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by nosianu 4y ago
> The part where I disagree is with throwing it in the landfill. Here in Germany most is burned - or exported (the number I found was 6% of the total; we also import some trash from European neighbors and it varies widely depending on ty
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by nosianu 4y ago
> it doesn't not feel like that was an intended entrance path The accompanying text says the entrance was made by robbers forcefully breaking through some random section because they did not find the true entrance. So they dug until
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by nosianu 4y ago
https://archive.ph/yTJs4
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by nosianu 4y ago
> teacher/student ratio and class sizes are much worse in Germany That very much depends on the subject. In CS I even had classes that took place in the office of the professor because there only were a handful of people. For semina
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by nosianu 4y ago
Ah, but there's also this part, apparently his water and diet were no better than his outer shell: > his diet had consisted of rotten meat and unsanitary water drunk from an old oil can. > Attempts to bathe him, or offer him clea
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by nosianu 4y ago
> that only 30% of German students get to go. In California, it's 60 I have no idea what it is that you are comparing or where you pulled those numbers from. The systems are not the same and we have a lot more than "universit
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by nosianu 4y ago
In addition to what others replied: Crypto is one very specific thing, even at he broadest interpretation and acknowledging possible future ideas based on it. The web is more than just one order of magnitude broader and basis for a far wide
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by nosianu 4y ago
That would be evidence they won't be able to use in court? It would be giving up on their sources at the least, even if they are not disclosed directly. I have my doubts in them being able to find out exactly which pilot gave the Chine
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> they would get tens of millions of new insurgents. I doubt it. Most people will be passive and will just live their lives. They will get a few for sure, but they won't be able to do all that much. It's not like the ruling e
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by nosianu 4y ago
Also just today: BBC headline "Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63293582 With more background info: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone&#x2F
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by nosianu 4y ago
> We will give Ukraine to Russia if we can save Paris. Only that you just taught the already aggressive ruling elite of a huge country with an abundance of resources who don't care about anyone including their own except that they
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See France and its maintenance issues with not just one but many of their power plants, accumulated over decades and now greatly contributing to the European energy problems. ( https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/
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by nosianu 4y ago
Since you mention "assurances", why do you ignore this one: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapo... > 1994 Trilateral Statement > The Massandra Accords set the stage for the ult
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by nosianu 4y ago
> NATO decides whether and how to expand their membership You avoid the topic you find inconvenient because it completely destroys your strange notions: The nations asked NATIO to join. There is no reason not to protect them from the
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by nosianu 4y ago
> I was in Afghanistan, and yes we were. Your definition of "utterly defeated" is very different and moving of goal posts from what the OP that I replied to used. OP used it in an absolute term, the country itself had to be d
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by nosianu 4y ago
> We have already escalated. No we have not! NATO did nothing to expand. It was those countries that wanted to join! Which brings us to the second point: > Our foreign policies are one of the main causal factors in the current war
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That is not the point as you should have noticed from where the argument came from. Escalation is very well on the table. Of course that does not preclude later negotiations, but the argument was against escalations and that's simply n
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> Russia won't be "utterly" defeated Who cares? I didn't say that, nobody wants that, and it is completely unnecessary. The US was not "utterly defeated" when they left Vietnam o Afghanistan either, and the
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> with appeal to authority. What??? It's an appeal to reality ! It's what actually happened! What do you prefer? Imagination and "I can say whatever and who cares about facts"? > counterfactual There was not a
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by nosianu 4y ago
When the Soviets tried installing nukes in Cuba the US escalated big time to get to a successful resolution.
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There is not even remotely an equivalence. Only one of them includes threatening the end of the world.
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by nosianu 4y ago
> the same as the way all wars eventually end As a German, that's not how our last war ended. Neither did the more recent Iraq war, or Libya. Plenty of wars end with the utter defeat of the opponent.
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The continent that provides companies like ASML and plenty of machinery in general, and is regularly in the news - not just now with the Nobel Price - when it comes to bio-tech? Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, sure, but there is plenty of IT in
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Imagine But it didn't, and it may very well be because those people are not as incompetent as betting on making something a standard prematurely. They id it only now . Be careful with hypotheticals as basis of an argument.
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> Choosing one person to have authority over others is definitely authoritarianism No it is not. This "argument" is getting a bit stupid. Authoritarianism is defined as a form of government of a state, so calling any leader
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> I mean the "citation needed" part referred to humans naturally gravitating towards one man rule type systems. Yes, and I responded to that, because of that. > Even today we really can't help ourselves electing pres
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by nosianu 4y ago
> The Church didn't "beat authoritarian competition That is not what I wrote. I would appreciate responses to what I actually wrote. Authoritarianism - there is one absolute power. I pointed out that this was far from true in
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by nosianu 4y ago
What exactly are you pointing at? Long-term successful areas did not have authoritarian rule. Take Europe for example. There were all the many states, and even within them lots of struggle for power. Then there was the church (even after sp
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> they speak with disgust about peaceful east european allies and look down on them and sanction their economies at first signs of dissent Wow this is such a bad comment. I will even be so bold and call it outright lies. You seem to be
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by nosianu 4y ago
If you are talking about reunification, we, the East Germans, definitely overwhelmingly wanted it. There was no need for a referendum, I will make that claim. Remaining blocked off by not having any real money (GDR money was useless! Exchan

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