LaMarseillaise

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by LaMarseillaise 6mo ago
It is not pedantic. You said that Iran funded terrorism “across Europe”. When asked for sources, half of what you provided was not relevant to the statement. I surmise you are arguing in bad faith.
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by LaMarseillaise 6mo ago
Two of these are outside of Europe.
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by LaMarseillaise 2y ago
The top comment on this very thread at the time I write this is clear bad-faith disinformation. Life is a Cabaret, but the Cabaret is not life. The tone here has changed for the worse, especially since the election, and I cannot keep preten
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by LaMarseillaise 2y ago
I have vivid nighttime hallucinations. Sometimes it is bugs or spiders (so many spiders), other times dancing teacups emptying themselves onto my face. I remember a time when my alarm clock was a lion that I had to tame. But a few times it
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by LaMarseillaise 2y ago
With mouse support coming in visionOS 2, this could be an interesting experience on the Apple Vision Pro.
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by LaMarseillaise 2y ago
My concerns tend to be the cost in terms of land and intermittency that are harder to evaluate. Nevertheless, I believe we should not let the perfect (nuclear) be the enemy of the good (renewables), so your comments are welcome. We should n
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by LaMarseillaise 3y ago
I knew someone who worked at the child care center. Things got really bad after the pandemic. I heard that people were promoted for very sketchy reasons. The result was a bureaucracy-heavy mess of incompetence and political infighting. It a
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by LaMarseillaise 3y ago
The first complete work I read was Sallustius’ “Conspiracy of Catiline”. I was not prepared for such ridiculous propaganda.
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by LaMarseillaise 4y ago
> If you ask specifically about the discrepancy it will usually deny the discrepancy entirely or double-down on the mistake. I have had the exact opposite experience. I pasted error messages from code it generated, I corrected its Latin
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by LaMarseillaise 4y ago
I had a conversation with it in Latin yesterday. I also just spent way more time than I care to admit on inquiries about late-18th/early-19th century governments. It seems better at providing high-level information than specifics. I co
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by LaMarseillaise 4y ago
For anyone curious, the name could be translated to “All Ways”.
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by LaMarseillaise 4y ago
I have learned the hard way that when dealing with government software (at least in the US), you must assume the least favorable/most unfavorable interpretation of any information given. When I saw the email informing the author of the
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
The idea that the Soviet Union won WWII is itself propaganda and ignores the contributions of many, many nations, not to mention the entire Pacific war. Also, the liberation of France was exclusively the western allies.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Economics is not physics. It has no laws. And the field could not exist if it were zero-sum. Edit: I should clarify that economics does not have laws in the same way physics does. The ‘law of diminishing returns’, for example, is more of a
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
I had been saying for years that Russian conventional military power was vastly overestimated, yet even I have been surprised at their dismal performance so far. A week ago, I assumed decisive Russian victory to be a foregone conclusion. No
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> It could be seen as provocative. The invasion of Ukraine has invalidated this line of reasoning. NATO is the only definitive way to prevent a Russian invasion now, and every moment of delay puts Finland in greater danger. If Putin is c
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Jacquesm demonstrated that there was no point, and therefore nothing to address.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Whether or not you make this argument, or whether you feel it is unnecessary, is beside the point. People often ask "What about the waste?" as a sort of final argument. I have encountered this multiple times. It can be time consum
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
It was implicit in your statement: > Without pressure from grades, [students] won't do the work of learning. If it were qualified with ‘many’ students, there would be no such confusion. Your comment, as-is, is trivially falsified by
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
In what way does the late-fee policy prevent this?
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
The average compensation for a member of the board of directors at an S&P 500 company is ~$300,000/year. Goldman Sachs pays ~$600,000/year. Senators and Representatives are paid $174,000/year. I consider decision-making f
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
I was quite sure that this depiction of a bomb was based on 18th century grenades, which were spherical and had a string fuse. The word ‘grenade’ even comes from pomegranate, due to the visual similarity. It seems like this depiction may ha
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Universal statement? The above commenter specified California. I provided an example confirming that statement for California. Not to mention, the comment is practically a truism aside from the locations mentioned: "Wind only displaces
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
It is absolutely true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encina_Power_Station#Retiremen... I lived there. I believed the 'environmentalists' when they said that SONGS would be replaced by renewables. I am not fal
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Last week, I looked at the comments on a YouTube video about the Afghanistan withdrawal. I noticed something suspicious: two comments with a similar political view ended with a few whitespaces and a pipe character (“|”), and had generic use
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> There are oppressive fundamentalist Christian organizations I suspect that if they were in power, they would justify their actions as being ‘within the limits of Christianity’. I do not think tw04 was blaming Islam - the quotes indicat
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> most dangerous plane in the US military. Only for the pilot.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
You enjoy proximity to other meat suits? Without that, it sounds to me more like hell than heaven.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Accurate. I have said basically this a number of times. And I am from the US.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
They may be referring to ‘cold welding’. Oxygen lets metals ‘remember’ what they are connected to. References: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding - https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nQ8isf55s

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