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by ericmay 17d ago
> "Maybe the Trump administration isn't lying" deserves a snarky comment. Sure just stop complaining about it then > Until it's available, I'm very comfortable not taking the claims of the "vandals cut a
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by ericmay 17d ago
Snarky comments deserve snarky replies so there you have it. You won’t have to take the Trump administrations word you’ll just have to read the agreement and accept the facts of it even if it doesn’t fit your preconceived political narrativ
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by ericmay 17d ago
They aren’t the only people who prevent civilian casualties though. It also doesn’t prevent civilian casualties generally given that civilian casualties have occurred prior to this organization being disbanded. Anyway let’s talk about the 3
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by ericmay 17d ago
Any given policy choice we make results in bad things happening to someone. War is just politics by other means. If we stand around and do nothing, maybe Iran kills 5000 kids for being homosexual over the next few years? If we close all the
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by ericmay 17d ago
Ours was a mistake, not intentional. There is a huge difference.
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by ericmay 17d ago
To read this post you must pay me $5. Please leave your contact information as a reply or you'll be hearing from my lawyer. [1] Those contracts and licenses are just a form of protection enforced by the State. In general once knowledge
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by ericmay 18d ago
It’s real but whether you can make a profit or not is dependent on whether you can protect the information. It has been this way since civilization as we know it started, I believe. If you are freely posting sentences like this was on the i
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by ericmay 18d ago
> Why does this sound as much about Team Trump's behavior as about Iran? My guess would be because you're bringing in some prior baggage and over-indexing on Trump and not looking at the broader history and geopolitical situati
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by ericmay 18d ago
I know more about history than you do. No I don't care about usernames. You can respond to the points and debate them or you can toss around ad hominem attacks and I'll just parrot them back to you. Up to you.
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by ericmay 18d ago
I just think you are super focused on the negatives. My life is great, I don't have a mental health crisis, most of my friends are doing well and having kids and enjoying their lives, and more. There might be something deeply wrong wit
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by ericmay 19d ago
But on the other hand you are assuming the modern world is bad and so therefore exposure to it is a dangerous and negative thing. I'm here to tell you that having access to medicine and playing sports and whatever is pretty great too.
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by ericmay 19d ago
> like a racist doesn't think they are racist Bad example and not at all relevant here in any context, let's set that aside. > we are typically not in the position to judge our own tropes In that case you can't recogni
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by ericmay 19d ago
There aren't any tropes, you're making them up because you have a pre-set axe that you're trying to grind that I'm not even arguing with you about. I'd recommend reading what someone is writing and engaging with tha
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by ericmay 19d ago
> You didn't tell me why charcoal is or isn't a valid medium. Charcoal has even less color. I don't have to or care to answer the question? > and list what media you think your favorite paintings were I don't have
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by ericmay 19d ago
But there are still costs and environmental impact. If you need water for example for data center cooling no amount of renewable energy is going to change that (I'm speaking generally, of course you could cool more efficiently or use s
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by ericmay 19d ago
I don't watch Fox News or care about Zionism so that's false. The only comment chain that is laughable is yours. You don't know anything about history and your comments clearly reflect that. You didn't even know about 19
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by ericmay 19d ago
> one "very" for every month? No, you missed the point and you're now conflating AI capability with infrastructure cost.
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by ericmay 19d ago
> Anyway, enjoy not being able to buy gas in a few weeks. haha ok - exactly how many weeks? That way I can come back and tell you that you were wrong. :) I'm rich and drive an EV anyway so I don't really care. > Your argumen
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by ericmay 19d ago
> Neither being colorful nor precise photographic representation were the point of Impressionism either. I didn't claim that photographic representation was the point. Colorful for the sake of colorful wasn't the point either,
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by ericmay 19d ago
> The Chinese are rebuilding their electric grid to be all renewable. It will take a couple more decades, but they are literally printing energy like we print processors. Sure but decades will leave them very very very very far behind in
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by ericmay 19d ago
There actually have been a lot of consternation regarding golf, but at least people are out exercising and having fun and stuff. It's not all bad. Personally I think the main issue with respect to water is the usage and usage at lower
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by ericmay 19d ago
> Who or what does (a) the CN Tower, (b) the Space Needle, (c) the Empire State Building, (d) your house glorify? A - CN Tower I'm not sure. It's just tall B - Space Needle - I'm not sure it's just tall. C - Empire St
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by ericmay 19d ago
> Are you trying to say that the AfP program and the F14 sale were the attempts to try? You realize those were done prior to the Islamic revolution, right? What attempts outside of the JCPOA have been tried during the rule of the current
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by ericmay 20d ago
> In that case you should be able to answer the questions for each of the three buildings. Or the house you live in. I can answer any question you have. Just let me know. > Level of detail is very objective. Are you saying degas is mo
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by ericmay 20d ago
> You seem to have some mental issues I think. You seem to have mental issues then. > You were the one who brought up the question of who a building glorifies, not me. It wasn't a question though, I was just stating a fact. And &
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by ericmay 20d ago
> Why didn't you answer that question? ... Its as objective as it gets in art as eg saying the Space Needle building is not a Roman style building. Idk I didn't find it important or interesting. Even in your case of the Space N
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by ericmay 20d ago
So now we're arguing that there are objective facts in art? Interesting. You can't simultaneously say that there are no objective facts and then argue with my interpretation of the art which is subjective opinion, just like yours.
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by ericmay 20d ago
But you pointed out the intent in your comparison between neoclassicism and brutalism, I didn't. But to your point about the effect that some building has on people, we have things we can measure about that effect. You can look at numb
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by ericmay 20d ago
> Architecture. In both neoclassicism and brutalism, regardless of intended aim, the effect seems to be one of silublime monumental scale that humbles a person. Well why would you discard the intention? I think there is more to compare a
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by ericmay 20d ago
You say that, but then when you look around in reality it's not true. Nobody is using an alternative payment system, nor does it have the most users. Even if it did, having the most users isn't the same as having the most money. &

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