[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's just Imperium propaganda.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Surely there exists a space between us breeding, mass murdering and torturing domestic animals with cruel factory farming on the one hand, and wiping them off the face of the earth on the other.

Wouldn't you say that both extremes constitute disastrous consequences for huge parts of the entire world's biosphere?

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The UN is more a place to talk with your enemies than with your friends, and getting the chance to sit at a table with people you disagree with rather than fighting each other is great.

If there are any Palestinians left to disagree with.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Sorry, I was trying to ask a genuine question, I didn't mean to come across in a negative way.

I'd still be very interested in the answer.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Original from Perry Bible Fellowship: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/one-more-day/

Weird that the text was re-written, I wonder if the comic was somehow translated and translated back to English?

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Military response and operations to save the hostages is naturally justified, but that can be done without actively

  • cutting off water, food and power supply
  • bombing hospitals and apartment buildings full of civilians
  • executing civilian families in the streets
  • allowing members of parliament to call for eradication of the Gazan people without criticism
  • trying to shut down any criticism of their extreme and indiscriminate violence by calling their opponents part of Hamas (South Africa, UNRWA)
[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 73 points 6 months ago

Does being a Jewish Palestinian somehow make you Israeli? What then if you're a non-Jewish Israeli? 🤔

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Hmm, sounds more like they are adding structures to the images such that what is clearly a picture of a dog registers as a picture of a cat to an AI. I suppose this can be done by altering the pixels in a way invisible to humans, but visible to AI, adding a cat into the "ghost pixels".

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 233 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's base 20 like in France, plus the quirk that we have an ordinal numeral way of saying half integers, i.e. 1.5 is "half second", 2.5 is "half third", 4.5 is "half fifth". So 92 is said as "two and half fifth times twenty". We've since made the "times twenty" implicit for maximum confusion, so it's just said as "two and half fifths".

Also, the ordinal numeral system for halves is only really used for 1.5 these days, so the numbers don't really make sense to anyone. When speaking to other Scandinavians, we often just say "nine ten two".

Why don't we just change it to the more sensible system then? Because language is stubborn.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

And Han is explicitly tortured, with Leia both tortured and enslaved. It's pretty grim.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

Not a commie, but didn't the Norwegian people nationalize the oil production, leasing it out to companies while keeping a huge share of the profit for the welfare of common Norwegians?

My understanding is that, in a sense, that is exactly what seizing the means of production is about.

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