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by caeril 5y ago
> They can just shut it off voluntarily on their side and use that for leverage. The sanctions have conveniently carved out exceptions for settling energy, wheat, barley, and other commodity contracts, and it's these contract settle
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, they're definitely self-sustaining at a pre-1980 or so level. They have raw materials, abundant energy, the ability to feed themselves, and a decent IQ pool to pull from to design and manage what they need. But they still need pre
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by caeril 5y ago
If there's one thing Russia is very good at, it's surface to air defense. They've screwed so much of this operation thus far, but I bet you that good chunks of that column consist of Tunguskas and Tors, and the Ukrainians kno
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by caeril 5y ago
Not really "coping" skills, per se, but... Personally, I've been preparing for $generic_disaster_scenario for about a decade now. Not nuclear exchange specifically, but the generic ability to live without external supply chai
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by caeril 5y ago
You're not really allowed to mention this, nor are you allowed to note that the current Ukraine government is an illegitimate installation by FVEY IC in 2014, after the democratically elected one was overthrown. Also best not to point
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by caeril 5y ago
> Possibly just as bad. No, it's much worse. Collective Punishment is a globally-recognized war crime: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2... The US and the EU are flagrantly
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by caeril 5y ago
There is nothing "neutral" about Ukraine. The CIA deposed the legitimately elected government in 2014, and the actions of today have been inevitable since then. You'd have to be an idiot to accept a CIA puppet regime sharing
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by caeril 5y ago
Well I guess we need to send every US President since Eisenhower to the Hague in chains, then. Don't act like Russia is some sort of unique evil, here. The gallons of blood spilled in collateral damage to innocent civilians by US, US-l
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by caeril 5y ago
> Russian economy is in decline since 2014. The vast, vast majority of the growth in US and EU economies since 2014 (really, much earlier than that, though) has been in fundamentally non-productive sectors like finance, real estate, ente
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by caeril 5y ago
Weeks? JFL. You can't build LNG transfer depots to replace half of your pipeline deliveries in years, let alone weeks.
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by caeril 5y ago
The hiring process is determining who is a good fit for whom, both skills-wise, and other-wise. What if they never followed the link, and you had been hired, and you ended up working with a team of people who were culturally incompatible wi
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by caeril 5y ago
There's a third option, which is to ignore the system. There's no binary choice between fighting or playing the system - you can simply do without it. A comprehensive CS education is available for free for anyone sufficiently moti
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by caeril 5y ago
> It's a complicated problem to solve at any meaningful degree of scale. I doubt this is necessarily true. Modern social media is complex engineering specifically because of the demands of the Panopticon department for determining y
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by caeril 5y ago
> Getting information and help was difficult As time goes on, I don't see this as the benefit I used to. When Google supplanted Altavista as my go-to engine for technical docs, and then when StackOverflow come to the scene, I initia
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by caeril 5y ago
It's burying the lede to suggest that young people are having less sex. The salient fact is that it's young men who are skewing this average down. Women, on average, are doing perfectly fine in the sexual marketplace, along wi
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by caeril 5y ago
The logical case against the legitimacy of BLM protests is primarily predicated on evidence. Specifically, that while police brutality is definitely a problem in the US, there's no evidence that it disproportionately impacts people of
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by caeril 5y ago
Can someone clarify for me, if the US intelligence services and the Western mainstream media are domiciled in FVEY countries, why should I consider their opinions as neutral? Why would they, under any circumstances, express the opposite vie
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by caeril 5y ago
> The US media isn't going to push the US into a preemptive strike. Then you know nothing about the history of the US media.
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by caeril 5y ago
> gas will inevitably drop back down Why is this inevitable? Investment in US tight oil is stagnating, OPEC+ lacks either the desire or capability to increase production, Venezuela's production capacity is still terrible, and rumors
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes. However, the number of years people complain about societal decay is irrelevant to the question about whether it's happening or not. The Roman Empire was "going to hell in a handbasket" for centuries prior to 410, acco
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by caeril 5y ago
> For the breadwinner the outcome isn't very gendered This is a distinction without a difference. Even today, with women's educational attainment and workforce compensation skyrocketing, they still strongly marry "up"
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by caeril 5y ago
> Engineering and construction are pretty modern fields The mental tasks required of engineering are far, far, far, older. Things like abstract reasoning, distance estimation and measurement, rotation and scaling of objects, maps, and ab
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by caeril 5y ago
We're already way beyond the carrying capacity of the planet, without fossil fuel inputs. There are only two options: 1. Split more nuclei, fuse nuclei at +EROEI, and collect more photons. 2. 4 billion people starve to death. Populat
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by caeril 5y ago
> And it doesn't really matter. Okay. Defragging your disk prepares you to understand the concept of heap fragmentation later on in life. Understanding heap fragmentation and how to avoid it, how to compact segments, how to allocate
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by caeril 5y ago
Woah, I had no idea you posted on the Orange Site. I can also highly recommend tjic's Escape the City. Even if you don't actually homestead, the recipes and tips on workshop/garage organization are fantastic. And if you lik
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, it sucks. But the work is wholesome and you can listen to any podcast or audiobook you want when you're mending fences or mucking out stalls. Modernity has its perks, even on the homestead. > I can't help feel frustrated I
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by caeril 5y ago
Ok, let's say hypothetically it's not the salesperson's job to know everything about the device they're selling. I disagree, but let's assume this, anyway. Why did the company not send an actual engineer to the trad
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by caeril 5y ago
> why would bezos want this? Easy answer: The Cantillon Effect [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the... ] Whenever Central Banks print money, they don't load up helicopters and distribu
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by caeril 5y ago
> In fact, anyone who would do that wouldn't be smart at all, would be pretty stupid Can you expound on why this would be "stupid"? Holding dollars to exchange for later incurs a 7% (current dollar purchasing power loss ra
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by caeril 5y ago
> I don't (consciously) base my lunch decisions on whether I walked Emphasis on consciously. Your leptin/ghrelin balance will do that for you, and you won't even think about it.

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