Why you are being downvoted is beyond me. People’s lack of understanding of the middle east is profound. Easier to hate on Israel with barely veiled antisemitism than take a moment to understand that Israel is politically diverse, and that the religious whackos on BOTH SIDES fuck everything up for everyone. There was a cute arab israeli fellow student that was sweet on me when I was studying ethnicity and national violence in Israel/Palestine. My Christian arab israeli friend warned me not to talk to her, because (points to a group of guys that always looked like they want to murder me) those guys are Muslim Brotherhood and nearly beat to death the last guy that tried to go on a date with her. Even though she wasn’t observant, didn’t wear a head scarf, etc. Yitzak Rabin was murdered by the ultra orthodox. Instead, it’s “Israelis bad, Palestinians good.” It’s fucking ridiculous. Does Netanyahu blow goats? Yes. Does that justify blind support of Palestine? Fuck no.
Yes, the judicial branch that is by no means liberal (but occasionally issues decisions protecting the rights of non-Jewish Israelis) but that is hated by the conservatives because it’s not hard-line enough. It’s a fucking nightmare, and people of conscience are speaking up.
Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.
That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.
It’d be real nice if someone created a browser addon that auto-downvoted these same comments and puns. With enough users you could wipe out anyone wanting to make the comments when they get 100 down votes just by people with the addon loading the comments section.
Yeah, automatic voting gets dangerously close to automatic censorship and botting.
Also, human language, context and nuance is complicated and the unknown error bar on “correctly flagged posts” scares me. It’s not entirely predictable what kind of posts people may make, and accordingly not entirely predictable what the plugin would and wouldn’t recognise.
A post chain “Madness?” / “THIS” / “IS” / “SPARTA!” may make sense and be fun in the right context, but the “THIS” comment could get botted to hell.
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