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NYT subscriber. Reading about beliefs and alignments, preference cascades, Persia and Iraq.
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it isn’t, for precisely the reasons laid out above.
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Randomly firebombing a vigil by American Jews for people held prisoner by Hamas will not free any Palestinians, but it *does* reinforce the central Zionist narrative about Jewish safety and terrorize my whole community, so I guess if you're an antisemite it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.
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“Like if I'm the Baltics or Poland I likely accept the risk of a general European war before I accept a tiny rump defanged Ukraine?”
No one who is remotely close to power actually believes this. If they did, they would spend more on UA aid than on Ru gas, and yet…
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the tests indicate that GMD (or SM3 Block IIA but that’s a separate discussion) could reliably intercept an unsophisticated North Korean or Iranian ICBM, however, GMD absolutely cannot reliably intercept (or defeat(lol)) a Russian or Chinese second strike let alone a first. 2/2
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there are many things you struggle with and none of the journos you’re asking actually understand the field in any depth. eg, countermeasures are just one of the issues. a more salient issue is that it’s so easy to blind systems on the ground, plus space-based sensors. 1/2
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honestly, great play. the version we used had a line about “suggestive of an interest in rough trade” in the footnotes (or end notes?) when one woman tries to seduce a man at gunpoint (i cannot remember publisher or year sorry but notes/intro were fantastic). enjoy!
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set one parameter as 4 and the other parameter as 0.25 still kills me every time lol
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okay fair enough, perhaps i’m too cynical because this is the exact thing that dishonest defense twitter users say, and it’s a motte-and-bailey every time
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“given that missile interception has become a pretty regular wartime occurrence and my understanding was that anti-ICBM capability has been demonstrated as well in tests”
this is a textbook motte-and-bailey. mayb you didn’t mean it that way, fair enough, but better phrasing could have been employed
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reply guys?
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for them it’s better than text
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also if you need a VPN Mullvad is better than say Nord VPN
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sure, but the good thing about proton mail is that as long as you set it up correctly (don’t eg give a gmail as your backup or your backup or whatever) you should be untraceable (obvious point here about IP addresses). agree Signal is 100% better than SMS
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people for whom OPSEC is actually important, rather than just security theater.
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sorry i actually could not find them but the Duchess of Malfi was stellar, and the other class did Doctor Faustus (tho i’m not sure that’s a revenge tragedy.) The Revengers Tragedy is airi the originator of the genre. The other stuff we did was Elizabethan like Shakespeare
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I studied some Jacobean plays in high school…. like… just give me a bit to get back to you okay? I have some of them in boxes still
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It is a beautiful genre. I can recommend you several plays.
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Could you be more specific here Blake? Could you outline your direct experiences please?
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The Nation has gotten really noticeably worse over the last 10-15 years or so. They had a lot of great, insightful pieces. I can remember from high school. Now is just…. Atlantic is the same tbh
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part culture and part risk calculus imo.
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It’s not legally binding. He can continue as a congressman. (I am pretty sure)
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This is very old news why is TWZ reporting this now? Izdeliye 504AP was first reported I think in 2023 even
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I’m sure we can find a way.
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I’ve been re-reading a couple books on Iraq, and in my recollection Feith actually comes across okay. Wolfowitz doesn’t though. At all. (Nor do Bremer or Bush or Rummy, or their horrible mgmt practices)
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true
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what ally or partner has an intelligence gathering apparatus even remotely comparable to what the US has?
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This place has been a (frequently deranged) echo chamber for the mentally ill since Day 1. And I’m not saying that to be denigrating, or rude. I’m simply trying to describe it as accurately as I can. The ontology of the app and its userbase, _what it is_
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fuck forgot to add alt text
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what if I get really good authentic reach on twitter? no blue check, lots of mutuals who are cool and smart and interesting and engage frequently, from a variety of backgrounds; and my posts consistently get good likes. but on here it’s kind of like a wasteland lol
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waste of time.
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there are exceptions of course, some people can actually think, and worthwhile conversations can be had, even with those with whom one might disagree. I personally have had many good conversations like that with high school and college friends. but for the most part, “discussing” is an absolute…
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this is why arguing is pointless and personality traits (which are significantly born from genetics) are so important and dictate (okay, influence) so much of who you are.
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on the domestic stage sure, infighting helps. on the world stage? look at the Nixon and Bush presidencies. albatross, neck.
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I can think of two ways but they’re both unpopular