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by vkou 7mo ago
The winner of a war is not the side with a bigger K/D ratio, it's the side that accomplished its objectives. Objectively, the US has in every respect backslid on its objectives compared to a month ago. Iran, on the other hand, wen
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by vkou 7mo ago
Soldiers hiding in hotels because their army bases are being bombed... Sounds a bit like using civilians as human shields to me.
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by vkou 7mo ago
Truly an Art of the Deal - make countries that didn't choose to attack Iran... Pay for reparations. With friends like Uncle Sam, who needs enemies?
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by vkou 7mo ago
How on Earth was opening the straight an objective of this war, when the straight was open before the war. It's like Russia declaring that Russian control of Moscow is an objective of the war with Ukraine. > renouncing nuclear pr
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by vkou 7mo ago
The US government seems to be pretty oblivious to how it itself acts, expecting them to understand another country's motivations is so many steps beyond that.
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by vkou 7mo ago
> How would you know if its a large portion of the population if media and politicians label people deniers just because they have a difference in opinion about what actions should be done? I don't need to trust what the media tells
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by vkou 7mo ago
> The collapse of the domestic Russian economy was 100% their own fault. It was. But that doesn't matter - the result was incredible misery and ruin for the country, and it drove reactionary, anti-western sentiment, kind of like h
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Like, could Russia have been brought along into Afghanistan? It pretty much was. Afghanistan was a UN-sanctioned war, and Russia did not object to it from its position on the UNSC - and provided support for the invasion. Iraq ( Three
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Climate change and climate change denial is not just about the scientific facts about what is happening to the climate, it is also the political opinion about what actions should be done. It would be great if what you said is true, and
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by vkou 7mo ago
Every country values its own propaganda and national myths. It's just that some countries coalesce around ones that are somewhat less... Blatantly offensive to thinking people.
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by vkou 7mo ago
You should look into the history of the 90s again. Russia opened up to the West in a big way in the first half of the decade, and worked with NATO and the UN in the first half of the Bosnian war. The result was... A complete collapse of the
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by vkou 7mo ago
A very large fraction of land (~50%) is currently used to grow biomass to feed 8 billion humans. Nothing about that land is 'natural' - it's a carefully engineered environment that's quite hostile to animal life. The lan
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by vkou 7mo ago
Okay, let's make a deal. Iranian regime faces trials and consequences, and so does the American executive. Once they are locked up in the same cage, we all get to move on. Sounds good?
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by vkou 7mo ago
Of course you are, that's why we are in this Faustian bargain. It's hard to compete with free-as-in-beer.
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by vkou 7mo ago
> nor would the very large number of free-as-in-beer services that make up a large part of what makes the internet useful to people. Whatever replaced them could hardly be worse than the shit we currently have. I refuse to believe we liv
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by vkou 7mo ago
So, in short, almost anything of substance that is disseminated over mass and social media?
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by vkou 7mo ago
Dota/League does this because each hero is controlled by a human, and humans don't like playing low-impact, low-wealth, low-exp supports.
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by vkou 7mo ago
Yes, you are very exceptional. A well-paid employee (or former employee) who lives somewhere nice, dresses like they are in college and drives a beat-up Civic and hopefully saves all his money, I can close my eyes, spin around, throw a rock
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by vkou 7mo ago
> hopefully, users who get more and better software. Users are definitely going to get more software and more features and redesigns in the software they use, but I have strong doubts that it's going to get better. If pre-LLM deve
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by vkou 7mo ago
> I assume such situations occur often in Sweden where it's really awkward if you want to hang out with a crowd from lower social class because they know your earnings. You don't have to be in Sweden to have a pretty good idea
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by vkou 7mo ago
> People who don't want to work harder complain that other people make more money because they either don't understand or are in denial about the amount of work the people they envy put in. I assure you, I have never in my life
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by vkou 7mo ago
Given the events of the past month... Are we at a point where we can conclusively say that the United States is a country that wants to wipe Iran off the face of the Earth? Bombing them into the stone age where they belong, complete destruc
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Was there ever a plan or even a goal? There was. Decapitation strike -> ??? -> Regime change. Anyone who said this plan was stupid was fired. The regime's war on DEI is more a war against Dissent, Ethics, and Intelligence.
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by vkou 7mo ago
China doesn't think in that way. It doesn't make permanent alliances. It is always open to reach limited, scoped deals in fields where it benefits them.
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by vkou 7mo ago
What US aid? Trump's been stonewalling it for them just fine.
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by vkou 7mo ago
> the profits largely benefited the education system. The profits didn't benefit shit. Yes, the money went into education, and that same education system saw commensurate cuts from regular tax revenue. What it did is shift the state
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by vkou 7mo ago
Russia's pretty busy with its own war.
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by vkou 7mo ago
The obvious solution is to include women in draft rolls.
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by vkou 7mo ago
> If you split California into 10 states, most will be red. Why do you assume the split should be fair? The rural areas can be one state, each city can be a separate one. That would fly, right?
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by vkou 7mo ago
How exactly is anyone supposed to comply with this, given that neither the FAA nor ICE are telling anyone where ICE vehicles and operations are. (The answer is obvious - it's impossible to comply with it.)

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