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23hr ago
LEO is destroyed by Kessler syndrome
Atmospheric drag makes LEO Kessler proof. It is self cleaning.
Does a bunch of debris from an explosion in LEO cause Kessler syndrome? No. It deorbits within weeks thanks to atmospheric drag. Vacuum isn't much of a vacuum in LEO.
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1d ago
They are something like 20 miles off the coast. Counting from the edge of the city. The mouth of the Thames is a convenient choke point.
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1d ago
I endorse this proposal. Of course this will be Escape from New York and Escape from LA style in which anyone attempting to get in or out will be machine gunned including coastal defenses.
Years ago I read an article claiming that individual buildings in London have more revenue than the entire UK fishing fleet. I don't want to mangle a statistic, but supposedly for some narrow inclusion of what ships to count and by some economic measure this is true. I'd very much like to see these London buildings thrive with no imported out-of-town fish. I wonder if they make anything you can eat.
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2d ago
That was a fictional woman from the OT representing Jerusalem, not the Whore of Babylon from Revelation.
Ezekiel 23:
1 The word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.
3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.
4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors.
6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.
7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.
8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.
10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.
13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,
15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.
16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
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4d ago
with the (sort of hilarious) quirk that the nation's self-conception is largely defined around not being the US
Yes, and this is the fault of the War of 1812. The US's invasion of Canada had the perverse outcome of solidifying a Canadian identity as specifically not-American.
lol lmao the people on the ground don't give a shit where the water pump or the antiretrovirals come from, if they even know
I skimmed a few articles about asking USAID recipients where they think the aid is from. A vast supermajority have no idea.
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4d ago
that was the decisive argument against suffrage: half the women arguing in favor of it seemed to be utterly daft.
Agreed and let's also strip men of the vote for the same reason.
I think most voters are operating on vibes and social approval rather than policy. Policy based arguments are so orthogonal to their views that they can't be influenced by them.
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4d ago
One is here, then one is gone
Epicurus said something like this in his letter to Menoeceus: "Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not."
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4d ago
Hunter did crack in the white house while hooking up with Obama's daughter.
If anyone could please deliver the receipts for this I would be very appreciative.
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5d ago
you are ashamed of your use of AI and trying to lie to your reader
People are trying to coordinate a shaming campaign and I do not like such things. I am not ashamed but would-be-shamers deserve to be frustrated and confused in any way feasible. I advocate stripping off the watermarks or adding them to human generated text to make clear understanding practically impossible.
Third country deportation. Just dump them in a poor African country.
"But this guy isn't African." No worries, he'll learn to fit in.
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