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dead industry with the last indoor mall built in the US in 2006

Well that's straight up false.

The American Dream mall in East Rutherford, NJ opened in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_Meadowlands

Literally the entire population of New Jersey would revolt. Everyone's doing a minimum of 10 over unless there's traffic.

Luna 9 used an airbag system, not a soft landing system.

I don't think most TSA employees are vets... I'm a veteran and it's relatively easy to identify a fellow vet most of the time.

Half the point of special forces is to be covert, which is made hard when your transportation is a giant rocket streaking through the suborbital zone.

SSDs in the cloud are attached over a network, and fundamentally have to be.

No they don't. I work for a cloud provider and I can guarantee that your SSD is local to your VM.

At the core, it's all military technology. Canned food was invented for Napoleon's Grand Armee.

Some SUVs qualify as trucks under the definitions written into the law.

Most fuel mixes for rockets are just Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen, at least in the USA. Seems like most of the next generation are aiming for Methane and LOX.

Burning plastic incompletely would most likely produce more noxious stuff than Kerolox or Methalox engines. Maybe on par with existing Solid Rockets or Hypergolics.

Are they wrong? I would say they're right, oil is in fact vital to global security.

That's absurdly cheap... I pay about $900/mo per child.

Color me skeptical... people have been drinking for thousands of years. I would be terribly surprised if moderate drinking had a statistically significant effect.

Either way, this is an irresponsible recommendation at a time when birthrates among native populations are falling precipitously. Adding yet another mental/physical hurdle to having kids is the wrong thing to do. Shit, next generation in South Korea will be 40% the size of the current generation with the way things are going.

A strike is between a company and its workers, or maybe an industry and its workers. Postal employees, the fire department, transit employees, they don't work for Tesla.

They're pretty much in every recently renovated housing unit... not just rich people houses.

My experience with international trains between the US and Canada is that the customs checks happen on the train.

Jets don’t use leaded aviation gas.

That seems absurd. People often have no idea that a product would be useful or desirable beforehand. Perhaps our current level of consumer choice is somewhat absurd, but that brings you to a Soviet style system.

Some state and local judges are elected.

The Federal Judiciary is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Can't pay your rent? That's a crime, and the sheriff will be knocking on your door in 30 days.

What on Earth are you talking about? There was an emergency order during COVID that prevented anyone from being evicted for about two years. A ton of landlords got absolutely screwed because their tenants stopped paying rent and could not be evicted by any means.

Most of those are probably honeypots for the feds.

I have environmental and health concerns about used motor oil. Cosmoline is specifically formulated for rust prevention and forms a waxy coating, and doesn't have the additives and pollutants motor oil does after being in an engine.

I mean a gallon can is $90 plus shipping. It's not too bad.

I've just taken to applying Cosmoline to the underside of my truck each summer.

They're not, really, though. US freight rail is remarkably efficient and cheap.

Fascism is very specifically about about the subordination of all competing spheres to the State. "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

It came from reality.

That’s definitely the best price you’re going to find for a serviceable Garand.

Which is just as much a pipe dream

Meanwhile my son is almost 3 and already approaching a size where he legally only needs a booster seat.

Well, fix government oversight of public bureaucracies and then we can have a discussion. As it is now, it's pretty clear that elected officials have little control and oversight into the bureaucracies that they nominally control and direct. Make bureaucrats firable. End Chevron deference. Bring back political appointments from the top to the bottom of the bureaucracy.