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by istjohn 2y ago
Are you in the US? Americans aren't going to get those, just like we aren't going get cheap Chinese electric cars.
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Palestinian Arabs within pre-1967 Israel are treated relatively well because Israel already dispelled enough of them in the Naqba to ensure that they will be demographically dominated by Jewish Israelis for the foreseeable future. The point
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Your characterisation of Arab states is totally baseless. There is no control case of an Arab state that developed without either large oil resources or significant foreign intervention during the modern period. Name one. You mention Iran,
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by istjohn 2y ago
Israel is hugely dependent on the US, though.
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That's a laughable comparison. Israel has been systematically undermining the economic and political independence of the West Bank and Gaza during that timeframe. Gaza had been under siege since 2006. The Marshall Plan in contrast was
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That sentence you are critical of has 17(!) supporting citations listed.
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I doubt the Palestinian people are going to just sit and watch Israel slowly usurp what remains of their homeland. It's never a good idea to underestimate the price a people are willing to pay for their freedom. The French learned that
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In the US it's pretty much limited to a few university campuses I believe. I think a couple cities in Canada have it, too.
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by istjohn 2y ago
I believe it would be more efficient to use a heat pump for the district heating even if the datacenter heat is just dumped. Heat pumps can get up to 400% efficiency.
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by istjohn 2y ago
Yes. My dad cites the vaccilation of the science on whether or not eggs are healthy as the reason he places no trust in what scientists say. Of course, he is mistaking science reporting for the science itself, but he should be able to trust
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by istjohn 2y ago
I mean, the upvote buttons could be bigger on mobile.
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Our "defense" industry is having a bonanza arming a genocide that has killed over 100,000 people in Gaza. https://truthout.org/articles/us-health-workers-back-from-ga...
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Normies? As opposed to who?
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No it's not. This is a completely different thing.
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What do you use Claude for?
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Your economic analysis is deeply flawed. If there was anything that valuable and that required that much manpower, it would already have driven up the cost of labor accordingly. The one property that could conceivably justify a substantiall
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by istjohn 2y ago
I would love this with a limited, accurate color list. It would be a fun way to learn more obscure colors like chartreuse, ochre, and sienna. I'd particularly like to learn the colors that are likely to come up in literature (e.g., [0]
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by istjohn 2y ago
Even better: www.weather.gov/{zip_code}
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Heh, I just checked. That's where I got stuck last year, too. I solved the first half.
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Given that everything that Aristotle said that we can empirically test has been found to be nonsense, any ongoing relevance he might have to any modern field of inquiry just shows how unmoored that field of inquiry is from any actual knowle
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Biden picked a VP who wouldn't be able to mount a challenge against him for a second term, and now we're paying for it.
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by istjohn 2y ago
Hope and change. That's the message Obama won consecutive terms with. The Republicans have always thrived on fear and insecurity--and hate, which is just ripe fear. To quote Yoda, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to
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by istjohn 2y ago
Your vomit of misinformation makes their point for them.
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> The border being flooded is terrifying. ... > And the democrats want to still focus on identity politics. Does typing this out not cause the slightest pang of cognitive dissonance?
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I imagine there is too much churn for insurance companies to be able to be confident that they will be the ones to benefit from lower long-term health costs and not Medicare or some other insurance provider.
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by istjohn 2y ago
Suppose we grant your premise. Indiscriminately massacring entire cities of men, women, and children saved the lives of some soldiers. That's barbaric.
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They are quotes from the most important text of our Western culture, the sacred scripture of the world's largest religion.
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This discussion proves the importance. We are so far from properly appreciating the horror of nuclear weapons. One would think that after nearly eighty years Americans would be able to apprehend our crimes against the innocents of Hiroshima
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> And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: > Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women... Ezekial 9:5-6 > Now
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by istjohn 2y ago
The storage unit industry is one of the most awful, customer hostile industries I've encountered. It's impossible to get the local facility on the phone, publicly listed phone numbers are all redirected to a national call center w

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