racional

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by racional 2y ago
A 10 minute walk through Israel ... "But the dominant group in Israel has internal diversity; therefore it can't be the dominant group" -- is that the counterargument, here?
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by racional 2y ago
Claims, without making a substantive argument. Mearsheimer initially comes across as concerned, serious and intelligent. But when we stop to unpack what he's actually saying -- he emerges as a prime example of someone way too ideologi
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by racional 2y ago
Hacker News, 1939: Armies don't just charge out because Hitler has his "dream", and certainly not sustaining the sort of punishment that the Germans have had to undergo in Poland. We can see from the response to Ernst Röhm
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by racional 2y ago
It was more the "cutesy" (and fact-indifferent) way they were arguing their position (rather than the basic proposition what they were arguing) that suggested to me that something was off here. As confirmed by their subsequent po
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by racional 2y ago
You can try having a fruitful discussion with them if you want to. Based on the carefully worded sibling comment to yours - it would seem they have other goals in mind.
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by racional 2y ago
Only one side has had meaningful advances. That's not true, as Ukraine has scored significant non-territorial advances (like forcing most of the occupier's fleet to retreat from Crimea) in the same time frame. Also you're s
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by racional 2y ago
Believe it or not you get over this. You can get over it if you dig the day-to-day of running a business. But not everyone digs it. Everyone should attempt to start a small business or a side consulting gig. No they shouldn't
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by racional 2y ago
More to the point -- the land was plenty "prosperous" to the people who lived there. Whatever uses for that land that outsiders deem to be prosperous (for them) are completely irrelevant.
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by racional 2y ago
Don't make such far-flung analogies. The Russia/USSR transition is more akin to that of the Roman Republic to the Principate/Dominate. Or the different stages of other closely related empires throughout history after dealing
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by racional 2y ago
Also, you do realize that Russia is currently winning in Ukraine They are not "currently winning". By any objective measure, the war on the ground is currently a stalement. Only problem is that in the long term -- stalemates ne
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by racional 2y ago
Looks like we disagree axiomatically about certain things. But life is short, so I'll just respond to one particular item for now: The only problem is that some pushing for Arab nationalism couldn't stomach the existence of Israe
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The piranha problem: Large effects swimming in a small pond(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.ph/EEQQB
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The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast(nytimes.com)
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by racional 2y ago
The Nakba was (and still is) a Nakba because ... The colonizers sought to impose an objectively unfair partition plan (granting them far more valuable territory and resources in proportion to their population at the time), with the muscul
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by racional 2y ago
Wasn't its industry developed? The exact same justification/apology used by every colonizing power ever (including the U.S. and all the European powers), of course. Welcome to the club.
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by racional 2y ago
Nifty diagrams, but they should be taken with a huge grain of salt of course. For example it shows EN/DE and EN/NO as having equivalent distances (49) when obviously EN/DE are much closer than either is to NO (in any holistic
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'No education, just liberation ' – Béla Tarr on film and politics in Hungary(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
Do share a few links to stories about the border town rampage and any other particularly notable incidents, if you can.
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by racional 2y ago
My words shall mean whatever you wish them to mean.
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by racional 2y ago
The situation with articles and country names in German is quite different. The article is essentially affixed to many country names as a standard part of the language, and the lack or presence of the article does not immediately convey re
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Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
English is spoken very widely in Ukraine in fact, and was just promoted to an official status (not as a primary language, but to a secondary official status nonetheless) in the past month.
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by racional 2y ago
I'll believe it when I see it in sources other than, well, that website that some people seem to think of as a news source. (One of the two links posted corresponds to widespread news reports. The other just shows some dead guy in a f
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by racional 2y ago
This is meant in jest, of course.
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by racional 2y ago
Yup - Polish is in a different family (Western Slavic), with lots of unknown words and a different phoneme density that immediately lights up as "foreign".
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by racional 2y ago
Can you expand more on what these practices are, in your view?
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Bernice Johnson Reagon, US civil rights activist and singer, dies aged 81(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
The Telegraph article predates the shooting incident at the border by 14 days. You are referencing "men" getting shot when the incident involves 1 person getting shot, and this is the only such incident that has been reported 2+ y
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by racional 2y ago
What does a "fine" outcome for Ukraine look like, in your view? Say by 2029 when Vance certifies himself as President.

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