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by steveylang 5y ago
Especially if their neighbor/co-worker/social peer just got the bigger and better version?
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by steveylang 5y ago
His 10 days does at least refer to a specific event or opportunity- "The next intake of conscripts into the Russian Army is on April 1, when around 130,000 Russian families are required to send their sons (18-25) to Conscription Center
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by steveylang 5y ago
Maybe they can do a handheld Mac Micro or Mac Nano.
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by steveylang 5y ago
We have laws prohibiting smoking indoors in public places. When your actions affect the lives of others, that's when they are subject to potential legal/judicial intervention. Certain segments of the homeless population have becom
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by steveylang 5y ago
Leaving them be is not helping anybody at all.
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by steveylang 5y ago
You're right there is a group C, but those choosing a nomadic life are probably not the ones in tents right at a major city intersection. I am a 'live and let live' person and generally not bothered by the sight of homeless p
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by steveylang 5y ago
The correct answer is both are needed, for overlapping but not always identical reasons. There are a lot of drug addicts in homeless encampments, and they are often a menace to other people and to themselves (the drug addiction often going
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by steveylang 5y ago
I agree with all your points, but ironically what you said here is sort of another form of what Mearsheimer seems to advocate- carefully think things through to prevent provocations and escalations, based on a consideration of the concerns
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by steveylang 5y ago
> What is unsaid is does the world HAVE to behave this way? Are humans capable of cooperation beyond petty short-sighted resource grabs? If the US ceased it's imperial ambitions, and all discrimination and capitalist exploitation en
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by steveylang 5y ago
Could we actually forge a tight alliance with Russia, while maintaining our alliances in western Europe? In strictly political terms, I'll side with Germany, France, UK, etc. which all have bigger GDP's than Russia.
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by steveylang 5y ago
Both aspects exist, that's my only real disagreement with Mearsheimer (the significance of each is another issue.) You just laid it out in a way that he seems to refuse to in the interview, so unfortunately half the interview was the 2
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by steveylang 5y ago
At the end of the day most people still have some sense of justice and morality (misguided or not.) In the interview, he could have acknowledged that these values still exist and influence the decisions of individuals and countries, without
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by steveylang 5y ago
His answer always seems to be, "No it's all a big political game, that's the only lens from which we can view this." The politics may be the most important thing from a geopolitical perspective, but they aren't the
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by steveylang 5y ago
They do both talk past each other quite a bit, which is annoying as I do think Mearsheimer has some good input on the subject.
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by steveylang 5y ago
They should digitize it and put the ebook up on Amazon.
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by steveylang 5y ago
In the long run you are right, in the short run the various fake/substitute foods and ingredients are good intermediate steps to a vegetarian/vegan diet. I think the bridge many aspiring vegans/vegetarians find hard to cross
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by steveylang 5y ago
I'll take my chances with modern science and medicine, thank you (even with some significant ambiguities and occasional missteps (especially WRT our environment.) How pre historic humans survived is like how many species survive today-
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by steveylang 5y ago
In reality, few people have the time or want to make the effort to comb through and analyze original sources. So most of us rely to varying extent on who we trust and consider to have accurate opinions or assessments. One huge problem with
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by steveylang 5y ago
The media gaslighting part is continuing to call ivermectin a horse medicine to disparage it, when it is also approved as anti-parasite medication for humans (if not for COVID.)
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by steveylang 5y ago
May as well have stayed. (JK kidding of course, congrats and hope you stay free and clear.)
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by steveylang 5y ago
I was just going to comment, the real game seems to be the development of the game, (pre)ordering and outfitting your ship and gear, etc. It will no longer be a game, once the game is finished. “After a time, you may find that ‘having’ is n
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by steveylang 5y ago
Theres also the nice middle-ground of smaller but more established companies. They may not IPO any time soon but aren’t so chaotic, and also don’t have the multiple levels of bureaucracy of a big company. Usually in these companies roles ar
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by steveylang 5y ago
Not surprisingly, much better satire from McSweeneys.
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by steveylang 5y ago
That is a good point. But I have read (famous last words) Omicron is now 95% of tested cases, it’s staggering how fast it has overtaken previous strains. If it was say a pretty stable 50/50 or even 75/25 ratio of Omicron to Delta,
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by steveylang 5y ago
The current procedures in place were for a Delta pandemic. If schools are to remain open now, the rules need to reflect Omicron. Either you believe Omicron is contagious enough that you have to go back to 100% remote learning, or it is gene
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by steveylang 5y ago
So when is Scott from HQ Trivia gonna start emceeing this?
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by steveylang 5y ago
Yeah but what about Popcorn-time.nl or The-Popcorntime.com? IIRC there were at least a couple of these floating around, it was probably too much of a headache to figure out which were legitimate and which were malware.
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by steveylang 5y ago
Ha, I’m an American born Chinese and I didn’t get the Americanized reference until I clicked on your link. In my experience the phrase more or less means functionally sufficient, which is not exactly the same as say ‘not as good.’ Sometimes
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by steveylang 5y ago
My experience has been that there are plenty of both good and bad ‘no name’ products to be found on Amazon. The bad ones I return and get a 100% refund through Amazon. None of the stuff I buy is counterfeit, although plenty probably have de
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by steveylang 5y ago
There can be a reasonable level of nuance and detail in many sports (if not most sports conversations!) But most people don’t care about the why’s or the how’s on or off the field, and mainly just want to brag about their team (or complain

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