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by vkou 7mo ago
It might bring some democracy to the US, though. There is hope for the midterms.
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by vkou 7mo ago
Is that how any corporate fleet works?
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by vkou 7mo ago
> "no quarter, no mercy" Which is exactly how him and his friends should be dealt with by the courts.
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by vkou 7mo ago
Proportionate casualties is not a requirement, but targeting civilians is a war crime. The IDF has repeatedly and actively targeted civilians, even when no military targets are present in the area. They have not prosecuted the soldiers an
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by vkou 7mo ago
> yet there is a desire to resolve conflict in violent way. There is a desire to resolve conflict in an incredibly violent way because there are no consequences for that violence. There could be, but there are large emergent systems whic
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by vkou 7mo ago
> melting one ton of iron requires 500KWh, 12 gallons of gasoline, less than $100 on Earth The spot price for platinum today is $68, so you'd be losing money doing it.
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by vkou 7mo ago
Iran has been very patient with not striking American assets in surrounding countries in 2025. Their responses against an unprecedented assault on them were very limited. That patience earned them another, bigger attack against them in 2026
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by vkou 7mo ago
> If they decide they'd like to apologize, and offer some explanation for how I can be sure they won't return to their misdeeds, perhaps we can hear them out. Nothing short of life in prison for the ones that plead guilty will
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by vkou 7mo ago
In fact, that's the most likely outcome.
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by vkou 7mo ago
What do you think pension funds invest in if not the same things as my 401K? Pensions are useful to individuals , because they support you until you die (while your 401K will either run out before you die, or will 'waste' money i
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by vkou 7mo ago
> It felt like it evaporated practically overnight It did, because Gorbachev chose peaceful dissolution over hegemony enforced at gunpoint. He didn't have to make that choice. He wasn't forced to make that choice. The USSR coul
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by vkou 7mo ago
> If there is a collapse of the American empire it won’t happen over centuries but in the span of a few tweets. Unlikely, unless those tweets are about how all the ICBMs are being launched. Too much of the world's economy and securi
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by vkou 7mo ago
You forgot to mention that gas prices have never been lower, and employment has never been higher.
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by vkou 7mo ago
The current alternative is the corpos abuse their absurd powers, and there's no system for ensuring everyone is treated equally or fairly.
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by vkou 7mo ago
> For these cases, I think we should just drop the premise altogether that you're writing. Sure. > If you need to write a proposal for something as a matter of ritual, give it AI. If you're documenting a feature to remember
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by vkou 7mo ago
It's not, they don't give two shits about workers, and their masters don't care how they make their money, just that they make it. Manufacturing is just their preferred lie to get otherwise intelligent people to support the
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Hey! I'm Nick, and I work on Integrity at OpenAI. These checks are part of how we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform. How can first-party products prot
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by vkou 7mo ago
That man is a direct descendant. The man in the article is not.
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by vkou 7mo ago
The modern man was not a descendant of Otzi - he just had a common ancestor that lived two thousand years before Otzi. If you go far enough back, I am also a relative of Otzi, through mitochondrial Eve. I can tell you this with absolute ce
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by vkou 7mo ago
Objectively smart people wouldn't be working so hard at making themselves obsolete.
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by vkou 7mo ago
If you don't like making those kinds bargains in the future, maybe next time don't upset the status quo[1] by starting a war that you then go on to lose[2], which forces you to bargain from a position of weakness. Everyone in the
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by vkou 7mo ago
I can tell you've never dealt with an HOA or Strata before. Neighbourhood-level organizations of busybodies are way ahead of everyone else on winning the race to shittification. Putting them in charge of your electricity won't be
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by vkou 7mo ago
> the price to secure the straight military might look comparatively lower. The price to secure the straight militarily is a full ground invasion of Iran . This would be done against a country four times bigger (in population and size)
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by vkou 7mo ago
There are plenty of military bases next to elementary schools in the US. Where do you think the kids of soldiers go to school?
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by vkou 7mo ago
Nothing about that time period was stable for Rome's neighbours and targets. Nothing about it was stable for the Romans either, with 10 major civil wars, and ~100 'minor' ones.
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by vkou 7mo ago
I mean, I assumed that any group of people stupid enough to be betrayed by the department of state twice would be first in line to get betrayed a third and fourth time. It hardly seemed an unreasonable assumption.
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by vkou 7mo ago
'Who' is doing work is hard to enforce. 'How you pay them' is easy. Most businesses do not handle enough cash to be able to pay a lot of staff off the books, and if you are doing it through the regular financial system,
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by vkou 7mo ago
What social safety net? Is there some office that I can just show up without any papers and get free money?
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by vkou 7mo ago
The elections they were not allowed to vote in was for a board that managed the interests of native Hawaiians . Those interests were the management of lands that were taken during the annexation, and later returned. The situation is a bit
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Pelosi is one of the best stock traders eve For 90% of her tenure, her investments produced lower returns than an S&P500 ETF. The other 10% were all driven by NVDIA. If she's the bar for one of the best stock traders ever, I

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