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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/becausemiami/status/1621240801807187968?s=46&t=O1GwqiWHDBIwuMevf-N-Kw

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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Drop this special operator out of an even higher balloon.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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The US wants to ensure that both abusers and also their victims can be equally armed. This is the fair solution...
:negative:

Unless the victim did drugs, then they can't be armed.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Crab Dad posted:

Did she use a gun?

Yeah. The man started sexually abusing her at 11, trafficking her at 13, she shot him to death when she was 16. She was tried as an adult and given LWOP. She was pardoned at age 44, in 2022.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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lightpole posted:

And balloons are basically dependent on the Jetstream I thought, didn't the guy that wanted to take one around the world struggle cause of this?

Jet stream is comparatively low altitude and violent. Wanna get above it and just easy ride.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Brits fire back

https://twitter.com/grahamHmoore/status/1621576829667516416?s=20&t=B08lki4L8P8D51SaXBp2SQ

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/lizaoutlives/status/1621963794158338049?s=46&t=5NgPpLN9w9Yl3-q0ofMnEg

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/coastguardjm/status/1621780049580941313?s=46&t=k0vsXRyXz9_FIqyTOZvXNA

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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I’ve always just got pets from the local shelter. Cats are easy that way. I don’t care about bespoke fancy cats, and shelters usually have decent cats that are a few years old, so not as desirable as a kitten and at higher risk of being at shelters for months or years.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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FrozenVent posted:

If you put a propeller on it it’s not a balloon anymore it’s a dirigible.

But you’d need a heckuva prop to move something around in the jet stream, I think.

Jet stream isn’t that high. At 60,000 feet plus, air currents are comparatively docile and slow.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/USAmbKabul/status/1625808160614240258?s=20

:woof:

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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*Posting the most dumbass take this side of the prime meridian*

What, I said "teach me, ready to learn" people!

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Wombot posted:

Yeah, this seems like a bad idea for a hobby? This community is using a set of calculations to figure out how much helium to put in a standard mylar party balloon, but those envelopes can't handle more than 30k feet altitude. There are some low-cost (tens of dollars) envelopes that can handle higher, as well, but still 40k feet or thereabouts. So you have a community of people who looked at the FAA regs and saw the rules only apply to things weighing more than 6lbs and decided, "We're fine! Launch 'em if you got 'em!" right into the airspace used for commercial aviation.

Hobbyists obeying the FAA rules is pretty normal. The FAA regs are built roughly around the weight of a large bird, and there are a lot more birds out there than hobbyist balloons.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Wombot posted:

I'm actually curious about that because birds will gently caress up an airliner. If you hit a metal payload at altitude and speed, is that encompassed in the tests that manufacturers perform? Is a 6lb balloon payload better or worse than a frozen chicken fired out of a potato cannon?

Archival Test Footage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmQ6iN8hKM

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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CommieGIR posted:

But I suspect the FAA still wouldn't smile on people just releasing balloons into airspace

Depending on class, it's fine. You're not allowed to just release a 6 pound payload balloon at the end of the runway, though. And you aren't supposed to operate them at night without light markings. And supposed to release them when there's good visibility.

This kind of thing can be done without notification:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvdi8QoJNoc

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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slurm posted:

Gun tech and gun laws haven't really changed in generations but eventually we just become so hosed up as to think, wow let's just slaughter each other because we're mad at Facebook. A country just straight up racing backwards as a society, and we weren't even that good to start with. We can no longer be trusted with guns and I remember when that was something we relentlessly mocked other countries for.

I hope we don’t race backward too far; the past was an even worse place to exist in America, aside from wildlife flaura/fauna biodiversity.

I don’t think most shooters give a poo poo about facebook either. I guess some shooters are pretty old, but still.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Yeah. States have gone a long way in legalizing CCW and shall-issue permits over the last couple decades.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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slurm posted:

There hasn't been a time since the invention of repeating firearms where you couldn't just go out and buy a big repeating firearm of some kind and go do a massacre.

Depending on your race and creed and local laws, yes there absolutely has been, unless you mean via black market connections or forgot about nonwhite dudes.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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While it is kind of funny that people got MAD about free U2 on their phones, it was also not great to have your music/voice synonymous with "my Apple product just hosed up" since it would default to the U2 album when it really didn't know what you wanted it to resume.

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Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/armystrang/status/1629310150241669124?s=46&t=Uiw5LJj9dPRqqcJvx5EEdA

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Linguistic Kill Shot

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Jul 11, 2004

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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:

I tried to block Elon on Twitter and the app said NOPE

Weird. Blocked him no problem.

Never see his dumb poo poo anymore, haven’t for a while. It’s nice.

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Jul 11, 2004

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