benoityp.bsky.social
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LMAO ah yes COBOL, a language that's definitely just as represented in the corpus as something like JS or SQL
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I see no contradictions!
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A distinction without a difference. The government is the state as far as foreign policy is concerned. If the government decides to go to war, what the actual people think won't matter.
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Trump habitually lies when convenient. This is just more of the same and doesn't change the facts on the ground whatsoever
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I know which one is public transit but which one is communism?
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Ah no you must mean Political Correctness
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Personal Computer?
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Of course this sucks if you're a minority of any kind, or want to bring about any kind of radical political or social change. But again, material outcomes above all. People see railways and housing and are pretty content.
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People care about material outcomes. Folks who put the process on a pedestal are deluding themselves. That's why most of china is actually pretty ok with their government, because sure it ain't western style democracy but it's materially improved their lives.
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Pointing out that laws are only as strong as our collective will and ability to enforce them isn't nihilism. It's a call for enforcement for breaking the law. Trump and his ilk feel impune, and they may well be until someone makes them face consequences.
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(spoilers) And then she dies to cartel violence. Wait no, she dies because of personal drama that had nothing to do with the non profit doing work against cartel violence.
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Great news for transfems, very sad for transmascs
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Plus usually the baseline for what they qualify as spying when china is concerned is what's just called normal user data collection when US tech companies are involved
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We are doomed
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I thought the potential issue was the judge's husband owns stocks in companies in the healthcare industry, thus creating potential conflict of interests (judge doesn't want the industry stocks to tank). Dunno if that qualifies as conspiracy, just potentially inappropriate. Probably a non-issue.
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LMAO
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It becomes clear when you realize that it's not that nobody deserves death, it's that no state can be trusted to administer death in the name of the people
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Ah so if trans people are to blame all of a suddent school shootings are worth preventing? I thought the US had settled on school shootings being the price of freedom.
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Stock markets introduce perverse incentives, companies focus on value growth over making things run smoothly. It's not about being in the green after everyone is paid, you must show growth somehow.
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I didn't delete. I dunno why it shows up like this.
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They're not ok. But what did you expect? That they lay down and wait to die? Of course they're going to resort to terrorism, and many suffer as a result. But hey some political operatives win in the end I guess?
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Of course that's horrifying. So are airstrikes and having to pick up your children's pieces in bodybags.
I don't think they're in the right. I just don't have to moral ground to say "I know you get bombed daily but could you direct all your anger exlcusively at an army you have no chance against"
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At this point they're more about magic words you can say to get away with stuff, from a PR and political standpoint. That's why we see things like labeling all "military aged men" as combatants. The one weird trick to reduce civilian death tolls!
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At risk of catching a block: I don't feel comfortable telling an occupied people how they do or don't get to resist. Terrorism sucks, but it's that or waiting to die. I can understand why they'd try to make the price of occupation untenable. Also, I hold countries to higher standards than terrorists
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They're not a bug they're the logical end result. They system rewards the behaviors that logically lead to billionaires, and their counterpart, misery as a result of exploitation.
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Hahahaha this guy is at it again
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Damn it Ian!
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It could be good if the result is descalation. Which would assume Israel doesn't want war.
Shit
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I'm not saying he won't be able to gain _some_ political advantage from this. I just don't believe it was done on purpose. Politicians are opportunists more often than they are tacticians.
Again, if this was permitted to happen on purpose, that would mean hundreds of intelligence folks involved.
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That's why we see now Israelis protesting against their government despite facing police repression. These people know genocide is being perpetrated in their name, and they don't like it.
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Yeah, this is the kind of thing that is not necessarily true on an individual level, but it is true collectively. The government is acting on your behalf, even if it's not doing what you want it to be doing.
Which sucks when you're not in power.
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Why wouldn't it be more politically advantageous to prevent it, then loudly declare "see I have kept you safe"
Also, if you're right and evidence of that ever comes out, you realize it would be political suicide yeah?
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Fair enough, you did not!
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Terrorism is violence with an agenda that goes beyond what is immediately achieved though the violent action.
The objective isn't "kill a few israeli", the objective is "make the price of occupation too high to ignore, force negotiations"
It's horrible but unsurprising
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I really feel for the people living in Israel who see this for what it is, who understand that the far right has taken power of their country and is using it to commit genocide, yet are powerless to stop it.
Much respect to those protesting in israel
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Eh, we can be happy about the shoe throwing without endorsing or knowing everything about this person.
I just wish he'd hit
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If some of those people try to make the occupation and oppression untenable through terrorism, I wouldn't like it but I'd understand why.
I don't feel comfortable telling those people to just accept things as they are. Who am I to tell them to live like this?
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NVMEs are smaller and hold just as much. It's amazing
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I'm curious what's disrespectful about the bike specifically? Or is disrespect not the issue?
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To me there's such a thing as attractive as an objective statement about someone, vs attractive to me personally.
There are people who I know to be attractive but am not personally interested in for whatever reason
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Surely codes can only be used once?
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Oh. I hadn't been following the news. Anything is fair to resist occupation. Sucks to suck
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I dunno what this is about but yeah. I mean I don't think they needed further discrediting but yeah