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earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
I do understand that it was not the first first salvo.

And that blockading policy and financing of anything but fatah and bunch of other stuff influenced today situation.

But you must admit that oct 7 was unusual escalation. Which now are used as the reason for current idf actions.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
If there is a lot of malnutrition, population numbers will change without migration.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
> Once one side of a war becomes dominant, it just ends.

Sorry for being pedanto, but other side must stop resisting for war to end. Guerrilla warfare is quite usual when there is great power imbalance.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
I think the parent meant there were no shooting before the genocide started. Jewish resistances were reactive to nazi actions.

I.e. there was not even a possibility that nazis were defending. While somebody from Palestine side did fire the opening salvo on oct7.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
Not sure I get your point.

Try the same, but opposite argument.

Something like: Would you wear a t-shirt saying “Palestine is treated unfairly” to oct7 memorial or airport/border crossing?
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
> and that many people who express that sentiment wouldn't be expressing it if the powers were flipped

That is definitely not true.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
Are you really of this opinion or are you trying to incite replies? :)
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
If only somebody would make motorcycles less noisy.. I dream of the day where there are neither mosquitos nor motorcycle noise. Two most annoying things during the summer.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
Americans go big. They use plenty more water during enhanced interrogation.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
> don’t try to win arguments if you know you’re right

Caveats:

- I can be wrong (sometimes need some pointing out)

- it is ok to post for the benefit of lurkers (inform others of fake news and such)
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
You probably mean the visible cooky thing.

But behind the scenes companies did start to think about customer data gathering, retention and deletion in terms of maximal fine of 4% of turnover.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

> A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy (generally by powerful sinister groups, often political in motivation),[3][4][5] when other explanations are more probable.

Evidently, different people assign different probability to security chief thinking “while real bombings are actually exploding each week and whole cities sleep outside to avoid death, let’s plant a fake bomb and see what happens”
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
Parent poster is not saying it should be ignored, parent poster is saying that people should not give-up and repeat “courts can be ignore”.

Because if enough people chant that, then it will become a real possibility.
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
> Russian opposition

Do you mean the guy who died relatively recently in Russian prison? Or his colleague who was part of prisoner exchange
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
Technically, they are the same. As in: people with power want to control the narrative.

This was so, is so and will always be so, everywhere.

But but but… details matter. A lot.

The west has traditions how and when to apply power, which is distinctly different from Russia.

I hand-pick two illustrations of Russia:

1. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/27/moscow-police-accu...

> Officers “beat up Kamardin very badly and stuck a dumbbell in his anus,” according to Novaya Gazeta Europe.

2. Bald man claim to power was accompanies with mysterious explosions of apartment buildings after which Chechens were declared enemies and war started.

Some interesting bits from wikipedia:

> Three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents who had planted the devices at Ryazan were arrested by the local police.[6] The next day, FSB director Nikolai Patrushev announced that the incident in Ryazan had been an anti-terror drill and the device found there contained only sugar, and freed the FSB agents involved.[7]

And

> 13 September 1999: Russian Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov makes an announcement about the bombing of an apartment building in the city of Volgodonsk that only takes place three days later

> 16 September 1999: Bombing in Volgodonsk, 17 are killed, 69 injured

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombi...
earnestinger
·el año pasado·discuss
Yup.

If simplicity syntax is the only goal, we can take one step further.

I present you with, EP - easy properties: Any UTF8 encoded file is valid configuration file. You’re the boss, not the language. You can concatenate two files, you can add comments in format you want, you can choose any syntax you want!

(Somebody will need to parse it eventually though)