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by starkd 4y ago
The Bulwark is a neocon publication by Bill Kristol. He still refuses to apologize for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is part of the war machine that is perfectly happy to see perpetual war. He was a solid republican, but he was all
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by starkd 4y ago
The sources are all over the place, but they all seem to be horrific. There are estimates that Ukrainian deaths so far could be anywhere from 100K to 200K. Russians have lost a lot too. But the only thing we know is that they are depressi
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by starkd 4y ago
that's not how the world works. Peace deals can happen, but everyone has to put everything on the table. When people dig in and are stubborn, that's when we get hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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by starkd 4y ago
There was still a basis on which talks could have been opened up. The fact they were entirely nixed shows they are not interested. 200,000 Ukrainian deaths when they can't even define what victory looks like beyond slogans. They are
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by starkd 4y ago
Quite a few. I try to listen to what everyone is saying. It always makes me nervous when the media seem to march in lockstep. Looks into what David Sacks has been saying. He got into it on the ALL-in podcast a couple of weeks ago, but you c
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by starkd 4y ago
Yeah, noticed "walks back". He just said he is now "unsure". Why did he say it in the first place? Sounds like the US put the squeeze on him, so he "walked it back". Nevertheless, there was SOMETHING on the
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by starkd 4y ago
Exactly. I don't think they are being fairly open about that. They aren't even hiding it.
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by starkd 4y ago
I will also note that the cash burn rate for this war in Ukraine is now exceeding that of Afghanistan in the early years. It is more money after nothing, because they won't even define what victory means. Just more war slogans.
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by starkd 4y ago
Many us legislators are openly admitting it is a proxy war. See Rep. Dan Crenshaw-TX comments on Ukrain support. He calls it a good deal that we get to fight a major geo-political adversary without any American deaths by just supplying U
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by starkd 4y ago
This is a more complex than that. I don't like the invasion, but its not like Russia has no vital interests in the area that is right on their border. And they have occupied Crimea in the past going back to 1776. I'm just sayin
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by starkd 4y ago
Not what I said. You can blame Putin AND recognize this thing could have been avoided. The prime minister of Israel said they had a deal but the US said no.
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by starkd 4y ago
I am not denying the Russian invasion is unlawful. Reread what I wrote. You are proving my point.
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by starkd 4y ago
I think its pretty obvious this is a proxy war. Many legislators (both republican and democrat) are openly admitting it. See Dan Crenshaw-TX openly claim the benefits to the Ukraine war being able to fight a major geopolitical rival (Russ
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by starkd 4y ago
Strange how you automatically feel the need to support one side and can't see the horrible outcome this has been for all parties. This could have been resolved through diplomacy. You never see the term even mentioned anymore.
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by starkd 4y ago
I didn't say no Russians have died. There have been horrible deaths on both sides. No one is winning in this war.
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by starkd 4y ago
And notice how these fatal errors are still occurring. The moment you question the proxy war in Ukraine, you are immediately labelled a Putin apologist. No calls for diplomacy. Meanwhile, 200,000 Ukrainians have been led to their deaths.
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by starkd 4y ago
I think people gravitate towards people that are at least as attractive than themselves. IMO, very few people are truly unattractive, but generally, no one recognizes themselves as unattractive.
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by starkd 4y ago
I don't think you can assume any of those bias assumptions form this article. There are well known attractiveness metrics that do not include race. The article gives no indication of the identities of those doing the ratings. The ass
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by starkd 4y ago
Entirely understandable. But taken too far, it is sort of like a person being raped coming to terms with the abuse and actually learning to like it. News can be addictive, so its important to keep it in check. But too much ignorance make
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by starkd 4y ago
Exactly right. It is about transparency. After exposing all the censorship games in the Twitter Files releases, he knows he needs to gain trust in the product. A better idea of how the feeds are generated would go a long way. The only w
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by starkd 4y ago
Not sure if a community of open source dev's is what he's after here. It is more about transparency, so that people can have an idea on how they are being recommended tweets.
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by starkd 4y ago
I haven't noticed much difference. Maybe a little less restricted to what I get under 'following'. The experience gets much better when you set up Lists.
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by starkd 4y ago
He also said the code base was very fragile. Such that any changes tended to induce many errors. Hinted that it will probably be easier to just rebuild from scratch. It is always more fun to just rebuild. There's probably someone on
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by starkd 4y ago
>>20.The Virality Project helped pioneer the gauging of “disinformation” by audience response. If the post-vaccine death of a black woman named Drene Keyes in Virginia went unnoticed inspired mostly “anti-vaccine” comments on local me
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by starkd 4y ago
I would not try doing this at home.
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by starkd 4y ago
But this is a narrow interest so that depositors at least have access to their money. It does not reward the bank. So long as the bank isn't rewarded, it should be a caution flag for the other banks to take risk management more serio
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by starkd 4y ago
Letting inflation run even higher risks a populist revolt? Inflation hurts everyone. It is particularly cruel to the poor and middle class, but business also suffers because it is an unpredictable business climate. Are you actually suggest
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by starkd 4y ago
They ignored inflation as being "transitory" for too long. That gave permission to keep rates low, so the administration could do massive influx of spending. Now they have to catch up, and its much harder because they are behind
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by starkd 4y ago
That is the epitome of an elitist comment. Do you even know anything about LSU?
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by starkd 4y ago
I think he continued precisely because he sees them as future lawyers. If you cannot engage people with such aspirations, we are doomed as a society.

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