stonedemoman
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- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
BTW I just wanted to share some quotes with you since you seem to think Plan Dalet was expansionist and not precipitated. Not to mention those villages were imminently hostile.
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League. May 15, 1947 BBC broadcast.
“The Arabs have taken into their own hands the final solution of the Jewish problem. The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.” Arab Higher Committee circular. 1947
“The surviving Jews would be helped to return to their native countries, but my estimation is that none will survive” Ahmed Shuqeiri (later PLO chief) quoted in Churchill and Churchill, p. 52
"There are over one million Jews in the Arab Lands. Their lives will be forfeit as well when we conquer the Jews.” Azzam Pasha, the Arab League General Secretary, May 1948.
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
You’re the one living in lala land where the British empire didn’t over promise after the collapse of an empire. It was just those filthy colonizers.
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
What? Palestine has had Jews ever since the Arab conquest. And? Babylonian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine conquests? Crusades? Ottomans deporting them from Tel Aviv and Gaffa? We just went over this, keep up.
Uh… There had been numerous massacres before Arab involvement in the war. Remember Dier Yassin? Remember the Hebron massacre in 1929 and 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine that I mentioned? Remember the Hebron massacre of 1834? 1921 Jaffa riots? Stop playing games.
In early April 1948, the Israelis launched Plan Dalet, a large-scale offensive to capture land and empty it of Palestinian Arabs.
“According to the Israeli Yehoshafat Harkabi, Plan Dalet called for the conquest of Arab towns and villages inside and along the borders of the area allocated to the proposed Jewish State in the UN Partition Plan.[4] In case of resistance, the population of conquered villages was to be expelled outside the borders of the Jewish state. If no resistance was met, the residents could stay put, under military rule.[qt 1][5][6][7]”
Peaceful occupation under UN sanctions. Really spooky stuff.
Uh… What? Israel definitely didn’t return that land because they wanted to. Just look at the Golan Heights.
You’re going to have to provide sources for this. You’re genuinely coming across as extremely predisposed to pardon any attempt of complete, violent obliteration by Israel’s neighbors. It’s fascinating to watch though.
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
It’s a hard problem to solve. Every time Jews had established themselves in the area they got conquered or kicked out, who’s to say it wouldn’t have just happened again? And it doesn’t help that 5 Arab nations initiated a war of extermination before Zionists had the chance to expose these alleged intentions of ethnic-cleansing. In fact, Israel’s actions of returning land they had captured whenever Arabs went to war with them seemed to be in direct contradiction of the allegations.
When I examine the entire chain of events, I see two sides that had unrelenting ideologies. Not one.
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
Completely baseless. Take it up with the British Mandate authority and the League of Nations that wanted them to
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
I’m not even sure what these have to do with modern Israel, which is ideologically a late 19th/early 20th endeavor.
You don’t think that the established Jewish territory prior to and during the 20th century has anything to do with modern Israel? You think that the revitalization of a Jewish homeland was unique to Zionist ideology when their occupation of both Galilee and Jerusalem was sanctioned by the Ottomans in 1534-1742?
You can’t have a Jewish majority state in Palestine without kicking Palestinians out of their home; it’s just not physically possible.
Of course you can, you just need more than one state. This had been the plan instituted by the British, but the British Mandatory authorities strayed from the plan as I already stated.
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
You mean in 1534 when they were permitted by Ottomans to establish a Jewish City-State?
Or maybe you mean in 1821 when the Jewish adviser and finance minister to the rulers of the Galilee, Haim Farkhi, was murdered and the Ottomans allowed their army to conquer Galilee?
Or maybe you mean in the late 19th century when they bought land from the Ottomans and peacefully settled?
Or maybe you mean in 1917 when the Ottomans deported them from Tel Aviv and Gaffa because the Ottomans were at war with the lands they immigrated from?
Or maybe you mean after 1917 when the onscure instructions of the British Mandate radicalized all of their Arab neighbors against them and galvanized the call to the violent eradication of Israel?
Or maybe you mean in 1921 and 1929 when Arab mobs violently attacked Jewish population centers?
Or maybe you mean in 1936-1939 when Arabs launched widespread attacks on both the British and the Jews?
Is it blatantly obvious how ridiculous your claim is yet, or do I need to keep going?
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 8 months ago:
steal Palestine
Again, this is misinformation. It’s particularly concerning that you are accusing me of not being nuanced when your uncharitable interpretation of the conflict seems to suggest that Israel never had a right to be there in the first place.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
“After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire arose during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant.[3] The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt, but in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided what had been what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
“The intended boundaries of Palestine were not specified, and the British government later confirmed that the words “in Palestine” meant that the Jewish national home was not intended to cover all of Palestine. The second half of the declaration was added to satisfy opponents of the policy, who had claimed that it would otherwise prejudice the position of the local population of Palestine and encourage antisemitism worldwide by “stamping the Jews as strangers in their native lands”.”
Your ire should be directed at the British protectorate for the ambiguity that enabled both sides to feel justified in their believed independence. This initial blunder seems to me to have fostered mutual extremism.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Are you done spreading misinformation?
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
A supporter of misinformation. I see. Not a good look.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
learn to comprehend the whole conversation, don’t reply to individual comments like they exist in a vacuum
Again, would you like me to show you exactly where you’re guilty of this in another thread?
It’s hilarious that you keep saying this.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I’ll do whatever the fuck I want. Thanks.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
i’m saying “you don’t get the same quality from streaming services as a blu ray”. does that make you happier?
Yup, words matter. I’m not saying this to be snarky or pedantic, I just don’t want anyone to think that they’re getting something inherently inferior if they want to go digital.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
i am more than well aware of all of this. nothing i said is misinformation
Literally everything you said previously is misinformation except for Blu-ray being encoded with h.265, and I’ve already explained why.
So I guess you need another 20 years, sorry.
no commercial streaming service is offering video at the same quality level as a 4k blu-ray.
What does that have to do with digital media?
This is also demonstrably untrue if you take 5 seconds to research self-hosted streaming services.
few streaming boxes even support dolby vision profile 7, and no commercial streaming service offers it
Plex on Nvidia Shield. EZPZ.
there is no magical way to cut your bitrate by 75% using the same compression algorithm without sacrificing quality
I never said anything in contradiction to this. I don’t know who you’re shadow-boxing.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Doubling down on the misinformation, I see. H.265 is a high-efficiency codec, or in other words a better compression standard. Not a static compression level. This is why when you convert media there’s an input for quality, even when using HEVC. And you can absolutely stream the same Dolby Vision profile as a Blu-ray with single track double layer.
You’re still conflating digital medium with streaming services.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
That is misinformation. The quality disparity you’re both pointing out is from streaming services compressing their media to much lower bitrates to ease bandwidth stress on their servers/clients and has nothing to do with a physical or digital medium.
- Comment on Apple may reduce the performance of the 3nm A17 Pro processor due to massive overheating of the iPhone 15 Pro 1 year ago:
Interesting, so SOP would rule that out too. I didn’t know this.
- Comment on Apple may reduce the performance of the 3nm A17 Pro processor due to massive overheating of the iPhone 15 Pro 1 year ago:
I could see a case made for the test units having much better heat transfer and once mass produced the silicon lottery inevitably made some chips run hotter. But those variances are not massive, so it would’ve already had to run pretty hot. IDK
- Comment on Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually 1 year ago:
With ATSC 1.0 channels this is generally true, with some exceptions, but ATSC 3.0 channels use OFDM to circumvent a lot of interference. There’s no real way of knowing whether or not it would work but Amazon has a 30-day return policy.
- Comment on Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually 1 year ago:
I know that not everywhere is going to be within 50 miles of a broadcasting tower, but it doesn’t hurt to check. www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html
- Comment on Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually 1 year ago:
If you’re talking about more than a 50 mile radius, then yeah it’s probably not realistic. But I’m watching and recording from stations 50 miles out with no issues.
- Comment on Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually 1 year ago:
I have an antenna and a self-hosted DVR and it’s awesome. What’s not awesome is that networks are attempting to weasel DRM into ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and get rid of ATSC 1.0 broadcasts to eliminate third party tuners: techhive.com/…/nextgen-tv-drm-puts-future-of-the-…
- Comment on Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power 1 year ago:
Net income doesn’t equal profitability either. Companies scale their costs based on revenue, including stock buybacks.
- Comment on Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power 1 year ago:
streamers are currently being forced to reckon with their profitability — or lack thereof.
Netflix’s 2023 revenue: 8.1 billion dollars BTW
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
Qbit+VPN to grab, radarr/sonarr to catalogue, overseerr to request, and plex/jellyfin to watch.
- Comment on AT&T Once Again Wants ‘Big Tech’ To Pay For Broadband Upgrades 1 year ago:
I’m so sick of the effects of fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. It’s like we’re all now victims of the evolution of manifest destiny: manifest funding.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
Gamers will never be mature or have realistic expectations. They cannot fathom that people are enjoying a thing they don’t like, and they’re very vocal about it, it’s petty, really.
You claim that people need to be more mature and then disavow any nuance in the same breath. Do you not see how this is a contradiction?
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
To attribute this most recent failure to an overabundance of hardware variety is a joke. This issue persists on all Nvidia and Intel cards. Why? Because it’s an oversight pertaining to the one thing they all share in common: their shared interaction with DirectX.
Let me repeat myself for the people in the back. The number of items they had to account for with this failure is one. One driver.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
It’s not just “some guy”, it’s a transition layer developer posting all of his findings on his git: github.com/…/88e4f300cc0b5b6f0880c1233d562cf506b5…
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
I’m eagerly awaiting the radio silence from all the people blaming it on obsolete hardware lol
Overall I like the game though, it has a lot of very entertaining ideas.