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Wow yes I see DHS helicopters in DC all the time with nothing at all on the map, let alone ADS-B. Even the Air Force and Marines show up as TIS-B or MLAT often. But certain DHS helicopters are basically never visible at all.
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Don't forget #N6798! Another DHS white with blue stripe.
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Thank you! I was trying to search with no luck to figure out what a sky crane was doing here!
Just discovered you made it over to Bluesky. So glad you're here!
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We regulate broadcast television and radio because they use a limited public resource: radio spectrum. I don't believe we regulate print media.
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Thought you were just a big fan of January 7 till I googled
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When your 2nd Google result is a full article on you by the SPLC 😬
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@kcg.bsky.social
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Yeah I thought we only made significant progress on finding the answer to the Fermi paradox 😬
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What objects were built outside Earth? 🤔
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I don't think it's supposed to be personalized
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His portrayal in The Muppet Christmas Carol was spot on.
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Apparently it gets worse too! I knew about the octopus but thought it was an outlier! www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibl...
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Getting through the movie
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Just did The Family Stone Challenge the other week. Got to 36:44 in before we had to stop. A new PR!
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Thank you so much! As a non-researcher this has been hard for me to find in my amateur googling.
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I've also had trouble figuring out exactly how many deployed ICBMs both sides had in the early days (i.e. if the Cuban missile crisis went wrong what would that look like?)
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Do you have numbers for the far left of that graph? I've often wondered about exactly how many bombs we had in each year of the 40s or early 50s. It comes up when people talk about various hypotheticals like Macarthur's alleged nuclear hawkism.
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I'd like to be able to switch back to home without refreshing the feed. I think there needs to be a version where the refresh is more explicit and separate from other functions (like "go home" or "go to the top").
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Handcrafted PGP-encrypted emails from their Tails machine in a bunker
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Oops, forgot the link thebulletin.org/premium/2022...
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But all the ones I've heard of, regardless of fuel, are multi-stage. Trident, Minuteman III, and Russia's two most common ICBMs are three stages (and solid fueled).
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According to this, it looks like the majority of Russia's deployed ICBMs are solid-fueled. Their 3rd most common missile, though, is liquid fueled (and makes up 13% of their missiles).
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Fueling? Aren't modern ICBMs solid fueled?
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DC and, from what I've heard, Chicago are up there too. Arizona is an honorable mention. And the Maine flag that was just narrowly defeated in a referendum is all over, at least in coastal areas.
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Could it be? In the year of our lord 2024?
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The most reliable measure of flag design I know of is the number of people who put it on things (and themselves) of their own volition.
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One of my favorite features of this app. The absolute zen-like peace I feel when I switch back to a feed and it's in the same spot I left it.
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And a Merry Chrysler to us all
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Okay I finally found a video that actually gives a good amount of detail, plus it covers ActivityPub a bit too: youtu.be/wJBCpzM1VfM
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Oh, haha thanks, I actually just watched that one. It's a good intro but I still don't know what AppViews, Relays, etc are. I guess I'll have to actually sit down and *read* instead of listening to something as I do chores? Unacceptable 😄
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Are any of these a primer/overview/intro?
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I'm sure this could be abused with passive aggression but I feel like it could be genuinely useful often enough to justify it. It's usually easier for the person who noticed the mistake to do the fix than to tell the person who wrote the message, then they figure out how to fix it.
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He's given SpaceX hundreds of millions of $
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Thank you, this was an incredible list to read, even before I found out that Pokey the Penguin is still kicking.
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Another fun L of his
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Ah yes, the Gutmann encoding
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I don't want to be That Guy but I used to enjoy this "cool fact" until I realized it was wrong, and I felt lied to. So, an FYI for those interested.
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The time travel is very cool, but the meme that some of these stars are already dead isn't true. Most stars we can see with our eyes are a few hundred light years away at most, and stars live for millions of years at least.
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I think because it's a proxy for cost per "flop" that's easier to measure. For instance, actual flops aren't what's most important for everyday tasks. Measuring real-life useful performance is very tricky, and I'm sure measuring actual cost is similarly hard.
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Does that mean this man has spent almost $200 million in his life?
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Are the rings really hot?
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I always liked this idea, but others have tried making apps that let you make comments on any webpage and the consensus seems to be that it was a mistake. I guess it was a magnet for abuse? Kinda like quote tweets I guess?
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That was you? I appreciate having a QR code generator built into software I already have. I also appreciate just encoding the text I enter and not a tracking proxy. (Also I enjoy spotting those dinos.)
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I have to know why you decided to sign and date every post
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Fingers hate this one weird trick!
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Holy and holey!
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I don't think Firefox can do that on its own. There's other browsers pushing standards.