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biorach
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biorach
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> Seriously! That's crazy huh? it does what it says on the tin. nothing crazy about it. They spell out for you in detail what they offer: https://fly.io/docs/postgres/getting-started/what-you-should..
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> Unmanaged dbs masquerading as managed Are you talking about fly postgres? Because I use it and feel they've been pretty clear that it's unmanaged.
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... and an opportunistic land-grab on a huge scale at the expense of Palestinians.
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> Israel shows every day that they are willing and able to live closely with the Palestinians who accept their right to exist and aren't trying to murder their families, without using apartheid-like systems of control This is very m
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> you came to their defense not to argue, but I want to be really really really clear on this. I did not come to their defense. Please see my direct reply to their comment.
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> to be in favour of destroying an entire country and deporting or killing the people in it. woah! dial it back there. I advocated no such thing please take a few deep breaths and read slowly over the thread making note of who said what.
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> there can never be peace until they get their land back or are fully exterminated or controlled militarily That's very much not true. Compromises are possible and are often the only way. Do I need to start listing examples?
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3y ago
The issue is that after the Winter war there was still a Finland, after WWII there was still a Poland, and a Germany and a Turkey and a Greece and an Armenia. There is now no real Palestine state and no realistic prospect of one. Somewhere
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thank you for the polite response and the prompt edit
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> when westerners stop supporting Israel they adopt antisemitic viewpoints. That is very definately not a given. There are many, a majority I hope, of "westerners" who oppose the actions of the state of Israel without becoming
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This seems far fetched given China's traditional insistence that countries' internal affairs should not be subject to external overview, it's undeclared stance that subject populations should be suppressed by whatever means n
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> cartels contesting power Drug cartels are not run along anarchist lines. I think you have a misunderstanding of the basic concepts here.
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> until some actual datable evidence becomes apparent then everything is speculation. The 10th century date is supported by evidence https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/12/cerne-giant-...
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Oh yeah, obviously. It's all a bit embarrassing. But easiest to get one message across at a time.
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Whatever. Just don't be condescending
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> To say that those people were killed on purpose The article does not say these people were killed on purpose > And the queen of Spain made native Indians that had baptised by law equal to Spaniards The reality on the ground was very
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While technically true this is somewhat pedantic, the KJV was the first vernacular translation to be widely available in the English speaking world and is a hugely influential text for literary English, so just take "original" her
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We already have hundreds (thousands?) of Mt devices. A handful of Gt devices is not going to change anything as regards humanity's threat to itself. In fact I believe that anything over the low tens of Mt is considered impractical for
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3y ago
poor analogy
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hotboxing?
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I think you're being unfairly harsh. Looks to me like they're improving.
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Why do _you_ think Rust is better for web development than Rails or Go?
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3y ago
Excellent news
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> just like was done in germany and japan during ww2. The difference is that the USA did not expropriate and colonise the majority of their territory and reduce them to servile status, which is what is happening in the West Bank. Instead
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The reality on the ground in the West Bank runs contrary to this story. Two infitadas crushed, Arafat long dead, a supine administration facilitates Israeli military occupation, Israeli settlers continue to pour in, expropriation and coloni
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> Israel isn't trying to push Palestinians out of Israel. The ambition that leaders on both sides agree on is that the Palestinians will have their own state. That's not true at all. The 2 most recent Prime Ministers of Israel
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Many, but not the vast majority, and they still had their homeland(s). That's the crucial difference.
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> Japan and Germany have been pretty well behaved since the Allies ground them to the dust during WW2 - why do you think it couldn't work here? The grinding into dust was a small part of the reason for the successful outcome The mai
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> But that's true of almost every country. All of them have complicated histories. A) that's kind of saying colonisation is OK because other countries did it B) the colonisation in Israel is ongoing and extreme. The West Bank i
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> Israel left Gaza, and uprooted its own citizens, Those were settlers, attempting to lay claim to land in Gaza
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