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this, but not /s

This is basically exactly what countries in the non-aligned movement did during the Cold War.

More power to them.

This is why Che gave Allende a gun.

I went to a bar in Ghent and the bartender told me that British students would constantly wreck themselves because they wouldn't adapt their drinking culture to Belgium's.

However, in true Belgian fashion, I think the thing that bothered him the most (even more than the vomiting) was that they'd order round after round of the same beer, which would exhaust his supply of the appropriate glassware.

that's a child

The US was considered reliable because, until Trump, both parties had identical foreign policy.

Ah but it is rules-based. The rule is that the US gets to do whatever it wants. And if other countries don't do what the US wants, then the US gets to punish them.

There absolutely is an excuse for Hamas's actions because their two options are to fight or to live forever in an open air prison.

Their actions are just as justified as MK's during Apartheid.

You're super letting the CIA off the hook here. Operation Gladio killed a generation of leftists and leftist resistance in Italy.

Ferguson

Presumably you'd get less wheel-to-wheel racing, and considering that most recent rule changes have been in pursuit of more of that, it seems unlikely they'd take a course that resulted in less.

who needs that when you can just spin up a street circuit anywhere

Went to check and sure enough: https://youtu.be/Q6InUqrk9F4?t=20

What's the shortest start/finish straight on the calendar? The only real limit to the number of teams in my mind comes purely from how much longer the cars are that at a certain point the grid has to wrap around the final turn. I don't think we're anywhere near that on any of the current tracks, though.

There were 11 teams as recently as 2014.

I was making the point in the opposite direction. American slave labor is rarely broached in media, yet my government tells me that China is not to be trusted because the west claims they're using slave labor in Xinjiang.

I'd rather have a novice who has a chance of supporting something good than an old hand using their experience to enact genocide.

Think about how often you hear about this vs how often you hear about Xinjiang.

I'm pretty well acquainted with the situation. I'd recommend this research on the subject that are mainly applicable to building transit, but I expect the same observations are generally true in other megaprojects: https://transitcosts.com/

From the executive summary:

In our New York case, we show examples of redundancy in blue-collar labor, as did others (Rosenthal 2017; Munfah and Nicholas 2020); we also found overstaffing of white-collar labor in New York and Boston (by 40-60% in Boston), due to general inefficiency as well as interagency conflict, while little of the difference (at most a quarter) comes from differences in pay.

Projects in the anglosphere are overstaffed for both design and construction, and there's little evidence to show that there are better outcomes. Costs in Sweden are 20% those of the US, and yet you'd be hard-pressed to claim that Swedish workers are undercompensated or produce shoddy work.

As for "to spec", the SF Central Subway, which opened 5 years after it was planned to and cost 3x as much as initially forecast, had delays because the contractor attempted to get away with using sub-standard steel. In order to save time and open sooner, the city kept some of the sub-standard rails in use in lower-traffic areas.