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Anastasis

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  1. It's a thread, but is that a real Churchill quote?
  2. Damn, Churchill was an asshole huh?
  3. Relevant to the topic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/
  4. Yeah, this guy has clearly no idea what he is talking about.
  5. LOL. She is actually the epitome of #bothsides as it relates to American foreign policy. I will admit, I do not understand the rehabilitation of arch-neocons like Nuland, nor the adoption of neocon foreign policy across our political spectrum. We don't seem to be capable of learning from recent history and policy failure. But hey, maybe this time the outcomes will be different.
  6. I am struggling to pick the right description for what I am watching right now.
  7. This guy likes the F16.
  8. These people are lunatics.
  9. I think if I were to try to reduce it to the principal component, it would be, you know, like, real world social interactions between humans. You can tell me what you mean by the "American/Western atomic family" and we could talk about that I guess, and I do think that the human family unit is important and that a culture that supports the family unit in all of its shapes and sizes in a good thing. I personally think that a multigenerational family unit that involves social interactions between individuals across the entire spectrum of the human life cycle has certain benefits. But the social network is not just the family unit. That is just one aspect you zeroed in on.
  10. Kind of a weird purity test.
  11. This isn't really hard. Traditional social and community networks are being degraded, the replacements lack substance in a holistic sense, and the pace of the transition is not something that the human species has previously navigated. The ability to perceive anxiety and depression are natural responses that we have evolved. Maybe protective, maybe culling. I guess we will find out.
  12. What's cloaky in this exchange, exactly? We are talking about a Wharton statistics prof writing up bullshit stats in "news" articles, and snuff clips. That is solid DT material, esp the latter.
  13. How about this one, from 2022? It was talked about quite a bit on the CR thread at the time. But an investigation by CNN offers new evidence — including two videos of the scene of the shooting — that there was no active combat, nor any Palestinian militants, near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death. Videos obtained by CNN, corroborated by testimony from eight eyewitnesses, an audio forensic analyst and an explosive weapons expert, suggest that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces. I am not sure that we should make any assumption regarding the intention and its virtue, given both the stated and alluded to objectives of Israeli leadership.
  14. Applied consistently, this is a reasonable posture. Remember this one? Turns out it was a guy with a bike and a bag of flour. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/12/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news?smid=url-share#the-israeli-military-acknowledges-mistaking-a-bike-for-a-weapon-in-a-strike-but-stands-by-the-attack NYT contributor that did the visual analysis.
  15. Excuse me sir, have you had the opportunity to review the latest General Atomics pitch deck? We've got a next gen solution for the elimination of ideas that we can mount and deliver on target (no strays, sir) right from the MQ-9 platform.
  16. Replace Hamas with IDF and the statement is equally true.
  17. Just saying. Straight cash homey for a price named within reason.
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