betheydocrime @ betheydocrime @lemmy.world

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Ummm all I tried to say was that it's unfair to use a temporary solution (Oslo II) as the metric

So say that with your chest! Say what you believe clearly and concisely exactly like you just did, explain why you believe what you do, and do it in a top-level comment without someone having to prompt you twice to do it. If you want bonus points, provide relevant citations for your claims.

That's how you make your posts corporeal rather than cloudlike. You have to put yourself out there and make your position known, and if you're going to do that then you might as well take the time to come correct

The point that I'm trying to make is that your comments are so nonspecific that it is impossible to "educate you" for the same reasons that it is impossible to nail a cloud to a wall. For example, in your first comment, you say that it is "Interesting how you used Oslo II and not the failed camp David summit options that Israel tried" but you don't explain why you think it's interesting or why they failed or why you think they should have succeeded but didn't or any other jumping off point to give others a chance to agree with you or rebut you. You just said something bland and vague and impossible to pin down. How could anyone possibly agree or disagree or even have a discussion about a statement as generic as "I find this interesting!"?

Tbh, if you don't want people to misunderstand the things you say, then you need to start saying things with your chest. Stop posting inscrutable and reactionary blandities and start posting clear and intelligible opinions supported by as many facts as you're able to muster. Lemmy will be a better place if you do :)

What's your point?

This comment is essentially commodity fetishism ELI5'd and I love it

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, and I also checked the article and couldn't find a source for that number

Public housing would be a step in the right direction

The reason they've earned some frustration is not because they bought a house in SoCal the 90s. The reason they've earned some frustration is because after living in a house in SoCal for 33 years and raising four children in it, they felt like they wouldn't earn "enough" money from reselling it. This feeling of entitlement was so strong that they complained to an international news corporation about it.

Even if they didn't create the unjust system, they clearly benefit from it and will do whatever it takes to get what they consider to be their piece of the pie. They want the real estate system to work as designed-- because how else would they get their money?

The thing that really gets me is that one of them is a retired teacher. He dedicated his life to helping young people. He's got to be educated enough to do some self-reflection. But this mindset that he has about real estate and profit is destroying the world for the same exact people he's worked so hard to help.

Florida Man

Well a duck walked up to a lemonade stand,

and said to the man running the stand,

"Hey, got any grapes?"

And the man said,

"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth."

The duck said,

"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

And then he waddled away, waddle waddle

Yeah I'm big in to STAB bonuses!

Simply Tap A, Brother

I'm having so much fun in Palworld, I really hope it makes Gamefreak wake the fuck up

Yep, the US military operates on metric time

The cookies popup on that website cracked me the hell up. "We, and our seven hundred fifty-six partners, care about your privacy"

Fair enough, I definitely need to work on not centering America in my view of the world, and a quick check of their comment history shows they're from the UK

The "Great Plains" is where a lot of your food comes from, and humans must eat food in order to survive

Did you read the article?

In a statement, the county's current registrar, Eric Olsen, emphasized that the mistakes did not come close to affecting the outcome of any race and “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error.”

In a phone interview, Olsen said the majority of errors occurred in so-called “split precincts,” in which one precinct is home to two different congressional districts. The county's voting system did not split the presidential vote by congressional district. The state system required them to be split that way. The errors occurred trying to conform the county data with the state requirements, he said.

Other mistakes highlighted faults in the county's validation process. For example, Olsen said he first discovered the mistakes when he noticed that Precincts 607 and 608 displayed identical presidential votes. Someone had entered one precinct's data into the other by mistake.

“It seemed like an obvious typo,” said Olsen, who replaced White as registrar and eventually reported the irregularities under his predecessor to state officials.

Fraud requires intent, and it seems like there was no intent here.

Look, man. You're substantially editing your comments after I respond to them. You're accusing me of conflating Hamas with all of Islam when all I said was that they are a religious group, while also accusing me of having poor reading comprehension. You're saying that the government of a nation is not a national group. You're claiming that Israel is defending itself while it is in the process of fighting a retaliatory war on non-Israeli soil.

If anyone is doing mental gymnastics in this conversation, it is not me. I recommend anyone reading this to add a tag to this account saying "edits comments"

You do realize that Hamas is an acronym, right? The English translation of what it stands for is "Islamic Resistance Movement". If that is not a religious group, I don't know what is.

You also realize that Hamas is the government of Gaza, right? If that is not a national group, I also do not know what is.