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beaglesss··on Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]
And if it doesn't work on all pads, you may need an X-ray to figure it out.
beaglesss··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
They have the support of a state 30x their size. In a unique way few others do, almost in a parent child undying and asymmetrical way.

This is 9/11 but the US backed by an entire alien planet, unafraid to go in the direction of scorched earth even when totally surrounded because the aliens will bail them out.

beaglesss··on Crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator
Now I understand why they so badly wanted Dong's goods.
beaglesss··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
This won't do anything meaningful to reduce civilian deaths. Less than 0.1% of Lebanon injured, and 10x that number now even more enraged. Not meaningfully repeatable either, won't create significant attrition

Stoking the flames of death is all.

beaglesss··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
I wouldn't even shoot a nail gun the opposite direction without safety glasses. People are gonna be blinded or vision impaired by the shrapnel just from happening to shop nearby someone with one of these pagers.
beaglesss··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
I wonder what modern humane outcome plays out to a tiny nation state surrounded by arabs they're engaged in these kind of hostilities with. It seems this balance depends on large imbalanced external support, which will be called into question more and more as the USA loses global grip.
beaglesss··on Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization
Agreed, The low hanging fruit has been grabbed.

The remainder is mostly gonna be regulatory arbitrage or low margin niche fields that a large company can't exploit.

The neighborhood liquor store, or the grey market handyman. That's the remaining low cap fronts.

beaglesss··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Studies such as this for example show highly elevated divorce risk after forms of layoff or termination.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-020-09506-x

beaglesss··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Child support is nearly universally enforced at least on paper. The incentive is to divorce quickly after a high earner scales back to lock in the high imputed income. You see sky high divorces in recently unemployed persons as spouses scramble to lock in CS and alimony against their recent earnings.

These are the acts of calculated actors getting in on the take as incomes reduce, to lock in the income stream.

beaglesss··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
If you're married/kids it usually happens by 35. If you reach 'enlightenment' after that you can't cut back easily (wife and kids accustomed,even maybe feel entitled to expensive private school etc etc), and if you do your family will often simply divorce you then the judge will impute your income for CS and alimony at the high amount you made before. If you scale back, they put you in a jail cell, take away your licenses, your property, and revoke your passport.
beaglesss··on Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream
The Russians blew Grozny to bits but the issue is they started fighting militia with mostly small arms, then they ended up with a bunch of dead civilians plus a bunch of dead militia plus a bunch of surviving militia who now has... their own artillery pulled from the rubble.

In the end deploying the artillery in Grozny and elsewhere during the first Chechen war was a pyrrhic victory that ended in years of Chechen independence.

Then there's the alternative as my compatriots saw in the YPG -- small arms bought them enough time to ally with the USA.

beaglesss··on Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream
> a state level military is coming to kill you it doesn't really matter how many guns you have in your closet or how cool your black temu tactical gear is. Artillery from 2km away will just kill you.

I've fought in a non-state militia that held off a nation state, in a civil war. About half the people I met died, but yet, the rest remain. So you're wrong.

>They" had guns and weapons and fought back against the nazis and lost. It turns out a bunch of civilians with small arms does not actually pose a meaningful threat to a state level military.

... Those in the Warsaw ghetto did with smuggled arms, and held out for several days, meanwhile their disarmed brethren did not last nearly as long.

>"They" had guns and weapons and fought back against the nazis and lost

Jews were virtually disarmed in Germany before the genocide started. In conquered states,they occasionally held off longer with smuggled arms. (In some cases like Malka Zdrojewicz, fighting even seems to have possibly save her life as officers admired her courage and sent her to a non-genocide destination.)

beaglesss··on Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream
Fgc-9 + 'what about ammo' guides by deterrence dispensed are engineered to build reliable 9mm firearm out of non-regulated components in EU. No one shady involved.

Videos of unlicensed Germans doing this are online.

beaglesss··on Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream
Make it simple, equal ground rules for police as citizens. If it's illegal for me to point a gun at someone because someone told me a scary, it ought be the same as police. The dichotomy exhibits the standing army effect the founders warned against .
beaglesss··on Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream
It's mostly culture. I could get a gun+ammo in a week in Germany with no license. So could you and so did 'John Stark' (fgc9).
beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
Id make sex work legally equal to other work.

Of course a consequence of that would be the engineering boss can ask the team to pole dance, and if they refuse they can be fired as easily as they could be for refusing to take out the trash.

beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
Whether they have a marriage certificate might not matter, but the stats are clear that children raised by single moms are correlated with a lot of bad outcomes including far more likely to end up victims of the prison industrial complex. If you only give a shit about yourself and not your offspring, maybe that doesn't matter
beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
It's already commodities in places like California. For instance, the state considers a wife a depreciating asset that goes to zero at year ten, now owed potentially lifelong alimony as you've used up her most fertile years and therefore you must support her for life.

As a married person in balancing my finances I always then half it and then subtract 20 percent of my pretax income to find what's truly mine after liabilities to my spouse. This makes me explicitly aware of the true cost I pay, and if god forbid i am divorced i have already mentally written off most my wealth and home I painstakingly singlehandedly built stick by stick over a period of years as not actually mine.

Prostitution causes a real problem here as it throws a bone in the resource extraction from male to female by making the consumer more informed on costs up front.

beaglesss··on Boeing workers vote to strike
One example is FAA balking at certifying evtols for years after they started to emerge. They're dangerous but could allow more accessible rescue options for people already in a dangerous survival situation, or need a fast ride to a hospital.
beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
If you take a video of taking a shit mostly no one is gonna think you're immoral or shameful but if there's videos plastered everywhere of you shitting on cam for cash then it could be detrimental to your social standing.
beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
>lot of men haven't realized the era of the provider is over and dead, and they're now optional.

Cool, child support and alimony optional now. Right? Because it's always easy to be independent with OPM. People forget single moms became far more practiced after the state incentivized breaking up families.

beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
I wouldn't be surprised to find out an absurd fraction of those 300k is just straight up money laundering. Who is actually gonna be able to verify the value of someone allegedly showing their tits to a whale at 3am? The fact this all passed through traditional financial networks with a clean and reportable earnings report at the end is just pure gold.

OF is like the wet dream of a drug dealer or whoever else with a baby momma and some kind of scam/fraud/counterfeit operation.

beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
I wouldn't and I haven't, and I have dated a sex industry worker.

BUT

When I dated someone in the industry I quickly realized why many people avoid such workers. It's highly correlated with HEAVY drug use, severe mental illness, and sad family stories. Not challenges lot of people looking for in a relationship, especially if they want children.

beaglesss··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
Society accepting sex work is the worst thing that can happen to sex workers. They can have their cake and eat it right now -- not terribly illegal in the west but shunned which limits competition.

When it becomes fine, it will be worth no more than someone coming to mow your lawn, and probably less than that.

beaglesss··on Boeing workers vote to strike
Seems Boeing effectively became part of the FAA. I've produced and designed experimental aircraft. The FAA made it clear they would not certify it, simply wasn't legal since it wasn't contemplated under any certifiable title in the CFRs other than experimental.
beaglesss··on Boeing workers vote to strike
You can't count all the dead from flight being held back FAA. It's similar with housing regulations -- the code inspector sees dead in a house but not the 10 homeless people he killed by making housing less accessible.
beaglesss··on Boeing workers vote to strike
The golden age of flight had not only competition of manufacture, but competition from consumers and purchasers on risk appetite. It could not emerge under an FAA as we know it. To come anywhere near that you'd need to break up the FAA, as it has a virtual monopoly on violence in enforcing the CFRs here. Let people pick which, if any enforcer they want certifying their airplanes.

That is, the FAA suffers from the same lack of competition as Boeing.

beaglesss··on Boeing workers vote to strike
You'll have to break up the FAA first. The certification costs are ungodly, rigid, and the certification process created fascistic interweaving of industry with government.

To break the monopoly, counterintuitively, we have to deregulate Boeing.

beaglesss··on Boeing workers vote to strike
Sure it's failed from the floor workers because they forgot the plug door needs bolted. It's failed other ways due to the other (SPEEA) union botching the MCAS.

Sometimes it's easy to lose track of how basically all the Washington unions are so broken in their homicidal negligence while begging for more money to fail miserably.

beaglesss··on Interview Learnings from Former CIA Intelligence Officer
This guy perfectly exhibits the two main kind of ex-mil you see. Type #1 people who fall victim to the military industrial complex and think their allegiance is anything other than a convenient quid-pro-quo to the elite,they go on to become CIA shitbags and other pawns.

The other are those who after seeing the belly of the beast,want nothing to do with it other than be left alone or help people escape the horrible beast the federal government has become. They have seen the murders first hand, and rejected the premise.

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