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fasbiner
2y ago
If you find compact language above your level of proficiency confusing, you can literally ask an LLM to explain it for you to trade efficiency for accessibility. You sound unhappy and seem to be lashing out, and your username can only be re
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fasbiner
2y ago
Sounds like you are content to limit yourself to problems that do not contain more irreducible complexity or require more developer context than what fits within five seconds of comprehension. That's a good rule for straightforward CRU
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2y ago
Your framing is extrapolative, mendacious and is adding what could charitably be called your interpersonal problems to a statement which is perfectly neutral, intended as an admission against general inclination to lend credibility to the o
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fasbiner
2y ago
There's probably a reason your career is failing, it's because you engage with emotional heuristics instead of facts.
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2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_military_withdrawal_fro... How did those military bases get there? And how did they remain? You are either very ignorant or you are intentionally mendacious to avoid the obvious rea
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2y ago
I think a neutral observer would find you so unpersuasive and so illogical that they would naturally take the opposite of whatever views you hold, just for fear of being associated with such tautological and childish rhetoric.
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fasbiner
2y ago
80% of the things in your house come from Chinese production. What are you talking about?
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2y ago
Countries don't have friends, they only have interests. Thinking in terms of a kindergarten and not in terms of geopolitics disqualifies you from serious participation.
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2y ago
His point was that Putin generally lies instrumentally to foreigners and pathologically domestically, whereas the west lies pathologically in both areas: https://web.archive.org/web/20230320140205/https://
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2y ago
I'll take that action for up to high five figures using fiat or crypto and a third party site, reply with the amount you're interested in wagering. Or are you like the current executive in that you also don't mean the words y
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2y ago
Non-westerners who experienced western rule for hundreds of years see this as a positive, not a negative. If you don't understand this comment, that's another part of why most of the world was unwilling to line up behind the US ev
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2y ago
Democrat-leaning foreign policy realists like George Kennan and John Mearsheimer and even liberal economists like Jeff Sachs warned about the likely outcome of these policies 30+ years ago. These ideas were free for anyone of any party to p
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2y ago
Remember that white european imperial powers + NATO are not the global majority HN challenge [impossible, apparently] At this point, basic facts no one disputes in other contexts are furiously downvoted when it inconveniences an increasingl
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2y ago
> US is getting more and more hate from literally everywhere in a very short time because of Trump. This is the top level comment in the thread. We're at the level of psychosis now where you're arguing with and furiously downvo
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2y ago
Look at the entire thread and notice my comment explicitly referenced the GP comment and the prior dialogue. This can be expressed as a set of logical axioms, and I hope that you are simply bad at reading comprehension. 1. "Everyone on
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2y ago
The lack of self-awareness and celebratory exclusion of most of humanity from this assertion is deeply concerning. Is there a reason that you consider people in vietnam, indonesia, the philippines, slovakia, mali, and dozens of other countr
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It seems like we agree: the whole point of Mastadon is to do something that nearly all users don't want and actively fear - being forced to trust both the intentions and the opsec of anonymous individuals who are effectively beyond the
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2y ago
I think the biggest open question right now is asking if there is such a thing as "Europe" and if it's capable of responding in a unified way in a relevant timeframe. Ie, are you a Europe-wide entrepreneur working to move the
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>If you don't trust your instance admin, why did you sign up with your instance? Probably because you told them it was a cool OSS twitter alternative and not something that takes all of social media's moderation and privacy and
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I certainly don't blame the activists for governments refusing to listen, but this threat was clear at least 15 years ago and I would expect someone as knowledgeable as Bert Hubert to have perceived it at the time. Is the idea that the
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I tried several of these but never really got see the lateral thinking because the solutions were trivial on the first guess. It feels like no effort went into the contents of the mysteries themselves and they were sourced using AI. Which i