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by oa335 5mo ago
... you read an awful lot into that comment, I think you are being a bit uncharitable. Though I agree with many of your points, what I think the OP was gesturing at was the idea that billionaires are more avaricious than the average person;
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by oa335 5mo ago
What are the downsides as compared to TLA+?
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by oa335 5mo ago
Costco encapsulates the American Dream; offering quality, value, and fair dealing to upwardly mobile strivers from all backgrounds.
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by oa335 5mo ago
> I was in Iowa a few years ago, and the food is awful. I don’t think the food in Iowa used to be great “100 years ago before modern factory farming,” etc. I suspect it’s always been awful, and people just don’t care about it very much a
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by oa335 5mo ago
> U.S. bankruptcy law is a foundational social technology that enables the marvelous world around you to exist. Can you please expand? This is an expansive claim.
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by oa335 5mo ago
> for year 2025" was not a qualification the grandparent poster made. I interpreted the comment to mean that Tesla model Y is currently the most widely sold car in the world, not historically. model y is less than 10 years old. i t
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by oa335 5mo ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-mod...
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by oa335 5mo ago
> You can't be rich as a country without having the power to stay rich unless you are a little mountain region country or riding on the coat tails of a country that is. Countries become rich because of stable, competent institutions
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by oa335 5mo ago
> I understand you right you fail to see what a lasting peace and good relationship with allies will do for the country that brokers that peace and you require 'extraordinary evidence' because it is an extraordinary claim? Next
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by oa335 5mo ago
History doesn't repeat but it rhymes. Roman emperors starting with Marcus Aurelius began devaluing their currency to pay for endless war, and to a lesser extent, free bread; i believe that is the principle cause of the decline of Roman
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by oa335 5mo ago
They can adjust their checkpoint settings to increase throughput further - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-configuration.ht...
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by oa335 5mo ago
in an argument
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by oa335 5mo ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the UAE starts scheming to foment within Saudi Arabia next i think next moves of us-israeli-uae axis will be against Turkey and Qatar. we are already seeing this rhetoric in democratic party and in isra
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by oa335 5mo ago
> Your view, as a matter of fact, is mainland-filtered copium. Yes, the rich Taiwanese mainlanders who used to dominate Taiwan politics want a return to the past, but native Taiwanese are more populous and have less vested interest in un
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by oa335 5mo ago
> Would love to read more on this. Brookings Institute has a series of papers about Islamist movements around the world: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/rethinking-political-isla... which includes both analyses f
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by oa335 5mo ago
lol yes exactly. Realism has more way explanatory power in geopolitics than idealism. Idealist explanations are typically incoherent (e.g. above thread).
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by oa335 5mo ago
true, but there's some evidence that was unintentional. whereas Trump and Israel are openly saying they are targeting bridges, oil infra, economic targets etc.
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by oa335 5mo ago
> I never claimed this only ever happens in the Middle East. you said > Arab democracies are unstable because they will elect Islamists. whereas my claim is that governments (democracies or not) that run afoul of their local hegemon t
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by oa335 5mo ago
"Emirati-Israeli axis" I'd add the US to that as well. Both the UAE and Israel are highly (practically solely) dependent on US for their military tech and supplies.
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by oa335 5mo ago
> In the Middle East, there appears to be a pattern of electorates voting for / staging a revolution in favour of Islamists, which either leads to a terrible Islamist regime, or leads to an elite coup, which of course destroys the d
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by oa335 5mo ago
but neither Saudi Arabia nor Afghanistan's leaders were voted in ... and secular/socialist/monarchic dictatorships have arguably worse effects on their neighbors and citizens - e.g. Saddam, Assad, Nasser, MBZ in UAE, MBS
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by oa335 5mo ago
i don't think you know much about islamist parties and are just grasping for reasons to justify suppressing democracy in certain places. ennahada (tunisia), pks (indonesia), jui (pakistan) are all examples of islamist parties that have
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by oa335 5mo ago
> What civilian infrastructure was deliberately attacked? Its clear you have only been getting your information from a certain set of sources. a lot of civilian infrastructure has been destroyed in Iran. One of Israel's goals is to
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by oa335 5mo ago
> Arab democracies are unstable because they will elect Islamists. why does that imply instability?
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by oa335 5mo ago
> that event might mark the beginning of the end of their geopolitical ambitions. i hope so, they have been one of the biggest sources of discord in the Middle East, funding civil wars in Libya, Sudan, Yemen, funding a coup in Egypt.
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by oa335 5mo ago
they are trying to co-opt and dilute the term "democratization".
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by oa335 5mo ago
so trumps golden dome actually IS a good idea from US perspective?
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by oa335 5mo ago
> IRGC can't absorb that for more than a few months either, and if the world wants to open the strait they would rather attack Iran over the strait than attack USA, so there is no way this state will benefit IRGC if it keeps up. Thi
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by oa335 5mo ago
thanks for your insights. do you have a background in defense? much of what you are saying sounds plausible to me, but i really don't know much about modern military tactics. do you have any suggestions for where i can learn more abou
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by oa335 5mo ago
"no respect for human rights" have you spoken to anyone who grew up in China? every single chinese-born person i interacted with (all in the USA) seemed to approve of the government. these were students and professionals working

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