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NATO apologism
  • Well, yeah. Kinda like how most .tv domains don't really have anything to do with Tuvalu, or .io with the British Indian Ocean Territory, etc.

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    NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space
  • The object doesn't absorb their mass, but rather their energy (which admittedly can be equated to a mass via a factor of c^2, but that's not actually what's happening). The change in momentum that results from a photon hitting you isn't caused by a change in m, it comes from a change in v. If mass were the quantity being transferred, solar sails wouldn't work to move anything; they would just sit there and get more massive as photons hit them.

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    A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost
  • Yes, because now you've added the critical qualifier "who have ever been on the ballot". Without that, it doesn't hold.

    No black woman has ever won the election or lost the election, because the set of black women who have ever been on the ballot before is empty.

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    A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost
  • Not really, since in most (all?) U.S. presidential elections to date there has not been a black woman on the ballot. I think there's an important semantic difference between losing and not winning. The equal but opposite statement to the OP would be that a black woman has never won the election, which is true.

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    Implementing RFC 3339 shouldn't really be that hard...
  • I too was similarly confused by the original comment at first, but I think they're referring to the fact that 6pm GMT is 7pm in London during the summer (BST), and 6pm in London the rest of the year. It seems OP and "them" are both correct in that hypothetical exchange.

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    In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?
  • In short? Medical debt. Emergency rooms will treat you, and in some cases might offer discounted rates for patients without insurance, but at the end of the day you are still responsible for the bill, however large it may be.

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