The European "monarchies" (including the British) are national mascots, or if you insist on a more dignified term, high priest of the corresponding civic religion.
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The European "monarchies" (including the British) are national mascots, or if you insist on a more dignified term, high priest of the corresponding civic religion.
4/So what is going on? @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue the confusion is people using old models of global politics. This is not balancing or spheres of influence. It is international politics based on elite cliques rather than national interest i.e. neo-royalism.
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Thucydides Gambit, since this is present in the argument of the Athenian envoy.
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"it is allowed by the rules of physics for me to draw cards from my shirtsleeve"
What aspects are missing/insufficient for that?
One (dunno about the "popular" part) who did:
www.construction-physics.com/p/how-china-...
On the hypothetical bright side, if the timeline on increasing Venezuelan oil production were short (it isn't), it would make sense to step up the sanction on Russian oil from "price cap" to "no".
Regarding movies: cost growth!
-> General risk aversion (and higher-managerial meddling) due to increased financial stake.
-> Increased managerial meddling just because there are fewer projects running.
-> Must target a composite audience to pencil out.
Agree 2).
Agree unparenthesized 1).
However, while an absence of copyright may be laissez-faire, it doesn't play well with high-budget works. You want *something*. Preferably something that follows settings/characters/etc. across multi-book worlds better than current copyright.
That's only a part of it. Another part of it is that the Eastern Bloc *made an effort* to forbid Western cultural works. By reactance, the "the mainstream is uncool" crowd increased their demand for Western works.
Cultural works also got a lift from Western physical consumer goods being better.
Not unlikely answer:
"Oh I do *love* my neighbor. I care very much that their immortal soul not be consigned to Hell. That's why I try to ensure they won't commit a mortal sin such as abortion. But given how hard they try to oppose that, you'll forgive me for not *trusting* them!"
What are the types of cancer that receive the most donations by a pretty wide margin? AFAIK prostate, breast, and cervical cancers (in some order). These are neither the most common nor the most deadly types, even if only looking at the respective halves of the population they affect.
Why on Earth would they have so much idle metal equipment when only 10-25% was called up at any one time? It must have been very tempting to go "lean", and accept that the surge deployment in a crisis would be medium infantry.
Pliny said "latifundia perdidere italiam". I guess early modern historians (including contemporary pop history) suffered an illusory-concordance-cascade?
"Was looking for a good touchstone for how unthinkable the collapse of the USSR was before it happened.
Decided on a s1 TNG episode aired in 1987 featuring a federation starship proudly telling the view it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR in 2363."
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social had this example:
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Almost certainly they mean "the latest time we will accept your load (and still put it on this train)" and "the earliest time for which we are willing to make a promise that your load will be ready for pickup; it might not be, but that counts as us being delayed, rather than as you being too early".
There is also an interesting effect where if you have long had one, many people will continue to be opposed to building a "new [thing] in [country/state]" but will be fine with building a "new [thing] in [city where the existing one is]".
Wait, aren't election results better predicted by "my neighbors will vote" rather than by "I will vote"? For the latter, social desirability bias interferes.
Didn't that (indirectly) contribute to this debacle? These guys threw so much invective at "socialism" that in the US, the people who in the EU would be labeled as "socialdemocrat" pulled the blanket saying "liberalism" until it failed to cover some actual liberals, who were left as "neoliberal".
Political compass time!
- It's fake; rule of the strong!
- It's fake; a sham covering for Americapitalimperialist [breath] interests.
- It is a consensual fiction that has been agreed to in the aftermath of a bloodbath, because for all its flaws it is less bad than a bloodbath. Like 1648 -> relig.
In theory, this could be extended in a more political direction.
"Hey everyone, there's this cruft of regulations, each of little use and mostly kept to benefit some narrow interest, let's treat them *as a package* and replace the whole as such. On net, almost everyone will be better off."
Or -- looking through a different lens -- natural disasters create *common knowledge* (technical term) which creates an overwhelming political majority on one side of the issue and makes it obvious to any still opposed that it's not worth fighting, thus the issue passes quickly, resistance or no.
Most people who say that have at best read the New Testament in a vacuum (more probably, remember a few parts that had been lectured at them) and completely lack background knowledge to tie almost anything to. As in, they can find the Levant and Egypt on a map, but that's about it.
Someone had written an entertaining reaction to this kind of story (or in their case, the cover image): angrystaffofficer.com/2018/12/23/a...
Mathematical discussion:
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WOOD
JOHN
HANTS
correctly delivered to:
John Underwood
Andover, Hampshire
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The Tooks and Brandybucks are the exact top two families of the Shire. The Bagginses are extended-family relatives to them, and even if they weren't, they would still be top-1% because they are leisured landowners while dozens of families (such as the Gamgees) work their land.
Thorin et al, 2942 Third Age
A very large, muscular researcher: “I just got out of jail. I need an old photo of this house. The cops said I robbed it, but they framed me! —I mean, I did rob it, but they used a photo of the wrong house at my trial.”