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>>>If someone needs something they should have it. What mechanism will exist to validate conflicting "needs" of different people in the not-so-distant future? Extreme example: we c…

A fair point on the ease of corrupting private contractors. If anything that suggests the National government should provide security, and bank on the cultural pride/integrity/prof…

Triple-strand concertina wire isn't that expensive, put that around the perimeter with a single entry control point. Two guards on shift, 4 hours on/8 hours off, twice per day = 4 …

Sterile and soulless? Even Sicario?

>>>It has nothing to do with terrorism, it is purely for military domination and imperialism Nitpick: military domination is not an end-goal in and of itself. Arguably, it is (righ…

>>>This reads to me like saying "the best way to determine if god exists is to read the hebrew bible, the koran, and the book of mormon and take the average". That's kinda what led…

>>>But what they don't tell you is their experience level, the context of how they came to believe Y, or really any supporting understanding of whether Y is an actual technical tra…

My physical education teacher in High School was the spitting image of Trajan (this was late 90s). We were blown away the first time we saw a picture of Trajan in our texts. He use…

>>>I know the word and its meaning and my initial reaction was negative because I thought "this has very little metaphorical value for a physics engine." You think of kinesis, move…

TDS Sufferer: "Trump is a dictator!" [1] Trump lets the States exercise their Constitutional authority [2] TDS Sufferer: "Trump is a disappointingly-WEAK dictator!"[3] It really is…

I'm a black American and I've been pulled over twice here in Japan (in the past 5 years) for what I concluded was basically "Driving While Black". I still think "Abolish/defund the…

>>>but can we make our own SDR LTE handset as well? Maybe if you put one these in a kinda-large handheld: https://tinysdr.org/ https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr-mini/ h…

I see the applications/overlap with driving down the costs/size of multi-mode precision-guided munitions: guided missiles and drones that use a mix of laser, radar, and infrared se…

I'm starting to wonder if there will be a growing market for car shops to do what I've done to my Supra: Pull out the entire wire harness and replace it with an aftermarket Power D…

>>>One person dying is objectively worse than one person going bankrupt, this is ethics 101. The argument of the anti-lockdown crowd (at least as I understand it) is that the secon…

I didn't bring family with me, I'm building one here. Re: neighbor acceptance, it's hit or miss but mostly hit. In my last apartment, my next-door neighbor was an older guy who spo…

>>>I'm curious to know -- for people who seek residency in Japan, do they typically do it with the plan to stay forever? I do. It's a "sweet spot" place to live. No threat of viole…

Another good example is the Battle of Cape Matapan where British battleships obliterated Italian cruisers at 3500m, at night, in a few minutes.

One of my favorite YT naval historians, Drachinifel, constantly derides the Japanese 25mm AA gun, which was based on a French design. One of his longer podcasts (in the Drydock ser…

"Facebook Moderator Boasts Deleting Users For MAGA Hat" https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/facebook-moderat...

I'd probably start with Shenzhen I/O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_I/O It's on Steam.

>>>I don't see violence. Show me the violence. How about shooting commercial-grade incendiaries at an occupied structure and causing injuries? https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/por…