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Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
1hr ago
As one of "The True Psychos," I'd personally like to thank you for laying this out so clearly and in such detail. AAQC'd.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
2hr ago
But it's cruise control for cool.
FtttG
2hr ago
This is where I first heard about them (?).
TowardsPanna
2hr ago
I actually heard back from an email I sent to the public transport company. They say there are no tracks near the building in question so there should be no noise.
Guess I'm going to trust that. Perhaps naively. We'll see.
wayfarer
2hr ago
Even in the Netherlands, car travel is twice as popular as bicycle travel
for all travels or for travels where bicycles make sense?
cars are clearly better at long distance travel, this does not make them better at commuting 2 km
I am not asking people to walk 90 minutes to work. Simply use public transport or drive for long distances like almost everyone else.
at short distances cycling is typically faster, more pleasant, cheaper and healthier than public transport
orthoxerox
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2hr ago
Please let me be obnoxiously pedantic and note that at least two more countries have their nukes in the western hemisphere.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2hr ago
That kind of transactional relationship sounds like the opposite of normal and healthy.
How many accounts — real or fictional — about relationships and marriage have you read that were written prior to the 19th century? Or from a non-Western culture (like any where arranged marriages were common). Marriage being treated to a great extent like a sort of financial/institutional merger involving two families, or a sort of "mutual physical/financial support" arrangement first, with "mutual love and desire" being a secondary factor — indeed, as something a couple deliberately builds over time — seems to be the more "normal" attitude across the history of settled human societies, with the 20th century West "all you need is love" attitudes being rather the outlier.
Edit: see also OracleOutlook's longer comment below.
FistfullOfCrows
2hr ago
There was a reason for "tits or gtfo", it was to counteract the kind of poster who went into a community or a group and went, "look at me, I'm a GIRL, pay attention, I have dignified your little group with my presence". In the anonymous context of imageboard fora we called them ethots. Now Aella isn't exactly like that, but there is a similiar mechanic happening on twitter, where those who are women and feel insecure about the number of dudes they can catch or men who are seething angry at her ease of getting the horizonal tango. There's also the aspect of the more sex-negative or kneejerk anti-libertine crowd gaining foothold online, (the various BASED takes and one liners)
orthoxerox
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2hr ago
The only thing I can say right now is that Israel is much better at special military operations than Russia. Their rockets have actually killed several high-ranking Iranian officers and scientists on the first attempt.
LacklustreFriend
37 Pieces of Flair Minimum
2hr ago
Israel would have almost exactly the same national security interests and likely strategic patterns of behavior even if it had no element of racial-supremacist Abrahamic cult-myths, though.
Israel would never had existed if they didn't have that though.
SkoomaDentist
2hr ago
If only there was a way to get that effect on every ”provider” that insists on shoving AI slop to my face in their ”tools”…
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2hr ago
Anyone who doesn’t think this was clearly telegraphed is kidding themselves.
So clearly telegraphed that Iran failed to notice anything and kept their VIPs in high-rises instead of bunkers?
2rafa
3hr ago
Anyone who doesn’t think this was clearly telegraphed is kidding themselves. The US pulling troops’ and diplomats’ families out of the region in recent days is about as clear a signal as you can give. The only developments in the conflict in recent years that appear to have been surprising were October 7th (which the IRGC seemingly didn’t even know about, at least not comprehensively), the Israeli surprise attack on Hezbollah (which was semi-expected, albeit not the exact format) and the Soleimani assassination. To some extent you can include Assad’s collapse, although all factions were surprised by that except for Turkey, which organized it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3hr ago
...because regime change wars clearly worked out so great for us in the past...
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
NoWarWithPersia
Kill all the Ayatollahs and remove this regime and then I agree with you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3hr ago
"Meta AI isn't available in your country."
functor
3hr ago
Iran has no reason to hate China. The US and Israel has been warmongering in the region for decades and created completely unnecessary conflicts. The US could very will have had amicable relations with Iran. Instead they had warmongering and aggressive policies that have made the relation hard to fix.
Iran negotiated a deal with the US that the US then broke. The US invaded Iraq twice and Afghanistan. The US has a long history of bombing the middle east, assassinating people and destroying countries. The Iranians have every reason to be skeptical.
Iran is also not at war with the US, so the US could do that too, if it wanted.
"Not paid enough" and "doesn't have good working conditions" are in the same category and both can be improved. They could allow talking (especially if they pay by the bushel so talking wasting time won't hurt them), they just didn't.
Also, people think of family businesses too favorably. Family businesses are often inefficient, and their owners vary much more in pettiness than big businesses.
And Iran is not at war with China, so China can do this.
If Iran wants Israel to stop, they can negotiate peace.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
4hr ago
That doesn't seem to work out very well for them, other countries suck and all of their people want to come to America
Same was true for Rome vs non-Roman Europe, but it didn't stop the empire from collapsing.
FistfullOfCrows
4hr ago
It's a very sad state of affairs we're not on the side of Iranians.
FistfullOfCrows
4hr ago
We haven't tried government issued BFs/GFs yet as an incentive. Hell, government issue hoes with government handler Pimps too.
That's not really what "market rate" means. It doesn't really come free-floating, without reference to a population of suppliers/potential suppliers. Yes, there is a MarketRate1, where the set of suppliers/potential suppliers includes everyone who can walk across the border. Yes, MarketRate1 < MarketRate2, where MarketRate2 is with reference to the set of suppliers/potential suppliers who are legally authorized to work in the United States. But if we just lived in World2, there would be no talk about paying "well-above market rate (MarketRate2)", because MarketRate2 would just be the clearing price in World2.
Supply curve slope upwards. Demand curves slope downwards. For there to be no non-zero equilibrium, the supply price at zero quantity supplied must be higher than the demand price at zero quantity demanded. This may be true for some goods (say, anti-matter-powered light bulbs), but it seems highly unlikely that it is the case for food.
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