ta20240528

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by ta20240528 7mo ago
Nah mate, Rich powerful countries could also keep slaves and no one would be able to stop it by force. But they don't. Civilisation advances.
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
The UK only had to send a single officer to Greenland to stop Trump's previous attempt to annex Greenland. That was a signal, thankfully there are still adults in the USA who recognised it.
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
From The United States Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Attacking civilians is unequivocally a war crime". https://ucmj.us/is-attacking-civilians-a-war-crime/ @dang: you've banned members from this for
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
That's a war crime.
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
… but they did bomb apartment buildings in Tehran. I saw that with my own eyes. Stick to the challenge: what won't you accept? Nothing?
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
Agreed. But that wasn't the OP's question.
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
I can't guess what the USA wants other than a distraction from the raping-of- children saga, but I bet Israel would settle for "we acknowledge your right to exist and won't fund or encourage organisations that plan to harm yo
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
Note that in 36 odd states in the USA companies and their officers (i.e real people) cannot boycott Israel (or even say nasty things) and then do business with the state. By law. So, not so much free speech.
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
No need for a clearance, merely explain that 1. fibre-optic traffic is a beam of light 2. this beam can be passed through a glass prism… 3. the prism splits off say 20% of the light by intensity 4. this 20% is identical to the 80% 5. both t
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
vetroresina or steel?
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
Yes, the dashboard must be tan. Like in Magnum PI.
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
I'll vibe code when vibe-coding can make a frontier LLM from scratch. Meta-circularity is the real test. After all, I can make new humans :)
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
1. medical specialists and hospitals 2. sports clubs and vibrant leagues 3. professional sports facilities 4. concerts: arts and music. …
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by ta20240528 8mo ago
"Now they just need to change the name so it's not so obviously French" Where I live names that aren't so obviously American have an advantage.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
> Well, I feel sorry for the first country that tries to test that theory. I took exactly one British military officer in Greenland to stop the entire US Department of War. I will grant the US is a superpower, even the largest. But they
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
No, Europe had Europay, which their regulators allowed to be subsumed into Mastercard. Hell, the EMV standard — used in all cards worldwide — means "Europay, Mastercard, Visa". Look after your toys better.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Which is why the ECB should start a programme to issue about €5 trillion in new bonds as an alternative to USD treasuries. IMHO.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Its not that difficult to setup a company in Europe. Tedious but not impossible. What's really difficult is setting up a compnay and opening a bank account in the company's name from abroad.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Keir Starmer yesterday: "I will speak to Trump again. We must find a pragmatic solution to this." QED.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Yes, all of this is true. But they need the American president to find an off ramp that somehow satisfies his faction's desire for ownership without blowing up Nato - at least not before the mid-terms. As for no stomach for a fight, Na
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
What am I supposed to take from that? It's not even a valid English sentence.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Europe is desperately trying to find some way to let US have "control" without destroying the Danish kingdom; A Minsk Agreement for Greenland if you will. They don't have the stomach for a fight.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Fine, I’ll bite. What exactly did China steal in 2025, who did they steal it from, which authorities did the victims approach in China for redress, where did they report failing to get redress? You would have to know all the above for it to
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
Hardly. China is also betting on nuclear fission and nuclear fusion: 1. Fission: TMSR-LF1 (a thorium breeder, molten salt research reactor) Based on US work in 1960s and independent Chinese Sinap work in 1970s. They recently published that
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
"Recycling now recovers >95% of raw minerals" Not of plastic - recycling rates are decreasing. This is largely due to the excess ethane begin produced as a by-product of US fracking. The ethane is converted to ethylene, then to
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
As a spectator from neither continent, I feel Trump is being a bit of a wuss. He should give into his vices, embrace his inner-Putin and demand a “land-bridge” from Washington State to Alaska. For national security reasons, of course.
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
“And nobody in the US is going to be upset if an EU company creates a new fun or convenient web service.” You were pretty pissed when the Chinese made a better social media app. Maybe is because of your deep love of democracy and freedom, b
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
All true, but incomplete: you are not discounting these advantages with plain old 'industrial inertia'. Some stuff just went goes to the USA, because it always went to the USA - even though the original advantages are long gone. S
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by ta20240528 9mo ago
For me, Copenhagen Atomics would be ideal.

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