hearsathought

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by hearsathought 9mo ago
But denmark didn't. And the EU is backing denmark. That was my point.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
The big difference is the falkland islands are populated by brits loyal to britain whereas Greenland is populated by greenlanders who hate denmark because the danes committed many acts of genocide against greenlanders. > I think most Ame
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable. Who decides what is morally unacceptable? Those with power. > Force doesn’t determine morality. Really? How else is morality enforced? Other than by force? > It determines what happe
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
Slavery is not okay because the guys with the bigger guns said so. Read up on the civil war.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> No, people can't just kick out an authoritarian dictator. If that was the case, the US wouldn't exist. Might want to brush up on american history. > Such rulers don't need democratic support to stay in power. They mos
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> You'd think Machado winning the Nobel peace prize would be enough for people to not question the popularity of Maduro You mean the woman advocating for the US to invade venezuela got the nobel prize? How shocking. It's almost
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> I think in cities we just aren’t taught to use our noses so that muscle doesn’t get exercised. We are taught to use our noses for different things. Smell of piss, feces, gas, garbage, etc.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
I think that was the joke. It's obvious Star Wars stole a lot of ideas from Dune. But many people think it's the opposite since star wars predates the Dune movies.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of news/media. Try this with US/China, EU/russia, Israel/Palestine, etc. Note the framing, word usage, etc. Both sides could do the same thing but the headlines diverge. One side gets &quot
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
The media has been branding maduro a narco-terrorist for a while now. And trump has declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction and exclusively blamed venezuela for it. The establishment has a playbook and they stick to it. Let's no
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
That's not true. I just point out obvious bullshit lies about china and others that I've heard over and over again. It's not my fault that people like you spout the same bullshit over and over again and mostly about china.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
There are american military bases all over italy already...
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> The people in Venezuela want democracy. Venezuela had a democracy for decades. It's the US that has been trying to destroy it for decades because the venezuelans voted for the wrong guy. It's funny how we forgot that the US a
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
Nothing erodes democracy more than government funded propaganda.
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> A reminder: the difference is that Japan has already failed in areas such as mobile internet, robotics, Fifth-generation computers, and space technology....LLM and so on. Japan is still clinging to the substantial profits of its intern
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> The PRC motto is not about "can do", it's about "able to do". Who cares? "Can do" assumes "able to do". > Can Palau build a commercial airliner when Boeing and Airbus workforce is 10x th
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> When I took the theory of computation class at CMU in the mid-80s it was in the philosophy department. To be fair, theory of computation is more logic/proofs/formalism than what is mistakenly associated with CS nowadays - pro
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> Domestically, we often put it this way: since it wasn’t made by God, we can definitely make it ourselves. It’s only a matter of time — if not this year, then next year; if we can’t do it next year, we’ll just keep going. This is how we
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> But it's undeniable that culture and how that's reflected in governance have a huge impact: South vs North Korea. Considering that north and south korea share the same "culture", wouldn't they be an example aga
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
You "misuse" it by using it to get at truth and more importantly historical contradictions and inconsistencies. It's the same reason catholic church kept the bible from the masses by keeping it in latin. The same reason print
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> I get the feeling most of the newer jobs that are going to be created are going to be in the blue collar fields and the US isn't geared for providing those. What blue collar field/industry is expected to grow? > I'm a
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> Another charity scam turns to a jew hate fest on HN. Another one? How many charity scams are "jews" involved in?
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> Not sure how common at what are considered top schools without looking at course catalogs. I am fairly certain 100% of the top CS programs ( and 99% that every CS program ) in the country have an intro to programming class for incoming
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
Isn't that just for "jewish" pedos and rapists?
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> There's definitely a tension at top STEM schools (probably especially in CS) between assuming students have some baseline knowledge of whatever field and just tossing them into the deep end of the pool and figuring out the practic
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> Thomas Jefferson was a hero and a scholar! He was definitely that. > but is it economically smart to declare independence from the most powerful empire of the day? Yes, if that empire was unfairly taxing you, taking your wealth and
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
"pro-democracy" is code for agent/operative of a colonial power. It's why so many hong kong pro-"democracy" operatives fled to britain, germany, us, etc. And it's also why so may pro-"democracy"
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> It feels like there's an obviously correct side to most of these issues, the problem is half the audience here believes their side is correct and yours is wrong. You think half the audience here or anywhere is on the side of israe
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> 1. What's the similarity in your view between "zionist rationalization" and "nazi rationalization"? Penchant for rationalizing away acts of genocide and dehumanize peoples. The only difference is zionists dehum
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by hearsathought 10mo ago
> 1. There aren't a lot of dead civilians given that... It's amazing how similarly zionists/israelis and nazis rationalize. > 2. Semites is not an ethnicity, it's a language family, sorry. When used colloquially it

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