hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Ok, fair.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
A former submariner I talked to said they mostly shadowed chink subs in the South China Sea.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
To be even more fair, there's been like two ayatollahs.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Are you willing to post a deep dive on how Iran actually works?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
In Iran? The elites over there are genuinely much more religious than the populace.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
The minimum viable level of public support for an autocratic regime willing to take the gloves all the way off is above 0%, but it's probably below 20%, and Iran has enough bribes to go around/genuine believers to keep that minimum percentage for long enough that the current leadership class will die of old age before it rots. Remember ~nobody relevant believed in Communism in the USSR in the eighties either, but a few leaders had to drink themselves to death(and these are fanatical Islamic clerics, so they'll live longer than severe alcoholics) before someone was willing to back down on the project.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Calling an Iranian an 'Arab' is the fastest way to make him hate you.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Jews are politically minorities in a way that does not exactly endear them to the far right.
Why so many secular far right wingers(and in middle eastern conflicts, when forced to have an opinion, I simply support whatever side is better for local Christians. Ethnoreligious prejudices are how the locals make their decisions, after all) hate Israel I can't say- it is after all Jews being somewhere else.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
For 7, it's more than 50%- because the worst handful of drivers bring the average down by much more than the best handful bring it up. This is one of those things where the mean, median, and mode are wildly different.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
- Yes, uncritically, and enforcement should get stricter.
- Yes
- No, they should be taken as recommended speeds.
- No to the passing only but yes to people can ride your ass/cut you off if you're in the left lane and they want to go faster than you are. Not speeding in the left lane is wrong without extenuating circumstances.
- Not quite guilt free but close to it.
- Depends what I'm driving- in my work van I should get a little bit of extra leeway. It's harder to see, turns slower, accelerates slower, and just plain takes up more space than personal vehicles and people should presume that, unlike them, it has to be there at a particular time. I apply the same rule to my own behavior towards eg semitrucks and trucks towing trailers.
I’d long heard that Kruschev was the last true believer; there might obviously be true believers in important positions after that, but not necessarily in the top spots.
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