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The first thing I do when I have an FTL ship is flying out about a hundred light years and grabbing these important pieces of culture

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Their captain? Jack Aubrey.

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Zombie. Vulcans.

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It's like somewhere in the ancient past someone wished that stupidity was painful, but forgot to specify who it should be painful for.

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There's a new theory that the ramps were actually internal. I like it because it means they don't need to bring a lot of extra material and manpower to the site just for the ramps since they're built into the structure of the same material.

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Considering it's a SeaMaster they might be anti-ship missiles

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It's a fake out. The boat sees it flying away and stands down then BOOM.

(Also, since it's a flying boat I don't know how they'd have an internal bay without a lot of water infiltration.)

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I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

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Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

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I was a teenager who wanted to be a 1337 haxxor so I found out what warez were, and then wanted to play a bunch of games for free.

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It depends on the car. If I see a nice looking expensive car I don't think they're an asshole. Seeing something amazing is a treat for a gearhead like me, no matter how bitter I am.

The Cybertruck, however, is ugly as fuck. Unless your aesthetic is 80s low-poly video games it is even uglier in person than pictures. The fact that something that ugly costs that much is almost insulting.

Fewer people in the US plan to buy EVs this year, study shows (www.reuters.com)

The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown....

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The options are basically an SUV with a giant touch screen and data harvesting, plus a cell phone connection so they can brick your car with a software update. None of that is appealing to me.

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Shipbuilding and car manufacturing both have extensive defense applications. They'll keep both around because if there's a war they need a local industry.

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Now pack it full of explosives and drive it into the Kursk bridge

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The Kinks are better than The Beatles

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Forrest like Gump or Forrest like Nathan Bedford?

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Bad news is us tall guys get bruised knees from the seats. Good news is we get to watch everything everyone is doing on the screens in front of us. I watched like ten movies at once on the last flight I was on.

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The Agricultural Revolution was a trap

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Did the union buster bluster buffalo the buffalo Buffalo buffalo?

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The judge made a good point: Trump never denied the sex happened. If they had, he could have struck that part of her testimony. But they never denied it happened, have never taken any legal action to stop her from saying it, and didn't bother raising any questions about it on cross-examination.

It's like Trump's lawyers expect the judge to do their job for them.

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The trial isn't about Trump having sex or paying for sex, but violating finance laws. If they had denied the sex then it wouldn't be relevant to the case.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

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It's a way to cut headcount without doing layoffs. It's usually followed one or two quarters later by an actual layoff.

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Shit apples, Randers

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The Adams, Roosevelts, and Bushes: "Are we a joke to you?"

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Remind me of the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust

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American citizens need to get used to the idea that their tax dollars will kill innocent people, both domestically and internationally, and that stopping it even temporarily requires massive protest and economic disruption.

If you aren't ashamed to be an American, you haven't studied enough history.

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You can get used to being ashamed. Lord knows I have.

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For me it was Tuesday

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A video posted to YouTube on Saturday appears to show the whale’s carcass hanging off the bow of the vessel, with the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline in the background.

Goddamn that's patriotic

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As we learned from Futurama it's the body that runs for president, not the head.

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Where's FlyingSquid with the trombone pic?

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I remember when commercial breaks were the time when you went to the bathroom/got snacks and then ran back and jumped over the couch to get back before the show started again.

But most ads don't work on a conscious level. They're there to make whatever is being advertised seem normal and good, like birds singing in the trees, background noise you associate with good feelings. The point isn't to get people to engage rationally. The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.

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I don't think I'm going to ever buy a car made after 2020. Maybe earlier. None of the new features really appeal to me, and there are a lot of things like this that actively turn me off from wanting a new car.

If they could just give me an electric version of a 1985 VW Golf I'd be happy as a clam. But they want to put me in some lumpy, heavy, clumsy CUV with tracking technology and all the touchscreens and I don't like it.

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Man, what a totally legitimate government we have in the US.

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I drove a lady home from a party in NYC at like midnight, and I said "Oh, it's only five miles that won't be bad"

It took an hour to get there and back. I wasn't really mad because she was cute and maybe into me but we could have walked that distance in the same amount of time.

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They're boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it's not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating

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Or his lawyers are going to appeal and say "See? It was so bad the judge even said something!"

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I love how microchips look like really well-organized Factorio maps

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I was going to comment on how Hit 'em up is a better diss track but damn, Fifty is scary

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TESTIFY! IT'S RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR!

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I've never been more disappointed in someone I voted for than Fetterman.

Which is saying something because they're all pretty disappointing.

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I never should have trusted someone from York County

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It's not a real election in America unless you're choosing between less worse and more worse.

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They heat up quickly and they’re very easy to clean.

I keep seeing people say this as a benefit of glass-top electrics, but this has never been the case with any one of those I've used. A boil-over invariably leaves a grimy black ring that can't be scrubbed off even with hours of scrubbing. So they end up looking grimy.

Meanwhile, my sealed gas burners are easy to get clean. I just sweep up the crumbs and then dump some boiling water and a couple drops of dish soap and wipe it up.

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I have an induction hot plate and while it's great for boiling water or searing steak it will invariably burn anything I attempt to cook on low because it just uses high heat for a shorter amount of time instead of doing a constant lower power.

I'm probably going to get an induction stove next, but I'm not buying one that I don't get to test out first to avoid this. I really hope the full-size ones don't do this but I don't trust companies on principle and they'll do something stupid like that to save money.

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I've used both cheap steel pans and cast iron, and while the effect is less it still turns my sweated onions into sauteed onions intermittently. I'm glad to hear that mine is just built cheaply and that proper induction tops can handle consistent low temperature better. Still not buying one without trying it, though

Honestly, I would love a stove that's just a 3" thick steel top with induction burners on one side. There would be a steady temperature gradient the whole way across, and pans of any size, shape, or material could be put anywhere on the surface for just the right amount of heat.

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I'm using a non-scratching scrubbing pad and the recommended stovetop cleaner. I can get most of the worst of it, but there's always a ring of carbonized food that just sticks around.

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