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by ericmay 21d ago
> No we didn't. Well, we tried the JCPOA eventually, but that got nuked by Trump. Yes we did try. We shouldn't have needed a JCPOA, Iran should just not have pursued nuclear weapons. Atoms for Peace program, for example. Why di
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by ericmay 21d ago
> The UK was spoken of in the particular because ... > Countries like Portugal and the Netherlands simply don't have that history ... Totally fair! But then you (or whoever made the point) can't drag in the US and Vietnam wa
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by ericmay 21d ago
> But they're not equipped to decide whether they want it or not. Why can't you say that about, idk, folks on welfare in the United States? How are they in a position to decide whether buying pop on food stamps is what they wan
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by ericmay 21d ago
Idk. I don't see any cultural or artistic resemblance with Balloon Girl versus say, Luncheon of the Boating Party. Separately it's always peculiar to me that folks go on to defend some art, but I bet if I went around saying neocla
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by ericmay 21d ago
Right… so why do you think the US imposed tariffs? Germany is already seeing gigantic problems via declining exports because of China. Are they going to stop exports to the United States too? The EU can’t add any more “trade bazooka” than i
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by ericmay 21d ago
Thanks - you are right and have the much more mature perspective. Many want to further drive a wedge between the US and Europe, presumably they live in Moscow and Beijing and Tehran.
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by ericmay 21d ago
You mention the private equity backed builder, but the designs come from the corrupted ivory tower which just invents more and more ridiculous designs (modernism, brutalism, for example) to try to stay fresh. Same in the art world. (Banksy,
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by ericmay 21d ago
> Vietnam hasn't been sanctioned for decades following the war. Why can't the US and Israel get over the Shah being overthrown? We've tried but then they fund all these militias and kill lots of people and keep trying to b
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by ericmay 22d ago
That seems like a different kind of criticism, one that unfairly singles out the United Kingdom and ignores the global systems of inequality and injustice that were instantiated by broader colonial powers and conflict, whether that's t
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by ericmay 22d ago
The original claim was an incoherent laundry list of made up statistics. I just pointed out the problems with it by extending the claims further.
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by ericmay 22d ago
> Have you ever thought to pause and wonder why they say that? Yes I have, it's because authoritarian regimes need eternal, external enemies to mask their own failures as they pilfer the country. You talk about Iran being robbed bli
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by ericmay 22d ago
You're right, I hadn't realized that. But you get the broader point.
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by ericmay 22d ago
I see- your interpretation may be the correct one.
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by ericmay 22d ago
It’s not bait. I don’t think the OP that I responded to was speaking about the mechanics of introducing these populations to the Internet (they’re welcome to correct me) but that they shouldn’t be introduced to such things or that the intro
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by ericmay 22d ago
It’s of interest certainly but why would it be strange that Australia, a member of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, also a member of the Commonwealth have closer ties? The US has closer ties with the UK than it does Cuba, for example.
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by ericmay 22d ago
> Remote populations aren't global idea consumers at the internet-accessible global ideas mart. Why not?
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China says AI CEOs' call for a slowdown is 'fear mongering'(cnbc.com)
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by ericmay 22d ago
Why stop there? Why not go back to when the Greeks made Darius mad and started the Greco-Persian wars? If you want the Iranian people to engage in a forever war against the West, this is the kind of attitude you must hold. “Some arbitrary i
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by ericmay 22d ago
The premise of the OP is whataboutism. But you can take a step back and ask, well, what's the guiding framework here? Is it arbitrarily picking certain time periods to make a point? Why do we go back to "Japan" and World War
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by ericmay 22d ago
> - Threatened to exterminate Persians civilization, blown up bridges, killed children and destroyed civilian infrastructure Iran threatens that all the time "Death to America" so if they don't like someone saying it back
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by ericmay 22d ago
> BRICS begs to dffer. Why would that matter?
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by ericmay 22d ago
I'm highly interested in the topic, and folks continue to write and respond to things that I disagree with. That's why you see my posts. This site (and life) shouldn't be an echo chamber.
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by ericmay 22d ago
> But I worry this kind of action will just lead to the eventual rise of an alternative tech ecosystem in the long term, probably led by china and Russia. It will be bad for us, bad for people living under those regimes, but good for the
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by ericmay 23d ago
A failure of design rehash is still an engineering failure in this industry. I don't think you can cleanly separate the two like you are more able to, though imperfectly, in software. I don't mean to suggest that there aren't
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by ericmay 23d ago
Which is probably why sales are declining. I wouldn't be caught dead in a shoe that looks like that. What would I wear it with? Jeans? When Nike makes "fashionable" products there's nothing for Nike to sell to me. I gues
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by ericmay 23d ago
Maybe that narrative and story is overly-simplistic, feel-good stuff for engineers who think they're smarter than they are and the explanations for why these companies fail can be rather nuanced and completely unrelated to whatever dec
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by ericmay 23d ago
I’m not quite sure but Nike really blew up back in the day with a focus on basketball via the Nike Jordan/Air Force One. More recently I just don’t understand their product line up. If I click on Men’s in the US there are over 700 shoe
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by ericmay 23d ago
Kind of a meandering and incoherent article in my view. You see this a lot with Nazis or other authoritarian types as they look to drum up largely fake histories that scapegoat a population (Jews are always popular) and then misrepresent th
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by ericmay 24d ago
Well guns don't kill people on their own. They just sit there. AI might actually be different and just kill people on its own.
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by ericmay 25d ago
> Russia-Ukraine war is important for Europe and perhaps should for the US as well but you can well see that’s not that important for Israel for example. We just decide it's not important then like Europe decides Iran isn't imp

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