Tollund_Man4
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Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
I don't know about cars but if pharmaceuticals and medical devices (I used to work at a place in Ireland making drug eluding stents) are of similar complexity then no you don't need to have much brains to be a line worker even if the final product is complex.
You perform one or two sets of movements 800 times a day and need to remember if you saw anything strange in a batch from an hour ago. There's a hierarchy of inspectors, technicians, quality control workers and engineers who worry about the complicated stuff.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
Our torments also may in length of time
Become our Elements, these piercing Fires
As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd
Into their temper; which must needs remove
The sensible of pain.
Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
This isn't direct evidence but the IRA were definitely aware of the propaganda potential of reprisals from government forces. From the Handbook for Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army - Notes on Guerrilla Warfare 1956 version:
The strategy of guerrilla warfare is to build up resistance centres throughout the occupied area and confine the enemy to the larger towns by restricting his movements and communications. In time the resistance centres are knitted together into one liberated area. After that the job is to drive him out of his supposedly safe base: and thus out of the country.
The essence of all strategy is to bring, by the use of surprise and mobility-or a combination of both-the greatest possible strength to bear at a chosen time and place. It must be ensured that the enemy does not-or is not able to-assemble Mi* strength at that point. This holds true also of guerrilla warfare. But it involves clever manoeuvre and here the skill of the commander, the organisation of his forces and his mobility, play an important role.
The guerrilla attempts to do three things:(1) Drain the enemy's manpower and resources.
(2) Lead the resistance of the people to enemy occupation.
(3) Break down the enemy's administration.He achieves the first by the very fact of his existence and his constant harassment of the enemy. He remembers that his own task is not to hold ground but to ensure that in time the enemy will not hold any either.
He achieves the second by remembering that the people will bear the brunt of the enemy's reprisal tactics and by inspiring them with aims of the movement. In this way they will be made tenacious and strong for in the long run it is the people who can stop the enemy: by their backing of the national movement.
And he achieves three when the enemy imposes martial law and thus recognises he can no longer rule that area in the old way. In effect he is recognising that the people no longer want him.
*Typo in the original PDF document.
See to me all those cases, dress codes and nationalists, are self consciously wearing it, in direct opposition to the normal clothes they typically wear or understand as normal clothing.
I don’t know much about Scotland but I think you’re underestimating how normal nationalist and other identity based clothing can be. When someone puts on a Celtic or Rangers top in a city where you can get beaten up for walking down the wrong street in the wrong colours he’s making a statement, but football jerseys are still everyday clothing and he might put that top on once or twice a week without thinking much about it (given that it’s also normal for him not to walk down the wrong streets).
Tollund_Man4
9mo ago
It raises an interesting question about how the Algonquian Indians in Canada were more able to resist viking settlement than the natives of Ireland, Russia, etc.
My first guess would be that Ireland is much closer, the Vikings raiding Ireland already had bases in Scotland and you can see parts of Scotland with the naked eye on a sunny day on the Antrim coast.
The distance would make any big setback or defeat fatal, it’s not like the Vikings in Canada could go seek refuge from Saxon kings or with the Norse in the Hebrides if they lost a battle.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
and occupant safety features (seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, etc.)?
Besides thicker clothing and a better helmet wouldn't motorbikes be the same as bikes under this standard?
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
huwhite
Unrelated but what is this spelling about? I've seen it a lot but never got the memo.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
I'm not sure if you could find 4 competing major cities in most countries but there are countries where the capital isn't the biggest city, for example Australia (Canberra), Brazil (Brasilia) Turkey (Ankara).
I don't know much about Spain and Germany but they're pretty decentralised so I'd expect Berlin and Madrid not to be the centre of everything.
Sowell’s autobiography also has a cool story about him beating up a mugger on the subway.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
Slavery never caught on in the British isles because they had population in excess;
I learned something new looking this up, that Scotland still had slaves in the coal mines until 1799, but my understanding is that England (and by extension Ireland and Wales) didn’t use slaves domestically simply because it hadn’t been accepted under common law since the 12th century.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
Yes, centrally planned militaries have outcompeted all other types of military organisation. The market can outcompete the state on many things but the monopoly on violence and it's successful preservation and expansion are, at least for now, domains in which state organisation dominates. Volunteer militias and private military companies exist and have had victories against state-led armies in modern times but this hasn't lead to any long-term changes in the meta (even when volunteer militias win they usually just go on to establish a traditional military).
If you accept this view then those left-wing individuals have just gotten you to concede the minarchist position. State-controlled industry, dissolution of property rights etc are hills the socialists still have to climb and the historical record is very against them here.
Seems like she enjoyed your company but doesn't want to go on a date (assuming that's what you texted her about). That may only have become clear now of course, but often you only find out once you try.
Free speech make sense in prosperous and stable liberal democracy because its enemies are mostly harmless.
The United States was not prosperous and stable in its early years, free speech made sense in a heavily indebted country experiencing periodic tax rebellions, Indian raids, slave uprisings (and the perceived powder keg of a Haitian style slave uprising), and the threat of further war from Britain.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
It might be too late but cold showers can dampen the immune response which causes DOMS.
Automation had already been going on for 30 years by the time I was working there, the workers just get moved to another part of the process where relying on fine motor skills is cheaper than designing and building a new machine. A few technician jobs are created too as they need manual maintenance multiple times per day.
This can't go on forever but it doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. Checking the local news they're still announcing new expansions and jobs (although that was before these recent tariffs).
AI might cause some disruption on the lower levels of the quality control side as a lot of that just involves looking through a microscope and identifying faults.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
I think here it's more anti-Western elite than actual pro-Russia, certainly compared to Twitter.
I suppose why do people stan for a country that is clearly an enemy of the west/europe/america
Presumably they don't like the way the West/Europe/America is going and would like to see the current ruling institutions and elites embarrased.
and invading sovereign countries with little justification?
What counts as a justification for war is up for debate. Some people reject the moral view of diplomacy that cares about things like sovereignty and justifications and think that a view based on threats and interests is more realistic. In this view things like a trend of NATO expansion become a trigger for war even if Ukraine didn't actually join NATO or do anything to harm Russia directly, and the only way this war could have been avoided and future wars also is if Western diplomats stop looking at things in idealistic moral terms and start thinking about how to preserve the balance of power.
There is a risk of implying too much about Russia with this model, if Western leaders are all idealists their enemies must be the opposite and therefore Putin is a rational calculator right? I can see someone convincing themselves into the pro-Russia camp this way, but looking at diplomacy in terms of threats and interests means you have to be open to the possibility of people misjudging their interests and the 'Putin made a huge blunder' case has also been made here.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
Bangladesh is already the number 1 source of migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Europe and the 5th overall (most asylum seekers just book a flight iirc). It may be a small number in terms of the total number of Bangladeshi refugees worldwide but it’s still a significant contributor to Europe’s migrant population.
I know Bangladesh is poor but I had to check this because I’ve met plenty of Bangladeshis that don’t fit the description ‘wealthy and powerful’.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
they may genuinely believe that woman and man are as strong among top performers
In this case it's true that there are women as strong as Imane Khelif (though to me that's more evidence that she's not a man). She's got 9 losses on her record, if it weren't for a difference in weight classes she would be facing one of the Irish boxers who beat her handily in the 2020 Olympics again.
The British army has 30+ years of experience acting as a supplementary police force from their time in the Troubles in Northern Ireland, not to mention the Northern Irish police who still deal with at least one riot a year (the last one was yesterday iirc).
If the rioting in England gets serious they've got plenty of institutional experience and lots of active Northern Irish policemen to call upon. They're more equipped than most to employ the military against rioters without jumping straight into shooting people.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
Whether it's a good tactic remains to be seen (I doubt this is very organised but it's going to have consequences nonetheless), Dubliners rioting alongside Protestant Loyalists in Belfast the past few days has given the left ammo to turn the accusation of 'traitor' back on to the anti-migrant nationalists.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
(I wish we had some better phrase to refer to the offense than 'child rape', which includes this but also abducting and violently raping kindergardeners.)
Isn't the distinction already made in rape vs aggravated rape? We can be certain that a 12 year is a child and that the crime committed was rape, I see no issue with the term 'child rape'.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
A million casualties doesn't necessarily mean a million individual people, some portion of that figure would be people who have been wounded multiple times.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
All else equal, the guy who’s entrenched has an advantage.
What about the guy who is being flanked and cut off from supplies and retreat? He's just an amateur but I regularly keep up with Weeb Union's daily map updates on Youtube and in the winter of 2024-25 for example it was just encirclement after encirclement.
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
Thanks for this!
June 2024: Surprise! Macron triggers snap elections in effort to overturn political gridlock and break his dependence on Le Pen. Perhaps the ongoing Le Pen trial will at last get rid of this troublesome opposition party?
I don't think the trial was the main motivation here, I think the idea was more that the National Rally's shocking victory in the European Parliament elections held just 3 weeks before would motivate people to put their differences aside and vote against Le Pen.
His big projects are World Peace and Kickstarter TV. World Peace 2 is coming out soon too. Some other clips I have saved:
Congratulating OLP Class of 2018
Google Pixel Unboxing
Migrant Crisis Stand Up Routine
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