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  • A brief history of Castro and the CIA

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  • "It worked on Bugs Bunny" -George H. W. Bush, probably

  • Vaultwarden vs KeePassXC for extreme security

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  • the entire entire database is decrypted on unlock.

    That would be the selling point for me to choose KeePassXC over Vaultwarden.

  • fuck cars

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  • Hoo shit, .ml is back, too!

  • i am going to become the jonkler

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  • It's fucked up that I can spend less on my family at a fast casual or BBQ restaurant, including tip, than I spend at McDonald's or Chick-fil-A.

  • What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?

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  • Citizen Four documentary

  • Leeds student jailed in Saudi Arabia for 34 years over tweets is released

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  • That's exactly the confusion I had

  • Why would'nt this work?

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  • (i know i may have broken english sometimes, sorry about that)

    Not at all! I couldn't tell you aren't a native speaker. Regarding a "moon elevator", or more realistically a space elevator, these kinds of Herculean physics problems are exactly what people are trying to iron out. The forces involved are astronomical.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from February 10th to February 16th, 2025 - There Is Noboa Alternative - COTW: Ecuador

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  • ChatGPT/Siri for president, 2028

  • Why would'nt this work?

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  • So I found a dowel rod online that's 1 meter long by 25 mm in diameter made of beech, which is pretty typical for this kind of rod. Each rod weighs 420 g. 300,000 km is 300,000,000 m. So for a dowel rod to be 300,000,000 m long, it would weigh 126,000,000,000 g, or 126,000,000 kg. You would never be able to push this rod. If you had a magical hydraulic ram that could, it would just compress the soil under it. This is on the scale of the foce released from an atomic bomb.

    But let's throw that out and pretend the whole thing weighs 420 grams instead. Maybe it's made of a novel, space-age material instead of beech. And since you've said it can't bend or break, the portion at the surface of the earth would be spinning at roughly 1,000 kph (due to the rotation of the earth), and the portion at the end of the rod would be spinning at about 28 km/s. Most of the mass of the rod would be spinning faster than escape velocity, so you wouldn't be able to hold onto it. It would be gone almost instantly.

    Let's pretend you could hold onto it. Then the person on the moon couldn't hold it, because the earth rotates on its axis about 28 times faster than the moon travels around its orbit. So you can see how this problem devolves into ever more layers of magic and hand-waiving.

    The final problem is the fundamental difference between classroom physics and material engineering. If you could fix the moon to the end of the rod, and you used a space-age material that weighs 420 g for the whole thing, and it could be so rigid as to not bend, then it would have to break instead. If, instead, it's designed to not break, then it must be able to bend. This is just how real materials work. But even if it does neither, or at most only bends a little, it is still true that as you push on the rod it would compress. So the tip wouldn't move at first. The pressure would move through the rod like a wave. You can't send information faster than light.

  • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • exactly lol

  • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • IDF coming in hot

  • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • Ask my guinea pig anything, and I will let her crawl on the keyboard to answer.

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  • She is perfect, give her a little kiss on the head for me

  • Ask my guinea pig anything, and I will let her crawl on the keyboard to answer.

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  • What is your favorite way to eat hay? Fresh, or pellets?

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  • Cinnamon is a dope desktop manager, too, good choices all around.

  • Kurdish rebels lose USAID funding for concentration camp

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  • I thought this was an onion piece at first

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  • There has been some push to group an acceptable use policy into the license itself, so for instance you can stipulate that it can't be used for military projects. I think that's a perfectly valid extension since there's already a mechanism in place to say you can't use it for commercial projects. Here are some licenses that try to achieve that: https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/

  • Iranian brickwork

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  • He was hiding in Iran all this time