School-Cotton

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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Utter nonsense. There are plenty of good stupid people and smart evil people.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
That had nothing to do with AI
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
No. That is a draw assuming it is the player with only a king’s turn to move. Translating your notation to normal chess notation: White king on h1, black rooks on a2 and g8, black king in some random other place, white to move. That is a dr
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Black can’t move the knight: it’s illegal to make a move that puts yourself in check. Thus black has no legal moves, but isn’t in check, so the result is a draw.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
My guess is the vast majority of those are Hispanic Americans who have been Catholic since birth, and not part of the modern far-right Catholic conversion movement (like Vance).
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
What is reasoning?
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
I think you're right, it's a bracketing ambiguity. Rather than "Iran to use Hormuz fees for (reconstruction instead of reparations)" it's more likely to mean "Iran to use (Hormuz fees for reconstruction) instea
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Of course Iran wouldn't block its own ships at its own checkpoints, but the US is capable of easily interdicting Iranian shipping if it wants to.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Yes
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Of course Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, etc. shouldn't have nukes, i.e. it would be bad for global stability if they got them. But that's not what the comment you replied to was claiming -- they were claiming that it's in their int
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
I agree with most of your comment; I'm certainly not in favor of the war and think it was both morally dubious as well as a strategic disaster for the US. I'm just saying that Israel isn't a theocracy, which is true. Also, th
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Israel is mostly secular and is by no means governed by Halakha; it’s not any more of a theocracy than the US is. Netanyahu is not religious at all, and though some members of his coalition are, they’re not the majority partners. This isn’t
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
That would mean Saudi Arabia is starting a war with Iran, which they presumably don’t want to do.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
I’m 99% sure that if there is a deal where Iran collects a toll, it’s going to involve counting that toll (and/or sanctions relief, and/or unfreezing Iranian assets) as reparations. I would be very surprised if the US or Israel ev
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Not quite, since they plan to share the revenue with Oman, or at least that’s what they’re currently claiming.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
They have given back territory they don’t care about (Sinai), or “given back” territory but kept it under a permanent near-total blockade and military control (Gaza), but never given back territory they do care about and which is the main s
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Adults can and do become addicted to gambling (and drugs, etc.) and ruin the lives of themselves and those around them. Recognizing this fact isn't treating them like children, it's treating them like the adults they are.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
There are a lot of non-white citizens of Canada (and Germany) whereas the comment you’re replying to is about non-citizens. Also Canada hasn’t had conscription for a long time as far as I know, the friends you refer to were volunteers.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
So Iran would sell its main natural resource at half-price forever to pay for China to keep bases on its territory? That also doesn’t seem plausible. Realistically there is no amount that Iran would be willing to pay and that China would be
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
That’s essentially what the commenter is proposing when talking about banning birth control. This would be equivalent to compelling women to reproduce (or forego sexual relations, which in reality most people won’t do).
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Can you give a link to what you’re talking about?
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
There is an actual answer to this, don’t listen to the random people replying saying stuff like “because the CDU is in power” or whatever. The actual answer is because the constitutional instrument that allows conscription (Artikel 12a Grun
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
Why would China agree to that? It's an insane proposition for them. "You have to put bases in a country where you have no strategic reason to do so, and in addition, you agree that if that country is attacked then you have to nuke
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
It's My Lai, not Mai Lai FYI.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
In my experience people use “victimless” to mean “the victims are people I lack sympathy for”.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
That’s like saying the US is contiguous with Japan, you just have to cross through parts of the Pacific Ocean to get there. Contiguous precisely means you don’t have to cross anything else to get there, it is connected.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
> It looks flat to me since July of last year. That was the entire point of my comment. You can’t compare fall winter and spring to last July. You have to compare last July to this July, which hasn’t happened yet, but when it does, it wi
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
You can also just browse LinkedIn with a browser that doesn’t have extensions installed, if privacy is that important to you. Like everyone else on this thread, I’m not condoning it or saying it’s a good thing, but this post is an exaggerat
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
What would have been your solution to needing more bits? More information is always going to be harder to remember.
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by School-Cotton 7mo ago
It’s not flat: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html You have to take into account seasonal trends. The summer is always higher, so yes, we’re currently below last summer, but we are above last

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