laretluval

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Drum hab ich mich der Magie ergeben
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Comment · 1 year ago
While I disagree with GP’s premise, there’s no sense in which H1B visa holders are American. It’s a nonimmigrant visa. They are required to specifically disavow any intention of becoming Americans or else the visa can be revoked.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is there a news article about the spy at your kid’s school?
Comment · 2 years ago
I built an RV to increase missing person cases
Comment · 3 years ago
> but there is much precedence for rebel leaders who took on dynasties to be of millenarian, even foreign beliefs.

The modern Chinese government’s suppression of Falun Gong makes sense from this perspective.

Comment · 4 years ago
I predict they’ll love the opportunity to indulge in theatrical ethnomasochism, just like high status whites do.
Comment · 4 years ago
I also thought that, based on his books
Comment · 4 years ago
> A huge part of the problem is that digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare.

It's interesting to see that people are now arguing in favor of public shaming and peer pressure as ways to control behavior, and lamenting that these are now harder to implement at scale. A generation ago the internet was seen as a way to escape pressure for conformity.

Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the rec! This looks like something I'll be adding to the list of Substacks I check regularly.
Comment · 5 years ago
Good, fewer stoners in the next generation
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Is it bad to want state institutions to act in a way that benefits you? Isn't that "government for the people"?
Comment · 5 years ago
Congress
Comment · 5 years ago
NO
Comment · 5 years ago
"Oll korrect" is the only one the stands up to scrutiny.
Comment · 5 years ago
My conversations with military people (mostly Navy) suggest that they don't really know what they're doing with AI.

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