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Converted all my Bitcoin to Beefcoin and THINGS ARE GOING GREAT!

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Not giving Russia a political reason to for starters.

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Nothing in the article supports that.

Also, nothing in the article specifies if the production capacity in Russia is from running the same factories longer or adding new factories. The former could increase defective munitions being produced and the later would probably show about the same level of defectives as production at lower rates.

Also, artillery shells and their fuses are two different things. Nothing in the article says anything about the fuse production, it might be assumed in the article and I’m just being pedantic, or it might an intentional oversight. Pretty sure its the fuses that are normally the problem when an artillery shell doesn’t explode when its supposed to.

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Supply and demand curves, babyeee!

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A gift card with just a few cents left on it.

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Does it count if I’ve actually driven tanks?

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Im glad somebody was thinking of the unkillable moose in that thread.

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Family groups. Kids old enough to hunt but not old enough to strike off on their own.

A single wolf may be able to kill a moose but a pack can definitely kill a moose. A single wolf might have to limit themselves to smaller moose while a pack can successfully take on a larger moose. A pack might have an easier time separating a single moose from the rest of the … mooses? … meece? …moose herd.

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Black Momba: Neurotoxic venom

Spitting Cobra: Cytotoxic, neurotoxic, cardiotoxic venom

Arabian Sand Boa: Causes death by laughter

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stirner-shocked

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me hearing a person’s name once during being introduced

me… minutes later realizing that there is just a blank spot in my memory where there name should be

me… waiting for months hoping that somebody uses their name around me in a context that attaches a name to that person because I’m too much of a coward to ask the person directly

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The more I see this image the louder this thought becomes in my head, “Whoever unearthed this artifact had to fight every human impulse to just slip this into a pocket and take it home as the absolute coolest knickknack to sit on their curio shelf.”

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Meritocracy? In my academics?

No thank you!

I’m all about the bureaucratic fiefdoms and intrapersonal drama politicking!

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Gotta have a bidet cause the toilet paper bill would be astronomical.

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make a backup

Pffftt… coward.

/s

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Unused Animorphs book cover art.

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Promised a friend that I’d visit them.

Flew across the country to spend a few weeks hanging out.

Got food poisoning at one of the layover food shacks.

I had a blast… literally (from my ass) and figuratively (hanging out with a buddy). It was a lot of fun and horribly uncomfortable/embarrassing the entire time.

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This has made imports into the country expensive and could be a trend that only gets worse: that’s if rising US protectionism continues to prop up the greenback.

Honestly curious, what do they import besides raw materials and fuel that would cause any real problems in China?

Fear of US sanctions first triggered this pattern among central banks, after witnessing how the West applied dollar restrictions on Russia in 2022.

HAH.

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Lower supply with a stable demand means an increase in profits. Doesn’t matter what decreases the supply. I tell you what.

Bwaaa

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Sometimes people celebrate the death of horrific and oppressive people. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

First sentence might have been fine, its the second one that probably was a “foot in the hornets nest.”

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When you hit the “Olde Fortran” too hard one night.

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Refocus

Uh… sure.

Recharge.

Um… okay.

Rebirth

Fucking what!?!

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In what way are these Indian students trying to cheat the system?

Seems like the issue is that the rules are in the process of being changed (or are changed?) after these students spent however many years going to to school before the rules changed.

Work in these job sectors? You’re valuable (until the next rule change that will retroactively label you as “disposable labor”).

Work in those job sectors? You’re disposable labor whose use is no longer needed, here’s your deportation papers (until the next rule change that will retroactively label you as “valued labor”).

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“Hellraiser for Teens: Teaching About Your Body”

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Cats prefer licking your sad tears instead of your angry tears.

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the moment of the Butlerian Jihad comes one step closer

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Yes.

But slavery was also authoritarian.

Any situation where there is a power imbalance that can be enforced through physical or psychological means that somebody doesn’t agree with is authoritarian. Employer/employee? Authoritarian. Parent/infant? Authoritarian. Bank/bank customer? Authoritarian. Doctor/patient? Authoritarian.

Probably the only reasonable definition of authoritarian would be something like, “To be ruled/governed by an authority.” I’ve decided that Bill over there gets to be in charge of things, they’re the authority. I don’t always agree with the decisions they make but they’re in charge. Which seems like it would overlap a bit with the idea of democratic centralism.

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Representative Democracies are, by definition, authoritarian. A small number of people are elected, democratically, to make the decisions for the majority.

Is the decision to end slavery a majority decision? Then it’s democratic.

With the contradiction being that the people who were pro slavery could just decide, “Nah, we’re not going to end slavery”, and continue to do slavery. Which I’m pretty sure is generally how that went in the USA.

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Depends on what you get to vote on, who gets to vote, if their votes count, etc.

A more democratic system could have done something like, we’ll test run Brexit for a few years, make an assessment, and then allow everybody to vote again to continue Brexiting or roll it back. But that’s not going to happen because … well… representative democracy is authoritarian by design. Nobody is going to put a “Roll Back Brexit” question on a ballot who championed a pro-Brexit stance and will fight any attempt to give the people a chance to vote again (heck, they’ll probably fight tooth and nail to keep any useful assessments of the effects of Brexit from being pushed into the public sphere to help voters make informed decisions as well).

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Depends on how things are organized i guess.

Two things that come to mind are dictatorships and aristocracies, at least as far a governments go.

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Oh… you were asking a rhetorical question.

Yeah, sure. That works.

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I wonder how much of that pier was built using the rubble that nobody had time to dig the bodies out of before it was pushed into the water?

What reading style do you consider more tedious to read, A) short, concise, and precise, but using non-layperson vocabulary, B) using layperson vocabulary, but it's longer, drawn out, and not precise?

I’ve seen a lot of people on here be teased for difficulty expressing themselves. Either people complain “you’re using big person words to describe mundane things” when they’re aiming for precision or “woah, we don’t need that damn wall of text” when they’re aiming for clarity. It’s like people just want to...

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People just being people, sometimes crappy-pants, sometimes a friendly nettling.

Post how you post and let the comments flow past your, around you, through you. Then post again.

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I mean, what parent hasn’t had the thought, “I need to start over with this one”?

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I thought this was something new and not a remembrance of something from the late 90’s.

wipes brow

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Its a joint statement but its definitely framed as “China taking the lead and France following” and not the other way around. I don’t see this as a sign that China is moving away from its current relationships with Russia.

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Hmm… skin cancer or be an ankylosaurus? thonk

(also, f-you spell checker for trying to correct ankylosaurus to tyrannosaurus)

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When the inside cat runs out the door on a rainy day…

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Only 25% of US interceptors succeeded in Iran attack - report

SHOCKINGLY INEPT: US Missile Defense System Had 75% Failure Rate In Iran Attack On Israel

The headlines to both articles are funny.

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“disperse”

wink

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On one hand… way to be assholes “scientists”.

On the other hand… I didn’t know technology existed that could possibly fix a broken spider leg and I need it.

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Computer, show me a realistic version of Mega Man 4’s “Toad Man.”

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Seriously, just a quiet quad copter with a fairly sensitive microphone can hear these things from miles away.

Turbine engines in tracked vehicles have a very distinctive sound.

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If a civilian comes at you with a weapon, trying to kill you, are they still a civilian?

If a civilian stands in front of relief trucks, sending food/medicine/clothes/tents while the military destroys food/medicine/homes, are they still a civilian?

If a civilian cheers every time one of their country’s soldiers shoots a random person or when a bomb in dropped on a hospital, or when missiles are fired at the places went to get away from the fighting, are they still a civilian?

'Cause, from where I’m sitting, being okay with slaughtering people kinds makes it seem like they aren’t ‘innocent’ in this.

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Why would there be Israeli children inside places like the West Bank or Gaza?

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So now it switches from civilians to “innocent” civilians.

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Why would an Israeli family be living in the West Bank or Gaza? And who would be more likely to be killing their children, Israeli occupation forces or Palestinian resistance to the occupation forces?

When / why / how did "I hope you are well" become a standard email intro?

Practically every email I’ve received in maybe the past year has started with “I hope you are well”. I even had an LLM draft a placeholder email for me and it started with the same thing. This has not always been the case and it’s strange to me that everyone I interact with begins their emails with this line. Frankly,...

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“Hello” is probably the best answer but I find myself having a knee jerk “but it seems too informal to use in a work setting” that I will need to get over.

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