grrmx1

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by grrmx1 8y ago
And that somehow precludes marrying for love?.. You are a village girl, you've been around the village, you know all the boys you age. You marry the one you like. Love. I am not denying that pre-arranged marriages are a thing, and that
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by grrmx1 8y ago
I was referring to the arms inspections that were taking place through the 90s. Iraq had some quantity of chemical and biological WMDs that the Americans were eager to destroy. Iraq let them. And then still got invaded. I was referring to t
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by grrmx1 8y ago
Iraq was subject to fairly intrusive US-lobbied inspection for much of the 1990s [1]. Inspectors were looking for WMDs (chemical and biological in that case), and did in fact find and destroy (at least some of) them. Iraq went through the t
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by grrmx1 8y ago
Behavior you describe is traditionally attributed to the upper classes of pre-modern nobility. At least that's how popular imagination paints it (see Game of Thrones). I am not so sure this was modus operandi for commoners when it came
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by grrmx1 8y ago
The North isn't going to disarm. Nuclear weapons are their one deterrent against the US, who have shown in the past that they are willing to invade and destroy regimes that went through the trouble of disarming (Iraq, Lybia). So why wo
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by grrmx1 9y ago
It's easy to be outraged by this, but the bottom line is that journals need to make money to sustain their own operations. Research might be tax-funded, but the publishing houses are privately-held entities with employees and payroll (
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by grrmx1 9y ago
I see three ways Russia will react to this. One is to feign injured innocence and boycott the Olympics by not sending any un-uniformed athletes. Another is to grudgingly accept the punishment and participate without their flag. The first i
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by grrmx1 9y ago
Had there been a blanket ban on all Russian athletes, that would have been seen as a politically-motivated decision. It would have been interpreted by many third-party observers as Westerners using their clout to mess with a geopolitical fo
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by grrmx1 9y ago
Boycott means they are not letting any of their athletes participate, including the ones who can do so under a neutral flag.
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by grrmx1 9y ago
Seems like an appropriate punishment. Russia's state-enabled cheating at the Sochi games was extraordinary. It's the kind of cheating that the monitoring agencies are not equipped to fight. You can't go up against a state wit