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by simonh 2y ago
Good point. I was just thinking Witkoff must be dealing with Russian functionaries all the time in Moscow so they have near constant direct access. There’s nothing to stop them duping one of them in the US though, and it doesn’t seem like d
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by simonh 2y ago
Steve Witkoff was on the chat while he was in Russia. There’s a vulnerability in Signal where you can set up linked devices that replicate your signal messages. You can do this by just scanning a QRcode. This is known to be used by Russian
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It's a summary of the research and theories. If those are inconclusive, what exactly do you expect the author to do about it?
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There is a tangible difference between some people having this data somewhere out there, and literally anyone who wants to have it being able to look it up in a few seconds using tools already installed on almost every computer anywhere.
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He said publicly during the election that if he won “you won’t have to vote anymore” several times, including on a Fox interview. During protests in his first presidency in 2020 he asked his security advisors “Can’t you just shoot them, jus
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Bear in mind that after WW2 the US didn’t want European countries arming up too much, and was quite happy to pick up the slack and set the pace. Eisenhower in particular was pretty clear he didn’t want a heavily armed Germany or Italy, for
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by simonh 2y ago
If only they’d had any way to know what Trump is actually like.
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I suspect The Trump camp realise a peace deal acceptable to Ukraine isn’t viable. Trump having promised one would be easy means he needs an excuse. Manufacturing a split with Zelensky gives them that excuse. Now they can turn off the tap of
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by simonh 2y ago
Oh sure, agreed. That's pretty poor.
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If the company gets 30 applicants, 10 of which go to the final round and 7 of those are really good, if they only have 5 openings then 2 really good applicants are not getting offers.
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Is there any reason why we should associate oscillations with any such thing though? Lots of systems oscillate. It could well be that oscillations are a common emergent property of many systems, including consciousness, rather than consciou
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There is no jobs problem in the US though. Unemployment is at 4% which is mostly just job churn. Long term unemployment is only 1%. US consumers, that’s all of you, are being hammered with taxes on imported goods most of which can’t realist
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by simonh 2y ago
since it seems like government recruitment doesn't filter out people with such views, the government will end up with people in it who have such views. Some of those might eventually end up in charge of some stuff.
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Right, court orders are enforced by the executive branch. Conventionally court interpretations of the law are definitive and the executive branch enforces them. This order tells executive branch employees, including the police and court off
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As against bringing in people he can’t trust or control, to not do what he wants, and get an outcome he doesn’t need. I think this move is a mistake, but what your describing there is just competent management.
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Alcohol is in fact heavily regulated and controlled in most countries, and we have cultural practices in place that largely manage the risks for the vast majority of people that consume it. Personally I'm in favour of further narcotics
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Nobody here is advocating blindly following the rules. We can follow the rules with our eyes open, and while advocating for the rules being reformed. In this case the person throwing morality out of the window was Ulbricht.
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Things change. Some for the better, others for the worse, but not all these changes are bad and some are inevitable, and it's not s if the past was all roses anyway. What is a coin in an arcade videogame if it's not a microtransac
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It seems like crowds of 50,000 people want this enough to regularly pay for it, subsidising other people’s education in the process.
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I just upgraded by AI optimised graphics driver and now every time I launch COD every map is a psychedelic rave trance disco. Help!
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Only if you treat the patient. Cures cost money to administer. Better to just deny cover in the first place.
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Oh absolutely, I say all this as a deeply dissolutions British conservative who wonders what the heck has happened to Republicanism. It’s not all down to Trump either, it started before him with McConnell and others as I pointed out in anot
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It took a while to confirm they’d used them and Obama made the mistake of asking Congress for authorisation to take out their chemical sites. Mitch McConnell blocked that, which is where Republican opposition to bombing Syria for having or
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by simonh 2y ago
The charitable scenarios is he’s realised that if he continues his commitment to drop support for Ukraine, he has zero bargaining power with Putin to negotiate a peace as promised. How that wasn’t blindingly obvious from the start is a ques
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by simonh 2y ago
I cite in evidence of Russian ineptness the entire history of their invasion of Ukraine. Given their vast and extensive advantages at the beginning of the invasion, if they were even vaguely competent they really would have been holding a p
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by simonh 2y ago
I think you may be misconstruing that comment. I suspect the idea is that the US invading Iraq was a violation of the international rules based order, and the EU was complicit in it.
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That’s assuming Trump means anything he says. An assumption that has a pretty poor track record. As with the last time he was elected Trump has vehemently criticised a policy of his predecessor, and then immediately adopted the same policy
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Is there any country in the world with laws allowing assisted dying that actually allows what you describe, or is it a fantasy that’s irrelevant to the actual policies we’re discussing?
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You’re replying to someone who presumably thinks that if they personally didn’t have religion, they would be an egotistic hedonist. They don’t realise that doesn’t apply to many other people. I think with people like that, we’re better off
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by simonh 2y ago
Of course.

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