MichaelCollins

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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
It says nothing of the sort. If "neurodivergent" people are going to imagine insults where there are none, that cannot be helped.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> I don’t look at people in the eyes because I can sometimes see that they’re lying to my face. Ignorance is bliss I guess? I prefer to know. Usually I don't call people out, but I still prefer to know.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I have a similar problem, but I don't think lack of lip reading is the problem for me. I think a lot of people simply mumble when they have a mask on. Something about the sensation of the mask on their face has them start slurring w
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Isn't that what those AC-detecting pens are for?
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Elon Musk vs the space industry The other billionaire funded disruptive space startup has proven themselves less competent than "old space". Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin two years before SpaceX, and they've still
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Anyway, I doubt Yahweh considers it a sin to I don't give a damn what your god thinks. Or are you responding to C.S. Lewis's beliefs? Quoting a Christian doesn't make me a Christian, least of all when the quote doesn
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Indeed, ends vs the means. People who think one or the other is more important will talk right past each other, never see eye to eye.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Why not F-Droid? F-Droid is great.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> They did it with good intentions That's how the road to hell is paved. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Russia doesn't have the infrastructure to sell this gas to China. Nevertheless it could still be advantageous to China, since now Russia will be more desperate to close deals in general.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> The "Russia blew up the pipeline" idea makes absolutely no sense. And if there was any evidence to support it, you know that the whole of Western media would be shouting it from every rooftop. But instead we have silence, a
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Germany's economy will suffer significantly, but Germany will survive. The language "trouble surviving the winter" plainly suggests massive numbers of Germans freezing to death, which isn't going to happen. Even if
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Korea isn't in a war (their northern neighbor notwithstanding). They are still ostensibly abiding by the rule of law, so of course they're not going to merely give the finger to anybody who tries to fine them. Or maybe those cou
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> But the US does things professionally and they would have blown up all the pipes as opposed to 3 out of 4 That's a shakey presumption. 3 out of 4 may have been a compromise between the arguments for taking out the pipelines an
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Certainly a possibility. One advantage of using a submarine is you're less likely to be caught red handed, but that doesn't prove it was done with a submarine.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I say it to them: Germany will survive. Exaggerating (very real) economic harm as an existential matter of survival is silly. Germany's survival is not in doubt.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> they'll simply sell the natural gas to Asia or through another pipeline Which pipeline? They don't have pipelines to Asia that can handle the gas they meant to send through Nordstream.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> the West's weakness Not weakness. A proxy war is much safer than an overt war between nuclear powers. It would be irrational to escalate unless there was no other choice. Since feigning ignorance is a choice, that's pref
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Ukraine had the strongest motive, but the least technical ability (to do this specifically) of all the suspects, including Russia.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
That's basically just a restatement of the "principled commitment to truth for the sake of truth" motive for naming your own ally as the culprit. I think/hope Germany/Sweden/etc are too smart for that.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Yes, certainly if it was done with a conventional submarine. But it's not impossible that Ukraine found a way to do it independently with a UUV/etc.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> it will have trouble surviving the winter. Relax, they're going to be fine.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Keeping the gas off.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> terrorist attack A targeted attack against a strategic resource, during a war, with no [direct] civilian casualties. This doesn't meet the common definitions of terrorism. This is equivalent to bombing train yards, not city c
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Do any contracts even matter between Russia and Europe at this point. Doubtful. I think the most rational reason Russia might have done it was to remove a bargaining chip from any Russian challengers to Putin. But this seems like
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Were they holding hands? Or one sabotaged one pipe and the other the other? Yes, that's a distinct possibility. The US and UK are tight, particularly with underwater stuff. They have a history of sharing submarine secrets wit
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Ukraine also had a rational motive, but has significantly less underwater capability than the US/UK. That said, they're very resourceful, good at finding new ways to apply modern technology. I think it may have been any or a co
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
The relevant difference between America and Russia is that Eastern European countries choose to ally with America because they fear Russia, not the other way around.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I think there is a non-zero chance the culprit has already been identified privately, but won't be identified publicly (at least for many years) for political reasons. There is little to no utility in publicly naming and shaming the
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
You're comparing the cheap end of scooters to the expensive end of smartphones. The cheapest smartphones cost about 10x than the cheapest scooters. Tens of dollars (if not free) vs a few hundred dollars.

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