PKop

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by PKop 4y ago
There is no "humanity" in the matter of geopolitics and self-interest, and there is no escape from political conflict. There are competing groups and individuals, and there are competing power centers, governments, nations etc. Ge
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by PKop 4y ago
It will never not be inflammatory, because there is always incentive not to follow the self-sacrifice position. What happens when groups, nations etc simply decline to weaken themselves by using less energy? Those who pursue energy use and
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by PKop 4y ago
What if it's about who can make others sacrifice, and just not do so themselves? What if we don't want to reduce impact? What happens when the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must? It's inevitably going
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by PKop 4y ago
Often times groups that don't like each other have existential differences that can never be bridged. Negotiating in good faith with true enemies that aren't interested in compromise never works, except perhaps if there is power,
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by PKop 4y ago
It is a delusion to presume that politics can be avoided, escaped, or isolated. That institutions of power or prestige within society ever can or ever were devoid of politics, that they can exist and operate in a vacuum. This ideological fa
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by PKop 4y ago
I bet you'd agree crime is drastically higher amongst those not even registered or that don't even vote, almost as if party affiliation is not the most salient variable.
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by PKop 4y ago
The tropes page mentions there's a bit of distinction between writer's figuring out the character; flanderization is addressing the point after the character is basically fleshed out, then accentuating whatever they are, often pas
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by PKop 4y ago
It's all a grift unless they release the videos to the public. Why not assume it's all made up bs for funding? https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axn8p/navy-says-all-ufo-vid...
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by PKop 4y ago
Yes because they refuse to release the videos they have. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axn8p/navy-says-all-ufo-vid...
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by PKop 4y ago
It's almost like "specialization" or some sort of natural selection process. Characters accentuate specific unique aspects of themselves because otherwise they would have no reason to exist; the show could have anyone stand i
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by PKop 4y ago
You'll be subsidizing their drug habit, and increasing the number of homeless, mentally ill, and drug addicted people that reside in your city that taxes will have to pay for (simply to exist in the houses you gave them, and keep abusi
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by PKop 4y ago
This delusion that if only we build houses, the homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted will magically disappear from the streets...is based on what exactly? What does "housing policy" mean in the context of streets lined with te
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by PKop 4y ago
"The root of this—of course—is the pandemic and the way that it has completely transformed work patterns in the city.." And, of course, insane delusional liberal policies that allow degradation of quality of life, violence and pro
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by PKop 4y ago
He got kicked off of chess.com twice for cheating. Doesn't seem so cool.
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by PKop 4y ago
No one will ever vote for lower living standards explicitly. What can be done about it? Any solution or lack of solution equates to decline in quality of life, and democratic systems are least efficient at pushing through big changes or unp
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by PKop 4y ago
>Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight. Of course this isn't true.
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by PKop 4y ago
Tom Cruise is going to hate zoom calls
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by PKop 4y ago
>What statements like this fail to consider What makes you think he failed to consider this? Or that this and the entire crux of your statement isn't inherent in his criticism? >it cannot be only under such anthropocentric terms.
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The American System(en.wikipedia.org)
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It lacks a will to power
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by PKop 4y ago
The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini started last week finished this week, an overview of political views of Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Schmitt, Jouvenel, Burnham, Francis, and Gottfried The Elementary Particles by French author Michel Houel
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by PKop 4y ago
"If you automatically update your dependencies all the time, you will constantly get new bugs, issues and sometimes even malware. If you don't update your dependencies all the time, you will be vulnerable to old bugs and issues.&q
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by PKop 4y ago
Political power and cultural dominance/self-interest
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by PKop 4y ago
Exactly, yes. Through phase 3 according to your link would have been about 2 to 6 years. Testing for covid vaxes was nothing of the sort, additionally millions of people have received multiple doses as the drugs are in wide release, whereas
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by PKop 4y ago
I shouldn't have even added them because I still don't think a coronavirus type of infection that is (or will evolve to become) so contagious can actually be stopped, and I'll stand by that main point. Especially something th
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by PKop 4y ago
This is an abuse of language: "universal vaccination" Is it a vaccine, or a therapy? Why does the supposed efficacy of the vaccines ability to prevent spread of covid wane so quickly? At best the vax is novel therapy that temporar
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by PKop 4y ago
>It’s beneficial for everyone including manufacturers for their products to be proven safe Yes, and to many on here, "they were"...and the company benefited from that. Make sense? It would also benefit the company to cut corner
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by PKop 4y ago
What would the shots making you sicker look like? In any case, I never had any shots, got Covid last December, was sick for 3 days with a bad sore throat and recovered just fine shortly after. Many people are rightly not so obsessed with ir
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by PKop 4y ago
People that think the spread of this coronavirus could ever have been stopped, let alone without destroying social fabric, mental health and causing an economic depression/hyperinflation are insane.
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by PKop 4y ago
Yes extreme endurance can be immuno suppressive.

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