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by poszlem 4y ago
Ukraine's goal is to regain control of territory currently occupied by Russia, including Crimea, and potentially see Russia break up into smaller countries. Meanwhile, the United States aims to weaken Russia as a potential threat to NA
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The shift towards energy independence can be seen as a response to the crumbling global order, particularly in the context of America's role in enforcing this order after World War II. The global order that emerged after World War II w
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There is a geopolitical component to that as well. The geopolitical landscape, including the rise of China and the weakening of the US, as well as the uncertain peace in Ukraine, may lead to an increase in the proliferation of nuclear weapo
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by poszlem 4y ago
I honestly cannot grasp how is it possible for the Obsidian team to consistently release such high quality software on a regular basis, almost for free and with such a small team. Just incredible, and if anybody from Obsidian reads that, yo
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If mainstream media spent as much time writing about the Twitter Files as they do about Elon, I could maybe take it seriously. So far they pretty much ignored it, and even if you think it's a nothing-burger - I can guarantee that if th
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by poszlem 4y ago
Thank you for explaining, I will take this into account for sure. Could you let me know if my comment would be allowed to stay on the site if I only posted its first part? (and omitted the "left-wing" remark) Not trying to argue w
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Especially since KGB was created to supercede Чека, which was created by a hardcore Bolshevik.
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As far as I am aware Orwell's big brother was created after the left wing totalitarianisms, so I have no idea what are you on about.
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Yeah, I would not even mind a "no double citizenship" rule.
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That is true, but there are certain "red flags" that you will hear from most abusers. In the case of governments one of those is "we do it for social justice [not normal justice]".
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I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I think the idea "If you don't like it, you can leave" is one of the most important, if not THE most important freedom a person should have. It's the reason why former communist coun
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I don't even think the communist government of Poland wanted to adopt those policies. The problem with "social justice" is not the intention behind it but the actual implementation and what it requires. For example, here we d
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It being a "global goal" is exactly what I don't like. I don't especially care if a country wants to tax their citizens whatever high. My problem is only when we reach a state of a "global government" deciding
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A bit of both. I don't mind corps being taxed if that's what a country wants to do. I do have a problem with making this a "global government mandated" thing though. And as I mentioned in other comments, I despise the re
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It's kind on interesting that the word "reactionary" is also really disliked in Poland too (alongside with the likes of "comrade"). Both of those (plus "social justice") have been used to silence and oppre
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The only difference is, I suppose, the fact that one comes from a people that got very close to experiencing the "social justice paradise" and the other is just a made up phrase by an internet troll. Otherwise, they are practicall
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> "Today the European Union has taken a crucial step towards tax fairness and social justice," EU economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said. There is a saying in Poland: "The difference between <<justice>> and
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I agree with almost all the points, especially the last one. The first half of the gallery is mind blowing and really focused. The second half is as if someone decided that "we cannot just show photos from STEM fields, we need to add s
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At the very least we need to start demanding two things: falsifiability and reproducibility. We should stop calling "science" things that are unfalsifiable.
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Because if you don't add money as incentive the only other strong incentive is for people who join the social sciences because they want to push some kind of policy that they feel strongly about (In this case, their personal beliefs an
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by poszlem 4y ago
We absolutely need to change the way we do social sciences. My favourite pet peeve in social sciences is idea laundering. "It’s analogous to money laundering. Here’s how it works: First, various academics have strong moral impulses ab
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One would be that people who steal $150 phones don't have $10,000 to pay for fines.
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The issue in the UK is that the Police suffers from scope creep. The UK police force has been criticized for expanding its scope to include enforcing anti-hate crime laws and investigating "non-crime hate incidents." (hard to beli
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You will surely see some people here saying that the broken windows theory has been debunked (I used to be one of them), so that's why I did not use that phrase, but at the very least I don't think the equation for pursuing the th
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What I find incredible is that despite having precise location coordinates the police did not recover it. I think we underestimate the extent to which not capturing petty thieves influences people's trust in "the system" in g
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As someone who moved to an English-speaking country as an adult, I noticed the temptation to reach a "local maximum" in language learning and stop making progress. This can happen when you feel like you have reached a point where
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Thank you. "the happy path" is the best way to put it I have heard in a while. I genuinely feel that people having that level of naivete is the result of them living in a fairly stable country for far too long. Dear people who com
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I'm sorry, English is not my first language, but I don't think "affliction" means "disease". I used it as a "cause of persistent pain or distress", which I still think the OP has, given that he/s
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I am quite happy to hear "progress for the sake of progress is not necessarily an improvement either", as that is indeed true. What ideological purposes do you think Musk has? What is the ideology he is pushing building rockets an
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Was what he was describing a disease? Because I don't believe in diagnosing diseases based on a few sentences.

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