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Iceblade02 ,

Personally, as an agnostic (leaning atheist) I don’t have any particular dogma regarding other religions to follow. I will however share how I view religions.

  • I’ve yet to encounter a religion that is verifiably true. As such I consider the religions of other people to essentially be opinions (personal beliefs).
  • Opinions should not be held sacred in society, nor should they grant special rights.
  • The religions of others only really become a problem if they make demands based on said religious belief, attempt to impose their beliefs on others, or spread verifiably false information.
Iceblade02 ,

Naw, digital transfers are convenient saving both time and money for me and everybody else. However, trying to force people into digital transactions, or remove cash entirely is a huge problem. I always have a decent amount of hard currency on me, and occasionally use that money.

The majority of my transactions are done digitally however, purely because of convenience.

Iceblade02 ,

50WPM, 100% accuracy with AnySoftKeyboard and no aids. This was the third try.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e0e07012-7074-471e-8d79-ccb3d296886c.jpeg

Iceblade02 ,

I see Tintin meme, I upvote. Make more memes with Tintin & cpt. Haddock pls

Iceblade02 OP ,

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have a look!

Iceblade02 ,

Might be better to link the transcript directly rather than a youtube video?

Would make the source more obvious at a glance.

Iceblade02 ,

Today, not even close. The party has neo-nazi roots, but the vast majority of the “old-guard” are long gone (afaik), most of them ending up in AFS (swedish equivalent of AFD) or Nordfront (actual nazis). If someone behaves questionably, they tend to be thrown out head-first rather promptly.

The SD gained popularity and won their platform by a) becoming more moderate and b) being the only mainstream-ish party to speak out against the mass immigration waves of the 2010s, something which they at the time were entirely shunned for. Today however, almost all politicians agree that the open door policy for refugees and economic migrants went too far.

Many of our problems here in Sweden today have to some degree been caused or exacerbated by that careless era (not that there weren’t problems before). Seeing welfare systems be dismantled, schools closing, worsening healthcare, infrastructure etc. etc. whilst at the same time huge amounts of resources were diverted to immigrants pushes folks in that direction. It also really doesn’t help that many kinds of violent crime previously entirely unheard of have become commonplace in less than adecade.

They said things would go to shit, things went to shit, now more than a fifth of Swedish voters voted for them in the last election, making them the 2nd largest party.

All in all it’s not that surprising that bringing folks from one cultural extreme into a society at the opposite cultural extreme ends up causing tensions and issues…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d94eca09-dab6-410a-9188-bf829467dabb.png

Iceblade02 ,

“libertarian” my ass, seems authoritarian to me.

Iceblade02 ,

A monarchy can be capitalist as long as peoples property rights are respected. The moment the monarch decides to lop somebodys head off and take their stuff you’ll be back to the old-school feudalistic “might makes right” societies.

Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll (www.theguardian.com)

Boys and men from generation Z are more likely than older baby boomers to believe that feminism has done more harm than good, according to research that shows a “real risk of fractious division among this coming generation”....

Iceblade02 ,

Yep - this is why I consider myself pro gender-equality and endorse classic feminism, but am against “post-modern” feminism. I’ve met plenty of women irl and many more online who under that banner (yes, anecdotal, I know, but we all form opinions based on our experiences ultimately) treat men like shit, unapologetically call “all men evil” etc. etc.

Iceblade02 ,

Yeah, but it still shouldn’t go to a single person. Better pay it as a fine to the state or distribute it to charities. Or, better yet pit the money into creating a foundation to help cancer victims.

Somewhere above the 10-100m$ range it loses any sort of compensatory purpose, both you and your eternal decendants could live off of just interest at that point and buy essentially anything.

Iceblade02 ,

Only situation I’d accept a death sentence is if a person indisputably poses a credible threat to other peoples lives, even while imprisoned.

Essentially, anybody previously convicted of murder who then proceeds to (beyond any doubt) attempt murder again. At that point it’s not about punishment, it’s about protecting human life.

Iceblade02 ,

Definitely not Sweden. Euthanasia & death penalty are both illegal here.

Iceblade02 ,

I’ve slowly been ditching google products these past years, and it feels good. Finally made the move to proton just before christmas.

Iceblade02 ,

Try IRS free fillable forms.

A bit of a hassle to learn at the start, but you actually learn how to do the taxes yourself, and it’s 100% free.

Iceblade02 ,

That’s a general pattern though - sea transport is the most efficient, thus railroads will tend to integrate around important ports. It applies even in the UK.

Iceblade02 ,

Swimming can be a type of exercise that puts less strain on your back. That and just eating less.

Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...

Iceblade02 ,

… so what you do is set up a rule that everybody will break - “no drinking with shoes on” - and only enforce it against people you want to kick out 👍

Iceblade02 ,

Gave this one as a gift - Opus Magnum.

Fun and satisfying production puzzler.

Iceblade02 ,

The oldest piece of tech I personally own and have running is probably my phone (going on 6 years). In the household it’s probably our washing machine ('00s) - unfortunately the magnetron on our late 80s microwave just died :(

Iceblade02 , (edited )

I know you put a /s in there, but that’s actually spot on. It’s very difficult to convince people to give a damn about nature if they don’t have decent food, shelter and a hopeful future for their children.

e: spelling

Iceblade02 ,

Yes, and no. I’m quite convinced that humanity can make a decent living for itself (i.e, more pleasant than that of the average current day human) even if we fuck up nature beyond our current day recognition. It’s worth considering that more than half of humanity lives in urban environments, and a majority of land area is cultivated in some way.

However, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t worry, or shouldn’t try.

Earth is our heritage, and what we make of it will be the legacy that future humans remember the 21st century by. I’d much rather have our great-great grandkids frolicking in the grass under a pearl blue sky than in concrete caves to protect them from neverending storms and scorching deserts.

Iceblade02 ,

It’s about precedent. Finland already have their fucked up neighbour Sweden as a cautionary tale when it comes to refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants from the ME/Africa.

Iceblade02 ,

Almost every day. For a while I had a pair of decent wireless headphones, but they broke and I haven’t had money to spare for new ones.

Calls to reform UN Security Council after US vetoes Gaza ceasefire (www.aljazeera.com)

Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

Iceblade02 ,

Yeah, many people fail to realize that the places in the world where individual rights are (mostly) respected are actually few, with only a minor portion of the world population.

Iceblade02 ,

Can’t view the article, anybody able to provide a copy?

Iceblade02 ,

Thanks!

Iceblade02 ,

An Electric car for 8k€? Where, how, what? Cheapest new I’ve seen is roughly 35k

Iceblade02 ,

I am curious, how would genocide of non-muslims and LGBT individuals along with religious oppression of women be prevented in your suggested scenario where the state of Israel is abolished?

It is possibly the most diverse nation on planet Earth, and a beacon of personal liberties, stability and democracy when compared to other MENA countries (if you disagree here, please do give a counter-example!)

Iceblade02 , (edited )

Just calling them settlers would be ignoring a huge part of history, and missing out on a lot of nuance - as would calling them natives of the area. Some certainly were, but many, if not most were refugees to varying degrees.

To any reader, keep in mind this is not intended as a moral judgement in any direction, rather an important historic context to the situation. It’s a long read.

My writing of this context begins, loosely, in the 19th century. Jews are an almost omnipresent and incredibly diverse minority culture in Europe and have been persecuted to varying degrees for more than a millenia. This persecution has however usually been less systematic and more spontaneous. That changed with concepts such as nationalism, nation-states and more centralised governments.

Minority cultures were considered a detriment to national unity, and hence more “formalised” discussion of “the Jewish Question” (yes, the one the NSDAP in the 20th century attempted to “solve”) entered the European political discourse. Keep in mind, jews were far from the only persecuted group. Roma, for instance, was another, along with many local groups such as the Basque, Sapmi and Tatars.

It was in this enviroment that an idea sprung up among jewish intellectuals, that of Zionism. There are many different opinions on the motives behind it, but the goal was a jewish homeland, where they could be free from persecution. British Mandatory Palestine, heralded as the home of the jewish people in religious texts became the dream. Long before that “Shana Haba’ah B’Yerushalayim” (“Next year in Jerusalem”) had been a commonly used phrase during passover. Europeans invented and enforced nationalism, and Zionism became the jewish dream of their own nation, free from persecution. A trickle of jews to Israel would begin, but the events of the 20th century would turn that trickle into a flood.

Antisemitism continues to proliferate during the early 20th century and the German NSDAP (commonly known as the Nazi Party) would take things to the next level. Following 1933, Jews would attempt to flee Germany, sensing impending doom, yet be refused visas almost wherever they turned (with a few notable exceptions). The Western World was perfectly content to stand by and watch as Germany slowly commenced the horrors, and send back those desperate refugees who pleaded for their lives to their doom. On a personal note, I wonder if Germany would have been allowed to complete their genocide, had it not been for them starting yet another World War.

I will not elaborate on the Holocaust of WW2. I expect that you all are familiar, and if not, do yourselves a service and read about it.

The aftermath of it was just as gruesome. Nobody had wanted the jewish refugees before the war, and nobody wanted the “few” hundred thousands of survivors either. So, they were kept in camps. They had lost their homes, their posessions, most of their loved ones, along with any trust they had had for their local communities which had sent them off to die at the hands of Nazis.

Many of the refugees before, during and in the aftermath of WW2 would make their way to Israel, where burgeoning jewish communities would welcome them - pooling their resources along with using aid from mainly american jews to purchase land and build homes for them. The British were keeping the peace - and attempting to prevent the influx of people. This along with growing jewish communities meant freedom from persecution (mostly).

The British kept the peace, until they didn’t. I won’t elaborate on the details here as I would prefer to avoid controversy. Besides, I’d have to double the length of this text to just scratch the surface. The summary is that the State of Israel came into existence, born with a collective memory of the recent holocaust and a determination to never let it happen again, along with a huge dose of distrust against much of the Western World. Whatever the reasons, the law of return is implemented. I’d like to think it was an act of compassion, a reaction to the fact that jews had nowhere to go before, during or after the holocaust.

One would’ve hoped that the story ended there, but no.

In the aftermath of the war, and following other Arab-Israeli wars anti-semitism would blossom further in the Arab world, alongside Islamic Arab nationalism. With varied reasons, some of their own volition and some displaced, a mass exodus of jews occurred from Arab countries, some 80% of which moved to Israel, many without any of their possessions. By 2019 the number of Jews in Arab countries was less than 13’000 and 15’000 in Turkey, compared to a rough million people who were living there in 1948.

In the communist Bloc, antisemitism continued under soviet rule, continuing the ancient Russian traditions of pogroms. Despite efforts to prevent jewish emigration from Warsaw Pact communist republics, many managed to escape. When the bloc fell in the 90s, many more would find their way to Israel.

For those of you who read this far, thank you and I hope you found it informative and/or interesting. It is not the story of Israel, but rather that of a people who have been persecuted for a long, long time, and still, to a somewhat lesser degree, is being persecuted.

[Redacted]

The historical context makes the ongoing situation even more tragic, and I sincerely hope that there will be some sort of peaceful resolution.

E: removed some possibly personal info

Iceblade02 ,

But the only part I want to clarify is that you kind of glossed over the nakba in that part where the British stopped holding the peace.

Yes - in fact, I didn’t write about it at all. The history of the jewish people is but one part of the context to the conflict, which is more complex than most people realize. I intentionally limited myself to the situation outside Israel, given that there are very heated opinions on what happened within.

Some further reading on the situation in Mandatory Palestine is linked below. Of note is that the british often attempted to include Arabs in their decisionmaking processes, but were met with refusal and violence. Even so, the British would implement the White Paper of 1939, significantly restricting jewish migration to mandatory Palestine and effectively forbidding jewish purchases of land in 95% of the area.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission

…wikipedia.org/…/Antisemitism_in_the_United_Kingd…

Iceblade02 ,

Is there really an “indigenous” people to the palestine area like there are in others? The area has been conquered, reconquered, genocided and force converted a great many times in the past 3k years.

Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Egyptians, Arab Mamlukes, Byzantine Crusaders, (Mongols), Arab Caliphates, Ottomans, Brits and lastly Arabs and Israelites.

Iceblade02 ,

The cheaper version - an fm radio transmitter that connects to your phone via bluetooth.

Costs 20$ and takes zero installation.

Iceblade02 ,

A bit unclear writing but I expect that’s 880 of the respondents.

Iceblade02 ,

A 10% margin for the republicans indicates a 45%/55% split in voting. In other words, 45% (!) vote Democrat, making this a huge over-generalization.

Iceblade02 ,

The “Private investor” in this case is Microsoft, which “graciously” offered to bring all the staff into their own new AI project. This is 100% an investor (a.k.a microsoft) win.

Iceblade02 ,

Every newer car I’ve driven so far has had one installed and enabled by default. These things work fairly poorly, especially in snowier conditions (in my experience).

Iceblade02 OP ,

Indeed, I’d like to, and hopefully will be able to. Unfortunately it is basically the universal method of communication at my campus - unless you use instagram… or snapchat… :(

Hopefully it’ll be possible to get others to make the move, but I’m not really that important in social contexts, nor are most privacy-focused folks.

Iceblade02 OP ,

WA is also owned by Meta, and was only being used by my privacy-oriented friends. We swapped it for Signal pretty much instantly when the news came, but getting others to move over has been a slow fight.

Iceblade02 OP ,

No. Where I live it has previously been possible to opt-out of personalized advertisements in favor of generic ones. That has now been removed.

Iceblade02 ,

May have an alt acc dedicated to the topic. Not everybody wants their opinion on a subject that might cause them to be targeted with irl violence public.

Iceblade02 ,

link?

Iceblade02 ,

Appreciate the link.

I looked around a bit, and the most comprehensive source I found was from APNews:

apnews.com/…/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-shifa-…

Appears to be an unbiased summary of the current situation along with statements and evidence made and provided by both sides (so far). Needless to say, the picture is far from clear.

I’d hesitate to compare an ongoing event with a lack of clear evidence to one in the past with a mountain of evidence and clear facts however. I really do hope that we will never reach a point where the events of the current Gaza-Israel war could be compared to the atrocities and horrors of WW2.

Iceblade02 ,

I really hope that Syria, Lebanon & Jordan don’t become the battlefield for a Iranian proxy-war against Israel. These people have seen far too much death and destruction fighting amongst themselves already.

Whether they’re supporting, turning a blind eye to or incapable of preventing the activities of Hezbollah, it doesn’t really matter. These attacks are carried out from their territories, which essentially makes them war-zones.

Iceblade02 ,

As someone who has worked (and sometimes still does work) in hospitals, this is not at all how it works. Critical systems have priority, and furthermore have UPS built in. This means that even half an hour of power to the hospital could allow these devices to operate for far longer.

Waving white flags, Gaza civilians evacuate through IDF humanitarian corridor (www.ynetnews.com)

The IDF Arabic spokesperson posted images of the civilians evacuating and announced an additional humanitarian corridor, supplementing the one recently established, which will be open for Gazans wishing to relocate southward until 2pm local time....

Iceblade02 ,

Roughly 40% of the Gazan population is 0-14 some of whom, unfortunately, are active combatants. The whole situation is awful and tragic.

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