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I didn't say "Great Replacement."
What distinction are you drawing?
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They're clearly not being replaced, as a look at the numbers indicates, but what is true for most European countries is that if the low birth rates stay far below 2.1 their populations will continue to decline and their economies will shrink, if they don't manage to offset that trend with controlled yearly immigration. To clarify: Although it follows mathematically with constantly low birth rate, dying out is, of cou…
That's just another way of saying "replace themselves."
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You could make the same argument for Britain wrt the Normans.
Seems like a low bar given the entire span of Britain's history - Londinium was founded by Mediterraneans, Danelaw covered half the Big Island for a good period, the Anglo-Saxons were Germanic immigrants pushed back by the Norman wave . . . The UK is immigrant wave after wave all the way back to when it was nothing but solid ice pressing down the entire landmass and practically all the islands.
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Ah Chapter 7 Maybe Cordwainer's take can be updated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532760 Rival ideological systems with their own pyramid schemes. High switching costs. So there you have fsckboi(?) knifing an MD(?) across the gap. While the winning side is...? > Certain very elementary appeals can be made almost without reference to the personal everyday background ("cultural-historical milieu") of the pers…
flamewars (here as in persia) have the "former yugoslavia" dynamic, which is the opposite of his aims (unless in "black" form?). IIRC there's a bit in there where the radio/wire service equivalent is discussed as a strong temptation, which serious practitioners must take care to avoid. (an example of high vs mid: in an anecdote from the 談談 part of the V 打打, the principal [high] mentions his capitalist counterparts di…
(Mid) is "not-even-narcissistic" !!
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In theory, and certainly that's how some rationalize it. In practice, compradores are the most sought after.. in the old days, some of those guys were fluent in English, but maybe the Judeo-Christian vibes* were just as relevant. As in retail VC, where lack of schlep-tolerance is a red-flag ( https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A2%E6%97%97L5#/media/Fi... ), so lack of interest in the details of the better life you'r…
Front men? You mean like when Erik Prince was playing token gweilo for CITIC group? (At least Prince, however much his attitude may resemble Mr. Twister's, is aware the rest of the world exists. I haven't read any of the Hunger Games, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games#:~:text=It%20... , despite the author's background [did she always live on base, never on the economy?], nothing beyond t…
I've spent a couple of decades in the Danish public sector of digitalisation and in the private sector for global green energy. 10 years ago people would've laughed if you talked about leaving Microsoft and iOS in enterprise. Now we all have contingency plans for just that, and a lot of organisations are already actually doing it. So I would argue that there is more of a crack, but I'm not sure the post-american inte…
For computers we have linux, ok, but how are iOS and Android being replaced?
US has it. There are some non-US contributors, but, the Linux Foundation is in US, Linus is in US, kernel.org is in US.
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flamewars (here as in persia) have the "former yugoslavia" dynamic, which is the opposite of his aims (unless in "black" form?). IIRC there's a bit in there where the radio/wire service equivalent is discussed as a strong temptation, which serious practitioners must take care to avoid. (an example of high vs mid: in an anecdote from the 談談 part of the V 打打, the principal [high] mentions his capitalist counterparts di…
Ahh. I finally get it I think? (Mid) is "not-even-narcissistic" !!
"A translation is like a romantic partner: almost all are either beautiful, or they are faithful; rarely are they both"
lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g
EDIT: Felix C. Forrest on the temptation to engage in flamewars: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#:~...
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Oh no, they did not. USSR collapse was precipitated by decades of economic war, where trying to keep up with US advancements depleted more and more of russian budget, finally plunging the country into collapse deep enough for elites to accept formal change of regime (of course while ensuring they stay on top). The actual soviet people were bystanders.
Unfortunately, that makes a great deal of sense to me. This explanation kind of implies the whole planet winds up sunk into the banana republic attractor? (might Fahd have had more to do with the final collapse than Reagan? By opening his spigots to keep the nomenklatura from earning much hard currency with their principal export, could he have pulled a classic "the market can remain irrational longer than you can re…
κῦδος to all currently trying nonviolently* to de-banana-ice the republic for which it stands! It gives me hope, Jo'anna.
May the Force be with you!
* a parody paper reports that Greenland is already being strongly defended — with strewn Lego blocks: https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/legosteine-groenland.h... (It's good they're hand, not remote, laid; I trust all feasible precautions were taken to protect civilians from their effects?)
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Front men? You mean like when Erik Prince was playing token gweilo for CITIC group? (At least Prince, however much his attitude may resemble Mr. Twister's, is aware the rest of the world exists. I haven't read any of the Hunger Games, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games#:~:text=It%20... , despite the author's background [did she always live on base, never on the economy?], nothing beyond t…
Erik, yes. This too: https://archive.ph/AcISR https://youtu.be/qloY_aU7mpA https://youtu.be/GSm99HFnvpY?t=7m17s
« N'interrompez jamais un ennemi qui est en train de faire une erreur » —N I
Poor Viktor! He should've just said no... https://images.prom.ua/4754852957_w640_h640_net-prikolnyj.jp...
(even Ivan the Terrible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7eIIIPBNUc&t=1735s doesn't drink without something to eat; he's not an alcoholic after all)
Dina's a bit boho; where are the oranges and sushki?
Santi? Barbara's the patroness of tunnelling; ܥܩܘܒ does fishermen and conquistadors? (I guess neither are known for paying much attention to sustainability?)
EDIT: Sorry Dina, didn't know it was in the kitchen.
Oh, not boho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWp4BM0SXU
Crude Rules Everything Around Me?
EDIT2: Satyendra?
