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Sport fencing, as the article says, is gender-neutral -- bigger person may have more reach, but smaller person is quicker, it evens out. The only fencing where there's a gender advantage would be actual combat/dueling with real swords. And in that case, do as Indiana Jones did.

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Something something why am I not surprised?

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@joanjettofficial.bsky.social

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The boys want to be her, the girls want to be her I wanna be her and so do you.

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As a person who grew up on fluoridated water and later had fluoride treatments: the only ill effect is stripes on my teeth. Fluorine as not-the-ide-salt is bad, HF acid/gas or pure F2, are, but in those cases the symptoms are ... rather immediate. (HF rots your bones in hours, F2 burns water)

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Victor was the monster in the story.

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The only thing the baddies in WWII did right was look cool. The Wermacht combat uniform was more complicated to make and wear than USMC dress blues, whereas every sewing machine in the US and Britain was cranking out combat uniforms that looked and wore like sturdy pajamas. The tanks were similar.

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kylo ren implies a kylo stimpy

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Dang and here I am using dead people's credit cards like a chump.

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today I am Lucy

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Something something the only medical thing he's qualified to speak on is that .22LR can actually kill a man. Like, you really want 9mm or .45 to drop a dude, but RFK Sr. proved that little bullets CAN do the job. Also, huh, Sirhan Sirhan is still alive. Neat.

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I'm an actual retired journalist. But because print media is dead (newspapers were circling the drain when I got into the business 25 years ago) I shitpost here instead.

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Science moment of the day: Oil isn't dinosaur juice, it's plankton. Hence why it's usually found under salt domes -- the sea dried up, and the dead little things under the salt became oil. Sinclair lied to you! (but does have a cute mascot) Coal, otoh, is from former swamps.

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At best, they're the equivalent of Heck Cattle, where they selectively bred cattle with certain old traits to make a kinda-aurochs-looking moo-thing. Actually the Heck cattle are probably more accurate, being of at least the same genus as the thing they're trying to recreate.

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So I decided to watch Gracepoint, the American remake of Broadchurch (the latter I watched when it was new, somehow missed the remake). Lol the IMDB overlay on Amazon have Tennant's character's name from the original, rather than the name in this show. Also, his accent ... is weird.

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Cf. people saying "why can't re just rebuild the Saturn V to go back to the Moon?" Even if they can't find the plans, it'd be easy enough to reverse-engineer, there's a full flight-ready stack around the various museums. Problem is, we don't have the guys that know how to /build/ the things.

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I had a friend who liked Real Genius way too much. I thought it was pretty good, but she insisted it was the pinnacle of cinema. Heat is still my favorite Val Kilmer movie, though. He's not a lead, p. far in the "supporting" cast, but his character does kick off the GOAT movie shootout sequence.

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I might go to hang with my BFF next month to see the Brookfield. MA city-turned-fleamarket. Alas we're both broke as all hell. If y'all want to donate to The Cause ... I don't actually know how to set that up, but I'll look into it if anybody wants to.

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Was "some men just want to watch the world burn" really only put into those words in the recent-ish Batman movie? (this century) bc it ttly applied to Generals Douglas MacArthur and Thomas Power.

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Actually at that point just fuckin' turn the second key and burn it down, we deserve it.

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I had a 3rd point/not-quite-joke, but it fell out of my brain. But if it comes to ACWII, half the airplanes with nukes are in Minot and the other half are in Bossier, the ICBMs can't go straight up, and there's movies about missile boats with conflicting orders, hopefully 1 of the 2 keyholders ...

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Like, the Vichy Govt rolled, but the Navy and half the Army fought to the bitter end/legged it to the free countries, I'd expect most American field officers would do the same. Kinda wanna see how it shakes out in Texas, since we gots half the tanks.

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"Following orders" isn't a defense if it goes to trial, not following orders gets you shot. So ... do what he says and get hanged at The Hague or don't and die honorably in protest, I guess? I kinda want to see him put his army where his mouth is and see how many just don't. cf France in WWII.

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For my military folks: I've had a lot of friends who were in the military, and my father and on of his brothers wore the Green Beret (said uncle was a MAJ, and probs did slight war crimes). Just remember, the oath is to obey LAWFUL orders. Not like it matters.

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And we thought "Don't ask, don't tell" was bad. I ... don't think The Orange One realizes he's doing himself dirty by kicking out so many people that signed up to fight for their country and follow his (lawful) orders ...

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"The other meaning of 'bat'." [high-fives fellow baseball stick enthusiast Canonically Bi Harley Q., &c.]

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I'm all about the sentiment, but not gonna lie, that's a derpy-lookin' gun.

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Back to fun and games. And dead babies bringing down the life expectancy. (Ppl in ancient times didn't die at 35, that was just the average, because 3/5 kids died by 5 and 1/5 made it past 12, dragged down the average, if you made it to 15 you'd probably make it to 50-60 barring war, famine, &c.)

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They should've made a movie about Shakespeare co-starring Anne Hathaway (the actor the same age as me) as ... well, you get the joke or you don't.

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Something something youtuber/US Cavalry tank guy LTC Nick Moran, aka The Chieftain, once said "If it's farther than the muzzle of the gun, we're getting in and driving."

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hear hear

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