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by enkid 5y ago
Warning, I am also a layman, but I don't think we know how clumped dark matter is. We know it has to be spread out on galactic scales, but that doesn't mean it's spread out at solar system scales. Some people even suggest d
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According to the government of Canada, [0] typically there is enough capacity in pipeline and rail to transport all of the crude. In 2018, there was a surge in demand and they weren't able to transport it all until the rail network cau
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Market value is having someone else have control over the value of what you control. Market value may not be centralized, but it is the definition of something you do not control. This is my point. You cannot have full control over someth
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What does being fully sovereign mean for something that's only used as a medium of exchange? It's value is always only meaningful when at least two people agree on it's value. At best you only control half of the equation.
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I read it as he broke both his arms in a way unrelated to the snake?
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As a non-German speaker I found the joke about the joke informative and humorous.
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Why do we have to bring Native Americans into it? This seems at best a non-sequitur, and at worst whataboutism to hide China's many issues with suppressing minority cultures. No one claims states in the Americas have a good history w
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by enkid 5y ago
Why is this on the front page instead of the billions of dollars that the US and Europeans are giving?
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I don't know about modern claims, I was more talking about historical claims, where "culture" was associated with whiteness and things that were considered black were lesser and therefore not worth preserving. Black culture
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Russia saying Ukrainian culture is the same as Russian culture could be considered racist. It's similar to claims that African Americans don't have a unique culture. The result is people justifying suppression of that culture be
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You don't think people could believe non-sense?
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Is there a reason to think one way or the other? I would think having something contradicting it in the same time that it is said would affect at least a portion of people.
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I don't understand your point. Iran certainly did intervene though. And I don't think there are many people you can point to that say now that the invasion was a good idea.
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NATO is not the US. This is such an absurd statement considering the measures all of the other members have been taking over the last few days, often well before the US. Saying something like that totally discounts the rest of your argume
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The US did not make Putin invade Ukraine. That's like saying Iran made the US invade Iraq, because Saddam didn't give up WMDs because he was scared about Iran. The only person who made Putin invade Ukraine is Putin. The US and W
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by enkid 5y ago
Russia is about to default on their debt. The Ruble is worthless. ATM's are running out of cash. They aren't allow to buy microchips anymore. They've had 1000's of casualties and lost hundreds of pieces of military eq
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by enkid 5y ago
So the West should just let Russia invade Ukraine? The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was because of the oil embargo, sure. But the oil embargo was in place because of their aggression against China. Should the US have kept selling o
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Yes, but Bank of China is a state owned/controlled entity.
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Gaddafi, Saddam, and Assad all had sanctions against them and groups armed against them. Sudan was forced to give up South Sudan. The response to any situation is never going to be identical, it needs to be dictated by what is going on in
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Russia and Ukraine still use a lot of equipment that was built when the USSR was a single entity.
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The US clearly had some sort of intelligence that the order had already been given, but France and Ukraine, and other countries without access to that or skeptical of the source specifically said it was unlikely up until a day or two before
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Very few people accurately said he was going to invade. The president of Ukraine said like two days before hand that it was unlikely. Tryin to make specific predictions at this time about what he will or will not do is not a good idea.
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I think the idea that we can predict what Putin's lines are went out the window four days ago.
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There's been some groups raising independent fighting forces in Syria and Chechnya, but I don't think they've gotten to Ukraine yet. Ukraine has been actively recruiting Westerners who have been willing to fight since 2014 a
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Hopefully this turns out better for Kyiv then it did for Grozny...
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Good luck
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This is all assuming you share an underlying rational with the leader of Russia, which you don't. Putin obviously doesn't care about having a good economy or making life better for the average Russian. He cares about making hims
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by enkid 5y ago
I'm not clear on the process in Canada. Is this like being a political appointee or more like a traditional government employee? I would certainly understand firing a congressional staffer who was working for a democratic senator and
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This is not true for me. I think I buy more games than I watch movies at this point. Movies of the games are under ten dollars because I pick them up on sale, then I spend a couple hours on them and feel fine with it, because it wasn'
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I'm pretty sure this is true for the vast majority of consumer products.

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