mkwt
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- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 4 days ago:
NCD is leaking again.
- Comment on (Laser) Printer go brrrr 5 days ago:
Are the kids still printing things on paper for class these days?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Clearly not, because $country did all this shit, and capitalism did not collapse, somehow…this time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Fun fact: the Big Three US American credit unions have a time horizon of seven years. This is set by law. This fucks me, because all my credit accounts are older than that. But the seven year horizon is good for this guy and folks who have declared bankruptcy.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 3 weeks ago:
That is letter edh, or eth. It’s a consonant in Old English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic that makes the th sound in “the.” There’s another letter thorn that makes the th sound in “thin.” Notice the difference between the two sounds.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 4 weeks ago:
I have a relative that was in Nam and wears that hat, but he claims he was POG. I have another relative who lied about his age to get into Nam, who definitely was in the shit, and he doesn’t wear the hat.
- Comment on Juneteenth 5 weeks ago:
Before the 13th amendment, Lincoln formally ended slavery in the Union with the Emancipation Proclamation.
But even before that, from 1861, the Union Army made it a policy to seize slaves that it captured as contraband (or prize) of war, and then effectively emancipate then.
In general, even after the emancipation proclamation, slaves did not get actual freedom until the Union forces reached them.
So it was a complicated and messy process.
- Comment on The city is so lively 1 month ago:
You can ride the Paris Metro in Paris, TX:
- Comment on Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan has a major obstacle: Physics 1 month ago:
I think there are some recycled concepts from Star Wars. Some other parts are specific upgrade projects that DoD has been wanting to do anyway, that are probably worthwhile. I think the remaining chunk will be shoveling money to grifters for pie in the sky Real Genius projects that never work.
I haven’t seen anyone seriously talking about actually using Iron Dome components for North American air defense. That’s a good thing. The geography and threat profile is completely different.
- Comment on 🤙 hang ten 🤙 2 months ago:
Tri bikes usually have clip-in pedals so humans can do this too.
- Comment on i get most of my news something like that 2 months ago:
It’s more like the Pope clung on to life just for the opportunity to insult JD Vance. Once that was accomplished, there was no additional reason to stick around.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure nobody registers their personal smartphone and laptop every time they leave the US for a vacation.
I agree with you on this, but CBP is certainly within their legal rights to interrogate you on the origins of your personal electronics, and they can make a determination that your stuff is subject to duty if it’s over the limit and they don’t believe you are reimporting.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For residents of the United States the duty free limit when returning is 800 dollars worth of stuff. I believe that’s every thirty days. You usually have to answer whether you exceed this limit in the declaration.
So you just go to Canada, buy the thing, unpack it from the packaging, and pretend like its just personal items. Just like a smartphone.
If tariffs become a big thing, this will definitely happen more, but it will also get a lot more scrutiny from customs and well.
AFIAK, border agents usually don’t ask if you bought your phone in the US or from outside, they shouldn’t ask about other personal electronics, right?
Stuff that you exported and reimported for personal or business use, but not for resale, is exempt from duty with no dollar limits. If you want documented proof that you are reimporting, you can register the stuff at a customs office in the United States before you leave.
- Comment on Getting your wish 3 months ago:
Move fast and break things.
- Comment on Getting your wish 3 months ago:
This YouTube channel is doing a great job of covering the engineering-related testimony from the Coast Guard board of inquiry.
Lots of details on hoop stresses, strain gauges, carbon fiber layup, dome window design, and of course engineers getting their technical objections overruled for cost and schedule reasons.
- Comment on History never repeats itself but it rhymes 3 months ago:
In the 1830s they were doing that shit in the southeast: Georgia, Carolinas, Alabama, and so on. They didn’t really get going clearing the “west” until after the war and into the twentieth century. Geronimo surrendered for the last time in the 1880s, and he died in 1909 as a POW at Ft. Sill. Oklahoma had gained statehood only two years before, in 1907.
- Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 3 months ago:
Will this new law also apply in Western District of Texas, Amarillo Division?
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, it seems that way unless we can find another rock headed this way.
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 3 months ago:
They downgraded it again after taking more observations.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 3 months ago:
I am well aware that Apollo 10 did not deliver shitbags to the moon.
But 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 did, if they defecated at all on the moon, leave it behind per checklist. There are 96 inventoried bags on the moon, but it is not recorded which, if any, are filled with what. It would have been easier to avoid on the earlier missions, which spent less time on the surface.
At least one astronaut claims he avoided a bowel movement for the entire mission duration.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 3 months ago:
Facts about this:
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Bags, with contents, were left on board the lower descent stages of the lunar modules. They remain on the moon to this day.
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There was at least one incident on Apollo 10 where feces escaped and was floating around the cabin.
Part of the radio transcript:
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- Comment on Meaning of the phrase “Hang dead.”? 4 months ago:
The two words by themselves are not very good English, or any slang idiom I know about.
I agree this sounds threatening, however.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 4 months ago:
If only I could just turn off the chromatic aberration in my eyeglasses.
- Comment on Equations can't hurt your feelings 4 months ago:
The worst is when one of the two questions is an open problem.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 4 months ago:
Guy looks kinda like he’s wearing a jacket with a gap at the waist. That would totally not work. You can’t have a gap that lets air out. The Apollo suits were one piece designs; two piece with a hard shell locking waist ring came later.
We’re talking nowadays about compression suits that are only inflated around the head and maybe some upper body. Those would help a lot with mobility, but nothing like that has been deployed yet.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 months ago:
Even if you never plan to return, you are still (legally) on the hook to file a 1040-NR form with the IRS every year.
There’s a foreign earned income tax credit: this reduces your US tax bill by any income tax you paid to your residence country. For many expat working stiffs, this means they don’t have to pay anything to Uncle Sam, but they still have to file a tax return.
- Comment on what sources can I use to compare the armed forces of the world? Focus on America, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Japan, both Koreas 4 months ago:
Comparing national militaries is a complicated and tricky business. I would like to recommend Perun on YouTube. Usually pretty good defense economic analysis in digestible one-hour PowerPoint presentations. Some comparative material.
- Comment on "Me Ug! Ug feel ACADEMIC!" 5 months ago:
Better known for other work.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 5 months ago:
Ah, yeah okay. I forgot that Valve the privately held company doesn’t have to break out any numbers.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 5 months ago:
Did steam deck sales actually drop, as in the number of sold units went down? Or did the Steam Deck’s relative ranking on some leaderboard drop to a lower ranking?
