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by motorest 1y ago
> All politicians "mispresent themselves". No. The ones that try to push agendas that go against their programme and are deeply unpopular will often see public protests and even general strikes demanding policy reversals or gov
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by motorest 1y ago
> Tup. I don't think Tup managed to present any case. Glancing at the page, the only conceivable synthetic scenarios where they can present Tup in a positive light is built times of > 10k files, and only in a synthetic scenario i
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by motorest 1y ago
> Interacting with CLI tools using only env vars as arguments is cartoonishly bad dev experience. Make excels at what it's design to do: specify a configurable DAG of tasks that generate artifacts, execute them, and automatically de
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by motorest 1y ago
> with the lack of a war happening between them? What was this, then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_co...
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by motorest 1y ago
> And all your arguments don't matter. He was a legally elected President - whose election was even EU Vetted by many, many observers and found to be completely valid. Yes, he was. What you are leaving out is the fact that in spite
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by motorest 1y ago
> It's not. the world is not a binary system to make simplistic black/white arguments. I agree, simplistic comments on the line of "$(country_without_nukes) got attacked because it didn't [had nukes]" are silly a
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by motorest 1y ago
> The problem with this argument is that the case for war with Iraq was repeatedly made as "Iraq has WMDs that they are willing and ready to use". It's not s problem at all. It's actually the whole point. Following Sa
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by motorest 1y ago
> That's in the 16th century. OP's point was "Under the Ottoman Empire it was (relatively) scarcely populated and a mix of Jews, Christians and Muslims, plus some religious minorities." What are you trying to dispute
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by motorest 1y ago
> Most people in the West seem to believe the removal of democratically elected, pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine (...) You should seriously learn about Yanukovych before making any sort of claim regarding him. He was el
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by motorest 1y ago
> Because both are representations of the rule and self-determination of the people. No, not really. Having a radical group remove another totalitarian ruler doesn't automatically grant them legitimacy or any arguments involving &qu
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by motorest 1y ago
> both have nukes and that acts as a strong deterrent for both of them not to escalate (which they didnt). Your original point was that nukes prevented attacks. India vs Pakistan rejects your hypothesis. You then proceeded to move the go
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by motorest 1y ago
From wikipedia's article on the history of Palestine: > "Most of Palestine's population, estimated to be around 200,000 in the early years of Ottoman rule, lived in villages. The largest cities were Gaza, Safad and Jerusa
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by motorest 1y ago
> Israel defines itself as a "jewish" state (...) I think the "Jewish state" refers to how the country serves as the homeland for the jewish people, not how they force a religion upon others. https://en.wik
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by motorest 1y ago
> Regardless, a sovereign country was bombed tonight just because they can. The dictatorial nature of Trump's order to attack a nation is far more concerning. Supposedly the US requires an act of Congress to authorize this sort of o
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by motorest 1y ago
> Russia attacked ukraine because they didn't. Iran got attacked because it didn't. North korea isnt attacked because they have. That's the moral of the story. How do you explain India vs Pakistan?
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by motorest 1y ago
> Iran became a theocracy through a popular uprising, too. OP referred to democratic votes, whereas you talk about "popular uprising". Can you explain in your own words why you believe these are even comparable?
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by motorest 1y ago
> 3. You can use highly enriched uranium (HEU) for things other than weapons, but the weapons are the only things that require HEU. OP seems to expect everyone to believe that any regime invests years and small fortunes in research sites
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by motorest 1y ago
If you pay attention to my question, you'll notice that it isn't conditional to who made threats to who. Do you believe this influences your answer?
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by motorest 1y ago
> Perhaps because the article you linked says things like: The article says an awful lot more, such as pointing out the fact that Saddam's regime not only ran WMD development programmes for decades but also had a long and verified t
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by motorest 1y ago
My point is to underline the fact that the comment had no purpose other than to shoehorn wild claims of "Israel and its 5th column". Do you dispute this fact?
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by motorest 1y ago
> They woke up and started bombing Israel for no apparent reason or they are responding to Israeli attacks ? You failed to answer my question. Why? Check out YouTube and see the high rate of ballistic missiles thrown at Israel. Those exi
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by motorest 1y ago
> It's a weird one. I don't disagree with your post, still, what is "approved" nukes? 1. Check this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we... 2. Cross out the countries
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by motorest 1y ago
> Why are you assuming that Iran wants to destroy Israel? Everything I’ve actually seen is the complete opposite: it’s Israel that clearly wants to destroy Israel. Even by your own logic, do you believe that having a country threaten you
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by motorest 1y ago
> Care to elaborate? A random person doubting things doesn't help other people or bringing a discussion forward. I don't know if you noticed, but what you are arguing for is in fact for mindlessly accepting unverified claims an
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by motorest 1y ago
If you read up on Iraq's history of WMDs, the relevance of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons was that Saddam's regime had already a long history of developing and using these types of weapons both against neighbors and i
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by motorest 1y ago
I don't know who is downvoting PP but here's Wikipedia's article on Iraq WMDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...
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by motorest 1y ago
> A well-engineered attack would not draw headlines for its scale because it would take down its target without breaking any records. You don't hear much about DDoS that are either comparable in size or bring down targets. How do yo
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by motorest 1y ago
> So, sure, some people are just natural born whiners who will never be happy. But some people just have good taste or instincts and can tell when stuff is broken. I'd say ignore them at your own risk. Here's some food for thou
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by motorest 1y ago
> if researchers don't get access to hardware X, they write their paper using hardware Y (Nvidia). There are plenty of research institutions that can easily spend >$250k on computational resources. Many routinely spend multiples
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by motorest 1y ago
> Workers can only handle HTTP using the provided HTTP interface. Not true. Cloudflare Workers support Cron triggers and RPC calls in the form of service bindings. Also, Cloudflare Queues support consumer workers. Claiming "Workers

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