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by klipt 1y ago
Interesting that he went from Giovanni to Joe. Giovanni is more directly cognate to John (both derive from Hebrew/Aramaic Yohanan via Greek Ioannes) while Joe is usually short for Joseph (Giuseppe in Italian, also from Hebrew).
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by klipt 1y ago
One interesting comparison I saw is the Siege of Mariupol. The fighting there had very high rates of civilian deaths (per day, and also vs combatant deaths), but: * a large portion of civilians (and thus civilian casualties) in Mariupol ac
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by klipt 1y ago
The layman's understanding of war is less guided by international law and more around ideas like "tit for tat". Eg if Hamas kills 1000 Israeli civilians, Israel is entitled to kill 1000 Palestinian civilians, but should stop
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by klipt 1y ago
> convince a country to change their military policy Maybe they can't force them but the EU has mechanisms to punish illiberal behavior like the fines they are charging Hungary. They should start fining countries that do make only d
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by klipt 1y ago
Were the most innovative people actually "lost" or did they just switch to something like the O1 Visa which isn't subject to quota, and highly innovative people should qualify for?
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by klipt 1y ago
There are millions of overseas Chinese descendants who already speak Chinese and are wholly or partly ethnically Chinese. That would be an easy pool to draw from first. For example Terence Tao speaks Cantonese.
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by klipt 1y ago
Suspicious that the EU claims to "promote gender equality" while turning a blind eye to the male only conscription perpetrated by EU members Austria, Finland, etc
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by klipt 1y ago
Canada seems to be entering its own anti immigrant phase though, especially against South Asian immigrants https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/hate-toward-south-asia...
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by klipt 1y ago
You could certainly phase in an implementation over 20-30 years to give the economy time to adjust. Just interpolate the taxes. In a state with fully implemented LVT, you would expect most people in dense cities to be living in multilevel h
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by klipt 1y ago
Gerontocracy?
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by klipt 1y ago
California actually has very low property taxes. Which according to economists is the wrong way around: it's better to have taxes on land (because it doesn't discourage land existing - land is fixed) than to have taxes on work inc
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by klipt 1y ago
Darn if only we had some way of knowing a presidential candidate was corrupt. Like if they were charged with multiple felonies for corruption. Or if they were impeached twice for corruption.
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by klipt 1y ago
Are you 100% native American living on your tribe's ancestral lands? If not by your own logic you are illegitimately occupying stolen land and have no right to live there.
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by klipt 1y ago
No, I said the Arab states are not liable for Germany's crimes. But they are liable for their own crimes.
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by klipt 1y ago
> 70 million educated workers who need to be maintained for high performance But what if AI surpasses human skill and now you have need for 0 educated workers. Not good for human citizens...
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by klipt 1y ago
The unfortunate thing about democracy is that competency at getting elected doesn't always translate to competency at governing.
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by klipt 1y ago
You might as well say the Arab states owe the world reparations for ethnically cleansing Mizrahi Jews, so they can house the Palestinians.
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by klipt 1y ago
The only fictional scenario here is the one you're proposing where you think you can ethnically cleanse 10 million Israelis without any consequence.
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by klipt 1y ago
You can't deny history, it's well documented that Mizrahi Jews hold the deeds to lands in Arab states adding up multiple times the size of Israel. If the Arab states think the Palestinians deserve reparations for stolen land, then
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by klipt 1y ago
> October 7th was a valid reaction to people violently stealing your land and killing your families. Well the Arab states collectively stole land 5 times the size of Israel from the Mizrahi Jews they ethnically cleansed (who now make up
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by klipt 1y ago
What makes you think "dissolving Israel" would be any more peaceful than "dissolving Gaza" would be?
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by klipt 1y ago
> As a Jew, I don't think Arabs should pay for Germany's crimes. Germany no, but the Arab states should definitely pay for ethnically cleansing the Mizrahi Jews who currently make up a majority of Israeli Jews.
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by klipt 1y ago
> bombing every single neighbor they have The neighbors who signed peace treaties (Egypt, Jordan) seem to be maintaining peace fine. It's the ones who've refused to normalize relations since 1949 and keep launching rockets over
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by klipt 1y ago
It's very easy to kill people with dumb weapons especially in a dense city. Syria killed 10,000s of civilians in just a few weeks using only dumb artillery to shell a city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama
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by klipt 1y ago
They are small carnivores, I imagine their wild ancestors were kept partly in check by even larger carnivores eating them?
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by klipt 1y ago
Depends where you live though. In the SF Bay Area, buying requires a monthly payment several times larger than the rent for an equivalent place.
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by klipt 1y ago
> a path from cannabis to obesity I believe the technical term is "the munchies"
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by klipt 1y ago
I'm sure that's great comfort to the guy who was deported. I'm just saying that I advise all my friends on similar visas to say they're "working" in the US if asked, rather than say "living". Don&#x27
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by klipt 1y ago
> "why are you coming to the USA?" and they answered for "work". Immediate deportation despite the VISA explicitly allowing that. Reading the article it looks like the problem is he said he "lives" in the US
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by klipt 1y ago
Whales, like us, are descended from lobe finned fish, so they are as much fish as we are.

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