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  • Trump says ‘no one knows what magnets are’ during bizarre Oval Office exchange

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  • Isn't there some question about the specifics of the mechanism of lift itself? Not like "this shouldn't be possible!" but more "it's easier to explain than it is to understand"

  • Walmart could lose $2B if SNAP goes dark

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  • Was it the head of the USDA withholding funds? I was under the impression that the administration said there were no funds, and then there was no way to release the funds, and then that it would be too complex to do so with any expediency.

    Why are they appealing the ruling, do you think?

  • Walmart could lose $2B if SNAP goes dark

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  • Is it? What is the more nuanced view?

  • Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Until Dems Drop Demands and Reopen Gov’t

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  • Can't wait to hear your plan

  • Billionaires are extremists

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  • This is why online discourse is so hard! Beyond the anonymity, which causes its own problems, the absence of nonverbal cues and lack of immediacy in feedback leaves a lot open to interpretation, so anything can be taken in any way.

    Opinions become accusations and idle musings become absolute certainty in the vacuum of supporting information that is text-only communication. I worry that the only real solution is for people to--like you--embrace the uncertainty and gracefully admit that their interpretation could be wrong. And it seems likely that the only way to collectively get to that point is to fuck it up a lot for a long time.

  • 'Yikes': Shock as new poll shows Dems with 'largest lead for either party' since 2018

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  • "Anecdata"!? I love it, where did you get it?

  • What is the most attractive quality in a person that instantly makes them desirable?

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  • I'm a non-lonely male and my answer is basically the same.

  • People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all.

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  • Yeah, the US and Europe do DST a couple weeks apart, presumably because of latitude differences but it could also be spite, I guess.

  • My parents like Pete Hegseth. How is this possible?

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  • The good old days where the people in charge could get away with anything, that's what it comes down to.

  • What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?

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  • Can you believe they lip synched on live TV!? What fraudsters!

  • Trump to US troops in Japan: ‘Go out and buy a Toyota’

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  • Lmao, with what money?

  • For a game called "Dungeons & Dragons" there is a shocking lack of both dungeons and dragons

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  • Like you said, it's been around for a while, so most of the actual dungeons have been picked clean and all we've really been left with over the last 30-40 years barely fit the legal definition!

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    “I know, right?” I don’t know, why are you asking me?

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  • Just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly, you're talking about an exchange like this?

    Person 1: It sure is hot today.Person 2: I know, right?

    Thinking about some other conversational ways to respond, I think saying, "It sure is, isn't it?" or, "Don't I know it!" feel pretty similar. I wonder what it is that makes us ask rhetorical questions like that.

  • Distraction Cabbage

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  • Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines Event, California Officials Say

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  • The way I understand it, yes, Point Detonating rounds operate exactly like the 40mm rounds, which are supposed to have a 10 meter arming distance. But they're not much more complicated than that.

    That being said, CVT technology was certainly classified during world war 2. I think it's even called "controlled variable timing" to make it sound more mechanical than it actually is. Interestingly, it's part of the reason people think that carrots make eyesight better.

    Hopefully I'm not misremembering, but when the Allies developed more miniaturized radar technology they wanted to keep it a secret from the Germans, and so started a rumor that the reason the Brits had such early warning for air raids was because the country was eating a lot of carrots due to rationing. Carrots, they said, are good for your eyes and can make them more acute.

    In reality we were using radar, not only for early warning, but also for our anti-aircraft artillery. From what I recall, using the new radar-equipped CVT rounds took AA fire from 5% accuracy to nearly 40% accuracy, because the fuzes were no longer hand set.

    I don't know how strong CVT "radar" is, but I imagine it's in the several yards range rather than some crazy distance that might make the round ineffective from long range. Actually, the "controlled" part is really just referring to the set arming distance of the fuze, which only needs to be long enough to get past any potential friendlies.

  • Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines Event, California Officials Say

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  • Ah, gotcha. Well, I appreciate the conversation regardless.

    CVT rounds in the Navy are a generalist round, kinda used for everything. The idea is indeed proximity, but it works against all sorts of metal stuff, (including ground targets) with a supposed 50 yard kill radius, but I never got to see any of them land, so I'm going off of what little I can remember of various manuals.

    Even the "dumb" point detonating fuzes worked on setback and spin, so the round actually has to be fired and in flight in order to arm.

  • USSS finds hunting stand with sight line of Trump's Air Force One in Florida

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  • You don't often see "US Secret Service" abbreviated like that. Maybe because calling them "the US SS" makes them sound like Nazi secret police.

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  • I've never done 155mm artillery, but I assume it's similar enough to naval artillery.

    What kind of fuzes do they normally shoot, do you know? I think we always shot controlled variable time fuzes (that have point detonating backups, of course) and I'm struggling to imagine what would make a round explode in midair like that. They basically require a strong electromagnetic return from a nearby metal object in order to initiate. But maybe 155mm rounds are different, I don't know.

    I don't think we ever shot over people's heads, and any time we did have to shoot over a road (out at Cherry Point) it was closed off, because shit happens. If we did have to, we would use ordnance approved for OverHead Fire (OHF), which is just a fancy way of saying "highly reliable."

    And even then what the fuck is the benefit here versus the very obvious and severe risks?

  • What youtuber do you think had the biggest downfall?

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  • It's so crazy that 10 million subscribers is huge by YouTube standards but practically meaningless in the larger context.