GunboatDiplomat

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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Wikipedia suggests that this is not the case(1). And really, you wouldn't expect it to be. The population of Italy was over 5 million around the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and how many Ostrogoths were there? Maybe some hundreds
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Especially given that Rome was the largest city in the world from maybe 100 BCE to in the neighborhood of 400 CE.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
So if that's a bad thing, then why are the self-same urbanists proposing that it's a good thing?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Wait, so when rents go up in a neighborhood as the desirability increases, driving out the current residents, that's horrible gentrification. But if someone wants to continue to park in front of their house as they've done for yea
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
You know we have room in the United States, right? The average density is like 90 per square mile or less. We're rich, too. So we can have 800 square foot (which is small) apartments. 600 square feet is borderline sardine can.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
The argument about culdesacs is that they don't allow traffic to flow. They create tiered street systems with feeder roads. "Hip" urbanists are always on about how that's a bad thing. These superblocks do the exact same
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Yeah, like not wanting to walk five fucking miles into the city everyday when there's a perfectly usable road.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
The presence of buses inherently makes other forms of transportation worse. Buses will often kill cyclists. Buses intrude on crosswalks and honk their horns at people who dare cross the light. The presence of pedestrians inherently makes ot
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Wait, aren't these superblocks doing exactly what all the hip urbanists complain about the suburban culdesacs do?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
They're basically just microphones you set up around an area to triangulate the source of any gunshots by sound.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
It's not a simple problem, true. But I stand by my belief that riots are simply going to provoke a more powerful backlash in opposition to the rioters.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
That is arguable, at best.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Maybe. But those non-combatants were rarely killed by US troops in direct combat. More commonly, they were killed by 1) insurgent fighters 2) IEDs 3) US air strikes or other indirect fires.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Some US soldiers, airmen, marines, and sailors in Iraq/Afghanistan are 18. It took about 6 months from entering BCT to being with the unit I deployed with. You can attend BCT and AIT or OSUT at 17. And you can deploy when you're 1
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
It's not like cop cars are suddenly aggressive. The current challengers, Tauruses, and Explorers are at least no more aggressive than the previous Crown Vics.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
OK, that's just silly. We can have police be approachable parts of the community without silly pants.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Well, let's be honest, justice and humanity is only possible in an atmosphere of respect for law and relative tranquillity. Justice has seldom been found at the head of a mob.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Rule of Engagement are strict and strictly enforced. You can end up in deep shit for shooting someone in Iraq or Afghanistan if it was not allowed under the ROE. Whereas you can apparently choke someone to death in the US with the primary
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Wouldn't illegally obtained evidence be inadmissible in a court of law?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Those seem like things that the author of the article would view positively.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I just get everything delivered to the office.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>police let you shit in the street without much of a confrontation. Is that really a positive?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Speaking of a drained Mediterranean, Harry Turtledove wrote a called Down in the Bottomlands, about a world where the Mediterranean did not refill after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
That seems like a minor objection.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Where do you think the water goes after being consumed by humans or plants?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Make them hand back their diploma, strip their name from all documentation of ever having gone to the school, bar them from referencing their degree in any way.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I was so hoping that China had decided to build a gigantic flying boat from wood.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Gawker disobeyed court orders and obtained illegal goods. No one could survive that.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Clearly, US law allows bare breasts as speech.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I'd rather the laws of a country which enshrines freedom of speech to a greater degree than any other be the set of rules governing the internet than the laws of a place where you can be fined for jokingly giving a Nazi salute.

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