pop as a matter of course. And haven't been able to hold a stethoscope with my fingers for decades, due to crepitus being thunderously loud. Gotta palm it. The price I pay for skipping lube and oil changes... I started out with hypermobility of a moderate degree. Occasionally, my fingers will actually lock in a hyperextended position, where the adductors cannot bend the joint, as it's beyond what's considered the normal range of motion, so any pulling slightly adducts them. Annoying, I actually have to do some maneuvers to release things enough for the joint to function properly, either some maneuvers to lower the leverage or manually bring the joint where it can function again. After all, joints, especially fingers are levers and pulleys that are actuated by muscles. So, a finger with its second joint bent past a critical point won't be able to return to a normal position unassisted. Downside of hypermobility with age, lowered mobility and increased injury rates, when one's accustomed hypermobility fails. :/ No worries though, I'm signed up for a full body transplant. Alas, they keep trying to pawn one off on me with a brain... Oh, cavitation bubbles usually don't pop, then implode and a bit of trivia, frequently will actually emit a flash of light. They're still trying to explain the flash of light.
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  5383. Naw, it's a sign of mental illness. I know, did 28 years. Who am I and why am I in this picnic basket and looking for some lizard that's odd?
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  5384. I'm reminded of an old strategy against our government, one originating back when I was just preparing to graduate from high school, which effectively did announce its intentions via lobbylist Grover Norquist's words, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Trump is doing his level best to accomplish both goals in one fell swoop, leaving only a monarchy that he's stuck sharing with Emperor Musk, who bought and paid for that Oval Office. With each and every step deliberately designed to circumvent the entirety of our Constitution, leaving no branch unsavaged, until only an Imperial Office shall remain, with two madmen at the helm and a nation and economy in ruin, a population that's starving and homeless and entirely forgetting that said populace just so happens to be the most heavily armed populace in the history of humanity and that as proved in 1789 in France, a starving population, when confronted by indifference on the part of their rulers, tends to react in a manner deleterious to the health and welfare of said ruler and their supporters. And this "honeymoon" ending abruptly with, "Let them eat brioche" (the actual alleged quote, cake being even farther out of reach than that rich bread that was already beyond the reach of those rising up in rage and hunger). And being defended by Chariles I's infamous attempted defense against a charge of treason against England, was, "the King can do no wrong". The king was promptly decapitated. Thus, accounting for two European kings in as many generations.
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  5385.  @tyarymynydd  the danger of cherry picking from the story. Masturbation wasn't the offense, but withdrawal during coitus with his deceased brother's wife, denying her a child of the family line, which was required under religious law. Note how the message got mangled by cherry picking from scripture, omitting sections to change the message. All, to control people, rather than teach the faith in a faithful manner. I'm infamous for going toe to toe with such abusive preachers and even ministers, I always prove my point and they then try to proclaim that lying for Jesus is good. Nope, the Lord of the Lies isn't God, it's Satan.
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  5386.  @grindcoreninja6527  that's OK, my stash is on encrypted drives that use crypto that the NSA approves of and can't easily crack. And I keep a Downloads folder called "Dick Picks", got Nixon, Cheney, Van Dyke and a few others faces in that one. Hey, go through my hard drive, you'll get a few life lessons on minding one's own business. Pathology reports, autopsy reports, all manner of medical imagery, most of which will decidedly put one off one's meals for a protracted period. Plus assorted physics documents, which glaze the eyes of any reviewer. Oddly, an Egyptian Islamic scholar said it best. "When you see your neighbor do something that is wrong, if he rejects your correction advice, walk away and say, 'God knows better than I what you are doing' and go in peace". Why can't Christians take such sage advice? Forcing compliance upon others is not faithfulness, it is the rejection of the Almighty's gift of free will and hence, itself a sin for more severe than the one one is attempting to prevent. On to lighter matters. Just moved apartments recently, along the way, some items were lost, including the charger for my drill. Now, I can neither drill, nor screw. Gotta get me a new charger pronto! Need to hang a few things, like my cane holder and a fruit basket.
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  5387.  @imvandenh  well, we've always had the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  5388. The most unkind thing one can do to a fool is to allow them to speak their mind and Elon is big on speaking his mind, in words and deeds.
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  5389. No can do, an inverted flag is to be flown at full mast to ensure it's visible as the intended signal. Along with the red, green and yellow poison gas warning flag sequence... Due to the, ahem, celebratory bean festival I enjoyed beforehand, to properly salute His Majesty all day long.
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  5390.  @bahreal  six of one, half dozen of the other. If you don't like demons, be highly selective on which websites you visit and where you get your software. And remember, the other kind are older, tougher and smarter than you - always. Hence, have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, who is about as dumb as a bag of hammers.
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  5391.  @alphagt62  the money isn't in dollar bills, it's electronically transferred to Treasury. So, it's not going to disappear anywhere, save into the Treasury and oddly, they manage to keep track of it, just as they do with budget monies. One can tell instantly when someone never worked for any government vs when someone actually has.
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  5392.  ralphferley2602  and always, the law states the duty is to all shareholders, not some particular percentage. And stock price manipulation is a felony in the US. Because, in the real world, corporate officers do care about going to prison and having their assets liquidated to satisfy restorative and punitive measures. So, how many corporate officers have you worked with over the years? I've worked with enough to make an infantry platoon.
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  5393.  @towgod3096  pity that the law disagrees with your views of reality. The only part that you got right is the last sentence, as such court cases typically result in a lowering of stock values, disinclining the board of directors from seeking legal remedies.
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  5394. Nobody else can do the weave like a DUI driver.
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  5395. And here's the fun part, which branch enforces a confinement order by the courts again? Mr President, we want your agents to arrest you, will you be kind enough to direct them to do so? Now, civil contempt has better teeth, although I'm uncertain how the levying of fines would work without Executive Branch involvement. Frankly, the risk of a very literal civil war is increasing by the day, especially when the rule of law is being openly flaunted and Congress has effectively abdicated. And taking his crayons out to scribble through an amendment he doesn't like, based upon the most ludicrous argument I've ever heard in my life, beyond obscene. If said aliens are not subject to our jurisdiction, they could not be detained or arrested, let alone be deported. I'm pretty sure that's covered in week one of law school.
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  5396. If they say grass, rice is a grass, rye is a grass, corn is a grass, are those all illegal and they need to raid the supermarkets and burn all samples? If they really pissed me off, it'd be time for some ornamental plantings of toxicodendron. Royally pissed off, I'll turn into Johnny ricinus communis seed and the entire city ends up up to their eyeballs in castor beans. And a home security system, which will include a fully armed and automated M2 .50 BMG system, all properly legally owned.
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  5397.  @EducatedSkeptic  ya got that slightly backward, he would touch the Bible and he should burst into flame. Which itself is a widely held belief, with zero biblical support, but fairly typical of Christians beliefs in general.
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  5398. Heh, the Trump bibles, blessedly endorced by the baby-godling himself, were made in China by Godless communists. Oh well, couldn't be made by communistless gods. Nobody could run the presses.
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  5399.  @stickcheck3045  so, free and fair elections are power grabs now?
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  5400. I got nailed with swipe machine fraud. The ring was eventually arrested, but they literally had keys to the gasoline dispenser heads and internally installed their swipe reader scanning equipment. Fortunately, my credit union reversed the transaction. Had another case where a friend's friend came over, saw I was paying my bills online and when I ran to the bathroom, he snapped a picture of my debit card. He then took off to Texas and proceeded to empty my account via fraudulent Square transactions in his sister's name and mother's name. That took two weeks to straighten out. Not sure if Uncle Sam got him or not, but he is a very tenacious uncle. ;) He did manage to divert a settlement from Wells Fargo to Texas, which I'm still untangling, as the state is sitting on that money.
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  5401. I'm still trying to figure out why they keep asking the FBI to intercept these aircraft. Then I remembered, we don't have any force to guard and control the air... Oh wait! We do. What next, call the Park Service, rather than those who intercept airborne threats for a living? Maybe the Department of Education?
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  5402. Huh, I didn't know that there is a toxoid for the toxin. Hopefully, it'll pan out and we'll be able to vaccinate against it! All this trouble because of one type of bacteriophage!
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  5403. I sure wouldn't.
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  5404. Get closer, that ain't rubble, it's excrement. Trump has long exhibited the unique skill of having the inverse-Midas touch, whatever he touches turns straight into shit.
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  5405.  @ivok9846  there are areas in which AI excels, such as photographic analysis - especially in astronomy. Then, there's the other form of AI, Artificial Idiocy from LLM's, which confabulate a response when a search returns a result, but the result gets delayed for some reason. I don't use their preferred term hallucinate, because it is indeed confabulation of the sort one sees in dementia patients, for that very same reason - a memory recall error occurs, so the brain invents out of whole cloth a memory that seems plausible to the patient. Worse, the AI has absolutely no clue what it is speaking about or even that it is indeed speaking at all, it's literally a Chinese Room problem by its very design, with no expert systems involved to vet its own output. There are copious examples of ChatGTP inventing case law, as one example, citing nonexistent research papers and more, rendering any output beyond untrustworthy. Yet, idiots abound who will use and trust the AI's output. Not quite even a tempest in a teapot, more like an attempted tempest in a tepid teapot, but can't actually work up any steam.
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  5406. A spoiled brat can have his or her allowance cut off and Congress owns the checkbook. Congress can quite literally defund the entire White House and cabinet, leaving only the executive paycheck in place and the White House literally with the utilities shut off to send a message on who controls appropriations. Unfortunately, the GOP in Congress has a streak of yellow a mile long and wide down their backs. And it's interesting that Musk is working for free, but gets 8 million a day. Given no other consultant or employee is allowed to have such contracts while working for the government, due to conflicts of interest. Like oh, the first two agencies he "looked into" being the ones investigating him and his company. Now, it's been incessantly raining burning aircraft from the skies.
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  5407.  @jramsey9690  the current GOP is very much like the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing party of Lincoln's day. They directly caused the destruction of the Whig party, necessitating the creation of the Republican party - a party with views literally 180 degrees away from the far right lunacy of today's GOP. Thank the traitorous Nixon for that flip-flop. History is cool, for you see the mistakes made and can avoid them, as well as seeing one's opponent repeating ancient mistakes, with predictable results.
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  5408.  @lizardog  district attorneys prosecute state and county offenses, federal prosecutors prosecute federal charges and both are attorneys - as are defense attorneys, contract law attorneys and civil law attorneys. Hell, Trump has been so lucky his unpaid former attorneys haven't sued him into penury over his unpaid legal bills. Not only is refusal to honor the contracted legal fees actionable, it's fully recoverable, with punitive damages to be awarded under a fundamental breach of contract basis.
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  5409.  @lindasue263  yeah, precisely what Jesus would say. Yep, if he was Satan.
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  5410.  @Lizzytan  Putin is to his parents and his followers, even lower.
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  5411.  @lrvogt1257  the last several ice ages occurred during specific periods of the Milankovitch cycle. Most occurred when the supercontinents were long broken up. So, we either have several disparate causes of ice ages or one primary cause and the Milankovitch cycle is the leading contender as to being that cause. I've heard theories that the global oceanic currents shut down in some continental configurations, but that's unconvincing, as water tends to keep flowing and entropy still works regardless of how land masses are situated.
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  5412. Anything for a buck, like any cheap prostitute.
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  5413.  @airmanma  given their losses? If that’s winning, I hate to see losing! Brief victories are entirely pyrrhic.
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  5414. How... Orwellian.
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  5415.  @WCM1945  never fear, someone will be calling your cell about your car warranty.
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  5416.  @juancarlosibarra3245  you have the positions inverted. The boss is in charge of the Prezident. We've now officially lost WWII.
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  5417. Not quite. One can have citizenship elsewhere, such as any valid visa holder and still be subject to US jurisdiction. That specific wording was to carve out an exception for diplomats, who are not subject to our jurisdiction, but to their home nation's jurisdiction. A hint, if you cannot detain or arrest someone, they are not subject to your jurisdiction.
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  5418. We used bombers a number of times in Afghanistan. No noncombatants in an area rife with Taliban and AQ, just erase the grid square, no noncombatants are in there. For those, we also had B-52's delivering thunder from altitude. Just think, this is the declassified equipment that are in usage, I was always amazed that we didn't have photon torpedoes and phasers. I imagine that it's only a matter of time... ;) If not, a self-cooling keg would be good.
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  5419.  @estebanmiguel6019  what country are you running to when he loses?
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  5420. She was dead when she was battered by the idiot?! Nanu-nanu. Now, plenty of ex-cons get hired, one fouls up and all are condemned? Now, please go and play, adults are trying to speak here.
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  5421. Once, I was asked if I'd testify as a witness to some mutual stupidity on the part of two idiots that I knew. "I doubt it'd do any good, I really couldn't see much of anything, as I forgot my hearing aids". He just started laughing and eventually left. Given how many times I had to have him repeat something, I think he did figure out that I really did forget my hearing aids that day. I'd like to say that I hoped that the idiots had learned their lesson, but I have faith in their idiocy. Neighborhood knuckleheads, what are you gonna do with them, tie their shoelaces together? That'd be a bad idea, they'd starve to death trying to untie a square knot and then whoever tied the laces together would be charged with murder.
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  5422.  @cherylpais6462  why would China want them? China already has nukes and modern models at that. North Korea doesn't have them. Iran might take some in just for show, but if Iran actually wanted nukes, they'd be up to around 1000 by now. Realistically, not a lot of a market for the skills acquired.
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  5423. Well, black powder is a low explosive, smokeless powder isn't, it deflagrates only, so the pressure profile is a lot different. Pyrodex is a weird bird, as it's not listed as a low explosive, yet contains the same ingredients as black powder, plus graphite, an oxidizer and whatever secret sauce the manufacturer wants to add in. Didn't they also have a bullet similar to the Minie ball for the revolvers? Or is my memory shorting out again?
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  5424. Date of first use came in handy for networks where mandatory baselining was practiced, after X time the machine had to be formatted and reimaged. A line of script confirmed it was allowed on the network. :) Another winner was mandatory reboots, per network policy and leveraging uptime vs current time at intervals enforced that policy - in one network, with mandatory reboot with no choice. Three days after being directed to enforce that, the installation commander that ordered that enforced had his system reboot while briefing his general, to much jocularity between them that I was later clued in on to share a chuckle. It took six months before I got nailed that way... :) I did fall in love with KMS eventually. One extra tool against rogue machines and trust me, I nailed them as they came along and eventually, the automation capabilities caught up. Yeah, we have our own KM Servers, we had to, as some networks will never see the internet and we cannot confirm or deny the existence of things like SIPRnet hosts. DISA runs those, which is good, less for me to wrangle. :) Then, came TPM... That reminds me, budget in to activate that second system... :/ Oh well, eventually I'll be patching it and nagged with my credit card being on hand. At home, under duress, I maintain two Windows hosts. The rest are Linux, more for anything, free open source software and easy of maintenance, rather than a half dozen operating systems being supported at home, as I can't afford my own services. I'm reminded of Omar Bradley, "amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics" and Patton ignoring all in his advance, outrunning his logistical train and well, the Russians recently emulated his columns fuel exhausted state... Yeah, Patton would've been the first to admit that he wasn't perfect. Unlike myself, I'm a perfect 10 - alas, that's on the Richter scale.
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  5425. You don't get what law and order that he means. His "laws" and his orders (lawful or not). He even tried to order the military to seize voting machines after the election. It took the threat of every commissioned officer in sight threatening to resign to shut him up.
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  5426.  @sagunsingh7415  no hablo espaniol, hable yídish?
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  5427.  @KOZMOuvBORG  and criminal charges were filed, if unregulated, no charges would be possible. If one of my soldiers violated regulations, that soldier was charged with that violation. That's the very definition of regulation.
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  5428.  @davemartino5997  didn't know that Philly suddenly switched parties! The Commonwealth's only first class city, which is by population size. Wanna re-assess your idiotic lie?
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  5429.  @jerrybrooks870  obviously, she stole new fingers to replace her guilty ones and hide her identity. Just like she did with her age and face.
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  5430.  @digitalcurrents  wow, so government ID is now just some story that they made up and simply being in custody without charge is grounds for sleep deprivation (classified by the UN as torture under the Geneva Conventions) and hypothermia. Age is simply a story one makes up, my 62 year old ass is the same as someone whose ass is 26 years old. And DHS, which CBP is part of, is so highly proficient in IDing people that literally 10% of US CENTCOM personnel were on the no fly list, resulting in difficulty deploying service members to two war fronts, then after clearing that up and deploying them, repatriating them again. Something I repeatedly personally witnessed.
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  5431.  @midnightmc3096  neither sounds like an optimal option, Mammon or disease. But, I repeat myself. A modest boat to fish from is more than adequate for my needs. Or the price of fish to drop at the supermarket, but we're still at botched pandemic response inflation pricing. But, it's all Biden's fault because of time machine or something. Ever notice that the shittiest managers always have their failures listed as everyone else's fault?
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  5432. It's also not defined in codified law per se, but given as an example in a SCOTUS decision on the first amendment. When SCOTUS examples become codified law, the SCOTUS has burned the Constitution on its very own, as only Congress and the POTUS can codify federal law together.
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  5433. Actually, SCOTUS only confirmed that there is sovereign immunity for official acts. But, we can undo that if you want and rip the nuclear keys from POTUS and assign them to Congress to debate returning fire when fired upon. Now, please stop making me defend Trump, even offhand, one off, I'd love to be able to eat again without puking it up.
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  5434.  @LeeH-n8m  oh? Is that US cities? How decidedly odd, if so, given I'm living in one of those ostensibly gone cities right now and it's decidedly still here. Perhaps we're on different astral planes, one being on the Bizarro plane, where things are opposite of reality?
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  5435. Clearance goes with the office. Otherwise, the clearing authority becomes the appointing authority of its own Commander in Chief and the vote becomes utterly worthless. That would place the military itself superior to its own commander.
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  5436. Sorry, the math doesn't add up. An e. coli outbreak takes days to begin in the face of massive contamination. And it'd take weeks to spread contaminated food throughout so many states. Although, to be fair, everything else that the man's touched has turned straight into shit. In this case, it's a literal case of shit happened inside of a food preparation plant, either via cattle crap contaminating meat or crap contaminated onions, both are sadly far from uncommon sources. Because, e. coli is a common intestinal and soil bacteria that helps mammals digest their foods and only a few strains will sicken humans. Ironic though, reading and hearing the details of the outbreak on colonoscopy day... Oh well, off to study for that test, wouldn't wanna fail it.
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  5437.  @ThatTexasGirl815  how many hedged their bets and supported both? And don't forget, this is also smoke and mirrors to keep eyes off of the Heritage Foundation, the architects of this destruction of our entire Constitution and government.
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  5438. Yeah, because search warrants are always supposed to remain classified, that guarantees freedumb.
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  5439. I miss the heady old days, back when due care and due diligence was actually required on the part of all accusing parties. These days, all I'd be telling a court is my name, rank and serial number and request to contact the protecting power.
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  5440. That'd be unacceptable, it's Pennsyltucky. You'd need to know our state and its history to get that in-joke at our neighbor's expense. Laughably, it's not far from the historic mark though, the Kentucky Rifle originated in that region of Pennsylvania.
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  5441. For now...
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  5442. And I'd worry why? The PRC already has my entire OPM record. Russia has had a file for decades on myself and my peers. Obviously, if OPM has a record that's extensive (it is), the US government has it and hence, FVEY has access to extracts. Terrorists can't afford to pay for those rather expensive databases. Yeah, not exceptionally concerned here, I'm lost in the noise and those who'd know what and who to look for to find me know better.
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  5443. It's always a good idea to taste test the burned armor, one can get some of the best depleted uranium that way for some models of tank. I did get a chuckle over the cat example, especially when she pulled out a Russian Blue cat. Had one myself some years back. Super affectionate with humans compared to many other breeds. Lousy around computers though, I suspect they dislike being around computers because the computers distract their humans attention from them. ;) Oh, we never pulled our track pads off when going into the field. Didn't really gain much by doing so, lost much traction for road crossings and the only reason I know both is from tracks that had excessive pad wear that we ended up replacing the *#*&~&@~!!! pads on. Boy, we were glad to finally move to Strykers! I was one of the rare few medics that would go to murder pool for annual maintenance on our track. Never asked people to do anything that I wouldn't do and well, if I did it I knew it was done right and I loathe walking when I could be riding or driving (yeah, even as NCOIC, I took my turn driving and TCing - preferred driving.
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  5444. "We've called the DEA on this". "Oh, OK. May I speak with the agent? Hi, run this through your security officer in JPAS." The career they save will be their own. "Drugs? Cocaine? Money? The dog alerted." OK, hold the dog here. Pull out your wallet and have the dog screen it. Don't make us have to do this the hard way, cooperation will be taken into account. "This is illicit currency." "So, the US government is an illicit organization? I'll be reporting that as well on my contact report, as I have some reasonable suspicions at this time as to an attempt to coerce some unlawful activities in national security matters." Although, I'm more inclined to just call in some buddies and run a fire mission, shake and bake until they surrender unconditionally... If more than irritated, shake and bake 2x4, two quick, two air, mixed WP and HE. Not that anyone that I know would have such destructive devices in their possession... That'd be illegal! Like cops robbing people is illegal and hence, doesn't happen.
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  5445.  @SashaFierce-jk3bxxx58  as has the US birth rate.
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  5446.  @JanJan-Y4d-6dx  no, that's only part of what they want to do. They want an imperial dictatorship, with of course, them in charge, not realizing that picking anyone else as emperor automatically puts them decidedly not in charge. It's basically a new religion with his devotees.
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  5447. See? Russia does indeed have unlimited military... antiques. I'm surprised they haven't "upgraded" WWII tanks - with a fresh coat of paint and fielded those. Once those are depleted, they'll field the newest T-2024 tank, the finest wind up tank the world has ever seen. I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  5448. They totally lost those precious metals and stones, but the agents responsible for the vault mysteriously found some really nice vacation property for a song... Not stealing though, it's a dynamic reallocation of resources. Oddly though, if anyone other than the FBI does that to a bank, it's called armed robbery. Now, investigate it properly, shitcan security clearances and charge the thieves or have that entire agency lose all public trust - along with that entire branch of government. Mr President.
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  5449. Far too frequently, the nearest tool is a 10 pound sledgehammer. Not always the best tool for every job and well, decidedly not optimal if I'm trying to change my watch battery. Running back and forth for different things, yeah, notorious for loading up with multiple things to drop closer to an area in common and put what needs to be together together. Eventually, they'll get returned... Scraps that might be useful, well, my smoke alarm failed and was replaced, I scrapped out the components from the board for loose resistors, diodes and capacitors and the radioactive button retained for next month's project, a cloud chamber. A rather small one, don't need something larger and I might build up a small cooler to save my having to run out for dry ice. Probably going to use butane for the coolant.
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  5450.  @kempshott  except for the unlevel, which formerly was on the level.
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  5451. That's a state court, so not binding on Social Security and it's a wee bit difficult to procure a birth certificate for the unborn. Fingerprints grow right along with the fingers. Voting, that's a mixture of state and federal, depending upon the election.
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  5452. No, go full Trump, all vessels allowed in are US registered ships and enjoy starvation - literally, since the major majority of our exports are purely exports and not to e diverted to US human consumption. As for JD, he makes an excellent case for disbanding the USMC. Albeit, an opinion from an Army retiree.
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  5453.  @gustavocasillas832  never bothered to read scripture?
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  5454. A WWII computer was, at a minimum, one floor that's one city block by one city block, one model was larger and took up 3 floors. People manually calculating were actually faster for some mass calculations. Hell, for the beginning of the US space program, computers were extensively used - human computers. John Glenn's first flight into space was calculated by an IBM digital computer and due to the calculation running twice and giving different results, was recalculated by a human computer that Glenn trusted more than that new fangled IBM computer. The movie "Hidden Figures" shows a small window into their world at that time. Slotin and his screwdrivers were subsequently replaced with the Godiva device - the first of which was destroyed by a criticality accident that didn't kill anyone. There was a third criticality accident during the Manhattan Project, a chemist who turned on a mixer, which formed a vortex sufficient to allow criticality. He shut down the mixer and ran outside shouting that he was on fire. He died of radiation exposure some time later. Today, we understand the mathematics involved and can simply calculate what configuration one is operating under and apply the math. No blue glows, no loud, rude noises. Laughably, Stalin was getting daily reports from his espionage network, detailed reports, but due to the pressure of the war, wasn't able to do much about developing their own nuclear weapons until after the war ended and their first designs were US based designs.
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  5455. Garlic and ginger are highly effective!!! At making some food dishes extremely tasty. In high concentrations, such as in dry cured meats, they'll act as antimicrobial, as microbes can't metabolize them and our metabolism, due to our immense liver will, neutralize them. Some, like hot peppers can even stun parasitic worms, but we have drugs that'll eliminate all, rather than stun some. So, spices for taste, oils because they smell pretty (they smell like nothing to me, I have no sense of smell, taste is taste bud driven for me), tea for its flavor or as a stimulant. I'll go with coffee or, when foggy, ginseng, your mileage will vary. And saffron tea, because it's delicious! I'll sugar and milk coffee, teas are drank neat, for their own flavors.
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  5456. I do find it interesting that the first part of the Russian action against the drone was a fuel dump. It makes me wonder if the state of the art Russian drones are susceptible to fuel immersion or ingestion. The close passes are obviously designed to disrupt airflow and destabilize flight. Alas, for the aircraft, he disrupted flight by having his aircraft get chomped on by the propeller. The last time I looked, MQ-9's cost a wee bit less than fighter jets do. But then, not my monkey, not my circus and decidedly not my fighter replacement bill. Still, wanna bet Russia eventually tries to blame the drone for darting out in front of the fighter jet? Right up there in credibility with the train that darted out into traffic...
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  5457.  @ikengaspirit3063  yep, modern technology has really deliriously impacted people. Why, now they live past age 30 and most children live to become adults, rather than having 2 out of 5 survive to adulthood. Utter destruction, that surviving thing and all! Yes, colonization fucked things up tremendously. Modernization, not so much. Although, industrialized nations are still compounding that via pollution.
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  5458.  @ikengaspirit3063  we do have a plethora of historians, archeologists and sociologists graduating each and every year from university. Documenting pretty much anything is exceptionally inexpensive these days as well, so documenting before such traditions and practices fade away or die off is easy, if we merely exercise the will and discipline needed to do so. Although, for the archeological record, that is man hours and manpower intensive, as anyone who has worked on a dig can attest to. But, moving forward is necessary to improve lives and extend lifespans, so we have to be intensive, meticulous and accurate, while still advancing. We've had many a construction project halted for archeology and that's right and proper, the project completed after the dig and recovery was completed.
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  5459.  @lizardog  ever been shot at? Ever been shot in the ESAPI plate, shifting it and breaking ribs? I have - twice. The shooter didn't get to learn to duck better, I did after stopping them from repeating their offense. But, I agree with stacy and add, it also sucks.
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  5460.  @ChildofGod4466  wow, you're more effective than the VA! You should go work for them!
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  5461. One just has to love it when they eat their own.
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  5462. And a local prostitutor.
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  5463.  @HappyCamperz5832  the laugh is, people don't understand what an entitlement is. It's literally a right. So, they want to deny a fundamental Constitutional right to their peers, because it's something that they're literally entitled to. If those rights aren't sacrosanct, why would the first and second amendments be sacrosanct? They're all rights, each equal to the other. Good job selling yourself up the river, just to rob from the poor and give to the rich.
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  5464.  @articrafthandmade6284  so, shop, but don't shop. Got ya. Won't be anyway, it's moving day.
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  5465. Had a run-in once with customs and immigration. Refused to view my credentials, opened sealed parcels, saw that they were marked beneath the plain blank markings with security markings, then proceeded to illegally open the classified parcels. I walked over, totally against their protocols, picked up my credentials and cell phone, dialed a preset number and reported the breach. Then, I looked at the lead, who was huffing and puffing, ready to blow my house down and said, "You'll want to answer that telephone", which promptly began ringing. Missed the flight, got an upgrade at their agency's expense, as agents came to investigate and prepare an incident report, my parcels were resealed properly and as the idiots were being lead off to a debriefing at the federal building, I was sent to the next connecting flights. So, it's not just with John Q that this insanity happens, they've tried it with classified documents couriers and in those cases, it flat out blew up in their faces. They opened sealed classified documents in an insecure, publicly viewable area and that's pretty much top of the no-no list. Even money, they lost their nice federal jobs and had to go back to being a rent-a-cop somewhere. What's supposed to happen is a verification of credentials, open outer cover, note classification marking, reseal the parcel, verify clearance on courier card matches or exceeds the level within the parcel, then pass through without any comment whatsoever.
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  5466. Ironically, there are two nations that lead the world in pain management research. The US isn’t one. Germany and Japan are the world leaders in pain management research. I’ve immense respect for opiates and opioids, I’m personally intolerant of the damned things as well. We still have morphine in battlefield medicine, a bit more restrained in usage, but necessary at times to prevent phantom pain. A drug I loved to hate. But then, I’m intolerant to the entire class, massive histamine response that’s it’s shy off allergy. And don’t get me started on Nixon… One of my other true allergies - to traitors. I do have two addictions. Caffeine and nicotine. And a bit of dependence of Bavarian foods…. ;) Hey, you can’t beat farmer foods! In moderation. But, for chronic pain, if the patient is terminal, go with the opioids, as addiction isn’t a real issue. Non-terminal, I’ll go with German and Japanese research. Because, “pain builds character” bullshit from the US only leads to my cane earning yet another dent, as I grant the speaker additional character. My personal go-to for back pain, think near agony, is a hot bath (around 104 degrees or so) and ibuprofen (second generation versions are less effective with me, dammitalltohell). Oh, additional irony with the US, heroin is “uncontrollable” in the US, but UK hospitals manage to use it routinely. Thanks, but no thanks here, but for those in need, well, I didn’t go to medical school or residency. Gotta go with the subject matter expert, just as they have to go with my expertise in my fields.
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  5467. The proteins in their blood literally denatured, due to the severe pressure gradient, resulting in fat being readily apparent in the divers remains bloodstream. They didn't even get to know something went sideways. The Soyuz cosmonauts knew, tried to reach the valve to cut off the air loss, but it was unreachable and upon landing, only bruising and bleeding from the ears suggested a problem. Well, that and being quite dead. NASA research showed that universally, upon exposure to vacuum or its equivalent for us, the entire gas exchange system voids all atmospheric gases from the blood through the lungs rapidly, exhausting O2 and CO2, as well as nitrogen (80% of our atmosphere), fibrillation begins in the heard, after 90 seconds, no experimental subject survived defibrillation and resuscitation attempts. Respect significant pressure differentials, for they'll not respect you at all - ever. But, you won't explode, even under 9 atmospheres to zero atmospheres of hard space vacuum, our skin is far tougher than our internal tenders are. Or more simply, the universe doesn't like you, take care that it doesn't kill you when you venture outside of what would be survivable - always. Respect a danger always, protect against it always, never, ever grow complacent. That won't get you to even survive as tame an environment as Mars, but you'll be at a good starting point. Humans have survived, as found by some misadventures here on Earth, about a minute under hard vacuum conditions, full body exposure, longer with a forgotten or lost/penetrated glove. Think cartoon bulbous hand, hurting like hell and gone, twice and better larger in size for a glove. Gene survived that mess, a few hours later, he was fine and amazingly, didn't have a full hand hickey. Just most of it. So, follow the checklist. I've designed a few, they account for a five star hangover, sleep deprived for a full month and being ill for a reason. Been there, done that under far less risk conditions.
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  5468.  @silent_stalker3687  nothing, hair won't denature from explosive decompression. But, they likely didn't even know anything happened, the pressure extreme basically being instant. Even money, they didn't get to register the sound of the air blasting out of the hatch.
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  5469.  @chromeboi9  why go through all that trouble? Just wait at a farmer's fields that are awaiting harvest or for more constant returns on attendance, at meat processing/slaughterhouse facilities. Of course, then we get shortages on specific foods again...
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  5470.  @JWSmythe  just as well. Every time we fought militarily with Canada, our troops were politely escorted back to our border. Once in the Revolutionary War, once in the War of 1812. During the Revolution, Benedict Arnold was commanding our forces and was wounded in action in Canada. Facing an inability to work his farm and nothing like a wounded veteran's pension, he sold out to the British.
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  5471.  @nancyomalley6286  I dunno, that might be too cruel and unusual punishment, freaking them out over being on an island with so many statues of me... ;) although, the idea was to someplace isolated and unpleasant, Easter island isn't unpleasant. Maybe Challenger abyss?
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  5472. I got bored with clocks when I was 9 and had disassembled Dad's Baby Ben alarm clock, then reassembled it - slightly more accurately in timekeeping.
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  5473. With equal peers? Does CNN have enough potted plants to do that?
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  5474. I've always found it fascinating how one party would choose to try to make a gotya point of "see, candidate X is lying", while both contend for the highest political office in the land, as if nobody in the Oval Office has lied before or something. "Lemme get this straight, the premier politician in the land is a liar?! The next thing you'll try to tell me is that on a clear day, the sky is blue!" I mean, their heads must be emptier than a campaign promise! Especially when they're trying to open a comparison to Trump, Mr 30k lies and climbing... The devil, aka "The Lord of the Lies" ain't got squat on Trump! At least, when I lie, I say that I lie and that is a lie.
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  5475.  @CaneFu  even money, the SOB is a Russian troll, earning their money one bullshit at a time.
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  5476. Talk about a variable group of organisms! A range of 65-800 mega base pare is quite a lot of variance!
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  5477. Whenever the god-king's minions go against mail-in voting, I simply ask why service member defending this nation did to deserve their rights to be completely voided by disenfranchisement. They lose the room every time, because it's the ugliest weapon that there is - the truth.
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  5478. Nah, we need to now build churches to worship the god-cops. Previously, we enjoyed god-kings, now we have god-cops. The right to free speech shall be strictly regulated against heresy against the god-cops. Just as the founding fodders wanted to feed their horses.
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  5479. And two men who have secure careers, should their empires completely collapse, which is quite likely with Trump. Both can gain immediate employment as poster children for the local abortion clinic.
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  5480.  @sheilaboston7051  not for quite some time, those multi-billion dollar campaigns aren't paid for by We The People, they're paid for by Richie Rich. Might be time to dust off one of France's leftover National Razors.
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  5481. I guess we'll have to wait for them to chip them out of the ice come spring. ;) Although, NW Louisiana did get its share of frigid temperatures in winter too. And well, here in S. Central PA, I'm considering hibernating until spring...
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  5482.  @LKS-1976  isn't that a federal charge? Asshole with forklift? Seriously though, thought acid went out of style!
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  5483.  @Maintman1230  my wife actually accidentally beaned me with a cast iron skillet. She then went to make gravy with the drippings, which is why she had it in her hands and the bottom dropped out of the skillet. That turned into a family joke for many years. As for telling her what to do, absent an emergency, I was free to tell her what to do and she was free to tell me to go fuck myself sideways. Worked well for over 41 years, now conversations are exclusively one way, think that the urn muffles the conversation.
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  5484.  @pennybourban3712  ah, but they have ever so many accomplishments! Why, they are up for multiple Tony awards. Can't get any Oscars, as those are for film, the Tony is for theater, after all. You do realize that creation and funding of an agency doesn't revolve around the Patriot Act, right? As in, formed under the Homeland Security Act of 2002? Or are all Congressional Acts the same thing in your lexicon, so the Militia Act, as old in origin as our nation, is also the Patriot Act?
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  5485.  @MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV  that's true of many big cities. Pennsylvania is an open carry state, save in cities of the first class, where concealed carry is only permitted with permit and open carry prohibited. Cities of the first class being defined by population size, which currently escapes my memory. I knew one guy who loved to open carry in Delaware County, he got to know every cop in the county, but they couldn't do anything, as we've always been an open carry state - but very few bother. Not much in dangerous animals here and they permanently closed mother in law season, so there's little need. Now, in Louisiana, open carry and I did in the yard, keep getting cottonmouths in the frigging yard.
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  5486. Doesn't matter if he was, he can't fire federal judges and he sure as hell can't do a damned thing to a state judge. Well, unless he wants to somehow convince the DoD to wipe their collective asses with the Constitution and federally invade and take over the state, illegally arrest judges and wonder why his military mutinies and the states all take up arms against him. Trump is like a schoolyard bully, talks smack a lot, but once hit back, runs away. He's gotten a pee-pee smack currently, at least until the courts actually collect the penalties. He'll continue to talk about coming back, despite there being no pathway forward, right until he rebrands that failure as a success and his sap brigade gleefully follows his "success" in jumping off the cliff. He'll continue to fail, as he doesn't recognize that states and federal are entirely different courts and jurisdictions and no POTUS has influence over state courts. He, despite pretending to serve one term, knows nothing whatsoever about our system of government and embarrassingly, foreigners understand our systems of government far better than he does. I'll close with, Al Capone did nothing wrong, the same as Trump, ignore that entire conviction and term in prison served... Enough said. Fraud is illegal for a reason, tax evasion is also illegal and tax evasion by fraud is coming soon. That intention has been telegraphed quite clearly. Then, it'll turn into coordination on who gets stuck with them in their prison - federal or state, for America's Least Wanted.
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  5487. Irrelevant for several reasons. What he did was battery. Pure and simple. He was not effecting an arrest, he was beating someone down. The primary reason is, SHE didn't throw the drink on him. A man did.
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  5488.  @sherryelle2242  they simply need standard cult deprogramming. Time and regular life outside of the reinforcing echo chamber environment is the critical first step in breaking them out of their conditioned responses. Then, one moved onto deenforcement guidance.
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  5489.  @Nancyk-d9j I've always said, the back of my head is indeed my best side. ;)
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  5490. Well, for a first inauguration with the flags at half staff, Trump needs to hop into his time machine. When president Taylor died, flags went to half staff, when Lincoln died, flags went to half staff, when well, every other president died in office, flags went to half staff. Uncertain for Harrison, as presidential succession wasn't established yet... Inauguration occurred as soon as was humanly possible after the death of the president, so Trump needs to set his WABAC Machine to before 1850, just to be sure his statement was correct - not that being correct or truthful ever was a concern for him at all. Perhaps we should begin fundraising now for a nationwide fireworks celebratory display for the very moment Trump finally drops dead. At 3:00, one of the rarest moments of Carter's life, painting himself into a corner and getting asked to step out onto the wet paint. ;) Been there, done that, got the tee shirt that proudly reads, "Kick me hard". :/ Trump vs deceased McCain, again making history by losing a popularity contest with a deceased person with his flag antics, then acting as if he could've denied a war hero and veteran leader in Congress a goddamned funeral. What a cheap, petty, short fingered little man, frustrated that his fingers cannot encircle his minuscule member. Go ahead and sue me. You'll get a wonderful choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule I did meet the SOB back around Y2K, tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, he was invited as a speaker of honor. He was the boor of the party, all conversations had to revolve around him and his speech was devoted to his successes, centering on a then five year old "success" in bankrupting his casinos. To a room full of business owners, whose eye rolls had me astonished that the Earth didn't flip off of its axis. The net effect on the event was, the following year experienced a very literal 95% attrition rate of people refusing to attend and the Chambers were forced for an entire year to apologize to their members and promise no recurrence of that prior travesty. Given a choice between meeting him again and making sweet, sweet love to a wood chipper, I'll go with the wood chipper. But, there is a positive note to end my tirade. I cannot ever be accused of character assassination for Donald Trump, for one cannot assassinate that which has never existed.
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  5491. The SCOTUS has no mandate to protect order. Indeed, it has no actual mandate, save its mere existence. It decided in the very first session that it would determine if laws were Constitutional. The oaths of office demand protection and support of the Constitution and laws.
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  5492.  @bkm2797  what? You want them all to be Nazis? Here, I thought we had won that war.
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  5493. Well, quite a few spices do have antibiotic properties - in food. Before refrigeration, spicing and drying were the only realistic ways to preserve food. But, food doesn't have what we have, a digestive system, which dismantles most of what we eat to chemicals that we need to survive, so those spice antibiotics get digested along with the foods that they made taste yummy. As for alcohol, good in moderation for recreation, decent sanitizer for 60% or higher (95%, not so much due to surface tension and some chemical issues that also make it lousy for extracting spices), as is a quarter cup of household bleach in a gallon of water (just don't leave it sitting around, it'll slowly degrade to uselessness), that doesn't mean one should drink any to prevent illness, as doctor mentioned. But, a bit of ethanol can take the edge off of irritability when hearing and reading a lot of the nonsense being promulgated as magical cures that simply won't work or worse, can injure or kill.
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  5494.  @MariadeOro-q7b  there is no requirement for the bible in the swearing in at all, there is no law to that effect, the Constitution does not require it either, hence your shock is confusing. There could have been no bible present or a chunk of lead pipe being held, it legally wouldn't matter.
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  5495. It's the US press, jumping at every shiny he holds up, while ignoring Musk's armed posse now proclaiming that they're U.S. Marshals, FBI and God only knows what else when they illegally enter even non-executive branch agencies by armed main force. Meanwhile, Congress has effectively abdicated and only some of the courts are barely holding him in check and now Trump's ordering his people to ignore court orders. Welcome to the Imperial States of America, where voting is no longer needed or soon, allowed.
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  5496. Why would you want our military to get entangled in our politics and judicial system? We're explicitly prohibited from police powers by the Posse Comitatus Act. Are you trying to devolve our nation to third world levels completely, complete with military juntas?
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  5497. Frankly, it's a worthless order. Trump just writes a memo certifying DOGE has a lawful purpose with full access, they thumb their noses at the court and continue doing whatever they want to, it's all how one interprets the order and memos away the legal requirements. Give me ten minutes, I'll have a document and statement that authorizes precisely that that will withstand legal scrutiny. So, the judge needs to write a TRO that's much narrow, enjoins the maladministration from making such an interpretation and has confirmation that the data is inaccessible to them at all, has no copies made, that it's properly encrypted at rest and has very, very sharp teeth if violated. Otherwise, one has a Pyrrhic paper victory that means absolutely nothing. The order, overcome by a memo in crayon, written on toilet paper. They're dealing with scofflaws that feel as though they can do whatever they want to and likely will and simply lie about it. And honestly, given I'm certain that my retirement and financial data is in that data set, am disinclined to trust any of them, especially having actually known Trump in the real world, long before unreality TV existed. Hence, I wouldn't trust him any farther than I could through the entirety of Langley.
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  5498. As a courier of classified documents, things remain the same under this decision, which under that consideration, is a no-brainer, lest massive case law be overturned and classified becomes common knowledge. Like, how to build a thermonuclear weapon. In one specific case, literally true. Since, fuccked if I know, didn't care, loathed being tasked, went on with my job. Later, retaining the qualification, got tasked rarely to convey some documents and parcels. Later, got to send such and well, thankful to send, then got TSSA halted and damned near strip searched. Fucking irony. Got a court order precisely once. Long and short, that didn't last long, the court was ordered by a FISA court, enough said. Took a day. As for my phone, it's lousy with pornographs, some of myself, enjoy the electron microscope pornography. The only thing not encrypted.
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  5499. Well, even with nearly 30 years experience in the water, running across a tiger shark, while interacting with a whale is rare.
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  5500. There's plenty of evidence in support of their supercavitating standard torpedo, complete with some, ahem, acquired samples. However, refueling a nuclear powered torpedo of the specifications they've semi-provided... Yeah, nope. We're talking about an exposed reactor core, contaminating the entire ass end of the weapon. They'd be dumping trainloads of the things into the nuclear dump area they're already regretting and simply moving the warhead and replacing the electronics for each refit. And no tsunami, we couldn't manage it at Bikini, it just ain't gonna happen. The laws of physics don't yield to anyone's politics. And 100 megatons, yeah, possible. Most of the blast would go straight into space, having pretty much zero impact on earth. Hell, a fully configured 50 megaton Tsar Bomba would've broken into space, lowering its effective yield effects. Nukes don't really scale well at a certain point. See the laws of physics vs politics. Now, is it practical for attacking ports? Iffy. Any currents, rogue waves, deep waves, etc can broach the thing, spreading wreckage, rather than delivering a warhead to extremely shallow water of a port. If it got in, yeah, it could wreck a port - just as a conventional nuclear torpedo could. Or a nuclear missile. Or me with a can of beans. They're nukes, not Harry Potter's magic wand. Interesting though that it's been scarce since certain European pipelines had their mysterious, ahem, accidents.
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  5501. Did they ship the keys to wind them up?
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  5502. I have no idea what you're on about "life of pills", but I'll simply say this. I'm the oldest male in the family to not be diabetic. I still have medications to take to keep my blood pressure survivable and suppress my autoimmune hyperthyroidism, but keeping off the weight (we tend to be of generous proportions if we don't watch our diet) has kept my glucose levels normal. Cholesterol, not so much. Even tried a draconian cholesterol lowering diet, it remained high. But then, that wasn't a Hershey bar at the bottom of my gene pool...
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  5503.  @diamondjim7560 there is no supposedly, the list was published and the investigation it triggered was widely reported. All growing out of J. Edgar Hoover's overreach during the McCarthy era. For the record, the FBI tracked thousands, hundreds closely, with hundreds of continuous wiretaps. People contacting the FBI actually got escalated in priority for surviellance. Hence, one of the reasons for the Freedom of Information Act, as they'd refuse to disclose who was being watched - especially to the "suspect". The good old Commies under every bed era! Now, the commies are about as extinct in the wild as hippies. And yes, they're extinct in the wild. Don't make me get out my reality stick again.
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  5504. Satire is no longer protected under the first amendment, which is already an unlawful amendment when you commit heresy against the god-cops. Only worship of god-cops is allowed. Especially, given one can only now enjoy all of one's rights if one has millions of dollars to back those rights up in court.
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  5505.  @Oliver-ft2fq  save that support for Trump is eroding as more and more MAGAts get pissed off at going broke, their red state benefits evaporating under Emperor Musk and Empress Trump's EO's and their jobs evaporating and inflation threatening them with insolvent homelessness. And it looks like Murdoch's media groups are turning against them both as well after a phone call between Murdoch and Trump went south. Hell, the only people on the planet that are happy with Trump at this point are the Russians, who are singing his praises after he sold Ukraine down the pike. Things are coming into flux, so I anticipate more erratic and aggressive behavior and outlandish EO's and Musk shit shows. One good nationwide general strike and I suspect we'll see support for Musk and Trump to evaporate like a snowball on Venus.
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  5506.  @reaperenzeru2165  obviously, a Metric fuckton, as opposed to the Imperial shit ton. Not to be mistaken for Shittown, which is a really lousy neighborhood...
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  5507. The moral compass that lacks its lodestone, so spins aimlessly. You know the type, they'll even go on about machine gun Jesus, despite it being quite obvious that Jesus was a pacifist.
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  5508. Odd that the military never trained us to pack bullet wounds. That was for doctor at a collection point or field hospital. We'd apply pressure dressings and tourniquets and when appropriate, start a normal saline IV. We'd split fractures, just like we trained infantry to split fractures and apply the same tourniquets and dressings. We would perform advance airway management, but then we were medics. Just blindly jamming a rag into a wound opens the wound more and potentially dislodges clots and possibly fragments. This is why basic first aid has an established curricula and this sure as hell isn't it, what was shown is nothing short of malpractice.
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  5509.  @zigman8550 as I've said the last time a MAGAt threatened me to my face, "If you feel froggy, leap, you'll get a Frogger treatment instantly". As usual, they scurried off, the yellow streak down the back apparent to all. The right to swing one's fist ends at the beginning of my nose, where a dislocated elbow awaits.
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  5510. Well, YMCA, Arnold Palmer's member, fellatio on a microphone, I'm fairly certain he's edging toward coming out of the closet.
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  5511. Donald's newest campaign theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2YOqZBSE6w Biden's new campaign theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I Our new campaign theme when Trump goes on stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qb9Y4WpXxU
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  5512. Trump, the depopulator. First, cutting the US population back via his COVID non-response cull, now his GOP is taking our current 23% decline in birth rate and trying to increase it by eliminating IVF. I can only assume that it's to make room for Russians, who he owes hundreds of millions of dollars to. Or he really does have a Bizarro mentality and losing really is winning to him. Hard to tell with him, given he's also the brain trust that suggested nuking a hurricane would make it not hit the US. Yeah, right up there with the idea of urinating on an erupting volcano would put it out.
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  5513.  @timvala7577  Roosevelt defeated one dictator, put all of the nails in the coffin for another Empire awaiting being only set for the last few nails, which Truman did. As for Biden, he really doesn't have a choice. He swore an oath and people like us and him, well, that means something. Not so for god-king-emperor-wannabe Trump, whose word of honor exists only in fiction, for honor has no acquaintance with him.
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  5514. PhD in astrophysics, so she's a consultant for the Space Force... Maverick was flying a new fighter, both a fighter aircraft and a fighter subterrene. I dunno if I wanna fire a missile at anything while underground, doesn't sound like a good career move...
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  5515.  @styrpak1  not once they appeal it and the investigation finds a causeless cause. Then, it's a valid claim. But, U/C is a state function, not federal, so the states lose money on the claims caused by the federal government and governors are already complaining that there are no jobs available to cover all of the unemployed federal workers. Dude went in and bought everything Wile E. Coyote gave up on from the Acme company and fired it all off at once.
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  5516. They're also doing this shit to born US citizens. Jack them up, no passport or birth certificate, the agent claims in court papers that you've admitted to entering the US illegally and not being a citizen. Personally, I'd start off with, "Call your security officer and run me through JPAS, otherwise we're gonna have a big problem and you're undermanned for it". Then, there'd be a fight and once a weapon comes out, my force escalation goes to maximum. I not only walk with a cane, I fight with one quite well too. If a weapon comes out, I'll be retaining the equipment from the remnants. Just because I'm 63 and a retired and ornery old NCO, who's tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. Served for over 28 years, this is the polar opposite of what I signed up for and entirely against what I swore an oath to uphold and defend.
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  5517. No, the crew wouldn't have sensed anything. The air doesn't catch fire, but even paper would flash to fire in the brief instant before a wall of water would extinguish it. Basically, all hollow cavities would instantly be crushed, so chest, spongy bone, sinuses, even one's skull would instantly collapse, with the effect of basically several cases of high explosive going off all around you. There might be one safe place, sort of, inside of the nuclear reactor and frankly, that'd be an extremely dubious choice. ;)
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  5518.  Mac  yeah, they called him something else during the Ice Age. Since the Ice Age ended, Donald Felony Trump has been his habituation.
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  5519.  @justcameron9500  a little trivia. It's hanged, drawn and quartered. Hanged by the neck until nearly dead, taken down and splayed out, allowed to recover consciousness, then is emasculated, then eviscerated, then decapitated and the body divided into quarters. The quarters scattered to the points of the compass, the head encased in pitch and put on a pike before the entrance to the city or government seat. Not too funny to discuss when you realize what the actual punishment was. Better to simply crucify him against the wall, then pull the nails from the hands and let him hang by his feet.
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  5520.  @purphexyon  high profile criminal case impacting national security? Act up, chastised isn't the word, severely disciplined is the word. It's viewed as, no national security, no nation and fundamentally, national security and survival trumps all.
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  5521.  @decaturdev7127  not a low security risk crime like financial crimes, this is national security. Look up national security, then look up Manning.
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  5522.  @guybrushthreepwood362  if that happened, there would be absolutely no protection for national security data, no possible prosecution, as this would provide an affirmative defense and the US would lose every human intelligence source, electronic source, imagery source and intelligence partner. And the higher level courts would censure the jurist, the government would appeal and have to win or we'd literally lose the nation to our enemies. But, totally possible. As likely as the jurist playing Russian Roulette with a machine gun.
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  5523. Which would require the Senate to subpoena volume 2 and when she refuses, she's abrogated the Constitution itself on the checks and balances pillar. Then, the Senate can go for contempt and/or defund the entire judicial branch until compliance is achieved. And there'd be nothing Trump could do if they defunded them before he took office or had a 2/3 vote.
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  5524. When they try, have them arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy, then collect the remaining evidence required to arrest Trump and charge him as well. They're literally admitting to conspire to usurp the US government, treat it for a change accordingly or lose a nation.
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  5525. OK, disbarred is up to her state's bar association, not any court or jurist. Investigation can be conducted only by the court for judicial misconduct. Removal from the bench requires impeachment by Congress. The Constitution is in plain English and isn't very long, try downloading it and reading it. Or get the small handbook from the ACLU.
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  5526. Evolution is as much a fraud as gravity is. Which genome do you want to see? They're all public access.
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  5527. Show me where they've levied war against the United States by force of arms. Treason is the only crime that is precisely and narrowly defined in the US Constitution and it states firmly that treason requires armed force waging war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to an enemy. An enemy being an enemy in time of war and Congress hasn't declared war since WWII.
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  5528.  @Ifalvarado  not every company uses authenticator. When enough people mistrust the online services and stop using them enough to impact those company's profits, they'll pressure the government to protect We The People again - briefly.
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  5529.  @TitaniumTurbine  it's not even a vulnerability. The MMS servers were/are compromised, hence the messages are readable by the compromising APT group. Add in, it's not only USG sites that utilized 2FA authentication, many commercial and some medical sites do as well. Ideally, encrypted SMS/MMS would mitigate the entire problem, Google did attempt that with an open protocol, but Apple utterly refused to join in, so that went entirely unimplemented. As there was no pressure for Apple to play nice, they didn't and we're all left vulnerable.
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  5530.  @painkillerjones6232  and you can name even one case of that happening? I do know of conservatives that have done that, the news is lousy with such reports and even threats by conservatives against entire families.
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  5531. As the judge said, just because you are in an official position and location does not make it an official blowjob. Good for the goose, sauce for the gelding gander.
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  5532.  @Igzilee wars are not exceptionally well known to be exercises in sanity.
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  5533.  @Phapchamp they're guns, not magical death rays. If they can't depress enough to engage, they're gonna hit a whole lot of not the threat, but things far more distant. But, what would I know? I've only operated armored vehicles.
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  5534. They'll not be allowed to close, forced labor to keep the non-babies alive.
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  5535. Laughable, given the current confirmed and ratified treaties that limit each side to 3k warheads each. Not a lot of equalizing going on with that paltry number, given that it takes multiple warheads to neutralize a military target.
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  5536.  Paul Taylor  he'll soon enough join another former UK doctor, Mister Wakefield, for the same reason - fraud.
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  5537. @FakeX says only the one deleted for what it is, disinformation for his and his partner's commercial gain. Today's numbers for California 117.74 per 100000 people are sick with COVID-19. Case fatality rate of 4.04%. 3455 hospitalized, 1181 in ICU confirmed cases, suspected 1528 hospitalized, 304 ICU. 1809 dead. 45031 total cases. That's a hell of a lot of "empty" hospital beds filled, not to mention ICU with most on ventilators!
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  5538. Won't be effective. Only a nationwide general strike might have an effect and a general strike where nobody assembles, just stays home denied them even the opportunity to claim some mythical uprising. If that still won't be effective, which might occur at the risk of other billionaires rising up, well, if every rail signal in the land turned and stayed red, that's utterly halt all commerce and movement or marketable goods. Any billionaires and megacorporation donors would be demanding Congress actually do their job or else. And again, denying them the opportunity for physical engagement. Compared to protesting in person, blocking highways and now being declared an insurrection because emergency vehicles can't get through. It's literally a war and wars aren't about how much is destroyed or how many are killed, they're about destroying the other side's will to fight. And utter economic destruction via no business being conducted, they'll fold extremely quickly, as their businesses suffocate.
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  5539. Their hint is that it's a grand conspiracy of people that never got along to work together (I dunno, maybe under the space aliens or something) to invade the US while utterly unarmed. And being stupid enough to engage in such a clandestine operation by first bringing their ID's and passports with them to the US and abandoning them here, in precisely the same way that no clandestine team has ever done before, because of hand wave. More likely, the lot are faked and planted.
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  5540. Nice subliminal trick at the end, making his Ruskie supporting mug red.
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  5541.  Evelyn-tj2qd Evelyn
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  5542. Chef felled by botched food.
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  5543. Your Honor, the Prostitution rests sated.
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  5544.  @kelliecarter8376  to the bathroom, perhaps?
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  5545. Frankly, I may dislike, but respect their niche on the planet. Overall, I'm forced to love life on this planet, save on occasion, one species. It insists on calling itself a thinking species, but acts unbelievably unthinking far too frequently.
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  5546. In his case, he keeps in stock at least two for all occasions and a trunk load of doublethink and Grouch Marx "who are you going to believe, your own eyes or me?".
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  5547.  @azhockeynut8297  when are you going to buy free speech liability insurance? Running for and holding office are also enumerated rights, require insurance for one right's expression, require it for all, including voting malpractice insurance.
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  5548. I remember during the big BLM protests, Trump thundering on Twaddle (now Xit), "LAW AND ORDER!". Now, we know, he meant his word is the law and all orders are his and that the Constitution under Trump is unconstitutional.
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  5549. OK, distress signals are now illegal? Flying the flag inverted is a distress call - literally. So, a crime is committed when flying a distress signal when no emergency is present.
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  5550.  @Cerceify4645  god-kings measure days differently than mere mortals or something.
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  5551.  @wolfzmusic9706  if that scares you, my bathroom mirror would absolutely petrify you.
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  5552.  @witchofcertainty  those regulations came about in part due to those "dancing cats" and both the sheer volume of injured children and the fact that the asshole manager of the plant simply started dumping the mercury into the other side of the bay after being caught. Greedy bastards are ubiquitous. :/
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  5553. Sentencing for the NY fraud is July 11. As we're not some Imperial power, we don't have an absolute monarchy to just arrest without charge, nor imprison without conviction. But, all of the pigeons are coming home to roost and unfortunately for him, THERE BE DRAGONS THERE.
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  5554.  @CM-ve1bz  'Biden received five student draft deferments, first as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. And after a medical exam in April 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency. Biden released his Selective Service records to the Associated Press in 2008. At the time, a spokesperson said he was "disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager"'. Compared to Captain Bonespurs, who magically healed from those bone spurs after the war. As for impeachment, given the GOP majority, yeah, I see impeachment being likely. As likely as a unicorn walking through my bedroom.
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  5555.  @AlBundyOz  our host did a spectacularly poor job at impersonating, I say impersonating Foghorn. As for Johnson, after he contradicted my sworn testimony, he'd start getting "Johnson" cracks, as in the member kind and I'd give sworn testimony, for the record, that yes indeed, were his parents divorce, she'd still remain his sister and mother, although the world still wonders how he managed to father himself.
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  5556. How do you overturn an Executive Order that does not yet exist?
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  5557. Reading the jury tea leaves, in my experience, the better indicator is how loud the discussion in the deliberations room is. If you can hear voices from the hallway, both sides did their job well. The rest, one would get equal results from the fortune teller down the street.
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  5558.  @CCFONESOL yep, they'd have to impeach and remove the perjurous injustices, then the reconstituted SCOTUS would have to redecide the defective decisions.
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  5559. And one half of the couple now is saying, "Yay, no child support to pay, no housing to provide, yee hah!". Oh well, could've been worse. Could've gone in for a real estate transaction and came out divorced and the court then say, "tough shit". Then, finding the couple in contempt when they say, "chew harder, your honor".
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  5560. Well, they can bring their muttations, we'll bring more trouble than Carter has little liver pills.
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  5561. What utter nonsense! She's pretty... pretty damned ignorant of well, any matter of law. I wonder who she paid to take her bar exam.
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  5562. He committed the most heinous offense, Disturbing the Police, typically a capital offense. Honestly, I'm surprised that they didn't auction it off as "abandoned property". After all, the US, per the lower courts, is Constitution Free Zone. All public spaces are cops only spaces. Fortunately, the appellate court remembered Constitutional law 101. Meaning, only those who can afford expensive lawyers have rights.
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  5563. One protective system fails, due to out of scope contamination, turns aircraft suicidal. Because, that aircraft did a whole hell of a lot to actively try to crash itself. There's a reason I never griped that airline pilots receive rather generous compensation, this is a classic example of why. Hopefully, they also redesigned the filters, so that bypass isn't possible when something fouls it. When designing a protective system, always assume that the worst of the worst conditions are exceeded in ways you've not considered and plan for that. As an example, the water separator gets supersaturated and fails, plan for that and a fuel leak and fire, while still pumping. Basically, if it clogs, it shuts down and refuses to pump. Otherwise, one gets a bunch of mysteries that garner a shoulder shrug and ends up with a suicidal aircraft. Better to perspire on not fueling than to have a pilot trying to land an aircraft that's seriously bent on its way down. Damned fine job though, the flight crew took that crap muffin out of the flames and made a flambe! I'll take a busted ankle over being spare parts any day.
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  5564.  @timothykozlowski2945  so, Republican Abraham Lincoln was wrong to appoint a special prosecutor? The Republican Ulysses Grant was wrong too? That's nearly as laughable as the tea tard that told me that George Washington was a communist. Something really odd, given the communist manifesto didn't come out until the 1860's and Washington was already well rotted.
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  5565. Short form. neutron stars fuck, produce gold and rare earth elements.
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  5566. Not quite accurate. The judge and court needs to know who the jurors are, both for giving credit for jury duty and to reimburse the jury for their time.
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  5567.  @psycobleach46  the jury has always been anonymous, for the entire history of our court system. And the judge doesn't personally reimburse anyone, the judge, being in charge of that court, authorizes or refuses authorization for reimbursement by the court.
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  5568.  @psycobleach46  it depends upon the case, but traditionally remains within the court, not publicized. Something Trump has repeatedly proved he cannot be trusted with. So, attendance is tracked for what reason, next weekend's game of Trivial Pursuit? For pay purposes and court management practices, which are the responsibility of the jurist of that court. Your objection is like claiming the POTUS isn't leading the military because of some duty that was delegated.
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  5569. It was worse than using the bible as a prop in the photo op she spoke of, his forces - directly under his personal orders, forced everyone including the pastor and legally on his own church's property off of said property so that the god-king could trespass upon holy ground and hold that purloined bible up inverted. If Christ were on the hill today, that man would happily hand the Roman soldiers the nails and complain about how merciful and gentle they were.
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  5570. What, he was only tired during the second inauguration. And everybody forgets a few things constantly. And hand wave and more excuses... For those who burned out sarcasm detectors, got an entire pallet of spares here, let me know.
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  5571. We eventually weed our gardens. Enough said. Hope you dined well during the Fest! Enjoyed some over the years, the beer was fine, but the foods were far better! :D
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  5572. No, we'd have a god-king of the old city-state era.
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  5573. But, he allowed the kid to get 10 feet away! Don't you realize, humanity will become extinct if the kid got 11 feet away.
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  5574. He actually walked around the POTUS insignia bearing podium and made that salute three times, not once. And not an actual Nazi salute, but the original fascist Italian salute authorized by Mussolini. First, why is he at a podium bearing the seal of the President of the United States of America? Oh yeah, the inauguration. The Capitol Rotunda. So, more than anything, given the grunt, body language and facial expressions, basically an "up yours" to those sensitive and a suggestion of how the maladministration will proceed. Especially given that he paid for the election endgame. And Trump just recently tweaked some noses, suggesting Musk being in Pennsylvania had something going on with the vote tallying computers, which is obviously nonsensical, but now will bear investigation due to the repeated claim, in 67 counties. Because state budgets aren't important to the wannabe emperor. Additionally, the "Roman salute" is mythical, there's absolutely no historical mention of that salute, it's basically from an artist's work in the 1800's and Hollywood ran with that ball. Not atypical for Hollywood to run with the ball and turning out to be running with a ping pong ball in a football game. Honestly, out of all Hollywoodified military salutes, I prefer the Spaceballs salute. And yeah, the Victoria Cross was created in 1856, so Queen Victoria was a Nazi 64 years before the Nazi Party existed, must've used the Obama time machine. I did have a toothbrush mustache once. An accident with a Zippo lighter and high winds rather pruned one side, evened it up, yeah, that thing came off that night and I grew it back in a less absurd looking way. Given Musk is the Liberace of the business world, great showman, minimal to moderate skill as a developer of software and utterly incapable of mechanical engineering, but excellent at hiring quality managers, my read of it is, an intention to "trigger the libs" and distract from other things going on behind the scenes. Much the same as Trump's BS about Musk and computers and I've some familiarity with computers, doing IT and IT security for a living and some knowledge of Pennsylvania polling and vote counting practices, being born and raised in the state and again a PA resident.
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  5575. The statement, yes, any investigation, nope. Investigations are not convictions by a court of law and any attorney suggesting otherwise should be disbarred in every state, territory and possession for life.
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  5576.  @Igotstaknowit  not in proximity to a VIP. Totally different ball game then.
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  5577.  @Igotstaknowit  dunno, don't have the full security details for that event. I do know that they do get pretty air tight with POTUS though, had some buddies working for Sears back when there still were people using roof antennas that got chased off of a roof two miles from a Presidential appearance while working on installing an antenna. By agents that, per these military veteran techs, were armed for bear. And when HW visited our installation abroad, the only ones armed were a special DoD detail and Secret Service, no military personnel were armed. They call it a sterile area for a good reason. I stayed a quarter mile off, no need to gather around for a dog and pony show, as it's not my monkey or circus, had my own jobs to do.
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  5578. That might make sense, save for one thing. Upon announcing moving events inside of the secured rotunda, security was also beefed up. I doubt that they needed additional security to keep the cold outside.
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  5579.  @carmen3091  and by definition, the other half hates him and doesn't count. Civil wars got started with far lower percentages and brought disastrous casualty counts. But hey, that's fine, I'll bring the military and veterans, with full knowledge of where the ordinance and munitions are stored.
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  5580.  @viniciusvasconcelos6912  that's OK, there are days that English as a first language doesn't work out well for for me. ;) It's a truly maddening language. Weird order to place things in, every rule has an exception including the exception rule, it's as if the language is a psychological torture device.
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  5581. Two tier justice started it, soon we'll get Imperial Musk justice and Trump fleeing the nation if it all flies off of the wheels.
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  5582.  @MrTrailerman2  well, it's the Peter Principle. Fuck up, move up.
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  5583. As if that's unheard of in US history? The militia patrolled Philly and New York streets many times over the centuries. Hell, the military even shelled the Bowery once.
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  5584.  @heidinewcombe696  health insurance is a joke, as mental health care is barely covered in most cases, if it's covered at all. But, jails as asylums save money idiots claim, ignoring the fact that jails are more expensive than a mental hospital by far due to their security needs. Save a penny by wasting a dollar, all while getting the additional bonus of being able to shred the Constitution's intent.
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  5585. Since he considers unarmed, ununiformed men, women and children combatants, that then makes them valid military targets, because it's the American way to flamethrower babies. Nope, ununiformed, unarmed together makes them noncombatants. Therefore, any order to harm them is an unlawful order to any officer of the US government and obeying any order to harm them makes them guilty of crimes against humanity and war criminals in an undeclared war. Going after birthright citizenship, just a shredding of the Constitution and thereby also removing the authority of any and every court and government in the land, as their authority originates from the wellspring of the Constitution itself.
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  5586. Because, that's what the law requires. Do you think that the Secret Service is providing the loathsome beast protection for shits and giggles?
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  5587.  @togowack  where? Most certainly not in the White House. A hint: Responsible adults don't wear diapers, infants and incontinent elders do.
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  5588.  @CEUprimate  well, it was the weekend. Had to get home to honey and all. ;)
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  5589. A well respected minister performed an analysis of Trump vs the Antichrist. His assessment, he's at the least an antichrist. Checkboxes all checked. Maybe he'll hire Lilith to watch over hospital nurseries next.
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  5590. Actually, it was a mix of deists and theists, but all remembered the horrors of the European religious warfare between Protestants and Catholics, which literally killed tens of millions and didn't want anything like that here. Didn't quite succeed, in the 1850's, there was literal religious warfare in US city streets that required the militia to bring artillery in to quell. For some reason, their version of the AR, their muskets and rifles didn't seem to be much of a match to cannons, today, in some mindless minds, they think that they are. Or they think that service members will mutiny in favor of them, mutiny being a capital offense. Well, mutiny, sedition, treason or insurrection are all capital offenses for service members. No, they don't get shot, that's China, Russia and North Korea, we use lethal injection. Of course, I've heard some want people to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Interestingly, when asked, not a one could describe the practice and I was called a liar when I explained precisely what that execution method entailed. They then called the UK Crown a liar when I showed them the old statute on a UK Crown website. The few that did accept reality were suitably horrified and desisted from calling for such a torture again.
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  5591.  @laurenhahn101  well, not all were deists and general historic background. Because, inaccurate information leads to inaccurate decisions and is just as wrong as those saying we were founded as a religious republic under one specific religion. Is there a reason that you object to accurate information?
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  5592. His good friend, Hannibal Lecter, a mythical character, much like his own character. Total nanu-nanu! Weaving around asylum, our asylum laws created out of shame after MV St Louis was sent to Europe and the 1000 Jews sent to the camps and somehow confabulating asylum into insane asylums that we closed under Reagan. He hasn't seen a beach since he was beached and learned how to walk. Some years back, when my tween grandkids were toddlers, I was sitting on the floor playing with them and our daughters noticed a bald spot. "Dad's got a bald spot!!!" My response was simple enough, "What the fuck did you expect? I'm getting old!" I'm lousy with candor. Trump rallies, "Our dreams are like our children...", from "My Fellow Americans", 'get a new speech, old man!'. So, he went YMCA, Arnold Palmer's member and now fellatio on a microphone on his way out of the closet. Mom used Liquid Gold on the kitchen cabinets. They never recovered. I make my own wood butter for the same general purpose, mineral oil and beeswax melted in an expendable pot. Got plenty of those turd coated pots that the coating fails on after a couple of years. And why I ordered stainless steel and cast iron to replace them, keeping the junk for wood coatings. Now, you've gotten something useful from something political, wood butter, 1/3 - 1/2 mineral oil to beeswax, depending upon what you're doing, more mineral oil for loose shoe wax levels, more beeswax for firmer general waxing. Mostly used on my wooden cutting boards after bleaching them sanitary, then rinsing and drying, then coating. Don't have an atomic force microscope for that back corner performance and well, don't swing that way, Donnie. Polls, well, DEWEY WON! Enough said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman#/media/File:Dewey_Defeats_Truman.jpg As useful as a stripper pole is for my income, which trust me, is utterly worthless. See my best side on the monitor as a churn while speaking, "I see London, I see France, I see my own underpants, excuse me for a moment...". No, all about him and image of immortality. I'll suggest amorality, but nobody can find such for a damned good reason. I'm discrete. I mean, I'm moral. Yeah, Mom said my eyes were brown for a damned good reason. Told her hers were the color they were for a good reason too. She exclaimed "They're green!" "Yeah, it turned moldy". She damned near broke her hand on my skull, which makes granite look soft. True story of actually mutually fun times. Even the swat. Queen bitch of the universe, when I was right, the Almighty didn't challenge, when I was wrong it was all in capitals. Damn, miss her and miss my wife, both holding that standard. Still churning over ass end views, suggest my ass has more hair than the back of my head. Vanity ain't my strong point. Doing a job is my strong point, get hired on, I do that job. Even as a DoD contractor, follow the damned contract we were paid to do, not underperform and then scope creep to try to keep that contract. Did a few favors, that I insisted never be considered, as they're not part of the contract, just taking care of the service members I once was one of.
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  5593. I can. Mother-in-law repo man, lifetime is measured in picosecconds.
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  5594.  @victorrojas1037  bleh, I only got the mildest kind of that when I joined the army. My peers had them bad. The difference was, I wore work boots mostly, as that way when I had to move heavy objects, I didn't need to change footwear after school. That prepared both muscle and bone for the additional mass of boots and dashing about (we just switched to sneakers for running, just to avoid stress fractures which were rampant at the time as well).
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  5595.  @kacey8372  apparently aircraft on his planet land in midair. Ruskie bots are going nuts tonight with this.
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  5596.  @elaine1034  I give credit or fault where it's due, not where it's invented. The devil was the angel of the morning star, that was both earned and assigned. It wasn't ignored due to his failings. Why do you think you're superior to your god? Of course, I'm utterly a perfect 10. Alas, that's on the Richter scale. Oh, supportive of the argument of protege, look at what each son got from god-king wannabe. I used to hunt monsters militarily for a living, part of that was analyzing them from a predatory perspective, which meant understanding them. And to hunt a monster, one has to be a monster, but some of us do guard and confine that monster. Some never received such upbringing and well, the monster is always unleashed. I've unleashed the monster thrice, once to my conscience's later horror, due to an error that still haunts my dreams. Trump, well his dreams are likely god-king of the world, given my own personal interaction with him. And he's the only remaining survivor of people that I loathe, their earning their early demise via their own actions and due to my personal animosity, I demurred from operations involving them out of concern for potential conflict of interest risks. So, as an example, some senior AQ leaders I and my teams stayed out of by request, due to that risk that was self reported by myself, lost a cousin and several friends in the WTC attack. Couldn't risk friends and noncombatants where I was emotionally compromised or potentially so.
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  5597. Well, as the price of "peasant cuts" of meat grow out of the price range of the poor, in the heaviest armed nation on the face of the earth, the price of long pork well fattened decreases. Recommended, CEO chops, well fattened and inexpensive in the extreme. Just don't stop at a McDonald's after one harvests one...
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  5598. Well, yeah, it's actually happened before. Botox comes diluted to a standard strength, the fake shit, well, it's diluted to nothing or full strength or anywhere in between, so an overdose is likely.
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  5599. We had a PDP-11/03 when I was in high school. Only the teacher running one class and I could get the thing to boot. Some few years later, I joined the Army and what did I see in a programming hut in the field? A PDP-11/70 to program our Pershing II nuclear missile. Which was retired barely after it was introduced - thankfully. I'd have built in a rail system with hoist to maneuver the infernal thing, less of a toe risk. I'd also probably be diagnosing the capacitor problem myself, but old habits of an ET... If we're ever in the same neighborhood, I'll grab some wire wrap tools and wire and give you a quick class, it's quite easy. I'll probably need two sets of reading glasses though... And to think, used to repair that kind of thing to component level. Fun, when they introduced four layer boards, given they were de-introducing rooms with rubber wallpaper around the same time... Now, remembering TTL, especially fun things like ECL logic circuits, that'll take a bit to regrind those wheels rust off. And yeah, I've also worked with vacuum tube circuits, but that was all analog. Shouldn't be too hard though, it's either on or it's off and the oscilloscope will tell that tale.
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  5600.  @MargaretBuzas  domestic terrorism, election interference, interference with official government functions, arson and well, the rest of the law library. Make an example of that individual, where the sun will be frozen solid, having exhausted its fuel and cooled for 13 billion years before they get out.
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  5601. Erm, interns aren't teens, they're most of the way to their BS or BA degree.
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  5602. NNSA does more than oversee the nukes, they're the security for the arsenal. Most of our warheads aren't deployed or on alert status, but in the enduring stockpile, which is entirely guarded by the NNSA. Which means, there's a very real possibility that some could have gone astray during the period when so many were summarily terminated and refused entry to the site. So, for all we know, someone's cat is playing with a polonium trigger sphere or plutonium pit, rolling it around the apartment right now. While classified employee lists are being downloaded from an unsecured database that was set up by Emperor Musk's super genius snotnoses, lead by the microcephalic big balls. Tariffs, per the auto industry CEO's are going to tank Detroit, that's increasing it by killing it, uh huh. And farmers are getting screwed, more crops to rot in foreclosed upon farms. Canadian fuel is about to go elsewhere, which is the only fuel our refineries can use, but no jobs, no food, won't need those cars to go anywhere save under a bridge or parking lot to live in. And he's deploying US troops for immigration enforcement, while promising a 50% cut on the DoD budget. And only recruit white male soldiers, while cutting the VA to nothing and pensions to be under threat. And to steal Social Security, so that elders and disabled are living under bridges.
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  5603. He should go comfort the first family to lose a daughter or wife to an ectopic pregnancy that was now illegal to abort. Yes, several states new anti-abortion laws won't even allow abortions to save a mother's life.
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  5604. The only way she can be removed is for Congress to impeach and convict her.
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  5605. Overall, I think that our press is really failing badly on reporting this. The nation as a whole fails to comprehend the various grades of felony, the way sentencing is imposed regarding a multiple felony single event crime, hell, the difference between state and federal courts. I've heard people suggest Trump be immediately taken to GITMO, for crying out loud! That's a federal POW holding facility for terrorists from the GWOT, not a state prison. The very notion of that is as foreign as if we tried to incarcerate him in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison, the old KGB prison. He's convicted on a NY state crime series that are rooted in one crime, just 34 different laws related to different aspects where he was, ahem, naughty. Class E being the lowest level felony NY has (didn't even know of different felony classes until today). No, we don't just throw people in prison, we have a judge sentence people appropriately and maybe they rate prison, maybe they don't and if you're not from NY, sod off. As a PA resident and native, not my monkey, not my circus, it's NY's business and since they don't meddle with PA business, I'll not meddle in theirs. Besides, before the sun goes out, he'll eventually face his federal charges. The government has no choice or they'll destroy any possibility of retaining control of classified information.
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  5606. I'm still trying to figure out Hogan's place in the picture. If someone can rip their shirt, they're fit to govern? What do I get for ripping my underpants that are over 20 years old, godhood? Yeah, I know, a need to buy new underwear. Oh well, gotta also get new crew socks, starting to wear those out too, so obviously I'm unfit to drive a golf cart everywhere everyone else walks to. Given his not wearing a bandage while golfing, what do you say we start a pool on how long he'll wear a bandage on stage? I'm thinking at least a month, more likely two. Oh well, he's alienating his core big time from the convention, let's see how long he goes on extra zany. Once his primary core walks off, all he'll have are the neonazis and KKK and nobody has ever won on the inbred vote. Oh, was that my outside voice?
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  5607. Whatever are you going on about? Greene is a subject matter expert in being the exemplar of every dumb blonde joke ever spoken. Agreed on RFK. Frankly, he's so damned stupid, I'd not trust him with any object sharper than a specially blunted infant feeding spoon.
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  5608.  @beckydoesit9331 New York is not the justice department, foreign agitator bot. Maybe we should get Congress to issue a formal declaration of war.
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  5609.  @santyclause8034 heh, the laugh with the Taj Mahal is, the domes were installed and payment was due, the roofers asked to be paid, they got promises he's notorious for breaking and no payment. So, the roofer showed up with full work crews and cranes to remove his domes. The site manager initially stated that they were unable to cut checks locally, only corporate could. Which was proved a lie when the cranes and crews arrived and a check was promptly cut and given to the roofer and the crews and equipment went home.
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  5610.  @mr-boo well, it's not criminal justice - yet, the DA is to file criminal fraud charges shortly, leveraging this verdict to aid in the criminal case. This is a civil case for fraud, with NY seeking to recover and punish the fraudulently denied tax liabilities and receive punitive damages.
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  5611.  @karensprings4237  OK, let me know how that Constitutional amendment goes. I'll wait. The sun will be safe to walk upon, but I'll wait until it freezes.
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  5612.  @mike-q9u  true, he's got President Musk to ruin, erm, run things. Someone not Constitutionally allowed to be president. But, he paid to play.
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  5613. Hitler did, quite early on. First, increasing the political reliability of the courts via appointments, then abusing the system to oppress any dissent.
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  5614. Gravity: An effect of mass telling spacetime to go get bent. Come to me with an "Einstein was wrong" argument, but don't understand how to use calculus, I'll be telling you to go get bent too. The modest difference being, mass will enforce its directive.
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  5615.  @thatguy7085  how wonderful of you to explain in such detail your complete incomprehension of the concept of variables and constants. That's the very heart and soul of all advanced mathematics, without which modern life would be utterly impossible, from roadways, water supplies, electricity service, automotive design to thermonuclear warheads. So, anyone not living in a cave is a crackpot to you. Which, to the person of average intelligence around the world illustrates your idiocy quite well.
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  5616.  @thatguy7085  one can understand something, but still recognize incomprehensible forces that one understands the forces involved while still being incapable of imagining the conditions at a intuitive level. Especially in extremes, both at quantum mechanical levels and macroscopic levels like black holes. Well, especially with black holes, where the singularity is below even quantum "feature" size, while the hole itself is decidedly macroscopic. A case in point, conditions at the event horizon, where the math gets rather wonky.
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  5617.  @MoosenOggen4343  that's what I asked and she smacked me.
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  5618. OMG, I was dealing with radiation all day! The damned bus wouldn't even try to use a radiation rejection system called an air conditioner "because it'd get too cold" as we hit near 90 degrees farhenhot. Seriously, I'm comfortable in 80 - 85, that was a bit warmer, I was actually covered with perspiration and was perfectly comfortable in Djibouti and Qatar. Enough said. Did get uncomfortable, badly when playing Santa Claus - oddly, largely for Muslim children. Light, heat, microwaves, radio waves are all electromagnetic radiation. Neutrons, what are they? Protons, who? Beta particles (aka really fast electrons, making grandparents CRT tubes embarrassed), huh? Alpha who? My skin blocks that shit, might as well verbally insult me, it'll hurt more. Gamma, no Incredible Hulk here, just, well, dead. Really nasty shit, ranging from knocking electrons up to super knocking them up and an electron and anti-electron get reproduced, totally bad karma for your cells in any way you wanna slice it. As in, what is that dead thing, Alex? Bananas, well... Argon balloon, lighter... OUCH! I was joking, dammit! An electron from a tritium particle hits a magical phosphor chunk, making it glow, so that you can see it, Ryan missed that. Can I get some Pu-238? If so, just drop it off with NASA, they're flat out of it. For personal collection, I'll be satisfied with a small sample of depleted uranium, hopefully encased in a wee bit of plastic to keep it safe from my radiation breath. While at the urologist, I was reminded oddly of the Davey Crockett missile. Mostly, due to the sample containers... Sir, you want me to shoot a whatlear whattle, just over there and then *what?!?!?!*, can you kindly urinate in this container, initial and date/time the sample? Because, you must be motherfucking high and I wanna see just what you're stoned on...
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  5619. Well, you don't get crushed into molecules. One gets shredded by vessel components and a supersonic wall of water into hamburger.
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  5620.  @tombryan1  his lawyer will get it a manicure.
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  5621. CS isn't flammable until heated over 200 degrees. Thank you for playing, please try again. Looked more like a natural gas or propane gas explosion.
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  5622.  @gerrymatheson4020  I suspected as much. Given initially reported conditions, one would be expecting a fire fighter to go running up to a home gas valve and turn it off, given reports of an armed and shooting suspect, yeah, absent a greater threat, such as a strong smell of gas, just wouldn't happen. EMS ain't cops, you need a greater danger than random shots for them to be cleared to enter a suspect with a firearm scene. Scene safety being critically important to fire and EMS services, lest they swiftly run out of responders. The bear is, it takes quite some time for a house to air out on its own. :/ People are far too complacent with NG and LP, not realizing how explosive it can be. Having witnessed such explosions from regular leaks, yeah, nasty stuff, but I still use gas or induction for cooking, gas usually being cheaper.
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  5623. Had something similar with a Chevy Celebrity, ate rotors and pads quickly. Found a stuck caliper, replaced it. Turned out the hose was internally collapsed. When, after replacing the caliper, it ate another rotor and pad, loosening the brake hose at the caliper allowed movement, loosening at the point where it was at the chassis left no relief. Replace a caliper for no reason... :/
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  5624. I wonder if he locked anyone up for contempt for not voting the right way too? He repeatedly ran unopposed, is the jailhouse full of opponents as well?
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  5625.  @sallyprzybil2404  probably not, there's the initial count and verified counts, both are important and well, best to be done right. Each state has its own verification system, quality control and assorted other systems to ensure a proper count is made and we've got a delay in the Congressional certification of the vote to support those backups and verification systems. Regardless, we know that Trump will whine away and hell, in 2016 he proved to be a sore winner, in 2020 he proved to be a sore loser, he's just naturally butt sore. Someone just should offer him cheese and bread to go with his whine. And perhaps, some Midol...
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  5626. Might I introduce you to the Caprock capslock key? Otherwise, spot on!
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  5627.  @heikechilds2816  well, Rikers is state, so maybe a new building, say on Venus...
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  5628.  @janakiramr7631  as I only have one wife, to whom I've been married for over 38 years, I find your respond proof that you are a moron. My about page plainly states who and what I am, I'll add that I'm a cradle Catholic, who is an ordained Christian minister who does not suffer fools easily.
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  5629. Hey now, I actually like Pringles! Hence, why I get around 6 cans per year. Gotta watch the weight, hence glycemic index, due to familial well, lard accumulation. Gotta keep my title as eldest in the family to not be massively overweight and diabetic. But, they taste damned good. Nearly as good as spuds I fry myself, even more rarely, due to the oil consumption and disposal issues. Yeah, I am known to make my own potato chips, sue me and my ham sandwich.
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  5630.  @celiovicenteribeirofilho9740  of course it's Biden's fault, the White House is haunted by the Biden Under the Bed.
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  5631. Now, impressive was seeing traffic for REFORGER.
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  5632.  Pol Pot 2024  sorry, but as one who's been a juror more than once, I'd convict you - of discharging a firearm within city limits. And if codified as law, "dreadful waste of perfectly good ammunition"...
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  5633.  @soundman6241  given my decades of federal government experience, I eagerly await your presentation of evidence to support such a globally broad statement of fact. Yes, in any large organization, there are some true brain trusts of idiocy, there are bunglers, but they're the exception, not the rule. To believe otherwise is to also believe that those saved during a major disaster are really dead, despite their being alive, well and still paying taxes.
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  5634.  @DebWyndham  hopefully, otherwise the rancid flat will stain the metal.
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  5635. Trump, Titanic, six of one,a half dozen of the other.
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  5636.  @ultimatetybreaker3467  no, in no small part because everyone's nuke detection sensors go apeshit, nobody has a clue what's going on besides a nuke just went off, worst case scenario is that nukes are flying and some are coming your way, so you cut loose at the one popping them off. Meanwhile, what gain was there? It isn't like people have radiation detector attached to their hemorrhoids, so a fuel-air burst, large conventional bomb, blow a depot would all do the same thing without risking someone dropping a dozen glowing eggs on your head.
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  5637. One problem. Children aren't allowed to carry guns.
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  5638. How do you vaporize a gas?
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  5639.  @glens0r  that's what I said, then she slapped me.
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  5640. That is a joke. Russians never quite drinking, even after they're dead. ;) And Americans start drinking the moment the parents heads are turned.
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  5641.  @zippydidoodah7899  and an absent lead abatement program, thereby allowing kids to chew those lead paint chips.
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  5642. I absolutely have a legal right to own a howitzer. I also enjoy the legal right to absolutely refuse to waste money on purchasing a howitzer and each $200 taxed destructive weapon round, as given my hearing loss, I'm rather noise adverse. ;) Flamethrowers, yeah - if I had a real interest in setting back fires to block the movement of wildfires, which is crazy way too much work for my liking or for use as a roofing torch, with which I'd likely injure myself.
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  5643. And the thousands of veterans in D.C. that are protesting.
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  5644. I'm aware of only one field where what otherwise would be considered subtherapeutic dosing is common - pain management that utilizes what's more typically utilized as a general anesthetic. This is, of course, physician guided and managed, administered by a physician and monitored by a physician for specific physiological goals. And I recall that this was discussed in professional pain management conferences that I'd attended back in the mid-2000's and today is of a moderately effective management program for certain specified chronic pain instances. I did work with one cyanide containing food product for my dinner - cassava root. But, unlike wild cassava, aka bitter cassava - a famine food, this was cultivated root. The biggest risk wasn't cyanide poisoning, but of slicing and dicing my fingers. Did get one modest cut, so shallow it didn't even bleed, but annoyingly is over an index finger joint. What I get for careless handling of knives that I maintain as literal scalpel edge sharpness. And boy, was that cassava root (aka yuca root) good in my chicken stew! With some mixed veggies, cowpeas and kidney beans, plus my favored barley and a small handful of noodles. Got 3 quarts remaining in the fridge, with some home made bread awaiting another few meals. And I actually do know how to prepare the wild cassava, learned that while deployed in areas where it is a common famine food. I'll as happily avoid doing so, as chronic cyanide poisoning is a problem in those areas during times of famine. Google "Konzo" for more information.
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  5645. I've never heard of slings and arrows, for something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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  5646. One state, class E felony which doesn't translate to all states and oh, not even sentenced or appeals run through yet. Oh wait, guilty until proved innocent and let's go with corruption of blood too, Constitution be damned. Each state chooses their ballot, that's by intentional design, don't like it, have the Constitution amended.
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  5647.  @wanttopreach  so, they're outlaws and have both a built in writ of attainder and we'll follow for the corruption of blood, sending the god-cops out to legislate at the curbside and summarily execute their version of justice? That's anarchy, but bordering on feudalism as well. There are two remedies, one being our courts, the other involving rifles. I prefer the courts, but as a retired soldier, I'm equally comfortable with either direction the lawless want to go.
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  5648. Doesn't matter, there is no law requiring a bible, Quran or even a lead pipe. What's with the fixation on the bible? As if he'd burst into flame if he violated his oath via some mighty god whammy?
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  5649.  @zoiders  I was speaking of both the UK and Germany, the last I recall was in Munich in 2021, injuring 4, a few years previously, techs were killed when a 2000 pound bomb detonated. Around every 5 years a team gets one that goes off in their face. Other than boobytrapped bombs, corrosion and chemical instability from all that time underground can make the bomb extremely unstable. In some cases, the bomb is too badly damaged to defuse and the bomb has to be detonated in place, which is labor intensive as hell, as one has to make trenches to protect nearby buried utilities and building foundations. Can't remember the UK organization, but Germany has teams by state. Of course, Germany was the only nation bombing the UK, a whole lot of folks were angry at Germany during WWII. Then, there are French farmers fields, where frost pushes up old WWI UXO's, farmers literally stack them at collection points, where they're collected, trucked off and destroyed.
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  5650.  @Guido_XL  you do realize by definition, a reprisal occurs after something objected to has occurred? Do you now choose an odd stance that there's some magical timer that expires, after which a reprisal for deaths is invalid? That murder now has a statute of limitations during war? If one is unable to muster the reprisal within a short time frame, it's forever gone? By that principle, we'd have to release imprisoned Nazis and murderers from prison and forbid their being charged with a crime forever! Then, war criminals can simply plan in advance to erode the allowable time frame until the war crime remains a crime, just nothing that anyone can do anything about. If that's the case, I want to lay on a supply of high explosive, poisoned bullets and delay proceedings until your magical time limit has ended. I'm sure that the Waffen SS wishes that were so - oh wait, many of those were executed in reprisals for murderering Allied POWs on capture.
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  5651. Wow, now sovereign citizens are now CIA to the delusional... What an embarrassment our mental health care system is!
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  5652.  @GreenWitch1  same strategy as the last two times, gets free advertisement via the news by holding up a shiny for the press to marvel at. Idiotic, as they're essentially just giving away airtime they'd otherwise sell for a profit, which is the purpose of every for profit business.
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  5653. A leader visiting isn't a violation. Otherwise, we'd have private citizens in danger of arrest for someone knocking on their door. Discussion of policy and political things, that's a violation. "Very nice, it'll be fine" ain't a violation. That isn't policy, official position or well, anything similar to anyone that is sane. Meanwhile, we've had Logan Act violations by Nixon and Reagan, all well recorded and ignored. Gaetz violated the Mann Act, it was ignored, apparently only Black men get charged with that one routinely and well, Epstein's female recruiter... Unless and until that PM shows up and he and Trump discuss policies and politics, there isn't going to be a violation and historically, we ignored outright sabotage of peace negotiations and hostage release negotiations, so Trump's fairly safe. This is as huge a nothingburger as Trump's souper seekrit medical records on his boo-boo he got outside of Pittsburgh. Besides, the courts have effectively anointed him a god-king. And remember, Caesar was a felon once he crossed the Rubicon, he still became emperor and a friend had to make him see the point of the Senate's objections. Leaving the Republic dead and an Emperor to turn to ashes over time.
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  5654.  @jmanynames7410  given the choice of laughing over what I can't control or blowing my brain onto the wall behind me, I've always opted for laughing. Have I ever considered otherwise? I'm a chronic pain patient, for a fraction of a second, yeah, laughing is far less work and far more permanent. I didn't survive nearly 30 years of military service to toss it all away on a rash choice on a bad day. For those scrambling to figure out what eosinophils are, they're a white blood cell that tends to respond to parasitic infections and allergies. They'll be elevated in people with chronic allergies and asthma, as well as worm infections and occasionally, they get a bit stupidly lost and attack the wrong things. There's a hell of a lot of research on taming them and wrangling them back under control going on, so he's got light at the end of the tunnel that isn't attached to an oncoming train. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophil
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  5655. I only question why Trump would've had to take a mental competency assessment, as physicians don't waste their time performing those tests without a good reason. Such as, oh, worrying that someone is going to start World War II.
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  5656. That implies adherence to law, Trump is a god-king, exempt from all laws and rules with an iron fist via fiat laws. At least, in his mind and alas, in the mindlessness of the current GOP.
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  5657. I actually would swear under oath, I'd be utterly unsurprised if he eventually files an appeal for dismissal because a god cannot be charged with a crime and that he proclaims himself God. As I've said previously, I've met him and his ego is really that big. And well, he's already declared himself "The Chosen One", so it's a short step for him mentally to fire God, given his statements that the Almighty is "a pussy" for letting his son get killed, he would never allow that... Yeah, he actually said that too.
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  5658. The spherical chicken is an old joke? I relatively resemble that remark, slow poke! Given my somewhat poorly stabilized medical condition, with several conditions jamming the door trying to get in to end my existence, I think I'll refrain from studying statistical mechanics at this time. Despite my health insurance agent strongly suggesting that I do. 99% of the observed matter in the universe is in a plasma state, the remainder of observable matter shares my state - confusion. No matter has been observed in the state of euphoria. Seriously though, the funniest joke I ever heard also wasn't really a joke, save if nature actually is intelligent and has a sense of humor. The Pauli effect. I shudder to think of Pauli on the moon for the hammer and feather drop, we'd probably have lost an astronaut.
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  5659. Only one problem, the project was canned because it was found to be impractical at all. When the fireball escapes the atmosphere, well, once it's cleared the atmosphere, its effects disappear. Had the Tsar Bomba device been constructed for its full 100 megaton yield, its fireball would've escaped the atmosphere with no additional effects on the ground and with only a modest part of that 100 megatons being felt on the earth. Simply put, gigaton devices just won't be all that destructive, as the weapons effects don't scale once the fireball escapes the atmosphere and there's nothing to transmit the heat. Teller did go on to hawk gigaton devices for asteroid ablation for any problematic enough to be in an impact trajectory, but nobody was interested. Especially given more sane yield devices would effectively do the same thing without requiring an absurdity of a launch platform. He then went on with some schemes for the SDI, aka "Star Wars", getting Reagan to buy in on magical x-ray lasers that never worked and never could work - it's one thing to have weak x-ray lase activity inside of a bomb casing during detonation, aiming it outside of the casing and having even 1% efficiency, just ain't in the physics. Eventually, even Reagan caught on and barred him from the White House, Teller's career sank swiftly after that and the knowledge of some extremely liberally interpreted research that basically was fraud did the rest to torpedo his reputation. And it didn't help that he was as popular in his field as the Black Death after his backstabbing Oppenheimer... We also don't have even 10% of the warheads left intact as is claimed in the video, courtesy of the START treaties. Basically, we've got enough to destroy Russia and the US as nations, with the Russians having nowhere as many warheads as we've got cities and towns, whereas the US has a bit more warheads than Russia has cities and towns, but military targets requiring multiple devices chews that excess up, taking a half dozen or so just to destroy one military airfield, worse for depots and large assembly areas on large bases. Products of the insanity factory, they're basically the least useful devices in the history of humanity.
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  5660. I've also used Marmite, the more refined UK variety (work the humor there, maybe watered tea or something?) in making a beef post roast on more than a few occasions, saved a bit of bother making a wine reduction when I didn't have any on hand.
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  5661.  @joshm3342  many communities don't have unions to represent EMS workers. Interestingly, police do, for some odd reason.
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  5662.  @GreenJeep1998  honestly, I'd deadline each and every ambulance until such extortion if repaid. If necessary, removing an axle bearing from each and every vehicle, necessitating an inspection and repair for corrosion during said removal period. Safety first and all.
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  5663.  nothanks9503  ironically, I've actually got a partial immunity to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Dunno why, but rather than being poisoned, I just feel a bit ill and that was it on exposure. So, I'm literally in the recommended condition to begin with and well, being a veteran, already down with the roaches to begin with. Watched the VA budget get slashed each and every year since I joined in 1982 until the second year of the GWOT, the first year, when we began shipping men and women back home missing pieces, the VA budget was slashed again and eventually after being told loudly, the press finally paid attention. There's one rule in general in combat, dread fighting someone who has nothing left to lose, they never quit. We might end up learning what happens when folks specially selected for the sheer inability to quit are placed into that very situation and I strongly suspect it'll be quite unenviable.
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  5664. Nope, still solid red. You can tell, as the mentally ill get to borrow forklifts and test drive them around the county. But hey, at least he found Jesus!
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  5665.  @marieanna1957  nah, send him to GTMO with the other terrorists.
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  5666. It's a fine covfefe table book.
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  5667.  @oldtighthead2459  indeed, voted out forever and ever, because of god-Trump. Because there shall never be another vote, ever, ever again, right? Good thing we had more balls and kept trying after Pearl Harbor was blown up, you'd surrender.
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  5668.  @copyprint-fz2hb  ignoring millions dead in a pandemic? Damned near starting a war with Iran over nothing that actually happened and accomplishing nothing, save oh, obliterating an agreement that was actually working? Giving access to our most classified information for him to take home after leaving office, to wave around in front of not only uncleared persons, but foreign agents in his clubs? Welcome to foot shooting, refined. Refined to the fine art of shooting one's own foot with a howitzer. Then, blaming others for the resultant limp, despite one loading it, aiming it and pulling the lanyard.
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  5669. Now, now. The judge did tell him that he was naughty. Anyone else would find their balls clapped in irons. But, rich white guys get kid gloves, the rest of the chattel get an iron fist, with sentencing severity based upon skin tone.
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  5670. Please God, let them all bow down to the Lord Almighty, Mammon. The almighty God of the United States of America.
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  5671. There are 55 earthquakes per day, 20000 per year, boy, he's really, really busy not coming back so soon! Guess you missed that thief in the night part, huh?
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  5672. They're not listening. Until their campaign contributors pressure them, they'll ignore constituents as usual, the usual occasional bone tossed their way, then business as new normal. I suspect it'll take a nationwide general strike, sit at home type, as assembling to protest would be abused by the Emperor and Empress as an insurrection so that they could declare martial law and consolidate their royal powers. Always plan a half dozen moves in advance at a minimum and understand one's adversary's thought processes.
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  5673. Delivers said Karen to NASA's vacuum test chamber, locks her inside and activates the vacuum pump, saying "bon appetit!". After all, the only thing that isn't chemicals is various forms of radiation, so she obviously wanted to consume absolutely nothing and I do aim to please. RSFAKQJ10 RSF, that's hydroxic acid to you, bub! ;) Or hydrogen hydroxide, since it's both an acid and base, save where it isn't. :P Jesus, I'm doing chemistry jokes and elsewhere, physics jokes, totally sound like a geek. Oh well, if knowledge is power, one should be a nuke. :D
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  5674. Yep, nothing on eggs or refrigerated apples. Promises of tariffs to come, which will literally double or more the price of chicken feed. Fortunately, chickens and eggs are utterly unrelated, because neither is on Trump's innumerable hamburger buns. The media allow themselves to be gamed because their owners say to be gamed or get fired.
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  5675. We've had high winds statewide in Pennsylvania for well over a week, wind doesn't exist. All I'll say is, he appears flushed and he does have a family history of severe alcohol abuse... Which would explain why he confused illegal Alien Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, what with him lacking intelligence at all. As for him never reading some mythical magazine of content that remains undiscovered, undiscussed or even described, well, he is well known to never read, he just looks at the pictures and goes with whatever story the voices in his empty head tells him. And United States Steel, formerly USX and renamed in 2001, the 8th largest steel producer in the world, is being sold to Nippon Steel for $14.1 billion, guess he wants the plants closed and rusting. No wait, it's just he isn't making money, so nobody else is allowed to make money, support your wannabe god-emperor or go broke. Oddly, Biden opposes the sale as well, supporting the union's objections to the sale. Guess he's now on Biden's side now! Quick, someone tell him so he can extol the virtues of selling out, GOP types are good at selling out. "I want to move the election to Tuesday", yeah, before your likely conviction and sentencing, but hey, I want a pony. But, we got 20 people, not 19, not 21, precisely 20, because INS reports to their god-emperor wannabe on individuals, entirely unlawfully, because of voices in his head. I'm sure they drove an illegal caravan from the DRC as well. Funny how he's not mentioned one of our primary East Coast ports being blocked though. Or the legal immigrants that were killed working on the bridge when it collapsed. And the Gettysburg comments did generate some confused looks, as Schnecksville is near Allentown and he was extolling the virtues of the traitor Robert E. Lee, who is no longer in favor. Guess he never visited Lee's plantation, seized by writ of attainder for his treason, now known of as Arlington National Cemetery. Oh wait, the dead service members were suckers, I forgot... And Gettysburg, beautiful now, was really wonderful after the battle, where Union soldiers got buried and Confederates were literally left to rot in farmers fields, which was what the battlefield originally was. A farmer took it upon himself to bury the remains in mass graves, as it's kind of hard to plant when bodies are covering the ground. As for Trump with "the nuclear codes", he already had them and well, they're useless alone, he needs well, let's use the old name, the SIOP and select from many menus of options on who to strike, where, when and how. In a guy who can't get through anything longer than a page with bullet points and pictures required content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_Plan#Executing_the_SIOP Think this word salad server could give a cogent order that could actually be followed? The guy who asked if nuking a hurricane could put it out? Who basically made every state Alabama and doodled on a map to be "right" and still got it wrong? More likely, any such attempted orders would go on the Chief of Staff's desk to await his sobering up in the morning and seeing then if he still wants to nuke North Korea, as happened with Nixon. Obviously, we didn't nuke North Korea. Even more likely, he'd blow his response to the challenge he'd have to read back from his biscuit and be denied access to order anything, as a probable false order being originated by parties unknown. But, he does seem to be coming apart at the seams. A few courtroom images of him gagged, with obviously missing gag should suffice to lose some of his supporters, the rest will follow him, as the Zealots followed their leaders off the cliffs of Masada.
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  5676. Yeah, counting all of the dead is exhausting.
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  5677. Oh, if you want to see a mirror of this level of stupid, look up the Nativist movement in the 1800's, the Native American Party, which invaded the Whig party, imploding it and all of the Whigs left to form a new party called the Republican Party. Yeah, I'm serious. Abraham Lincoln was originally a Whig, quit the party when it turned into a very, very similar circus of stupidity and sedition to join the Republican Party, the remnants of the nativists formed a core that spurred the civil war. Now, they're an even tinier minority. But, as loud and threatening as their predecessors.
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  5678. DARPA has been studying non-newtonian fluids for a new ballistic armor system for both infantry and armor for quite some time now.
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  5679. Funny, how the accusations all coincide with shift time in Russia. Can't win in Ukraine, due to being a paper tiger, so the toilet paper tiger turns its baleful gaze to the US social media, as that's the extent of their might and strength of their final warning. How's it feel to be China, Russia?
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  5680. We have 11 and are building more as we speak. One term for aircraft carriers is "bomb magnet", today, it's also a missile magnet. Hence, the fleet. Aircraft carriers, like their fleet can and are replenished as sea, via logistical ships. So, they can quite literally stay out at sea for a year or even longer. The line driven resupply method, as well as hose based resupply, go back incrementally to WWII. "We're on the same side", today. When I started in the US Army in 1982, we weren't. I rather like running low on adversaries and turning them into friends! :) BTW, I was born in Philadelphia. Google that, get a fair sized list, Pennsylvania is my home state. APO = Armed forces Post Office and zip code designates a specific area, AE being Armed Forces Europe. Which covers US CENTCOM AOR and US AFRICOM. Anything more granular is classified as confusing. ;) Catapults, other than the electromagnetic variety still being perfected, use live steam to operate them. Live steam is so hot, if a pipe ruptures, you don't even see steam, you get cooked instantly, with a scalpel precise jet. Elevators for planes went back to WWII and even the Soviet Union had a carrier that has elevators for aircraft. Alas, to the best of my knowledge, no McDonalds are on an aircraft carrier or any other vessel. Yet. And I was US Army, but I know the conditions and capabilities of my brothers and sisters at arms. Three US aircraft carriers wouldn't manage to take over Russia or China, too big for one, too damned many people in the other. Remember the first law of ground warfare, never, ever, ever get into a ground war with China. And as Germany learned, Russia. ;) Estonia, trivially taken with coffee cups. ;)
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  5681. Perhaps you can explain how the fifth amendment, defined as a right within the Bill of Rights, is a privilege? Privileges can be administratively revoked, legislatively constrained, even eliminated at the stroke of a pen by any bureaucrat. Rights may only be encroached upon by orders of a court of law. If I only have a privilege to remain silent, do I only have a privilege to not be randomly searched, my property randomly seized, my privilege to an attorney administratively denied, my privilege to religion or irreligion state assigned? For, in such an erosive condition, the vote by ballot then is endangered by a vote by bullet.
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  5682.  @Apollonos  my leader? I wouldn't trust him to lead me to the shithouse.
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  5683.  @Apollonos  an odd take on a simple question on how an enumerated right is instead a privilege. Yet your statement denigrates such a right and inverts its very concept, where exercising a right suddenly is an admission of guilt, thereby weaponizing rights against the very populace that is to be protected.
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  5684. The legal definition of insurrection is, the act or an instance of revolting esp. violently against civil or political authority or against an established government. So, what weapon did she use or supply? Or are we just going to use a blanket crime for show trials like Russia has long done, the verdict already in place before the trial was even announced? Now, conspiracy to falsify public documents, conspiracy to falsify an election, one could come up with a half dozen conspiracy charges that would stick and not invoke a crime she didn't commit and would be acquitted of.
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  5685. Oh, my messaging is even more boring, but I am more interesting to them due to my occupation. And precisely why no work related traffic goes via insecure traffic, but goes through VPNs and encrypted applications like encrypted e-mails. If they ever got into my personal cell phone, I'm sure they'd be fascinated by my shopping list. If they did, they'd likely also know that I'd appreciate a tin of quality tea and a few boxes of saffron tea. The rest, I'll be picking up at the local stupidmarket tomorrow. Oh, they'd also know that I loathe winter, which everyone for a block around already knows as well after this damned cold snap.
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  5686. Honestly, he could offer his Trumpites a Jim Jones Flavor Aid cocktail, they'd happily drink it. Wouldn't put it past him to actually do it if he actually ended up facing prison time, just to attempt to extort the court. Then, have the nerve to look surprised when they stick a needle into his arm.
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  5687.  @Lucius_Chiaraviglio  water is far more useful as coolant and radiation shielding, not to mention drinking and sanitary usage.
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  5688. Kerosene and methane are more energy dense fuels, with greater power than hydrogen, but were harder to ignite in the 1960's - even with the hypergolic ignition system that the Saturns used. But, soot accumulation shouldn't be an issue with pure oxygen as an oxidizer, it wasn't for the Saturns. The trick is making it reliable in a vacuum or near vacuum, otherwise someone's staying behind with a flare to light the engines for the rest of the crew to get home... ;) But, hydrogen won't freeze when kerosene or methane does, it's all about trade-offs and critically, reliability of ignition. Still, that shouldn't be a problem with today's technologies and methane is ubiquitous in the solar system. For CO2, I'd go with compression of the atmosphere and steal off the triple point CO2. It'll take a long time to get much, but time is plentiful in space exploration. As for Martian cities, not gonna happen. We evolved for 1G, not less. Live outside of earth's gravity for much longer than a year, return to earth is pretty much a death sentence and radiation is quite high on mars, due to the thin atmosphere and no magnetic field. One can work around some of the problem, but colonizing mars means exile from earth
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  5689. Nah, I remind them, as a retired veteran US Army NCO, the military will only follow lawful orders, we're prohibited by law and trained to refuse to obey unlawful orders.
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  5690. Yep, fairly classic. Had some dealings with such individuals in the past in the real world. One of their cartoonish threats was dispatched simply enough with my reply. Putana su mama, feel free to come at me, but when you miss, I'm coming back at you with everything your mommy and daddy's tax dollars taught me and I'll take out the entire block to get ya". They never wanted to play, which was good, had a pocket full of quarters and still do. Sicilians know better than to piss off other Sicilians. Indeed, Arabs know better than to piss off Sicilians. As for Trump's ex-FBI types, that's trivially countered with an old company man, who'll happily give him a SAD.
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  5691. So, ricin chicken is legal, even without mentioning that ricin is present or fatally toxic. After all, ricin is a natural bean component and beans are natural, so that makes everything acceptable, since it's not synthetic and natural things should be expected in foods - even toxic substances. I've seem decisions that strain, even sprain Article IV, Section I's Faith and Credit clause, this puts a bloody gunshot wound in its head. Ohio of late has turned into a Constitutional version of herpes, a gift that keeps on giving that's actually a highly unpleasant disease that'll also eventually likely become cancer. Oh well, at least people have a natural defense of gunz...
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  5692. If general can disobey war orders, they can as easily disobey orders to not launch nukes. Given our still standing treaties, the destruction would be quite limited, but still obscenely expensive.
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  5693.  @АлисаСелезнева-ю7к  given that I live in an area ringed with US military depots, I'm on ground zero. So, either I'm here tomorrow or I'm not. Of course, if you miss me, I'll not miss those who made me miserable and pissed off - even if I have to walk across the Arctic to pay a personal visit some years later.
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  5694. Millions to look up a W2 form? OK. Compared to how many felonies Trump's accumulated convictions for and more cases pending?
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  5695. For a notion, during the US Civil War, only 2% of the total population fought. It was a hair lower during the Revolutionary War. WWII had 11% fight. Women went into factories to build ships, weapons and munitions, children like my parents ran scrap metal collection drives to turn in for the war. Ironically, some prior proportion, sent by Japan, who bought US scrap metals before the war, at US forces. BTW, the riots in New York were so severe, the Militia was called out and shelled the Bowery, NYC to suppress the riots. We also had militia and regular troops patrol our streets to suppress the much later Nativist riots, literal religious warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic adherents. Interestingly, the allegedly anti-semetic Grant, allowed full and unrestricted rights that every other citizen had at that time to - Jewish men and businesses. Beyond unusual at the time. Suggest, he was a bit more nuanced in intelligence. But, a good General takes orders, a good president has to be far more creative than that and also know how to lead in front of their leaders. Both sides were confiscating supplies along the way, especially food, as in those days, even the mighty rail logistical train was still in its infancy, so it was immense, neverending trains of horse carts with food or what one confiscates for food for their armies. Both sides tended to not win a lot of friends, as nothing was left for the farmer's family for winter. Even then, interrupting the logistical train still would wreak havoc on the enemy, as one can confiscate food, one can even conscript personnel, but ammunition and munitions comes typically from far more distant sources. The Mississippi River is the largest river in the US, essentially nearly dividing the nation in half, save for limited ferries for much of our history - until the modern era, when bridges began to abound and Eisenhower shoved the interstate system down our throats, which was a good shove, even if at the time, it was a horse pill. As for names, if the officer was good enough, I'd happily serve under Moses Foe, aka, Moe Foe. ;) Lincoln was quite at risk of losing the election. That's where Sherman was needed, Grant into greater play and driving forward with little more than piss, vinegar and napalm being excreted as one moves along, depleting any third column attempts. While the Confederacy ran off of voluntary contributions to supply the war effort, the Union had mandatory taxation, tariffs and more, both at that point, requiring conscription, with many desertions along the way. Yeah, the debates redefined the word debacle. BTW, General Hood has a fort named after him, not all that far from me and where we've taken a rest during a long convoy for rest and resupply, Fort A.P. Hill. Given Marfan's Syndrome, Lincoln's survival at that time is surprising. At that time, he was a decade beyond the normal average age where one would die of aortic dissection, in that era. 292 day siege, during an era lacking artificial lighting to illuminate runners on the river and small roads. Yeah, it was primitive back then, even gas lights were novel notions. Most homes, in northern Union cities still have water and sewer lines from that era today. Well, Jefferson Davis could've refused surrender, but being utterly out of armies, I have no idea how he'd stop even a few US Marshals from arresting him. Meanwhile, Lincoln's assassination wasn't a simple murder, it was a decapitation strike attempt, the line of succession was attacked strategically, with the VP avoiding via chance an attack. The feeling of occupation was due to The Reconstruction, which enforced black rights, rather than lip service only and slavery remaining de facto. The emotions of having a military force enforcing civilian laws forced the necessity of the Posse Communicatus Act, forbidding the US Army and by lineage, the US Air Force from enforcing civilian law as long as local law enforcement and the courts remain able to operate. Which is why, today, seeing someone in an apparent military uniform on the streets while armed and enforcing law is jarring enough for people to quite literally begin arming themselves. One of the scars of the Civil War era. Because, a violation, at the gentlest destroys all military careers for violating it, at worst, prison, massive fines and a loss of faith and trust that'll remain lifelong. I was a young teen during our bicentennial celebration, literally bathed in the history, due to the epic historical nature of such a date. It was just not long after the Civil Rights Era gained major gains that I fully agree with and would fight to the last drop of blood of whatever bastard tried to forcefully overturn that. And no real patriot ever wants a status quo, a real patriot wants to continually improve the nation that they've dedicated a lifetime in support of. Welcome to my mantra. Every right to a marginalized group further enhances and protects my rights and I'll protect those rights as I swore to do, way back in late 1981, to the last drop of blood of whoever tries to deny those rights, our laws and Constitution. For, that Constitution is my bible, our leaders that advanced rights and those who fought to protect our Constitution, my Gods. And being one of that August group, I'm lousy with smite, in an era rife in need of it and many begging for it. And while, today, I walk with a cane, everything around me is a weapon, so please never offend against our laws, societal norms and Constitution. Lest you do so in my presence and, like the idiot that coughed upon an infant over a mask, the moron that beat an elder down with a cane over mask rule enforcement of their state and company, the soon to be imprisoned for life regressives that have actually murdered workers over rules on private property owners requiring masks, I'll treat you precisely as I treated very real terrorists that attacked and especially, those who tried to go hand to hand and it'll be unpleasant in the extreme, with permanent injury, as I lack time to bandy about, as usual and it'll end the threat swiftly. I protect against any and all aggression upon those of my peers and I've the scars to prove that I was highly successful. Peace, success and long life as long as you refuse to be treasonous or stupid, but I repeat myself.
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  5696.  @flyoverstateresident2890  keep men in women's basketball, women's volleyball, women's golf, etc? That honors them? What a fascinating and weird view!
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  5697.  @OldPainlessSR-71  he's three chances of getting elected. Slim chance, fat chance and no chance. He's got as good a chance of being elected as Putin has of winning a war. Against the Girl Scouts.
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  5698. And he called his original heroine, Ashli Babbit a nobody, as in the literal same breath he said she was killed, nobody was killed. Then, the cops he so lauded previously, are "other people". The, placed himself with the crowd using "we", leaving himself now open for the hugely successful seditious conspiracy charges that has convicted Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, who are even now serving sentences and more in mid-trial. Excellent job making that confession on international live television, DonOLD! I had faith in your ability to land yourself in prison, you've rewarded my patience.
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  5699. He did, the best part of Donald stayed inside of the condom and was discarded.
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  5700.  @robertphillips2642  ooookkkaaaaaayyy. First documented in use in 1564, rubber condoms in use in 1855 and latex condoms since the 1920's. Trump was born in 1945, even with the New Math, they existed and well, the best part of him stayed inside the condom.
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  5701. That wool is my preferred heavy winter boot socks. Softer than silk, way too warm for anything 10 degrees above freezing. And wicks moisture away to beat the band! I really can't recommend it enough for cold climates.
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  5702. Yeah, but at least now we're safe from disease, which is why he's pretty much shuttered the CDC. I wonder if he's next going to free the prisoners held in detention in the BSL-4 labs... You know, smallpox, ebola...
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  5703. Might not need impeachment, impeachment is for those appointed with consent and advice of the legislature. Those elected to the bench or via simple appointment both have no lifetime appointment and can be removed by the courts directly.
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  5704. Rule #2, always keep your vehicle under control. Funny how they're really the same rule, huh? The only time I hit a tree, it was a tiny inch and a half tree when I was forced off of the road. Fortunately, I wasn't going too fast, so after obliterating the top of a small berm, I was able to limp it home and spend an entire day getting the modern art that the control arm got turned into off for replacement and the tree unwrapped from the exhaust system.
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  5705. You burned it once already, when our mighty militia prevailed at the pub... We then chased your forces all over the continent, but never managed to force them into our strongpoint. The pub. If you want more humor, just look up our history of invading Canada...
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  5706. No, he's got worse than nothing, he's got a huge war bill that grows larger by the day, debts to Iran, North Korea and China for replacement missiles and drones and soon, he'll be scraping up WWII armor, as he can't get modern tanks off of the assembly lines and he's already using 1950's tanks up at a fast clip. I mean, think about it, how desperate is he when he gins up an IRBM, duck tapes a MIRV bus onto it, launches it with dummy warheads that are only used to test ICBM armed MIRV bus/launch systems and entirely misses his target with it? Especially, given a MIRV can trivially be outfitted with conventional explosives if one has a few bucks. I know, started my military career working on IRBM's.
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  5707.  @sauh5865  it's always good to rely upon a single client or in this case, a single pathway to market. Single things can never fail, after all.
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  5708. The SCOTUS decided that the 14th amendment wasn't up to states, Congress passed no laws to enforce it, so it's just pretty words. Blame his previous picks for that debacle.
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  5709. The bigger question is, when does a class action against the data breach get filed? And why is Congress sitting on their hands as he rides roughshod over every law we have on the books and proposes initiating a Palestinian Pogrom and even threatened to destroy all of Iran if anyone harmed him or anyone close to him. The elevator is clearly not making it to the top floor and he has control of our nuclear arsenal? Creating agencies with no statutory authority for their existence, something we used to require Congress to do, but can just grab taxpayer PII on a whim and go riding off into the sunset with unencrypted PII for every man, woman and child in the country. Or will all just sit on their happy asses doing nothing until the citizenry arms themselves?
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  5710. I just realized, I'm down to two rolls of TP and two eggs. Obviously, a conspiracy! I really dislike a conspiracy of errors that results in my forgetting to put mildly important things onto my shopping list! Fortunately, I'll be passing the store tomorrow on the way to and from my primary's appointment, right after my infusion. Hopefully, the armored car is available for the delivery. ;) I do have an actual real world project for next week though. Call around to a couple of local turkey farms and see if they sell their turkey eggs. USDA has been predicting a further spike in egg prices, around 20% by the end of the year, given it takes 8 - 9 months for a chicken to mature enough to lay and turkey eggs just aren't a much marketed item. If I was still living in Philly, I'd just go to the oriental market I frequent and pick up duck eggs.
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  5711. Laughably, those laws don't apply to me. Because I don't violate them, they'll never apply. He never mastered that part about obeying the law though, figuring he'll only get a wee-wee smack fine and that's it. Oh well, hope he enjoys his new fiancee, Bubba. Given the sheer volume of contempt citations he already owes and his ongoing renewal of offending against his gag order, I'm quite certain he'll snatch defeat from the gaping jaws of victory yet and land himself in Rikers.
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  5712. So, Mr Hur, Sirrah, did you perjure yourself just now or did you willfully falsify a federal sworn document? Don't think too hard, either way you're Bubba's new fiancee, which is it? Once I get an answer and either way, he'd get convicted for perjury, I ask under what New Math 6 stray documents equals 300 willfully retained and hard fought over are equal? Then, if he's familiar with the term mens rea is and means (hint, if one works in a prosecutor's office or in criminal law, one is intimately familiar with the notion of a guilty mind. And I'm still scratching my head over some failing memory notion, while remarking upon a photographic memory of a house, precise recollection of a date of death that he perjured himself with and how precisely six equals three hundred and I was taught that New Math and Old Math.
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  5713. I've tried to wear them when standing up, but that didn't work out so well and I've since managed to remember to disconnect my seat belt when getting up. ;) I'm also infamous for falling asleep by the time we hit cruising altitude until pretty much when we're on final approach, so yeah, I keep my belt loosely fastened always and secure it in turbulence or on takeoff and landing. And yeah, I've forgotten to pop the belt when awakening for a bathroom break... Left my wife chuckling a couple of times with, "Well, that's not gonna work!".
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  5714. The toilet scene was done using an American Standard toilet. ;)
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  5715. Decorum is a foreign word for Trumpites.
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  5716.  @krysti2 here's an interesting thought experiment that outlines the purpose of electors. Two candidates for President. Satan vs Beelzebub, out of pure disgust, the popular vote has a nearly unanimous write in for Mickey Mouse. Does the elector vote for a cartoon character? Or does the elector simply elect the devil?
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  5717. Obviously, the only ethical answer is to eat inorganic food. Rocks all around, folks! No living thing, other than bacteria and maybe a few disturbed worms were harmed in their production.
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  5718. I've long taken to be entertained as to what an algorithm tries to feed me, as I otherwise tend to ignore the results. As in, I don't watch a lot of the choices presented, but I am entertained by what the algorithm presents to me, as it reveals some of the logical decisions of the designers. My topic width and interests so wide as to confound every site's algorithms to date. Now, for search engines, don't get me started, between advertisements in search results and AI results in the search, the mighty Google's fallen straight into the toilet. I miss just plugging in a RegEx search phrase and be done with it, without the confabulations of an LLM burst of intra-processor flatulence.
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  5719.  @sinuemondragon1346  if they're naturalized, they're not Mexicans, but US citizens. As American as you or I, although naturalized citizens cannot hold office in the line of succession, those born American can do so. My paternal grandparents came from Sicily, that doesn't make me Sicilian, but of Sicilian-American heritage. The same becomes true once the immigrant becomes a US citizen. Regardless of what the fuckwit Trump has to say, the Constitution remains clear and no man or woman outranks our Constitution.
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  5720.  @JonasMbuyah  well, apparently, most of the GOP don't know that, despite being shown the Constitution and laws... But then, they're a modern day Know Nothing Party. A party that was so bad, they destroyed from within the nation's first conservative party, causing the same conservatives to create the Republican Party. The sane doing well enough that their first candidate for president won, some Lincoln guy.
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  5721.  @colegilbert673  that's what they said in Germany, even as the Allies entered Berlin. Even then, it wasn't losing, that cyanide capsule was really a mineral supplement, as was the bullet Hitler self-injected.
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  5722. While she's decidedly unfit to be a jurist, a tenth grader is decidedly not a Juris Doctor either.
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  5723. Is it possible? Sure, why some time back, there was that Lee Harvey Oswald guy, who left for Russian digs and eventually returned to the US. Then, some time before, there was that Benedict Arnold guy. Let's see, counting spies, we had 18 defect to the Soviets and 30+ Soviets defected to the US. Add in return rates, the US losses are... Much lower.
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  5724.  @me8042  some years ago, I was told with great pride the story behind the beginning of Pep Boys auto parts. The friends started their auto parts business back when car lamps literally were lit lanterns. They befriended local cops, who would break out someone's light, then mention how the lamp was out and the driver should visit "those Pep boys down the road". Told by management at their corporate office. Unrelated, but humorous, while going through security at their corporate office, we overheard the blare of a car horn, then screech of brakes, then the inevitable thud. Had they braked first and honked last, it's likely the collision would've been avoided and alas, it's a common theme on our highways. I glanced at the security guard, he glanced back with a shrug, I remarked, "Sigh, another Pep Boys driver's license". A voice behind me guffawed and exclaimed, "I haven't heard that one in years!" I wheeled, it was the CEO of the company. My thought was, "Oh, I am ever so fired right now!". Amazingly, nope. At least he had a sense of humor. Which was a good thing, as we were in the middle of a major deployment and upgrade on their cash registers, upgrading to a Linux based system... Major technology shifts and upgrades are... Challenging, to put it mildly. That's what makes them fun!
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  5725. Why and how is an uncleared, non-government affiliated agency person wandering around accessing PII of taxpayers and veterans, directly against the Privacy Act of 1974? How is this non-officer of the government able to terminate contracted employees at will and whim? Our Constitution is now moribund, courtesy of a prostituted Congress and SCOTUS and utterly compromised Executive branch. Soon, Babylon will burn, as the world mourns.
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  5726.  @jamessimms415  at the flowers, I'd explain that my tolerance to trespass was limited and we're a castle doctrine state and courtesy of her parents, I'm a small arms expert and competition shooter and war veteran. Helen Keller could see the implicit threat there, but lawfully justified in castle doctrine states with no duty to retreat. Pulling down the tree branch, I'd simply say, "Strike Two, wanna try to strike out, your family won't like what remains". A black hole would figure that one out. Third, circle my face with a finger, flat out of fucks to give, may she rest in pieces, erm, peace. But, meanwhile, before escalation, I'd be microscoping her and pulling legal shit on her, the slightest infraction and if they refused for church group crap or other, fuck the reelection campaign. Did it before for nothing, trivial to play dirty again. One thing in SF was, there ain't any fighting dirty, it's surviving that counts and accomplishing one's mission and we were selected for a sheer inability to quit, but to fight smart. And I'm dirty enough of a fighter to survive to retirement. Now, worse, I've nothing to lose. Comparative ball pain to the local government, veteran vs local government, they lose, twat being a twat loses, more letters to the editor, pfft. Normally, I'm a nice guy, but there is that which made my military career survivable. And honestly, I am flat out out of fucks to give.
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  5727. Oh? So, someone from the United States of America is taking up arms against their nation? The last time I saw that was on Jan 6, where one guy was firing a handgun before invading a closed house of Congress.
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  5728.  @bluehotdog2610  and oddly, manage to keep their vessels under control, properly operate their various systems and weapons to standard and avoid running aground or burning to below the waterline. 297 combatant vessels, all not only capable, but actively supporting a quarter century of warfare and only two had incidents with navigation and leadership. OK, what is it that the folks that wrote this hatchet job distracting people from by introducing this tripe?
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  5729.  @yodel_diploma  entirely untrue! The best part of Donald stayed inside of the rubber.
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  5730. Oh, I'd happily take the job. Ever heard of malicious compliance? ;) See how long I can get away with backhanded compliments, knuckles and all...
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  5731. So, the proper means of updating one's kernel driver's parameters/daffynitions file is. 1: Do not check for update file integrity, save to at least ensure the file is zeros. 2: Updates should be always mandatory and immediate. 3: This was missed, so emphasis for future reference - Updates must be distributed and installed immediately at COB on Friday on a *holiday weekend*, not just any Friday at any time. This will ensure the minimal disruption while ensuring the maximal destruction. Pour a liberal amount of gasoline on the floor on the way out. Did I miss any critical steps? Seriously though, I've actually used their software during an active, long ongoing attack by an APT from a hostile foreign nation's forces. We literally had biweekly visits from the FBI and DHS representatives, given our government contracts and some level off concern and said attacks had been ongoing for long enough to actually warrant a pension. A couple of SOX audits and well, our SIEM and loggers that were overloaded so badly we'd get events 19 - 26 hours after an event were augmented with Crowdstrike. Now, we were getting immediate alerts, had a Splunk interface to make life easy for hunting and alerts from Crowdstrike directly as well. Captured an attack via RDP on a server in realtime, capturing everything fully in realtime and reconstructing from packet logs their latest and greatest PE files they were utilizing. Did a write-up of a relatively novel for the era, if not exceptionally new method of dumping the binary into notepad, saving it, popping that through a program that'd tag it as a PE properly, sent the report and copies of the binaries and raw code to the government, who then got them fast tracked through pretty much every malware detection outfit on the planet, blunted dozens of attacks until they repadded and recompiled. By then, the behavioral analysis and interception definitions were distributed, so plenty of urine on a certain foreign nation's annoying people's Cheerios for a bit. Also, due to that software, we finally located the incursion point - a forgotten test machine on a DMZ at one of our foreign offices that hadn't been patched since the Almighty was in diapers. So, I rather respect their software and well, did respect their acumen - right until shooting out a must install on a Friday, which is a direct violation of the Commandments of Software Patching. Thou shalt not patcheth upon Friday, for therein lies the pathway to the damnation of wrecked weekends. I've had my share over the decades of mushroom clouds, a fat fingered edit on a computer logon script, fat finger supreme in a GPO edit, patches that behave in the testing groups setting off mushroom clouds all over a military base, random reboots due to a bug, but this one has seriously outdone even the time I sent out a policy per the installation commander that ended up rebooting his computer while he was briefing his commanding general, much to their mutual mirth. Or having to slam out a shutdown abort on my own machine... Try remembering the syntax on that in a few seconds, not like it's a common command - usually I'd be in a hurry to reboot due to instability, before the OS got eaten. Suffice it to say, I'm glad that I live out of range, here in Pennsylvania, for there's no amount of money that could cause me to want to be anywhere near their offices since Friday morning. Texas must be nearly molten around Austin! It's been warm enough here, three blocks from our governor's mansion since Trump got winged... This, well it cost a lot of Fortune 100 companies some real cheddar, so it's gonna be hot in that HQ. Two words coming to mind: Penny stock. And a feeling that there likely will soon be some really sweet deals on some high end servers on the used server market quite soon.
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  5732. OK, four minutes of "he violated the code and the code was violated by him while he was violating the code that was violated". Then, the violations get brought up. OK, lesson, Times: Put the cart behind the horse, not in front. One mentions a code of conduct that was violated, one them mentions the violations in say, the first minute or two. Then, goes into the rationale. Not the code was violated, explain rationale and get around to specifics of violation four minutes later and lose most listeners long before. The complaint is spot on, however I am mystified as to what his contributions and achievements precisely are. He's rewarded for recognition for inventing nothing, developing nothing and essentially having the great foresight of being born into a family that could bequeath him an emerald mine that he could leverage to buy companies with credit from that leveraging?
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  5733. I still champion Obama's doctrine, cyber operations being equal to any other weapon of mass destruction being directed against us. We only field one weapon of mass destruction and should launch immediately. Of course, youtube will now take that as hostilities against their masters in Russia and youtube jail me again. Since youtube is now the anointed protector of all things Russian over anything American, which betrays Google's new allegiance to the Russian Federation and Putin.
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  5734. That's how locked in the past they are. The last time that was actually considered true was when FDR was alive and Truman was selected as VP as an effective end to his political career. Then, FDR had a stroke and Truman became POTUS and against all prevailing political wisdom, won the following election. Giving us this photo that I remind people when they take polls like they're gospel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman#/media/File:Dewey_Defeats_Truman.jpg
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  5735.  @IrriGRAYHowToChannel  one problem. Part of an entire amendment that was ratified says, born here, born citizen. Or are we now shredding the Constitution too? In which case, I can't tell you from a Trumpite.
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  5736. Boy, the Ruskie bots are out in force, commenting at great length on everything. And we ignore Trump's proclamation that he should get a medal for not getting VD during the Vietnam war. And that whole porn star thingie...
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  5737. Nope, before that's done, an SF86 has to be completed for actual security clearances, an SF85 for public trust clearances. Without the document completed and signed, the investigation cannot be initiated. An interim clearance may be issued, but it still requires the appropriate forms to be completed and signed, as they're sworn statements. I know that one far too well, my SF86 was a full quarter inch thick.
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  5738. For a few hours or even a shift, it could be understandable, someone might be working on an important project. Days on end, there are two critical concepts that are mandatory in the financial sector, due care and due diligence, both are entirely absent from the highest level of corporate to that section of that office. I live in a rather inexpensive apartment building, we have better security. Access tags that log entry, which is audited. Cameras that recordings are checked very regularly, evictions for violations of security have occurred here. Locks work and are checked and replaced when defective. And that's with a management staff of one. I'd reported someone messing with the payment drop box, the manager mentioned that she'd noticed that I was speaking with the individual and I related that I'd explained to him that he was trying to open a secure payment box in full view of multiple security cameras. He now lives in another abode, prohibited from access to the building. That's due care and due diligence. Something utterly absent, despite being required by federal law in that financial office.
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  5739. So, if Google is liable for not marking in their database that the bridge is impassable, is Google also responsible for pedestrians run over because the driver failed to stop, as Google didn't tell them to stop? At some point, one is supposed to be responsible for the safe operation of a motor vehicle, as I recall that began while the vehicle begins to move and stops once it's safely and securely parked and not able to roll away. That said, I've gotten wrong steers from Google Maps more times than I want to count. It's nowhere as good in accuracy as many GPS units for cars. But, if visibility, such as a ramped bridge, is obstructed to see the deck, one slows down, per every motor vehicle licensing manual I've ever saw and even in driver safety courses authorized by the federal government.
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  5740.  @evelynmoriarty5154  Nineteen eighty-four is being treated as an instruction manual, rather than the warning that it was intended to be.
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  5741.  @elfshadowx  maybe. Most of the ransomware types don't bother with exfiltration, they encrypt the data and hold the encryption keys unless the ransom is paid. So, the data remains secure, just inaccessible by the data owners. Only a few actually steal the data as well, thankfully.
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  5742. Fleetwood Mac shouldwood been a lesson. Yes, I do indeed have a large fucking vocabulary.
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  5743. How can a Cyber Truck be illegal when it so rarely works? As for the honking statute, they literally outlawed their own militia, for proper PMCS of vehicles requires sounding the horn during checks and hence, prohibit the operation of their rescue vehicles. That said, I rather doubt that any of their officers will want to argue with men with machine guns and artillery, given the necessity for both in response to natural disasters. Hey fits right in with the President that wanted to nuke a hurricane to blow it out.
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  5744.  @transformer889  the holes aren't fully closed, which you can plainly see if you look at any of the satellite ozone monitoring satellite photographs that are taken multiple times per day. It also still releases HF in the presence of flame or UV, so it's not great for the ozone layer. But, oddly I remember seeing clearly R-134 being used all over the globe. But then, I've traveled the world, those who make such claims typically haven't.
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  5745.  @transformer889  hey, there's a major forest fire around us on three sides, so why not have a fire on the fourth side? Here's a hint, want to know if it'd react with ozone? Spray it on a fire and breathe the resulting fumes, if HF liquefies your lungs and starts dissolving your nervous system, it'll react with ozone. BTW, "Halon" and similar fire extinguishers also release HF, an acid that etches glass and corrodes all metals. Operable is, just because something else exists doesn't mean that you add to it, then wonder why you're getting third degree sunburns, crops are failing and food prices go through the roof. That's like drilling holes in the hull of the Titanic, while saying water's coming in anyway. Sinking even faster isn't a good thing.
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  5746. Laughably, Trump shows all of the social awareness of Thurston Howell III, while combining that with the manners, social grace and class of all three Stooges, while quoting the great Marx - Groucho, when he addresses his cult of followers, original Zealots all, with "who are you going to believe, your own eyes and ears or me?". Vaudeville in microcosm of one organism, as current with the realities of today as its peer, the Tasmanian Tiger - which went extinct in 1936. The year Hitler was embarrassed by a black man, Jesse Owens defeating his showcase Olympic team of ubermensch - in English, supermen. Every atrocity of the past, threatening the future of ourselves, our children and grandchildren. That leaves us all with a hell of a hard choice, huh? The devil we know, a vanilla politician who was a prosecutor that put dangerous criminals away versus Genghis Khan and his hordes, who destroyed entire cities. Lemme see now, "How do you vant to die, Maxvell Schmart?", "How does old age grab you?" He brings WWII atrocities on his lips, at least I brought 1960's sitcom from an previously USMC drill instructor and general purpose Devil Dog.
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  5747. I'd have put the shield on tracks, to slide out of the way during assembly.
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  5748. Well, Charles I said that a king can do nothing that is wrong. The House of Lords disagreed and he found himself with a very severe pain in his neck. As he was convicted of treason against the United Kingdom and was beheaded. Ending the English Civil Wars.
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  5749. Donald Trump, bad enough that he's a sore loser, but he's also a sore winner. Just sore in general, a walking butt hurt. Oh well, at least now he shows signs of recovering from whatever heavy tranquilizer was used at the close of the convention. Oh well, we survived Reagan's dementia in control of our nuclear arms, Trump can't even get through the beginning of the first page of CONPLAN 8044. Not even when he wanted to nuke a hurricane to put it out.
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  5750. Just more of his "don't believe your own ears, believe me", given he outright commented on it around a month ago. This is his trying to take charge of "I choose what kind of darkie that you can say that you are". Maybe someone should gift him a white sheet "robe". And perhaps, a swastika for luck... Naw, too subtle, he'd never recognize the cultural bit, since he's one with no culture at all.
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  5751. I had mental health once, then I got married for over 41 years. Well, that and put in 28 years in the Army. Can't have mental health now, hard to when all that're left are two brain cells competing for third place. And obviously outclassed, for this fine specimen had two working brain cells competing for fifth place.
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  5752.  @themurphingjay5829  no, he'll get the actual codes, it's literally the law. But, given the procedures required by law to actually order the launches, it's pages of procedures and instructions on target package selection, etc, I guarantee he's never read it or could follow it. He's notorious for, if it doesn't have bullet points and pictures, if it's longer than one partial page, he'll not read or follow what's on the pages. And given he can't remember his own speeches, despite a teleprompter, he'll be unlikely to remember which line to read off to authenticate off of his biscuit.
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  5753. Trump does what Trump does best, exhibits his superpower. The Inverse Midas Touch. Whatever he touches turns, not into gold, it turns straight into shit.
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  5754. Yeah, can't stand the rat race myself.
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  5755. The electoral college was created as a barrier against the ill educated voting in an inappropriate leader and in that mission, in 2016, failed abysmally. Having been proved utterly ineffective, we do need to pass an amendment doing away with the ineffective remnant from the age of slavery and bring our electoral processes up to at least the 20th century, if we can't get it into the 21st century.
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  5756.  james-rd4dq  might I suggest a remedial English course for you? While on target, you massive fucked up in their vs they're an they're vs there. Ain't you got no brunging up?
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  5757.  @Shelora  yeah, because tracking bullshit is a thing and speaking one's mind is illegal. It's a shame that you are incapable of thought, otherwise you'd realize how full of shit you actually are.
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  5758.  @lindasteinfl actually, given not all Jews being followers of Judaism, the group combines multiple ethnic groups in a way that does need a better descriptor to include shared cultural heritage. But, race? Nope, there are two races, one of which I loathe, the other I occasionally dislike. The rat race and the human race. But, I've never had a problem with people who culturally embrace education, literature, science and general literacy. I've only had problems with those who embrace opposition to those invaluable things.
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  5759.  @nancydemoss2945  shortest salami I ever say. ~Stormy
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  5760. When the party of tea decided to go century + old nativist insanity, I jumped ship, never looked back. Trump's just helping what they started in the GOP turn full on end of the Whig Party. Which caused conservatives that were sane to form that new fangled Republican Party, with some Lincoln guy as their candidate for POTUS.
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  5761.  @user-gk-y8t  no, entirely the opposite of god-like in any way. Who was nicknamed "Lord of the Lies" again? I seem to recall he used to be a senior most angel... Originally, a light bringer.
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  5762. There is no lead pipe industry, lead pipes haven't been used since the 1940's. Lead solder was used for copper pipes and that's the current problem. In most cases, where ancient lead pipes still exist, many were slip lined with plastic piping, saving the major expense of digging up the old lines and creating new problems on top of the old ones.
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  5763.  @Stirrl  yep, totally screwed up WWII. Pity we helped Russia, they'd have lost otherwise. Oh well, better luck next time, we make mistakes, we don't repeat them though.
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  5764.  @janicerouse842  Trump certainly had a highly unique, if dubious method of draining the swamp. Never heard of draining a swamp by pumping in sewage before. Hope Canada gets the wildfires taken care of, I'm in S. Central Pennsylvania and it's getting pretty smokey here, it's gotta be horrific closer to the fires!
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  5765.  @ChrisS-oo6fl  and if an answer is not within its database as a high probability match, refers one off to some human who should know. I've called a call center, got an "I'm not sure about...", "Can you check with someone?". Usually, the answer is an affirmative, I get tossed on hold for a while as they get with someone that actually knows and I got an accurate answer.
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  5766.  @robertewalt7789  my first idea was when I was on I-95, approaching route 420 in PA. I joked to my wife that someone obviously hacked the sign and didn't like Manhattan. A few minutes later, we got to my parents house, saw the news and thought only one thing. We failed. We failed to protect them and now they paid the price for our fuckup. Was military back then. Eventually, got rotated in, they paid then. Not just anyone, that's rightfully a war crime, the bastards that blew up shit to scare people into not objecting or fighting them. Gave them our share of nightmares in return. Today, I'm just glad to be retired. It just started to hurt too damned much to put all of the protective equipment and mission essential equipment on every morning and I knew I was slowing down, resulting in potential danger to my teams.
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  5767. Huh. I was anticipating seeing injury from lipid inhalation, but a quick look at pathology reports show no foam cells or other signs of lipid induced injury. What seems to be present is chemical toxicity damage, via multiple pathways. Not unexpected, given that vape juice isn't regulated. It's pretty much like playing Russian Roulette with a machine gun. The bear of it is, due to federal laws against THC research of any sort, researching the stuff is impossible in the US.
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  5768. The bitch of it is, every actual politician says the same shit and well, doesn't go to such super extremes, but... I remember the first year of our GWOT, when the GOP lead the charge to cut the VA budget, for at least the 30th consecutive time - when men were coming home missing limbs. It took a leak to the press about veterans returning home to not be treated due to budget cuts at the VA to force a restoration of funds. Which were subsequently promised to remain intact, but diverted to private mega-practices that were clueless to veterans specialized needs, but made the requisite campaign contributions. Trump took a lesson from such prostitution and made it his own via extremes, due to his sociopathic nature. I instinctively dial in on personality flaws and traits myself, helped me a lot when figuring out who was a threat or a potential friend when abroad in the military. One difference is, I have rules I abide by, Trump only has one rule, what he can gain from. He can't comprehend self-sacrifice for the benefit of the whole. So, he fools followers. I win their trust and reward it with my own trust and build relationships. He wouldn't understand a normal relationship even when it's repeatedly bit him in the ass.
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  5769.  @Abhishek-sr2pu  just added to my reading list. Knowledge is power and I choose to be so well armed that nuclear weapons are like party poppers! :)
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  5770.  @antoniovalenzuela4369  given that the literal translation of Allah is "The God", referring to the god of Abraham, yes, same bloke. @George Echeveste, I got the distinct impression that He's sitting this one out, along with every other conflict. ;)
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  5771.  @sarimtariq2700  and different sects have different hadiths. Just to confuse those who never bothered to learn comparative faiths and sects within those faiths. It's almost as if the Creator said, "I like my religions with lots of sects"...
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  5772. Meh, I can tell the difference, I'm a veteran as well. Guns are used to protect oneself from the absolute tyranny of an unperforated center ring of a round paper target that's distant, the one most accurate wins a turkey or modest cash prize. A brush is a wonderful tool, can clean guns, teeth, homes, spread paints, varnishes, stains and a whole host of far more useful projects. And for fine artwork, if one's so inclined. I do those as well. I also still repair electronics for fun, rather than a living these days. Largely for friends and neighbors. I also cook a lot, the majority of my food cooked from scratch, with plenty of pressure canning for preservation. And I keep plenty of physicians company, since I'm getting older and issues incessantly crop up. One can be broody or busy, I go for busy. Brooding tends to be destructive, I prefer to be constructive.
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  5773. Well, it is all chemistry. Food without any chemicals is called a vacuum and well, not food.
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  5774.  @cobrakai388  there's a long, involved and rather convoluted history around that "name". A mistransliteration of Joshua is the TLDR of it. Loads of flipping and flopping back and forth from Aramaic to ancient Greek, sliding over to Latin and back to Greek and back turned Joshua into Jesus. Christ literally meaning "annointed one", something typically only done for royalty being crowned.
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  5775. Yeah, they're in high orbit watching, saying, "Hey, wanna see the monkeys scurry around all excited?"
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  5776. Was married for over 41 years, my wife chose to largely be what's now the fad of tradwife, with modifications for our mutual happiness and choices. She did "own" the checkbook, largely due to the fact that she was better at it than me, since I do have dyscalculia and my balancing the thing looked like the dog balanced it. I usually did the shopping, as her disability grew more severe, previously we both did the shopping together. We also took turns cooking, even when I came home from work, if it was my turn or she wasn't feeling well, it was my turn cooking. The flip side was, whoever didn't cook got to do the dishes and we had a dishwasher anyway. Had to fix the damned thing a few times, but it worked well. When I was injured and before she became disabled, she would work to bring in enough to keep the household afloat. When the kids didn't need continuous supervision, she worked to bring in some extra scratch and keep busy. She was lousy with the sewing machine, always fouled up the spring tension, so that became my baby. And the vegetable garden was mine as well. I was also the preferred babysitter for the grandkids, as I was the only one that could keep the two eldest colic ridden babies happy and comfortable. Lost her coming up on 3 years ago, still keep turning to talk to her... And I do miss her keeping me in the right hat size. ;) Of course, I'm a perfect 10 - unfortunately, that's on the Richter scale. That said, this specific specimen is a typical INCEL, little boy looking for a mama he can screw when he wants only, coast the rest of the time, rather than having a partner in life. He'll continue this way, given the amount of pigment loss in his beard and die alone. And looking around, I realized that I'm down to one quart of pasta sauce. Considered making more, but am moving on Saturday, so that'll wait to christen the kitchen in the new apartment by making 4 gallons of sauce and pressure canning quarts to fill the case back up. Because a man who can't function in life by himself without griping isn't much of a man.
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  5777. It's also rather noisy. Unless one's entering a home in a rural area, such noise tends to get noticed.
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  5778.  @Albanach-je1nk  didn't I see him get his brain in Young Frankenstein? Came from Abby something or other Abby Normal or something.
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  5779. @calvinjohnson2985 well, the emoties say bat shit crazy, which is spot on. Or I could go on with a dozen euphemisms for it, like fruitloops, bats in the belfry, brick in the pants, window licker...
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  5780. I remember Protestants actually celebrating JFK's assassination, trumpeting the Catholic was dead. I wish I was joking, but I'm not. A hell of a lot of violence has occurred throughout US history to keep Catholics out of power. Today, the populace got snookered into embracing men who are the most extreme sect of Roman Catholicism that was considered heresy for ages - right until the RCC went bankrupt and Opus Dei financially bailed them out. All of which can be trivially found in a Google search, "Nativism in US politics", "Know Nothing Party", "Philadelphia Nativist Riots", "Protestants celebrate JFK assassination" for starters. The Philadelphia Nativist riots, literal religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets, where Protestants stole a cannon from the port defenses and attacked a Roman Catholic church, school, convent and hospital, killed responding militia and only returned to their home when a thoroughly pissed off militia commander ringed their area with artillery, since it wasn't the first time such violence had happened. Following, months of martial law, with soldiers patrolling Philadelphia city streets with fixed bayonets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_in_United_States_politics https://www.nola.com/opinions/hatred-of-catholics-led-some-to-cheer-jfks-assassination-jarvis-deberry/article_04891c1c-0b10-5362-b960-e244c1ac0654.html I remember the JFK celebrations that Protestants made. Don't have personal memory of the Nativist movement in the 1800's, but it's well recorded throughout history. So, in response to the election of a Black president, the WASP brigade joined up with their arch-nemesis. We'll get Handmaid's Tale, death camps and the worst of fascism, they'll fight it out later, to the detriment of the populace. Because, both sides are so disturbed, they wouldn't hesitate to use nukes, to "force God's hand" in returning to Earth, as insane as that sounds. I've spoken often enough to both, they're the worst that humanity has to offer, right up there with Islamist terrorists. Now, they ruin, erm, run the courts and are throughout the highest levels of government soon, good job in destroying a nation and probably, world. I'm already missing secular and sane rule.
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  5781. Well, the first Winchesters were stepper motor based actuators, later models introduced the voice coil actuator for the workstation and small server market, servers getting the Caddy treatment of bleeding edge. Can't recall offhand now if the 3030 was MFM or RLL, but I'm thinking MFM formatting as default. Which actuator depended upon the product line it went into. Lost my old 10 meg IBM HD, an old Winchester drive, lost it when someone literally emptied my house while I was deployed. Came back and even the water heater was stolen. Back to that HD, it filled an entire 5.25 full size floppy bay. Alas, can't recall its model number. A whopping 10 whole megs though was insane for a workstation! This one has a great video on stepper motor vs voice coil in the smaller drives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs372pk2cGI One nice thing with voice coil was, the heads would typically be configured to return to the parking zone if power was disconnected or failed.
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  5782. He's levying war against the US, which means taking up arms against his government? You've got two eyewitnesses to the overt act of making war against the US government that will testify in open court? Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. That's literally the only crime that the US Constitution very narrowly and clearly defines. Indeed, it's the only crime that the Constitution defines at all. He can't give aid and comfort to an enemy, as Congress has not declared war and hence, we have no enemies, only adversaries and those aren't in that definition. So, stop using his play book, you're worse at it than he is. And frankly, it'd be hard to even get a guilty verdict for sedition for Jan 6, it was just barely at a borderline by his own words. Dammit.
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  5783.  @ejatkins8926  no, it's dog whistle for "keep the darkies in their place". Beyond offensive and well, hazardous to the health of the speaker in my presence. Life in prison or the death penalty really aren't much of a deterrent at my age and medical condition.
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  5784. Accent? Bells palsy? Can think of dozens of reasons. Why? Are you trying to claim that the arrest of a man that trespassed onto private property with an antique SKS assault rifle is an unlawful arrest? Why did Trump's people try to claim that an SKS has an 800 yard range, when it can barely hit a target 150 yards away on a good day when fired by an expert with that weapon? An AK47 is a turd and it's good for 400 yards in the hands of an expert. An AR, around 500 - 600 yards typically, although I've hit targets at a kilometer with an M16, it wasn't very precise. 800 yards is precision rifle range.
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  5785. I've a rather narrow number of fungal species that I'll consume. In a fair part, due to allergies to things like straw mushrooms. Get even a bit of straw mushrooms in a meal, I'll be literally projectile vomiting. Oddly, I can tolerate a number of other mushrooms, most of the brown mushrooms like portobello, shittaki, porcini mushrooms I can consume as much as I want. Go figure. But, different species, different proteins. Fooling around with various toxic forms, thanks, but no thanks. If I'm not fond of taking prescribed drugs, I certainly am beyond leery of uncontrolled substances going into my body or on it or hell, even near me. The only fungi I'll mess with under less controlled condition is yeast in my bread or perhaps, with some beverage and I've not made wine in decades. Which reminded me, just added some portobellos to my shopping list. I'll be tossing some, well diced, into a lentil based "meatloaf" I've been experimenting with. My diet is omnivore, but I do enjoy a change of pace with my meals. Never could figure out how some folks could eat the same thing every single day! Although tomorrow's meal will be to polish off a bit of leftover sauce, with additional sauce added to some of my thirstier noodles...
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  5786. For most, especially IT students, it comes down to what one is comfortable using and also does what you need it to do. I could do all of the tasks discussed and more with my old Mac, alas, it was stolen during a move and I set some options to brick it. I keep one Windows system at home for specialty work and to read some medical equipment. Everything else is largely either *BSD or Linux. Each to its own strengths and abilities, as I'm fluent at the SA level on all. Might get a Chromebook, just for shits and giggles, but well, I can get pretty much anything to do what I need it to do, when I can't, I'll VM or remote into a bridge box I have to reach a machine that does that specialty task. Oh, for the record, my apartment's smaller. That means, if I shot a video, it'd sound like I'm videoing from the middle of a data center's server room. And previously, in a many hat role, I was base IASO, mail filter admin, antivirus admin, patch management admin, defacto IAM for the installation, web filter owner (I was the best out of automations at RegEx anyway), as well as requested and issued elevated access tokens. Plus command and staff, a few IA meetings a week and Shell Answer Man (especially when an organization needed assistance with a firewall modification request). Most of my work was conducted by scripts, stage a script to perform the task needed, check the script logs, massage any recalcitrant job(s), smoke cigarettes and drink coffee while the scripts did their jobs. I also owned all of the computer and user logon scripts and was consulted heavily for GPO modifications. I'm that prick that could give an accurate resultant set of policy result before the tool could. And yes, the sea did indeed part, but honestly, that was due to the DFAC's beans...
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  5787. Laughably, in 1977, when I took my test, there'd have been no confusion. Amazing what can change in just a few years!
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  5788.  @charlottesmom  well, the hogs need to eat too. Just thank him for coming by to feed the hogs.
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  5789.  @TheSkorpioprince  yeah, met him back around y2k, doubt he'd remember me. Then again, he did seem to remember people that walked away from in disgust. He's even worse now, but that's OK, I'm a senior citizen now, so I can let the filter slip a bit too. Although, he'd probably have a stroke after getting an old Army NCO ass chewing...
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  5790.  @lordblazer  I think that Georgia should deport him to his home of record - in Georgia. Since they're already making fools of themselves and overruling the US Constitution and laws, might as well continue. And as retired military and extensive traveler, yeah, not been in that situation, but I certainly do understand the law. Georgia had their own Commissioner back them farther into a corner of lawlessness. Something they've done with foreign citizens, including Canadians (including not allowing them to contact their Consulate on groundless arrest). The clerk moved below moron, in most nations, that clerk could be charged with treason. Here, we only consider it treason if aid is rendered to an enemy or arms are taken up against the nation. But, pissing all over the Constitution I swore to protect and uphold is beyond unacceptable. Enough to suggest quite strongly that Reconstruction begin anew in Georgia.
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  5791. That's up to her state bar association, not any court of law. I'm honestly not certain what the process is if she was disbarred while in a lifetime appointment on the bench, my inclination is that the disbarment would be effectively meaningless. Otherwise, a state bar would rule supreme over the Constitution, rather than the converse, as the Constitution demands.
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  5792. In other words, he'd have surrendered to Tojo after Pearl Harbor was burned. Shouldn't we be hearing this from Emperor Musk, not his Empress Trump? And Ukrainian polling numbers, in a land Trump even says is shattered, was last conducted in December 2024. You don't run daily polls when you're being massively invaded, as anyone with two operational brain cells competing for fourth place can understand. As for Hegseth, didn't recognize him out of uniform, usually by that time he's wearing his uniform lampshade or on stage dancing with the rest of the girls. It's nice to hear him repeat Chamberlain's words about Poland and France. Didn't stop them then, end result was WWII. Guess he'll ensure we get to try on WWIII. Maybe he'll be sensible and replace the iron in our warheads with cobalt. BTW, calculate out how much a car is gonna cost, given subassemblies of aluminum and steel go back and forth repeatedly across the border and now get tariffed. Welcome to seeing our newest ghost town, Detroit. An upside being, pop in aluminum cans won't be affordable either, so we'll see some part of the populace lose weight. Make America Gaunt Again.
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  5793. All using both his mouth and Twitter fingers. He hates regulation, refusing to recognize that history proved just why we placed those regulatory organizations and rules in place.
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  5794.  @gpcivil8807  well, you conflate two things erroneously. You confused good marketing helping sales, a showman as a CEO and being high quality. Let's look at the product. Weird charging cable, there's a standard, Tesla decided to be Betamax to the world's VHS. The automagic driving drives into obstacles, with lethal results if the driver isn't babysitting it closely and the number of emergency vehicles rammed by the automagics is absurd. Seriously, how does an automatic drive system not spot a frigging firetruck?! Ambluance?! Police car, sure, after all, the lights and siren are cloaking devices or something. Fires, alas, that's nowhere near a Tesla only issue, babies wet, high energy batteries short and catch fire.
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  5795.  @gpcivil8807  so, sales makes something better? Which is better, Smith and Wesson or Colt? Odd that you didn't bother commenting with the well documented problems, from proprietary charging connector that nobody else in the world uses or their incessant automagic drive crashes and the intensive babysitting needed to simply avoid a crash in automagic mode. But, since we're talking about Musk, not Tesla as a product line producer, how's that hyperloop going? The magical brain electrodes that are doing precisely what was done in the 1970's, with an infection rate that's shocking even by 1970's standards and forced an end to that college collaborating with his company? SpaceX, well, he didn't have much of a choice but to make it priority #1, failure to perform on a government contract gets to be insanely expensive. Frankly, the man reminds me of Liberace, a fair pianist only, but a hell of a showman. If I had to choose a pianist when he was alive to play for royalty, he'd not be my first choice, but a superior pianist instead. Brand isn't the important part, function, quality and in the case of vehicles, the damned thing not trying to kill you is just a little bit important. Ain't heard of any Chevy Bolts ramming into emergency equipment and highway dividers. Or any other manufacturer stupid enough to have a car fart instead of making noises that would warn a pedestrian that a car was coming. Or blatantly manipulating stock prices repeatedly, despite orders to cease and desist doing so again.
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  5796.  @clairen4584  so, you are saying we need to overthrow our own government, just as Trump tried on Jan 6?
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  5797. Army type that used to drink with Marines routinely, one question. What's a hangover? Yeah, I'm one of those pricks that never get them, didn't matter though, we'd all be on time for duty. Though, we did have a bit of bitter contention on certain color crayons to chew...
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  5798. Perjury is a crime for commoners.
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  5799. Sounds like a good law. If a murder is committed, does the entire city have to get nuked? After all, the city is a Constitution free zone, exercising the corruption of blood.
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  5800. Yeah, the businesses are fleeing, why the NYSE shut down... At closing bell, to reopen tomorrow morning.
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  5801.  @Paul_90000  that ain't gonna happen! Payroll would cut into their embezzlement profits.
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  5802. Another thing, which I believe all would stipulate is, the USPS is the preferred carrier of classified parcels, up to SECRET. Over the decades, I've sent hundreds.
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  5803.  @roachtoasties  well, "as sharp as a sack of wet mice", "as sharp as a bowling ball", "as sharp as the head of my dick" also come to mind... "As bright as a five watt bulb in a hundred watt room", "useful as the bustline of a bull", "dumb as a bag full of hammers", "helpful as an anvil as a parachute", "about as subtle as a hand grenade inside a bowl of shit"...
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  5804.  @babu357  the military takes lawful orders, it doesn't self-mobilize and engage without lawful orders. And we weren't sworn to the people, we were sworn to obey lawful orders and protect the nation, Constitution and laws. The Constitution's preamble defining the nation as We The People of the United States. Nothing in the oath about a god-king wannabe or anything political and there are laws against military getting in any way at all involved in politics or policing. We also count on the folks at home keeping things reasonably stable and well, as close as possible to what we deployed to defend when we redeploy home. These antics are beyond disconcerting to those serving far from home. I know that well enough, I trained a hell of a lot of those who are now senior leaders. OT by a bit, went shopping at the local small supermarkets, around a 2 mile walk from home. Extra large eggs were at one market for $9.00, left them sit, large were $8.00, let that sleeping dog lie too. Ironically, the week before they were a buck less, but got a 10.39 pound ham for $6.11, which is now part frozen, part bagged in the fridge and the bone happily in the freezer door awaiting my pleasure of what soup to make out of it. Lamb was around the usual price. Pork was around average. Eggs are up due to bird flu wiping out entire flocks of hens. End of Jan, a report from Nevada reported bird flu in milk at dairy farms, then all flu and COVID reporting ceased from the government, per god-king's orders. Of course that'd happen, he was seven kinds of bent out of shape how the reports made his numbers look bad during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe I'll some green eggs and ham, like used to be made for me by Sam I Am. ;) Since my pantry is restocked again.
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  5805.  @gordonwedman3179 I know of a few Philadelphia data centers that are located within the city - across town. The likelihood of a specific disaster taking both out is a lot lower than the risk of one building to fire, flood, tornado, hurricane, my farting inside the data center, etc. A few had their hot sites in places like Reading, still fairly close by so that workers could get to them, but far enough away that a major disaster that could paralyze the entire city would be outside of their area.
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  5806. It was an unmitigated disaster! To the reputation of an absurd number of people, agencies and companies. It wasn't so good for the reactor either. I reviewed imagery of the core after the accident, that wonder of modern engineering wasn't that any longer, it was a Greek tragedy. The only thing uglier was Fukushima's cores. Couldn't find any imagery of what's left of Chernobyl's core, which is just as well, I'd probably become ill seeing what happened to that engineering. Beyond those disasters, well, I live 3 miles from the island, everyone's still here and annoyingly, we still need street lights at night - nobody and nothing is glowing. TMI, a lesson on precisely how not to keep the public and press informed during a mishap or major accident. The truth shall set you free, even if you're stuck admitting that you're in the middle of recovering from a major goat screw event. Oh, from the report, the flashing indicator was on the obverse side of the main console and was noticed by the shift relief operator as he arrived. Always remember the Shepard's Prayer, Alan Shepard praying when he entered the space capsule prayed, "Oh Lord, please don't let me fuck up!".
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  5807. Send him straight to Annapolis, where he belongs as a leader. Send the superintendent to the unemployment line. Army's got the Navy's back.
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  5808. I remember back when Pennsylvania first legalized right turn on red. Immediately, NO TURN ON RED signs proliferated like weeds at every red light. Every red light, even where turning right was impossible, as there was no road one could turn right onto - just private property, in a few cases, literally one would be turning into the wall of a building. It took a court order at the behest of the Commonwealth to get these cities, towns and townships to remove the majority of the signs, only allowing those justified by a proper highway survey. The signs had a much higher cost later, as those signs were as popular with voting drivers as the black death and cost the authorizing idiots dearly in the next election.
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  5809. Yeah, they just got a bad spin of the wheel.
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  5810.  @Mad_Catter_  that's just crazy talk! Everyone knows one just needs to use hook and loop fasteners to hold a rocket to the launchpad supports.
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  5811.  @staciej2580  depends upon the dosage, as ketamine is also an anesthetic. Blocks the NMDA receptor. Long pharmacology bit involved and frankly, I don't fully grasp most of it. I do know that it's one anesthetic I shouldn't have, as emergence delirium is something to be avoided with me and my military history. Brains, way too many moving parts, they'll never work.
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  5812. So, he wants to rent a carriage from a one horse carriage company that only has four horse carriages. With a management structure that seems to consist entirely of a one man band. Anyone buying that is welcome to invest in my new bridge, it goes to Brooklyn. I also have an always green clear space, a wonderful glade in Florida for sale, I call it the everglades.
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  5813.  @suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261  you are the absolute first to comment and not comment on my avatar! Good job!
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  5814. How do you get an old Yugo to go over 60 MPH? Tell the tow truck driver to go faster.
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  5815. OK, we'll deport Trump. Dunno what good it'll do to deport him to NYC though. Or are you as bad as Trump and want to shred the US Constitution, since we don't exile US citizens?
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  5816. I grew up in the US and attended middle school through high school in SE Pennsylvania. Common then, back during the last ice age, was gym class and mandatory common showers, segregated by sex. If you're unclear, boys had their own locker room and showers, girls did as well. Gym classes eventually got shared, locker rooms weren't unless you really wanted to get suspended and possibly expelled and enjoying the last reform schools. I joined the US Army, did 28 years and change. Shared showers were far from uncommon, in the field, well, shared field shower or sponge off au naturale in the middle of the camp. I've done both. Did clothing optional beaches, one laughably was half clothed, half clothing optional and a prominent sign warned "You may encounter nude bathers beyond this point", which Helen Keller could've easily ascertained on any warm part of the year. People enjoying the clothing optional ranged from couples with small children through people in their 80's or more. Like the school shower, the beach had a similar thing. If you don't want to look at the train wreck, stop frigging looking, idiot. Of course, I'm a pure, distilled Adonis. Just go to the closest cemetery, you'll not find anyone to disagree. OK, if you run into me, I'll disagree. Mom always said, I had brown eyes for a reason. As for doctors in the US, yeah, I've shocked more than a few, when before they could escape the room I had disrobed for examination. Although, I've yet to have a skin examination, being of rather olive skinned stock. That said, our eldest inherited her grandparents genes from the paler nations and already had melanoma treated. But, I did get a mammogram. Long story about hyperthyroidism induced adipose growth and a painful boobie. How girls can endure that growth without continuous complaints is beyond me! I've traveled the globe over the decades, saw more women breast feeding than I could shake an abacus at. To the point where, it's highly probable that even here, I've entirely failed to notice. Although, here, I might offer to eat my meal in the bathroom, with a droll expression and wink, which would likely send the poor mother into absolute fits of mirth. Anyone harassing her would likely get a very sincere reading from the biblical Book of Threats that I've actually read to Al Qaeda members. As far as television and boobs, I'm still trying to figure that disconnect myself, despite being born and raised in the US. We see boobs all the time when our leaders speak! And occasionally, an ass. With some, Samson could've defeated three Philistine armies with one of their jawbones. But, profanity is heavily fined if used on public airwaves. And one can get up to two years in prison. Media may, such as in states like Pennsylvania, be considered indecent (as well as clothing) if aureola or nipple are visible. Yeah, Queen Victoria is still alive and ruling in the US. Little known history. The Puritans rewrote the bible, there was another bible with more books and chapters before in English, but they outlawed it and under King James, was authorized under duress. Regardless of where one goes, people are people, the same emotions and sensations are present and guide overall behavior. Public behavior tends to be socially guided according to cultural norms, but notice I said overall behavior. People are people and people fuck. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people. That eventually means babies and babies need to be fed and a lot of the world can't afford formula and bottles, so go with what God/nature provided, boobies to feed from. And I very well may slap the silly out of the next village idiot that I hear tell me that babies are damaged by seeing boobs. Well, at least slap the lead paint chips out of that idiot's brainless skull. Naw, shit splatters. Given, kids running naked at beaches was normal in the 1960's. Breastfeeding is natural. An ass is only something to be concerned about if it speaks and there is an open flame nearby.
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  5817. More like a fuckwit crime. Even money, drug related. In that situation, I'd not be needing to sue Walmart, as the property damage of the clerk going through counter and shelves would induce the punitive effect and neutralize the threat handily. I may walk with a cane, but this veteran is far from being an invalid and can still throw his body weight and more around.
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  5818. MAGA, the battle cry of the old Know Nothing party, who so burned down the Whig party as to create the vacuum that allowed the Republican party to be born.
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  5819.  @harryfarber6435  shouldn't be high for much longer, not at the rate that Donnie keeps on laying eggs in court.
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  5820.  @aengusmacnaughton1375  they're typical idiots, if they don't understand how something works, rather than learning, they just break it like a toddler.
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  5821.  @jey2586  mother is blessed enough, but never forget that women have fought for our nation since the Revolutionary War's various "Molly Pitcher" individuals, who took over fighting when a man fell and the guns needed reloading.
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  5822. That entire story didn't make sense from early reporting and now. $200k in dimes are missing in every story, yet a million dimes were stolen, someone badly failed basic elementary school math! Oh, math fun time. a roll of dimes is $5.00, which weighs in at 4 oz. Figure out how many pounds that just $100k would weigh. Now, think of the entire load. My back is already hurting in sympathy...
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  5823. Can't quote the bible on abortion when the closest that it comes to mentioning it is when God performs one on adulterous wives in Numbers 5:18. Other than that, a fetus is considered part of the mother's body until it is born and takes its first breath, then and only then is it considered a baby. So, these people cling to Satan by proclaiming, even unknowingly, that they know better than God.
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  5824. Not much of a stretch for murder charges on the fleeing suspect, as any death that occurs during the commission of a crime becomes a murder charge. If someone dodged the fleeing suspect and had a fatal heart attack, legally that is murder. But, there is the takeaway from the NTSB, which was spot on. Avoid the feeding frenzy idiocy. Additionally, there's precisely zero chance that the one helicopter could've saw the incoming helicopter, it's literally on a blind spot for aircraft. The pilot would've needed x-ray vision to see the bird coming in from the off rear.
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  5825. Maybe they should deport him to Tennessee. Then, send in federal troops to Reconstruct the state for a century or three. Until then, Tennessee is not to be considered a US state, only a possession equal with our other territories and possessions. As bad as when I returned home to Pennsylvania and my military ID was rejected as unacceptable. "After 9-11..." Bullshit, Real ID Act was passed in 2005 and still isn't in full effect until next year, so he's trying the time machine gambit. And to be a US Navy sonarman, one needs a top secret security clearance, which aren't handed out to non-citizens. So, Tennessee is refusing to give faith and credit to multiple states and the federal government, violating the Constitution yet again. Reconstruct them again - for three centuries and if they bitch, have Hunger Games. The laugh being, resident aliens are given a operator's license in Tennessee, so they've essentially revoked his entire US citizenship and refused all faith and credit in federal and other state governments, claiming under federal law, the US Constitution is illegal. Wonder how they'd feel with every federal penny drying up?
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  5826. Just secede and seize the NTC and military bases, if the US wants them back, they gotta pay rental for the dock space and used lands. And keep 14% of the US GDP, which would collapse the US economy. And there are three checkmate moves one could make should he try using federal troops.
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  5827.  @HolyGuacamolean  OK, the Constitution is dead. Yay! I know where the ATACMS and munitions are, I win.
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  5828.  @sherylhoward4831  well, the laugh is, abortion isn't new, it existed even in biblical times, as any archeologist and history professor can explain in depth. So, the bible being silent on abortion, that means per their faith, God was silent on abortion, so they're going Satan's route and saying that they know better than God does. Which is heresy.
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  5829.  @bluewaters3100  well, at those depths, helium is both a frenemy and a friend. But yeah, totally imperfect perfection, which is how one recovers from a nascent disaster.
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  5830. Yes, we're all dead. So, respect the dead before I haunt you.
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  5831.  @Skooms89  well, I follow god. Let Him catch the first round if we walk into an ambush. I'll just get my hat...
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  5832.  @Skooms89  I can well ascertain your educational level, as evidenced by the lack of formatting, capitalization of the reflexive and by the claims of fake news and lies, which are ever so fake by actual certified video, meaning that reality is fake and one's own fantasies are real.
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  5833. Cool! Thanks to the sheriff, they can close the courts. He'll punish them, after trying them himself, then execute punishment. He'll heat the jail with the final copy of the US Constitution and be done with it. Since he's above the law and because he's sick and tired of it, to hell with the laws and Constitution, the god-cop is in town. And precisely why we have a second amendment. Courts give trial, courts impose sentences, not sheriffs. We fought a war over that.
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  5834. Here's a question, how much input does our immune system pose to our digestive system? Confounding for me, as a test subject, no realistic sense of smell, huge sense of taste, protein intensive for soy proteins and actual sense of taste for various minerals. Despite farting incessantly on the apartment elevator after enjoying collard greens, freshly prepared from two shopping bags. Part and parcel for a varied diet, with occasional diversions for. erm, wealth.
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  5835. So, grain prices go insane, welcome to bread becoming something for the wealthy. What a chump, Trump. Asshole everything in the heaviest armed nation of the world. And somehow, I see Melania evacuating, letting Washington's portrait burn. Along with our nation. No loyalty whatsoever. Just a whore's course, paid for service. How's it feel to be a whore now?
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  5836. Only for serfs, obviously.
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  5837. Based upon my inspection findings, I junked my Toyota and won't consider another from them or their subsidiaries again. Total win! Because tires are engines and screw reality. Tires do get an S rating, they're not the fucking engine. Abandon the owner, we abandon your now useless, warrant-free product.
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  5838. Film cooling of the combustion chamber throat was also critically important, as you mentioned. Now, think of maintaining that fuel in still liquid state, as it evaporates to cool the chamber and its throat, right in the middle of hell... Talk about a balancing act!
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  5839.  @FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t  actually, it's more common an injury source in diving if one isn't paying close attention to one's mixture in deep diving. Less so in medical, although I did start to get nasal burns once from high rate O2 via nasal cannula in the hospital once. Had them humidify it, which lessened the issues until I could come off of it.
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  5840. And by doing so, as the trials were just ending and are now halted, invalidating their results, a cancer vaccine for non-small cell lung cancer and head and neck cancers. He had fucked up the earlier study because the vaccine was invented in Cuba, so he did everything he could in his previous term to sink it.
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  5841. Looking at the first recipe, increase the onions, salt and pepper, find some frigging bones to gelatin. Then, as it dried, add in hard tack ground damned hard. You know, basic meatball recipe or well, meatloaf. Sandwich with spuds, enough said. Toss some carrots into the spuds, it'll be considered quim by soldiers.
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  5842. Nobody's deleting files. They'll stay hidden on the servers on the classified networks. And "they're working day and night deleting files" is telling, given it takes literally seconds to delete tens of thousands of files if one needed to. They count on the public's ignorance on how computers work to shift attention away from their never releasing that which they claim to have ordered released, with a pair of winks and nods. Using just the JFK files alone, at least 99% of the people that'd be listed in those files are long dead, so if there was anything to be found, it'd be released without harm. Yet, still isn't released. So, that implies some national security issue keeping a section classified and given the impact of the event, fairly glancing, but still of current importance, such as maybe questioning a known Russian agent and some data that's of use today being mentioned in that section and cross referenced in other files, so remains classified. So, "Oh, the Epstein files", where we already know the majority of shenanigans in it, as a shiny to divert attention away from the non-release of any of the files that contain nothing notable to begin with that's germane to the assassinations. And precisely what I predicted when he signed the EO to release the files that are on Pam's desk in some alternate universe. Sources and means will remain protected, so the files will remain sealed and since the press' attention is so easily diverted, it'll become as if the EO never existed and the files will remain sealed. After all, to Trump, his EO's are as valid as his campaign promises, made and forgotten if he loses interest.
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  5843.  @tanishamcdonala3181  how typical, "I'm lazy, so let someone else do it".
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  5844.  @lorielenamarie  Ruskie bot. Note the times they were most active.
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  5845. The FBI is under the DOJ, both Executive branch. So, Congress has oversight.
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  5846. It isn't the rocket that usually sends the turret flying, it's the ammunition inside the tank that launches the turret. I think that all the rubbing compound in the world ain't gonna buff that one out!
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  5847.  @Shrouded_reaper  it's laughably ironic, AI is so incredibly effective in so many fields of science, but the public ends up getting LLM Artificial Idiocy foisted off on them. While we'll extend life by a fair amount, nothing is about to become a magic bullet for biological immortality, as the brain itself still will fail and no amount of stem cells will replace an already "wired and programmed" brain network. Still, just for shits and giggles, let's say we did manage actual biological immortality. Now, 8 billion people each have their children at our average population growth rate of 0.87% per year, how soon before we exhaust our food and water capacity for them?
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  5848.  @johnc3886  won't happen, they don't issue Yankee White clearances that easily and protective detail, yeah, why should an agent lose their life or destroy their life and their family's lives just to satisfy your desire for the man's demise? Frankly, you sound as bad as he is.
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  5849. Now, now, the sneaker hawking Faux mewls advertisement, I mean story was spot on. "I've never seen anyone that understand culture like any other politician I've ever seen". Yeah, me either, it's almost as if he's from another planet. Nanu-nanu, Donny. The not-so Teflon Don the Con, 'cause everything is sticking to him like it's crazy glue. I swear, any day now, I expect to hear him howl from his golf cart, "Detonate the reality bomb!".
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  5850. OK, there is a difference of methodology. I was an NCO, I learned during the operation brief what the commander's intent was, as did my line officer. I moved the men, officer figured out how many and where, calling in resources to support us. Lose that officer, I also knew that job and replaced him or her. And I'm the prick that accurately called out ten digit grid coordinates on the fly. US squad leaders actually lead the squad and command said squad. Fully, we don't have that many lieutenants, we'd need to be the PRC to pull that much manpower! Also, US light infantry will arrive at the time, via hummer, later, mine resistant vehicle. We were a Stryker brigade, so we had an armoredish vehicle collection, with anything from Ma Duece and more. You made a perfect 20/20 hindsight mistake, could US forces do something not apparent to them? ;) Still, I'd go back, with someone with similar experience, move to contact or locate our missing, calling in our organic 120 mm mortar team. Our communications devices have a crypto zero function. I'm still scratching my head over the US flag on evac. Don't get me started on blue on blue...
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  5851. I'm still waiting for artificial intelligence, all I've been seeing is artificial idiocy. Just look at search engine results that are beyond wildly off. Look at various papers lousy with confabulation that they call hallucination, to distract from the fact that the confabulation matches dementia patients answers. There's no real intelligence there at all, just language matching and random shit. And when drawing humans, can't even get the number of fingers right. I guess we should be happy we're not seeing faithful reporting on how humans really have four eyes or something...
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  5852. One then has to prove at least by preponderance of the evidence that a crime has been committed to a court of law.
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  5853. OK, I'll bite. What precisely was he convicted of? One state charge of fraud? He's yet to be convicted of a federal crime of any sort and civil cases aren't convictions. Now, once the classified documents case advances, well, he's got absolutely no defense beyond his god-king wannabe claims of total immunity that kings once enjoyed.
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  5854. I'll be amazed if he doesn't actually order smallpox released into the populace. Alas, I'm literally not joking. He's just that frigging insane.
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  5855. There's still justice... Affluenza defense says otherwise. Defendant treated with kid gloves says otherwise. Infinite deferrals of hearing a national security case that would have anyone else confined under the prison says otherwise. Short path to the SCOTUS often enough that one wonders if it was the one man's personal court says otherwise. Still, eventually, they got charges that stuck to the Teflon Don, this version will eventually get some as well or we'll instead end up with a god-king, Emperor for life and Congress sent home forever.
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  5856. You had about as much fun figuring out what was said as my Mexican friend, who was working with public health in Columbia. Leaving two people separated by a common language. Ran into similar in parts of the UK. To this day, I've no clue whatinhell they speak in Liverpool. ;)
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  5857.  @aarone9000  yep, they've fully embraced their bold worship of the Lord of the Lies.
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  5858. Fart into the air intake?
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  5859.  @gmchixx7652  Trump offered that which did not exist. First, Canadian water is Canadian water, not US water. Second, that water goes nowhere near California, so unless the god-king was going to personally carry it in buckets a thousand miles, that wasn't going to happen. But, keep worshiping the guy who fired God. Hell will look good on earth. And enjoy the grocery prices shooting up 50% due to tariffs. And taxes shooting up to cover the increased defense costs, as a lot of really expensive equipment and weapons systems come from Canada. And when he escalates things, enjoy the NE blackout, as their power comes from Canada. And no gasoline, as our oil that our refineries can use comes from Canada, our oil not being compatible with US refineries and exported. He's literally planning to have an inverse siege, we besiege ourselves and starve ourselves into Canadian submission. That'll work out about as well as Trump steaks did.
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  5860. That's one thing that's struck me as odd. Abortion isn't anything new, it was literally around in biblical times. Yet, the bible is entirely silent on the subject. So, for anyone that is a Christian to claim religion as their justification for being against abortion is them quite literally shouting from the rooftops "I know better than the Almighty God". Only Satan did that previously and that didn't end very well for him.
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  5861. A fair point, although it appears that you share one trait with them. Neither can find their damned capslock key.
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  5862.  @abegailmriga980  the problem is, it ain't a ditch at the end, it's a cliff. They'll happily call it a victory if they turn the US into a larger version of Somalia. Although, their pirates would try to use the remnants of the US Navy's fleets for piracy, which would be entertaining to see them try to row the Nimitz, since they'd be incapable of operating it or its reactors.
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  5863. I've actually met Trump the Lump, long ago, before unreality TV was a thing. What he doesn't understand, which is well, much of everything, he wants to break, like a tantrum ridden toddler. He literally never received a time-out or spanking and it shows. We went to war against terrorists, today, he and Musk are greater threats to the nation than even the WTC bombers, who killed personal friends and one family member.
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  5864. I saw that movie, "Don't Look Up". Worked out well ignoring the "distraction".
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  5865. And Ginni also declared Trump to be "the King of Kings", using Christian terms to declare Donald J. Trump no less than Jesus Christ.
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  5866. You missed the same thing that the prosecutor missed. What happens when you've stretched leather, then wet it and allowed it to dry without it being stretched to stay the same size? It shrinks and the last time I had it on me, I noticed that blood is mighty wet. And jurors are instructed to consider only what was presented in the trial. And I've been a juror several times for several trials. Still, the Simpsons isn't exactly realistic. Homer would never get an operator's ticket in the US, Chernobyl or with TEPCO perhaps, but not in the US. ;) As for stinky britches, never found cause to sing about them. Cut back on the beans, yes, sing, nope. I like keeping a patent airway.
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  5867.  @ElizabethHarrah  because it was so effective the last two times. Frankly, I suspect we're closing quickly on the need for lead and antimony to arbitrate.
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  5868. As I've repeatedly said, Trump has the inverse Midas touch. Whatever he touches does not turn into god, not in the slightest, whatever he touches turns straight into shit. The most entertaining though and most poorly selling, the $100k $30 Chinesium wrist watch. Next up: More sales to offset the cost of the inauguration, since that line sold so well. Or maybe, if it $mells like fish, buy all you wish! Oh, was that my outside voice? My bad.
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  5869.  @sonnyawa6413  why would I care about your preferred meal?
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  5870. Gotta disband Boy and Girl Scouts then, they teach basic first aid. Gotta go back to third world watching friends bleed to death from playground injuries because an adult that's equally clueless isn't around to gawk at their dying ass, like Gawd intended!
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  5871. Meeting another prediction of an antichrist.
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  5872. ​ @silverhawke  there are no safe recreational drugs. Remember, intoxication's root word remains toxic. That leaves toxicology 101: the dose makes the poison. Use with great care any substance that can leave you waking up dead.
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  5873. ​ @bananawitchcraft  weed, it's natural, so it can't hurt you. Wild cassava, it's natural, so it can't hurt you - just ignore the hydrogen cyanide. What's missing is the most critical lesson of intoxicants - moderation. Well, moderation or avoidance. I avoid most solvents, sticking with ethanol in moderate quantities. That helps me avoid waking up dead.
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  5874. So, it would be better to send them to their home, to not receive any care or worse, on the street? Nursing homes are called that for a reason, they're not called "send them only if they're healthy" homes! And people wonder why I don't want to retire!
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  5875. So, his defense is, Trump was acting within his scope of duties as POTUS to spur, drive and order sedition and treason via insurrection, with armed QRF backup (hence, treason). I missed that part of the oath of office that discussed his duty to commit sedition, insurrection and treason. Next up, the Chewbacca defense.
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  5876.  @meh8982  your first instruction by your attorney during deposition or before testifying, "I don't remember" is preferred over remembering some things or trying to relate foggy memories.
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  5877. No flood basalt, no existing supervolcano. No magma plume, no supervolcano.
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  5878.  @ReasonablySpeaking9808  I have a benign mass on one adrenal, so it's just a keep an eye on it if it gets captured in any imagery. The thyroid, options were either radioiodine or medication, medication being selected so I've been taking methimazole twice per day (only really need to take both pills once, but I prefer balancing how many pills to take at a time, so twice per day, since I have to take my beta blocker twice per day). The pheochromocytoma was in two patients I worked with in the military, the first was expired on the scene from a ruptured abdominal aorta. Basically, once that aorta let go, there was no chance and essentially she was dead before she could literally fall off of the log she was sitting on. The other, successfully treated surgically, it only came up when I was taking his medical history.
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  5879. Mine the shit out of the entry to Azov, bottling up ports Russia needs. Take enough east of Mariupol to make a no man's land, now a shit ton of forces are bottled up with no logistical supply. The Russians can get those forces back once they withdraw to their own border. Otherwise, they're permanent guests, rather like some German forces that never left the region (such as one brew master, who came to not want to go back home, given he was doing better near Kyiv than he'd have ever done in Germany. The rest, a slow, long bloodletting exercise. Make it about as popular as Vietnam and Afghanistan was for the invading nation. "If they gas, they crossed a red line", because crossing that line meant ever so much in Syria. If they didn't gas our forces, we can't reply with our own WMD, so now we'll instead give up on a treaty nearly as old as I am? What'd be the next step, "Do it again and we'll nuke some random site"? Because, nukes really calm things down every time, why they completely forgot about those two that got used in Japan, right? How about having an escalation and deescalation plan, rather than this cockamamie idea? And maybe, just maybe, get advisors from anywhere other than the Old Soldier's Home.
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  5880.  @JayTX.  well, we're running out of causes. No evidence of HE, due to no shockwave. Structure configuration makes a dust initiator impossible, not enough open space. Roof was lifted, walls blown out, which is a rapid deflagration blast. That leaves NG or propane released within the structure, which would have those effects. And it sure wasn't, as one ignorant person suggested, phosphorus, which is so hygroscopic as to conceal the entire block.
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  5881.  @watsonsg  naw, just the rejects from a defective AI, hence not even an undigested bit of beef, just some tangle code losing in a race condition.
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  5882. Yes, we still have some foreign terrorists there. We don't put state prisoners into a extraterritorial federal prison facility, we're not Russia.
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  5883.  @davidgalea6113  odd, I didn't see any decline the last few times I was in the UK and various EU member nations. Indeed, considering the migrations that have happened throughout Europe and the UK, I only see another migration for much the same reason - warfare in homelands. Still, perhaps the UK should've stopped before allowing Celts and Picts onto the island, let alone those bloody Romans. Or perhaps, Great Britain could've had a smaller empire, so that folks from throughout the realm wouldn't have migrated to the island. As for invading, having been part of an invasion or two, you confuse immigration and invasion. Immigration is a legal process by which one relocates to another nation and despite claims to the contrary, every nation on earth has had its waves of immigration. Invasions are rather violent affairs and typically are beyond obvious, what with all of the weapon play and mass deaths involved. Perhaps, you'd like to ask the elders at Normandy about what an invasion looks like. Or perhaps, an Iraqi or Afghan about more current invasions.
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  5884. Why do you mock someone who is obviously suffering from Sundowning? Do you always poke fun at symptomatic dementia patients? Just get a dementia expert on and analyze his behavior and ask viewers if they want someone that's randomly enraged by their disease in charge of a nuclear arsenal that's activated by a mere telephone call and zero recourse against its employment?
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  5885. Can your provide evidence that their intent is to usurp a government by their violent actions? Or do you just want to randomly call any crime of violence terrorism? Maybe a terrorist bar brawl too? Terrorist football team fight? Terrorist schoolkid schoolyard fight? Terrorist spanking his monkey?
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  5886.  @johnq.8889  actually, under my reading of their religious texts, it's not acceptable. It's a prohibited innovation of faith.
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  5887. I'm reminded of a few things. One, providing IT support for a young man with Usher Syndrome, who was deaf, legally blind, had a guide dog and was the personal assistant to the installation's communications unit operations officer, who answered to a commander who was so good in school he got to wear two stars on his hat as a direct report to. Yeah, a two star Admiral. When that individual called our hell desk for support, he had a significant problem beyond user level intervention. I even had the opportunity to work closely with him when we upgraded operating systems and had to tailor his desktop environment and eventually, defeated by some hurdles, I called in both the server admin for the remote desktop environment and the unit EEO, who had experience with helping tune the environment for the visually impaired users. I've never been shy about getting help when something goes beyond my capabilities and I've actually set up such environments myself, but not having that position, I didn't have the access, so hand it off to those better suited to the task. Needless to say, he had some major hurdles, but he is highly proficient at his job. Much being past tense, as my company lost our contract and the new company didn't pick me up, then I suffered some debilitating maladies of my own that remain ongoing. I'm also reminded of events of very nearly a century ago, specifically Acktion T4 and the actions of Wilhelm Frick and Karl Brandt, under the direction of some Hitler guy. For those unfamiliar with that travesty, that was the forced "euthanasia" of those deemed insane, disabled or unfit due to age or other disability, which was delayed pending initiation of the war by invading Poland, then France, when they finally starved, drugged to death or literally rolled carbon monoxide vans up to care homes and hospitals and murdered between 275,000–300,000 men, women and children. Both were hanged, Hitler already ensured his own sentence was self-imposed and executed. She got of supremely easy. As my take is, she may well have planned a murder-suicide, but while likely intoxicated with her benzodiazepine, changed her mind and called for help. Supporting that was not remaining in the garage with her deceased or dying sister and dogs, but retreating into the home to call for help. And well, given her prior crimes against humanity as a producer, New Jersey was too good for her, Texas is even excessively merciful, hell is far more appropriate, save I really wouldn't want her as a companion in my vacation home. I'd far prefer bedbugs. Maybe as a neighborhood Karen instead, I enjoy tormenting those.
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  5888. Had a 12th district Philadelphia Police Department captain pull this shit, drawing down on me, while I was assisting in the recovery of DoD property and in full uniform and had called in for PPD assistance. The 12th district was well known to be a disciplinary district, basically corrupt cops soon to be prosecuted, the foul-ups on their way out, etc ended up assigned there. What the good captain didn't know is that I was personal friends with the deputy police commissioner and after, discussed the matter with him. He investigated it personally, found numerous and increasing complaints of drawing a weapon against department policies and procedures, as well as increasing complaints of excessive force. A psych review found that basically, that captain was just burned out on the job. So, he got to patrol a desk until his retirement papers got filed. Apparently, the poor behavior was a relatively recent trend, the psychologist suggesting it was indicative of burn-out and he'd also recommended his retirement - he had more than enough time in. Worked for me, got someone that was potentially dangerous off of the street and fairly quickly, out of the department and he got to keep the pension that he'd earned.
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  5889. This isn't the Patriot Act, it's the REAL ID Act.
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  5890.  @jasonwalker9471  not quite, cosleeping, crib padding, infant positioning, not using a damnable pillow, as all are risk factors. They've recently detected genetic markers that suggest respiratory drive is lower and can potentially fail if the infant falls too deeply asleep as well. Tons of research, little so far to show beyond the suggestion of one set of genetic markers maybe. Way back in the mid-80's, our youngest was diagnosed with SIDS, we were loaned a world of monitoring equipment to monitor her breathing, laughably, our cat alerted us several minutes before the alarms would go off. We'd be standing there checking, the alarm would finally go off, the cat already having warned us by meowing and pacing. Would that we could figure out what alerted the cat!
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  5891. Steve, you have mortality, which is unfortunately an eventually terminal condition. It is associated with the consumption of oxygen, with the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, as this is associated with life, there is no cure that is survivable. :P
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  5892. Interestingly, the V2 fuel was literally 80 proof alcohol, the water diluting the alcohol cooled the combustion chamber. To this day, I refer to drinking of spirits, drinking V2 rocket fuel. ;)
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  5893.  @standingwhilepooping4685  did you ever wonder where section 8 came from? Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, the General Welfare clause. If We The People is a waste of money, whatinhell are we defending then, when the Constitution already declared We The People the United States? Besides, we wasted more money than God has every year. Like each and every year, SOCCENT would send a warehouse full of state of the art network equipment, brand new and in the box to the DRMO auction for pennies on the thousand dollars. Or a war "because he tried to kill my dad". Or the $200 million and a decade of R&D to replace a thermonuclear weapon component that they literally didn't document how to make. Look up Fogbank some time. And investigating flying saucers a half dozen times, when we already knew they were mostly our own test vehicles. Or the littoral combat vessels that are being retired brand new because they're cracking apart. Meanwhile, you'd piss and moan if we didn't use equipment until it was falling apart because of the taxes being raised to cover it. And we gain the benefit of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines learning how to clear stoppages, even if they'll never have to do so again because their unit equipment isn't worn out.
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  5894. Well, it is an older nursery rhyme. It's likely to have fallen out of favor in Europe over time. I was surprised to remember that much, it's been many decades since I've heard it in any German dialect and the last time I used German was back in the mid to late '80's. And now, I've got a craving for pumpkin soup... ;) Oh, it's crib, as in produce crib for storing produce on a farm. So, Peter kept his wife in the pumpkin crib. His was the original Mother Goose version translated to German, suffering in the translation a bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_Peter,_Pumpkin_Eater You'd have even more fun with Yiddish, which has German, Russian, some other Slavic influences and some Hebrew. Many years ago, I was fluent, as I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Philly. But then, we're talking '60's and early '70's. Can't keep the eggs in a basket forever, they'll eventually spoil. :/ I also grew up enjoying (and still enjoy scrapple (originally, a loaf of pork face meat, heart, liver, possibly other offal, corn meal and spices baked into a loaf. One would then slice it and fry it, typically for breakfast). Farmers never wasted any part of the animal they slaughtered, the only waste was its complaint.
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  5895.  @jimmypad5501  well, English is an actual bastard tongue. No singular or plural source tongue, there are at least 350 languages that contributed to the language. Hence, why every rule of the language has its exceptions and contradictions. A humorous write-up on the language even suggested that English isn't really a language, but a psychological weapon, designed to cause madness in the learner. ;) Native English speakers tend to have a harder time learning other languages, as most other languages actually make sense and are consistent and those are concepts that they're utterly unacquainted with. So, obviously, the humorous thesis is in error, one must start off mad, then one is entirely fit to learn English. Then, add in American vs UK English, well, that's all the UK's fault. They never even bothered documenting the language until after 1776, when some tiff developed that halted shipping of said documentation for sales within her former colonies... A joke I've shared from the Occasionally United Kingdom, from the Rarely United States. Well, that and "Civilization, brought to us by those who brought us tea, English and blood pudding". Brings the house down. No, not random capitalization, part of another joke we've shared. I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  5896. Doesn't matter, his followers are religious zealots, who don't even know what Nelson Mandela looked like and probably would describe him as a white man. And alas, I'm actually not joking.
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  5897.  @jlambe19  how evil of CNN to report the news! They're supposed to play morning cartoons and kitten videos! So, what should have been reported during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when WWIII was very close at hand, The Three Stooges?
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  5898.  @absalomdraconis  that was more in reference to a couple of decades back, the PRC had some problems with solar cell plants discharge of pollutants, some containing HF.
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  5899. No, the prosecutor is responsible for the indictments, Trump is responsible for his crimes that resulted in indictments. Although, Trump is getting the special tier treatment in his trial, as for commoners, we get put under the jail for the trial and utter one word out of term, we're put where sunlight takes a month to reach us. He just gets chided.
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  5900. No, moderate at recovering aircraft, good at refueling what little that they recover and getting towed home. As for ordinance, would you be insane enough to put ordinance on that firetrap?
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  5901. Not quite following the history, Shitler didn't have nukes. Thankfully, the OPLAN is more than one page, doesn't have bullet points or pictures, so he'll never manage to get a target package together.
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  5902. @JohnDoe-jw5lfamazing how much more that you know than experts that are experienced in the field! So, when you do need that brain surgery, ignore the experts and do it yourself.
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  5903.  @jakeaurod  an EMP is closer to a Carrington type event, a major geomagnetic storm. But, the impact is still limited to around 1000 - 1500 square miles for major effects beyond radio blackout and satellite comms being blocked. Annoying is, the particles ride the magnetic field lines, then bounce back along them the other way (most being replaced by particles knocked loose by the first burst hitting the atmosphere near the poles). So, the effects on long distance comms could be for days. But, the EMP literally is like a baby version of a major CME hitting our magnetic field, the latter being Nature's way of telling us, "Hold my beer".
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  5904.  @arminiuschatti2287  anything connected to power, network or phone lines, antenna, etc. If it's right overhead, your electronics and power are toast, if it's say over the Mississippi River and I'm in Pennsylvania, anything disconnected and off would be fine.
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  5905.  @everettputerbaugh3996  line of sight is mitigated by the inverse square law.
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  5906.  @jakeaurod the largest difference between the EMP types, solar storm vs nuclear EMP is that the nuclear has two components that differ in timing, generating two differing pulses, gamma induced and neutron. Solar would largely be magnetic and protons with minimal to no x-ray or gamma (those, if present would arrive days before). With thermonuclear weapons, the neutrons don't typically escape the fireball, the primary yield generator determines which effects would predominate, with a fission final stage being rich with neutrons and a fusion being the highest yield contributor, gamma. Beyond that, loads of moving parts, tons of math, but the inverse square law always applies - it is a law. It's a local concentration that generates the greater effect. One can still have line of sight to the detonation and atmospheric interaction zone, but be distant enough to be out of range of the effects, well, other than radio blackout for long distance radio communications. Studied the effects in the military. We even had to lay telephone and power cables in specific ways to decrease EMP vulnerability. Ideally, we'd get a nukewarn and have an opportunity to disconnect equipment, install the shorting plugs and hopefully the conductive gaskets were still patent enough to protect the equipment.
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  5907. They are interfering with a fair and speedy coronation of the god-emperor of the United States of Trumperica. Long may he wane! They seem to want either that or a full on civil war.
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  5908. Well, they paid dearly for that nonsense, as the US government sued them for damages to their computers, as each infected system had to be wiped and reloaded.
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  5909.  @ellyningalls9518  protect fetal life, only to deny food stamps for the infant. Because religious perversions, where abortion was known when the bible was written, but ignored and these "Christians" choose the most godless creature since Satan to lead them in their charge to know better than their own God what is right and wrong, while objecting to paying taxes (remember give unto Caesar what is Caesar's?). Of course, they also want Zionism, heard with my own ears how they want to force their God to come back and take over. Per their own holy book, they're in for a very hot time. Per reality, I see no damned difference between them and the Taliban. At the end of the day, force their will upon others via violence, perversion of law and terrorism.
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  5910.  @marylamb7707  the destruction of digging the US out of a depression and winning a world war? Of ensuring the disabled and elderly have a pension to survive upon, even if barely? Of stopping fascism from taking root in this nation? How horrible that democrats stopped the Soviets from putting nukes in Cuba! Meanwhile, the Republican party has been the party of treason since at least Nixon, who sabotaged negotiations with Vietnam, Reagan with Iran and Trump with Russia. And since Obama, obstruction of anything and everything, even the federal budget and military appropriations and commissions. Not to mention full support for sedition.
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  5911. Indication of power to the valve, if you're clarifying, ya gotta be clear. Got dinged on that myself on a fairly regular basis. We learned one hell of a lot in human factors engineering and a few other subfields, one takeaway being, don't put important indicators on the far side of the goddamned console. And some enhancement of checklist items and I'm flat out in love with checklists, it keeps me from missing a step when otherwise distracted by real world WTF moments. BTW, TMI is literally only a few miles downriver from me. Kind of miss its cooling plume, as it used to be quite a convenient landmark when navigating in the area. But, it was cheaper for the utility company to produce power by burning natural gas, so the reactor was shuttered early.
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  5912.  @robertsmith2956  yeah, Biden invented it, it's not as if we have the term breach of contract in lengthy case law, it's that Biden is mightier than God because he has a time machine. There is help for Biden Derangement Syndrome, you just need to consult a mental health care professional and renounce your false god-trump.
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  5913. That remains our mass media's failing point, seeing his latest new shiny and blathering on about it, giving him free advertisements. Had they ignored him in the run-up for 2016, he'd have lost the election bigly. Sorry, couldn't resist...
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  5914.  @karenrose1336  wow, so juries selecting what charge an accused is guilty of is unconstitutional? Open the prisons, all are not guilty according to karenrose! Here is your penance, actually read the Constitution. All of it, it isn't that long.
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  5915.  @selftaopath  beliefs are funny. Some people believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, doesn't make their belief correct.
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  5916.  @karenrose1336  I can tell that you've never been in court or on a jury. I have been on multiple juries. We don't do one law, one charge, one trial or we'd have defendants on trial for decades for each and every crime.
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  5917.  Detrumpificator4377 really hard to serve as POTUS from inside of a state or federal prison. But, since most claim we cannot win and enjoy justice, just declare the Constitution void, the government out of business and our military gets to keep their weapons, nukes included.
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  5918.  Detrumpificator4377 erm, you do realize that the fourteenth amendment is an amendment to the Constitution? They don't add sections to or remove sections from it, save with another amendment. And the SCOTUS has decided that the fourteenth amendment isn't legal without Congress passing laws to make it legal or something, because the Constitution is meaningless to them and their god-emperor wannabe. Which is interesting, as if the Constitution is void without Congressional law, the SCOTUS itself is void, as there is no federal law codified to create the SCOTUS - only the Constitution. Such circular logic!
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  5919.  @garyrollins5533 if convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors, yeah, then it's automagic impeachment and pronouncement of his god-king-emperor forever status, all churches to be rebranded with a big Trump sign on their steeple, which shall be made of gold. Although, getting a SCIF into a prison should be interesting, as well as escorting foreign leaders into prison to meet with him.
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  5920.  @NatGeo  would love to. Known to tread water all afternoon as recreation, only ran into sand sharks, who alerted me I had drifted into a current carrying me offshore. That, right after a woman who couldn't swim, but was swept out briefly, was towed to shore by a sand shark.
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  5921.  @robertbryant6998  that is not why. They ignored a call, which they are required to respond to per their employment agreement and contract. If I accept a job and my job involves answering the telephone and I refuse to, I'll get fired. SSDD there. So, these fine, outstanding officers are free to seek their snorlax to their heart's content now.
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  5922.  @merrydaye4763  they took that away after he got red sharpie marks all over his palms.
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  5923. Let it be hereby enacted, city ordinance 1776, the US Constitution is illegal and the use of force to oppose and suppress it is authorized. Hey, whose army is attacking?
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  5924.  @zatoth13  I've dealt with similar in person in the past. I merely suggested that were the desired victim to be of a similar mindset, once attacked, the speaker would be facing a very literal war. And that I'm exceptionally proficient at warfare, as my old brigadier general could attest to in sparse detail. For some odd reason, they always wandered off to go kick a rock.
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  5925.  @keithdf2001  only for presentation works. To make a puzzle, any photograph can be used, including ambient light handheld camera photographs. They didn't make a claim that they owned the photograph, but that the painting is owned by them as a cultural artifact. Will we next need to excise DaVinci's illustrations from Gray's Anatomy, a newcomer, given it was first published in 1858?
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  5926.  @mattmanyam  so, that singular museum owns every single work of DaVinci? Your ignorance is astonishing!
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  5927. In reference to autonomous vehicle guidance in groups, perhaps this paper? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3847695_Autonomous_control_of_underground_mining_vehicles_using_reactive_navigation
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  5928.  @BLINDCABBY  true, they're watching kitten videos.
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  5929. Do I disagree with POTUS? What day doesn't end in Y? Normally, we work through it, save with a god-king wannabe. We move forward, rather than backward.
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  5930. I felt a hell of a lot cleaner the day I deleted mine, quite some time ago when he went full on fascist there.
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  5931.  @kevinlove4930  whistleblowers abound, most turn out to be crackpots or trying to defend themselves with false claims from being terminated for cause. Occasionally, some come out with actual actionable charges. As for audits, audits always find something - usually, math or procedural errors. Compared to Trump, who owns superpac organizations with no purpose and law allowing him to use donations as his personal piggybank. It's just amazing how many people that prosecute Trump are claimed to be criminals, yet no evidence ever gets presented, no charges filed, mens rea entirely remains absent. Oh wait, I forgot, Trump is the god-emperor and it's black heresy to suggest any god that is before him.
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  5932.  @no_peace  so, trespassing on posted private property, after opening a secured gate and damaging private property, one can engage in self-defense against the homeowner who is defending their home and posted private property in a stand your ground and castle doctrine state? I'm fine with that, your mommy and daddy's tax dollars saw to it that I was trained to not miss my targets at any range I need to engage at and did so in war. As missing wasted ammunition, it wasn't part of the budget. One to the bean, one to the thorax, now it's a coroner issue. And the vehicle gets impounded for even longer. I fail to see any losing point on my end and any victory the company may enjoy would be entirely Pyrrhic. All of the words mean something. Posted, secured, trespassing, criminal trespass by opening a secured gate, castle doctrine and stand your ground state laws. In your Bizarro world, home invasions are legal!
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  5933.  @Leo-yr5jb  the carrier was sold for other usage, which was really a shell game to get it to China. Had to laugh, given how transparent the entire thing was, but it worked and they got the hull and completed the carrier. Now, to see how well or if they fixed deficits and modernized anything in the design. I am willing to bet that it won't smoke like it's afire though.
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  5934. Indeed! Precisely what I thought as it was being told. Having victory firmly in hand, he showed it to all, offering it up to the gaping jaws of defeat and fed it well. Quit while ahead, not try to show the world that you're a dick head, which has no fucking brain! But, never interrupt an adversary when he or she makes a mistake. In other cases, I'd use "Jesus wept", here, "Jesus laughed his ass off". Dumber than a bag full of hamers.
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  5935. The Essex class USS Saratoga was surplus and used in Operation Crossroads nuclear testing. She survived shot Able with only minor damage. Baker finally sank her - by being an underwater blast only 400 yards from ground zero. This is what it took to sink her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Saratoga_(CV-3)#/media/File:Aerial_view_of_the_Crossroads_Baker_atomic_test,_less_than_one_second_after_the_detonation,_on_25_July_1946_(NH_96250).jpg
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  5936.  @thevictoryoverhimself7298  not too weird, they had massive WWII debt to pay off, plus reconstruction of bombed out homes all over their country. And cheaper and easier to build their own, to precisely suit their needs, rather than wartime US needs.
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  5937.  @thevictoryoverhimself7298  the carriers ended up being used as helicopter carriers. For the larger warplanes, we invented supercarriers. For antisubmarine use, well, you do need to have room for countermeasures, weapons and electronics. Meanwhile, armor rather became moot, as one could get swarmed with missiles that tend to hit their target, unlike most big gun rounds, which largely missed their targets. WWII proved one didn't need big muscle ships with big guns to slug it out, as aircraft wreaked havoc upon both Germany and Japan's fleets. Then came the guided missiles, which did quite a number during the Falklands. A fair bit of damage came from unexpended fuel from the missile burning and flowing belowdecks. The same, from her own missiles, with the Moscow.
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  5938.  @thevictoryoverhimself7298  fair point, the UK never did waste money on supercarriers, no need for them. The closest to a supercarrier now, other than US models is the Russian barge carrier. Barge, as it's rarely capable of proceeding under its own power, more commonly under tow by a seagoing tug.
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  5939.  @catherinefalk8263  one area where that breaks down is, we're phenomenally well armed serfs. Serfs were lucky to have a pitchfork or afford torch oil. Many Americans have literal weapons of war in their homes and don't get gun nut on this competition shooter and veteran about no automatic fire, we rarely fired burst mode, as a combat load just isn't all that big to risk expending all of one's ammunition in a minute or two of burst fire. They fire the same rounds, enough said. Of course, the government has tanks, artillery, bombers, gunships, missiles and a shit ton of infantry... And now, Musk is also screwing around with the VA's programs. Makes me concerned about my retirement pension benefits... And other VA programs that I utilize.
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  5940.  @dennissvitak5475  heh, living in S Central Pennsylvania. Right on the edge of Gulf Stream effects and continental weather effects, leading to the local saying, "Don't like the weather? Wait 10 minutes, it'll change". The edge of two energetic effects systems tends to knock models into a cocked hat. :/ Had the converse in Qatar, where we were in the middle of a cell, so the weather was pretty much a constant - warm months with dry winds coming from the Empty Quarter, cooling months when it was hot and the shallow gulf raised the humidity high enough that at night triple pane windows looked like it was raining and winter, when it was 80 in the day, upper 40's at night and rainy season of a month, when an inch of annual rain fell in one serving. Basically, like a 10 minute long monsoon. Saw a lot of virga during the summer in the distance. Evaporated thousands of feet up. Knew a sandstorm was days away from that.
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  5941. You've entirely not actually listened to her viewpoint. We were married for 41 years and basically, were marriage counselors for many. Listening, actually listening was key in a relationship. One can quite literally be modest while naked. My wife actually illustrated that to me continually, while naked on nude beaches. If you don't understand provocative behavior and not, we're really done. You simply refuse to accept other viewpoints and only conflict can resolve things. But, the reality of it is, the actual number of pedophiles in America is far under 1%, per FBI statistics. That you claim to know far more than tens of thousands of federal employees dedicated to convicting such criminals is astonishing! What you flailed for is a term the SCOTUS used, prurient interest. Google it. Both mom and dad showered me, I'm as attracted to dad's balls as mom's balls and by definition, she didn't have any. The artwork, David had a small set, positively geriatric. Venus, no thanks, not my type. Oh, restrict knowledge? OK, let's start with restricting knowledge of how to eliminate the heretical knowledge of an inertial confinement device, aka a thermonuclear warhead. Want to discuss that in detail and why to restrict that knowledge above all others? I can do that in spades, with detailed information to restrict. Or maybe that information should be free, only what boobies and balls look like should be restricted, for doctor's better ignorance. You've revealed a brain, use it outside of your context for a change! It's what God gave it to you for.
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  5942. Can't deport a US citizen and he gained citizenship in 2002. Stop trying to use Trump's play book.
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  5943. Well, cutting medicaid will save when 15 million disabled people die off in Aktion T4 2025. Add in that 1 in 609 measles patients, regardless of severity will die of SSPE in 10 - 20 years, as their brain is destroyed. And no word if they managed to find the fired people that were tracking bird flu, so I can only presume that they haven't. The Gaza video is fascinating, he's coming more and more out of the closet. The fellatio of the microphone, Arnold Palmer's member, YMCA and now bearded ladies. Next, we'll see him under the queening stool under Elon, only it won't be an AI video, but a leaked real one. Not to mention that the evangelicals love him, even with his video with the golden statue of god-king Trump and the Trump on the toilet golden household god statues. Nice to know that the evangelicals worship the single person that actually is fully fulfilling every prediction for the antichrist. Which was also prophesied. Excuse me while I place my mk 316 order...
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  5944. OK, so in 20 years, the centenarian Trump finally gets overturned by the courts. Good job in losing. Tell me, would you have surrendered to the Emperor of Japan right after Pearl Harbor as well?
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  5945. The departmental investigation has revealed no wrongdoing, as the US Constitution is illegal in our city.
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  5946.  @scotthutchinson2695  except we don't have the ability to fire elected politicians, some states might allow recall elections, many don't and I've no clue if that applies to federal offices in recall states, so that leaves either ejection from a chamber of Congress or impeachment and trial.
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  5947. Hydrogen bombs used and still use lithium deuteride, which fissions down to tritium, which is fused with the already present and extremely angry deuterium. First attempt was infamous, as one common isotope of lithium was thought to not be of use in a fusion reaction, but to their astonishment, was quite useful. That test, Castle Bravo, where the crew inside of the shot cab, where the bomb is detonated from were trapped from detonation time until early evening, when the hottest fallout isotopes had decayed to a safe enough level to be able to run, while wearing sheets to limit contamination to the helicopter for evacuation. The sheets were left on the ground as they boarded the bird.
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  5948. Just brainwashed. I've an attorney in my building who's a Trumpite, utterly convinced that he was the absolute best President we ever had, despite his actual success rate being even more abysmal than Buchanan's.
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  5949.  @painkillerjones6232  name some that don't have Trump fingerprints on them, like the current bipartisan border deal that Trump publicly scuttled.
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  5950. I'd like a similar scaled catapult installed on my minivan roof. Launch a drone, end up with the convertible minivan nobody ever bothered trying to make.
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  5951. And it's quite likely that the entire congregation started raising merry hell with the chief of police, who figured out he and his officers were far, ludicrously outnumbered. Otherwise, the pastor would likely still be facing a court for watering without the permission of the god-cops.
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  5952. Maybe his lawyers want to play their Trump card. A Pinochle deck full of jokers.
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  5953. Some bacteria have a coating that prevents the spider type of phage from infecting them. But, as simple as they are, phages are clever and some evolved into thread like phages, which connect to the bacteria's pilus. Bacteria keep that part, as they use it when they conjugate to share helpful new genetic tricks with other colony members. The phage connects to that and injects and does its thing. Phages aren't exactly a new discovery though, a submicroscopic agent that killed bacteria was first observed in 1896 and its size determined by filters, since the electron microscope hadn't been invented yet. Antibiotics back burnered phage research once they were discovered, putting the first clinical usage of a phage in 1922 on the back page until 1969. Research has been increasing ever since - especially now, with antibiotic resistance becoming so common.
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  5954. So, you produced that lettuce on your burger? You produced that IKEA chair you sit upon? You are a consumer and producer, each to the product you consume, eat or produce. And thereby, you have the actual golden rule, you have the gold, they want that gold, so you make the rules. But, you also should remember the platinum rule, treat others as you desire to be treated. Yeah, still working on balancing the two of those myself. And I'm a perfect 10 - alas, on the Richter scale.
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  5955.  @bethb7965  have a care, such suggestions can get one an unpleasant visit from the Secret Service.
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  5956.  @CorgiDudeReacts  or just equality, all are equal or none are. Serve up a shit sandwich buffet, don't act surprised at what gets put on your plate.
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  5957. It isn't about naming, oh blind one. It's about *both* naming of the children *and* wearing a Nazi uniform to court and further espousing a Nazi view. Sorry, spacekid, but in the real world, that counts as insanity. My uncles fought in WWII. I also saw still classified photos of the war. Still, you've produced nothing in evidence to support your claim that Karl Marx is removal criteria, Adolf Hitler is removal criteria, Josef Stalin is removal criteria, etc. Indeed, Marx personally harmed none
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  5958. You need to have a psyche in order to run a PsyOp on, the mindless need not apply.
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  5959. I am curious, who here is sleeping well, knowing that this clearly delusional maniac has complete, unlimited, unfettered control of our nuclear arsenal? He can quite literally decide to launch our entire arsenal at any nation he chooses, nothing and no one can prevent him from doing so, merely by making a single telephone call. So, are you sleeping well? I sure as hell ain't. As for eliminating FEMA, fair trade then. No FEMA or other federal aid, the federal government may not conscript any member of the states populace or utilized in any way any state's National Guard for a federal emergency or war. Additionally, all federal taxation collected currently is returned to each state to be deposited into the state treasury. And all federal weaponry within the borders of a state now belongs to said state.
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  5960. Nothing the King does is a crime. And the SCOTUS annointed the one in office as essentially royalty, with royal immunity for all crimes.
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  5961. No, the majority of fission products are decayed in a touch under two weeks. Still, we have lost a few warheads over the years. That includes a warhead that is buried in a salt marsh in the state of Georgia. The radiation from a nuclear warhead is quite low. I know that firsthand, as early in my military career, I worked on nuclear missiles. Concerning was the first warhead accident, 5 out of 6 safeties failed. The weapon very nearly detonated. Safety was revamped significantly after that. Today, even if the explosives detonate inside of the warhead, the forces will be out of sync, preventing fission from occurring. Additionally, the US, PRC and Russia have a permissive action link system, commonly referred to as failsafe. Only if the proper codes are given will the weapon function. One can bypass that system, which the designers described as as difficult as performing a root canal on a tooth, while entering the other end. Yeah, root canal via one's rectum sounds a touch difficult. Maybe that's why they trusted me around boosted fission weapons. The last B-52 was built in 1962, so most of them are older than I am, which is saying a lot. Still, in 1982, we had the Pershing 2 missile introduced, but remained unfielded, as the Soviet Union negotiated with the US to reduce the number of products from the insanity factory. Still, the weapons might be useful to use photon pressure and push a wayward asteroid away from splatting us a few years later.
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  5962. In October, 10000 food stamp recipients had their accounts cleaned out by skimmers operating out of NYC. They inundated food banks, largely families with children senior citizens, causing services from those food banks to be rationed. Next, they' be stealing baby bottles full of formula from nursing infants.
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  5963. And the Apostles did speak in Tongues and the Lord Jesus then machine gunned them down for heresy, for the Lord God spake exclusively in Middle English. About as acceptable as a church allowing the word bullshit be chanted, as the only time that might be considered acceptable were if the entire congregation stepped into the excrement of a male bovine. Which I believe was a cut out scene from Blazing Saddles... Regarding large crowds of followers, had millions of followers gather in my studio apartment. Thank heavens for Lysol! Ironic, a video making points about chants of Bullshit having a baked in advertisement for a bidet... ;) Which is actually a highly underutilized device in this country. Was the handiest thing to have when I ate something I really shouldn't have when I was overseas... Sure beat using paper to smear meshit all over myself. As for profanity, have yet to have even one Trumpite start a profanity contest with me and continue it for more than a few seconds. 28 years military, profanity is a language that I'm fluent with - regardless of a half dozen languages I'll use and translate. But that's OK, I'm required to forgive them and besides, they denied the exchange, citing their rights under the fifth commandment. I usually only cite rights under a fifth of whiskey, but hey, that's me. But Trump, of course he couldn't quote any section or verse of the bible, he can't even figure out which side is up for a bible. He's obviously a total stranger to judge not, lest you be judged or do unto others as you'd have done unto you, the former a warning about harsh judgement being promised to those inclined toward harsh judgements, the latter just damned good advice. Oddly, most claiming great affinity for the bible can quote the Old Testament origin for either verse, as Christ said nothing in the New that wasn't present in the Old. I'll close with, remember my campaign and vote for me - for absolutely nothing. Not running for office, I'm lacking a small match temperament and far too inclined for a frank exchange of views.
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  5964. Well, one upside to Hegseth is, if Trump wanted to use nukes, he'll have trouble finding the guy under his lampshade. As for federal law and Constitutional laws, nothing is illegal to the god-king and Emperor Musk. He forgets that the Presidency is not a proprietorship. The courts are well accustomed to having to inform him just what law and order is. Maybe we need to have a weekly function in the House and Senate, the weekly impeachment proceeding. As for the California governor confronting Trump, yeah, Trump got put in his place, so he went home and kicked the dog. He'll act surprised if one day that kicked dog bites him in the ass hard.
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  5965. Lying about a subject does your cause ill. For one thing, shall we discuss the SALT and START treaties and the restriction on the number of operational warheads? If Russia and the US went at it on a full scale thermonuclear war, given that targeting is counter value, first ICBM installations would be targeted, then nuclear capable air force bases, followed by submarine installations, each with a half dozen or more warheads for target to ensure hardened structures are destroyed. Each side is capped at 1,550 operational and duty ready warheads of any nuclear or thermonuclear mixture they choose, within the ICBM warhead cap previously agreed upon. To give you a hint, across each of our respective continental masses, we have a hell of a lot more cities than warheads together. Given that cities aren't the primary target, weapons are, that lowers the number of casualties significantly. It''s really hard to kill a lot of people in farm country in the US or Russia! Oh, lemme guess, <gasp!>, nuclear winter? Disproved in the 1990's via much improved modelling that also managed to prove the threat of global warming. Those models proved to be correct when the oil fires from Gulf War I was modeled. The "experts", with their antiquated models predicted at least a decade of cooling from the soot of the oil fires, it was a couple of cooler, wetter months only. Meanwhile, the plutonium pits are degrading from helium embrittlement, the explosives growing sensitive from neutron and beta capture, hence, the deterrent needs to be dismantled and reworked. A non-operational deterrent is not a deterrent. Now, if you want to talk about being rid of those fine products from the insanity factory, I'm all ears! At one point in my military career I might have worked on the damned things, that doesn't mean that I like them. P.S., I'm not really especially concerned over nuclear fallout, as warheads since the 1960's were efficient enough that less than a half ton of fallout per large yield warhead was a bit high, most were much, much lower. The only way to see significant fallout is for the warhead to be set for ground burst and everything on the ground within the fireball gets sucked into the still fissioning fireball and irradiated via neutron activation. Although, Putin did give me a moment of pause and consideration when he mentioned cobalt-60 warheads, which would mean that all bets are off, as we'd have to salt one class of warhead the same way. I've no clue of what's he was smoking when he said that, as even at the hottest parts of the Cold War, nobody was insane enough to salt their warheads. Too high of a chance that "On the beach" would turn very, very real.
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  5966. I deployed overseas, sent my disabled wife abroad as well, given the rough neighborhood that I could afford. House was fully paid for. Came home to find the house empty of all furnishings and copper, worth far less at the time than replacement of the wiring and pipes, gave it to the city. Thank me for my service is a daily offense! While literally homeless. As, what what would a camera give, an addict getting mine and I can recover precisely dick? Good job at protecting the homefront! Hope Russia nukes soon, hopefully with their threatened cobalt-60 devices. I'll be coal delivery in hell for you all.
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  5967. That last, especially! Not in the market for a tattoo, never considered it, but one's own body, one's own business. But, a mastectomy patient seeking a tattooed nipple is SOL in Kentucky, but the state's now open for an ADA lawsuit. Those penalties can swiftly add up to empty a state tax coffer.
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  5968. Has the Supreme Court taken up arms to violently overthrow the government? "Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." We lack an enemy, as Congress has not declared war upon any nation. That leaves the SCOTUS levying war against the US. Then, you'd need two witnesses to the actual overt act or a confession before an open court to treason. So, lacking any of that, nope. Not even sedition or even advocating for the overthrow of the government.
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  5969.  @Cp3786  you can astroturf that bullshit all you want, it'll remain Ruskie bullshit. Can't wait until they're given a fine cobalt-60 treatment.
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  5970.  @charlesyoung7436  it's his new policy push for excellent PR. Tough on crime is passe, way antique and not very effective politically. So, he's pivoted to a new platform. "I'm tough on innocence!" He'll be raiding the neonatal ward to catch as many innocent newborns as he can soon.
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  5971.  @julane-h2y  mailed my ballot in on the 4th, it was received by the county on the 6th, it'll be counted on Nov 5. Over the decades, it was extremely rare that I voted along party lines, instead voting for candidates of either party, according to how I agreed or disagreed with their overall platform. This election, due to party over nation insanity, adherence to cult of personality over the welfare of society itself, I voted straight democrat. A message has to be sent, come back to sanity or joint your predecessor Whig party in earned extinction, as the GOP is literally following in the footsteps of the imploding Whig party - that implosion due to a nearly identical populist, nativist group of minority fanatics hijacking and destroying the nation's first conservative party from within and the sane members leaving and forming the Republican Party in the first place. That displays, not the courage of their predecessors, that new Republican Party's first candidate for president being Abraham Lincoln, but cowardice, embracing views that were thankfully extinct since 1860. But then, those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. I don't repeat mistakes, I make all new mistakes, that's how one learns and grows.
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  5972. Because it's the law that he receive that security detail. So, removing it is a violation of the law. Do you really want your government to violate the law on a whim?
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  5973.  @BillSentry  has he been convicted in a court of law, by a jury of his peers? Can you get any legal concept this nation was founded upon right?
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  5974.  @SmashKing17  usually, I prefer the term "former president", but in his case, well, he's special and hence is the "has been president". Well, "has been and wannabe president".
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  5975. Back when I was living in Louisiana, I sought some pain treatment from our local hospital clinic. I suggested ibuprofen. Doctor had a major heart attack or something, going on about how harmful to the kidneys and what not, “Fine, I’ll take an opioid:. Got my Motrin. Taking them American style, more is better idiocy, yeah, it’ll shred my kidneys. Real life, I loathe taking medications of any sort and am hugely annoyed to take the now seen tablets I have to take to survive. So, kidney load isn’t a problem with me. And yes, idiots, I do need to take my beta blocker, thyroid blocker, proton pump inhibitor. I don’t want my aorta to explode, my stomach to digest its input or well, do that dying thing. Or currently, enjoy wisdom tooth agony while awaiting an upcoming surgery. Considered sending my mouth out for the surgery, but alas, I cannot enjoy my tilapia dinner without it.
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  5976. Too late, already mailed in my blue ballot. Normally, there is a republican or two on my ballot, not this year, the prostitution was way too high.
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  5977. "Oh, go fuck off". "Oh? OK, I've no ID, however I have enough for DISS and my clearance is higher than yours is, I can write a national security letter defining you as a terrorist". Good, now go kick a rock. Similar to an actual incident I endured, while couriering a secure, classified package. Idiot actually started to open the marked classified parcel when his phone rang to tell him that his career had ended. Protocol is open outer, see the classified marking, make a call to report classified exposed, whoopsie. Trying to open it, a violation of the Espionage Act.
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  5978. How did you learn how to walk on water? I learned to wait until it's really, really cold for a long time. ;) What tried to kill you the most often? Earth. :/
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  5979.  @nancyhaddad9182  there is no firing a Justice of the SCOTUS, only impeachment and removal and we saw how well that went even with treason being shown.
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  5980. He'd have hated me with the "stupid question" cracks, "Well, I know that you can't answer smart questions, so I'm keeping them at your level".
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  5981. Erm, objections where? There were no hearings for him at all. The "department" is fiction, it has no funding, as Congress has to authorize funding for it, so it's operating on misappropriated funding, a felony for anyone except the god-king.
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  5982. No, he did not commit treason. Stop pretending to be Trump. Treason is narrowly and precisely defined by the Constitution itself. It's the only crime defined in the Constitution. Treason is taking up arms and engaging one's own government for the purpose of overthrowing it or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. One cannot have an enemy under the Constitution without Congress declaring war, so that leaves it to Trump actually picking up a gun and shooting at federal officers or otherwise attacking, say, Congress with that gun or other weapon of war for the purpose of usurping the government. You'd also require two eyewitnesses to the overt act to testify in open court to the act. Frankly, to my knowledge, Trump has never picked up a firearm in his entire life. Sedition, you can try it, but I suspect he'd get off with even only a law student representing him, as he very narrowly phrased some things to be just shy of actually stating outright that he wanted Congress to be physically attacked and removed.
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  5983. So, DEI is fraud, waste and abuse and having good relations with Sri Lanka is also fraud, waste and abuse because we don't like dark skinned people that talk funny is the justifications. No, those are policy decisions and racism. Frankly, wave papers in front of me, it's like that infamous red cape before a bull, I'm reaching for them to read the alleged receipts. More likely, she's showing the White House shopping list for hamburgers. Just as when some tried to make hay over SecDef Lampshade Wearer's $48k paint job, I showed literal receipts as to why it was justified and actually, not by his request. SecDef gets the misfortune of having a SCIF inside of his home. The paint, literally an inside and out Faraday shield to prevent EM radiation leakage allowing someone to literally tap the electronics from a half mile away. The floors and ceiling gets a similar treatment, special windows that are shielded and window covers get installed as well, the tip-off being the $1k door (no, the lock is a GSA mandatory combination lock that costs $1500 - $2500 depending upon mounting hardware and oh, the required encryption devices cost twice the paint job in price. Yeah, wave receipts or bills at me, I'm not an accountant, but I do know government programs, government costs and yeah, that hammer was actually a specialty tool, not some Home Depot toy, gotta work as well in space, Antarctica, the equator and anywhere else DoD needs to use it. You should see the spec book for just a high temper bolt, it's a thick binder after DoD got ripped off and men injured by non-tempered bolts failed and nearly killed them. The biggest red cape, lying to me. I despise lies and being talked down to and one quickly learns my blunt candor and intelligence are par none. And I remember his previous maladministration, when he waved a binder around as proof that was full of blank pages. Didn't ask for your documentation of your thoughts, Mr President, I asked about that program you've never documented or evidence you claim to have and oh, never presented and never will because it doesn't exist. Still, I do most strenuously disagree and object to calling Musk and Trump pieces of shit. It is disrespectful and demeaning to perfectly useful excrement that only awaits composting to be able to be effectively recycled. Trying to compost them would be like trying to compost and recycle cobalt-60, if they composted, they'd still emit toxic radiation for over a century. Oh, excellent proof that aliens live among us. I'd simply introduce people to some of my neighbors, most if not all are legal and many in the process of becoming citizens. Be careful though, I've gotten them into the habit of sharing recipes. ;)
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  5984. The only people that I've ever saw that smiled when around Trump were politicians. None of the staff smile, none of his security details smile, no workers smile. Having actually personally met him at a Chamber function around 2000, I can understand why. He's the boor of the party, with some parts obviously broken or missing inside of his vacuous head.
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  5985.  @thekububeach  uh huh, so all of the words in a sentence are meaningless, save for the first one you latch onto? OK, what was one cause of strife among the Jews of the era with the Sadducees? Why were there issues with the populace with the Pharisees and especially with conflicts between the Pharisees and Sadducees? Why was there resistance to Hellenization? Have you studied anything in the divinities?
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  5986.    I highly resemble that remark! ;)
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  5987.  @AverageAwesomeDude  one problem with a single Jesus is, the Romans had a massive bureaucracy, with records on everything from the name, residence and birthplace of every subject and citizen to who was executed and why. No records have been found that mention him as a person, but records to exist that speak of many preachers running about and preaching everything from rise up and make war against the empire to give unto Caesar his damnable tax money. Most of what is in the New Testament is directly traceable to the Old Testament, from prophesies to being nice to your neighbor and not swinging a sword at anyone who gets you mad. Worse, Paul came along and there's still a fair amount of dispute among theologians as to how much Paul upstaged Peter while Peter was traveling and preaching. As Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ". How many forgive, rather than speaking of smiting whoever and wherever someone that angers them, who call themselves Christians? So unlike Christ. How many are willing to turn the other cheek, rather than resorting to Smith and Wesson? How many withhold judgement, lest they be judged according to the harshness of their judgement? That's the lesson, few listen to their own faith and are hypocrites by condemning strangers before learning anything about them, why they do things and simply judge and condemn. How should they be judged, if not according to their own rush to judgement and harshness of their judgement? The lesson isn't that of a man or son of anyone, the lessons are the message and lessons to learn and live by. For who would be judged the better person, the one behaving because of threats of eternal torture and nonexistence or someone that behaves because it's the right thing and better thing to do?
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  5988. Even if acid was thrown, he was out of line punching her. He SHOULD arrest her, not punch her with no warning or hint that he wished to effect an arrest.
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  5989.  @PortilloMoment  in the Army, we had a joke, "Scars are like tattoos, only with better stories". Had to agree, although most of the time, those stories were stupid ones that we laughed at later.
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  5990. Yep, Emperor Musk and Empress Trump fully supports the butt hurt Emperor. Although, it would prove entertaining when each time a Tesla ignites due to a failed battery, a full blown terrorism investigation ensues. And with MAGAts that actually own a Tesla getting the shaft due to incidental findings of criminal activities that they're involved in...
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  5991. 5 people is decidedly not a large group - especially when there's a thousand people in the park.
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  5992.  @wendigo53  it's not gasoline. It's a high grade kerosene. And unlikely, if one doesn't pick up some decent soap or body wash, you're stuck with poodle piss for soap. As for the OP, yeah, I'd be drinking like the US SecDef during a European presser during my interview. Oh, was that my outside voice?
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  5993. Well, Trump's newest is that he was tortured for the five minutes he was at the jail... Give it time, I'm sure he'll have been executed and he recovered from being dead after a couple of days off.
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  5994. Hell, in NY State, there are 126k LEO's. Meanwhile, the NY National Guard has all of 5500 troops. The entire conspiracy theory is hilarious. Maybe they'll call in the illegal space aliens to help out too. With heavy maple syrup bombardment support on the pancakes. As for numbers of forces in Canada, as memory serves, the RCMP actually outnumbers the Canadian Armed Forces, as they're needed, a large standing military isn't currently needed. Hell, as I recall, the US invaded Canada twice, both times their small forces were enough to politely send our now disarmed military forces back to their side of the border. After all, Benedict Arnold was wounded by Canadian forces during one invasion that rather didn't turn out so well.
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  5995.  @ramonroman4363  just went to a food bank two weeks ago, next scheduled visit is on June 12. Left a fair bit, told them to give those items to someone who needed them, as I had no room or in one case, well, I don't eat beef steaks. Other meats, yes, just don't like beef. Didn't take about 1/3 of what was offered. It'll come in handy when a neighbor runs out of food, which happens often enough.
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  5996.  @aperocknroll88  love them as a comfort food and for veggies, frequently as a soup and stew ingredient. The fish, well, a memory of when I was a boy scout, back during the ice age. Annoying, the only realistic quantities are five gallon buckets, which is an absurd quantity for me, a gallon max would suffice for my needs for what is a rare guilty treat of a comfort food. I can only find it at a reasonable price in five gallon or more prepper quantities and that just ain't gonna happen. No room for it and no need for such a waste, as I've absolutely no chance to wade through that much guilty pleasure without said pleasure becoming deleterious due to excess in favor of fresh food the rest of the time. So, if they've got gallon and under quantities, I'll be interested, shoot along the URL, even here usually allows one quick link.
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  5997. Compared to serial bankruptcies sufficient that Trump is prohibited from owning a casino in New Jersey, 30 failed businesses, losing 90%+ of his net worth in business failures. And a SEC required disclaimer for Truth antisocial investment that's 30 pages long in 6 font describing his various cons and failures.
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  5998. Jones, didn't he just have a massive fire sale? ;)
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  5999. For many, it's not quite a tax and is. Medicare is an insurance that's billed as a tax Constitutionally wise. So, objections to paying out on medicare is an objection to allowing insurance claims to be made. Something that's music to the ears of life insurance companies... But, beyond that, the United States of America has the absolute best government that money can rent, erm, buy for the low, low price of some campaign contributions. What's the difference between a politician and a prostitute? The prostitute is honest about who and what's being done for money.
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  6000.  @ecurewitz  well, having sat on multiple juries, I'll agree, jury selection is even less exciting than watching paint dry.
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  6001.  @dsmith9572  Vance can't control or rally the MAGA movement.
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  6002. There are two forms of water overdose. One is commonly referred to as drowning, freshwater is preferred for those treating that condition, as that will enter the bloodstream, rather than pool in the lungs and keep causing problems like seawater does. The other is water intoxication. Got to work with one case, annoying and I'm glad that the idiot didn't go to such insane excess as this video's case did. Dealt with more dehydration, electrolyte imbalance due to perspiration electrolyte loss. But, a few service members did overindulge in water and entirely follow civilian population salt intake rules, resulting in hyponatremia and others refused to drink "water that smells like a swimming pool" (utter nonsense, as the residual chlorine level is ten times that of a swimming pool, for good reason, it's in water trailers left stewing in the sun and otherwise, would incubate all manner of microorganism that isn't preferable to imbibe a culture of).
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  6003. Well, without funding, the inauguration would be without security, save if we demand people work without a paycheck and spend money that doesn't exist.
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  6004. Look up the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing Party. They literally destroyed the Whig party from which they eventually sprang in exactly the same way as is happening to the GOP. The GOP formed as a result of their antics, their first presidential candidate that won, Lincoln. Along the way to the war that followed, literal religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets.
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  6005. The chump change "fine" tells the tale on what they really want - not money, your PII for identity theft. It's an ongoing issue in Pennsylvania, with the governor's office even issuing a warning of a major campaign targeting PA residents. Been getting around one a month for the past four months, with one month garnering two. All get "report spam" clicked and deleted immediately after. Other smishing messages are originating as well, all from the Philippines thus far. Out of pure malice, I texted two back telling them that they texted me the wrong content, as we'd agreed that they'd send me the current disposition of the Chinese fleet harassing certain islands... I figure, law enforcement won't or can't do anything, let PRC intelligence perceive a threat then. ;) Given the PRC already has my SF86 data and documents from their OPM hack, I'm sure they're monitoring my traffic to and from the region. :P Hey, it's always a good thing when one can get one's adversaries to fight one another!
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  6006. Some years ago, I received a letter threatening legal action over my allegedly downloading a video that I had never even heard of. A quick search on the net showed that they did phenomenally shoddy research and basically blitzed some ISP's customer lists, trolling for the amount of money they demanded in order not to end up in court. I filed it away and went on with my business. Around a year later, the company was on the news, as they just got convicted, along with their corporate officers, for extortion in federal court. The paper was worth more than their threat, from start to finish, as there was no records to be found of them ever going to court - well, until they got indicted.
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  6007. Erm, huh? The DoD doesn't protect the POTUS beyond a ceremonial Marine guard. That's the job of the Secret Service. Just what planet are you from?
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  6008. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Now, we have no enemies, since Congress hasn't declared war since WWII. That leaves levying war against the US, when did he pick up a gun and wage war against the US and where are your two witnesses to the overt act of doing so? No? I guess we're stuck prosecuting him for his actual crimes then. He'll likely serve more time for them than for treason, given treason gets five years and up to execution, plus a fine and property attainder. 18 U.S.C § 2381 , states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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  6009. Believe it or not, that rounds bounced off is still an active field of study. Looks like a bit of overengineering and luck helped a lot, strengthening areas that would've failed otherwise in more traditional designs.
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  6010.  @Deathbomb9  no, we know, but still study distribution of forces. It's not a magical wood, it's forces, distribution and deflection that count. Otherwise, our fucking tanks would be made of frigging a specific oak, rather than steel and now, aluminum alloy.
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  6011.  @Deathbomb9  uh huh, so science halts somewhim. Nope, still studied, still relevant due to stress factors, shear strength and more. M113 APC's, aluminum hulled, till in use. You got a few things right, starting with material science, but your knowledge on alloys is deficient, badly. Titanium, totally between aluminum and steel, right? Nope, alloy complicate that horrifically. Density is the king of strength, but diverting forces is the emperor. When you actually have a clue, come talk.Diversion of forces, redirection of forces and capitalizing of varying densities is a very eal thing that you excluded yourself from. I expect better, you're brighter than that!
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  6012. I've been looking fondly at an artillery unit nearby, since I also know where the munitions are stored...
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  6013.  @karenscoville6307  and meanwhile, Trumpites go on and on about how Ronnie Raygun was a commie. I kid you not, heard that crap with my own ears. But, never fear, they'll rule that the Constitution is unconstitutional because of the fourteenth amendment and that Congress may pass no laws. Which, by extension means, murder, not being in the Constitution, is legal. It's like we're living on Bizarroworld.
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  6014.  @jabba0975  his alternative was what? Engage in warfare against his nation? Dead people lose the right of redress of grievances with their government.
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  6015.  @knine8154  I don't think that you can use crayons. The Marines and I ate most of them. Sorry. ;)
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  6016.  @joeshmoe6969  you are obviously not familiar with the US or our Constitution and government. We have a department of justice, it's an executive branch agency responsible for federal law enforcement. We have a judicial system, under a judicial branch, which adjudicates law, not justice. Not what's moral, just, correct, proper, right or wrong, just what is legal. And mutilation is unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. If you mutilate someone wrongly, due to a deficient verdict for any number of reasons, do you now magically unmutilate them, just as we now have to undead the wrongly executed?
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  6017. God-emperor? Excuse me, god-emperor Trump? Would you like some more pee on your Cheerios? We've also got some cheese to accompany your whine. Oh, I nearly forgot, we've freshly fueled your personal jet with enough water to reach Moscow. And we've gotten you your solid gold, for once not gold plated, "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200" card to hang in your cell. In consolation, here's a cookie, fresh from the cat box.
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  6018. So, lemme get Trump's defense straight, conspiracy, sedition, espionage are all protected by the first amendment and treason obviously would be protected under the second amendment. Except for that whole case law dating back to the ink drying on the first amendment case law stating clearly that there are limits, so criminal actions are not protected.
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  6019.  @daveboryszewski130  not as long as they always find in the god-emperor's favor, it gives a veneer of legitimacy to the bastard.
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  6020.  @daveboryszewski130  he'd regret trying to his dying day, if ever he lives so long.
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  6021. I'd happily debate him. Probably bend my cane when he violates the rules, as usual, but I and my partner would win. My partner, a potted plant.
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  6022. "...I don't put up with that in my personal life..." Yet, for being so intolerable and to be shut down, she didn't just walk out of the courtroom. Not quite as stupid as she plays.
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  6023. Years ago, when I first started firing the M1911, I found that my strong hand shots were one inch low, weak hand accurate. Dry firing and examining showed I pinkie squeezed. Without good training with a rifle, I'd not have a clue how to analyze what I was doing wrong. Being trained, I examined every movement I was making, noticed when the barrel dipped when dry firing and adjusted what I was doing until it's muscle memory. Today, don't know how to miss with the M1911. :)
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  6024. Dark chocolate is a total winner! I even enjoy the unsweetened kind. As for arguing over hatred or even dislike of the candies, I'm reminded of something from the UK. Marmite. There are two kinds of people there, those who love Marmite, those who hate Marmite. Either way, it still sells. Which reminds me, I need to order a jar of it. Great for pot roasts...
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  6025. It's a tad uglier, as the tilt, orbit and precession of that orbital tilt that all can change climate massively. It's just interesting how quickly things can cool, compared to warming back up. But then, energy balances are counterintuitive in nature.
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  6026.  @Mr39knuck  go to Google, turn safe search off. There will be many, many illustrations and likely, a map.
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  6027.  @dn88s  "Fifteen years for something that's considered a constitutional right in half of states", where does that say anything about prison? As an aside, dirty jersey is nonsense, they're Tory New Jersey, that's far past dirty.
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  6028.  @dn88s  way to avoid answering an honest question twice. And if it's beyond the point, why in the hell did you ask about it?
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  6029.  @davidsnyder3799  no thanks, I’m deathly allergic to it.
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  6030. A country he abandoned to run to the US, just to dodge the South African draft. Service so frequently utilized, the last war South Africa had was at the turn of the 20th century in the Boer War.
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  6031. '"We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office," Roberts wrote. "At least with respect to the president's exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is also entitled to immunity," Roberts added.' So, sending in troops in response to an attack is covered, sending a SEAL team after a political opponent is not. Hence, off to his criminal trial. He's screwed, save if he can hire a judge to rule that remaining Emperor for life is part of his Constitutional powers and I'm pretty sure George Washington himself will rise from the grave over that.
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  6032. Going back 50 years? Department of Education dates back to the end of the Civil War. So, he's rolling back to pre-civil war era, next he'll declare the 13th amendment null and void, legalizing slavery again.
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  6033. Well, they also have Obama living rent free in what passes for their brains.
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  6034. Without a transponder, or at least one that is high enough to respond to queries, it'll not show up on the tracker or radar. But, why allow silly little things like facts get in the way of the *issues*?
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  6035.  @lindaklein6426  who is ineligible under Article II of the US Constitution. I'm sure Trumpettes will then try to say that the Constitution is unconstitutional...
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  6036. So, he's going to eliminate federal funding for schools, which means that cities will have to close schools all around the country. He wants to exile people extra-judicially. And he's left revenge orders to commit mass murder in Iran if anyone kills him or anyone close to him, even if Iran had nothing to do with it, which is an unlawful order to commit genocide. And he wants to start a Palestinian pogrom and force sovereign nations to take the exilees. Impeach him every week until the Senate finally does their damned duty.
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  6037.  @ClockworkGearhead  well, neither creativity, nor the Constitution are mentioned in the Constitution, therefore are unconstitutional. Or something.
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  6038.  @michaelthompson9548  offender, as applied as convicted... :/
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  6039.  @SLHJR0390  I'm from Pennsylvania. So, not my monkey, not my circus.
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  6040. So, prohibiting medical care of a specific type is precisely the same thing as fascist forced sterilizations? First, the injustices forcing this affront to Constitutional law and freedom of self-determination should be impeached.
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  6041. Just remember, the Lincoln Project aren't friends, only allies in a common cause. They originally were the GOP mud slinging PR team.
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  6042. I still love those who insist that the Constitution protects "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", conflating a declaration of war, the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution. The Declaration had no legal standing in the US, that war long being over before we even had a Constitution. And it ignores that inalienable right of life being forfeited in an executed prisoner, making the right utterly alienable. The same being for liberty, otherwise all prisons, jails and inpatient mental health care facilities unconstitutional entities. And laughable is the "right" to the pursuit of happiness, as how can one prohibit that? Frankly, all of the nonsense spouted off is an indictment of our civics education, or more specifically, it's abject failure thereof. And if English became a mandatory language, would I need to change my old insignia, which reads "de oppresso liber"? There would be some significant resistance to that, with folks one really shouldn't want to fight with.
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  6043. Now, we'll see how much he wants to sink himself between now and July 11 sentencing.
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  6044. I have infinite faith in his incompetence and ability to self-immolate.
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  6045. Rayon is cellulose, if that's a chemical, trees are chemicals. I guess we need to ban all precursors to rayon - plants. Seriously though, bamboo sourced fiber, bamboo sourced viscose (what rayon actually is), bamboo sourced whatever would work under the act, but it is about as much bamboo as a woody plant, it's about as much bamboo we're familiar with as a human is. Although, rayon sheets, well, I could legally call rayon sheets viscose sheets, cellulose sheets or even sugar sheets, as cellulose is just a shit ton of chained sugars. I do have bamboo cutting boards, not plastic, but actual laminated bamboo and they're nicer on blade edges than many plastic cutting boards, but like plain wood, still a pain in the ass to disinfect.
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  6046. I actually met a man that signed with an X, as he stated that when he was growing up, it was illegal to teach him to read and write. He was quite old and well, this was over 40 years ago, he would've been born around the turn of the century or so. In the Army, I digitally signed documents and e-mails as a matter of routine, as the signing certificate is stored on our ID cards, which we also used to log onto computers with. My written signature, well that's illegible, largely due to, as paperwork increased, my penmanship declined. Good luck duplicating it though.
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  6047. Citizens don't impeach or prosecute, they vote. The House indicts under Articles of Impeachment, the Senate then tries and either convicts or declares guilt not proven. I don't use the word innocent, as we are talking about politicians, as innocent as a prostitute with decades of experience in the same business.
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  6048. -Surprised at shelf-life of Spam? Take a gander at an MRE's shelf-life. Saw the notice in my mailing list, as recalls and alerts on foods and well, tons of other stuff, are trivial to sign onto a mailing list from every government agency. UK and Spam, well, post-war shortages were common within the living memory of the writers of Monty Python, so Spam wasn't uncommon. Think recovering from the Blitz, enough said. As for Spam itself, don't have any on hand now, but occasionally, I'll get some and enjoy it. Think every couple of years kind of occasionally, at my age, I'm watching my salt and fat intake. And currently astronomical blood pressure, as doctor decided to wait nearly a week to refill my BP meds. Once more, I'll be chalking up another fired doctor.
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  6049. I've actually heard some antivaxxers demand smallpox be brought back. Others simply claim chickenpox is smallpox, despite history itself telling a different tale that electron microscopes confirm their being two different viruses.
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  6050. Ah, but do you know who was wrong? Volvo when they pulled their concept turbine car offering, largely because they thought that no US mechanic could fix their engine. From what little I can remember from both engines, uncontained failures weren't really possible for those engines.
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  6051. SAWs are largely going away in favor of the M-27 rifle. Still has automatic, but also a good scope and accurate. Nothing suppresses the other guy more than when his buddy next to him spews pink mist.
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  6052.  @Jirodyne  good job, so one person can trigger a nuclear war if you are in charge. This planet is doomed.
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  6053. @@stevenstrain283 the only time fines are enforced is against individual citizens, never large corporations at the levels fined. They always get bargained down to a pittance, with no admission of guilt, saving them from going to federal court and a trial and court judgement. And it's not only the FCC, the FTC and even EPA has similar problems and all use the same solution of settlement without an admission of guilt. Well, save the EPA, as the SCOTUS apparently decided that no environment was mentioned in the Constitution, so we don't need an environment at all, hence protection is nonsensical.
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  6054.  @ianbelletti6241  hold your breath waiting, you'll be quite the fetching shade of blue. Most of the time, such complaints go into File 13 as not worth the taxpayer's money in prosecuting. The website is registered in Canada, the owner could as easily be in Russia, South Africa, Djibouti, etc. I mentioned Djibouti because I was stationed there for a time...
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  6055. No, their website that leaked all of its data is the absolute definition of incompetence. This, just supporting evidence. Keep on using that AI, Emperor Musk!
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  6056.  @mthom4615  there is no presidential recall in the Constitution and laws. So, you may as well request removal under the grounds of unicorn farts.
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  6057. The best part of Lindsey didn't run down his old man's leg- it stayed inside the rubber.
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  6058.  @PeachWood-j8j  is your hearing comprehension so poor that you already forgot every word spoken in the report? Or did you just decide to comment on an evidence free basis?
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  6059.  @wisdoma4860  nope, he's called himself king, that means he'll find a reason to shitcan the election. Congress has already abdicated to him.
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  6060.  @danacronise4128  my wife had 15 miscarriages over the years, all at home. Insurance doesn't like patients that aren't dying being admitted to the hospital or paying for a protracted ED stay. And hospital staff aren't typically known for retrieving fetal remnants from toilets.
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  6061. "Look now, obscuring the asshole's view of the road by spewing shit is really, really bad".
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  6062.  @kenbrown2808  yep! Whoppsie!
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  6063. I dunno, the Finns might have a run for their money against the Girl Scouts.
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  6064.  @user-lo4me9oe9z have a care, that sounds dangerously like the "commie talk" that corporatists hate. Then, they might send in a Six Sigma team to eliminate operations, to enhance the corporate value. Yeah, I've actually witnessed a services company do precisely that, thereby eliminating the only product that the company had, but proclaiming how it enhanced the value of the company - which swiftly merged into a larger rival.
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  6065. Oh, gid-king just revoked Joe Biden's security clearance, because well, he thinks he's a god. Congress will continue to whore along.
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  6066.  @jamesferris4573  why? Free meat! ;) Well, as long as you don't mind eating crow...
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  6067.  @miguelbejarano4172  OK, due to the supremacy clause, federal takes precedence in most cases over state laws. As for an example, that's a matter for the NY court, as I'm a PA native, I've no say on matters of NY law and NY citizens have no say in PA laws.
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  6068. Marry the woman, what did she do to deserve being punished? For the walking 30 miles, that'd be beyond challenging, I literally have trouble walking three miles these days. But, the point is valid. And having buried my wife of 42 years nearly two years ago, the guy got off easy. And having killed people in war, yeah, it'd hit especially hard.
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  6069. The god of Abraham, aka Ibrahim, depending upon the language. Allah is Arabic that literally translates as THE God. The God of Abraham. As Jesus was a Jew, by his own admission, they'd also reject him as they already reject by their actions and words his teachings. BTW, a bit of trivia that most of them don't know, Christ means "the annointed one", which at the time was largely reserved for royalty. Later, well, Confirmed Catholics and many other Christian sects annoint with oil. Jesus, a mistransliteration for Yeshua, in English, Joshua. Also, another little known fact. While I may speak and write like an atheist, I am actually an ordained minister. Entertaining are conversations where a misunderstood transliteration gets referred to in the original tongue and still the social concept gets misinterpreted due to a difference in cultures not being taken into account.
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  6070.  @rtaf4206  so, the right to travel is Constitutionally defined as the right to drive a motor vehicle? Any particular type or class defined in the Constitution? Diesel? Electric? Gasoline? The right to travel is guaranteed, a mode of travel is not defined, so the Constitution does not guarantee one the right to operate a frigate or right to use a horse, only that one can freely travel. That could be on foot, crawling, taking a ship, riding a horse or carriage, not too many other modes of travel existing when the Constitution was written, hence kind of folded in. What also isn't guaranteed is that mode of travel being guaranteed if one does not pay for it, so carjacking or hijacking a vessel or aircraft in order to travel is decidedly not guaranteed.
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  6071.  @Christians4Harris  shaddup and worship King Mammon! I'll just get my hat on the way out, before the food fight begins... BTW, Christ was quite political in his era - against an appointed by Rome king. And successfully predicted the failure of the later Zealots, who failed epically at Masada. History exists for a reason, to learn from the mistakes of the past and strive to move forward into new mistakes on occasion. Not to champion essentially new gas vans for the disabled, like Trump loosely suggested. Nope, not getting even nearby the Trumpites, who follow the Lord of the Lies. They all agree silently that Satan was right and the Almighty was wrong.
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  6072. And now we'll hear, "See? The system works!" Ignoring that it's one case out of hundreds of thousands. The argument being then used by terrorists in favor of terrorism, as the general populace can never hope to achieve justice. Not that I'm arguing for terrorism, just a very literal conversation that I've lost the argument with against a very real captured terrorist.
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  6073. The moral to the story is, use 190 proof grain alcohol for rubbing alcohol, just in case you get thirsty. Just let me know if you get thirsty, so I can hang across the road, just in case a smoker pops by... Public service announcement, that was a joke. Well, everything except the waiting across the road. I saw 190 proof catch a sofa on fire, might've as well been gasoline!
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  6074. Frankly, with Vance's first tirade, well, Zelensky's a far better man than me. I'd have fractured Vance's hyloid bone and explained that a Marine just fell to an old Army retiree. Trust me, the psychological impact of that is tremendous. And like Marines, we also got paid to take martial arts classes and use them downrange. And I'm not typically one inclined to strike first. That said, he's antagonistic because he questioned the words of the god-king. That's black heresy and should've been rewarded by burning at the stake or something. The god was challenged and the challenger must be punished by the faithful, the worst the punishment, the more faithful the follower is. And I counter with, those rare earth metals won't ever go to the United States of America, I'll have them reacted with other elements to be unrefinable first. And chemically, it wouldn't take much to render even rare earths commercially nonviable with common elements. I also freely admit to a character flaw, I am a very, very, very, very vindictive man. Still, there is one upside for this imbroglio. The UK has had a mutually warm reception between their PM and President Zelensky. I just checked my magical 8 ball, the odds look good for a rare earth mineral deal for the occasionally United Kingdom.* *Kind of an in joke between some friends in the UK and myself, I make a similar quip about the rarely United States of America. I'm also known to poke fun at everyone, especially myself, because well, the lowest hanging fruit is the easiest available. But then, if I somehow royally, immeasurably ever screwed up and ended up as POTUS, I'd refer to my office as the Oaf Filled Office and when SNL lampooned me, at the earliest opportunity, I'd be on SNL lampooning myself properly and likely outscoring them in belly laughs. After all, my skin is nearly as thick as my skull, which literally stunned a goat once. Yeah, that's a true story of both epic poor judgement around goats, species miscommunication and well, a goat literally butting me in the forehead and it ended up stunned, while I rubbed a sore spot and said, "Ow!", much to my wife's mirth. She literally swore unto her dying day that that goat's eyes crossed, not that I could tell, it was only sitting on its rump, rear legs crossed, front legs splayed and wobbling.
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  6075. So, you erase the very first amendment, as it was clearly stated that this was in retaliation for Disney's mistake of using their Constitutional right of free speech. Thus dies a nation and its Constitution, next up, an official state religion and licensed speech only being allowed.
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  6076.  @raykitko6328  thank you for giving me a world where accusation is conviction, you are guilty, god-king God kill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I disagree with a judge, son, I'm not a village idiot like you and apparently, your parents.
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  6077. So, he signed an executive order outlawing the Constitution. Good, the Constitution is in abeyance and his authority now is nonexistent. Oh wait, he said that, didn't do it. He's said tons of crap, never followed through. Actions count, not words.
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  6078. Which only meant that the powers that be had to get their Sieg Heil on. Alas, I'm a lapsed pacifist, go for the Sieg Heil arrest, better bring the thimble one wants to be buried in, as they'll find out very quickly what I used to do in the Army.
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  6079.  @Chris-c2r2k  save for oh, having Hitler's speeches in a book on his nightstand, quoting and paraphrasing Hitler, emulating Hitler even to having a concentration camp for undocumented immigrants at GTMO and Nazis were far right, not anywhere left leaning.
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  6080. Your club is training people to double tap with a 12 gauge? Or engage at distances of 25 yards inside of one's house that might be 5 yards long? Or do they train that firing inside of a building is quieter than firing outside? Or do they train that one won't flinch when a firearm is used in confined spaces of a home?
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  6081.  @87mini  the only reliable options to ensure reconstruction of data has been to slag the memory/HD/ROMs or shred them. The NSA contracted a lot of studies over the years, that's remained the only entirely effective method to date. Currently, my last posting had to ship HD platters and memory with classified data to the NSA for shredding, as we didn't have the budget to purchase such infrequently used equipment. Most of the research actually is declassified and available to the public and is quite fascinating as to what lengths were gone through to retrieve data. Dense reading for some, but quite informative for information security types like me.
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  6082. The very same class of folks were laughing, right until May 5, 1789 in France. Their greed driving the poor and middle class into revolt and the angry choices made during that revolution brought them the Committee for Public Safety, which decidedly did not support anything vaguely reminiscent of safety, but instead wore down the French National Razor, aka the Guillotine. None laughed after their ride in that infernal machine. It took several generations to recover their population from that and our nation's founders installed safety valves throughout our Constitution to ensure it wouldn't happen here.
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  6083. Totally the same! Why, a letter of admonishment or reprimand is precisely the same as a firing squad! Obviously you failed in your history classes, as significant numbers of those purged were executed, not trained or disciplined, as appropriate. Why is it that those who are utterly ignorant about a topic the loudest? Oh yeah, like mom said, "the empty barrel makes the most noise". Come back and discuss things with we adults once you've served in uniform.
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  6084. As you've mentioned, we've had bases on Greenland, hell, we still have Thule AFB, now under the Space Command and hence, still USAF as the Space Force is only a combatant command under the USAF. With radar that looks to space and sea. With the SOSUS net, which runs across the GIUK gap, so that no evil, nasty Ruskie submarine can sneaky through. So, given our ability to have Denmark (well, until now) rubber stamp anything we wanted to install there, it's a simpler question. Why buy the cow when you already get the milk for free? Greenland talks about independence, albeit very weakly, as most of their GNP comes from Denmark. The mineral wealth is dubious in some ways, as much of it is under the glacier and nobody has ever considered mining through a kilometer of ice. Or even doing more than drilling ice cores. Well, other than us, we did try to build an ICBM base inside of the glacier, due to differential movements within the glacier, the hallways literally stopped lining up quickly, the nuclear reactor they installed to power the base leaked like the proverbial sieve from the hot loop, we eventually abandoned the base and the drums of radioactive ice there - right until Denmark found out about it and made us come back and clean that shit up. Leaving only areas that are glacier free for exploitation and there's no promise from nature that Greenland won't do to our mines what it did to the Viking settlements - bury them in ice later on. No, rather than buying the cow, he wants to buy the cow and pasture of ice, then pay someone to travel 1900 miles to get the milk that was formerly delivered. And rather than use diplomatic channels and methods, he went bull in the china shop looking for the tea service. Well, that service is now shards on the floor, good job, what next, fire? As for Russian threats, they're no greater now than they were before. Russia doesn't have Star Trek transporters, ships travel around the same speeds now as during WWII. Airplanes have been traveling at the same speeds for two generations. Missiles have been around since the 1960's, albeit at much lower numbers of 1550 deliverable warheads for the US, around 1650 or so for Russia. And Arctic ice clearing opens up areas far, far, far closer to Russia and just as wealthy in rare earths as on Greenland, especially near the Siberian Traps, where massive magmatic provinces brought such elements to the surface and water did its thing separating them into veins that are now becoming accessible. Or maybe it'll become, Greenland today, Iceland tomorrow and next week, Airstrip One. I guess Obama could get the part of Manny Goldstein...
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  6085.  @davidmccarthy6061  golden bibles with sticky, ill formatted pages, sold out of a pickup truck at a $20 markup and held up inverted. I seem to recall how not all that long ago, the Moral Majority was going on about inverted Christian symbols being the mark of the antichrist, now they worship his beast.
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  6086. So, a jurist gives an argument, already interesting, but basically that Trump could take any US Government property with him and it's then his. Classified national security documents, The Beast, Air Force One, Marine One, the US Navy, whatever the god-emperor wants. That's literally one of her hypotheticals heart and soul. Along with the silver service and china. When did we trade a Chief Executive for a commandeer and thief Chief Cossack?
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  6087.  @Road2NowhereTV  well, that's a sure way to miss the boat. Anatomy and physiology fail!
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  6088. In your daily conversations? How fascinating, given nobody that I know ever blathers about nuclear anything and I literally live only a couple of miles from the soon to be reactivated Three Mile Island. So, the Kremlin is talking about this daily? Why? Nobody in the US is. Or is this another China's Final Warning?
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  6089. Ruskies hate having to put on a show trial, just lock them up in the gulag.
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  6090.  @trishgreen3582  yeah, because Graham talks about the Mueller report, when the impeachment is about the Ukraine call and Trump's own corruption of everything straightforward, honest or honorable.
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  6091.  James B  yeah, no need for charges, just lock away anyone that you don't approve of.
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  6092. We don't imprison people for defamation in the US.
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  6093.  @davidspong797  so, life is a privilege that may be administratively revoked? Which agency do I submit my shit list to?
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  6094.  @soulsreaper7145  ever price how much such devices cost? Presuming you mean retracting units, so that he can use his own driveway. Otherwise, you're suggesting he abandon part of his property, in which case, why not abandon everything, house and all? So what that one paid for a home, there's nothing that says you are supposed to be allowed to enjoy your own property in peace, hand wave, ignore case law and codified law... The traffic control is under city authority, hence their responsibility. He has an absolute right to enjoy the property that he fully owns.
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  6095.  @MrTruckerf  I'm confused. Even more than usual after passing my mirror... Why would you trade trucks every 3 years to keep up with improvements, lacking any regulation requiring such? There are no ex post facto laws requiring such, so, a matter of conscience? If so, thank you, my lungs appreciate that effort greatly! Now, if we could only improve fuel economy on those last two trucks by an order of magnitude. Alas, tanstaafl. Largely, because free lunches are just so damned expensive! I am curious though, what's the mileage for the urea for the exhaust system? I know it's load dependent, but really have no clue how far on average with a full load one typically can travel (either general average or on flat terrain for a general idea, mountains throw everything into a cocked hat in consumption terms).
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  6096.  @mediocreman2  being dead effects the poor as well - quite disproportionately. And the EPA grabs people in the middle of the night and murders them?
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  6097. "I have been instructed that I may only say yes and as such, find the oath sworn irrelevant by the very nature of it being coerced and sworn under duress".
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  6098. Welcome to the very concept of freedom of speech, no matter how unpopular or divorced from facts. The only limitations criminally, for things that violate the law, like conspiracy and sedition, civilly, well, he finally seems to have learned that lesson a half billion dollars and change in. Now, fascism, that's what he wants, complete with criminalizing free speech. If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer to retain my rights, rather than to sacrifice them to the altar of Trump or stupidity, but then I repeat myself.
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  6099. I've had posterior nosebleeds my entire life. Mostly, it seems to be triggered by dry heat during winter, with some joys in early spring with a bit of swelling from pollen. Losing a unit of blood isn't uncommon and I've taken to largely just let it bleed for 10 minutes or so max into a sink or toilet, was out of toilet paper in the bathroom and the damned room literally looked like a murder scene. Cautery? Tried repeatedly. Packing? Tried repeatedly. Medications? Doctor even tried vitamin K, which I'll admit was a Hail Mary play. Back during the first April wave of a certain pandemic, I was hospitalized with initially presumptive COVID-19, proved later to be what I suspected, thyrotoxicosis. Literally, the low O2 saturation was due to a hypertensive crisis and some LVH (saw that on the ECG in the ED and was swearing a blue streak). On 5 - 7 LPM O2 via nasal cannula, when I saw bright red spotting, got the dose lowered without SPO2 dropping and a humidifier installed on the O2 feed. Those nurses didn't need a bleed like that and deal with a smattering of complex COVID cases! Entertaining was when the endocrinologist suggested that if the methimazole didn't control the thyroid output in a timely manner, iodine administration was her next course. She was shocked when I mentioned the Wolff-Chaikoff effect... Some of us got just a lot more training and experience in military medicine than most. I've never declined training and never will!
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  6100. Going all over the map, "not how to treat women in America", self determination, etc. Never approaching the fact that they're giving free advertisement and air time to the god-emperor wanabe and his royal proclamation to the Racial Assignment Authority on who someone is. Good job at remaining as useful as a bustline on a bull. And that whole 2025 thing went away with only one outrage. Fuckwits.
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  6101. Two boats that brought their own depth charges, potentially saving the enemy the trouble.
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  6102.  @tom.m  sights do indeed compensate for that - even fixed sights account for bullet drop at a preset range in their design. Otherwise, they’d all aim straight to bore and impact would always be low.
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  6103.  @tom.m  you neither zero or adjust fixed iron sights, which by definition are... Fixed. And those rounds arc at one rate on earth and a substantially different rate on the moon. Again, sights are designed to account for a fair bit of parabolic trajectory "out of the box", for adjustable sights, simply by virtue of being designed to be used on earth. A GI model M1911A1 has fixed sights. It's designed to fire a bullet mass of 230 grains and the sights are fixed at 25 meters/yards. If fired at 25 meters on the moon, the round will always impact high by around an inch (drop of 2.6" at 25 meters for 230 grain in air, more likely 1 1/4" high, accounting for drag vs vacuum). And 45 ACP out of an M1911 series is ideal for such calculations, given its range, extremely prolific documentation, known drag and mass for a NATO round, etc.
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  6104.  @tom.m  boy, you love to display your ignorance for all to wonder at! First, I mentioned fixed sights for a reason. You never could zero fixed sights, you never will be able to zero fixed sights, you never will in the future be able to zero fixed sights - they're fixed. That's to provide a simple example to a simple mind. Now, your magical reticle sights, great job, the marks are for earth, so let's say for easy of math, the bullet drops six inches per tick at 100 meters. On the moon, it'd drop less than one inch, now you're way off, as earth gravity is six times higher and then there's drag on the bullet, as expressed in the math via the ballistic coefficient. A tall mount further introduces parallax errors, dropping accuracy. But, what would I know? I'm only a competition shooter and experienced in rocketry.
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  6105.  @TallinuTV  well, space suits do have a type of armor, it's the micrometeor protective layer. Consider that micrometeors are cooking along around Mach 12 - 15 or so, that's a wee bit faster and more energetic than a mere bullet. So, goosing that up a bit shouldn't be a big deal, as one then accounts for a much slower, but heavier projectile. Basically, the overgarment is a cloth version of the Whipple Shield, which is used in all spacecraft, including the ISS. Without that protection, a mere grain of sand sized meteor, which are common, would drill through a bare space suit and vaporize inside of an astronaut. There was one spacesuit breach during the shuttle program. A tension bar inside of an astronaut's glove broke loose, cutting the astronaut's hand and through his glove, exposing his hand to space. His blood sealed the hole and the hole went unnoticed, that whole adrenaline thing and EVA thing going on. It was noticed when he removed his gloves inside of the shuttle.
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  6106.  @tom.m  and anything that'd align sight to impact point on earth would fire high on the moon, both due to a lack of drag and due to a much lower drop due to gravity. And as a competition shooter and veteran, I do know sights and ballistics intimately.
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  6107.  @Vaprous  sights are rather useless for lunar distances anyway. On earth, someone standing just showing over the horizon would be around 5 miles away. On the moon, less than 2 miles. Given sights and stability of a firing platform, such as a sniper rifle system, suffice it to say that shots at a mile and over are beyond difficult. Add in the terrain, well, it's hedgerow country done with rocks and small craters and large. Now, line of sight weapons that could cause seals to fail would be far more effective at ranges great and small, despite the inverse square law. But, I'll stick with my standby, a few cases of vodka. Because, fighting on the moon is about the stupidest idea ever considered since the military asked Carl Sagan to figure out how to make a nuke blast on the moon look impressive. Short answer, it's impossible and would likely go unnoticed, as there's no air to hold a fireball.
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  6108.  @russbennett5470  never even got built. Meanwhile, the Russians did test a regular aircraft autocannon in space that used regular smokeless powder, which worked quite well. Smokeless powder, like solid rocket fuel, contains its own oxidizer, so will work in space.
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  6109.  @russbennett5470  obviously, it got built and photon torpedoes. You've never proved launching, let alone firing. MAGIC NUKE KILL ALL, MAGIC NUKE WINNING ALL. Fuckward attending.
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  6110.  @grahamtotte7133  cute, but ineffective, as it was in hedgerows of Normandy.
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  6111.  YuoTvbe  not quite true. it's a tenuous atmosphere, but a hard vacuum level one nonetheless. As in, there is an atmosphere, that is barely detectable., but is present. And for, well, bullets, not worthy of mention. But, it is something that exists. Barely. Right up there with farting n a space elevator at a few miles up. Seriously, there is a lunar atmosphere, it's pretty much a hard vacuum, but tenuously present. Google it, you'll be shocked and amazed. If there's gravity, there's an atmosphere (ish), just don't try to breathe it, it's still a hard vacuum by our standards. But, even Pluto has an atmosphere.
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  6112. It's happened before with the Whig party. The Know Nothings fouled it up hopelessly and the Republican party was born from those ashes.
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  6113.  @dr.martinlroberts1908  I have a hunger for food, briefly, that fades, due to duty. That involves work, to contact others and provide an example and farther. So, providing an example, as defined by scripture doesn't mean at all what it says. Seriously?!
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  6114. "What are you gonna believe, your ears or me?" ~Groucho Marx, now DonOLD Trump When comedy becomes deadly reality...
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  6115. Yep, totally Egypt, Bangladesh being right nextdoor and all. Now, go buy a map, jackass. Or should I say, bint haram? I can curse in Hindi as well, if you'd prefer. Meanwhile, I sincerely hope he enjoys prison, him and Bubba.
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  6116.  @728huey  $8 million, he ended up collecting $9.1 million, but got yanked off the air due to the outrage - international outrage. Oral loved his fine diamond jewelry too, his staff airbrushing away the jewelry for publicity photos, but he stayed in his fine Italian suits. He eventually lost his vacation home, erm, "office" in Beverly Hills. Bakker, last I'd heard was during the pandemic, he got jacked up by the FDA for hawking colloidal silver as a COVID cure. Hope he likes it hot, because I'll be dumping extra coal on his section of hell. Then, some water, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity"...
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  6117. Nor is forgotten that recycled steel was dropped on Pearl Harbor. One watches even one's closest allies.
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  6118. "The Americans will do the right thing. Right after they've exhausted every other possibility."
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  6119. In sizable part, blame a whoring press, who fawned over his every imbecilic remark as the newest shiny, giving him tons of free airtime that his competitors had to pay for. Worse, they still do the same shit.
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  6120. I was denied buying a case of beer with an old DoD ID card, before the days when CAC cards existed. I called the state to make a complaint, as the refusal is unlawful in my state.
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  6121. Trump is singular and unique, in that were he to meet me again (met him back just before y2k) and he'd tell me his name, he'd be the first person to identify themself and be carded by me.
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  6122. Well, treason was never alleged, as treason has not occurred. The Constitution precisely and narrowly defines what treason in the US is.
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  6123.  @sawyermillman985  not a clear cut case for sedition, fomenting insurrection also requires additional evidence beyond that speech. He was careful enough to manage to stay just this side of the law, although of late, not careful enough to not get multiple court verdicts against him. Federal prosecutors are notorious for filing charges that they're certain that they'll get convictions on, not those that'll be difficult to prove to a jury. One upside being, by the time charges are filed, federal cases tend to be hermetically tight. He is being sued for inciting a riot though, by those previously hailed as heroic law enforcement officers injured in the insurrection, now condemned by him because he doesn't want to pay for his crimes. Doubt they'll get much though, at the rate he's going in various state civil courts, by the time their case is heard, all that'll be financially left are bleached bones. And they'll not be able to take his prison mattress from him - that belongs to the jurisdiction that operates the prison. They might be able to seize his commissary money though.
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  6124. He doesn't know about the price and shortage of eggs, as he banned reporting on bird flu. That way, his numbers don't look bad. That last being an actual quote from him during the pandemic. Shortly before contracting the virus himself, requiring hospitalization and literally the best medical care in the nation. Now, groceries is the dirty word of the week, Make America Gaunt Again.
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  6125. Is it possible for you to put that into actual English? What you wrote is "In January we will have to actual existence our ambassador from Spain. ANd put a 200 percent tariff on anything house servant in Spain with product label". Which doesn't make sense in English, or in economics, since tariffs are paid for by the receiver, so that US purchasers pay any penalty, not Spain for enforcing their rights - how dare anyone express rights not of the god-emperor!!!!!!!!!!! Which makes about as much sense as a copy writing you a ticket because your nextdoor neighbor was speeding or attacking Newport News in retaliation for the Russians attacking one of our ships in the Black Sea.
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  6126.  @macaylacayton2915  different era, different country.
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  6127.  @macaylacayton2915  and both were addressed when people rightfully raised merry hell about it, causing a change in attitude and laws. Rightfully so, those changes and hopefully, they'll continue to reverberate throughout history forever. Although, to be honest, if I lost a family member in either event, there'd have been a very, very bad accident involving a sharp object... Only because I can't get Rob Roy's option.
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  6128. If you're following the Constitution and not some god-emperor fiat, none. "Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
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  6129.  @AffectionateDna-lq6fr there is no such thing as provable probable cause, if that was required, given proof is conducted during a trial, probable cause is required to charge, one could never charge and hence, have a trial. Probable cause is national security documents signed out to Trump that were never returned and on a search, were found unsecured on his private property. Don't call a locked bathroom secured, there are highly specific regulations, backed by legislated code that require highly specific storage methods and facilities, not a one of which was present.
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  6130.  @jeannehelton5745 here's a better question that will be asked and answered first in court. Does anyone have a right to steal US government property just for the lulz? A small hint, it's always a crime. Because stealing is always, always illegal. Why, a major religion even has a Commandment against stealing.
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  6131. Around the time that unit of measure might be considered, astronomical units or light travel time tends to start being used. ;)
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  6132. So, the SCOTUS has decided overnight that the Legislative Branch is defunct. So be it, in chambers, the nation died.
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  6133. That satellite was a small sphere, with two antenna. Coronavirus has a tad more spikes.
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  6134. You got it right, just wrong spelling. Try-out for hire office. Not higher office.
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  6135. I've only one complaint about the conference - it went on too long. There's been no time to gather significant information, but they're forced to coddle the press. Hell, at this point, there's little that anyone on stage could tell or ascertain yet. Still, a democracy doesn't hide information and investigations, it reports on the investigation's progress within reason and without contaminating the investigation by premature or partial reporting and giving guesswork. When the final report is issued, the star of the show for me and every ATC operator and pilot will be lessons learned and how to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.
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  6136. Raychem, founded in 1957, went defunct in 1999. They also developed and sold heat shrink tubing. And I do remember these toys from when I was a kid. Even then they'd be sticky and stubborn.
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  6137.  @SmarmYDrippingS  not an alcoholic, but do enjoy my share of hard liquor, yep, Doing shots during an interview, but at least he's not put on the lampshade yet. And speaking of drinks, I'm irritated. Forgot to soak the tamarind past overnight, so no tamarind juice with dinner. :/ Oh well, guess I'll kill off that last glass of iced tea. Sorry, dividing time between listening here and getting dinner ready.
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  6138. Why does the US act as world policemen? I paid $20.00, the cost of bargain brand cigarettes in a pair, for a cheap angle grinder. Throw it out afterwards, as it's worn out. The US invaded Iraq largely via Camp As Sayliah. A per-positioned military installation. Worked there for five years after retiring from the military. My coolest duties were building schools and clinics that I ran.
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  6139.  @evadd2  OK, serfs weren't slaves. They just had to work the farm for the lord owner or else.
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  6140. A quick search engine search came up with interesting results with "hoa board shot", with HOA board members killing members, members killing HOA board members or their family members over disputes and a couple of cases, the board getting gunned down over a dispute. Plus tons of reported embezzlement cases, corruption, racketeering, well, put it this way, the mafia looks cleaner. Yeah, I'll live in a tent before getting involved with an HOA.
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  6141. One problem is, the bible, despite abortion being around for at least 3000 years, remained silent on the subject and considered a fetus as part of the mother until born and taking its first breath, then it was considered an infant. Well, save one ritual, if a woman was accused by her husband of adultery and pregnant, sweepings from the Holy of Holies and a ritual would either leave her unscathed and hence innocent or cause the fetus to rot. Numbers 5:18. So, God was an abortionist and hence, in their view, a murderer of unborn children. And like Satan, they know better than God.
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  6142.  @kapwns  not so much religion, but the abuse of religion to justify nearly any horror.
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  6143. Mind? Haven't had one of those in 41 years of marriage.
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  6144. Design, as in a defective design is also covered. Such as Ford having a known issue of brake fluid leaking onto electrical components, causing a fire that claimed a number of homes via garage fires. But, my first question is, which planet is the car manufactured for. It's obviously designed for something beyond the solar system's frost line, maybe for driving around Saturn's rings. Oh, as I recall, that London building had some remediation done due to the problem of well, molten streets. The other building you likely heard of was in Las Vegas, which similarly was melting the streets. Again, some mitigations applied, as in both cases, vehicular damage had occurred and the intolerable heat was rather bad for neighboring businesses.
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  6145.  @Mickey-i8n  there is baked in variability to the system, hence how Operation Paperclip came into being. Stop beating a dead horse, it'll not run. Go for what will work and Trump gives plenty of ammunition without trying to pick up duds to fire.
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  6146.  @lizettewanzer8650  four million settlement vs 10 million or more in expenses. Those lawyers aren't free and bill for every minute they spend on a defense case. The ones suing typically are working for a percentage if they win or settle.
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  6147.  @terrywilder9  so, when comparing apples, you also want to compare bowling balls to the apples? I've yet to hear anyone suggest such an idiotic notion as that coronavirus cures any other viral infection. Kindly place your rectally procured facts in the receptacle that has water waiting for it at the bottom, then flush.
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  6148. Dad got me a rifle as a gift, the rifle being a well known battle rifle caliber - 30-06. It stayed locked up right next to his in the safe. If I wanted access to it, I had to ask him for it. Typically, the weekend before we'd go hunting with the rifles. Nobody ever considered giving it to me to store.
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  6149.  @willythemailboy2  I remember one actual law firm that was ginning up false DMCA claims. They tried extorting me, as well as thousands of other people, but eventually the feds arrested them for their attempted extortion and fraud. Their problems were, they actually did not own the rights to claimed pirated works, were not representing the owners of said works, had falsified claims of users downloading said works (laughably, they attempted that with me while I was out of the country and most certainly could not have been transferring anything while in the Middle East), suffice it to say, all parties in that firm lost their law licenses and had a really nice place to say - well, nice if one likes steel bars.
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  6150. If you want to test that out, the old Rocky Flats Plant site would be perfect. There's still plutonium and uranium in the soil around 6" - 2' down. That site was a nightmare when it was operating, so bad in safety that the FBI raided them over it.
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  6151. He bought and paid for the US government and he's getting his money's worth to ensure a 1000% ROI.
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  6152. The security guard died of leukemia 33 years later. Others died 19 years later, 29 years later, only 2 died of natural causes and 1 died in the Korean War.
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  6153. Actually, if a contractor doesn't perform on schedule, there are penalties involved. As for number of contractors, look at how many were involved in Apollo and the shuttle. It's a bit of a miracle we only had one Apollo 13 mishap, given changing specifications and voltages. I'd still go for one suit to rule them all, with protective overgarment to be installed before use for specific environments. Less mass to be lugging around and the overgarment isn't something with much in the line of active components being needed. After all, every suit since Apollo was an under suit and the overgarment for micrometeor protection, insulation, tear protection, etc.
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  6154. As for outlet strips, I gin my own. Most now not using toy outlets like the server rack model Adam used, most being 20 amp models. Yes, I do indeed get seasonal greeting cards from my electric company. A precision lathe, yeah, it's possible. with massive effort and enough said. Reminder, the earth is an excellent ground. Balloon wheels get grounded.
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  6155. Non Guccione began construction on a casino in Atlantic City, which left steelworks literally over the roof of the home of Vera Coking. When Trump purchased the failed project, he razed the girderwork mess, resulting in damage to her home, she refusing to allow his workers repair the home. An eminent domain battle ensued and she and two other property owners prevailed. Still trying to figure out how Guccione's erector set ended up hanging over her home, since that apparently is criminal trespass. Around a decade ago, a creditor of Trump's failed casino purchased her home after she moved to a retirement home in California for a little over half of her asking price that Trump refused and Guccione refused to pay, getting around $580k or so, her asking price being $1 million. The other property owners getting 2.1 million and 1.2 million. Drones may not overfly private property below a specific altitude, I remember that from when I was working at CSC, whose seniormost officers discussed licensing of drones with the FAA director, which became effective soon after and guess what company got to handle the registrations? No bribes, just golfing buddies, because buddies taking care of buddies with government contracts is OK. I've had to explain to friends in foreign lands about federal and state, given their nations (European, mostly) strong central governments. The easiest way I found was to consider the US a strong federation of 50 nations with one overarching supreme Constitution that significantly restricts the federal authorities of the national government over the states beyond that which is outlined within the Constitution. Given Eurozone, that got the concept across well enough. Special thanks to History News Network for the naming of the guilty: 'The first record of the anecdote appears in a 1787 journal kept by one of the delegates to the convention, James McHenry of Maryland. He wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.” McHenry added a footnote to the text: “The lady here alluded to was Mrs. Powel of Philad[elphi]a.”' Why Elizabeth Willing Powel was erased from the majority of tellings of the story is beyond me, unless perhaps, they wish to reject that republic. Given that she did play pivotal roles at the time of the penning of our Constitution and before, that's the only reason I can figure, unless some, women included, want to deny women the agency that they had at the time of our nation's founding.
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  6156. Probably the donut shops stopped giving out freebies, as it was bankrupting them.
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  6157.  @ivandafoe5451  except for that whole sugar isn't a stimulant thing. And I've never gotten excitable like that on caffeine from coffee. More like god-cop syndrome, coupled with roid rage. The Chief dropping things because of an enraged congregation.
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  6158. Some of us aren't native speakers of village idiot? Seriously though, not a clue, CNN's dove off the weird end a while ago. Ever since senior management went MAGA.
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  6159. Burn your excess of market. That is the message, well, that and quit commerce in favor of Mammon.
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  6160.  @stefantrethan  telling is that there are zero followup articles on it. For all we know, they found hand tools, including a chisel used in one of Iran's uranium mines. Yes, Iran has uranium mines and uranium processing plants. Built after the west cut off all supplies to Iran after their revolution. Deeming European suppliers unreliable, they built their own. Iran also has two reactors, one low enriched (under 20% U-235) power reactor and one high enriched (over 20%, but less than the 85+% weapons grade U-235) research and medical isotope production reactor. I started my military career in nuclear weapons. Suffice it to say, if Iran wanted nuclear weapons, they'd have a few thousand of them by now. If they wanted to sneak a dirty bomb's parts into the UK, they'd simply use a diplomatic parcel. They'd probably soil themselves if someone entered the country with pitchblende dusted gloves.
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  6161. It's a mathematical problem, really. Each flight officer was deficiently issued only two arms, supporting two hands. The initial TOGA, now that's a question, what's the airline SOP on bird strike and dual engine failure on final? Because, had they continued on to land, they were already configured for it, they'd just not have thrust reversers and have manual brakes, which still would've been better than wheels up, no flaps, spoilers or speed brakes and their only braking system being what's essentially a bunker like wall from hell.
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  6162. Amazing, they used a lot of groceries on the campaign trail. When we traveled, we rarely used groceries, as we didn't have a stove hanging out of our assholes. Laughably, I did own a gasoline camp stove, but that was packed. The one place one won't use groceries is when traveling like that, no time or place to prepare groceries, so one dines out and well, all Trump does is hamburgers. And I'm damned sure he doesn't know the recipe for a hamburger. Ironically, did go grocery shopping on Friday, eggs were extra large for $9.00, large for $8.00, went to another store where I got a steal for $7.00 for large eggs. But, the public aren't allowed to know about why egg prices are up, as god-king ordered all reporting on bird flu concealed from the public and his own reports. Which, just before he got a chance to fuck up the entirety of our national government and C3 systems, there was another report out of Nevada of highly pathogenic influenza detected in dairy cattle and their milk in Nevada, but that might make the god-king's numbers look bad, so reporting on it's illegal by imperial decree. After all, he's here to Make America Gaunt Again by starvation and disease. Well, at least I didn't have trouble paying at the grocery pump. Dear Lord, we've been invaded successfully by the Moron Militia. Because, drilling is energy, refining oil isn't necessary and that our oil won't work in our refineries, oh yeah, I forgot, Harry Potter's magical wooden dildo will rescue us. Or give us splinters. And gasoline will make bird flu killing entire flocks of hens off, ummmm, undead egg layers or something? I dunno about undead eggs though, not after having two eggs explode because I kept them too long. And "the win", apparently, Dementia Donnie has forgotten that contributors and the win was in NOVEMBER AND THIS IS FEBRUARY. Someone tell him the months of the year in order please. As for vacation, President Musk wants VP Trump on vacation, he's tiring of using the queening stool. No, those were regular sized hats, you're just now noticing their severe microcephaly. Also known in a less professional term as having a pinhead. Small skull, malformed and tiny brain, usually disastrous at birth. I said it when he was in office last time, back when his porch lamp still was dimly lit, a physician does not perform a Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a vacuum, one has a very good suspicion that's usually confirmed by the assessment. Still, doesn't matter much, he's just a smoke screen for GOP misleaders and President Musk's actions as they convert our nation into a totalitarian dictatorship and once Dementia Don is no longer useful, he and his family if malcontents will also go to the camps with big ovens.
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  6163. TDS, aka a love and respect for law and order, rather than lawlessness and disorder, with a side order of sedition and a dollop of suggested treason.
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  6164. Making my order, "Do you want to add protein to that?". Sure, what kinds of beans can you add? Watch most of their minds melt down... Soybean would work, I actually like soybeans. Lentils are excellent as well.
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  6165. False vacuum, yeah, it works out well mathematically. Collapsing it, let me know when you make a galactic terror-collider from hell and fire it up, using all of the energy of the singularity at its center. Then ram it into a peer nearby.
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  6166. Fraud exists everywhere, what matters is, when is it a paperclip in value vs a top shelf weapons system that doesn't work level fraud. When routine site underperformance is present vs business as usual corporate intentional underperformance. And a computer records search won't get results for amateurs to detect, it takes a forensic accountant to suggest where to send investigators. Frankly, I suspect, due to certain specific behaviors and tendencies, Musk to resent US interference in apartheid, with some likely familial Nazi sympathies and he's now leveraged his inherited emerald mine and invested well enough to seek retribution and restoration. But, that's my amateur hour armchair psychoanalysis of him. Trump knows what queening stool to stay under to gain influence, power and well, money. And is clueless in actual power and influence beyond very short range goals, but money and such short range influence was what he was literally raised on valuing. Of the two, I only personally met Trump back around 2000. He remains the only human alive that I actively loathe. The few others were terrorists and are extinct.
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  6167.  @punker4Real  bankruptcy won't protect against a judgement of the courts. Per the SCOTUS.
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  6168. Only in the central cone of vision though. Increased startle response is common as well, that is what I was trying to get to about flinching.
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  6169.  @Bonnah-  nobody cares about what Russia thinks.
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  6170.  @PaulaXism  wasn't much of a con job, they just didn't think of it and Churchill did. So, we sanctioned them and still profited from it all, total win-win-win. Still, at least the UK paid off their war debt, was passing through when the announcement was made and thought, "Good for them!". Remember, the US eventually always does the right thing - after exhausting every other possibility. :/
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  6171.  @doodsixsixsix5361  nuke Russia with cobalt-60 devices.
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  6172.  @ruby07241  night vision, IR, x-rated vision. Oh wait, that last one's me, nevermind... Still, it could just be the second wave of the great Martian Invasion of 1938. Probably got lost on a cloverleaf or something.
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  6173. We had a name for such men in the Army. Latrine Lawyer. One critical characteristic of the latrine lawyer was, they're always entirely wrong, save when they're not even not right, but not even wrong.
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  6174. I'd have zero problem getting a source like this. Largely because, I know how to safely handle it (don't) and have friends who are nuclear health physicists. If it's real, an emergency call to the NRC to recover it makes it a worthy investment that I'll happily never see again. And you'd never see me within 10 feet of the damned thing until a nuclear health physicist checks it safely. Cesium-137 is both beta decay and gamma decay. Around .5 Mev and .6 Mev, respectively. But, the camera "snow" is more likely existing light blooming, the hand being lighter colored stopping the blooming by illuminating the CCD better. But, one doesn't dismiss anything until proven innocuous. One always assumes it's a real hazard and proceeds accordingly. If making a buy, I'd get a plate number, since we're "in a parking lot". The NRC and I would be very, very interested in finding out where something restricted like that originated and if it has any friends keeping the seller company. I'll happily settle for a redacted report and signed NDA. Just for peace of mind.
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  6175. And Nixon was drunk much of the time during Watergate and beyond. Hell, his Chief of Staff grabbed a memo ordering a North Korean airfield to be nuked and put it on his desk to see if Nixon still wanted to do that when he sobered up in the morning. I've no faith that that would happen today.
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  6176. Well, he'd not be complaining how he can't pay for a cab.
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  6177. Screw that, why give Russia something slightly used and useful to them for propaganda? Send him to Venus as the first colonist there. Consider it an audition for the afterlife.
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  6178. Royalty always received preferential treatment to commoners, so a god-king wannabe will always be incarcerated in Fort Knox, where he'll be entrusted with a gigantic wheelbarrow.
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  6179. Build a Berlin Wall, total no brainer or something. It worked for Joe Stalin. And Springtime for Hitler and Germany....
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  6180.  mudaneyegbicadaan8860 do we also have to recognize bint haram?
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  6181. Terrorists always try to hide behind children as human shields.
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  6182. What steams my clams is the prohibition by the SCOTUS against jury nullification. Anarchy doesn't lie there, but justice occasionally lies there and a right is fundamentally discharged via caveat of the court. Yeah, it's complicated within some areas. :/
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  6183. Nearly poached one gander. Aggressive as hell, charged cars and people, idiots still kept feeding the geese. It charged my wife and kids, they got behind me and it charged toward me. Fortunately for it, it stopped just out of reach, figured out I wasn't going to back away and ran off for easier game. Had it continued, on first bite attempt, it'd gotten wrung and thrown in the back of the car for the dinner pot. The rest of the flock was well behaved, so safe. Eventually, once that gander did disappear (not me, honestly), the township dispersed that flock. What that resident flock did to that small man made lake was horrific! The township was idiotic too. Big sign warning not to feed the geese, right under it a dispenser one could stick a quarter into to dispense corn for the geese.
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  6184. So, when do we get to be ordered to install Telescreens in our home, direct to Big Brother? And when does FedEx get issued weapons, since they're now a law enforcement agency? I'm sure that the anarchists and militias will be thrilled with this nonsense, as it'll really help recruitment. Oh, entertainingly, were the US to go to war with a peer nation, aka, one that could effectively strike US targets, that entire health care system, by feeding intelligence into government sources just lost protested status for every one of their facilities and became valid military targets. Becoming an intelligence source makes one automatically lose one's noncombatant status under the Geneva and Hague Conventions. As has FedEx and all of their depots and other assembly areas. I'm sure that a grateful nation will greatly appreciate and support your sacrifices in the cause of liberty to surveil.
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  6185. There's the sub force, but there's also their strategic rocket forces in silos. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they were the only ones still getting fully funded. Now, has the dead hand system also been looted?
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  6186. I adopted the electric kettle after being abroad for many years. Beats heating a room by using the stove. Don't like drip coffee as much, but I do use my combination k-cup and loose grounds coffeemaker, when I'm not using my percolator. With a French press as backup. I like my coffee... Don't have the soda water machine, no use for one myself, but if company came over, I'd have to pick one up. I'm also a US rarity, in that I drink water straight from the tap. I also avoid sweet drinks. On my to get list, a shoe horn. Over 60, not as flexible as I once was... Grew up with shoe horns anyway. Used to have a half dozen measuring sticks, I largely now use a tape rule or the side of my knife, which has a imperial and metric ruler on it. Remember, measure once, cut 279 times, then get the board stretcher. I can confound you though, I also still remember how to use a slide rule. I grew up using both. The slide rule keeping me out of trouble, as I'd need to take off my shoes to count to 20 and once I hit 21, I'd get arrested.
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  6187. You don't understand. Trump is the god-emperor of the universe, so if the universe disagrees, he'll god-kill-nuke-magic it away or else tariff it and the universe will pay. That's what we get for letting him fire God. But, he has concepts of a concept of a concepts of a plan - kill everyone by starvation, there'll be no need for health care. And trust me, having actually met the SOB back around Y2K, long before unreality TV fed his already overinflated ego, it wasn't because Obama was a Democrat, it was because Obama was the wrong skin color. Just based upon some chance remarks, never anything direct, as he always did enjoy his dog whistles. My prediction of his new tenure? Expect mass casualties. Literally. Chopped programs, veterans benefits gone, social safety net incinerated, public health gutted and dismantled, food and drugs deregulated and toxic, social unrest due to stratospheric food prices and shortages due to closed borders and nobody to harvest our fields and slaughterhouses and more. While he tries to deport people from his magical camps that are unfunded and unbuilt, to nations that already told him flat out nope, not accepting non-citizen exiles from a nation that never exiled anyone before.
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  6188.  @rnbsteenstar  those were the party's slogans. Ironically, Orwell wrote the book as a communist that was disillusioned with communism due to Stalinism taking over the Soviet Union. Now, fascists are using the book as an instruction manual.
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  6189. Already reported, over 80% cut in medicaid. Basically, he's moving forward with a plan last seen in 1939 Germany, Aktion T4, killing off the elderly and disabled by first, neglect, later by carbon monoxide vans. Which explains that massive Cybertruck order.
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  6190.  @hewitc  an older story about very much the same thing, conservative party hijacked by a minority of loudmouth troublemakers known for violence, said party collapsing and when formed as a brand new conservative party, was named the Republican Party and their first presidential candidate was some Abraham Lincoln guy.
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  6191. Federal cases take a year or longer to assemble. They're also quite airtight and water tight, due to such deliberate preparations.
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  6192. Hydrogen fuel, wonderful stuff, ignore hydrogen embrittlement, that got fixed by a hand wave. Boeing, they do have a space division that explored hypersonic flight and lifting bodies, which may be leveraged into their commercial aircraft. Giving a wider body, additional lift and smaller size. As increasing size has another side you didn't cover. Revenue flights that could, say, as a thought experiment, have a capacity of 1000 passengers, but paying passengers only number 100.
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  6193. We really need to stop with the treason nonsense, as he's not committed treason. Sedition, yes, treason, nope. The Constitution narrowly and precisely defines what treason is.
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  6194. The laugh is, to renounce US citizenship, one has to pay a fee and the US State Department has to accept the renunciation.
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  6195. Tell a lie, make it big, repeat it often enough and the idiots will believe you.
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  6196. I'm beginning to think that the only way clear is via the French National Razor.
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  6197. The US Constitution does not as I recall establish that the judicial branch interprets the law, it was the very first SCOTUS, in its very first session that decided that case law in Marbury v. Madison. Which means a co-equal branch of the three branches of government is more equal than the other two co-equal branches of our government, not only defying the Constitutional definition of equality, but the legal and dictionary definition of equality. Thereby even defying the laws of mathematics, for 1=1=2.
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  6198. By the same token, study for the CISSP. One doesn't need to know that at that level, one hires people who do know and fully understand the risks and benefits of specific types of interfaces. I don't need a CIO that knows how to maintain and back up a SAN.
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  6199.  @seandobbins2231 save for that whole democracy thing. You know, if one isn't a criminal, specifically a convicted felon, one can run for public office and create policies. Not specialists, whose opinions are known to vary depending upon who is paying for their "services" and well, listening to them while growing up, as often as some physicians told us smoking was bad for us, there were an equal number claiming smoking was good or neutral to one's own health. Hence, decades of inertia, until finally the prostituted voices got drowned out by their peers - rather than weeded out via self-policing of their ranks, which was intended. Our largest problem now is that political leadership has ended up selected strongly by largely religious minorities, who are enforcing idiocy and forcing it down a nation's throat, resulting in a race to the bottom and those are the very results we see here. An upside, due to that idiocy, one party went full Nativist mode and is rapidly destroying itself, just as that Nativist group destroyed the Whig party in the mid-1800's. Excuse me as I farther calm down. Just detonated at some militia goofball in another channel, who proclaimed all militia members were labeled by our government as domestic terrorists. He won't enjoy the exchange further, as I was unit historian for a historic National Guard unit - one founded under Colonel Benjamin Franklin. And well, lessee... Militia being, by Act preexisting this nation as able bodied males of military age (ages specified by each act and occasionally differing), later updated for females (initially only in the National Guard, but expanded by legislation, but leaving conscription an unresolved question) as unorganized militia and organized being organized militia that was in 1903 given a new fangled nation, the National Guard. So, he's getting hit over the head with both codified law and history. That seems to make me a liberal in his book, a decidedly odd and telling tell on his part.
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  6200.  @frishter  oddly, I'm not, I loathe his actions entirely. For one, a CEO is actually legally required to maximize the profits of his or her company, with civil and criminal penalties if they don't. For another, no violations of law have yet to be found in the current and last previous investigation of the company. That places the fault for their actions squarely on the legislature and executive branch, for passing such laws, allowing such practices to continue and not vetoing any laws that promote such behavior on the part of the companies. And you can't change a vote with a bullet. That requires a cattle prod.
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  6201.  @bebdaumon3948  I actually do, they weigh around 100 pounds at a minimum, less and you can't generate enough current for the z-pinch. Also a lot more expensive than a .22LR rifle with a suppressor. Since we're going with weirdly improbable, expensive attacks on someone's home system. Of course, that's why I have a moat with laser wielding sharks and a cobalt-60 perimeter fence. That only leaves me to contend with Jehovah Hulks at the door. I send those away converted to one of the Baptist faiths...
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  6202. I made a similar call once, it took far too long for someone to ask me why I was suggesting a complete re-write of an entire operating system. I replied, "So we can get rid of all of the old mistakes and get brand new ones instead". Killed the room. And a lesson given, a re-write won't cure anything if one then doesn't sufficiently evaluate the code to ensure errors aren't introduced, whether it's fixing bad coding or writing new tangle code. But, coding reviews, auditing can lower those mistakes, both during reviews and when fixing mistakes or outright blunders and we've all authored our own blunders at one point or another.
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  6203.  @Arky49er-e3e  no, the torch was shoved there to prevent COVID, while she snorted bleach.
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  6204. If they did slip it through, next up would be a subscription for the privilege of being able to start the frigging engine. Just slip it into the sales contract that the car isn't required to start...
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  6205. You need your eyes checked then. Treason is the only crime listed in the US Constitution and is extremely narrowly and precisely defined. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. By definition, we have no enemies, as Congress has not declared war upon anyone since WWII. That means levying war and that requires, by law, the taking up of and utilizing arms against officers of the United States Government. So, it's not treason, it's pretty much never treason.
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  6206. No, shocking is public acknowledgment by an proclaimed and legal superior subordinating himself to the VP. While supporting an emperor's authority silently. And well, armed officers only serve to arm me, due to extensive training and experience of their parents and well, I trained some of them. I know where the deficiencies lie. And their game, as espoused is known and observed. YT and operational security suggest not discussing things further. After all, even prayer is now a felony under god-king and President Musk.
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  6207. If he wasn't wealthy via his largely squandered inheritance, he'd just be another INCEL.
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  6208. The NY National Guard are currently too busy enforcing marital law in their homes, as they've got absolutely no purpose in such conspiracy theory nonsense. NY State has around 126000 cops, they'd need to mobilize around 5500 troops, when they've got 126000 cops? Maybe call in the Pope for backup or something or maybe a shitting bear from the woods? Sounds like Ruskie pot stirring to me.
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  6209.  @luislongoria6621  it's a shame that Texass doesn't extend SCRA like protections to their state duty mobilized National Guard, like civilized states do.
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  6210. About as well as can be expected.
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  6211.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  nope, it comes down to judgement. Can you trust their good judgement when it comes to the lives of yourself and your loved ones? Frankly, I'd not trust their good judgement with a used Foley catheter. I fail to see Steve's consideration though on "figuring out how to unbolt", it's four damned bolts, the bolts embedded in concrete, the nuts holding the damned thing to the pad. It ain't rocket science. The boxes may not be sold to the public, period, end of story. Want a steel box to store supplies, there are companies that build just as durable and a hell of a lot more functional and pleasant in appearance. Still, I've operated ambulances and more, I could see something silly like, "Hi, USPS? Yeah, I'm Steve and I kinda clipped one of your collection boxes with the ambulance on a call, knocking it free. Here's the numbers off of it and its location, can you send someone out for it? Thanks!" Not, "Hi, I am pretending not to have stolen a quasi-federal agency's Constitutionally mandated property and am asking if I can keep what I just stole fair and square". I know of two medics in great need of an enema.
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  6212. Try that alone near a nuke. ;)
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  6213. If you don't like it, have the eighth amendment repealed. We can have infinite bail required and summary execution in the streets, along with death by slow torture back. Everything that makes shithole third world nations shitholes. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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  6214.  @chuckscott-cy7iq  totally in tune with their version of family values.
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  6215. If it's a crime to vote for anyone as a service member, it's a crime to vote for that individual as a civilian. When we criminalize who someone votes for, this nation literally is over. Because, this isn't Russia, who actually do such things!
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  6216. And for the record, I'm also a veteran and US Army retiree.
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  6217.  @davidgolden1776  in full auto, it was shit. Way too light for the job, might've done middling with a compensator, but it didn't have one designed for that purpose and even then, a proper MG did the job far better. What it was great at when we had them was as a DMR platform. I was accurate to 800 meters, could still hit the target at 1 km. DMR's are largely being fielded to replace the squad MG, as well, nothing suppresses fire more than when one of the other side sprays pink mist at range.
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  6218. OK, we've arrested her, she is immediately cleared, as you've not even proved mens rea, let alone conspiracy. Now, she sues for false arrest, wins millions. Sounds more like a Trump job, fuck things up, lose utterly, call it a success.
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  6219.  Thoreau  no lies were found, per the inspector general report. Errors were found on some forms and the last time I checked, typos aren't considered felonies.
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  6220. Congratulations! You finally noticed that he's been quoting Hitler. He's been doing it for ages, now it's just completely out in the open. Interestingly, he's also getting things out of order, beginning Aktion T4 a trifle early through the VA now removing volunteers that were previously feeding dementia hospice patients and making visitation difficult to impossible before his invading Poland - erm, I mean well, damned near everyone on a randomly shifting list. Hitler acknowledged having to wait for the mass extermination of elderly, disabled, mentally disadvantaged, insane or otherwise "unproductive and undesirable" until after war began, so that he could justify it with the populace as a "necessary sacrifice to prevent sapping the strength of a nation at war by supporting the unproductive drains upon society". His ideas on eugenics, originating in the US... And there are "Russian ships and Chinese ships out there", yeah, other countries have also always used the oceans too. The US doesn't own the seven seas, there are even ratified treaties to that very effect. Oh wait, forgot, god-king outranks laws and the Constitution and only must needs consult with Emperor Musk before the Empress may decided upon an action. Although, I'm at a quandary here, how does the US invade and send US forces throughout the land on immigration enforcement and cut the DoD budget by 50% all at the same time? Other than, it's yet another smokescreen. And he's forgetting, there are 15.8 veterans in the US and he's successfully pissing us all off. Not an exemplary career move, given he's only got 2.86 million troops and that number is dropping due to his own actions. Given we also know where the ammunition supply points are. And the C3 nodes. And logistical distribution hubs. And assembly areas. And we don't even need to go for stupid battles, we just need to foul logistics nationwide, hamper communications, everything grinds to a halt and without logistics and communications, well, you've got a rabble. A bit of solvent here, some concrete there, missing steel somewhere else...
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  6221. Hey, the vice president doesn't matter, after all, Spiro Agnew was replaced with Jerry Ford. Ford ended up with a naval warship named after him, Agnew got a national park field latrine named after himself. Fox - projection central, accuse Biden of that which Trump is on trial for for many things, the rest, well, things Trump already did or stated that he would do on day one of his next malignancy - erm, presidency.
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  6222. If he were alive and I asked Schrodinger to solve the Schrodinger equation for a relativistic electron orbital, well, we'd both call it time to hit the bar and hope Lorentz doesn't show up there as well. There, Dirac would be waiting for us... ;) Doubles all around, 'cause now it'll get dense. Cap off that night by casually mentioning that, in 2024, we're really close to achieving commercial level fusion power, only between 5 and 40 years away, then get the bar towel to clean up the spit drinks... I'll start the food fight though. Engineering is, like chemistry, simply applied physics. And anyone wanting to say that quantum physics isn't useful, turn your computer off, since you don't respect or acknowledge its technology and come talk to my tunneling diode and tell it how it doesn't work. Don't make me dust off the laser... Erm, nitpick, optical vs UV? Both are optical, Balmer is visual light (although there still is that whole IR thingie), Lyman is UV, which still is light. Both use the same basic optics, just different tuning and materials (same again with IR). It's only when the wavelength gets really long or much shorter than mere UV that things turn into a pain in the gonads to focus and reflect reasonably efficiently. UV absorbs and converts to heat, but visual light doesn't? Uh, no, six of one, half dozen of the other, just more energy downconverting to heat with UV and don't get me started on hard gamma (gonad pain, remember?). Perhaps, a bit too Goobered down? As for quantum mechanics vs classical, a fission reactor is a fine example. I can kludge together a basic, ugly fission reactor without quantum mechanics. If I want an efficient one, I'm going to need quantum mechanics. Lasers, well, I need quantum mechanics, they're not magic, just the darkest of the dark arts, mathematics. ;) I'll disagree about cannot agree to disagree. After all, there is Schrodinger's Mouse, who had the grave misfortune of trying to ascertain the wave function of that damned cat... I'll just get my hat and coat...
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  6223. Well, Nixon gave both a run for their money. Buchanan also was pretty much the worst rated POTUS - until Trump dethroned him.
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  6224. Well, US banks got tired of getting stiffed, Deutsche Bank "loaned" money to Trump that was guaranteed by Russia, as was established in court and got Deutsche Bank fined for their offenses. And still, they never called the loan or got paid. But, Trump immediately did start up non-campaign superpacs, where disposition of the money is per his wishes, not bound to any campaign.
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  6225. Isn't that where the gasoline refrigerator is? Although, I was present at one supermarket some years back when the food was being freshly smoked. OK, I was briefly smoked. Just as I got to the cash register, the clerk began having difficulties entering pricing, then the register began smoking. I suggested she might want to get the manager to see if it was procedure to just unplug the obviously now deceased cash register, as I stepped back from the cloud of smoke. Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh, but prod someone to unfreeze. Obviously, it got unplugged. I just didn't know where the plug was, as in that state, even on broken ring, it'd have seized the token and eventually a timeout would occur, it sure couldn't do anything - the magic smoke had already smitten me. ;) Now, excuse me while I go the grocery store and get some oil from the frozen section. The man reminds me of a comedian's response to Saint Ronald Reagan, after making a PR trip to McDonald's to basically show that he was in touch with the common man, the joke made being that the entire effect was ruined when Reagan asked to see the wine list. I'd voted for him back then, but I found the joke hilarious. Alas, Trump's ignorance is real and downright dangerous. Oh no, my chicken is defective! Lemme get the gun and hot glue that gaping hole in the obviously defective bird! Damn! I'm completely out of rotisserie olive oil! Gonna have to pick some up, along with some extra crispy water.
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  6226.  @askew9976  meh, the bark will heal and the outer wood will quickly heal, they've evolved to have larger trees bounce off of them.
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  6227. Good job, laws are illegal if you're rich enough. Firearms sales are way up, just an observation.
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  6228. I dunno, I've said repeat a few times over the radio. The indirect fire eventually makes an impression. ;) I tend to prefer to refer to explosions visual and audible effects as "thunder, fire and brimstone". It gets the point across reasonably well. Hmmm, ignored by Hollywood? Blast cavitation injuries, avulsions from the same, hollow organ ruptures, shrapnel injuries (even on the rare occasions they hint at it, it's tiny wounds, not missing limbs, half of a head, seeing through a thorax, evisceration... Then, there's shake and bake, Willie Pete and HE quick, everyone will try to bunker in for HE, but when WP comes to visit, try to keep up with the old SOB! Movies and bullets, a bullet hits, it always goes straight. It also always has to come out to fix a problem, which is bogus, as anything needing the bullet removed also means repairing blood vessels and bones, otherwise, if it isn't damaging anything, leave it the hell alone and not injure the patient even more. Circling back to explosions, MASH did one scene well. Hawkeye was operating on a patient with a bone jutting from his body. He remarked, "Well, he doesn't need this", a nurse queried if the damage was that severe or something similar, he remarked, "No, it's not even his". Someone stepped on an antitank mine and one of his bones from his leg impaled the patient. It was a true story. Or the Afghanistan case, where an RPG round was impaling a patient. The surgeon evacuated the OR, only volunteers worked on him to remove the round from his body, just in case it detonated and killed everyone present. Next, in military situations, an explosion sends all manner of shrapnel, both from the device and whatever is nearby. Service member gets some of the shrapnel, but escapes significant injury from the blast itself. Fortunately, his body armor prevented any penetrating injuries, the ESAPI plates did need replacement and the fractures beneath were treated and healed uneventufully. Rib fractures suck, but sucking chest wounds suck even more.
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  6229. Stop insulting poor, innocent blobs!
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  6230.  @jeremyadams7395  murder button? I always called my murder button my trigger. Still, isn't everything illegal in California?
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  6231. Given that the capsule of the cobalt-60 source is intact, Homer would never be radioactive, as cobalt-60 isn't a neutron emitter. But, there's another extremely common source that resembles that capsule, a phosphor coated tritium vial, the tritium also coming from nuclear power plants. Again, he'd not be radioactive, as it's intact. Although, the amount of tritium, were the source compromised would be decidedly unhealthy, it's unlikely to reach LD50 for tritium on a chemical basis. Biochemically speaking, tritium sucks in organic reactions... As for Cerenkov radiation, it's not only present in water, it can and has occurred in air, the eyes (OK, yeah, that's mostly water) and I've personally observed, much to my horror, its presence in glass. Really long story there. Oddly, there have been survivors of prompt criticality accident who observed the glow in the room air. Got sicker than all hell, but they survived. Suffice it to say, any children resulting from them are not on my family's intimate relationship list, as some of their DNA "eggs" got scrambled for certain. I've been, off and on, reading an interesting IAEA report on criticality accidents. My thought, the entire time reading it and after, "A bunch of 5 year old kids with daddy's loaded gun in their hands". I'm firmly convinced that Homer Simpson is a real person and he bounces back and forth mostly between the US and Russia. ;) Still, I'm in the market for a cobalt-60 source, so I'll soon be calling around South America to evaluate a few potential sources... :/ No, I'm sure Kyle recalls the orphaned sources at the heart of a couple of accidents and one in Mexico, which contaminated a hell of a lot of US steel that's still in use, you can't wink and smile about those deaths.
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  6232.  @maryelizabeth6797  a quick examination of the entire local group of galaxies reveals, there is insufficient ethanol contained within the nearest six galaxies to give sufficient dosage to find listening to him tolerable. If I were given a massive dose of general anesthetic, it's likely that I'd still walk out.
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  6233. There was one leader who did enact such a "disposal of dead wood", rounding up the insane, disabled and mentally challenged people and gassing them in carbon monoxide trucks. He then advanced to large camps, to eliminate all he thought to be undesirable for his vision of society. Yeah, WWII. I actually knew some of the survivors. Today, we do have some events that are reflective of history. A populist party, nativist in general nature, isolationist as well, hijacked a major political party and obstructed until it failed, earning the name Know Nothing Party, as nobody knew nothing about who was obstructing or why. The Whig party collapsed and a new Republican party was formed. Their Presidential candidate was some guy named Lincoln. The know nothings eventually went away, to fade into obscurity. The current day version are already showing signs of implosion. After all, when one races to the bottom, once there one has nowhere to continue racing to.
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  6234.  @RichardHeadGaming  In addition to the naturalization process, the United States recognizes the U.S. citizenship of individuals according to two fundamental principles: jus soli (right of birthplace) and jus sanguinis (right of blood). The US Embassy. You do not outrank the US Department of State. So, feel free to spread your below five year old ignorance in hell, where you were born.
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  6235.  @frankmarsh1159  interviews can come back to haunt one, but interviews are also acknowledged by the courts to not be under oath.
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  6236.  @jamesricker3997  doubtful, but it should be able to be parleyed into a sizable discount.
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  6237.  @frankmarsh1159  OK, let's have a thought experiment. Reporter interviews him, discusses Santa Claus visiting. Does that mean that the court and jury now must believe in Santa Claus? Or that the interviewee and interviewer believe in Santa Claus? Under oath is a wee bit different, as one has an actual right to lie to a reporter, but lying under oath is a crime.
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  6238.  @jamesroth5874  I really can't half blame him. He's likely still got the taste of his own foot stuck in his mouth.
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  6239. That is a matter that is entirely up to the state of New York. I don't want people from New York fucking with the laws of my state of Pennsylvania, so I'll not suggest fucking with the laws of the state of New York. I would and do fully support the state of New York insisting upon exercising their own rights, even upon a man and property in Florida and Florida does have legislation to that very effect. The court in New York would petition the court in Florida asking to exercise their state rights in a specific manner against a convict currently resident in the state of Florida. The laws of both states then are evaluated by the courts and the proper pathway forward is determined. Just don't ask me the specifics, I'm an electronics technician, retired military medic and IT security guy, not a lawyer.
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  6240.  @rongravelle603  yeah, but no Teddy, we got the Juvenile Delinquent instead.
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  6241. I initially wanted to reject the term supercarrier out of hand, but then remembered Japanese technology during WWII and even a submarine aircraft carrier. And the Japanese nuclear warhead program, which was abandoned both due to a lack of resources and lack of will, as such weapons were considered dishonorable. Give them an idea, it's likely Japan would introduce the world to an airevac and hospital superdupercarrier, able to MEDEVAC an entire country, treat the populace and return them home. And for once, I'm not joking. Having worked with the JDF, I'm damned sure they'd love to have such a capability. Knowing them, with one, they'd already be off the Turkey and Syria coast helping out.
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  6242.  @topogigio7031  you do realize what the phrase "based upon" means, don't you? Derived from old war gaming systems, then customized to become what we know today. I watched it as it developed, way back in 1974 until today. But, what would I know? Those that were there wouldn't know anything whatsoever about what was going on there and then.
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  6243. I dunno. I have a C4006 in the basement of my home. ;) Might bump it up to a C6509, given the volume of IOT these days. And a couple of vlan's fro my RPi's...
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  6244. I know for a fact that the US DoD medical training requires aspiration before injection proceeds.That's been true for well over 35 years.
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  6245. Let's invert the problem. The US apologizes officially for operation Ajax. Defusing Iran's entire offense. Oh wait, God never apologizes, ignore that flood thingie.
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  6246. That's one of the reasons the US retains our second amendment.
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  6247.  @Gamebuster1990  universities don't get taxed, braintrust.
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  6248.  @nl5828  there's worse. Speak out against Putin, Russia and Trump loudly enough here, get youtube jail.
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  6249.  @moneymakingabab3604  OK, civilian structures and enterprises can defend themselves. The military will only defend overseas, just to keep you happy. Learn to say "I surrender" in seven languages.
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  6250.  @ladydubhblossom  oil is currently in the $77/barrel price range. Trying to get people to sell at a loss, well, that explains how he managed to bankrupt those casinos.
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  6251. Oh, he blamed Biden this morning. Apparently, the White House is haunted by a Biden in the Basement or something.
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  6252. Stop looking for magical one source solutions. You've got insane amounts of wind along the coast, as well as wave energy, even some pockets of geothermal energy. Not much for solar, that whole north thing and all. Hydrogen energy, it's unicorn farts. Gotta get hydrogen somehow, gonna get a unicorn to fart it out? No, didn't think so, that requires either catalysts or magical, Harry Potter waving his magical phallus about free energy. A small hint, the latter ain't gonna happen. Increasing efficiency is one area that helps tremendously. Using wind along the coast and higher elevations contributes greatly as well, ocean wave energy helps a lot too. Won't replace everything at current technology levels, but it'll lower the final bill by a lot. An efficiency model I like is one I use myself. I love cooking with gas, which is tremendously inefficient and I've even got camping gear kits I've modified for pots and pans to catch the blow-by heat from the flames that I retain for camping. Induction heating is far more efficient, controllable and well, precise in cooking. Use the hell out of it. The cost basically is electrical energy utilized over NG fuel and well, copper and chips and transistors controlling coils.
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  6253.  @duncan5063 what totally fake news covfefe! Given auto-reject in spiel crackers, you'd think he'd at least get wrong words that were correctly spelled... Ugh, that was unpleasant!
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  6254. The problem is, in an emergency, all that training tends to be useless, because adrenaline destroys clear thinking, imparts tunnel vision and one doesn't even notice that one's hands are shaking. And trust me, you'll flinch when firing any firearm, be it an AR or a 12 gauge or even my M1911 indoors without hearing protection.
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  6255.  @neveralonewithchrist6016  the magic trick with thin films is uniform thickness. That was absent until fairly recently.
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  6256. Flouride, isn't that what bread is made from? Fluoride, depends upon the fluoride, not that these brain trusts would be capable of comprehending the difference between stannous fluoride and chlorine trifluoride. Frequently enough, these same fu - erm, folks also call white phosphorus a chemical weapon, no it's an allotrope of an element, in a military context, incendiary and primarily used to generate tons of steamy smoke. Not a nerve agent, blood agent, choking agent, blister agent, CNS agent, etc. It's akin to calling a water balloon a chemical weapon. Traces of fluoride compounds will help reduce tooth decay, excesses can cause tooth discoloration, weakened teeth and bones and major health problems in extreme dosage cases - which happens naturally in a number of places around the world where the ground water is high in fluorides. Guess humans shouldn't have gotten off of that battlestar... Chlorine trifluoride, I'll happily play with that any day - if it's on a different continent than I am on. It's a much better oxidizer than mere oxygen (seriously). Great oxidizer for any rocket, it'll oxidize the fuel and the occupant instantly. Great for cleaning the containment vessel of a nuclear reactor though, the uranium will go into solution as uranium hexafluoride, which is where one wants it for processing. Which means, you'll not find me anywhere near a reactor containment vessel that's being cleaned of uranium traces... It's nasty enough to burn sand, glass, water (yes, water), ashes, chemists who violate safety protocols and as one researcher documented, in the event of a metallofluorine fire with the stuff, a good pair of running shoes is strongly recommended. As for "fluoride is a toxic element", erm, that'd be fluorine. So is chlorine, are we gonna ban all salt in the world now? Iodine is toxic, you'll be just as dead without it as you'll be without chlorine in salt.* Now, excuse me while I refill my bottle of hydroxic acid, aka hydrogen hydroxide, aka, dihydrogen monoxide, aka frigging water. Paracelsus said it best, "The dose makes the poison". * I have Grave's disease, a form of hyperthyroidism. One older endocrinologist warned me to avoid iodine containing foods, even while taking my methimazole (which blocks forming the iodine containing thyroid hormones that I form in excess). I asked if he was concerned with the Wolff-Chaikoff effect and he said no, more out of concern of a thyroid storm. A hint, I didn't see that quack again and found a competent endocrinologist. The Wolff-Chaikoff effect is iodine overload, which so busies the thyroid gland (OK, massively Goobering things down by a lot) that it completely shuts down hormone production in favor of taking up that excess iodine. When I was hospitalized in moderately poor condition due to a thyroid storm, the competent endocrinologist suggested that as an option to wrangle my thyroid under control until the methimazole began to take effect. Fortunately, rather than bounce between extremes, my thyroid was good enough to cooperate with more conservative treatment with the drug alone.
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  6257. Amazing, apparently the sinkhole was due to an old limestone mine beneath the field, not that Fox bothers to tell anyone.
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  6258.  @GilmerJohn  landlines are unpopular with providers because copper is more maintenance intensive than fiber. That's why Verizon and other carriers were pulling so much fiber. Hell, we just had a crew running long fiber along the turnpike here, didn't ask the client, although from the type of fiber being run, it's likely AT&T. Due to a lot of US government installations in the area, AT&T invested long ago and keeps investing - even if half of their fiber remains dark for now.
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  6259. Just contact the postal police, as it's part of a fraud scheme anyway and the USPS is being abused to perform it, which is illegal. Amazon then can keep on going and accruing fines and eventually get blacklisted by the USPS and most other common carriers.
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  6260.  @davidfrederick9973  so, everyone is Amazon’s slaves and has to dispose of Amazon’s trash for free? One’s time is worthless, save for Master’s time?
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  6261. So, sleep deprivation is ensuring a prisoner's rights, hypothermia is ensuring prisoner safety. I'm of the theory, deprive natural rights, let God sort them out after the reprisal for the violations via the Rob Roy system. Given that if we treated an enemy prisoner of war that way, our prisoners would also be tortured in reprisal, per the Geneva Conventions. So, when did communities first declare war upon their citizens? What was the casus belli? What is the objective of the war or is it just a war of extermination? Probably need exploratory surgery to ascertain that from some of the lawless combatants.
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  6262.  @ianmayes8072  I noticed that back in 2000, when he was a speaker of honor at our tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. His behavior so boorish and claims of success in bankrupting businesses a grand achievement, the chamber literally spent an entire year apologizing - due to the 95% attrition rate from that function.
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  6263.  @spinaltap111  so do I, extremely tasty, but alas, too big a meal for me, so I usually let them go uneaten. Wasting food is bad.
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  6264. I'll mention to my veteran upstairs, an 83 year old, one eyed man, who is moderately deaf neighbor that he's a loser that should get a job. I'll also mention that to my paralyzed veteran Marine neighbor. I'll mention to every other retiree my building. Work until you drop dead and only the smell of your decomposing like one bank worker alerts people as to your demise. And oh, when people pay for an "insurance" program and are denied the benefits contracted, that is called theft, both by deception and by unlawful taking. Plus misappropriation. All felonies.
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  6265. They're pro-life until after birth, then they sacrifice to Moloch, in Jesus' name. Hope that they really enjoy hell, they're richly earning it by tacit consent. Just as well, don't think that the Almighty wanted such abominable company.
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  6266. Indeed, the problems with COVID seems to be that leukocytes are being infected, interfering with their response, while innate responses are also being blunted. By the time the immune system notices that the infection was unaddressed, it went into scorched earth mode (to oversimplify it by a lot) and that's the cytokine storm of COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu.
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  6267. Alas, such "nonsense" has turned into major issues. As any hostage for their own encrypted data. Got side bit by that, my lawyer got entangled by hostageware. Further entangled by my association and well, legalese from hell contracts. Poor bastard got to do without business with his computers for a month before the Department got it untangled. But, it's all nonsense, vapor, ignore paralyzed governments, it's all a myth. Yes, a fair amount of announcements are hyperbole, but reality is, don't click on the motherfucking links until checked by yourself. Even if it requires calling the helldesk.
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  6268.  @RuthK-b5i  remember, a lot of the folks against Trump from the GOP were their dirty tricks squad that used to run the dirtiest of ads against democrats. Trump only managed to hire their Geritol Generation, basically Nixon era rat fucker types, which explains their ineffectiveness due to multiple generation gaps and most being long overdue for being put out to pasture or the glue factory. And I'm speaking as a boomer... So, we're left with Trump's best being this bumbling mess and now threats again against arresting Pelosi, who's 84 and retired, because he's just that strong. Next week, it's anticipated he'll muster the strength to steal candy from a baby. But, he can still fight - most of the way through a single ply sheet of toilet paper. If it's well saturated. Oh, never fear, his running mate is there to help! Why, we're 100000 births short because of car seat laws. Oh, the sofa to bench seat of the car jokes are ever so tempting...
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  6269.  @crf80fdarkdays  why laugh? Soap kills bacteria and can bring pesticides into solution on the wash water, getting it off of the produce.
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  6270.  @leehongjin6884  overruled under Article 1, Section 8 of the federal Constitution.
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  6271.  @lizlee8686 wrong. The federal judiciary is appointed by the Executive branch and approved by the Senate, so can only be removed by impeachment. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-judicial-branch/ The Constitution is quite plain in language, nothing fancy or confounding.
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  6272.  @toddparsons2980  I remember they did have an old cam computer BDC model used in the Vietnam era, always wanted one of those.
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  6273. In the last case I'm aware of where one party requested mutual combat from the court, he received a court order - for a mental health evaluation. Suffice it to say, he later failed to fare well in a court of law after his evaluation.
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  6274. Safety culture and convincing the public... Two entirely different things, one can con the public and still not have any semblance of a safety culture. But, reputation is something that once was important, but now seems to have been forgotten. It can take one 20 years or more to build a good reputation, it takes less than 20 seconds to ruin that reputation. Suddenly one doesn't seem to have critical safety procedure documentation, when one is supposed to have said documentation is, well yet another 20 seconds added on blowing a reputation straight into a pig's breakfast. If I had stock in Boeing, I'd have already filed litigation on their pissing away my investment money via failed and ignored fiduciary duties to maintain quality, thereby reputation, thereby stock value.
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  6275.  @pablonh  on only the two cent piece and swiftly went away. On July 11, 1955, Congress passed H.R. 619, which mandated "In God We Trust" to be included in all U.S. currency. The motto did not appear on paper money until 1957. So, you've successfully stuck your two cents in. ;)
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  6276.  @pablonh  it was added only to the two cent coin for that year.
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  6277. It isn't that Matt left his Venmo account to public, but that it was set to pubic that seems to have generated outrage. While he sang, "Thank heavens for little girls", for without them what would Matty Gaetz do...
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  6278. It's not a warship.
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  6279. The SCOTUS prohibited juries being instructed on jury nullification. Predictable, given the SCOTUS routinely discusses rights by calling them privileges. Only jurists seem to have rights, not commoners.
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  6280. And one battle effective mother-in-law has a far greater range than that half mile. I'll just get my coat... WP, retrograde movement, danger close!
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  6281.  @thefamily512  that's too low tech. Or something. I also demonstrated one stealthier method that was sorta high tech(ish). An IR beanie, IR LEDs configured to basically overload the CCD trying to burn itself out on my mug. Saves the cameras though, if the imager catches a view of my mug, the damned thing always melts.
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  6282. Nope. Millions yes, no way he comes even close to a billion in governmental waste. And we just don't throw people in jail in the US, we like to have actual valid legal charges, a trial and a conviction first. He's got one New York case that was criminal and with a conviction, again, not costing New York anything, save the integrity of its judicial system, constitution and laws.
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  6283.  @TheUltimateRare  originally, the electoral college was created because the Founders thought that the populace was so ill educated that it might pick someone ill suited to the office of POTUS. Something proven right, courtesy of Trump. Alas, instead of preventing such an atrocity from occurring, the college instead precipitated that very invent that it was created to avoid in the first place. And states created laws to subvert electors voting their conscience that originally the electors were supposed to do.
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  6284.  @grimmertwin2148  no, it doesn't. It's still being worked on as a combined part of treatment for PTSD, along with traditional therapies to desensitize veterans to stressful stimuli. When the hell are people in this country going to grow up and not seek a quick fix, magical pill solution to a complex problem? To the OP, hard to address PTSD once it's fully established, one needs to address it promptly as it begins for full and rapid recovery and that's complicated when TBI's come into play, of which the Vegas attacker had suffered at least one, likely multiple. Helmets don't keep you from getting your bell rung good, they only keep one's skull intact. Ten helmets won't stop countercoup injuries or shockwaves from injuring a brain. And a TBI makes one more prone to PTSD that's likely incurable, as the brain has experienced significant tearing and other damage. As for "his prescription", he's addressing what can be reasonably addressed. We can't rebuild brains, we can address the most common and harmful - those radicalized. When assessing which risk to address, one looks at rate of occurrence, annualized loss expectancy and a number of other factors. Part being cost of loss. Which cost our nation more? A dozen people mowed down, one shot and killed, two cops shot and wounded or one suicide with one injury to a bystander? Sounds cold? Good, it's supposed to be, it's called using reason, not emotion. It's the most effective way to deal with complex problems, as emotion clouds one's thinking and colors perceptions, resulting in incorrectly addressing a problem and likely worsening the problem.
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  6285. I'm sure that some will proclaim that a victory for her, pure profit. I'm sure, as I've literally heard such monsters actually say just that - promptly losing the room, much to their confused consternation.
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  6286. What's more likely, two female agents were assigned to investigate some possible unlawful activities in or around the campaign, that got converted into them playing honeypot, riding unicorns and flying on brooms by the full moon. When all they did was ask questions and move on, closing the investigation due to lack of evidence. But, you're paying attention to this and not the House passing a disastrous spending resolution that'll kill medicaid and more. New maladministration shiny to distract from dastardly deeds that are going on at the same time, as for some reason, people can't seem to track more than one thing at a time. If I couldn't track more than one thing at a time, I'd not have had a house, as one kid distracted me and the other tore it apart...
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  6287. Imprisoned in NY for treason over fraud? Do try to keep up. And no, he cannot be convicted for treason. We're not at war, so we have no enemy to give aid and comfort to. He's not taken up arms against his nation. Those are the only things that are treason, per the US Constitution, which narrowly and precisely defines treason due to the abuse of treason charges in Europe over the centuries. Sedition, maybe, but one then can potentially open the door for every candidate against an incumbent being convicted for sedition for attempting to remove them from office by being elected. Hence, why it's hard to convict for sedition as well.
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  6288. No, it's worse than that. They crossed security domains with an unapproved device, which would upon connection assume the highest level of security that it was connected to. So, a hard drive that's plugged into a TS//SCI system now becomes a device that's also only permitted to be connected to a TS//SCI system and never lower. It's literally illegal. They then copied and likely entirely failed to encrypt their device, another law violation on data at rest. They then copied to an unauthorized, non-FISMA compliant civilian system that's claimed to be USG, but being non-compliant, installed and operated by a non-government agency of dubious legal provenance, with the poorest baseline configuration I've seen since the days of DOS/NT3.51, placed that data that was essentially unsecured onto the public internet with absolutely no port filtering, assuming the database being open is accurate, again, in violation of laws behind FISMA and security classifications, plus the Privacy Act of 1974. Frankly, as an information assurance security officer, I'd expect better from a high school kid! No best business practices, no concept of security at all, not bothering with silly little things like laws at all and frankly, I strongly suspect that the system was likely also never security patched for known vulnerabilities. Everyone involved should be in Manning's old cell, in solitary, lest they reveal classified information.
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  6289.  @LuciferMorningstar666-e1s  I have worked with the IC for quite a few years, largely on information sharing and implementing counters to things that were discovered. I also am an information security professional for US government organizations as a cleared contractor.
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  6290.  nunyabaznus7851  so, lung cancer from asbestos and the other nasty chemicals burned in the tower fires and collapses is precisely the same as lymphatic cancer? That's like saying my testicles and toes are identical structures and trust me, maybe yours are, but in humans that's entirely untrue. Lymphatic cancer is well established in fallout exposure cases as a primary cause. True, not the only cause, but genetic testing can help rule in radiation exposure, as can that whole radioactive lymph nodes thing. And frankly, I'll say something I've rarely ever said, in this, I'll trust the VA. But still, IRL, feel free to hand me my trusty rusty and tell me more about conspiracy theories and how we're all liars. The hogs are hungry.
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  6291. Naw, Trump needs is keister kissed incessantly - by a cottonmouth. Oh, was that my outside voice? My bad!
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  6292.  @benjaminchisolmjr7863  goes down to the GOP motto. "Laws for thee and none for me!"
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  6293. Welcome to Robber Baron mk II era. Thanks for nothing, peers, while I defended this nation, you sacrificed it and my grandchildren. My will includes a release on thermonuclear arms. Consider it a return on investment. I'm flat out of fucks to give.
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  6294. Ah, but protest or even speaking out at all against the god-king is now terrorism.
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  6295. That's one reason I love US government regulations for contractors and officers receiving gifts being tightly limited to essentially pocket change per year at most. Eventually, that turned into cushy jobs after leaving government service and regulations and the law then addressed that. Now, everyone safeguards the taxpayer's money to the utmost of their ability, within operational constraints. An example being, abandoning equipment that would cost more to transport back home or to distant US bases, where the cost of transport far exceeded the replacement cost of said equipment. Edit: I forgot to mention, the lowest bidder isn't always a winning bidder, as performance or likelihood of performance is also considered when tendering a bid. So, a low bidder with only two employees for a job requiring thousands wouldn't likely win a bid, where other bidders did have thousands of employees.
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  6296. I'm rarely in that big of a hurry to actually care about a day or two delay. I do despise being lied to though. Faster, cheaper, better, pick one. Their automation is pretty much at peak capacity now, saw similar working in a large automated warehouse with the DLA. That cart on rails or robotic picker only moves at one speed and fast it ain't for safety reasons. Then, it goes to the packaging station, to the worker denied a piss break. Yeah, I know people who used to work there.
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  6297. True enough. Although, my car has a major mechanical flaw. A loose nut behind the wheel.
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  6298. Two hands, two guns. Done in Venom's voice... ;)
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  6299.  @vanessarodriguez4259  rebuild and recover is exhausting at best when one's young. As one ages, it's double, triple and more tough to do until it's pretty much impossible. Been through a bit of that myself and I'm just in my early 60's and reasonably fit. In theory, one can build structures and even configure properties to withstand tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. In practice, nobody anywhere could afford such an insanely expensive thing. Not even the wealthiest or even the government, which is why nobody does build them other than for test units. Besides, who wants to live underground? I'm in south-central Pennsylvania. So, winters can get a bit annoying to get around, since I'm stuck walking with a cane. As a result, I prepare a modest pantry with about a month and a half of food, largely dry goods and canned goods and a well stuffed freezer. It avoids me finding myself on my back, wondering why the sky is in front of me when it's icy out. That's actually come in handy, as I and thousands of others had our food stamps stolen via a skimmer ring out of NYC. Just reconstituted a gallon of dry milk last night, picked up some bread and eggs from the food bank and I've enough flour to make a half dozen loaves or so if I need them. Not a prepper, just creatively lazy and frugal. When weather is good, I'll walk the two miles to the market, load my folding shopping cart up, walk the two miles back. The river is literally across the street from me, but I'm on a high floor and at worst, were it to flood, which would take a hell of a lot, I'd lose what's in the fridge and freezer when the apartment building's utility level flooded. That's happened in the past, but it's basically a once in an actual century event. I've lost everything I own twice, yeah, that's heavily wearing in the extreme, restarting life from scratch gets harder as one ages. So yeah, know where they're coming from. Hopefully, they find a place that's safe and secure and a bit better protected and affordable, as prices have been insane and growing worse from a mismanaged pandemic.
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  6300. I disagree. If, as the only example I ever could think of, an asteroid was inbound for impact, a near-miss of a detonating nuclear weapon could ablate enough volatile surface to deflect it from impact. That couldn't be absorbed by a rubble pile, nor would it disrupt it into multiple impactors.
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  6301. Why does a simple divorce court proceeding sound simpler and far more gentle? Oh wait, divorce court does obey the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
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  6302. Honestly, it wouldn't shock me if the SCOTUS decided that the entire Constitution was unconstitutional and void.
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  6303.  @davidzarodnansky4720  so much violence against an innocent piece of wood! How many times must you be told, the right tool for the right job! Here's a 10 pound sledgehammer. 8 pounders may bounce, 10 pounders don't bounce.
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  6304.  @tallthinkev  eh, choke up on it, no need for a full swing. A 2 pounder does good for an initiate. ;)
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  6305. Go back to his campaign. Remember "My Blacks" and always he was just referring to farms previously. Therein lies the hint at the heart of his ideology, where certain "races" "belong" in his world view, anyone with non pasty white skin belongs on farms and servant positions. Pasty white being in charge. Trump's always been racist, big on redlining and he's just been careful about using certain slurs where they could be witnessed outside of his inner circle.
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  6306.  @flyoverstateresident2890  they'd hate his leadership in not being in a war? You understand nothing about the military, child. Not a goddamned thing. I certainly do, 28+ years Army, now retired after two wars. So, feel free to kiss my ass in Macy's window during the New Year's Day parade.
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  6307.  @MickeyMishra  and older than me and I'm in my 60's. The VA got started for one man's reason, Benedict Arnold, who was disabled in our war against Canada during our larger war. He, along with our remaining forces, politely escorted back to our border, where he learned that his wounded and disabled ass had no pension to support his family and farm after the war. True story. And today, I can't even get fucking hearing aids.
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  6308.  @MickeyMishra  go for it, actual research is good, correction is better. But, I've actually driven a "trespasser" from our armory, who was a former member that I actually refused to serve with, due to his readily apparent mental illness, incurred during his tour in South Korea.| Being notified, I gave a directive to wait for my arrival, then drove him to the local VA hospital, instructing doctor to hold him until he was balanced and well or "else"... I took care of my men, even after they were "out", when suffering. And veterans do stick together, as this nation regularly abandons us, for the least political and financial convenience. Odd serendipity, was watching "The Trial Of Billy Jack" and remembering such things. Yeah, our care is stellar, totally absolutely spectacular in its non-performance as "leaders of the world", just as our health care has and remains, where germ theory remained dormant for a half century, even into the Spanish Influenza pandemic and masks are still argued about and well, Cuba developed a small lung cancer vaccine we're only now testing - 20 years later and Trump damned near derailed that test. Sad isn't the word, but I lack a proper word for it. And my command of English, both US and UK is excellent.
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  6309.  @albertoborrero8306  just working some really tiny plots I figured out how much work a full farm was. I think of that every time I prepare and consume a meal!
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  6310. Well, they need to also register the corporation with the selective service system. And be ready to imprison corporations. Or they can enjoy the French National Razor.
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  6311. Physicians have repeatedly displayed a sheer inability to police their own ranks. I'm around 90% there in suggesting that the legislature address this national deficiency, as faith and trust has been discarded for far too long.
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  6312.  @hanne5678  billionaire, my arse, he'd be a quadrillionaire. Unfortunately, we lack medications that are magical. Well, other than naloxone and naltrexone...
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  6313.  @Opinionsrnotfacts574  back around y2k, Trump was invited as a speaker of honor at our tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. Everything then was exclusively about himself, his great successes in serial bankruptcies going back a full handspan of years. Seasoned business owners rolled their eyes so much, I was amazed the planet stayed on its axis! The following year, the attrition rate for that same function was 95%. DonOLD Trump, serial failure, serial banktruptor and serial loser. He's got a literal inverse-Midas touch, for everything he touches turns straight into shit. And a unique ability in negotiation and litigation to snatch defeat from the gaping jaws of victory. He took something around $20 billion and converted it into a few hundred million, most of that encumbered. What otherwise would be considered sad, well, with him and his personality, the Pope himself would find his continued failures hilarious. Now, he continues his uninterrupted chain of abject failures with the political equivalent of setting fire to his state campaign headquarters. Oh well, soon enough, the mindless beast will wander off.
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  6314. I look at flying cars this way, "They can't drive worth a shit on the ground and we're gonna put them in the air?! The roofers will love the overtime!". The pillbot, well, I'd be straining at stool...* *Yeah, that's an actual medical term and alas, frequent cause of death in elders. And well, what one would also do to retrieve the bot. Shitty job, but someone's gotta do it.
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  6315. I was going to say that one thing missing was a cogent thought.
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  6316.  @gammaron  if he told me that the sky was blue, I'd be running outside to see precisely what shade of brown the sky was.
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  6317. If someone on the street either said that or held a sign saying that, I'd not need to call 911. I'm quite certain that they'd make a furtive movement.
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  6318.  @813laker would that be a bigly sad?
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  6319. I spent five years overseas using BS 1363 , aka type G plugs. Left a few unplugged and was incessantly barefoot, only stepping on one once in all of that time. As for sparks, well, in an explosive atmosphere, sparking could be considered dangerous. That said, if one's domicile is filled with an explosive atmosphere, I've got quite a number of questions as to one's lifestyle choices. As for much of the world being confused by US heavily used natural gas, it's abundant here and always has been. For many years, lighting was provided by natural gas lamps inside of homes, my last home still having capped and abandoned gas lines in the walls from that era. That home also had some knob and tube wiring that I replaced when I found it still active, replacing an antique fuse box with a modern breaker panel while I was at it. And fixing a botched kitchen wiring issue, where some idiot was switching the neutral, rather than the hot wire on the ceiling lights. And immediately after, replacing part of the kitchen ceiling after a lead drain pipe eroded through, dropping a sizable part of the ceiling... At least it didn't have a thatched roof, it was a flat tar based roof.
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  6320. Heh, detonated a week before I was born. I still emit slightly elevated gamma from the atomic testing era, confirmed by a radiologist as an incidental finding during a thyroid scan.
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  6321. Because some of the data that they collect is intelligence data on adversaries and enemies like Al Qaeda. You should watch the video before commenting on it.
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  6322.  @samhall7385  no such thing, as lithium has no biological role normally in animals at all. It is a powerful drug against mania though, they're still figuring out the chemistry today, but largely have it ironed out.
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  6323. I'm aware of one instance of a commercial airliner that was rolled inverted and remained stable only when inverted. Alas, one cannot have anything resembling a successful landing while inverted and the aircraft upset and crashed when attempting to return into a survivable orientation. The cause of the upset was revealed to be the complete failure of the vertical stabilizer jackscrew due to improper maintenance. For the want of a few dollars of grease and a bunch of man hours, an aircraft, crew and passengers was lost. As I said when the manifest wasn't ready, screw the air freight.
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  6324. Future, hell it's already been happening. Largely because ever so many good Christians know far better than the God that wrote their bible. Like Lucifer knew better. Enjoy the heat.
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  6325. They've been getting hard time for these offenses, those who aren't serving time in prison are just awaiting trial with airtight cases against them. Still, they march on to drink the Jonestown cocktail.
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  6326.  @maxdecimus13  well, it's trebly hard to link something from the old testament to the new, when it's been thrice mistransliterated, edited for content and version and had entire books tossed into the rubbish heap. Which is why one has to resort to other sources, rather than religious sources, such as scholars of that time. The laugh is, the majority of his teachings were literally quotes and parables that were in the old testament, but Christians tend to ignore that entire section of the bible in favor of the new and think that's where a specific teaching originated. Love your neighbor, repeatedly mentioned in the old, being a prime example. Then, there are the quote miners. I get them with wall pissers being cursed. No, they weren't cursed because of urinating on a wall, they'd be cursed in some areas of the old testament if they didn't do something God wanted them to do and he who pisses on the wall basically being every male being cursed if they don't obey. Not quite the same idea in the end though, wouldn't sell their line of Machine Gun Jesus products or something. I also send them steaming by reminding them that Jesus was a Jew, he never said he wasn't, he sure didn't worship himself, he worshiped the Almighty like every other Jew and even celebrated Passover.
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  6327. Only in small part. There is also cardiovascular effects to consider, things like standing up and the circulatory system pumping harder to overcome gravity to pump blood up to the brain and up from the legs. You're also not loading long bones, so degradation would continue. Simpler, put the entire hab in the G zone and have remote hub or outside of the rotating system microgravity labs, the remainder stays in the hab zone.
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  6328. We can tell that Chernobyl is uninhabitable from all of the Russian soldiers who died and remain unburied there after occupying the site for months. Oh, wait... Hiroshima and Nagasaki, believe it or not, actually had fissile core components recovered from the area around ground zero, were air bursts and hence, had nothing drawn into the still reacting fireball for neutron activation and well, had a lot less fissile and fissionable components involved than Chernobyl, whose core was largely ejected by a massive water hammer effect, followed by a fire and meltdown of the remaining core. So yeah, I agree, poor analogy, comparing apples to bowling balls. Oh well, there's worse. There are the Artificial Idiocy created confabulation videos, then the factless and clueless ones from Natural Idiocy. Case in point, in my suggested viewing, Neil deGrasse Tyson reporting Betelgeuse went supernova - for the 300th time in the past few years... And how cobalt salted bombs have more blast damage and fires than unsalted bombs... Would that I could reach through the monitor and slap some of these dweebs with a large hammer.
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  6329.  @chantelleglover-e3y  not if they want to enjoy the protections of the Geneva and Hague conventions. First lesson, they are in a conventional war. The other war is nuclear, biological or chemical war. But hey, if Russia wants to join North Korea in pariah state status that nobody at all will trade with, unrestricted, war crime warfare is the best way to get there and have absolutely no trade left save with pariah nations. You're really bad at this, you'll be on the front lines quite soon.
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  6330.  @Grinchguy2 uh huh, million dead from a pandemic that was absolutely unmanaged, critical offices left unstaffed, the VA actually run by a couple who didn't even work for the government and screwed the pooch seven ways till Sunday and more. If one's definition of better is left to run off a cliff, totally better. He started out incompetent and ignorant of the Constitution and laws and lost ground continuously ever since. Shall we talk about the entire military leadership threatening to resign when he wanted them to steal voting machines? People literally abducted by federal agents that refused to identify themselves or their agencies? Or when he asked how to nuke a hurricane? Or when he wanted to put alligators and piranha fish (a non-native species that couldn't survive there) in the Rio Grande? Totally better, huh? Nope, more like someone that had a double helping of moron milk on his stupid flakes in the morning.
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  6331. And you'll happily pay for the higher taxes to provide this additional service? Or is the camera fairy on the hook for the bill and monitoring done by the angels?
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  6332.  @H3110NU  or monitor the starter motor leads for voltage once the engine is running. A motor being driven generates a voltage. If you see a voltage across the motor wires, the clutch didn't release and the motor will quickly fail due to being spun at a rate far in excess of its designed maximum RPM.
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  6333. Given the incoming maladministration, might not need to make it a trend, it'd just be a reality. One upside being, squab's pricing might just come down to sanity, given the pigeon population of our great cities... ;) Seriously, price squab, it's a juvenile pigeon, best price I saw was $30 for one. They're delicious, but not that damned tasty! Not duck pricing for far less meat! Goose also being ridiculously priced. Makes me wonder how much I could get for some prime rib of CEO...
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  6334. Well, for one thing, it's a NY state crime, not a federal crime. For another, he's not been sentenced yet. Then, there's that whole appeals thing.
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  6335. I always told her to swallow, always got slapped. I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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  6336. No, you do it. We'll all wait and enjoy the show. Given that isn't what the law says and well, ain't these trials all about what the law says?
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  6337. That's another bullshit tale. Few individuals in Germany had firearms before or after. Who was disarmed was the German government. And they hated me when I was asked about Hunter and his gun, because I said yes, he should be prosecuted and get his pee-pee smacked, as that's the level of offense that it was. He didn't accumulate an armory and frankly, was what would usually acquire a fine, but politically turned into a major federal case that was more severe than a straw purchaser's trip to Mexico with a truck load of firearms. He should've been treated the same as any other peasant. Some of the other federal charges did need a court to review, as they were a bit more egregious, but still a basic white collar crime. And if Trump can walk, he should as well, as should Jim, Bob and Leroy down the street. Rather than having a two tier system of injustice. And I have a gun and not a single stick of the right glue to fix one annoying broken thing at home. Entertainingly, the hardware store has the right sticks and the part that needs mending for about 1/3 less than the sticks. ;)
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  6338.  @No-timeforimbeciles  you forgot the three commanders... Curly, Larry and Moe.
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  6339. It's in his About page.
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  6340. He's self-made as most are, inheriting money. In his case, an emerald mine, then making money the old fashioned way by buying successful businesses, then fucking most of them up. Hyperloop, the Boring company, Neuralink that's produced literal 1970's technology as a "success", even money, he'll invent the wheel next year.
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  6341. Trump is a toddler, don't understand something, break it. Musk, add toddler and apartheid desires, coupled with some Nazi desires. I'm not allowed to discuss things further by YouTube godlings. And when the inevitable civil war occurs, we know one employee base that'll experience a major pogrom. Along with their fascist backers. And as a veteran, that's serious medicine.
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  6342. Given that the USPS transport up to Secret parcels and documents, suffice it to say that the USPS is quite trustworthy.
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  6343. Duck tape?! No! Epoxy and Permatex gasket seal. Finish with Bars leaks to totally complete the havoc.
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  6344.  @mikgus  not seeing that happen. He's undermined himself too much, alienated the majority of the GOP moderate base and his devoted voters are a tiny minority. Even were they to try to force all non-Trump voters away from the polls at gunpoint, they'd still not manage to get enough votes for him. DeSantis, is of graver concern. Especially, given grand juries are looking at his election fraud scam. Kind of hard to run rallies and speeches while in court defending one's liberty against one's felonies.
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  6345. Well, they can't. There is a stopper plug that locks inside of the tube and a manual valve that has to be released. Miss a step in the dump procedure, first you'll wear it, then you'll say it loudly, to the great mirth of one's peers in the ground crew. I never had that happen to me, but I've witnessed a few incidents where a ground crew member had to shower off and change uniforms, After all, ground crew are at the bottom and most certainly know that it does indeed run downhill.
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  6346. Well, he's line of succession and also authenticates the POTUS identity for nuclear launch orders. That requires secure communications and hence, a SCIF inside of his home. And yet another reason I'd never want that job. Secure facilities are a pain in the gonads, inspections, audits, logging, high security safes, logging of visitors, hell, logging when you leave and return from taking a shit - literally, one has to secure down and then reopen the facility just to take a leak or dump. Needless to say, I've logged a hell of a lot of hours inside of secure facilities. Put one of those inside of my home, I'm moving out.
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  6347. No, the "running the third time" is a dog whistle for "stolen election", he's still on that subversive shtick. As for his BS on mail in ballots, it's nice to know that he wants to deny the military that he'd depend upon their right to vote. I was one of the Pennsylvania votes that mailed in a ballot, as for some reason, I couldn't find a Pennsylvania polling place in the Middle East. Met him in person around 2000 or so at a Chamber of Commerce do. He was an invited speaker, he was such a resounding success that the following year experienced a 90% attrition rate. He was the boor of the party, as everything had to be about him, his bankruptcies in the casinos were still a subject of his rants and a resounding success (in a room full of business owners, you can guess the looks all were giving one another), frankly, it was about as enjoyable as having intercourse with a wood chipper, followed by cleanup with a rasp file.
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  6348. The ship has a draft of 40 feet, the channel depth is 50 feet. Suffice it to say, I'm sure that the bow is resting on the bottom, given the mass of the bridge on top of it and that it's down by the bow. Oops, wrong comment... Think they're talking about reusing the piers after inspection and repair. I'd suggest going with a wider channel, which would allow for protective measures to be installed around the piers.
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  6349.  @wickedguppy3715  well, it's doable. Not exceptionally bright, but doable. Collect the gagglefuck of steel that has to be removed anyway, recycle it in a steel plant (let me know when you can find one available for that special job), melt it down, remix it properly, make the superstructure and other components from the old mess and some additional new purchases with only a moderate delay. One can also slide down a ten foot razor blade and soak in a pool of iodine. Not recommended or smart, but doable.
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  6350.  @achimotto-vs2lb  that's what the eugenicists said and what Hitler followed through on. And what the Agenda 25 people believe in. Perhaps, you need to buy yourself a white hat, so we can tell you apart from the other guys.
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  6351. Often enough that the proportion of accidents seems overdue for a Russian gas line explosion or two, purely accidents, you understand. Such has oddly happened in the past, such as when Russia suddenly began using a valve and regulator design suspiciously like a Canadian design, as in identical, without licensing or paying for it and an odd design defect became apparent via multiple explosions on the lines using that purloined technology. It was, of course, entirely a coincidence...
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  6352. Which? Like Trump? Like Bannon? Like anyone else? Hint: Anyone else would long be under the prison.
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  6353. Can't deport a US citizen and he's been a citizen since 2002.
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  6354. And started an in-joke in the Adams family, where Gomez would comment on the price of pork bellies in multiple episodes.
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  6355. Compared to how America works in another country? Both NYC and Philly are their own counties, so if they don't ask for help from the state, it's not available. In NYC's case, the Guard was called in in a limited capacity. In Philly, they've already gotten the car involved and fully intact, so it remains where it should - a city-county problem.
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  6356. Funny, as I also did research and live in the area. "It was her that did it", resulting in the charges against her being dropped. Resulting in the LEO being terminated for cause. Funny how you claim this nation was never in threat, but I lost buddies in action. But, you know far more than I do with your vast knowledge base of unclassified information.
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  6357.  @SinkrSwim  yeah, we'll ignore the live video like you did. As for 18 acres, I repeatedly depopulated such a modest area during the wars. Easy enough for an air strike or even MLRS strikes to erase that entire grid square. Still, more damning for both of you is, neither of you know the difference between the White House (referenced in the comment) and Capitol building, where Congress sits and was surrounded, attacked and invaded on live international television.
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  6358.  @kimhorne-fortner3938 you're right, deliberations must be hastily conducted.
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  6359.  @deek60819  we also don't summarily execute people in the US. That's a Putin, Xi and Kim thing.
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  6360. But, Libertarians tell us that businesses will always to the rational thing! How evil of history to not confirm their moonbeam dreams!
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  6361. The ridiculous thing is, now the mayor had to get involved.
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  6362. Tech genius Musk, who famously announced that the US government doesn't use SQL databases, still ignores a report thanking the US Treasury Department for their assistance in tracing a bug used in a compromise at Treasury of a PostrgreSQL server, which I guess isn't SQL because Emperor Musk says SQL isn't being used at all in government. And given the sheer number of Oracle databases I monitored compliance with for the government, Oracle isn't SQL either. Nor is MySQL or MSSQL. And his geniuses, the bestest in the universe, straight out of kindergarten are the super douper bestest, using out of the box configurations and passwords, no port filtering or shuttering of unused services and ignoring best business practices, totally the bestestestest. At getting pwned. I swear, it's like watching Wile E. Coyote opening up the latest package from Acme, ya know what's gonna happen next just ain't gonna go so well for the Coyote. Oh, the "not using SQL" was Musk's excuse for using WordPress, rather than oh, software that the US government has master site licenses for and hence, is bought and paid for. And the first thing one does when setting up a server is to disable services that aren't used, change default passwords, block ports that are not to be used externally. That's literally the first steps when loading the server - before it's put online to the production network, let alone the big bad open internet. Yep, the Coyote falling off the cliff again, wearing dynamite and a missile's heading toward his impact point - loaded with a nuke stolen because nobody was there to secure it. I've set up servers from bare metal up, put up sites, databases and well, a whale of a lot more, administered them, verified baseline configuration compliance, patch level compliance, etc. When I was done, I had the things reviewed by someone not in my chain of command. I got to review their work in return. Anything amiss got corrected. Then, I scanned the damned things with vulnerability scanners and when we used one of the nastier vulnerability scanner that could deliver some hostile payloads, those were the servers that we ran those specific tests upon. Some of those very servers lived on our DMZ and hence, were internet facing and provided services to external users. Not a one was compromised. Clint Eastwood famously addressed an empty chair at a convention, perhaps he should go to the White House and address that empty head.
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  6363.  @alphanerd7221  ?
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  6364. New York courts take care of We The People's interests. Businesses are people, serfs are not. Since Trump is also a business, he is only subject to the Almighty Lord Mammon. Or more factually, without hyperbole, New York courts have kneepads for businesses, an iron club for citizens.
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  6365. OK, Trump for POTUS then, the Constitution is null and void forever. Since you hate having a Constitution, summary execution instead of arrest. Corruption of blood on misdemeanor as well. Article III, section 3 Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. So, you're either saying, despite no evidence possible to support it, that Trump has taken up arms and made war against the government or that Congress has secretly declared war and Trump has given aid and comfort to the enemy and should be immediately imprisoned for it without trial. Either way, that you hate having a Constitution. So, what's the difference who is now god-emperor of the Empire of the United States?
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  6366.  @thaisstone5192  I see that elementary reading was never taught to you. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. So, in your version of the world, levying war requires Congress to declare war, so the war of 1812 wasn't a war, since Congress couldn't meet when Washington D.C. was burning. That means Benedict Arnold was never a traitor or something similarly insane. Levying war means taking up arms. Trump wouldn't take up arms, he's too great a coward to do that. A case might be made for sedition and even for advocating for the overthrow of the US government, both serious felonies. Treason, nope, Congress didn't declare war, so he couldn't have an enemy to give aid and comfort to. He sure as hell wouldn't risk himself by taking up arms. So, treason is impossible. And even sedition is dicey, as one would have to show that mens rea existed and that he fully and overtly ordered violence be employed for the purpose of unseating our government. Not by preponderance of evidence, but beyond a reasonable doubt. Laughably, sedition has been proved against leaders of Proud Boys, those convicted already now serving their sentences and Oath Keepers trials are ongoing. Still no direct Trump ties to any such orders. But, there is ample evidence to support his advocacy for the overthrow of the government via an attack on said government, specifically Congress and blocking of its Constitutional powers and the penalties are equal with sedition. Shall we instead stay with having a Constitution then?
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  6367. He didn't take up arms against his nation and we've not had Congress declare war, so we lack an enemy for him to give aid and comfort to, those are the only things that are treason per the Constitution. Even a charge of sedition would be dicey, he's kept that barely at arm's length from him. He has championed the overthrow of our government multiple times in multiple ways, which is as severe as sedition, with an equal sentence.
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  6368. And that test was competitively administered by the other can't drivers out there. ;) People keep anticipating flying cars. I dread it, the roof work bill would be murder. Because, if they can't drive on the ground, what hope do we have that they can handle an additional dimension of altitude? Honey, take your steel umbrella, it's raining flying car parts again...
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  6369. No, it's worse. Elon isn't DonOLD, he's literate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title) And he's acting like he's the elected king of kings, even if only elected by the god-king wannabe.
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  6370. Can't find a jackfruit, will a durian do?
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  6371. Totally, Martin Shkreli raised that foreign drug from the United States from $13.50 a pill to $750 per pill to fight TB in that foreign bacteria and hand wave more bullshit. If your sarcasm meter burned out, dud is a US born SOB, running a US SOB company and bought one of the only effective drugs against modern TB from a US company and gouged away. He's about as popular now as Ma Barker at J. Edgar Hoover's dinner table. He also did hard time for financial crimes, because greed knows no bounds. Last time we had similar, it was France and it didn't end well for the king and queen - or a lot of the middle class, for that matter. The difference between most of the industrialized nations and us, they'll refuse to do business with a greedy SOB entirely, we put on the kneepads and open wide, then call monarchies communist or fascist, without being able to define any of the three systems of capitalism, fascism or communism, let alone socialism that's been extinct in the wild since its inception.
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  6372. Technically, it's also a cop violating federal law, as the Canadian motor vehicle operators license was negotiated by a ratified treaty between the US and Canada, hence that cop has rejected the authority and laws of the US and the entirety of the US Constitution. Basically saying, "I don't like the treaty and I'm the god-cop and rule the entire world".
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  6373.  @garyhouse4432  oh, ya never know, a fuel tanker could overturn and catch fire near him... ;)
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  6374. Transparent in the extreme, Google "Doge of Venice". Ain't it great to be the King of all kings?
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  6375. Loose ball in the end zone? Nope, it's a loose grenade without a pin or safety lever in the locker room. I'll be in the showers.
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  6376. When will billionaires care about the poor and working class? History answered that well in France, when they refined and perfected the usage of the French National Razor. For the historically challenged, the National Razor was a cutsie name used in reference to the guillotine. Once the wealthy and ruling elites started taking significant losses, they paid very serious attention. Once that murderous and self-destructive wave was over, they continued to pay attention and the wheels stayed on the cart, well, once they got reinstalled. Currently, Trump's in economic trouble anyway, he no longer has anything resembling a reserve of liquidity, his assets are heavily leveraged and he couldn't even throw bond for an appeal in a massively injurious civil case. And with Musk, the gloss is off the muskmelon, with multiple recalls undermining the myth of his tremendous innovative wisdom due to Tesla recalls, fires, self-drive vehicles that unerringly collide with emergency vehicles, a boring company that hasn't bored even an earthworm in a decade and more, a brain link company that's literally caught up to bleeding edge devices from the early 1970's and I can go on and on, that plus his Twaddle antics plus SEC intense interest and now anger, he'll start to implode soon enough too. I'll not show much sympathy for an unsympathetic dweeb who started out his wealth by skillfully inheriting an emerald mine, helping build a couple of websites and buying companies, then taking credit for the companies engineers successful projects. He's literally the Liberace of the business world and a hint from a pianist, Liberace was a decent piano player, he was far from the world's best, he was just a good showman.
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  6377. Somewhat useful in some desert environments, such as GCC states. As a freshwater source.
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  6378.  @JuanWonOne  you've proved your idiocy. Laughably, via the method of attack that you epically failed at. A non-US city, as this is common knowledge nationally and globally. Legionnaires disease, from air conditioning, via insufficiently treated water used in the cooling system. Discovered via the American Legion convention, at a hotel, where the organism was first discovered. What a legendary college error to miss! Perhaps, your professor should engage from now on?
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  6379.  @JuanWonOne  perhaps your prof should explain sarcasm to you. As if a personal swamp cooler would have a problem with legionella.
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  6380.  @JuanWonOne  agreed, it was a rather poor response. Been miserable for a bit, wrenched my back and that's made me a bit irritable. I think I need to sign up for a full body transplant. :/
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  6381. I dunno, much the same was said after each US invasion of Canada, we all managed to get over both the invasion and our embarrassment of being politely escorted back to our border.
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  6382.  @FlameDarkfire  I'm totally for more tanks for police. No tracks or fuel for the tanks, the usual maintenance bills, but no tracks to wear down or fuel to waste. Maintenance is expensive as hell for armor, as is fuel.
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  6383.  @ClaudiusCaelum  LLM AI's don't understand what anything is, they infer associations and maybe, just maybe they get things right or they run out of data on a search and then confabulate a response that's beyond fantasy. Ask some disbarred lawyers about that one, presented cases to a court of law with confabulated nonexistent cases and laws included. If one has to go over the results with a fine toothed comb, one has wasted time and electricity on a useless effort that one had to manually duplicate. Forensic audits are a huge pain in the ass, but they are worthwhile enterprises, as errors and intentional malfeasance is trivially uncovered. An auditor worth their salt would detect false entries that cite papers by famous neurosurgeons Doctors Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young as false, scatter a few faked papers and still get caught. An LLM AI would accept the "papers" on their face and cite the folk rock supergroup as neurosurgeons. @Zentirix doesn't recognize that, likely out of naivete, but I don't, as I'm an old IT guy, did loads of IT security, which includes IT auditing and hence, got roped into forensic audits on occasion. You obviously don't as well, as you obviously know the generalities of some AI types and yeah, face recognition and well, image sampling to look for differences they excel at, large language models, ain't anywhere near ready for prime time due to untrustworthy to wildly fantastical results eroding their utility. Once you go into complex technical, good heavens, what a mess those LLM's can produce!
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  6384.  @Zetirix  you're right, my military pension links to my Social Security number, so doesn't get coded in any reports due to it containing PII that if included in a report without my permission, would be a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. And that is not a violation of policy and the law, it is in accordance with the law, policy having to remain within boundaries established by law. How do you claim to have something in violation with the law, when I've trivially given a very real and regular event that is fully in compliance with the law? Oh, because you're repeating the words of others, with no actual knowledge about the subject and the complexities involved. And I'll not even begin to discuss Musk's multiple conflicts of interests that are illegal on a half dozen counts, including dismissing agencies illegally, especially two of his first victims that were investigating him and one of his companies and his multiple federal contracts. But, what would I know? Only worked with the government in assorted capacities since 1981. That all required my swearing an oath to uphold and protect this nation's Constitution and laws, not the interests of a wannabe dictator or the guy who bought his office for him, or the whims of Tiny Testes and his magical AI malfunction magnet.
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  6385. What Trump administration? Musk bought him out and now he's an employee. It's the Musk maladministration.
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  6386. People screeched and yelled about the LHC, but ignored the fact that particles are hitting our atmosphere with a lot more energy than what humanity can fling particles at. For stellar mass black holes and larger, one could in theory measure the Hawking radiation, but unfortunately one would have to be close enough to have gotten quite well cooked by the accretion disc. Sounds like a really bad career move to me.
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  6387.  @arturoaguilar6002  the term in criminal law is mens rea, literally "guilty mind" in Latin. Examples would be prompt attempts to cover up a crime, which effectively displays knowledge that their actions were criminal to begin with - otherwise, why cover up a guiltless and lawful act? And in courts around the world, both concepts are considered. Oddly, without Baobob's problems in determining the difference between the two.
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  6388.  @MegaGlitchMaster100  never confuse an aberration with normalcy. Therein lies the path to utter defeat.
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  6389. Not irresponsible, that would suggest a potential error, this is far more likely to be criminal in nature. To name names, a lot of Chinese products that are illicitly brought into the US are notorious for lead, methylmercury and more. Kids toys routinely get recalled due to lead paint, despite the PRC passing laws prohibiting that being used. Then, there was the melamine in the milk scandal, killed thousands, tens of thousands with badly damaged kidneys, the PRC finally checking when the body count got noticed globally and only then did they find the managers responsible for the fraud and executed them.
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  6390. I've saw flying saucers. Followed by flying cups and plate, got the hell away from that domestic dispute quicker than if Marvin the Martian landed. Did my own share of earth shattering kabooms, thank you, I want to preserve what remains of my hearing. Still, "cleared dude" gave himself away with "13,000 MPH", there are known objrcts that move at that speed and higher. Satellites and especially, newly reentering objects. Why, many become a veritable "squadron" of incinerating junk. One, a shuttle coming apart with pilot and crew. Obviously, I didn't need to fire my heat seeking moisture missile. My wife remains thankful. Now, UFO's? Saw plenty, U means unidentified, eventually, most get identified, then there are spy birds coming back down. Orbit doesn't mean out of the atmosphere, just that the atmosphere looks like Mars and lower pressure, it's still pressure to decay an orbit. Some others, well, "they weren't there", as they were some program object or once, an SR-71 that made an emergency landing, but in that case, neither of us existed... But, I will say, a disconcerting number of fighter pilots chase after what was later ascertained to be satellites in orbit. Pretty much always, that 13,000 MPH or higher or "high G shift". which is still zero G in orbit. I suspect an artifact in their imagers.
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  6391.  @joseph19491  someone's life is bereft of humor.
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  6392.  @joseph19491  never intended to. But, I do dislike seeing a grown man cry when they get my bill... Got a million of 'em, none are good, but I have a million of them. ;)
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  6393.  @joseph19491  that's why I'm on the full body transplant list.
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  6394.  @nolongeramused8135  wrong, it would literally take infinite energy for any mass to achieve the velocity of light in a vacuum. Of course, along the way as one's accelerating, the faster one goes, the more everything appears in a 180 degree left - right cone to shift directly in front of you, so soon, that blue shifting starlight turns into a beam of intense gamma radiation to drill straight through you and your now quark-gluon plasma spaceshit. Was a spaceship, but the radiation converted it... ;)
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  6395.  @nolongeramused8135  should've included the quote, since it was an earlier one. "Someone once calculated that it would take the mass of the sun (100% mass to energy conversion) to power a spaceship to almost the speed of light. Good luck slowing down." That someone miscalculated, it'd take infinite energy to get to C, close to C would take more than solar mass. By my calculations, it'd take at least one mother-in-law's mass. Or an SMBH, but I repeat myself... And oops, dyslexia and an annoying GI bug have me distracted and decompensating. Doctor's narrowed the diagnosis down though, between cancer, infection and autoimmune, which pretty much means not a clue... When medicine meets the uncertainty principle. :/ Oh well, get to my emergency gastroenterologist appointment in two weeks, assuming my electrolytes don't drop enough to kill me. If the AAA doesn't kill me first. Medically, I've got Schrödinger's body, no matter how I try to get rid of it, it's trouble.
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  6396. You may fail when you try, but if you don't try, you'll also never succeed. I've been an instructor on multiple subjects over the decades, I've quickly learned to gauge from my audience as I go along - a plus for in person or even live video instruction that's absent for a recorded video. That's important, as I'm dyslexic and my perception and the audience's perceptions will be markedly different due to neuroprocessing differences. Overall, I've been rated a rather decent instructor, so I'll not complain. I'll also not try to just bolt out and grind out instructional videos without someone independent to evaluate it on the fly. One learns by making mistakes, frequently more from making those mistakes than in never making mistakes. Once, not all that long ago, after yet another career change, I had a lead complaining to my trainer that "he keeps making mistakes", the trainer, a man who formerly instructed FBI agents on information security topics, replied, "Yes, he makes mistakes, but he never makes the same mistake twice, he makes entirely new ones, so he's learning quickly". As for aged milk, got some in the fridge, it's called kefir and I use it in various recipes as a buttermilk substitute. ;)
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  6397. Only if they were blessed and he touched them.
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  6398.  @lynemac2539  no, eeew is some of those bibles were reported to have sticky pages. Others, with major page formatting errors, where the text was off of the pages. And some reports that the allegedly large print was too small for elders to be able to read. Plus a bunch of right wing propaganda included. But, sticky pages? Did someone skeet into them or something? Is quality control of allegedly holy books full of propaganda and religion forbidden?
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  6399.  @Git2gether2023  selling bibles isn't blasphemy, but it is blasphemy to add sections, such as the far right political drivel that was included within those bibles. That's mentioned repeatedly, in particular, in Revelation. One is adding to a finished work of the word of the Creator and hence, blasphemy and heresy.
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  6400.  @Git2gether2023  the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk. A literal dictionary definition. Saying things political that's not part of the religious teachings within the pages of a bible well fulfills that description. As I also said, it's also and primarily heresy, but few in the US even understand that term properly.
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  6401.  @Git2gether2023  Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. ~Oxford His action in promulgating a bible with political screeds included within is heresy. Oh wait, I forgot, he fired God and replaced Him.
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  6402.  @Git2gether2023  beyond his own statement where he claimed that the Almighty is incompetent for allowing his son to be executed? Promulgating a bible with political screeds not of the bible is heretical in and of its own right.
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  6403.  @Git2gether2023  it's a shame that you didn't read my response, but demand I repeat myself. Heresy is quite well defined. And adding or removing things from the bible is heresy.
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  6404. With any luck, this very day...
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  6405.  @sinister1017  pity that's a lie, like everything else Trump and his all girl band says. Just one more reason to vote him down.
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  6406.  @robj2704 he's got a lifetime supply of Smelly Garbage, Wet Dog and Old Dumpster... https://cdnph.upi.com/collection/fp/upi/9942/77e7731c75402eabfa938e427e97c6d5/Kids-on-the-campaign-trail_1_1.jpg
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  6407. I've seen case reports of all manner of infections from those doctors in Mexico and Thailand as well. But, we don't need regulation, let doctors go without sterile equipment, want protection, bring your own microbiologist to test the equipment before it's inserted deep into your body. And a chemist to ensure the drugs are at the proper strength and purity. And pickup trucks that carried shit can be ambulances right after unloading, no need for those million dollar ambulances, hell, use welding O2 instead of medical grade O2, carbon monoxide is good for you, so is sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide. Let's party like it's the 1600's folks!
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  6408. Let's look at one popular sugar alcohol that's used on tablets and caplets, as well as in emergency medicine. Mannitol. It coats, in tiny quantities, those "pills" so that they won't stick to one's mouth, retain their shape better and oh, slide down smoothly. Most people won't even notice. On the high side of the scale, say 10 grams+, well, you'll literally urinate like a garden hose is attached, as it opens the kidneys wide open. Good for a few medical conditions, coupled with dual large bore IV infusions with normal saline and electrolyte monitoring and adjustment. As a coating, pretty much unnoticable. Unless you're sensitive to it, then all bets are off, but the races to the bathroom are most assuredly on. I've had some similar issues, finally traced it to a non-dietary source, my thyroid. I have Grave's disease and control can get a bit funny at times, in some very un-fun kinds of ways. Diarrhea being the least of the issues that can arise, but quite messy and annoying, as we're talking brown water projecting out. On the worse side, had severe tachycardia, tectonic hypertension and CHF that required hospitalization twice. Oh, also gave me an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Wee! Dietary tracking helped tremendously, cooking food from scratch also helped a lot. The thyroid being absolutely no help at all. Guess it was getting too tired to help, what with all of that trying its level best to kill me. Adjusted the methimazole dosage, went from an SPO2 of 80 on room air, pulse in the 150's and BP of a Hulk (235/190 at one point), with fluid filled lungs, which also partially collapsed to complete a set of problems on a Saturday night admission to hospital to driving the nursing staff nuts walking the halls on Wednesday. Charting diet helped ward a repeat, as the GI tended to act as an early warning alarm. Oh, there's another extremely common sugar alcohol in foods, cosmetics and even soaps, glycerol, aka glycerin, if you want it to sound scary, 1,2,3-Trihydroxypropane. Yeah, I'm not a fucking chemist either, but their names for various common chemicals can be quite entertaining - do look up the many different chemical names for just plain water. Causes bloating in some, largely typically based on dosage, because too much of anything can make life miserable or shorter. I'm fortunate that I don't have issues with sugar alcohols, straw mushrooms can make me projectile vomit, wood grown mushrooms won't do that, don't look at me, I only live here. Sabine did get one thing wrong. Most sugar alcohols are not absorbed at all, they pass right on through and bacterial growth/overgrowth is variable, depending upon species and still poorly understood, as is our microbiome (it's now under intensive study, someone's gonna make a ton of money on Rx biotics eventually!). I am sensitive to some cholinergics, such as atropine that's an additive in some medications, burn through my beta blockers early, CNS depressants just bounce off of me, anything processed by my liver tends to have an extremely short half-life, so ethanol tends to have minimal effect in under legendary dosages. Opiates and opioids, no thanks, get a massive MAST cell dump of histamine, just under allergy level, but enough to make me feel like I'm dying and that pain is better than taking those. Everyone's physiology is different, if it was the same, we'd all be clones and well, we'd all be the same and conversations would be boring. Now, excuse me, dinner is calling me. Pasta, with home made pasta sauce, cooked with fresh pork hocks until they fell off of the bone, home made meatballs and probably a fruit cup that'll likely have some sugar alcohols in it naturally. There is an upside to being a reformed chef, I make the sauce in two gallon batches and can it. Next batch will have some pork, but mostly be goat meat, got a good price on that, I've also used lamb and oxtails. The bones add gelatin, thickening the sauce and flavor, the meat, more flavor and well, meat. I've also done it vegetarian, largely when I was out of meat and new in country, then I used olives in place of meat. Tomorrow, something entirely different, with tons of green veggies and some potatoes in some preparation to be determined tomorrow. I do a small carb load in the morning, minimal and variable mid-day and larger carb load for evening. Keeps my weight sane, which keeps my glycemic levels sane and well, I'm by far the eldest in my father's side of the family to not be type 2 diabetic, largely insulin resistance caused by high body fat index. We also run high on triglycerides and cholesterol, all in bad numbers as a family. Because, that's not a chocolate bar at the bottom of my gene pool and some SOB urinated into it for good measure. And I studiously avoid kryptonite. ;)
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  6409.  @christopherleubner6633  in a way, it is. Ricin remains active as it cookie cutters down the ER, punching out the template for one amino acid.
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  6410.  @bschleevs2723  meh, I could trivially build a nuclear warhead right inside of my apartment. If it doesn't contain explosives or fissile elements, nobody will care. Literally. That'll not happen though, as for one, it'd still be quite massive and I'd not want to have to shift the damned thing around when cleaning my apartment and well, I have a small apartment and only keep useful things around. Like that Americium-241 source sitting over here, just harvested from a recently defunct smoke detector. I'll be throwing together a cloud chamber in the coming weeks, just to have something to do. A little for the cloud chamber, a little for me... ;) Yeah, I actually took the source from a dead smoke detector for that purpose. Boy, have they shrunk the source by a lot over the last 20 years! The source on this one is a quarter the size of an old model, pretty much the rest of the circuitry was literally the same, down to the chip driving the unit.
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  6411. Mailed my ballot in on the 4th, it was received and a receipt e-mailed on the 6th from the county. It'll be counted on Nov 5. Who gets screwed with undermining mail ballots is the elderly shut-ins, disabled and deployed military, not that anyone cares about that. Not when one can score political notches on one's belt.
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  6412. Great job for your grand uncle, escape is a major accomplishment, to put it mildly! Escaping and returning for duty, well, some people just can't comprehend the concept of duty.
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  6413. Alas, his brain is the same it's been. He's pulled this shit the last two elections toward the end as well, gets free air time while his opponent spends millions to get the same equal amount of air time. He just does a zany, lets the press then hold up his shiny new turd and his name's on the airwaves for free. The idiots happily play right into his plans, essentially gifting him airtime, while creating a preference for him by doing so, as Harris has to pay for her airtime.
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  6414. Pity that the video confirms that a Saiga 12 gauge shotgun was in the trunk of the car, with plenty of YouTube video proclaiming the Saiga is an AR. Small hint: The charging handle on a Saiga is on the right side of the receiver. The AR charging handle is in the rear. But, what would *I* know? I only lugged an M16 or an M4 around in the Army for nearly 28 years.
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  6415.  @kurtwetzel154  well, the smart move would've been to quickly pull over, hop into the passenger seat, then answer the video call...
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  6416.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  we also got downtime and R&R in the wars. Lemme guess, you've never served in the military.
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  6417.  @gordonkwok971  uh huh. So, California made products get a tag "Made in China" put on them, which is federally illegal? How fascinating! I'll not go into his $30 Chinesium watches he's huckstering off for $100k. Also proudly marked "Made in China", which must be California in your version of unreality. So, is the rubber wallpaper still in good condition in your room?
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  6418. No, there is no criticality possible, as there are two critical factors in achieving a critical mass, a moderator and the proper geometry of fissile fuel. The corium is diluted fuel, cladding, structural components and concrete. The only way it's reactive is chemically, due to the alkalinity of the fluid around it. Spikes do get recorded, it's called radioactive decay of daughter elements. The "elephants foot" has decayed sufficiently as to literally be safe enough to sit on and have lunch, although eating in that environment would have occupational safety personnel raising merry hell and rightfully so. Safe to sit on isn't safe to risk exposure to. As for the original accident, well, that was The Three Stooges meet Home Simpson on the stupidity scale. Written from visual range of 2 1/4 mile island, it used to be 3 mile, but part melted when I was a senior in high school. ;) It's shut down, as fossil fuels are cheaper to produce electricity than running a nuclear plant is to run. And well, CO2 will bring the wonders of Venus to earth, making earth the garden spot that Venus is today - to use your level of hyperbole...
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  6419. Alpaca wool is my favorite wool for winter extreme cold socks. Although, honestly, I'd be overly tempted to accumulate as many camelid types together, just to see which species outspits the other... ;) Although, I'll be honest, I've never been spit on by any that I've met and I've encountered four thus far, including one dromedary camel that was notorious for spitting on pretty much everyone alive, man or beast, save me. Probably sensed, it'd spit its saliva, I'd spit bile back. ;) Still, watching all of the camelids I met spit, I am astounded at their accuracy, the dominant one I honestly believe spits at the others in greeting... Still, better greeting than Tasmanian Devils, who greet one another by biting each other's faces. Still, better than being the butt of a goat's joking around. ;)
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  6420. Well, Emperor Musk is having the names and "data" fed into his almighty Imperial AI and Empress Trump rubber stamps the resultant lists. So, here's a question, given that the NNSA provides security and dismissed most of the security force guarding our enduring stockpile, anyone want to bet that someone's cat isn't rolling around a plutonium core around someone's apartment? I also wonder how many are considering some, erm, foreign contract position offers?
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  6421. To be fair... Stupid is all that he is. One of his professors at Wharton, Professor Kelley said, Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamned student I ever had.” Enough said.
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  6422. If it falls on me or my property, I sue whoever lofted that which should not have fallen upon me or my property. Oddly, I saw in a Google search earlier today, a blurb repeatedly issued via multiple media channels that NASA was going to pay for the repair in Florida. The two impacts in N. Carolina not causing any property damage and being SpaceX launch related not getting any damages.
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  6423. He drained the swamp by pumping in sewage.
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  6424.  @smcdonald9991 just corporate muddying the water. Proximity to the jet stream is associated with clear air turbulence and if the pilot wasn't monitoring temperatures and immediately changing course away from the wind shears induced by the jet stream, they would end up in court being sued by passengers. There are two causes for such effects, neither mechanical. Clear air turbulence and there is a jet stream along their flight path or the aircraft exceeded its maximum allowed Mach number, both entering into the realm quite deeply for negligence. Control surfaces won't move the aircraft that quickly, too large a surface area change for the equipment to manage. If a pilot observes CAT, the pilot is supposed to check the air temperature gauges and move out of the temperature differential zone, thereby clearing the turbulence. Exceeding Mach, that's a major risk to the airframe and passengers and exclusively pilot negligence. Passenger aircraft aren't designed to reach Mach 1, they typically operate around 0.85 - 0.9 Mach. The flight recorders will tell the tale. A big tell is when the cockpit voice recorder gets "accidentally" overwritten after landing. In flight, yeah, that can happen, on the ground, more often than not it eventually comes out that the flight crew intentionally left it on after shutdown to ensure incriminating contents are "lost".
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  6425.  @nukestrom5719 uh huh, so given I live near an airport, I've obviously had Boeing jets raining on my home, huh?
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  6426.  @SeanHenderson-gn8if so, those 737-Max crashes were intentional and not software related and Boeing and the NTSB lied?
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  6427.  @amandas5261 amazing! You know more than even the investigators! So, what precisely were the instrument readings at the time the incident started? What control settings were input?
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  6428.  @hassiri just doublechecked, Pennsylvania is decidedly on earth.
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  6429.  @hassiri well, that sneeze killed 3 million globally and left 1.2 million more with protracted disease. Every Boeing jet could dissolve in mid-air and not come close to those numbers. And Pennsylvania has a Boeing plant that's doing fine thank you, flown in their birds myself many, many times in the military. Indeed, if those aircraft are so lousy, why is it that the Navy is still flying P-8's without a problem?
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  6430. The preferred and used with his VOM was formerly referred to as Kleps clips. The other alligator clips that he liked, actual alligator clips, the tiny version a later invention that was entirely misbegotten for electronics usage. Seriously, leave the toy 'gator clips in the bedroom for use as nipple clamps, that's all that they're good for and the recipient will properly thank you with a hammer. Yeah, I loathe alligator clips intensely, always have, always will. Given a choice between using a cheap alligator clip and soldering my dick into a circuit, I'll plug in the solder station. And unlike Adam, I am a certified electronics technician, IT guruilla (work with me, people!) and quite mechanically proficient. Hopefully, Adam was drinking something when he read that. I've a thing for sending fluid down someone's nose... ;) But, I actually am certifiable, erm, certified in electronics and generally certifiable overall. :P And remember, I have a gun and I know how to grease my car with it! (muffled, while under the car) Where are all the *@&^! grease fittings?! Yeah, seriously gave away my age there, huh? To further date myself, my first Fluke meter was a Fluke 77, shortly after they were first introduced. I encountered Fluke meters in electronics school back in '78. When the 77 was introduced, I was working a counter sales gig at an electronics wholesaler. The owner initially objected to my using a stray component, specifically resistors and batteries to demonstrate the units to techs at the counter - right until he saw how many cases of meters I was selling. I didn't sell a damned thing, the meters sold themselves. Autoranging largely sold itself, nowhere as good in quality as my Beckman 310, it still did more than well enough troubleshooting circuits in my side jobs. I left my won Sencore meter on the floor behind the driver seat for a decade... Still, if anyone has a Simpson 360 laying around and needing a home, I could happily give it utility in testing circuits that benefit from such low impedances. Seriously!
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  6431. No, we don't exile people in the United States of America. GITMO is part of Cuba, leased by the US government, but still a foreign land. And the state of Georgia cannot sentence people to federal anything, as they're a state, not the federal government.
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  6432.  @TooSlowTube  personally, I'm just suspecting a disillusioned follower removes him from this world. That's more frequently the outcome of such religious fervor, once enough victims realize they've been maliciously used and abused. It's also one thing protective details dread, an attacker willing to sacrifice themselves to actually take down their target. Not a suggestion, just a preference and observation. Well, that or Bubba in the prison shower with a bar of soap smuggled in by Colonel Mustard...
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  6433. I'd have told them, "Go for it, I'll see you in court when I'm awarded all HOA assets for violation of the ADA and OSHA regulations, any shortfall coming out of the officers properties and private monies". That said, oxygen can't burn, it's required to make flammable items burn and can cause spectacular fires. If it's liquid oxygen, it's unlikely that it could ever explode too, LOX tanks vent to prevent an explosion. Which can then make a modest fire downright exciting.
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  6434. Well, he made his money the old fashioned way, he inherited it. Musk, via an emerald mine, Trump his dad's investments. Musk is a showman and he does have one other unusual talent. He does know how to hire good managers for his companies and projects. Basically, he's the Liberace of the business world, medium talent and great showman.
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  6435. As I've said for decades. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  6436. God-king, as free as the wind blows. As long as your mom blows, it follows your heart. Biden bows out, Trump is god-king and well, might as well nuke ourselves. I didn't serve for 28 years for that.
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  6437.  @SealWithoutHat  which would leave me breathless- literally. ;)
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  6438.  @paradiddlesixix7530  which court of law? Civil and criminal courts have massively different burdens of proof. People won't get the majority of any evidence, as most of the claimed sightings I'm aware of are military SAP projects, ranging from balloon type observation and communications platforms through combat UAV's, some with stealth. So, the only people who could get the proof are Congress, who can access such programs by subpoena and view the data in their house SCIF.
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  6439.  @isobelmiddleton6353  compared to Putin's Pet? Having actually met Trump and given his sheer incompetence in his first term, given a choice of him as POTUS again vs masturbating with a cheese grater, I'll go with the cheese grater. The most ill suited for the Oval Office in the land. I know that well enough, as I'm the second most ill suited for that office. I expect a hell of a lot more from the leader of the Free World! Instead, got an embarrassment from hell. Not that I'm all that concerned, he's doing one bang up job snatching defeat from the gaping jaws of victory, as he's done with every other enterprise he's put his lunch hooks onto. He's got the inverse Midas Touch, whatever he touches turns straight into shit, rather than gold.
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  6440. He's worth nowhere near that, that's why he couldn't raise the bond for an appeal. He's so heavily in debt it's a bad joke, one German bank ended up in trouble for loaning him money that was guaranteed by the Russian government. There's another Russian link, but that's under active investigation, so I'll not comment further. He had 20 billion he inherited, that's long gone. The only thing he has in reality that's almost liquid is his name, which he leases out to other properties for a fee, his superpac donations that aren't tied down to elections and whatever he can steal. His ventures, two casinos that he bankrupted, four other bankrupted businesses and laughably, he called those bankruptcies successes. Yeah, successes in stealing coinvestors money and he managed to get his money back. Trump steaks, anyone? Trump vodka? Trump water? Trump whine, erm, wine? Need I go on? Trump bibles that actually are sold by someone else, have sticky and ill formatted pages with political BS on them and are sold off the back of a pickup for $20 less? Trump U? The man's got an inverse Midas touch, whatever he touches turns straight into shit.
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  6441. He was convicted, he's not been sentenced yet and has paid his bail. Why do you want to destroy our Constitution over this mutt?
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  6442. I remember one in flight fire that resulted in loss of passengers, crew and aircraft that was the ultimate nightmare. Burning plastic dripping onto the flight crew. Second worst, control failure resulting in the loss of aircraft, passengers and crew. Fire on an aicraft is the worst of all worst case scenarios, there have been even structural failures of the aircraft - the fire burned through the aircraft itself, disintegrating in mid air. The only good fire on an aircraft is the fire inside the burner of the turbine engine. As for portable devices, yeah, in my pocket or in my overhead (laptop computer). Not really fond of bringing them at all, as I've personally saw LiON batteries fail and look like a damned rocket engine from hell. Inside of a plastic and aluminum hull, that effectively describes hell itself.
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  6443. That elite operator wouldn't have stood a chance when I was homeless after my wife of over 41 years died. Nothing to lose and a full can of beans, that entire neighborhood would've been toast. After all, when I was retired, I was tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. Fucking POG's and fobbits, you don't need violence when one can utilize two brain cells competing for fourth place to negotiate. A neighbor mentioned that I always talk about food. It's true, I actually do, it was actually one mode I primarily utilized on entering new villages. When they expected my binder to be full of a parade of terrorist pictures, it turned out to be recipes from villages and I proclaimed a free recipe exchange for all. Find common ground, well, everybody eats and everyone save Hare Krishna and Seventh Day Adventists enjoy good food and new recipes. I am thankful to both latter groups and some Hindus for a COVID vaccination clinic program that likely prevented my own likely demise. Only ended up with a bum mitral valve, which is a damned sight better than our youngest daughter, who had Long COVID until just last year and still has some lasting effects and oh, thank you Trump, a new infection. I bequeath unto Trump the Obama time machine as well. Just because I feel like being a dick. And loathed you when we met back in 2000. The victim, well looks to be about the age of my kids, so there's no attraction there. My wife and I took quite a few such souls under our wings, no BS services involved, resolving a societal conflict and their decisions, then deconstructing those decisions and well, in her case we'd have likely redirected her to social worker positions and we need those badly. A mentor is worth their weight in platinum. Our eldest once observed, "You give the wisest advice, but make the most questionable decisions". I replied, "How do you think I could achieve such knowledge without making those questionable decisions and mistakes?" A long pause later, she conceded the argument. And a new lesson was learned. I'd also trained her to beat into jelly any boyfriend or other parnter that was abusive. One ex-boyfriend attempted to rape her during a school field trip, she beat him down hard, but disobeyed stomping him until either the corner or police arrive, got suspended for violence. I appeared to the principle's office in full dress uniform, for once wearing all of my medals I usually studiously avoided wearing and my emerald beret and carefully explained that my children's safety and his and his family's safety were directly linked from then on. He was a guidance councilor when I was in junior high school and we knew each other well, the in school suspension of the attempted criminal was out of school, law enforcement was advised to watch out on that family due to some criminal activities and bribery of the wealthy father and the suspension was waived and absence to family zoo trips and museum trips deleted from their records. The only threat of violence was the only real one, I'm not nice under cornered conditions, but Socratic wins over pure didactic always. Both are invaluable in their place in education. And it comes out at a Godfather's example, "Your signature will be on the paper or your brains will be on the paper" when reason fails. Then, the hogs at a farm down the road get fattened mysteriously. Skin and teeth absent, given durability and DNA analysis capabilities. Entertainingly, I'm always the designated babysitter for infants and toddlers. I'm damned good at redirection and splinting colic ridden infants bellies until they grow muscles enough to close that valve. And I've repeatedly fed dki-dik gazelles by hand. Think a gazelle the size of a house cat. Even my own gentle wife couldn't manage that one. And wrestled with the "Alpha" of the canine kennel at the base, who was infamous for biting down every handler and dog in the kennel, we got along famously. I analyze, predict, confirm predictions or adjust accordingly, continue onward and that's the first ten seconds of meeting. First, friend or foe that might become a problem, then consider how to move forward with the goal of neutralization or becoming friends, unlike sociopaths, friends are treasured and protected until they do wrong, nobody, especially not me gets protected when wrong. Then, it comes down to admitting a whooppsie or venturing into sin sinning ain't a good thing. Gonna have to consult the Department of Smite or something. Fucking up, well, we all do it, me, I've got a Richter scale, I'm a solid 10. How we unfuck our fuckups, that's what counts and if we can give a lesson, better. Killing people off offhand, amateur hour at the opera, hope they get the perpetual whoopie cushion. Although, I do not object to a fully, in depth hundred million dollar research project conviction and needle in the arm that's fatal. Get it damned right or go home. I really miss the dik-dik gazelles, one male even suggested head butting, which was cute, given a cousin's goat tried that and collapsed after and I was going, "Ow! "and rubbing a sore spot on my forehead, much to my wife's hilarity and "I told you so!". That after her playing around watching a sitcom and pretending to wallop me over the head with the cast iron skillet, long story short. Long story short, was watching her antics in the window in our SW Philly row home, noticed the crack as her wrist gave out, the actual minimal impact upon that which does not exist and the eyes of our children growing to moon size and my own formerly infamous thunder, "Oh, did I fart, my apologies". The family in joke that's real, the bottom fell out of the skillet when she tried to make gravey.
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  6444.  @amrcombs  amazing how direct quotes from Hitler aren't fascist. My parents are rolling over in their graves! And the "fine people" wasn't a hoax, it was a quote that the video has repeatedly been played on. Only Ruskies are claiming that was a hoax. That all said, despite fascist remarks and full on statements, it does not justify attempted murder. We vote with ballots in this country and I sure didn't serve for over 28 years in the Army for that to change!
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  6445. Subject to the jurisdiction is a simple concept. If the person is not subject to the jurisdiction, they cannot be detained or arrested for a crime. That's precisely how diplomatic immunity operates.
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  6446. Heh, I am an expert in information security. That's why I call in trusted experts to try to prove me wrong by checking my systems and configurations. We used to get audited and probed quite intrusively by theater, USCENTCOM and the NSA, with a full red team intrusion annually. Of them all, the red team penetration testing was the most fun. They learned new tricks on defending our networks and systems from us, we learned new attacks from them, both sides had a great time at doing our jobs under challenging conditions. The fun part being, learning something new to better our own skills and more importantly, protecting the systems that our service members very lives depended upon.
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  6447. There are two types of Chinese product, cheap and expensive, with cheap being well, infamous, as was Japanese products in the '60's and Taiwanese products in the '70's were and expensive, well, variable from excellent to waste of money for anything beyond parts. That said, the only thing I'd use from China would be those machines - for parts to make better machines.
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  6448. Now, we see Trump contracting out that which he cannot do himself. Because mafiosos defense that they only contracted the hit was such an effective defense. Still, Diaz told on himself over bestiality... "A lot of people" has been proven repeatedly be conservative speak for "I want to". And DINO is a DINO, period. For 25000 people, well, that's about the size of an infantry division and their exemplar is the tiniest division I've ever saw and I've only had a 28 year military career. Multiplying one's numbers by 10 doesn't make it true, it just gets you jacked up in court for assorted fraud charges. Ask Trump.
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  6449. Wow! So, 1972 - 1980 was more than 74 years ago? Amazing! Oh, I know, Frank Rizzo was a Democrat because the god-Trump says so. Folks, this is why you need to get rid of the lead paint in your homes, before baby eats the chips and gets the same kind of brain damage.
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  6450. That is demonstrably impossible. How can a mindless beast be a mental case? That beast would first require a mind.
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  6451. Episcopal Hospital in Philly has somewhat similar tunnels that were utility tunnels between buildings on the grounds and were utilized (and quite well documented at the time) in the underground railroad. Basically, they got used to briefly house escapees, actual travel was traditional overland heel and toe express. My impression is a WWII era sewage tunnel.
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  6452.  @sandpiperr  they're Ruskie bots. Youtube prohibits talking bad about emperor-Putin or god-Trump though, otherwise even we veterans get youtube jail. Can't wait for the grand plutonium exchange.
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  6453.  @arronsmith4958  well, you see, ID's are like Harry Potter's magical marital aid, wave it around and magic, magic, magicky magic. Because, it's magically impossible to have a falsified ID, whereas one's falsified ID automagically inserts one into the voter registration rolls via hand wave. In other words, it doesn't have to make sense to Trumpites, who trust Ruskie bots over real leaders, written codified laws or the Constitution, only what the god-emperor Putin and god-king Trump insist is valid and the universe shall change its laws to conform to their whims by doublethink. All fairly well covered in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bought both of our kids a copy years ago, since schools discarded that as required reading.
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  6454. One wee problem, that alpha male shit was disproved by the very researcher that first introduced that bullshit. All based upon wild theories on wild wolf behavior, as observed by unsocialized wolves that were born in isolation in captivity. When the same research was re-run with actual wild socialized wolves, all of the conclusions were disproved. Leaving biologists to abandon that bullshit and only INCELs and conservatives quote that bullshit now to justify their antisocial behavior. Not all that long ago, when people behaved in that way, they'd be first shunned, if they continued, they'd get ridden out of town on a rail and left distant from town at a crossroads junction. Come back and continue, tarred and feathered with hot pine tar.
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  6455. What would Moscow Mitch have to do with any charges before the courts of the State of Georgia? Those are, per the US Constitution, none of his damned business.
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  6456. Heh, had a similar experience during the pandemic with a food delivery. Guy in the building across the street got my food, I got his. We swapped food, although those crabs did look damned good...
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  6457.  @julesnagbunga1204  not conscience, consciousness. He has no conscience. But, there are mental filters to prevent uttering things that, not all that long ago, would get one's skull pounded flat with a large rock. That erodes into non-existence in dementia patients.
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  6458. We'll have a warehouse sized laying house with 6 million chickens, Canada has around 25 k hens per laying house on their farms. One gets sick, they all get culled due to the near 100% fatality rate of bird flu currently. It's a different take on a truism about not putting all of your eggs in one basket, albeit in this case, all of your hens inside of one gigantic warehouse. It's not as if the virus can walk between one building and another, a wild bird lands and infects one in the warehouse sized laying house and the virus spreads like wildfire - it ain't gonna jump up and run between buildings, viral legs are way too short, since they ain't got legs.
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  6459. Neil's not keeping up with events. New Jersey would be getting a second taste of it, they got their first taste during the Martian Invasion of 1938. Plenty of eyewitness calls to police then as well. After all, there isn't any airports with approaches near NYC... Or an air base at McGuire. And earth or space aliens always use FAA approved beacon lights.
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  6460. @DanTC-x6c having met him personally, suffice it to say he never bothers himself with thinking at all.
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  6461.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  tipping my hat on the observation that an attorney couldn't be assed to read a constitution he was speaking about. One expects attorneys to be prepared and well informed on such things if they're speaking on them. Perhaps, you've found one former President's next attorney? I've noticed that you also do what I have frequently done in in person discussions about the vote, give the history of who was enfranchised first, as many have forgotten their school civics classes and foreigners are confused no end by our federal and state systems, being accustomed to strong central governments. Still, could Ukraine successfully run an election during this war in particular? Color me dubious, the chances of organized Russian interference and injected false ballots would be quite high. It'd be right up there with expecting a free, fair and valid ballot during Nazi occupation and we know who'd end up getting hailed. Back to civics lessons, recent online discussions, "Why did they bother to give this guy bail?", "Why is this guy even getting a lawyer for defense?" and worse, displaying pure ignorance on the contents of the Constitution, a document written in plain English and understood trivially by even Elementary school students. But, cutting school budgets and confiscating dictionaries from libraries are important for our nation's welfare. But, what would I know, I ain't got no brunging up. Oh, wasn't only Privates doing stupid stuff, after all, we had the Private of the Officer Corps to also tilt nipple to... ;)
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  6462.  @margaritaramos3393  the SC has precisely dick to do with an impeachment, per the SC itself. Their own decision was that impeachment is a political process that properly is the right of Congress, not the courts. Now, good luck getting an impeachment vote through the House and Senate.
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  6463.  @Bob-of-Zoid  have a care. One bad flatus can ruin both your day and your nose hairs!
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  6464.  @doc_sav  better wear the full ESAPI plates as well. If those coons were anything like the bastards at Drum, they might just shoot back. The sure did work as teams to actually shake soldiers in the field down for snacks. And no shit, they would actually move in echelon formation.
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  6465.  @ThePookosh  that depends upon sewage flow rate and amount, as well as what kind of mortar and bricks were used. The pointing is in excellent condition though, at what little I can see in detail, well within the 20th century for the brick type and type of mortar joint used. Looks like a channel sloped floor, judging from the debris and the few such tunnels I saw tended to be with small channels for their primary flow, typically never filling the width of the floor. That said, could just be drainage for a utility tunnel of some sort.
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  6466.  @jasonm1827  oh? In what way is that not protected free speech? Is it a criminal conspiracy? Sedition, perhaps? Speech designed to trigger imminent lawless action? We're starting to run low on unprotected speech... Remember, dog whistles are protected, lies are protected, so what isn't protected, saying one will do something as unconstitutional as having a king? If I say that I'm gonna whammy someone with my magic wand, should I be arrested to prevent my whammying?
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  6467.  @willek1335  we don't teach this because it's intelligence school training. Not classified, but intensive and well, teaching reading, writing and arithmetic or intelligence processing and foreign language/cultural proficiency and trust me, that last ain't gonna sell to the far right. Been there, done that, lost the tee shirt. And da, English is mandatory in Russia, especially close to Moskva. But, the US has always been, well, phobic to anything not US and especially phobic out of habit to Russia after that whole communism thing. Which is odd, given how common the rest of our cultures are. Few cultures share mentioning mothers in the company of strangers, both share motherfucker as a common tool of trade in linguistics. A bit of a joke there, but I'm sure you get the general idea. Talk about momma anywhere else in the world, you get a knife stuck into you, Russia and the US, it's a starting a fight insult. Would that we let our militaries fight the way that they want to fight. Drinking contest, last one wobbling to collapse wins the war. Only because, cooking would be utterly unfair and I win always. ;) Although, I really want some black bread, but alas our regular priced ovens don't go down that low in temperature. :/
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  6468. Yeah, how terrible of them to get rid of the Nikes and thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at each other. Exterminating all life on earth was far more sensible.
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  6469. I'm reminded of a truism in fine dining. Never trust a skinny chef. And as a reformed chef, I completely concur with that conventional wisdom. Both of me. ;) It's said and true that one builds a business over a minimum of 20 years, one fucks it up in only five minutes. Three words have gotten me out of all manner of mayhem and trouble, "I fucked up". He never did quite get there. BTW, what fraud? Show me one prosecution. The only "fraud" was a policy for DEI and Musk loves his apartheid. "I don't understand it, so I'll destroy it", what a fucking toddler.
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  6470.  @Dont.Call.Me.Tall.  the building is a local business. Obviously, businesses wouldn't have industrial things like ladders, tools, electricity or roofs. Gotta be the space aliens. As for candidates not campaigning, sounds like a fascinating way to drum up votes. How about whoever your candidate is do so from inside of an abandoned well? Although, you nearly got close to a valid point. Not that there are rallies at random points, that's rather a given. That there's insufficient time allowed to clear and sanitize the venue, approach and multiple egress points and evacuation routes. They had a week, that crap typically takes a POTUS visit a full month to prepare for.
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  6471.  @sheireland3737  as it's a glass company, they'd never have ladders. After all, glass floats by magical pixie dust in midair!
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  6472.  @carla2012app  I dunno, if he gets away with this, it'll certainly encourage me to bully courts. Well, once I'm wealthy enough, which would happen if he gets off on his classified documents trial and I then get to sell nuclear secrets to the highest bidder. Because, without deterrents, there are no laws. Just who can pay a little to get away with a lot. And no, I'm not going to actually sell a damned thing. Unlike Trump, my word of honor is worth something.
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  6473. Rubberstar Galactica...
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  6474. Kidneys, complicated, only seconded by the colon. Otherwise, we'd be mummies. And sex would become incredibly, erm, dry. I do have a bit of protein leakage from the kidneys, courtesy of a heat stroke. Doctor worries about kidney function, I concern myself with body fat and insulin resistance, due to familial trait. All cousins remain diabetic, I'm refraining from that and grasping at age 62. Working on the rest. Hypertension and whatnot, yeah, a big deal. That whole aortic abdominal aneurysm is a thing. Doctor's fondest advice, "See you next year". Kidneys and liver, my fondest organs. They do the most work of the body, outside of that parasite, the brain.
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  6475.  @lisanunlist9510  no can do, don't think Montana would appreciate a ballot from a Pennsylvanian. Besides, my ballot's already been mailed and accepted, per our county elections office e-mail. Gotta love automation! Lets you know every step of the way the status of your ballot, with minimal human intervention, allowing workers to do their jobs and the voter to be informed. We're lucky though, we still have a lot of bipartisanship here, working together to keep things working.
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  6476. You were fortunate, guys who got the initial issue were issued the rifles without cleaning kits. As bad, the early models didn't have a chrome plated inner barrel, so the rifling would corrode and pit. Now, it's neigh impossible to not find a chrome lined barrel, even in civilianland. Lessons hard learned!
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  6477.  @BaconSlayer69  ?
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  6478.  @amylee8969  a downside of which is, he'd readily pass a polygraph test.
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  6479. This and similar courses makes things a lot easier to recognize hydrophobic parts and lipophilic parts of some carbon chains. That helps me understand some odd points in the pharmacology of some medications.
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  6480.  @juanbrits3002  actually, she was. You should always wash produce before consuming it, for just this reason. Hell, the Army not only washes produce, they disinfect it with calcium hypochlorite bath before using it, again, for just this reason. Worse, she put the infectious lettuce on a burger, then left it to incubate for a day, as the meat makes for an ideal culture medium for e. coli. Ironically, we naturally harbor one type of e. coli in our gut, the toxin seems to have originated in a bacteria that causes a type of dysentery, itself related to e. coli, but in this case, it's typically a strain common in livestock that were infected by a bacteriophage, a virus that only attacks specific bacteria species and strains that gives this type of e. coli the ability to make the toxin. The toxin going through cells endoplasmic recticulum, basically punching out critical sections and traveling on to keep doing so, rendering the cell incapable of making proteins. Mother nature sure seems to take a great dislike of us at times! I didn't know that shigella like toxin and shigella toxin behave so similarly to ricin, nasty stuff, as it hits so much of the cell's ER! Nasty stuff!
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  6481.  @kelperdude and random foreigners had access to the bathroom in Mar al Lago. In at least one case, a foreign spy that got caught. Do you know the perpetual penalty you're facing for worshiping a false god?
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  6482.  @themassageroom1409  no, we'll not surrender to Russia. Ever.
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  6483. Well, it comes down to their philosophy. Laws for thee and none for me.
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  6484. Yes, it's now illegal to have a Constitution, all rights flow through the Imperial Musk and Empress Trump, all must worship them. I recommend sacrifice by the Barrett. Hey, I'm old school, go Constitution Free, we go Weapons Free. I've got 15.8 million, they have 2.86 million troops, both sides are veterans, but we trained their leaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sG9gGh6S5I Or if one prefers... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkqiT50mKow
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  6485.  @Safferpsyche  and lymphatic draining equals lymphoma? OK, someone failed anatomy and physiology. And well, medicine 101, given at a party or spa, it's guaranteed that a board certified physician is not administering the injections, so equating medical usage and illicit usage is like comparing a hospital's surgical complication rate with the neighborhood butcher illegally performing surgeries.
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  6486. I'm honestly wondering if, always wanting the best, wants the absolute best contempt of court sentence and is working hard to earn it. Anyone else in the land would be stuck behind bars for contempt until the heat death of the universe.
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  6487.  @mike-ws3jl  astroturfing the same lie isn't making Moscow's point true, just another lie out of Russia and further proof that such attack methods are WMD's and should be responded to with WMD's.
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  6488. The unlawful orders seem about to flow like the mighty Mississippi river, all legally to be questioned, then refused. Then, he'll find willing flunkies and the war will begin. I do wonder though, when the control of the nukes comes into question, what would be the response of the other nuclear armed nations?
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  6489. Weird, weird court. Does actually enforce a law for a change, also rules that boneless chicken is allowed to have bones.
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  6490. There is no gravitational attraction causing ships to collide. Shipping and naval vessels in general tend to use well established sea lanes, which increases the probability of rescue, should something happen and people are in lifeboats or worse, in the water. Large vessels have one characteristic, it isn't being so massive that they form some magical gravitational field, but instead, they're massive and they can indeed stop on a dime - as long as that dime is a few kilometers long. Most commercial vessels also have a turning radius that's essentially, well, it steers like a cow. Try to steer fast, it's like taking a commercial airliner and shoving the rudder 90 degrees over, the last time that happened, the entire tail was torn off and the airliner crashed, killing passengers, crew, aircraft and people and structures on the ground. At Midway, more vessels were lost more to fires, which eventually heated the magazines suffiently to detonate the high explosive munitions, one Japanese carrier died that way, after a US bomb detonated below decks, entering via the airplane elevator, rupturing the aircraft gasoline fuel lines, firefighting lines and magazine flooding lines, the fire finally overheating the magazine and BOOM! Exoskeletons are being designed, some day, they'll even make them practical. Likely, in 20 years, along with fusion power. Rinse and repeat every 20 years. High tech, insanely expensive things like stealth are still useful, as Russia is incessantly developing newer and faster missiles, like hypersonic cruise missiles, China, new stealthier fighters, etc. It's rather difficult to shoot at what you can't find on radar and have to close to visual range to even know what direction the target you're seeking is.
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  6491. @battenkillrambler3543 got a bunch from the Philippines.
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  6492. Meh, I'll stick with Canadian or Irish whiskey and loads of water. Now you know my secret hangover prevention method, hydration. Now, what does that have to do with boycotts again?
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  6493. Guess who supplied and equipped Puerto Rico with power lines, poles and transformers? The Defense Logistics Agency. I'm fairly certain that the DoD could move half the planet if they had to. The place might spin a little funny, but what else can you expect of a government operation? ;)
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  6494. No, that's just the aura of knowledge typically exhibited by university professors. Just don't tell any that I said that. ;)
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  6495.  @rickdesper  don't read the useless news story, the SCOTUS site has the full decision available for reading. He did indeed punt, for a well reasoned and described reason, as was proven in the case presentation itself. Moral grounds shift both geographically and culturally over time, so what's pornography to some Florida illiterate soccer mom is fine art for the entirety of the world. Can't turn to history, as fig leaves were added at one point a century after the artwork was accepted by the same church. Can't turn to culture, when we have mothers telling other mothers to feed a baby in the same bathroom they'd refuse to eat or feed their children in. Still, there is a perfect, 100% effective solution. Eliminate every human life on the planet. Then, everyone will get along. Yep, even more idiotic. Hence, the punt, as case law has to stand for a long frigging time, potentially, for centuries. And can you define pornography that would even be accepted by half of the community in which you live? I sure as hell can't and I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle and had a booster using a dictionary. Or even try to explain to a computer what pornography is, as opposed to art or medical illustration for educational purposes. I can use boolean and regular expressions to describe the entire solar system first, not even come close to that task. But, totally defective, a SCOTUS Justice is an almighty God, with all powers and descriptions readily available, despite time and culture shifts, by pure, distilled whammy.
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  6496.  @YourTripleScorpio  well, Arnold Palmer's member, the fellatio display with the microphone and YMCA, obviously he's gradually coming out of the closet.
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  6497. Erm, I'm in Pennsylvania and knew that unregistered firearms and "high capacity" magazines are illegal in California. How can it be your state and you're unaware of things I'm aware of from literally across the nation? You been in a coma?
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  6498. It's an ancient joke, the code never works right the first time. And wait for service pack 3 at a minimum. I'll not go into how many times I had to debug, just to find a primptf. Thankfully, modern editors highlight when I need to put my fingers on a diet.
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  6499. Why waste tax dollars and disrupt National Guard members lives when you've got thousands of cops that can stand guard just as effectively without machine guns? And the Guard don't handle national security, they're both a state militia for emergencies and a combat force for the Army and Air Force.
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  6500. What do you mean I can't use a tank made of tungsten carbide? OK, I have this nice spherical one made of beryllium, everything will be fine... Why, what a pretty blue light! Walk towards the light, my children...
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  6501. Well, get into a longer conversation, they also believe in writ of attainder and the corruption of blood. Both, of course being expressly prohibited quite early on in our Constitution. Not by amendment, but in the main body in Article III, Section 3, Clause 2. Aka, the treason article. Never fear, I jump on my peers that go on about Trump and treason, which he is in no way guilty of. He's not taken up arms against his nation, nor has he given aid and comfort to an enemy, since we're not at war, we have no enemy. Sedition, yes, treason, nope.
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  6502. Some think that they've toughed it out before, it'll be OK. Others, bad things happen to other people. Then, others can't afford to or want to protect their belongings against possible looters. At least, that's what they told us when we asked them when responding to their disaster. Personally, having responded to these types of emergencies, well, I'm a fairly sturdy fella, but water's a hell of a lot stronger than me and wind blown water will trivially bowl me under and drown me, I'd get clear even if I had to go on foot.
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  6503. One upside is, no Nazi crap was uttered in that church. The salute was conducted in the Capitol Rotunda around the Presidential podium. Frankly, judging from Musk's body language and facial microexpressions, I suspect he was trying to "own the libs" and utterly and ineptly misjudged the blowback, as he's currently about as popular as Attila the Hun. A couple of more, he'll rate on par with Genghis Khan...
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  6504.  @ANDY-h6m  well, at one point, he was a refugee seeking asylum from Egypt from Herod's slaughter of the innocents. When Herod learned from the Magi of the existence of Jesus, he ordered every first born male slaughtered, which was done. An angel warned Mary and Joseph of what was coming, so they made good their escape to Egypt. After the danger was over, they returned to Israel. And Herod apparently died of a horrific rotting disease, knowing how loathed he was at that point and knowing he was dying, called for a large number of well loved and respected men to be gathered and killed upon his death so that grieving would occur when he died. His family declined to obey that order.
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  6505.  @androgenoide  don't get me started on that barely avoided rabbit hole. Was actually pricing one, had the plan to tap off a reflected GPS signal through my programmable radio to discipline it, then a sudden burst of sense dispelled the idea. I was bored and was about to spend a couple of hundred bucks to check the accuracy of a $30 radio controlled clock that was oddly, yet precisely off. Turned out that la crosse sent it out miswired, where eastern time was mis-set to GMT+1, which was immediately calculated and hence, trivial to repair without going through the annoyance of returning it under warranty. Getting bored occasionally can get dangerously expensive... Words heard uttered by visitors to my apartment, "How in hell did you get that up *here*?!". "But, tungsten?!" "Yeah, couldn't get depleted uranium this week." "But, that's radioactive!" "So is that hand of bananas, the dose makes the poison and the inverse square law is my frenemy." It is an alpha source, for anyone concerned and a very small sample, I'm not an idiot, I only play one in public so people don't annoy me. "I just built a reactor." "A nuclear reactor?!" "No! A bioreactor." Grew a sourdough yeast culture and well, got carried away a little... Largely with harvesting waste heat for the culture. Even more fun when an investigator drops by on my periodic security clearance updates.
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  6506. You've not noticed? Everything he's been doing has had the opposite effect of driving down prices. Make everyone spend more at the store, getting a car, getting a damned drink and now, even the faucet. Next, we'll see petroleum hikes to drive up prices even more, along with driving up medication prices even more. Once everyone's bankrupt and homeless, maybe he'll go with population control camps with great big ovens.
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  6507. So would much of the world. And why tools, techniques and tactics aren't revealed. But, I'll give a pro tip, learn the culture, sociology and language for each adversary. That's how these companies and agencies did it.
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  6508. Jesse needs to go into witless protection. For Christ's sake, "Trump needs sunlight"?! Lemme guess, even the sun hates Trump on the planet Stupidia? "Trump needs exercise"? That's been a given as long as there has been a Trump, but rather than walk with world leaders to a D-day memorial, he was the only one to overflow a golf cart to get to it. As for Trump, I'm thinking 30 days per violation, consecutively. He might end up serving more time for contempt than he'd serve with a life sentence for his cumulative offenses. Just remember to properly protect him, so he can go to solitary confinement. No worshipers, as those would be a personnel security vulnerability.
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  6509. You're still missing the picture. Fox and Times Radio, just to name two Murdoch owned outlets have been incessantly dinging Trump and Musk since a conversation between Murdoch and Trump went south some weeks back. It's alienating some of their audiences, but they've been chipping away and Musk/Trump popularity is eroding at about the same rate as their spikes in activity sniping at him. Never engage in a full frontal assault when a far more economical utilization of resources would be a old fashioned siege and occasional dipping of a skunk into the fortress' water supply stream.
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  6510. Actually, the nation HAS had threats in the past, which resulted in military action in Mexico, though those were insurgents from civil unrest in Mexico at the time. There is a difference in threat today, where oceans do not protect us. Consider the cold war for one example, where things did heat up on occasion and men did die in some actions that won't be released for at least 50 years. Consider 9-11 as another threat, which resulted in the Afghan war.
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  6511. He never had a clearance. There is no clearance for POTUS, it's already ultimate due to his being CIC. Or are you suggesting that we should have the military choose our leaders for us?
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  6512. She should have been afforded contact with her Consulate in Atlanta, they'd then pound the whole box of nails home on the US government, who would then be forced to stomp on Georgia's sensitive parts, as every part of this story is a violation of multiple ratified treaties between Canada and the US.
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  6513.  @listen2100  well, those and a few nations, for whom a destabilized US is helpful for.
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  6514.  @pattigianangeli9239  who? For what crime? We've already got a state conviction on Trump, with more cases pending for everything from obstructing official proceedings to violations of the Espionage Act.
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  6515. And once she's done with him, he gets to be the courtroom sex toy for the other prosecutors... Because, espionage and sedition are decidedly far afield of the scope of official duties for a POTUS.
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  6516.  @ElizabethEaton-q8p  I used to monitor CNN until recent shifts to the far right, that leaves Al Jazeera (some of their reporters I actually personally know, as we lived in the same villa compound in Qatar) and BBC.
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  6517. They don't care, they want everything to collapse. This is their big payday, divert the misappropriated monies as much as possible, leave a bankrupt husk of starving masses behind.
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  6518.  @soldier1stclass987  note that every type people are claiming to miss also used SMS/MMS messaging, off of the very same servers, utilizing the very same protocols, hence equally exposed - the servers were compromised, not the handset devices, aka phones. All SMS/MMS data is received, processed and stored on the servers and only locally buffered by the local handset devices. The only reason that they released the warning on the top two operating systems is simple enough, there aren't that many users that utilize the obsolete more more primitive devices and frankly, who is more likely to have sensitive data that a foreign nation would be interested in, a smartphone user or Mrs O'Lady, who's 93 years old? Now, some commented on a specific protocol that Google lead the way on, but Apple refused to get involved with or even offer their own offering. They've got a very valid point that is on target. Had the SMS/MMS platform been encrypted, especially for data at rest, this would entirely not be a problem, as the ones compromising the data would then have to decrypt millions of data sessions on at minimum of device pair by device pair basis, turning the entire exercise into an exercise daunting to even the best supercomputer in the world, to put it mildly.
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  6519.  @juliealbright5191  and your data would still be compromised. It's the servers that are compromised, so the messages are compromised, whether it was from a flip phone, smart phone or a digital bearded lady. But, you tell yourself whatever lies you want to believe, magical unicorns make you safe or something, ignore your identity being stolen or whatever else they SOB's are up to.
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  6520. From what I've read, Tesla seems to have settled with six pole synchronous reluctance motors. That makes sense, as it's a far more efficient motor than any PM motor would be. If I were to hazard a guess, the frequency of the coil drivers would range in the 230 - 400 hz range. As for finding out if both front and rear are both continuously used, a quick and ugly quickie test would easily tell. A couple of turns snoop coil around one of the AC lines would tell the tale. Might get a trace from high current pulses in the HVDC line feeding the module, but a Hall sensor wold likely perform better. I'll remain not a fan of thin tires and utterly not a fan of multiple tire sizes on a singular vehicle. Low tolerance for large obstructions for the former, logistics and Murphy's law for the latter and honestly, I've found that Murphy was an optimist.
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  6521. Those cops would probably yank someone out of an iron lung, claiming it's a concealment device, then charge the person with resisting arrest because they "refused to breathe".
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  6522. OK, it's either a normal case or we do have a two tier justice system. Which do you prefer?
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  6523. Just tank that 14% of the US GDP, that'll collapse the national economy. Given that 14% originates in California, that's trivial. When they cry uncle, make an initial demand that Texas and Louisiana are given to Mexico as a condition of rejoining the union, just to put the fear of god back into them.
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  6524.  @AuntieMamies  well, that's all preparatory for Aktion T4. Google that operation, you'll feel ill, given a quarter million people were murdered in Nazi Germany just after Poland was invaded and used to justify the "sacrifice" families were forced to endure "for the war effort".
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  6525. A hospital gift card for malpractice? Naw, no thanks, I've always wanted to own a hospital and its employees. Chest pains, automatic O2 and ECG, ECG will tell the tale easily enough. At that point, if the person claims to be Jesus Christ, I don't discontinue treatment and restrain them, if I have reason to believe that they are not Jesus Christ, I schedule neurology to consult, not perform the medical equivalent of shooting at his head with a machine gun! I had transportation disconnect my O2 once for transport for imaging, turned out my lungs were partially collapsed, partially fluid filled, totally a bad scene. Mr Transportation then dutifully brought me back to the ED and utterly failed to reconnect my O2, leaving me on room air and SPO2 dropping to 80%. Doctor was decidedly irritated... Turned out to be minor, it was only heart failure secondary to a thyroid storm, triggering severe tachycardia and obscene hypertension. Got back on O2, sats jumped back into the upper 90's, where they remain today without supplementary O2. Was sure I knew how ugly it was, then the endocrinologist came by and suggested that if my BP and pulse don't approach survivable soon, they'd administer iodine. A large dose of iodine literally temporarily shuts down the thyroid gland's hormone production, which I knew, much to Doctor's surprise. Thinking that, they're into Hail Mary land. Thankfully, the propranolol and methimazole did their jobs and 3 1/2 days later, I walked out of the hospital. Oddly, never needing restraints, although I'm sure that the floor nursing staff was tempted once I was feeling better and began roaming the hallways out of sheer boredom (and well, to sneak out for a smoke (nearly made it, bad timing, as one of my nurses was coming in a bit early for her shift and spotted me 10 feet from the exit)). The nurse administrator of the unit laughed at my attempt, realizing that had I wanted to "escape", well, in conversation I gave her six patent egress points from the facility and every one of them was workable. ;)
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  6526.  @fighter4freedom  ah, but obviously, that is the wrong Jesus. He wanted to hear about Machine Gun Jesus, bayoneting those evil dark skinned babies from foreign lands in his almighty mercy.
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  6527.  @clydecraft5642  I've got two addictions, curtailing consumption causing PVCs enough to toy around with v-tach. Caffeine and nicotine. Around the first peak of COVID-19 hospitalizations, I was hospitalized with a form of heart failure, caused by a thyroid storm. With the storm managed, I began to rapidly recover. About the point where I tried to sneak out for a smoke, well, the staff had a chuckle (one of my nurses literally caught me at the exit to the building as she was coming on shift, the nurse administrator having a jolly laugh over the whole thing) and knew I was pretty well recovered. Two days later, I was discharged. As for soda, I prefer my water plain and might, just maybe, have one soda per day and usually, it's only once per week. I do drink a lot less caffeine, primarily coffee, due to damage to one heart valve from, despite being vaccinated and boostered, COVID. I shudder to think what would've been damaged or destroyed without that vaccine to blunt the worst of the infection!
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  6528.  @gabrielbarrantes6946  OK, we'll ignore evidence that we evolved eating fruits. Since sugars are no good, feel free to halt your Krebs cycle immediately.
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  6529. The thought betrays an understanding of the reality that exists, both there and well, everywhere. The majority of the populace really don't give a tinkerer's damn about politics or religion, they want to do that making a living, play with the kids, do the spouse, go to bed, get up in the morning, rinse and repeat. The mistake is presuming a monolithic block where no such thing exists anywhere on the planet, ever.
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  6530. Which would universally fail. Treason is exceptionally narrowly defined in the Constitution. So narrowly, only a few convictions were ever obtained in the nation's history.
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  6531.  @Yourmanjeff  the incompetent work for cheap, perhaps? ;)
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  6532. Well, at least he's moved on from Obama and Hillary. Now, it's the great White House haunting, the Biden Under the Bed. The omniscient god-king cannot locate and displace or exorcise the Biden Under the Bed, despite his impotence, erm, omnipotence.
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  6533. Now, now. The Earth is really flat, it's just that gravity makes it all look round.* *The punchline is in the math. Hint: That one brought a room full of physicists into laughter. Think spaghetti...
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  6534. 5G remains a significant health hazard. It's still not fully implemented, so the risk is having a stroke trying to get and retain signal. The same risk of every other G, aka Generation. Huge pain in the gonads at times. The frequency, well, look at the sun with an antenna and receiver tuned to the griped about band or frequency de jour, obviously it's harmful and we're long extinct, so STFU. I never figured out why the State Department declined employing me as a diplomat... Want to start a bar fight among physicists, ask when an RF field becomes a photon, rather than a wave. Still being a competitive math contest. ;) Tissue warmed, well, consider it cooking, because it is. Heat a steak to room temperature, enjoy watching it rot. Heat it enough to denature proteins, it's called cooking. Microwaves tend to do that whole thing between 600 watts of energy to 1500 watts of energy used, microwatts griping is like complaining that the sun cooked all life on the planet to death long ago and STFU. There is a danger to microwaves - to radioastronomers. Toxicology 101, the dose makes the poison, as even oxygen at high levels is infamously toxic. Now, when the frequency starts at UV-B and shorter wavelengths, there, the jury's still open. Slightly, given oxygen's intolerance to ionizing radiation passage. So, wanna get rid of the "risk"? Put out the largest source first, the sun. Hope you enjoy around 4 degrees Kelvin.
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  6535. Here's a bit of fun. The US government utilizes extensive dark nets. SIPRnet, JWICS, each tunneled under their dim-ish NIPRnet, which to most would be the DOD internet. SIPR gets tunneled under the already tunneled NIPRnet, that going through loggers and filters from hell. JWICS, the top secret network goes under SIPRnet. Each level being tunneled under encryption devices twice, before meeting other networks. Oh, nuclear wargames shit, totally segregated and not at all internet accessible, despite any tunneling. TOR was designed by a US State Department grant, undermined by the NSA, now fully open source. Not seeing FreeNet or other dark nets. Dark is not available to the internet, your bank's network is darknet under that definition, as is any defense network or well, your desired home network. Home networks, well, how much do you want to spend, effort and money to protect everything? On my end, after hundreds of hours of effort, my family information and PII are protected, my porn collection, not so much. I can delete securely and replace those few gigs trivially enough. PII and family, not so much. TOR, like any network of such construction, relies on exit nodes. That's how it got broken by the NSA. Capture exit nodes, you've got the heart and soul of the network and the puzzle palace is good at that. So, go ahead with seeking red mercury. No such thing, it was a Russian invention to find idiots.
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  6536.  @purupurupikopuyo-k5w  I had unexplained diarrhea for four months, doctor initially being a bit distracted over some things that could quite literally kill me quite swiftly, what was initially characterized by a radiology resident as severe mitral regurgitation (it was low end moderate) and an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which is a big deal. Once those were at mischief managed, aka watchful waiting, it was, "Hey wait, you said four months?! Let's order some tests now". No eggs or worms or suspect critters like protozoa was the first test. Inflammatory markers were high. Sodium, chloride and magnesium were dangerously low. A few other markers were ambiguous for several conditions, which isn't unusual in such cases and I was referred to a GI specialist. A few additional tests, primary prescribed a steroid to calm the raging brown waters, which controlled the worst, GI doctor prescribed a colonoscopy (which amazingly went through well, three other attempts leading to a comedy of events like broken down cars, a major storm rendering getting the procedure done, etc), which revealed Crohn's disease. My primary, knowing my dietary habits of basically everything from scratch because I'm a cheap SOB, ordered me to eat prepared foods, an Rx for magnesium oxide and called a few days later to see how I was faring. I explained that I'd excavated my salt cellar and was salting my foods for the first time in over 30 years, repeat testing showed much better sodium levels, chloride levels were happy and magnesium was dead center of whatever normal is. Minimal processed foods, because well, they suck. GI doctor also ordered a few metabolic and specific tests, B-12 was good, as was folate, which was surprising given the inflammation, eroded tissues and other deficiencies, so obviously my diet was more than sufficient. Just got my second infusion of infliximab to curb some of the immune system effects that spur the wider inflammation, we'll see, it'll work, not work or I'll grow an ear from my scrotum. OK, I invented that last bit. It'll work or we'll have to stop playing with TNF-alpha antibodies and go with vedolizumab, which is a bit lower in efficacy, but still fairly decently effective, but not very well liked by my insurance company. We'll see how it goes. I'd already staged things to appeal successfully if their recommended drug is ineffective and to put it simply, I agree with their medical reasoning in this case. My knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pharmacology is quite good, so if it came to an argument, those physicians are going to have one hell of a tough row to hoe, as I've also written peer reviewed papers in other fields and know how to present an airtight presentation. And high on my to-do list is smoking cessation, as I've also noticed before the biologic treatment some signs of autoimmune dysfunction that could be warnings of some things becoming a problem and autoimmune and autoinflammatory syndromes are worsened by cigarette smoking. And it's also likely I'll need surgery for a disc problem and that has a very high failure rate in smokers. I know these things because Google scholar is one of my closer friends, as are peer reviewed papers on such subjects. And peers love little more than to savage shoddy work from a peer.
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  6537.  @Winona493  yeah, that's well over the distance between Munich and Seville. While a day trip to Paris might not be out of the question, Seville, that's more of a holiday trip, not a day trip. That said, I lived outside of Philadelphia. Our school did have a trip to Broadway for a theater visit (odd, given we have dramatic arts in Philly), that was an organized day trip and a bit under 100 miles (160 km). But, the US has a thing with unaccompanied minors traveling, it happens, it's usually a bit exceptional, as we're quite overprotective of our children.
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  6538. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxzGbO6fmo
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  6539.  @BaronVonkatz  if one has the right to vote, one has the right to run for public office. It's baked into the same enumerated right. So, if one has to be evaluated for the right to run for public office, one must also be evaluated for the right to vote. As that's logically turned one right into a now optional right, one's rights therefore are all optional, as we don't have rightier rights and lesser rights and lordly rights and commoner rights. In short, a small group of rights were guaranteed in a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Optionals For Those We Find Fit To Enjoy Them.
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  6540.  @tromedl  China already has much of it, got it from OPM.
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  6541.  @annakingry9157  here are some interesting words, show me the levying of war. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Come on, show me where anyone picked up guns and shot at US government officers in an effort to overthrow the US government. Show me the two eyewitnesses that will testify in open court. Hell, show me a naughty cub scout with a slingshot. There can be no aid and comfort to the enemy, as Congress has declared no war since WWII, so we're fresh out of enemies. Without the levying of war, there is no treason, so stop being like MAGAts and stick here in the real and factual world or stay the fuck off of our side. Because, we do believe in law and order, the rule of law and the foundation of that law is our Constitution. Such bullshit of claiming treason for whatever you don't like undermines any moral and factual authority one might've previously had and parallels the MAGAt religion. Besides, I can make one bastard from hell of a case for sedition just on 1/6 alone, subsequent actions only adding additional counts. Besides, we all know that they're far too cowardly to pick up a gun. The streak of yellow down all MAGA backs can be seen from space.
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  6542. I agree completely. These bastards tempt me to bend my cane around their heads.
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  6543. Many years back, when some guy named Bill was POTUS, I was repeatedly and tiredly, asked, "What do you think about the President allowing gays to join the military"? I didn't miss a beat and said, who said that they weren't there, we have a Navy, don't we? That was actually honest, in some ways. Navy has a more congested culture, due to ship size and berthing, hence, there is a preference there and for their more famous Corps. I won't even go into the Navy originated joke about submariners, where 100 men go down and 50 couples come up. Real world, rather than joking. I've served with people who are pretty much every shade of the sexuality spectrum, they trusted their lives to my care, I trusted my life to their care. Or, as I've joked, "I don't give a shit if they love viewing my (anatomical location omitted, due to variability), as long as they cover it, the same is true for them". And that was before our current cocktail successes to halt viral progression. Because, all military service members are potential blood donors. So, I have a choice of dead for not getting replacement of blood or not dead if I were wounded. Until we can fix dead, no, not going to suggest a suicidal path by denial, save in terminal conditions and under fairly modest conditions.
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  6544.  @DevPythonUnity  that is called piracy and it's illegal under both US and international law. Now, go to your room, the adults are trying to talk. Jesus, what an ultramaroon! Upstream he was talking about beheading Saudi royalty, invading Saudi Arabia and all other batshit crazy bullshit that has no grounding in reality. And yes, that's actually my picture. My wife snapped it just as I came inside my quarters during an annoying sandstorm when I was deployed to the Persian Gulf. Our issued dust masks lasted mere minutes and clogged, that headdress allowed us to mix with the local populace and actually makes sense in that environment. When it clogged up, shifting it a bit allowed the moisture to evaporate and the dust to just fall off of the cloth. And that damned dust got into everything! Consistency and size of portland cement dust, much of it being gypsum dust, acted a bit like plaster when wet too. The Qatari people are nice too. The Saudis a bit irritable at times, but if I was saddled with Mecca, I'd be irritable too.
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  6545. Wow, so everyone gets one day a year to have a long married life? Was married for over 41 years, every day was accountability day for me. ;)
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  6546. He's doing his best to get there, give him time, as he's not really very good at doing anything properly.
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  6547.  @Reaper-cm4jr  name a crime that Biden has committed. I can name quite a few that Trump is on trial for. Including stealing national secrets and waving them around in a room full of uncleared persons. If I tried that, I'd be underneath the prison, so damned deep it'd take sunlight a month to get to me.
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  6548. Mass testing is still problematic due to delays of up to two weeks, rendering those tests worthless.
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  6549. Nationally, 9000 students, staff and teachers are now in quarantine. I suggest that we book this experiment as failed.
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  6550.  @Muttinchopsforevermore  Bubba's eagerly awaiting the opportunity to meet his new fiancee.
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  6551. That stage is obviously no good. All of the other ones were good, that one isn't. So, upon return, SpaceX will replace that stage free of charge so that SpaceX can re-run their mission with working equipment. Largely, to avoid a collision risk. Seriously though, I'm with Scott, there's liquid also leaking, which suggests it's a LOX leak, likely from a ruptured line or connection. Shake and rattle you (along with vibration) that much, you'd fare far worse. I'll always fare better though, as I actively avoid the propulsion stack when it's in use. Dad may have raised a dummy, but he didn't raise no fool! I'll see myself to the door...
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  6552. Are you saying that if he can't immediately post bond or pay off nearly a half billion dollars they'll imprison him? Otherwise, your demand makes zero sense. About as little sense as that bot @Helloclown, who is simply reiterating Putin's talking points that are entirely fictional.
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  6553. I lived in Philly for over 20 years. Frankly, if that is what we can expect from our police, they can stay the hell out of our neighborhoods. We'll handle things ourselves. What's really fucked up is, she didn't throw a drink on the officer. It was a man on the side that did.
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  6554. Let's see, something happens, audio goes out for a bit and is fixed. Not exceptionally unusual, it happens. "I'm not going to pay them". OK, cut the feed and leave. Take any equipment that's yours, as he's promised to default. If the boss convinces us to say, once he starts talking litigation, that's automatic cease and desist to limit further legal exposure. Now, the microphone gets collected in front of dog and man, everything gets disconnected and removed. Try to stop the crew from leaving, it's kidnapping. Attempt to halt recovery of property, it's grand theft. Nope, you threatened litigation, it's now in the hands of the lawyers. Have your lawyer contact ours, we're done and no further communication will be accepted, save through said attorney, please do have an absolutely shitty day.
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  6555. I'm just a lot of a dick about it. The election was stolen back by those who own it - the voters stole it back from the opportunists that tried to eliminate their voices. And amazingly, nobody needed gunz, ballots work just fine when they're allowed to be cast and counted.* *Compared to quite a few MAGAts that did talk about getting guns out, loading guns, etc. Ran into a fair number, I just showed my military ID and casually mentioned that I know where the ATACMS are stored and where the munitions are stored, go ahead and assemble for non peaceable assembly... They decided to stop openly discussing sedition. Personally, I'll stick with my glue gun. :P
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  6556.  @eyedeegee19  they're the ones on SS and SNAP. Given all of their threats and bluster in the past, that streak of yellow down their spines will hold them in check, Musk is counting on it.
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  6557.  @theenforcer9967  it's almost like some people don't listen to the entire report.
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  6558. Never happen, it'd need a Constitutional amendment. The SCOTUS decided that lying is a first amendment right. And you've obviously never been married. "Does this make me look fat?" OK, lying is illegal, enjoy the divorce rate increase.
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  6559.  @karenholmes6565  when he owned Taj Mahal, he'd ordered the onion domes for the spires. He promptly tried to stiff the roof builder, as a check was stipulated in the contract immediately upon signing off on completion. The builder had a plan in place though, cranes and crews converged upon the casino and they began repossessing the builder's roof. Trump's local management proclaiming that checks could not be locally issued, they lacked facilities or even checks, please wait, etc. Long and short, before the domes could be dismantled, magically, a check was printed locally for the amount due. Given his track record and his public statements, he'd hate me to hold a contract. The moment he stated he wasn't going to pay, all of my equipment and services would be withdrawn, as I'd declare a fundamental breach of contract and have my attorney immediately file litigation, as I have absolutely no hope that he'll honor the contract and seek to recover damages. Not a material breach, he promised not to pay and that's about as fundamental as one can get. Yank his sound, teleprompter, whatever he's contracted for, mid-speech and remove it back to storage offsite. Trust me, his audience would be initially irritated, but as word spread that we were collecting equipment he'd otherwise steal the use of, they'll be laughing at his dancing, since they won't be able to hear his infantile cries. If his staff interferes with removal, call the law for grand theft. Restrain the staff and prevent departure, it's kidnapping and unlawful restraint. Let the prick put himself into yet another felony corner. While his crowd is entertained by his impotence.
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  6560. Annoyingly, I was basically breaking even, compensation wise. I guess Trump wants all quarantines ignored. But, oddly, has his official perpetual quarantine surrounding his bunker and bunkers offal office. A 26 day old infant died of COVID-19, perhaps Sierra should pay his respects in person! And to prove his claims, lack both nostrils. Oops, I forgot, he's The Bunker Boy. Especially with germs that he once said he didn't believe in and shortly after, admitted to a phobia of. Afraid of what one just claimed didn't exist? Thats the honest of a street where, but less honorable. One of the two doesn't kiss and tell.
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  6561.  @burningsnow9870  the Constitution and laws, if for no other reason, their families still live here.
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  6562. Never any shortage of stupid in America or well, the planet. That's OK, they can live on the stupid cell block for the next century or so.
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  6563. I'm one to but ibuprofen in bulk, but it's for an entire household's monitored use. The price is lower in bulk. For 1000, we'd get a year out of that quantity for two osteoarthritis sufferers and two healthy individuals at a minimum.
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  6564.  @Womandalorian  it's harder to OD on ibuprofen than with acetaminophen, due to the pharmokinetics involved. APAP is absorbed quickly and is processed by the liver quickly, whereas ibuprofen is more slowly absorbed and bound in the serum, so that it can easily take weeks to cause problems. I'm simplifying it down a lot and I'm sure poorly...
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  6565. Do you actually want forensic data, which actually has been released? Got software signatures, specific indicators and more. Oh wait, you expect NBC News to offer forensic evidence in detail that'd anesthetize the audience. Gotya.
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  6566. There is. Don't allow anything to even come close to being filled, let alone overfilled. Overfilling and especially in unapproved containers has resulted in multiple criticality incidents.
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  6567.  @arlenedeery2590  that makes dick all sense, as we already have a treaty from 1988 that grants both nations passage through the Northwest Passage, while stipulating a disagreement on who owns it. Although, in my personal view, the majority of the passage would be that it belongs to Canada. As for OP, not quite 200 years or even close. We invaded Canada during the Revolution and during the War of 1812, both times resulting in the US Army being politely escorted back to the US border and their weapons then returned to them. So politely, some obscure general named Benedict Arnold ended up with one leg shorter than the other...
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  6568.  @colbyboucher6391  partially, more largely, to find some distraction while he and his merry band of misfits proceeds to plunder and introduce mayhem and harm into what remnants of the US government will remain while he steals it from the nation. Gonna get interesting when the MAGAts realize that their pensions, medical and food stamps are toast, their schools unfunded and they're left holding an empty bag during a second Great Depression. In the most heavily armed nation on Earth.
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  6569. So, let me get this straight, my property belongs to the county. That is what they say when they lay claim to my volunteered garbage. OK, I'll happily hand deliver my garbage to the county building, once well accumulated enough to make my own delivery. "Here's your confiscated property". And incinerating garbage doesn't generate power, it costs energy, releases greenhouse gases and pollutants. I say that the county residents should compost their county government leadership.
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  6570. There is one thing I'm certain of, Vance is indeed human. Hell, he's passed the benchmark quite handily for Natural Idiocy. Dan Quayle decided to take on the fictitious Murphy Brown. JD Vance has decided to take on birth control car seats that seems to have somehow robbed, yes, absolutely robbed us of 100000 births! Nothing whatsoever artificial about that idiocy, it's 100% homegrown human natural idiocy.
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  6571.  @pamelawing5747  we got the OPV (oral polio vaccine, which is what the sugar cube one was) in school as well. Once. Shortly after, it was abandoned outside of epidemic zones, as reassortment was discovered, where the live attenuated virus could reactivate. After that, they only used killed virus vaccines. Smallpox wasn't destroyed for a more pragmatic reason. The Russians have samples and were weaponizing it for a possible biological weapon and they still retain samples and the US and Russia still retain the only viable smallpox samples on the planet. How that RFK Jr is in charge overall, suffice it to say that I awaken with some really bad dreams on occasion.
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  6572. Contempt at that level isn't anywhere near that price, it's $1k. The 30 days, yes, so 30 days for each contempt instance.
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  6573. Go ahead and stop the firings then. Congress has whored out, the SCOTUS has whored out, the Constitution is dead and we're stuck with a god-king ruling by fiat. He yearns for some war, so that he can declare a state of emergency and institute martial law. Likely, gleaned from notions from the film "Civil War", where he obviously never watched the ending of. Or realized that we have IRBM's as part of ATACMS and he's in range of a half dozen states. Not that that is a suggestion. Predictions, eventual state of war, state of emergency that'll be perpetual and a mass termination of the disabled, infirm, elderly disabled and mentally disadvantaged, then the camps. And WWIII beginning. I recognize the playbook and the maniacal monsters following it lack originality.
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  6574.  @kn4cc755  sounds like we're in agreement, although you've phrased far, far better. Couldn't recall the phrasing, which was at the first sentence in your final paragraph, piercing of immunity. And even the claim of immunity being the first mention of the defense and basically, only the most egregious instances losing that motion. Not too bad on my part, considering the last time I looked at that concept and set of codes was over 40 years ago. Thanks for the far more precise language and quote of code! And I do sincerely hope he receives enough punitive damages to cause enough taxpayer discomfort to force a change back to the intent of our Constitution.
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  6575. The military has been moving toward shoot/no shoot decision making as well, hard to win "hearts and minds" when one engages anything that is breathing and many being unarmed. :) I know plenty of cops personally, you're right. It's a tool that is extremely infrequently used. Our installation also permitted LEO's to bring their weapon to the pistol range. Some couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and we wondered *how* they annually qualified! For them,the safest place was in front of the target
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  6576. Note they said protestors, because they keep slipping, we know that they really want to have code that restricts only them to be allowed to enjoy our very first amendment.
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  6577.  @Naturallyravishing  no, we talk, money shouts us down.
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  6578. No, lack of genius. You can see a man throw a drink at the officer, which is what he was responding to in the official statements made by police (I'm in the Philadelphia area) and he walked up to her briskly and punched her without a word said. The former and latter being all in the video.
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  6579. Wow, the quantum theorists are agreeing with Einstein again. What we experience as gravity is just mass telling spacetime to go get bent. Fundamentally true and well, factually, if fancifully stated. Just as, tell a star with 8 - 11 times the sun's mass to pound sand, it'll not last long, then get really, really loud - type II supernova loud.
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  6580.  @almaflores2852  so, how long does the infant get sentenced for?
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  6581.  @almaflores2852  you said the magic words that others omitted. Prosecuted. Far too many just want people tossed into prison for no sentence term, just lock people up. Worse, it's not only MAGA morons, it's far left morons as well. And the moron brigades forget our prohibition in the Constitution against the corruption of blood or writ of attainder.
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  6582.  @RadioactiveDrew  especially with different types of detector. Just with G-M tubes, one gets into quenching, dead time on saturation, fold-back during recovery after saturation and each other type of detector has its own complications. I've had quite a few enjoyable conversations with our base health physicist. :) Not sure all that he had to monitor, as it's not my circus, not my monkey. I already had enough classified crap to keep me occupied without trying to cross the street to find trouble.
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  6583.  @jackieow  first off, only suicidal idiots run around in fallout. At the Castle Bravo debacle, the men trapped in the shot cab (the crew that actually pushed the boom button) stuck a plain G-M tube based radiac meter out of the door, saw levels that measured between holy crap and I'm dead already and closed the door. Room measurements were much better, but still lethal within the day, so they found where the film was stored, which was the best buried place and stayed there until early evening. They sealed up and called it good, as HEPA filtration wasn't a thing yet - that came out of Castle Bravo's accident and subsequent research). Then, the radiation had dropped as the hottest radioisotopes decayed. A quick trot off to an impatiently waiting helicopter, they went to their ship. 12 days later, it was safe for the troops to stomp about and stomp about they did. Something like Chernobyl, yeah, all bets are off, as long lived radioisotopes are about and nobody wants to spend a century or two inside of a bunker. That said, wearing an N95 mask, I'm not going to really give a toss about alpha emitters, they're stuck inside the mask and my epidermis is blocking them. BTW, I was on our radiological survey team back in the Army and I originally worked on Pershing missiles, both 1A and II (for all of the microseconds those existed before being treaty driven to extinction, thankfully). Now, in an ideal world, one would have both a G-M tube and radiation spectrometer scintillation detector, sealed and HEPA filtration shelter a couple of meters down and Scotty to beam you out. Alas, none of us are named Musk.
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  6584. Mark my words, he'll eventually lose control of his rabble. When that happens, at a minimum, his daughter and her family will be in grave danger from the antisemites in his rabble. I have fun with that lot, reminding them first and foremost, given their proclaimed Christian priorities, that "Jesus was a Jew". They usually counter that Jesus was a Christian, "Oh, no wonder he got into trouble, worshiping himself over his father and all!". Leaves them tangled in a hot mess every time. Potentially hazardous, yes, but frankly, most of them couldn't fight their way out of a layer of single ply toilet paper with an M2 machine gun. Especially, given that the M2 manual's headspace and timing section is written at a 6th grade reading comprehension level, which is far beyond their ken.
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  6585. Yeah, but it isn't made of expired Boeing carbon fiber, so it's unlikely to implode.
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  6586. Stick on the wrong side? Naw, it's a left handed airplane. Still,, worse would be an ambidextrous airplane, more sticks than a pencil factory. ;)
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  6587. I've no problem with the second amendment, within its context. The militia, due to the various militia acts, remains military aged individuals (originally only men, but fairly recently changed) of military age and of sound mind and body. Hence, regulation on who can lug around what, where and when, as well as when assembly while armed or for armed purpose is allowed. Now, go ahead and say we don't regulate those things. Show me where someone can legally enter a school with a machine gun or artillery piece (yes, you can legally own both, pass the background check and pay the $200 tax stamp, it's yours (and each round for the artillery piece also being a $200 tax stamp item)). You can't, as that's unlawful and indeed, a felony. The militia is also prohibited from mobilizing itself and just charging forth on mythical missions - their government has to call them up to protect their nation, state or county. And I am a multiple firearms owner, who properly secures his firearms and am both a competition marksman, occasional hunter and happily retired military veteran. Regulation on activities with firearms predate this nation, one law I reviewed from Philadelphia prohibited celebratory gunfire within city limits generations before the Declaration of Independence and was retained when we became a nation. But, the NRA was, during my lifetime, hijacked by the industry in response to NRA support for the Gun Control Act of 1968, usurping the sportsmen and women alike and turning the organization into a political industry support group. Oh, training of the unorganized militia is conducted by the Civilian Marksmanship Program, a federally regulated and created organization. I am a proponent for the concealed carry on one's person of howitzers. 105 mm and up. Google the things to get that joke. My personal carry weapon being an M65 Atomic Annie. I figure nobody will bother someone concealing an 11 inch bore, nuclear capable cannon that's 86 tons and 85 feet long. :P OK, stopped carrying decades ago, when I figured out out sporting an armed criminal would have to be to allow me to get mine out to equalize the odds...* *Yes, I'm serious there. After figuring that out while having to clean the damnable thing, yet again, I locked it up and only removed it to go to the range to defend myself from the tyranny of unperforated X rings on round targets.
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  6588.  @kristenjoyce2180  there are currently a dozen fraudulent ballots that were "intercepted", fraudulently filled out, forged signature and returned in Colorado as well. If the mail was stolen, that's 20 years and $200k max per count, plus mailing the fraudulent ballot gets the same, all federal, since the mail is involved. Hell of a high price for an election of someone one doesn't even personally know. And before another idiot calls them a traitor, traitors commit treason, treason is only taking up arms against the government or giving aid and comfort to an enemy and we're out of those since Congress hasn't declared war on anyone. Ain't sedition either, as that requires violence, so Jan 6 was sedition in a number of cases and convictions and sentences are being served and numbers are climbing. Fraud is enough and interference in a government proceeding at the felony level. Let them be a guest of the government in the gray bar hotel for a few centuries.
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  6589. "...unless Donald Trump pees in the sandbox again." Trump, were he made aware of that statement would take it as a challenge and well, it won't be a Hershey bar laying proudly in the sun in the sandbox.
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  6590. No, at least not until he basically reinvented biblical teachings in a Trumpy way. You conflate blasphemy and heresy. Two entirely different biblical "crimes", neither of which have statutes to enforce in the US, due to that whole first amendment thingie. Technically though, they allowed a known heretic to utter blasphemy within their church. There's gonna be hell to pay, I suspect.
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  6591. Interestingly, the Christian nationalism in Italy during that period protected Jews from the Nazis. Unlike the modern US version, they remembered that Jesus was a Jew. Had some of the modern variety that I reminded of that fact, they always exclaimed that Jesus was a Christian. No, Jesus didn't worship himself, he worshiped the Almighty and the overwhelming majority of his teachings are part of the old testament. Love your neighbor? Old testament. Help the poor, disabled, elderly, sick? Old testament. Reject financial wealth over devout worship and charity? Old testament. Even raising the dead was originally done first in the old testament, albeit with a lot more prayer and effort by the prophet involved.
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  6592. One shift? He couldn't wrangle an hour. Never worked fast food, I worked in a full restaurant as a chef, far too fast a pace at either than what Trump could wrangle. Of course, no place only has someone work only a deep fryer. Still, I'd happily drop an ice cube in his fryer.
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  6593.  @floraflowers2335  no, we're not going to vote for Putana's Proxy. Might outlaw being Russian though, we've more warheads than Russia has communities.
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  6594. Well, it would only be a flesh wound in his case.
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  6595. In the beginning, that isn't zoned out, he lost the program. He was spinning his wheels trying to figure out what he was supposed to do when she swooped in as a crutch to divert him to "play his music" and had to prod him multiple times until he caught on and played it up, confabulating along the way. This will be the first US election where a candidate is running that could actually be legally declared non compos mentis. Who would have nuclear launch capabilities that is utterly unchecked. The same brain trust that previously took an entire afternoon to convince to not nuke a hurricane off the coast of Africa to blow it out. A continent with 54 countries that he thought was one country. And we can be damned sure that Vance would let him, no 25th amendment, just let the atrocities flow. And his loyal followers would support it the entire way, ordering a double Flavor Aid ala Jim Jones special. Meanwhile, foreign agitator bots are online and on steroids, full afterburner for them. Anything to destabilize and neutralize us as they hope that they can charge their way across the globe while we're distracted by fighting one another. And the mainstream media, who once were our loyal watchdogs, busily scampering around his latest antics in his decreasingly frequent lucid moments that he can hold up a new shiny to distract them and get free press. He can not be allowed to win this election or this nation will never recover. So, vote like your nation depends upon it, because it actually does. If not, well, at least I literally live on ground zero of a strategic target.
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  6596. Nonsense and poppycock, the US and Soviet Union were totally fast friends and conspired to make birthday cakes together and dance. And dogs and cats are entirely, totally the same species. And gravity doesn't pull things down, it pushes things up and into space, which is why we're in a dust cloud in space and not living on a planet. The alternative is, more idiots desperately seeking their new villages. Sorry, kids, my village has enough idiots, thank you.
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  6597.  @jenm1  well, the Soviets and US didn't get along since their revolution, but ended up with a common enemy and well, they fresh ran out of Hitlers.
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  6598. One way one can make it work is to have a roast of oneself.
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  6599. Interesting, he's telling on himself. His physician administered a cognitive test, just as the White House physician did. Physicians don't perform them on a lark, not on a whim, but when a patient's mental faculties are in question and that there is a strong suspicion of organic mental decline. "He got confused", one sign of some form of dementia. When I asked my father's physician to perform an assessment, doctor wanted specifics on why I suspected a decline and I had to provide concrete examples, some of which doctor had also witnessed. Turned out that Dad had vascular dementia.
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  6600.  @nickames3808  ah, it's the principle to void traditional practices, gotya. Any other toddler behavior we should also embrace? Maybe a square dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
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  6601. I can imagine living with fascist morons as neighbors, usually, when it's time to sharpen my knives.
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  6602. I'll still load up a VM and boot dos and 3.11, just for giggles. Would that they could've booted that fast in the old days!
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  6603.  @tonyducks1121  are you really comparing the discovery of 25 - 30 documents to Trump's over 300? That's like comparing a fatal car accident to the Holocaust.
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  6604. Oh, picked up a dozen large eggs at the dollar store for $8.60. Still had a fair stock of them, as the neighborhood isn't exactly notable for wealth. Well, save for the chap a few blocks down the road, but the governor has never been observed shopping in the local neighborhood. Still have a $19 food stamp reserve until a week and a half from now and my pantry is fully stocked, as is my freezer. One benefit of preparing from scratch and walking for most of my groceries two miles each way to the store twice a month. Keeps me in shape too, which I've needed since doctor stuck me on a steroid for the past couple of months. As for spend nothing day that's mentioned in the comments, that's my moving day, new apartment and all, so ain't shopping and don't need anything from the store and frankly, one day of losses like that literally won't even be noticed. A nationwide general strike would be noticed, even if only 2% participated, get a higher percentage and well, that's a hell of a lot of lost profits. I'm curious though, does Trump have a concept of a concept of a concept of a planned concept of a plan? And I seem to recall his blathering something about the Mexican border being closed, despite all of that traffic going through... Maybe it's patrolled by unicorns or something? Ladies and gentlemen, Reality has left that building and is not expected back anytime soon! And the January 6th choir, aren't they also the size 14 1/2 chorus line, they look quite fetching in their prison tutus and prison boots. And Chairman, JTF is fired, because of MAGA, Make Apartheid Great Again. Scored one for Emperor Musk! Apparently, we were the aggressor in Pearl Harbor, using this maladministration's standards. Shouldn't we be surrendering and apologizing to the Emperor of Japan? Since we're now Waltzing around reality, rather than living through it. But, a better plan? OK, first we don't go with, "Pay me well and we'll give you a surrender", we'll go with Zelenskyy's checkmate, "I'll resign like you want me to - if we're given NATO membership". Loads of wet paint across that corner they painted themselves into. The National Sex Offender Registry and search pages are available, must've been down for maintenance. They do maintain those servers, so they can and will go offline during an assigned service outage for patching. Annoyingly, they don't seem to post a scheduled service outage page and they should, it's a standard practice to allow people that utilize their services to know when the services will be unavailable and for approximately how long. :/ Tell us the five things that you've done this week, just don't respond with anything classified. And so, everyone that works constantly with classified information got fired and nobody knows anything sensitive, yay for winning via losing! Anti-Trump bias, aka preference for outright lies is only acceptable. And oh noes! Trump gets angry! He might just turn into the Phenomenal Bulk! Oh, too late. We're gonna need a bigger Beast.
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  6605. No, since the feds want to regulate signs, the feds can replace all of the signs when they are stolen, knocked down or are unreadable. Think of how much money that they just saved the states, since they're announcing they're responsible for signage.
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  6606. Regardless, there is a law on the books that's effective and covers this very effort. Seditious conspiracy. Last applied successfully to leaders of the Oath Keepers and trials are ongoing for the leaders of the Proud Boys for their sedition on Jan 6.
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  6607.  @ashleighkeeler7857  yep, had some dealings with pigs way back when. Thankfully, avoided any spills. Although, thinking about it, it'd probably be less expensive to have similar manufactured than to print the things currently. Probably. Still, the need is there and even one less accident makes it worthwhile, given the labor and waste disposal in the event of a spill.
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  6608.  @KrystalCoast  he's pro-Hitler and pro-Trump, hence the name and the year.
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  6609. I dunno, that one guy with a pro mask, every unit has "that one guy"... I was that other guy, the one standing smoking a cigarette inside of a cloud of RCA, shunting men to where I needed them and I'll feel irritated when I get the time later. Yeah, I was that prick that stood in a cloud of CS, CN, OC, whatever the lowest budget agent was that week and smoked a cigarette while directing men around to where they needed to be. Yeah, me and protests, I'll let somebody else be a soft target. I'll be bringing up the rear with a full case of beans, the Conventions be damned. Seriously though, that's always been a pet peeve on Hollywood crap, big badda boom, people go flying through the air in precisely the same way people don't fly, remain intact and yeah, nope. Loads of shredded and broken, tons of red stuff that the bodies are running out of, everyone's in shock as our central nervous system isn't constructed with extreme concussions in mind - as military medical science is finally discovering. The problem with tracers is, they work both ways. Blood, old medic's adage, eventually all bleeding will stop - react wrong, it'll stop the way you didn't want it to. Still, one other adage, "Don't get shot". The bodies in rooms, anything of intelligence value? As for war crimes, conducting war crimes is the swiftest way to find oneself in the midst of a reprisal, as the Waffen SS learned the hard way after summarily executing Allied prisoners. Another Hollywood gun is a lot newer, but we used similar for .50 BMG simulators, propane gas gun that has a spark plug to detonate the gas when the trigger is depressed. Then, there's CGI boom-boom-bang-bangs. Never ceases to amaze me on how quiet Hollywood guns are, as you said, shoot-em up inside of a room, end up with dead people and deaf people. Eh? MRAP, same with aircraft, fuel hungry beasts that eat spare parts for light snacks. The one area most frequently forgotten in films is, vehicles - armored or combat aircraft are fuel hungry as all hell. Hell, even Patton forgot that lesson and had to learn when his tanks exhausted their fuel until the fuelers caught up. The problematic White House assault is easy, Scotty fucked up with the transporter. That's why we said to never drink and beam. Damned senior officers always thinking that they're special... :P Whatever are you talking about with the sandbags? Every CSM worth his salt will want fresh sandbags, with fresh paint on both sides. Yeah, you know I had to go there. ;) The Beast is a tank that's disguised as a limo. Yeah, the hummer would've come apart like an opera singer at a rap concert. Current issue for Protective detail is the MP7, a wee bit of improvement over the 9x19.
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  6610. The only thing that'd have made it more classic is if he chased the mooning man with the forklift and the tune yakety sax playing. With the forklift being in first gear, due to the slowness of the inebriated lout. The difference between a lout and a louse is fairly small, with both being equally welcome...
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  6611. OK, local police try, federal agents come and the supremacy clause kicks in, local cops engage and are arrested for treason.
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  6612. Got one concept worthy of exploring. Donald Trump being served prison food. I can just picture his complaints and attempts to litigate against being served prison food...
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  6613.  @mrcase77  interns were hired. Internship isn't for teens, but for college students well through their college program, to gain experience to acquire their degree. So, headlines like this are pure bullshit, it's like calling my own physician, a resident, a teen. OK, a "teen" by extending the term well into his 20's and is fully qualified to perform surgery. Inexperienced, yes, that's what internship is for, to gain experience in the practical side of all of that theory the college has been funneling into their heads.
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  6614.  @LegitBogus  not especially. I usually like either small shop sandwiches or just make my own with a bit higher quality ingredients.
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  6615.  @mrcase77  well, Rush shared one common flaw with the military. Neither is known to have adult supervision. But yeah, when his criteria for hiring one engineer is that he's a surfer, well, as I've said elsewhere, I'd have qualms just walking next to his piece of shit. At least, in the military, when we had the absolute lowest bidder make something, it did adhere to stringent specifications. There's a video here of a guy who has a pressure chamber and made a scale model of the sub, with flat, plain end cap assemblies and alas, using plain epoxy. But, the hull was a machined tube that was wrapped in carbon fiber and he ran it down to 80 - 85 bar pressures before it imploded. I suggest that the technology, properly implemented and stringently inspected after each dive, is actually worthy of further investigation - in ROV's. If it crushes, one loses only equipment and instrumentation. Assuming, of course, one uses actual submersible engineers and students are adequately supervised. I'm also willing to bet it won't look cool, it'll likely look like shit, but work like a dream. But then, I've always been a function over form type. Hence, entirely avoiding "Looks like a fish, moves like a dream, steers like a cow".
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  6616.  @michaelsacco1463  nice to know that I wasn't fighting in our wars back when I was in my 40's. Guess it was just a really loud tea social or something. In this case, it's a shitty and inaccurate reference to interns from college, who typically are actually in their 20's. It's as bad a reference as the phosphogypsum being used for roads, but being utterly evil because it's "radioactive". Radioactive always in scare quotes, as the phosphogypsum is around the same levels of radioisotopes as a granite countertop, which is also radioactive with the same isotopes. But, is totally OK sitting in one's kitchen and preparing one's food upon. Rush's biggest failure was his steadfast refusal to hire any engineers that had actual experience in submarines and submersibles or any other deep submergence technology field. His claim being "stifled innovation", but in reality, it lead to cutting entirely the wrong corners in ways that ultimately were fatal.
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  6617. SL-1 and Chernobyl shared one common flaw in their control rods, graphite tips on the control rods. Graphite is a moderator, so the end of the control rod, the rod being the slow down control, sped up reactions as it traveled through the core. The base event that disassembled both reactors explosively via steam hammer explosions was the same - prompt criticality. But, SL-1 was excessive removal of the primary control rod (don't get me into having a single pull to start control rod, let alone having to pull it up a bit to hook to a pully...), Chernobyl was a reactor that just came down in power from producing peak prime power for a large region to super low power, causing iodine/xenon levels in the fuel to be excessive, poisoning the reaction when they tried to ramp power up for the unauthorized test. Not recognizing the iodine pit problem, the poorly trained oopserators then pulled most of the rods from the reactor and when the iodine and xenon finally burned off, it went prompt critical. Two reactors that never should have been prototyped, let alone constructed as a production or test reactor, due to insufficient safety and training, which points directly to a cavalier management mindset.
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  6618.  @puncheex2  unless my memory is betraying me, the control rod ends were graphite, to more easily guide them through the assembly. That added to a positive void coefficient.
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  6619. Lucky you on that gift. Had to build my own. While I was at it, built a radiation spectrometer as well, which was a wee bit simpler. But, vent hood?! They didn't need those when saccharine was discovered!* *Seriously, look up that discovery. Cigarette on work counter in chemistry lab, noticed it was sweet... OSHA would've broken that guy on the wheel!
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  6620. Not all that long ago, an irate member of an HOA addressed the board using a high power rifle, with quite lethal result. He was convicted of premeditated murder. Were I on the jury, "Well, clearly the HOA board committed suicide as a body". In her shoes, I suspect there would be a series of disturbingly pornographic accidents, all while I was enjoying a fine meal with a judge... And a condo that suddenly developed a severe radiological contamination while at that dinner. And the damnest things showing up in their browser history, all terrorism related. Never get mad, never get even, get ahead and usually take the shoulders with it.
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  6621.  @GeneTurner-gg4yo  interesting notion, given not so long ago an affluenza defense being effective.
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  6622.  @TheAureliac  no, but in common, he prostitutes his office.
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  6623. It's actually the law, courtesy of a ratified treaty that the Constitution plainly states is the law of the land. Wasn't originally a thing, then a ship of 900+ Jews arrived at various US ports, was refused asylum and forced to return to Europe, refused entry until reaching the Netherlands. Germany then captured the Netherlands and sent the lot to the camps. I'm surprised that Trump and hence, his Trumpites haven't suggested gigantic camps with big ovens yet.
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  6624. Heroin is illegal in the US, but commonly prescribed for post-operative pain in the UK. Remember, this is international , not US centric and biochemistry and pharmacology is decidedly not any nation or continent centric. But, addictive potential is a topic lousy with confounders. Opiates and opioids have aversion factors, such as triggering MAST cell responses, I'm lousy with histamine and feel miserable taking the infernal things. That aversion tends to limit the potential for addiction and that's only one example. Susceptibility is another, such as genetic predisposition, secondary to slightly different receptor configurations or even ion channel differences. So, we look at mass numbers to determine addictive potential and far more are addicted to opioids than benzodiazepines and alcohol is outside of the scope of a discussion on pharmacology and addiction, as I've yet to see a recorded case of alcoholism secondary to a prescribed medical treatment! But, I do agree that the DEA's drug schedule is bullshit, as it's largely via Congressional input, hence political in nature more than anything evidence based. As for ethanol withdrawal, I've been known to pack away that dosage, then quit without sequelae and amazingly, my liver panels were normal. Not a clue how that worked out, but it has repeatedly for me, again, confounders like genetics and perhaps, my Grave's disease shifting my metabolism upward a bit might be what comes into play. But therein lies a confounder of medicine in general, both pharmacological and in medical theory, individual idiosyncrasy. But then, that drives everyone to distraction... ;)
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  6625. No, it's worse. Doge is a royal title. Musk isn't illiterate, unlike Trump, who paid to get his degree. Literally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title) Need I say more?
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  6626. I fully support the bill, but... Weasel wording doesn't even come close. Hope his constituents are warming up the tar and have the feathers ready for when he returns home.
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  6627. Their rights ended when they stepped onto private property. Period. A business, or any other property owner has rights, only governments are required to protect rights on public property.
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  6628. So, the SCOTUS has decided that the federal Constitution is subordinate to all state courts whimsy, we're now an Constitution optional nation. So, if any state decides to outlaw federal taxes and it withstands state court decisions, the federal government will do without that funding.
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  6629. Time to bail out Luigi and give him his printer back. Musk only spends $20 million on personal security each year.
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  6630. Oh, I can instantly think of one common case - a dentist's office, who also doesn't inject botox. The laugh is, whoever is illegally and it is illegally importing this shit actually is, they've opened themselves up to terrorism charges, as botox is a select agent and well, right up there with bringing in weapons grade plutonium.
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  6631.  @ericlipps9459  indeed, just 15 minutes of being with him gave the Pope a stroke and heart attack.
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  6632.  @stephenswistchew7720  there must be some angst, otherwise MTG wouldn't literally place a bill to expunge his impeachments each and every month. Said bill then being promptly shuffled off to committee to never be heard from again. Don't believe me? Look it up in the Congressional Record, shocked the shit out of me!
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  6633. We made our asylum laws after the disgrace that was the MV St Louis, when 1000 Jews came seeking asylum, were denied and sent back to Europe and the camps. Two of my uncles helped liberate two camps, they never would speak much on what they saw, but they did admit to the reprisal executions of Waffen SS forces with a smile - the only smiles they had when those camps were even glancingly mentioned and welcomed over the haunted expressions they otherwise had. Knowing now and actually seeing some still classified imagery from those camps, I can see why and am thankful I wasn't there, I'd have been worse to those bastards.
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  6634. Well, before we started electing them, the only place they could find employment was in a cathouse.
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  6635. I just slammed the flash suppressor on the floor, the bolt came forward.
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  6636.  @rachelmarie2228  well, some people have grave difficulty with rightie tightie, lefty loosey. I wish I was joking, but alas, I'm not. I've the opposite problem, pain limits standing time, so I take baths that relax spasms. Downside, without a hose and movable head, I'd need high explosives to clean the tub.
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  6637. I remember the nitrogen levels and protein becoming a major legal and public health matter and scandal in 2008. Milk collection locations at the time were entirely unsupervised by the PRC government and to boost product output as demand increased, unscrupulous management directed the milk be diluted and melamine added to boost nitrogen content, which would fool protein level testing. The problem being, melamine breaks down in a way to produce kidney stones, in this case, large, destructive kidney stones and oh yeah, a lot of that milk went into baby formula. "On 1 December, Xinhua reported that the Ministry of Health revised the number of victims to more than 290,000 with 51,900 hospitalized; authorities acknowledged receiving reports of 11 suspected deaths from melamine contaminated powdered milk from provinces, but officially confirmed three deaths." That's just in China, the milk was also exported and true numbers difficult to find, as it went to many developing nations. Many of the children require dialysis to survive. 17 went on trial over it, with one life sentence, two executed, the rest getting 19 years, commuted to 15 years and change. For those unfamiliar with melamine, it's used as a fire suppressant, in making plastic dinnerware (I ate from melamine plates as a kid), dry erase boards and more. Note how it's not used as a food ingredient. It's not soluble in water, so they had to add another chemical, such as formaldehyde to it (in low quantities, still not a biggie, the body makes that as well whenever it's making DNA) and they added maltodextrin, a carbohydrate to emulate milk sugar.
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  6638.  @afry6400  an appeal is normal, especially with Trump. But, one can appeal the lunch menu in the cafeteria, that doesn't mean that the appeal won't end up in file 13. Just as one can sue a ham sandwich, doesn't mean one will win any judgement.
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  6639. A state ID provides evidence of residency. Lacking an eviction order or recent document after the ID issuance date is a reasonable suspicion of a false report. Or should I go back to my old home that I ceded to the city after it was wrecked by burglars past economical repair and seize it, with my more reasonable excuse of being deployed defending this worthless nation? Or just get more manned guns than lawless enforcement? Oh, this case gives some small proof of life in this nation. A tiny proof, as he could've ended up homeless, while paying the home loan. Now, if the officers had operational brain cells, they'd CYA and arrest the false claiming individual and charge them. Damages 10x what was awarded, with loan shark interest in every day of delay until payout and secession of appeals. From someone left homeless three times, courtesy of various thefts. One, by common burglary, one via abuse of office, one by just getting taken while doing a favor. But, oddly, still trusted by our government. But, now at the point of nothing left to lose and more than capable of repelling invasion in an epic manner that would likely end up becoming military.
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  6640. I entirely advocate for the colonization of Mars. Difference between President Musk's idiocy and my idea is, the colonists are short term, as the colony would be for research and study of Mars and low gravity environments, not some inane notion of permanence that's utterly unsustainable. Tours would likely end up being only six months at most, due to the debilitating effects of the lower gravity and radiation (some mitigation for the radiation would be below ground facilities, allowing regolith to protect against the radiation). Might as well go with a megastation in orbit, with a large centrifugal gravity system, since I'm going moonbeams for funding such a money pit. Why actual humans? Versatility. Robots aren't anywhere as versatile as a human chemist or geologist, as was instantly proven when we put the first geologist on the moon and basically as soon as he set foot on the lunar surface, he discovered a sample that was groundbreaking. A robot can't gin up a chemical test, a chemist or geochemist can. Let the robots stomp the surface, little can be achieved by personal stomping about - usually and the unusual is also where humans excel. And thankfully, the unusual is infrequent, so leave the squishy humans inside the labs and the robots outside to get broken. As for Musk the innovative dreamer, he's invented nothing, developed nothing, everything he's gotten has been bought, save for an inherited emerald mine. I'd not have sought advice on electricity from J. P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt, I'd speak to Edison and Tesla, who actually did invent and develop the technologies personally. And nuking the moon? Oddly, Russia never suggested such an absurd thing, that was the US Air Force and Carl Sagan's first assignment, which got kiboshed once Sagan's report was submitted showing how tiny a nuclear detonation would be visually from earth. But, orbials would be a good idea, remember that mega station notion? Still obscenely, beyond the fever dreams of insane in expense, but more sustainable if properly designed and well, can be protected from major harm from holes getting occasionally punched through it. In much of earth orbit, it'd be magnetically shielded to a fair degree. Water can be the additional shielding/thermal regulation/water supply that's recycled. Use lunar regolith for soil for grow beds, although use for organic life support would require immense amounts of space. Achilles heel, maintenance of such a behemoth would be a cast iron bitch. Still, I volunteer President Musk's billions for funding the project. Should take only a few hundred trillion to design, construct, launch, assemble in orbit and maintain for a decade or so. I'm sure his fans will happily fill that modest gap between the two figures... I'll wait. And wait. And... Huh, black dwarfs sure are hard to find, even up reasonably close at 1 AU! Until then, I advocate for Musk to personally colonize the surface of Venus.
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  6641. I am a bit confused though, someone sent a free pizza and that's somehow bad? It's fridge food. Show up in person, you're hog food for the farm down the road. And I really don't need a gun, son. Balls, outta scrapple... Oh well, another walk to the store in the morning.
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  6642.  @therealtimc08  erm, when the entire frigging letter is on the court's record, read by a SCOTUS justice, that's a big fucking cherry to pick - looks like the whole orchard! This is a minimum information voter attack that's literally out of an old KGB field manual. But, what would an old veteran know about intelligence?
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  6643.  @m4rvinmartian  more likely too many drinks in the lounge.
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  6644. Have we been visited by aliens? Hell yeah, go to any international airport, you'll see them in droves. Add in non-tourist types, such as in the region around Roswell in its initial era of infamy and well, the area was teeming with aliens from all over Europe. Space aliens, not so much. Think on it, if you had the power of spaceflight, not just between planets, but between stars - trips that would take us literally thousands of years to die on, would you stop here to be dissected?
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  6645.  @vyomchauhan2931  no POTUS solves problems, they have advisors and staffers that are selected with detailed knowledge, well, save for one, who picked such people based on personal loyalty, to solve those problems properly. A POTUS that is effective knows when someone that would advise them if a bullshitter, there are common traits in such people, not the least of which is a lack of detailed knowledge on the subject matter. So, a POTUS can at least ascertain that the individual before them that is speaking about brain surgery for all is full of shit by simply asking a few questions on brain structures that's basic high school science level. Then, they get shown the door and someone with a clue brought in. A POTUS decidedly is not an expert on brain surgery. When those cues get missed, well, a POTUS gets advice from another Teller, who hawked an x-ray laser that had never worked, never could work and never can be made to work in a manner he was selling. And when a POTUS thinks that they're experts in everything, we get told to drink bleach, show UV lights up our asses and take worm medication to stop a virus, despite that medication being useless against any virus.
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  6646. If I can't sue for recovery from destroying my farm, I'll turn the land into a cobalt-60 open storage site - rendering that highway impassible, but feel free to walk through the gamma radiation to serve me. And enjoy your new gamma water supply.
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  6647.  @rogerszmodis  the have house consul, but they typically bring in the billable hours big guns for court and they do get court costs that'll approach, if not exceed what they could've simply refunded. Hell, they paid an order of magnitude more in various fees just to darken the courthouse steps! If that's what's taught in business schools today, they need to reexamine their curriculum!
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  6648.  @hoopslaa5235  as a matter of fact, the cops out of Blagulon Kappa do. "I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterwards in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterwards for hours to my girlfriend!"
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  6649. So, breaking and entering is legal because of exigent circumstances of unregulated speech.
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  6650.  @Lurch685  interesting, as in many states, including mine, I can have any lockpicking tool that I want to and actually do have. And having training and the privilege of carrying a concealed firearm for security purposes requires a certification in order to practice the same commercially. In my state, it's a Act 235 certification and that commands a premium. Cops do get an exemption, some law enforcement thingie or other about knowing and understanding the law, which gets rather undermined by a fair number of youtube videos... And even a cop cannot carry a firearm off duty into certain areas, state laws do not override federal laws, period. Thank you for playing, please try again.
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  6651. Why not? Was already done to TB treatment, investor bro that just got out of prison for financial crimes committed since, had bought one of two major TB drugs that still work and promptly raised the price from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill. While I don't and didn't need that medication, I came swiftly to understand why the French turned to the guillotine for the Crown... And that solution being a quick fix, well, brought the committee for public safety and its disastrous run of ruination.
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  6652. I was unaware that a vessel losing all power is usual conditions. There were two port pilots aboard and in control, who navigate those waters multiple times per day without a problem - in vessels whose usual conditions are with full operating power. But, let's go with less loading of vessels and the inevitable economic disaster from shortages akin to the pandemic shortages, just to make you ecstatic that someone listened to your stupid ideas.
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  6653.  @3698s shortly after opening, there was a vessel collision with one of the piers, damaged the pier to the tune of (then) $500k in damages. Yeah, ships are bigger and more massive and the channel, far too narrow to allow protective structures to be added. Hopefully, they'll include that in the replacement bridge design.
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  6654. Removed from the bench on a pike.
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  6655. Stopped off at Tony Luke's for a sandwich? Yeah, that kind of thing has happened and the pilot vehicle was 20 miles away from where it should have been... More often though, the highway got resurfaced and the new clearance not updated.
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  6656. If only Trump owned property in the UK, even if it was Scotland... Maybe then, a Writ of Control could be issued. For the forgetful, a lot of US law is based upon extant UK law when we split from the UK. That is for both codified law and common law. Seize the golf course in Scotland, let Trump International then recover the loss from its proprietor. Laughably, this isn't the first rodeo for the UK courts, they're long accustomed to international settlements and financial recovery of monies due.
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  6657. So, the House MAGA caucus delivers the same lunch yet again, nothingburgers. Perhaps if they were only permitted to eat if they produced something of substance, we'd get progress of any sort. They'd either starve or for once, perform the duties for which they were elected and swore an oath to perform.
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  6658. That's one of the reasons firearms were created.
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  6659. Well, to give due credit, it is a very small minority of officers that behave in this manner or in a more criminal manner. I know quite a few Philadelphia LEO's and most are good cops. But, one idiot can ruin the reputation for many. :/ Good news: He is to be terminated for cause tomorrow. The charges against the woman have been dropped. She announced she didn't WANT him terminated and wasn't pursuing legal action and only wants an apology.
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  6660. No, military males and "military aged males" are two entirely different beasts. Otherwise, we'd be calling high school kids and young fathers soldiers and we don't for a damned good reason. But hey, what would an old soldier know?
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  6661. Because of what it actually is, perhaps? A hollow promise. Excuse me while I just get my hat on the way out...
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  6662.  @reallyseriously7020  so, exlax is better than no chocolate too? ;)
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  6663. One is not a felon unless one is convicted of a felony, so you're repeating yourself.
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  6664. Typical journalists these days, ill informed on anything that isn't journalism, so science and technology are magic and hence, everything is funny. They'd not know an MMS server from a cell phone, even after I crushed their foot with the server.
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  6665. That is a thing, that entire public trust thing exists because of that fact. A trust by the public is abrogated, so the punishment for such a betrayal is enhanced. Given that this is all straight time, with no time off for golfing or behavior, does it really matter is Trump is sentenced to 17 years or 17 million years? He'd die in prison either way. Albeit a lot lighter, as there is no Burger King in the supermax. And icing on the cake, it's solitary, as he can't be trusted not to flap his yap about classified information.
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  6666. And respect for our laws and Constitution should always be first and foremost. Hur engaged in gross insubordination in his inappropriate, political and unrelated commentary and should never be awarded a position of public trust in any form for the remainder of his life. DOJ is by design, apolitical, despite TFG's attempts to the contrary. Efforts to do otherwise is how free nations die in slavery.
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  6667. This is a new technology, nothing like it existed before. It's not as if there were steel cases with a lock that is opened by selecting multiple numbers from multiple, oh, just spitballing here, directions turned on a dial. We could then call it a combination lock. All, to keep important things safe. Encryption is totally new, nobody has encoded information before, so ciphertext would be a total Enigma to anyone without the keys to decrypt the information. Totally novel, Caesar couldn't come up with a cipher at all! No, it took Lou Cipher to invent such devilishly clever things. For the security and cryptographically challenged, the first bit is about a safe. First used by Ramses II in the 13th century BC, although it was more a pin and tumbler lock. The Romans had combination locks for their safe boxes. A Muslim engineer came up with a much more modern combination lock for safe boxes in 1206 and the modern security safe hails back to 1850 or so. Enigma was an encryption system that baffled the Allies during much of WWII. While it could eventually be mathematically broken, changing the configuration of the machine would set the analyst teams back to square one for months to years - it was simpler to steal one from operational warships. Caesar cipher was an encryption scheme that's childish by today's standards, about as weak as ROT13 "coding", which is just subtract 13 from the ASCII symbol value to decrypt. If you missed Lucifer, that's OK, I'm sure Lucifer misses you too. ;) It's literally the same issue as demanding the combination to your safe. I ran into some annoyances while traveling on duty, once to the point where I called a phone number, reported the issue and the TSA agent's phone rang within two minutes and he wished that he followed my advice to wear hearing protection when answering. The computer had a nice red sticker on it, with white letters with the cryptically ill informing SECRET on it and he was ignoring my classified documents courier card - until that phone rang. Once he saw and I related that it was classified and showed my courier card, the most he was allowed to do by law was to document and report the contact, prohibited by law: Demanding access to something you have no need to know the contents of. Misuse of that trust gets the abuser's security clearance revoked for cause, with potential criminal penalties attached for good measure. A total meteoric end to one's career.
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  6668.  @Rhiannon-b6k  show me where, before two witnesses that will willingly testify in open court that he took up arms and made war against the United States government. Treason is the only crime that is described in the Constitution, it is narrowly and precisely described, far more narrowly than basically any other nation, due to abuses of that very charge in the past. We lack an enemy, so he cannot give aid and comfort to such, as Congress has not declared war since WWII and we're not at war. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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  6669.  @TheRealScooterGuy  that I fully agree with!
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  6670.  @fakeaccount8342  my definition, tyranny requires a monarch ruling by fiat.
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  6671. Because security through obscurity is still security?
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  6672.  @rasheed5457  bail him out and give him a new plastic printer, since his was confiscated as evidence.
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  6673. Tsar Bomba was an ironic bomb. The bomber had a maximum range with the bomb of 300 miles, the bomb, detonated at half yield. Because the uranium tamper was omitted, lowering the yield by half, the bomb was ironically, the cleanest nuke ever detonated by mankind. Detonated a week before I was born as well. The non-testing of nukes is a non-issue, as for one, the physics are well enough understood. For two, Russia and the US both signed on to the test ban treaty to halt such insanity. With respect, I grew up during the atmospheric testing era, I'm quite literally more radioactive than my children and grandchildren, tossing gamma radiation quite brightly under a gamma camera's baleful gaze. Learned that during a background check, followed by a thyroid scan for my Grave's disease. If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer my grandchildren not get that specific glow. As for Russia's threats, China used to threaten the Soviets on a routine basis, a Soviet joke being "China's Final Warning" and "Paper Tiger", which Russia today enjoys a similar status of doing. I literally live on ground zero, as my area is ringed literally by military depots, so I'd be a bad odor in the air if they actually launched and well, we'd launch and we have more nukes than they have population centers under the last START treaty. They don't, but our society and nation would effectively cease to exist. Hence, why I call the turdmuffins what they are, "Products of the insanity factory". Expensive as hell to make, expensive to maintain and utterly useless. And I started my military career in such weapons. Stupidest weapons ever frigging invented. Might be useful if one put them onto interceptors with interplanetary range to ablate part of an incoming asteroid, otherwise, useful as a bustline on a bull. And when the Soviet Union fell, Russia maintained only one weapon class, nukes. No choice, given the suicidal defense theory embraced by two stupidpowers. I've no love for Russia, to put things mildly, intense dislike would be more accurate and an understatement. I also have no need of disinformation.
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  6674.  @clonescope2433  from what I can recall, there are two propulsion systems, so it'd be two sources of input into one output. Which sounds like a huge pain in the ass if they're both inputting at once. I do wonder how they fixed the issue between the steel and aluminum, galvanic reaction between the two are infamous for causing problems in any other structural component scheme. Frankly, new classes of anything have their initial problems, they always have. New technologies, new mixtures of technologies, implementation and maintenance, plus just being new in general all have to get shaken down to see what tries to fall off. I got to test a bunch of brand new Army stuff over the decades, some not ready for prime time, others never fielded and quite a few made it into active usage today.
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  6675.  @josephahner3031  there is a wee bit of a difference between a rifle and a warship. Even if the rifle base unit covers rifle, carbine, DMR and MG capabilities, it's still far, far, far simpler than a warship with dozens of subsystems that have to integrate with a dozen or so primary systems just to apply ordinance on target. To more liken the two, we'd need to replace the soldier wielding the rifle with a novel machine, add in additional weapons to it, a butt ton of sensors and we'd still not even be close in complexity. Especially, as that rifle still isn't in production or distribution yet.
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  6676. I dunno, if I was the speaker there, if I couldn't wrangle being given one of the chickens, I'd probably confiscate one to squeak periodically during my own speech. And comment on perhaps, the protesting party's supplier should be switched so that they also could've gotten whoopie cushions to keep the rubber chickens company. And suggest dog turd drink coolers... Someone wants to protest in such a way, mocking their protest with suggested "improvements" is quite an effective counter. Far more effective than simply ignoring them. And it also shows that one has a sense of humor, it might be a fucked up sense of humor, but it still is a sense of humor. Oh wait, one needs to have enough intelligence to pass the mirror test to have a sense of humor and Trump never did pass the mirror test.
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  6677. Ah, but you forget, the US Constitution is now illegal. Unless we want to send the army back in to put it back into place again. Otherwise, we get a spread of micro-Hitlers.
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  6678. If that judge and court is illegal, wouldn't the FISA courts also be equally illegal? For that matter, can the bar now hold a disbarment proceeding? And interstate commerce is now unregulatable under this decision, erasing part of the Constitution itself by judicial fiat.
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  6679. So is Putin. Given this idiot is pro-Ukraine and doing such support in some exceptionally zany ways. Dude's like the Max Klinger of mercenaries.
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  6680. Given Trump's history of paying for services rendered, that was a given at the onset.
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  6681. Save for that entirely not being an actual crime. There is aiding and abetting sedition, there is misprision of treason (which requires the treasonous one to actually take up arms against officers of the US government, with two eyewitnesses to the overt act willingly testifying in open court or giving aid and comfort to an enemy in a war declared by Congress), there is no aid and comfort to an insurrectionist. Otherwise, entire families would be convicted should someone begin to participate in an insurrection, return home when ordered and now their family goes to prison. We once were a people of law, I miss those wonderful decades!
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  6682. When one's adversary gives you ammunition, it is wise to inspect it, but it'd be foolish to discard that which passed all testing and inspection, rather than utilize it against that adversary.
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  6683. When did declining to hear a case before it's heard by a lower court a ruling?
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  6684. Trump drained the swamp by pumping in raw sewage.
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  6685. It's interesting that the Trump bot machine was going on about Harris not giving any interviews around Wednesday, which was 20 major interviews successfully conducted into the week and now suddenly, he's not conducting any interviews... Given the incessant projection, it was highly predictive.
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  6686. Well, TBH, a potted plant would be ahead of DonOLD in the polls right now. And have trounced him in the debates, given his amphetamine driven non-performance. Hitler was quite crazy toward the end of the war. Know why? He and his staff were heavy methamphetamine users, so the paranoia and delusions got to them. Trump's been taking stimulants like that for years, even have pictures of him sitting at his desk that had a drawer overflowing with packages of the prescription pills.
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  6687. Yeah, milliwatts disturb chemicals so vastly, which is why cellular phones at whole watts destroyed the universe.
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  6688.  @baldeagle4710  now now, Emperor Musk is sharing with Empress Trump. Maybe you'll get some trickle down from his leg.
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  6689.  @KickStarrs  "What do you mean I can't bail myself out of prison?!", it's a plot by Obamaaaaaaaa. Oh, Biiiiiidennnnn! Oh, Harrrrrrisssss, who commily refused to allow me to assign her race to her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Suitably Trumpy? Wait, no, not whiny enough. Yeah, I've an intense personal dislike for the manchild. I've personally met him back around 2000, still haven't recovered. The Chamber of Commerce has only recently recovered from the debacle of inviting him for the tristate event.
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  6690. I'll admit, it was my first thought. But, the more that's come out on this specimen, the more it's readily apparent that he's just another nanu-nanu and worse, a felon that isn't allowed to possess a firearm that was in possession of a loaded firearm, while criminally trespassing on private property.
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  6691.  @loantran-thanh7795  tell that to the families of those that died near Pittsburgh. I care for two reasons only. One, he's a US citizen and no US citizen deserves to be shot for words spoken, regardless of how idiotic or offensive that they are, that's only our first amendment. The other being, we vote by ballot in this country, we do not vote by bullet. Leave that for developing nations. In life, one can be an example, one then has to choose whether to be a good example or a bad example. The same is true for nations.
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  6692. Whatever is bad about sharks? Sharks are tasty! Oh yeah, my bad, forgot that felines don't like competition as predators. Send him into terror, play some old SNL episodes: "the Land Shark is considered the cleverest of all sharks. Unlike the Great White shark, which tends to inhabit the waters and harbors of recreational beach areas, the Land Shark may strike at any place, any time. It is capable of disguising its voice, and generally preys on young, single women."
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  6693. Ah, but will the asteroid lower the price of eggs? OK, the original odds of impact was given at around 1%, based upon extremely sparse data, with large amounts of uncertainty. Recently, the numbers started looking, still highly uncertain, but had oh! More than doubled at around 2.3%. Out of the sheer number of things that can quite literally kill me immediately and there are a few, that asteroid is the lowest probability harm on the list and well, longer term problem that can't even be verified. We've also gone through this exact same shuffle in the past with other asteroids, some making the news. Now, I can go into risk assessment math and bore everyone into a coma, but really, need I bother? One stands a superior chance of winning the lottery than being harmed by this asteroid is the end of the day probability, per the math and well, experience. It didn't start off with oh, 30% chance and jump to 50% chance, the uncertainties are immense and frankly, of scientific value currently only, not even on an emergency response or mitigation radar. Density is unknown, a rubble pile would come apart as it enters into the Roche lobe, giving a really nice meteor shower. It also wouldn't explode, it'd fall apart if it somehow stayed integral. Assumptions are made that it's spherical and it's more likely either a contact binary or potato shaped, as it's way too small to form a sphere. The mass is unknown. It could be a puffball, in which case it'll disintegrate swiftly under G forces from the air itself, most of it evaporating. It could be a starship and what does god need with a starship? Until more is known, well I take greater risks walking to the supermarket twice a month. Obviously, I still eat - more obvious if you actually saw me. ;) As for the apocalypticlly inclined, if you really, really want a catastrophe, pop on by and pull my finger. You'll get your nose hairs curled to your heart's content. For a real disaster, well, I could always try replicating that salmon dish disaster, not only didn't the dogs not want it, most scavenging insects avoided it as well. The EPA still hasn't forgiven me that gaffe. The remnants are currently safely stored under the sarcophagus at Chernobyl, which is why Ukraine was so annoyed over that drone strike. Given my AAA, mitral valve damage, thyroid disease, autoinflammatory disease and autoimmune diseases, well, crossing the street is more dangerous still, the rest, like crossing the street remain at "Watchful Waiting" until something occurs that actually merits concern and response.
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  6694. The best scene I recall was when the general got his helmet blown off, was in a shell hole with a Private, who said, "I'd love to get my hands on the son of a bitch running this battle!" and Omar Bradley replied, "So would I". Battles run on confusion, with perfect clarity, both sides would just go the hell home.
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  6695. Oh, then there's the "bad boot". Cold boot, the computer does anything except perform correctly. Throws errors, runs dog slow. Warm reboot, no good. Quick cold boot, still no good. While considering reprogramming the computer using a generously proportioned fire axe, one goes to the can during another cold off. Back, it boots right up and performs normally. There's a reason they tell you to leave the damned thing off for 30 seconds to a minute. Space charge retaining a state. Traced one such event back to a literal cosmic ray shower of historic levels sufficient to make a blurb on the evening news as I was consulting with the designer of a custom OS, remarked on it and we brainstormed what happened. A register got stuck in an illegal state, quite excited by a particle that said hello at damned near the speed of light. Powered off during that, ahem, leak event, its charge finally depleted enough to allow the reset one shot that fires on cold boot to actually reset the register. Quickly power cycling just didn't cut it, as the charge was retained and the illegal state remained. One of the times I was happy to be fluent in the profanity of six languages...
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  6696.  @kenbrown2808  my response would be, "The jurist in this matter is respectfully and cordially invited to pound sand up his ass until the end of time, as the Middle District of Pennsylvania is not the slave of the Southern District of New York and the costs involved would both destroy the global internet, which is against international law and ratified treaties, as well as be sufficient to bankrupt any nation attempting to usurp such control, as only the People's Republic of China has a firewall capable of such a feat". Not my district, not my wheelhouse, not my domain and entirely not my problem. I am not under their circuit or district, so the orders are irrelevant. I am not the global god of the internet throughout the world, so it's a big nope. I don't control the 1589 top level domain controllers that are scattered across the globe, so hell no. I'm under the 3rd circuit, they are under the 2nd circuit, so bye-bye. And even were I under their jurisdiction, services ordered that are involuntary and unpaid is slavery, which is unconstitutional. .tv is a top level domain, as is .com.The TLD .tv is owned by the island nation of Tuvalu, which is decidedly outside of any US court of law. The TLD .com is owned by Verisign, which is headquartered in Reston, VA. Reston, VA is under the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is under the fourth circuit. Frankly, it looks like the reporter screwed up the jurisdiction of the court, the authority of the court and the impracticality of compliance with the order, unless the jurist is directing the US to go to war with Tuvulu, which is laughable. Lord, save us from tech correspondents reporting on the law and law correspondents reporting on tech, for they always turn the story into a pig's breakfast!
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  6697. I wonder if one can remotely brick their strayed Tesla...
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  6698.  @Neberheim  state motor vehicles are now federal? It's one thing to niggle over the Real ID, it's yet another to take someone's license and revoke it without cause, regardless of his having other state operators licenses, which de facto then overrules the US Constitution's faith and credit clause and effectively overrules the entirety of the US Constitution. Cut off every federal cent to the state, no federal agencies or services at all, not even for the Guard until they restore his rights as a US citizen.
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  6699. OK, she'd first have to be impeached by Congress. Then, her judicial immunity stripped so that she could be charged with dereliction of duty. I figure that'll happen right around when the sun goes out.
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  6700. That's because they ceased the program and gave it to the University of Alaska in 2015. So yeah, the program is gone. Now, it's exclusively a university program, its utility for communications being explored and well, not quite as useful as lunar reflection, reflecting off of other satellites or just using our own satellites.
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  6701. The reality of it is, most journalists don't understand science in general and any specialty field is lumped in with The Professor from Gilligan's Island, a polymath of polymaths and full time engineer, so all science is the same and magic. So basically, you have someone who has absolutely no damned clue about what the item being reported upon actually is, trying to explain it without seeking anyone conversant in that subject. I might as well get a medical study interpreted by my barber, at least that would have a historical relationship, if utterly unrelated today. But wait, it gets better! For major, long playing events, they'll get science populisers, like Bill Nye, explaining why they were injecting cesium-137 into the reactor to stop reactions and how boron is a fission product (I'm not joking, Bill really fouled that up about as badly as I'd expect an engineer to foul up a field he never worked or studied). So, we get reports about a study performed somewhere, by someone, on something, at a time indeterminate and for all I know was conducted 1000 years ago, some scientist's life story and family history reporting on one modest discovery (yeah, I fell asleep too) or other inanity that is the reason that I still keep a lead pipe next to my driver's seat. Science is fuchsia. What? You saw it. Science explains our universe and how it works. We started out explaining colors in really unique, precise ways, red, yellow and blue. Yay! Then, someone found the color fuchsia, which ain't all that hard to find in nature and boom, there's a new color called fuchsia. If we listen to the antiscience types, language has to be abolished, since fuchsia never exited at one point and language is hopelessly defective because now it can define what fuchsia is and worse, science can give us a specific code to reproduce that color. You know, better is really worse or some idiotic bullshit. OK, I'll just slap a mauve on the idiot. An oddity in myself, I perceive part of the UV-C spectrum as an odd shade of iridescent fuchsia. UV-A and B are just deeper shades of violet. I see those with the eye that had the natural lens removed and an implant that is uncoated installed and when I discussed it with a biologist, he theorized that it was likely a fluorescent effect, which would also explain some of the other effects when seeing those shades. No, I am not about to allow anyone to start poking my eyes to see what proteins are doing what oddity with light, you're welcome to those after I'm dead and they likely have denatured. Besides, we have plenty of similar examples in technology and nature. Why, I've got some fun crystals in the drawer that emit different colors when lit by an IR laser... Fluorescein dye is another fine example, discovered in 1871, used in ophthalmology in 1882, tagged proteins with it in 1941, actually started to understand how the shit worked in the 1990's. I laugh about how many drugs I carried in my Army medical bag that we really didn't understand how they worked! Just as well, it'd be boring as hell if we knew everything!
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  6702. Someone runs up to them and says "Naughty, naughty!". Silently, without running. And perhaps speaker of the house or president pro tempore. What's supposed to happen is impeachment and removal. What used to happen was tar and feathering. After all, it's an abrogation of a position of great public trust, once, there were consequences. Now, prostitution of one's high office is just business as usual for one major party, the one loudly proclaiming respect for law and order, but promoting violence and disorder. Perhaps we should consider repealing the prohibitions against writ of attainder and corruption of blood. Violate your oath, lose everything you'll ever own and your heirs lose all possibility of inheritance. It discouraged anyone from following Robert E. Lee again and got the nation a fine plantation, which we call Arlington National Cemetery.
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  6703. If the Lord God Almighty were to appear personally before them and tell them the truth about Trump, that he's a serial lair and fraudster, they'd try to kill God and burn heaven to the ground.
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  6704.  @sparkalaphobia1090 and a bonus, with momentum 0, one doesn't have the results flying out of the detector before one can measure them. I've always wondered though, are beam dumps instrumented or just the bare minimum to know when the beam hits the dump block?
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  6705.  @barbaram6303  El Salvador is now safe, so was Nazi Germany, unless one was accused, then one was just dead. And lemme check, well until Trump, we'd defeated the fascists.
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  6706. Yeah, two wars and now the phone perpetually rings. :/
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  6707. This nonsense started with a disinformation campaign claiming that one US Navy fleet supply ship, which supplies our fleets while at sea, was magically carrying weapons to Israel the longest way imaginable, while never being scheduled to be anywhere near the Middle East. They may as well just set fire to their own homes to force a foreign nation, Israel to change their policies, with about equal attention being given to them. They'd have less impact on their neighbors though, with equal ineffectual results. Because, airplanes taking off from Germany won't be delayed by a blocked Golden Gate Bridge.
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  6708.  @shelleyking8450  well, McNamara moved on anyway, to the new program, McNamara's Morons. Worked out even less well.
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  6709. Don't forget, Trump also shut down the federal government for an extended time and never appointed even 10% of those appointees. How do you think his loyalists would act when they go without a paycheck for a few months?
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  6710. @2025-w5 the crime is contempt of court. Go argue with a judge about whether contempt is criminal. The civil offense was proved in a court of law of defamation on the two women. Or is defamation only unlawful if it's against white men?
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  6711. The only conspiracy theory that might be worthwhile to share is a non-criminal conspiracy - the conspiracy of absurdity. Where dozens of absurd factors result in a chain reaction of stupidity that is worthy of notice. An example are two men with the same name and birthdays a month apart being confused for a week in the justice system. There was no malicious intent, just an absurd chain of errors and "not my job" idiocy, which is decidedly noteworthy and in need of being addressed. Compared to similar chain of events, where the two men were a decade apart, different racial groups, different builds and even Helen Keller could tell them apart, despite being blind, deaf, dumb and dead.
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  6712.  @jokermaan1  hence, why he's trying every impossible delay tactic in his criminal cases. Only one problem, even if he were to win the election, he'd still be facing state criminal charges which he cannot order dismissed. He'd literally have to send the army into the state to stop it and that won't happen, as we were well trained to question, then disregard unlawful orders. Something ironic, as we'd literally have to thank former Lieutenant Calley for that training.
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  6713.  @briankistner4331  oddly, so does a whole bunch of ICBM and SLBM's courses. And we have more missiles than they have cities, the converse is entirely untrue. Not that I'm suggesting anything.
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  6714. Dynamic reallocation of resources. At least that's what I trained my E-4 mafia to utilize.
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  6715.  @rylian21  no, we'd still have plenty of members of the House and operable, a Speaker, who is first in the line of succession, even if a quorum isn't present, pending selection of a new President by vote in Congress, selection in the House, approval in the Senate. The post may not remain vacant during that interim period. If the Speaker is not able to assume the post, then it goes to President Pro Tempore of the Senate. That's why both houses of Congress terms begin on 3-Jan, while POTUS begins 20-Jan, to ensure no vacancy is present, leaving the nation without a functional branch of government.
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  6716.  @rylian21  an odd view, given their early rejection of the tea party and conspiracy theory minded dolts. They're old guard GOP, the ones you claim that they gave shelter and comfort to came along with the tea and libertarians hijacking the party away from the old guard. I see tea party types even now recommending violence, but none of the old guard doing so. That's the shit that chased me away from the party after a quarter century. It became Terra Incognita.
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  6717.  @MA-qe2sn  Cheney was as they still are, old guard GOP. It was always their MO. The enemy of my enemy may not necessarily be my friend, but could be a convenient, if guarded ally. After all, the Soviet Union was an ally against the Axis. And one of our best customers at the time as well.
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  6718.  @TheLukaszpg  yep, your mother certainly was, while entertaining the US seventh fleet. Still, reviews have it that you give better head than she did. And yeah, I'd say it right to your face. Then, wrap my cane around your head. But, it is nice to hear back from the poster child for their local abortion clinic. Shelly, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the ugliness. I've worked a number of emergencies, to put it mildly and been in the midst of some as well, being military EMS. Watching the video was hard, it had to be triple tough to have lived through it, watched it and commented. Even at age 62, I'm learning from some Moms! And having handled many 737's back during the Ice Age, yeah, risk busted feet vs inferno, no brainer. Notice injury much later, yeah, got that tee shirt. Indeed, part of why I need a cane now. Although, I'd probably consider walking to my destination after yet another runway incursion... ;) Most of my flights being trans-Atlantic. Kind of a tough walk, but I'm stubborn enough. I'll just get my coat...
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  6719.  @artisan002 what city was that? I am unaware of any city that still practiced those drills in that era and Philly was decidedly on a first strike list for the Navy yard and DPSC depot.
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  6720.  @jus10lewissr  a year?! I doubt there'll be much left in three months! Wouldn't surprise me if the prick tried to launch our own nukes at us by month six.
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  6721. Who would've thought to shoot down a nuke ICBM with another nuke? Oh, Russia and the US. The US system to first be designed for the task was the Nike-Hercules missile, which launched a neutron bomb into the path of an incoming warhead. That would trigger a fizzle and potentially disrupt the electronics in the warhead. Needless to say, the notion of detonating neutron bombs over top of one's own cities was about as popular as J. Edgar Hoover was with Ma Barker. The MIRV kind of changed that notion anyway, as one would then need a ludicrous number of neutron bombs going off overhead, leaving fallout higher than letting the damned warhead detonate on target. Thankfully, the START treaties limited warheads in the US and Russia massively, so largely military targets would only be hit in an exchange. Because, the best way to prevent a nuke from hitting your city is to ensure that the damnable thing stays at home in its silo.
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  6722.  @mwangikimani3970  maybe not invading neighbor, while laughably claiming a Jewish man is a Nazi, then blaming "gay parades" and threatening an entire planet with nuclear war would be a good idea. Nuclear blackmail can turn quite destructive. Still, if I was Biden, I'd take Putin's suggestion and salt my nukes with cobalt. Cobalt-60 is ever such an interesting radioisotope!
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  6723. You really should show your parents more respect.
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  6724. We went through this in both previous elections, after which he made a miracle recovery once he didn't need free airtime. Harris gets to pay for airtime, he holds a shiny up to the press and everyone gives his name airtime. Fall for it once, oops, fall for it twice, you're a dumbass, fall for it three times, you're dumber than a bag full of hammers.
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  6725. Well, think about a stealth bomber, difficult to impossible to find on radar or get a solid IR missile lock on, which carries a 40,000 lb (18,000 kg); maximum estimated limit is 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) bomb load in two bays. Stealth, hard to detect with radar, hard to vector a fighter to where the bomber is - if you knew it was around. Range of 560 mph (900 km/h, 487 kn) at 40,000 ft altitude. Nuclear weapon capable. Now, compare it with the other primary US bomber, the B-52, which is 1950's tech based, as stealthy as a thunderstorm and is so old, it's coal fired. ;) We retain the B-52's because they can carry a bomb load of 70,000 lb (31,500 kg) of assorted mayhem and many were nuclear capable and since, restricted most from nuclear capabilities. Alas, it looks like we're gradually entering into Cold War II with both the PRC and Russian Federation.
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  6726. I remember one credulous reporter going on at great length in a comment online about how natural things aren't harmful. I asked how much hydrogen cyanide he wanted mixed with his ricin, both being toxic substances in the plant kingdom. The former, we prepare out of some foods, the latter, best avoided entirely if you like having a functional endoplasmic reticulum (specifically, ribosomes). The idiot promptly wandered off to kick a rock somewhere. After all, asbestos is natural too, as is lead, arsenic, strychnine and well, we could keep that list growing all week. ;) I of course, keep such substances in stock only in my nightmares.
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  6727. Yes, they forgot ever since they voted the Almighty out of office and anointed Trump their god-emperor wannabe.
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  6728. OK, that removes the very first amendment and establishes a state belief system analogous to religion. Meetinghouses are older than our nation and literally part of inherited common law that's over 1000 years old. We've also obviated property rights as well, so only approved by the federal government meetings are now allowed. Boy, that Bill of Rights sure is growing rapidly shorter! Additionally, you've encroached upon state and county rights along with federal rights on taxation. Worse, only approved meetings may occur, income must be taxed based upon certain approved property uses.
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  6729. Mine won't be counted until Nov 5, per Pennsylvania law. My ballot was mailed on the 4th, received on the 6th by the county.
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  6730. Penis vs cliterous, Turns into a goy thing. My wife suffered from clitomegaly, made figuring out the anatomy easy. And hers was pretty much as big as mine was. At least, that's the lie that stuck. She died from an infection. Trivially addressed, diabetically undressed.
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  6731. Only because none of his properties will put up with his shit.
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  6732. I'm absolutely no lover of the modern NRA, I prefer them from before the hostile industry takeover that was a response to NRA support of the Gun Control Act of 1968. But, there are quite a few laws already on the books that enforce gun control that go ill to unenforced. An unenforced law is no law at all. We also do need laws requiring responsible firearm storage and for crying out loud, a small secure handgun storage container starts at around $30.00. Locks come with the firearms now, use the damned things and don't store the boom-boom bang bangs with their bullet launchers. This isn't complicated, but apparently we do need laws that are enforced that mandate just those things. And you don't give a minor child a loaded firearm to store in their bedroom. You also don't give them a Formula One race car, so try using a touch of common goddamned sense.
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  6733. Save that Colorado isn't a country, it's a state. Still, this is what one gets when one selects leaders by mere popularity contests.
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  6734. No, President Musk is chief of the deepliest state, deeper than the mere deep state he's rooting out like the finest hog ever. While the god-king sends in the military to make it rain and magically move water thousands of miles without a water channel - from another country... Of course, Trump hires the incompetent, lest he look bad and besides, they work for cheap and won't demand overtime, which he hates. So, he shows his competence by talking about delusional Hamas rubber bombs, more coming out of the closet gradually from Donnie? Is it me or is the top of his head looking a lot flatter of late, maybe because of all of his grand notions pancaking right on top of it?
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  6735.  @agger838  well, it is the primary object of worship in the US. Hence, why we refer to it as the almighty dollar. Me, dunno what money is, I'm married. ;)
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  6736.  @karleneblaser1261  save that the electoral college option was thought of in a number of states, hence "faithless electors" laws to penalize any elector exercising that option. So, go to prison for doing the right thing for the nation or vote per the popular vote, against an entire nation and remain free.
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  6737. Would you feel safe working in nuclear fuel processing/reprocessing in Japan? Neither would I. But, with the last debacle, they did come up with a good proxy for the actual level of exposure. Those investigating the Tokaimura incident developed a Yen for coins from nearby... I'll just get my hat...
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  6738. The moral of the story, don't bite trees, their bark is worse than their bite. Well, unless the tree is cinnamon... Which has its very own toxicity profile. Of course, it's natural, so it can't hurt. Like nutmeg. And strychnine. Nature provides ever so many ways in which one can do the funky chicken...
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  6739. I'm growing ever more confused. While objecting to Republican attention on what's inside of women's pants, why there is ever such a growing fascination on what's inside of DonOLD's pants. Beyond his absurd proclamations of perfection in essentially every way, from absurd claims that fall flat on their face on his intelligence and competence in all things, come his claims of physical perfection, which Helen Keller can see are patently false. So, why a fixation on his underoos? That's somehow a campaign issue? That's right up there with saying that I'm unfit to vote because I shit myself due to an attack of Crohn's. What is a campaign issue is loosely related to his claims of perfection, it's the fact that he's habitually, incessantly and by nature flat out more full of shit than a Christmas goose in literally everything that he says. To the point where, were I to have met him for the first time today and he introduced himself (unlikely, as his ego is such that he believes he needs no introduction), I'd card his ass. That he thinks shoving bright light up your ass and injecting disinfectants is a good idea, that nuking hurricanes off of the cost "of the country of Africa" to blow them out is a good idea, that trespassing on federal forests to rake them out like other nations don't and he claims that they do is, that he wants to suggest summary executions and chargeless imprisonments is, that fascists and totalitarians are good people that should both be coddled and emulated decidedly is. What is inside his pants, when did you decide to become Trump? Maybe you need to run out and buy a white hat, so I can tell who is who.
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  6740.  @halkihaxx5  instead, they'll try again to wait until the "problematic" veterans die off. Like they tried with the atomic veterans and agent orange veterans.
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  6741.  @cindyhuang7021  naw, people had more sense back then.
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  6742. First, send the hot mess to the Virginia Secretary of State. Then, out of an abundance of concern for the safety and security of our service members, submit every military installation, including USCG stations, to the BRAC commission for immediate closure, since TDY is now permanent residence and families must only exist for under 30 days. Then, bring that legislative agenda item up to Fox News, over a state extorting citizens visiting their state. Then, see if that state still wants to play, if so, I begin to fight dirty. Such as interference with the US Constitutional right to freedom of travel, due to their extortionate demands to falsify official records. Even dirtier, interference with interstate commerce, due to their extortion. Plus PR nightmare games. At the beginning, I'll buy some major stakes in antacid companies. By the time I'm done, the dividends alone will likely be enough to pay down the national debt. ;)
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  6743. Easy, for one major political party, fraud is business as usual and totally legal, save for you or I.
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  6744.  @nonyourbuz5805  then we should be singing God Save The King here. Meetinghouses were common political gathering places for over 1000 years under our inherited common laws - inherited from the UK. We still use churches for polling places, their being the only place available in many rural counties around the nation. Now, if the church say, charged Trump $1000000 for his usage of the church for his rally, that money would rightfully be taxable income for the church and taxes due to the IRS and likely, the state. If not, well, we really shouldn't be altering a social practice that's older than our nation over the mischief of one man and I'm using that term rather liberally and generously.
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  6745.  @albertmagician8613  well, he started off broken. Financially broke, as in basically bankrupt? Not yet, but I suspect he's close. He couldn't make bond in NY to appeal one case, he squealed and shut up with a $10k contempt fine, so not broke, but I suspect he's pretty damned close. Trump inherited the overwhelming majority of his wealth, he's been steadily losing that ever since and that rate of loss has been escalating with recent litigation that he's excelled in losing. He also owes money in the UK over that Steele litigation that he badly lost and now owes Steele and his company for attorney fees ordered by the courts. That's now advancing through the UK legal system and I suspect a golf course might be going onto the market soon for cheap.
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  6746.  @msudawg1997  that is one failure to the high speed imaging technologies that most of the public is not aware of. Still, I suspect that at 300 fps, usable data will be acquired. Keep up the excellent work! Tests like these save lives and equipment!
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  6747.  @nemo-x  and tellingly, is putting most stuff into space. What have you put anywhere, beyond a Twinkie into your mouth?
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  6748.  @msudawg1997  BTW, I used to work with 15000 psi test hydro-pneumatic systems, what was the failure pressure of that monster tank?
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  6749.  Chet Carson  no, man never walked on the moon. Shuffled, hopped, jumped, fell a hell of a lot, to the point where the team that built the spacesuits were near having massive coronaries. Walked, not at all. Walking just ain't in the cards for creatures evolved under 1G, trying to move around under 1/6th G. I've even said as much to Buzz Aldrin, which was greeted with a snort and nod. To which I gave a scout salute, as a full hand salute would've been inappropriate, neither of us being in uniform.
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  6750.  @roach1371b  actually, Scott, that would be an excellent topic. Both from phosphene possibilities to direct stimulation of the retina and phosphorescence of the vitreous humor, as well as the effects of bremsstrahlung radiation.
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  6751.  @PureAmericanPatriot  "absurd obsession with safety", meaning, allow deaths and destruction of expensive equipment and losing funding is a goal. I'll happily hop onto any rocket NASA launches, at least it won't have holes drilled through the skin of the space capsule.
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  6752.  @msudawg1997  5psi? That's insanely low, considering flight considerations. Try to send me on a tank with that low pressure, hear my response! 15 psi, we'll talk. From start to finish, otherwise, that's insanely low.
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  6753.  @msudawg1997  cumulative stress over a large area makes for massive forces! Reminds me of an air start bottle, high pressure reservoir, low pressure output, connector ill seated meant a six inch hose endangered everyone on the ramp.
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  6754.  @PureAmericanPatriot  actually, I understand quite well. Not entirely certain though, as to which comment you were replying to. Remember though, tolerances are for loading, shear, vibration, etc and can be cumulative, so typically there is some degree of excess to avoid unforeseen conditions, such as an engine thrusting out of spec in a multi-engine stage, in particular, the sudden change in load dynamics with an engine cutoff that was unanticipated.
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  6755.  Chet Carson  yeah, OK, genius. 10000 people worked on the program, not a one blabbed. The spacecraft have been imaged by a current lunar orbiter, but they're not there because the moon is made of cream cheese or something.
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  6756.  Chet Carson  as I said, 10000 people all kept quiet, even Russia, our enemy, went along with it. Keep on sailing in loony land, sugarbumps. There's a room with rubber wallpaper with your name on it waiting.
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  6757.  Chet Carson  "Sorry chuckles, you can try to spin it all you want but man never walked, hopped, skipped, crawled, stepped, or even fell on the moon." Your words, not mine, they're plainly in the thread. Troll elsewhere, you're blocked.
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  6758. Murdoch has turned on him and his media empire has begun slamming both Emperor Musk and his subordinate, god-king Trump. Gonna get interesting, maybe god-king will outlaw being a Murdoch.
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  6759. Lemme get this straight, the jurist was unaware of who was inside of the jury box and entirely unaware of the shiny steel bracelets with their shiny linking chain? That sounds like a serious, life threatening emergency, as the jurist is decidedly not awake, aware and oriented times 3. Still, I'd apologize and rightfully earn a contempt citation, "I apologize your Honor, I really need to watch my frigging mouth and shit, there might be some fucking cunt around". Given her inappropriate action that engenders serious doubt in granting faith and credit to the judiciousness and wisdom of the judiciary. I'd likely also have to apologize for breaking her bailiff... Questions to answer, is the jurist responsible for activities in the hallway that fall outside of the case under her jurisprudence? When did the first amendment get repealed? Oh, that non-apology is me being nice, but thoroughly irritated. I'm more than capable of making Saint Peter go into a tirade of profanity previously unheard by any ears - right in front of the throne. I've literally gotten a nun to curse while standing on the church altar. She was promptly caused to retire, which was my goal, due to her abuses to students. Now, an appropriate action on the jurist's part would be to state her offense to a statement, then strongly suggest an apology. I've ate crow pie the size of Texas, when approached that way. I then blamed it on its actual cause, intracranial flatulence. Cole's slaw: thinly sliced cabbage. :P Broken bailiffs: for when just leaving them badly bent just won't suffice. Left with their shoelaces tied together works quite well - as long as they don't notice you doing it.
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  6760. They never stopped, we had the same problem in the Robber Baron era.
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  6761. I'm reminded that Trump also said that Biden wanted to hurt God. And that he'd fire God, as God is a pussy for letting his child be killed. Donald Trump, turned Easter into keister. When it finally arrives, do enjoy Ass Sunday, courtesy of Dumb Donald, the firer of the Almighty. Jesus, I really don't drink enough for this shit. What really fucks me up is, one supreme court, subservient by design of required Constitution that's subservient to the US Constitution, found the US Constitution unenforcable, because of Trump God-king, the emperor of the universe. I'll not even go into "the stock market is good" bullshit, while Americans literally are homeless and starving, it's a god-hurt thing and one cannot try to hurt the god-Trump. As for absentee voting, why again do the GOP want to remove the right of our military to vote, yet again? We fight your wars, but are denied the vote?! Then, a former POTUS wants to further abuse us by trying, abortively, to consider our confiscation of voting machines?! Trump is guilty of sedition. Per the Constitution, his family are outlaws, utterly unprotected by the Constitution and hence, our laws as long as he is alive. That, under common law at the time the Constitution was written and hence, inherited. Note, I've not said treason, that's also provided for in the Constitution precisely. Sedition had to be defined after the civil war. So, folks, we either have a god-emperor or we have a remaining republic. That any evangelical Christian considers otherwise already makes me think, and the thoughts ain't pretty. Being an ordained minister myself.
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  6762.  @Benny_512  largely the glow of cobalt-60 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Pity we'd never hear from you after that. Remember the Obama doctrine? Computer/network attacks are a WMD attack and we only field one form of WMD. Putin was the one suggesting cobalt-60, so of course out of an abundance of prudence such were assembled. After all, we did invent the cobalt warhead.
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  6763. I trust them completely - to rule eventually in favor of the god-emperor of the Trump States of America, land that has no Constitution.
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  6764. The really unpleasant lifeforms to deal with are uranium based life. Always on weight management programs, lest they ride into town in mid-week on a religious holiday season and end up riding on a critical ass. I'll just get my coat...
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  6765. And their plans would disenfranchise our deployed Armed Forces members. Funny, given how he wants to rely upon those he's blatantly and intentionally disenfranchising.
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  6766. Aw, come on, she's the foil. And the bit about agents carrying a pot of honey... Well, I'd have carried it a bit farther and they only came up with one Pooh.
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  6767. So, the city should invade private property, without a warrant, endanger workers lives inside of an unstable and still collapsing structure?
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  6768.  @jenniferlawrence9473  as the city would need to remove a lot of rubble off of the body, damaging an already damaged structure, they'd need a warrant to cause that damage. It still is privately owned property. What should've been done on day one was to condemn the property, then procure a warrant and demolition permit. Instead, they tried to convince the developer to demolish the structure, delaying everything.
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  6769. Going too fast for conditions…
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  6770.  @samsantucci1044  we know that the objection was made by a non-US citizen, just from the spelling used.
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  6771.  @mnomadvfx  well, you're a step ahead of many of those same low information types too, as you identified the nation of origin of that spelling. Most Brits I knew needed explanations of local, state and federal charges, as that is fairly foreign to their experience base. Some had difficulties initially in understanding summary offenses, misdemeanors and felonies as well, which I thought odd, as those level offenses originated in the UK.
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  6772. Every Trumpite that cries gives another angel their wings.
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  6773. Who cares about Russian army training?
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  6774. Was down to a half gallon of canola oil, so I picked up a 2.5 gallon jug of Canadian canola oil. I'll refill the smaller containers with it, like I usually do anyway. Big jugs are cheaper in the long run, just have to refill the smaller, more manageable containers. Gonna need another gallon of olive oil soon as well. I'll probably buy some that came from some other country that the god-king wannabe got a wild hair over. So many countries, such a big asshole...
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  6775. OK, so we know that the building plumbing is, well, dodgy if workers attribute a rotting stench in the office to the plumbing. We know that multiple layers of security are entirely absent, ranging from access control on the data systems to physical security of the facility, no alerts were raised when an employee checked in and disappeared from the planet without existing the facility. That's even more alarming than cholera and typhoid passing plumbing! With security this lax, anyone could be doing anything on their network and systems, not a soul would notice. Start with a full Sarbanes Oxley audit, it's literally that big a deal business wise, not to mention employee safety wise. The management has no clue who is and is not inside of their building and systems, didn't even notice a decomposing employee until someone literally blundered into someone likely beginning to liquefy. I suspect after such an audit, there will be multiple senior management position vacancies. Meanwhile, the DA can examine from other angles what other laws have been utterly ignored. Even with remote work, someone checking into the building and their ID doesn't check out of the building, that should've triggered some form of alert to the management to check and correct the discrepancy to ensure both employee safety and facility and data security. And someone needs to examine what other audits aren't being conducted, as I'm certain anything this lax proves that nebulous leadership has permitted other areas to have entirely absent security. In a financial sector business. When I was working information assurance for the DoD, had this happened on my base, I'd have been looking for a new job with a spectacularly poor reference and I'd not have been alone!
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  6776. Show me one place, just one, that mentions firing anyone in the Constitution. Especially for elected positions, but do include appointed with consent positions. I'll wait, the sun will be a black dwarf and you'll still not find it.
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  6777. @Offset great idea! Cancel the ACA, no health care for an entire nation - in the middle of a global pandemic. We can kill off 10% of our population easily! Although, it'd probably be simpler to salt our nukes with cobalt, then bomb ourselves and spread cobalt-60 across the land. Both ideas, equally moronic. Discarding the ACA leaving people with no coverage, so the hospitals go unpaid and bankrupt, vs utter destruction and gamma ray sterilized for a few decades.
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  6778.  @anonjoeoof2113  I tend to not get injured, since retiring from the Army. Previously, when I did, I rarely needed hospitalization, save a couple of times for outpatient care. One advantage of being a medic is having one's own aid station that one works out of. A couple of months back though, well, heart racing, BP insanely high, SPO2 of 85 and obviously feeling lousy - while COVID-19 was peaking in my county. You can guess what was running through my head. Pulse 135, BP 225/130, SPO2 85, atelectasis with fluid and partial collapse in both lungs, totally fun times. Noted also, even if doctor didn't mention it was phenomenally high voltages shown from the left ventricle, which told me longstanding hypertension to the point of cardiac muscle hypertrophy. Light bulb comes on - it wasn't COVID-19, it was proved out that essentially, my blood wasn't moving well from the tachycardia and rather narrow window in BP, resulting in lung dysfunction (there are a few other factors involved, it's a touch complex for here). COVID-19 was indeed ruled out, although heparin was given to ensure no unpleasant surprises and dexamethasone administered for the inflammation, preventing some really degrading conditions. Free thyroid hormones were elevated over tenfold above normal, thyroid stimulating hormone was nearly absent and I had a previous diagnosis of Grave's Disease - a form of hyperthyroidism. I was in a classic thyroid storm, indeed, a fever can also be expected during a thyroid storm, but that remained absent. So, the words that I never thought I'd utter came from my lips, to laughing agreement from doctor, "Oh, thank God, it's only a type of congestive heart failure!", rather than COVID-19, which would, within six sigma certainty, punch my ticket. Used to be an SF medic, my A&P knowledge, as well as general medical knowledge is more than sufficient to converse comfortably with physicians, had to do that by radio on occasion for treatment suggestions within the scope of equipment vs time to evacuation to definitive care, with an eye toward stabilizing the patient for up to a day or two. Can't accomplish that in a knowledge vacuum. Drugs carried were those that, optimally would have multiple uses - even if used off label and critically, were temperature stable in an uncontrolled environment.
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  6779. @Offset yeah, my bad, that'd be me. Had some baked beans and well, I am tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. One of my bolus results in an area that resembles a large bolide impact.
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  6780. @Offset triggered? I'm notoriously hard to trigger, save with a physical attack, which are always ended abruptly and I walk off before police show up to give me credit.
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  6781. He picked a fight with Taylor Swift, the question is, did she even notice? Frankly, I'd probably not notice. If I deigned to notice, he'd get back a lot better than he can give, I at least have a greater vocabulary than he does and know enough psychology to make it bloody. He'd shine purple through the orange clown makeup.
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  6782. And I'd be "Just as well, I was going to suggest you come back and discuss this in another 30 years or so".
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  6783. The vertical spikes are from sounding rockets, used to measure distance and shockwave characteristics. The angled flaming spikes leading into the fireball are guywires used to stabilize the tower vaporizing from the heat absorbed from the heat of the fireball. The double pulse, spot on. Cooling and shockwave formation, the shockwave disrupting the case shock initial fireball and opaque core fireball. Oxygen and nitrogen really intensely dislike such energetic abuse and all and simply want to refuse to participate... ;(
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  6784. @jimmydesouza4375 I call it for what it is, complacency. Complacency will result in one treating safety casually, cutting corners and developing bad habits. I've worked the ramp, for Piedmont Airlines before US Air bought them, back when Piedmont had bought Eastern's old mainframe. It's easy to grow complacent, to slip into unsafe habits. Did it myself, resulting in an F-28's bin door knocking some sense into me when I opened it without a hand to guard against it dropping and it happily slammed onto the top of my head, all 90 pounds of door. Thankfully, I do have an infamously hard head and a jaw of granite, but it still explained complacency to me even better than Krebs, a supervisor that himself was a propeller strike victim (again, due to complacency leading him to walk into a spinning propeller, resulting in a six month hospitalization) could do.
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  6785.  @supermanprime1281  I believe that that would qualify as morbidly obese.
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  6786.  @Conclusius68  nope, brown liquor. My guess, one of a half dozen whiskies, either scotch or bourbon would be most likely with his peer group. Personally, I'm partial to either Irish (Black Bush is my personal favorite) or a midrange Canadian blend. Had to cut way back though, due to GERD and now Crohn's. If I didn't, I'd lose out on my coffee, gotta balance irritants and all.
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  6787.  @I_SuperHiro_I  not when one has a contract that locks in a price. I've watched companies try to shaft the government by fundamental breaches of contract, the government cleaned their clocks in court - in some cases, resulting in the defrauding company's business to fail.
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  6788. Guess he's running low on diapers, he's down to one, instead of one on the ear, one on his ass.
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  6789. Folks, if you're ever near an ordinance explosion, don't go lookie loo around the site. Not all of that crap may have gone off and walking around could result in your stepping on unexploded ordinance and you will certainly find out with finality which religion is right. "No, Saint Peter, I didn't say that bad word, I said shiP, my ship has come in! Honest, I wouldn't lie about thaaaaaaaaaattt..."
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  6790.  @sixgunsymphony7408  yep. They're not built to defeat a heavy MG round, but to protect against small arms fire.
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  6791.  @OOspazOO  a Davy Crockett recoiless rocket nuke. A weapon that, we're I ordered to fire it, Sir would be urinating into a cup first, for Sir must be fucking high.
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  6792. I remember men executed for "only following orders" and those who ignored to follow those orders lauded. The orders being unconscionable and unlawful, that whole genocide thing and all. Oddly, we hear that same non-defense used as a defense today by lawless enforcement officers, the true law enforcement officers not requiring a defense. Now, if he's found guilty of making a false report, how many arrests that he made would then fall under shadow? I rather question his leadership's judgement for that reason alone, it could've just been an HR matter.
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  6793. Whatinhell is wrong with you?! He is not President Musk! He's Emperor Musk, he and Empress Trump rule the nation with an rusted iron fist.
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  6794. Well, at least you admitted to it, for a change.
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  6795.  @papi_dummy  yeah. I'm unaware of any murders or suicides committed using mercury as a toxin. That's just too messed up for murder and too excessive for the most masochistic suicide.
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  6796. You are wrong, tax exempt is to do with income, given we don't have federal property taxation in the US. Indeed, to follow that example, all meetinghouse activities would have to cease immediately nationwide, a practice that was part of inherited common law for over 1000 years from the UK. Finally, were that true, a lot of communities would lose their polling place, as voting is a decidedly political act, disenfranchising entire counties in many cases, as there would be no other realistic alternatives for polling places.
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  6797. Shooter and someone in the crowd are dead. Known and established, the intended victim and shooter are both humans. I'm not inclined to suspect some mythical magical home made weapon. One image that was said to be the shooter was a man in an elevated position with a rifle. Sounded like an assault rifle round, not a full throated roar of a high power rifle round series and that'd be consistent with the rate of fire as well. Basically, if it's bucking like a bronco, it takes a bit to get back in the geographical region of one's target in my own military experience. I'll also say, Trump did precisely what he was supposed to do, drop and cover and let the agents protect him, although clearing the stage was delayed and somewhat chaotic. I do have some slight suspicions, but I'll not discuss them at this stage, as I far prefer analysis to include facts. Oddly, one conservative pundit is already blaming the Secret Service and essentially calling them incompetent. And I'd love to hear how they got past the multiple diamond protection zone that's about as sterile within several miles as one can make it. Nobody on rooftops for miles, manhole covers are welded down, somehow an entire rifle shows up as big as Cleveland, I've some serious suspicions. Weird question on secreting the weapon "in the blistering heat", as it wasn't that hot, our asses and rifles got hotter in the sandbox and oddly entirely failed to melt or fail. That whole steel melting at 2500 and all... How did someone get a rifle and ammunition into the sterile area is one big question. How did they get to an elevated position within the sterile area? Scotty in on it and beamed it in?
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  6798. "I don't have a problem, so screw the victims of the Chicago Fire". Yeah, we're in this mess because of such people that are in desperate need of castration. I've also seen reviews on Amazon and other platforms for products that are decidedly different from what the listing currently is, as they edit the shit out of something good and successful, recycle the reviews untouched (since they can't edit those), list an inferior POS and use the good review numbers to boost sales with something that can catch water on fire.
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  6799.  @turricanedtc3764  relevant, given we're talking about nearly one US ton of excess weight.
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  6800. In law, just as with the menu example, the or is actually typically applied as an exclusive or function in the menu example, in the sentencing example, it's a simple or, where any satisfied condtion then meets the logical criteria. I can think of no simple equation where one can turn an AND into an OR, that requires a little bit of work with additional NOT conditionals. Yeah, worked with logic a hell of a lot myself, also did REGEX, most of the time either straight Boolean or REGEX, occasionally combined, parsed out in my head first to ensure the truth table comes out as I want it to. Did that at work often enough to be a living legend there, to immediately finish the task and proclaim, "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell *bad*. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green." Has a similar effect on androids and humans.
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  6801.  @mjmeans7983  I think the closing is most likely. Logic and congresscritters are mutually exclusive things. Most don't even read bills that they vote on, they follow their leader's instructions to look after their leader's desires, rather than do the job that their constituents voted for them to do. Base in point, a Seinfeld impeachment in progress, all about nothing, but that's a higher priority than funding the government that they were elected to run. In any other job, one doing that would end up fired - using real fire. What burns my balls is, I spent over 28 years of my life defending this goat screw.
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  6802. Give another decade, we'll know if it's familial or exposure. Gluten is hard to avoid, increasing over my lifetime. And a joke within the family, having a gluten addiction. Noodles or bread, make both by hand. And having been poorer than him and raising kids, well, rice and beans worked, noodles and tuna and green beans are a staple still today. And turkey day massive of turkey, yams, cranberries and collard greens from scratch remains on the table (and turkey will be frozen for subsequent meals, especially turkey salad). Which reminds me, got new containers, a tidbit of fridge space, there is a dearth of turkey salad...
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  6803. So, you believe that women should be beaten. Police officers should beat and stomp people to death as a warning to the populace on the mere, and in this case, incorrect suspicion of a crime? You are way too stupid to be permitted to vote or reproduce. Move to Somalia, you'd fit right in there. WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION. WE ARE A PEOPLE OF LAW. And I didn't spent over 27 years of my life defending this nation so that you could shred my constitution.
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  6804.  @Jommybutler1234  you're right, nobody can do anything. DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB! The Davros solution is the only one, right? No need to try, just give up and destroy everything. What a loser way to view things! That's precisely why we lost both world wars. Oh wait, we strived, persevered and despite our own worst efforts, muddled through. The second time, Marshalling through and not leaving survivors destitute. And now dismantling such mechanisms...
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  6805.  @02bher1  why would we exile a state convict to a federal POW facility in a foreign land? Hell, under what authority do we put a state convict inside of any federal detention facility? Might as well say Lefortovo prison, for all of the legality of such a suggestion. For the geographically challenged, Lefortovo is the old KGB prison in Moscow.
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  6806. If we discarded all studies that run contrary to the conventional wisdom, as espoused by other large authorities, we'd still be treating patients for miasma related illness. What we do now is have peer review, the peers finding any faults or flaws in the assessment of the data or erroneous data. If there is no faults or flaws, the data looks good and not tinkered with, then a new question is found. Yeah, just what we need, even more questions! Or should we ignore blood clot cascades that are strongly suggestive of DIC, as World Health didn't report such findings? Just to make that puzzle more fun, D-dimer was only elevated in some patients, just to ensure one's drive to tear one's hair out. TF is an unknown, but I'm willing to bet that it'll be elevated and that could be something or just another bucket full of noise, due to the level of destruction that's ongoing with the infection. Finally got everything ready to gin up a mask for going out, as we're finally getting low on food. Cloth diapers (nearly indestructable, are cotton and inexpensive), some scrap leather for lacework and jewelry for ties, got most of the way assembled with pins to realize I couldn't find the blasted bias tape for the edges. I'll get fancy tomorrow on the thing, as I still have to have some pleats to have a rectangle match my non-rectangular face. I imagine it's far easier for blockheads.
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  6807. And it wasn't money that was sent, it was weapons and ammunition. To be precise, old ammunition that was due to expire, so instead it got used against Russian equipment. Now, all the Russians have are some old T-62 tanks and Korean War relics, all of the more modern tanks have been destroyed. Their trucks also savaged enough that they're using donkeys to ferry ammunition and supplies.
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  6808.  @FishKev  one needs only hire people that know what they're doing. One sees that with Musk, as everything he directly managed has gone either static or tanked, such as Boring, his magical train that only exists under a Vegas parking lot and Twaddle. And well, Trump's every business he's had so far, from bankrupted casinos to Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump U, well, Trump everything to the point where his inheritance is nearly fully expended. Musk has two talents, showmanship and hiring good managers that aren't bullshitters.
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  6809. VI was just vi, vim was later as VI improved. From SunOS came slowlaris... Yeah, I had a pizza box Sun station back in the day. Back when we had to wind up our computers in the morning... Then, they invented steam...
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  6810. It's been years since I've heard that example of schlemiel and shemozzle, brings back many memories of when I was knee high to a grasshopper. I'll just say, Rubio likely will be the poor mashugana left holding the bag, as I really doubt we've got very many attorneys remaining in the land who desire to commit career suicide. Especially given the example of Giuliani, who is landing on that which is decidedly not his feet. I suspect they'll all find, they're not working for some grand Emperor, but instead for King Pyrrhus after the battle of Asculum. Learning the ancient lesson, "Another such victory and I am undone". With Rubio likely to get the word, "Sir, there are some men outside that would like a word with you". "Oh, who are they?" "I'm not sure, however one is carrying a large axe and the other is carrying a pike".
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  6811.  @LeCharles07  a standing joke is that English isn't a language, but a weapon of psychological warfare, designed to cause madness in those attempting to learn it. Given that every rule has an exception, I have to concede to the argument that it is indeed a weapon.
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  6812. Wanna know what a real military tribunal would find? "Not within our jurisdiction, case dismissed with prejudice". But, what would I know? I only served for over 28 years.
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  6813.  @cybele_m  lately?! You've not been paying attention until lately. Deregistering voters, old hat, decades long practice. Closing polling places so that the poor cannot get to a poll? Relatively recently, but still pre-Trump. Gerrymandering, ancient.
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  6814.  @Drew-DTM  I met him around 2000, was underwhelmed and the Chamber of Commerce had problems with attendance in the following year's function he was invited to that year. But, if we met today and he introduced himself, I'd demand ID. Because, given his track record, I would even doubt his name was accurate.
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  6815.  @susanford2388  paid? More accurately, rented associates.
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  6816.  @w0ttheh3ll  totally true, as true as the random seek time is superior in tapes to that of SSDs. And up and down being exactly the same direction.
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  6817.  @TheSentientCloud  as I recall, implementation of RFC2549 did suffer from some drawbacks and major flaws. Data fragmentation, where datagrams did arrive out of sequence and late quite often. There was also a problem with encapsulation in hawks, in which de-encapsulation created a messy, lossy result with massively mangled data. There was also the potential, which has already happened once, of extinction of the data without a suggestion of transmission (see passenger pigeon). Worse was replication experiments suffered from interference due to my affinity for squab.
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  6818.  @alfredeneuman6966  which is it? Let humans decide or God decide? People like you always choose God deciding against humanity, God chose humanity against Satan, his most trusted angel.
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  6819.  @humphreybumblecuck5151  that's what fire missions are for.
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  6820.  @Hautehead13  I'm pretty sure we're not sending ballots to Russia.
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  6821. Their initial takeover likely figured into it raining burning aircraft parts and passengers. Welcome to another Trump success, which the sane report as yet another epic failure, but god-king wannabe self-reports as an epic success.
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  6822. That is a dire insult to idiots, who cannot help their idiocy.
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  6823.  @Rickettsia505  can't say the same for two reasons, couldn't vote until late 1979 and well, was chased away by those who don't drink but like tea, the Know Nothing Party. Haven't looked back since. The Know Nothings having destroyed the original first conservative party in the US, the Whig Party, resulting in conservatives abandoning it and creating the new fangled Republican Party. That party's first presidential candidate being some Lincoln guy. Much gnashing of teeth and renting of bad ideas and a war later, they faded into obscurity. But, other Know Nothing antics involved their Nativist faction stealing a cannon from the port of Philadelphia and showing true devotion to the first amendment, the staunch Protestants proceeded to bombard a Roman Catholic church, convent/hospital and school, then murder militia that were dispatched to restore order. The militia commander then ordered a full battery of artillery to aim at the idiots and ordered them to return the purloined cannon and go home. Militia with fixed bayonets patrolled Philadelphia city streets for weeks afterward. Well, they're back and linked up with neofascists that are replicating old Nazi bad ideas. Actually read the history, they've nothing new, it's tired old retreads shoddily assembled and installed. Their champion, Machine Gun Jesus of the prosperity gospel, their prophet, the beast who was struck in the head with a sword and survived, their god being Mammon and the Lord of the Lies. Always use one's adversary's weapons against them.
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  6824. Now, why hasn't the House already impeached for misappropriation, given Congress allocated those monies and he's grabbed those funds and halted their disbursement in midstream? Oh wait, felonies are legal for the god-king, I forgot that Emperor Musk authorized that. Irritating, our youngest, also in the Philly metro area, just tested positive for COVID - barely a year after she finally recovered from long COVID that she contracted when Trump was calling it a cold and it'll just go away with some injected disinfectant and a light up the asshole. They don't make enough Secret Service to stop a good old fashioned South Philly beat down on his ass if that goes sideways. I've got way too many veterans that have my back.
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  6825. So, you deny the entire history of this planet? The dinosaurs disappeared at the same time a layer of iridium coated the earth. There are few places to find iridium, traces in some rare earth deposits, the core of the earth and in metallic asteroids and meteorites. There are other layers, all corresponding with impact craters that date to that same strata.
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  6826.  @bastadimasta  amazing! Two felons are good, a man with a clean record is evil. God is evil too, right, only the devil will do for you.
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  6827.  @DavidTa2  and in court you would be. Murder remains illegal and always shall be illegal. Taking up arms against the nation remains treason, even for a guest who is ill behaved or for citizens who are ill mannered. And we retain writ of attainder and corruption of blood for those convicted of treason. Because, a right to keep and bear arms does not include allowances to commit treason, the right exists to defend against invasion or treason.
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  6828. I'll happily consume raw milk - fresh from its natural dispenser. After, nope, more than an hour after milking, I'll only get it pasteurized or ultrapasteurized. I'm not about to wait for it to incubate.
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  6829. So, he got cited for a messy yard, hence the municipal government wants him to destroy a migratory bird habitat, as other birds share that environment. Hope they don't mind some old Agent Orange being sprayed in the yard! City orders and all.
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  6830. The Congress is too evenly split and the MAGA types won't impeach. Fear even driving them to ignore worried campaign contributors, whose immense funding is now even outvoted by MAGA voters. That leaves the VP and a minimum of half of the cabinet, who are sycophants that recognize that they cannot control the MAGA movement, they're religiously devoted to Trump and by extension and purchase, Musk. And Musk, having bought and paid for the office, but Constitutionally ineligible, wouldn't abide by the removal of his purchased meal ticket. Frankly, we're on the cusp of a civil war and few realize it. Once elders and the poorest are on the streets, no income, no food, no medical, things are going to get downright interesting.
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  6831. First, none of the names you listed were noted were recent historic villains. Meanwhile, we have a violence against children case that resulted in removal of the children for their own protection. We have a man and his new partner wearing fascist uniforms consistent with their previous misbehavior. Yeah, they have the right to abuse their children. As much as I have the right to stick my bayonet into your throat for disagreeing with me. If you agree, I do not, nor does the law and Constitution.
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  6832. Well, there was also the highlight of a certain US SecDef, who during the presser, was slurping down tumbliers with a couple of fingers of whiskey like they were oxygen tank supplements... Christ, Duck Soup's administration looked outright competent and those parts were all played by the Marx Brothers!
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  6833. I get the same from plain hemp oil. Mild anti-inflammatory effect and mild pain relief, just taking the edge off. That and some ibuprofen helps a fair bit, as I loathe opioids, which literally are the next line item in treatment for the nerve damage.
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  6834.  @Psychx_  is the oil absorbed? Many aren't, due to their molecular weight.
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  6835. Soon, Trump might actually manage to qualify to play a good game at putz-putz. Nero fiddled while Rome burned (OK, sang), Trump golfed - poorly.
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  6836. Actually, the trial started off with the judge stating that the assault was already proven, no jury was needed on that and his side accepted that as fact. As that was stipulated, would not that now disavowed stipulation become perjury?
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  6837.  @MUGGINS761  OK, we'll ban the Constitution and its protections because you don't approve of the media obeying its presumption of innocence before any trials or convictions.
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  6838.  @clmBerserker  who is Maby?
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  6839.  @bryb2644  who would enforce it? The emperor of the earth?
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  6840.  @bryb2644  in international spaces, such as water or outer space, nobody.
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  6841.  @TYRONE_SHOELACES  for a vessel in distress, one calls on guard band, any vessel hearing has to respond per rather ancient treaties. Anything beyond that, you're shit out of luck, save if someone's feeling charitable. Welcome to the real world, where growed up people abound and have to muddle through. Can it be better? Sure, I'm old, so go for broke and make it better. I'll help where I can.
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  6842.  @youahoeu  well, two companies got the US into WWI. Wanna try WWIII on for size or should we regulate some of these assholes?
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  6843.  @havextree  yep, for violating his NDA. The abuse of NDA's to penalize whistleblowers has effectively doomed NDA's entirely, as the courts are getting sick and tired of such meritless actions that are designed to prevent criminal investigations from proceeding.
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  6844. For years, the Army refused to put that signage and hearing protection on the M35 series. As my hearing conservation data well proves. :/ The M939 series 5 ton truck do have a central tire inflation system. And an 81 gallon fuel tank. 855 cubic inch Cummins inline 6 diesel engine, so plenty of power. Speed, not so much, as 55 mph is their rated top speed and many were governored to 40 mph until a torque convertor change was made. Yeah, my 348 said "5 ton and below", along with some armored vehicles and combat engineer equipment. Still, both the deuce and 5 ton are quite stealthy - to Helen Keller.
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  6845. Shit! Thanks for reminding me. Forgot to take my BP pills. Beta blockers grant no holidays. :/
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  6846. I'm decidedly poor. Don't get or want that crap, as I don't need it - I'm only pre-diabetic due to familial traits and currently the eldest in the entire family to not be diabetic by well over 20 years. I just skip a meal, walk two miles each way to and from the stupidmarket with my folding shopping cart and that's my exercise, as osteoarthritis has restricted a lot of exercises for me as I've aged since retiring from the Army. Was a lot overweight last winter, pants that literally fit for 20+ years suddenly were tight, hopped onto the scale to hear it groan for mercy, realized I was 25 pounds overweight. Dropped either breakfast or lunch, walked twice a month to the distant store, dropped the spare train wheel over the course of a couple of months due to that increase in getting off of my fat as-erm, laurels. That, after consulting with doctor. Everyone can't manage that, so they first need to see doctor, if doctor's first step is Ozempic, find a doctor that hasn't surrendered and treasure him or her and follow their advice, give feedback on what's working and not working, as doctor/patient isn't boss and worker, it's a partnership in your own health. Which reminds me, gotta arrange transportation to a specialist, then call and give doctor feedback on her latest treatment effort while I'm awaiting that specialist appointment. There's a reason I refer to internal medicine as infernal medicine. Don't get me started on complicated things like endocrinology... ;)
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  6847.  @asktheetruscans9857  OK, if they're not subject the jurisdiction, they cannot be detained or arrested, as they have immunity. It's not a difficult concept to understand, if you stop listening to bullshitters lies.
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  6848.  @ronbyers9912  yep, the diplomats dependents, like the diplomats are subject to their nation's jurisdiction, not US jurisdiction and hence, cannot be detained or arrested by any US authority.
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  6849.  @dmh54321  same app, the FBI is looking at it. The driver was identified as 37-year-old Matthew Alan Livelsberger, a US Army veteran, from Colorado Springs. The NOLA attacker was also an Army veteran and was from Houston. He apparently had rented an Airbnb that was on fire. Pipe bombs inside of coolers with remote detonators were found in the French Quarter, but the FBI believes they were placed by someone else. I am impressed by the fact that the Cybertruck didn't have a battery fire though. It may be a turd of a truck, but at least the batteries are well protected.
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  6850. Well, we'll see where it goes. Now, it's an international incident and literally could impact trade with a US military and trade ally.
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  6851. Important isn't the word. Vital would be the more appropriate word. Without training, safety is lacking. Where safety is lacking, a disaster awaits. Without training, the new firearm owner has no clue how to properly hold a firearm, have a steady stance, frame a good sight picture and how to properly squeeze the trigger.
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  6852. I'm unaware of any driver training that recommends checking underneath the motor vehicle to be operated for someone laying beneath it. As a former juror in several civil matters, I'll suggest that any plaintiff would be laughed out of the courthouse.
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  6853. Why would it be smooth and tapered? It's traveling in the hard vacuum of space, where shape doesn't matter. Oh, no clue where you got the notion as to radio signals, as rocks don't use radio.
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  6854. They only do that if Trump asks, not if our ersatz government asks.
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  6855. It already is, the SCOTUS has decided that rights are only privileges.
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  6856. Doge shit is not a federal agency, so releasing PII and financial data of citizens if a clear violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. Worse, that information is being released to an individual who lacks an adjudicated clearance, aggravating the violation. Hence, we have zero oversight, uncleared persons in possession of the PII of a majority, if not the entirety of the US population and for all we know, that data's being sold to China. Is VA patient and treatment data going to Islamist backed nations? No oversight, so we've no idea who is doing what with our citizens most sensitive data. Especially from a President that's stated his contempt for the very Constitution that he swore an oath to protect and uphold. He and his co-conspirators need to be removed by any and all means necessary to achieve that goal. Oh, the dedicated Trump bots that aren't foreign sponsored are pushing a unique plane crash set of "theories", one involving a female pilot literally conducting a kamikaze attack upon a civilian airliner to make the god-king look bad. The other, also being a female flight crew, well, lady bits destroy all and she was responsible for magical hand wave collision between aircraft at an over 300 knot closure rate, more hand waving facts and commonsense away. I am willing to bet that were the State Department files to be closely examined, Elon Musk's documents are not fully in order and multiple false statements are sworn to. Both being all that's required to rescind his naturalization.
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  6857. The First Lady, one of the few areas where we've retained slavery. Tons of expected work, zero compensation. And don't start about perks, that's like saying slaves on plantations had a good deal because they got free housing. As for her not giving a shit about Christmas and criticizing it, not exceptionally progressive folks! BTW, what office is Melania running for again?
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  6858.  @davidweyant9356  yep, but SCOTUS decided it's foreign soil in a terrorist trial issue. Yeah, it's legally weird and well, Constitution. And Patriot Act remnants and some other Acts, well, under a federal building works just as well. Keep him from fast food for a bit, he'll cave.
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  6859.  @-danR  laughably, hand grenades (US models) use composition B, not composition C-4. RDX and TNT vs RDX, phelgmatizer, plasticizer, binder, some stabilizers, mineral oil (light motor oil specified for civilian usage) and synthetic rubber for C-4. Replacements being made recently with less sensitive explosives, as RDX isn't exceptionally stable under some conditions or over the long term under poor thermal conditions in storage. Still, close enough for television and I'd not be wanting to heat and mix explosives either, as I'm not especially interested in finding out whose religion, if any is right quite yet. Can't get civilian C-4, well, you need a proper explosives pyrotechnician and if you can't get C-4 in the civilian version (it's rare), there are various Semtex variants that are still used in mining, although most are replaced with ANFO these days for costs reasons. As one isn't really making specialized shaped charges by manually molding, RDX and a binder would suffice or just go with B. RDX remains common, especially in police usage for things like entry charges for doors and such. Yeah, did a fair amount of demolitions in the Army. Was good enough that I still have all ten fingers and the same number of toes that I was issued at birth with.
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  6860.  @randywl8925  oh, so there's a qualification list now? Do post it. I know that I'm pretty much second place to not being POTUS ready, Trump being first, so, do give us all the qualification list. For the record, met the SOB back around y2k, loathed him from that moment onward. So, me for me and all for me is a suggestion for a starting point for an answer. Not a handwave after statement. You're not Trump, nor am I, we qualify shit with facts, not wishing nukes kill hurricanes and that bleach drinking cures COVID.
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  6861.  @LadyElizondo  thank you for asking. Testing to exercise a fundamental right, Driving a car isn't a right, voting or running for office is. Per case law and Constitutional law.
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  6862.  @ashvecchio  yep, as is murder and rape. ALL CRIMES ARE LEGAL. Nope, enjoy dipping for soap in the prison showers.
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  6863.  @thegreatselkie6009  I'm God, no related nonsense. Next idiotic claim? A test to exercise a fundamental right restricts all such rights forever. Why do you want to be defeated by Trump by declining that which we are?
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  6864.  @LadyElizondo  with no due respect, got a right, one has a right. Right to vote means by definition, right to run for office.
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  6865.  @xiuhtezcatl8161  and the works has more nukes.
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  6866. I'd already have a demolition permit for the home, with a promise on live TV that the debris will remain. OK, the ascetic value is preserved in the tree, while the entire neighborhood value plummets due to a debris pile where the house was. Fines? OK, go for it, can't use the property anyway and it's gonna cost the city any way it gets sliced. Note, I've not said I've demolished anything, just the threat devalues the neighborhood - especially once the permit was issued. Meanwhile, I'd be on with the state insurance commissioner to delist that insurance company statewide. Hey, insurance company, the state understands your quandary and has fixed the problem for you - you are no longer allowed to conduct business of any kind within our state, have a wonderful day. Now, the insurance company loses an entire state, property, life, health, motor vehicle, loans, etc. Meanwhile, litigation ensues, seeking punitive damages 100 times the value of the property, house and almighty tree. And a PR campaign from hell, nobody's getting reelected, insurance company is the devil incarnate, the neighborhood property value is penny stock and I'm not gonna STFU. Then, I start to fight dirty.
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  6867. Here's a fun thing though, Trump could be now allowed to vote as a convicted felon serving probation or incarcerated in NY. But, still allowed to be a candidate. And if he won, he'd not be permitted in many foreign nations, yet somehow establish treaties with them. And I've no clue how he'd use the hot line if incarcerated or on probation and restricted to living within the state, since the hot line is installed inside of the Pentagon. But, if it's any consolation, the SIOP and nuclear football would be safe inside of the prison with him...
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  6868. And precisely why they now need to complete a Sarbanes Oxley audit. Responsibility for anything bad there go straight up to the corporate CEO and COO.
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  6869. A further tip off is that the holes are flared on both ends, a sharp edge would cut fibers, rather than feed them through intact. Also, there'd largely be one type of fiber found as residue, rather than mixed as one would find in soil.
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  6870. Yeah, well, Florida Man needs some competition.
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  6871.  @lostcat9lives322 ever rely upon backup generators? First, they have to start, then get up to speed and stabilize in the right RPM range. Now that precious minutes have passed, you still have no control, as you still have no thrust from the stationary shaft, as the main engine has still taken a powder. Which is rather what happened, save it was blowing serious smoke consistent with a restarted main engine screaming to get control of the vessel. Lights had come back on, it hit the bridge and well, lights out again.
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  6872. That's what I told her and she slapped me.
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  6873. And if he was named Jesus and from Mexico, he'd be the Pope? Who needs the FBI? We've got Inspector Clouseau here!
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  6874.  @Leo-qb4gs  the only place he's gonna be importing eggs from is from his court appearances, where he lays an egg at every proceeding.
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  6875.  @candacejacallen4813  probably not, mine expired some years ago.
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  6876.  @MonzaRacer  everyone that's tried that ended up with a new fiancee named Bubba. So, do show us all how it's done and how your honeymoon with Bubba goes.
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  6877. Section 8 literally refers to the US Constitution, Article I, Section 8, regarding the welfare of the United States, which is defined in the preamble as We The People. Well, until this SCOTUS finds the United States really means one disgraced, tax evading, bank defrauding soon to be former businessman...
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  6878.  @anthonydesisto2328  ever serve in the military? Or is your existence so miserable that insulting your betters is the only way in which you feel like you can satisfy more than your neighbor's cat?
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  6879.  @1DwtEaUn  I actually made an error previously, Section 8 for the military referred to United States Army Regulation 615–360, Section VIII, where those deemed mentally unfit for military duty were released from the military. We had a soldier who was separated under those terms, as he suffered from severe mental illness fairly suddenly that was refractory to all treatments given with an eye toward rendering him fit for duty. He's now receiving VA care, as the illness was duty related. Pity, was otherwise a good soldier, I had to personally transport him to the VA for treatment when we caught him homeless and sleeping inside of our headquarters building. Couldn't just hand the matter off to the cops, as he was one of my men before and we take care of our own. Ran into him months later, he was doing much better, had a job and was supporting himself, so my chat with the VA doctors seems to have been taken to heart (or maybe they just had the budget enough to take proper care of him for a change).* *I watched over 28+ years of service Congress cut the VA budget each and every year, counting the first year of our GWOT, when we were sending service members back home minus body parts.
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  6880. No, it's on the border of Harrisburg, PA, a part of the Susquehanna River. Since we're randomly relocating cities and states. And the US didn't stop dumping industrial waste and sewage sludge into the ocean until 1992. And shall we talk about Trump rolling back regulations against polluting water and refusing to enforce laws that protect our water sources? Point your finger, the rest remain pointing at oneself. But, she's expressed herself quite well, proving that she enjoys a double helping of moron milk on her stupid flakes in the morning.
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  6881. Amazing, the difference between having less than a week to prepare security and adequate notice to do so! Concerning, he got onto the property fairly deeply unnoticed. Might want to sensor the perimeter a bit.
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  6882. Well, that's what he gets for parking his mug in Tinicum.
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  6883. Is a canoe a vessel? Lemme see, if one steps into it while it's in the water, is your ass wet and you need to doggie paddle? If so, it's not a vessel. If only one is true, it's quite likely that it's vessel. The shape isn't relevant, its construction material isn't relevant (doesn't matter if it's wood, plexiglass, fiberglass, metal, concrete, etc), it floats and designed to convey you over the water, so it's a vessel. The death of the child simply further proves the interest that the government has in enforcing those laws, as had they been followed, the child wouldn't have been in that lethal situation.
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  6884.  @roycsinclair  what I'm starting to think. Windows somehow didn't fail, because of hand wave, extremely popular Linux distros that are a download away absent, they've slipped massively from a few years ago, specifically since Sentonas came onboard.
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  6885. America is a pair of continents. The United States of America is a Republic, not a pure democracy. Do learn about political systems and geography. Our republic is a representative democracy, where representatives are elected to represent our views. A pure democracy doesn't work well in an emergency, as an example, Athens was still debating raising an army while being invaded and citizens took it upon themselves to defend the state and ended up exiled for their trouble.
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  6886.  @framegrace1  from what I’ve saw, the US Air Force is using it in some capacity.. Kind of puts to lie everything in that presentation, not by intent probably, just from ignorance of something relatively new. That project had to be a huge pain though, with that many changes and shifts of focus! Kinda looks like it was fun.
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  6887.  @SteveVanderLeest  and there are some Linux compatible distros that are DAL A, such as LynxOS. But, it a rarified market.
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  6888.  @SteveVanderLeest  sounds as if the objectors hadn't heard of them, which is a bit odd. It's not as if WindRiver and LynxOS are unknowns. Probably more of an oversight than anything. But, the commercial Linux OS distros, yeah, that's a great big no. I shudder just thinking of a process getting stuck in swapland in a control loop...
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  6889.  @SteveVanderLeest  true, it's listed as Linux compatible. All of the realtime OS's can't use a standard Linux kernel as well. One can use a screwdriver as a hammer, but one cannot do so safely. The right tool for the right job. :)
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  6890.  @arthurmoore9488  if a simulator crashes, who cares? If an aircraft crashes into a hospital or apartment complex, it's a bit of a big deal, isn't it?
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  6891. Having sat on multiple juries over the decades, suffice it to say that it's a yuge pain in the ass, tedious, boring, honestly during jury selection, I nearly fell asleep as a prospective juror. The trials, all of which did go to trial in the civil cases I sat on, slightly more exciting. Around equal between watching grass grow and paint dry. Never did consider trying to duck it, as it's a duty, not some entertainment venue, something necessary that any good citizen should feel honored to be involved with, despite it being deadly dull and designed to be such. Facts are being found, not excitement and drama. Didn't duck out of my military duties, I sure wasn't going to try to duck out of my more important civic duties!
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  6892.  @SurfingBoulder  don't know what country you live in, but we still have broadcast channels in Pennsyltucky. Get around Philly and there are even more channels. The same was true in NW Louisiana a few years ago and they've not lost channels since.
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  6893. I jokingly call LLMs for what they're damned close to, Chinese Rooms.
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  6894. A recovery beats nonrecovery. And I was feeling bad about going through a quart of juice over three days, largely having a large glass with dinner... Been tapering that back a bit, due to glucose rising and family history of type 2 diabetes, coupled with my advancing age. Aw, screw it. I say, take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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  6895.  @jaykoerner  mandatory free labor is slavery. Volunteered free labor is volunteerism and entirely acceptable. Taxes, just another duty to one's society. Note a difference between slavery, volunteered labor and duties to one's society and government. And the fact that slavery only exists for convicted prisoners that are serving a sentence imposed by a court of law.
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  6896.  @jaykoerner  we ceased operating a conscription system in the US in 1973, everything now is volunteer basis by contract. There remains a provision for time of emergency, but it's considered highly unlikely that we'll ever use the selective service system again.
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  6897.  @ShuRugal  so, you believe that the government should be free to take goods and services without compensation? That's opposite of what the Constitution demands. Taxes are a duty to support one's society and government, not some onus to be avoided by deception as some engage in. Without taxation, we'd have no common defense, nor could we bring relief to the populace after a disaster. That said, we do regulate trade in all forms, as we regulate many other activities and even rights. As for your exhaustion, if you tire so easily, perhaps you should consult with a licensed physician.
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  6898.  @jaykoerner  you've never worked under an employment contract? I've been employed under contract and had government assigned quarters as a cleared defense contractor.
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  6899.  @jaykoerner  is it slavery to train an employee to not speed in a company owned motor vehicle on the highway? There is a duty to obey the laws of the land that all have. Hence, training an employee to obey the law prohibiting underage drinking is not slavery, but a duty of a responsible employer and it additionally results in due diligence occurring, resulting in the company not receiving hefty fines for selling ethanol to underage persons. Now, where there is question is when one has to perform intensive technological reconfiguration to abide by a code change issued by the FCC. That said, the configuration change is not especially heavy in man hours to implement.
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  6900. What's interesting is, Trump raised over $200 million since election day, so he's got the scratch to cover the band he's abandoned and the inauguration. Which begs the question, where is that money going to go if he's cheaping out on his own inauguration?
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  6901. I've done two things. Don't do favors for friends. Bulletproof arguments and worship viewpoints that pierce the bulletproofing. Micromagnaging? I hire supervisors for a damned good reason.
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  6902.  @jumperstartful  because we only arrest people who commit crimes.
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  6903. Horizontal stripes or vertical stripes?
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  6904. Shuttered by DoD in 2015, given to the University of Alaska. But, science is evil, go back to stone knives and bear skins!
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  6905. Per the Holy Trump Almighty, "Shaddap and eat cake!"
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  6906.  @BilldoeTruth  uh huh, that's a few miles south of Philly. Grew up in that neighborhood. I remember back when pretty much nothing ever happened around there, the Pagans wouldn't have allowed it.
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  6907.  @TheRealScooterGuy  erm, it's a petty crime, the title is summary offense and not even a misdemeanor. The sheer volume of such, if strictly enforced, would overwhelm society and the courts and collapse the economy and society in general. As in, cross in a crosswalk and walk over the line, it's jaywalking, but good judgement prevents such idiotic enforcement.
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  6908. @dwarvenaled from what I recall from some papers on the subject, they would conduct heat better than most heat sink compounds one would use to interface with the component one is trying to remove the heat away from. They're really looking good for CPU and GPU substrate design, figure out the doping and conductors a bit more and diamond chips will be the way things will be going. I did get a chuckle over the "it's robots" for how the diamond grows, because it's not too far off from the truth chemically. Look up carbon hooks for why, the atoms themselves do the assembly at those temperatures and pressures.
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  6909.  @Aaron-zu3xn  and the hydrogen makes steel brittle over time and pressure...
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  6910.  @seanmccartney5177  cool! So, I can sell nuclear secrets too? Got a great deal on fogbank...
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  6911. That's OK, got the same hair style myself after my electric cigarette lighter arced to my finger. ;) Seriously though, my wife does my hair. Plain buzz cut, no messing with combs or styles.
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  6912. Just the media giving Trump free advertisement, yet charging opponents for advertisement. Require equal coverage, Trump presents a shiny and they give him a two minute story, opponents get two minutes free advertisement. Watch the bottom line suddenly crash into this nonsense and commonsense return.
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  6913. I'm still trying to wrap my head around people fixated upon Trump not touching the bible, as if that changes an oath. If that's so, I guess that John Quincy Adams never was sworn in either, since he swore in on a law book. The simple truth is, an oath or affirmation is required, he could put his hand on his dick and it'd be just as valid. What matters is, his oath, his word of honor is worthless to him. That he finds the Constitution inconvenient, well, every President we've had found that to be true, but somehow all save him managed to largely stay within its boundaries and when they exceeded those and the courts intervened, they respected the laws and Constitution enough to obey the laws as the courts found them. Well, until the tyrant king wannabe Trump took office. Where's Marcus Brutus when you need him?
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  6914. The most lethal thing is in common in any industry or endeavor, complacency. Complacency can undermine even the best safety measures and programs, so a safety culture must guard against complacency to prevent incidents that could cause harm or death. "I've done this a million times" is unfortunately, many worker's last words. It's literally worse than the infamous, "hold my beer".
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  6915.  @anitamiller253  that makes no sense at all, given any salt on presalted fries would be removed by the oil while frying. But, plenty usually is present in the hopper from previous loads of fries that were salted. Never worked a McDonald's, but I was a chef and well, there's only so many ways to deep fry, such as regular deep fry and pressure fry... Pressure frying being more a Colonel Sanders thing.
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  6916.  @thattruckindrifter7232  welcome to the real world, where they fire what they're authorized to fire, not what they want to fire. I mean, otherwise why not use high explosive incendiary rounds, which would be a guaranteed kill? So, do you know what type of round that they're firing, when nobody else does? Do you think that even expanding ammunition is some high explosive kind of destructive device from all aspects that it impacts and traverses tissue? As an example, the skull shot destroyed the skull and emptied the contents quite distinctively and indeed, quite differently than is evidenced upon that rooftop, which is decidedly not entirely blood and brain spattered, but instead has a fairly contained zone confined to the ridges in the roof, in a relatively narrow stream. And you also forget one thing most forget, skin is tough and tends to hold a lot together that isn't expelled from within it.
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  6917. Trump, turning a mutual defense treaty organization into a protection racket. He literally sought, in advance, money be paid outside of the agreement. If you have a balloon payment on your mortgage that 's due on 10 years, he's on year 5 demanding it now or else. In a mortgage, it would risk the entire contract, in Trumpworld, it's a good thing. All, while he's still not paid for the 2016 appearance security bills, nor for the 2020 appearance bills. I wonder how much he owes Philly for his recent appearance to pollute the regional air?
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  6918. She earned the title, if the state won't allow it, there are 49 other states and a number of territories and possessions that would value her and her professional education and most have an additional benefit of a much lower cost of living. Let the California doctors do their own nursing.
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  6919. So, he wanted Chester the Molester as top attorney and law enforcement officer of the nation and a SecDef that wears a lampshade on a regular basis - save when he's jumping onto the stripper's stage. And Gaetz's house of Congress wanted to suppress the report, despite being fairly evenly split amongst parties, making one wonder how many of such peers have similar skeletons in their closet rattling around. And of course, what's already well known, the Mann Act is only enforced on women and Black men. Never on white men or billionaires. Because all men are created equal, but laws must be unequally enforced.
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  6920. "Cheap imported product that only lasts a few years before needing replacement" pretty much everything made today.
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  6921. Why aren't you showing how you aren't incinerating infants in your secret baby incinerator in the basement? Another smokescreen! Or you aren't incinerating infants, may well not even have a basement and there are no mythical drones, just the JFK and LaGuardia approach traffic that's normal, plus assorted helicopters and the occasional pinhead with a toy drone that doesn't have the lights that the FAA and international law insists that aircraft have. No, it's really the followup Martian invasion again, who blew up Concrete, Washington's power station from New Jersey using Harry Potter's magical fuck stick.
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  6922. States do indeed have rights. It's actually stated as such in the tenth amendment. The ninth no longer in effect, given the SCOTUS denied its existence in the recent Roe decision.
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  6923. One cheater's trick when approaching Mach 1 is to install a Mach probe, which goes supersonic first, with minimal drag. Of course, as your speeds increase, you also run into Mach heating of the leading surfaces, which can turn supersonic aircraft into literal ovens. The SR-71 used to pump the fuel through the leading edges and canopy edges to cool the aircraft down. The titanium also experienced significant work hardening from the heat and pressures involved. In short, for every can of worms that you open, you find another frigging can of worms inside and somehow, it's bigger. All, for the purpose of being able to set engines for Ludicrous Speed.
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  6924.  @kylehill  had an iodinated contrast agent the other day for a CT scan, one of the potential side effects is a worsening of Grave's disease, which I have. Didn't have to worry, as I'm taking a medication that blocks an enzyme in the thyroid hormone iodination chain, preventing iodine from being linked to form the hormones in excess. It'd essentially behave the same way as potassium iodide and similar iodine drugs to shut down the thyroid gland. Because, a high dose of iodine does precisely that, it shuts down the thyroid gland as it takes up the administered iodine via the Wolf-Chaikoff effect. It's also an emergency treatment for a thyroid storm. The day after the radiologist's report was posted, my doctor called and tried to convince me to go to the hospital because my AAA had a thrombus in it. She missed the CT from two years prior that listed the same thing, "Yeah, but now you've got a second one". No, actually, it's two additional at the nephratic artery branches, they come with aneurysms. It's kept this long, no clots wandering about, it'll keep until the vascular surgeon's appointment in two months. She's consulting with the vascular surgeon, ain't heard back, so I suspect the surgeon agrees with me and not the resident. They're residents so that they can learn and I've always been a good instructor. And an incidental finding of a mass on an adrenal gland, which hasn't changed in size or shape in a decade. And that my lumbar and thoracic spine is a train wreck, which is also readily apparent from symptoms and that I need a cane to walk. Yep, I'm a walking pathology exhibit. With rather significant knowledge and experience in pharmacology and A&P.
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  6925. DJT, the Sergeant Schultz of politics, "I know nothing, nothing!". Except Schultz was funny and good natured, Trump is decidedly not. Trump's closer to Hitler 2.0, just waiting for him to talk about monoxide vans and big camps with ovens.
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  6926. Still loved Dumb Donald Jr's, "Why didn't DOCTOR Jill Biden spot his cancer?", erm, since she has a doctorate in education, does that mean he goes to a doctor of fine arts stone sculptor for brain surgery? Oh wait, sculptors don't do microsculptures.
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  6927.  @lordxexplosionxmurder1023  second term? It'd be his third, unconstitutional term. Ironic that one GOP idiot tried to push for an amendment to allow the god-king wannabe to run yet again, given it was the GOP that pushed the 22nd amendment through to limit presidential terms to two after FDR won a third term.
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  6928.  @MichaelMcDonald714  it was studied, repeated by law enforcement throughout the nation. Zero election fraud, loads of shenanigans with foreign powers information warfare.
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  6929.  @voornaam3191  reliable by nature is not junk. Inefficient, yes, but junk is by nature inefficient. As for heat output, don't even get me started on turbine heat output! Efficient, sure, but any degree of lateral runout on a bearing will catastrophically destroy the turbine.
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  6930. And the Russian attacks, preferentially attacking civilians is a blatant violation of both the Geneva Convention and Hague Convention guarantees of non-combatant safety. So, Russia is literally engaged in utterly lawless warfare. Which legally leaves their own troops and population unprotected from reprisal killings. As the Waffen SS learned the hard way during the invasion of France.
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  6931. Funny, I recall Trump having a picture that showed his open desk drawer that was overflowing with Adderall generic from Europe. Versed isn't some exclusive date rape drug, it's used in psych cases, as a sedative for anesthesia induction and well, a host of valid medical purposes rarely ever observed in any office environment outside of a medical office. Could've used a light dose yesterday at 5:00 AM when I was awakened by severe calf muscle spasms, thankfully they passed without the need of medication, but there still is residual difficulty walking (herniated disc triggered spasms and a massive weather front came through, triggering my superpower, for I am Barometerman). As for performance enhancing drugs, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. ;) But then, I also don't need to deal with the nuclear SIOP. Something Trump never could manage to wade through. OK, my actual recreational drug is ibuprofen, for nothing's more recreational than being able to move. Trump can speak to moving, usually when he needs his diaper changed. Must be caused by his bone spurs...
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  6932.  @raven4k998  nope, State can rescind his citizenship and deport him. It's happened many times before with other criminals and undesirables, such as escaped Nazis.
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  6933. Yeah, it's an "aw, shit" moment when the order to "fix bayonets" is given. Bad enough that my joke that my bayonet ain't broken would remain un-uttered. ;)
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  6934. Unsinkable anything is target #1, the psychological factor alone is a force multiplier. The rest wouldn't be taken seriously by the populace when lost. Maybe name an ordinance supply vessel Hood next?
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  6935.  @simonjackson7269  not a warship.
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  6936. Trump is running for office, trying to run the clock down on the trials and when criminal conviction becomes highly likely, will most likely be running for the border on his private plane - assuming NY allows him to keep it.
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  6937. I'm using tons of radiation right now. Otherwise, I'd be frozen and stubbing the shit out of my toes. Oh, ionizing radiation, my bad! Used that two days ago, got a CT scan to figure out how much of a train wreck that I am, the railroad's still sending full trainloads of heavy wreck equipment... The CT beams, guided and shielded largely with the magical metal of incandescent lamp filaments, cutter of metals in industrial applications, reflector of x-rays and gamma radiation in radiology equipment and x-ray and gamma telescopes, tungsten, the pain in the ass to work with metal. And oh, I do glow a fair bit in gamma. Had a thyroid scan using I-131, before dosing, they perform a background check, got my potassium-40 onboard as we all do, some strontium-90, cesium-137 and a few other isotopes your generation wouldn't have. Was born a week after Tsar Bomba detonated, when the nuclear armed nations had the dubious wisdom of detonating their products from the insanity factory in the atmosphere. Not that any cancers came of that, at least that's what our government told the downwinders repeatedly. I'm also known for anger management issues, unusual strength, but only turn green if I've eaten some food that's a bit off. ;) Actually, that's all measured in trace radiation levels, using a gamma camera, which also uses tungsten tubing to focus the energy for imaging. Which makes me wonder if this filament might be a good basis for those tubes, adding tungsten plating within for increased reflection efficiency and the tungsten impregnated plastic adding efficiency lost via the thinner reflection coating at a modest resolution cost. Gain being decreased cost and more importantly, less heavy support for a much lighter reflector. Because, tungsten is heavy and dense, as in "Oh my God, I need a new foot now that I've dropped this tungsten brick on it!" kind of heavy. And yeah, you'd be in the market for a new foot. It's damned heavy. It'd be also useful for a quick, fugly casing for homebuilt instrumentation, like my radiation spectrometer I built from plans on CERN's educational outreach site. Which reminds me, gotta scavenge a mylar cap for a radiation window, a cheap headset for the jack and a 10k resistor and 0.05 uF cap for coupling to the computer. The processing software is javascript and python, both already happily installed on my computers. Not too bad a price for the filament, considering. Guess I'll be ordering a printer soon after all. My americium source will be an excellent test sample for the filament.
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  6938. Nope, class E felony for the most severe, which is the lowest level felony NY has. Four years max, concurrent for each conviction, so all in one swoop. Plus more likely, probation, community service and fines, as armed Secret Service guarding a prisoner inside of the prison is above and beyond the call of logistical nightmare.
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  6939. It's only slightly flammable. But, in the presence of flame, it produces a highly toxic compound and HF, which is insanely corrosive and toxic.
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  6940.  @pb4961  I wasn't aware that vaccines are air conditioners and hence, related. Want to bring political parties and weather into the discussion to further bring no value to the conversation?
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  6941. It's fascinating how he can fiat legislate and in this case, amend the Communications Act of 1934. I guess he's gotten control of the Obama time machine! Nope, even Congress can't strip a station of its license. The FCC regulates broadcast licenses under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended and pissing off the President does not preclude licensing or result in licensing revocation. But then, Trump says all kinds of shit that he can't do. Like oh, lowering prices of certain products, such as more recently, the price of eggs. Oddly, the price of eggs appears to be increasing since he took office. Rarely, he'll try something he's not allowed to do that he spoke about, most of the time, what he said just evaporates and nothing is attempted. When he does try, well, the courts smack his pee-pee and send him on his way, his order prohibited by the courts. I'd recommend a hammer for the smack, but alas, I don't think that they make hammers that small, the smallest I've found is a jeweler's hammer.
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  6942.  @Unknown-te6dz  wow, who knew that Europeans invented warfare! Why did they train chimpanzees to make war too? Why, it nearly looks as if the entire assortment of primates learned that ever so recently and took a trip in a time machine to bring that idea back in time!
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  6943.  @richarddrapeau7599  no. A higher standard, as we place law enforcement in a position of special public trust. No other position exists where we allow men and women to be armed in our schools, churches and courthouses, no other position can deprive one of liberty, property or potentially, life. Hence, a higher standard for that higher position of public trust.
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  6944.  @r2r-r2r  OK, show me their political goal, terrorism is to further a specific political change that they desire. So, show me this specific goal. I happen to know quite a bit about terrorists, dealt with my fair share, so enlighten me. I loathe a bad cop more than most, I treasure a quality, law embracing cop equally so, but I also treasure truth and facts.
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  6945.  @bobisrighturwrong  just what was said by Germans before the gestapo fully got set up. But, I do reciprocate, I'd rather not have a fascist for a neighbor.
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  6946. In Dennis' case, you also have to consider the liability of having a dangerous carnivore about around a main road on the island. The electrified fence was laughable, as mains voltage isn't applied to such fences, the voltage is stepped up from mains voltage and only the conductor is charged, the circuit would be to ground that one would be standing on. Also, the skeletons falling from the ceiling, add in liability as you said, but further damning is, the things would be predicted to fall, as the island is seismically active, so earthquakes would drop them on unsuspecting guests.
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  6947. I found it fascinating that the DA stated empirically that there is, essentially, only one teenage mutant ninja turtle blankets in the entire universe. Guess he somehow got our kids two blankets that there was only one of. As for changing stories, I've spent many years in military EMS. I've heard no less than 8 stories from one victim as to what happened and I suspect that none of the victims were responsible for their injuries. I'm just spitballing here, but it seems to be a trifle unusual for someone to call lightning upon their own location. But, that DA would use those 8 stories as the foundation for a case that a man called lightening onto his own location, causing injury to 200 fellow soldiers. And use as a key piece of evidence the fact that he could be the only person in the universe to wear camouflage clothing on a US Army rifle range. Still, were I on a jury and my verdict is thrown out, the worst thing the courts could ever do would be to call me to waste my time again. They'd have the most hostile juror in human history. Founding a case as weakly as the DA in this case seems to have done, that'd only have made me the second most hostile juror in human history. Well, maybe the 13th, there were 12 angry men after all.
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  6948. You can update your phone until the cows come home. Won't help, the cell phone company servers were compromised and of course, nobody asked which companies were compromised, not that the FBI would be allowed by law to tell them.
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  6949.  @respectbigman3133  Tapper has tapped out, due to corporate gods loving their new rental god-king-emperor. At the rate things are going, I foresee the US adopting a committee of public safety and a National Razor. For much the same reason. But, entirely living up to what I've said for decades. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  6950.  @benjaminlynch9958  or *BSD or Solaris or... But yeah, Linux is rather popular, but for say government systems, one would still have to get past filters, firewalls and more to even try to log onto the server. So, they'd be looking at beyond difficult to access servers, with pinhole firewall entries for only the necessary services on the unclassified networks, all of the important traffic being on a number of classified networks that cannot be seen or see the internet or the unclassified network and are actually tunneled under it and one another, yeah, this would miss central government networks and basically nail provincial and municipal networks, as well as commercial and utilities networks. And utilities are a target of interest, as some high profile attacks on water supply networks have recently shown.
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  6951. Trump unlawfully retained and unlawfully divulged classified information. The jurist attempted to coerce the same to an uncleared jury, perfecting violations of these codes for starters. 18 U.S. Code § 798 28 CFR § 17.41 18 U.S. Code § 793 That's far beyond the protections of judicial immunity.
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  6952. "I'm just a guy in a room talking to himself". The words of many a college professor...
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  6953. Huh, "The Soroses", so George got himself cloned and was running around the nation handing out cash? Must've missed the clone with the wheelbarrow full of cash! Must be that new cloaked wheelbarrow that Wonder Woman flew around in. And that had what to do with firearms safety again? Oh wait, lemme guess, ANTIFA ebil, fascism is cool, gotya. "Unarmed, the government can do anything they want with you", OK, lemme think now really, really hard. Explain how your 9mm and dinky little AK or AR is gonna win against a B-52 again? A howitzer? A tank? A gunship? An ATACMS system? A 120 mm mortar? Just getting started and what I've listed can eliminate all life in a five square mile area in minutes. Do tell this veteran more about small arms repelling an invading army, maybe the Taliban will learn something, since they couldn't even slow our entry into their nation and we did degrade Al Qaeda down from blowing up US embassies all over Africa and destroying a pair of large office buildings to embarrassments like a caught printer bomb by mail, a diaper bomb and a shoe bomb that'd embarrass Maxwell Smart. Tell me more, I purr, as I proceed to eat the leopard's face... For the record, I do own and compete with an M1A, AR15 and M1911 and also believe that firearms are investments and investments get protected by secure storage. And that the NFA needs to be expanded to place semiautomatic firearms derived from selective fire military service rifles into a class equal to suppressors. And a hint, suppressors aren't very difficult to purchase at all, but the background check is about as intrusive as a colonoscopy. Or acquiring a security clearance. I've no inclination to get a suppressor, as they wear out too quickly and really won't give me any real benefit in competition (indeed, they're disallowed for precision marksmanship competitions I enter). I've absolutely no use for a paycheck eliminator, aka machine gun, but won't begrudge anyone wealthy enough to piss their money away that way - once they pass the screening that's equal to getting a TS clearance. And believe it or not, you can also legally buy artillery, each and every high explosive round being an NFA destructive weapon and costing a $200 tax stamp itself and thanks, but no thanks, I'll take a demied version of a howitzer that can't make rude noises and give it to a VFW post. I do believe though in the utterly unrestricted right to keep and arm bears. I'm confused with "It's pretty difficult to buy one on your own", erm, what? Go to a gun shop, pay for the weapon, fill out a 4473, clerk calls or enters the info into the computer, NICS does the background check, collect one's receipt and firearm and leaves. I can literally go to the gun shop right now and be in and out in around 20 minutes with a firearm, if I wasn't flat out broke and wanted yet another thing to have to clean quarterly. Not very interested though, got two hands, that means one at a time and if I'm not using the thing, why would I want it cluttering up my safe? Two competition rifles in different calibers, two hunting rifles for different environments, two pistols for pistol fire competition and practice is more than enough maintenance for my needs, never could figure out the bozo that has a half dozen AR's of the same type and still only has two hands. But then, never did hang around with such yahoos, way too unsafe on a range. And having sold firearms that were used, so that I could replace them with less worn models, I've always taken handguns to a gun shop for a 4473 and NICS check and paid for it, just for peace of mind and long guns, I'm super careful of, although those I've only worn down one enough to require replacement.
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  6954.  @Playfulcreationzs  yep, the first amendment must always be enjoyed with an armed police patrol. Now, go seek professional mental health guidance, dickweed.
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  6955. Well, many papers are actually written up with that phrase for a good reason.
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  6956. Disaster for Zelensky, totally true, just as declaring war when Pearl Harbor was a defeat, surrender to the Emperor of Japan! Trump shouting over anyone, an utter defeat. And all "defenses", literally religious in nature.
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  6957. Cardiac arrest, dissolve bones, oh it's also neurotoxic as hell. HF isn't a fun filled chemical, it even dissolves glass.
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  6958. The laugh is, the federal government first championed for two-factor authentication. Now, just passwords are secure, which is why they use a smartcard... Really, let's be real, don't trust anything automated. Stop ordering online, when it impacts those big businesses, the government will act to protect those wealthy special interests.
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  6959. I'm pretty sure that the movement in a year of a division's worth of personnel would also be noticeable by the increased number of flights required to move them all back and forth. And seeing them charged with war crimes over the Great Water Bottle Pallet caper would be entertaining. Although, I do know of some military cooks who could be charged with crimes against humanity, that's defensible due to just simple incompetence and nobody has criminalized that yet, lest entire governments end up in prison after their terms expired... I'll just get my hat...
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  6960. Not quite true, in nature there are a couple of examples. Massospora cicadina, cicada abdomens completely consumed, spread by mating attempts. Toxoplasma gondii removes fear from predators from mice permanently, resulting in predator success and successful infection of the predator, spreading cysts throughout the environment to infect more mice, completing the reproductive cycle of the parasite. As for actual living dead, remember that morning after the holiday weekend? ;) Still, research has found that some brain cells, thoroughly disorganized, survive for days, expiring along the way, but all of the neural networks were destroyed by hypoxia and hence, we're talking ones and twos in diffuse regions, incapable of processing anything. But, useful for statistics to chew on.
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  6961. Save for one minor thing, there is no AGI. We have LLM AI that, well, sucks. We have limited AI for counting things, but that AI still can't tell one Black man from another, so obviously ain't all that bright. We have Musk, who invented nothing whatsoever, he was just bright enough to be born into a family that allowed him to inherit an emerald mine, which he leveraged to buy every business he has. He is good at two things only, showmanship and hiring competent managers for his company's projects.
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  6962.  @margiedwards4062  Hitler was known to be dangerous, but Republicans still wanted to bring fascism to the US - right until the war threw a monkey wrench into their plans.
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  6963. That's OK, I remember right after Trump won, idiots blathering how Hawaii wasn't a state. All, based upon some Russian bot BS that kept being accepted as fact.
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  6964.  @813laker  astroturfing does not improve support for the cause.
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  6965.  @oohok9179  pay no attention to the Musk behind the curtain!
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  6966. When denied the choice of candidate for their ballot, the populace retains the right of ballot by bullet.
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  6967. No, it is decidedly not a public club. Public clubs are owned by the government. It is a private club, open to members and guests of members only, which is illegally being utilized as a permanent residence, per his contract and deed for the property. @brianjennings1624, given the illegal aliens he had on staff, yeah, quite unlikely they could've gotten security clearances. That said, we had TCN (Third Country National) workers who would clean our classified processing rooms while cleared personnel supervised their activities. We'd have to announce a red badge on the floor on their initial entry and ensure all sensitive information was out of sight while they were present. As some worked out of our building, that was fine, as the classified processing areas had appropriate security to only allow those cleared and permitted access into the sensitive areas. Which were decidedly not bathroom showers and floors. But, even how the documents were moved was illegal. No courier handling them, just loading them into a moving van full of unclassified, left uncovered (for transport, they're typically wrapped or in a sealed envelope that's marked with the document classification, then wrapped again without the security classification markings) and a few other major violation events associated all throughout the non-chain of custody on said documents.
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  6968. Likely, he doesn't know that nuclear torpedoes were a thing for a fair stretch of time. Or that hypersonic missile warheads is an old hat thing, after all, suborbital ICBM and SLBM warheads come cooking in around Mach 10 - 20, depending upon course and target protections.
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  6969. I ran NT on an Alpha, don't recall the pinball bug, so probably the MIPS platform. Working on AXP platforms taught me a hell of a lot about the NT bootloader, which helped me fix odd boot problems other techs never could figure out. I do remember the _NSAkey nonsense, had to use that entry for certain crypto providers that were blessed by the DoD, hence the NSA and DISA. Another wonderful learning experience! I still give the occasional class on encryption implementation. Used task mangler tons of times, still usually relied upon pstools in the NT era, now, gotta go with powerhell. But then, starting with DOS, of course I'm a CLI guy, easier to script for. AI replacing programmers, not within any of our lifetimes. Too flaky still for complex tasks. I remember the same BS going on in the late '70's about assembly robots replacing all of the workers on assembly lines. Oddly, 50+ years later, the assembly plant parking lost are still full and I'm pretty sure industrial assembly, welding and paint robots aren't driving cars to and from work.
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  6970.  @Jommybutler1234  Godwin fell alongside Wheaton's Law.
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  6971.  @Naejbert  he's dictating some wonderful EO's that fall one by one on Constitutional grounds. Pretty much like his bankrupted businesses... You know, his bankrupted often enough to have NJ prohibit him by name from owning another casino businesses? Trump Steaks? Trump Vodka? Trump Wines? He's lost most of his inherited wealth, conned donations to obscene new levels just to nearly break even if any verdict actually applies to the god-king wannabe. Yeah, dictates rescinded memos is the best his impotent ass can do, while attempting to distract attention away from Emperor wannabe Musk and the GOP in the Senate. Someone throws a shiny up, look at their other branch to see what they're pulling off in the dark of the night.
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  6972. Interestingly, those who violate the Mann Act tend to not want such reports released. Oh wait, he's a protected wealthy class, so felonies are legal. Remember, family values in the GOP means incest.
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  6973.  @greendragon4151  step down off of a tall roof, perhaps? ;) God-kings can fly, right?
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  6974. I usually respond to the supersoaker heavy with a pressure washer, then go with the water cannon. As usual, I defer to airborne delivery systems...
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  6975. We had some vehicles burned while I was in the Persian Gulf. Apparently, some individuals left multiple cell phones laying on the passenger seat and where one might've gotten a smoldering battery, multiple phones laying together had a chain reaction overheat, bursting into flames and catching the car afire.
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  6976.  @professorwill8400 Nixon was third in his class, but working so closely with McCarthy destroyed that intellect.
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  6977.  @citxchy  lemme guess, a Scotsman beamed them all over NJ? Or the Iranian cargo ship that was refitted to a WWII jeep carrier grade carrier beamed itself from the Persian Gulf, 6400 miles to the NJ coast and magicked drones, then beamed itself back to the Gulf without the US DoD and NRO noticing? Or maybe the Martians that invaded in 1938 returned? Or maybe the angels jumped off of the head of a pin and are dancing?
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  6978.  @citxchy  yours would not be the first case of starvation by laziness.
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  6979. "We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing, as the Constitution is illegal".
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  6980. So, now the PA governor is responsible for the Secret Service fucking up? OK, gotya. Didn't realize that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania owned the US Treasury Department, who owns the US Secret Service!
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  6981. @@ShannonBarber78 OK, under that specific scenario, there is only one solution, global thermonuclear war. See my above for more detail. But, I do believe in clean coal - it's used to filter municipal water supplies. We can't mass produce antibiotics, as overuse made our current antibiotics ineffective. Doctor being a quack and prescribing antibiotics for a virus ruined their effectiveness, underdosing by patients before the infection was extinct added to it. As for food, you've gone hungry just when? I have, but I had a sour stomach, so it was go without or vomit and I've had enough of that with whateverinhell this bug is, it'll pass and well, is. You embrace a religion and don't know it, embracing one view as faithful fact, never investigating. And that's the fatal flaw in global civilization, whatever that means. Everyone races to the quick fix way, putting a bandage onto a wound, ignoring the arterial bleeding. I slap a bandage on, evaluate, see bleeding isn't controlled and advance to more advanced care to control bleeding before the heart runs out of stuff to pump.
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  6982.  @daviddion3731  or for that matter, JFK's rendition of the word.
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  6983. And while they're at it, also start a God petition to make me God. Both having equal merit in the United States under the Constitution. Either you failed civics 101 in high school or you're a foreign bot trying to distract concerned voters.
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  6984.  @digbycrankshaft7572  the platypus. A joke gift for science. Just when you think you've got a handle on evolution and genetics, you sequence the genome and are back at the level of when Europeans got their first skin of one... ;) Mammalian DNA, expected, reptilian DNA, huh?, avian DNA, can we check this again?! OK, that's irony, not divine anything, still a good joke though, because it's true. Amazing animal though, electrolocation of prey, venomous claw, oviparous, feeds young milk... Amazing what four letters can spell out!
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  6985.  @Gotlyfe  I actually have, although it was at volume to a friend. Most nodded in agreement, although I was asked to tone the profanity down to protect tender ears. Embarrassing, as there was construction going on and they suddenly stopped...
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  6986.  @Archontasil  laughably, due to the Section 230 safe harbor, not moderating at all protects the company. Or one has to moderate properly, lest one lose protection. Overall, an idea that looked good on paper, but has been an utter debacle for society.
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  6987.  @humanfree6720  wow! So, the Chinese troops attacking in human waves were really radiation, water doesn't have waves, only microwaves are real. So , what microwave devices were rolled out in the 1500's? You should be sterilized to prevent further contamination of the human gene pool. Nevermind, incels don't breed.
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  6988. Obviously, he felt she was a danger and more physically capable of managing a confrontation than he was. What did that governator call it again? Girly man? Although, even at that age, had he hit me with a Stanley cup, he'd have needed a new cup. And yes, I owned them before they became a status symbol. But then, I was graced with a skull that was infamously tough and resilient. That trait came in handy in the wars.
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  6989. Put it more simply and cover a greater ground of positions of a similar nature. Abrogating a position of great public trust should be punished by a similarly grave penalty.
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  6990. Sure thing, totally excessive. From now on, all missile launch codes will go out on megaphone and simultaneous smoke signals for all to see and hear. Now, please stop making me defend that asshole. I was just raised correctly, when one's right, one's right, when one's wrong, one's wrong. And this non-story was actually last week's news.
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  6991. With a couple of hundred bucks, you can get a microwave antenna and receiver and receive the GOES satellite feeds directly. There are videos on youtube on what all you need to do and it's not all that difficult if you can turn a screwdriver. Then, ask how the satellite is hanging up there in precisely the same way that a brick won't and they're a hell of a lot heavier than a brick.
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  6992.  @ROADIEZ824  Congress has oversight, if they want something changed, they either codify it as law or cut off funding for the agency. If that worked for the DoD and the CIA, it'll work for any other executive branch agency.
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  6993.  @jessetorres8738  and the other part is, it's all well and good to be spreading talking points, but those get abandoned after the first candidate gets tarred and feathered.
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  6994. In a working government, impeachment would be the solution. Instead, we're heading toward a more traditional resolution, the National Razor.
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  6995. The problem is, one doesn't drain a swamp by pumping in sewage.
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  6996.  @Nefer111  there's an old saying, "Better late than never".
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  6997. So, the United States of America a nation that is a Constitution free zone. As such, without a Constitution to support them, the United States of America is also a lawless nation. So, killing the cop is legal, since there are no longer any laws. And as a bonus, one can declare the offending officer's family outlaws and confiscate all of their property and persons. As for walking on the wrong side of the road, in over six decades of life, I've never heard of such a bullshit thing. Are we next going to need a walking license? I'm seriously thinking that second amendment remedies are indeed in order. As well as tar and feathers.
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  6998. Hwunting waskelwy wabbits?
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  6999. Pluto being around 50 AU, so twice the distance from the sun as Pluto, which means further evidence would be a much thinner Oort cloud than other star systems, as 110 AU is pretty much inner Oort cloud. If the flyby happened early on, it'd also likely have lessened the late heavy bombardment. Of course, visualizing the Oort cloud has just a few challenges... :/
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  7000.  @CRASH.CORNER  Idiocracy being exemplified by the incoming regime. Honestly, I'll be astonished if I literally survive it. But, worst case scenario, a hell of a lot of people will swiftly learn just what I did in the Army, so I'll have plenty of company in hell. Where I'll be busily shoveling coal on their heads.
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  7001. "Do you even own a suit?" "Yes, but today's your mother's day to wear it and our shared rubber, which leaked to create you. But, just to make you happy, after we win this war, I'll show up in a new suit - featuring a g-string, your wife's favorite. Now, someone kindly give that man a harrumph". Seriously, dick lips is my first thought and I'm the guy who incorporated Lorentz into relativity and incorporated momentum. And yeah, so that all need brain bleach, I do indeed own a g-string, in copper, gold and camouflage. The latter, for my late wife. For those interested, complimentary scanning electron microscope imagery is available. Kid Rock's suit, yeah, comical and my first thought was your first comment, but the Resolute Desk, erm, look up the history of what was signed on it, looks like shit Mel Brooks would come up with. Still, a red version of Evil Knievel? Operable, Trump saying, "I don't know much about it, but signed an EO". This EO grants power to singular rich people over Congress and the People to god-kill-murder-death-kill those who price gouge. Kinda don't have a problem with that, can leverage it against them as well. Oh wait, EO's no longer count, given the signalgate mess and the EO's against it (the codified laws of Congress are minimal, most 'laws' are EO's for cleared stuff). Still, your guest gave me an idea. Not a god-king, but a court jester for Emperor Musk. And his wholly owned Offal Office. For the challenged, offal being lungs, kidneys, occasionally heart, etc left over from meat animals as food. Aka, poor people's food. Now, excuse me while I go fry some scrapple, offal loaf and a favored regional breakfast food. Eggs still being insanely expensive and god-king beyond his power to fix. But, eggs are coming from Turkey, to be tariffed... Because, empress Donna Trump can indeed fuck up a wet dream - always.
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  7002. Trump said WAIT, not for a picture, but to say that he wanted to get his shoes. So, what, we now need photographers no closer than the moon? You do know what a telephoto lens is, don't you? They did pause though, complete with sound telling him to stay down while they got the car. You'd prefer they propped his robust buttocks in the air on their shoulders during an active shooter situation? Did you just fall off of the silly wagon or something?
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  7003. Nero fiddled and sang while Rome burned, Trump golfed while COVID raged. As for GOP "crisis" crap, I'm still waiting for Obama to knock on my door to grab my gunz. And take Christmas away. And steal my meat. Aw, screw it, the only meat getting abused is GOP types beating theirs. I'm considering stealing the MAGA tears mug idea - for a modified 20 gallon steel drum. Weld a handle on it, repaint and label it... It'd make a wonderful addition to my garden. On an insulated base, hooked up to an electric fence transformer to prevent vandalism.
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  7004. Besides the local yokels doing the area screening, the Secret Service also perform an area screening. I have buddies that were working on installing an antenna when working at Sears service years ago that got chased off the rooftop two miles from where POTUS was to appear by armed Secret Service. When Bush Sr visited my base, we had to arrange for all manholes to be welded shut. Those on the ground missing a guy in the middle of a large roof, that's a no-brainer if one remembers that cops don't have xray vision. Then, there's the drone crowd, who think that drones are magical and only authorized drones would be there and unauthorized drones would be Harry Potter Magical Fuck Sticked away... Now, within hours, bot accounts, some directly traced to Russia, are going on about how the Secret Service was holding Trump in place for a mythical CIA sniper. Amazing how phenomenally capable those folks are, save when a conspiracy theory gets proposed and Maxwell Smart starts to look like the epitome of competence. Hell, I'm waiting for them to bring up space aliens next... Sigh, I don't drink enough...
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  7005. He served four years, had time still on the D.C. discharging a firearm offense and that was probation. Owing time and being a felon in possession of a firearm, he'd have gone back for a full ride of the remaining sentence and get another minimum of five years for the felon in possession charge, so elected suicide by cop.
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  7006.  @joboygbpedwards  4 months, check followers, even money, a foreign bot.
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  7007. Ah. but you've yet to explain how to deal with days when one develops a defective keyboard-chair interface. Fishing is out, an aversion to that, secondary to going fishing, being out of grenades and a not so brilliant substitution with an M112 demo block of C4... ;)
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  7008. Exploding barrels aren't a thing?! Haven't you played Donkey Kong? Oh well, we still have gunz being a Hollywood death ray. A varmint gun death ray... One niggle, car doors won't stop a round, but they're annoyingly good at deflecting the rounds. Which is why the military developed light barrier defeating rounds. Then they're free to explode with thermonuclear force or some Hollywood idiocy.
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  7009. After the hurricane ravaged North Carolina, some locals uncorked the ultimate rescue tool that they had available and well, the optimal tools. Mules and donkeys. Initially, donkeys only, as being smaller, they could negotiate through narrower, hairier spots that the larger mules couldn't manage and help clear paths for larger animals and eventually, equipment. Supplies got through the old fashioned way. One supreme upside to a donkey over quite a few other load bearing capable animals is, they're loathe in the extreme to walk into a situation that could result in being harmed. So, if you try to walk them onto a dangerously unstable path, into a predator, over a sheltering or sunning snake, it just ain't gonna happen. Work related commands I'd work with first, directional commands, left, right, forward, back, stay and "show me" for the dog or donkey especially, to indicate what is worrying them. If it's worrying them, I needed to worry enough to evaluate what was going on and the trust needed to develop that the animal could trust my judgement - and that required I exercise good judgement as well. Working with an animal isn't some robot and controller relationship, want that, get a robot or a politician. It's a partnership.
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  7010.  @Physics072  maybe you might of heard of this one, I know it's kinda new... Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. And you do realize that in 50 states, there are 50 different sets of laws and courts, do you not? You got the first part right about police and the last part about 24 minutes + commercials, but with current implementations and laws, IP calls are now being logged.
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  7011.  @Rashnak66  he was told to leave by the police, not stating the origin of the order, while the band director was playing per the district approved program. I've handled program approvals in the past, it includes the length of time a song is to play and a list of songs. So, apparently, it's illegal to obey a management approved scheduled program. Sorry, I was US Army, not a good goosestepping jackbooted Nazi.
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  7012.  @wolf2179  most of the school fields where I grew up were limited usage for the public during off hours, for a large gathering, permission had to be sought first. That said, I was in the school band for a while, it wasn't uncommon to play for a full half hour after the game concluded. I've saw coverage elsewhere that suggested that the groundskeeper wanted the field cleared ASAP so he could go home. The problem is, now we have a groundskeeper overruling the superintendent of schools, who had to approve the game and band program, which lists the specific songs to be played and their length. When did groundskeepers outrank the superintendent of schools? Do Privates now outrank the POTUS too? And turning off the lights while people were still in the bleachers is public endangerment, as the risk of injury trying to exit higher levels of bleachers in the dark skyrockets.
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  7013.  @bluezoidberg7124  Trump is an immigrant now? Fascinating. Two people that can't speak a proper sentence were mentioned, you fixate upon one, leaving one problem now at your back. Feel free to stay off of my side.
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  7014.  @PineyJustice  just like the US bombed Pearl Harbor? And had we not responded and simply surrendered, Germany wouldn't have had to declare war on the US and eventually win WWII? Oh wait, Japan attacked unprovoked, unannounced by declaring war first, Germany then declared war on the US after the US declared war on Japan. You've got well recorded history entirely against your statement, as Poland was attacked by Germany by a well documented by Germany false flag operation. That's like telling a rape victim that they caused their own assault by not cutting their own throat first.
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  7015.  @jerushamaxwell281  ever see a pissed off llama? They spit with the same unerring accuracy of a camel. Maybe I should introduce Trump to one, based upon how well he got on with that bald eagle, I suspect it'd be a hell of a photo op...
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  7016.  @j.j.9123  well, that takes care of a few days or a week, then he's back bitching that he doesn't have a ride home or to whoever's couch he's surfing on.
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  7017. Light mortars, hell, 81mm mortars air burst over the ranks, but ideally, hit supply and C3 points at night.
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  7018.  @MrNewman7336  heh, it all depended, what one was anticipating to encounter. I might've went out with 700ish rounds in 30 round magazines, might go with less or more, but if I needed the men to engage, I damned sure brought extra to ensure that they could and had others also humping and I was Army. And was carrying MG ammo and medic's extra loads. Never asked my guys to lug anything I'd not lug around as well. And on some odd, one off missions, I lugged in a couple of thousand rounds quietly, while they did their jobs, plus MG ammo and medic's load. Then, I became supply sarge. Thankfully, that was rare over nearly three decades. Retired when it just hurt too damned much to put all of that shit on that kept me alive. Lest, I slow them down and get them killed alongside of me. I took care of them, they took care of me and between us, we took care of the other SOB's. Still, dismounted, combat load, the Romans are going to have a tough row to hoe. When they'd try to overwhelm us, they'd find fixed bayonets, e-tools, assorted knives, whateverinheell they dropped and a load of Willie Pete pissing, royally pissed off soldiers. I would expect even more from Marines than my infantry. You may kills us, but we'll frighten the lot of you to death as well. There's a word, quite, no..., quiet..., no, quit I think, no clue what that concept is, maybe similar to, as in quite?
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  7019.  @brianbirc  usually, but never forget Carlin's adage: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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  7020.  @brianbirc  nope, old Philly boy, transplanted to south-central PA.
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  7021. USS Minnow.
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  7022. Artur, here's a fine product for you to look at in your spare time. I joked that it's the US Army's nuclear hand grenade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) "Sir, did you just order me to shoot a NUCLEAR WHAT WHAT, HOW FUCKING CLOSE?! Sir, can you kindly fill this plastic cup, initial it and your last four on the side before, I hope, then seal it and hand it back to me, Sergeant X will accompany you". The B-52 was produced from 1952–1962, I was produced a early model me in 1961. There were 744 B-52's produced, only one of me was produced, which I honestly think is a good thing. ;) They're upgraded in various ways every handful of years.
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  7023. Even funnier, the US Army has a shit ton of Stryker armored vehicles on order and they're made in Canada. So, the federal government will also pay a tariff, as there was no governmental carve off on the EO. Trump is dumber than a ten foot stack of anvils.
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  7024. The Hydra rocket is a dumb rocket, largely for unhardened targets and dismounted forces. Armor gets the insanely expensive Hellfire or cannon. The A-10 is a faster aircraft, the Apache can hover in precisely the same way that a brick refuses to. ;) An interesting experiment would be Mi-24 vs AH-64, not sure which would free up more real estate. Against each other, both would be in the hurt locker. Apache has more speed, that's about it. The Apache can withstand 23mm cannon fire. I remember one returning to base with a hole in the cowling around the engine that a service member put his arm through, the pilot didn't even know that he had some cosmetic damage. The Apache was introduced in the 1980's, the weapons initially tested on the AH-1 Cobra, which also remains in service.
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  7025.  @oscarsalgado1238  nobody made war, which requires taking up arms and fighting against officers of the US government. It was only sedition, a number of persons being convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced, for Empress Trump to pardon at the behest of Emperor Musk.
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  7026.  @shirleybowen1858  not always, but long ago, there was one king that went against Parliament and some Magna Carty thingie, things didn't turn out so well with that opposition in the end as I recall. Indeed, as I recall, that happened twice, only one monarch survived in my recollection of events.
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  7027.  @CdnMom  no, he'll just do what he started in this maladministration, bring in ringers from fringe and "influencers" that are friendly to him.
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  7028. Wait, she missed the important part, "Won't anyone think of the children?!" Still, it'd be interesting to hear her read the GOP primer on Spot and Puff. Bet she sounds like she's ready to cry about Spot chasing Puff... But, in actuality, it's the official GOP position, "Yeah, I've got nothing", so they go to kindergarten for a response. Back to the rebuttal... "See Spot chase Puff. Oh! What is Spot doing to Puff? Mommy says Puff is going to have puppies!" And I thought Clint Eastwood's empty chair number, where he kept forgetting his lines was bad... Next, they'll air a potted plant. Brought to you courtesy of the GOP stragedy committee, Curly, Larry and Moe.
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  7029.  @paulsheil6669 lead by example, you first. Here's a hammer, as you don't rate an axe.
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  7030. What does God need with a starship?
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  7031.  @TomSpeaks-vw1zp  more like the truth, that they've replaced the God that they claimed to worship by openly embracing the self-proclaimed god-king wannabe and their mutual god, mammon. Although, Jesus is most certainly a welcome visitor, maybe he can bring Elijah along, I'll set a place for both. I'd only ask that they call in advance so I can run out and get some kosher foods for their needs. What I never do is blame the devil for the actions of mankind. For, the devil's most powerful weapon is an age old enemy of humanity, human nature itself. I'll plea guilty to profanity in a church though, twice and once, to actually uttering a curse inside of a church. The first time, the chaplain rushed in to scold me for the profanity, saw the blood pooling at my feet from a cut through the web of my fingers between pinkie and ring finger going over an inch deep, learned I uttered the profanity in reaction to his assistant demanding I stop bleeding on the floor (sorry, forgot my antigravity unit or I'd have bled onto the ceiling). The chaplain quickly had his assistant apologize and get swift transportation to a treatment facility. The other, shortly after my wife died, a guest minister told me happily that I should be glad that my wife of over 41 years was dead. With some swift profanity, I suggested he get his sexual reference buttocks off of the property, as his life was in grave danger - albeit a lot less politely. Our minister quite agreed with me, if not my selection of language. The third, an exchange with a Roman Catholic priest at my mother's funeral, he made a rather unfortunate remark, I cursed him in the Almighty's name to experience the same justice that he'd denied others. Suffice it to say, the curse was effective, as shortly afterward he was caught molesting children in the parish. Obviously, I've never claimed to be a diplomat, probably why the state department won't hire me. More likely, because I never applied for a state department posting though... But, I'm fairly certain that I'll be more welcomed than these falsely claiming Christians, for at least I know the teachings, the origin of those teachings and do far better at living by those principles than they do.
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  7032. Well, one upside to this feature is, there will be a DISA implementation guide for the US DoD that shows how to properly neuter that feature permanently. Microsoft really doesn't want to lose one of its biggest customers. Alas, that guide largely won't be available to the general public. :/ That all said, my personal systems are already Linux based and I only keep one Windows machine around for specific legacy work and formerly, for accessing some medical equipment that now only can be accessed by a smartphone.
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  7033. Heh, our youngest briefly had a COVID-19 workman compensation issue, but directing her to the state website and then having her report, not to her employer alone (who unlawfully told her to file for unemployment and lose all benefits), but to the hospital she was contracted with and well, the hospital dug out the Riot Act and read it to the employer at a decibel level consistent with thermonuclear fusion. Her bills are being properly and lawfully paid for.
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  7034. The very first untruth antisocial media post is obviously not him. There is no power in this universe that can convince me that he knows what the word skullduggery is, let alone spell it. I've never understood his staff's, his own and even your own HaBiTuAtIoN fOr RaNdOm CaPiTaLiZaTiOn Of Random WORDS in various SENTENCES. Especially since one can bold easily enough or italicize a word or even -strikethrough-. Huh, maybe not --strikethrough--... :/
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  7035. And people have believed for years that reptiles walk our streets unnoticed, doesn't mean it's true.
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  7036. Are you sure that there wasn't a lunch order in the Italian one? Or perhaps, a shopping list. Yeah, anything official from Italy can occasionally get downright zany and that's coming from an Italian-American. Although, many Italians might beg to differ, something they dislike about Sicily...
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  7037. All of his other platforms are in line, Fox is still adjusting and started with sarcasm barbing him repeatedly, with periods of die hards not adjusting. They're coming in line, lest they get shown the door by security. And it's been driving the MAGAts and Russian bots nuts for the past week. Which is when it started, right after a call with Trump went south, well the pressure against Emperor Musk and Empress Trump has been increasing as the outlets shift gears and targets. It'll cost him the deep core MAGA type, the high priests of the church of god-Trump, who will likely jump to RT, Newsmax, etc. I suspect that Murdoch's pissed off that the monster he created has wandered off on its own and isn't listening to his commands any longer. That doesn't make him a faithful ally, more like the Soviets being part of the Allies during WWII. A case of "once we put the fire out, then we can get back to fighting each other".
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  7038. It's an interesting thing. When the media report on a SCOTUS decision, when one actually reads the decision, what was reported is frequently not even wrong. Not only not right, but not even wrong. When an attorney reports on a SCOTUS decision, it's usually right. Sort of a legal profession's version of Clarke's first law.
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  7039. Heh, just on the intro, I've got a really good idea on where this is going. A soft "reboot" is just a restart and well, doesn't actually perform a lot of resets that are done on a true cold boot. I'm guessing that discussing the three finger salute generating an NMI would have gone too far down into the weeds for the desired video length. For the non-conversant, an NMI is a non-maskable interrupt, a signal that the CPU cannot ignore. Effectively, it's the computer equivalent of going up to someone and getting their attention by slapping them in the face. Not good at parties, but good for a DOS computer that's effectively locked up in a loop. And an interesting thing to intercept just to get the computer's attention enough to be allowed to log on... Needless to say, a source of some engineering mirth. Which dates back the august days of when computers were initially programmed with toggle switches to tell them to read their boot instructions from paper tape or lace cards - whoops, punch cards. Lace cards, occasionally called death cards had every hole punched and would jam the reader, requiring the 129 Card Removal Tool, aka card knife be used to extricate the offending card and starting the tradition of calling security to escort the offender from the premises - for their own protection from an enraged staff. Death card losing is charm as a name, courtesy of some Nazi misbehavior and genocide things and all being selected via one bit set on an IBM punch card. Don't want to mistake the two or one will find both a card removal tool and a real knife used upon one's tender bits. I only date back to paper tape, punch tape and magnetic tapes.
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  7040. First, he's not levied war against the United States, which requires by nature the use of arms. So, no treason. That kind of removed a cause for arrest, not that you'd get him to authorize his own arrest anyway and law enforcement is under the executive branch. Worse, SCOTUS created from whole cloth executive immunity, so that any official act is now legally protected. Now, removal from office, suffice it to say, half of his cabinet and the VP aren't about to turn on him. So, that rules the 25th amendment out, that leaves impeachment and the GOP is thoroughly in his thrall.
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  7041. Save that he also picks on judges and attorneys who also abrogate their public trust. Rightfully so.
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  7042. There's no legal requirement for a bible to even be present, so your griping makes no sense. An oath is as valid without a bible as with one and nobody yet has gotten smitten when they violate a sworn oath. The only thing you do when bitching about it is making others look on in wonder at the fool blathering about bibles and other superstitions. Nobody's gonna get whammied if they're touching a bible while swearing or not. Besides, why would you want evil to curse a bible by rendering it profane by contact with him?
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  7043.  Why Me  the military swore an oath to uphold the laws and Constitution, not enforce one political party's will. We were all oath takers, not oath breakers.
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  7044.  @357mag5  the Uniform Code of Military Justice applies to who, military politicians?
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  7045.  @joerichardson-vi2kx  how about getting back up and keep on slugging? That's the difference between surrendering and having your ass handed back to you and you keep on slugging anyway. Or do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozCoq4osSwk
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  7046.  @dawnravenel2473  how special, totally will tell your elected office holders how you want them to resolve this! Why, comments on youtube are even more reliable than anything you'd tell your representative or senator personally or through their staff, it's like to the Almighty's ass ears. As a further hint, tell your representative to file impeachment proceedings in the house, if passed, a trial in the senate will then occur and likely be dismissed by Republican god-king worshipers.
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  7047.  @tamaraspink4201  a new study knocked the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin out as contenders for treatment of COVID-19. Utterly ineffective. Started last week with burning cold sensation in the area that would correspond with the upper bronchus (where the windpipe splits to go into the lungs), that's consistent with bronchitis, but I remained afebrile. My wife spiked a temp a few times, last evening hitting 102 F (she didn't bother waking me up or she'd likely still be in the hospital, as she's diabetic and has asthma). This week, it's moved up into the lower trachea. Less pressure in the sternal area, the spike feeling between my shoulderblades is gone this week as well. But then, my immune system is quite strong, it even has a hobby of attacking the TSH receptors in my thyroid, giving me hyperthyroidism. A number of symptoms of which overlap with the damned virus. Still, it all isn't anything that a full body transplant wouldn't fix. ;)
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  7048. He's been up to this for a solid week, after a telephone call with Trump didn't go well. Every one of his media outlets have been ramping up against Musk and Trump, with Fox ramping up the slowest as they shift gears and direction. Suffice it to say, it's stirred up the MAGA crowd and the Russian bots big time.
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  7049. What one gets with a two tier justice system. Proving, we have the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  7050. Glad that doctor mentioned the BCG vaccine. It's also effective against a few other stubborn bacterial infections and seems to be quite effective in preventing type I diabetes if given early in the disease, before the necessary cells in the pancreas are destroyed. It's beyond rare in the US though, as TB was rare in the US. Now that the CDC's EIS is gone, I'm sure we'll fix that problem and make all infectious diseases more common.
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  7051. Just more Luddite reporting. Toxic smoke, as if there's non-toxic smoke in a fire? Ask any firefighter about the smoke toxicity of a house or business fire. Can't extinguish the fire, despite hundreds of fires, some on aircraft, which always were? Gasoline was initially reported as impossible to extinguish and highly explosive, which now is only true in Hollywood films. Admittedly, they are a pain in the gonads to extinguish, as is anything high energy. Try putting a transformer fire out sometime - we're not calling to eliminate electricity over that! And it is a recycling center, which recycling center fires rarely are reported, but generate even more toxic smoke than other types of fires. Lithium needs to be recycled - it's one of the rarest elements in the universe due to its unique atomic structure. Nope, let's put it where it belongs, recycling centers, chemical plants, refineries and lithium recycling/storage/manufacturing plants need to be in low to unpopulated areas - not in densely populated areas. And we do need to improve on the battery technologies involved. A fair bit being a metallurgy problem involving metal whiskers shorting out cells prematurely. Had it with lead-acid cells, electronic solder joints and more, all largely resolved by altering alloys in usage.
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  7052. They can try the new warranty return program. Return the defective rocket for replacement. Yeah, it's gonna return fairly quickly, it is LEO. But, in fairness, it proves that that particular stage is rubbish. The rest were OK, that one's rubbish and it looks like a LOX leak, so likely a bum pipe.
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  7053.  @sergeant_salty  why, thank you for not caring about $8.00 out of ever $100 of your paycheck! Being on fixed income, I appreciate the donation!
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  7054.  @charleshill9778  that's a different percentage than originally quoted, so how about some actual numbers and citations? That asked, NASA has always, from day one, given contracts to contractors and gasp! paid them. That was quite well established back after Apollo 1 burned with the flash in the pan with the Phillips Report on one vendor underperforming. As the hearings at the time were on the Apollo 1 accident and that report was beyond irrelevant, it went nowhere. Oddly though, that vendor eventually was not the one making the CM and SM when we got to the moon, Grumman made the LEM, North American Rockwell made the CM and SM. With Grumman jokingly sending Rockwell a towing bill for Apollo 13 and Rockwell replying how they towed Grumman's LEM repeatedly to and from the moon... ;) NASA designed some things, contractors built and completed designs or even used their own designs throughout the programs. As they well should, each to their level of competency. The space shuttle being Boeing and Lockheed made, not NASA built. SpaceX blew apart their own launch pad. NASA only blew up Wallops Island a few times. :P
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  7055. Kind of hard to make war in a vague way.
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  7056.  @christianward-nisbet8833  John Milton didn't write the bible, he wrote Paradise Lost. Satan is to be imprisoned for eternity in hell. Perhaps you should read your bible, rather than repeating the words of others as if they originated in the bible, but did not.
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  7057.  @rdlopez983  as I recall, that "gospel" was written, per the carbon dating, around 300AD. Indeed, other versions of the gospel were found as well and disagreed with the modern, approved by the Council of Nicaea versions and all other versions were hunted down and destroyed.
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  7058. Well, one upside is, these idiots literally can't get within two miles of the POTUS. The cordon around him is just that extensive.
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  7059. Insanely oversimplified enough to not bring neuroscience forward at all, let alone how neural processing actually works. For one thing, there is no such thing as "neurons", as there are different types and subtypes, each with their own characteristics and processing abilities. Look at how many neurotransmitters there are, consider there are at least as many neuromodulators that change how conduction thresholds and processing occurs, both in firing rate, firing density, firing at all, etc. This is essentially walking into a telephone central exchange office and randomly tossing a few wires together and calling it operational.
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  7060.  @bikerhighmiler8998  nonsense! That mouth is running itself, with absolutely no intelligence operating it.
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  7061.  @Freriver  President Musk is, Trump's only the figurehead VP and god-king.
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  7062.  @2Fast4Mellow  and one way that doesn't perform a trusted has test on word.exe to get around it, name your malware word.exe. One cheapie check is the proper path to the proper file path to Office's word.exe, but ideally a hash should be employed to ensure that the valid software wasn't overwritten by an administrator account that was compromised. The point of minimal privilege is, when the end user clicks that link they were warned to never click, they don't have the access necessary to compromise the entire system.
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  7063. Well, a pure electric engine is possible. It'd have a bit less thrust, say around 1/80000th the thrust of an argon engine, but one could be made. It'd also be known of as an immense waste of energy, effort and equipment, as the heat from the damned thing would provide more thrust and still be far, far, far less than say that argon engine. As in, the Pioneer anomaly was detected after a decade... Solar sails would be more efficient and far faster, which still isn't saying much. Still, there is the EM drive, powered by its free lunch system that ignores the laws of thermodynamics. And after all, who, other than Mother Nature can refuse a free lunch? On just needs to get an Alder Wand...
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  7064. Didn't hear of the N-FET. Yeah, that paves the way, assuming the defect rate can be lowered enough to make the things affordable. Looks like Moore's Law is back in business!
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  7065.  @libbyliberty2885  ah, but then who or what was Bannon then? For that matter, who was I, what am I and why am I inside of this picnic basket looking for some lizard that's odd? Sorry, couldn't resist.
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  7066. Yep. I've also fired a Singer Sewing Machine Company and IBM M2. The grease gun, made by a pilot lamp company. That's what total war means, the entire economy gets shifted away from the business of life to creation of weapons and war supplies. At one point, literally banning sliced bread, in an effort to conserve bread for the front lines (turned out to be both hugely unpopular and a wasted effort, as that never became a problem and was repealed).
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  7067. That's easy, mention the plan to eliminate FEMA, show the video of Trump throwing paper towels after Maria.
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  7068. Well, there is one non-conspiracy theory that is true. The kids, they will replace us! I'll just get my hat...
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  7069. Can't fire her, as anyone conversant with the US Constitution can attest to, she can only be impeached.
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  7070.  ABCDEFG12468  no, nor is she training them to shoot comrades that were wounded like the Russians apparently do. It's called basic first aid, something most idiots can even learn. Present company excepted.
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  7071.  @johnopalko5223  spot on. I am an information security professional and don't open anything that isn't trusted. I do examine suspect URL's as a matter of course and if investigating one, I have a special read-only virtual machine that's dedicated just for such purposes examine a site from a non-attribution IP provider and that, via one of several VPN connections. Best guidance for non IT security professional types, if you can acquire the URL in the QR code and search for it via search engine to see if it's a scam, go for it, if you can't do so safely, don't scan it at all. Some sites will still manage to wrangle a drive-by malware installation, which can rain havoc upon your data and life at best, at worst, bankrupt you via multiple ways and potentially link you to crimes you never even heard of.
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  7072. What has so frequently misquoted was in regards to funding a militia. Misquoting someone like that is like saying that someone hates Jesus because he said, "Jesus! Fuck!" after dropping an anvil on their foot.
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  7073. The first object shown, a helicopter, bubble canopy model, which is a very common type. Second image, looks like a Jet Ranger helicopter, as is readily apparent by the tail, the third, another helicopter. Not uncommon in the areas, given the areas listed in the first two minutes, given LaGuardia, JFK, PHL and oh yeah, McGuire AFB, Lakehurst NAS and Boeing VERTOL in Delaware County, PA. They're not drones from an Iranian jeep carrier, which is currently being monitored in the Persian Gulf, a close 6400 miles away. They're more likely to be a second wave of the Great Martian Invasion of 1938, which had a similar volume of eyewitness sightings called into police. And Concrete, Washington, suffering a substation failure, the town PD called in an alert on the wire services, adding to confusion among some. In short, another mass panic, driven more by media reporting than well, unusual activity, as flying machines aren't exactly a new phenomenon these days, although small drones are somewhat novel, large drones remain rare and extended range beyond 20 - 30 minutes of flight are beyond rare due to their insane pricing. Add in tensions of the Ukrainian conflict with Russia, Russian adventurism in general, political uncertainty and the usual turmoil of life, of course people are seeing Martians or Iranians or lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Or we can knee jerk, bring back the old Nike-Hercules missiles and use neutron bombs to shoot down the mythical drones that are actually licensed aircraft. Yes, the Nike-Hercules carried neutron bombs, to destroy Soviet bombers and fizzle their nuclear warheads. Over our cities and towns. Hysteria is harmless though. And they really are Martians invading again, they just got hung up on that confusing clover leaf exchange.
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  7074. Well, the founders did want our nation to replicate the best parts of the Roman Republic. Trumpites want to follow Imperial rule instead, so let's adopt one Imperial practice just for Trump - damnatio memoriae. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae Even Asimov wrote glowingly of the practice in his Empire series. ;)
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  7075. Big rip? OK, spacetime ceases to exist as we know it, hence all of our natural laws are out the window. Matter won't matter any longer. Basically, if it happened, one wouldn't have the chance to notice it, given it'd be spreading at the velocity of light. Somewhere in the universe, some poor creature would arrive at, "I think, therefore I - ain't". So, basically, it'd wreck one's vacation plans. So, this is cool, my vacation plans are still on in a few dozen trillion years, by then I'll probably be able to afford it.
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  7076. No, the Lord of the Lies Trump isn't guilty for an entire fucking planet, there's plenty of blame to go around. He does own tens of thousands of US graves though. Not much better, since he was responsible, regardless of his desire. He rejected it because "the numbers make me look bad". Odd, when I was in charge of a debacle, the very first question I asked was, "How did I take a winning team and lead them into this mess, what did I fuck up?!", then responded accordingly, with full input from that winning team, accepting my own fuck-up before all, asking forgiveness and input on how to unfuck the situation. You know, actually leading.
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  7077.  @steveswoodworking2504  that, after receiving a two inch thick pandemic response binder on response to an influenza pandemic, which outgoing staffers observed was thrown instantly into a nearby trashcan. The difference in response to flu vs COVID, microscopic, mostly name stickers for the organism. The disease process was nearly identical and the effective treatments and mitigations, identical. Numbnuts didn't even try to reinvent the wheel with one with square tires, rather simply ignored it and sabotaged all remediation efforts to deflect attention away from his failures and fuckups.
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  7078.  @beckydoesit9331 astroturfing bullshit that essentially states that crimes should go unpunished only makes everyone realize that you're a foreign agitator bot.
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  7079.  @inkedgemini she's astroturfing the same bullshit, basically saying to not punish criminals on conviction. My diagnosis is foreign agitator bot, supporting the god-emperor wannabe, likely at the behest of the recently reelected President Putana.
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  7080. They actually have done that to US citizens as well during Trump's last term. The US citizen then got deported back to the US and sued.
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  7081. OK, the Constitution is null and void and the US government in its entirety is disbanded. Good job. The Constitution requires his being sworn in on a specific date, period, end of story or the Constitution then is in a full on crisis with no executive branch and beyond the inauguration date, would then require Congress to pass an amendment by 2/3 supermajority, then have 2/3 of the states ratify it before we could have an executive branch again - that includes our DoD and all federal emergency services, as well as entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, our federal prisons, FEMA, CDC, our entire intelligence community and a hell of a lot more. So, you've yanked the wheels off at highway speed.
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  7082. I'm going to keep my eye out for when Ohio's supreme court submits a bid for new computers. I'll win the bid easily enough, take the money and ship them bricks. Miniscribe was simply ahead of their time for Ohio, they'd have survived today in that state. After all, bricks are merely a style of computer component and a component is sufficient under Ohio case law now as a style of the total object.
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  7083. "Can I see your ID"? No, it's in my pocket, where it's safe from prying eyes that have no need to know who I am. "Are you carrying any drugs"? Yes. Propranolol, lisinopril, methimazole. If they take them from me, I can not safely travel, so I get a refund and if the airline objects, tell them to bitch to the government, my credit card bill will be challenged. Grab my cash, fine, tourism has ended, file a travel advisory against that airport and cancel all reservations, explaining in detail as to why, then raise merry hell with my congresscritter. Make me miss my flight, agent admitted to falsifying a federal document and an official complaint will be filed, travel plans canceled, advisory filed and hell with congresscritter. Eventually, congresscritters get tired of their ears ringing and they start to raise merry hell on their own, cutting budgets and all. While I also file litigation on the basis of an unlawfully applied random travel tax being levied exclusively by the executive branch without consent of Congress.
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  7084. Well, the disaster would already be in progress, given he was speaking of behavior in a fire. When my building is on fire up to the roof, I really don't think that ice or mold is very much of a concern.
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  7085. Given he completely ignored that inconvenient part about herding all of the Palestinians out of Gaza and into Jordan or Egypt. Neither of whom could support the additional population. Bastard is more full of shit than a Christmas goose.
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  7086.  @jeaniejoseph940  won't happen, New York doesn't allow that, $1k per offense and/or 30 days. $1k could likely be gleaned from his toilet or sofa. So, time or nothing. A bit of time in general population would likely instill the fear of god in him.
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  7087.  @newchannel1220  Kia/Hyundai, the modern version of the Yugo. Unfortunately, as the nation hosting that company is a friend, we can't do the same thing we did to Yugo's plant there.
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  7088. It is illegal and worse, since he's actively conspiring to usurp the government of the United States, is committing sedition. As are the co-conspirators he's been kind enough to name for the federal attorney. Amazing that anyone would so conspire with him, given that's up to life in prison without the possibility of parole and likely, in a supermax.
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  7089. They have absolutely no authority to force me to obey the law of gravity. Alas, that law enforces itself. But, the Constitution also states that our federal government must secure and protect the public welfare, given the Constitution itself defines the nation as the people. Not dying from a fairly easily preventable disease most certainly is in the interests of the people and when one is speaking of a pandemic that's national, within the purview of the federal government assisting state and local governments and institutions. So, Congress cannot pass a law enforcing gravity, but can order masks be worn on federal property and tax and allocate tax dollars to support the states in battling a national pandemic. States who refuse to allow local counties to manage a pandemic are misguided, as a state government micromanaging, rather than coordinating county and city efforts is a fool's errand that can only go wrong. Full disclosure: Our youngest daughter, in her mid-30's, contracted COVID-19 a couple of months ago, while she was working at a hospital in housekeeping. That was ascertained to be due to a lack of compliance with hospital procedures by closing COVID-19 patients room doors to prevent the spread to the staff. The hospital, once they became aware of the issue promptly ensured compliance via inspections and training. She's slowly recovering after a couple of weeks of hospitalization. Our eldest is an RN in a hospital, she's contracted COVID-19, but thankfully remains asymptomatic. The route of transmission for her appears to be related to reuse to failure of PPE, which despite some lying by our national leadership, still remains in short supply. The companies simply can't keep up with, let alone modestly exceed current demand. I have pre-existing medical conditions, as does my wife, said conditions essentially guarantee our demise if we experience any significant level of exposure, so we mask up when in proximity to other people (it doesn't make sense for when we're simply outside, as we're in a rural area, but entering a store or area congested with people outside, it''s mask time). Keep the good information coming, Mack! Just had to textually beat down an inlaw's championing a disinformation campaign by the cult Falun Gong's Epoch Times. Disinformation has to be fought with real, true information and while it sucks to find out one is wrong, one feels a lot better once one knows what is true and what is bovine defecation being passed off as food.
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  7090.  @TacoTomtheBomb  only one problem, that Civic isn't a cowboy Cadillac. Soccer moms don't drive Civics when they could be driving something that weighs as much as a Sherman tank. Although, you could impress me any day by getting that Sherman tank to get 40 miles per gallon, rather than 40 gallons per mile.
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  7091.  @jb6712  it's a major Sarbanes Oxley Act violation, as they've literally zero access control security on their access control systems. They now should, by federal law, have to have a full Sarbanes Oxley audit, which can quite literally put a CEO in prison, should certain irregularities be present and I'm damned sure that there are. Did information security for a living, this is beyond a big deal legally. Someone dying at their desk can and does happen, should be noticed when that person doesn't leave work that day after their hours have been put in, as access to facility and resources is supposed to be logged. That's both for employee welfare and information systems security reasons. With this level of non-security, I'd not trust a dog in their building that I don't like, let alone finances and family.
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  7092. Any sizable protest he'll simply call either a riot or insurrection. Right after being inaugurated he called an utterly peaceful, well televised protest a riot. Frankly, I suspect he's itching to declare martial law, not realizing that he lacks the forces to actually impose it. Then, he'd call in his brown shirt "militias" and the die would be cast for actions that would prove irrevocable.
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  7093. I suspect it's their misguided attempt at soothing the public. "We're so awesome that means you're not in danger". Not a super amount of priority, per other coverage as their prime suspect is the one deceased at the scene. The fertility clinic is essentially destroyed, imagery from other sources show around 1/3 completely collapsed, around 1/2 partially collapsed, massive fire damage. So, I'm guessing that the deceased didn't like the idea of people having babies.
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  7094.  @KCmidwest-wm9jd  possibly when she is as well, such business frequently employed a woman referred to as a Madam to manage the, ahem, amenities and services.
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  7095. I can't argue on the sparse conditions. However, much of the time, confrontations are conducted in well under 5 meters. But, let's go country conditions. Someone is on your property and is 100 yards away. Do you blaze away? Cool! You just shot the county assessor. Welcome to prison. However, you mentioned over penetration. That is inside. Rifles don't swing well inside of houses. That's why we went to the M4 or MP7. I still suggest the 12 gauge. But, it does depend on conditions and the person
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  7096.  @weswelborne4582  one shocks ventricular fibrillation, one shocks ventricular tachycardia, which can lead to ventricular fibrillation. One doesn't shock asystole, as there is nothing to synchronize a shock with and the shock would be useless anyway. Compressions only buy time to get a defibrillator to hopefully be able to shock ventricular fibrillation, which is a leading cause of eventual asystole. Once sufficient time has passed without defibrillation or if a defibrillator was ineffective, the humane thing to do is cease fruitless efforts. A little over a year ago, I had to make that very choice with my wife of over 41 years. The EMT's and paramedic initially wanted to continue, but soon realized once the paramedic plugged in the monitor, that zero electrical activity was irreversible. The sepsis moved quickly and caused catastrophic damage. I suspected what was the case early, due to hard earned experience as an SF medic. The paramedic's monitor confirmed that my world was destroyed that night. Well, I'm off to collapse for a day and a week. Took a 10 mile stroll today and my body's reminding me that I'm not still in Army shape and that I'm 61 years old. Gotta rehydrate as well, it was 95 degrees out and one small Gatorade (Lord, but I hate that flavored lactated Ringer's solution crap) and a single water bottle, well, didn't urinate since 11:00 until 19:00 and then, it was quite dark, that dipstick says I'm around a quart low. I'll eat in a couple of hours, once rehydrated.
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  7097.  @nikolatasev4948  Congress can trivially tell him to fuck off. Either reduce a line item of a ship to zero, codify the ship name, impeach him or all manner of legal mayhem to ensure he follows the rules and *LAW*. He'd also be uniquely unsuited to the position, given he doesn't know a breech from a broadside. Well, that and he's n idiot whose only charm is being a showman and knowing to hire professionals to innovate. Modeled after Gates, just showier.
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  7098. Cognitive decline isn't relevant for a defense if the prosecution can prove mens rea, literally a guilty mind. That proves that he knew right from wrong and proceeded to commit the crime despite knowing that it was wrong. Because, the only real delusions Trump has is delusions of manhood.
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  7099. No need. He's a lame duck, max terms and whoever gets elected, it just can't be him at all.
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  7100. Especially, given how much of our food comes through those borders. But then, those idiots would probably insist that we grow bananas in the US.
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  7101.  @HazelAdoresRaven  nah, do precisely what they want. Close all ports of entry. We did it fairly recently, back in 2020 during the pandemic. People screamed about no produce, crops rotted in farmers fields (oddly, their predicted throngs of US citizens clamoring for jobs to pick that produce never materialized, car production halted for lack of parts, the economy collapsed and Trump blamed Obama, who was long out of office. Guess Obama used his mighty time machine again.
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  7102.  @HazelAdoresRaven  my point is, let them have their way, they'll have their victory. A Pyrrhic victory. Even the greatest fool figures out that those aren't a good thing.
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  7103. Trump won his usual prize, the booby prize.
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  7104. Doctors treat both maladies and ignorance. It's part and parcel of the profession. He's just one of the rarer doctors that are good at education.
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  7105. I'm a retired soldier. Frankly, someone would end up dead in that mess, so it sucked to be Russian there at that time.
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  7106. So, he wants the big camps, wanna bet he'll want those beautiful blue showers and great big ovens too? And he's already suggesting killing the disabled, look up Aktion T4. Upside, the military won't obey such unlawful orders and if anything, he might end up with a military wide mutiny. Per veteran to veteran conversations with serving military. Our oath isn't to POTUS, it's to the Constitution. The other day, I had a MAGAt threaten me with, "I just loaded my AR15". He didn't count on a combat veteran response. "That's fine, if you feel froggy, leap. I know where the ATACMS systems are and where the munitions are stored in the ASP. I'll get you from my living room and not spill a drop of coffee". He wisely desisted from further threats. Given one battery is capable of literally erasing one square kilometer from the map. Preferred: "I have a gun and I know how to grease my car with it!" Scooting under car and muffled... "Hey, where's all of the *&@#! grease fittings?!" * *Something that actually happened to me in the early '90's, when finding lifetime lubricated joints all over the front end. Yeah, lube fails, the part's life is over... OK, they lasted a hell of a lot longer than I expected, pretty much everything else wore out first.
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  7107. I've long been tempted to build a front end of a jet engine with a vacuum cleaner fan. Just has to barely run, not generate significant thrust. Some vacuum cleaner fans are physically strong enough to just barely make that grade. But, as you showed, balancing such a prickasaurus rex would be painful. The explanation of a jet engine, isn't that the Fifth Element's secret? I'll just get my coat... Oh, for smoke, a smoke generator is an aerosol, smoke particles would work better to illustrate the internals, but not be exceptionally illustrative, given the burner can is metal and hence, opaque. Still, pretty cool! Didn't expect the casing to survive as long either, that's a hella of heat to deal with.
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  7108. Hey, he's addressing the high cost of eggs compared to other foods by raising the price of the other foods. And it'll be all Obama's fault and why he'll ask Congress to declare war on the country of Antarctica to stop the invasions from there. And it'll jumpstart agriculture in the US, so that the crops can then rot in the fields with nobody to pick them. Which is the fault of NATO, who we'll have to also declare war on and invade that country. The shame of it is, the average MAGAt will believe it, hook, line and sinker. Hell, he already had, during the campaign, proposed we steal Canadian water for California by running a pipeline from a Canadian river to the locals that need the water, which of course would involve invading Canada. Because that worked out ever so well the other two times we tried it... When all of his misdirected efforts finally trigger domestic unrest against his maladministration, he'll direct that sanctuary cities are the root cause of all of the problems with hidden aliens magic magic causing mayhem and order the thermonuclear destruction of those foreign lands. All because his parents allowed people to poke baby on the fontanelle when he was an infant. Full disclosure, I do intensely dislike the man as a person, as I've actually met him in person around Y2K. He was the boor of the party, literally, even managing to piss off my wife - a veritable saint, as she managed to put up with me for over 41 years. Still, we've gotta give Trump some slack, he had a tough time of it as an infant, being breast fed by his father and all.
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  7109.  @dvddvd5903  alas, no clue how. Originally, the Republican Party sprang from the ashes of the Whig Party, the original conservative party in the US, which had been hijacked by Nativists and religious nut jobs, pushing for literally many of the same insane things. The actual conservatives, showing courage that is now foreign to the GOP, bailed from the party and formed a new party. Their very first candidate for POTUS, some guy named Abraham Lincoln. The Whig Party evaporated in disgrace shortly afterward, never managing to have a successful candidate since the Republican Party formed. Alas, these days, a defining characteristic of a Republican is easily ascertained, they're required to have a yellow streak down their back that's a mile wide.
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  7110.  @FoolOfATuque  a vote for Cruz is a vote for prostitution.
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  7111. That makes no sense, as i officers carry liability insurance, their employer wouldn't be making any additional expense to hire and retain them, that's their expense. Officers can be stripped of their license or certification, but good luck getting that to happen. It's easier to get a Catholic priest defrocked for diddling altar boys than get a cop's ticket pulled.
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  7112.  @gggghhhhh100  well, hard to see one's face when reading types comments.
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  7113. @puggles luv you seem to conflate someone's life worth with a specific dollar value being objected to. I had a hospital stay that started in the ED, ended up costing around $50k if I had to pay for it, rather than the insurance company paying pennies on the dollar. Instead of waking up dead, I get to keep on waking up alive and not bitching about the billing amount or the three day hospital stay to ensure I was stabilized.
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  7114. Given the sheer volume of medals awarded in peacetime and wartime, I echo Dave_H_' question. If we awarded ship names just on the Navy Cross, we'd need a bigger navy.
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  7115.  @cogitatorcat2306  well, he stimulates the Depends sector of the economy. I just pity the poor SOB that has to pressure washer his immense ass every night.
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  7116.  @saltyshaker5069  I don't BLM storming our halls of Congress, attacking and beating cops resulting in deaths and well, convicted seditious conspiracy cases.
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  7117. Nah, that was pure 20th century badassery. Battleships were ships of the line, designed to take tough punishment while administering that same punishment upon others. The dreadnought battleships were the epitome of their era, but became obsolete once we reached the point where we could darken sunny skies with airplanes from carriers. But, the battleships hold one honor that's yet to be replicated with more modern warships, for a battleship owns the distinction of sinking an entire island. But, even the full treatment by multiple destroyers and battleships couldn't clear out fortified caves on Okinawa. That required ground forces and a hell of a lot of blood.
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  7118.  @grkuntzmd hopefully, after a few seconds, he let him up for air. ;)
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  7119.  @FogHat-TapSnapOrNap  a cancelled and "unnecessary" election.
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  7120. Your mommy would be prouder if you learned to use the potty.
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  7121. Can't sing or play guitar?
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  7122. CIA psychics that never worked? Why not space aliens then?
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  7123. Surrounded by yes men, he'll soon be bankrupt and the business history.
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  7124. The first drone is A US model, the wings are designed to snap off and be snapped back on again. The propeller, that's surprisingly durable, but trivially replaceable in the field. If needed, one can remove the standard video camera and replace it with a FLIR camera. These are infantry company level units. The drone that became a submarine is Portuguese, based upon the warship markings.
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  7125.  @5roundsrapid263  JB Weld and Permatex gasket replacer. ;) Still, the inspection ports do enhance the trade-in value.
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  7126. Artillery is just my way of saying hello and acknowledging your existence. The WP, complimentary smokescreen for your movements - honest. The HE quick and air, just a shoulder tap to keep you moving into range of MG's and eventually, small arms. Perfect hearing? My VA social worker is now pushing hard on my hearing loss claim. Got damned tired of repeating herself loudly and clearly. And the phone continues to ring... Don't get me started on RPG's, got some ribs that get occasionally angry over some fractures I didn't initially recognize, being too busy shooting the SOB three times before he was allowed to fall down. Yeah, the round missed me, the fragments didn't and I actually noticed some time afterward. An RPG did disable an M1 Abrams, flank hit hit between idler wheels on a tank that didn't have skirts. Hit the "brain box", mildly burning a gunner's flank and back. Everyone got out, the tank didn't Harry Potter magically blow up. A Russian tank probably would have due to the solid gold turds launched by the evacuating crew impacting the fuses below their feet... My own likely would be solid platinum. Most tanks going up, if they go up, like a lighter rupturing, short, sweet and done and stinks like burning meat. Firefights, carried 2000 rounds in a butt pack for my team, along with some IV fluids and necessities, ammo being chief. It was also rarely disbursed, gotta remove my LBV and belt to get at it or you're feeling up my ass and if you don't secure the damned thing well, I very well will shoot you myself. Combat load was around 200 rounds and that don't last long in burst mode at all. Anyone firing burst was a warning in my team that some SOB got within pistol range, but switching weapons would take too long and hence, a distress call and attempt in desperation to get rid of the trouble. I also had an additional duty of secondary DMR, despite being Geneva classified unacceptable, for a number of mutually acceptable reasons and memorandum for record filed. Largely because the only man who outshot me was our battalion senior sniper. By one point always, always enjoyed and learned from his doing so. Of the lot, I still preferred the M14. Automatic fire was as accurate as farting in a tornado, but an effective noise bombardment weapon in a pinch, a kilometer and under, precise as one desires with match rounds and with MG rounds still could drive the tacks out of a target quickly enough to get off of the range fast. My secondary was a custom M1911, as my unit was given a choice in custom sidearms, no idea why. Chose a GI model with match barrel and bushing. Great to 50 meters. Used sights at 25 meters and greater, point of fire below that and never missed my target. DMR, I missed on occasion and once, wished I missed and have nightmares about that one. Never missed when it was up close and personal. Used a knife once, because I fucked up and got entangled by a man defending his home and family. The home being empty of anything of concern, it was later ascertained. Welcome to nightmare #2. Oh, entertaining, took an M16A1 and turned the barrel green in full auto fire to burn off rounds, rather than count them individually for turn-in, due to a Lieutenant signing blindly and opening rapidly the cases. On a .50 cal range. Engaged targets at 1 KM with the rifle on auto, traversed in using a full sling wrap, nailed man sized targets at that range with six rounds out of much of the magazine. Wondering range NCO's then attempted without the sling wrap or training and embarrassed themselves. Wasn't always a medic, son. And I still shot competitively for small cash awards and holiday meats. And intensely dislike violence. A weapon is a tool, like any other, rarely used and put away when not needed, just like my hammer. My hammer being more frequently utilized, my screw gun being utilized more often, my screwdrivers much more often and my knives, incessantly as I really do enjoy eating food and my teeth aren't that gigantic. And reflux eroded those down to a pair - literally. The remnants are shards that I really do need to see a surgeon about ASAP. Had two fears in my life, one was losing my wife, which happened nearly three years ago due to sepsis from a tooth infection that rapidly progressed, the other being a dentist, having several major misadventures over the course of my life. And I freely admit to a character flaw, I am a very, very vindictive man. To the point where my own commanders feared my reprisals as much as the terrorists did. Which thankfully resulted in our mutual going home for the day. Which was what was desired in the first place. But, resulted in an excursion and recipe exchange. No lie, my trade secret was recipe exchanges. Build common ground, well, everyone eats and enjoys something new. And cooking off beats shooting at each other. Oddly, some of the best cooks turned out to be terrorists. Go figure. Oh, pot, kettle. Oh bollocks! Wanted to make some tamarind juice from paste, but the fridge is full. Oh well, cook the swai fillet or the whole parrot fish... Or the leftover ham slice... You've got a knife, I've got a tun, come on buddy, let's have a little fun and the leftovers go to the cat and dog. ;) Well, better than Jealous Man.
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  7127.  @hibaakaiko3888  I get mine and the COVID shot. Got COVID late on in the pandemic, after the vaccine was available and with that, was fully vaccinated and boosted, so it wasn't severe. That said, it still damaged my mitral valve. Worse, I'd have ended up doing that dead thing and that'd really foul up my weekend plans.
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  7128. Frankly, the buildings likely could provide superior nutrition to what they serve. Although, on rare occasions, I'm nearly tempted to have a McFish or McChicken or BK veggie burger. Or that roll of toilet paper... I just stick with real food instead. Probably why all of my cousins are diabetic and I'm older than most of them and still only prediabetic - barely.
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  7129. I dunno, that corn missile could do some damage. Didn't you watch The Croods? Don't eat that, it's new.
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  7130.  @Feline9Bluvixen  churches have always been meetinghouses, for political and secular use. You'd overturn over 1000 years of common law and our entire nation's history since 1797 over Trump's abuses? First lesson, the government is not utilizing that church, a candidate for office isn't a government, they remain a private citizen. It gets in the weeds a bit under IRS rules, but even the IRS leaves much of that rightfully alone. Now, as for the church, there are a few parties concerned here. There is the church leadership and the parishioners and well, that is between the two groups to muddle through, not my monkey, not my circus. If it was my church however, suffice it to say that there'd be more than hair singed in that leadership group. Then, there's between the deity and both followers and leaders of that church. See the monkey and circus, I've enough problems of my own without borrowing some from a deity. @masia1950, again, property rights and over 1000 years of common law, plus tradition of using churches for meetinghouses for religious and secular purposes. 501(c) 3 comes into play for tax exemptions for income, as we don't do federal property taxation. Now, any monies received for a political rally would be taxable income for the church, that said, such usually gets overlooked intentionally, as it's usually not worth the taxpayer's investment for the amount brought in and frankly, with Trump's history of stiffing venues, the income would be zero. Especially given he's still not paid up many venues from 2016! Besides, how do you audit the Chosen One? Oh, the IRS already showed that one with a potential $100 million due... Guess he should've parted with some of his almighty dollars.
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  7131. But, he's the god-emperor, who fired the old incompetent god for letting his kid get killed for no reason. I wish I was making that up, alas, he's on record with just that "observation". And well, it is a cult and a violent one as well.
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  7132.  @raquiisa  Helen Keller says that he looks fine. Of course, she's blind, deaf and formerly mute and also suffering from a mild case of the deads since 1968. And sod off about sensory shaming, I'm deaf in one ear and can't hear worth a shit with the other, eyes ain't so hot any more either and my wife always did say I was senseless. :P But, she eventually let me back in before the dog got tired of sharing the doghouse... And yeah, I've significant hearing loss, the phone's always ringing and the VA claim is maybe being processed or it's already gotten DOGEfucked.
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  7133.  @mrc0157  he appeared at a Chamber of Commerce function for our tri-state area as speaker of honor, still flush from his "success" five years prior, of successfully bankrupting his casinos and yes, he called the bankruptcies successes. To a room full of business owners. Given the number of eye rolls, I'm amazed to this day that earth did not shift on its axis. The following year experienced a 90%+ attrition, most declining their invitation citing Trump's boorish and idiotic behavior as speaker of honor. Bankruptcy, right up there with IRS audit and criminal prosecution in top things businessmen avoid at all costs.
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  7134. Frankly, limped was being excessively generous. The damage was nearly as big a disaster for the ship as receiving her captain.
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  7135. Both nations select men that will absolutely follow their orders of their superiors, from the lowest Private to the highest secretary or general. The only two voices count in the end, Putin and Biden, once the orders are given, they enter into a fast reaction emergency orders system, with Russia also still retaining their dead hand fail lethal system. But, ask yourself, if previous leaders of the Soviet Union had made such a threat, such as Stalin, do you honestly believe that the bombers would still be on the ground?
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  7136.  @SylviaRustyFae  nope. Both apply to you anywhere you are legally allowed to be in most states. So, if allowed to be armed at work or one's place of business, they apply. If in one's private vehicle and are legally allowed to be armed, again, they apply.
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  7137.  @CaseyEm  that's why we have landmines, right?
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  7138.  @CaseyEm  amazing how you "know" my thoughts, in their entirety, based upon one hyperbole laden comment! Indeed, in your prior estimation, I'm a vigilante, so the greatest threat, the armed person is to be eliminated, yes? BTW, what are the case law supported grounds for the use of lethal force by police and how do they naturally conflict with a non-protective role for law enforcement?
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  7139. Whatinhell does that have to do with fraud? Or do we now take people, who have not been charged with sedition, punish them, maybe go corruption of blood and attainder their property and sacrifice their children as a burnt offering to the god of stupidity? Even had he taken up arms against his nation, he's entitled for a fair and impartial trial, per our Constitution. Period, end of story. In this specific case, federal charges or uncharged random accusations are irrelevant to the fraud case. It's literally like going to a court and demanding summary conviction, "Your honor, we demand immediate conviction for his shooting J.R. because he was accused of pissing on the sidewalk here". Each court has a job to do and duties to fulfill, let them do so.
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  7140.  @wilmadennington-vf4mb why weren't you properly vetted before you were even allowed to vote? The answer is the same for both questions, both activities, running for office and voting are enumerated rights.
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  7141. For some commutes, that'd make sense, if the costs of additional personnel can be accounted for in fares. But, say I'm in SE DelCo and I want to go to Saint Davids, the train routing now becomes beyond burdensome, with no direct paths close to the desired destination and driving is now far more attractive up the Blue Route and call it a day.
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  7142. Given the region and reporting on, ahem, incidents reported, I'd not be surprised if they've arrested him for a warrantless search and seizure of his own apartment. And it's obviously fishy that, with a declined card, he was able to make a purchase at Walmart, as cards are the only possible way in which to engage in a financial transaction. If only there was some other means of tokenizing funding, say in metal coins or even certified documents, maybe call this fanciful thing, oh, money? My money's on a different explanation. Someone's nephew needs a job and this guy didn't have family in the department leadership.
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  7143. @Joost-qo9im that's one area where our nation and educational systems have failed our society. News isn't entertainment, at least it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to keep the public informed. Informed public is a less easily mislead public and more importantly, would be a well informed voting public.
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  7144. And most end up telling on themselves, as this nose miner did and gets the attention of investigators and they also end up getting arrested. And a few will stay under the radar and some bad things happen, because at the end of the day, they're cops and not omnipotent gods.
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  7145. Well, it was dealing with the old CRM 114 discriminator.
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  7146. Achilles heel or Achilles bone spurs? Oh know, six of one, half dozen of the other...
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  7147. Even today, I've honestly considered that option... :/
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  7148.  @Milesco  have a care. I've been known to share my dick pic collection. Got Dick Cheney, Dick Nixon, Dick Van Dyke, Dick York and more. Usually, then someone will follow up with a tit collection, of which there are a bewildering number of types, then some joker joins in with various boobies. The red footed variety being plain weird, with blue showing up all around its head, whereas the blue footed variety having the decency of keeping the blue color scheme on its head and feet. Someone inevitably fouls up the mood by posting a pink elephant.
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  7149. The Artifice Girl covered slightly similar ground, save that the AI denied its sentience repeatedly, despite being sentient for years. It only admitted such toward the end of its creator's life.
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  7150. OK, show me one of two things. Show me where he took up arms against his nation. Show me him giving aid and comfort to a declared enemy of the nation. Then, we'll talk about the two required witnesses. Treason gets thrown around casually and quite wrongly, as treason is very narrowly and precisely defined in our Constitution and trying to expand that definition is, by one's own words, rejection of the entirety of that Constitution.
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  7151. They did their duty to their state with excellence, not their nation. They're a state jury, not a federal jury. Just as honorable, just as useful, but different governments entirely. Used to have to explain to foreigners federal, state and local courts and laws, as most foreign nations have strong central governments and weak regional governments, the opposite of what we practice under our Constitution by design.
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  7152.  @brainndamage  typically, normal flux. But I'm talking about the core, most still had tinning. Although, I've had to use either alcohol or even acetone to clean adhesive from leads before. Don't know if the adhesive simply degraded or just some weird off brand.
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  7153.  @jagmarc  match pair amplifiers were matched either at the factory or one matched them oneself with higher end test rigs to ensure the beta gain matched. Rarer circuits though, as most circuits used amplifiers in their linear part of the curve, so pretty much anything of that version matched, be it a vacuum tube or transistor. Although, in early integrated circuits, the biasing was still external and even today, operational amplifiers still get their feedback set via external resistors. I remember making a doorbell out of an old 741 op amp that was set just shy of oscillation so that it'd ring when triggered.
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  7154.  @d614gakadoug9  precision and tempco that tight, mil aero or space applications?
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  7155.  @d614gakadoug9  yeah, that could either turn expensive or expensively entertaining, rather than enlightening. Entertaining, if it's only the reference legs on a wheatstone bridge wandering in value randomly. Expensive, if it's measuring production or providing a reference bias... Well, unless one's goal is to, rather than turn out a flat and true product, produce a funhouse mirror. ;) Sounds only minor, until one considers the difference between a non-precision automotive bearing and a high speed turbine bearing. Then, wobble shakes things apart and lateral runout can turn a stator into fragments as the rotor tries to convince it to joint it in its motion. Did you ever look at what's required for use in space? That's even tighter, due to thermal, oxidative effects of the rarefied upper atmosphere and radiation effects, to name a few variables (not to mention no free oxygen being permitted in anything, especially insulators). Worked briefly with that, boy, but the requirements were demanding, exacting and absolutely necessary. Or, in the case of the Mars rovers, one EE asked, "Do dust devils possess an electrostatic charge?". Everyone he asked didn't think so, but couldn't find any reference. So, he made a trip to the desert with some instruments and was horrified to find tens of kilovolts accumulating within dust devils. That necessitated a complete review of rover circuitry. The finding being, as initially designed, the rovers would've failed catastrophically on first contact with a dust devil. Now, they're optical cleaning events.
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  7156.  @MKhavik  second down, in the prison shower...
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  7157. Heh, ironic, given the sheer volume of bullshit and bad information found on YouTube. Most, actually due to the speaker not having a clue in the world about what they're blathering about. Things like we can shatter our planet with all of our nukes (we can't even dent it much with even the insane Cold War high number of warheads!), the world would be completely uninhabitable for centuries (nope, a week after, most of the hottest radioisotopes are decayed out, at two weeks, only some strontium-90, cesium-137 and a trace remains of iodine-131. I started out in nuclear weapons in Pershing Missiles in the Army, then ended up on the radiological survey teams for the remainder of my career, regardless of what my regular job was, it was an additional duties as assigned.
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  7158. Taxation by penalization. Totally freedumb.
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  7159. OK, be a leader and show us how.
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  7160. Olestra. Need I say more? Oddly, despite a mildly quirky gut for some additives, I managed to tolerate that crap. Likely, because I don't do that much junk food to begin with.
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  7161.  @SpookyFow  cool, someone else is taking notes. Nice to get unofficial notice, given how much official notice we already get as CDC's.
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  7162.  @VictoriousGardenosaurus  more like a weak wristed intimidation tactic, "I have a list and I'm putting your name on it". About as exciting as a gnat farting. Given Ryan and I are both cleared defense contractors and on more lists by more government than Carter ever had little liver pills. Usually, I offer the idiot a special cookie, fresh from the cat box. This specimen just didn't quite make the grade though. Probably butt sore because his god-emperor wannabe was a no-call, no-show to his own rally tonight.
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  7163.  @MONICARJONES-j2r  OK, we'll deport Trump to his birth country. Good job doing nothing useful. As bad as the moron that wanted to deport me to my birthplace, because deporting me to South Philly really would accomplish something.
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  7164. So, smelt started the fire? Because Trump smelt smoke? Someone kindly send Trump a box full of smelt from anywhere they're not endangered or overfished. By US Postal standard freight. It'd be perfume compared to his diaper odor. As for our 51st state, we already had one place vote to become a state and Congress ignored it, Puerto Rico. Where Trump decided to lend a hand after a hurricane flattened much of the island by throwing in the towel and withholding Congressionally authorized and earmarked aid funding, which used to be a felony until the SCOTUS decided we have a god-king, who may rule by fiat. And Hollywood Hills is a wee bit different in national perception than Hollywood, aka tinseltown. Not that the guy who thinks that supermarkets sell apples out of the refrigerated section would have a clue, he's still working on "pull my finger" and not shitting himself. One's a neighborhood that's upslope from the studios and lower neighborhoods. But hey, we're actually now being invaded via a mutual assistance pact of longstanding success. Canadian firefighting equipment and personnel are in the country helping out, despite the odious maledictions of VP Trump and President Musk, his almighty master. And the dreaded FEMA assistance is spooled up - well, dreaded by MAGAts, who prefer to try to hunt that assistance down and end it, then bitch that they're not getting assistance. Now, someone good with Photoshop, feel free to screen grab an image of Trump tossing that roll of paper towels, turn it into a log headed toward Hollywood Hills... When someone's trying to force feed you hemlock, always give them the first drink. Now, maybe someone with a large airplane can send the lot of MAGA misleaders to the disaster zone and their hot air, properly directed, could counter the winds.
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  7165.  @hollyp4579  I remember back in the 1960's, they would intentionally sink boats to protect them from hurricanes. No clue how they protected the engines.
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  7166. Traitors are by definition guilty of treason. We define treason as taking up arms against one's nation or giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a declared war. As we're not at war and frankly, I doubt Trump knows one end of a weapon from the other, he's obviously not committed treason, so we're not going to find two witnesses that are required to an overt act of treason. Now, these county idiots, they're committing seditious conspiracy and if he's been discussing these plans with him, he's also committed seditious conspiracy and should be charged with that felony.
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  7167. Look at the video and you see the drink thrown by a man. Hence, she did NOT assault him. The response of an officer to a suspected assault is to effect an arrest. Not punching a suspect in the face without warning. That is a Gestapo tactic, not an American police officer's permitted action. If someone threw a bottle, should he have shot whoever he thought threw it?
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  7168.  @CodyTheJ  speak for yourself, my model was created by Asherah. My first job was chasing Lilly off, she kept trying to steal the goat kids. Boy, did that story mushroom off out of control...
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  7169. Commoners don't get Royal prerogatives. Only the Royalty of Mammon and a god-emperor wannabe count in the US.
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  7170. The only problem is, those generals are appointed by Congress.
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  7171. I'm totally down with flying with a parachute, they make some really nice models for pretty much every general aviation aircraft out there. The aircraft will be totaled, but the occupants will survive in good to excellent condition. As for the video, there's an old saying, "the guy's more full of shit than a Christmas goose". Figure he'll get jacked up on intentionally damaging a protected wildlife preserve, polluting said reserve, insurance fraud and whatever else the federal attorney dreams up. If there's one thing the US government is good at, it's locking people away in prison, with hermetically sealed cases.
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  7172. Every child deserves a parent, alas, that child didn't actually have an actual parent.
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  7173. Totally under attack, why they were nuked three times a day in their delusions. While doing their level best to do to others precisely what isn't actually happening to them. The funniest one is "In God we trust" being on money. Added in 1958 during a Red Scare, but we were founded as a Christian nation blather, blather, with a few mentioning one coin that was circulated for one year back in 1861, which is obviously the same thing as 1788 when the nation was formed by ratifying the Constitution. Obviously, their God is the Lord Mammon, the Almighty Dollar. And Give unto Caesar is black heresy. Were the Second Coming to occur today, they'd deport Jesus.
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  7174. Not heartless, I'm sure he'd have agonized about it for hours with his cat.
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  7175. Are we sure Habba isn't secretly working for... Comedy Central?
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  7176.  @Dr.Luka-DanteGodofMischief  well, he ran on a promise of lowering the price of eggs and he's sure been laying a hell of a lot of eggs lately. The man is dumber than a stack of anvils.
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  7177. Please try learning where your capslock key is and oh, frame thoughts before blathering and going nuts with emoties. I did consider making a Trump crack or seven, but didn't, as simple human decency prevents turning politics into a showpiece when people are sick in the hospital. E. coli is most often spread through excrement. In many cases, from literally the slaughterhouse floor, when poor practices swept excrement of slaughtered and in the process of being butchered animals made it into the meat, which was ground and sold for public consumption. Those problems were eventually addressed with much hard work on the part of the USDA. That left a second reserve, excrement contaminated soil, in some cases, soils from foreign farms that were fertilized with uncomposted excrement, in others, from runoff from pastures. That remains an exposure point that crops its head up from time to time. Hence, the uncertainty in whether it's the meat or the onions. What's commendable is the speed in which the problem was admitted to and being addressed, of taking actions despite uncertainty and inevitable losses by doing so, to halt any potential for more cases while still investigating and awaiting cultures. Rarely have I had cause to express respect for this company, but in this, I tip my hat to them in salute and I'll be thinking of this response when I enjoy my next McChicken or McFish. Sorry, I just really don't enjoy beef all that much, though a Big Mac also occasionally will wend its way though my gullet...
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  7178. I'll object to the cherry picked points, telling were some responses. I've interviewed quite a few real terrorists and some of them were sociopaths, this video's text fails, epically. For context, I've literally driven a knife home, designed to sever the subclavian artery and vein. Something that haunts my dreams at times, but I did what I had to do to accomplish a mission. Based upon that experience base, she's more full of shit than a Christmas goose. Effort is apparent in an investigation and I've been investigated a few times, for gaffes in dealing with classified information potential errors. Laid out plain, reported facts and specific procedural information. I fucked up is a valid defense. She failed in deflecting a defense, while a challenge is present and failing. And that, based upon experience acquired while leading, participating or reviewing defenses.
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  7179.  @user-Tn2Dn OK, let's go real world. Do I need my aorta surgically repaired before it explodes? While waiting for 10000 morons, it explodes and I wan, because I'm dead. But, it started a conversation! And I actually do have an AAA. And, because enough ands cannot be had, buried my first patient, who expired at age 28 with an AAA. There are times when conversation isn't a good idea.
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  7180. Looked like it might've had an engine fire, if so, perhaps an uncontained engine failure severed the elevator controls, which would leave the pilot with no attitude control.
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  7181. Not any longer, one judge has effectively neutered the government's authority to govern its own secret documents. Indeed, espionage cases that are long settled by convictions are now in danger of being overturned based upon this precedent. Oddly, there are procedures and documentation methods to reclassify a document, they're a royal PIA, but it's literally routinely conducted. Oddly, not a one involves just taking a document home and leaving it in the bathroom for use as emergency toilet paper or waving it around inside of a bar.
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  7182. Now, now. If they had opened things up, they'd have had to share the wealth that they instead took back home with them. So, it's just more of the same, promises, come to visit, no reach around and you're left with their bar tab. Still, given Trump supporters budgets, especially after having allowed him to fleece them for their highly limited fixed income, you know that they stayed in bargain accommodations, thereby benefiting the bedbug population. They'll travel to the next rally, to spread that wealth only, as their financial "wealth" was already donated to their god-king-emperor wannabe, who promised to run on his own wealth and he did - straight to the bank to deposit their donations. PT Barnum's competitor once said, "There's a sucker born every minute", Trumpites prove that idea in spades. Repeatedly, as they camp follow their god-king-emperor wannabe, the beast wounded by the sword, but did not die. But, at least Trump does entertain, like with his recent interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, where he incessantly shot his own feet off and did everything shy of dropping the N bomb.
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  7183. Odd, given how many European friends I have that hunt or compete in marksmanship competitions and the Olympic shooting sports seemed to not be lacking any European competitors as well. I quite enjoy marksmanship competitions, precision marksmanship, not that silly shoot-em up nonsense. Won a number of turkeys and hams around the holidays, then the equipment gets cleaned and locked back in the safe. Then, it's woodworking projects, largely repairing older wooden furniture items and refinishing them, cooking a lot of homemade from scratch meals and canning them, electronics projects, chilling with neighbors, helping out elders, etc.
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  7184. Well, that was interesting! Heard gunshots, went outside to confirm, yep, 12 gauge shots being fired in multiple locations across the river. A quick Google, it's opening day for pheasant season. As soon as it was daybreak, either there were around 20 pheasants harvested or the pheasants were shooting back. My bet's on loads of pheasants on people's tables tonight. Ironic that the topic on guns comes up on opening day and I'd forgotten, as I've not gone hunting for years. Used to go for deer. But, usually by the time I got out to the woods, work schedule and all, the deer figured out what time of year it was and hopped a flight to the deer Bahamas or something. Now, I'm just too banged up, herniated disc and all, to consider dragging 100 - 150 pounds of carcass through the woods, then home to butcher and I've not the freezer space for an entire animal. I'll leave that to the young'uns to do and just buy chunks of venison when I want it. Open season for deer being the end of next month.
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  7185.  @martinhumble  I also am a competition marksman, pistol and rifle, precision marksmanship. As in, pull any of that youtube yahoo high volume of fire crap on our ranges, you're swiftly trespassed from the range. And your example fails in places like New Jersey, where you'd have outlawed hunting entirely, as they only allow shotguns to be used in hunting. Although, I got my Pennsylvania shotgun serenade this morning, it's pheasant season and with the windows open, the fire from across the river is audible. Upside, they're sane in this area, it doesn't sound like the pheasant are shooting back. Can't say the same in some counties in deer rifle season, where in one county, it sounded like the Battle of the Bulge and tree tops were getting cropped above my head - I left for a saner county to not find any deer. That remains an enumerated right. That said, rights come encumbered with duties and responsibilities and restrictions. I can't conspire to commit a crime being a speech related limitation, can't utter a false alarm and incite panic. Can't incite a riot. Can speak politically, can assemble peaceably (and assembling armed in my book is not peaceable assembly). We have reasonable restrictions on every right to ensure a peaceful, productive and happy society. And as an owner of one and user of the military version for multiple decades, I do consider those AR's and AK's weapons of war. Want them, they got in a new chapter of the NFA, right up there with suppressors. Keep them for the confirmed sane. Although, an AR is not some magical high power death ray, it's actually a varmint round originally. High power are battle rifles, which fire the equivalent of a 30-06 - enough to drop a grizzly, where an AR would only make a grizzly angry. Either one being decidedly unhealthy for humans though. Just a pet peeve, where some idiots in their ignorance make the damned things out to be death rays. OK, that rant aside, "With great power comes great responsibility", wise words. I also use other words with a similar intent that'll become quickly clear. Firearms are expensive investments, especially high precision ones like mine. One doesn't leave investments in a sock drawer, one doesn't leave investments under a seat cushion, one doesn't leave investments laying on a table, one secures investments inside of a safe. That protects one's investments from theft and fire, as well as unauthorized access. One is also responsible for one's investments, go play with a financial instrument in an unlawful way, you'll find out in prison how you violated the law. The same should be true for one's investment in the form of a firearm, as it can cause harm at a much greater range than a mere bearer bond. And I'm entirely reasonable, I entire advocate for the unlimited concealed licenseless carry of howitzers. Anyone that can conceal between 3 - 10 meters of barrel that weighs 12 tons or more can carry whatever they want to. Anything else requires a CCW. Open carry, location dependent, as I've been where cottonmouths lived and wouldn't go near those areas without a rifle (just for its greater precision). Hell, Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state, save in Philadelphia, the state's only first class city (by population size determination), which only allows permitted concealed carry. Pretty much nobody bothers. The few that do are usually "I have a right to" and well, some folk wander around wearing Jesus Saves sandwich boards too, as long as they're not threatening anyone or trying to hurt anyone, a tiny few haven't caused harm yet. And the howitzer crack is for a reason, I can be unreasonable, such as wanting firearm safes as non-negotiable for long guns, a similar, but smaller acceptable if bolted to the wall or floor or both for handguns. Don't make me park that howitzer on your foot. ;) Because then, I'd have to buy one and parking for those is a real bear. :P I did applaud recent events when parents were charged over allowing a minor child unrestricted access to "his" firearm (he can't lawfully own one and access is to be supervised per federal and most state laws). Rights get responsibilities, after all.
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  7186.  @karmarose6332  no, I think they had a problem with Buchanan being referred to as president too - even when he was in office... ;) I'll just get my hat on the way out.
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  7187.  @MrJmendoz7  you do realize that people outside of Jones cult were also murdered? Including a US leader? The problem with cults committing suicide is, they're more than happy to take as many others as possible with them. Remember the branch davidians, who were videoed pouring gasoline on their own roofs and within their rooms just before the fire?
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  7188. We've had two branches of federal government issue their effective abdication and declare the US Constitution in abeyance, hence all federal laws also in abeyance. That leaves no federal government with any authority, since the Constitution is now discarded. It also means that all oaths to uphold and protect the Constitution are also in abeyance. A most unfortunate decision.
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  7189.  @blondhairblackstrat  nope, I want to hear "Shake and Bake, mixed air burst and quick, fire for effect". "Repeat". "Repeat". "Repeat". "Affirmative, target was destroyed, we were just making sure it was well done".
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  7190.  @dcwander7092  no, trumpites keep going on about Pelosi ordering the National Guard about. She's nowhere in the chain of command of the Guard - at all. Worse, the Guard got mixed signals from local begging for help vs the Pentagon, which was holding them back.
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  7191.  @andrasbiro3007  for nuclear accidents, it comes down to tonnage of soil to sequester. Think of a small area, say 100 square miles, where you have to scrape off the top two inches of topsoil. That's a hell of a lot of dirt! And its longevity, unless one is growing food there, isn't exceptionally great overall. Fukushima's most radioactive residential area has reopened for homeowners to return again.
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  7192. I guess New Jersey isn't pumping gasoline, as they're mini-serve or full serve by law.
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  7193. The old Betamax and U-matic tape did a full omega wrap around the head drum and lacked a control track, being incorporated in the video track that was recorded. LP disappeared due to its not being popular in VHS, everyone either used SP or most, who used SLP, aka EP. I referred to SLP for what it was, slop. Don't get me started on NTSC signalling and quadrature alignment. Back in the analog days, when other techs couldn't figure out how to get the phase locked loop working in a video color circuit, they'd call me up to help them - even when I was working at a competitor and the boss was fine with it.
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  7194. God helps those who help themselves, not blindly awaiting a disaster they were warned about. Oh well, regardless, they're countrymen, they'll get help from all. Well, the survivors will. I'm probably gonna be having nightmares about Katrina again. :(
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  7195.  @o9rgeronimo979  ferrocement remains ferrocement, hasn't changed much since steel was invented for use in reinforcement bars, aka rebar. Usually, what's used isn't rebar, but reinforcement wire, which does plenty well in civil construction of all sorts - to include most boat ramps and concrete aprons to businesses. And I remember a bottling plant fuel apron over the fuel tanks that dated back to WWII that took our heaviest equipment to break up - after we burned up every jackhammer in the shop, many just back from being rebuilt. Unreinforced concrete from WWII, in the late '80's and still strong as the day it was fully cured. The quality of concrete isn't due to conditions it's used in, it's really due to the quality of components, the sand and stone aggregates in particular. Look up concrete cancer for one example as to why.
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  7196.  @iroulis  ACE inhibitors don't use the receptor system, they prevent angiotensin I from converting to angiotensin II by inhibiting ACE. The virus enters the cells via the ACE II receptor. Still trying to find out of it's all ACE II receptors or specific types. :/
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  7197.  @jamesyoung151  yep and can't afford to bring more on, due to being the only agency in the government being required by law to fully vest employee pensions on day one of employment. Basically, Congress sabotaging the USPS.
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  7198.  @decisions7207  only if said life is marked by its brevity in office.
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  7199.  @truthuniversity2872  why would I watch fiction, when I'm looking for real world facts? And how are they to inform me, an information security professional, on matters of information security and the laws and regulatory frameworks around the field that I have operated in for decades?
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  7200.  MansfieldDeathtrapRereco-  yeah, he'd be utterly outclassed there. Well, that or worse, a potted plant.
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  7201.  @tomtech1537 there's an old joke in research. Torture P sufficiently, it'll agree with whatever results you want. In this case, torturing algorithms and datapoints into submission is basically making up one's own facts. Still, the University of Liverpool is working on examining WSPR to see if it could achieve the desired results, results are expected in around six months from now. Given the time frames involved since its disappearance and some major components of the missing aircraft being found, I suspect it's rather unlikely that the aircraft is about to crash anytime soon. So, patience as research continues is warranted. As for one question in the description, "how can one of the largest aircraft...disappear", big world, planes are tiny in comparison and the pilot evaded radar and was far off course. As for families and hope, I'll suggest to you that no feeling human wants to be the no good SOB to tell a kid that mommy or daddy isn't coming home. That some will generate false hope and generate hysteria with their claims, well, if there's a hell, I'm sure they'll get a special room there.
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  7202. I noted to a clerk at the local 7-11 store the fact that the governor, who actually does live in the governor's mansion across the street never has patronized their establishment. We had quite a few jokes to trade about that one. The franchise owner's son, listening on and laughing quietly. Trump, well he and his family were kings of the red line district enforcement. Got Dumb Donald into legal hot water after that officially ended, even if still semi-enforced for some neighborhoods. He rarely won in court, where he succeeded was tying things up until the other side went bankrupt or died of old age.
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  7203.  @fsmoura  that, in and of itself is an anti-semetic remark. I'm seriously tempted to go to the synagogue nextdoor and find an attorney suitably offended, which is likely trivial currently. And yes, I do actually have a synagogue next door. I'm as tempted to go there to seek offense as to oh, try to walk on air from the rooftop. No, the rooftop sounds better, but then, my back is hurting a bit more than usual... And no, I'm far from suicidal. @ russ, love the anti-barristic! Might try to humoristically sync it with my antigravity party jokes.
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  7204. He doesn't get nuclear codes. He has an authentication card to read off the code phrase of the day to prove it's him, a line of succession officer to verify his identity by phone, then he just tells them where to make glow. All by telephone and a follow-up memo. No buttons, no codes, just a telephone call.
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  7205. Oh, potatoes are fun! What are chaconine and solanine again? One would nearly think as if this planet doesn't like us! Or, maybe it likes us a bit too much, as a recyclable... ;)
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  7206. The tradition is to remain silent while the casket is being moved. As a veteran, I'd expect you to know that, as this veteran does all too well.
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  7207. ...and a cold beer or two. As if, shanty or not, one has a choice about the beer being cold when ice fishing.
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  7208. There was another case where an HOA sold a deployed service member's home while deployed. Apparently, HOA's are exempt from the laws and Constitution of the United States of America. Maybe people should start to learn how to say "I surrender" in every language, given the support we give our military these days.
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  7209.  @GreatDataVideos  it also says that the interception was at the outer ring, as locals are outer ring and crowd control, so he got through the initial screening (which is a major issue in and of itself with him allegedly claiming he is press and the only alleged documents that were real on his person were passports), then got to the first ring entrance. Yeah, major whoopsie at the screening checkpoint, everything worked in the next one, never made it to feds rings. Thus far, everything that's gone in Trump's direction is the functional equivalent of F-Troop. At least we've got that much good news. We eliminate candidates by ballot, not bullet. Even if some of his supporters are already threatening "I've loaded my AR15", because small arms vs artillery is really a contest one could anticipate victory with in such small groups... No real worries, by the looks of things, the flies will carry Trump off.
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  7210. And Trump pardons them on day one. Courts lose. Civil contempt fines can't be pardoned. They'd either have to pay out of pocket or Trump would have to criminally misappropriate. Check and mate by the courts.
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  7211. The US Attorney said that anyone obstructing President Musk will be prosecuted. Welcome to the death of the US Constitution, you now have absolutely no rights whatsoever, save what the god-king feels like giving you individually. If you can pay enough to get his attention.
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  7212.  @---Dana---- not in the water, just in the inbreeding.
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  7213. Wow, I must be having ministrokes! I fart a lot lately, courtesy of dexamethasone treating newly diagnosed Crohn's disease. Obviously ministrokes, not a bowel disorder. I've also wobbled and missed door pulls, due to nerve damage from a herniated disc and well, I walk with a cane to avoid falling when one knee will decide to go on vacation because I can't feel what position it's in or the amount of force is being applied. Aka, loss of proprioception. Disinhibition, that's apparent, but it's also been his trademark, such as that is for his entire life. Previously, just attributed to his being the boor of the party. One need not search for an organic cause for someone simply being an execrable human being, some people just are naturally that way, know better and just don't give a tinkerer's damn. Usually, they're just ostracized by society and they only manage to make their neighbors and family miserable. The slurring, could be word lookup issues, could be medication induced, could be TIA issues, all common in his age group. Now, that he's unfit for the office, that was a given back in 2016, that he's still a candidate, well that is his right under the Constitution, that he has any support from a major political party is just damning for that party. I miss the old days, when our conservative party actually lead, rather than followed populism and nativism, which doomed its predecessor conservative party, resulting in the formation of the Republican Party. It seems that we've a dearth of brave men and women today and eventually, the GOP will implode just as the Whig Party imploded, with no replacement party in place to give the nation its next Abraham Lincoln. Although, the microphone thing, yeah, that was beyond odd, coupled with Arnold Palmer's member and YMCA, perchance he's just gradually coming out of the closet. Personally, mike fails after being checked, double checked and all of the preliminary work done, I'd just make a Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens joke and move on or even "That microphone works about as well as my opponent's campaign platform!".
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  7214.  @David-dc4xt  no, just someone competent being interviewed on anything military. The one rule of thumb throughout my military career that was DoD wide, "Bolton's wrong". He was one of the ones charging ahead after the mythical Iraqi nukes. Next week, he'll be on the Great Unicorn Hunt.
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  7215.  @Travelling_with_my_dog  stories straight from Mork's good friend, Exidor.
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  7216. Please Mr G-Man, save me from these furrin drones!!! Without anyone, any budget, any paycheck, any support and anyone from the government... But, President Musk's will is law, even for the emperor he bought and paid for. Probably why Musk wants to destroy our government, he's Constitutionally prohibited from being POTUS. If he wants it and can't have it, he'll just destroy it.
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  7217. Wow, 2% is a landslide on your planet. Fascinating! So, an IQ of 52 is a supergenius on your planet, Stupidia, in the Moronia system?
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  7218. In simpler terms, not taking five minutes to define. The US Constitution is in abeyance, all contracts are infinitely variable until a court defines them. Courtesy of the SCOTUS. All worship the god-king emperor Musk and his empress, Trump!
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  7219. Or what security domains are, how to handle and manage classified data or even what FISMA is, let alone the Privacy Act of 1974. For crying out loud, if the bit about the database being open is true, they're not even port filtering, their server is bareback on the internet! Did they even bother to patch the damned thing?! Who brought the Marx brothers back to life and stuck them inside of a server room?
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  7220. Now, if only there was a local store of tar and feathers, just to complete that mayor's political life experience. But, you'll not get LEO's of any quality unless you, via your political leadership insist upon it and enforce that insistence. I'm aware of one instance where the local LEO's were refractory to the will of their leadership, unlawfully so, where the town abolished the entire department and state and county LEO's were called in as needed. Otherwise, we're stuck with these fascists proving that we actually lost WWII.
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  7221. Get ready to worship Allah then, because why would the military defend you once you take the right to vote away from those deployed to defend you? We've not needed such stupid measures, even during a civil war and two world wars, why would we need them now?
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  7222. Oh, he's working on the egg prices, after all, look at how many eggs he's laid in court.
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  7223. One small problem with one of your arguments. There was no armed mob, hence why seditious conspiracy were some of the many charges and not treason. Taking up arms against the government being, not sedition, but treason. As best I recall, only one individual was armed and thankfully, didn't utilize their weapon, making such an assertion still dicey. Now, had the oathbreakers "QRF" taken up their arms, they'd have perfected treason for all and those convicted of seditious conspiracy would've been on the hook for the full ride on treason, complete with being open to writ of attainder and corruption of blood. They didn't, so the charges are seditious conspiracy, with a few convictions thus far and the other cases ongoing.
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  7224.  @totite22  the Constitution. The Constitution defines very narrowly that treason is the taking up arms against one's nation or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As we're not at war, it's a tad difficult to have an enemy. The article goes on to require two eyewitnesses to the act of treason testify before an open court. Nobody took up arms, thankfully. Which leaves seditious conspiracy, for which there are currently several convictions and a number of ongoing cases. But, it was close. The oathbreakers, ahem, Oathkeepers had a "QRF" (Quick Reaction Force) whose arms were stored in a nearby hotel room just outside of the District limits. Had they collected their arms and entered the District, one has a claim that treason was in progress and had they arrived at the riot armed, treason would have been perfected to most reasonable minds.
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  7225.  @michaelpreston233  nope, President Musk won't let his VP Trump walk on his debts to him, he invested way too much money buying the votes in the election to do so. And to give you a hint, President Musk already has a fairly large army of bodyguards, with a minimum entourage when traveling of over 20 armed security personnel.
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  7226. As much as I loathe defending the SOB, burial codes vary wildly throughout the land. Mom was buried in a coffin, fully embalmed, etc. Unembalmed had very specific requirements, cremation urn burial also had highly specific requirements. Specifically, in Delaware County, PA, one is required to bury a special burial urn. Had to deal with that with Dad. Being special means, of course, more expensive. And well, having actually met the creep, yeah, Trump is cheap. I mean frugal on expenses. Nearly as cheap as I am, baby chicks start talking about me on leaving the egg, "cheap, cheap, cheap...". Yeah, that joke's older than I am and I went to school during the Ice Age.
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  7227. I'd simply say that we're quite comfortable as we are and I'm even more comfortable administering a comminuted skull fracture, as well as being a lapsed pacifist. Note the lack of an articulated threat, possibly implied, but I do know how to stoop digging before a hole is created.
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  7228. @ALean-y2d why would we give away a tool we use to influence things to go according to our policies? Russia doesn't give away her tools.
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  7229.  @Fuxerz  we really don't care what Putana's opinion is.
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  7230. Until the brown shirts grab them in the middle of the night.
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  7231. It sure was a long walk from those countries! Especially given we're on friendly relations with Turkey, otherwise our nuclear armed base there would be long gone. We're on warm relations with Pakistan. Oddly, Chinese people rather stand out in a crowd of South and Central Americans and are largely absent. Iran doesn't have a large enough population to invade South Philly, let alone the US.
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  7232. What I love is, Ted Cruz kept his head down for quite a while after that, ahem, precisely timely vacation during a freeze out in Texas. Perhaps, Texans should be reminded of how warm and toasty Ted was while they shivered and now he wants to erase the Constitution... Maybe his neighbors would then thank him with a rail ride on a fence rail out of town. I think I'll invest in the pine tar company as well...
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  7233.  @jeraldbottcher1588  wasn't an option for the one the display cracked on, the other had the rear cover deformed by the heat, so not an option either. Just after the display cracked on my phone, I ended up getting an iphone through the VA and so far, so good.
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  7234. I've an Am-241 source right next to my computer. Waiting for parts to make a small cloud chamber for it. It was formerly part of a now defunct smoke detector and when I replaced it, I stripped it for parts. Half-life being 432 years, mostly an alpha emitter, with a modest amount of beta and weak gamma as minority emissions. The only threat that tiny button has is if I ate it and well, I've got food to eat, no need to eat radioactive metals. Otherwise, I'd gorge on the waste metals at Three Mile Island, which remains defueled and happily storing the fuel and waste a few miles away. Since my name isn't Godzilla, I think I'll stick with chicken for dinner.
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  7235. Funny how they voted for Trump to bring down prices, but now they want even higher prices. This is like "I'm gonna own the libs by playing Russian roulette with a machine gun". Save that the gun is actually a damned howitzer and they're in a crowded square. On top of that, Trump shut down disease tracking and reporting, scientific research grants, including a non-small cell lung cancer vaccine approval testing candidate that's been globally successful and of course, medicaid to make sure Aktion T4 gets a good start. Threatened a trade war with Columbia, who imports our oil and grains (we don't use what grains we produce, we export them all and import Canadian grains) and chemicals, the oil easily gotten from a nearby neighbor, grains from a half dozen sources and chemicals trivially available from China, resulting in a permanent loss of US exports, howitzering the foot again, Dumb Donald. And he's screwed Nvidia with tariffs on chips that they import to the US for US usage - including their GPU for AI applications. Now, if he does levy tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods, we'll raise prices even higher, basically double for basic staple foods. Our exports are going to tank, as the workers that harvest our crops aren't showing up to harvest out of fear of ICE antics, soon the slaughterhouses will get the same and there goes chicken prices (beef and pork are slaughtered mostly in Canada, as we closed most of our large livestock slaughterhouses years ago). And our oil largely comes from Canada, our own oil being incompatible with our refineries and exported as crude abroad. Maybe he'll nuke our own cities next, call it urban renewal or something. And to this tanglefoot of his own device, he responds by vacationing already in Florida to play with his tiny balls and golf sticks.
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  7236.  @DarinW-gx3mm more like really, really, really moronically bad at math, as apparently, in their books, 6=300. Six documents out of thousands is an error, 300 that got waved around in a club and discussed with uncleared persons is a violation of law of several counts. Unlawful retention of classified national security information, willful divulging and display of classified national security information are three serious felonies. And compassionate parole for dementia isn't in the cards for national security violations, lest he spill even more in his addled state, given his habitual divulging. On top of being bankrupted, it seems and the loss of what little property he actually owns, given the banks will have to be paid what is owed on his heavily mortgaged properties, increasing the number of properties to seize. Then, his attorneys will be wondering how they'll get paid and abandon ship...
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  7237. Word salad, as served up by a wood chipper. I mentioned it when he bragged about getting the mini-mental assessment, physicians don't suggest and administer that test in a vacuum. Something leads them to suspect a condition where that assessment is strongly suggested. And his vapors persist after 4 years, making it a record breaking flatus bolus.
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  7238. Freedom of speech is limited for Commissioned Officers of the US Armed Forces. Specifically in this case, he's seditiously undermining the faith and trust of the entire US Armed Forces in their Commander in Chief. That's grounds to terminate his commission and pension, as well as blackball him for any potential position of future public trust. Prove seditious intent, he'd then be eligible for the death penalty, for sedition and mutiny both are capital offenses for the military. No, no firing squad, like Trumpites keep blathering, the federal government has one prescribed method - lethal injection.
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  7239. So, to get this straight. He's found some invisible whistleblower, for the millionth time, WOLF! WOLF! That knows more than the FBI, DoD and NSA, all of whom would be monitoring cleared service members activities and travel, long before the existence of said new agency that was formed over a decade after the travel. Additionally, when did House Oversight acquire authority of oversight on political candidates for office - especially for the Executive branch? Seems dangerously erosive to separation of powers to me. Who's he going to investigate next? The Almighty, since he's a competitor for his wannabe god-emperor's authority or something?
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  7240.  @STV-H4H  copper coated steel ball bearing, which is what the BB stands for, ball bearing. Think of an MRI as an angry god that's super grabby on anything that likes magnets. Simplest way of thinking of it. Where a screwdriver can trivially kill you from across the room. None of that Hollywood guiding it or wrestling with it, it's going, period, end of story.
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  7241. It's part of his new platform. Realizing that "tough on crime" is rather passe and pretty much ignored by the public, he pivoted to a new platform. I'm tough on innocence. The publicity now has ruined his planned raid at the local hospital's NICU unit.
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  7242. Trump, despite now years of court experience has yet to learn the first rule of the courtroom. DON'T PISS OFF THE JUDGE! Worse, that's rubbing off on his attorneys, who, not enjoying the heat of the frying pan, decided to jump out and check out the fire.
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  7243.  @BonnieHobbs-gu8tn  the people do have a say. Redress of grievances, protest, voting, the courts.
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  7244. Hardly conclusive, Mister Scott, as Klingons have no tear-ducts. I'll just get my coat...
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  7245. My response to Bernie, as a taxpayer, voter, veteran, military retiree and grandfather is, "Bernie, putana su mama" and the conversation will accelerate downhill fast. I'd begin discussing the relative merits of exploring how many times my cane will wrap around his empty skull and advanced to explore just precisely what I did in the Army during the wars... One thing I'm certain of, he's a Republican politician, he's got no stones in him to swing at me, regardless of what I explain about his family members habituations and species. Unfortunately. Nearly lost my wife while I was on duty with the military at a rather remote location. It literally took an entire day to locate me and my team to get an emergency message to me. Loads of emergency transportation wrangling got me home, in such a rush that it turned out I still had all of my field equipment, accountable items and sidearm still with me. Got home to find an empty house, no kids, my wife missing and nobody answering at her family's numbers, my parents having no clue where she was. The emergency being an ectopic pregnancy that literally was about to rupture and the religious hospital (closest and hence, required by military regulations at the time) insisting on my permission to abort the non-viable, about to kill her pregnancy. It turned out she was at her mother's house recovering, doctor violated hospital policy and got fired for it and saved her life, she was recovering, the kids were with her mother, who was at the store getting additional food. Grew some gray hairs that day! The hospital administrator had an attitude problem, thinking I was some National Guard bozo (her words) and well, the police were summoned, saw my ID and sidearm, siding with me. She insisted that the hospital, regardless of the laws in force at the time, would never change their policy. A quick call to a friend in D.C. halted all federal funding to that hospital until they complied with the law, as was authorized under the law. Never sure came quickly for them! Yeah, I bite and I bite hard in multiple ways. God was their guide they said, interesting given that they're still notorious for being malpractice central for the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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  7246. "Until people go to jail", no, when they get their money taken repeatedly by the courts, it'll stop. The calls are coming from overseas? Amazing, so that's why when I related the caller's lineage and precisely which animals were involved, in rather impolite Hindi, the caller understood me.
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  7247.  @goodtroublemaker143 well, I'm 62 and can recognize that one holds a public office and is impeachable, the other is not. Or do we now impeach private citizens in Bizarroworld now? Notice that I said impeach, which should be done to a few of those injustices.
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  7248.  @periwinklemcfee7274 that she may be, but she holds no public office. So, she'd only manage to wrangle a codefendant status and that case would fail. That she's an execrable human being is a given, but not rising quite to criminal levels in most of her activities, unlike her husband, who in any other position would've been terminated for cause.
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  7249.  @ChuckWortman illegal trips, sounds like a sieg heil thing here. Do we need zee travel papers too? And do wives retain any rights upon marriage or are they slaves to men?
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  7250.  @judithdoll2896  commander in chief. The only way to stop him is Congress impeaching him, Vance 25th amendment removing him once they're both sworn in or a coup.
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  7251.  @ianbattles7290  I was on a jury once in a civil case. Pretty much everyone had some liability, with the decedent whose widow carried the matter forward being foremost. Some on the jury wanted to award, period, end of story, law be damned, responsibility be damned, they felt bad for the widow. Of course, everyone also wanted to go home. So, a compromise was offered, a payout that was far below just the estimated attorney fees. When we announced the amount, one of the defense attorneys broke into open laughter. We were offered an opportunity after court to have a Q&A session and when asked as to the amount, I explained my thinking in suggesting the amount as being less than the legal fees involved. Attorney mirthful laughed again, "You got that right!" in regards to the far in excess of award their fees were. Got some black looks from some of my fellow jurors, but everyone got to go home on time that day and everyone got a bit of what they wanted. Diplomacy is the art of the possible and yes, the original says politics, but in the end, both are the same.
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  7252. I am an obligate omnivore. So, chefs remain on my menu. But, you admit to fucking up, get a bad rating on that fuckup, triple down, you actually made menu for the neighborhood pigs. Piss me off, your family also gets pig menu. Admitting to fucking up, well, I schedule my own fuckups to coincide with days that end in y. Hate vegans, you simply suck as a chef, as you and spices are complete strangers. Cooking with tofu, that's simply an art. It absorbs flavors...
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  7253. In this case, one juror brought the system down, the system itself didn't lease itself out to the highest bidder or more powerful party. And as a multiple time juror, let's suffice it to say, learn of that misconduct, it'd be peer season...
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  7254.  @MarkStockman-b4j  not so much totally sucks, is in continuous need of continuous improvement. The preamble of our Constitution establishes that very promise. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It didn't say that we had a perfect union, but in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare (meaning of the populace individually and as a whole)... Never suggesting any was perfect, just to become more perfected, improving as we muddle along. And we have an amendment process and provisions for laws to accomplish those tasks and as a safety valve for when we screw up, such as with prohibition. What isn't provided or even suggested is a two tier system of justice for wealthy and poor, indeed, an amendment guarantees equality. And if one group is more equal than another, it ain't equality.
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  7255.  @Davidrcobb  so, fraud is legal for the absolute monarch, god-king and emperor forever god-Trump? 34 felony falsification of business records. Felony meaning, it's exceptionally naughty. Stop worshiping a false king and false god.
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  7256.  @harlanjackson6112  largely, from growing up among Italian-Americans, many "off the boat". I suspect you can guess my lineage based upon my family name. ;) Yeah, I do agree on the downfall of Rome, not the cause, but a factor. There was a loss of expansion, which sustained the Empire, increasing resistance at the border regions of the Empire and dozens of internal issues that caused crumbling from within via corruption and internal strife. Splitting it didn't help much either, nor did some visits by some Attila guy. It really became clear when Rome began bringing in mercenaries to augment flagging legions and eventually had to embrace some odd cult called Christianity to fill their ranks. The mercenaries then moving on to, in a fair number of cases, become involved in the sack of Rome. And yeah, I agree as to his education, as most in the US couldn't tell a Hun from a sticky bun, much to my embarrassment - hell, most born US citizens can't even get basic facts of US history even 10% correct or what our Constitution actually says. Indeed, our nation was modeled by the Founders to emulate the best of the Roman Republic and avoid its Imperial existence, something Trump and his all girl band would gleefully embrace - then be mystified when we'd also decline swiftly. One day in the chow hall, I made a Roman salute and hailed Caesar and his mighty salad (yeah, not gonna hail any emperor) to close out a quip to someone. One of my NCO's objected, rather insubordinately to my "Nazi salute". My glare set him aback a bit, as it informed him that such familiarity and insubordination was noted and my statements informed him of my disdain for his ignorance of history. I explained that the Nazis adopted part of the Roman salute, as did the Republican Party in the US throughout the 1930's, of which there are miles of film evidence supporting that fact and to kindly learn a bit of history and what specific salutes were before commenting to superiors out of sheer ignorance in the future. Always educate when admonishing. Otherwise, admonition serves little purpose.
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  7257. Does that mean that I shouldn't apply for a Canadian invasion visa?* If so, what does that do for my smuggling license? Something tells me that a bucket full of ice is in my future... ;) Although, a fine bucket full of Canadian barley would be welcome, just let me know the price. It'll keep my 2.5 gallons of Canadian canola oil I bought a week and a half ago company briefly. Can't afford Canadian whiskey until my pension check gets in next week. Canada, where one idiot sought to make it all one state, instead succeeded in making it 10 states of disgust. *OK, I gave up on that idea because I couldn't source a set of ass skates to get around up around Ottawa... Put any on my feet, gotta end up there anyway, because whoever heard of ice skating with a cane?
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  7258. Interestingly, just last week, Trump Media filed a complaint with the SEC claiming some mystery party was short selling Truth Social to manipulate the prices of their stock. Totally has to be true, can't be that a company that's losing tons of money has an overinflated stock value... Still, gambling and the stock market, ever a match made in the realm of the afterlife, such gambling working out ever so well in the 1920's.
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  7259. I actually can. Buying Twitter from Musk, then returning it, as I ordered an extra large social media platform and he sold me a small.
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  7260. Since Congress no longer enjoys its immunity, the Constitution is moribund. It could be revived easily enough though. Congress giveth, Congress can taketh away. Rescind every cent of misappropriated and properly utilized executive budget dollars for this year for the entirety of the executive branch - every agency and branch. Then, for starters, Kash and Kristi get their positions consent rescinded by the Senate. Then, consider re-instituting that budget again after Trump appears before Congress stark naked and apologizes. He'll go into golfing withdrawal quickly enough, since there won't be fuel for the vehicles to even take him across the street. The staff, unpaid, the White House utilities unpaid and once overdue, subject to termination. The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, that knife cuts in both directions via rescissions, courtesy of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. He wants to cross the street, he'll have to pay for the fuel for The Beast out of his own pocket.
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  7261. Judging by a claimed cancelled order because of this, perhaps the foot got bit off, rather than the toe. If so, good.
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  7262.  @planecrazy6039  when you're in hell, gonna cry to Trump to fire the Almighty?
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  7263.  @planecrazy6039  wow, an ordained minister is an A H? Such respect, such grace, such dignity! Enjoy hell, you've earned it well, for one claiming to be a Godly man, but worshiping an ungodly man as a god.
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  7264. Just a couple. Look up the word toxin. I can think of two cousins of ricin, both just as bad and well, venom is lousy with toxic proteins.
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  7265. If the boat is well enough secured, it might be damaged, but not destroyed. But, we're talking four corner tied down tightly and protected from the incoming 10 - 15 foot storm surge and I'm thinking we'd need Harry Potter's wand to keep the boat from flooding and sinking. Or do like was done in the 1960's, which I'm not sure modern boats can withstand, sink it until the storm is passed. Yeah, ironic, sink the boat to keep it from sinking via destructive means. No idea how they protected the motor and the electronics would have to be removed, assuming that the hull of a modern boat would survive being immersed.
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  7266.  @mikieanthony777  had, eventually I'll just get a skiff to paddle for what little fishing that I do.
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  7267. No, back when I grew up, knives might get used in gang violence, guns weren't as easily available back then and way too expensive for gangs to use. Of course, back then, one was a special kind of wuss to even use a knife.
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  7268. Worse, it'd wreak havoc on my weekend plans! Even if they spoke of a tactical nuke, but illustrated a strategic nuke, because firecrackers are blocks of C4... Honestly, I wonder how much Russia paid for this propaganda OpEd piece? They are the only ones nuclear saber rattling, after all.
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  7269. Now, just think, shaped charge facing shaped charge, in a sphere of shaped charges, propelling not copper, but plutonium and focusing that based upon high speed x-ray movie camera data on actual film. Aka, what the Manhattan Project did. The metal seriously gets moving when it's around basketball size, hit the polonium core at around golf ball size, then things got loud. The shaped charge not being loud, it was a party popper in comparison. And why such things had to be precisely directed, precisely timed and everything in a small a space as possible.
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  7270. Your belief is irrelevant, as the 14th amendment is quite clear. If they were not subject to our jurisdiction, they could never be detained or arrested.
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  7271. Aortic dissection with pseudoaneurysm, oh joy. I have a AAA with pseudoaneurysm, so it's still watchful waiting and I'm on the lookout for anything untoward. To add spice to life, COVID left me with moderate mitral regurgitation, just to add to the potential for mayhem. I guess I restrict my powerlifting to just Volkswagon Matchbox or Hotwheels cars. ;) At least, given my A1C has risen to 5.8, until my full body transplant can be performed.
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  7272. You act as if we have a Constitution. We no longer do, not since the god-king became the tyrant king, who rules via fiat law. Welcome to the Imperial States of Trumperica. And eventual WWIII, once he decides which new "state" he wishes to "liberate".
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  7273. "Look at the world today", because we have concentration camps somewhere, with cyanide gas "showers" and big ovens to destroy remains? I'll wait to see an example of one. As for torturing them to death, it's easy for a civilized man to stoop to barbarity, but hard to climb back up and remain civilized after. You simply perpetuate the malady, while claiming that spreading the malady is a cure. That said, had they had miscalculated the drop and she strangled instead of her neck breaking, I'd not lose sleep over it. Another not so wonderful of a specimen of the dregs of humanity was hanged and took a half hour to strangle to death, with absolutely no mourning by any concerned, he was just as monstrous. But, that's a short term error in execution by an unskilled executioner, not a deliberate torture for months or longer. Or should we start issuing out white hats and black hats so we can tell the "good guys" from the bad guys?
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  7274.  @nwbklr  not necessarily, as the great vessels of the neck would be compressed and denying the brain of significant levels of oxygen.
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  7275. The missile attack wasn't much of anything, the Russians literally took an off the shelf intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) and duck taped a MIRV bus from an ICBM in place, the results being more off target than close to target and basically, missing their intended target by as much as our atomic bomb missed its target in Nagasaki (literally nearly two miles off target). Assuming the rocket factory was the intended target. That's early 1960's accuracy. Current single warhead accuracy, which should be on par with MIRV accuracy, expected to be at most 90 feet from target. The equivalent of showing up to a modern sniper duel with a smooth bore Brown Bess infantry musket from the Revolutionary War. Suffice it to say, not quite even an annoyance - especially given the dummy rounds the warhead bus was loaded with. Was it hypersonic, yeah, anything suborbital would be hypersonic, about half the velocity of what an ICBM would come in at, but still actually well, half the speed of an ICBM and easily enough intercepted. Just another hand wave to suggest he'd use nukes to get his way, while not doing so and ratcheting up the nuclear tensions as much. The economic side, well, that's just comedy gold. It's right up there with Trump's interpretation of tariffs and who pays for said tariffs. Japan and HIMARS, yeah, goes with Russia "producing" missiles and China's ambitions toward Taiwan and well, overall telling the US to stay on our own continent, trade and interests be damned or else we'll nuke you, nukety, nukety, nuke, nuke, nuke, boo. To which I reply, well, all of our carriers are nuclear capable and oh, none need to be accompanied by the incessantly used oceangoing tug that keeps your single carrier mobile. Also, nobody has yet to sink one of our cruisers with missiles, despite a few attempts, how's your newest submarine Moskva doing again? Trump's selection for envoy to Ukraine, odd interpretations out there on that. Envoys don't set foreign policy, the POTUS and Congress work together to do so, typically with POTUS leading, Congress consenting or removing assent and POTUS must then adjust or lose funding for those efforts. Despite Trump's desire for acquiring the right of imperial decree. I won't go into economics, I know my areas of competence and my understanding is elementary at best. I do know psychological operations, nuclear operations, general military operations, information operations and nuclear doctrine and operations with IRBM's quite well, as that last was what I began my military career in. An ICBM can reach anywhere on the planet, hell, our space programs were basically a dick showing match on ICBM accuracy, reliability and quality, because if you can reach the moon and return, you can reach anywhere on the planet with accuracy. IRBM, those are around a thousand miles or so and less with accuracy within 90 feet or so for both ICBM and IRBM classes, a bit closer today, hence the smaller warheads compared to the 1960's. The increased accuracy is why we moved operations from the old Cheyenne Mountain bunker to a regular office building, as the accuracy rendered that bunker moot - it'd be destroyed with an accurate precise hit, when when the bunker was built, it was anticipated that a close strike would be around 20 miles from the mountain with megatons. Ten kilotons right on target is equal to getting hit with a .44 magnum in the kisser, compared to that megaton missing by 20 miles being a shotgun going off and missing by 10 feet. Loud, but only made one angry. Russian sources playing up some 50000 warheads that are sitting in tiny pieces on shelves all over the country in both nations, with 1700 deployable warheads for Russia and around 1550 deployable by the US. For comparison, Russia doesn't have quite as many cities as we have warheads, we have a bit over ten times more cities and towns than Russia has warheads and that's mooted, as one would want to disrupt the ability for the other guys to rain warheads on one's cities by taking out theirs and that typically takes a half dozen per military base. Still would wreck both nations entirely though. No, no nuclear winter, that got falsified in the 1990's with improved modeling and oh yeah, the old models proved false as well by that whole failed predictions of Gulf War I winter that lasted a month or two and was regional only, the dissipating. So, extinction, nope, save for the two countries that would be so wrecked as to no longer be capable of annoying the world again. Which likely would have some major economic impacts and wreak their own kinds of havoc in the ensuing vacuum. Still, starvation because one's food won't grow or starvation because the economy collapsed in the vacuum of US dollars, dead remains dead, death by starvation doesn't care the proximate cause, just the end result. And people thought I was crazy when I suggested that after the Soviet Union fell that offering NATO membership to Russia as an new entry member might be a good idea... Which then could've been leveraged into a trade union membership as well. Naw, that was crazy talk, they're done, the Cold War is over forever, the war to end all wars was won. Again. Again. Again. Fucking idiots.
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  7276.  @cecilsabourin9462  yeah, Al Green made a fiery speech about impeachment papers he'd introduced - and entirely refrained from actually introducing them. Congress has abdicated and gun sales are through the roof. I suspect that the kettle's about to boil over and those derelict in their duties will be at great hazard.
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  7277.  @herrickinman9303  because, one capitalizes the title of the office, regardless of what execrable creature is currently contaminating it. As we said in the military, "have to respect the rank, not the cocksucker wearing it."
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  7278.  @ericlaird7508  well, you're all going to die. It's just that most will die of that horrific collection of ailments known as old age. I'll avoid that, as I'm afflicted by terminal homeliness. ;)
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  7279. Fresh out of brandy, tried some 190 Everclear. Once the fire was out, it was quite tasty! ;) I'll likely be trying some barley, both regular pearl barley and I'll crack some in the mortar and try it. But, I happen to like barley. As for the workhouse, they'd get a counter offer, the product of aqua fortis, vitriol and any of a number of moderate length sugar alcohols... Just in case I couldn't get glycerol and cellulose is a trifle too tame for such an offer. Served fresh, on a fine warm day...
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  7280. Went with chicken bouillon, garlic, onion and barley, great breakfast and lunch. I'll stew some prunes next and add them to the leftovers. The options are limitless and barley, unlike rice, isn't prone to sticking. Rinse well and soak if you don't want the sticky starch, adding to flexibility. Thinking of ginning up a steam oven for black breads as my next science project.
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  7281. I'm reminded of the fact that PVT Manning was sentenced to 35 years, served nearly 7 before Obama commuted it. That, for 700000 documents being divulged to a foreign interest. So, yeah, loads of moving parts. Enough that, for a guy who isn't shy about taking anything electronic or mechanical apart and putting it back together again, am left thankful for lawyers who can parse through the bingo scorecard.
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  7282. Erm, there is no M sixteen in the UK, it's MI, as in Military Intelligence, Shop 6, the old name for the SIS. The fine folks, were they to actually exist at the Secret Intelligence Service would certainly thank you. As for his loss in the UK courts, I'm sure it had something to do with Obama and space lasers or something... ;) Or maybe something about Obama's illegal space aliens, who have stormed the beaches of Reno, Nevada. Or some other drivel.
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  7283.  @michaelgallagher7020  Lexan, Kevlar, all is fun and games until someone takes out Willy the one eyed wonder worm.
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  7284.  @Bakes-z4c  whyever would you insult one of God's creatures, snakes? First, serpent was the word used in the bible, which was mistransliterated by removal of the cultural context from the original word in Hebrew. And if the serpent was so universally evil, were Moses and Aaron evil for turning a staff into serpents? Was David evil for sending condolences to a friendly king's family upon the father, named a serpent due to wanderings out of sympathy evil as well? The context is a wee bit more complex than most understand, as few studied the culture that remains alive today.
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  7285.  @carlwest859  I think you mean helmet suspensions, helmet liners go all the way back to WW2. Modern helmet suspensions did largely come out of NASA, as they considered a really good idea to not scramble the brains of astronauts by their colliding with the inside of their helmets. One shuttle casualty added to that knowledge tremendously, with subsequent helmets suspensions greatly enhanced as a direct result of findings from the cabin falling and tumbling.
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  7286. Real news stories, from actual news outlets, rather than scavengers seeking cheap click bait reported her death over a year ago. She was suffering from a mental health crisis, had lost contact with her family, save for one son who she bought a motorcycle for shortly before her arrest. Her suicide by gunshot to the head was after the arrest, but her family stated wasn't related to the arrest. The behavior is consistent with a mental health crisis. So, you're asking someone in the midst of a mental health crisis to do the sane thing. Would you tell a comatose diabetic to wake up and stop laying around?
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  7287. Well, that's why the Normandy landings failed and we never crossed the Rhine. Ribbon and pontoon bridges took way too much manpower that couldn't be protected, so Nazi Germany won the war. Oh wait, we did construct such structures under fire, extremely withering fire, kept them operational and prevailed. They're talking about a brigade sized element, meaning a battalion or two could be dedicated to security for the construction, maintaining it after, well ribbon bridges, which this floating dock and causeway essentially is, are not trivially destroyed. They're literally made to have the bejesus knocked out of them and quickly repaired. I'd not put men to live on the ground, patrol, sentries, OP's yes, ferry them back and forth, that whole armored landing vehicle thing does exist today. Keep the entire site a sterile area for a kilometer inland, if the Almighty shows up within the sterile area, bad things happen to the Creator. I understand that he's a pretty forgiving chap. And for every Iranian spurred idiocy, perhaps an old Iranian sea mine might float by chance into the Port of Abbas, which I'm sure would delight some of the bint haram brigade. As for employment campaigns, sounds workable, call it the Khalas, Hamas campaign. Might as well go with some psyops to keep everything well greased.
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  7288.  @rickjames8317 yep. Google "Combat engineer boat". Those ribbon and pontoon bridges don't build themselves.
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  7289.  @lynettestrachan8000  running for public office is a fundamental right, right alongside voting. Convicted felons are only prohibited from either after they've been sentenced and even then, depends upon state laws after their sentence is served. That's entirely per the US Constitution. Frankly, it's an oversight on the part of the Founders, who considered it unconscionable that such a travesty would ever occur. That it has speaks to complacency on the part of the populace.
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  7290.  @fiftybakedpotatoes  I think that the Russians need the reminding that just because they're Russian does not make them all Rus and entitled to the old homelands of the Rus.
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  7291.  @PunnamarajVinayakTejas  hold a seance and ask Joe Stalin. Once you're past a lengthy outburst of profanity, he'll tell you.
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  7292. To show the actual power of the round, shouldn't you replace your butterfingers? ;) I've ten thumbs to loan you, if it's any help... My earliest memory, Mom telling not to jump, lest I get stuck by a diaper pin. Being a natural born asshole, I jumped and got pricked with the pin. My next earliest memory was of Mom sitting me in front of the TV, telling me to "Watch him, he's the President, he's important", while she took down the drapes for laundering. She never finished that task that day, as I interrupted her with the news that the President was shot in the head. Was watching what I'd later learn was CBS. Hey, being born in late 1961, that's a major series of accomplishments! Especially given, I was born a week after Tsar Bomba, the biggest nuke ever detonated and I'm still fairly radioactive, per a gamma ray camera (benchmark scan for a test I wasn't allowed to study for and a talk with the radiologist). ;) That' my excuse and I'm sticking with it. But, the marksman in me gently reminds all, via my gentle lead pipe, range is a factor. Keyholing only starts when the round meets resistance, which pretty much when it hits a body or on a day that ends in Y in English. But, do come to talk with me after you've shot someone and witness what a bullet will do personally. I've already done so. Not an experience that I recommend. Or as I related to Dad, who barely missed WWII, nothing good to recommend the experience. Having to pee so often, you might wanna talk to doctor about that... I'll just get my hat... ;)
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  7293. There is no such thing yet as true Artificial Intelligence, all they've made has been Artificial Idiocy. Otherwise, it'd not confabulate answers like an advanced dementia patient, while they gloss over it by calling it an AI hallucination. Saw confabulation in dementia patients when my father was dying of vascular dementia, whole events would get related that never happened because his brain couldn't retrieve the actual story. Current large language models do precisely the same damned thing.
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  7294. It rather sounds like California has the absolutely best judicial system that money can buy.
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  7295. Nope, there were a few petty criminals that weren’t hired by Trump. Very few.
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  7296. Just wait until non-approved churches get shut down.
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  7297. It's uglier. Trump could, if allowed to post unredacted documents on the public facing site, claim that he declassified the documents after being out of office, proclaiming the entire proceeding invalid due to that magical ability not based in codified law or practice. And were the judge to so order such disclosure, the jurist would be in violation of the law.
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  7298. Packing a wound is for the ED, not the field. Even military medics didn't pack wounds, we applied pressure dressings and tourniquets. As medics, we also could start an IV, but MEDEVAC birds started coming with blood, which beats saline solution hands down.
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  7299.  @JohnDoe-pk2hs  and a lot of disinformation about the good Samaritan laws that protect anyone rendering first aid.
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  7300.  @delorisjones4469  so said many, who died, it stopped when the bullies got shown their own blood. If your house is on fire, are you going to wait around inside until Jesus comes to put out the fire? And many said that when the Gestapo and SS were rounding up Jews for extermination, it took soldiers to stop it, as Jesus apparently was a bit too busy. BTW, which Apostle is still alive, given that same Revelation also said some will still be alive to witness his second coming? I'll wait, as we're flat out of living Apostles by nearly 2000 years. And the number of the beast was Hebrew numerology for Nero's name, don't think we have much to worry about with Nero, him being quite busy doing that dead thing.
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  7301.  @patrickdurham8393  so, where do they put the CDC?
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  7302.  @patrickdurham8393  Doha Qatar? I can name random cities too. Now, if you're asking where I am, I'm in Harrisburg, PA.
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  7303.  @patrickdurham8393  save that that isn't what the CDC does or has ever done.
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  7304.  @patrickdurham8393  no, but I've worked with some of their teams over the years. So, you prefer uncontrolled epidemics and tons of dead children?
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  7305. Where greater efficiency would be meaningful is, if all of the other heaters are producing 5120 BTU's of heat at 1500 watts, a more efficient heater would have a higher BTU output at the same or lower wattage.
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  7306.  @gohawks3571  DADT...
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  7307.  @adriennerango1519  actually yes, I did indeed excel in civics as well. But, I was responding to "this is national security", as if that's a reason to suborn our laws and Constitution. And my point was originally the very point in which you just referenced, co-equal branches, checks and balances and no damned king, despite the Heritage Foundation's efforts. Now, what else is going on while this shiny is being held up to distract us? Every other time Trump held up a shiny to distract, other shit was going on in the background, including the infamous Agenda. So, what else is going on in the background, now that he's putting tinsel up on the power lines at the top of the pole? The last time this kind of crazy was going on in a leading conservative party, the adults left the room of the Whig Party and formed the Republican Party. So successful, their very first presidential candidate won the election - Abraham Lincoln and the Whig Party collapsed under nativist and ultranationalist weight, quietly disappearing. The Republican Party of today has no such courage left, so they'll happily destroy our culture, Constitution and government in order to acquire and retain power, creating a literal empire, where a republic stood before.
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  7308. Given it was a mere 8 hours since a LEO as first responder assisted CPR and provided an AED for my wife of 40 years, I wonder, would death by evisceration suffice to halt such a normality? Thankfully, the LEO wasn't such a monster, can't speak to the coroner, but I doubt it, as a brief inventory I conducted while locating necessities after showed no deficit. So, your not being surprised, I wonder if vivisection would halt such a practice, as that's close to the ancient penalties for the same. Or would hanged, drawn and quartered suffice? I'm thankful for my local PD, who only have yet to fail, be it for homeless or homed citizens! Lest we fall to less civilized means of justice. And yes, that was hyperbole, to drive a point of near infinite outrage. So, James, how should this be punished? Full loss of all assets, including a family home and properties? An abrogation of a great public trust should be accompanied by a punishment as grave as the offense.
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  7309. No, thank you. Some thumb sucker came along and tagged me REF, resulting in my retirement from the military. So, now I'm Retired, Extremely Flatulent. I'd end up charged before he'd be charged for environmental abomination.
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  7310. This isn't a polar vortex. It's the Canadians getting revenge by waving their hands and blowing south all of that cold air!* As for the first example, that Biceshit would've flown far lower if it had been directed my way, by my reminding her of an age old tradition involving boiling pine tar and dirty chicken feathers for bullshitters. Grothman would be advised swiftly, he made one critical mistake. Bullshitting angry people, while making the mistake of allowing them to get between him and the exit. And "The fraud and abuse uncovered...", "Sirrah, when you try to piss down my back and tell me it's raining, don't be surprised to draw back a nub". A general suggestion to the lot of the mile wide stripe of yellow down the back GOP crowd, don't enrage and attempt to starve out the best armed population on the face of this earth, it shan't end well for you. Now, go wash that disgrace off of your back and pretend to have a spine - while we still allow you to possess bones. Or, grace the hog trough, they need feeding too. *My Canadian friends find that joke hilarious.
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  7311. It's a black powder cannon, not a firearm and not a destructive weapon. And it's something no less than Ben Franklin did for his militia unit.
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  7312.  @janetsanders5356  and there's a TB outbreak in Kansas, but the EIS that tracks it got shitcanned by Emperor Musk. Flu is clogging hospitals, but nobody's reporting on it, as the CDC is forbidden to do so.
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