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"Indisputable". Actually, it is disputed. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10076766/

> That's absolutely not true. The standard for new vaccines, iirc, required a period of something on the order of 7 years. I'm going to stop you there. "That's absolutely not true"…

> And they were rushed out This implies that corners were cut. They were not. They went through the full regulatory procedures. > many people still sit with the issues they caused …

> it is a very common problem on the left -- taking the words literally and out of context This is a very common problem on the right -- whatever Trump says gets constantly reinter…

I don't think Trump or any of his appointed lieutenants think any of this through. It's the result of decisions made by emotion, not logic. "Vibe-governing" in other words. Climate…

> Russia's war against Ukraine has never been about getting more territory, That's completely counter to everything we know about Putin's mindset, and completely counter to all his…

> Wouldn't walking away from your house, maybe with a reparations package, be better than it being blown up by drones and your family killed? Please explain your analogy. Everyone …

Trump being a temporary phenomenon would be a more plausible claim if his presidency had been a single term.

I enjoyed "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" by Dalrymple, which has a specific focus, but conveys a fascinating history of British involvement with India…

I've used Cursor a lot. Until recently it was mandated by my employer. I can't see the attraction at all. It's a (bad IMO) IDE integration, a reasonable model (but I still generall…

> If Samsung or Xiaomi or Google could sell you a better phone with a replaceable battery, they would. It's an interesting theory. I'm going to call it capitalist-optimism. It's ro…

> Yeah, masks and intentionally antagonizing police doesn't scream peaceful protest They wear masks in case their political opponents take exception to their actions and hunt them …

> The agent has no "identity". There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination". I recommend you watch this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Tre... …

There's plenty of tasks that can take hours that don't save their progress. E.g. running a simulation, training an AI model, rendering video. Or, these days, leaving agentic AI mod…

> get in between a federal officer and a suspect, and hope you don't get shot Sometimes standing up to tyranny does require bravery. Like the protestor in Tienanmen Square. Did he …

> However, once you actively get in the way of official federal policing business, you are no longer a peaceful protester. That is absolute nonsense. You can be a peaceful protesto…

You can't give all the blame for the deaths to Hamas. They gave Israel a monstrous provocation, but the decision to kill tens of thousands of civilians, and collective punishment b…

> becaue of the terrorist urban warfare tactics hamas and palestinian islamic jihad are using This is ridiculous. I don't want to be a Hamas apologist; they're certainly brutally c…

Are you arguing about the number of shots or the location? https://news.sky.com/story/10-shots-in-5-seconds-how-did-the...

> On top of which they have matching ICE issued vest with inscriptions. It's a fascist theme to have paramilitaries not wearing uniforms. See for example the mukhabarat in Syria. I…

> Really? That's why they have vests that say "POLICE FEDERAL AGENT" front and back ? The paramilitaries that executed Pretti are all wearing street clothing, and all wearing diffe…

> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it. It looks like you have paramilitaries roaming yo…

> Yes, Britain and France have aircraft carriers but they are old, small and likely to be sunk by modern hyper-sonics You clearly don't have any idea what you're talking about. The…

> They do it since that is the safest place to stash money long term. Only historically. The calculus is rapidly changing. If the US can't even respect sovereign territory of frien…

> To that end, NATO lacks the capacity to meaningfully impact a conflict in the Pacific. The EU simply does not have the means to project power in that way This has been repeated e…