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It did when they came up with Homeland Security post 911. Felt very much like they were brainstorming and someone piped up with "no, we can't use Fatherland, let's go with Homeland instead."

Ditched Plex a couple weeks ago after I got tired of them pushing ads and streaming more and more when all I want is a home media server. There are plenty of ad driven streaming services that offer everything Plex does, and they have better interfaces for that task. Jellyfin would have been my...

Yeah, people seem to (purposefully) forget that NASA is an acronym, and that the first "A" is for "Aeronautics".

Ballots only work if the government honors them, which the Republicans, and especially Trump, have already shown they have no intention of doing so. Meanwhile history is full of people defeating more technologically advanced armies. Apaches require fuel, deny it to them. Attack the supply...

Potatoes.

59. I was talking about the coverage, not the cost. I lost my VGLI when I was unemployed for a couple years and decided I'd rather eat. I haven't looked at it since, although I probably should if only to spare my son the cost of burying my decrepit ass.

The military astronauts have Servicemans Group Life Insurance (SGLI), which I believe is currently $200k, and the premiums are the same whether you are a cook or a pilot. Ex-military likely have Veterans insurance, VGLI, which is $100k (or maybe 150, I haven't looked at my policy lately)...

That would be because the company that Louisiana uses as a "safe" verification system is owned by the same company that owns PornHub. I live in Louisiana; the hypocrisy and corruption here knows no bounds. The only reason we don't make the news as much as Florida or Texas is because we have a...

I didn't say they were going to be stolen by smart people. It's America; if it's not bolted down someone will try to steal it. Sometimes if it IS bolted down (a lot of ATMs ended up in the back of pickups before they were surrounded by concrete pillars.)

You think too small. These things are gonna end up in the back of pickup trucks.

Range. There are certain AM stations that are licensed to be overpowered so that they can be used for emergencies, and which can be heard multiple states away. Can't do that with FM.

20 years in the Army, I was approached twice. The first was in the US, pretty sure they were some right wing militia; second was in Europe, by the IRA. Reported both of course. My background was demolitions and EOD, so I assume they wanted someone to build bombs. And I agree, there is zero...

I have one for 90mm Recoilless Rifle. :) Combat Engineers still had them for a couple years after I enlisted.

Disclaimer: I'm ex-EOD (Army), but it's been a while. This was my thought as well. It would be trivially easy to gut a USB drive and solder a blasting cap to the power rails. Or if you only had the RDX you could easily build a "blasting cap" out of a USB drive. They aren't complex. 5 volts...

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I've always found that to be a fundamental flaw in the "theory of intelligent design": it assumes, all evidence to the contrary, that the designer was benevolent.

What really sucks is I cook a mean duck, crispy skin, nice and juicy, but I have NO idea what it actually tastes like. It's all by recipe and thermometer. Friends and family keep asking me to make it though. Maybe they just do it to torture me.

Republicans seem to have a fascination with walls.

I stand corrected, thank you. For the majority of my life I had to avoid the vaccine. It's only been the last two or three years I've been able to take it, and I'm still waiting on the verdict on a few other vaccines I really need. Have to get as much in me as possible before my immune system...

Wow, how horrible. I'm allergic to bird proteins, vaccines or antibiotics created using eggs will kill me. I mean I can't eat chicken, turkey, or even fried rice (because it's made with chicken broth). But wait, I had a flu shot last week! <checks pulse> Nope, I'm still alive. But how...