Svettie

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by Svettie 4y ago
"Can" is the key word in that quote. It's possible, but not necessarily likely. There's no contradiction. Efficiency of markets is like the Law of Large Numbers. But it's possible to get n consecutive coin flips tha
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by Svettie 5y ago
sure, I mean the paradigm of using military force, and more generally disregarding international law to achieve geopolitical goals
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by Svettie 5y ago
that's... exactly the point, but with the reverse conclusion. You can always paint a narrative about how this situation is different than others. You can justify anything you want by just working backwards in this way. So instead, we h
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by Svettie 5y ago
It's becoming increasingly apparent that the only thing that matters at all is power. Sadly, the USA is responsible for establishing this paradigm, although pointing this out is taboo whataboutism. Now, we're returning to a world
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by Svettie 5y ago
I just don't think human psychology works this way. Your attitude is akin to a parent's with a child, "your actions have consequences, so do better". But Russia's parent in this analogy is Putin, and he will use suc
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by Svettie 5y ago
Maybe that's how you feel, but not me. I try to live in a principled way, and I think many other people do as well. So I support calling out hypocrisy because I think it makes the world a better place (I would like my own views also ch
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by Svettie 5y ago
It's hypocrisy nonetheless, regardless of the scale
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by Svettie 5y ago
You and others use "whataboutism" like it's some sort of checkmate. The point is, many Americans are very eager to police everyone based on their "principles", everyone else except themselves and their allies that i
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by Svettie 5y ago
That's not the case. But anyway, after a night to clear my head I realize this is an emotional time for everyone, and I'm sorry for stirring you up. I was reacting to my own things. I definitely don't support this war, nor an
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by Svettie 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by Svettie 5y ago
Call me what you wish, but it's not true. If you're done then log off and stop spamming your replies to every single comment in this thread, and leave some space for any other opinion. You're just ranting
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by Svettie 5y ago
that's your opinion, and you're welcome to it. But it's not fact, and none of us are in Putin's head and know what he thinks. This is simply one perspective
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by Svettie 5y ago
Again, something being ridiculous (to you) does not make it evil. And your straw man has nothing to do with my response
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by Svettie 5y ago
A perspective you don't share is ridiculous, so your explanation is "evil"? Maybe, it's more likely that you just don't understand it.
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by Svettie 5y ago
I'm not "enlightened", and you can draw your own conclusions. But they don't have to annex Ukraine, they can just mess it up and cripple its military. At the least, Putin's stated aim is "demilitarization"
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by Svettie 5y ago
No, this isn't a trial. It's OK to raise ideas up for others' consideration. The absence of obvious evidence doesn't mean the thing itself isn't happening. There is also a big difference between one person's vo
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by Svettie 5y ago
If we're talking about products with a large number of reviews: - The fake reviews are commonly very low-effort: "best I've found, gift for grandma". - A seller looking to do review spam doesn't want to keep pumping
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by Svettie 5y ago
One thing to note is: I can't find any mention of returns/refunds on the wurkkos website, while Amazon has their standard (very liberal) return policy. From the manufacturer's standpoint, they pay 15% referal fee to Amazon fo
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by Svettie 5y ago
competing is not anti-competitive. > Even though some competing platforms charge much lower fees, if Steve lowers his prices on another shopping site, Amazon’s algorithms punish him I think in most cases, this "fair-pricing" bo
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by Svettie 5y ago
Amazon wants to be the place with the lowest prices, and to be known as such. If Steve wanted to sell through a traditional retailer, he would wholesale to them and they would set the price to whatever they want. Amazon's model is diff
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by Svettie 5y ago
Some lively debate on this on Amazon's own Seller Forums: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazons-toll-road-...
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by Svettie 5y ago
So the massive list of uncontested gun victims is caused by a bunch of people with a vain fascination with deadly weapons? Either: a) this is the same type of fallacy you started out criticizing, or b) it's hyperbole, because "mas
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by Svettie 5y ago
"a true self-defense situation", according to who? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by Svettie 5y ago
There doesn't need to be a clear "bad guy" in every situation. Situations can escalate and get out of hand without any individual actors with bad intentions. So it's entirely plausible that the people charging Rittenhous
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by Svettie 5y ago
The last line is just your opinion, and clearly Rittenhouse disagreed. If it's not illegal for me to be somewhere, then I have the right to be there, and I can choose to exercise that right.
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by Svettie 5y ago
politically motivated interference with airliners in flight, to force a landing and arrest people in transit who are currently not within your jurisdiction
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by Svettie 5y ago
I don't disagree with you. Yes, one is worse than the other. The point that I'm making is that the distinction is dwarfed by the baseness of the paradigm itself: politically motivated interference with airliners in flight, to forc
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by Svettie 5y ago
To me it seems minor in the grand scheme of things. It's still trickery. I assume that in the Snowden case the permissions were withdrawn precisely to force a landing in a country where Snowden could be arrested. Belarus doesn't h
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by Svettie 5y ago
I think you're choosing an arbitrary standard to defend your narrative. "Protasevich broke laws, but these are not laws that we consider bad." I could also say that "being a whistleblower about a government agency violat
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by Svettie 5y ago
It's an apt comparison. And if we don't like the consequences, all the more reason to reflect on our own actions

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