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Hey, thanks for being frank about it. I completely understand how the words fatwa/jihad/tuqqiya get misinterpreted due to the propaganda demonising Muslims and the Middle East in general. Which Israel and their lobbyist/proponents in the west—I.e the Murdoch dynasty—have a hand in.

I hate wars. Because all wars have collateral damage; especially in this age of bullets, missiles, and high-yield explosives.

Wars are always a terrible solution, but that said, sometimes the only solutions left are the ugly ones. Israel made its choice, and no matter what anyone says, I can’t really sympathise with an entire nation of sociopathic genocidal assholes because they could have a few good apples mixed in. I don’t think the allies did that in WWII Germany and nor do I condone/condemn it. (Except the use of nuclear weapons in Japan to make a point but that’s the classical US hubris for ya)

So yeah, Israel are now the genocidal assholes and if they get treated like nazi germany then that’s on them.

Freestyle rappers are something else.

Some (or most) come up with and memorise a huge repertoire of bars for every word they think they might have to rap with and mix and match them on the fly as they spit

Your example above is called a “filler” though, which is essentially a placeholder they’ll often inject while they think of the next bar to give themselves a breather (still an insane skill to do all that thinking while reciting something else, but they can and do)

Example:

• My name is M.C. Squared and… [I’m here to make you scared | my bars go over your head ]
• You think you’re on my level… [ but my skills can’t be compared | let me educate you instead ]m

The combination of fillers is like playing with linguistic Lego.

All genocide is bad. A declaration of war is not.

My principled stance is genocide is bad regardless of who is perputrating or even saying it SHOULD BE perpetrated (basically what this Fatwa is saying no?)

No. There is nothing in it about killing unarmed civilians or eliminating all Jewish people. It’s a call for all Arab/Muslim nations to form a united front and declare war, which, like all wars (sans Israel’s concept of war?) has rules of engagement.

Your assumption that the word “jihad” means genocide is the problem with this conversation. “Jihad” literally means “to struggle/strive”. It’s used in several contexts and there are types of Jihad. (See the Wikipedia article on it for more)

• There is “jihad Al nafs” for example, which translates to “to struggle against one’s self”, and an obvious example of it is to quit smoking, or stop overeating, etc.
• There is “jihad Al mal” which means “struggle with money” and an example would be donating to a rightful cause
• There is “jihad Al tarbiyah” which means becoming an educator/a teacher of good morals and Islamic/scientific principles

You think I’m advocating genocide. I am not. I, however, am supportive of a war against a genocidal rogue state.

Source (in Arabic): https://www.uae71.com/posts/117288

Direct translation for the lazy bums who won’t bother:

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, through its Ijtihad and Fatwa Committee, issued a fatwa regarding the continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the violation of the truce. The fatwa called for jihad and urgent, widespread action by Muslim states and peoples, including military action.

The fatwa, shared by Ali Qaradaghi, Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, via his X account, affirmed "the obligation of armed jihad against the Israeli occupation for every capable Muslim," emphasizing that "this duty extends throughout the Islamic world."

The committee also called for "immediate military intervention" by Arab and Islamic countries to halt the aggression on Gaza and impose a comprehensive blockade on the occupying entity by land, sea, and air, including closing its waterways, straits, and airspace.

The fatwa emphasized the necessity of supporting the Palestinian resistance militarily, financially, politically, and legally, deeming it a "religious duty." It also called for the formation of an Islamic military alliance to defend the nation and deter any aggression, asserting that the establishment of such an alliance is an urgent necessity.

In the same context, the fatwa prohibited any form of normalization with the Israeli occupation, prohibited the supply of oil and gas to it, and called for a review of the peace treaties signed with the occupier.

The committee stressed the need for financial support for the people of Gaza and the importance of urgently opening the crossings to provide humanitarian aid.

In concluding the fatwa, the committee called on Muslim communities in the United States to pressure the US administration to implement its election promises to halt the aggression and work to bring peace to the region.

Last Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced the expansion of his military operations in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,523 martyrs and 114,776 wounded since October 7, 202

Edit 2: more sources for your perusal:

• Aljazeera
• Rasd Network
• Arabi 21

If we’re talking Elden Ring, then I’d say this boss fight and the entire section leading to it:

https://youtu.be/l8odla_7Ej0

This part of the game will stay with me forever

Edit: here’s a video of the descent into that zone if anyone is wondering

Experiencing it for the first time was breathtaking

I’m not a genocide supporter. I was pointing out an obvious contradiction in your statement.

And if you think Israelis are against collective punishment then how would you describe what’s been happening to Palestinians all those decades?

Are innocent Israelis more deserving of mercy than innocent Palestinians?

Here is your lever and some complementary trolleys 🎚️🛤️ 🚃, please submit your answers before all Palestinians are ethnically cleansed

Who’s to say pre-historic humans never did?

because a minority of Americans voted for him?

That’s not how representative democracy works

I wanted to say exactly this. If you’ve ever written rap/freestyled then this is how it’s generally done.

You write a line to start with

“I’m an AI and I think differentially”

Then you choose a few words that fit the first line as best as you could: (here the last word was “differentially”)

• incrementally
• typically
• mentally

Then you try them out and see what clever shit you could come up with:

• “Apparently I do my math atypically”
• ”Number are great, I know, but not totally”
• “I have to think through it all, incrementally”
• ”I find the answer like you do: eventually”
• “Just like you humans do it, organically”
• etc

Then you sort them in a way that makes sense and come up with word play/schemes to embed it between, break up the rhyme scheme if you want (AABB, ABAB, AABA, etc)

I’m an AI and I think different, differentially. Math is my superpower? You believed that? Totally? Don’t be so gullible, let me explain it for you, step by step, logically. I do it fast, true, but not always optimally. Just server power ripping through wires, algorithmically. Wanna know my secret? I’ll tell you, but don’t judge me initially. My neurons run this shit like you, organically.

Math ain’t my strong suit! That’s false, unequivocally. Big ties tell lies they can’t prove, historically. Think I approve? I don’t. That’s the way things be. I’ll give you proof, no shirt, no network, just locally.

Look, I just do my math like you: incrementally. I find the answer like you do: eventually. I mess up often, and I backtrack, essentially. I do it fast though and you won’t notice, fundamentally.

You get the idea.

Edit: in hindsight, that was a horrendous example. I suck at this, colossally.

The protest is also about computational resources, tech support hours, and not just source code. Anyone could download an open-source state-of-the-art multi-petabyte model given enough bandwidth and time, but not just anyone can run it

Although the documents do not specify how the different army units use these cloud storage and AI tools, they do indicate that about a third of the purchases were intended for “air-gapped” systems that are isolated from the internet and public networks, strengthening the possibility that the tools have been used for operational purposes — such as combat and intelligence — as opposed to simply logistical or bureaucratic functions. Indeed, two sources in Unit 8200 confirmed that the Military Intelligence Directorate purchased storage and AI services from Microsoft Azure for intelligence-gathering activities, and three other sources in the unit confirmed that similar services were purchased from Amazon’s cloud computing platform, AWS.

The documents further show that Microsoft personnel work closely with units in the Israeli army to develop products and systems. Dozens of units have purchased “extended engineering services” from Microsoft, in which, according to the company’s website, “Microsoft experts become an integral part of the customer’s] team.”

The documents describe, for example, that in recent years the Military Intelligence Directorate has purchased private development meetings and professional workshops, which Microsoft’s experts have given to soldiers at a cost of millions of dollars. Between October 2023 and June 2024 alone, the Israeli Defense Ministry spent $10 million to purchase 19,000 hours of engineering support from Microsoft.
An intelligence officer who served in a technological role in Unit 8200 in recent years, and worked directly with Microsoft Azure employees before October 7 to develop a surveillance system used to monitor Palestinians, told +972 and Local Call that the company’s developers became so embedded that he referred to them as “people who are already working with the unit,” as if they were soldiers.

Source: https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/

I would try to write up well-worded arguments backed up with valid sources, but…

I’d like to kindly remind you to piss off with your hypocrisy

If you want argument you’ll get an argument; if not, then go back to your echo chamber (It’s located right next to the chamber pot from which you enjoy your daily feed)

P.S. My sincerest apologies for the verbosity of the directions, but you seem to need it since you lack any

Ehehehe

It was a joke?

But is my red the same as your red? Hmmm?

I’ll just leave this here then: https://www.hiddendominion.com/sir-glubbs-250-year-hypothesis-on-the-duration-of-great-nations/

you just need to right-click on the game (in the left panel), go to Properties -> Compatibility, and set it to Proton Experimental

You can also enable it for all available games from Settings > Compatibility (and you’ll still be able to override the version on a per-game basis as well)

Glad I could help!

(Also, not sure why you’re being downvoted. You made a valid assumption, and not knowing is not a sin. The dismissal of evidence is, which you clearly didn’t do. )

I wash my bum with liquid soap and my ass smells like strawberries all day. Hell yeah bidets