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by racional 2y ago
So if Russia wants to get to play the top bully too, for a while -- well, we should just cut them some slack and let them have their way for a while? Because fair is fair, right? That seems to be the essence of your argument here. (None of
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by racional 2y ago
If Putin wanted to recreate Imperial Russia, or the Soviet Union, then why would he negotiate for peace? Because as he keeps saying over and over -- the only "peace" he will accept is one in which his claims to sovereignty on th
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by racional 2y ago
Mearsheimer "has" all the information; it just doesn't fit his preferred narrative ("The U.S needs to stop picking on Russia so they can team up together against China"), so he discards the parts get in the way of t
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.ph/OOc1Q
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Foraging on U.S. Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited(nytimes.com)
1 points by racional 2y ago|1 comments
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Top banks 'greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon'(theguardian.com)
6 points by racional 2y ago|0 comments
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by racional 2y ago
Israel gave Gazans a 250-300M flower export business. Which promptly failed due to Israeli-imposed border closures. You can confirm this from any source you like.
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by racional 2y ago
er, "tenets"
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by racional 2y ago
He describes it as a "principled, internationalist, anti-imperialist left response" and that seems like a fair assessment from what I'm reading. It's also a complete mindfuck of a piece, with obvious cognitive distorti
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Wild horses reintroduced to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries(theguardian.com)
132 points by racional 2y ago|47 comments
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by racional 2y ago
Fair enough in regard to strong critiques. I still don't think the original statement I jumped in at ("Palestinians never had a country so that couldn't have been stolen from them") stands on its own, or helps explain th
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by racional 2y ago
A meaningful explanation of why a bridge collapsed would be: "Facing financial pressure, the board voted to re-open the bridge despite advice from its own experts that it was unsafe and faced a high chance of catastrophic failure.&quo
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by racional 2y ago
How is an obviously foolish and unethical decision to publicly post user profiles without their consent -- "a consequence of pivoting"?
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by racional 2y ago
Interesting that this post gets right to the point with at least plausible, and more to the point: user-focused reasons as to why Triplebyte filed. While the blogpost starts off with -- its "impressive founding pedigree." That&#
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by racional 2y ago
I don't think what people are asking Israel to do here is to let the Palestinians have elections while being occupied? The demand , not "ask", is that Israel end the Occupation.
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by racional 2y ago
Because you offered them as your primary point of reference. These people aren't a "pretty strong indicator" of anything. They definitely do not have an interesting or useful perspective as to what mainstream Ukrainian socie
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by racional 2y ago
That's clearly not what they're saying.
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by racional 2y ago
There are hardcore Nazis in my (german) home town - and they went to support their nationalistic comrades in Azow and co So you base your view of what's going on in Ukraine not from talking broadly to Ukrainians; not from an objectiv
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by racional 2y ago
'Helped a little bit' are the right words. Not according to Comrades Stalin and Khrushchev, who were in a position to know about such things: I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Re
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by racional 2y ago
Bandera Ooh, scary. Here's the deal, though -- the guy is glorified by some people in Ukraine, but not in any official capacity at the national level. When an attempt was made to grant him official "Hero" status at the nat
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by racional 2y ago
Your counterargument here seems to be: "Interviews suck because they don't measure the right things anyway. Therefore it's okay for candidates to use an AI tool during the interview process, even though employers explicitly
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by racional 2y ago
When the war in the East started, first thing Russians did in certain places was to go to the district tax office, get the to the decentralized paper storage and ransom every person who can reasonably have about 30K USD to not sit in the t
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by racional 2y ago
The fault was not doing the same to the USSR. You realize that this is exactly how the war between Oceania and Eurasia started, right?
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by racional 2y ago
Stopping Axis aggression against the USSR And with it, the enactment of the Final Solution in its territories. Are you sure you mean to say that you're "not sure" if stopping this project in its tracks was a good idea or no
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by racional 2y ago
I don't like to appear to be dismissive of longer posts by picking out just one aspect of them and ignoring everything else that was said; but in this case there's one assertion you're making which stands categorically above
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by racional 2y ago
That's clearly a broken analogy. If you're smart enough to put this thing together -- then you're smart enough to see this fact as well. What you've created here is a cheating tool, straight up.
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Gravity Without Mass: UAH Study Proposes Alternative to Dark Matter(azoquantum.com)
58 points by racional 2y ago|44 comments
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by racional 2y ago
Palestinians never had a country so that couldn't have been stolen from them either You know, you wouldn't be invoking this defense if you weren't aware, deep down inside -- that it really is mostly forcibly expropriated la
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by racional 2y ago
It seems you've been triggered by the mention of the g-word. But when we calmly consider what the commenter is saying: Israel is using information age technology to commit and propagandize their genocide It's plainly not
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Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases(theguardian.com)
237 points by racional 2y ago|102 comments

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