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> Bonus: put some typos in the quiz that don't matter. Red flag for the people that get hung up on that. I feel like after presenting a great solution to the stupid, cryptic, arbit…

I loved everything about this.

I'd take the attribution with a wheelbarrow of salt. If Iran was as dangerous as Unnamed US Official has been claiming for the past 50 years, they'd be running the world by now. Ir…

Microsoft 364, am I right?

It ceased to be independent. It still exists and I have agricultural products at work that still bear its trademark.

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that plant breeders who develop a new cultivar or variety are generally awarded seven years of exclusivity on registration, which seems r…

Yes. They actually made similar observations about each other, in that Bill is observing that Steve has a genius for marketing and picking clever people, as opposed to any particul…

They pretty much are, too. It certainly reads like some tech job ads. Rock star with 30 years experience. Graduate wages.

There's good evidence that it was expressly approved in the form of social media posts advertising the consignment on their social media pages. Difficult for them to argue either i…

If he's truly a "senior" CIA official, he probably actually was a reservist for much of his career, and continued to claim leave for reserve duties after he was discharged. And pay…

All of the comments in this thread assume he was being investigated for his acquisition of comically large amounts of cash and commodities that he presumably left the building with…

Deliberately testing its survivability with that failure mode over different parts of the vehicle has been one of the major foci throughout the entire test campaign, and it has pro…

I personally broke it by admonishing it for fucking up its last revision to my project.

The headlines just write themselves at this point.

That's right. SpaceX is likely a great business on its fundamentals, and starlink is probably even better. The meme-stock part of this is that they've swept all these different bus…

They'd tolerate it because they all poked a giant in the eye and it didn't go down. It's by far the cheapest route to peace any of them have. USA could agree to it because it's not…

Absolutely none of that would happen. It's in Iran's interests to keep the oil flowing at a fee that everyone can stomach and that doesn't offend the sensibilities. $1 a barrel for…

As you say, the shadow fleet exists because of sanctions. In other words, because the biggest bully on the block is committing de facto piracy with their navy. Pretty much the defi…

Just pointing out that for the volume of these ships, it's not really a massive toll. It's honestly a bargain, paid for in a really easy to stomach way by the people who allowed th…

Nobody ever questions why the troll is living under a bridge.

I realise he was making comedy, but breaking that down further I'd argue that dumb people can fool smart people for a little while that they're smart. My social acuity has develope…

I remember the set of his shoulders and generally pained body language during that address. He knew it was bullshit, and knew that the world could tell that he was bullshitting. Th…

The E3 fleet is aging and difficult to keep airworthy. Of the 32 or so planes the US has, it sounds as though they struggle to keep the operational number above 16, and moving more…

Okay, so this is clearly corrupt, but is it illegal? If not, add it to the United States Congress' many failings. If it is, since they spy on everything, it really shouldn't be har…

pfft, were you still working for a living or something, you leaner?