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by grumple 6mo ago
War crimes as a concept was invented by the current US hegemony to punish others, not to be bound by. I think about it this way: would I have had any problem with the allies bombing Nazi rallies, even though they were mostly civilians? My a
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by grumple 7mo ago
I agree with most of the sentiment in the OP with a few key disagreements. OP repeatedly says Iran is not very important (not strategically important). This is clearly not true for a few reasons: 1) They control the flow of oil, as we'
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by grumple 7mo ago
This guy is a well known conspiracy theorist. He's a high school teacher, not a university professor as "Professor Jiang" indicates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Xueqin Some discussion on reddit a
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by grumple 7mo ago
Indeed. If you suddenly have a workforce that can be 2x as productive (or whatever multiple), why would you cut them? You already have these people under your control, direct them towards profitable ventures.
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by grumple 8mo ago
One of the first bugs I found - and fixed - at my current job instantly made us an extra 200k/year. One line of code (potentially a one character fix?), causing a little bug nobody noticed, which I only saw because I like to comb throu
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by grumple 8mo ago
There's a shortage of over 500,000 tradesmen in the US right now, expected to reach a shortage of 2 million by 2030. And if you've ever tried to get somebody out for a repair: it's hard. They are expensive, and the tradesmen
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by grumple 9mo ago
> Something like 50% of the population of the world live under rulers who were not democratically elected. Should the US taxpayers fund all of their removals? If it's in our interest, absolutely. Venezuela nationalized (which is a n
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by grumple 9mo ago
Unfortunately the non-democratic nations outnumber the democratic nations at the UN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index It's why the UN has an obsession with a tiny democracy in the middle
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by grumple 9mo ago
This is a core problem of international politics. We allow brutal dictatorships to continue subjugating tens of millions of people and killing millions in the name of convention. Our international organizations (the UN in particular) are ba
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by grumple 9mo ago
There are videos of Venezuelans celebrating in the streets, singing in large groups, cheering. I saw a video of someone from a balcony and it sounded like the entire city of Caracas was cheering. You can wait a few years for a survey or thr
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by grumple 9mo ago
The vast majority of Venezuelans voted for his opponent in the last election, which is widely considered to have been stolen by Venezuelans and the international community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_
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by grumple 9mo ago
Source?
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by grumple 1y ago
> more than a fifth of the entire S&P 500 market cap is now just three companies — Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple — two of which are basically big bets on AI. These 3 companies have been heavyweights since long before AI. Before AI, yo
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by grumple 1y ago
I agree that his position is right wing, but is it far right? Most nations explicitly exist for the people native to the place. Very few nations allow foreign immigration on the scale that the US, UK, Canada, do. And European countries make
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by grumple 1y ago
> Source? Literally the OP and the magical thing called math I did in my last post.
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by grumple 1y ago
The mortality exceeding the rate I mentioned is a prerequisite for declaring stage 5. It has not been met. You don’t declare stage 5 until it has according to their own standards. The rate of death in Gaza from those causes is nowhere near
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by grumple 1y ago
Completely absurd projection not supported by any serious sources. That would mean 1 in 3 Gazans dead, and 10 deaths per reported death, which would be completely out of line with other conflicts.
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by grumple 1y ago
The IPC standard says for famine to be declared: > at least two in every 10,000 people die each day from starvation, or from malnutrition and disease. Gaza population is 2 million * 2/10000 = 400 people dying per day in order for it
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by grumple 1y ago
The link works for me. > The Pentagon has also struggled to find software that can successfully control large numbers of drones, made by different companies, working in coordination to find and potentially strike a target—a key to making
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by grumple 1y ago
This played out much like many coffee shops that I’ve seen in my city and others [0]. Basically some leftist with a little money and little to no business acumen opens a low margin business and hires far-left employees. Those employees, dis
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by grumple 1y ago
> do you really believe it's possible to get a ~50% collateral damage rate when you care about innocent civilians? You should look up civilian death rate in previous wars, even recent ones. Civilian deaths typically outnumber combat
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by grumple 1y ago
> before the British put Israel there. The British not only didn't put Israel there, they actually fought against the Jews and supported the Arab armies in 1948, after previously restricting Jewish migration during the Holocaust (co
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by grumple 1y ago
> It's a desolate flattened lunarscape. Israel never had any intent of avoiding civilian deaths. So you think they managed to destroy so many buildings and only killed ~65k people (about half militants) out of 2 million by not av
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by grumple 1y ago
> This war that European Jews started in 1948 when they decided to attack and invade Palestine spans 2 continents, and more if you include the various attacks elsewhere. This is extremely ignorant. Jews have lived in Israel continuously
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by grumple 1y ago
This is not true and is nonsensical. The Iranian regime is explicitly anti-American, and it was American inaction that allowed them to rise to power. If America had intervened during the revolution, they could have eliminated the regime in
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by grumple 1y ago
H1Bs are much less of a problem than the offshoring and outsourcing. I’d rather lure top talent to live in the US than ship jobs off to exploited contractors who work for nothing.
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by grumple 1y ago
A discord server with 150k people whose identity or nation of origin are not verified, where only 8000 people voted. This is as illegitimate an election as they come. Come literally just have been elected by Russian (or any other) bots.
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by grumple 1y ago
You can use password manager autofill and hardware 2fa and still get phished. All it takes is you rushing, not paying attention, clicking on a link, and logging in (been caught by my own security team doing this). Yes, in an ideal world you
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by grumple 1y ago
A laborer in Asia can't install plumbing in America, install electrical systems in America, etc... We also should end the exploitative nature of globalization. Outsourced work should be held to the same standards as laborers in modern
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by grumple 1y ago
Maybe they figure it’s just going to be hot swappable models and they’d rather save the 10s of billions on training for a commodified service.

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