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by honzabe 4mo ago
That article reads like Noah’s cognitive dissonance trying to cling to something that no longer exists (if it even existed in the first place). Like using the net migration numbers from 2024 and talking about it as if this was the present -
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by honzabe 7mo ago
The article does not mention payments. I would be especially interested in a European Stripe alternative - this is what I find really difficult to replace.
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by honzabe 8mo ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that the specific famous tank man of Tiananmen got run over by the tank. However, there is plenty of evidence that people got "mowed down by tanks" at Tiananmen Square: https://www.
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> The story of the United States is one of genocide, racism, imperialism, and oppression of the working class. I do not think it is. The story of the US contains all those things. And just as the story of the US contains Abu Ghraib, it
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by honzabe 8mo ago
As a European, I hope Trump 2.0 will do to European Trumpist movements what Brexit did to European anti-EU movements.
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by honzabe 8mo ago
What is your experience running that company? It looks great on paper, but if you don’t mind sharing, what is the practical side of things? Have you encountered any stumbling blocks?
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> What is the European alternative to the US military if Russia attacks Europe? European military. Why do some people act as if European countries had no armies? And even if we had no armies and Russia attacked and totally destroyed us,
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> With Greenland, Trump just demonstrated how this works: maximum escalation (tariff threats against a NATO partner), then “backing down” in exchange for concessions (“total and permanent access”). The result is a structural shift - Euro
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by honzabe 8mo ago
I think you underestimate how dramatically the perception of the US in Europe changed for the worse. It was already in nose dive during recent months, but the recent days (Greenland crisis) will put a nail in the coffin. I don’t have a crys
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by honzabe 8mo ago
Striking? Why? Appeasement of aggressors has a terrible track record, both historically (Hitler, Putin) and specifically with Trump (TACO). Danish military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen argues, IMHO convincingly, that Europe should NOT try to
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> Come on. Americans sent no such signal. No US election in my lifetime has been about foreign policy, including the last one. Domestic issues are by far predominant. Guess what, we also care about domestic issues more. Except in smaller
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by honzabe 8mo ago
That reminds me of an article Noah Smith wrote about this: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/after-trump-the-deluge He believes they will switch from charisma to ideology to keep the movement going.
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by honzabe 8mo ago
Danish military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen argues, IMHO convincingly, that Europe should now escalate to de-escalate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRsTDlqU8I As a European myself, I will support politicians with an unc
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by honzabe 8mo ago
My guess would be that the OP subscribes to the MAGA worldview, because in their alternative reality, the US-Europe security arrangement was not a mutually beneficial relationship between allies, but a parasitic relationship where the US pa
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> Was/is it common practice to omit the ages of adult women in Germany? A gentleman does not ask a lady's age.
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by honzabe 8mo ago
There is no doubt in my mind that your intent was good. > A rough analogy might be, we figure out advanced bioengineering and then the next thing you know we as a society have collectively gone to great lengths to apply it to create the
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by honzabe 8mo ago
No, I understood well. In my country, there is a barrage of Russian propaganda trying to relativize our shitty experience with the communist regime. They keep flooding the zone with claims about democracy being flawed, weak, bureaucratic, m
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> Those 50-60-70+% of people in former communist states don't "romanticize", they just remember being better. Where did you get those numbers? I remember reading about one survey where the number of people with previous re
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by honzabe 8mo ago
> Meanwhile we put experts to work optimizing conversion and engagement metrics. A truly enlightened way of life we've built for ourselves. I grew up in communist Czechoslovakia, and claims like this really bother me. As if it is so
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by honzabe 8mo ago
I recently read a book of interviews with people who escaped from North Korea, and what shocked me was the discovery that the relatives of those who escaped are often executed (publicly) and that even children are executed in North Korea. W
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by honzabe 11mo ago
"…it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time." I read this recently on Hacker News, in a discussion
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by honzabe 11mo ago
> I'm not sure it's all that new. During the Bush Jr. years America was not highly thought of. From my Eastern European perspective, this is something fundamentally different. Sure, many people were critical of Bush Jr., but
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by honzabe 1y ago
I am not the OP, but if I might, I would recommend Perun, who recently dedicated a video to this topic, which is IMO pretty well sourced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7sVKNP-yo
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by honzabe 1y ago
> Simple question: in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and there was peaceful “annexation” of GDR into FRG, in which West Germany effectively took over, with its constitution taking into effect in new federal states, the GDR assets being taken
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No Evidence of Disease (2012)(idlewords.com)
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by honzabe 1y ago
> so what can they do even? And if the answer really is nothing, then how can they be responsible? I think I need to clarify what I mean by "responsibility". Many people confuse "you are responsible" with "you di
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by honzabe 1y ago
> Analyze who have perpetrated most invasions ("military operations" if you like euphemisms) in the last 40 years and you'll be surprised who you'd need to "block" given your logic. I have. It was Russia. Th
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by honzabe 1y ago
This discussion leans against sanctions, and I feel a bit uneasy about this. There are some good arguments, but still... can I try to offer a different point of view? I grew up in a country occupied by Russians. I really feel for the Ukrain
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by honzabe 1y ago
Thermal paper used for receipts is coated with endocrine disruptors. Touching them every day multiple times can decrease your testosterone levels. At least Rhonda Patrick says so: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/isteK4uQhQ
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The day I jumped Chesterton's fence(honzabe.com)
2 points by honzabe 1y ago|0 comments

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