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by eynsham 5y ago
China also has much less naturally acquired immunity than everywhere else, and (mysteriously) refuses to make that up with vaccines—it’s not just an excuse, unlike in those authoritarian countries where immunity has already been built up so
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> If "US training" is such a big deal, what the hell happened in Afghanistan? I’m not sure who is claiming that US training has substantial influence on e.g. the FAMa; the French are (correctly) viewed as the imperialist bogey
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> > In a cock-up more than one party can have cocked up. > That point was that only the US gets blamed. Well, I didn’t do that, so I have no idea why you are attacking this strawman. All I initially claimed was that soft power wasn
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by eynsham 5y ago
I’m not really sure what the point of your comment is then. At best you show that not properly trying soft power was only the EU’s fault. All right—my initial point is that it’s a bit silly to dismiss soft power if it wasn’t tried properly.
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This is something of a non sequitur. Yes, Europe would have been just as important as the US in this scenario. Your comment seems to assume that I am blaming the Americans solely; of course not—this is the West’s mistake. > And yet, Euro
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Soft power in Russia would have been something along the lines of a Marshall Plan starting from the dissolution of the USSR, and could well have worked.
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The book itself may be perfectly interesting, but this link gives only the shortest summary of what it contains, so is not itself particularly interesting.
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Leigh and Ors vs. the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis(bailii.org)
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> the classroom is no place for such divisive nonsense I should have thought that the classroom would be an eminently suitable place for discussion of divisive matters of all sorts—better than learning to discuss this sort of thing on Tw
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As I said, if fellow voters don’t wish to use their brains, that’s up to them. Of course, I regret that they have caused themselves harm—I also regret that they have caused me harm to some extent, although probably less, due to my socioecon
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It’s unclear whether leave voters would have views about the detailed policy implementation of refugee schemes, but I doubt they would: 54% of leave voters agree that Britain has ‘a moral obligation to offer asylum to Ukrainian refugees’, a
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A <<50% majority of the population elected a parliamentary majority to allow India and Ireland independence; it would similarly now be the obvious mechanism to allow Scottish independence, and if there were to be an Act of Union would
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Indeed. I suppose that there is a blackmail risk: their stake could be made worthless unless Naspers has Prosus have the Stack Exchange people ban Tor, but I rather doubt this happened.
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Prosus is owned by Naspers (RSA) which owns quite a lot of Tencent, so there is a Chinese connexion, but I’m not sure about Chinese control. I haven’t read much of News24 (owned by Naspers) but they didn’t seem to be that different coverage
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It’s fair enough to focus on one’s own home country—and I happen to think that the best the US can do is to set a good example in the hope that liberal democracy becomes more attractive to Chinese decision-makers. But nonsense like this, if
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by eynsham 5y ago
This seems to generalise just as much as you accuse ‘people who lash out at right wing thinking’ of doing. There are plenty of people who dislike right wing ideas and comprehend that other people make different value judgements. And it’s f
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The MTR Corporation builds apartments over railway dépôts; admittedly, this may only be an economy in Hong Kong. There are some quite striking pictures here: https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2015/01/railway-depots-
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by eynsham 5y ago
In England in 2015, Cameron had 40.9% apparently ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/717022/general-elections... ). The point still stands—he had far more than 40.9% of English seats! On the other hand, the Turkis
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There is coverage, as a quick Google shows. It’s not the media’s fault if people don’t want to read it.
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> Democracy and freedom are never granted; they are fought for This is not quite correct; sometimes they are both fought for and granted—as, e.g., in every mostly agreed decolonisation, or the path from Groote Schuur to the interim const
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It’s rather opaque at least to me who the ‘rightful owners’ are: willing buyer and willing seller might suggest indigenous Cubans, but I doubt that would do much about the blockade, and might makes right would presumably suggest that the pa
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Han and her usual readers are well aware of the many unjust executions that have taken place in Singapore. The complaints about bureaucracy aren’t ‘stupid’—they’re actually quite important, since tempering the procedural aspect is more like
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by eynsham 5y ago
The trains you link to only go at 150km/h to minimise noise, so using ⩾300km/h-capable rolling stock might be a bit of a waste.
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See e.g. p. 10ff. of the amicus brief where quite a lot of federal precedent is cited.
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‘The world’s largest vaccine drive’ is pretty obviously not measured per capita, so no, that isn’t the chart I want quite obviously.
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The union government claims here and elsewhere that it is administering ‘the world’s largest vaccination drive’. I wish it were true. But China is far ahead.⁰ The website also remarks on a ‘world record of 2.5 Cr+ Vaccinations in a day’: Ch
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Lots of these specific claims are correct, though I’m not really sure how you get > Obama killed more people than all three of the names you cite and indeed that’s sufficiently vague and open to quibbling that I’m not surprised you give
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We ought to do both, and the two together likely won’t be enough to sate current demand, so more than that: electricity is about a fifth of total energy use in the UK at the moment.
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Older people are more likely to die (by several orders of magnitude), and more likely to have been vaccinated.
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Ah yes, this is probably a more intuitive way of doing things than in my comment (though of course we prove different things).⁰ I should add that for those interested, the SEP page on algebraic propositional logic is quite interesting, alth

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