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> The King County Municipal Court is dishing these out left and right, Hardly, the number of tweakers they throw into rehab is nothing compared to the number of tweakers on the str…

There is simply no evidence that American military training would produce better police than extant American police. Nothing other than the self-aggrandizing claims of people who c…

> multiple (as-claimed-on-the-internet) soldiers complain about cop-malfeasance with respect to the situations in which gunfire is allowed to occur. Soldiers tooting their own horn…

Exactly.

> Wild to see the Seattle Chamber acting like he is making things better in Downtown when 2 blocks down the hill from City Hall 7-Eleven closed up shop due to all the tweakers. Thi…

A single bomb core is a sub-critical mass; needing either neutron reflectors or another source of neutrons to start a chain reaction. But if you pile a bunch of such cores up toget…

Pu-239 is an alpha emitter, but that's not the end of the story. All plutonium weapon cores are also neutron emitters because all weapons grade plutonium is impure and contains 2-7…

A private contractor would not have sovereign immunity, so you can sue them without the government's assent. They would not receive special legal protections, like the signs the TS…

As far as I'm aware, America is the only country that makes you take your shoes off. Certainly it's not the norm.

What's the real difference between the government stationing armed soldiers in your town to maintain the peace, and stationing armed police in your town to maintain the peace? The …

The overwhelming majority of the time, "arrests" on airplanes are made by regular passengers and the flight attendants, who beat up the offender then hogtie him with duct tape. Air…

Air Marshals and the TSA are both pointless jobs programs and security theater. The problem of hijackers was solved in the morning of 2001/9/11 when the passengers of United Airlin…

> The DoD has far more than just 4 satellites up there. Yeah, and they want a hell of a lot more. Seriously, read up on NDSA. For the transport layer they want hundreds to thousand…

The only real meta is to treat everybody as an individual. Pay attention to how they react during different stages of the conversation and tailor your own behavior to make them mor…

Additionally, don't attempt to banter even if the Brit initiates it. Brits think that Americans cannot banter and will assume that any banter from an American is intended as a sinc…

I find the most frustrating conversations are with people who can't stop talking and who fail to distinguish what is or isn't important information for other people in the conversa…

The only virtue Tim Cook knows is money. Everything he pretends to believe in the context of America goes completely out the window in the context of China. Why? Because money.

Probably. In a war I don't think they'd hesitate, since they've already demonstrated their willingness to cause huge clouds of LEO debris with simple tests. But the upside is that …

Rage against it all you want, people are judged by the company they keep. Ideally not in court rooms, but in everyday life? Abso-fucking-lutely. You don't have to like it but that'…

> The DoD already had something like Starlink. The NDSA doesn't actually exist yet, and SpaceX is presently the only company that could launch the larger versions of it.

You're talking about boost-phase interceptors, not mid-course interceptors. Starship to replace GMD (as suggested by credit_guy) doesn't make much sense, but Starship does have the…

How do these cell systems respond to the network no longer existing? Do they continue trying to ping towers that no longer exist? Do they give up eventually and turn themselves off…

> So I’m not sure why Signal should drop them other than because of the general volatility in crypto. The affiliation to a cryptoscheme casts the entirety of Signal in a disreputab…

Children don't decide what neighborhood they live in.

And your position is... "this is an obscure HN meme" (it isn't.) And "therefore you're wrong". Very persuasive.