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Navy fighter jet crashes near Mount Rainier; 2 crew members missing
  • i assume the ejection seats have gps tracking.

    I feel like having a detectable signal that an enemy would be able to use to track an ejected pilot behind enemy lines isn't something they would design into a warplane.
    Even if the contents of the signal were encrypted, they could still track the unreadable signal to it's source.

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    Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.
  • I disagree, I remember how Fox totally ignored Bush choking on a pretzel or pushing on a pull door.
    They protect their own and they'll defend anyone with an R next to their name.
    If Trump ran as a Democrat, do you really think conservative media would ignore his obvious sundowning and pants shitting?

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    North Koreans deployed alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, sources say
  • We've had Russians, North Koreans, and Indians fighting in Ukraine with Chinese supplied weapons against Ukrainians armed with American, Polish, German, British, and other European weapons in a war that's been going on for nearly two years.

    Can we call it a World War yet?

    Or are we just going to refuse to use the word until nukes are dropped?

    We can also throw in the Middle Eastern theater for good measure too if that's not enough.

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    How do you differentiate between knowledge and belief?
  • There should be absolutely no room for any kind of personal distinction between the two.
    Knowledge can be proven.
    Faith/belief cannot be proven.

    If you can prove something is real then you cannot believe in it.
    I don't believe the moon is real because I have knowledge that it is indeed real, and I can prove it by telling you to just look at it.
    I cannot factually know that God doesn't exist because I cannot prove that using any kind of experiment or test, so I cannot "know" that it's true no matter how strong my belief in that statement is.

    Any "personal definition" of either of those is factually wrong. If we could all walk around with our own personal meanings behind concepts we wouldn't have a functional language.

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    Melania Trump defends abortion rights in her upcoming book
  • I'm willing to bet that she didn't write her own book, and she probably never read what she paid someone else to write for her either.
    It's going to be hilarious watching it blow up in her face lol.

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    White House believes Iran is preparing imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel
  • The same things were said by the Ukrainian government just before the very obvious Soviet Russian invasion began.
    I believe at the time it was generally accepted that it was to keep the Ukrainian citizens calm because having to deal with civil unrest in the form of widespread panic would only serve to complicate the incoming invasion response.

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    Interstate is closed outside Atlanta as residents evacuate due to a chemical plant fire
  • The fire ignited when a sprinkler head malfunctioned around 5 a.m. Sunday at the BioLab plant in Conyers, Rockdale County Fire Chief Marian McDaniel told reporters. The malfunction caused water to mix with a water-reactive chemical, producing a plume of chemicals.

    It seems like a pretty fucking big oversight to put a water based fire suppression system in a building that stores water-reactive chemicals.

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    Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf?
  • Placebo effect?
    Maybe you got a touch of food poisoning one of the first times and now you subconsciously associate it with date nights?

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    catharsis
  • The plan was the bomb Germany with it first, Japan only got the bombs because we weren't going to not use them once we had them.

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    To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US?
  • I live in rural Ohio and I drive about 40 miles (65 km) round trip a day just getting to and from work, and that's pretty average for a rural area.

    The nearest grocery store and back is about a 15 mile (25 km) round trip.

    In the rural areas, which account for most of the land area of the US, things are far enough apart that it makes it impossible to survive without a vehicle.

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  • I get it, Biden is old and that's a problem, but why doesn't anyone seem to have a problem with the fact that Trump is almost the same age, has 34 felonies, raped at least 2 women, went to Epstein's Island 11 times, sexualized his own daughter, stole classified documents, aligned himself with Xi and Putin, and can't remember common names?

    Is all of that really better than being 2½ years older than he is right now?

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    My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.

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    If we're supposed to be able to understand math as easily as a language, we should be able to read it from left to right like a language. Yes, I know there's lots other languages that go right to left or top to bottom, but the point is you don't have to go jumping around the page or sentence figuring out which word should be read first based on which characters it contains. We put the first word first, then the second word second, etc. Why can't we just write equations in the order they were meant to be solved?

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    I moderate a very small community but I'd like to be able to pin posts and have access to other general moderator tools like removing posts/comments and locking threads. It doesn't seem that I can do any of that with Connect and it's cumbersome at best to try to do it on a mobile browser. Are there any plans to implement mod tools? Or is there a setting I missed somewhere that enabls them?

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    I've been seeding the torrents that I download since the old days of Limewire, but I've always download and re-shared by seeding. But a few months ago I couldn't find a set of audiobooks I'd been looking for with the original narrators from the 90s. I finally found a set on CD on eBay and coverted those to mp3 and loaded them on my phone, but it occurred to me that others might also be looking for a complete version of the series too and wanted to share that media. Apologies if it's an obvious answer that I somehow missed.

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    www.businessinsider.com Reddit CEO warns employees not to wear Reddit swag in public as users revolt

    In a memo to employees, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman cautioned them not to wear branded gear in public. He also said the mass user backlash "will pass."

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