DuskStar

Joined 14 years ago

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Software developer, normally in Los Angeles, now in Michigan to ride out COVID with family. Not the best choice of locations in retrospect, but what's done is done.
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Comment · 3 years ago
It's less radioactive than Denver. Like, all of Denver.
Comment · 3 years ago
As opposed to the European solution, where you know there's explosives in that field over there but you only deal with the stuff that floats to the surface each year.
Comment · 3 years ago
The reverse is also plausible, and whites could begin to show in-group preference again.
Comment · 3 years ago
I would strongly recommend cracking the DRM on those when you have the chance.
Comment · 3 years ago
As long as you pay some minimal level of attention this shouldn't be a problem. 10s delays between stages won't prevent something with a minimum TWR of 2 and 4000m/s of combined dv from reaching orbit.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think you're missing the distinction. It's not that bureaucracy caused the meltdown, it's that the bureaucratic reaction to the meltdown was the source of the damage.
Comment · 3 years ago
Carfentanil, maybe?
Comment · 3 years ago
> There's no upside to sparing him.

The upside to saying "yes I can be bought" is that people will give you boatloads of money.

Comment · 3 years ago
Getting the tax stamp takes several months, unfortunately.

And you need a new stamp if you want to transfer it to another person.

Comment · 3 years ago
The regulations that allowed for private warships and artillery?

Those gun control regulations?

If there are actual gun control regulations from the post-revolutionary period, I'm sure that they'll be used to defend NY's and CA's modern regulations soon.

Comment · 3 years ago
Don't forget "machine guns aren't weapons of war" which is also quite a bit of a head scratcher!
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Have living standards (literacy, health, etc) improved for the nonwhite population in the past 28 years?
Comment · 4 years ago
> dude who plays League of Legends

A dude who plays LoL badly. Embarrassingly badly for his number of games.

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