hnu123

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by hnu123 3y ago
The entire propaganda apparatus and the entire political class has been drumming up war with china for nearly a decade. So yes. There is a geniune concern. But it's not an immediate fear of war but a looming sense that there will be a
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by hnu123 3y ago
> Like Ukraine started a war with Russia by economic alignment with the western powers The ukraine war started when the US and Russia agreed to partition ukraine. Like the germans and soviets did to poland in ww2. Ukraine has no say in t
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by hnu123 3y ago
> Japan was never colonized in the usual sense of the word. It was in every sense of the word. > I guess the first event you're referring to is Perry's gunboat diplomacy that brought an end to the Tokugawa isolationism Not i
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by hnu123 3y ago
> I, for one, prefer Lynch's Dune to Villeneuve's. I was very hyped for the latter and left the theater disappointed. I prefer neither. Lynch's is odd and silly while villeneuve's is just eye candy. Dune should be rea
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by hnu123 3y ago
> I assume this is what it was like in the World War I & II era watching tanks being developed. A better analogy would be the airplane as it had dual civilian-military uses like the drone. Whereas a tank is solely a military use vehi
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by hnu123 3y ago
> Sanctions started to be imposed in 1938. And? You realize that 1938 is before 1941? > But Japan invaded Manchuria in 1933 and by 1937 invaded China and had already perpetrated the Nanking Massacre. The US ( and much of europe ) inva
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by hnu123 3y ago
> Ah, you are the kind of person who consider the US the aggressor of the Pacific War. You mean the country that colonized japan ( twice ), philippines, korea, china, vietnam, not to mention stole hawaii and a bunch of pacific islands? Y
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by hnu123 3y ago
> It's bad practice to simply dismiss arguments as "propaganda" without engaging with them. Sure. If you are new to the discussion. But I'm not. I've come across all the rationalizations and of course the propaga
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by hnu123 3y ago
> The Japanese government started the war and was free to stop it at any time. No. The US started the war with economic sanctions. This is a historical fact. > They could have issued an unconditional surrender and the fighting would h
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by hnu123 3y ago
> For what it's worth, by 1945 (Hiroshima) the Japanese army had grown from 1,700,000 (1941) to 6,000,000 (1945). Yes. A bunch of elderly and young boys 'armed' with broomsticks. That you have to resort this level of nons
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by hnu123 3y ago
> You are encouraged to read deeper about the end of WWII. I have. Beyond the propaganda and all the nonsense. But you don't need to read deeper to understand evil is evil. Nothing justifies acts of genocide like nuking civilians. &
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by hnu123 3y ago
What did Hiroshima have to do with ending a war? By the time of hiroshima, the japanese army, navy, military was nonexistent and had been for nearly a year. It was just a military test of a barbaric weapon on innocent civilians. It literall
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by hnu123 3y ago
> Linux is great for gaming... if you dual boot Windows for when it's not Preach. Say it loud so the folks in the back can hear. Eventually dual boot gets annoying as well. So most people just get two boxes linked via a kvm and run
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by hnu123 3y ago
> How can people be so blood-thirsty that it's ok to sacrifice over 600 men for nothing more than a "spectacle"? Is sacrificing 100,000 innocent civilians in hiroshima for spectacle any better? > It's really diffic
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by hnu123 3y ago
> Sometimes I wonder how people can actually enjoy songs that are so utterly linked to their times. Because it sounds good and the more times change, the more they stay the same. Also, almost every song, every work of art is inextricably
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by hnu123 3y ago
> This is visible in the very healthy deep tech industry in Europe. How can it be deep if new ventures find it difficult to secure funding? If you can't continually grow new companies, you can't develop much depth. > whereas
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by hnu123 3y ago
There's an abundance of freshwater in the east coast, northwest and midwest. Why not shift some of the exess water from the great lakes, east coast and northwest to southwest? Can't we pipeline the water to giant reservoirs in the
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by hnu123 3y ago
> I'll start by saying that if you're going to roast a paper that an econ nobel winner "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.&qu