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by nec4b 3y ago
Russia didn't disappear after the collapse. Germany was utterly defeated in the WW2, occupied by western allies and the soviet union and is demilitarized compared to France. Americans still have military bases there. Its whole existenc
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>> As a rule of life, that's a pretty bad idea. I don't avoid conflict with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers by being scary. Are they trying to conquer and kill you? If not, your analogy doesn't hold.
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Results of the second world war, the American hegemony and the soviet threat did that. Not the EU.
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Thank you for the explanation, I can understand that.
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If I understand you correctly, you value your kids or your spouse less than your friends? How does this work in practice?
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>> but it's not humanly possible that they get ~40,000 times as much done in a day as I do. But you do understand why a popular singer or a football player get that much more than you?
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Maybe, they weren't capable of doing so before or were busy with something else?
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>>As if the houthis in yemen are attacking ships because they like it or just because they "hate developed societies". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement
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by nec4b 3y ago
In the spirit of what the person you are replying to wrote, you really weren't doing the same thing 30 years ago, because X Windows doesn't really have the capabilities vscode has for remote work. X Windows approach is very primit
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>>The idea that reintroducing an animal is telling someone "how to live" is wild. When the part of the population which is completely unaffected by the proposed change outvotes the part which now has to live with that change
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For how long have volcanoes been erupting and for how long have humans been burning fossil fuels?
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In communism everything was a luxury, unless you were a part of the elite. They had different stores then the masses.
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What is the alternative? Just let the population age? I would say change the culture to become self sustaining again. The best time to start was yesterday and the second best time is today.
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The problem is when the country can- or does not have any influence of what kind of immigrants they get. Not every country can get the best. In the case of Denmark for example, the immigration has been shown a net negative[0]. And you have
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by nec4b 3y ago
Decorate a Christmas tree instead of building a straw man, it's more relaxing.
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Merry Christmas everybody.
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>> How hard is this to understand? Indeed, he got into power by democratic vote. After that he bullied his way in dictatorship. But the first step was getting elected into the Bundestag. >> Really, this is getting silly: it&#x27
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Hitler was also democratically elected and the Germans didn't seem to be able to vote him out.
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She was hired because she was good at what she did and not because of her skin color.
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>> Things that are considered normal in society like women not being interested in it and engineering are self reinforcing. I'm sorry, but I guess can't follow your logic at all. I haven't used the word normal anywhere
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Every time you get an object from somewhere, which needs to be preserved and modified at the same time.
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Why? I'm saying they can do what they want. You are basically pushing them into something.
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It is funny that all the biggest and most successful companies in the USA became such, before there was something like DEI. Or if you look at foreign successful companies which are basically monoliths in regards to DEI.
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I believe you, since you seem to be fixated to using cars for the cities. People living outside of cities have none of those problems. Cars are truly one of the freedom most enabling inventions in the history of the mankind.
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Are you sure? I assume younger teachers are the ones with younger kids starting school. I don't think paychecks for new starters and teacher assistants are that high. Unions usually care about employees with more years of service to th
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Maybe it's because they can't afford the private option?
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Nobody stole anything from them, they were still learning. They maybe even learned something they otherwise wouldn't in school. Maybe some kids got a break from their bullies. Some spent more time with other grown ups or some spent it
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by nec4b 3y ago
>> You're painting with a broad brush: "BLM" ≠ "rioting." And you don't see yourself doing the same to the "other" side? >> but an intelligence assessment offers limited evidence that org
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What is the point of society if not to protect its weakest?

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