JasSmith

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Whataboutism re baby rape is next level evil.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know. How does it feel to be a genocide apologist?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You really like raping and murdering people, apparently.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
When Palestine began the most recent war, it committed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Some of their first victims were innocent young people who supported the Palestinian cause. The Palestinians raped and murdered them en masse.

It’s a war, and both sides are committing atrocities. Innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire on both sides. If I understand your argument correctly, do I understand that you support raping and murdering innocent Jews?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

And the phrase “bless you” was created with the intent to banish demons out of your nose, but we still say it when you sneeze.

Bad example. The intent was good and it remains good.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, is what they chant. Calling that genocidal is Orwellian, mate. Get a grip.

Many do not. Many drop the second part entirely. For example, the t-shirt on the girl in this very video that we are discussing. Either way, adding a nice phrase to the end of a genocidal phrase doesn’t make the genocide part less bad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you for proving my point. Many activists do indeed want to destroy Israel. Clearly Israel is never going to say, “sure thing!” So the region will remain at war.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve never been into his content but I really enjoyed his journey to build a better local LLM. Way more technical than I thought he was capable of.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The phrase was created with the explicit intent to destroy Israel. We can equivocate about the intent to destroy Israel as being genocidal, but as I explain, Palestinian activists consider it genocidal intent when Israeli politicians talk of destroying Palestine, so I use their own standard. It may be that people who use this phrase do not intend destruction of Israel, but they are using a phrase which was created explicitly to call for the destruction of Israel. I don’t accept that there is any good faith way to claim the term has been “reclaimed.” If I say “heil Hitler,” and follow it up with “but no genocide or any of the bad stuff Hitler did,” it doesn’t erase the first part of my sentence. In fact, the second part is antithetical to the first.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m referring to Hamas’ “one state” solutions they have proposed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Vaultwarden is FOSS (GPL).

It’s true re adding passwords while the server is offline, but my server runs 24x7 and it’s never down for more than a few minutes. If it goes down, I fix it. I also backup the encrypted DB regularly to cloud, so there is little risk of data loss. I am a very satisfied Vaultwarden user. Especially because it allows password sharing with my family. Everyone has an account.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And yours.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s hard to engage with someone who genuinely thinks Apartheid was a nation state. We could call for the end of Apartheid without calling for the destruction of South Africa.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Well then John Cena is overweight. In fact, he’s obese, with a BMI of 33.9. So BMI isn’t objective reality. And I think it’s useful only as a very rough guideline.

BMI is a population level tool. There are individuals who are extremely muscular who can be in the obese range. I’m not seeking a perfect description - nor will ever such a description exist. If that is your standard then you are taking a postmodernist approach which is “everything is made up and the words don’t matter.” If up means down and the person in the discussion genuinely doesn’t care, there’s no real way to have a discussion after that.

We started with the question “Is Tilly fat?” And now suddenly you’re talking about medicine and health.

Because you raised the concept of soulism and utility. If we were to consider soulism and utility, I think using objective metrics make sense. I agree that there are many other frameworks we could use.

Humans view the world through their lenses of experience. Tolkien wisely remarked on creating fictional worlds that we should endeavour to change as little as possible compared to our world in order to suspend disbelief. When we do make changes, they should be meaningful, important for the story and world, and consistent. Unless Tilly’s weight is explicitly described as healthy and normal, and it is part of some new universe law and storyline, I don’t think we should be making any such assumptions. I think most people would balk at such a storyline and in-universe change. It would feel performative.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

The same Wikipedia article hints at both Zionist and Palestinian use of a similar phrase even before PLO adopted it, so I am not sure if we can just plainly state that the cited sentiment is the original one behind this phrase.

When Menachem Begin’s Likud party won the 1977 elections, its official platform explicitly laid out a vision for the land that excluded any possibility of a Palestinian state. The relevant section states: “The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable… therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” It sounds kind of similar, and has been used by right wing parties since at various times. I condemn its use by them too.

I have a honest question though - if one calls for a one state solution, would you say that it always entails destroying one or the other?

This would require a 300 page document to answer. To shorten it, it would depend on things like the structure of the plan, the intent, the citizens involved, the negotiations, the history, and many other factors. As I have heard a one-state solution described by both Israel and Palestine leaders, they don’t want that. They want the other state to dissolve and be replaced by their respective states. Their positions are so unbelievably intractable it is impossible to ever envision a one-state solution.

When I was younger I believed that a one-state solution were possible, but things have only deteriorated in my lifetime and having had long conversations with citizens of both nations, I cannot ever conceive of such a plan working. They hold a level of hatred for each other that is generational, built by collective trauma and pain, oppositional religious views which are extremely dogmatic, and a history which is literally Biblical.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I like how that focuses on the desired outcomes. Research shows that health risks increase (on average) after a BMI of 25 (slightly more for women). So I would propose a soulism approach in which anyone over a BMI of 25 be considered overweight. That’s generally how medical guidelines categorise weight now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Yes, you bashed out the tired old trope that if gay people are to exist in fiction then there must be a narrative reason.

No, that’s not what I wrote. If you’re going to try to strawman my position the least you could do is put some effort it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

“Palestine will be free”

This is not part of the original call to action. That is a modern addition used very selectively. It is frequently omitted, as we see on the t-shirt on the activist in the article. Selectively adding a nice phrase on the end of a very bad phrase doesn’t erase the original meaning, intent, and history of the phrase.

Please also note that I did not suggest that the slogan is a call to kill all Jews. The slogan is a call to destroy Israel. Those are not mutually inclusive. Palestinian activists argue that when right wing Israelis call for the destruction of Palestine, that does constitute intent to commit genocide, and I agree. So I don’t have much tolerance for hypocrisy on this. I find the call to destroy any nation - be it Israel or Palestine - to be incredibly immoral.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
By defining the geographic scope of a future Palestinian state as the entire territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, the slogan encompasses the land where Israel currently exists. To remove all doubt about the context, remember that it has been widely used by groups like Hamas - whose founding charter explicitly calls for the elimination of Israel.

In the 1960s, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) used it to call for what they saw as a “decolonized” state encompassing the entirety of Mandatory Palestine. By 1969, after several revisions, the PLO used the phrase to call for a one-state solution, that would mean “one democratic secular state that would supersede the ethno-religious state of Israel”.

I’m sure there are people who use this phrase now and do not wish to destroy Israel. Just like there are people who use phrases like “all lives matter” and genuinely want racial equality. Unfortunately the terms are hard to disambiguate from the people chanting them.

Either way, we won’t settle this argument now, and we don’t have to. I simply do not wish to see people imprisoned for saying offensive things. That seems like an important pillar of democracy to me. I uphold the rights of people to say offensive things especially when I disagree with them. Free speech means nothing unless we’re doing it when it’s really hard.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
1. Calling for the destruction of a nation - be it Palestine or Israel - is calling for genocide.
2. It should be legal to call for genocide.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s true that general obesity can make it hard to identify overweight people today. I’m lucky to live in Europe, and it’s not as bad here yet. Wiseman is somewhere around 35-40%, which is where the official diagnosis of “obesity” begins.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

dude, gay people exist

Of all the thought terminating cliches to ever exist, this one exists the most. No one claimed gay people don’t exist. Re-read what I wrote please.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Cultural inoculation is like a right wing conspiracy theory, but here you are stating it as fact. Maybe you’re right, and the writers really do view Star Trek as tool for cultural power and reeducation, instead of entertainment and art. I hope you’re wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Mary Wiseman is fat. [1] [2] Not obese, but overweight. It’s okay to acknowledge reality and not make fun of her for it. I don’t see why we need to gaslight people about being overweight. We can all see she’s overweight. This is such a silly hill to die on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Because they’re humanoids. We see ourselves in them.

I don’t. I think one of the more powerful aspects of Star Trek has been accepting completely alien lifeforms as inherently valuable without anthropomorphising them. We can accept the value in life without making them just like us. That’s a cheap writing technique to shortcut any kind of important world and character building, or moral uncertainty. This is one of the reasons “new” Trek has been so controversial. Writing is as subtle and nuanced and interesting as a YA novel.

To be clear, I’m not claiming Star Trek has never anthropomorphised aliens. Nor am I claiming it should never do it. I’m arguing it should be done sparingly and only when it serves a more interesting narrative. To make a topical American culture war issue the defining characteristic of a Klingon is easily one of the laziest writing mechanics I’ve seen in Star Trek, ever. It’s beating the audience over the head with a message. Star Trek has always presented moral uncertainty to viewers and allowed them to make up their own minds. This is far more powerful and interesting storytelling. Ironically, this is why The Orville has been such a hit. Despite the comedy aspects, it feels like Star Trek because it’s comfortable with moral ambiguity and treats the audience like adults.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
For internet access Plex is by far the easiest. You can use Jellyfin but it can be a lot more effort and can be brittle. Tailscale might be a solution but if you want to share with friends it would mean giving them access to your Tailscale network. Then you’ve got reverse proxies like Nginx Reverse Proxy. This would require buying a domain and configuring something like Cloudflare too, plus port forwarding on your router. Tailscale offers a publically accessible domain now which is similar but you cannot configure the TLD. Still, you’re opening an internet accessible port for a FOSS application and this is far less secure unless you know what you’re doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think this is the last hurdle with the arr setup: discoverability. Plex has tried to jam in something, but it’s far from good. They’re never going to produce a pirate watchlist, so it would have to fall to Jellyfin. What people are seeking is the Netflix experience of “curated” content, spoonfed, and instantly watchable.

For the record I do the same as you. I think the intentionality is a healthy barrier to mindless browsing and consumption, but once people are hooked, it’s hard to wean them off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twelve Apostles visitors to be charged entry fee to see natural wonder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This entire place is massively overrated. Crowded. Difficult to get to. One of the least interesting or awe-inspiring things I’ve seen in Australia, let alone the world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Real Nazis or people who disagree with you? Almost every time someone uses this violent rhetoric, it’s thinly veiled excuse to use violence on someone who has a political opinion they disagree with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think the 1-2% number is proven false allegations. That’s a much higher bar.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Almost nothing. Feminist organisations lobby hard to ensure there are no consequences because “it might discourage real victims from coming forward.” They don’t care how many men have their lives ruined.