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by orwin 7mo ago
Depends on the IQ test i guess? The one i did at 7 _definitely_ had a cultural component. I think it was 5 different tests, i distinctly during one of them thinking "if my parent didn't educate me on music there is no way i could
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by orwin 7mo ago
Never thought about it, but i see where it is coming from. Even after my own trip to China i still thought China would invade Taiwan sooner or later, because the idea is deeply ingrained in my mind. It is only recently that i thought about
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by orwin 7mo ago
Hitting desalination plant will mostly (and almost only) hurt the population outside of IRGC power circle, exactly the population the USA incited to rebel for a few years, with pakistani help. Basically South Alborz. Iran did have a water c
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by orwin 7mo ago
I don't think China leadership thinks it needs to invade Taiwan. Competing against an hyper-specialized country is hard, but if they manage to produce chips 90% as good as Taiwan, the later is in for a wild economic ride, which will pr
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by orwin 7mo ago
I'm not so sure about that. Taiwan pro-reunification party still grows, and its economy is hyper-specialized (not surprising, neocolonialism etc). If china's chip production capacity reach acceptable level (which it will), enough
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by orwin 7mo ago
Maybe, but the "loneliness epidemic" articles and frankly, my own experience lead me to believe that independance is overated. Community is not though.
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by orwin 7mo ago
True, Turkey is a bit harder to rank. Or was hard to rank before February. They showed during NATO joint exercise projection capability i didn't know they were capable of, and imho they should be ranked around UK/Italy on projecti
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by orwin 7mo ago
The toll is cheap I think, between one and two dollar a barrel, so less than 2 million per boat. Honestly a good price to end the war.
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by orwin 7mo ago
France trained the most efficient recon crews, and the most efficient Ukrainian sniper units (some of them led by ex french soldiers. At least with a french passport, or on the verge of getting one). Caesar MK1 are the most efficient howit
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by orwin 7mo ago
Your bet is right, but it's based on a misunderstanding. Those are not real subsidies, those are tax exemption on farmers, fishermen, trucker and traveling nurses.
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by orwin 7mo ago
At least in France, the fuel 'subsidies' are not real subsidies, but tax exemption for different kind of people: farmers, truckers, fishermen and private nurses (I don't have a good translation, basically health workers who g
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by orwin 7mo ago
By then it will be a bit late.
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by orwin 7mo ago
Yes, agree. Nazi are typical fascists. Apartheid regimes might look fascistic at first glance, but they do not fill all the Umberto Eco criteria, or, if I go deeper (and imho to a more universal way to detect fascism), they do not have the
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by orwin 7mo ago
When? The French are to blame for Algeria an most of Africa, but Lebanon is the ex-french colony that suffered the less from French rule, and used to be a perfect example of multiculturalism before a nearby rogue state started putting their
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by orwin 7mo ago
Maybe radiologist mean something different in my country, but here radiologist don't diagnose (i mean, except you see them for a broken bone or something), oncologist do. I did an observation internship with a radiologist when i was 20
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by orwin 7mo ago
That's a hidden farmer's subside. It wil probably only benefit on kind of farm, the industrial one though, so I don't think electorally this is great.
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by orwin 7mo ago
Nor did WW2 England. Look, Churchill had like 24 approval rate after Dunkerque, and the 'british Hitler' had 18%. Bombing London moved those percentages _very_ fast. 'do nothing, win' people have a point most of the time
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by orwin 7mo ago
It took 8 years the last time.
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by orwin 7mo ago
All of it is history from the initial revolution. Khomenei, the original (not the one killed a month ago), was a high-ranking Shi'a priest. He drafted a theocratic constitution, that was mostly agreed upon, except a few caveats that ga
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by orwin 7mo ago
The first vaccine by Pasteur was on a child named Joseph Meister, with the explicit consent if his parents. Generally, the two greatest medical minds of that time (and also, great rivals), Pasteur and Koch, followed the Hippocratic oath (ex
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by orwin 7mo ago
On the other hand, they managed their regime change from a theocracy by the Mollah to a weird monarchy by the IRGC and the Khomenei clan with no Shi'a backlash. The MEK is weaker than ever despite a resurgence in the last few years, th
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by orwin 7mo ago
Crude oil isn't as commoditized as LNG. Europe refineries (at least France, but probably most of Western Europe) are made to refine oil from Africa and the north sea, and wouldn't know what to do with ME oil anyway. Algeria or Lib
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by orwin 7mo ago
Right, even if both governments/leaders were competent, that would have been way to hard to engineer volontarily. I will keep assuming ego and delusions.
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by orwin 7mo ago
You assume way too much competence on either side.
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by orwin 7mo ago
I'm not against putting AI as coauthor, but removing the human who allowed the commit to be pushed/deployed from the commit would be a security issue at my job. The only reason we're allowed to deploy code with a generic acco
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by orwin 7mo ago
Even if it isn't a war crime, every sailor in the world know what the US did and how US sailors treat shipwreck survivors, from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean. Truly shameful. That said, I will still help any distressed boat, whatev
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by orwin 7mo ago
Thank you, that's my point. If you think Houtis are a proxy, then you think Ukraine is a proxy for the US, as Houtis have to promise concessions to Iran in exchange for armaments. Better yet, they choose their target without iranian in
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by orwin 7mo ago
Houthis open adversaries, Saudi, are aware that they are not really Iranian proxies [0]. Sunnis in Lebanon are Persian Shi'a 'proxy' only since their leadership was assassinated during negotiations in 2024 (also by this very
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by orwin 7mo ago
If I recall correctly, the ban wasn't on you betting with your friend group, but on casino accepting your bets.
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by orwin 7mo ago
I heavily dislike the Saudi regime. This journal hides a lot about slavery and death amongst Saudi slaves, so read everything that talk about Neom and internal projects with a grain of salt, but I can't say they aren't factual, mo

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