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by paganel 1y ago
> democratic process, There was not that much democracy in the French post-WW2 technocratic establishment, but I agree that they were not technically fascist (nor otherwise).
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by paganel 1y ago
That's how post-WW2 France was actually rebuilt. You could also see big hints of that in the US WW2 economic effort, which couldn't have been done without the Government taking a direct hold of things and instituting central-ish p
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by paganel 1y ago
Also, can't seem to be able to select text, for one reason or another.
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by paganel 1y ago
Yes, indeed. As the current administration, any US administration in the last 30-40 or years in fact, is for a fact very pro-Israel, so a move like this can only cement that stance.
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by paganel 1y ago
> The median Chinese in 2025 is also much poorer than the median Japanese in the 1980s or 1990s. Yes, and that’s a big plus for China, it means that there’s still room for productive growth. The also means that the price of labor will st
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by paganel 1y ago
China is ten times bigger than Japan was at the time, a big enough difference in quantity has its own quality. China also has a much easier/cheaper access to natural resources compared to Japan, both internally and from external partne
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by paganel 1y ago
> Marie Duplessis, French courtesan and Parisian celebrity, was a striking Victorian beauty. This is just so wrong and Anglo-centric, i.e. calling a woman living in 1840s Paris as "Victorian".
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by paganel 1y ago
> can sit dormant a lot longer Surprised that no-one posted the video of the UA drone ambushing three Russian drones that were sitting on the ground, ready for an ambush. Here it is [1]. This is really next-level warfare from both sides
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by paganel 1y ago
The drone tactics are changing by the week, to not say by the day, as I just saw a video 3-4 days ago of an Ukrainian soldier who had just cut the wire on a Russia fiber-optic drone and then a second fiber-optic drone came and took his life
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by paganel 1y ago
They should always have had a second, back-up option, because relying on such a brittle a thing as satellite comms when fighting a military power like Russia was bound to have issues.
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by paganel 1y ago
Yes, they get paid to spill out stuff that materially benefits those that do the paying, there’s another name for that that I won’t use on a Sunday.
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by paganel 1y ago
What’a being discussed in the traditional media has no value anymore because it’s a dead medium, inhabited by dinosaurs.
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by paganel 1y ago
That's how the EU liberals are losing the last drop of good-will that they have from the general (lumpen) populace. But good for them they all stand behind gentrification.
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by paganel 1y ago
Of course they log in, I never said otherwise, but only if they want to write about stuff that is pretty much inconsequential to their lives, such as sports or celebrity culture.
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by paganel 1y ago
It shows that the Nepalese have a higher civic response compared to many in the West, just look at the Brits, where in effect there is a social media ban on lots and lots of things that affect day-to-day life.
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by paganel 1y ago
Goes well with the rationalist/Bay Area-audience in here.
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by paganel 1y ago
It's not only the scrolling that isn't normal, I got dizzy when some image-like thingies starting flowing around the screen, had to close the browser tab at once. Maybe the page wanted to tell something, but whatever it is they co
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by paganel 1y ago
There’s the opportunity cost here of those resources (and not talking only about the money) not being spent on power generating that actually benefits the individual consumer.
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by paganel 1y ago
We did that, it’s only the Western consumerist society that started getting scared to the Moon and back when it comes to dying, you can see it in one of the comments above where another commenter sees life as a movie that needs to be consu
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by paganel 1y ago
Fact of the matter is that organisations like the US Fed have too much unaccountable power, Trump or no Trump. It was only a matter of time before something like this was bound to happen, notice how no-one is out there in the streets protes
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by paganel 1y ago
Which is good, as that is easier to fraud/tamper with. If you can’t be arsed to move your pistruie to a voting section come Election Day then you shouldn’t be allowed to vote anyway.
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by paganel 1y ago
The hard truth of it all is that both the US and (partially) the EU don’t want to make this easier because seeing as wanting “outside” people is now a political liability. You may want to adjust your expectations around that.
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by paganel 1y ago
I’m sure the Nazis were saying the same thing about the Jewish storing bad things in different ghettos in Eastern Europe.
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by paganel 1y ago
TSMC is not going to get over the 50% threshold because it has no free will in this whole matter, as the very existence of Taiwan, and hence of TSMC, depends on the political will of the US. Otherwise I fully agree with you, this will defin
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by paganel 1y ago
Drinking in public here in Romania might get you fined, and for sure you’ll be viewed by those around you on the street as either a known-nothing tourist or a degenerate drunkard, or both.
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by paganel 1y ago
Service is quite good in Europe if you ignore the touristy areas. We’re also not into that fake-smiling thing, so maybe that can be seen by an American as “bad service”.
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by paganel 1y ago
It may do so in some of their written papers, but in practice I risk going to prison if I dare say some things. Soon enough it will be illegal for me, the grandkid of a devout communist party member, to say that I agree with what my grandad
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by paganel 1y ago
Because is bs, pure and simple. Typical Brussels re-inventing the definition of words in order to push their political objectives.
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by paganel 1y ago
> your customers are the likes of DoD. One of the answers should be for the DoD, or any other such military institution, to try and rely a little bit less on everything being "digitilized", or at least to change it all into a m
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by paganel 1y ago
One should not pass any street on “auto-pilot”, no matter if there’s a green light for pedestrians.

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