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gambutin
8mo ago
I get: The uploader has not made this video available in your country :( didn’t know that this was a thing
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8mo ago
I meant tbh, if they get better ie less boring, I’m all for it!
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8mo ago
I was referring to the Arab conquest of Iran after 633.
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8mo ago
Is it fair to call it colonialism instead of occupation?
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gambutin
8mo ago
Iranians are not "just" Arabs. They speak their own language called Farsi, which has Indo-European roots. Their culture is overall very different and goes back before Islamic conquest of Iran.
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8mo ago
I am saying external regime change = bad is not true. Only if you want it to be true - for your narrative. Then you will say things like: but it was 80 years ago!!
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gambutin
8mo ago
You mean like the US regime changes in Germany and Japan 1945? Those ones were really bad for the local population!
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gambutin
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Let’s be honest: children are usually forced on people. It was simply an expectation of your family and society in general for you to have children. This pressure is gone in western societies. "How dare you asking me when I will have c
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8mo ago
The last paragraph says this: The will-it-won’t-it collapse of the AMOC is something to keep an eye on. But there are other pressing climate change issues to address in the near term, such as food security, ecosystem degradation, and risin
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It’s a bit odd how fast the discussion moves away from what actually happened and onto nitpicking the wording used to criticize it. Even if you drop the word “sole” entirely, the basic expectation is still that a government does not kill un
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9mo ago
Isn’t that like everything else in life? We set very high standards and then measure people against them. Which boss is perfect? Which dad is? Nothing and no one is. But there are shades. Some are way closer to the bar than others. I can li
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9mo ago
Asking questions usually helps to alleviate confusion. What is it exactly you’re confused about?
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9mo ago
I think, as sad as it sounds, the exact number doesn’t really matter. We know: We know: a government whose sole purpose is to protect its people has committed the mass murder of unarmed civilians. has committed the mass murder of unarmed ci
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9mo ago
I humbly disagree. I want to be aware of enough to be productive, yes, but not so much that I get bogged down in the minutiae of corporate politics and can’t focus on my daily work.
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9mo ago
Honestly, I’m not sure. If I know what was going on transparently I am stressed. As an ordinary employee, I don’t need to know everything and therefore don’t need to worry about it.
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9mo ago
Glad to see you here. I’m almost afraid to ask but how are you and everyone else?
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gambutin
9mo ago
I’ve read the Wikipedia article about Japan and had a friend living there. Beat that!
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9mo ago
I’m curious if it’s possible to somehow retrieve the whitelist to see who’s on it?
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9mo ago
Here’s the YouTube video description: Tim Maudlin - On the Methodology of Actual Physics Physicists and philosophers often allow themselves the luxury of contemplating the methodology of a sort of idealized physicist. One such tempting mod
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AFAIK, one technique for monitoring cracks uses ultrasonic sensors. They send sound waves through the rails and detect cracks by analyzing reflected waves.