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A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by fvvybfbfbyg »

russiashill111 wrote: post #8
fractallyte wrote: post #5

"It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." - Theodor Reik The same tragic, traumatic events are being "rhymed" now in Ukraine. Yeah, perhaps we're tired of hearing it - but I'm writing this because after 110 years of industrialized warfare, our institutions and systems have still not restructured themselves to prevent these cascades of events. The consequences…

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> comparing the number of civilian victims whenever Russia bombs Ukraine

Because Ukraine has access to modern AA and early warning systems. Russia is still indiscriminately shooting at civilian targets it’s just that they have a much harder time hitting anyone than the Israelis.

Also there are hardly any actual military targets in Lebanon and Gaza because the local terrorists couldn’t care less about the civilian population there (not that this fact absolves Israel of anything)

> used as a NATO-powered bulwark against Russia

Deranged paranoid delusions… NATO, EU and USA couldn’t care less about somehow attacking or invading Russia. That’s just as absurd as it gets.

> America often does with its "allies"

When exactly did they do that in Europe?

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by fvvybfbfbyg »

amritananda wrote: post #30
eitland wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> while Israel seems less interested in incorporating Gazans as equal Israeli citizens any time soon. Israel doesn't want to control Gaza. Israel want to coexist peacefully with it and has been willing to go very far and take risks to achieve that. This is very clear when you study its relation with Egypt, Jordan and Gaza. The fact that Jordan and Egypt has not seen a single attack after they stopped attacking Israel…

>Israel doesn't want to control Gaza. Israel want to coexist peacefully with it and has been willing to go very far and take risks to achieve that. I think it's good to apply Mearsheimer's realist thinking here, and the intention is obviously clear that Israel does not want peace with Gaza as that would require recognition of a Palestinian state as the PLO had wanted since the 70s, which is a non-starter. Instead, as…

> ed, it is in its best interest to ethnically cleanse Gaza,

That was not Israel’s policy back in 2006. Hamas had zero interest in coexistence or the wellbeing (or lives) of the people living in Gaza. The current situation is a direct outcome of that.

I mean.. yes, if the only choice is between removing the entire population of Gaza and giving it back to Hamas it’s not that surprising that most Israeli’s are picking the first option.

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by jeremyjh »

jajko wrote: post #32
russiashill111 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Must be a long Sunday in FSB/GRU offices, no? Or did they move you to yet another military department?

I'd imagine this sort of thing is fully automated at this point.

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

fractallyte wrote: post #5

"It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." - Theodor Reik The same tragic, traumatic events are being "rhymed" now in Ukraine. Yeah, perhaps we're tired of hearing it - but I'm writing this because after 110 years of industrialized warfare, our institutions and systems have still not restructured themselves to prevent these cascades of events. The consequences…

> "More than any other profession, many of us - as software developers, mathematicians, scientists - have a better grasp of complex systems."

Having read various opinions expressed on HN about politics, history, physics, medicine, and so forth, I'm pretty sure that we don't. Coding is not that difficult and many here are quick to say that they learned nothing of use to them in college.

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by arcbyte »

fractallyte wrote: post #5

"It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." - Theodor Reik The same tragic, traumatic events are being "rhymed" now in Ukraine. Yeah, perhaps we're tired of hearing it - but I'm writing this because after 110 years of industrialized warfare, our institutions and systems have still not restructured themselves to prevent these cascades of events. The consequences…

Im as firmly in the camp believing Russia needs to ve stopped in Ukraine at all costs as you are, but stop with the genocide claims. It's so obviously not genocide that you are just crying wolf

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by HideousKojima »

jajko wrote: post #31
HideousKojima wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>More than any other profession, many of us - as software developers, mathematicians, scientists - have a better grasp of complex systems. And most of us on HN have a healthy, deeply internalized sense of morality. I really hope some of us will branch out into politics or other power-positions in those institutions, and start knocking people's heads together. Having a good grasp of complex systems doesn't make one av…

No, but to state it has 0 positive effect is simply not true. Smarter, more knowledgeable people are much harder to manipulate via some trivial emotional tricks. Its not 100% shield, but sure as hell helps a lot. Look who is dying on russian's side in russian war - poor, remote and less educated part of russian society since they are so easy to manipulate - effectively considered disposable subhumans by russian leade…

>Smarter, more knowledgeable people are much harder to manipulate via some trivial emotional tricks.

But also much more capable of manipulating others via the same sorts of tricks, that's my point.

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by amritananda »

fvvybfbfbyg wrote: post #42
amritananda wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Israel doesn't want to control Gaza. Israel want to coexist peacefully with it and has been willing to go very far and take risks to achieve that. I think it's good to apply Mearsheimer's realist thinking here, and the intention is obviously clear that Israel does not want peace with Gaza as that would require recognition of a Palestinian state as the PLO had wanted since the 70s, which is a non-starter. Instead, as…

> ed, it is in its best interest to ethnically cleanse Gaza, That was not Israel’s policy back in 2006. Hamas had zero interest in coexistence or the wellbeing (or lives) of the people living in Gaza. The current situation is a direct outcome of that. I mean.. yes, if the only choice is between removing the entire population of Gaza and giving it back to Hamas it’s not that surprising that most Israeli’s are picking…

>Hamas had zero interest in coexistence

I don't think the evidence favors this conclusion. Their actions immediately following 2006 suggests they definitely had quite a bit of interest - they enforced a ceasefire after 2006 (also punishing other groups that attempted to break it), and according to former President Carter were willing to accept a 2-state solution if the Palestinians democratically approved it. This was all put on hold after Cast Lead, which aligns with the Israeli policy of denying a two-state solution.

The only piece of evidence I can think of that counters this is Hamas' charter, which IIRC calls for the creation of a Palestinian state in all of former Mandatory Palestine which would imply the destruction of Israel. But even then, based on the pragmatism demonstrated above (and the openness to a two-state solution), the Hamas leadership were rational enough to realize this goal could not be achieved.

Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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Post by brcmthrowaway »

Hilift wrote: post #20

The allies threw 7,800 bodies at the Battle of Blanc Mont right as the war was ending. Two days after the battle, Germany requested an armistice, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires disintegrated. Two months later in the US in 1919, prohibition went into effect, 26 cities had violent race riots, and the Attorney General began a purge of immigrants and communists. In 1920, the Republican Party returned to the…

Turbulent times. Trump election is nothing, we will endure.
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