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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Images that make you laugh.
    Actually, I'll disagree. Bridges don't burn very well. Everyone's jumping because something very dangerous is coming along.
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to bilby's post in the thread Images that make you laugh with Like Like.
    https://xkcd.com/1170
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Barbaric.
    Which does nothing to address the issue. Where are the studies that check if race is merely a proxy for socioeconomic status?
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to spikepipsqueak's post in the thread Barbaric with Like Like.
    It seems to me (on admittedly minimal information) that the countries with the most draconian notions of the rights of their citizens...
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to DBT's post in the thread Barbaric with I Agree I Agree.
    So to deter people from doing the wrong thing legally and morally, to kill because it serves the purpose of the killer, a civilised...
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Hyatt Regency Hotel Disaster.
    Or look at the Challenger. The fundamental problem is the engineers assumed the joint would always be in compression. Yeah, there's a...
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to bilby's post in the thread Hyatt Regency Hotel Disaster with Like Like.
    I seem to remember reading about that one. If I recall correctly, they had the walkways hanging from the ceiling at two levels, and the...
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Barbaric.
    Some people in Japan are doing that sort of thing, although it's usually a "violent" crime committed without violence. (Say, stick up a...
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Barbaric.
    Lethal, yes. But unpleasant before it reaches the lethal point, and hazardous if there's a leak. Inert gases, however, cause no...
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to DBT's post in the thread Barbaric with I Agree I Agree.
    What is the point of executing prisoners who may have spent decades on death row? They don't pose a threat to society and have not done...
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Barbaric.
    Unfortunately, our government is not remotely a credible source on whether something is racist. There is a pervasive problem that once...
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Climate Change(d)?.
    We look at the real world results. We see the temperature rising. Slowly but it keeps doing so. And we understand how catastrophic...
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    Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Climate Change(d)?.
    Daily temps don't matter, but the number of daily records broken means something. And when our local record got obliterated by a 120F...
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to DBT's post in the thread Climate Change(d)? with Like Like.
    It's physics, not politics, that determines climate.
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    Loren Pechtel reacted to Jimmy Higgins's post in the thread Climate Change(d)? with Like Like.
    Daily temps aren't much in the discussion. Record averages for monthly temps are more critical.
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