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by oa335 6mo ago
Prime age employment is near all time highs: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060 20-24 age employment has been about the same for last 16 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS113
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by oa335 6mo ago
Also noticed that… another consequence of convergence of culture due to algorithmic management of attention?
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by oa335 6mo ago
Widely available image recognition software can tell the difference between birds, planes, baseballs and missiles already.
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“ sanctions strengthen authoritarian rule if the regime manages to incorporate their existence into its legitimation strategy.” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-...
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by oa335 6mo ago
> breakdown of doctrinal disciplin- mostly created by chronic underestimation of advesaries in the region "Keep in mind that the greatest entities, whether they are cities or nations, are the ones most susceptible to the pride that
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by oa335 6mo ago
> One of the things I have disliked about the Iranian conflict is that their propaganda/messaging has been, by quite a margin, more reliable than what the US/Israel have been putting out. Can you please expand on this with some
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> They should probably be closer to 0 or more in line with European countries Expand on this logic please. European countries are protected by NATO and a nuclear umbrella. Why would you expect a nation state to not invest in its military
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by oa335 6mo ago
> Iran has been buying and building all of this military infrastructure at the expense of living conditions for its people Iran spends about 2.5% of its GDP on defense, compared to USA at around 3.5%. How much should they be spending?
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by oa335 6mo ago
Not legally, only by contract/specification. Funds could get sued for deviating from the index, but funds generally have a decent amount of discretion in my experience in how they handle rebalancing.
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by oa335 6mo ago
The data has been compiled, wouldn’t be that hard: https://www.hra-iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Crim... I’m betting the age and gender breakdown of deaths will be a lot different, as most Pal
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by oa335 6mo ago
The next step could be to attempt to link as many of these as possible to a news article describing the Israeli actions that led to their death, and/or stories about their lives. Obviously it will be hard to attribute most of them, bu
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by oa335 6mo ago
> I'm not sure that the USN would have been any more effective 30 years ago if it tried to make a narrow waterway that is off-shore from a medium-strength world power accessible for safe commercial ship traffic. Yeah I'm not to
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> I don't see any compelling evidence that the US couldn't open the straits if it really wanted to, it's just that the cost in lives and hardware would be unlike anything the US has seen since Vietnam, maybe even the secon
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by oa335 6mo ago
> The Quincy Institute exists to push their "restraint/realpolitic" agenda Every think tank exist to further their agenda… do you have a more substantive critique?
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by oa335 6mo ago
> USN can still do whatever it was made for One of the primary functions of navies historically has been to secure vital shipping lanes. It’s a big deal that USN can’t seem to fulfill that function anymore.
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by oa335 7mo ago
> Iran has a track record of provocations like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings > I agree the U.S. does a lot of “unprovoked invasions.” Sending U.S troops to intervene in a forei
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by oa335 7mo ago
> Israel would probably be fine with a moderate government in Iran. Maybe, but I think they are genuinely aiming for a failed state. Israel is a state with a political apparatus that is predicated on providing security. That apparatus n
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by oa335 7mo ago
I shared articles of Israelis celebrating deaths of Palestinian civilians, and you shared an article of Palestinians celebrating Israeli deaths. I asked for proof of your claim that Iranis celebrated civilian deaths and you still have not s
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by oa335 7mo ago
You may disagree with the idea that militaries are responsible for civilians they kill regardless of intent, but it is not poor argumentation. And the fact that it triggers you to support the war reveals more about you than you may intend.
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by oa335 7mo ago
Orwellian semantic games…Iran didn’t have a WMD, so now we will modify the definition of WMD.
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by oa335 7mo ago
> Do you see Americans cheering for the dead school children? I'm watching Iran cheering for the dead children in countries around the world every day for 40 years. I agree, people should be ashamed of supporting killing civilians a
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> I think the biggest factor for us was that most attendees already had some technical baseline. That makes it way easier to pick papers and have productive discussions. Thanks for sharing your experience. How do you suss out peoples tec
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by oa335 7mo ago
> The meetings themselves are just an hour, so it's not a massive time block How exactly are the meetings structured? I.e is someone leading discussions? Does each person go around and share thoughts? Etc
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by oa335 7mo ago
I would be interested to hear others experiences with running these types of groups. We’ve tried this a couple of times at my current job and both times it’s petered out - people don’t do the assigned reading and then just stop attending.
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by oa335 7mo ago
> He is someone who plugged his fingers into the power outlet that is the final mile of the enlightenment. The fact that you used this analogy is amusing - something so obviously stupid and self-destructive being recast as a necessary st
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by oa335 7mo ago
> humanity was stuck in a rut technology/progress-wise until the past few years Can you please expand on this claim? The past 20 years have seen hundreds of millions lifted out of poverty, I’m not quite sure what you mean by “progre
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by oa335 7mo ago
> The downplaying of Iran’s capabilities is a weird kind of racism IMHO. Agreed, but it’s not at all surprising to me. Propaganda means that people will project fictitious motives and capabilities on their opponents, even if they are int
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by oa335 7mo ago
No. “ A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people” https://www.dhs.gov/topics/weapons-mass-destruction .
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> it seems you are referring to the semantic shift that has occurred in the word "genocide", to mean "an act of war I do not support" rather than "an attempt at systematic extermination of an entire ethnicity&quo
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It’s related because you claimed I am naive to how many people actually support Israel and its conduct. The median Israeli appears to support genocide, so it’s not at all surprising to me to interact with real people online who hold a pro-I

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