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  • There is a golden period from about 1985 to 2000 where houses were built without asbestos but with real building materials. I only buy property built in this window.

    Every property I've inspected built after 2010 that's more than 5 years old is either splitting at the seams, sinking into the ground or both. They're built from polystyrene with a coat of plaster. They're built to palm off to naive new homeowners who don't understand or landbankers who don't give a fuck and I pity anyone trying to live in one for more than a few years.

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  • Problem is for a long time the heaviest trekkies, the really visible ones, were usually not about the idealism at all.

    For every quiet idealist who dreams of a better future there's a loud closet fascist who only sees the uniforms, a rigid militarized society with clear chains of authority, a Vulcan philosophy where cold logic overrides empathy, and where the advanced humans swashbuckle about the universe showing the natives their place.

    It's getting better now but back in the day Trek fandom was rough and it's taking a lot to shake the image.

  • Russia barely has the logistics capability to defeat a country right next door.

    Ignoring the fact the Brazil has a defensive treaty with the US, how exactly is Russia going to do an amphibious invasion?

    This is all ignoring that the first thing Russia would do is turn on itself once Putin was out of the picture.

  • Blows my mind how long the "Yes" campaign waited to start campaigning.

    The "No" campaign started as soon as the LNP sided against the voice last year. The "Yes" campaign only started a few weeks ago.

    Letting the "No" campaign go unchallenged for months has had a predictable result and this will go down in history as a masterclass in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

  • When railguns become economical we might see the return of battleships. They could fire AI-guided projectiles from so far away, and at such speed, the only real counter would be having your own railguns, either on shore... or on your own battleship.

    Missiles would, ironically, then become somewhat obsolete to next-generation CIWS that would be extremely precise and (relatively) unrestrained by ammunition capacity.

    All we need to do is invent room temperature superconductors...