Yeah, but both of those are geographically larger and have significant numbers of US troops stationed there, so the US can use them as bases for operations.rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:19 pm
The US used Japan and South Korea as forward bases to exert influence on the Far East too: https://youtu.be/12ddOpt7Hio
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- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
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Re: Settler colonialism in action
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
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Re: Random Thread
I'm obviously not a doctor, but if you don't want to take a pill then you could look into eating foods high in natural vitamin D, like whole milk, some mushrooms, leafy greens, certain kinds of fish, etc. The main reason doctors suggest pills for this is it's easier than changing your entire diet, ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
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- Views: 5515
Re: Settler colonialism in action
I do believe the leadership of rich Western countries -- the US, of course, but also others -- sometimes/often thinks of Israel as a 'middleman country', a useful foothold in a resource-rich troubled region. Both many of Israel's supporters and many of Israel's opponents like to talk about how impo...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
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Re: Random Thread
Thank you!
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
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- Views: 450000
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OK, everyone, I need a second opinion: I had a general health checkup at my GP's office on Monday, and the result was apparently that I'm mostly in fine health, but seriously lack Vitamin D, presumably because I don't get out enough. So now my GP wants me to take Vitamin D supplements. Is that legit...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:02 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
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Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
My last working day of my contact where I work now is tomorrow. I do enjoy working there, with mostly fun coworkers and lots of fun (and liquid crystally) Science happening... but, at the same time, I have my next adventure lined up starting from June/July which I'm very excited for. Bittersweet. G...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Thus Spake Zarathustra
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- Views: 758
Re: Thus Spake Zarathustra
I find it a bit surprising to see Nietzsche defended by someone who basically sees anyone who shares any minor opinion with Heidegger as a nazi.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:58 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 182
- Views: 5515
Re: Settler colonialism in action
(Mostly staying out of this for now, but this caught my attention) As for Le Pen and Meloni... I do believe there's a certain continuity. Most noticeably in seeing Arabs and Muslims as some sort of barbarian enemy. Though of course, there is also a strong anti-semitic element in the far-right too. I...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
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Does anyone here know anyone affected by that bridge collapse?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
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Re: Seeing past your cultural worldview
A couple of specific examples: As part of a recent post about ancient floor mosaics , she discusses how ancient people viewed art and artists (i.e. primarily as a form of manual labor that served a purpose, rather than a form of individual expression.) I kind of have the impression that in that reg...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 182
- Views: 5515
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almeomusica
- Replies: 142
- Views: 11640522
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Maybe pruning?
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- Views: 12008
Re: Maybe pruning?
As I write this, the forum claims that there are more than six million views for my Could this work as a collaborative project?-thread in Ephemera. That thread is less than a month old, and has 30 replies. What on Earth is going on there?
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
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- Views: 136696
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
It seems to have caused quite a stir among scholars of classical antiquity.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
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Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
For his achievement, the student, 21-year-old Luke Farritor, has won $40,000. But he should probably share the prize with AI as it helped him to identify a single word on the scroll: Should people who do scholarship by analysing photographs share any prizes they win for it with the concept of photo...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
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Re: Venting thread
I feel like I don't find much joy in doing anything anymore. I mostly only engage in my hobbies as a means to relieve my misery. But even now I have too low motivation to engage in my hobbies anymore rather than lay in bed all day sleeping or watching videos. I hope this somehow gets better. Depres...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4375
Re: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
This makes me wonder, has anyone here read Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age (I haven't), and if you have, what do you think of it?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
work -> things where your exert yourself -> pre-modern travel?
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A Uyseʔ beetle?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 264
Re: A Uyseʔ beetle?
The fact that "ʔ" looks a bit like a question mark makes this thread's title look interesting to me.