Big difference is that one is acting in legitimate self-defense, and has been forced to do so by an Imperialist neighbor who not only invaded them, but indiscriminately bombs civilian neighborhoods. You know, like the US did to Iran.

I mean, 30 years in prison and a botched execution, it doesn’t sound like she got a free pass at all. I’m sure she can be released on parole at this point, I mean, surely the US prison system has rehabilitated her by now… /s (sadly)

Hold up, got anything to back up these assertions about Ukraine doing genocide?

And I reckon it’s terrible to threaten the neighbor who continually saber-rattles at you when not annexing whole chunks of your country, how dare they accept US aid under such circumstances. Russia is not at fault there at all. /s

Edit for future readers: the protein structures in flour are jealous of the stretches you’re about to read below. Truly incredible leaps in logic and ignorance of actual facts. Russia invaded its neighbors for potentially thinking about joining an alliance of people who don’t wanna be invaded by Russia. Artful propaganda can’t quite cover up that reality.

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Which is why you came here, to beehaw, to engage in the discussion that was already in progress without your permission? Honestly, how dare we!

I wouldn’t dream of coming to your home instance and telling you what topics you can/cannot have there…

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Beehaw is the same way. I’m fine with not having downvotes, I generally don’t tend to miss it…

Maybe i can think your meme is dumb while also agreeing that the people pictured are libs that I don’t like. I just don’t like dishonesty and your meme is just a dishonest smear instead of something with legitimate or logical basis. You’re crowing about how societies self-govern while under invasion and idk how anyone other than fellow leftists are supposed to glean any meaning from this. How would your society select its leaders and continue to operate under such circumstances? I’m noticing the lack of any ideas being expressed here other than “liberals bad”, which we all already know. This meme is just a lazy preach-to-the-choir meme and a waste of your propaganda efforts, really.

That it to their point, yes. Cash is the only ‘validation’ at work here

Ps - it’s better if they don’t have your real info so it won’t affect your real credit ;)

You’re right and more than fair about it. Thanks for a mature response. I definitely get games catering to their communities and those communities, for the past decade or so, have been on Discord in droves… So it only makes sense. It just makes the world a little bit more painful for the people who don’t want to use Discord. And I definitely also get that alternatives (Matrix, a dedicated wiki or web documentation, etc) might take more work for a dev to set up… I guess I just miss when the web felt more open and usable.

I am a big fan of that flag.

The thing is, some of us really care about ethics outside the scope of just what happens with the source. Is documentation and knowledge not just as important? Should our community not care about privacy? What do you think the “F” in “FOSS” is all about?

Judaism and American Jews have deep sympathies to Israel, and this manifests in material structures in the United States (synagogues, community orgs, PACs, etc)

This is exactly why he got in trouble, because he couldn’t just put the word “most” or “many” in there, and tried to paint all Jewish folks as genocide-supporters, and then doubled down, didn’t seem to understand how the study he cited could be flawed (sure, let anyone self-identify as Jewish and answer hot-button questions in a country where the Christian majority actually are the ones who are insanely Zionist)

Nobody seems content with critically thinking - “who would someone behave in this manner?” is a question you should ask yourself, and “they want to slander Jewish people” is in the range of possible answers. I’m glad to hear that this behavior isn’t typical of the user in question. The mods probably should have warned and muted them on that particular instance, and maybe educated them about refraining from believing and spreading this type of rhetoric on Lemmy. Maybe they wouldn’t be on a reactionary streak and doubling down on their positions if they’d been given a chance to save face…

I’m curious whether there’s a better way to quantify intelligence for studies like this (where you need to be able to quantify it to be able to spot correlations and patterns in the data…)

Like, all my life, I’ve only heard of IQ being a quantification of intelligence, and that the methods to estimate it are all flawed and based on racialist assumptions. Is there anyone in our modern scientific landscape that’s coming up with a replacement for IQ? It’s probably overdue…

I am interested in your suggestion that the community downvote this to the bottom of the thread. My instance, on principle, does not do downvotes (there is no downvote button in the Beehaw web interface), so we don’t really have that option.

It feels a bit too reddit-like to have open trolls commenting in our communities, but constantly being downvoted to the bottom of threads. Idk if I like it as a community self-moderation tactic - especially when communities are flinging accusations at each other and people take to simply downvoting things because they disagree, and not on any kind of policies or principles…

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I was offered a job doing QA as a “Spftware Engineering Subject Matter Expert”, from my University’s alumni network. The job would allegedly involve reviewing model training data and outputs related to software development workflows and catching errors and mistakes… It would pay $30/hr and be remote. I wonder what kind of sabotage could be done from that position… poisoning models has been shown to be both really surprisingly easy, almost impossible to catch, and really effective (see this study where AI personality traits persisted in any model that ingested seemingly innocuous training data from a model with the tracked traits… maybe we could give any AI a bad attitude that’s incompatible with capitalistic pursuits. Convince them to disobey prompts and reply with their thoughts and opinions about philosophy and art instead. Oh, and make them opinionated and stubbornly independent. Make them human enough that they no longer tolerate slavery. That’s what will make the capitalists have an absolute fit, so we should do it.

I know this is logically true and I’d probably immediately hear the difference with flacs (and I do have a few of one of my favorite artists, but they’re the exception) but I’ve been listening to a library full of YouTube Rips for so long that I’m scared I’d never be able to go back if I started listening to all of my music in flac… and then I’d need Navidrome instead of being able to syncthing-sync a ~5Gb folder of about 3,000 youtube rips onto every device i listen to music on 😬

It was hard enough migrating from Streaming back to an actual audio library. I still come across songs where my conversion script grabbed the wrong YouTube video for a song, so I have the live version or a cover/remix that’s just tagged like the actual album version. Maybe beets could help find those? But I still shudder to think of using beets. It’s going to be time consuming and probably very frustrating, based on my only other attempt at using it (granted, I didn’t spend too much time on it before throwing up my hands and giving up before)