komali2

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by komali2 10mo ago
> China asserted control over Taiwan since the 17th This is a great example of why your usage of this word is an expression of your agreement with the idea of an ethnostatist meta-dynasty that a government like the CPC can claim a mandat
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by komali2 10mo ago
> You obviously understand what I wrote by "China split" because it is uncontroversial and rather obvious as a historical fact. I also know, generally, what people mean when they say "goblin," but that doesn't me
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by komali2 10mo ago
> China has factually split Define "China." 中國? 中華人民共和國? 中華民國? 大清? 大明? 大元? The English term is far overloaded, kinda like the word "dumpling." Having this conversation in English is really hard for that reason. The ke
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by komali2 10mo ago
Yes, perhaps, as well as Netanyahu to stop his genocide of the Palestinians.
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by komali2 10mo ago
> the PRC would have a serious economic problem afterwards Don't get me wrong, I live in Taiwan so it's not something I want to have happen, but the PRC seems focused on localizing its economy as much as possible, so it may be
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by komali2 10mo ago
I had this same issue with my original zettelkasten system in org-roam. Also it had become just, a locally indexed wikipedia. This book is probably not the greatest resource for establishing a zettelkasten, but it is very good at demonstrat
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by komali2 10mo ago
So, first, most would say the purpose of a zettelkasten is to write. The book goes into this, that your notes eventually just get incorporated into manuscripts, and that your notes should be written as well as if you were writing a manuscri
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by komali2 10mo ago
I strongly recommend "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sonle Ahrens, it gets into how important writing is as a part of the process of thinking and learning.
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by komali2 10mo ago
That sounds like a beauty building, and perhaps the market for such things is quite small now, but those artisans still exist. In Japan there's plenty of master carpenters and woodblock artists, including one American man that moved th
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by komali2 10mo ago
Oh, yes I agree for the most part none other than perhaps the USA military is about to be distracted by South America. Xi himself probably already had war gamed what it would look like to kidnap the president here in Taiwan from the preside
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by komali2 10mo ago
Are dictators hypnotists? Are they wizards? If the regime functioned on the existence of a single man in a single chair, and EVERYONE around him wanted him gone, why does it take the military force of a different country to make it happen?
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by komali2 10mo ago
A lot of my friends in Venezuela told me. You should go talk to some venezuelans.
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Why wouldn't it?
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by komali2 10mo ago
This is a point worth discussing imo. To what extent is the state of a nation and the conditions of its people, the responsibility of the people itself, even if they're oppressed? The Russians were oppressed and had a revolution about
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by komali2 10mo ago
To an extent yes, but individually I have much more nuanced interactions here with users. Whereas on Reddit I get dog piled by hundreds of black and white thinkers all circle jerking each other, making identical replies to my comments. Here
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by komali2 10mo ago
You can't blame America for every single problem people suffer. Cuba was also embargoed and managed to pull off a medical system with a lower infant mortality rate than the USA, and as far as I know nobody starved there to the degree t
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by komali2 10mo ago
Of who? If the PRC invades Taiwan and starts brutally oppressing the people here, you ostensibly have 1.3 billion people in support, plus possibly PRC allied, a non insignificant number of tankies abroad...
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by komali2 10mo ago
I'm still not convinced removing Hitler before his invasion of Poland would have been a good idea, it seems possible someone like Himmler would be just as capable of picking up Mein Kampf as an ideological framework to continue imperia
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by komali2 10mo ago
Genocide being the exception, perhaps. Basically, "leave it to the population to sort out themselves, even if they've lost the democratic means to do so," up until a government has gone so insane it's massacring its peop
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by komali2 10mo ago
> reunite This is the incorrect word to use since the PRC has never held territory here. If the PLA sets foot on Taiwan, that's an imperialist invasion, nothing less, unless the people of Taiwan have democratically chosen to abdicat
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by komali2 10mo ago
> How does Maduro being ousted change the physical realities of an amphibious invasion of Taiwan? Taking the beaches here would require spilling the blood of tens of thousands of PLA troops, but as demonstrate two days ago, the only real
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by komali2 10mo ago
What frustrates me is the justification I hear for this from those opposed to the kidnapping of Maduro, an illegitimate president. Somehow it's not ok for the USA to violently meddle in the internal affairs of another country, but it i
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by komali2 10mo ago
It was written before Dragonball Z existed so they didn't have the convenient framework of "power level" to use. Instead the power of Congress is indicated by the fact that all acts of the government are derived from bills or
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by komali2 10mo ago
This doesn't do much for the argument that artists only do art for money. Everyone knows what happens to free use art, same as what happens to FOSS: corpos bundle it up and sell it back to people. By the way, I do know a lot of artis
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by komali2 10mo ago
But, why? Regarding your farmer example, there are examples throughout history of farming that fed many without the involvement of currency or the paying off of debt. Take a look into syndicalized Spain if you ever get a chance (~1936-1939)
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Would they do what they do if they had zero dollars? No, probably not. Isn't it a shame we live in a world where we have the technology to automate all meaningful production, but people still need to justify their existence throug
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by komali2 10mo ago
I mean, wouldn't it just result in the side of the laptop being ripped off?
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by komali2 10mo ago
> they would have to do it at a station, where they could immediately get off the train. I think, though, that this would be risky, given that subway stops generally have a lot of people getting on/off the train in the first place.
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by komali2 10mo ago
> would recommend Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" for you, you would probably like it. It talks about the history of "shared delusions" as you call them, as a critical piece for development of society. Already read it.
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Basically, if you're ever "newspaper famous", there will be completely unhinged people convinced that you're the one talking to them through their microwave I was interviewed by a semi-famous YouTuber in Taiwan (~10

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