CalChris

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by CalChris 1y ago
I think it's more correct to say the CCP allied with the KMT during WWII, or rather during their Second Sino-Japanese War. We made contact with Mao's CCP but the vast amount of supply + support with Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists.
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by CalChris 1y ago
> But this ignores that there were many competing factions in 1945, all vying for power in an independent Vietnam - VNQDD, Dai Viet, Revolutionary party, etc. You're leaving out France. At Potsdam, Vietnam was to be partitioned but
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by CalChris 1y ago
Yeah, keep thinking it was about Communism. We backed the Viet Minh during WWII and we backed the Khmer Rouge as a counterweight to big bad Vietnam (where our Navy now makes port calls), even to the point of defending the Khmer seat at the
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by CalChris 1y ago
Ho Chi Minh petitioned for Vietnamese independence at the Paris Peace Talks in 1919. He was turned down by the Big Four including France's Clemenceau and the United States' Woodrow Wilson. BTW, the Viet Minh were our allies during
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by CalChris 1y ago
Actually, anticolonial means opposition to or resistance against the system where one country controls another. It really has nothing to do with their system of government. BTW, they're run by the socialists now and, thanks to Clinto
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by CalChris 1y ago
The Vietnam War was anticolonial against the French, Japanese and French in succession. It didn’t suddenly become not anticolonial when the US entered en mass after the Tonkin ‘crisis’. It remained anticolonial when China attached.
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by CalChris 1y ago
Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement for transferring European Parliament funds to run her National Front. Legarde was convicted of negligence for approving the payout of the two decade long Tapie arbitration. These are not the same.
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by CalChris 1y ago
The name was taken from Nourse but via ER Burroughs’ script/book. The name was bought actually. But the plot, that came from PK Dick’s novel.
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by CalChris 2y ago
Harvard, anti-Putin Russian. Yeah, this was about frog legs.
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by CalChris 2y ago
Less fun fact: you can't substitute a <cr><nl> for <nl>. I had a Perl script (way) back in the day that came from a Windows system and it wouldn't work on Linux. After I figured out <cr><nl> was causi
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by CalChris 2y ago
What were the measures?
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Silicon Valley 'nepo baby' publishes scathing first novel about growing up rich(sfstandard.com)
23 points by CalChris 2y ago|15 comments
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by CalChris 2y ago
Radar. I remember some of his nonsense about disambiguating, despite the previous AP disambiguating just fine. Same with the rain sensor. This is a cheap part. Radar isn't very expensive either. To be fair, the ghost brakes on TACC hav
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by CalChris 2y ago
Did Cook, in the spirit of unity, make a similar donation in 2020?
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by CalChris 2y ago
Reagan’s administration was very corrupt. So that law and order evidently didn’t apply to them. It was also very profligate. So that fiscal conservatism didn’t apply to them. I don’t see a lot of difference between the actor Ronald Reagan a
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by CalChris 2y ago
So you agree that we are not deindustrialized. Have a nice day.
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by CalChris 2y ago
President Carter served under Admiral Rickover. He was even sent to lead the cleanup of a reactor meltdown. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/february/c...
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by CalChris 2y ago
Intel used a version of Minix rather than seL4 for its Intel Management Engine. [1] There was some controversy about this because they didn't give Andrew Tanenbaum proper credit. [2] [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article&#x
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by CalChris 2y ago
Seems to have just faded away. Their name is the same.
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by CalChris 2y ago
Reminds me of when Caterpillar (trucks+tractors) sued Cat and Cloud Coffee (coffee) in Santa Cruz for trademark infringement. https://www.ksbw.com/article/cat-and-cloud-coffee-in-santa-c...
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by CalChris 2y ago
Yes, and "The Commanding General of the D.C. Army National Guard is subordinate solely to the President of the United States". https://dc.ng.mil/Join-the-DC-National-Guard/DC-Army-Nationa...
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by CalChris 2y ago
This is a lie.
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by CalChris 2y ago
I find myself Googling less often these days. Frustrated with both the poor search results and impressed with the quality of AI to do the same thing and more, I think search's days are numbered. AOL lasted as an email address for quite
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by CalChris 2y ago
Yes, Trump refusing to send in the DC Guard could be considered allowing it to get out of hand.
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by CalChris 2y ago
A legal cite, please. Yes, I know about the loitering case, Chicago v. Morales ; it was struck down on vagueness. But again, why are the police in this case monitoring a constitutionally protected activity?
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by CalChris 2y ago
No, it doesn't.
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by CalChris 2y ago
No, that is your opinion and not a cite. In fact, the government can regulate your walking with cross walks and traffic lights. Again, why are the police in this case monitoring constitutionally protected activity? Congress shall make no
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by CalChris 2y ago
Walking down the street is not a constitutionally protected activity not that the police should monitor it without a statutory reason. Driving also isn’t. If you think different you’ll have to cite different. But assembly and expression are
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by CalChris 2y ago
This is surprising. Why are the police monitoring constitutionally protected activity?
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by CalChris 2y ago
Fischer had had photography+video mostly banned and unfortunately there isn't a photo of this.

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