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If that's a steelman then it's definitely at forging temperature (which jet fuel btw can achieve easily), collapsing under its own weight.

Try this: Is it consistent to believe that evolution is the means by which God created, and continues to create, creatures? Does "well evolution just happens" have more, less, or equally much of an argument for itself? Note: Blindly assuming naturalism instead of God's will doesn't count because neither of those are falsifiable.

Thing is: There's more than one way to connect the data points into an overall theory. Those theories try to explain the data points by starting from made-up axioms, and naturalism is just as much made-up as the Spaghetti monster. Unless you want to posit some kind of Platonism?

Psi research is a fascinating field, responsible for lots of improvements in study design, metastudy statistics and criteria, whatnot.

Like, it is hard to control your experiment so that you don't accidentally measure side channels as telepathy or whatnot. Or subjects having hit rates because they have the same cognitive bias as experimenters selecting cards "at random". The list is endless.

Sceptic: "Your study has these and these flaws". Psi researcher: "We're using state of the art experimental design, accepted in every other field, and are open to suggestions". Sceptic "...damnit". I guess at least half of Psi researchers are consciously trolling for the heck of it, the bulk of the rest is dabblers, full-on crackpots are actually a rarity. Crackpots don't tend to have the wherewithal to get their stuff into a form that's even remotely publishable.

...that's exactly what I mean. All the broken bits and pieces get shipped to Germany to make Milchreis because it really doesn't matter what the grains look like if you're soaking them to smithereens anyway. Into pudding, that is. Which you should totally try on a cold day: Dump into sweetened milk (vanilla if you want), quick boil, 30-40 minutes of soaking at falling/low heat, add cinnamon, maybe some coarse raw sugar for texture variation, eat as-is or with apple sauce.

Only got Jasmin or such at home and still crave the stuff? Well, prepare it. Nothing's stopping you.

Links but no screenshots, insert joke about Gnome's UX.

Not just Asia, Italians and Spaniards are also quite particular about rice.

1kg bags in Germany cost 2.50 Euro for Jasmin, 3 for Basmati. One Euro for cheap parboiled. All discounter store brand. Risotto 2 Euro, that stuff is grown in Italy.

...10kg prices are practically identical, or better put if you shop at a place than sells 10kg bags suddenly the 1kg bags are expensive.

Russia by and large doesn't give a shit about its nature as long as it's huge and can be exploited so it's not like they're producing many documentaries etc. about it.

This is a cool project, though: Re-creating megafauna habitat, turning tundra into steppe. And in true Russian fashion, in lieu of living mammoths running over trees they used a tank.

Do you believe that every party in every parliament in the world should be able to just stop parliament from working instead of trying to actually vote for laws/bills

Plenty of parliamentarians getting kicked out of western parliaments for wearing t-shirts with slogans, holding up signs, suchlike. Suspensions generally are extraordinarily short and little more than "ok we'll give you some time to change into respectable attire". Also make a scene? Add a day. Make them watch from the visitor's benches. Pay attention they don't miss (relevant) votes.

That would have been the proper reaction: The proper way to handle ritual stunts (and they're a ritual, also the t-shirt thing) is with ritual slaps on the wrist.

The NZ reaction? They're suspending parliamentarians for unprecedented amounts of time, and on top of that while the budget is being passed. That is, they're fucking with the distribution of votes, which is fucking with the foundations of democracy. That is, for a parliament, nothing less than a declaration of bankruptcy.

I agree that immigration is a big part of fixing this.

It isn't. Not for long at least, as the last large countries are currently finishing their own demographic transition and starting to shrink themselves.

Is the world's population still growing? Yes. But the growth rate peaked in the 60s, it's cratering just as fast as it spiked, and by 2100 thereabouts there will be overall shrinkage.

Also before we get at the question whether Japan wants to have lots of immigration, what about the question whether those people wouldn't rather build their own countries.

There's nothing wrong with the world's population shrinking -- and also not with it growing, the earth is far from its carrying capacity. What's frightening is very quick population growth or shrinkage because it's an absolute breeding ground for all kinds of inequalities and societal unrest.

It really depends on what you're looking at. The history section of some random town? Absolutely bog-standard prose. I'm probably missing lots of implications as I'm no historian but at least I understand what's going on. The article on asymmetric relations? Good luck getting your mathematical literacy from wikipedia all the maths articles require you to already have it, and that's one of the easier ones. It's a fucking trivial concept, it has a glaringly obvious example... which is mentioned, even as first example, but by that time most people's eyes have glazed over. "Asymmetric relations are a generalisation of the idea that if a < b, then it is necessarily false that a > b: If it is true that Bob is taller than Tom, then it is false that Tom is taller than Bob." Put that in the header.

Or let's take Big O notation. Short overview, formal definition, examples... not practical, but theoretical, then infinitesimal asymptotics, which is deep into the weeds. You know what that article actually needs? After the short overview, have an intuitive/hand-wavy definition, then two well explained "find an entry in a telephone book", examples, two different algorithms: O(n) (naive) and O(log n) (divide and conquer), to demonstrate the kind of differences the notation is supposed to highlight. Then, with the basics out of the way, one to demonstrate that the notation doesn't care about multiplicative factors, what it (deliberately) sweeps under the rug. Short blurb about why that's warranted in practice. Then, directly afterwards, the "orders of common functions" table but make sure to have examples that people actually might be acquainted with. Then talk about amortisation, and how you don't always use hash tables "because they're O(1) and trees are not". Then get into the formal stuff, that is, the current article.

And, no, LLMs will be of absolutely no help doing that. What wikipedia needs is a didactics task force giving specialist editors a slap on the wrist because xkcd 2501.

Meh. I got sitebanned on lemmygrad on like day five. "NATO Apologist" for, checks notes, considering Ukraine a sovereign nation. I don't even like NATO, too much US in there. Anyway:

OP is right in the sense that it isn't hard to catch a ban on lemmy, also that there's plenty of places that will ban you for diametrically opposed things so expressing an opinion will inevitably catch you a ban (like, most places ban you for denying genocide, lemmygrad will do so for not denying genocide).

It does matter what you get banned for. And defending kiwifarms is a no-go for any civilised community.

Better many lazy mods with proper vibes than one eager mod with a chip on their shoulder.

I wouldn't mind going through reports etc. either, I can take off some load, but don't make it a responsibility.

Best guess: "out for delivery" means "loaded into the van". Especially if the projected delivery time is rather late, that is, you're at the tail end of their round, it can happen that they won't make it. And because FedEx isn't being smart about things and flips route directions every day it can be that they won't make it the next day, either, because you're still at the end of the route. Only when your location is covered by another driver which doesn't have you towards the very end then is the package delivered.

There's various ways to alleviate that, in particular switching around routes so the tail end problem doesn't hit the same people all the time, but I guess the penny-pincher MBAs that be at FedEx don't see it contributing to the quarterly results. Here in Germany it's usually along the lines of "we're fucking busy, sucks to be you, we brought it to a parcel pick up, go there, next delivery attempt in three days, then it's going to stay at the pickup until you pick it up or we send it back. Did you know that you can register with parcel pickup and have all your packages sent there also it's self-serve. Please, it's right next to the supermarket our backs hurt. Do something for the environment, :)!".

I feel bad for the schizos.

Don't. We're not the ones affected here and definitely, definitely, don't have a monopoly on psychosis.

Personally, I'm completely unimpressed by the random nonsense LLMs spit out because it's not my nonsense. There's certainly people way deeper down the rabbit hole than me but they, too, have an infinite stream of as-of-yet-uninterpreted subconscious stuff knocking at their door so I don't see why they would bother. And that's all before paranoia kicks in and it's the FBI trying to control you via the chat interface.

Feel bad for your capacity to relate to others, instead. Cuddle it, give it space, stop defining it. I don't ever want to hear that "type of girl I'm interested in" talk ever again, do you hear me, you, you little ego, don't get a say in that, that's for another part of you to decide. Stop telling it what to do.

If the genocide get completed no amount of oh it was complicated would change anything.

Agreed. But the failure is with the political reaction, not the courts. Courts aren't the police, the police is the police, and the police is asleep.

The ICJ is very well aware of all of that IIRC, most of it was even in the opening statements.

And, as said: Politically, that kind of stuff is damning, it's proof. For the judiciary, though, things are more complicated. They have to do more legwork to do until, at some point, they also come to the same conclusion, as the genocide scholars have done, and the scholar's judgement is way more bullet-proof than the political judgement I gave a month or two in that yes, Israel is falling to fascism, yes, they're committing genocide. And the judge's judgement will be even more bullet-proof. But it's going to take time to actually prove things to that kind of high standard.

I mean... my condolences and/or yay you get to be a honorary machinist?

the hell are you talking about are you a zionist under cover or just stupid?

How often do I have to say that Israel is committing genocide for people to stop calling me a zionist? It's getting tiring.

What for you would be a bulltet proof evidence?

It's abundantly clear that parts of the Israeli administration, the IDF, are guilty of genocide. Expanding that to the whole state of Israel, proving intent and not just mere incompetence at stopping rogue IDF elements, will probably require access to files and protocols Israel is withholding...

The icj is simply politically influenced

... and from the activists' perspective, a political perspective, that withholding is proof of guilt, for a court, it's more complicated. Before court, there's stricter requirements: The ICJ cannot follow the the political assessment not because it's politically influenced, but because it's not political. Because it can't make that kind of snap judgement.

The icj despite all the evidences proving it still decided to not say definitely that there is a genocide.

Because they do not have the evidence necessary to rule that way. Mostly, yes, because Israel is rather uncooperative, and the ICJ can't just raid Netanyahu's office.

With their ruling no country has obligation to do their best to stop israel occupation and agression.

All countries have that obligation no matter what the ICJ rules.

Do you want the genocide to be admited a decade after it happened just like with the bostnian genocide declared as such after 12 years?

This is not about "admitting", or "strongly suspecting", or "preponderance of evidence", but "beyond reasonable doubt". Proof should only be declared when it's actually bullet-proof.

As said: Otherwise, you leave an attack surface for genocide deniers, they'll spend the next 1000 years talking about "The antisemitic conspiracy that managed to frame Israel for genocide, here, have a look, they suspended due process to come to that conclusion". Don't play into the hands of those assclowns.

And the judge, before all evidence, all arguments are in, the prosecutor has been heard, the defence has been heard, the defender has been heard, and everything has been deliberated with other judges? Would you also require of them to call it a genocide the day the prosecutor brings the case to court?