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4d ago
China has the benefit of a capable, talented hardworking base with motivations beyond their own immediate paycheck. Unfortunately other potential players are needful of the same dedication and commitment.
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4d ago
Dissuade the best and brightest? Not the employers? It's not like the bestest and brightest are the ones paying directly.
I thihk the best pathway would be for the best and brightest to go back to places of origin and work super hard to develop their own competing paradigms. Every best and brightest who's working on product management or consulting or zero sum finance nonsense is somebody who could be making an active difference in the future. Sadly most lack the personal courage to build a future for themselves.
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4d ago
The best and brightest aren't getting kicked out by a 100k charge. As lovers of subcontinental culture we should be thankful that the happy medium tier remains and is given opportunities to affect systemic reward. It would be a tragedy and an utter betrayal of one's fellow man to abscond to go play zero sum games in the West
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5d ago
Personally prefer the first 4 books since I feel they were a lot better from a fantasy world building perspective whilst the latter half turns inward
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9d ago
I know a handsome male gynecologist who was fairly explicit about exposure to attractive females in the training pathway being part of his decision making
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12d ago
Also if he wrote a fictionalized version of the author's life in which her lesbian relationship went sour and abusive the reaction would not be great
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17d ago
Also just somehow entering a watchlist through automatic keyword flagging doesn't mean anybody is actively monitoring anything.
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17d ago
I'd imagine the standards for an 'outer radar' list could be like a singular flag or tweet that technically places them on a list that nobody's actually actively monitoring.
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17d ago
Declare you've foiled serious plots since you've got it written down on paper but the vast majority would likely never have any real chance of moving off the secret Al Qaeda fan club discord
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17d ago
I agree with this but also simultaneously internet chat rooms would be a pretty easy way of running up the score on blowhards who'd never actually do anything
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18d ago
I can think of 8s who would be 0s for me and 3s who would be 1s. There's a correlation but not 1-1
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19d ago
Yeah the current Western system has very little ability to corral somebody who's already committed to pressing the defect button.
Most deterrents require some level of capitulation and the worst case is generally prison which in an absolute historical human welfare standard isn't really that bad.
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20d ago
As somebody from a country where civilian firearm ownership is barely a thing I broadly agree. The vanishingly small likelihood I or somebody I know having a firearm available for self defense in a time of need seems to not outweigh the additional risk that comes with firearms being way more likely to be present in random aggressive interactions.
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20d ago
Stupid question but how did this not become apparent till after he died? Was everything reverse mortgaged to the hilt or was he trying to outrun markers?
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20d ago
In the USA? It's insane sweepstakes is lasting so long on this incarnation when it's literally already been banned previously on a model that used to run on buying and redeeming internet cafe minutes essentially.
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25d ago
On the other hand what would be done with the Jewish Orthodox population. Other countries probably don't want to take on that particular burden without the religious motivations underpinning Israeli supporting them
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25d ago
Very specious but I have always felt that rivalries in female MMA tend to be significantly more personal and women are more likely to crank submissions with the intent to injure.
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26d ago
Plus even if you aligned all current major Palestinian paramilitary forces you'd likely get a splitter-off within a week who'd enthusiastically get back to it.
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1mo ago
Hasn't the world itself been broadly a project that's been good to white men and middling towards other groups?
For fairly large stretches of American history I'd also imagine the gap between the average African American and African African was far more pronounced and positive in terms of lifespan and affluence than between the average US white male and the global average white male. Couldn't you thus argue that the American project has done more to uplift Africans than anything else?
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1mo ago
Master of None was a solid early Netflix original even if the later seasons went off the rails in an attempt to atone for his sin by centering random POC lesbians.
IMO the episode with the parents in the first season one of the better affective.
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1mo ago
Islam is a religion of peace and has only had somewhat contentious interactions with any other faith or civilization in the last 100 years as a direct result of colonialism and Zionism. How dare you suggest otherwise
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1mo ago
I've literally never heard of this interpretation as a fairly lively culture war reader. Either Palestinian watermelon emojis or 'black people like watermelon' feel overwhelmingly more likely
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1mo ago
I mean most likely outcome is that the conflict will kick off again within a few months off whatever random terrorism Hamas can muster
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1mo ago
I don't really see the point of taking this for the Palestinians and I'd consider myself broadly in team Israel. Or atleast I think a lasting Israeli victory is the most likely to maximize happiness in the region for the Palestinian population if they cease agitating.
IMO this is likely the peak of Palestinian sympathizing as a media/cultural force. Inevitably this will kick off again within months or years and the IDF will resume absolutely mauling whatever resistance Palestine can present aside from random civilian terrorism.
TFA is a mediocre Star Wars film. TLJ essentially derailed the whole trajectory though
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