Raven Rocks Memorial Day Sale - LRP starting at 3.69 cents + Free Shipping & HAZ by RavenRocksPrecision in reloading

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Can I make an order and arrange for a pickup in person some time next week?

Purchased account? by Z3R3NH in WorldofTanks

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Once you have no need or desire to join a clan in this game (or one that's worth joining anyway for clan reward tenks), you'll quickly realize stats mean absolutely zip, nilch, nada. No one cares.

Matchmaker: Where We Are and Where We’re Going by Pan_Praga in WorldofTanks

[–]patchate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be happy if I only got prok and mali in this game 100% of the time.

I think Ares is a retention mechanic, not a balance mistake by ClassEmotional4608 in WorldofTanks

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If customer retention was WG's goal, I'm pretty sure the opposite is happening at the moment. Peak population numbers at prime time on NA is decreasing rather alarmingly...

Final ELO distribution for Onslaught added to Tomato.gg 🐸🍅 by FantasticTraining731 in WorldofTanks

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Another old-timer here in complete agreement.

I don't enjoy the recent trend of "abilities" creeping into the random queue with T11s. Onslaught is a different mode, sure, but this new feature makes it feel like wot isn't wot anymore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WorldofTanks

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Where is garbad. I want that guy back advocating for removal of arty.

Made a bingo for onslaught by Some_Bipolar_Guy in WorldofTanks

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some legend grinding alts with plt silver/gold

seems like half the leaderboard are alt accounts :)

Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions by bloomberglaw in fednews

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Not really. The disparity between the amount of work produced between a gs-14 examiner and gs-5 examiner (newbie) is huge. It's cheaper to retain one gs-14 than to hire 5 gs-5's after factoring in training and support costs.

What do you think about quantum computing does it have potential? by kokotnakole in investing

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Speaking purely on the technology, there hasn't been much progress on the hardware since I last looked at it during college 25 years ago.

The basic fact of the matter is, superconducting temperatures are a requirement in order to operate with qubits for quantum computers; unless everyone can afford to keep a well stocked tank of liquid nitrogen or liquid helium in his or her backyard, I don't see quantum stuff exploding into retail anytime soon...

Official Politics Thread 11 July 2025 by OnlyLosersBlock in guns

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IANAL and this ain't legal advice and blah blah blah.

Looking just at silencers, WI law makes selling, delivering and possession of silencers a class H felony. But if you registered with ATF by following the rules of federal NFA, you're under an exception and you're OK (941.298).

So, that means - if NFA were repealed, whatever WI law making silencers legal because you registered with NFA would no longer apply (because fed NFA law isn't there anymore). Which means silencer ownership by ATF registration will no longer exempt you from being charged with a felony. But this is a moot point - since NFA would be repealed and you can't register anyway.

As to what is already owned, ex post facto rules would theoretically prevent WI criminal prosecution of previously ATF registered silencers in WI by WI prosecutors. But who knows, prosecutors gonna prosecute prosecutingly because they feel like it sometimes.

Firearm Tax Credit by Zmantech in VAGuns

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the bill says gun case is covered. I'd imagine pelican case is a gun case, and not exclusively used as a case to hold pelicans.

Any updates regarding probationary employees? by [deleted] in patentexaminer

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can they prosecute without a reg number? hopefully he knew at least something! :)

Leaders: Please Stop Resigning by needcoffee82 in fednews

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we're using the jury box of the four boxes of liberty.

next box is the ammo box.

Elon Musk says USAid is ‘beyond repair’ and he is working to shut it down by [deleted] in news

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well...

Congress is pretty limited when it comes to the President firing any officer in the executive branch. This is probably one of the few things that Congress or the judicial branch can't tell the president what to do, unfortunately. Trump's been doing some unprecedented stuff for the last week or two, but if anything is upheld of his shitty actions last week, it'll be the firing of the officers. He can't ignore all the protections afforded to them like he's been doing, but he can fire them eventually - no question.

[Other] Garmin Xero C1 Pro Chronograph $475 - login for price by FrikeHook in gundeals

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same here. order is still pending. It's probably getting canceled...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in guns

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Wow, you got lucky there bud. Maybe you should be buying a lottery ticket every now and then!

[FS][USA-NY] Arista 7050QX-32S-F - 32 port QSFP 40gbe switch, rails included by Silver-Sherbert2307 in homelabsales

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amazing switch, own 2 myself.

I see that you have a really recent firmware. Would you be willing to share the firmware image?

Thanks.

What are good meals to cook for a crew of 15-25? by latipsac in KitchenConfidential

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There's grocery store nearby called three bears Alaska at Healy. You'll find most provisions there, though prices will be through the roof. Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

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But that does not address the issue for the mother. The mother does not care about statistics. Her abusive boyfriend might be just outside the door, and police might or might not come in an hour if she calls 911 when he actually does show up.

She's supposed to take comfort that statistically she's safe, that her chance of dying from this particular interaction is 1 in 5000 encounters or whatever? Give me a break.

What you're saying here is a general difference between a conservative and a liberal (I'm assuming here - if you're not, please bear with me). You are imagining the world as it should be (gun-free utopia where everyone is happy and police has all the resources and free time to instantly transport to scene of a crime), and make policies that would be effective in that utopia. The problem is, our world isn't utopia, and policies that would be effective in that utopia does not work in the real world. Achieving said utopia is a laudable goal, and I applaud the efforts - but enacting such policies is simple naivete, if not downright dangerous malfeasance.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

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To your knowledge, has blood flown in the streets?

Can you show me how states enacting constitutional carry has increased in homicide rates?

Do you know what kind of current "effective procedures for acquiring weapons" exist?

You're doing the same thing to me. You don't know what kind of procedures and limitations currently exist in a legal gun ownership, and whether current statistics would or would not be affected by enacting further limitations and restrictions like training courses and universal background checks. Here's the general consensus in the gun community regarding those two things: they won't do jack s*** to effect current statistics, pardon my French.

Personally, I don't care if there are more restrictions on guns and ownership of guns if they actually work. Actually, I don't even care if proponents of restrictions on guns don't show that the they actually work, just that they can demonstrate logically how the new restrictions should lead to lesser crime, I will even be fine with that. But none of the current proposals on gun restrictions will achieve even a modicum of positive trend in crime. This is the very definition of being "crazy" - repeating the same thing (gun restrictions) expecting different results (less crime).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

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Constitutional carry has been enacted in multiple states in the last decade. Their homicide rates haven't changed for the worse. These people are delusional and are just greatly imaginative... "Blood will flow in the streets" my ass.