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Utopia and Historical Actions

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1 points·by vmchale·2 maanden geleden·0 comments

Utopia and Historical Actions

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)

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37 points·by vmchale·10 maanden geleden·130 comments

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vmchale
·vorige maand·discuss
It's not American evangelicals. It's been a long campaign and the evangelicals are still being targeted by Israel because no one else is left, but there aren't enough American evangelicals to swing things.

Not to mention, it often comes down to primary voters, to say nothing of Hollywood/media blacklists

> the Democrats are necessarily adversarial, but they clearly aren't as agreeable as a whole).

Democrats only changed recently. For some decades before that, the Israel lobby had significant sway over them (including allowing dems to publicly admit certain things).
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·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Might be ridiculous but at least they're not parading kidnapping victims on Instagram to advertise as one sees in Israel. https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/2039724748309930448?s=20

Humanity is always beset by annoying people but at least Canada is blessed to be dealing with frivolities.
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·3 maanden geleden·discuss
kdb does two of those by default—columnar and it uses memory mapping (no serialization/deserialization)

Not entirely forgotten in the database world!
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·3 maanden geleden·discuss
"long term storage" for CO2 is to spew it into the air where it remains forever... free for Germany, not so much Australia, California, Florida, etc.
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Cool, we can be like Cuba except we did it to ourselves
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
> The US car manufacturers are cooked.

Biden put a 100% tariff on Chinese cars and then Trump added tariffs on inputs.

Americans are getting screwed!
vmchale
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
> When stated that way you can see that there are several levers to pull, the most obvious being compensation.

Ford's profit margin was 1.7%. Lots of innovative/productive American companies since 1970 for workers to aspire to = the enterprise can't continue.
vmchale
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
> no social democrats in sight

The US already has social security, medicare, medicaid. It is often just plain worse/more brutal than Western European countries but the difference isn't a radical reimagination of the social order.

> barring the occasional Bernie

Western Europe has likewise not imagined any new government welfare since the 1970s.
vmchale
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
> only have use as propaganda

Propaganda helps you ascend to power and then constrains what you do with that power.

Ultimately if you want to look objectively, you have to look at the concrete, at history. But propaganda matters: history would unfold differently without it!
vmchale
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
> These words have more conventional meanings.

Kondylis disputes the typical interpretation of "conservatism." Historically it was a backwards justification of feudalism. Easy to see why someone would talk up "history," "tradition" when they're at the top of the social order and an upstart comes on to stage.
vmchale
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Every time I hear about McKinsey in a headline it's for doing something reprehensible.
vmchale
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I don't think citadel did anything shady here, seems like people misunderstanding things to get mad.
vmchale
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Well they're advertising XCode so
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·6 jaar geleden·discuss
My compiles take like 8 minutes at worst.
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·6 jaar geleden·discuss
I feel like with various things being restricted, people were desperate for that social outlet at the beginning of lockdown.
vmchale
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
the language of choice for people who enjoy writing a sort function five times.
vmchale
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
also hdl, no?