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State media pushes back on claims China has entered 'a historical garbage time'(theguardian.com)
2 points by racional 2y ago|2 comments
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by racional 2y ago
Fear is an element of your world, not mine.
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by racional 2y ago
The imperative to defend Taiwan is a half-century old commitment; breaking it would mean repealing the Taiwan Relations Act How so? The TRA does not compel the U.S. to "defend" Taiwan in the event of an invasion. In fact it wa
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Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say(theguardian.com)
16 points by racional 2y ago|2 comments
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by racional 2y ago
The UX and concept are both quite good. Aber, aber -- do we have to tarnish this app's reputation by drawing attention to the fact that it is somehow AI-connected? Given what we know about its rather poor sense of accuracy for such
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by racional 2y ago
C'est la vie.
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Professional Poker Players Know the Optimal Strategy but Don't Always Use It(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by racional 2y ago|0 comments
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by racional 2y ago
They required compromise which the Palestinians aren't capable of as a people This is where your post veered from invective into pure and simple racism, unfortunately.
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Indigenous leaders frustrated despite cloak's return to Brazil after 300 years(theguardian.com)
1 points by racional 2y ago|0 comments
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by racional 2y ago
But it isn't really fact-based. It only appears that way. It doesn't matter how many individual factoids you lay out -- if the greater narrative you cast around them (and subordinate these facts into) is so plainly and fundamenta
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by racional 2y ago
Folks who dismiss Marx tend to conjure a fantasy and then dismiss that fantasy and then claim victory. That's what you're saying now; initially you said something much stronger. You keep trying to pivot away from that initial (a
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by racional 2y ago
Okay, let's try curiosity then: "Didya really mean to say that there's literally no one walking this Earth with meaningful criticisms of Marx who has in fact also read what he's written? "Without being hyperbolic&q
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by racional 2y ago
You were starting to get a bit slippery there with that attempted rewording of that rather peculiar claim you made. That was my point, stated much more clearly this time.
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by racional 2y ago
But that wasn't what you said.
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Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, has died(theguardian.com)
248 points by racional 2y ago|112 comments
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by racional 2y ago
That no one who has read Marx can have significant criticisms of his work.
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by racional 2y ago
I've encountered zero people with criticisms of Marx who have read what he's written. So you're a fundamentalist, basically.
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by racional 2y ago
Hasbara literally means "explain" Like Pravda means "truth" - things just aren't always what they seem.
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by racional 2y ago
And yet the idea that Russia has or ever had some rational reason to be threatened by any of this noise, or that it any other substantive way led to the invasions of 2014 or 2022 -- is still entirely fake. It's just another form of th
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by racional 2y ago
Monotheism is one of the big contributions to culture by Judaism. Presumably you mean Abrahamic monotheism -- as monotheism throughout the world has had multiple sources of origin, generally predating Judaism (and Yahwism). But Yahwism it
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by racional 2y ago
The main point is - it's a intrinsically a footgun question (a stealth behavioral question that also happens to have no rationally correct answer). Quite plainly there's no rational reason for someone to suspect that in this parti
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by racional 2y ago
These are fair points, and I appreciate the thoughtful, holistic response. We may disagree on interpretive aspects, particularly as to the motives of certain parties, and the extent to which the current operation differs from "war as
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by racional 2y ago
The figure I've seen for Russia's spend is 40% of its budget , not its GDP. More like about 10 percent of GDP. Still an insane amount, for a war that has been obviously insane from the very beginning. But a different number, i
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by racional 2y ago
Yes, one notices there's been lots of shooting and bombing going on. The question is whether the current Israeli government rationally believes it will improve its overall security position in conducting the operation in the way it is
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by racional 2y ago
The sophistry resides in the gap between the current government's stated reasons for conducting the operation in the way that it has -- and its actual, inner reasons. I am but the messenger.
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by racional 2y ago
That's what I mean by backward-looking. Putin is so obsessed with his perceived stature and "correcting" past humiliations that he's willing to create a completely fictional crisis and drive his country into a never-end
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by racional 2y ago
And Germany once thought it "needed" to regain its colonies, and France once thought its very survival would be threatened if it didn't hold onto Algeria, and so on.
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by racional 2y ago
Beats me, it wasn't my post. The main thing is that Russia needs to pull its troops out of all of Ukraine; return those 20,000 abducted kids; set and adhere to a timetable for paying full reparations; and re-affirm its commitment to re
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by racional 2y ago
Indeed, it seems the calculated coldness of the carefully chosen phrasing was precisely the point.
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by racional 2y ago
The point is it was never going to launch an attack on that certain very large country to the East. All the rhetorical moaning and puffing of its current incredibly thin-skinned and backward-looking regime notwithstanding.

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