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by w0de0 5y ago
Despite the manifold sins of imperialism, the US remains the true vanguard of the revolution of the past two centuries - of the liberation of common folk from the twin yolks of tradition and absolutism. We should continue trying to export o
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Am I missing something here? They’re outside the Overton Window, as any non-interventionist would be in America. But their funding and their membership are legit; it’s certainly not a front for China or some such.
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Is the origin of the policy a desire to preserve and increase Quebec’s unique culture (“French families”), or not? If so, is it bigoted to say so?
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When people talk of playing a “game” in regard to any social obligation - especially when they admit that the playing of the game is largely indistinguishable from earnest ethical behavior - they are telling on themselves, not their environ
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Melting pot cultures, like Brazil and America's, do not have common ethno-linguistic substrate on which to build civic society. Overt, ostentatious displays of goodwill and trust are a selected-for meme in successful, modern melting-po
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I think the operating culture in that experience is less Japanese and more Disney-American.
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> That surprised me, since our cultural norms largely stemmed from [England]. I don't think that assumption really holds up, it's very pop-history. From the Scots of the Appalachians, the religious fanatics of New England, the
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Because other Americans smile back, and it imbues a philadelphic feeling. That's valuable when your society is not an ethnostate, but a mix of immigrants.
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I very much appreciate that this whole thread is suffused with the assumption that interlocutors are making their arguments from stupidity or illiteracy.
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Are you sure about that etymology? “Reading the literature on the word for ‘Cannabis’ in the languages of Eurasia soon puts one in mind of what one is told frequently happens when the authorities conduct a raid to confiscate Cannabis and at
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We call "latin" numbers "arabic" in English, because Europe received them from the Maghreb. "Latin numbers" is actually closer to "Roman numerals," what we call the old Latin system (V, VI, VII, VIII,
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Also, Hanno the Navigator's journey is slightly better attested and includes traversing the cape north and south. Here is a commented translation of the account, from a Phoenician temple by way of Greek translators: https://
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I'm trying to visualize the sailing conditions the Phoenicians would have faced at Bojador - and not really succeeding, because I don't know enough about their vessels. But I'm sure the challenge would be different, and poten
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Give to Caeser what is the Caesar's.
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“Whataboutism” gets my goat because: * It generally has no context. Yes, the West did something similar. It does not follow that the West will engage in the same type of systemic evil, that argument must be made on its own. * Whataboutism o
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Poster mentioned it because it happened and I presume they don’t agree it was constitutional. And because it is an example in which the sort of people hoping regulate social media’s free association prove themselves to be hypocrites rapidly
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To risk dropping my objective ideological stance in this thread, you allude to an important point. Public fora belong to their participants as a society, not as individuals. It is reasonable and required for societies to define taboos and p
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If they built a roller coaster would it serve as a big enough loop(hole)?
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Because the railroad can't be used to turn my favorite social media into the haven of trolls, fools, and reactionaries. If you accept all speech without any boundaries - ie, with no defined "hate speech," the internet will sw
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Ok. Let's talk it through. Government says you're not allowed to ban speech on your property. Tough shit, they say, you're a public forum and no one can avoid using you. Twitter is basically the railroad! But, yes, ok you can
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by w0de0 5y ago
Not allowing censorship of speech by private companies is precisely they same thing as the government censoring speech. It is the government being allowed to control discourse even among private citizens on private property; the steps from
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If you like spotlight and living in zsh, checkout mdfind!
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And we’re on Hacker News and it’s a Unix system, why are we even talking about Finder.app for searching...? Use mdfind.
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In as much as they probably shared deep ancestors in the Yamnaya culture, haha. But no, that’s not the origin of the Greeks. You’re probably thinking of the Scythian-Greek syncretism that occurred in Greek Crimean colonies during a the Hell
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The context of the Anabasis, it always seemed to me, was that Greek hoplites had just finished whooping a massive Persian invasion - and the whole near east took notice of such highly effective heavy infantry.
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I believe you’re projecting your modern assumptions about how the world worked in “savage” antiquity. The Peloponesian War began with a dispute with Athens over the government of Corinth’s ancient (at least 400 years at this point) Adriatic
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“Sicily” was not a a Greek colony, the many Greek cities on the island were. Some of them are very much more ancient than you think - older than the Persian wars, and existing longer than our reliable record of classical Greece exists. The
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Malaysia is a typo for Ionia in Asia Minor, where most Black Sea colonists come from, I assume? Ie, Miletus. In any case, an important point missed here in this thread that’s made in Thucydides is that Syracuse was a cosmopolitan melting po
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If I was making a super virus I’d make it a bit more super. COVID sucks but most people live through it without serious or chronic symptoms. What am I, the evil mastermind, achieving with a virus mildly inconveniencing my enemies? And which
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“We...” Did you intend to place yourself in the camp of a petty (in both senses) dictator?

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