That's why we don't eat off floors, but from raised surfaces like... a table.
I find it so interesting people are so horrified by the thoughts of shoes indoors. I can see the benefits of having a no shoe policy, but this opinion that people must be pigs if they wear shoes inside is crazy.
In my country (The Netherlands) it's fairly common for people to have shoes indoors. Muddy shoes will always be left at the door, obviously. And if I worked in, lets say, the garden, I obviously don't go around the house messing up the floor. But being afraid of the germs under your shoes to hit the floor? Are people that careful with their bags too? With their pants? Or.. hell.. with their phones?
There's nuance to having shoes inside which does, in fact, not make us the monsters we are told to be by this thread.
I looked up pride and one of the definitions was:
*Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association. *
For example: parental pride. Many parents are proud of their children regardless of the achievements or personal decisions. Pride can, I believe, sometimes be tied to a love for something/someone.
So being proud to come from some place is to me, saying: I love that I came from this place or "I'm thankful that I was born here"
This is coming from someone that doesn't really care much for his birth city nor country.
Thanks, just commented on a different post where I said 600 years too. It was an arbitrary number from me, probably misremembering a fact I heard on a podcast about this conflict. The guest on the podcast said something along the lines of "this conflict comes from way before ww2" but I might have misremebered the context or actual years.
Hmm, I see your point. I remember seeing some terrible comments from Israeli politicians about the nature of Palestinians . But in the past, there have been many attempts by the governments to reconcile Israel and Palestine. They have failed (I believe partly?) because after every agreement, it seemed some terrorist would explode something somewhere to fuel the conflict. So I have a hard time believing it's always been part of the Israeli plan. I'm not entirely convinced it isn't partly self-defence, turned into a (terrible) revenge-raid.
But I'll be the first to admit I'm very much a layperson when it comes to the whole of this conflict. And that is, to me, the most important thing in this whole affair. I believe we as westerners really have no clue of the actual day to day mess that was, and is, Gaza. We jump to conclusions without actually really understanding the full breadth of the situation. Seeing comments on this conflict on average feels like one big Dunning Kruger mess. I guess that's what sort of sparked my original comment, a mess of "not devalue words" and "let's not pretend we understand this conflict". I'm not always great at getting points across I guess.
The 600 years wasn't a specific amount. I just remember hearing in a podcast that the history of the Isralian conflict comes from way before second world war. Might have misremembered the specifics of that fact, or put the wrong facts into my brain.
Thank you for taking the time to respond in a reasonable manner. It helps me organize my thoughts on this horrible conflict, and gain some new insights.
I'm gonna play devils advocate here... it's easy to say "don't hate these people in that other country" when these two countries have decades, if not hundreds of years of violence, hatred and conflict between them. You cannot look at what's happening while ignoring the past 600+ years.
In ww2, there was no actual reason to hate jews.
In this situation, the two parties have had actual conflict with actual victims for hundreds of years.
It only takes the wrong people in power at the right time to have this timebomb explodes like it did.
Is it right? Hell No. But the morales at play here are grounded in a vastly different way than with the nazis.
Fair. I guess I saw something in the original post that wasn't there. I see and hear a lot of the "they should know better" argument when that's not an argument at all, and unfair to anyone on the receiving end of that argument. I might have concluded that too soon.
I believe we should be very careful to stick the label nazism to everything we find abhorrent. I'd like to judge situations on their own merit, not compare them to other atrocities in our history. The socio-political situation in Gaza is so different than 1930's Germany. Even experts are having a hard time really putting the finger on all the mess that has been Israel-Palestine situations for the past 600 years. Calling everything Nazism has a sideeffect of devaluing and maybe even downplaying said words in the long run.
But maybe I'm just rambling on semantics. I think we all agree that what is going on now in Gaza is a mess and a violation of human rights. And something needs to be done about that.
So, hot take here: preface this with saying I absolutely condemn the surveillance by Israel here.
But I think it's wrong to judge a nation by what they've gone through themselves, with an attitude of " they should know better". Just because the Holocaust happened, doesn't mean that Israel has better morales or values, or that they would never do such things themselves. Humans are humans. With the wrong people in power, horrible things happen.
It's perfectly reasonable and necessary to argue that Israel is currently violating human right laws. We should keep doing that.
It is not reasonable to keep pointing at the holocaust and nazi germany as a stick of " look, you became the thing you suffered under", unless in a context of learning from history. "You should know better" creates unreasonable expectations where some nations ought to have higher morales somehow.
They said in the post that they want to make premium features free for education.
Also, license you bought will stay indefinitely. You can use the program you currently have. Maybe some new features won't be available, but as a non-frequent user that should be fine :).
Like others have said: If you have a decent GPU in your PC, automatic1111 with stable diffusion is absolutely worth a try. For windows, it's not that hard to install. Just follow the guide on github step by step.
With my old nvidia gtx 970, it took about 45 seconds to render an image. Anything newer will only grant you faster generation.
Do note that if you have an AMD gpu, it's a pain on windows currently. My current 6700XT is about as fast as my old 970 on windows.
On Linux, AMD works great (6 seconds for an image for me right now), but that requires some tinkering.