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The guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier are well known for this. There's videos of them yelling at people all over YouTube anyone wanted to see.

Their entire job is to maintain the peaceful and respectful atmosphere in the cemetery, no matter who it may be disrupting that.

The real story here is that the Secretary of the god-gamned Military and his entourage don't know that and had to be reminded to mind their manners at arguably the most important US military memorial in the world. That the headline is putting the focus not on the transgression, but on the soldier who called it out is disingenuous.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    They're advocating a slippery slope argument. If you add three, then I'll add three, and then the next person after that will add three.

    I don't see that being realistic and I would hope any such expansion would have a phased-in approach to make it more palatable and fair, and less likely to be stopped or altered.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Asked about working with the president, Schumer told reporters, "We'll see if he will actually change his ways and join.”

    That's all he said, according to this opinion piece.

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  • [–] 96 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    "Someone said something dumb. Read our article about how Twitter reacts!"

    I can't wait until this form of "journalism" is dead.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Hand powered drain auger. This isn't exactly a quality of life enhancer but it's one that new homeowners probably won't buy right away. It is one of those items where you pray you'll never need it and thank whatever deity you want that you do when you do.

    Other enhancers: automatic occupancy light switches if appropriate for your home setup. We have them on garage stairs for safety reasons so we dont have to reach for switches while carrying things.

    Good task lighting. I have a second switch in the garage for high output lighting when I need it to be bright as daylight inside while working on the car etc. And bright under counter lighting in the kitchen for cooking or entertaining.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Don't feed the trolls. When you argue with a troll, you are entering a competition to see who has more free time. You will lose, because you have a life and the troll does not. Do not EVER respond to trolls.

    I've been saying this about Trump since 2014. Shame nobody followed that advice up to this point, and likely never will.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    1 group of 4 high school age girls. Walked around the neighborhood and less that 20% were participating. Saw lights and TV on inside many with lights out. Sad. :(

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Redlib is struggling because Reddit put their public json feeds for threads behind a log-in. Sounds like some instances are logging in on the server, but then that makes public instances a lot more susceptible to rate limiting.

    That's stopping a lot of automated data access, but not the same as blocking all access behind a log-in.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Definitely Shining Force 2. 1 is more linear, and while It plays very similar it kind of stinks you lack freedom to roam around the world wherever you want.

    Vectorman is a great platformer.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The 32X is an interesting novelty but I'm not certain there's a single compelling title in the entire library. Which, admittedly, is only something like 30 games.

    Knuckles Chaotix has a unique play mechanic that's not in any other Sonic game and it's worth it for the novelty.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Actionable summary of this story:

    Guys mom has lung cancer and treatments weren't working. By chance they discovered an approved treatment in another country that is working. So he built this tool to connect patients with treatments and trials across international borders. https://data-vault.health

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Don't pass funding bills, up to and including a government shutdown, to halt the war financially.

    People are calling them chicken already, buy few seem to recall the last shutdown - longest ever - didn't materially stop anything, either, as everything else is deprived of money to the priority of defense.

    Yet another mastabatory dogpile on dems. Not that it's undeserved, but I fail to understand what this achieves other than perpetuating animosity.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    Citric acid is better than vinegar in this application. Chemically it's 3 times more powerful. A couple cups of crystals in an empty cleaning cycle is better than filling the whole machine with undiluted vinegar.

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