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#FBPE 💚 Greenpeace, and Green Party member who 💙 works for the NHS, is committed to ♻️ recycling and EVs 🔋, loves electronics, music 🎸🔊, synths 🎹 and repairing vintage tech, 🇪🇺 Europhile and 🇺🇦 supporter
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But Reagan wanted SDI in 1983, so this seems to be cyclic? Presidents think they can protect their country with an exotic bit of technology which only serves to disrupt the détente. Though Ronald did begin the discussions about the START Treaty at about the same time; maybe SDI was an encouragement.
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If the US spend billions on Golden Dome, won't the other side just design a weapon that avoids going into space?
Like an autonomous, kamikaze, submarine, loitering drone with a nuke on board, and sail it up the Potomac?
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Utter madness. Where is Congress? The Judiciary?
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It seemed to have its undercarriage still down - which I would think was unusual a minute into a flight.
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As long as we will be able to vote with the bloody thing.
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Baton rounds are not intended for use at close quarters like that. People have died from being struck by these things. (see "Death, injury and disability from kinetic impact projectiles in crowd-control settings" from the BMJ)
For what ? Being a journalist ? Were they reporting from LA or Gaza?
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I started using Droitwich when it was still 200KHz for Radio 4 ... had to look up when it changed (1988).
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For decades, Radio 4 on 198KHz was the reference standard that I used to calibrate instruments and digital clocks I made.
It will be a loss, no doubt but I guess that these days, we have already moved to other methods, by and large.
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Buy him the ability to see himself as others see him.
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It's like seeing time suddenly run backwards. Fuck you all; I thought we as a species would have learned something by now, but instead we seem determined to repeat the mistakes of the past.
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I turned over just in time to watch Jeff Beck playing Nessun Dorma on his strat. It's like the definition of sublime.
The contrast could not be more extreme.
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A guy called Thad Troy is saying the gifted 747 is probably a Trojan 'horse' ?
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This 'free' aircraft comes without any obligations?
TANSTAAFL
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Credit: @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Speed.
AKA amphetamines.
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Ameri-chicken and beef shouldn't be hard to spot, since it is bound to be almost completely obscured by a US flag on the packaging. They are not going to be subtle.
You could always take the approach I took a few years ago, which was to be vegetarian.
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Pakistan claims to have shot down least 5 Indian aircraft including three Rafale jets, a MiG-29, and one Su-30. This would have been done using the Chinese-made J-10Cs.
The J-10Cs was long believed to be a paper tiger, if confirmed it'll boost its global sales from China.
#PakistanIndianWar
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Having failed to learn from the UK and Brexit, you're now going to copy Liz Truss (FORMER UK prime minister) and Kwasi Kwarteng (FORMER UK chancellor) who thought they could rely on pixie dust and wishful thinking to support their economic experiment.
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Last eye test for me, they used an autorefractor which lacks the romance of that wonderful machine. However it was quick and accurate.
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Need to make the figures look about 10Kg lighter for one thing.
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I'm lost.
Is our favourite rocket scientist asking the WSJ to print the retraction to the story before publishing the story itself?
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If Russia completely overwhelm Ukraine in the future and US companies can't continue to mine there, they'll probably sue Ukraine for breach of contract.