Milk_Sheikh @ Milk_Sheikh @lemm.ee

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Collective trauma is real. The Jewish people, and the world, should never forget the Holocaust. But when “never again” gets twisted into “never again, for us” it changes the attitude entirely:

I will tell you something about the Holocaust. It would be nice to believe that people who have undergone suffering have been purified by suffering.

But it’s the opposite, it makes them worse. It corrupts. There is something in suffering that creates a kind of egoism. And when such monstrous things have happened to your people, you feel nothing can be compared to it. You get a moral “power of attorney”, a permit to do anything you want – because nothing can compare to what has happened to us. This is a moral immunity which is very clearly felt in Israel.

Uri Avery, speaking after the IDF’s massacre at Sabra and Shatila

Uri was a Zionist poster child - his immediate family fled to (then mandatory Palestine) after the Nazis took power; every other relative who stayed in Germany was murdered in the Holocaust. His life story is incredible to read, and it’s a bitter truth to accept that he was marginalized and ignored by wider Israeli society because of his peace activism later in life.

Bruh it’s happened so much there’s an Israeli High Court case that specifically forbids the practice. Hasn’t prevented the practice, there are multiple documented instances, from different conflicts, that the Jewish group B’Tslem has a white paper on just the subject of IDF using human shields:

…soldiers have ordered Palestinians to:

-enter buildings to check if they are booby-trapped, or to remove the occupants

-remove suspicious objects from roads used by the army

-stand inside houses where soldiers have set up military positions, so that Palestinians will not fire at the soldiers

-walk in front of soldiers to shield them from gunfire, while the soldiers hold a gun behind their backs and sometimes fire over their shoulders.

The soldiers in the field did not initiate this practice; rather, the use of human shields is an integral part of the orders they receive.

Marco Rubio suicide watch has been sooo cathartic during this administration. The Zelenskyy blowup especially - after decades of waiting and maneuvering, deal brokering and sycophancy, he finally has the job where he can ‘outshine’ Kissinger… and the wave he’s riding is with these idiotic blowhards.

Came to the comments just for this, was not disappointed

True that I’m not likely to get drafted into a trench position - I have sectarian violence/civil war looming instead.

But I’m deadass serious when I say that Europe can beat Russia. Even without US support and their nuclear arsenal on speed dial. Unlike Ukraine, Europe has a bunch of next tier stuff like F35 or domestic built Taurus/Storm Shadow that Ukraine didn’t have/was restricted using that shaped the battle into an attritional land war we know today.

• Lowbrow racism
• Obtuse ‘punchline’ that almost requires explanation

Where’s the laugh to be had aside from “haha Chinese have squinty eye”? Get better material, this is hack open-mic trash.

Be better, do better y’all.

Commit to renewables. I’d advocate for a nuclear powered off-ramp from fossils whilst renewable capacity and infrastructure is built, but I get that each nation has its own history with fission.

Energy security is fundamental for a robust society and economy - otherwise you’re subject to pipeline shutoffs/attacks, oil embargoes/quotas, or another angle for outside nations to influence or control you. For example, if you’re chill with the French and build your economic strategy around buying their surplus energy, that strategy predicated on the French having a surplus to sell you.

That’s American, Jewish voters surveyed last fall. 68% support land swaps, an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, Palestinian return from the diaspora, and financial/population restitution.

A lot of regular people get swept up into the default of supporting the concept of Israel and protecting the lives of the 6-7 million Jews living there, but the topic has so many land mines and risks of misunderstanding that people don’t delve into the topic openly. But if you look for it, there’s a lot of silence from folks who are uneasy about the direction Israel is headed.

Reading the ad’s comments gave me immeasurable hope for the future tho - ain’t nobody except the most lost in the sauce reactionaries/zionists are buying the Likud/Khanist narratives being pushed.

If you’re a (western) European leader returning to Russian energy is at best shortsighted amnesia, at worst blatant malfeasance. There’s several reasons to not go back to Russia:

• Official legal based sanctions on Russian energy
• Ukrainian drone based ‘sanctions’ on Russian energy
• Russia’s track record of energy blackmail/hybrid warfare
• LNG and oil production available in your EEZ/the EU, albeit at higher cost than imported
• Domestic solar, hydro, and wind manufacturing/generation is ramping up
• French nuclear energy exports
• Domestic politics ie. voters turning against Russian imperial aggression/expansionism

Eastern Europe has a slightly different incentive mix, but there’s still a lot of reasons to not

Absolutely. My best learning experiences in life - both collaborative like mentoring/educational setting, or competitive like sports - have been when I was massively outclassed. Because if you put aside your lizard-brain feelings of being less than or inferior and listen/observe, you can see how it’s working for them and understand what it is you are/aren’t doing or do/don’t know.

Observe. Ask. Understand. Decide… and Review.

But humility is understated. It doesn’t sell on TV, it doesn’t captivate a crowd or rally the masses. “I don’t have the answer, but let’s find out” is honest but doesn’t have the same pull as “the problem is clear, and I know the solution”

And all he had to do was shut up, and take credit for the federal apparatchik doing all the work for him with COVID. Blather at a press conference to his followers to stay home and ‘beat the China virus so America stays strong’ - and then play golf. Push on industry and suppliers to build ventilators, hospital capacity, and facilitate lockdowns and remote school/work.

Imagine if instead of nearly a million direct deaths, we had a mortality similar to Europe - better even as we bought our way to the front of the vaccine line. An actual ‘America first’ in recovery from COVID and the economic slowdown, instead of fumbling the ball so hard in his fourth year and making Biden president.

How anyone thought that he would be the right choice to manage any crisis, let alone economic woes is dumbfounding. The ‘smartest person’ in every room he enters, he’s incapable of anyone else to having the right answer.

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

I will bulk purchase grey-market bootleg toner from shady overseas websites before I go back to a inkjet…

Is it ableist to not define AI art as art, when handicapped people can't perform the same actions?

Please reconsider this like of argument in the future, it just comes across as cynical using the disabled for arguments sake. There are plenty of blind/deaf/handicapped/motor impaired/etc people making art of various forms. Deaf musicians. Blind painters. Non-verbal writers.

What makes art, “art” is the human creativity of original thought and intrinsic meaning, even if it is derivative. A jazz beat sampled on a rap track is art because it has social/familial meaning - beat makers often unwittingly share their childhood memories listening to their parent’s music at home. A painter may be influenced by their surreal visions, or the war and horrors they witnessed.

Devils advocate, but given the way they’ve been building metal sheds around the prior tanks and almost completely negating the main gun, a missing turret might just be a weatherproofing issue for the Orks Russians.

It’s not like a main gun helps you survive a mobility kill from the umpteenth TM-62 in the dirt that got replanted after the last assault failed.

If you can't make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don't have an actual point.

I made my point, twice even. That final example is what’s know as hyperbole, trying to make the point get across to you by over exaggerating. You ignored two examples (stalkers and burglars), to focus that. Moving the goalposts is an entire different thing.

hyperbole

1. Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

People passing by and getting a temporary snapshot with their eyes? No problem

A tech monopoly putting photos online, for anyone anywhere at any time to see, and constantly updating the photos? Thats a problem.

Without even thinking hard I can imagine several malicious uses like stalkers finding their victims home, or burglars casing neighborhoods for gates or cameras.

You naïveté does not define the norm for everyone else. Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.

“ANOTHER FORK?!? Unbelievable, don’t these people have any original ideas?”

Weight based encumbrance with slots, but you’ll generally cap out weight before slots. Depending on your wold seed and/or base building tolerance level, it’s either a constant struggle or not bad to deal with - juggling stamina and food is the bigger grind imo.

Tbh as a busy adult, there’s a select few quality of life mods that make it less tedious but still keeps the reward:challenge payoff. Some of the much more useful items can’t be taken through portals, and I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.