Amezarak

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by Amezarak 4mo ago
I think this is true for any country. If you are willing to take the risks that come with looking like you're building a bomb, you're obviously much better off once you have them. I personally don't think nonproliferation was
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by Amezarak 4mo ago
I didn't leave out anything. I was making a factual statement that the Iranian nuclear program had already been "accelerated" to a point where objectively, with the engineering expertise they doubtlessly have, they could have
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by Amezarak 4mo ago
Iran had already passed the IAEA red-line of enriching uranium to 60%. They had already accomplished virtually all the hard parts of building a bomb. https://fordow.net/blog/posts/enriched-uranium-proliferation...
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by Amezarak 4mo ago
The Library of Congress embarked on a disastrous microfilm initiative concomitant with the destruction of the works being microfilmed that left millions of the only remaining newspaper archives and some books totally or partially unreadable
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by Amezarak 4mo ago
> This is a great way to lose what's left of public support for libraries. Going (more?) elitist is really not the way to go here. Why should I support a public entertainment center? The original American libraries were created to m
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by Amezarak 4mo ago
That actually is not at all why most American libraries were founded. They were very explicit about this and it was not so people would have fun books to read. If we needed public entertainment centers, then let's be clear what they ar
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
I’ve definitely heard that other countries don’t tolerate this sort of thing, but the thread is about US cities. Of course YMMV, my understanding is many European cities have very few or only paid public bathrooms.
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
The last time I was in a major city with my kids I went to a major, nice park. They had to use the bathroom. There were ample bathrooms but every single one of them was filled with human feces, covering practically every surface, and litter
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
It's hard to understate how shocking it is for someone who grew up in a more rural area it is to be yelled at by a crazy homeless person. I think urban people are just so desensitized to it its hard to understand how big a deal it is t
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
Every mainline Protestant denomination was basically founded on the idea that they shouldn’t have to listen to the Pope at all. And that was before Papal infallibility was enshrined, which actually didn’t take place until the late 1800s.
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
I'm not aware of any Protestants that see the Pope as important except in a very negative way - that's practically the defining feature of Protestantism and one of the few things all the Protestant denominations have in common, wh
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
No, the whole thing is some sort of revisonist history gambit. The Dark Ages were "dark" because they represented a massive and lasting decline in social organization, trade, and yes, literacy. These are all extremely well documen
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
Dropping legitimate cases due to priorities and resources doesn't mean that they don't also still often pursue illegitimate cases beyond the point of reason.
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by Amezarak 5mo ago
The legal system doesn't have the resources to move forward with the case and decides it isn't a priority. I've seen this happen many times with people I know committing violent felonies. Even for smaller examples it happens
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
People complaining about illegal immigrants doing farm labor mostly don’t want you to simply give them paperwork making them legal, they want the pipeline of migrant labor restricted so labor prices are forced to rise enough to make the job
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
Even if we assume this is correct and Herodotus and others were simply ignorant of this, it's obvious that the Greeks of his time, including those in Anatolia where he lived, where food had been stored in massive quantities for centuri
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
> without our say so The election was our say so. "We" collectively voted for this.
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
You sound like you’re from a country with a parliamentary system? In the US, the “cabinet” is simply the President’s handpicked subordinates, not MPs. The President is the head of the executive, the government, usually understood as the exe
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
Cats were not widespread in the ancient world until very late. Herodotus writes about cats as an Egyptian novelty. People had mass food stores long before then.
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
> Sure, it helps to be a subject expert, but that won't matter if you can't manage your classroom. I've known plenty of highly credentialed teachers that were very poor communicators and/or could not manage their clas
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
The WTO found that China cornered the market with illegal dumping. Of course the investigations and punishments are too little too late.
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
I struggle to think of a society that didn't have some regulation on what you can eat. They almost all have taboos against various meats especially. Can you give me some examples?
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
To be fair, it doesn't really seem worth mentioning to say humans are inherently biased against murder , which we then agree is a killing against that society's norms. Because the definitions of "murder" vary so hugely,
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
> It's not something we even argue over. Murder = Bad. No disagreement across cultures. This is not true at all. Not even close. Sneaky backstabbing murder by a group member against another group member in violation of implicit gro
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
Politics is all-encompassing. You don’t get to declare your beliefs privileged and above contestation. We always have to fight these battles.
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
> Imagine getting bombed during negotiations - not once, but twice in a single year! All other problems with the Iran war aside, there's absolutely nothing unusual about this, this is standard. Countries that go to war with each oth
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by Amezarak 6mo ago
I agree with this, but we don't have a good understanding of the mechanisms of how most drugs work, and what else they do. That's why, generally speaking, we require actual observational safety data, and not just a thorough descri
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
This line of thinking did not end very well for the Roman Republic.
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
Can you name an Epstein victim that was not already public that was exposed by the DoJ's failure to properly redact? You keep repeating these narratives that are simply nonsense. Who was "leaked" by the DoJ that we didn'
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
> Did you just ask, in a post about evidence being taken and keep from investigators, why there isn't evidence? The sibling commenter addressed the timeline, but you still seem to be missing the point: harddrive or no harddrive, the

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