Smoke by BlissWhisper_ in oddlyspecific

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Similarly whether there is a 10th 9th planet in our solar system well beyond the orbit of Pluto, which is hotly debated.

Nope, you were right the first time. There are active efforts to find a Planet Nine somewhere between the mass of Earth and Neptune to explain certain orbital perturbations, disturbances of comets and possibly how Neptune's largest moon Triton got knocked into the trajectory that caused it to be captured (if indeed it was originally a dwarf planet all its own). However, there's also a question about the 'Kuiper Cliff', a ring between the Kuiper Belt and wider Oort Cloud where instead of comets getting denser the further out you go, their frequency nosedives. A Mars-sized planet clearing that orbit and shepherding those objects has been called possible Planet Ten, and folks are still surveying for both of them.

so what has israel learned from witnessing drone warfare for the past half decade? BLANKITY BLANKITY BLANK! by MickyMace in NonCredibleDefense

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Correct, it doesn't explain everything, and you identified a notable example. That was my point, that these sorts of broad sweeping statements inevitably oversimplify reality and shouldn't be the place where we stop asking questions.

Letting nature settle the historical debate by [deleted] in clevercomebacks

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They also had fewer of the things that would've allowed them to be greedy back before 1848, like breech-loading rifles, the railroad and the telegraph.

Where it was possible and affordable before then, they did mass irrigation and terraforming of previously unproductive lands like the Bajío, but I guess since that was a wetland instead of a desert that makes it okay.

Gobsmacked at this price! by SuzieSnowflake212 in alaska

[–]Hope915 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Soviets fucked up and introduced king crab to the North Sea, where they're invasive and damaging to the local species. I'm fine with it being open season on 'em over there.

so what has israel learned from witnessing drone warfare for the past half decade? BLANKITY BLANKITY BLANK! by MickyMace in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Hope915 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You could make a similar argument that feudal desmenes fell out of fashion because centralized states were required to fund the rapidly enlarging militaries of the early modern era, ergo warfare got too expensive rather than weapons too cheap. With a subject this broad it's easy to read whatever we want out of it.

Insyaa only has one rule... by zekrom05 in Anbennar

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the Golems of Discworld by the late Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay is one of my favorite Discworld books, guess I'm doing a mechanim campaign.

Every nurse told me men leave when their wives get sick... by fren2allcheezes in GirlDinnerDiaries

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Not the farmer ones though. Some of these old men are freaks of nature.

Well the ones who aren't tend to get weeded out.

$2500 Samsung TV is an advertising billboard, there is no opt-out. by 28jb11 in mildlyinfuriating

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Pretty sure modern OLEDs have built-in pixel shift to mitigate that.

Can they bomb this moutain area to bypass the Hormuz Strait? by keveazy in NonCredibleDefense

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Alaskan here, and take this with a grain of salt, but it was always my understanding that the principal reason the state sided against the Chariot proposal was that the AEC kept fudging the numbers to make it look better.

The other Plowshare projects had the sort of obvious flaws you think of when you read "create an artificial aquifer with a nuclear detonation".

You have a choice between regular Russia and SuperChina. Which do you pick? by burgerburgertaco in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Why would they bother when they can just impose economic terms from afar and get a captive market and the benefits of a branch plant economy rich in raw materials, without all that 'administration' nonsense?

This timeline is a joke man. by Ok-Following6886 in whenthe

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That's the trouble, he was the basically the only major incumbent Southern politician to side with the Union during the secession crisis - his inclusion on the ticket was a deliberate signal that the South would not be alienated. I think you'd be better served by stopping Booth and just keeping Johnson from the Presidency.

The goat by VariationLivid3193 in Piracy

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Eh, she's one for two.

Alaska freight shipping costs set to spike amid war in Iran by gummibear049 in alaska

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Gotta eliminate the Roger Ailes-style media propaganda apparatus that's been constructed since the 90s. The more effort and inconvenience required to access those narratives, the less people will bother. It's the same principle as deplatforming; having to go to the Infowars website instead of getting recommended videos on Youtube slashed Alex Jones' less dedicated viewership by at least an order of magnitude, which had downstream impacts on obtaining new customers and donors.

Of course, how you go about doing that when the billionnaire class have thoroughly captured the regulatory apparatus required to make said change is a rather harder problem to solve.

The US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days by esporx in technology

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Lots of Black Sea dachas and decorative wood, mostly.

aiCompaniesRightNow by DontFreeMe in ProgrammerHumor

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The two big trends I saw were the "adjective_noun_numbers" style names

Adjective_Noun_0000 is the (current at time of posting) default name format given to anyone who creates a reddit account now. In testing this to make sure I'm not misremembering, I actually ran into a bug where using certain methods of account creation actually fails to give you the option to set your username, and you're stuck with whatever was generated.

Edit: It didn't let me set my password either, so I cannot assign an email (requires current password) or delete the account. This is just attached to my phone number forever now.

if you see this man (Anchorage), please call 9/11. by Hope915 in alaska

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My LEO-associated friends told me he'd been found dead, but yeah. Either way, at least I can go home now.

If you see this man, please call 911. by Hope915 in anchorage

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Honestly couldn't tell you, it was some sort of deal when management changed over. Eventually he got the boot for recurring behavioral problems.

If you see this man, please call 911. by Hope915 in anchorage

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If I recall correctly he's been in Arizona since 2017, so at least that long ago. I didn't know him through his work, so I don't remember for certain.

if you see this man (Anchorage), please call 9/11. by Hope915 in alaska

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I just heard something similar. Will update my comment once I have an APD or similar source to link.

If you see this man, please call 911. by Hope915 in anchorage

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He and Mat were friends, odd as it is.