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by SllX 6d ago
> If you claim all war is morally equal I didn’t make this claim. War is war, but the morality of our actions is found not in the act of war, but in the why & how of war. > We still call them wars. Nobody calls what we did in Iraq
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by SllX 6d ago
If this comment doesn’t adequately answer your question, please feel free to ask your follow-up questions either here or there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649394 I just don’t want to copy & paste the same an
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by SllX 6d ago
You’re right, what we choose to call things is important, but our calls should better reflect reality. Like Venezuela: we definitely did things that a neutral observer could fairly & reasonably call Acts of War by conducting an aggr
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by SllX 6d ago
> Someone being invaded should lay down arms because invasion and fighting an invader are morally equal? The morality of a war is not easily encompassed in small words like “war” or “defense”. > America being America, they're mos
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by SllX 6d ago
I answered in response to a different comment about the level of patience I have with men that think changing one word in the title of the bureaucracy in charge of war somehow meaningfully changes the reality or meaning of war (spoiler: non
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by SllX 6d ago
Whether a war is fought defensively or offensively, war is still war. I don’t have a lot of patience for the romantic notions of men, that changing one word in a bureaucratic ensemble of Departments is going to change meaning of what it mea
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by SllX 6d ago
I answered this in a sibling comment to yours.
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by SllX 6d ago
It was originally entitled “Department of War” and was changed after World War II for better PR. Whether it is called “Department of War” or “Department of Defense”, it’s still the same organization maintaining the same mission operating un
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by SllX 6d ago
Defense was always just a euphemism for War. That’s not the signal you think it is.
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by SllX 7d ago
I do hope John Ternus & his team change it up, but I wasn’t expecting it from this event. He’s only been CEO for 9 days & this was probably shot before then.
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by SllX 7d ago
That Wikipedia article was lacking citations so I dug some up with ChatGPT: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CPUB-101spub9/pdf/GP... On page 52 (57 of the PDF), there’s a letter dated December 18t
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by SllX 7d ago
Like as a standard? No. But I can go to a stationery shop and buy an A4 notebook.
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by SllX 8d ago
> Sorry, I didn't mean to make any statements about you personally Hakuna matata. > I meant that the act that you described (comparing religion with a virus) is in itself using the name-calling-aspect-of "virus". The co
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by SllX 10d ago
> The point was that when you do this you participate in name-calling/slurs, not making an argument. You admitted you don't know me, yet you still managed to jump to this conclusion. Good job, mate.
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by SllX 10d ago
Slightly different process but it’s in the ballpark… down the street, playing a different sport. lol
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by SllX 10d ago
> Just about anything involved in the exchanged of ideas can be viewed as a virus! You are correct. I frequently do this with religions & specific ideologies which seem to root themselves in people the same way that religions do &amp
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by SllX 14d ago
“The system” by which I assume you mean the Government of the United States or America doesn’t need to, because “the system” is sovereign. Corporations are not. They get checked when they get checked, and this ruling only avoided a worse-ca
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by SllX 20d ago
I wish Twitter had been dead when Elon bought it, but no, Twitter was far from dead. X actually has fewer MAU as far as I can tell[1], and I wouldn’t call it dead either. [1]: Seriously though, I can’t find good data I trust on this so corr
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by SllX 23d ago
> Even popular in Japan, with e.g. The Apothecary Diaries and similar fare. Notably the Tang Dynasty in China was concurrent with the Taika Reforms, Nara period & beginning of the Heian period in Japan.
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by SllX 27d ago
I just loaded the website after reading your comment, so no.
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by SllX 1mo ago
> > The differences between a Mac or Windows PC round to nearly zero in basic GUI operations > Which should make things easier to educate OS-neutrally. It also makes it unnecessary to teach minute differences. If a student needs to
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by SllX 1mo ago
I wouldn’t get too excited on this topic. The differences between a Mac or Windows PC round to nearly zero in basic GUI operations, and the primary software kids will be using regardless of hardware is likely either G Suite or Microsoft Off
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by SllX 1mo ago
The article doesn’t say why, but at launch the MacBook Neo was the most inexpensive Mac Apple ever made, and it’s a full proper Mac. Despite being inexpensive, it also isn’t junk. Chromebooks can be had for cheaper, but if a school distri
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by SllX 2mo ago
RAM production is historically not a great business to be in. It’s a mint today, but it’s an incredibly tough business to break into & by the time any hypothetical Apple RAM fab is up & running, it will already be losing money. To g
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by SllX 2mo ago
It’s really not. Ripping a CD is just copying the tracks to your computer. It says & implies nothing about sharing them on Napster.
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by SllX 2mo ago
Predates the Mac mini (tagline: The most affordable Mac ever.) by a good few years—predates the iPod even—but it was an Apple ad campaign: https://youtu.be/K0ZWuhcM7t4 https://www.researchgate.net/figure&#x2
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by SllX 2mo ago
You are trying to split hairs on synonymous terminology in an effort to correct me when my original statement was already correct, and doubling down. Why? Call it a bundle if you like, but the game itself was a packed-in the box and sold as
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by SllX 2mo ago
That’s what a pack-in title is. I had one of those GameCubes, and I ended up trading in the packed-in Metroid Prime to EB Games for like $5 in store credit cuz I didn’t like the game.
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by SllX 2mo ago
Don’t stop here in this comments section. You’ve got the makings of a novel.
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by SllX 2mo ago
Metroid is a secondary or tertiary IP, and the Metroid Prime subseries has always had more smoke online than its sale figures would ever suggest, with only the original on Gamecube selling north of 2 million, and it was a pack-in title.

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