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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Article is paywalled - is there an estimate of how many will be laid off?
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Well, that is horrifying.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> I don't think arguing morals makes sense because of how subjective one's morals are [not related to OP] I have a similar feeling every time someone moralizes in any discussion: we could argue about morality, but we need to
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Julia Ioffe said that Putin is the "moderating force" in his inner circle. I think people have so much rage against Putin (understandably) that they want all facts to point to Putin being the
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
A Russian invasion of a NATO country would be suicidal. Russia may "covet land" but it is not suicidal. That said I share your concern about Russian attacks on infrastructure.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> They might not be currently capable BECAUSE we're arming Ukraine but there's no reason to believe they wouldn't if they could... The botched invasion of Ukraine by Russia shows that it was never capable of successfully i
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
I never said that NATO should or should not take any course of action. You are tilting at windmills here my friend.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
I do not necessarily think the alternate history you propose is implausible, but am not sure what your point is. We do not live in a timeline where that happened. My original comment was (quite clearly) referring to the reality in which Rus
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> You don’t seem to get my point though - it only has turned into a quagmire for Russia because other countries have feared the thing of which you are sceptical. It is like complaining the medicine is useless because you don’t have sympt
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> There are countless reasons why this or that move would make sense for Russians. For example just to spread chaos and keep the world and its resources divided and force Europe into some kind of deal. This is not enough justification fo
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> You are sceptical [sic] because Ukraine has turned into such a quagmire for Russia. To be clear: this is exactly what I said, yes.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
I am highly skeptical of the idea that Russia is likely to invade other countries in Europe (with the exception of maybe Moldova). Even if we ignore Article 5, it is just not plausible that Russia would attempt an invasion of an additio
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Around February 2022, I consumed every piece of Zeihan-related content I could find online. He is very entertaining but I had to give up on him because he plays a bit fast and loose with facts and makes pretty wild predictions. As an exampl
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
What happened in the 90s?
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> This a link to the Wikipedia article on propaganda. It is not. It is a link to a Wikipedia article summarizing Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model. If you are genuinely curious why people argue that US mass media is state contro
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
That is not a link to the definition of propaganda. Did you click the link?
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
If you're genuinely curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but the expectation that Russia will pay war reparations in full, at this point, is also hilarious/insane...
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> It's plain to read the nonverbal communication of Putin's inner circle whenever they appear on camera: they're wondering how they can get rid of him. As much as it would be nice if it were the case, this is extremely neb
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Sure. But that is not relevant to the original point: if its own imperialist missteps this century did not do it, deescalation here will absolutely not wreck the US's reputation.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
The US may be in the more "morally correct" position on Ukraine, but it hardly has a reputation for its "moral position in the world". It has managed to retain hard and soft power through its own invasions, and would lik
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
There are steps that can be taken to provide addicts with legal access to their fix in a way that removes cartels from the supply chain and does not equate to "legalizing fentanyl".
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Equally interesting (and probably more equitable) to consider the universe in which Richard Nixon did not exist.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Both incidents you link are cases where foreigners traveled through notoriously dangerous territory (Michoacan narco territory, and the 195 route between San Cristobal and Palenque) alone, which is totally careless and not really applicable
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
There is no compound in nature that we cannot synthesize in a lab, but sometimes it is more expensive than harvesting it from plants/animals.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
There are plenty of beds for £5 in (to use your example) Laos. I had a room not too long ago for under $5, on the Mekong. I wasn't around for the 90s, maybe cheap rooms were much easier to come by, but they're not too difficult to
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Same here. So many easily verifiable inaccuracies in his essays/videos, as well as a dogmatic adherence to demographic and geographic determinism. Still, a perspective I appreciate.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
"Advanced" is presumably used to disambiguate less advanced civilizations. This was among the least advanced civilizations.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
As far as civilizations go, Gobekli Tepe is not really "advanced". edit: I'm not sure why the downvotes, trying to clarify that this does not add credence to pseudohistorical narratives about long-lost advanced civilizations.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
We do not have any reason to believe that mere algorithms are incapable of living up to the standards of human abilities.

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