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by paganel 2y ago
> If you assume that USAID was evil from the oustset, I'm not "assuming", I know that for a fact. > because you cant trust anyone who counters it. Do you happen to live in a part of the Globe that has been under direct
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by paganel 2y ago
> used by journalists and lawyers to hold government accountable. The journalists from Politico have just been ousted by DOGE has having had received $8 million in annual funding from USAID (another Government-run institution that has be
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by paganel 2y ago
> The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII. That may be true if you look at the US in isolation, they're much richer now compared to 1950, but they've never had a strong a contender as China
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by paganel 2y ago
I think when it comes to Naval Power the US's grand strategy throughout the modern era has mostly been based on the fact that the continental US is, de facto, a (very) big island when it comes to the connections with the rest of the wo
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by paganel 2y ago
> The US is still very much at the forefront of this stuff Doesn't look like it, because the some of the biggest US tech companies now active (including Meta and Alphabet) couldn't come up with what this much-smaller Chinese co
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by paganel 2y ago
One of the questions about this is that of the US’s human capital, i.e. does the US (still) have enough capable tech people in order to make that happen?
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by paganel 2y ago
There are levels and levels of enforcement, and, yes, from the across the pond it does look like the IRS is not breathing as menacingly each and every time you may want to do something different. For example a company like Uber could have n
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by paganel 2y ago
Germany was quite fine until a couple of years ago, mostly thanks to very cheap Russian gas. About France I agree, they have the same problems as the Brits do, maybe because they lost access to cheap African mineral resources as a result of
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by paganel 2y ago
What the OP is trying to say is that to grow from 50k euros earned per year to 1 million euros earned per year is very, very cumbersome and, yes, mentally challenging and very stressful, and that a lot of people actively choose to stay&#x2F
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by paganel 2y ago
For the last 20 or 25 years the UK has been coasting on the North Sea oil&gas money, I'd say that worked up until the early 2010s, and then on the almost complete financialization of its economy and on selling out whatever pieces o
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by paganel 2y ago
> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions. We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal inv
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Officials believe Baltic cable damage caused by accidents not Russian sabotage(twitter.com)
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by paganel 2y ago
It goes to very recent times, almost all Arabic&Islamic departments in the US universities (the ones that matter, anyway) have a link to either the CIA, the State Department or even the Department of Defense. Needless to say, the same u
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by paganel 2y ago
The “we are at war with China” propaganda, among other things.
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by paganel 2y ago
There is still no proof that the powers that be have come up with, to the contrary, it was proven that one of the governing parties (PNL) was paying money for the online campaign of mr. Georgescu (supposedly the “extremist” candidate who ha
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by paganel 2y ago
Why should they? This is not the early 1900s anymore.
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by paganel 2y ago
> In short, these platforms are places for manufacturing consent. Like Hollywood, then. In other words, some of the Westerners’ hypocrisy when it comes to the views they hold on their socio-economic system never ceases to amaze me, espec
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by paganel 2y ago
> That can’t be it. Facebook sells the same data to foreign adversaries including China and Russia. I'm not sure they do that anymore, not in the current geopolitical climate and not with the DC ghouls having taken over the most sen
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by paganel 2y ago
> BYD+CATL Unless these two companies change the laws of physics in order to exponentially improve the overall performance of batteries (exponentially faster charging times, from hours to 5-10 minutes, exponentially cheaper batteries tha
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by paganel 2y ago
Reminder that YT used to be pretty decent about (music) recommendations until, I’d say, 2015-ish, that’s how I discovered lots and lots of very cool and interesting (music) stuff that I listen to this day. Not sure how they managed to screw
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by paganel 2y ago
It's not ironic, they can only do that based on the lots and lots of money they got out of fuel extraction.
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by paganel 2y ago
The problem with getting lost as an army unit on land is that you might inadvertently get in your enemy's sights before anyone on your side might have had the chance to find you, and at that moment it is game over for said unit. There
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by paganel 2y ago
I don't think I've ever tried to hide me being on Russia's side ever since this whole mess in Ukraine has started.
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by paganel 2y ago
> Got anything to say about the content of the article? The medium (or mediator, as it happens) is the message, and I tried explaining who this mediator was. I can't take anything seriously coming from a guy who works for a Departm
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by paganel 2y ago
> algorithm to show you less toxicity- at least on Instagram In the case of IG what worked for me, without me even trying to be explicit about it, was to like and watch lots of photos/reels involving dogs and dog-ownership and right
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by paganel 2y ago
I'm not yet 50, I'm "only" in my mid-40s, but for sure advancing in age has had an effect on the way I program code. For sure I won't be able to spend long hours in the night trying to decipher/solve a specific
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by paganel 2y ago
Yeah, I agree that it's a very difficult problem to solve and that getting the balance right between using metrics and having access to good "guts" is essential in a company's forward success, but that's the state o
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by paganel 2y ago
> How do you know if you are doing that? You don't, as an individual "unit", which is part of the problem, i.e. modern management's focus in trying to split teams/big companies down to its "elementary"
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by paganel 2y ago
Artificially keeping the stock exchange up (and inflated), no matter the consequences, is a form of State-sponsored pension, even though technically it is all private money. Somebody should write a study to show the correlation between the
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by paganel 2y ago
I've heard the exact opposite thing, i.e. people from my age-bracket (late 30s - early 40s), saying that they won't deplore in the least if many of the old people were to die, especially those old people voting the wrong way (pres

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