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os2warpman

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    Who, SPECIFICALLY PLEASE, at the CDC "branded the lab-leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory and quickly dismissed it"? Not the press, not some rando on twitter, not some anonymous an…

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    Comment #45089018

    If you think that's unfortunate, we used to call it "crib death".

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    Comment #45077101

    >Western powers embraced an ideology of peace and safety that stalled technological growth Does Thiel have a hose running from his rectum to his nose so he can get high off the sme…

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    Comment #45071638

    >You're asking a lot from law enforcement if you're giving away something for free and then demand that law enforcement make sure that people use the thing exactly as you have mand…

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    Comment #45071433

    A country must have a people. Who are the people of the Vatican? The only persons who live there are temporary government employees and not even all of them are citizens because th…

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    Comment #45071309

    I don't understand why the Vatican is considered a country, besides as a quirk of history. It is smaller than high school campus nearest my house, is not a UN member, and seems to …

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    Comment #45071136

    US government spending is (for now) easy to track, and you can get totals for spending by corporate entity. In total across the entire US federal government, $518.8 million was pai…

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    Comment #45060777

    > Why, given that the foam strike had occurred at a force massively out of test conditions had NASA proceeded with re-entry? What was the alternative? Columbia could not have made …

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    Comment #45060229

    > Lounges used to feel special, a perk reserved for business travelers. Now they’re overcrowded, uninspired, yet somehow more coveted than ever—thanks to social media flexes and pr…

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    Comment #45060039

    Hypercard died because in 1997 Apple was 3-4 weeks away from bankruptcy and 1998 wasn't that great either. Before that, Hypercard was so valuable to Apple that they kicked it out t…

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    Comment #45059876

    Nissan, Chevrolet, Fiat, and Hyundai/Kia all make small, lightweight, low range, low power EVs. With a 0-60 of 9 seconds, the Fiat 500e may be too low power. A 1993 Honda Civic is …

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    >I forgot how I loaded it into the machine, but perhaps it was easier then putting a usb stick in a computer. My library had two forms of microfiche. One was a cartridge containing…

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    Why do you assume the person selling the PCB is the one who designed and ordered its manufacture? Olimex sells kits, kits made by others. They don't know how much copper is in the …

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    > now the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are GSE’s. Uh.. they've been GSEs since their founding. (12 U.S. Code § 1717) "Yeah but in 2008 the government bought shares in th.." …

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    You don't need to pull quotes or provide references in a comment about the article you've just read and are commenting on.[1] Of course, I read every word of the article instead of…

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    >That business, Step Up Social, helped companies grow on TikTok and Instagram Reels. I would rather push around a shopping cart full of aluminum cans whenever I'm not sleeping unde…

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    Comment #45017070

    There is no such thing as settled case law anymore. There is only what the John Birch Society and Heritage Foundation tell the Supreme Court to do.

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    >You are projecting an ideology onto these people for no reason other than to satisfy your own bias and/or earn a few cheap upvotes from likeminded readers. No, I read what they sa…

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    Comment #45015286

    One of my favorite genres of non-fiction is when people who claim they value independence and off-griddyness are forced to be independently off-grid. "No no we meant off-grid in ev…