TheBeege @ TheBeege @lemmy.world

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(Edit: what I'm about to say is a good bit wrong, but I'm not going to try and hide my mistakes. This article has a more complete history: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/why-israel-and-palestine-conflict-war-history-b2426050.html)

I don't support the violence at all, but this isn't a (direct) result of imperialism.

After WW2, the Allies were like, "what do we do with all these Jews? We don't want them in our countries." Then they thought, "why not Jerusalem?" But a bunch of Arabs were living there, but the Allies really didn't want more Jews, so they just dumped them all in modern Israel, told the Arabs this is Jews' land now, and recognized Israel as a state. Palestine has a right to be pissed. So this isn't so much an imperialism problem as much as a racism problem.

But still, Hamas are evil fuckers that take shit too far. Israel definitely is not the good guy and is not helping the situation at all, but this kind of escalation just makes shit worse for everyone.

Yes, curse the world because you feel powerless rather than try to do something about it.

The current system sucks, but the average human is pretty chill. Most people just want to feel safe, eat good food, and enjoy time with friends and family.

Some people are in shit situations and are easily manipulated into becoming hateful creatures, and some people in power understand this and abuse it. Systems that create these situations are the issue, and we have continuously improved systems throughout our existence. We usually change systems when they hit a threshold of hurting enough people, which is not the best strategy, but it's how we're wired. But it takes enough people getting pissed off and doing something about it rather than bitching and giving up.

So quit bitching and do something. Volunteer for a group that combats climate change. Find a job at a sustainable company. Advocate to friends and family why they should care and what they should do. At the very least, you can be at some peace with yourself for doing your best

Thank you

What is this firstpost.com? Why is this filed under sports? I only see this on Bloomberg, US News, and this site. I'm skeptical of accuracy

This guy works.

Let's walk through an example. Please note that I absolutely do not mean anything of what I'm about to say. Imagine someone were to say the following things.

I'm going to kill you. I don't think you have a right to exist. I'm going to torture, dismember, and end you because I personally believe this is morally right. You do not deserve life. I will come to your home. I will take you in the night. I will make you watch as your family screams in terror while I take them all away. I will do this to everyone like you. I will destroy you because I believe it is the right thing to do. I will experiment on you. You will be like cattle for my whims because I do not believe you are human like me. You are just a meat sack. I will abuse you simply for my enjoyment because you hold no value beyond the value I give you. You are worthless, and I will dispose of you.

If someone legitimately said these things to you, if they really meant it, would you want the government to just be like, "hey man, they can say whatever they want. Human rights?" This is a Nazi's inner monologue.

In pointing out one's deficiencies, you should help them fill in those gaps. Otherwise, you're just being an asshole.

Explain what communism is. Comprehensive education in communism is not part of many places' standard curriculum

Not a function of capitalism. Function of human greed. Communism doesn't solve this. It just moves the greed from corporations and politicians to bueareacrats.

It sounds like you're arguing more against extreme materialism, where people believe that accumulation of physical goods holds more value than human life.

Also, citing genocide due to use of US taxpayer money isn't critiquing capitalism. It was taxpayer money, not market or investor money. That's government corruption, which is independent from capitalism. You see this kind of corruption in both capitalist and communist systems.

I think your main argument should be the prioritization of human dignity over anything else and an extreme vigilance for corruption in institutions of all sorts.

That's because PowerShell blurs the line between programming language and scripting language. By accessing the entire .NET library, of course it's going to have more features than a basic scripting language that relies on open source utilities installed on the system.

The reasons people hate it are because they hate Microsoft, it breaks from traditional shells too far, and it's a pain in the ass to type (verbose). To use PowerShell effectively, you almost need to write full software programs. At that point, just use C#.

As for you preferring it to Python.... I think you don't know Python. I'm trying to come up with every way possible to make PowerShell sound better than Python, and I got nothing. Maybe you don't like whitespace? I cannot understand your point of view here. Help me out

I don't think you put much thought into this, friend. Many social media companies are incorporated in the US to make use of US ad revenue sources. Where the servers are hosted doesn't matter. The legal corporate entity is the important bit.

And as mentioned in the other comment, privacy protections would operate the same way, seeing as they are literally rules for social media, among other sites.

But yes, privacy protections would be great. Let's do that

But the same methods used to stop Joe and Rush could be used by government in an authoritarian way. Giving government more control over media is a very dangerous and difficult thing to do without media devolving into a propaganda arm

Ah, my bad. Looks like it's invite-only for creators https://www.reddit.com/r/watchnebula/comments/uuz71q/how_to_become_a_nebula_contributorcreator/ (Sorry for the Reddit link)

I checked because it seemed odd to me that they would charge creators

The fuck is this article? What are the differences in ideologies between the military and the government? Is there any history of this conflict? How long has this president been in office? Most BBC readers probably have no idea about anything in Niger, myself included. The article should supply at least a little of this info.

Try Nebula https://nebula.tv/

I dunno if respect from online strangers does anything for you, but you have mine. Takes some maturity to get to the point where you are.

I am curious about how you perceive various things, since this kind of thinking is a bit foreign to me, but a public forum is likely not the best place to dive in. I am curious about what kinds of things you find satisfying, what you imagine happiness to be like, what kinds of things you desire, etc. General human condition kind of things.

I imagine that lots of people feel like you do, but we, as a society, don't understand it yet. I think if we did, we could make progress. Maybe I'm too idealistic, i dunno

While it's good to be suspicious, I don't think we can call CloudFlare a monopoly quite yet.

Akamai is a big, giant competitor. You also have the big cloud providers like AWS that have their own CDN systems, like CloudFront. (I don't recall GCP's or Azure's product names.) Then you have specialized CDNs like Google's AMP system.

Now, is it possible that there could be a horizontal trust between these companies? Certainly. There's few enough players for that to happen, but so far, I haven't seen signs of it happening.

Thank you for the clear explanation. It seems a lot of folks here don't understand the tech, but this explains things clearly and accurately

Sure, but you still have to pay for servers to run the proxy instances on. Any DDoS of appreciable size will knock over the number of instances that lemmy.world could stand up. Interesting thought, though. Maybe CloudFlare or others use HAProxy internally? I'm actually not sure what tech they use

Chances are that you're being sarcastic, but in the event you're not or if others want to learn...

Interesting tech. Almost zero practically useful applications.

Blockchains are effectively reproducible, verifiable ledger systems. But if the ledger grows infinitely, your storage and compute costs also grow infinitely. I've heard this has been solved, but I haven't seen an implementation yet. (If anyone knows of one, please share!)

Another issue is the proofing system. Bitcoin uses proof of work, which means you need to do more computational work to produce new blocks on the chain. If the computational work grows, that means you need more and more powerful computers. This means increased cost which means centralization as participants with less money to pay for compute get pushed out. Alternatively, there's proof of stake, where having some amount of a token or some similar value/stake allows you to write new blocks. This does reduce the computation cost but still causes those with lots of tokens/stake to get even more tokens/stake, which in turn allows them to spend more for new blocks... which creates a loop towards centralization.

So basically, the technology that preaches decentralization naturally centralizes in practical use over time.

Just because you're smart at writing code doesn't mean you're smart at other things :) Or more likely, maybe they're ideology-driven rather than by practicality.

Lemmy is an unusual but fortunate example of where ideology and practicality line up.

If you can find an entire nation state that runs on crypto currency with a functional, stable economy, I'll eat my words.