SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Is there anything you’re seeing that indicates Hamas can accomplish anything other than getting more people killed?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yes, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran often hit civilian targets. And not by accident, they actually target civilians.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
How old are you?
I’m no spring chicken and that’s way before I was born.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
So just give the terrorists whatever they want?
Why wouldn’t Hamas just recover their strength and do more terrorism in the future? If they can expect to always be given a way out, why would they ever stop their terrorist activity?
There’s a reason for the old saw “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” And Hamas clearly doesn’t give a shit about the lives of Palestinian civilians, so what’s the end game? Or do you not want it to end and just be Hamas terrorism forever?
Hamas has been doing this for decades now. October 7 was obviously beyond anything else they did before but Hamas firing rockets at civilian population centers, Hamas taking hostages has sadly been a commonplace thing for a long time. If you’re not aware, Yahya Sinwar was a prisoner that was previously released in exchange for hostages. Then he planned the October 7 attack. So Israel releases some more Yahya Sinwars in exchange for hostages and then what? In a decade or two we do this thing all over again?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You can’t defend the actions of Hamas you only know how to attack Israel. Why are you incapable of criticizing Hamas?
Right now it’s not all that different from how Germans kept fighting in WWII even when it was obvious they’d lose. It’s tragic how people can become so indoctrinated in hatred they can’t end a war when their cities are completely destroyed, there is zero chance they can win, they only thing they can accomplish is getting more people (mostly their own) killed. But they continue to fight out of hatred or some insane idea that it’s somehow honourable to get their own people killed or whatever. Even after Hitler offed himself, Germans kept on fighting and people kept on dying.
The leaders of Hamas are all dead, their cities are bombed to shit, but Hamas still holds onto the hostages to keep the war going. Why?
Look at the photos of Gaza. This is the accomplishment of the “al-aqsa flood” of Hamas. Was it worth it? Did Hamas do anything good for the Palestinian people?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hamas has always been extreme in rhetoric, but the violence afaik began when Israel
Apparently you’re too young to remember the Hamas suicide bombings in the 1990s.
I think you should do a little more reading on this subject.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
So you’re good with Palestinians suffering so these nutjobs can have a “bargaining chip”? You’re good with Palestinians suffering so some nutjobs can have revenge?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Did you miss the part where Iran brags about their “Axis of Resistance”?
They also officially state they want to “wipe Israel off the map” while developing nuclear weapons. So they explicitly want to be an existential threat to Israel.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis are all Iranian proxies. That’s not me saying that, that’s Iran stating that. They’re all tentacles of the Ayatollah’s regime. Most of the problems in the Middle East can be traced to Iranians using Arabs as cannon fodder to further their petty hatred of Israel.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yes Hamas wants their imprisoned members released to replenish the ranks.
You do know that Yahya Sinwar was released in a previous exchange of prisoners for hostages, right? Some people claim that Israel propped up Hamas with these kinds of negotiations.
There have been a few times in this war there has been ceasefires with hostages exchanged for prisoners. Hamas eventually stops releasing hostages and the conflict resumes. The IDF ends up just fighting the Hamas fighters released causing more death and destruction.
Also Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza about two decades ago. But then Hamas got into power with a plurality of the vote and have been constantly attacking Israel ever since. It doesn’t seem like Hamas wants sovereignty, they could have had that if they wanted it. Hamas wants violence because that’s how they maintain power. Violence against Israel and violence against their own people.
You also have access to a search engine, you could use to find out what Hamas really is. They aren’t freedom fighters, they’re an oppressive regime that uses violence to maintain power that’s propped up by Iran.
Nothing Hamas is negotiating for is for the benefit of the Palestinian people. They’re only negotiating for their own interests while Palestinians suffer.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Where are you getting this 1/5 number? According to the Gaza Health Ministry casualties are somewhere around 60K.
Are you claiming that the Gaza Health Ministry is lying?
Also why would you assume Israel is going to stop the war if Hamas doesn’t release the hostages? Our goal is to end the war isn’t it? How do you imagine the war ending while Hamas continues holding hostages?
Hamas massacred villages. I think a it takes a real rube to believe a group that massacres entire villages would never lie to you.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Bargaining chip for what? What is the goal of Hamas at this point, other than to continue the conflict indefinitely?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hamas tortures people to death if they criticize them.
You may be in an information silo and not aware of how oppressive Hamas truly is.
There is a movement in Gaza that’s against Hamas, but because of the whole thing of Hamas torturing people to death, it’s hard for that movement to gain traction.
Hamas could end this war at any time if they released the hostages. If you were witnessing extreme hardship of your people and you could end it, why wouldn’t you? Holding those hostages is a war crime, every day they continue to hold them they are continuing their war crimes. Why wouldn’t Hamas release the hostages if they truly believed this was a genocide?
- Comment on I'm hotmail 1 week ago:
A little while, but I redirected the those that mattered and just bounced the rest.
- Comment on I'm hotmail 1 week ago:
I used to be hotmail, but a long time ago I transitioned to gmail.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
PETA has killed more animals than I have LOL.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. T
It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don’t you care about the suffering of these animals?
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
Why are you so obsessed with the source of my meat? If you must know comes from a little French town called Dublé Entendré.
- Comment on LICENSE TO KILL 2 weeks ago:
Just had a moth inside, kinda annoying. Got a box to try to catch him but just so happened the next time I heard him fluttering about he was right by the door. So only had to open the door to and swish him out.
Moth friend is free!
I don’t kill things unless they deserve it… or if they taste good.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
Weird way to be judgemental.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
I buy all of my food from Food 'n Stuff… and most of my stuff.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
Estimates of numbers like 80% and 99% are just made up on the spot. I estimate 99% of the world knows that.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
Some website I’ve never heard of before that you term as a “random website” says “We estimate…” a bunch of times without any attempt to describe the methodology used for their estimates.
So that’s bullshit.
The problem with the vegan animal rights movement is you’re always going for the moonshot of ending an entire industry instead of even trying to identify and shut down farms with horrible practices or outlaw those practices. To accomplish the goal of ending an industry, you’re fudging numbers and coming out as being dishonest which means no one will trust you and you’ll accomplish nothing. If animals are indeed being boiled alive (I don’t believe you about this because you’re obviously making up shit on other things) then it will continue to happen because you’re trying to accuse an entire industry of doing things that only some in the industry might do.
If you cared about the boiling animals alive thing (if it actually happens) you’d be trying to get that particular farm shut down, get laws passed to prevent that from happening. But you’re not doing that (you’re not even identifying any particular farms) so that leads me to believe either it’s not happening, or maybe you want it to continue to happen because it somehow helps your vain cause of ending all meat.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 2 weeks ago:
I think it has more to do with lazy management. Before WFH their job was basically just making sure the employees were sitting at their desks at a specific time and didn’t leave until after a specific time. So 9am, you’re sitting at your desk, at 5pm you’re sitting at your desk then they’ve done their job for the day.
WFH means they need to know that you’re actually working. So they have to know what you do (many bosses don’t actually know what their employees do) and have some way to measure that you’re doing that thing in a reasonable amount of time. It’s actually their job to do this even if you’re in the office, but it’s easier to just make sure you’re in a location where work is the only thing you can do and assume you’re doing work because there’s nothing else to do.
Also bosses are hesitant to verbally abuse employees over video chat as that can easily be recorded. RTO solves problems for managers that like to yell at their employees.
But they can’t say “we’re lazy and we want to be able to yell at you” so they come up with other reasons.
Sure, sometimes the real estate thing can be a factor when a company got massive tax breaks from the government under the promise of that the new Amazooglesoft “campus” will be a big economic driver for a city with a bunch of cities competing to give the biggest tax breaks to entice those companies to go there. The governments that gave those incentives will probably take them away (they should, those companies should be paying taxes) because there actually hasn’t been economic stimulus for the neighbourhoods of those offices spaces because of WFH. So in those cases you have to go to a place so you can buy lunch (and maybe go shopping after work) so your company can still get tax breaks.
But mostly it’s just lazy managers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Give them an even number of yellow roses. It’ll be fine because yellow symbolizes friendship, so there’s no way it’ll be misinterpreted.
Eastern European mafia types sometimes give an even number of roses to their friends so it must be fine!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
TIL spilling salt isn’t considered bad luck in the US. As you can see in the wiki you linked it’s a European (not just Eastern European) superstition, along with being a bad omen in many religions in the world.
I’m from Canada and it’s considered bad luck here, though generally not taken all that seriously.
Can I ask what part of the US are that you’ve never heard of spilling salt to be bad luck? Also why would you just dump it on the ground?
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
It says 60% of mammals are livestock, not 60% live in factory farms. I’ve been around cows in normal (non-factory) farms, and they seem fine. Way better off than wild animals that starve, die of disease, freeze to death, etc.
I have family members that have livestock and if something bad happens to them it’s like someone hurt their child.
A seal in the 4% living in the wild may be eaten alive by a killer whale or torn to shreds by a great white shark.
We aren’t going to prevent all animals from suffering, because how could we do that? Kill off all of the predators? Then there would be animal overpopulation and animals dying of starvation and disease.
Maybe we just focus on ending factory farms because that seems doable. But that effort won’t be successful with obvious hyperbole claiming all livestock is treated like animals in the most horrible factory farms. Some people have actually been to farms that aren’t like that you know.
People aren’t stupid and if you misrepresent the facts, no one will believe anything else you’re saying no matter how emotional you are when misrepresenting the facts.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah and that’s where the capitalism angle comes in. With supply side economics pushed by Reagan, wealthy people are supposed to do things that’ll create jobs. They’re “job creaters”, right?
Problem is they don’t have any good ideas. And that would normally be fine, you could have employees that know what they’re doing developing technology that’ll make a production line 2% more efficient. Those kinds of advancements are important… if we’re 2% more efficient, we can make 2% more stuff, and so we’re 2% better off. But that’s not exciting and doesn’t attract investment. So instead we get these big bold “visionary” ideas that soak up a lot of investment, and we have a whole lot of people making marketing campaigns to promote these “game-changer” ideas to attract even more investment. So we have a society where we’re near full employment but a lot of people not producing anything that has a benefit to society.
So those scientists in Jurassic Park (or the real life scientists at that “Dire Wolf” company) could be working on something beneficial like applying their skills towards curing diseases. But instead they’re working on useless things because the money goes towards “visionaries” that don’t actually have good ideas on how to contribute to society. But I don’t think that absolves the scientists from taking those jobs. But people have to pay the bills I’m not going to judge them for it either. The Dire Wolf thing seems stupid to me but nowhere near as dangerous as Jurassic Park. In the case of JP, at some point you have to ask yourself “is my job going to cause harm to people”, but the JP scientists didn’t seem to ask the question because they were just interested in the challenge of making a dinosaur.
But yeah the Dire Wolf thing is stupid and useless… for now. But hey, eventually that company might do something useless that’ll get people killed!
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 weeks ago:
but have some physical metal rods as backup.
Do you know how high the animal can jump? Do you know whether or not they’ll be able to climb those rods?
Also maybe don’t make the dinosaurs bulletproof.
How would you know which weapons an animal is vulnerable to before it’s fully grown?
The problem is you don’t actually know many the variables you’re trying to make a solution for. You’re assuming you would have thought of a lot of these things only after you’ve seen another solution fail. Hindsight is 20/20. But if you didn’t have the benefit of hindsight how are you going to solve a problem involving lifeforms with an unknown level of intelligence, and an unknown resilience to weapons, and having unknown behaviours? You’re only going to know you missed something after whatever you designed failed.
There’s the part of the movie where Hammond is eating the melting ice cream saying “next time we’ll do it better.” That would be you because you’re certain you can solve a problem that’s not defined by empirical evidence (it doesn’t exist because they’re new animals) but based on assumptions about a new lifeform being similar to existing lifeforms we currently have in zoos, and think keeping animals we have familiarity with is easy (it isn’t, animals in zoos actually do escape containment).
You’re showing the hubris the story is warning against. Science depends on empirical evidence, and there wouldn’t be any empirical evidence on the behaviour of new animals grown in a lab. And if you are completely ignorant of animal behaviour (because you think it’s irrelevant) you’re going to be very bad at building a zoo. But you’re countering that by ignoring all of the knowledge we have about building a zoo (animal behaviour is important!) because there’s hubris layered on top of hubris.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 weeks ago:
Im saying those factors should be understandable
There’s the hubris. You’re assuming “we got this” on something that isn’t going to be understandable until after the animals escape.
Science is about trial and error. Zoos function because over a very long period of time mistakes have been made and we learned from those mistakes. We’ve learned these lessons over centuries.
You’re talking about a zoo where every animal in it we have zero experience with handling.
You’re thinking handling animals we have centuries of experience with is the same as handling animals we have zero experience with because there’s a tendency in the science community to be reductive towards other disciplines. Just as you might think that running a zoo is super easy - barely an inconvenience, an expert in genetic engineering (but no experience in running a zoo) might think the same. And the guy running the company might think “well he’s an expert that saying it’s no problem” and think they don’t need to put any effort into studying the behavior of the animals. The “clever girl” dude warns Hammond they should put just down the velociraptors because he spent time watching the animals and studying their behaviour (they never attack the same place twice). But I don’t think that guy had a PhD, so he was ignored.
Right now we have occasional one off story about a tiger jumping higher than tigers were known to be able to jump, getting out and mauling some people. That’s one mistake on one animal. An animal we have centuries of experience in handling, and we still get things wrong sometimes.
A zoo trying to contain many different animals that we have zero experience in handling would have these kinds of events happening constantly, and possibly have multiple issues happening at once possibly resulting in a cascading system failure. Which is what the story portrays. But all it takes is one scientist acting like they’re experts in a subject they look down their nose at other disciplines (how many zoos have you run that qualifies you to say it’s not a problem?) to convince an owner there is no need to worry about those naysayers who aren’t brilliant genetic scientists.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 weeks ago:
There would definitely be some people in the Pentagon that would try to weaponize velociraptors after seeing what they’re capable of. Dogs are used in war, and there have been attempts to use dolphins and other animals.
An animal that can go into buildings, open doors and methodically search rooms? Yeah they’d definitely be putting some DARPA money into seeing if they could be trained to go into combat situations.