SapphireSun

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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You are living in a pre-11/9 mentality my friend. A few years ago, it was easy to think that material possessions were enough. The yawing chasms in the fabric of society are now baldly apparent. The old system is crashing. We need to a
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I'm unable to spend much time commenting atm, but what I will say is that unlike the Economist, you are the one editorializing. Factually, capitalism/globalization has benefited lower classes materially, but has stripped them of a
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Are any of those statements factually incorrect or otherwise misleading? A critical discussion of methodology is welcome.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I think you misunderstood what I meant by allowable. He can legally act using the powers of his office, but we can shun him. It's morally abhorrent and violates international law. It's only in a very limited sense that his behavio
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
All I can say is I saw this headline and breathed a sigh of relief. I haven't heard anything good coming out of PR at all. For what it's worth, while I like the idea of solar power as the revival of PR's power grid, I would n
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
The constitution makes him the commander in chief and delegates war authority to congress. The AUMF signed after 9/11 was poorly drafted, contained no expiration, and has ceded control from congress to the executive in extraordinary wa
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I think the spirit of the TOS of humanity (e.g. Article II paragraph 4 of the UN Charter) would banish offensive war and the threat of war. These threats are _worse_ coming from the president. His being the president doesn't make these
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Whatever twitter. You still let the President threaten war and attack individuals using your platform. We still haven't seen convincing evidence that the Russian interference mattered, or even mattered more than our direct assistance t
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The Physics Package: How Does a Nuclear Weapon Work?(medium.com)
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The Dangerous Nuclear Weapons States(medium.com)
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The Physics Package: How Does a Nuclear Weapon Work?(medium.com)
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
In aggregate, it looks like it's a few billion per year. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You'd think that, but then you'd remember that if the population isn't making money capitalism doesn't work. People need money to buy things. The big picture is that labor is being defeated everywhere and money is accrui
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You're right that we require a policy attack on Climate Change, but nonetheless, it feels a bit odd to keep doing the thing that'll kill you.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Also, the big technology corps are fighting their lack of internal innovation by buying smaller competitors. The executives are well aware of company lifecycle theory.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You're right... for now. We're seeing incredible concentration of wealth. Eventually they will become lazy and overly bureaucratic. Google, Apple, and Facebook in particular made their mark by dismissing customer service and by no
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Corporate media.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
It's a strange feature of an economic system where the incentives require that successful participants blow themselves up. It requires that new=good and old=bad.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
There are pathways to risk reduction and disarmament if we have the political will to take them. For instance, in the United States, we could push congress to pass S.200 "Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons" https:/&#x2
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
The U.S. representative was hanging out in the hall with a few of our supporters denouncing the working group while the treaty was being discussed. We know exactly what we're doing and it would be comical if it weren't so deadly s
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
For people wanting really great analysis of nuclear issues, check out Jeff Lewis's Arms Control Wonk podcast. There's three episodes analyzing the Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons treaty amongst many other fascinat
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
The nuclear weapons states have failed to act. The international community is using shame (which has worked in the past for other treaties) and reaffirming their commitments to non-proliferation. Would you rather they do nothing?
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Never gonna happen. Google can do the things it does because it holds monopoly pricing in internet advertising. The freedom from competition and massive capitalization is what allows it to invest in blue sky projects.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
For what it's worth, I'm just describing the ground reality of research, not the utopian vision we should aspire to.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Most ideas people have suck. That's sort of the problem of new ideas in particular. When you're working, their failures aren't recognized as some kind of thing you need to tell the world about, you just tried something specul
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Nothing below is actually evidence, merely assertions that lead back to military intelligence. If you are skeptical of the Russia story in the first place, I see no reason you shouldn't be skeptical of this story. The nature of the &qu
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Our democracy is broken, we must fix it. Policy is made against the wishes of the great majority of people in favor of the wealthy. This has been documented time and time again.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I also would like to point out how insane it is that the author of this piece is crying out for a Nietzschesqe superman to save the public from itself. Mutual aid and the democratic process are quite enough. Just a hint though, solving some
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Thank you for the correction.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Where did you move from? I'm sorry you have to be subjected to our "heath care" system that essentially functions as a machine that draws money from the arms of the well to do and turns the poor into blood.

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