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Duzzy Funlop posted:I'm kinda confused that anything other than the moment magnitude scale is still being referenced by news outlets in 2023, but to actually read "Richter scale" is a certified mindfuck. Often people say Richter scale when they mean moment magnitude.
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Platystemon posted:The earthquake was not expected to cause particularly large waves, but it was so close that there wasn’t exactly time to monitor the situation before sending out alerts. The initial tsunami alerts are fully automated, aren’t they?
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habituallyred posted:Considering one of Mohamed's titles was"Seal of the Prophets"... Its against any sort of Islam that refers to the Quran. last_prophet_v5_final_imeanitthistime I think “seal of the prophets” has only been reversed once between Christianity and Islam but I’m not 100% on that one?
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joat mon posted:A little bit longer version Apparently the blue suit guy is the defense attorney?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Has the Epstein list come out yet? I'm confused. It’s the unredacted flight logs and depositions, there isn’t really as much info as people expected in the logs. A lot of the names are just initials, though comically at random there are entries for “PRESIDENT CLINTON” and “ALAN DERSHOWITZ”. Al Gore shows up briefly but the deposition says: https://twitter.com/marionawfal/status/1742717201340080157?s=46 And then we have: https://twitter.com/razisardar/status/1742718668684100078?s=46 Other billionaires hate Trump so that follows.
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I thought you couldn’t buy phones in the 50s and could only rent? Or was that more of a 70s thing.
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And if anyone has seen that door, please email the ntsb, thanks! https://twitter.com/avgeekjake/status/1743849387024073166?s=46
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Platystemon posted:The freakiest thing is who among us doesn’t have their phone lock itself after a few minutes? I’m better it was either stuck on the boarding pass screen that keeps it on or the password was the same as everyone’s luggage and they realized that punching that in is technically a crime before talking to the feds
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Technically, "President" is one of those titles that stick around after the office. "President Carter", "President Bush", "President Clinton" are also all appropriate. Very stupid trivia: There’s actually been arguments about this since the constitutional convention. If you look up a formal manners or etiquette guide like Emily Post I believe they will all still say that “president” alone should refer to only one person, namely the current one. However former presidents have been called “president” in some formal contexts since George Washington left office so 
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1745604622197113076 There is definitely a universe where the republican party is bookended by resolutions determining “whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed, as in his messages declared, was or was not within the territory of Spain, at least after the treaty of 1819, until the Mexican revolution”
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A.o.D. posted:One thing that came out of the previous state border call-ups is that their lives were just as disrupted as if they were subject to a federal call up. Even though they were closer to home, they were still sick at their assigned areas. Note that since it’s a state wide deployment odds are that Alaska is effectively as far from home as the border is for many. It’s really hard to undersell how loving big Texas is.
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MonkeyFit posted:It's really not as big as they claim. It's the same as that dude that constantly has to let everyone know how big their dick is. Yeah, Alaska laughs at them but El Paso to Houston being a 12 hour drive is nuts.
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Alaska also requires entering another country! I think the only other states where you’d do that to max out drive distances are Washington and Minnesota?
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fknlo posted:
An original part of the “one china” policy is a word game where you never specify whether “China” refers to the PRC or RoC. quote:The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China and does not challenge that position.
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"We do not support the independence of Taiwan"
JOE BIDEN CHINA
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lightpole posted:How was Hong Kong forced? The UK had a 99 year lease. 1997 was the end of that lease and reverted back to China. But “one country, two systems” was eventually discarded.
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pmchem posted:delusional to try and take on a DDG in a task force with a lone anti-ship cruise missile Delusional is a strong word. Russia’s fancy stuff doesn’t work right now and the Stark attack, while almost 40 years ago and not an AEGIS destroyer, showed that USN ships might not be as good as “advertised”.
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CommieGIR posted:.....I suspect a Reagan era attack has little bearing on the readiness of modern US destroyers, and the issue was less around the destroyer and more around its current state, it was not expecting nor watch for an attack and most of its any missile systems stayed in standby until second before it hit. Not really relevant. My point is more that there are so few publicly known real world tests that it isn’t delusional to try. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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pseudosavior posted:Then it's just a race to "who gets the Bagger 288 first". Its usually busy with godzillas and doom robots from the future.
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Kazinsal posted:Has that ever happened, switching away from an incumbent VP on the ticket for an incumbent president? Seems like it’d be the kind of catastrophic thing that would tank a run. I wanted to say something bizarre like that happened before the civil war between the splintering of the democratic-republicans and the Whigs being the Whigs but I may have been remembering Tyler being elected a member of the confederate house which feels like an even crazier “demotion”. edit: wait, I mangled that with an ascended VP->president->VP. Replacing VPs has happened with reasonable regularity. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It’s a mess of a book. But it also contains certain nerd shibboleths and touchstones that make it hard to just outright 1:1 dismiss entirely. Similarly if you’ve never read Ender’s Game, go ahead and do that and then immediately read Speaker for the Dead. Then and only then look up OSC’s politics.
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Soul Dentist posted:Definitely don't go from Enders Game to Folk of the Fringe, a collection of short stories from a future where the temple in Salt Lake City is the last bastion of civilization I will say I didn’t fully internalize “death of the author” until finding out about OSC after reading the Ender books. Just… how?! I can’t figure out what reading he possibly intended other than one he strongly disagreed with?
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My Spirit Otter posted:theres a difference between all planes and boeing planes. A new one anyway. All NG 737s at this point have been through depot maintenance checks at this point and so you aren’t relying on Boeing assembling it correctly anymore, you’re instead relying on the aircraft owner.
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My Spirit Otter posted:yea, i was meaning the cargo plane over miami, not the herc. i only brought the herc up because ours are old as gently caress and still flying safely. Lockheed was too good for civil aviation. 
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Xakura posted:
Ron probably thinks this gives him the best shot at VP. He’s wrong.
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Discussion Quorum posted:More cynically, I am guessing "not actually a crime and we have depended on decorum thus far" There is no indication of where the robocall is from so that is at least a violation of some sort.
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https://twitter.com/usainuk/status/1750136728034169147?s=46 This is a declaration of war, right?
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Tiny Timbs posted:This was reported on multiple times throughout the administration (including articles specifically about Ronny Jackson) and never went anywhere. Weren’t there reports of this during the Obama admin too? I might be mixing up the timing. I specifically remember the story about the White House physician offering everyone downers at the beginning of and uppers at the end of AF1 flights.
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CommieGIR posted:The Georgia case is likely in the clear because it turns out the claim about the lead prosecutor being in a divorce hearing with the other prosecutor is false, they released the unsealed docs today. Good, that was so stupid that I thought it was 100% true and would be how he wiggled his way out of this one.
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shame on an IGA posted:That is my view of the post-verdict developments in the Alex Murdaugh case tho I have not followed this at all and completely tuned out all the media about this. Is the one sentence summary “the county clerk tampered with the jury to write a book about the case”
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ded posted:wow. all they ever gave me was 800mg motrin horse pills 1600mg of motrin/12 hours is just trying to kill your kidneys. DXM, Mucinex and real sudafed is probably the best you can do for a cold? If you're really clogged up afrin works wonders for me but as a reminder they are not kidding about the 3 day limit thing.
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Shaddak posted:2024 just keeps going. quote:During his bond hearing on Sunday, Gil’s attorney told the judge the suspect is the son of a diplomat; therefore, he has “consular immunity.” WPLG Local 10 News reported Gil is the son of Eli Gil, consul for administration at the Consulate General of Israel in Miami. lol consular immunity wouldn’t even apply to the consul here? I however assume that gambit bought them enough time to board a flight home.
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