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    Re: Alexander: Making of a God

    steppe ponies weren't considered ponies in the beginning, relatively.

    Are there any actual-size depictions? It's in Greek convention that a cavalryman should be able to mount his horse during...
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    Re: How Did The Romans Defeat The Greeks?

    They weren't OP units. Legionaries had to fight in relatively loose formation, in hand-to-hand combat against enemies. The combat itself is not asymmetric like hoplite warfare and thus not guaranteed...
  3. Thread: Dog excrement

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    Poll: Re: Dog excrement

    I'd settle with just the latter. But what if they come to love it?
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    I don't see why we can't just help Ukraine to meet the standard.

    We're not safe until the entire CSTO except Russia join NATO and EU or other alliances of ours.
  5. Thread: Dog excrement

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    I forgot to mention that cleaning up afterwards is NOT an acceptable option, unless you're okay with someone :wub: in your plate, removes it, and then you can continue to eat food from it.
  6. Thread: Dog excrement

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    Merry Xmas! And the snow just came in time to cover all those ugly dog :wub:


    What do you think our governments should do against such barbarity next year? Aside from banning dogs of course.
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    Re: Will the metaverse replace the real world?

    Yes of course. This belongs to Political Academy BTW.

    Live on welfare because robots take over your job? Want nice dinners? Fancy cars? Big homes with swimming pool? Golf fields? Or just soft...
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    Re: Alexander: Making of a God

    It'd be good as long as they portray everyone riding ponies not giant modern horses.

    But did they pick the right person? He should be 160 max.
  9. Re: Female Christian activist attacked at ‘Speakers Corner’ (London)...

    So he'll resume his plan at the age of 38.
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Except western governments are not helping.


    Why did we target their oligarchs, ban bank transfers and confiscate their properties? It's exactly this widespread corruption that brought Putin's...
  11. Re: Green energy and why we are too late to do it in time

    Since nobody has replied anything, I'll add my simple observation here - We never needed to mitigate climate changes, like, NEVER.


    Whenever humans grow beyond the capacity of environment and...
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    Re: Lock him up! Former PotUS Trump indicted

    except his power is weak and he's at odds with the majority of oligarchs. Russian problem aside, giving the likes of him power alone could weaken the existing oligarchs who don't even pretend to care...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    We'll teach them how to make profit from the public correctly without corruption, and with claps and awards.
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    I don't understand why we must emphasize on the morality since the beginning.

    The very fact that he dreams of a neutral buffer, as if Russia should have any power or influence to begin with, is a...
  15. Thread: The Poverty Trap

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    Re: The Poverty Trap

    The article is talking about generational poverty.

    So why not just stop having kids? If someone is poor and he doesn't have kids, his poverty ends the day he dies. Global poverty can be rooted out...
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    Re: Gaming PC with TV in living room setup?

    Put it in the dining room. I can't imagine having dinner at home without TV on.


    Back to the original issue. I'll move away exercise machines and now the arrangement is:



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  17. Historical Turk, Persian or pre-British Indian shows?

    Just need names. Obviously I can't read any of their languages and it's impossible to search.

    There is at least one show or movie about Parthians, but unfortunately some :wub: deleted its only...
  18. Re: Movies to forget for a few hours that humanity is miserable and we are on the brink of extinction aka your favorite comfort movies.

    Babylon 5 (the first)
  19. Thread: Ahsoka TV series!

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    Re: Ahsoka TV series!

    Same. Why did they feel the need to use the same name?
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    Re: Why did they crucify Jesus?

    hundreds, better than millions.

    He needed to do something worthy to be remembered of. He had none of that. Sure he helped some fisherman and some blind, but the audience was like 1 and it's quite...
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    One of them has to be completely broken. Haven't those in west bank given up the fight already? There are no Muslim countries helping this time.

    How could Hamas have any hope even if Iran joins?...
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    Re: Why did they crucify Jesus?

    And that's why he must die in the most gruesome way possible. Else how would people remember his sacrifice?

    Or imagine he lived to 100 but unable to accomplish anything since he lacked the...
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    Re: Why did they crucify Jesus?

    Can you imagine a Jesus not crucified or executed publicly in one of the brutalist ways possible?


    Let's say he's in modern US. He'd be charged with fraud. His friends would be found with drugs....
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    So you do agree it's the tradition and common culture during Muhammad's time?

    Are you against his culture?

    Are you against his followers today following his culture?

    If yes, what about...
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    Sticky: Re: Discussion and Debate Community Thread

    How do you end a war without crushing your opponent? Or perhaps you'd have asked US to negotiate peace with Hitler or Emperor Hirohito? (or vice versa, no side here)
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    1. It's everyone's natural responsibility to rule themselves. Saying a people cannot rule is borderline racist.
    2. Help them? Lebanon helped them. Jordan helped them. See what happened? Those are...
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    I thought sniper shots are supposed to kill? Is the Guardian suggesting Israeli snipers are very poor shots (1/29!) or those kids in hospital wear kevlar...?
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    Re: Sanders and 4-day workweek

    In many countries you can already choose not to work and still have a decent living. In a Swedish prison for example.

    Biden is not promoting automatization and there is no telling how much...
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    Do you realize they've been doing this since 1940s? I'm more surprised there are buildings left.
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    Re: Sanders and 4-day workweek

    The reasoning for child labor is quite different. Having children in education instead of early labors, provided the education does happen and poor families receive enough compensations, would end up...
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    Sticky: Re: Discussion and Debate Community Thread

    I see a poor animal being enslaved and forced to carry several perfectly functional humans and their stuff for them. Where is PITA on this?
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    Re: Sanders and 4-day workweek

    If it's to be applied to everyone, that also covers uber drivers, international shipping and self-employed? Wouldn't US based businesses of such kind suddenly lose to non-US competitors due to the...
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    Do you want to your country to participate if Israel just flattens Gaza? Or Hamas blows up entire Israel?

    In fact, if we didn't stand in their way, the war could have been over long ago, with one...
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    Re: department of economic warfare or defense?

    The ban is late, very late. It's a patch for something that could have been prevented in the first place. Also outsourcing it to a geopolitically volatile country was not smart.

    It's actually a...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    It's not adventurism, not to him or his supporters. And he's hardly the only one who holds that view that Russia should expand to former USSR status.

    What it really means is that we were bloody...
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    federal money bails out essential service like banks. Twitter is just an attention grabbing tool like text version of instagram.

    Also he just trashed the company and turned it like SpaceX without...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Since Putin's serfdom has now been declared a terrorist state, can we arrest all pro-Kremlin protestors and members of pro-Kremlin parties such as LRU as terrorists?

    Also the soldiers. After all,...
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    department of economic warfare or defense?

    Given the very poor performance of some recent events and also because it's now preferred to open warfare, do you think it'd make sense to create departments for economic warfare or economic defense,...
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    Re: Why protest against tyranny?

    tyranny is about unpopular government.

    If discriminations against a religion is a popular policy and a public decision, there is nothing inherently bad about it.

    Similarly, many witches were...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Of course they don't.

    But Putin and his dogs have zero consideration for Russian lives, let alone any Ukrainian lives or anyone else. They'd absolutely use MAD on Ukraine if we don't intend to use...
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