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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think that's a bit common knowledge to anybody watching this space: state department types are basically obsessed with protecting Taiwan, as a subset of the whole China-US rivalry thing (that they are also obsessed with). A big pilla
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> This is one of the things I actually believe the conservatives get right. If you go back into the early history of conservatism, there was a breed of conservative that wanted to protect traditional social relations against the social d
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My gut feeling is that there's a strong correlation between rent prices and fertility rates. You can't have kids if you can't work out where to put them. That said, I'm generally quite relaxed about the population trend:
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Naturally, most of these media projects are run by Jews and promote the same neoliberal agenda that their cousins in the West promote. Eugh. Nice to see links containing explicit antisemitism on HN.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> (Direct civilian losses by the hands of the invading force were less than 4,000.) I can see that, in terms of direct civilian losses, the first gulf war was mild. However, I don't think it's in any way reasonable to only coun
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You know how you can tell you have a good propaganda machine? It's when you launch a war, your poll ratings shoot up. When you kill loads of people in your war, it doesn't come out in the newspapers, it comes out in the Lancet, tw
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I got it from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDwl0isLpxg . In my opinion, he makes a bit of a meal out of it: you don't need to take that much care over the frame, but the technique works well. Sometimes if y
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I've been messing around with etching for a few months, and I've had quite a lot of luck with a process using a steel plate, a salt-water electrolyte, a power source at 5V or lower, and either a lacquer resist (for WB style relief
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Their 'definition' of democracy is not a democracy. I think people are way too black-and-white about these things. Democracy is supposed to be a mapping of the people's will to the people's living conditions. It&#x2
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't see them as having contempt for democracy. Lenin's slogan, after all, was 'all power to the soviets'. That was the basic unit of democracy in Russia at the time, far more relevant than stuff like the constituent
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Note that it already went away by the time the Bolshevik's staged their 'Revolution'. Sure. But that's also very normal in revolutions, to have a multiple-stage affair with different conceptions of what the revoluti
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Nationalism, by the way, was pretty new back then. It was also way less negative then it modern nationalism is today. That's what I'm saying. Bismark was (the? a? the most successful?) creator of modern-day nationalism. He pr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I was really just making a comment about the disparity between Bismark and Hitler. Bismark was a giant, in every sense of the word, while Hitler was sort of average. > a true Prussian conservative That's the issue. Bismark wasn&#x2
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> That is a delusional take on the Bolsheviks. I don't really want to argue in detail about the character of the Bolsheviks. I agree they were extremely ruthless, and that they created a lot of the norms and institutions that Stalin
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm reminded a little bit of a clip[0] in which an AP reporter challenged a State Department official about some of his claims about the Russian plans for a war on Ukraine. It's aged in a weird way, because of course, the war happ
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm reminded a bit of Marx's Eighteenth Bruminaire of Louis Bonaparte, where the line 'once as grand tragedy, and the second time as rotten farce' was coined, because just like Napoleon III to Napoleon I, compared to Sta
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by pasabagi 5y ago
For me it's the orthogonality - sometimes I hit some weird thing that's really tricky to do, or surprising, but mostly, solvespace gives you a very elegant set of tools for building shapes. That means that instead of stopping ever
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the edge solvespace has over the closed-source competition is that it's actually enjoyable to use . Every time I think about sitting down to make something with solidworks, my heart sinks. On the other hand, I actually enjoy u
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Oh, that's embarrassing. I'll edit my post to include your correction.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Kinda nonsense article. Of course China isn't a fan of NATO: they literally fought a hot war against NATO[0] (Korean war) within living memory. It's unsurprising that they don't want pro-NATO talking points gaining popular cu
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think this is a misleading impression: tabloids represent the views of the british establishment, which is atavistic, racist, and generally awful. I don't think the general population is so bad.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You keep on referring to it as a british defeat, but it was a joint effort between britian and France :). Iirc, the US didn't need to crash the british economy, they simply threatened to devalue the pound, denounced the invasion public
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> You have that exactly backwards. No, my point is that the Suez crisis proves that even if you do have logistical independence, it doesn't matter, because the US can crash your economy and excoriate you in the UN if you do somethin
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't know. It seems to me that compared to every other form of state spending (roads, healthcare, etc), military spending is conspicuously poor in terms of return on investment. I think the US is a very weird state - it's proba
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> If even the superpowers cannot pacify medium-sized nation-states anymore, individual states have no realistic chance to achieve anything alone. My sort of uninformed reading of the problem in Mali / Sahel desert insurgencies is ju
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> The French do have an expeditionary force, and they are not even shy about using it - they deploy to African states as a matter of routine, Yeah, I was kind of glossing that over. I don't know if French military involvement in Afr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
If you look at GDP charts, the US is very dynamic in comparison to the EU. I think the EU is a better model, but when it comes to raw economic, military and diplomatic power, there's no comparison. If you go back to the decades in whic
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> your argument is circular. How so? The Suez invasion didn't fail because the British (or the French) didn't have the logistics to supply their forces. It failed because the US wasn't OK with it happening. The point is, F
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The reason is simple: you need extensive logistics support for expeditionary warfare. European states are not really structurally placed to engage in this kind of thing: ever since the Suez crisis, it's been obvious that we basically l

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