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by qwytw 3y ago
> I assume, but in most of those I know they are happy to bring you some tap water I find it very annoying that even have to ask. Especially when in many places they'd just bring you a €3-4 tiny glass bottle (which IMHO might be th
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by qwytw 3y ago
> That's just another whataboutism play I'm sorry but that's nonsense. "Whataboutism" about what? Local oligarchs and extreme corruption are huge issues in Ukraine and have been holding it back more than Russia
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Russia 'per capita' with or without the handful of oligargs that make off with the bulk of the Russian GDP? Because that's a huge difference with Ukraine in terms of wealth. Let's not pretend Ukraine doesn't ha
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by qwytw 3y ago
That chart only goes to 2019, though. Switzerland has been spending exactly as much as Germany since covid started: https://data.oecd.org/chart/79Yf But I don't agree about comparing absolute spending. Of course t
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Ukraine was on average richer per capita I'm not sure that was ever the case since at least 1990. In fact the complete opposite, Russian GDP per capita was always at least 2x larger than Ukraine's. It was even almost 4x highe
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by qwytw 3y ago
> pretty straightforward correlation. I'm not sure. Switzerland seems to spend about the same as Germany in the last couple of years (of course the German system is also privatized to a significant degree) but Swiss GDP per capita i
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by qwytw 3y ago
I'm not sure. I mean the USSR didn't allow people to leave that easily so by the late 80s there were plenty of those who were happy to see it go or even worked actively to dismantle it. A million or so educated/young/pos
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by qwytw 3y ago
What makes you say that? I mean there is a lot of murder and destruction but I don't see how even he could've expected that could ever be directly profitable. A single tank is probably worth more than whatever you can loot from at
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by qwytw 3y ago
> "waging a war to get out of an economic depression" I guess it used to be true back in the ancient times when you could sack cities steal all of their stuff and enslave the entire population (well.. at least those you didn&#x
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by qwytw 3y ago
I'm not American.. Also the USSR for instance was objective more imperialist than the US. Arguably not on par the Great Britain of course, although it's debatable.. However considering the disproportional military and economical p
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by qwytw 3y ago
Is there significant widescale resistance to mobilization in Russia? (not a rhetorical question, I really don't understand what's actually happening inside the country)
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by qwytw 3y ago
> without losing performance But isn't M2 ULTRA over 20x slower than this thing? ~30 TFlops vs 738.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> We'd kill for 4.5% growth The Fed estimate for Q3 is 5% (annualized). Q1 was 2.1%, and Q2 2.4%. So, a YoY of 3% or so is not inconceivable. Not quite 4.5% but for instance, if the US GDP would continue growing on average at 1%, wh
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by qwytw 3y ago
> WMD-fevor took the US and led it down a long road of apathy as well To be fair the conventional part of the Iraq war was an overwhelming victory and even if we look at the entire period between 2003 and 2011 less than 10x American sold
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by qwytw 3y ago
> happen until troop buildups were on satellite imagery Taiwan is an island though. Which makes it significantly harder and costlier to invade. Even without direct US involvement occupying it militarily would be never tricky (as long as
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by qwytw 3y ago
> China is very aware that America's huge industrial mobilization for WWII is what pulled it out of the Great Depression. I don't think this is particularly relevant, national economies functioned very differently back in the 3
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by qwytw 3y ago
That's all true. However it's also true in the rest of the developed world, and while almost all Western European countries have older populations than the US they still manage to spend significantly less as % of GDP with much bet
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by qwytw 3y ago
I guess there is also "gym insurance" then, due to people who buy yearly memberships and never go subsidizing the costs for the rest.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> but Switzerland also subsidizes premiums True, however US spends huge amounts on MedicAid which sort of tries to do the same just seemingly way less efficiently and also less equitably. Capping insurance premiums at 10%(?) of income se
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by qwytw 3y ago
I think the majority of Western European countries don't even have it? Most seem to have mixed systems or no single payer at all like Switzerland (where healthcare is privatized to an even higher degree than in the US).
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by qwytw 3y ago
> A better way to solve the problem is to go with a single-payer healthcare system Possibly. But there are countries in Europe where healthcare is primarily or to a large degree (or even entirely like in Switzerland, they don't even
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by qwytw 3y ago
Why are you posting this on this site? Haven't you read the guidelines?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> There is a considerable amount of open criticism in Russia, and individuals are not being incarcerated or silenced for it. Just like that father of a schoolgirl who drew antiwar drawings at school and had the impudence to criticize the
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by qwytw 3y ago
> but it does not mean he is good at anything else. Possibly, but it's pretty hard/impossible for Russians who might be good in geopolitics/public administration/etc. to rise to a position where anybody would be will
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by qwytw 3y ago
The world isn't black and white nor is it binary. Yes US is flawed in many ways, Russia is on a whole other level of horribleness. It's like comparing pre WW2 France with Nazi Germany...
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by qwytw 3y ago
Isn't Yulia Tymoshenko supposedly on that list? Yet not only she's still in parliament but she still running one of the opposition parties there.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Yeah more or less. Just without the quotes.. I mean we don't really blame US or Britain for jailing openly (pro)Nazi propagandists operating inside their territories during WW2? OTH few people are willing to justify Nazi Germany impris
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by qwytw 3y ago
We don't know much about the Conflict of the Orders and whether it even happened. e.g. we have records of people from plebeian families holding the consulship and other important offices before they were supposedly allowed to (of cours
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by qwytw 3y ago
We do know quite a bit about Cicero (possibly more than about any other Roman) and he was a plebian (just like Gaius Marius, Pompey, Cato (both) etc.)
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by qwytw 3y ago
PC game pass supposedly has over 15 million subscribers which is quite a bit less than the 130 million active monthly steam users (then again I'm not sure you can directly compare these numbers) but not exactly "nobody".

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