HumbleFlamingo @ HumbleFlamingo @beehaw.org

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why a weapon was loaded with live ammo

Why is there live ammo anywhere near set.

I honestly don’t know why

He did some skits on SNL as trump and trump got really butt-hurt about it.

I too thought it was about burning the poo poo....

These aren't comparable.

Trump wanted to attack a sovereign nation, unprovoked. That would start a war.

Biden is attacking Houthi Rebel In Yemen. They are not a sovereign nation and have been literally attacking us and others in the region. This will not start a war.

Vasectomy like 10 years ago. Kids are expensive.

An Advice of Counsel defense is basically saying "I'm not responsible for my actions because my lawyer said it was legal for me to do." If that's the case, Attorney Client Privilege is waved and all communication between trump and his lawyers (that said "it was OK", not the current lawyers) should be provided as evidence. Basically provide the evidence to support the AoC defense.

It's basic discovery. trump is stalling for time, and cannon is helping. If trump goes with the AoC defense, day one of the trial is going to be him claiming AoC and the prosecutors asking for the relevant evidence to review which will stall the case because they'll 'need at least a month to get all the records together' and then the prosecutors will need to review them, and I'm certain it will be the most unorganized mess handed off. Like shitty scans of faxes of the emails all off center and slightly rotated..... So OCR will be a nightmare.

Portal64 required you to have access to one file from portal 1, portal_pak_000.vpk. It's trivial to get that file. Either via google, or purchasing Portal, extracting the file, then getting a refund.

Revolution requires a continuously working copy of Portal 2.

It's significantly easier for the general population to play Portal64 without giving money to Valve than Revolution.

I think it's just a bunch of people reading through all of the laws and looking for any way it can be forgiven without congress, and without the SCOTUS.

On Thursday, Abbott was subject to widespread criticism when asked where the line was for him in terms of border enforcement mechanisms he suggested the only reason Texas is not shooting migrants crossing the border “is because of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”

uhhh what?

They're doing it in small chunks to make it harder for the Republican's to block it. I think the total is above $120 billion forgiven at this point out of the $400 billion target. Couple hundred million here, few billion there. They've been doing a lot better than most people understand at getting it done as best they can.

The intent is the most difficult element to determine. To constitute genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. It is this special intent, or dolus specialis, that makes the crime of genocide so unique. In addition, case law has associated intent with the existence of a State or organizational plan or policy, even if the definition of genocide in international law does not include that element.

Importantly, the victims of genocide are deliberately targeted - not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention (which excludes political groups, for example). This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals. Genocide can also be committed against only a part of the group, as long as that part is identifiable (including within a geographically limited area) and “substantial.”

--https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Colloquially, it's genocide, but legally it does not appear to be. And that's a problem if you're trying to charge Israel with genocide in a court of law. Inevitably it's going to be found to not be genocide and that's one more thing Israel can point to. Crimes against humanity would probably been a better route.

It's going to be hard, if not impossible to show in court that Israel, as a policy, is deliberately targeting Palestinians. Showing Isael's actions is resulting in shit tons of civilian casualties seems pretty easy. Maybe there's super secret documents that show it's a deliberate act, but I highly doubt they'd be that dumb if genocide is their intention.

and that is demonstrably false or they wouldn’t have let Portal Revolution release. if they were going to be litigious about the Portal IP, why would they DMCA Portal64 but not Revolution?

Revolution is a mod for Portal 2 and requires the purchase of Portal 2 to play. Anyone who wants to play it has already given money to valve, or needs to. Revolution Is great for Valve, they do basically nothing and get they more sales of Portal 2. Portal64 does nothing for Valve.

There is a very clear incentive for Valve to not only allow but boost Revolution.

While Valve permits Revolution, a game that benefits the company, it does not imply they would also permit Portal64, a game that lacks benefits for Valve.

The issue with Valheim is it's not really a dedicated server. It's more of a shared saved game repository.

Whoever gets to a region first is the host, and everyone nearby connects to them. If that person has a slow machine, or high latency to the other players it can be really painful. When I was playing with friends, we banned one person from entering dungeons first because they had the worst computer in the group and it was really bad for the rest of us. Same thing with our main base, if they wound up the host, they'd disconnect and log back in so someone else would become host.

If you like survival games… Ark, 7 days to die, Conan Exiles, Valheim*… You can self-host all of them so you don’t need to deal with griefers.

Valheim’s doesn’t work so well if you don’t all play together. Resources from exploration are finite and it really sucks if all the places you go, your buddies went to and looted already. Works best if most people play together and everyone plays around the same amount of time.

I'm not sure. If we were too, I think we should have at least $10k saved up. But even then I'm not sure if we really should be. I wonder if it will reduce the number of donations. I'm not sure if everyone donating would be OK with their donations being redirected somewhere else, especially if the charity is seen as controversial by the donor.

I think a possible work around would be to donate to the maintainers of the software we use. That shouldn't be controversial. (but someone will probably find a way to be offended by that...)

If we do, well defined rules are a must. Like how we determine how much to donate every month, and to who.

Side note: The money is invested and earning interest, right? It's not hard to get 5% right now and that's a few hundred bucks a year.

I reported you to the mod. It seemed to be the kind of thing I was escaping Reddit from. Am glad to hear you were not being an asshole. Certainly your reasonable tone later had me confused so I am glad I mentioned it.

No worries, I guess it's not as common as I think. I did talk with one of the other mods this morning and they understood what I was aiming for and didn't think it should have been removed.

I think we agree the right wing is getting the upper hand and out of hand despite public sympathy for Palestinian civilians.

We do.

Some of them probably are hypocritically subscribing to the “Elders of Zion” hoax while jumping on anything remotely anti-semitic from the Left.

Boggles my mind.

I do worry about a rise of anti-Semitism whether from the Left or the Right.

Me too. Any kinda of 'out-grouping or othering' for that matter.

Even a “wife beater” can appreciate your points. However, if you will allow me to nitpick…

I hope you know I wasn't actually accusing you of being a wife beater. I thought it was the quintessential example of a loaded question and everyone knew of it... and would spark discussion about loaded questions. And how no matter what the response is, there's an inflammatory headline that can be drawn from it that will squeak by a court of law. Apparently 1 mod didn't know the reference.

The statement was: “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence”.

I know, but it's still not supporting genocide, or the violence in general.

And those kind of public statements were a gift for Likud who love escalation and now are making statements of their own (even less ambiguous) in favour of genocide.

Absolutely, they're taking what was said out of context and turning it into propaganda.

The Western left wing got played by Hamas and Likud are now making the most of it.

Yup. Some of the blame rests with the American right wing too. Instead of trying to diffuse the situation, they poured fuel on the fire. They're looking for any way to damage the left and don't care about the cost. Instead of calling the statement insensitive victim blaming, and trying to calm things down, they lied to boost themselves and hurt others. This would not be propaganda for Hamas or Likud without the American right wing's assistance.

Calling for genocide vs supporting genocide...

They did neither. Saying the conduct of Israel over the past few decades resulted in the attack is a gross over simplification of the situation, but it is not supporting the attack. Just like saying the 'house burned down because the owner left oily rags next to the furnace' is not celebrating the house burning down. It's a statement on what they believe led up to the house burning down, correct, or incorrect.

It is however a nuanced difference Gay should have articulated in Congress. Maybe she did. Is there full video footage? I only found the snippet.

I haven't seen the full video either. It may exist, but I'm pretty sure it was not released (google is crap these days, it's only giving me stuff about her recent resignation). This was a right wing hit job. Releasing snippets, rather than the entire thing is by design. Even if she did have a a good response, it won't be released in time. All we get is the gotcha loaded questions of her looking sympathetic to genocide.

Having now seen Gay’s belated but reasonable response printed by BBC I don’t think she should have been fired over the Gaza issue.

And that's the point of the gotcha loaded questions. They get released, the public gets angry, before the situation can be properly explained. I think it's very likely that a democrat questioned her too and she was able to give a good response, but since the republicans are in control of the house that didn't make it out. This may be the cause of the belated response, thinking the entire thing would come out. Harvard probably got a TON of donors calling saying they would withdraw support if she didn't leave. And she did what most goodhearted people would do, resign to minimize the damage to the college that she cares about.

lol, what?

So we've gone from the students were literally screaming for genocide, to OK so they were expressing how they think Israel brought this on themselves, which is like basically calling for genocide. That's moving the goal post 3 towns over.

Disagree with their statement all you like, the students were not calling for violence, let alone genocide. The school should not take action against them. Future employers is probably going to be a different thing though.

Do you at least see that “Is calling for the genocide of Jews harassment and against university policy?” a loaded question now? Because the premise is 100% false.

Spoiler, the students were NOT calling for genocide:

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The chant uttered during recent demonstrations is being misrepresented. Protestors aren’t saying “We want Jewish genocide,” but “Israel, we charge you with genocide.” Experts and advocates say it’s a typical refrain heard at pro-Palestinian rallies. --https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-israel-hamas-ucla-penn-genocide-057006125279

It's false on it's face, and just misinformation.

The questions asked of Claudine Gay were deliberately loaded questions. Any answer to “Is calling for the genocide of Jews harassment and against university policy?” can, and will, be picked apart into out-of-context soundbites for right wing media to blast out.

Saying that it's against university policy will be twisted into a free speech issue.

Saying students are free to protest gets twisted into being pro genocide.

Any reasonable nuanced statement that correctly captures the complexity of the situation gets interrupted by republican in congress and spliced into tiny damming sounding soundbites played nonstop on right wing media.

People need to stop falling for this BS.

Here's the thing, she should resign, not for this, but for the plagiarism.... And I fully believe that the plagiarism was known first and that is why she was targeted because of it. If there was no plagiarism, in a few weeks this would die down, she could explain how nuanced the answer is, a balance between freedom of speech/expression, and students on campus feeling safe, etc.

But with the plagiarism issue, even people like me who see this as an obvious farce have to agree she needs to go. So even though the first part is loaded question BS, she gets ousted and right wing media get to claim her head as some liberal boogie man they took down. Not the real issue she needs to step down, the plagiarism.