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by Juliate 2y ago
> The US no longer wanting to fund someone else's war is about as far from 'forcing' as you can get It _was_ also their war, because it's Europe that's attacked through Ukraine, and... Europe (and Ukraine, actual
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Yes. Because resorting to nuclear weaponry is very specific. Doing so, you break the statu quo on mutual dissuasion, and not one nuclear power wants that. If one country drops a nuclear bomb (especially after a long escalation as we are in)
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Any single force that drops a nuke today [1] will get retaliated by _all_ the other nuclear powers, even allied ones, at once. Why? Because that will be the only, short moment, where each other will have the single opportunity to: 1/ a
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You did not take note that the Russian military is collapsing: they need north corean soldiers to come to keep up. They need Iranian drones to keep up. Russia has NO defensive capacity left on either other borders, neither internally. Putin
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Will we ever have communication tools more durable and predictable (with known and managed failure modes and privacy expectations) than paper mail? Standardised protocol? independent of any single entity or subscription? readable without sp
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If 1. and 2. are done, 5. falls very easily. It's no surprise they started with attacking Roe vs. Wade.
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> I'd say porn makes people miserable not happy/ fulfilled. Yes. And no. It depends on a lot of other things: what porn you're looking at [1]; what stage you are in; how fulfilled you are with your life; etc. The addiction
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Definitely. There's a hidden motive, or utter incompetence in managing this side of the licensing and communication (either by beginners "better cover you ass" MBA or lawyers thinking, which could mean it's the result of
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>> Some dogmas… > You assert this, but provide no example/s. HN isn’t a place for deep dives into this subject matter, but maybe you can outline what you have in mind? Agree, it's not the best place for that, sadly. But h
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I am not saying it’s a monumental task. I did (the 1997). I am saying that reading these is an intellectual aside, overly complex at times, not a requirement, to having the faith and acting like a Christian Catholic. Being Catholic doesn’t
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> There is a huge list of exact correspondences between Christian concepts and Communist concepts. Those concepts are not particularly _christian_ in themselves, they're more constituents of an institutionalised belief system implem
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In France, Tesla Model Y is -57% (compared to Jan '24) at 640 units in January, while other brands are growing at 2813 (Renault 5), 1548 (Citroen E C3), 1177 (Renault Scenic), 762 (Peugeot 3008), among others. Source: https:/&#x2
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Depends. If it does harm you, in some way or another, it's not absurd to talk about it. You may not care, but everything we do is a statement about ourselves, consciously or not.
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When you buy something, you do participate in the cash flow that makes the seller/builder company function. If that company has other activities or influences that you do not agree on, boycotting is not virtue signalling, it's vot
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The argument is not on the omnipotence alone, but the omniscience. You can't be omniscient and omnipotent on one hand, and blame your creature for anything it does on the other. Because you are effectively in charge. Like any parent wi
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> TLDR of a Christian perspective: Here is another Christian (Catholic even) perspective. > God is love. [...] God knows what choice we will make, but does not force it. > It does not follow, that if humans refuse to love, God shou
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by Juliate 2y ago
You seem to imply that morality necessarily finds its source in (the existence of) a god, and/or the religion(s) that may come from there?
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> And 1+ billion Catholics believe that [...] The Church [...] is never wrong on matters of doctrine and morals It's a bit exaggerated to say that. Not all Catholics believe in the infallibility, neither in every single dogma, which
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I may have been more fussy than revisionist then, sorry for that. What I was (unexplicitly enough) implying is that I don’t see how a stable democracy, going forward, could work, without implementing those improvements mechanisms that emerg
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> That would exclude every parliamentary democracy in Europe, so no. There are variants (especially executive and legislative work more closely) but please list those where there is no constitutional or customary such a balance between e
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I get your point. But calling your argument embarrassing is not an ad hominem. I’m not saying you do not understand. I am implying that in a discussion in the XXIth century about the concept of democracy as it has evolved in both the littér
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Let’s call it “trumpism” then. And his supporters and enablers “trumpis”. It’s not really “better” but at least, it’s specific to what he does.
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You referring back to only Athens when we have had several centuries of political history and progress, is embarrassing. The Constitution of the USA was especially a model of its kind. Until we realized its implementation went lacking from
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They are still all trumpis now.
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So you do not understand what a democracy is and how it works. Balance of the three branches of government and the rule of law and protection of minorities are the complementary requirements to the majority vote, to qualify for a democracy.
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> he didn't topple democracy in his first term Oh, like, he wasn’t really informed nor involved in January 6, 2021? And he never mentioned, several times in 2024 that you Americans wouldn’t have to vote anymore?
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And that’s a good point of view. And yet you believe that fixing this requires pulling the plug on most if not all, by people totally remote to how it works? That’s a peculiar way of fixing this. Especially in administrative matters (where
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If you take USAID « revelations » by Musk at face value, you are… rather misled. The very behavior of DOGE looks like kids unleashed in a factory they don’t understand, willing not to recognize their capacities are adequate to understand it
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What are you trying to achieve exactly?
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Technically, anti-cheat requires control over the system (computer being used, room and network where the test happens). An open source operating system could be used to block or circumvent the control check points of said spyware. So insta

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