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LGBT tolerance slumps in Netherlands, only 22% of boys have LGBT positive views(dutchnews.nl)
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Germany's far-right AfD win another state election, adding pressure on Merz(cnn.com)
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Putin envoy and far-right AfD prepare talks to get Russian gas back for Germany(reuters.com)
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by alephnerd 9d ago
Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam also have high student visa family rates in Australia. It's not just an India problem. And a decade ago it used to be Chinese until China started a trade war with Australia [0][1]. [0] - https:
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by alephnerd 9d ago
At least abroad, an Australian degree that isn't from a UNSW or Sydney tier uni isn't well regarded anyhow. Like (eg.) RMIT or CQU doesn't open any doors in Vietnam, India, or Indonesia, but all their advertising (which often
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by alephnerd 9d ago
FYI PhD students are exempted from this regulation, though in all honesty Australia should just shut down degree mill and cash cow programs to nip the problem in the bud. For example, a Masters in Project Management [0] or Information Techn
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by alephnerd 9d ago
> The most interesting thing in the article to me is that there was a dual library/bookstore... At least in California, libraries often have a community run used bookstore whose proceeds are used to help the library run community pr
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by alephnerd 9d ago
When I was a kid in the 1990s and 2000s, libraries were already de facto community centers as well in the Bay, LA, and BC.
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In Germany's east, old ties to Moscow fuel AfD rise(ft.com)
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Internet shutdown crosses 100 days in Pakistan-administered Kashmir(aljazeera.com)
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China tightens travel restrictions for citizens(bbc.com)
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Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter(reuters.com)
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by alephnerd 13d ago
Primarily researchers directly and actively associated with the Ash Center who are researching institutional reform and stability [0] or those associated with the Carnegie Democracy, Conflict, and Governance program [1]. [0] - https:/
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by alephnerd 13d ago
Barbara Walter's model (which is what Armitage is leveraging) is deeply flawed and not the norm in most studies into autocracies and state instability. And to add on to that, Armitage himself has been a provocateur for "soft seces
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Iran's Internet Blackout Is Almost Impossible to Escape(bloomberg.com)
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by alephnerd 15d ago
> Why redacted still Because a number of the people associated with this are still alive on all sides. 1998-2001 was only 25-28 years ago, so a lot of sources are still alive or active sources as we speak, and in a number of cases now de
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by alephnerd 15d ago
Pakistan and Iran fought a skirmish in December 2024 [0] that was quickly deescalated, but Pakistan is increasingly misaligned with the IRGC as it's working closer with Iran's political leadership [1]. I don't expect a war to
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by alephnerd 15d ago
1. Waivers, state owned enterprises, shell corporations, barter trades, and using their own currencies for transactions 2. I agree. I'm just being prosaic as to why European states are in the pickle they are today. 3. They are closel
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by alephnerd 15d ago
The issue was 1990s-2000s Germany argued it was in Europe's best interest to integrate Russia into the European fabric, but 1990s-2000s France+UK+Italy argued it was in Europe's best interest to integrate the Mediterranean into th
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Hamas planned Berlin-Vienna attacks for Oct. 7 anniversary, GBA indictment shows(politico.eu)
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by alephnerd 15d ago
> Will this bring oil prices down in Europe ... This will not help Asia This hurts Europe more than Asia. The UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, and others are similarly opposed to the Houthis having conducted airstrikes on the Hou
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by alephnerd 16d ago
I am an AI booster and have visibility into a number of these models, and this is ridiculous. They underestimate AI's existing impact on some job markers and overestimate it's impact in such short a timeframe.
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by alephnerd 16d ago
CAPS LOCK DOES NOTHING TO HELP YOUR ARGUMENT. IT IS THE FORUM EQUIVALENT OF YELLING
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by alephnerd 16d ago
> It's on Paramount+ That's the issue. Paramount+ only has roughly 59 million subscribers in the US. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu/Disney+ remain the big 4 nationally [0]. Additionally, you don't see the sa
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by alephnerd 16d ago
Subsidizing unionized EV and Battery manufacturing jobs in deep red states [0], expanding tax credits and subsidizes for the bottom 50% of Americans [1], expanding Medicaid access [2], and other tangible pocketbook benefits showed that a po
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by alephnerd 16d ago
Much of the culture war crap that helped justify Tea Party and proto-alt right commentary started out from 2000s and early 2010s South Park. The "Bernie bro" to MAGA pipeline is very real, as was the "I wanna make sexist or r
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by alephnerd 19d ago
Most of these jobs are the same jobs that arose thanks to the CHIPS and IRA. Much of the AI boom and trade is building on top of the capex that arose from the semiconductor/hardware portfolio during that era. Many of the current DCs be
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by alephnerd 19d ago
Huh. Like Pomodoro. That makes sense.
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by alephnerd 19d ago
Appreciate the clarification!
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by alephnerd 20d ago
Disagreement does not mean dislike.

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