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by wqaatwt 1y ago
But allies stopped bombing Germany after they occupied it? They had rather specific goals and were willing to directly occupy Germany at great risk and cost instead of continuing to bomb its civilians for an indeterminate amount of time whi
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Germany was still launching ballistic missiles at England a month after Dresden. It’s a false analogy, the conventional war is long over and hamas has no real military capacity to do much anymore. The equivalent would be the allies refusing
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Hamas doesn’t have tanks, bombers, cruise or ballistic missiles though. Destroying their capacity to wage war didn’t require blowing up every building in Gaza.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
To be fair there was no risk of real political or diplomatic consequences for nazi Germany regardless of what they did (it’s not like the allies we particularly bothered by it until the war was over..) The situation Israel is in now is very
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
October 7th was inconceivably horrible. But if you do not consider the situation in Gaza a genocide (there are rational arguments that can be made to support that) claiming that the massacre that started the whole thing was a genocide doesn
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
As horrible and utterly inexcusable as it is it will take a very long while to accomplish that at the current rate. If Hamas had the military capacity that Israel has, millions would already be dead. Of course having different standards for
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Presumably not what Israel is doing now. I do fully agree with destroying Hamas. How is the current situation going to achieve that? Either they will have to eliminate the entire population of Gaza one way or the other (I can’t see any coun
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
What happened in Rhodesia was very different from the situation in South Africa. Whites are still very influential (especially economically) in SA. Rhodesia -> Zimbabwe is maybe closer to French Algiers.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It would be as great if European and others countries put a 25% tax on all revenue Google, Facebook etc. generate in their countries. Especially tech companies making their money from ads and such provide very little real value and just dra
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> definition of democracy is Not hanging a portrait of an insane murderous tyrant in the middle of your capital city? Has there been any other person who was directly responsible for a higher number of deaths in China than him?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> They have 5x the people For now. China is on a timer, though. Demographic collapse will be pretty extreme. Americans are both having more children and large numbers of immigrants.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> "Democratic countries". Like russia? Do you think a country can be both fascist and democratic at the same time?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
How do you move past the initial hurdle of the at least several first iterations of this device being inferior to the competition in every single way, though? And even if you solve the software issue, a “modular” phone like that will be bul
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Only about 300.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Political violence was certainly very common in the 60s and 70s. Maybe the 80s and 90s were a bit of a lull in that sense but the murder rate was still much higher in 1990 than it’s now.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
In the sense that the government had the logistical capacity and capability to do something like this, yes. Culturally I don’t see it as somehow exceptional. US government regularly employed highly authoritarian policies to suppress or remo
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Statistically almost everyone who is a “conservative” supports Trump whatever he does, though? With very little real infighting The “left” on the other hand seems way more heterogeneous in that sense (which does seem like a significant poli
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> support, defend, ignore, or rationalize actions So up until this point it was perfectly acceptable? Or is this only an issue when the wrong side does it in a fairly moderate way (since the other side regularly and openly embraces and e
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Well far-right and far-left usually put people in camps due to ideological or related reasons. In this case I’m not sure if that was inherently related to Roosevelt’s progressive/left policies. A moderate or rightwing government likely
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> wouldn't consider a leader who operated concentration camps to be leftist by any stretch Well.. if you exclude all the very successful political movements which considered themselves “leftist”. Bit of a no true Scotsman thing.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
That does makes sense considering the profile of the average person who still watches broadcast tv these. There is simply no demand for non-garbage content there.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Ratings didn’t help Colbert, though..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
There was a strong reaction from the public. Unfortunately that’s why this happened.. affiliate networks refusing to air his show probably had a much bigger impact than the FCC
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Well thousands and thousands of people are being murdered all the time. You (or anyone) couldn’t care less about almost every single one of them. So why single out this one? I mean who cares about school shootings? One nutjob murdering anot
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
What languages is it mean to translate then? Different accents of English?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It’s not like median (not mean) employee productivity at FAANGs and other major tech companies was ever particularly high. They always spent massive amounts of money hiring large amounts of people most of whom never provided that much direc
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Nvidia has zero incentives to undercut their enterprise GPUs by adding more RAM to “cheap” consumer cards like the 5090. Intel and even AMD can’t compete or aren’t bothering. I guess we’ll see how the glued 48GB B60 will do, but that’s a st
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
But that Nvidia competitor seems like a pointless and overpriced card compared to Nvidia’s consumer GPUs.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
How is it going to be funded, though? Users is and always its main product not search results.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
SR-IOV is allegedly coming in the future (just like the b60).

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