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There's a combination of physics models and statistics. And they're constantly updated with current measurements. They should get more accurate as the physics are modeled and measurements get more detailed. Of course we fired a lot of the people that do the modeling and shut down a bunch things doing the measurements.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Pretty sure the goal of the mystery meat is to make everyone too afraid to buy beef, and cause the price to drop due to lack of demand.

    It's the same strategy of randomly firing off a gun in a neighborhood you want to buy a house in.

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  • [–] 209 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Toddlers can cover the distance from the sidewalk to under a car tire faster than you can blink. Ill never judge a parent for having them on a leash.

    The muzzle is a bit much though.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago

    Pasquerella agreed that Canadian institutions face their own challenges to academic freedom as long as right-wing populist movements remain a global force. Still, she said her association is tracking increased interest among American researchers looking to Canada and to other countries like the U.K., Germany and Australia.

    It's not so much moving to Canada, as moving out of the US. It's been a building problem for decades now.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I should add that given the details it's not entrapment. At the same time though, there are thousands of flock cameras, and somehow the cops knew this particular spot for a fake one would lure someone in? There's no telling if they instigated it in some way not mentioned. And the charges they filed are very likely to fall apart anyway, because it wasn't a flock camera, it was a cheap decoy, and felonies are based on actual value, not imaginary. It also may not have been authorized to be installed. So the defendant could legally have been removing vandalism from a pole.

    This is why you can't really adjudicate from a news story, there's a million unknowns, and often weird technical details to laws that aren't well known to the public. Top that off with most news information coming from defense lawyers giving an intentionally biased account of events, because the police don't just call the press most of the time. And when they do, it's usually to give their own damning version of events.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    Isn't this the same state that had a naked knife wielding guy get in a fight with a naked knife wielding guy?

    Nope wait, that was Seattle, my bad whole different state.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    There's really no such thing as a totally accurate voting system. It's a whole rabbit hole of variations, all with various trade offs. The stated goal is to create an accurate representation of the vote with an easily understandable voting method. It's easy to see which is more accurate just by the chart, but understandable can be debated. Which is how the US ended up with the worst possible solution.

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    Saw a post mentioning an old Scottish gentleman that had saved a bottle of whiskey to drink the day Margaret Thatcher died. And I'm quite sure he enjoyed the drink.

    So my question to the community, what's the best drink for the day any major politician finally kicks the bucket? Should it be your own favorite spirit, or something to denote the character, and vitriol, of the deceased? Something sweet to enjoy the day, or harsh to remember the bitterness of their character?

    I'm trying to plan a shelf for my dining room. Each bottle labeled for who they're waiting for.

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