gedaliyah

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

- Vladimir Putin, probably

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

And yet the most surprising thing about the story is that the bodycam footage was released, smh

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Plus, our animatronic characters almost never come to life and stalk you through the darkened property at night!

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

Yeah, but that’s in the old testament so it doesn’t count /s

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

No.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

The neo-Nazi group has, nonetheless, attempted to make inroads with the MAGA crowd by coopting the issues animating the GOP base, declaring that “it is Nazism … to oppose Drag Queen Story Hour and Critical Race Theory.”

I mean… feels weird to agree on something.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Lightning Round!

Someone’s about to be penetrated.

They sure make a lot of noise when they come!

Riding bareback.

Hung like a horse.

Young Eurasian men are in your area!

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

I have to show my ignorance here. Was anyone else surprised by the fact that Sweden has to earn Turkey’s approval to join NATO?

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

I’m not suggesting that Israel has clean hands, but maybe we shouldn’t be high-fiving the regime who funded Assad in killing half a million people?

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

What exactly is z network? I’ve never seen it before now

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Weird that you would link the Wikipedia article but not quote the opening paragraph.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Unpopular opinion: it’s been extensively studied that addictive corporate social media like Instagram and TikTok cause developmental damage, depression, and can lead to suicide in a statistically significant proportion of young adolescents. It should be regulated just like we do with cigarettes.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Dated 12/15 from Reuters:Hamas has not said how many of its fighters have been killed. Israel’s military has said it has killed at least 7,000.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

nytimes.com/…/hamas-commander-northern-gaza-kille…

Now stop sealioning.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

The claims are simple:

1 - Hamas has not released any statistics about the total number of Hamas fighters killed.

2 - Hamas has acknowledged a small number of specific, individual deaths

Claiming that either of these statements are false - now that you have been presented with evidence of both - is precisely sealioning. Claiming that someone is being dishonest - in presenting evidence that does not fit a pedantic standard beyond the scope of the discussion - is precisely sealioning. For example, suggesting a source that reads “Abu Anas al-Ghandour and three others had been killed” as being semantically incompatible with “number of its dead soldiers is like three” is sealioning.

If you would like to present any evidence of counterclaims, that is perfectly fine. Perhaps Hamas has published losses of soldiers in the time since these articles have been published. I and the rest of the world would certainly like to see those numbers.

However, continued requests for further evidence or insistence that the evidence does not say what it says, or pedantic claims that deliberately misinterpret a statement will only be evidence of bad faith.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

The original source is a comic that demonstrates it fairly well, although the current definition is a bit broader. I look out for:

• persistent questioning that diverges from the core of a discussion
• focusing on pedantic claims
• demanding ever-increasing evidence
• placing an undue burden of proof on an individual or their claims (“undue” is the key word)
• demanding evidence of a person’s opinion
• following someone from one conversation to another (thank goodness that rarely happens on Lemmy! On other platforms it can be terrible)
• (of course) the illusion of civility and willingness to listen

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

What a stupid headline. That’s true of every product. The iPhone 4 was the first good one. The same is probably true of the telephone. This is just an excuse for Apple to get more ink.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

I mean the iPhone 4, the one famous for the first significant display upgrade, the first front-facing camera, and the first one with facetime. I’m no Apple fanboy - in fact I’ve never owned one. But it was the first modern smartphone. The original iPhone launched without an app store. First generation products are always overpriced and experimental. They are always missing core features (imagine buying a phone with no front camera today). It takes a few generations.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Churnin’ lots of butter

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Easy to underestimate the huge cultural importance of this jam right here

gedaliyah , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Do what you love for a living and you’ll never work a day in your life. 🌈

Woman who loves to steal:

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

If everyone waits until the war is over, there might not be a Ukraine to invest in.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Well, I guess that’s me signing off. I just had GeoCities.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

It’s already in all the service agreements that you click on when you sign up. They’ve already been harvesting data. They already have the right to use your posts and pictures for whatever they want

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Proof that governments can delete data on their citizens instead of constantly spying.

(Cries in American)

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Take two houses and call me in the morning.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

5 years for terrorism?

gedaliyah , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

If we want governments to respect people’s sincere beliefs, religions, and culture then they need some system to determine them. It may not be perfect but if someone is claiming to be a dedicated pacifist but has never expressed that except to get out of service it’s a little suspicious.

Edit: I removed a stupid joke about pacifist video games because that’s not at all the point

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

I think this is a really good point. It’s a shame that they don’t want to Federate with some of the larger instances, but that’s the whole point of the fediverse. If you Federate with who you want to Federate with, and you have control over your own moderation and red lines. It’s virtually impossible to have meaningful conversation among a broad group without someone getting offended. So you might choose to let people occasionally be offended, or you might choose to create a safe space for a limited group.

It’s a philosophical question with no single right answer. The fediverse doesn’t have to be all things to all people, which is exactly why it can be all things to all people. Corporate social media has to have one set of rules for everyone, and the system for deciding and enforcing the rules is generally just about money

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

I mean, printing was originally for Bibles as long as we’re getting nostalgic.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Meta’s getting jealous of falling behind the competition on enshittification.

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

Are there any social scientists on lemmy? Have we actually studied the effects of labeling misinformation as opposed to removing it? Does labeling misinformation actually stop it from spreading and being believed, or does it reinforce conspiratorial thinking? This is not a rhetorical question - I genuinely don’t know.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Just a small correction. The Holocaust refers specifically to the Nazi genocide against Jews. They also conducted other genocides. None of the others were anywhere near the scale of the Holocaust.

It is estimated that 15000 LGBT victims were killed by the Nazis

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

You’re absolutely right on one count - I was missing a zero (fixed). For that I apologize on behalf of their memory.

However, the Holocaust is the accepted term for the genocide against the Jewish people. It is not the only genocide the Nazis carried out, such as that against the Sinti and Roma, but it was the largest in scale by far. These are factual statements, agreed on by all experts.

For example, the Wikipedia article you cite reads:

While the term Holocaust generally refers to the systematic mass-murder of the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe, the Nazis also murdered a large number of non-Jewish people

I’m not sure how scholars calculate the number homosexual men who were killed, but I believe it does not include those who were killed because they were Jewish. It is apparently not well known how many lesbians or trans people were killed, although it is documented that they were sent to death camps.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

The really stupid thing is that everyone knows Netflix succeeded by offering - for the first time - a better product than piracy. A decade ago, Netflix offered a huge library of high quality, ad free content, which was easy to navigate and relatively free of bugs and viruses. People signed up because it was better than piracy where content could be difficult to find, time consuming to download or slow to buffer, with risks of malware or questionable websites.

People are willing to pay for a better experience that supports the people making art and entertainment.

Netflix already knows how to do this, built a company around it and launched an industry based on the knowledge that people will pay for a product that is better than free options. Now, it’s gone all the way back around. Streaming services are fragmented and expensive, content is hard to find and disappears without warning, streaming apps don’t always work on the devices they’re supposed to, quality gets unexpectedly throttled, and the ads are inescapable and unskippable.

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

I live on the border, and you really don’t need to worry unless you’re pregnant.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

This comment is somehow both extremely misogynistic and misandrist at the same time.

Men and women deserve respect. Men and women are responsible for their own actions. These two statements should not be controversial

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Being a parent is hardest when you’re doing it right. Keep it up!

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

I’ve seen some discussion about it. Apparently it was pretty boring.