US reviewing Amnesty International report that said US-made munitions have killed civilians in Gaza
Anything is an anal bead, if you're brave enough...
Well damn, didn't know that. Mostly Polish people tend to be glib about the goings on of Poland proper, mostly because the ones I've met get defensive and are just generally dismissive of ideas like joining a local union without actually properly telling me why they're hesitant.
In my country Polish labourers have kind of been abused as a workforce, but they kind of seem okay being abused as a workforce - when they're not in deep argument over the phone with their agencies. But even then, instead of actually organising in any way, they just accept their fate so to speak, acting all tough, when getting less in the negotiation process and worse contracts generally.
It's gotten to a point where I think employment agencies should be illegal, because they serve more or less as labour "handlers", trying to screw over pretty much anyone, and even technically breaking the law sometimes, all to save their clients (the actual employers) a buck. Trying to withhold overtime, vacation pay, sick days, etc.
This has also lead to a race to the bottom, whereby no youngsters in this country wants to work construction anymore. It's all been cost cut and widdled down to a point where only foreign labour wants to work in those conditions. That's bad.
I'm not against foreign labour, but using foreign labour to manipulate and subvert the local labour market is not cool, and again, I'm not blaming Polish people. I mean get the bag, lol.
But still, greedy asshats are at it again. What's the next market they're gonna fuck up? Who knows?
Also, I'm hopeful for the political turn of events in Poland ^^ I'm not that fond of liberals, be they neo, classic or "social democrat", but I think it was about time to take the PiS out of Poland.
What's your take on Tusk and the new government?
Mfs talmbout not needing unions, and then turning around and getting the worst work conditions and ending up in a perpetual state of "this is fine".
Jenny (on the far left) had just finished accounting school and found only one potential workplace by way of a group recruitment seminar, along with a group of assassins, specially gifted scientists and Macavellians. She was reminded of their "graduation" some weeks ago and the photo they took together. She barely made It passed the obstacle course, almost fell in to the crocodile pool, something she knew she wouldn't live down that easily.
Her work was a little strenuous, as she had to commute every day by speed boat to an island where the offices were housed inside a mountain shaped like a human skull, but the office conditions were not that bad.
On her way to the cafeteria for her morning tea, she carefully walked passed the water cooler, where X The Eliminator spent 30-45 minutes every morning making small talk and reviewing the movie, series or game he had consumed the day before. He was a legacy hire, so he has seniority. Jenny managed to avoid another unsolicited date request.
She walks passed the bosses office, who is interrogating a scientist tied to a chair. She always thinks it's a bit of a mood shock when he goes from dark, evil voice, eyes with bloodlust and evil intent, to changing his tone completely when he sees Jenny.
His voice softens, becomes more playful and it sounds like each of his sentences should end with heart emojis. Phrases like "hiiiii Jenny!" and "Good morning, sunshine!" were not uncommon. She knew he was evil, but also thought he was a bit of a sweetheart at the same time, as evident by the photo on the wall of the cafeteria of him laying on the ground, laughing with glee, surrounded and covered by a puddle of puppies.
She grabs her usual hibiscus tea, saunters sleepily to her office cubicle, situated in a structure housed in the left eye socket of the skull shaped mountain. She sits down at her desk, facing the beautiful and lush iceland paradise overlooking the sea. The boss had ordered computer monitors with high NIT lighting so that people could have their desks facing outwards without needing blinds, so they could be fed by the sun and all it's energies. He was cooky and fun like that, when he wasn't pure evil.
As she sits down, breathes deeply and sips her tea, she sees a future here. It's not for everyone, but she'll make the best out of being a villainous accountant, who spreads her own form of terror by way of spreadsheets.
Population indeed doesn't grow during a genocide.
Living under the tyranny of those who took your land, destroyed your cultural heritage and then swept your suffering and the death of your loved ones under the rug, using terrorism as some sort of justification? This is something you'll have to clear with the native Americans and Inuits, even some other nomadic people.
Like again, I alluded to the Roma people (or Gypsy's) for a reason. A broken folk, subjected under Romania (even though it has nothing to do with Roma folk), the "gypsies" lost their land in the North of India. Ever since, they've wandered as a people without ancestral lands, and that is a huge problem for not only the psyche, but also the culture has been subverted, destroyed and is but a husk of it's former self.
This is why the technical definition of genocide has moved beyond body count.
Okay, so reign it back.
Please, in the simplest terms, no allusion, no hints, no inferences, just direct communication.
What are you trying to say?
I'm guessing you're gonna say that there is no genocide if not all or most of the people are killed, because then their people have survived. But, genocide also incorporates cultural genocide. Today the day definitions are one and the same. Destroying someone's culture and history also qualities, like during slavery.
The methods employed in genocide includes the methods of colonialism, persecution, subversion and the destructions of farms, Mosques, churches, hospitals, libraries, monuments, etc. Anything to persecute, harass and destroy someone.
Take for instance "the gypsies". A people in diaspora from a nation state that doesn't exist, roaming Europe forever, with no land to call their own.
That's the fate the Israeli state wants for Palestine. It is still technically genocide.
Well said.
At the end of the day, clarity in language is an important part of shaping language, or at the very least terminology. As time goes by we realise that certain words have met their end, that they should be taken out of common parlance.
Visa vi the "master" drive, or the "master" branch of a computer code repository. That is, the master drive runs the system which controls the slave. Not exactly the best terminology. Today we deal with a priority list in the firmware and plenty of repositories on GitHub are calling their main branches, well, "main".
Language is a living, breathing thing. It'll get dragged along by all the political hullabaloo and in the end people are left cleaning up the aftermath through generations.
Israeli state ≠ Jews, Jews ≠ Isreali state.
Now please explain, what exactly did I say that was anti-semitic?
Well said. I like the idea of "Judaiphobia" or "Christofobia" if we're going to have Islamophobia, because we then allow our selves to point it out as irrational fears and that it's not unique to any form of faith.
Off the tip of my lid, Hinduphobia, Sikhophobia, Taophobia, Daophobia, Buddhaphobia.
The neat thing here is that each phobia can stem from indoctrination into extremist sects and generally be a reference point for the definitions, so we see the wider picture and can see that no one is really exempt.
Religiophobia? I got a little of that. But what about the suffix -noia. Because phobias are irrational fears. Paranoia is para-social-noia, so to speak, and deals with people in relation to eachother. How about Islamonoia? Judanoia? Because contrary to popular belief, everyone has the capacity for paranoia. It's just that most people tend to suppress and ignore, while others react badly to theirs due to stresses and setbacks in life. I think people should be more mindful of that.
Again, I agree, it is what it is, just waxing poetic really.
Words. Stupid little things defined by cultural-historical precedent. And when politicised they can be weaponized and bastardised for the sake of political advantage.
Jews are technically not the only Semites, but get the distinction through many decades of nationalistic propaganda to continue colonization and genocide.
Let's not do that and define things properly.
Nice try, AI, but just like birds Australia doesn't exist. It's probably from the same kookie shadow department responsible for it too. Oh that dog of mine.
So my Klingon warrior name is Nosyt Ekim. Got it.
Yeah, if we're talking bugie cars like Tesla's, engineered from top to bottom to be a propriety machine, with jerry rigged electric systems that would make Apple blush, where you have no control, no ownership and have no control?
Say it ain't so!
Pease, let's return to the gas cars, engineered from top to bottom to be a propriety machine, with jerry rigged electric systems that would make Apple blush, where you have no control, no ownership and have no control.
It's the only way.
If Ukraine gets destroyed, then Europe deserves the same fate.
Uhm, panic, bombing, threat of being captured? Being invaded... again?
Myth 12: political discourse online will lead to consensus and alleviate fears.
The problem with it is you now have to confirm that no copyrighted material was used in the process, something which can be impossible. At the same time, if we want corporations to be checked, then AI should not get copyright, because that way they still have to pay artists and writers.
Let me put it like this: it's about learning curve. Arch is relatively easy to begin with, but NixOS gets much easier the more nix you learn.
What do I mean about that? Imagine having to patch something, which can be the thing. On arch you'd have to replace a package, which could lead to issues and conflicts, whereas NixOS gives you the option to keep two or even more versions of the same library, because it does not rely on your traditional UNIX path.
But with this super power comes a catch. You have to learn a programming language and learn how the nix store operates, which is a pretty high learning curve. Also, NixOS suffers from a governance issue and going by the documentation is like shooting in the dark.
That being said, the best manual for NixOS is GitHub, searching for anything and filtering by the nix language. You'll see a ton of varying systems, be they workstations or servers.
And no matter what all the warnings say, no, flakes aren't EXPERIMENTAL or UNSTABLE, but rather CONTENTIOUS internally. Again: I love NixOS, but they gotta fix their governance issues.
What does this really mean? Like is an agreement broken? I thought the US gave Israel unfettered access to their stockpile?