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Reply to comment by JetScootr in TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller. by jamescookenotthatone
Haha that’s awesome. Such a cool thing to learn about your parent. I didn’t learn much because my grandpa really didn’t like to talk about the war. He only really opened up about it after his cancer diagnosis. That’s when he told me his plane was shot down by Zeroes on patrol, the aircraft sheared in half before hitting the water - only he and the pilot survived. Floated there for over 24 hours until rescue came. Like, holy shit. Really puts my own problems into perspective there.
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Reply to comment by JetScootr in TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller. by jamescookenotthatone
Shit my grandfather served on the USS Essex as a PBY Radioman, and I had no clue that drones were ever a thing. Never mentioned them, ever. Very cool to learn!
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Reply to Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance. by Wagamaga
The feeling of “chained to my desk” seems apropos.
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Reply to comment by HoopOnPoop in A man set himself on fire on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza by DrTreeMan
Unless they are specially trained, what do you expect them to do?
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Reply to comment by Cheapskate-DM in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
Someone really doesn’t like WFH. I think you need to get over it.
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Reply to comment by DarthBuzzard in Exclusive: Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet falters by BlueLightStruct
God damn, was it really 1992 when PCs became ubiquitous? That’s wild. Looking back at my life, I suppose I almost always had one or at least access to one. Didn’t realize I was actually alive when they really took off.
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Reply to My African parents couldn't find a dark-skinned virgin Mary, so they they put Mary in blackface by rhapsodygreen
When in Rome…?
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in A unionized gaming industry? ZeniMax employees hope to be the inspiration. by Sorin61
Adjusted for inflation that is still less than SNES carts…
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ukraine May Finally Get Greece’s Russian S-300 Missiles by srjain313
Substantially less than 1% of the US Defense Budget.
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Reply to comment by bros402 in TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller. by jamescookenotthatone
Army and Air Force records - were Navy records lost in the fire too??