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by paganel 2y ago
The EU will do nothing if it falls outside of the US imperial mantle because it’s not a proper political entity, it never was, it never will. Maybe individual countries like Poland will try to do something, but they’re too small in the grea
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by paganel 2y ago
For those curious like I was, he actually said that last May [1] I think though that age is strongly against him, had he been 10 or 15 years younger he could have probably pulled it off. [1] https://www.politico.com/news&#x2
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by paganel 2y ago
Wasn't sure what was so special about the letters written by a mid-century neurologist, one among many, until I got to this part at the very start of the article: > A young queer man with a growing interest in motorcycle leather, Sa
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by paganel 2y ago
I agree with your main points but as in where they might go, the Gulf States are a decent option, yeah, their kids won't be playing lacrosse anymore but you lose some and then you win some. I would have said Monaco and Switzerland, too
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by paganel 2y ago
I think you’re right, sorry for having missed it in that case.
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by paganel 2y ago
People should just stop using Strava, or at least stop making their Strava data public to the world (not sure if that's an option cause I've never used that app). They should just run/cycle, whatever, forget about gps.
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by paganel 2y ago
> has easily won every armed conflict they've entered into in the past 50 years That's just false. Ok, maybe you don't count Vietnam, because the US "entered" there in the '60s, but Afghanistan was a sure lo
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by paganel 2y ago
> Bin collections? Slightly increase the price/tax for that for single-family homes. > Street sweeping? Yes, at a limit, I'd choose not having clean streets over people not being able to afford using them, even by riding a b
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by paganel 2y ago
Take the 7 billion from the existing 37 billion and get rid of some existing stuff which is non-housing related.
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by paganel 2y ago
What's the problem with rich people riding the bus for free? All bus-riding should be as close to free as possible.
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by paganel 2y ago
> Hundreds of thousands of Londoners are being overcharged for travel, while London Centric spoke to one teenager who is having to skip meals because of cashflow issues brought on by the cyberattack. This is just crazy, why not make publ
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by paganel 2y ago
Which helps make my point, i.e. your Parmenidian view on this problem.
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by paganel 2y ago
> There are zero apples. "are" and "zero", meaning non-existence/non-"are"-ness, in the same sentence is seen as strange by many, yes, and that include me.
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by paganel 2y ago
It can go the other way, too. I’m a computer programmer and I don’t use an ad-blocker, one of the reasons being that the presence of add is a very good indicator of websites that I should avoid. That strategy makes me actuality consume less
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by paganel 2y ago
Could be that the wings are a later addition, like they might have been added in the 1100s-1200s in Venice or those whereabouts.
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by paganel 2y ago
The desert is still a living ecosystem, that was my point. And quite a pristine one. I guess not anymore, because we need to “save” nature by destroying the few bits of pristine nature we still have left. > It's a virtually dead &qu
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by paganel 2y ago
Are you sure? Later edit: From here [1] > Most cyclists experience some knee pain over the course of their riding career. A systematic review and various studies report the incidence of knee pain ranging from 36% to 62%[1] [2]and it is t
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by paganel 2y ago
She got lucky with her knees.
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by paganel 2y ago
Honest question, what's "predatory corrupt" about their business? I have some of their paperbacks on my bookshelves and they've been a pretty decent value for money thing.
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by paganel 2y ago
That’s the thing, it only ascertains a restricted form of truth (in the case of Aristotelian logic what would be called “Aristotelian” truth), and I’m not sure you can then make the step from “Aristotelian” truth to “Heraclitean” (let’s say
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by paganel 2y ago
> False propositions are not knowledge, only true propositions are knowledge. This is something that a lot of Greeks would have had issues with, most probably Heraclitus, and Protagoras for sure. Restricting ourselves to Aristotelian log
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by paganel 2y ago
Thing is, nobody goes to the movies anymore, it’s like saying the Americans still dominate the bingo scene, technically true but inconsequential. It’s all TikTok and YT now for the younger people. And sports betting, had forgotten about tha
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by paganel 2y ago
The “world” doesn’t consume US-produced media “in droves” anymore, there are still some locations where that probably still happens (like Denmark, probably, I’ve never been there so maybe I’m wrong), but at the same time there are also plac
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by paganel 2y ago
Many of the movies you've listed are indeed excellent, for example The Outsiders is by now a cult icon for how many future stars it launched and both Tetro and Twixt made it to the Cahiers du Cinema top 10 movies of the year (a
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by paganel 2y ago
You were most probably still at grunt-like level by the time you left, this is a very recent article co-written by Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt: America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future [1] You must of have also missed the tens of bil
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by paganel 2y ago
The powers that be inside the Beltway will never let this happen in the current geo-political climate, it's like shooting themselves in their own foot. All that the Alphabet leaders/lawyers have to say is something on the lines of
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by paganel 2y ago
It happens in Rotterdam, EU's biggest container port, so I'm pretty sure that it happens in the States, too.
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by paganel 2y ago
Too bad that European history is filled with former autocrats/dictators who had gotten into power especially on the back of disgruntled small/medium business owners, the Nazis themselves had in their programme at some point the di
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by paganel 2y ago
They don’t, plus Russia’s EW capabilities are now so good that stuff like HIMARS has now only a 10% chance of hitting its target (from a recent Western article on the issue), so there’s no chance in hell they’ll let some drones fight their
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by paganel 2y ago
A BS article if I ever saw one. Take for example this: > Moreover, the threat is not the organic air defences of battlegroups or a Soviet Motor-Rifle Regiment or Brigade, but dispersed and well-hidden infantry and special forces units eq

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