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deranger

@ deranger @sh.itjust.works

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  • Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'

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  • Thing is, it wasn’t helpful or useful, and it’s clear whoever ordered it had no clue what was going on. We used maybe 1-2 boxes of those calibrators a year. I probably threw out 6 dozen boxes, all the exact same lot and expiration date, that had been sitting in the back of the -80C freezer for years.

    That money could have gone towards any one of the actual lifesaving research programs we had going, but instead it went to some vendor.

  • Reporters Without Borders Decries 'Wave of Violence' Against Journalists at LA Protests

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  • Uncomfortable truth: violence has solved some of the largest issues across the history of humanity.

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  • I don’t understand. A 5.56mm round has a .223 bullet. .223 is the caliber and is in inches already, no math required. .223 / 100 =0.00223 which isn’t particularly useful.

  • Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'

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  • Having worked for the government, I assure you there is absolutely waste happening on a huge level. One time I threw out about $50k of lab equipment calibrators that someone clearly bought a ton of at the end of the year to use their whole budget so they didn’t lose it the following year.

    Nobody suggested reworking how budgets work though, so clearly the mission was not to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.

    government programs are usually forced to operate with absolutely minimal funding

    Not the military, that’s a massive source of expenditure. That’s where I saw the waste happening.

  • Is windows even an os anymore?

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  • To be clear - I do not disagree. OneDrive sucks and Microsoft is a greedy piece of shit company.

    However, do you think he would be better off with Linux? Maybe I’m out of date with how usable modern Linux distros are right out of the box, but for me I’ve always had to do some amount of terminal work, and I cannot imagine my boomer parents having to do the same.

    I know some people here are going to hate this answer, but for boomer parents and my child, macOS seems to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux quite well. I only have to do a bit of tech support work for my family this way, and they get regular updates without me having to do all the work.

  • Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body?

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  • Well they’re not separated, so who’s really making the pedantic argument here?

  • Is windows even an os anymore?

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  • Who has actually encountered this? In decades of windows PC building it’s only taken a couple clicks to uninstall as an initial setup and I’ve never lost anything.

    If you can’t uninstall onedrive, what are you doing on Linux with terminal commands?

  • Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body?

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  • Citation needed. The junctions in cardiac cells make electrical signals propagate through them all, so acting independently isn’t something that’s normal. There’s two loops, but one pump. It’s a single system.

  • why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't?

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  • all the "positive effects" disappeared over time and i was just left with those meh ones

    This is the case for every single drug I’ve tried over a long period of time, and one of my hobbies is treating Erowid like a Pokédex.

  • Elon Musk ‘took so much ketamine campaigning it damaged his bladder’

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  • Bingo, he’s the fall man for the White House right now. If you view American politics under the lens of professional wrestling it makes a lot of sense. Musk is doing a heel turn so he attracts more flak on his way out.

  • Challenges accepted.

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  • Charcoal grill, successfully assembled and cooked on while intoxicated with multiple substances.

  • do you think freewill truly exists?

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  • a societal acceptance of the absence of free will removes the burden of guilt

    Those cops, judges, lawyers, jail guards etc also don’t have free will, so while maybe the burden of guilt is gone, the legal repercussions still would exist all the same.

  • do you think freewill truly exists?

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  • Yeah, this literally is how it works, like to a T.

  • IT’S THE FEDS!

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  • I do appreciate how strong the magnets are. The force between a two 1cm square steel plates in a 2T field is about 159N or 36 lbs of force.

    I do not think the contact area between parts of the trigger / sear etc and striker / whatever else are more than 1cm square, they’re also lubricated. Given the orientation of the pistol could also change, making the friction force less effective, I think it’s possible that a pistol is able to fire after being sucked into the MRI.

  • IT’S THE FEDS!

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  • Most modern pistols are striker fired not hammer fired.

    I’d venture a guess nothing out of the ordinary happens thanks to lube and springs. Gun fires.

  • IT’S THE FEDS!

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  • If there’s anything I’ve learned from my weed growing hobby, it’s that nobody cares unless you’re doing it on a near industrial scale, like converting an entire floor or house to a grow.

    A hot tub requires way more power than your average hobbyist grow op these days. I can’t imagine a reptile setup is requiring 10+ kWh/day (what a fucked unit that is btw)

  • 250.000.000 BC

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  • Bet it has more to do with salt caking up and getting nasty appearing than anything else other than just a legal requirement. Also I think that’s a “best by” date not an expiration.

  • the real struggle is choosing which to replace

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  • I have a single alarm set. I came to this after years of pointless snoozing.

    If you need to get up at a certain time, get up at that time. If you don’t need to get up at a certain time, just turn off the alarm. Snooze is bullshit, fuck snooze. You gain nothing from snooze. If you really must lay around half conscious in bed, just set an alarm like an hour before the real alarm. I just don’t understand the multiple alarm people. Do you really gain all that much from turning off your alarm 6 times before you actually get up versus an entire hour to chill before the actual alarm?

    I hate the sound of the alarm and I absolutely don’t want to hear it, or lay there anticipating it. One annoying ring of the alarm is all it takes, more annoying rings just make a shittier start to the day IMO.

  • Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?

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  • Just about all fat gets digested and converted into sugar

    This is not how lipids are metabolized. They are not converted to glucose right off the bat. Fats are broken down to monoglycerides to be absorbed, recombined to triglycerides and eventually chylomicrons, and transported to adipose tissue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_metabolism