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> Tell me about an empire who conquered and held conquered land through asking politely. If you are able to come up with any This is not what it's about. It's not about the Turks being evil and Bulgarians et al being angels. It
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> Still unresolved issue unfortunately. The Armenian genocide is very much a resolved issue. No serious historian denies the genocide any more than he denies the holocaust.
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So true. The weirdest part is that so many non-Americans think the same about America whilst simultaneously lining up to legally or illegally immigrate there.
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The opinion contribution is obviously taking the side of Open AI by spreading FUD. The whole piece is basically "do you really trust the evil New York Times with the data you entrusted to us, the honorable techbros of Open AI?". I
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> It's abusive and wrong to try and prevent AI companies from using your works at all. People don't view moral issues in the abstract. A better perspective on this is the fact that human individuals have created works which meg
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> That a service incorporating the authors' works exists is not at issue. It's not an issue because it's not currently illegal because nobody could have foreseen this years ago. But it is profiting off of the unpaid work o
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- English - /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/ - engage - /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ - engorge - /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/ - engross - /ɪnˈɡɹəʊs/, /ɪŋˈɡɹəʊs/, /ɛnˈɡɹoʊs/, /ɛŋˈɡɹoʊs/ - engulf - /ɪ
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> I don’t want poorly-written (by my standards) books cluttering up bookstores It's ridiculous to compare bad human books with bad AI books because there many human books which are life-changing, but there isn't a single AI boo
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It's so sad to see people embracing AI slop like it's normal.
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> whose first language is Gaelic Is that really true though? I think it's a bit optimistic to say "first language". I know that many people do speak Irish, but the number of people who can speak Irish better than English i
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While JavaScript has obviously become generic, why do people actually care to make it official? Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for saying "JavaScript"?
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I still find it amusing to call it "misuse". No AI company has ever asked for permission to train.
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Linguistic prescriptivism has nothing to do with it. English has both pronunciations for "gi" based on origin. Giraffe, giant, ginger, etc from Latin; gift, give, (and presumably others) from Germanic roots. Using the preferred on
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Part of the reason why countries stopped declaring war is because the laws of war make it harder to do so, so it's easier to have a war without one. Also, declaring war on certain groups would entitle them to being treated as war comba
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The Jews are from Judah. It's the Arabs (from Arabia) who colonized the land.
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> Israel fears an economically functional Iran and uses the wmd excuse to sabotage it as much as possible. Israel couldn't care less about Iran until 1979. It's the Islamists who are obsessed with Israel. If Iran stopped chanti
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Israeli citizens are treated equally. It's ridiculous to expect non-Israeli Arabs to be treated the same as Israeli Arabs.
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> whose Basic Law 2018 declared it a Jewish supremacist state The Basic Law which passed with 62 for and 55 against, just states what the constitution of pretty much any European country does. Most European countries are nation states. I
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> They chant "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" every week (on Fridays) in Iran led by the Iranian government. vs. > Some band in the USA wrote a song about bombing Iran in 1980. Yeah, those are completely eq
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There were no people in Greenland when it was settled by the Norse in the 10th century. The current Inuit population arrived after the Europeans in the 14th century.
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This is the pattern of constantly moving the goalposts: - There's no evidence Iran is enriching uranium past nuclear-reactor grade. What's that? They're enriching past 5%? - There's no evidence Iran is enriching uranium
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That seems ideal, but my fear is that Iran won't stop. It's cheaper to build low precision rockets/drones than the Israeli interceptors, so the war _could_ swing in Iran's favor in the long term. Additionally, Iranians a
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I'm very split on this. On one hand it sucks from a privacy perspective, but on the other, it makes complete sense for the US to not allow anti-Americans there. I don't understand why so many people who hate the US to it's co
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I used to do that too, but the Rittenhouse incident was the final straw for me. I remember reading in the magazine that he "shot into the crowd", but by that point I had already watched the video analysis on the New York Times&#x2
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They're deployed because of the riots, not illegal immigration.
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No. > The Insurrection Act of 1807 [...] empowers the president [...] to nationally deploy the U.S. military [...] in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder [...] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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The President has authority to do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807. Note that President Eisenhower did the same thing when he forced desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. I'm pretty sure you were aware of this but cite t
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Because international institutions have an anti-Israel bias. E.g. in 2020 Israel was condemned by the UN 17 times while all the other countries put together only got 6 condemnations. [1] In 2020, Israel killed 33 Palestinians. Compare that
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Not the same person, but as an example, I got banned from r/europe for posting just "I'm proud to be a Romanian!". That was on a post about Romania overtaking Poland to become number one at some anti-woke metric western
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The population of bison in the US before Europeans was similar to the current population of cows. Animals rights activists often hide this type of information to tie themselves to climate activism.

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