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by wikitopian 4y ago
As a purely hypothetical, counterfactual mind game, how would you adapt your position if Russia were winning the ground war, economically stable, and firmly behind both Putin and the war?
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Then I have a task for you. Try to handle the truth that the west cannot geostrategically survive Russia becoming China's backyard. Look directly at that truth and let me know if and when you've handled it.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
China had a mature domestic conversation about it and decided that the proper course was to refrain from taking a side. The Pope also made a thoughtful contribution, acknowledging that the matter is far more complicated than western media s
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by wikitopian 4y ago
True. I made my own tactical error it appears. I had a good run with this account.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
You must be very confident with your calculation, as a miscalculation would empower and embolden domestic political factions that have been at the periphery of western politics for generations.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I'm not going to engage the question of whether or not it was morally or tactically correct. This forum and the western public in general are not mature enough for that conversation. I am not having that conversation. My statement is l
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by wikitopian 4y ago
People keep carrying on about peak oil, climate change, and "corporate greed" because those are less humiliating conversations than admitting that Europe made a major tactical error in trying to sanction their primary energy suppl
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Yup. The wisdom of locking down toddlers and children for years on end was also a spot where the uppity rubes were correct and all the science wizards were disastrously incorrect.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The Ohio river has more volume and the Missouri river has greater length, so it's total bullshit that it's called the Mississippi all the way to the gulf. They don't want you to know this.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I still disagree with your perspective, but appreciate your thoughtful replies. I agree it's a scary and serious situation.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
But what if you're incorrect? What if bots and bad actors aren't really the driving force behind the existential divorce? What if Americans are going in different directions by their own volition? What if using the state to ensure
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I understand you believe there's a compelling case for placing your hand over my mouth. I'm sure you earnestly believe your case, and think placing your hand over my mouth is the moral, right, and just thing to do. Time will tell
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Is there a way that adults who are capable of critically thinking for themselves to opt out of your crusade to protect us from ideas you disagree with?
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Intolerance must be understood in its academic sense and not in the politically motivated sense it's typically used today. This is a technically correct point that is always used to justify declaring people you dislike "intolerant
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Alan Kay is a very nice and bright guy and I don't want to hurt his feelings. But this is a perfectly soluble problem and it is entirely and exclusively Alan's fault that everybody stampeded in the wrong direction to our current s
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by wikitopian 4y ago
VR does not add enough value to counteract the UI problem that most of the people who try to use it experience nausea, vomiting, and visceral aversion. Minecraft is plenty cool and my four year old is making amazing stuff in it. But increas
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by wikitopian 4y ago
We have a stock market investment bubble. Deep learning, AI, metaverse, blockchain, quantum computing, self driving cars, and this very website's whole shtick all revolve around fumbling for an answer that isn't there. "Techn
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Cloudflare is doing an admirable and thoughtful job of trying to ethically navigate its anticompetitive monopoly control of internet access. It is, however, a design flaw that a publicly traded corporation run by some dude (a cool dude) is
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I understand why people would rather not talk about the actual reasons why bicycling and public transportation aren't popular in places without high social trust. It's a very awkward conversation. But it mystifies me that people i
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I tried subscribing to blinkist with this idea of learning a bunch of new things, ...and all I learned was that the only books I enjoy reading are the ones too dense and technical to skim through for key points.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Economics should be thought about like sports, with the corporations as athletes, countries as teams, regulators as referees, and citizens as owners. If you don't keep it competitive and rewarding for the athletes, there's no mone
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Embrace the absurdity of the human experience and accept that what you're doing now is probably also a total waste of time for some reason that's not yet obvious to you.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The secret little book that enables you to waltz in and take control of any and every organization. Once you master the rules of order, you can declare everybody and anybody else "out of order" to control any formal meeting.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
You are ungrateful for the free candy and want to complain about getting locked in the van that you chose to get into. Entitled millennials.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I've been relying on making stuff up and then linking to paywalled articles to win my internet arguments, so this is a big setback for me.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The SFH + Cars lifestyle results in a higher TFR than the efficiency pods and pogo sticks lifestyle everybody's promoting lately. How would you even fit an infant seat on a pogo stick?
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The astrophysical sciences make me feel vulnerable, insignificant, insecure, and irrelevant relative to the vast expanse of the universe. I demand an end to this harm.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I really resent the use of "culture" in tech spaces. Maybe in some really active and storied chatrooms and forums here and there. But generally no. The xyzlib code repo contributors don't have a "shared culture." Th
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by wikitopian 4y ago
One positive outcome of this sort of thing is that revenge porn will become less effective as women will be able to plausibly assert that this tech was used to generate the images.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by this article. I clicked it expecting generic kvetching about those dorky suits and walked away with a newfound appreciation for the art of emotionally neutralizing communication.

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