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by pasabagi 6y ago
I’m by no means an expert, but my understanding is that higher temperatures and unstable ecosystems stress trees out, rendering them susceptible to disease and predation. Anecdataly, this is very visible in my local forest, where about one
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think the NHS was at one point very good, especially in terms of price/performance ratio. What you see now is the result of over a decade of governments that have a fundamental antipathy towards any kind of public service, and who co
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by pasabagi 6y ago
It's an odd kind of rule following though, that includes driving at seventy kilometers an hour down a narrow street just because it's permitted, or roaring past a cyclist with a kid on the bike just because that's also legal.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>Gender roles have remained pretty static throughout European history I've generally heard the inverse statement. Compare the women in Chaucer to the women in Shakespeare, and you'll immediately notice a huge difference in beha
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think cultural defensiveness is a strange phenomenon. The musical tradition that grew into jazz survived centuries of the most brutal slavery, but now it's the basis of most of what we hear in our day-to-day. Ultimately, cultural val
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think the 'color revolutions' freaked out a lot of authoritarian states - especially russia, since they were in Russia's backyard.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Nazis tend to have a lot of dog-whistles, and it's hard to keep up with them, but I tend to assume that any site that includes direct slurs ('retard', etc) with a lot of more subtle symbols (pepe everywhere, 'globalists&
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Does anybody else find this idea that forge welded steel == damascus steel annoying? I don't really know what damascus steel is supposed to be, but forge welding isn't exactly an arcane technique, and certainly didn't origina
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by pasabagi 6y ago
It seems a bit strange to view the physical 'traveling abroad' as harmful, when he's so obviously 'traveling abroad' in thought throughout the piece - Heidegger, after all, was not Chinese. It also seems that a lot
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by pasabagi 6y ago
The ideal situation for a construction company is where the house they sell has the best cost to manufacture / sale price ratio. People buy houses without living in them first, so the best strategy is to build a house that is very chea
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I don't consider myself a particularly good programmer, and I don't find the burrow checker is a substantial source of cognitive load. I think I get way more friction from: - library authors that go crazy with generics. - the mill
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by pasabagi 6y ago
He explicitly claims that rioters sometimes outnumber both the national guard and police. I think it’s unlikely that such a statement makes sense without drawing no distinction between protesters and rioters. Saying that the ‘peaceful’ shou
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I agree that rhetorical damping is necessary - I just think that it should be done on how much a given post contributes to a discussion, not by how much it contributes to the majority opinion's side of a discussion. I think Carl Schmit
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by pasabagi 6y ago
> As such, they were ultimately guilty for the extermination that this made possible. The wording here is kind of insane. The germans did the extermination. They didn't make it possible for some other group to do it. Just because no
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think this is wrongheaded, for the simple reason that whether an idea is contrarian or not is irrelevant to its merit as an idea. Misrepresentation is only possible through sophistry, not through volume, or even placement. Therefore, it m
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>too unpalatable for too many people And this is, I think, totally wrong. The soldiers in the Wehrmacht and SS are a representative section of the German population at the time. They are a far larger percentage of the population than you
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I don't think this question is really about Nazism. I think it's about the role of the German people in the Holocaust. One driving force in how Germans think about it is the 'clean hands Wehrmacht' idea - simply, that th
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Do you have some kind of axe to grind on this topic? I just ask because, at that time, almost the entire male fighting age population were mobilized. So when it comes to the question 'is something generally known', it's obvio
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by pasabagi 6y ago
You should probably read the wikipedia article on this topic: there's far more evidence than I could give a concise introduction to, but the majority consensus is yes, the german people did know about the holocaust, because it was the
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by pasabagi 6y ago
This is literally how privatization works. My dad runs a small construction firm in London, and was invited to provide the sandwiches for the opening of a new park. For that colossal buy-in, they got their company name on a plaque, as a gen
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by pasabagi 6y ago
In the UK, there's the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission). Unfortunately, it's not all that independent, since it's generally staffed by ex-police officers. So the outcome of police brutality is more or less the
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Thanks for the insights - I didn't realize (not an american) that the US police were so identitarian. But then, I guess that absolutely fits with american culture in general. >can't be comfortable with freedom of the press. I c
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by pasabagi 6y ago
It's also bizarre because it's so stupid. Normally, police don't beat journalists because they're conscious that if you force the media to side with the protesters, it's pretty much all downhill from thereon in. Onc
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>Chekov's Gun can rarely, if ever, improve a story I guess I'd see Chekov's gun as a subspecies of a more broad range of tactics you can use to introduce themes and events so they don't completely come out of left fie
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Charity is more of a symptom of than a cure of poverty. Nations that kept the 'charity is a big part of welfare' model typically have high levels of poverty, even if they're wealthy. The US is the standout example of this. N
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by pasabagi 6y ago
That said, a lot of the damage done by cars is quality-of-life, not direct physical harm. It really sucks to have to leap off your bike, or even just feeling under pressure from somebody in a car who you have to share road with. Cycling on
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I also think authenticity is a strange bird at the best of times. Humans are basically defined by their inauthenticity. In the bible, the moment humans attain knowledge is also the moment they attain the art of lying, of concealing, of feel
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by pasabagi 6y ago
For whatever reason, my brother decided to adopt a really working class accent when he was about 17 - and at the time, I thought it was ridiculous. After fifteen years, I can see that it's not really just a silly affectation. It's
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by pasabagi 6y ago
They did - there were a lot of mystery religions and cults that sprung up throughout the later parts of the empire. It's more obvious though in the days of the last Romanovs, or the late Weimar republic. As official life becomes more o
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by pasabagi 6y ago
This sounds very strange to me. Countries like Japan and Holland would be shafted, while countries like Russia could literally burn car tires all day. I think because of the vast differences in population density, quite a few countries woul

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