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by yongjik 2y ago
Oxford and ETH Zurich will be open for the rich, but Trumpists openly despise higher education, and I'm not sure whether any American universities will be safe if Trump stays in power for four years.
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Meh, when a South Korean president tries to overthrow its government, we throw his sorry ass in jail. Because we take our constitution seriously. The same cannot be said for a certain other famous country ...
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I'm not sure how to feel about sanctions in general, but when it comes to North Korea, I think the blame firmly lies on its government. Since the days of president Kim Daejung (1998-2003) every liberal South Korean regime tried to buil
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If any Silicon valley company did this HN will have a party roasting it. These days I'm convinced that the usual "The government can't do anything right!" pro-Trump guys are not saying it as a warning or complaint: it&#x
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Maybe unpopular opinion: Democrats should just grow a spine and say "Nah this is state issues, we're gonna keep congestion pricing, thank you very much. Come and tear down the toll booths yourself if you want to." Nicety is
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Oh those young inexperienced guys are quite ready for their big important job, namely, being cannon fodders for destroying the government via fear, uncertainty, and doubt. (And if Trump ever feels they've outlived their usefulness, he
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It's not even a matter of "good" and "bad". Modern society is complicated and individuals cannot (and should not) be expected to study and understand every different ways in which it could kill people. Like, why do
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Right, a little bit different. If only she instead hired randos without security clearance and gave them full access to systems containing classified info. Now that would have been no problem.
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Remember the days when Trump supporters chanted "Lock her up!" because Hillary Clinton used a private email server? Good times.
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Yeah I never understood the position of "Mind you, the government will go off the rails, elect me and I'll prove it to you!" and people who vote for that ... ... but then again, I'm not a conservative ...
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American conservatives view governments as inherently evil: if the government can make it more convenient for people to pay tax, people might be willing to pay more tax (or at least object less to tax), allowing the government to spend more
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I don't think it's just a parlor trick. (I don't have it, BTW.) Obviously it depends on the instrument: for example, if you're playing the piano you can completely forget about absolute pitch. But if you're singi
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I have trouble understanding your comment. To me, it sounds like saying that, if I have absolute pitch (i.e., being able to start a song in the right key), then I have absolute pitch. Well, sure, the problem is that I don't have abso
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I don't think this administration even cares about America's military advantage. If they did, they wouldn't have started the term by casually insulting the sovereignty of two NATO allies.
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DOGE has been around for two weeks.
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> On that note: Japanese police don't play games. You do not have a right to a speedy trial, there is no jury of your peers, and they can hold you as long as they'd like. The phrase "police brutality" does not transla
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This reads like a result of someone wondering "What happens if sovereign citizens did climate science?"
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> It's pretty clear that he did not do any sort of "fascist salute" O RLY I guess this is basically our era's version of "point to a deer, call it a horse" (指鹿爲馬) [1]: > Zhao Gao was contemplating treason
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I assume this is a prevalent mindset of a big chunk of Trump supporters. "I love it when half of my state government is at war with the remaining half, and I want the US government to be like that, so that it can't get anything d
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The similarity with Red Guards is too uncanny to ignore. I guess we should be thankful that the new Red Guards aren't beating federal employees to death. Yet.
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It's really hard to fight a tyrant when half of your people cheer for him. Institutions can only go so far. I guess we're at the mercy of all those naive happy people who allegedly voted D out due to the price of eggs. Sooner or
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So, in terms of how bad this is... should we expect a data dump of every US federal employees to show up somewhere in the darknet or Russian intelligence headquarters? Or is that still a week or two away from now?
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Hell, after the long long first week of Trump, I'd be relieved if the worst they did at any given day was trying to flood some Californian streams.
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They're normalizing the lunacy. If any Democrat politician (or pre-Trump Republican politician) declared that the cause of a plane crash is linked to their favorite political cause, on the day of the accident, they would've been
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Seaweed, man. Buy a bag of dried kombu, plop a piece when you're making soup or broth: it goes well with most flavors, and will give you all the iodine you need. Disclaimer: not meant to be medical advice, obviously.
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Maybe traditional conservatives, but they're functionally extinct now, and the only time Trump supporters are "pro-education" is when they can rage about how DEI is ruining education. At least, from what I've seen so fa
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> Is this even _legal_? That never stopped Trump, though ... (shrug)
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Democrats need to put these messages out hard. If they win the 2026 election we might even have a chance at putting a brake on Trump's idiocy. (I know, I know, trust Democrats to shoot their own foot in the most crucial moments, but
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On top of that, judging from submission record, OP seems to be very interested in genetic heritability of intelligence ...
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Too bad the story got flagged as nobody had anything to say other than Trump. :/

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