Also good job by the Australians making this happen. (View Post)

IIUC it was a name for Communists who defended the Soviet Union sending in tanks to suppress the Prague Spring. (View Post)

Yes, I think ctrl-z, or maybe ctrl-z-minus-the-rebate, is kind of an easier schelling point for everyone to agree on than anything else. It's not at all obvious to me that the rest of the Eurozone wa… (View Post)

If nobody knows what you mean by the word and you'd need an entire essay or worse a George Monbiot podcast to say what you mean by the word, use a different word. (View Post)

An armistice that stopped the fighting for decades was easier in Korea because: 1. Both sides had ended up pretty much where they started, neither was occupying substantial territory that had previou… (View Post)