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Now here's a guy who can really break down what ruins a broadcast crew.

Let's see ESPN get a reservation at Dorsia now!

Buy an old Dodge W250 with a 12-valve Cummins 6BT, and enjoy mechanical fuel injection and 160 hp. No emissions control, no timing chain or belt, no overhead cams, no aluminum block or heads, ABS is optional, no airbags.

mlavin

5 年前discuss

There are far more government social programs than unenployment benefits and stimulus checks.

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5 年前discuss

GMO implies a lab process with specific alteration of genes, while traditional plant breeding to traits only exposes phenotypes as indication of results, and relies on the pre-existing variance in species to provide new traits.

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5 年前discuss

I'm guessing the hole it originally sat in is still visible?

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5 年前discuss

"Don't worry, the AI says the bridge is okay. We've got fresh filler and paint over all the recognizable cracks!"

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5 年前discuss

But Doom Eternal wasn't developed from the original Doom engine, same with the new Flight Simulator.

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5 年前discuss

For those asking, it's in section seven, additional clauses:

  Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material
  you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright
  holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with
  terms:

  [...]

  c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material,
  or requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in
  reasonable ways as different from the original version; or...

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5 年前discuss

The closest that's actively used is Wabtec's FLXdrive, which is a battery-powered locomotive run between two conventional diesel-electrics. Not a bad idea, since braking with the electric motors otherwise dumps the energy as waste heat. There's also the Railpower Green Goat, which is diesel-electric with a storage battery.

https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2021/01/04-wabtecs-flx...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railpower_GG20B

mlavin

6 年前discuss

If you incite violence against a specific group using a specific platform then yes, the publisher has some degree of responsibility for that. What's wrong about that observation?

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6 年前discuss

Sell sturdy vehicles with compelling features, like standard front three-point seatbelts in 1959? Volvo did go through the financial wringer into the 1970s, with a rocky launch of the 200-series and the heavy vehicle division being separated from Volvo Cars, but the 700-series was enough to bring them back into solid financial standing.

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6 年前discuss

They look like reasonable bookcase speakers to me, not enough hard gray plastic with yellowing from heat to be vintage OEM like these:

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/Bi0AAOSw5cRZICJN/$...

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6 年前discuss

It's an easy qualitative decision to consider a variety of species with pleasant calls and plants which coexist in their own niches better than swarms of one single species of bird and an aggressively invasive plant species which chokes out all other growth. Knotweed in particular is an absolute pox on the landscape in North America.

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6 年前discuss

That's why you use dust or pyrethrin spray as well, and seal them in afterwards. Hot burning wasp death!

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6 年前discuss

Blood doping increases red blood cell count and compensates for physiological changes which happen during an event like the Tour de France, it's disingenuous to call it nutrients.

mlavin

6 年前discuss

Is there evidence to suggest that standard immune response to coronaviruses doesn't apply to this particular strain?

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6 年前discuss

>$250 "ran when parked" car

How to get an absolute hooptie sitting in your driveway waiting for replacement parts.

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