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by pasabagi 5y ago
>That's why the won the war in the first place. Not really. The japanese ships were, iirc, mostly built in britain and germany. Plus, the chinese had many more ships. I've read that corruption and morale were important factors,
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the law is simply way too soft on this. If you're using heavy machinery in public areas, it should be absolutely mandatory that you follow the law, and are capable of doing so. People who either do not or cannot should simply n
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Industrialism originally developed through the profits of export goods, directed at the colonies. By the 20th century, I think you could say colonialism didn't pay off. But it was also the seed capital for a lot of europe's indust
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess the problem is, if you're interested in history, you often do find there's lots to be proud of in a nation's past, but it's usually the precise opposite of the people you can find statues of. So when you'r
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, I think there are some good reasons for that. It's traditionally been an antisemetic trope, and often smoothly blends into antisemitism (Rothschilds, etc). It's also one of those things where the evidence is by necessity wea
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, they don't meet the definition the other poster put up - unless you want to interpret it in a very loose sense that would certainly tar a lot of nations, for instance India. I'm not really attached to the word or it's d
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by pasabagi 5y ago
During the first world war, the UK made a lot of claims about what Germany was doing in Belgium. It turned out that these claims were untrue. The Germans were undoubtedly brutal, but they were also not nearly so monstrous as the allies made
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Thanks for writing this. I've been noticing the same disturbing trend - and I hate it because people don't realize how easy it is to end up in a dumb war by accident . If you have a whole load of talking heads talking war, politi
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I've listened to a few US military strategists talk about it, and they generally say that forward deployment is a good way to lose all your forward deployed forces in the early hours of an engagement. So deploying loads of troops would
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Genocide specifically refers to the organized extermination of a people. That's not what's happening in Xinjiang. Nobody claims that. They claim it's a 'cultural genocide', which is a very incendiary way of saying C
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It's obviously a bit more complex than that, though. Most countries in europe have some form of rent caps, and some have fairly low average rents, while others have high rents. The economic idea simply doesn't fit with reality tha
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by pasabagi 5y ago
This is great! I played around a bit with openstreetmap data a month ago, and I couldn't find anything so straightforward.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I feel like this idea of a constitution (my wife, a lawyer, makes this argument) completely beggars the question. If you're going to say a constitution is just a gestalt of laws and norms, then there is no nation without one. I would r
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>the right to protest. There are two problems here: first, there never was a right to protest, formally. The UK has no constitution, so any such right would need to be inferred from precedent. Second, the UK has no strong practice of all
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by pasabagi 5y ago
That's just the chinese administrative culture. It's obviously totally possible to do a strict lockdown without doing anything draconian.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Sure. Not sure how old this situation is: there's an enormous amount of migration in the ME in the last century or so. For the modern history, part of the problem was that the Baath party, and the Iraqi state in general, was kinda a su
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You're right. I kind of assumed geographical continuity because there seems so much cultural continuity between shia islam and zoroastrianism, especially the socialist bent.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Iraq and Iran are actually pretty distinct historically. Iran is the center of the old assyrian empire, a tradiional stronghold of Shiite islam. Iraq is the traditional center of sunni islam. They pretty much form the front line of the roma
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Sure, but it might change how motivated you are to address threats that don't meet your everyday minima. Nobody worries about being eaten by a bear in manhattan because it's not very likely - you're much more likely to get hi
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Maybe Adorno's Minima Moralia might be nice? It's well written, in the sense Nietzsche is well written. Can also recommend Walter Benjamin. In terms of interpreters of Nietzsche, it's considerably more difficult, but Deleuze
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Mmm, not sure about the numbers here. If you're a young, healthy person, Covid is not particularly dangerous. If you're a young, healthy, inner-city black man, police are actually very dangerous. Seems to me very plausible that th
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I do everything you've said, essentially 'by accident'. I don't have a car, don't fly, and don't live in a remote area. It's basically a function of how good the infrastructure is. If you live in a dense c
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Really? I feel like löve is just amazingly well designed, both in terms of API, and fundamentals. The basic concept of luajit + c++ core is nice, then the API is so straightforward and consistent that you can basically guess most method nam
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think you've moderated my view a little. I guess my opinions on the UK handling came from watching the graphs, sometimes on a daily basis, then comparing where we were on the graphs to where we were on policy, and often tearing my ha
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by pasabagi 5y ago
So when you read that people believed lesbians cause hurricanes, or jews cause the plague, you think 'how could people be so stupid!' but if you add some figures, some magic words ('populations', 'demographics'
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the thing is, as you go up the list from the UK, you can come up with lots of extenuating circumstances. Italy had it first, so had less warning. Eastern european countries and Belgium are poorer. If you compare the UK to the countr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> UK has a bit more covid direct death than most What? The UK has double the death rates of similar EU countries. Double is not 'a bit more'. > and had a bit less lockdown days (and with overall less restriction) than thos
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Thanks for the really interesting reply! I think this question of unemployment and underemployment is one that's simply going to get worse everywhere, and I don't see a non-political solution. I just don't see a realistic way
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Isn't that just the plan of every developing country? You start with textiles, then move up the value chain until you're a developed country and can pay for socialism or aircraft carriers or whatever you want.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, the CIA released a report that said very clearly Israel would win the 6 day war[1] without any real trouble, and this is largely considered the point at which the US started backing Israel seriously. Obviously, it's very complica

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