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Comment · 10 days ago
Would have been nice if DOGE had worked on stuff like this instead of performative cruelty.
Comment · 4 months ago
My father has commented to me about the weird warrior/war-fighter phrasing that came into vogue in the late 90’s. He remembered as a young soldier in the early 80’s not hearing those terms at all, but during a stint in the National Guard in the years before 9/11 he started hearing that sort of phrasing all the time.

It stuck him as vaguely undemocratic or even slightly barbaric. More suited to some caste in the Middle Ages than a modern all volunteer force of citizens-soldiers.

Comment · 1 year ago
Tropical tree seahorse?
Comment · 1 year ago
You gotta make sure they install them right. The UV light can degrade the insulation on wires, or break down expensive HEPA or bag filters.

If they put the light in the wrong place it can mess your equipment up.

Comment · 1 year ago
So why did this conversation needed to be kept from malign rogue anti-Trumpers in the NSA (who would be risking very real jail time) but did not require the basic level of OPSEC that would keep the editor of the Atlantic out?
Comment · 1 year ago
Well Jefferson certainly wasn't ever wrong about anything. He certainly wouldn't have held any beliefs contrary to 20th or 21st century values. /s

Obviously the dude had a lot of good ideas, but just grabbing anything he said and acting like it's gospel is flawed for dare I say a pretty glaring reason...

Comment · 1 year ago
I guess you could argue back in 1776 AI and aluminum had a roughly equal impact, only for aluminum to over take AI and become far more important by the early 20th century…

Pedantic sarcasm of course.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah people forget that Sushi was once considered very adventurous to most people, and than a huge percentage of American men only first experienced hot sauce as Tabasco sauce in the army. Other than ethic enclaves I think the American palette was historically considered pretty underdeveloped.
Comment · 2 years ago
He’s not your “bro” little mister, he’s clearly your elder!
Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder if a better use would be to establish a new medical school at a university without one. It seems like if society has too few doctors we need additional medical student spots more than a reduction in medical student debt.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah it’s always crazy looking down some street perpendicular to the levee and seeing something the size of a skyscraper on its side slide by at 10 mph.
Comment · 2 years ago
If the scratches are on the inside it might not look too bad after you fill it with water, but still a bummer.
Comment · 2 years ago
The noise maker (alarm) is still close to him.

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