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by pjc50 2mo ago
> You seem to forget also that entering Spain means entering Schengen area: anyone coming from Latam that manages to come to Spain can "jump" to almost any other country in Europe except the UK without having to use a passport
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> chronically high unemployment rates, especially among the younger ones This is an economic signal that there are too many people relative to available jobs. Get demand for people up and the rest will follow. This would necessarily mean
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> We need to get protectionism back up and running. We have known since Bastiat that this makes both sides poorer, because it also clobbers your export industry due to retaliation. And, unless you're willing to forgo iPhones and p
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That is generally considered to be "less capitalist", precisely because less of life is in the market economy. Also since the Stasi Germans have been very twitchy about privacy, which fed downstream into GDPR.
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True. It's very funny how many employers will prevent employees discussing pay and then leak all the pay information to the panopticon.
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My two thoughts are: - this is great - this is an incredibly unstable equilibrium, like a lot of things related to the internet, because other actors haven't yet figured out how to do this at scale
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More likely windows updates. Serious answer: there's a big plan to network everything for metrology purposes. At the very least feeding real time frequency, voltage and phase information from every point of interest on the grid into a
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MAGA meant the end of values alignment, because it implies subjugation of non Americans. Yes, this includes Canadians even though they're white.
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> It is a particularly interesting position when the US is trying to counter China. The US put countering China way behind on its priority list, below "owning the libs" and settling old scores. I am convinced that if the Iran d
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The worst example of this seems to be tide tables, which are extremely date-dependant.
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Guantanamo is leased like Hong Kong used to be, and has been since the Spanish-American war. It is an exception because the US refuses to normalize relations with Cuba. That is not the case for Ramstein and the European bases, which are gen
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That is of course not what I said; "valid" a complicated question, depending on whether we want to get all land acknowledgement and question whether any of the US should have existed at all, including but not limited to the slave
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Paywalled, but what is the actual charge? Is it some extremely generic "obstructing an investigation" one? The US is quite good about making court documents available on line, if someone can find it.
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Most, yes, but there is a noisy lunatic fringe on social media whose existence we must acknowledge. Recent example is Eleanora Folan, a minor politician in a minor UK party. Of course as you say there's also people trying to lump the m
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> The Polish? The Lithuanians? I for one welcome the re-establishment of a nuclear armed Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Just as long as we don't get the Hapsburgs back again. (nb to audience and mods: this is a joke, which probably
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Eh, I think there's lots of valid cases for secession. In the case of the South though, I believe they could have had a peaceful secession had they not fallen victim to their own version of the "sphere of influence" argument:
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Negative polarization is incredibly powerful. You can see all over the place how "X is bad" leads to people defining themselves as "anti-X" and then supporting the most extreme position against X rather than a moderate o
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The simple answer is that those bases aren't considered US territory and do not constitute annexation, and in most cases are there by invitation, such as to defend against the other, worse, hegemon. (Some exceptions apply for e.g. the
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> there doesn't seem to be any reason to be provoking and sustaining it. It has been disastrous policy. We shouldn't have done it, we shouldn't have continued it and we should stop it now Stopping the Iran war via total wi
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The Russians ended up with a no fly zone of their own (shooting down an airliner full of civilians)
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Mathematics has much less tolerance for "undefined". > thinking it can be low level AND safe. "low level and unsafe" is something that people will eventually get tired of once there is a big enough disaster. Or at lea
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The "buffer zone" argument works in reverse: gee, I wonder why Europe got worried given that annexation of Ukraine would put Russian forces right next to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary (Orban era), Romania, and Moldova (which is alread
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by pjc50 2mo ago
I played through Satellite Reign! I remember it being a pretty worthy successor, having also played the original Bullfrog Syndicate. Unfortunately I think the modern gaming public would be allergic to isometric third person, especially as
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Elevator operators are my favorite example of "job displaced by technology that nobody would even think of bringing back today".
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roenxi is a moderately prolific poster who can post reasonably but is clearly also plugged into the rightwing political and news ecosystem resulting in this kind of "rightwing tankie" take. I believe they're actually from one
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The eradication of democracy in HK is extremely sad, but unfortunately it was only ever leased from China and the UK did not have a sound basis in international law for not handing it back.
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Russia is the odd one out here, in that it was started by Russian incursions as far back as 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Crimea The think tank argument is very valid though. You can no long
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> "sensible" According to what idea of "sensible"? > encourage a Ukrainian surrender early on and send them some food/whatnot in a care package, then fortify the Polish border. This would still have resulted i
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The UK PM change happened indirectly as a result of poor performance in the local elections. It does actually matter that the UK has multiple parties that effectively compete, even if some of them are blatantly sockpuppets for overseas mi
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> why we keep hitting the Russians 1) "we" (the US) are not hitting the Russians, "we" (Europe including the UK) are providing them with weapons for their self-defence, since it is in our interest to prevent a humanit

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