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Comment Re: surprised? (Score 1) 87

FWIW Reagan was wrong.
As long as SOMEBODY could be carrying a loaded weapon then there's a fucking good reason to also be allowed to carry one, because the state/police literally can't protect you from every possibility, despite what they would like you to believe.
As a Brit that can remember when the UK introduced very strict gun laws, I can tell you that the only people not carrying guns now are all the law abiding citizens. The bad guys still carry guns. Aart from leaving innocent people defenseless, all it did was to move the problem to an epidemic of knife crime instead.

Comment Re:Ad hominem (Score 1) 87

I did not attack the speaker at all. I simply stated a fact that I really do not waste my time reading such biassed sources as the NYTimes and even provided a link to a credible source to back up my claim that they are indeed extremely biassed.

Yet here you come accusing me of an ad hominem attack in a VERY patronising way. Are you even capable of considering that it's actually you that made the only ad hominem attack?

Comment surprised? (Score -1, Troll) 87

I don't want to comment on exactly what got cut or how, but it's not a surprise to me that an evaluation of a government department would find significant numbers of positions/employees that don't add enough value to justify staying employed.
Actually I'm just surprised it's as low as about 20%.

Comment Re:Cover up! (Score 1) 158

We're at the point where there's really no credible argument against the existence of UAPs (as in, not necessarily alien but exhibit behaviour WAY beyond the possibility of our current tech). There is now just too many highly credible witnesses and more importantly, highly credible data (including stuff the US and other governments have themselves declassfied/released) to actually put that genie back in the bottle, like the US and other western governments have always been trying to do, since at least 1952 and project bluebook.
  The only remaining question is "what actually are they?".
I suspect Trump's speech, if it exists at all, will just re-acknowledge the existence of unknown aerial phenomena, while also toeing the state/pentagon line regarding their complete lack of any concrete knowledge about them.

The only space for opinion here is why any intelligent person would choose to believe that no one in any of the hundreds of 3 letter agencies or deep states around the world actually knows any more than nothing about them, after multiple decades if not centuries of evidence and research, using all the military and space tech and other resources that (especially the US) has access to.

Comment Can we just get the old notepad back please? (Score 1) 66

I just need a good text editor with 4 functions:
Open (text-only files), save, search and replace.
No markdown support, no AI copilot, no formatting, no lists, no URL support, no tables, no autocorrect.

Ya know, kinda just like the old notepad, except with the ability to show line numbers (the only thing I thought notepad needed). I saw the new one still can't either, despite all its other kitchen-sink bloat.

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