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Reply to comment by CornmealGravy in Popcorn is an explosive by [deleted]
Popcorn is a specific kind of corn
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Reply to comment by ghotiaroma in TIL of the Battle of San Jacinto. Just six weeks after the Texans terrible loss at The Alamo in 1836. The Texans regrouped under Sam Houston, and surprised the Mexican forces and overwhelming defeated the Mexicans. The Texans had 11 soldiers killed and the Mexicans lost 650. by triviafrenzy
I fail to see the relevance.
Also, this is a pet peeve of mine. Chemical irritants are banned in war because, before they were, people would make incredibly powerful irritants that would put people in the hospital for days (sulfur mustard). Tear gas is painful and nothing else, and would honestly probably be fine in war if it weren't for the risk of escalation. We've actually seen it recently in Ukraine being dropped from drones, first by Russia and now by Ukraine, and nobody's raising too much of a fuss about it.
In terms of crowd control, it has its uses. Just like every other tool the police have, it's not about the fact that they use it, it's the fact that they use it when they shouldn't. I say this as somebody who has been gassed while protesting.
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Reply to comment by WillMudlogForBoobs in TIL of the Battle of San Jacinto. Just six weeks after the Texans terrible loss at The Alamo in 1836. The Texans regrouped under Sam Houston, and surprised the Mexican forces and overwhelming defeated the Mexicans. The Texans had 11 soldiers killed and the Mexicans lost 650. by triviafrenzy
You know what's also against the rules of war? Massacring POWs, which Santa Anna did twice at the Alamo and Goliad. Santa Anna was fighting a dirty war and it's on him that he posted no guards when going down for siesta.
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Reply to comment by CapitalLongjumping in Train derails southeast of Gothenburg by dukefreak1995
We did. Those are our names now, motherfuckers. Why go to smelly Paris France when you can go to the cultural center of the world, Paris Texas!
(for those of you not in Texas, there is absolutely nothing in Paris TX. We also never refer to it as just "Paris" because even in our state it's completely irrelevant)
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Reply to comment by Elevenst in Rick Astley sues Yung Gravy over alleged Never Gonna Give You Up imitation by redlightist
See it made sense with lil Wayne because he was like 8 years old when he started rapping. Now everybody is trying to copy rhat
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Reply to comment by jimi15 in War Thunder Players Are Sharing Military Documents On The Forums Again by wewhomustnotbenamed
Ah my mistake; they were Co investors with Gazprom in another game that caught headlines recently.
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Reply to comment by willstr1 in War Thunder Players Are Sharing Military Documents On The Forums Again by wewhomustnotbenamed
None. As the comment above alluded to, they're GRU/FSB agents. Gaijin is a formerly Russian company.
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Reply to comment by OuidOuigi in The pizzeria in Romania just got so much free ad revenue by TubeSteakForYourMom
Jessie what the fuck are you talking about?
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Reply to comment by WaterScienceProf in Lego world map of energy to harvest water from the atmosphere [OC] https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01071b by WaterScienceProf
Thank you. Weather is wild.
The chart makes it look like the energy need mirrors relative humidity, but multiplying relative humidity by a constant wouldn't require high performance computing. Nor even just a defined two input map applied to every point. What was it that took the cluster so much time to compute? Did you have to model the local relative humidity yourself, or is there some more complex relation that I'm not seeing?
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Reply to Lego world map of energy to harvest water from the atmosphere [OC] https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01071b by WaterScienceProf
What affects this other than humidity?
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Reply to comment by Heya_Andy in [OC] Radial bracket - Semifinals | World Cup 2022 by twintig5
Brazil and Argentina have the two most distinct flags on the continent
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Reply to comment by NorwayNarwhal in why Elon musk is A true Edison of our time ? by zaham_ijjan
That's... not true. Elon Musk was the biggest investor and chairman since 2004, less than a year after the company was founded. He became CEO in 2008, a year before the Roadster was released.
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Reply to comment by Siders1987 in A council worker is digging holes, while another worker immediately fills them in. by EndersGame_Reviewer
New deal was peak Keynesean economics. It's actually where a lot of Keynes's ideas first saw implementation.
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Reply to comment by From_Ancient_Stars in Ukraine Defense intelligence shows insides of Shahed drones, which Russia uses to attack by DoremusJessup
This is very, very wrong. The drone weighs 200 kg and travels at about 50m/s. Let's say in a dive it could reach 100m/s (it can't but let's pretend it does). That would be 1MJ of kenetic energy total. C4 has about 1.5MJ of energy per kg. There's about 30-50 kg of explosives total. The kenetic energy is absolutely dwarfed by the explosive energy. And every kg of engine you have is a kg of explosive you don't have.