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There's no great shame in Republicanism when your alternative is the House of Bourbon. Seriously though, Spain had great monarchs up until (and including?) Charles V.
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This brings such an interesting moral dilemma. Are our inherited sins worse than our committed ones? In other words, is it more disgusting to be born Russian, or to choose to work at Google?
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Alfonso X was a magnificent King. An enlightened ruler 500 years before his time.
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Oh common! Medieval European cities all find space to put dumpsters everywhere. NY has simply learned to accept filth.
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Well its an easy enough problem if you put it in the right perspective: NYC is filthy. NY can start by using garbage bins instead of the sidewalk. Even my suburban town collects garbage in an animal safe container.
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Cant reply to jai's missile comment: Targeting cities is already a war crime regardless the weapon. Nor am I arguing that laying landmines everywhere is not immoral. Certainly not landmines in a city. Im arguing that a concentrated lan
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Itd be theoretically easy too [1] . Put a dead man switch on them. If a landmine doesn't receive a "keep alive" signal at a predetermined, known skipping frequency then self destruct. Or use a timer and re-lay them periodical
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Its not a false dichotomy because, so far, no one has argued against my argument that landmines can increase the cost of war and therefore help avoid it. The argument has been implicitly accepted. Attack the argument, reject it, and then ar
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War has many generational effects. Russia still has periodic fertility gaps from WW2. In Paraguay blond, blue eyed, natives who only speak Guarani are witnesses of the Triple Alliance's widespread rape (150 years ago?). Europe is litte
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Ok, thats a strong argument. But, Im not convinced. For starters, if we assume humans have the ability to solve conflicts like the DMZ we should be able to put a structure in place to prohibit people from going to old mine fields. That is,
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This is a serious question: In a place like the DMZ, are mines really immoral? Are land mines universally immoral? Anymore than any other weapon of war? Does this immorality extend to naval as opposed to land mines? No one is walking fr
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We dont like to be remembered of the War on Terror. See we're fundamentally nice folks who make well meaning mistakes. So when we get out of a quagmire we should be immediately absolved of all culpability. Unlike those dirty <insert
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Lol I time my morning shower around my coffee so I have a clean butt!
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You asked if other countries have ethnic nationality, and I pointed out that most do. I added that, while I read The Economist and other "thought leader" rags call for a liberation of Japan, Italy, etc nationality law, I have neve
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Im a decade younger and my university taught C for its intro to programing class. Granted it was a disaster of a programing class.
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Italy, Japan, etc define their nationality through ethnicity (ius sangui). Greece defines nationality in a very convoluted way, but its basically trying to find ethnic Greeks. In fact nationality through ethnicity is the norm. What isn&#x27
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"One option is SWIFT system. Which Russia got excluded in some capacity from. As such it is clear that system cannot be trusted. " Ya, kicking them off SWIFT was pretty stupid. The spooks and the economists were super pissed.
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1. Because, realistically, you have to hold relatively large amounts of USD. Transactions take time, they cost money, they're volatile, US currency markets might be 12 time zones away -> Reserves aren't just economic insurance
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When was it not true? And, frankly, thats their bloody job.
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PLA is biodegradable
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Her
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I know. I bought his phys chem and his stats thermo when I learned he's a chemist! Id say his math book is his best book too - then again, I love math and don't really appreciate chemistry as much as I should.
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Engineering: Third year math phys and its accompanying book (McQuarrie). It blew my mind when I learned McQuarrie is a chemist. Engineering's role in society: Schumacher's "Small is beautiful" and "Guide for the per
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Patents are worthwhile only as far as they are respected. A factory is a real asset employing many real people. Anyway, why does SV have a lock on design? If anything computer design has gotten very stale since the early 90s when all the c
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You could use "it" as a non gendered pronoun. But you don't have to. "it" is considered impolite, something you don't use for something you treasure. Furthermore English has a perfectly long history of referrin
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"because they contain humans (and females have a womb)." While I like the theory, its cute, I dont know that that's true. L'automobile is male in Italian and Spanish. And its easy for a native speaker in either language
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Until very recently non-humans were often referred to, in English, with gendered pronouns. This persists in English speaking countries and cultures other than US/UK. Countries have, historically, been identified as women not just in th
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The world's population's fertility is falling and will probably go bellow replacement soon. That takes care of the resource problem. So if one subset has a large fertility they eventually inherit the Earth since the neighboring co
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That was the theory on the eve of WW1, wasnt it?
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Designing a new iPhone that does everything the old one does slightly better has very little value added. Being able to replace broken iPhone12s with new iPhone12s is real. An iPhone18XR on paper is just a piece of paper.

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