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by fatbird 1y ago
> Nations and identities can form on their own, brand new, and don't require an appeal to some prior legal entity. Fair, in theory. In practice, it's a bit silly when the roots of western separatism are an economic policy from
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by fatbird 1y ago
True, but they were then granted the same sovereign status as the original 13 colonies, and Texas, and Florida. One example of the difference is that in the US, there's state and federal criminal law, and state authorities draw their l
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by fatbird 1y ago
An important factor to consider is that provinces in Canada are not like states in the U.S.: they are not sovereign bodies in themselves, they are administrative divisions to which certain federal powers are delegated. Alberta was created
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by fatbird 1y ago
Soft power is the smallest benefit. You're leaving out a large part of the equation, which is that countries can trade with each other in the reserve currency, which becomes a neutral medium of exchange with respect to the parties.
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by fatbird 1y ago
This. Fundamentally, the USD is the global reserve currency because the US is seen by the rest of the world as the most stable entity able to guarantee the future value of its currency: It's militarily powerful enough to guarantee it
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by fatbird 1y ago
That $1T isn't an expense. Part of it is operational, meaning keepiong boats and bases running around the world, which earns the US yet more influence and soft power and unearned media. Much of it is acquisition costs, meaning $ goin
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by fatbird 1y ago
For game purposes I've been looking up alchemical and mystical symbols, and I've been frustrated that, while there's a lot of references of symbols, alphabets, etc. themselves, there's little or no presentation of a gram
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by fatbird 1y ago
In the army I had the opportunity to fire the Carl Gustaf 84mm recoilless rifle, which is normally a two person job (one to hold, aim and fire, the other to load and check the backblast area). We're instructed to exhale before firing b
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by fatbird 1y ago
Your second and third options, absolutely. For the first, it's a matter of whether the sovereignty of US could be credibly threatened militarily, which would is hard to imagine without a long, long fall in its military power. It&#x27
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by fatbird 1y ago
The USD as the world's reserve currency means, effectively, that other nations are lending the US money at the very low interest rates that Treasuries yield. Effectively, the US gets the best and biggest line of credit in the world, w
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by fatbird 1y ago
The backing the US dollar has is the strength of the world's only superpower. It doesn't matter if it's backed by gold or commodities, what matters is whether people believe there's an entity backstopping the currency t
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by fatbird 1y ago
You can't insure against something you can't reliably quantify. Mine subsidence is extremely difficult to predict.
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by fatbird 1y ago
There's a cycle to one's relationship with Mckinsey and the big accounting firms. You start with a lot of attention from the partner, who over time shifts you to more experienced assistants, who over time shift you to new hires.
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by fatbird 2y ago
There may not be zero tariffs in other countries, but the amount calculated by the Trump Admin doesn't account for them. It doesn't even consider them. It's as simple as "trade deficit by total volume". Unless yo
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by fatbird 2y ago
The tariffs are not reciprocal tariffs (i.e., based on tariffs in those countries). They're set by dividing the trade deficit with that country against the total volume (and then halved). This premise can't be included in the
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by fatbird 2y ago
"It's chaos, be kind" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicUhD1n-es
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by fatbird 2y ago
She does not specifially address this scenario. I offered the link as a general dive into the evidence behind Dark Matter as it relates to lensing. I regret that now.
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by fatbird 2y ago
I wasn't saying, as a layman, that this is evidence for Dark Matter. I'm saying that the current thinking in astrophysics is that this is evidence for Dark Matter. Katie Mack, the astrophysicist in the podcast I linked, is a r
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by fatbird 2y ago
Elsewhere in this thread I've said that you can have non-judgemental, solicitous conversations with anyone, just to learn how they feel or think about something. But I agree with parent that it's perfectly justifiable to draw line
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by fatbird 2y ago
The author has a huge blindspot: discussing politics with others where it's not a co-operative search for truth; instead it's an opportunity to let your friends explain themselves. Don't challenge them, ask them questions.
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by fatbird 2y ago
This is, in fact, part of the support for Dark Matter, both with galaxies (the amount of lensing requires the galaxy to include a lot of Dark Matter) and between galaxies, where other lensing effects occur that can only be explained by fila
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by fatbird 2y ago
The elephant in the room is that in every other sphere, scale is the solution, not the problem. The US should find it easier to implement UHC just because of its scale. More tax dollars, more average outcomes, more resources for outlier
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by fatbird 2y ago
I'm in awe of what a shitty response this is to Niemoller's poem. Like, new depths of twat-itude have been explored here. Congratulations winner.
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by fatbird 2y ago
Those politically active citizens and non-citizens have a fairly distinguishable ethnic slant. Your logic-chopping the analogy looks like rationalization.
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by fatbird 2y ago
Is properly carried-out science in the area of climate change "benign" to the Trump administration?
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by fatbird 2y ago
You need to look around you. People are being disappeared off the streets and sent to hard labor concentration camps in El Salvador. American scholars of fascism are literally fleeing the US saying "this is it!". The federal go
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by fatbird 2y ago
By the revealed content of the chat, Trump wasn't aware of the decision his subordinates made. They just intuited Trump's wishes and dropped bombs based on that.
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by fatbird 2y ago
I'm betting that Goldberg realized, once it was confirmed real, that his only feasible defense was exiting the chat and going public immediately. Otherwise, someone notices he's there, and he's arrested by ICE and disappear
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by fatbird 2y ago
I can't imagine the scale of doctrine rewriting that will be done over the next 10 years, constantly argued by companies like Lockheed Martin who are so heavily invested in large scale expensive platforms (while simultaneously drooling
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by fatbird 2y ago
Europe has the Eurofighter Typhoon and is working collectively on its successor. France has the Rafale. Even if the F-35 is superior, Europe has plenty of fighter tech to continue developing as a comparable platform. This is true for vir

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