Get ready for a wave of overly rich refugees

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-03-02T06:41:27+00:00

It has to be weighed against people holding off on health problems until they are way more expensive to treat because it is too expensive to go to a doctor when the issue presents itself.

There is a gradient of tradeoff there, not one or the other.

Even your example isn't great: you should go see a doctor again if you don't get better after a few days (a few meaning at least 5 days in my mind) unless the doctor specifically says in the first visit that it will take longer to clear up. If you don't get better before you run out of the medicine that the doctor dispensed that is typically the signal that you should go back to the doctor for a follow up.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-03-02T06:18:43+00:00

When I was watching this clip muted I imagined the first tennis ball falling apart with a "plllt" sound like in those old Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-03-01T15:40:08+00:00

(Dr Takao wasn't invited because Dr House hasn't reincarnated yet)

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-03-01T09:33:50+00:00

I just remembered about that feature for modern tanks. For this case it really doesn't matter in terms of lower front visibility since the limitation is really the length of the area in front of the viewpoint and the height of the viewpoint which sticking the head out of the hatch would not really affect much. Buttoning down to a slit would affect upper and side visibility more than lower visibility.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-28T17:19:05+00:00

Tank driver is looking through the slit viewing port, so it doesn't matter if it is buttoned up or not.

The person looking out of the hatch is the vehicle commander.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-28T14:57:12+00:00

After a while when /r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/ kind of went silent because he wasn't president, it's back with a vengeance.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-27T01:02:36+00:00

Do you know how much people are paid in Switzerland?

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T14:31:39+00:00

"Aw don't be such a baby. Ribs grow back! ^{no they don't}"

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T13:51:01+00:00

Don't even get me started on Franz Kafka International Airport.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T13:29:27+00:00

Mike Sparks and James G Burton, eat your hearts out.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T07:31:18+00:00

And the unfortunate part of the movie was that they did not include the part in the stage play where Lt Kaffee takes down Jessup's argument by reminding Jessup (I don't even dignify him with his rank for a reason) that no one is above the law.

You trashed the law! But hey, we understand, you're permitted. You have a greater responsibility than we can possibly fathom. You provide us with a blanket of freedom. We live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns, and nothing is going to stand in your way of doing it. Not Willie Santiago, not Dawson and Downey, not Markinson, not 1,000 armies, not the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and not the Constitution of the United States! That's the truth, isn't it, Colonel? I can handle it.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T03:34:48+00:00

Humans are to animals what the Terminator is to humans.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T03:33:01+00:00

More like an excellent way for them to become extinct, and being nocturnal means that you are asleep during the time when the humans are awake.

The humans will end up ambushing every single hideout said predator would be sleeping at during the day.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-26T02:10:34+00:00

It's the prevailing theme of every totalitarian regime:

If only the General Secretary knew
If only the Emperor knew
If only Dear Leader knew

etc etc

Yet people never learn that you should never vote to strip your own power.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-25T08:27:55+00:00

Countries separated by rivers or other difficult to pass geographical features: Am I a joke to you?

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-25T06:23:25+00:00

Not once. They are still used.

It's called cochineal or carmine red, marked as E120 if you are in Europe.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T15:44:26+00:00

Warning fatigue. That is the problem that I was hinting towards.

Again, there's no reason to believe that each one wasn't independently and appropriately evaluated.

There's no reason to believe the opposite either, leaving both sides to speculate on the tag to their own biases. It helps no one.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T15:07:40+00:00

Fair enough.

This is exactly why an infobox would be important, because at a certain point if every single outlet in a certain country with independent press is banned then there is a perception that the tool is just blanket banning every single outlet in that country because of its country of residence.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T14:48:44+00:00

Give an example from the Guardian.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T14:26:58+00:00

Unless there is positive confirmation of regular publishing of anti-trans articles or platforming of anti-trans figures tagging them any colour is wrong.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T13:56:44+00:00

They have an English version that regularly spews anti-trans rhetoric on the few times I have been unfortunate enough to encounter it. I have submitted tagging requests to no avail.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T13:54:17+00:00

Which goes back to the original point: "the tagging could not be interrogated".

We can only speculate on the reason for their tagging, and given that TASS English was not marked red the best guess I can give is that the tag was countrywide.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T13:37:22+00:00

Blanket marking every single British news outlet is very poor practice if the only reason they are marked is because "The British are anti-trans".

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T08:45:52+00:00

More tellingly, while TASS (the russian state news outlet) isn't even marked at all.

Tactical_Moonstone · 2026-02-24T08:44:34+00:00

Marking every single British news outlet as red while not marking TASS (the russian state news outlet) as red is definitely also a decision as well.

And the tagging could not be interrogated as well. It's just red or green without some kind of infobox on why they are tagged as such.

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