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by blub 4y ago
What studies? Empirically, ignoring wrong behaviour is a clear recipe for ending up with a completely spoiled menace on ones hands. The alternative to punishment is therefore not ignoring, it's explaining things and setting boundarie
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by blub 4y ago
Remaining calm and explaining things is great, as long as it's clear that this will sometimes (maybe many times) not achieve anything. I like to think that they'll think about what they were told once they calm down :-)
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by blub 4y ago
I don't think you're right. Kids are naturally flexible, curious and have no notion of right or wrong. They will constantly try things out and need boundaries for their own good and for the good of the family. How these boundaries
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by blub 5y ago
My reply where I was claiming that the comment from arinlen was manipulative was flagged, but I stand by my statement. It’s also in no way a personal attack to describe someone’s comment that way. Here’s why I claimed it’s manipulative: the
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by blub 5y ago
I agree with you mostly about why it would be expensive, but Teenage Engineering doesn't have a reputation for building reliable devices. I own an OP-1, owned two POs and considered getting an OP-Z only to be scared away by all the rep
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by blub 5y ago
If they continue to exercise their “creativity” like they did in Altered Carbon 2 and Witcher 2, they might as well not bother.
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by blub 5y ago
Technically you’re correct and I think he should have mentioned this. Would have been interested to see what kind of arguments he’d bring forth… As I said in another comment though, making war costly is basically just waging war. Maybe it w
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by blub 5y ago
Mutual or one-sided exhaustion is indistinguishable from regular war until it happens and at least in this case the hope of reaching such a state is based on continuous escalation. Negotiated settlement is very broad and would include such
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by blub 5y ago
What media would you suggest? Surprisingly, I’ve found AlJazeera to be quite professional, if slightly biased for up-to-date news. Reports from rusi.org are interesting, but not free and some do have a whiff of opinion/cheering, which
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by blub 5y ago
Gas and electricity are not at all fungible for Germany or the EU. You’ve repeatedly made this claim in the thread and other commenters posted detailed reports showing the use of gas in the German economy. It’s suicidal for the EU to give
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by blub 5y ago
It’s in the interest of everyone to keep communication channels open between superpowers and even lesser powers.
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by blub 5y ago
My impression is that the UN is a place where all nations come together to negotiate and communicate. Kicking nations out or overriding their vote would defeat the purpose as this would trigger several of them to leave the organization and
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by blub 5y ago
What will the US, UK and France do if Russia uses a tactical nuke in Ukraine? Nuking Russia because they nuked Ukraine is… very unlikely.
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by blub 5y ago
Maybe when life’s good it’s easy to ignore what one’s government is misspending on the military. But when job security’s low, education costs a fortune and the social safety net barely exists, asking why one’s government is sending billions
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by blub 5y ago
Don’t understand the hostile tone. Are you on some moral crusade that you forgot to announce? When your neighbor’s Russia, China or the US what one wants is perhaps less important than what the superpower next door wants. Ukraine and the EU
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by blub 5y ago
I don’t think the US wanted Ukraine to get invaded either. But they did want Ukraine to be NATO-aligned in spite of the harmful effect towards Russia’s security and despite its warnings. Morally that might make sense, but geopolitically it
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by blub 5y ago
Yes, it is possible to threaten or insult somebody, but this would not cause brain damage. You cannot cause cellular damage to a human’s brain by talking to them.
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by blub 5y ago
Most European countries do not have US troops on their soil. Hosting foreign troops means that the country has a weak military, or in the case of Germany additionally that it lost a war. It’s not exactly something to be proud of and makes t
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by blub 5y ago
Child abuse is not speech… I don’t understand how it is even necessary to explicitly say this. :-/
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by blub 5y ago
Even if people may disagree about the specific year, the initial upward and currently downward trend is unmistakable and visible also all over Western Europe.
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by blub 5y ago
Your comment would make sense if women, gays or black people would be immune from “cancellation”.
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by blub 5y ago
Yes, causing brain damage is violence. No, speech can not cause brain damage. Unless inaction or speech is directly and unmistakeable the cause of someone’s death, then they cannot be held responsible for that death and trying to do so is j
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by blub 5y ago
I’ve used Jira and Confluence on-prem for many years. They’re fine, although the performance is a bit annoying and the WYSIWYG editors can get confused sometimes. I actually like Confluence, it’s a well done wiki solution.
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by blub 5y ago
AFAIK it’s not that hard if you find a relative to move into that apartment. But finding that relative may be hard…
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by blub 5y ago
I’ll reply here so that you can also quickly have access to the counter-argument: people complain about Electron because of quality issues. OP is arguing for Electron for business reasons. Which is why we’re generally exposed to so much med
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by blub 5y ago
France uses a lot of electricity for heating and it’s not going great it would seem, since a lot of their nuclear power-plants are down for maintenance.
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by blub 5y ago
Besides what a sibling comment said, in Germany the local (~county) governments gathered sloppy statistics (put people with unknown vaccination status in the unvaccinated column) and then justified that to restrict the freedom of movement o
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by blub 5y ago
If you’re in Austria, don’t forget about the mandatory vaccination for the general population which was passed during Omicron and then the enforcement was suspended as the politicians finally accepted what everyone else already knew.
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by blub 5y ago
The government and hospitals don’t source masks from the local store or amazon. They can also force companies in a crisis to sell only to them and ban exports. If the government is competing for masks with regular citizens, they had already
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by blub 5y ago
Some O’Reilly books are available on ebooks.com DRM-free.

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