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humans are not designed

In Ireland at least local calls were a fixed price, no matter how long the call was. Long-distance calls were billed by the minute.

is that you. Adrian Zenz?

"The future has lost it's appeal to me"

culture is stuck in endless remakes of optimistic 70s futurism

it's an important point: we don't have a future, a telos, that doesn't fill us with foreboding

Untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews

There are between 300 and 350 thousand Jews living in Iran. I presume the other numbers are similarly nonsensical.

The Irish spoken in the North West of Ireland (Tir Conaill) is pretty much indistinguishable from Scots Gaedhlig.

The real division is between Gaelic (Irish and Scottish) and Brythonic (Welsh, British and Cornish)

"properly working lambda expressions were available only in lisp until recently."

Chesterton described Aquinas as looking quite like Chesterton. Judging by the name at least half a millenium separates Myron Shibley from Aquinas.

Can't it just be a myth, as it seems to hang on a single anecdote?

For comparison, the medievals thought that Ovid's name, Publius Ovidius Naso, was because he had a good nose for sniffing out the truth.

you have the truth - it was cooked up by US Naval Intelligence - why would you think it was safe?

safe as it ever was

The NSA is about insecurity, not security. They're a SIGINT shop

Thanks for that Germany.

Won't you take her back and make her Minister for Castles or something,

These are simply US talking points, and not very good ones.

The Russians were, as they made clear on multiple occasions, threatened by NATO moving into Ukraine and potentially placing missiles close to the Russian heartland.

Whatever he arrived with, it changed the plans of the Ukrainian government. I don't see how it removes any agency from Ukraine, or why that would even be a meaningful statement.

Sure, Russians are uniquely evil orcs.

This is just propaganda for the rubes.

Don't be ridiculous. There are interviews with both sources that are available online.

he would say that, wouldn't he?

"Clarified" -- yes he walked it back under intense pressure. His words were in a long podcast you can listen to.

It's about Russian security, not Putin's vanity. Please try to raise the level of discourse beyond the boogyman propaganda so beloved of Hollywood.

This is serious, deadly serious, and seeing it treated so lightly is painful.

Naftali Bennett (former Israeli premier): https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/russi...

Watch the interview if you don't like the source.

Ukrainian negotiator David Arahamiya: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/official-john...

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lt4E0DiJts

More than snippets

Was that when the Georgians caught the Russians by surprise by attacking Russia's protectorates?

Took the Russians quite a while to get their act together.

Are the aggressors usually caught on the hop?

You asserted that the reasons for war were absurd, and you blamed 'macho-ism', which you didn't define.

So you go: why are the reasons for wars so absurd?

Was machoism the cause of Gulf War 2, or the Ukraine war, to give two recent examples?

The reasons for war are rarely absurd, and are about groups competing for limited resources. Saying it's anything to do with 'macho-ism' (which is certainly nothing like an ideology, if it is anything at all) is smug feminist nonsense.

What could possibly go wrong?

That's a bit like the solar warning station at L1. Saw a documentary where it was described as a key part of our planetary security infrastructure.

All it can do is issue a warning: 'you have 8 minutes to say your prayers'.

Security indeed.

A shameful display for mostly US engineers

Who do you think built the US military?

The Cicero-Giuliani comparison is hilarious, and not bad at all now that I think about it.

Re SCU and the Conspiracy: that the SCU was first used against the Gracchi tells you something about its political motivations. The Senate was always a bastion of the Roman plutocracy. Also the SCU has been retconned, somewhat, by Cicero's partisans. It was invented late, during a bitter class war, and certainly doesn't count as one of the ancient traditions of the Roman republic.

Most Roman historians were knights: most classical historians were gentlemen. This profoundly shapes our view of Roman history.

I think you mentally inserted 'only' into that sentence.

Yes, certainly populists can be dangerous to all of those groups, as can elites. Political violence is certainly not limited to populists: indeed their contribution is small in historical terms.

GraphQL is as much of a query language as REST is

This doesn't make any sense, unless it's to point out that GraphQL is not a query language at all.