qubex.bsky.social
Italian/British, dissatisfied holder of a degree in the dismal science, elder millennial already bordering on senility, lapsed hacker, concerned human being.
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It’s kind of weird to watch an Administration ignore the first Amendment and half of the electorate flirt with disregarding the 22nd Amendment because the bloke promises not to weaken the second Amendment.
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I’d never seen one in Milan until about two months ago, now I’m seeing several a day with numberplate prefixes like GX, GY, and GZ. Tesla have really shot themselves in the foot.
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Oops somebody did a fascism. 🫢
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Donald II is a bit too on the nose for a country whose founding principle was the rejection of monarchy.
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Still it’s really quite amusing to find Wilhelm Canaris and others recurring in all these plots and plans and attempted coups. Talk about hating your boss.
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It annoys me deeply to file things away in that broad category “we’ll never know”.
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Yeah I think the key point here is that Czechoslovakia is so far inland from any of the allies’ borders that a military operation would’ve involved attacking Germany, not specifically defending Czechoslovakia. Still the plot makes for interesting alternative history.
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Said otherwise, you’d think that a good grasp of history would be necessary to claim oneself to be a ‘historian’.
You don’t have to even slave over books. Just cast your memory back to the Lettuce Reign of Liz Truss.
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Though apparently unknown to foreign governments at the time, there was a pretty robust plan to ouster Hitler if war broke out over Czechoslovakia called the Oster Plot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oster_c...). On the other hand looking at a map it’s pretty clear that access to the region was ‘difficult’.
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She’s a conservative and it’s only been around as a major concept since the Magna Carta of 1215 so we really should give her a pass on this newfangled and fundamental stuff. It’s also not like it’s relevant to her job description and duties in any way.
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If you look carefully on Google Earth there’s a tennis court. Maybe they even have a bingo and a singing hall.
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Thank God the Vatican doesn’t compete or else we’d have two archenemies to beat.
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The Expanse
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“Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane”—that’s not how the First Amendment works, Shitler of the Turd Reich. You don’t get to tell people what they must say.
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Might’ve well sent them postcards.
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(As my literature professor would’ve said, those scare quotes are an example of foreshadowing.)
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Don’t skip over the part about how the pilot ‘controlled’ the engines’ throttle and thrust.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni...
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I didn’t know sandbags were involved but I look at the photo of the thing and think to myself “well there’s your problem”. It doesn’t seem to require dislocations in the centre of mass in order to become a hazard to all onboard and in the general vicinity, but maybe I’m being mean.
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Now that I’ve tracked down a Wikipedia article I’m reassured by the assertion that all involved escaped unscathed, and a bit surprised to read that some reconstructions of what caused the aircraft to stall and fall tail first is thought to be the movement of untethered sandbags simulating passengers
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A Caproni Ca.60, a product of my ingenious countrymen. I’ve always said we’re best sticking to sports cars.
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I really want to build one of those with Lego but I’ve come to the conclusion it can’t be done with currently available
parts, mainly because Lego seems to only make components that make sense.
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I don’t even know what it’s called so I can’t search for it but yeah, that tracks with my intuition.
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Maybe Russia will decide to stay in the ranking by throwing in a Tupolev 144 bedecked like a Parisian bordello and within six months the problem will be solved.
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Ah, ye olde self-propelled lesson in metal fatigue.
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Eyeballing it: lots of lift in the wrong places, very weird dynamic loads, and a dearth of control surfaces, particularly vertical ones. Probably impossible to govern even if it did somehow get airborne in any significative sense of the term.
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It’s a frickin’ podracer. Anakin’s in that thing.
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Reminds me of how sometimes I ballpark things like “roughly thirty years is a bit more than ten thousand days” and people stare at me in disbelief, or “you’ll experience about four thousand Mondays throughout your life”.
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Basically you’re saying it needs to be scaled not proportionally but according to the utility of money, and upon close reflection of your argument I am in agreement.
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The Thinking Machines laptop.
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Not at all true. Only fixed-value fines suffer from this problem. It is pretty easy to make fines effective deterrents across all income ranges by specifying them in terms of a proportion of annual income or wealth. Incidentally scaling fines also inherently protects against inflationary effects.
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That’s so common that there’s more than a term for it: “plausible deniability” and “no paper trail”.
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That’s the Enterprise-D’s battle bridge.
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I never mentioned a detection system. I’m just curious. Did this represent a deliberate node to evolving designs in-universe or was it a case of graphics and prop guys taking different paths and not synching up?
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London is only displaced to Bristol. Comparatively accurate.
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When did the Death Star go from having the superlaser on the equator to having it in the northern hemisphere?
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It’s always bugged me that the control room for the deflector dish is implied to be on the leading edge ahead of the deflector dish itself. Kirk had to go deep into the bowels of the ship which ended up being adjacent to the outermost edge of the hull. It’s just not logical.
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It’s almost as if he feels compelled to explicitly label them ‘centrist’ to distract from the fact they’re not.
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He’s insane.
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Considering he’s a Canadian citizen, this is a wild comment to make.
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youtu.be/hYhnqONnQVE?...
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It’s the modern equivalent of gibbetting enemies of the crown or lining the road with crucified slaves.
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Well, maybe in the future wheelchairs (or hover-chairs)can go up more aggressive inclines and maybe the gravity on Starship vessels is less than Terran gravity (to provide a happy medium for species from various M-class worlds).
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This is indubitably the morally correct thing to do.
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I had that book back in the day and I have to say the Bonaventura with its flared radiation shield is so much more beautiful than the Phoenix that we got in First Contact.
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To be fair, as an Italian, we shouldn’t have caved to the request… so she’s kind of right, for all the wrong reasons.
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As an Italian, I’m ashamed we caved to this demented request.
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On that date that shall live in indifference, nothing fucking happened.