FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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If that were true then why agree a ceasefire at all? If hostages were disposable then it would serve his purposes better to sabotage negotiations, blame Hamas, and continue destroying Rafah.

As it stands there appears to be at least some elements in Israel that count retrieving the hostages to be more important.

It's predictive text on speed. The LLMs currently in vogue hardly qualify as A.I. tbh..

Not so impossible. Jordan already said it would consider dumping Palestinians over its border to be an act of war - a war it says it would lose but would fight anyway.

Surprised this got announced while there are still hostages to release tbh..

Make sure it's a blind test ;)

The visual difference of the minimoon and supermoon is not that great, see here but hold your phone at arms length. This is the maximum difference (taken 6 months apart) that the moon ever is relative to itself. In practice, from one night to the next or one month to the next the difference is barely noticeable.

When people say "the moon was huge tonight" what they are generally seeing is the moon illusion

The reference to seasons is badly worded, but what I was referring to is that the earths seasons have nothing to do with how close to the sun it is

no, it's not. it's a meta analysis of multiple double blind studies. multiple

“For the children described as sugar-sensitive, there were no significant differences among the three diets in any of 39 behavioral and cognitive variables. For the preschool children, only 4 of the 31 measures differed significantly among the three diets, and there was no consistent pattern in the differences that were observed.”

if you did the same with cyanide you would be able to conclude that "taking cyanide and being dead is positively correlated" even if there were other causes of death. in this wide summary of multiple double blind experiements, there is no correlation between sugar intake and child behaviour. that's not to say kids don't act up and get hyper, but it's other causes, most signficantly parents just underestimate how hard kids find it to regulate themselves when having treats of any sort (non-sugar included) or being in a party atmosphere with friends.

I listed it because it's one of the things I would sworn by too having seen it first hand. However when you conduct a double blind experiment, kids still get excited at parties / treats / days out / when their friends are over when there's no sugar in the treats.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-does-sugar-make-children-hyperactive

In otherwords as parents we massively underestimate how excited or crazy kids can get just because they're excited and not because of something in their bloodstream..

No. At least, it's not the general cause of 'middle age spread'.

The base metabolic rate refers to how your individual cells respire when at rest. And a brain cell in 20 year old respires much the same way as a brain cell in a 45 year old. Same for all other organs. There is a gradual decline but it's on the order a single percents.

Organs and tissue at rest respire at different rates, so some of the change people notice is due to change in body composition. Muscle at rest burns twice the calories as fat however this is still only a minor contribution.

Base metabolic rate doesn't vary much at all. The vast difference in daily calories consumed as one ages is general activity level.

Overall metabolic rate = base rate (varies a little on body composition) + calories burned in general activity (varies a lot)

People typically are less active between 20 and 40. This is not just sport but also lifestyle. People become more efficient in their habits as they age. They drive instead of biking or walking. They sit in the sun on holiday with nice food and wine rather than dancing all night. Etc

Lifestyle choice is the primary cause of excess calorie intake and 'middle age spread'. Not "my metabolism that I can't do anything about".

My history might be dusty but I don't think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His subsequent deception once in power is what you might refer to as the coup.

Trump on the other hand..

It is a coup if people vote for it?

• that putting the thermostat up higher will heat the house up quicker (edit: I have in mind a bog standard UK home thermostat)
• that sugary sweets make kids act "hyper"
• that the moon's apparent size is due to how close it is to earth (same for seasons and the sun)
• that your base metabolic rate slows as you age and is primarily responsible for you putting weight on in middle age

We’re not here to fuck spiders

Borrowing this one

Assuming that all non-white people are illegal immigrants is called "racism". (Stupid too, but mostly racism)

you're elsewhere claiming Israel isn't commiting a genocide and what they're doing is acceptable

I said nothing of the sort

Your inability to read properly and instead leap to wild conclusions is part of the problem

you're fine with genociding Muslims...I don't have the energy to deal with more nazis

Case in point

You said "never see them go after anything besides Islam".

That's because the cultural war against Christianity has been fought and won. I can guarantee if it was never fought in the first place you'd be in trouble right now unless you professed whatever Catholicism wanted you to (or whatever authoritarian Christianity was in place in your part of the world).

Women were executed en masse for being witches and you don't think that hasn't been fought against over and over for hundreds of years? Liberalism won.

Put on whatever blasphemous play you want to in a major Western city and people don't care (I'm not talking about that US). Christianity is no longer sending the inquisition. It used to.

And that's why I'm comparing apples with apples. It just that what conservative Islam aspires to is what Christianity was 300 years ago.

It begins with religious fascists asserting they have the right to tell you what to do. And that need to be resisted on principal.

Christians used to think they had the right to ban stories and films with gay people in. That needed resisting on principle.

Zionists think Israel should be a special case immune from criticism. That should be resisted on principle.

Conservative Islamists think you should be compelled to give special treatment to the Qur'an. That should be resisted on principal.

I feel like you either didn't read or didn't understand my original comment

Europe / UK / Australia you would have no difficulty doing this

That's because lslam's next. Europe has a thousand year history of literature challenging, parodying, mocking Christianity. Today you can put on a play suggesting Christ was a promiscuous homosexual (if that's your thing) without anyone raising an eyebrow. You think that just "happened"? A thousand years ago you'd risk execution for being sightly out of line with Catholic doctrine. Look how far we've come. And it was because we stood up to religious bullies who want to dictate how you live your life and what you enjoy and who you love. Islam's growing in the West and its essential that liberalism doesn't buckle under the insipid pleas of religious exceptionalism. It wants to control you.

I'm neither. Things could be worse in the UK, could be better. It's bad, but "ok".