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  • Too many non-working holidays in America

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  • This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

    Source: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year/

  • Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.

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  • Or, pretending that the food is delicious, then opening a restaurant and immediately getting shut down because people keep finding bits of glass and nails in their food.

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  • I (in the UK) say "prize" if it's something you're winning, and "prise" if you're trying to open something with a crowbar.

  • Also, they already had a deal with the US before Trump voided it

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  • Also, Bush and Blair at least tried to go through the UN, before they just ignored it and did it anyway. This time it's just "oh I guess we're at war now".

  • Fruit

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  • This is how you do engagement bait

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    What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?

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  • Talk about issues that affect the working class. Not the white working class, not working class men, just everyone who makes a living by drawing a wage. Progressive movements are formed by solidarity, and we have more in common with other working class people than any of the politicians or business leaders who set the tone of this debate.

  • Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

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  • Gold is useful! It's unreactive and conducts electricity really well. Plus you can drink vodka with bits of it in.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • Just point them at the fusion reactor once it's ready.

  • Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’

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  • This is quite funny, since pawns in chess literally represent infantry units.

  • "Our secret forces just randomly stumbled upon this"

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  • Imagine being the guy in Shin Bet who has to draw a hoax children's drawing, leaving the office to buy crayons.

  • Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End

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  • I agree that needs to be done up until the election, but now Labour have a massive majority and no election for over 4 years. There's no need to be pandering to the right at the point.

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    Opposition to the butchery in Gaza

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  • What if Trump Derangement Syndrome were in the DSM?

    IDK but I've definitely self-diagnosed with it.

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  • Let's hope so. Europe's reliance on the US for security has paved the way for this.

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  • Ukraine was handicapped by poor allies and is now handicapped by a handicap in the US. They are struggling no doubt, war isnt nice but so too are Russia. I personally think if the US election had gone in a different direction, to someone with a spine, the war would be ending and Russia in collapse.

    I agree with that, but that doesn't change the fact that the US election went to Donald Trump, who has no interest in curbing Russia's imperial ambitions.

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  • I'll have to trust you on that, I don't know anything about weapons systems.

    What I do know is that Russia has never lost a war due to lack of manpower.

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  • Please stop okay it’s dunning-kruger at its finest.

    Says the person who just confidently stated that the Nazis were losing in Western Europe before the Soviet counteroffensive.

    What’s America going to do to enforce their version of the ceasefire, if Ukraine disagrees with it if the rest of NATO disagree with it? NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, and Ukraine will continue to use those weapons. And Trump will do what?

    To state the obvious, the US has an outsized influence in NATO. Yes, there's a legal mechanism where other NATO countries could continue sending weapons to Ukraine after a US-brokered ceasefire. But in practice this will never happen. I challenge you to name one time that all the non-US NATO members voted in favour of a war that the US was against.

    America been big is irrelevant.

    A superpower being big is never irrelevant. That's why history is shaped by their actions.

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  • That’s just Trump doing Trump things, it’s got no basis in reality.

    Trump is the president of the most powerful country in the world, for the next 3 years. His team will be doing the negotiating, so he has a lot of power here.

    You cannot have a negotiation where one of the parties is not present.

    Tell that to Palestine, or literally any country in Africa. Negotiations between superpowers don't take into account the needs of the proxy countries.

    Anything agreed with Russia will not be enforced by the international community.

    It doesn't need to be enforced by the international community. If Trump hands the Donbas to Russia, the various other NATO members aren't going to do shit.

    I don't really want to get into the points about equipment because that's well outside my wheelhouse, but I've heard all sorts of conflicting stuff about that.

    So? They are at war so obviously they are switching over to a wartime economy. That doesn’t indicate any intention to attack NATO.

    You don't switch over to a wartime economy for a limited military operation. You do it because you think the war is going to last a long time, just like the UK seems to think in this article.

    Secondly they wouldn’t have won had it not been for the allied forces having already severely hammered the Nazis.

    I disagree, the Nazis had taken the whole of Western Europe by that point, then the Battle of Stalingrad meant that they had to divert a load of forces from the West, making a push from the West possible.

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  • They're not "getting their asses handed to them", lots of the latest negotiations (with the US) seem to involve Russia gaining territory in any peace agreement. And they're switching over to a fully wartime economy, so they're in it for the long haul.

    Don't underestimate Russia's ability to play the long game in a war. I know western media likes to give us stories like "Russia is running out of Russians" or whatever but that stuff is just propaganda imo. Ukraine, even with all the western weapons, is treading water.

    EDIT: Just to demonstrate what I mean, the estimated military casualties for the Soviet Union in WW2 was around 8.6 million. And then they won. Russia ain't running out of Russians any time soon.

  • Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says

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  • It'll be interesting to see how they enforce that. The Electoral Commission will have quite a time tracing all the Bitcoin transactions that go to that address.