Tbh even if there was sufficient political will to pivot to China (there is some, and it is growing), people underestimate just how entangled European military structures are with the US via NATO. This is by design of course, and a situation EU atlanticists have historically been very happy with, but pulling out is no small ask.

Pirate because you just want to list all available movies in ascending order of runtime

Wew birds is wimmin, guv’nor

I use stow and it does the job get nicely, but it’s possible that there’s a better option these days

‘intent’ is a bit of a devious notion in this context though, isn’t it? Whose intent?

We didn’t had internet or ability to fly and sail bunch of tanks across thousands of kilometers within days.

We didn’t have these when the current global power structure was established. We didn’t have AK-47S either, and much of the world had yet to industrialize. It was a very specific context.

A global hegemon on the scale of the British and then US empire is kind of a blip historically though — it’s not obvious that another state will continue in the same role

Tony Blair was a trot, Keir Starmer was a trot. I feel like this says a lot lol

They have to work with Adobe. Or any of the big musical instrument sample libraries.

I’m pretty sure most people would agree that art is the product of an artist, not just ‘thing that looks nice’

I’m glad this brings you joy, but

Keyboard-driven workflow

is not something I’m looking for when I unwind with a movie

I tried using Gmail through Thunderbird, but the problem is that the filtering is web UI only

Do you believe in schmapoopy? Direct answers only please

I believe that people have experiences they can’t explain, and that this happens far more often than most would imagine. Imo a lot of it has to do with how our minds handle probability — we imagine that ‘highly improbable’ things never happen, at least not to us, so when they do, we experience it as ‘supernatural’

Damages your enamel too…

What is the deal with Ukrainian Nazis anyway — do they see themselves as not Slavic or something?

Is this a bit

It’s often used misleadingly. For example, in an election in a de facto two-party system, it’s often said that you should vote for ‘the lesser evil’, but this presumes that your vote will decide the result of the election, which it clearly won’t. Thinking e.g. “the Dems winning would be the lesser evil compared to the Republicans winning, and I’m voting third party (or spoiling or even abstaining)” is therefore entirely coherent imho.

I would like to see it used more to describe political situations outside of the West tbh. When we talk about x regime, it should always be ‘compared to what’. But of course, no-one cares about ‘lesser evils’ in this context, which I think says a lot.

Op isn’t saying that anarchist organizing principles are deliberately inefficient at scale

It’s actually kind of an open secret at this point that he got an actor to do his radio addresses lol. Also interesting to note that the only data we have wrt his popularity at the time is the 1945 election in which he absolutely shat the bed. He’s been subsequently sainted as part of the ‘tiny island, standing alone’ myth making of the post-war era though

I feel like you lose a lot of credibility when your geopolitical analysis hinges on boners. I think very few would disagree with you if you said that Putin were cynically pursuing his and the Russian state’s interests in the region, with complete disregard for civilian life.

The point is not that there are ‘a tiny number of Nazis’ in Ukraine The point is that there are a large number of Nazi paramilitary forces who were committing mass murder in Donbas well before the Russian invasion, and the Ukrainian government was complicit in these crimes, in addition to crimes of their own, such as shelling civilian targets. By all means, let’s talk about ending the conflict, because the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on long enough, but a necessary first step is acknowledging that the conflict had already begun long before Russia invaded.