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by rayiner 5mo ago
Soviet-allied Cuba was a military threat to the U.S. in 1986 which is when the movie is set. Don’t forget the movie was written before the fall of the Soviet Union. And even when it came out in 1992, it wasn’t clear to audiences that the co
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by rayiner 5mo ago
>> And guantanamo bay is on the south side of Cuba, not even between Cuba and the US > It's relevant to the macho point of Jack Nicholson's character talking a bunch of shit about how he defends us. The Guantanamo base i
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> And guantanamo bay is on the south side of Cuba, not even between Cuba and the US. Why do you think that’s relevant to the point?
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It’s not “whataboutism” because it’s relating to the same event, not a different event. In context of the facts, it seems like your complaint is that the name is being changed to accurately reflect what the DOD was already doing.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It wasn’t used primarily for defense in 1947 when it was renamed “department of defense.”
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Cuba is less than 95 miles from Florida and was aligned with a hostile nuclear superpower. The possibility of using Cuba as a base of operations for an attack on U.S. soil is the closest the U.S. has ever come to a significant foreign threa
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Yeah, Or crypto, AI, all sorts of things.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It's because Americans and many Europeans under the shield of the U.S. military and have never in their lives felt a moment of fear about external threats.[1] They never have to meaningfully confront the central fact of their existence
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I agree with your broader point, but DEI versus no DEI is a bad example. That's not an example of companies sucking up to the preferred policies of whatever administration is in power. Instead, they are responding to decisive legal dec
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Considering they rolled back DEI along with everyone else after Trump's second victory, it's difficult to view those previous "values" as anything other than cynical kissing-up to the previous holders of power. The
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Did you just realize this now? The name "Department of Defense" has always been a euphemism. The last time we were in a defensive war was World War II--ironically, when the DoD was still called the "Department of War."
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by rayiner 5mo ago
What do you think is the definition of “war crime?”
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Kids are incredibly malleable, although they are mostly a function of their environment. Incorrect as to the word “mostly.” See: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/from-freud-to-fluoxe... (“Roughly half
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The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts(daringfireball.net)
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Nah, it's just that most people function based on intuitive, rather than precise, models of how the world works. They have trouble telling millions of gallons apart from billions of gallons. But they were taught through childhood not t
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by rayiner 5mo ago
You've got it backward. The notion that criminals are simply ordinary people who find themselves in certain circumstances is the moralistic concept. It's something people want to be true, because it implies that we can reduce crim
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Yes, A purpose of the justice system is to remove from society those who cannot be trusted Agreed. > But another purpose of the justice system should be to rehabilitate those who can be Why? Especially if it comes at the expense of
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by rayiner 5mo ago
As I understand it, the research you’re talking about is about the potential deterrent or rehabilitative effect of punishment. I’m talking about the effect of removing people from society during the ages when they are most likely to commit
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Citation needed on that first point. I think the evidence shows the opposite. People who start committing crime earlier are more likely to simply be bad people rather than people who happened to be in bad circumstances.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I wish people would stop using the word “child” in an effort to minimize criminal behavior by young adults. A 16 or 17 year old isn’t a “child.” The Marquis de Lafayette and James Manor were just 18 when the revolutionary war started. Socie
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I didn’t mean to criticize the HN title—it accurately reflected the title on the linked page. I just thought the article’s choice of title was interesting given the rest of the story.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The notion that Sequoyah was a monolingual Cherokee is dubious. He had a European father (though he was raised with his mother) and worked as a trader and served in the U.S. Army. His cousin, to whom he presented his syllabary, was also hal
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Egyptian hieroglyphics already had alphabetic elements, and the canaanites borrowed those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs (“Egyptian hieroglyphs are the ultimate ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet,
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The article’s title is misleading: “The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic.” His peers thought it was magic because they were unfamiliar with the concept o
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The working horse population continued to grow for almost 20 years after the introduction of the Oldsmobile in 1901: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/i2lmdx/num... . The number of horses
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by rayiner 5mo ago
You’ve got it backwards. There’s 19 million people in college and graduate school, compared to under 2 million people in prison. And my contention is that the discrimination in admissions carries through to the workforce, at least to white
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Very sharp reading. My quotation presents the two definitions as freestanding. But as you observe, the definition of “tax” isn’t freestanding. There’s additional context, which comes from the fact that this issue only comes up when you’ve g
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> So, based on your own logic, you would argue for higher prison sentences for whites? Yes. Your report shows that white men are more often given probation, which explains much of the difference. That should stop. Throw those fuckers in
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Fees don’t have to be limited to the cost of the specific transaction. Lots of agencies, not to mention the courts themselves, charge fees that go towards the operation of the agency and don’t just defray the specific costs of a single tran
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I’m going to call this one as likely to be overturned on appeal. The Immigration and Naturalization Act provides: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detriment

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