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I wonder how long until the Wikipedia entry about 20% time is updated.

Is it legal to rehearse or practice how to interact with border guards? I don’t need to explain why someone could be deeply anxious interacting with US border officials… it should …

Yeah, lithium ion is pretty dangerous and not to be fucked with… but actually we do allow filling up cars in private residences… You can just go get a fuel can or extra tank of you…

Thank you for taking the time to do the grim maths… Also, holy ** I thought it was bad and probably going to be maybe 10-25 times higher… based on the utter devastation I have seen…

That’s one potential mitigating factor, but they were also using large bombs like 2000 pounders on targets that I’ve not seen any reputable military commentators agree as justifyin…

In genuinely morbid moment of being nerd snipped… I wonder if the ordinance dropped per square meter on Gaza is higher than the ordinance dropped be square meter on Vietnam… which …

Sadly I suspect this will be the case… I don’t hold much hope on this whole thing actually ending… but I do have a glimmer of hope that they may have reached a tipping point due to…

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Ok, I’m really not sure why the simple answer isn’t getting across here. His position as co-head of the nominal “department of government efficiency” only exists due to the legitim…

It’s currently just in name only. But that is likely to change soon in some form yet to be revealed when the new government is sworn in. So legally it isn’t in government yet, howe…

Advisors can be in government… if it’s a government department even an advisory one, it’s part of government… and thus its employees are in government.

They in all likelihood, have already started… to some extent… Given the geopolitical context it’s extremely unlikely that they were willing to make a statement, even as vaguely sha…

Leaky seives, I doubt they would share the info if they are doing it … the Kursk front taught them a lesson.

Well that’s kinda awesome to see, at long last it’s coming out of the development pipeline and now there are legitimate solid state batteries in consumer available products…

Interesting to have a more complete picture of how this kind of YouTube scam works, with all the little differences between the normal and the music half of YouTube pointed out cle…

They don’t care about that. I mean it’s the opening paragraph… > I just want to see it. Just once. I want to watch that earthquake ripple through all of global electronic timekeepi…

Ok… so looking from the outside in Australia… a country with mandatory voting that always happens on weekends to make it incredibly easy for people to do their civic duty, thus all…

There was, we called them elections.

This kind of low level testing can be such a pain. Its fortunate this hardware has netboot. This is the "easy" path for low level testing, I've worked with other stuff where the on…

It’s about abstractions, and a lot of the time visual programming tools don’t get it right. Either they are too abstract and your limited to a set of nodes/blocks that are not powe…

Given how many people are struggling to find enthusiasm to voice support for Biden due to the situation in Gaza and how he isn’t trying to play hardball with Netanyahu in compariso…

Good. The world can’t afford to be run by gerontocracy…

Yeah, I’ve started to get a bit cautious about the quality control in these papers too… not because I doubt there’s a problem, but that I suspect it’s all too easy to ignore the qu…

There’s also bulk triboelectric effects where the mechanical forces, and the subsequent physical movement of large blocks of material can build up static charges due to having diff…

It is wild you do not have this… and it goes to show how cable tv destroyed normal free to air tv so thoroughly that there are houses getting built without even an antenna hidden i…