Tarnstellung
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Tarnstellung
2yr ago
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The USSR did not play "the main role". More of their soldiers died, yes, but they relied heavily on materiel, technology and intelligence supplied by the West. It was a joint effort. Plus, their role in the Pacific was minimal.
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This does not mean that the role the USSR did play has not been minimized. However, this minimization did not start in the past few years, as you claim, but during the Cold War, for obvious reasons. (See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/bxe58t/poll_in_france_which_country_contributed_the_most/)
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
It's not like they saw the Germans invading Poland and then quickly decided to invade to salvage what they could. The invasion was planned and coordinated between Germany and the Soviet Union from the start.
Was the Katyn massacre also part of the Soviet 4D chess strategy to beat the Nazis?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
Huh, this is interesting. Besides the visual similarity, both flags have similar symbolism. In Ireland, green is for Catholics and orange for Protestants, while in India, orange (technically "saffron") is for Hindus and green for Muslims. In both flags, the two colours are joined together, representing a hope for reconciliation between the two religious groups.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
I thought it was a good summary. If the OP doesn't have anything to add, why force them?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
The most annoying part of it at this point is the low-level brain fog and the stress of trying not to cough or to otherwise spread it when I do have to go out in public, both of which are to be expected and are not particularly unique aspects of COVID.
Do you put on a mask?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
IIRC, maxwellhill was spotted responding to PMS/modmails after the maxwell thing. https://web.archive.org/web/20211213031223/https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280890362945560577
As I said, this is trivial to fake.
"ghislaine maxwell was /u/maxwellhill" fundamentally doesn't make sense, mrs. high flying elite mistress doesn't gain anything from being a reddit mod and providing the same kind of 'post pop science' or 'censor 1000 spammers and 1 bigot per day' service that tens of thousands of random normal people do.
She was a rich heiress. It's not like she had anything better to do all day.
The bit about Pushshift, if true, is the only real piece of evidence against the theory that I've seen. Every other argument boils down to "it sounds implausible" – and I agree that it does, but considering all the evidence, it would have to be a hell of a coincidence.
Did anything come of /u/MaxwellHill?
For those unfamiliar, /u/MaxwellHill is a Reddit account that moderated a bunch of big subreddits and posted a lot, many of their posts being highly upvoted and widely seen. In short, it was very influential on Reddit. When Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested, the account suddenly stopped posting (and it hasn't posted since). Some people noticed this, and, speculating that Maxwell herself was behind the account, started looking through its posts. They found some more circumstantial evidence, like a mix of British and American English (Maxwell moved between the two countries), and breaks in posting lasting a few days at a time that lined up with major events in Maxwell's life, during which she would have been distracted or busy. There's much more to it than this; you can read a summary here.
The little media coverage it received at the time was of course entirely dismissive; see for example the article in Vice.
I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories – I think Epstein may well have killed himself, for example – but this one aroused my suspicion at the time, and it's strange how it suddenly fizzled out. The Vice article above mentions private messages exchanged between /u/MaxwellHill and some other moderators (there are screenshots out there, but those are trivial to fake), but if the person behind the account was still there, why did they stop posting, and why haven't they started again after over two years?
If it was Maxwell, why didn't she give the password to someone to make a post and remove any suspicion? "Hi, I'm still here and I'm not Ghislaine Maxwell, but I'm going to abandon this account because of all the harassment I've been receiving." (Whether there was any harassment is irrelevant.) Would she have been prevented from doing this? I assume she was able to communicate with her lawyer, at least.
At the time, it was speculated that Reddit wanted to cover this up, as it would be embarrassing if it was revealed that one of their most influential users was an international child trafficker. Why didn't they just take control of the account and post something? Surely the admins can do this. Or just edit the database manually, as /u/spez infamously did. To me it seems like they wanted to sweep it under the carpet, and they thought any activity would just bring more attention. If this was their strategy, it appears to have worked.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
The proper course of action for the "nuclear waste issue" is to not care about it and keep doing what we're doing now because it's a non-issue pushed by anti-science "environmentalists" (in quotation marks because they're hindering the development of a safe, affordable and scalable zero-carbon energy source).
Looking at the "Career" section of Brinton's Wikipedia article, he seems to have the correct stance.
And cardiac science has recently shown how absolutely vital saturated fats are for heart health
Has it? Their conclusion says:
In summary, manipulation of dietary fat intake shows promise in the prevention and treatment of [heart failure]. Clinical studies generally support high intake of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from marine sources to prevent and treat HF. Additional clinical and animals studies are needed to determine the optimal diet in terms of the relative and absolute intake of saturated, monounsaturated, and n-3 and n-6 PUFA for this vulnerable patient population.
In other words: omega-3 fats are good (which everyone knows already) and further research is needed for the others. Nothing of substance.
Where did you find them saying that saturated fats are "absolutely vital" for heart health? The only claim I could find that comes even close is:
We recently used a similar hamster model to compare the effects of two high fat diets (45% of energy from fat): one high n-3 PUFA and n-6 PUFA, and the other high in saturated and monounsaturated fat. There was only a modest ~10% increase in body mass with the two high fat diets, but surprisingly consumption of the high saturated and monounsaturated fat diet prolonged life compared to either the standard low fat diet or the high n-3PUFA + n-6PUFA diet (Figure 2). We found improved survival in cardiomyopathic hamsters fed the high saturated and monounsaturated fat diet compared to either a standard low fat diet (12% fat), or a high fat diet enriched with n-3PUFA and n-6PUFA7. Again, as with the SHHF rat, the relevance of this model to most cases of human HF is limited and one should use caution in extrapolating to patients.
Admittedly, I've only skimmed the article.
Edit: I want to point out that the paper itself is about high-fat, low-carb diets, not about specific types of fat.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
if he was actually qualified(which he doesn’t appear to be)
What are you basing this on? He has a master's degree from MIT and has co-authored several papers on nuclear fuel. Is fashion sense more important than actual qualifications?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
buy people
Maybe if the social contract collapses...
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
MMT is a fringe theory. If you want to argue against it, you can just point to the consensus among mainstream economists. A highly specific modern interpretation of a hundred-year-old poem is not a good argument against anything.
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2yr ago
And further, "we see a lot of dead people buried together" doesn't strike me as a sign of egalitarianism, but rather of this. And mass graves are not signs of peace and egalitarianism, but lots of people dying at once, often due to violence.
Presumably it can be determined how the people buried there died, i.e., whether it was violence or natural causes, and if they were buried simultaneously or over a longer period of time.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
So what would be the literal translation of "допереключаешься"?
The future time rather than future is obtained by that complete word is a finite verb being finite by its first prefix
What does this mean? Did you accidentally a word here?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
lockdowns were not a part of any pandemic planning guidelines in early 2020 because of their enormous cost and the lack of evidence supporting their efficacy; this was all changed, on a dime, and trying to determine exactly what caused public health derps to launch into a society-wide experiment with incredibly high costs is difficult but it cannot be because of good literature about costs and effects because it did not exist
Sources on pre-2020 pandemic planning and the evidence against lockdowns?
the original sars sputtered out in almost all places without lockdowns at all making any claims lockdowns were needed to be bunk
Wasn't the original SARS contained because, unlike COVID-19, people weren't contagious before they got symptoms?
COVID passed through their society in 2018 and served as an immunity buffer for the wuhan variant as did most of southeast Asia
I haven't encountered this claim before. Can you point me to some sources?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
I'd be surprised if Western defense agencies didn't have a much better understanding of viruses than standard academia.
I would. Biology and medicine is a huge field, and the vast majority of the research is conducted either in the open (at universities etc., and published in public journals) or by private companies. The US military has some research capacity (Fort Detrick etc.), but it is tiny compared to "standard academia".
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2yr ago
The Catholic Church is much more than its social programs. Arguably, the social programs are one of the less important things it does, especially nowadays. The Church also doesn't do any research on cost effectiveness (or do you think ornate cathedrals do more good than malaria nets?).
There is no need for a centralized EA organization. Cost effectiveness research, of the kind performed by GiveWell, isn't that expensive. You could reasonably have multiple groups each doing their own analysis and outreach efforts, and these meta-charities would be separate from those that actually implement the programs. GiveWell doesn't directly help anyone as far as I know, they do the research and direct any extra money to charities they find to be effective.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
RiF has a feature to save drafts, which I've found very useful when writing long comments on mobile.
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2yr ago
And yet people still donate millions to breast cancer awareness and similar rubbish. Maybe we need a movement to get people to put a bit more thought into how they donate, to make sure their money is used in the best way possible, to make their... altruism effective?
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2yr ago
EA is not a hivemind. I don't recall GiveWell endorsing politicians, for example.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
Minor historical point first, on your traducing of Russians' treatment of conquered peoples. It was by far the least harmful to those they conquered of any European power.
The Circassians would beg to differ, as would all the peoples in the westernmost part of the Russian Empire, namely, Poles, Balts and Ukrainians. This is only referring to the Russian Empire, not including the Soviet Union, which I suppose could be classified as a Russian empire. The reason why the natives east of the Urals were largely unmolested is that they didn't cause much trouble (as the Circassians did) and that the Russians were not particularly interested in the freezing tundra where the main industry was reindeer herding.
The title of "the least harmful to those they conquered" easily belongs to Austria. Again, referring only to the Habsburgs, not, ahem, any other empire controlled by an Austrian.
Notably among Europeans, Germanics (of whom Anglos are a subset) have the taste for genocide in conquest.
Austria is Germanic, as are the Dutch who you yourself mentioned. The German Empire was generally more brutal overall, though the only notable genocide they committed was the one in Namibia. I'm not aware of any genocides in the British Empire (overseas), unless you count the ludicrously one-sided battles against natives.
Spain, France and Russia tended to integrate conquered people to varying degrees
Spain and France both had highly assimilatory policies, which their subjects were not generally keen on; see, for example, the ETA and the Algerian War. Forcible assimilation is also referred to as "cultural genocide" by, for example, the Canadian government. The only empires with a policy of integration rather than assimilation were Austria (though not Hungary) and the UK (excluding the British Isles, where their policy ranged from cultural genocide to genocide full stop).
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
Within the secular framework there isn't even the possibility of justice. What could possibly make centuries of slavery and domination and just plain snobbishness "right" in any deep sense?
If you're referring to irreligious people in general, and not just wokeists, then my response is that practically every group (ethnic, religious, etc.) has, throughout history, been both oppressor and oppressed. We don't need a god to forgive us: we can agree it's bad, forgive each other, and agree never to do it again.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
France lost only its new acquisitions and not, say, Alsace or Nice.
Extreme pedantry, I know, but Nice wasn't part of France immediately before or after Napoleon:
The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) once more gave the city back to the Duke of Savoy, who was on that same occasion recognised as King of Sicily. (...) From 1744 until the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) the French and Spaniards were again in possession. (...) Conquered in 1792 by the armies of the First French Republic, the County of Nice continued to be part of France until 1814; but after that date it reverted to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.
It only became part of France for good in 1860:
After the Treaty of Turin was signed in 1860 between the Sardinian king and Napoleon III as a consequence of the Plombières Agreement, the county was again and definitively ceded to France as a territorial reward for French assistance in the Second Italian War of Independence against Austria, which saw Lombardy united with Piedmont-Sardinia.
The Chinese in Malaysia didn't take anything from the Malays. They just created more on their own than the Malays did.
The cause of the disparity is that the Malays are lazy. Or more charitably: their culture doesn't value entrepreneurship and education to the same extent as Chinese culture does. Or maybe something about HBD. I'm not sure what the exact reason is, but I know it's endogenous, because decades of discriminatory policy in favour of Malays has done little to change things. Much like affirmative action and Black Americans.
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