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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
What’s impressive about bombing an embassy? Like, pick a random embassy in a random country and bomb it, you’ll kill a bunch of people.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
I was indeed being sarcastic. I found it pretty galling that this guy claimed no one is speaking to these things when, as you pointed out, there is a massive body of theory dating back over 150 years that addresses these things with dilig
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
This is also why neither the left nor the right, nor Democrats or Republicans, nor capitalists or socialists, seem to be speaking clearly to the moment in which we live. [...] I truly wish these companies were genuinely private, but they
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Who's "they" in this context?
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
> It should start by reversing the crisis in military recruitment—not by lowering standards, promising easy pay, or infusing the force with diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology but by unapologetically touting the virtues of an elite
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
This guy’s an economist, right? I get that it doesn’t mean he’s only allowed to have opinions about economics, but I feel like it would have added a lot more substance. So the US is underprepared for a hypothetical war with China, and argua
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Reminds me of 2020 when there was a spike in “it doesn’t smell at all!” negative reviews of scented candles
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
My guess: there’s 3 stars that are brighter, and the cat is shown with 3 legs, so it could be part of a constellation of 3 satellites. The swoop of the tail could indicate a molyina orbit. Generally the orbit and where these things are in t
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Not super surprising really. The US has been incredibly antagonistic towards China, and it feels like it keeps ramping up. At this point it would be irresponsible to not start weaning at least government assets off of US dependencies.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
> And [Marco Rubio, R-FL] cited the algorithm used by TikTok to determine which content is served up to U.S. users as a key reason why Congress needs to act. "That algorithm in a moment of conflict or an ongoing basis can be altered
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Doesn’t chip fabrication require enormous amounts of water? How’s that going to play out when India is expected to start facing serious water availability issues?
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
I think you’re responding to the wrong post? I said “America never wants partners, it wants deferential vassals.” The guy who said the US wants partners who aren’t corrupt is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3973100
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that whatever breakdown in diplomacy happened here was due to a principled stance against corruption & dictatorship? Because off the top of my head we’ve supported - Sukarno - Pinochet - Mohamed bin Zayed -
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
> "Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships capable of truly helping them fight against terrorism," Abdramane said
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
It’s a neat trick, since Boeing claims they can’t find any record of the work and don’t know who did it.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
So in the last ~48 hours a major whistleblower turns up dead and evidence ends up destroyed. Hell of a company.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
You start out in 1972 by saying, "One China, One China." By 2016 you can't say "One China"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like “the close economic, political and security ties between Taiwan and the US”
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Having trouble squaring these two statements > At the time, Beijing condemned the actions of Taiwan’s coast guard and called for further investigation of the deaths. It also announced it would increase inspection patrols in the area. Tai
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Yemeni armed forces sink British ship(twitter.com)
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Oops I meant to say “congress” instead of “senate”. Aside from that I stand by what I wrote. I’m skeptical of bullshit saber rattling, especially when it’s obfuscated by “it’s classified, you’ll just have to trust me”. I don’t, and he’s a s
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
He should just read out whatever he’s talking about on the senate floor. Given the apparently grave severity, if he doesn’t I’ll be forced to conclude he’s a coward and lacks the courage of his convictions.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
It’s sinister, maybe even illegal, when Taylor Swift endorses Joe Biden for president. It’s commendable and patriotic when Kid Rock endorses Donald Trump for president.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Hmmmm this reminds me of something. > Grappling with what to do about the bears, the Graftonites also wrestled with the arguments of certain libertarians who questioned whether they should do anything at all—especially since several of t
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
If a blockade is an act of war, does that mean Israel declared war on Gaza in 2007?
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Guns and what they fire really haven’t changed since the First World War, not fundamentally at least. There’s incremental improvements in design and materials and manufacturing process but it’s a fundamentally mature technology. This gives
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
I don’t understand? The problem isn’t that 155mm shells are inferior tech or not fit for purpose; it’s the US let it’s capacity to manufacture them wither.
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
I don’t think it’s a “problem” either; I think it’s good the the US is incapable of producing some of the most basic 100-year-old tech that forms our war machine. I think the interesting parts are everything around how it got there. How de
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
> The US has asked China to use its ties with Iran to try and rein in the Houthis, but on Thursday, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said Washington had seen “no visible evidence” Beijing was doing so. How do they think this works, t
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
If the door was removed (which the NTSB report and the whistleblower post linked elsewhere around here say must have happened) there should be documentation for, at minimum, the removal and reattachment. If the door was not removed but was
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by seo-speedwagon 3y ago
Good. I hope the union doesn’t sell out its members like they did a decade ago.

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