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I don't actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.

I just want to mention that there's a series of difficulties:

• practically, a good 20% - 30% are still backing trump, especially among "republicans for life". It would be easy to topple a government if 99% of the population despised it, but if 20% back it, it's difficult because it can retract and re-collect strength.
• normally, conflicts are decided by who can stay solvent longer, i.e. who has more money. normally, that would be blue states, but if trump can just print money through the federal reserve, then that kinda makes that point more questionable. blue states kinda would have to start using their own currency, or some foreign currency like the canadian dollar or the mexican pesos, to be fiscally independent from washington. that's a logistic challenge to pull off so quickly. but it can be done.
• then there's a shitload of cultural issues. the vietnam kicked the american's butt because they were fierce and willing to die for their cause, because they were willing to die for their community. america doesn't have communities like that, america is very atomistic, i.e. everybody fights for themselves. establishing a good sense of community is a whole lot of work and takes a long time. i don't see it happening overnight.

The civil war that follows isn't even the difficult part.

The difficult part is coming up with a vision for the time after the civil war. And that's gonna be difficult. If americans couldn't agree on a policy before 2025, why would they be able to come up with one after that?

"today we declare independence from the USA" was a particularly nice headline from the guardian

aww you're cute when you're trying to sound angry :) i know you're a nice person all the way down :-)

me neither :) but i've seen lots of people do :/

i think what you call "dumb" is what i call "angry". people today are hella angry, yeah. which i guess is a particular thing of modern times and used to be different in the medieval ages, say. anger is not the normal state of humans in general. people nowadays are angry about a lot of things because of stimulus overload, IMHO.

it's not a myth though. people in the medieval ages weren't working around the clock. When the cow is milked and the eggs are collected, people largely didn't have much to do outside of harvest season, where it actually was working around the clock.

it has nothing to do with being dumb. people can be extremely dumb and still be friendly. this is just behavior that's looking for a fight.

it is only braindead to call things wrong without any kind of argument or reason behind it

It is waay too accurate.

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Short notice that kyivindependent.com is certainly not neutral on this.

you cannot choose whether you are oppressed. you can only choose by whom. and if you don't make that choice, then somebody else makes it for you

yeah at a certain point it becomes a trade-off between "no geopolitical dependence on uranium" and "no geopolitical dependence on something that is currently produced in china, but could be produced anywhere if we tried hard enough"

it's a trade-off. the average generation curve depends on the inclination; each has its pros and cons

power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!

100%

I don't think everybody who makes a bad claim is a troll. A lot of people just are that stupid.

regular definition of basis is not much of use in infinite dimension anyways as far as I recall.

yeah, that's exactly why we have an alternative definition for that :D

Wonder if differentiability is required for what you said since polynomials on compact domains (probably required for uniform convergence or sth) would also work for cont functions I think.

Differentiability is not required; what is required is a topology, i.e. a definition of convergence to make sure the infinite series are well-defined.