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Ken Dayenu

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3. Order of magnitude won't make a difference

Reply to Ken Dayenu (Original post)

Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:34 PM

Yesterday

Eugene,

The Yemen Civil War had 100s of thousands of death from fighting, malnutrition, and diseases. Were people following that this closely? Were they that invested?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014–present)

I've noticed your posts are pretty even handed. You post about a lot of things. My comments are not directed towards you. I commented on your post previously because you happened to have posted about two different things and one got a lot more attention than the other.

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