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> > 1. Good people make good thing. > 1. FUD "Good people make good things" is 'fear, uncertainty, doubt' ? Have you been huffing paint fumes again aspaceman? Try as you might, you…

> "one of the worst things" The set of "worst things about these disasters" includes a pile of corpses. Non-engineering members of the general public continuing to be non-engineers…

> 20 years of pumping concrete is enough to know if it's significantly wrong. No, that doesn't make sense to me. Concrete buildings are expected to last longer than 20 years, thoug…

If the Hyatt walkway had been built as it was designed, I'm sure it would have worked fine. But was it realistic to build it as designed? The design called for something like 12 me…

Nice try, but it's not murders and violent crimes that this discussion is about. Murders are not the crimes that 70% of San Franciscans are getting upset about. This degree of neig…

Instead of being passive aggressive with this psuedo-scoratic bullshit, why don't you just say outright what you mean? You're talking about covid. A global pandemic is a shitty exc…

"Why do we need to drink water anyway? Why can't we all get our fluids from an IV?"

You're serious? Holy fuck get real. I'm not even the guy upthread you were responding to, screw off with your "burden of proof" crap and go walk into a weed store with your bitcoin…

Because anybody with sense prefers eating food to popping pills.

Wishful thinking.

Lmao are you serious? Source is 15 years of buying drugs. The illegal drug dealers only took cash, and now that buying drugs is legal, the legal dealers only take cash too. They ha…

When I was a teenager on the swim team in the early 00s, the school had to ban 'deck changing' [changing into or out of your swimsuit in view of the public] because, in a game of o…

There is more to that F-15 incident than just incredible thrust; the F-15's wide fuselage provides significant body lift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_body#Body_lift

He seems to be right according to Pew in 2014: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/27/strong-supp... > Pew Research surveys find that similar shares of Christians (29%) a…

(When the offense against you is criminal, it [is/may be] the government that foots the bill for prosecuting it. For instance, this is how it works with the Department of Labor whe…

I hope they don't get into the habit of blackmailing politicians when the cause is just. For one, because Google's perception of justice may not always be right. For another, becau…

Maybe not, though a Mars colony might not have to run as a totally isolated system. Perhaps solar power could be used to extract oxygen from the rocks or something. It's definitely…

> Public universities can kick you out for expressing your 1st amendment right based off of whatever bs reason they want to give just to expel you. Yeah, and a company can fire you…

> Corporates usually replace hardware every 3-4 years don't they? At the companies I've worked for the programmers generally get new hardware about as often ...but other workers no…

> This sounds like a very anti-American sentiment Chilling words...

I sure hope this isn't the start of the phone-ification of 'real computers', with the expectation that people buy new hardware every few years lest they get left out in the cold by…

Lots of countries have similar sorts of histories I think; while I'm sure what you say is part of the equation, I think it doesn't fully explain why Americans are much more likely …

> I am hearing that recordings of violence got silenced, thats not weird. If i post a violent video of something, changes are that they are muted also. This is a good reason to mou…

I think genetics is actually the easy part. A few dozen or so people, selected for strong health, probably contain enough genetic material in their groins to start a colony. More w…