Historic stuff.

Palestine was a country, or a region/territory administrated by the British. The formation of Israel was a bit of a historic coincidence, the empire was beaten by WW2 and scoping down and giving independence because the colonial stuff couldn’t be maintained any longer.

The situation with the europen jews was problematic, because even though Nazi Germany was defeated, the prejudices against jews weren’t removed by snapping your fingers and the question of where the millions of victims should go and live was open. Putting them into Palestine and creating Israel was a convenient alignment of both the political opportunity and the public opinion of people who wanted the jews gone and the jews who wanted to leave and live in Israel instead.

You may notice that the one group that wasn’t asked in this situation was the population of Palestine.

That’s sort of the short version of how Israel came to be.

The situation with the Kurds is completely different. They have no real external political support. The countries where “Kurdistan” would be “belongs” to intact, functioning sovereign nations, who all between each other agree to the current borders. And who all can field the military and governmental power to enforce that claim, both externally, but also internally. Because of how international territorial disputes are resolved, this is a “solved problem” diplomatically and internationally.

Kurds who are pro Kurdistan and… well, armed, are treated as rebels against the government. And other governments also don’t like rebels in their countries, so the question of how legitimate the claim is, doesn’t even get debated on that level.

So in short, supporting a “free Kurdistan” looks more like support rebels and terrorists, compared to palestinians who drew the short stick in a historical conflict and who are an underdog and “legitimately defending” themselves. So associating one-self with that is easier than with Kurdistan.

(And I’m not judging the legitimacy of any party in any of the conflicts, everyone has their story.)

That’s… how lemmy works by default? I don’t get it.

The point of a sarcastic comment like mine, is to shame reuters for their shitty behavior, that has fallen behind the times.

As the other commenter has demonstrated, finding the study is easy. For everyone, including reuters. The reason they don’t link them is cultural, they are so arrogant to believe they don’t have to. Which pisses me off and sarcasm and ridiculing them is the only tool available to me to maybe make them stop eventually.

No source linked, so that’s just a rumor spread by reuters.

“If you got a ton of money, maybe you can make it happen,” he told Aviation Week. “They went to the Moon, you know.”

That is SO funny.

I think it’s just sameness fatigue.

You have to observe the process for a while to understand the dynamic and when you do, it can appear that everything is just cyclic and boring. So an unbelievable number of people are now “aging out” of the 10-15 year period of exposure you need to understand what’s worth engaging with and what isn’t.

It’s a certain realization that the original utopia of an interconnected places where everyone can share and everyone is interested in a broad number of topics and everyone can be nice for the purpose of discussion, is ending. Maybe I don’t care for the big platform that has everything and everyone, because most of everything and most of everyone is not actually interesting to me. Regardless of whether they’re bots or not.

If it’s entertaining, it being fake isn’t a problem. But if it’s fake AND boring… why stick around.

tldr: the internet hasn’t changed, we have. Or it did, but that’s not the point.

knitting is great.

data “center”

• very far away, not central at all
• tiny, so it can’t “center” much
• radio contact only, so other places are probably faster to reach

Ok then.

Getting a hobby is a must have. Sport would be good. Acquiring eccentric taste is also a storied favorite. You can go to a university and get a / another degree so that you can be mad (but accomplished) scientists in your 60s and 70s.

designed to show off explosions.

EXPLOSIONS??

Let me reinforce this point mentioned by mushroommunk:

There was one game, No Mercy, that really did push things too far. Collective Shout was able to poster child that game and pressure payment providers into pressuring game platforms to delist a lot of NSFW games.

There were a few others and they were justifying and glorifying violence and terrorism. Not satire. Not as political commentary. Not artistically valuable. I recommend you don’t research this further. It’s real NSFL stuff. They were not putting it in fictional universes or anything like that either. It was “commit these crimes”-simulators and justifying it with racism, sexism or whatever, claiming that the victims deserve it. Actually disgusting.

They would be declared illegal, by any customer protection agency or national / government prosecutors doing their job. They were only online and available because those gov. agencies were not aware of them and/or too slow in taking them offline.

And because the steam’s process didn’t check them. Which Valve acknowledged in the sense that they admitted they didn’t and couldn’t and THEN took everything offline they couldn’t and didn’t check.

And THAT also hit unrelated stuff, because valve couldn’t check it and doesn’t want to take responsibility. Which, yeah, understandable.

Create the situation where there is nothing to do except reading.

Make the time. Make an appointment with yourself. Put the books to the place where you plan to read them. Shut off everything else, computer, laptop, music. Don’t put a clock near you. It’s not about “getting through this chore”. Focus on reading. If it’s a room with a window, the rising and setting of the sun will give you enough of a clue how early or late it is.

I just don’t feel attracted to those books.

Boohoo. Do it.

“Nvidia is going to be stable for longer than you think.”

Ask your local political party (or union) and volunteer for tech stuff for them.

Ask what they use, contribute to that. Or if they use something bad, suggest something good to them, then work on that.

When scythes were invented, they were a very hot, new, efficient tool. Previously they only had some curved had knifes and had to harvest every few bits of wheat individually, but with a scythe you could take those wide swings and get lots of wheat at once.

Think of it as going from a handgun revolver to a machine gun, except in a way that a medieval peasant would understand.

Open Source and git mean this is basically a non issue. It’s just effort to manage it again.

People can fork a pre… 2020? version if they insist and if it’s enough people who want that, they can group up again and form a new community.

The problem AI slop coding is mostly the untested bullshit that causes problems. That’s not going to happen because I believe that a good bunch of stuff is thoroughly tested now, and also, this is maintainers doing it. If it doesn’t work, it’s their project, their career and their success on the line. And again, the worst possible outcome is that people have to roll back to an older version.

The code we use is not art the same way that gen-ai replaces “real artists”. I agree with opposing that tech in that area, and I agree with rejecting unchecked, untested, hallucinated nonsense in coding too, especially when it promises new features in corpo software that you are forced to use, and then have that fail on you.

But there will be a very normal selection process happening. If the process doesn’t work, the software will fail and lose users.

I fully support the people who absolutely reject it though, that means diversity of approaches and that’s good.

1.000.000$? Just book a private flight. 1.000.000$ is “call the airline” kind of money. Call FedEx or something.

The smallest cargo planes can carry twice what you want in weight.

https://wcscargo.com/air-cargo-plane-capacities/

With notable exceptions by subsidiary companies like Split Fiction.

Yeah. No they haven’t.

EA is just a big bundle that they were able to buy at all with a huge pile of cash. Going around the globe, chasing studios that do this and that is a ton of work and takes forever and is not really a good strategy.

I think they’re betting on exactly that recurring structure of licensed sports games.

But that still depends on letting artists do some amount of stuff. For example a bunch of sports outfits may clash with strict Islam. Same for Sims.

It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.

But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.

Two or three components, the military had press with them.

Also, exploiting war crimes by the enemy for propaganda reasons was very important for morale, so it was a high priority thing to have writers and camera people available to document things.

Regarding distribution, specifically the Germans put the info into weekly cinema productions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Deutsche_Wochenschau But there was also radio and newspapers.

Ultimately it depended on either the military or reporters uncovering it and then reporting it.

Japan did establish Unit 731

Not sure how that was in that case.

edit:

I actually forgot something crucial: There was censorship. The military opened every single letter that came from or was sent to theaters of war. They would let things go through or censor them, depending on whether they deemed something either bad for political or military reasons.

So in many cases there was NO way to get specific news back home.