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It wouldn't have to be slow. Print on the inside of a spinning drum. That way, you don't have to reverse direction. Print from a whole row of nozzles or lasers or whatever. That wa…

If we really wanted to stop it early, we could have. It's about the right size for a nuke. (and no, an iceberg is NOT anything like a hurricane, which is a heat engine phenomena --…

1. new rifles with selective fire 2. lawn darts 3. scanners that can receive 824 to 849 MHz and 869 to 894 MHz 4. acetic anhydride 5. phosphorus 6. Moon rocks 7. good pesticides: D…

Two key quotes from the article: 1. "Race had no statistically significant effect on any group. Both conservatives and liberals, however, changed their views based on how they woul…

Pigs also have 62 troublesome viruses embedded right in their germline DNA. Some other company fixed that with CRISPR... would they cooperate? Fixing the PERV genes in pigs: https:…

The article's most important quote: "All this is denied me in this stale marriage to an elderly, sickly, complaining, nagging wife. Let's get rid of her, start life all over again …

At my house, Trane lost a sale because of that incompatible proprietary protocol. I really wanted to super modern heat pump with fully variable compressor. I refuse to be stuck wit…

I hope that's just how you believe the majority of the electorate to be uninformed. Some is opinion, but some is just wrong. Calling the wall a "repair" is far from reality. It is …

You missed the point if you thought Trump was about a personality cult. Lots of Americans tolerated his personality because they like the policy and the results: He built over 500 …

You can buy the car for the car, or as a display of wealth. This is independent of having wealth to spare. If you do have plenty of wealth to spare, maybe you don't worry about den…

It's not just the VP. In 1983 Biden introduced the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act, which became law in 1984. That's the main piece of law that enabled civil asset forfeiture. That's …

No. It's hard to keep a vast conspiracy secret, but I certainly never claimed that there was a vast conspiracy. There was nothing secret about weakening the election security. It w…

That might be your problem. Consider defining bicycles as pedestrians. Suddenly, we have bicycle paths everywhere, from which cars are prohibited. Bicycle usage becomes much more r…

Do your needs perfectly match the most average Mac user? If so, get a Mac. Probable norm: on public wireless network, just using the web You can deviate from that, but not much. Wh…

Simple answer: Lennart Poettering He wrote systemd, NetworkManager, and pulseaudio. Of course, he wouldn't have the available time to do that if not for Red Hat paying his salary. …

At this point in time, it's too late. Step 1 of the steal was the intentional security reduction. It prevented most evidence from being collected, and this made it easier and less …

Causation goes the other way. Nobody thought felons should vote until democrats realized that it would tip elections. Oh, my mistake on the law and order. I should go Burn Loot Mur…

Nobody sane would waste money on a lawsuit in a state that doesn't matter. It's just plain racist to suggest that black citizens don't have ID. It is required for guns, which are a…

Overall, yes, but not for all seats. New Hampshire was untrustworthy in 2016, both for the presidential electors and for the senator. Some of the house seats, particularly in Calif…

Likewise, a lot of us are hoping that a significant number of Democrat voters know the truth and are just playing hardball politics, not that it is much better. You didn't want thi…

Sure. Many millions of Americans are satisfied by the evidence presented, and the arguments against it have been weighted. They believe that an illegitimately elected person is abo…

More and more, I realize that I've been fed a warped view of the past. Here in the USA, history book authors and history instructors are almost exclusively on one side of the polit…

Uh, well, I don't know that. Let me turn it around for you: How will we continue as a nation if this comes to pass? How will you, knowing in good conscience that fraud changed the …

This happening, right now, is a consequence of the US election. In a matter of months, Taiwan might go down like Crimea.

Sure, it's easy. Count how many lines of code they write per day. Likewise, aeronautical engineering productivity can be measured by counting kilograms of mass added per day. The r…