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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Yeah, but that still sets a pretty hard limit somewhere between "can bully lebanon" and "regional hegemon".
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
All of the recent stuff on that link is UN peacekeeping missions, with the exception of unarmed fistfights in the Himalayas. I guess one could litigate the definition of "battle", but come on.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
An undersold embarrassment of this fiasco is the Marine Corps has 10 (ten!) amphibious assault carriers that are more capable than most nations' flagships and we didn't see one of them even talked about. Why have we been floating
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Quick guess without looking it up: for how many decades were we protecting liberal democracy in Korea and Taiwan before they had their first free elections?
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
This is a big deal for infantry forces but I suspect rather less for air and missile forces. If anything, US pilots might be unequipped psychologically to deal with anything newer than 50yo MiGs.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I don't think anyone is that "in control", it was definitely an Israeli plan to start but they got awfully shy after Iron Dome was exhausted.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Specific detail, we don't and won't have enough control to do aerial refueling in range of Iran. Tankers aren't stealthy or fast, I'm not sure if they have any countermeasures at all. One can look at a map of strikes an
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Ok but add up a trickle of those examples, with staff to handle them, and you're still comfortably in the black. You dont even have extra organizational overhead. Every cloud first company has a head of devops sitting in the chair whe
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Most corporations past a certain point have in-house counsel because it would be ruinous to pay Big Law for every little thing. That's not a narrow legal perspective, it's one look at a very obvious balance sheet. The same could
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I read it as an excuse to share their very interesting narrative, I hadn't realized the northern provinces had been hit that hard by Deng's reforms.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
That's assuming they're wiretapped. For corporate comms, just remember that email is discoverable while video calls typically aren't even retained. Be as explicit as you want, especially if you can rope a lawyer into the ca
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
You could also look at it as a metaphor for the continued debasement of american public life and mass media. Or an excuse to make lots of dick jokes.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
The Philippines definitely have a right to be aggrieved over the south china sea stuff, but one bias I'm cautious of is "the natural norm is American hegemony in every region, so any change from this is destabilizing". Other
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I'm not asserting they don't include housing. I'm saying housing is non-optional, so having low inflation on flat screen TVs is cold comfort if you're struggling to pay rent. The basket of goods isn't the same for
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Ok, then we expand the US horizon back to the 50s as well. We've added Tibet, and the 1979 3 week Vietnam war to the Chinese column, plus them being involved in the Korean war and to a lesser degree the American Vietnam War. This co
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I think they're referring to occasional fist fights between the Indian and Chinese deployments at the top of the Himalayas where there's a dumb territorial dispute. There were a couple of times decades ago where the forces shot a
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Yes, if I ignore that point then the top line number is the same. But it's a choice to compute top line CPI the way they do. I'm explaining why people are still squeezed despite the top line number saying they shouldn't be.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Iraq war? Venezuela raid? Libya? Syria? Afghanistan for 20 years? And that's just some of the higher visibility cases. If China had special forces deployed and conducting ops in random African countries it would be a massive aggre
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Because the basket of goods for inflation doesn't separate optional from mandatory consumption. If housing, healthcare and education are outpacing the topline inflation number, a lot of marginal families will be squeezed. The cheap LG
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I also would like the Chinese to do more, but as an American waving broadly at our political consensus, I have a hard time pointing fingers. At least they're doing something.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Eh, linear algebra changes are still easy to measure correctness, it's just that you're competing with 50 years of research for most of them, less low hanging fruit.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I think its a proxy for general populist sentiment. "These AI people are getting rich selling unicorn farts while I'm on the same pay and everything is more expensive, fuck them".
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
And then they ended those harsh COVID measures due to unpopularity and protests. He's not God-King. I'd love for everyone to do more but its a little rich to hear from westerners, who emit more CO2 per person, that the Chinese sh
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Xi could theoretically reduce GDP and associated emissions with the stroke of a pen[1], and so could most legislatures. None are doing it. Building up alternative energy is a work in progress for anyone, they're leaders on electric ca
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Pointing out that the US cancels their green projects when Republicans take over is a fact, it's not rhetoric. There's plenty of room for interesting discussion on what it takes to make green energy work. "What, are you aga
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Is that a good faith question? Please check the site guidelines.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Sure? Someone calling a model biased for "pretending history is favorable to western culture" would sound pretty provocative.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
That's while being the world's factory, having lots of green energy, electric cars and an ACUTE motivation to reduce oil imports. Coal is a problem but at least they're not canceling half-finished green energy products when
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I mean, if the American propaganda is "you are evil" and the Russian propaganda is "fuck those guys", you don't have to agree on every particular. People have nationalism everywhere.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
And also, not taking a side here, plenty of woke partisans valued righteousness over truth in the 2020 era. The 1619 project which was a whole NYT backed big thing had a bunch of factual errors. The real rub is when you get into "shar

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