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by eej71 4y ago
If that's important to you, then you should also be aware that many of the greens and various anti-nuke groups from the 1980s and onwards were funded by the Soviets. Some of these details can be found in books like "The Spy and th
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by eej71 4y ago
If anything, the decline in needing cheap labor is going to be a problem for large countries like China. China needed those cheap labor factories to be the engine to help lift people out of rural poverty. Unfortunately that engine will now
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by eej71 4y ago
I think one of the challenges that the movement faces is that since the 1960's, there have been many disaster claims - sometimes bordering on the fantastical - and they simply don't come to pass. Not sure why this go-around should
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by eej71 4y ago
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by eej71 4y ago
It continues to be disappointing to see so many people turn to state power as a solution to the problem of scarcity. Scarcity is solved through production not political power.
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by eej71 4y ago
I'd also recommend Bright Sun Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqsPF8dx1GU
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by eej71 4y ago
I get the sense that you have ingested a lot of information that reinforces your world view of upcoming doom and negativity. The internet is good for that! What books, ideas, authors and thinkers would you tune into to challenge that? For e
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by eej71 4y ago
This late 80's PSA style ad covers that perspective as well. This style of ads were easy to mock even in the 80s - but I always thought this one had a point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQL9ZzJTX0
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by eej71 4y ago
Agreed. Scott Rozelle's _Invisible China_ is very much worth a read on this topic. The author is not a China hater - far from it. But he lays out in sobering detail the substantial demographic challenge they still face and why they may
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by eej71 4y ago
Certainly true - but the advocacy of the philosophical distinction and its promotion originates from various intellectuals. I wish it would go back to where it came from, but I see that we may be stuck with it for quite a while.
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by eej71 4y ago
The conflation is a very recent intellectual phenomena.
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Some of you might enjoy the X-Files episode about an HOA with a sinister side. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751076/
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by eej71 4y ago
Decades ago, in the days before uber, my employer would fly in candidates from college campuses as part of an onsite interview. The candidate would fly in the night before and we relied on a taxi service to bring the candidate to the hotel.
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by eej71 4y ago
Very much agree. You might find this book clarifying. I know I did. Nothing Less Than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7687279-nothing-less-tha...
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by eej71 4y ago
If the people who design the atrocious touch screen interfaces inside of cars could get educated by the nice people at teenage engineering, that would be swell.
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by eej71 5y ago
Poor Perforce. Once upon a time it was a very useful and interesting product. For those of you who have only known a world of git, there was a time where a product like perforce was just awesome. Fast, functional, reasonably priced, and sup
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by eej71 5y ago
What tools do you find helpful in managing tags and missing album art work?
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by eej71 5y ago
Not even close. For me, America is a child of the enlightenment. Russia... is not. For a throrough review of the intellectual influence that enlightenment thinkers had on America, check out C. Bradley Thompson's America's Revoluti
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by eej71 5y ago
One idea to consider... offer the font but with the vowels jumbled around and the digits jumbled around. I can see everything I need. But would need to buy it if I really want to use it.
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Many of the countries that can afford to do this already have fossil fuel reserves that they could use should they choose to. Even of the countries that could pay for this abusrdly expensive project - this will require mining rare earth ele
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by eej71 5y ago
The dream of any kind of small scale storage hinges on mining rare earth elements at a scale that no environmentalist will ever support. The greens will fully reverse course here once it becomes clear what kind of activity is required to ma
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by eej71 5y ago
Many countries could also source fossil fuels from friendly allies. But those allies would have to be interested in extracting it from their own sources. From my stand point, and this will be very unpopular here, the push to rely on the unr
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by eej71 5y ago
I agree with your positive comments about C++. I sometimes think that not enough people appreciate the tough spot that C++ was in around 2008 and just how far it has come since then. The additions via evolution to C++ have been far beyond w
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by eej71 5y ago
I'll be that guy. Actually it's Always Be Closing. Obligatory Glenngary Glen Ross scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7y6EOGY87U&t=104s
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by eej71 5y ago
Accoridng to historian David McCullough, the play Cato was a favorite of George Washington and well known to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Two famous American quotes likely originate in a slightly different form from the play itself. ht
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by eej71 5y ago
This sounds good at first, but I think it wears differently if you try to apply it to something in a different political quadrant. Consider in the summer of 2020 there was a popular social movement that had quite a presence on social media
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by eej71 5y ago
I do agree with your underlying defense of private property. Spotify has a legal right to do this. There is no contractural issue here. And this is not censorship. But there is a cultural question that I think this defense sidesteps a bit.
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by eej71 5y ago
You are half right! (I didn't write the text you challenged). But I did misread the OP's comments. He does make that claim. Clearly Joe could pull his content if he wanted.
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None. But no one is making that claim.
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For me there is a cultural question of - what kind of heterodox should be considered normal as part of a broad based distribution service. For example, there are a number of artists who seem to glorify killing police. Should we consider it

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