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Phoenicianpirate

@ Phoenicianpirate @lemm.ee

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  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • Damn straight. I was an open office guy for a while, but word had a slight edge. Now that edge is gone and Libre Office is the clear winner. I will not be going back.

  • I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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  • It is actually astonishing it took so long for lead to be banned in the US. Even Ben Franklin railed against the use of lead in daily life and he was someone who lived and died in the 18th century.

  • I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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  • I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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  • Don't forget airbags have also killed people.

  • I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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  • And also you wash it down with radithor! The healthfully radioactive water.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • He does. His father lived a damn long time and his grandfather only died when he died due to the Spanish flu during and after WW1.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • The GOPers won't assassinate him. He is too useful for them to want him dead. Steve Bannon made it clear that his interest in Trump is solely due to his unique ability to command such a following.

    No one in the Republican party has even close to that kind of ability.

    And Trump has been honing that ability ever since he was a kid. Countless people hated him back then. As a child his classmates couldn't stand him, his teachers found him unbearable, and when he started in 'business' in the 70s writers of the period bashed him as a blowhard who can't deliver anything near his lofty claims.

    Yet for all that and despite a massive downturn and series of public humiliations in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, he somehow managed to cultivate the image of a successful businessman... despite having no business successes at all.

    He was the perfect personification of what the libertarian movement wanted... wanting 'not a politician, but a businessman' for president. They got what they wanted but still thought the results were great despite it being a complete derailment of the US's soft power in the world.

    But he will still have enough people doing his bidding and will follow him to hell and stay there that he will sadly be idolized by millions for many, many years to come. Even going so far as to be a Reagan like figure despite being far, far worse and having no redeeming qualities as a human being whatsoever.

    Kinda like Hitler, who held Germans in absolute contempt by the end of the war and refused to allow Berlin to be evacuated as the Soviets invaded. He and other top ranking Nazis even conceded that they were wrong about Germans being the master race and thus deserved the same kind of extermination that they had planned and were carrying out during the war.

    With that in mind it legit makes you wonder why the fuck anyone would still admire Hitler... but I did have a Nazi tell me that it is because he made them feel supported and special, so they followed him into death and suffering and they refused to believe he was anything other than their savior. He said the first part, I added the second.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • Not what I heard. But if that was the case then he was a worse shot than anticipated. He still came VERY close though.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • I think the Republicans personally hate him. His only use is as a charismatic rabble rouser. Without him they will lose the only guy truly able to get their movement together.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • He was using a .223.

    The rifle he used was a cheap, bottom of the line AR-15. The AR-15s are so popular and made by so many manufacturers that they have super low end and super high end. He had on the lower end.

    I do not know what kind of .223 he was using. But that round has been experimented with for so long that there is a load for every occasion. He probably didn't use decent ammo. You need something that is specifically designed for longer range, precision shooting. The rounds are much more expensive but you do get what you are paying for.

    He also used iron sights. No scope. And he was not known as a particularly good shot. It is actually surprising how close he came.

    BTW, the .223 would still have penetrated soft body armor even at that distance. Even military vests designed for combat zones don't stop rifle rounds until it is fired from a few hundred meters. It would not have stopped a .223 to the chest.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • Why would Israel want JFK dead?

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • In Australia that was the case until around 1987. No permits for rifles. Some tourist from Germany went to Australia, bought a rifle and went on a shooting spree.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • Even with soft body armor. A high velocity round like the .300 win mag or 6.5 creedmoor with boat tail JHPs would still zip through like nothing is there. The cavitation that those rounds make is devastating. Also the shooter tried to go for a follow up shot but missed. Double hitting the chest would have been more possible and that would be much more likely to do it.

    I am aware of the circumstances that president's and ex-presidents have in terms of medical support. All of his bodyguards are probably EMT level trained and they probably have a full on trauma team ready. But getting the head under those circumstances would have been tough.

    But then again... if he did have a proper target rifle and long range caliber... the head would have been easier to hit and maybe the wind wouldn't have blown it off course as much.

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  • Sadly there have been people who lived to be 99 or 100 while having remarkably unhealthy lifestyles.

  • How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

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  • Range - Trump was over 300 yards away from the shooter.

    He was around 150 yards. Not 300.

    But if he had a proper target rifle in a better long range caliber and a telescopic sight he would have had a much better chance of succeeding.

    At that distance and wind conditions a chest shot would have been better. But he aimed for the head.

  • I use VPNs, can I still make a throwaway on Reddit?

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  • You can. I did it. I even used temporary emails since I fucking hate Reddit. I deleted all my reddit accounts. Going forward I am thinking of using my 'real' email only in very few select applications and pretty much throwaway emails on everything else.

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • I can see some purpose in having a 'smart' toilet for monitoring health. Your pee and poo can have some value in seeing if there anything that needs to be dealt with medically. But even that is difficult to do. For one thing, it must still function ad a toilet first before anything. Meaning it uses the simple mechanical flushing and refilling and stopping when it is sufficiently full.

    However for this the analysis and storage of data must be 100% at the user's control. If they want it gone. It is gone. Irrecoverable. Any update must be done via USB or other connection. No wifi or internet.

    And even then the analysis can be off for obvious reasons. People need to scrub their toilets and some keep it clean by having one of those pucks in the tank that sanitize the water. All of these can interfere with any results out of a medical setting.

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • Adams's law.

  • Once-in-a-generation

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  • Same year here... fuck us, amirite?