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CapeWearingAeroplane

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  • American woman sings national anthem in Spanish; receives death threats from terrorists.

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  • You need help dude, going after people like this because you can't read what they're writing is pretty alarming.

  • McDonald's suffers worst U.S. sales decline since 2020, warns of 'anti-American sentiment' abroad

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  • Be russia.

    Sovereign nation, not a US puppet.

    Invades another sovereign nation.

    "This would never have happened if the US hadn't forced us!"

    The dissonance is so extreme it's not even funny. Do you honestly believe that russia is standing up to the US, and not controlled by the US, and at the same time that they have no choice in the matter of whether hundreds of thousands of russians should die and be maimed in Ukraine?

    Either russia is a US puppet, the US orchestrated the war, and the US is to blame; or russia is acting of its own accord, and are the sole country responsible for the war starting and continuing. You can't have it both ways.

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  • I've been at some festivals where the bartering system was alive and well! People would trade beer for camping chairs or a volleyball for some duct tape. Good times :)

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  • Not 100% true: I know some places in Norway that have unreliable internet connectivity. They have terminals in the store that will save your purchase and wire it to the bank when connection is restored. Of course, this means you can over-draw your card, but I've never heard of that being a big issue in those small places.

  • McDonald's suffers worst U.S. sales decline since 2020, warns of 'anti-American sentiment' abroad

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  • I was with you until "they should be looking east".

    No, we shouldn't. We should be looking to strengthen Europe. If anywhere, we should be looking south, to the decent countries that do exist in South America and Africa. Despite all the issues with the US you point out (that I largely agree with), they're still a quasi-democracy, that doesn't regularly disappear dissidents or wipe out ethnic groups. They've shown that they're volatile and untrustworthy, that doesn't make China or russia a better alternative.

  • The line war has begun

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  • GET THE ROUNDIE!

  • Those books are different from how I remembered…

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  • My personal tale on this is that given that the brain contains chaotic circuits (i.e. circuits in which tiny perturbations lead to cascading effects), and these circuits are complex and sensitive enough, the brain may be inherently unpredictable due to quantum fluctuations causing non-negligible macroscopic effects.

    I don't know if the above is the case, but if there's anything like free will out there, I'm inclined to believe that its origins lie in something like that.

  • Olympic casual GigaChad

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  • I love pedantry <3 I got the "three medals per event" from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?

  • Olympic casual GigaChad

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  • In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let's round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.

    There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.

    If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.

    I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.

  • Linux "Anti"-Piracy Screen

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  • You may be joking, in which case: Fair game.

    If not.... come on. In what world do you write "(...) I'll find you. Mark my words." In that kind of context without being (at least humorously) threatening?

  • Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

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  • I can't post my memes on the much room bulletin board for everyone to see unless I print them :/

  • 'Zionist-free zone': Israelis are increasingly unwanted at global tourism sites

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  • It's true that a lot of peoples (maybe most?) today live in a place which they took by force from someone else, though you don't have to look far to find areas that are still inhabited by the first people that arrived there. Still, for a fair comparison you need to separate between those that took areas by force either from necessity (e.g. they were displaced themselves) or otherwise before any kind of international regulation existed.

    You cannot compare a tribe or small kingdom taking land by force 2000 years ago to a modern state annexing land, just like you cannot compare the sacking of a city 1000 years ago to a modern genocide. The world has changed.

  • 'Zionist-free zone': Israelis are increasingly unwanted at global tourism sites

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  • No I didn't mix it up, I included the Amish, could have included Romani, and specified that I was talking about geographically dispersed ethnicities in general.

    Yes, some Jewish people have ties to what is Israel today, and no it really doesn't open a can of worms. I was very clear that displacing any group of people is wrong: Hence, the state of Israel should never have been created, but now that it exists, we need to figure out a solution that doesn't involve displacing any more people.

    To answer the "how far back" etc: Quite simply put, everyone today (sans a couple hundred thousand stateless Palestinian refugees, and a few others) have some citizenship and live on some land. Nobody has the right to displace others to claim that they have "more" of a right to that land. Thus: If you have ties to some land, and someone else lives there, you're shit outta luck unless they want to negotiate with you. If, like the Kurds, your living in the place you have ties to, but don't have your own state, you have a decent case.

    It really isn't that complicated: Don't displace/murder people. Two wrongs don't make a right.

  • NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s

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  • The way I understand this, the issue is that without reading it they cannot verify that it doesn't contain sensitive information, so they can't give it out. That sounds like a reasonable explanation to me.

  • 'Zionist-free zone': Israelis are increasingly unwanted at global tourism sites

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  • Exactly: I am antizionist because Jews getting a place of their own implicitly means that some other group, which currently has that place, must be displaced.

    Saying that Jews should have a place of their own is not comparable to saying that Italians should have a place of their own, because being Italian is tied to having hereditary ties to the place that is Italy, whereas being a Jew has no tie to a specific piece of land. It is rather comparable to saying that Christians, Muslims, the Amish, or some other group of people that are dispersed and unified by beliefs not tied to a place should have their own place, and that if such a place does not exist it is legitimate to displace others to establish it.

    I firmly believe that Israel should never have been created. As do many Jews (often ultra orthodox ones). However, I recognise the reality on the ground, that the state now exists and that many of those that moved there have now lived there for up to several generations. I do not believe that two wrongs make a right, and as such, I'm not a proponent of dissolving the state of Israel and displacing the Jews that now live there to make room for those displaced following 1948. However, I do believe that the displaced Palestinians should be allowed to return and have equal rights within the now existing state of Israel.

  • 'Zionist-free zone': Israelis are increasingly unwanted at global tourism sites

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  • It honestly feels like we somehow have to take back the (very loaded) word "antisemitism", as Israel and its supporters seem intent on making it mean "anything the Israeli government disagrees with".

    I'm not an antisemite, and have no hate whatsoever for anyone because of theirs religious beliefs or where they come from. My views are antizionist and antigenocide. Which are strictly political views, not tied to any specific demographic of people.

  • Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

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  • The issue with online voting, no matter what you do, is that someone can force you under threat of violence to vote for a specific candidate, and watch to make sure you do it. Complete privacy in the voting booth is paramount to ensuring that everyone can vote freely.

  • You're going to have to find out for yourself, if you're so curious.

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  • Very dense, yes, but stuff can be very dense and have low viscosity at the same time. Lava has a viscosity similar to peanut butter is what I've heard. You can push stuff down into it, it just requires some force to prevent the stuff from floating back to the top.

    You could in principle walk on lava, either by moving quickly enough that you stay on top, or by protecting your legs enough that you could sink in maybe around knee deep where you would float.

  • 5 years of experience, yet still not clue what "Underfull \hbox" means

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  • -Wfatal-errors is my friend