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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” has been a popular quote in the US for a long time.

More likely they chose Vance because he is one the few people at the top of the administration who doesn’t have very close ties with Israel.

An organization aligning itself with progressives means they will only support a certain set of digital rights that align with progressive politics and not others.

I guess you can still call yourself a digital rights organization if you want by you won’t be seen as legitimate by both sides of the aisle.

Untested is always relative. And the second, but what’s your point?

Thank you being a rare sensible voice on this topic. The fanboyism of chess fans is insane these days. I get that the average age of chess fans these days is very low, probably 14 or so, but it’s still pretty annoying.

I don’t. Everyone ends up affected by the whims of a celebrity in this case.

What in the world?? Iraq was a million civilians killed by the US. Gaza was 100,000 civilians killed by Israel in the last 3 years. And that’s not including all of the other atrocities committed by the two countries.

And there is no proof of the 10s of thousands of protesters killed claiming. That was just propaganda to enable this recent war.

Countries can claim this and that about defense and brutal attacks, and depending on who you are you believe the propaganda or not, but in the end what matters is the destruction and killing they do. Which US and Israel and done more of by a long shot.

Lots of people are taking the side of the US, which has attacked civilian infrastructure and killed civilians in Iran and threatened to completely destroy Iran. And you have lots of people taking the side of Israel, which is has been conduction a genocide openly. All the sides have blood in their hands but I would argue the IRGC has the least blood in their hands.

Interesting. I have noticed that news about events in Iran has been markedly different within the US and outside the US for years.

I mean, from a position of critiquing non-contrarians you shouldn’t in general. But me specifically, everyone should believe me lol.

Well I have a PhD and have published lots of papers, so I like to think I am educated lol.

I was referring to the MRNA vaccines, which were relatively untested when released to the public. Suspicion of that is very reasonable.

Come on, just admit that you are not able to follow the debate instead of criticizing it from the outside without understanding it.

As opposed to this, you have the mindless non-contrarians who unquestioningly believe any assertion by academia or authority, which is a problem too.

But you confuse that set of people with people who don’t know want to inject untested vaccines into their body.

It’s a reasonable metric but it should be evaluated based on what’s happening on the ground. For example, if Russia is advancing and Ukraine is retreating, and KIA is same in each side, then Russia would pick up many more bodies to exchange than Ukraine.

Lol not saying everyone here but most people here. Plus there's the whole ycombinator thing too.

And mainly in the name of these holy books too lol. The forgetfulness of people when they see news like this is always funny to me.

Back when North and South Korea were Korea, the US killed more than 10% of the civilian population and razed every building of what is now North Korea.

Panama Canal and Suez Canal require tolls, granted not exactly the same thing.

This is an english speaking tech forum, so it’s safe to assume most people here live in a country that has nukes like the US, UK, India, probably decent number of people who came from China and Russia too.

Are we really going to pretend like jewish white and non-jewish white doesn't make sense in a context where white is considered a race? I don't really see the sense in this pretense.

This doesn’t make sense in light of the fact that we do distinguish between Hispanic and non-Hispanic in addition to white, black, etc.

> We want to have a strong Iran, but with a friendly and peaceful leadership.

It’s incredibly naive to believe this kind of obvious propaganda.

> we would end up with something much worse.

Whenever I see this, I recognize it as obvious scaremongering.

There should be standard procedures for this. Something like, you go through the emails for compromising materials, so you would know vectors of attack beforehand, and train the person to not fall for them.

A sitting FBI director testifying under oath about details that are clearly false is tradition at this point.

…The whole point of women’s only competition is to see women compete in top level games and tournaments in some league.

The ratio of men to women who are at 1500 Elo in chess is like worse than 90:1, so no, you host an intermediate level tournament and it will be almost all men. Well, mostly boys but that’s current chess for you.

But it’s not just that. If there are no top women in any kind of leagues in chess, that will only further discourage women from participating competitively in chess in the first place.

Note that most competitive women chess players play in women’s only tournaments even though they can easily join open men’s tournaments as well. For various reasons, one being that these women’s only tournaments are where they have the best chance of winning or being in the top k for prizes.

So women would not be in something like top 2000 of tennis players or worse. Which would basically remove any incentive for women to participate in pro tennis at all.