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DuskStar
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Comment #34946319
It's less radioactive than Denver. Like, all of Denver.
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Comment #34946310
As opposed to the European solution, where you know there's explosives in that field over there but you only deal with the stuff that floats to the surface each year.
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Comment #34871449
The reverse is also plausible, and whites could begin to show in-group preference again.
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Comment #34269639
I would strongly recommend cracking the DRM on those when you have the chance.
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Comment #34266104
As long as you pay some minimal level of attention this shouldn't be a problem. 10s delays between stages won't prevent something with a minimum TWR of 2 and 4000m/s of combined dv…
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Comment #34099686
I think you're missing the distinction. It's not that bureaucracy caused the meltdown, it's that the bureaucratic reaction to the meltdown was the source of the damage.
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Comment #33922230
Carfentanil, maybe?
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Comment #33854344
> There's no upside to sparing him. The upside to saying "yes I can be bought" is that people will give you boatloads of money.
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Comment #33842576
Getting the tax stamp takes several months, unfortunately. And you need a new stamp if you want to transfer it to another person.
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Comment #33769872
The regulations that allowed for private warships and artillery? Those gun control regulations? If there are actual gun control regulations from the post-revolutionary period, I'm …
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Comment #33762311
Don't forget "machine guns aren't weapons of war" which is also quite a bit of a head scratcher!
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Comment #33761372
I'd personally put US v. Miller on the list instead of DC v. Heller. Wickard v. Filburn deserves a mention too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller https://en.m…
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Comment #33690015
Have living standards (literacy, health, etc) improved for the nonwhite population in the past 28 years?
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Comment #33667364
> dude who plays League of Legends A dude who plays LoL badly . Embarrassingly badly for his number of games.
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Comment #33573582
There's two general reasons for a person to get a vaccine. One is that it makes them healthier, and the other is that it makes society healthier. If the person gets to choose, then…
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Comment #33391757
It depends on perspective. We in the west generally have a "no innocent lives lost ever" perspective. But sometimes "minimize total societal damage" looks pretty good too. Is it be…
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Comment #33373535
> Says who? I understand the core principles of absolute free speech. I just don't agree. This is a very absolutist (and americano-centered) view of what liberties encompass. It sh…
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Comment #33370597
Free speech must include the things people do not want you to say. If it only includes the things people would be ok with you saying, there would be no need to protect it as a righ…
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Comment #33360397
Burning Kerosene emits as much co2 as producing it consumes, but kerosene is massively easier to transport and store in existing infrastructure. (It's literally jet fuel)
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Comment #33360334
> Extended the definition of "time of war" to include a war in which the state is not a participant. This was to allow the Government to exercise emergency powers during the Second…
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Comment #33199593
I think that the business case for hydrogen over synthetic kerosene is slim to non-existent.
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Comment #33059036
> Real liberals (not necessarily leftists, although perhaps so) Leftists are 100% part of the problem here in the US, I'm not sure what you would need to be smoking to think otherw…
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Comment #33059017
Define "first", "violence" and for good measure "group". Do things ever reset, for instance? Are some wrongs too far in the past?
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Comment #33033911
That's only including celebratory gunfire incidents, and only in the United States.