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by quink 2y ago
Yes? Any response. I agree with you, let's not glorify meat grinders. In fact, let's stand diametrically opposed to those who would. I'll just type 'meat grinder' and 'battle' into Google. Here's the
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by quink 2y ago
As for me, I believe it not only because of the current administration per se, but because it's basically same as how the usaid.gov shutdown happened.
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by quink 2y ago
Because being a whataboutism makes it not relevant. Implictly making solving the Russia/Ukraine situation (which, again, is basically as simple as Russians just going home) require peace in the Middle East first seems like you just wan
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by quink 2y ago
So... any examples of that Quisling, Vichy, Chamberlain approach - roll over and plead for mercy while exposing your belly - that resulted in a permanent peace in Europe? I mean we want to avoid a meat grinder don't we, so given all th
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by quink 2y ago
So far the biggest self-inflicted death toll has been Russian, and all they have to do is go home.
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by quink 2y ago
Your premise and any assumptions that build on that are invalid. The Soviet Union and China had a war. When they both had a nuclear umbrella, the Soviet Union having twice as many nuclear weapons as they do now. What else... India and Pakis
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by quink 2y ago
I think the question most others in Europe are concerned about is "How far west does Russia stop?", and given that they held Berlin only about 35 years ago, and they're openly talking about Paris on state TV, the answer is &q
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by quink 2y ago
As for point 1: Russia has ambitions beyond Ukraine. How anyone could forget that when only about 35 years ago they controlled regimes that consist of 40% of Germany in addition to all of Eastern Europe is beyond me. We're not talking
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by quink 2y ago
> I spent hours paying close attention to this thread and moderating it And we thank you for it… but it also does strengthen the argument that it should be higher up exactly because you’ll want to get the most value out of the evident ha
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by quink 2y ago
Divisive? Bellicose? Flames? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a less divisive thread than this one, having read _hundreds_ of comments in this thread. There is virtually no flame war going on here and opinions are fairly uniform on the matter a
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by quink 2y ago
OK, maybe with losing this funding, they’ll now have to stop funding these admissions, grow their endowment, and eventually they’ll be able to pay for these admissions using their larger endowment. So pausing it now is more likely to make i
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by quink 2y ago
Money big pile. Money in pile used to pay for everything and thing A. Now less money going into pile. Pile will disappear if they keep paying for thing A. Losing thing A painful but optional for now. Pile disappear very very bad, will not b
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by quink 2y ago
Ah, fair enough, fair enough, it's hard to know these days and evidently in between all the other comments and the general mood, I guess a lot of people are in a very defensive stance at the moment.
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by quink 2y ago
> perpetually aggregate money to manage as a tax exempt hedge fund Yes. That's the grand purpose. To do exactly that so they can exist in perpetuity. Do you also go around pointing at hearts as if it's all some grand revelation
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by quink 2y ago
And? What's the concern here, that they dare to do medical research?
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by quink 2y ago
The endowment as of June 30th 2023 was $5.5 billion. A year later it was $5.8 billion. If you add inflation and this spending cut alone, it has not grown. Sure, it's "only ~2%", but surely I don't need to tell you how th
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by quink 2y ago
SuSE 6.3 for me. With the handbook and everything on CDs it's the sort of introduction to Linux as physical artifacts that you had to deal with. It defined a life-changing experience that's near impossible to avoid. Because you su
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by quink 2y ago
> "local first" Listening on 127.0.0.1:80 is local first and not being routable is in fact local-only. Its common alias ‘localhost’ even has ‘local’ in the name.
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by quink 2y ago
PEPFAR, created by _Republican_ George W. Bush, is dead as part of this, here's _Republican_ George W. Bush claiming it saved 25 million lives in a talk two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOUWlL_HLQ Unless
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by quink 2y ago
Always interesting to remember how they came, in a big way, for aid recipients and transgender people first, probably the most vulnerable. While also cancelling anything DEI, Meals on Wheels, you mention it. This presidency so far has some
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by quink 2y ago
So a review of at most millions warrants cancelling billions in the meantime that literally keeps people from dying? Not a great indicator of how much you value human life there, buddy.
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by quink 2y ago
> SCREENSHOT_JPEG_QUALITY Not two words that should be near each other, and JPEG is the only option. Almost like it’s designed to nerd-snipe someone into a PR to change the format based on Accept headers.
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by quink 2y ago
Not really. The 978 prefix, or previously ISBN-10 namespace, in addition to a recalculation of the checksum, makes most books go into the EAN-13 namespace. EAN is meant for unique identifiers (“Numbers”) of “Articles” in “Europe”. Later tha
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by quink 2y ago
Well, if we’re going by those metrics then wait ‘til I tell you about the young dynamic lad who replaced President Hindenburg, age 84. I prefer sleepy. If the presidency should be spent in a coma compared to this, then all the better.
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by quink 2y ago
I mean I’m of the weird belief that moving an item from point A to point B fundamentally uses, more or less, amount of energy x regardless of whether it’s 1950 or 2000 or 2050, but if you want to make the laws of Physics obey exponential gr
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by quink 2y ago
Got it. It’s a basic law of economics that all kitchens must be lit like the surface of the sun by the end of the century otherwise we’ll all be in economic doom. Also pretty sure that Jevons’ paradox might actually not apply indefinitely f
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by quink 2y ago
> Energy efficiency causes energy consumption to increase. That's basic economics [0]. Switching from incandescents to LEDs reduces electricity consumption by up to 90% to produce the same amount of light. I mean sure, someone will
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by quink 2y ago
The only graphs the relate energy consumption to anything else within the same graphs are 1) a curve implying we ought to be using 400 kW per capital use of continuously, enough to power hundreds of homes most of the time and 2) one that sh
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by quink 2y ago
A) OK, so on the one hand we could blame $2 trillion going to billionaires in 2024 alone, near enough $6000 for every person in the country, with evidence of any trickle down effect being a thing still outstanding, but evidence of their pol
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by quink 2y ago
Ah yes, the activity of “accessing energy”, the very relatable and not at all abstract real activity that we fellow humans perform multiple times a day. And here I thought we did “normal” things like “switch on the light” and notice that an

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