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> Soviet-type societies were destructive of the environment on a level comparable to the West, and turned into repressive class societies sui generis (of their own type). Indeed Russia had an explosion of greenhouse gas emissions during
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Will Twitter employees now hollow out like it just got purchased by private equity? Anyone with insight into this?
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It’s pretty unsurprising that a politically active fire brand anti-communist in post-war Hollywood had dealings with the FBI. They weren’t even particularly notable dealings as he comes off seeming relatively reasonable compared to many o
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You know the Kingdom is sliding towards tyranny when the Court Jester is arrested for doing his job.
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> I find their content …dangerous even as satire This is precisely why we need strong protections for satirists from those who are so insecure in their positions and beliefs that they respond to satire like it’s threatening.
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> he just assumes… He’s not assuming anything so much as writing for a target audience that perhaps of which you’re not a member.
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> The only way our economy works is when there are winners and losers. If everyone’s a winner, the whole thing fails. If by winning the author means artificially living without constraints and if losing means retaining some restraints th
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So this was 2012 in Syria and any support for Al-Qaeda was accidental and unintentional, from the article: “US-backed rebels often fought alongside al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front, and some of the US-supplied weapons ended up in the hands of
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> So basically US sponsored 9/11. The US did supply the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Al Qaeda did eventually arise from the Mujahideen so 9/11 is certainly blowback but the CIA would need to be funding and aiding
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> It doesn't mean that it has anything to do with US foreign policy, the government, or anything. The evidence points to the Saudi royal family funding a terrorist organization. That’s a lot more than just a rich citizen, that is th
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> When we do it: Realpolitik I haven’t encountered a monolithic opinion in the United States on rendition, mostly disgust and self loathing except amongst the most terminally committed to the “war on terror.” I’ve found many friends in c
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> the powers that be in China don’t really care about the opinions of advocates of human rights Perhaps, although the recent Chinese adoption of wolf warrior diplomacy [1] makes it appear like they care and are trying to cover it up with
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> some conspiracy theories are considered facts now. There are mainstream sources detailing evidence of Saudi funding for Al Quaeda. [1] Whether they approved of/sanctioned 9/11 is another matter. 1. https://www.nyti
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> That's a very thin line to walk. The other powers would have to respond in a devastating way albeit hopefully non-nuclear otherwise they’re giving Carte Blanche to North Korea, China, Pakistan etc to use tactical nukes or even all
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> People coped. Isolation was a problem then too. 120 years ago family and neighbors would just show up. Communities weren’t compromised of strangers who only slept there. Maybe we’ll adapt by getting to know our neighbors and being less
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Which destroys their present and future income.
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None of those movements required any degradation of the living standards of the majority of people but at most just the elites or a particular class and then not substantially. Climate is a very different fight.
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> Sure, but how are they going to produce iPads and iPhones before then? They can't have more than a year's worth of CPUs stockpiled. From TSMC chips. Basically if TSMC insists on raising prices to levels above what Apple is pr
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> If you think Apple can just buy their way into fab success No one is saying they can "just" buy their way into fab success. However, I think they do have the cash and clout to make it happen on a decade long timeline, possibl
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> Apple can’t just pack up and go to a competitor No, but they can use their massive war chest and expertise to ramp up a competitor or become one themselves over the next decade or two. With massive corporate ships like TSMC and Apple i
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> legitimate useful applications of deepfakes De-aging actors such as Luke Skywalker in the Book of Boba Fett.
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If the relatively young population segments we’d need to draw from are in rapid decline, as they are across the western hemisphere then it doesn’t matter how much cash we have if there’s no one left to emigrate here.
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> will simply open up immigration more It’s not so simple when the labor crunch is being felt in vast regions of the globe and many (most?) developing nations are aging faster than the US and are older on average or will be over the next
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This is why it’s best to adopt a skeptical attitude about published science at least until after a reasonable time period has passed for general scrutiny and retraction but maybe always. This is especially important if the subject is exciti
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> I think the GP is being patient. Being patient in a textual medium means just saying what you mean instead of adding unnecessary pauses and reactions to their response. Regardless of how it was intended to come across it is regularly a
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> but at some point interpretation tells you just as much about the interpreter as about the person saying something Maybe, but it's totally unnecessary if you want to foster open and good faith discussions as you claim.
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> Where are you getting that they'd want to "dismiss you?" Because that kind of information is used with a common rhetorical tactic called ad hominem. > Once we're talking about dismissing someone, we've long
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> That's... an interesting interpretation of what I said In a non-verbal exchange this choice of an explicit pause followed by the use of the phrase "interesting interpretation" could also be misconstrued as an underhanded
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> No other country or state structure in the world allows its constituent members to carve out only the bits that they themselves like The EU more or less does exactly that with Norway, a non-EU country with common market access and free
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So they’re moving from being beholden to London to beholden to Brussels? The freedom rings hollow with that move.

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