jarfil

@jarfil@beehaw.org

Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🩄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

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jarfil,

They’ve also had 75 years since, to approve a Constitution
 yet to this day, can’t agree on one.

That makes the Declaration of Independence the ruling text for the existence of Israel, and it still says what it says.

jarfil, (edited )

If you think you can compensate with the strength of your own inner contemplation, you are wrong

Is that a thing about neurotypicals, or just people without any selfcontrol?

I know I can compensate all the rhetorics, because I can spot most of the techniques by name, never get “pulled in” by the news, extract only the facts (if there are any), then contrast them with other sources, before “making my mind” about anything. I’m not afraid of saying “beats me, I don’t know enough”, until I do learn enough to build a consistent picture without holes or contradictions (doesn’t mean I’m always right, just coherent). Most times when I look at news, I end up taking away maybe a single sentence, which almost never is the one being highlighted.

There is also picking which news sources to care about. Right now I only know about two sources that are somewhat impartial: one of them is the weather channel, and the other a news meta-debate where they like inviting people with opposite points of view, without letting it turn into a cage match.

As for the rest of the article
 it’s just describing the techniques used to produce what I like to call “news for toddlers”: fake human interest, full of rhetorical resources, cut down into tidbits easy to chew and swallow, aimed at eliciting an emotional response rather than a rational one (BTW, they’re the same techniques used by trolls).

You shouldn’t care about “that kind” of news. There are other kinds, like scientific breakthroughs, investigative reports, or news meta-analyses, that you might want to care about. Or whether to take an umbrella tomorrow.

jarfil, (edited )

The car and bridge one, is an example of “human interest” news, which some reporters, and news channels, try very hard to push for (“after seeing your son ripped to shreds and your husband fall into a volcano
 tell us, how did that make you feel?”). Call me a monster, but I don’t care about that. Or rather, I already know that they’ll feel devastated, no need to rub it in.

Is there news out there that does not worry about the stability of bridges after such events?

Unfortunately, yes. There are whole news channels which, as soon as they get done with one emotional trigger news, they switch to the next one.

The article is oversensationalized, but it does hide a grain of truth: avoid that kind of sources, and you’ll be better off.

jarfil,

experts who talked about how likely nuclear annihilation was

If it helps, the actual likelihood is about 0%. There are not enough nukes to kill even 99% of the current world population, much less a 100%
 they could be built, but it makes no sense, for now.

Unless you live in Russia. They’re all talk about nuclear strikes, but in reality Russia is the one who doesn’t seem to have effective anti-ICBM measures.

jarfil,

I would suggest either Extinction Rebellion, which has an interesting open governance system with local chapters, and is “effective” in the sense of pissing people off enough to get itself on TV
 or any local charity focused on a single achievable goal (sifting plastic pellets from a multi-ton dump at a rate of a few pounds per day, is a populist waste of resources; reforesting some area with native species, is direct and effective; and so on).

jarfil,

I’ve grown disillusioned with Greenpeace, they seem to have lost their north a long time ago, and only hop onto the bandwagon of what’s cool at any given moment. Like, “no fossil, no nuclear, no global warming” are all cool and all
 but a contradiction. Or the silliness they’re doing right now in Spain, of combing whole beaches to remove a few pounds of plastic pellets from each
 only for more to come the next day
 while 30-odd years ago we already used to wonder what were all the multicolored “sand” grains, and some kids used to pick up chunks of tar to chew like gum.

jarfil,

Translated: “We want money. Germany bad, so we want them to pay. If they don’t, then we’ll use this as a bargaining chip to get money some other way”

jarfil,

Seems like
 the side fell off?

jarfil, (edited )

@Hirom @Overzeetop

The plane was still climbing, this happened at an altitude of 16000ft when the cruise altitude for that flight is 30000ft:

This flight: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/
/tracklog

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/f44a1cd6-9c13-4ec0-9c8d-ba61c2432eee.webp

Previous flight: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/
/tracklog

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/740a71f1-4455-49a1-97ac-77bff87b33b3.webp

They usually keep the “seat belts” light on during ascent and descent because it’s when air pressures are changing (or you might run into a tree, or another airplane), while once at cruise altitude it is reasonably safe to take the seat belt off.

jarfil,

Meh
 check out Cellini, Wagner, Dalí, Hubbard
 as artists go, Card is just “meh”.

jarfil, (edited )

Peas with pasta and mustard
 sound bad. But I’ve done worse, so not going to judge.

jarfil,

Is it wrong if I read that with an Oxford comma?..

“I am currently munching on a foot, long sub, and beginning the latest Native map update”

jarfil,

Hm, could you explain how is that supposed to work in more detail? I still see the cross post link as taking me to the other instance; furthermore, even the share link and “open in browser” in Liftoff are taking me out of the instance đŸ€”

jarfil, (edited )

Where’s their line?

Based on WW2:

  • Cruelty and atrocity: nice

  • Concentration camps: nothing to see here, everyone has them
  • Systematic genocide: who hasn’t done some genociding at one point or another?
  • Overt industrialized systematic genocide: 
only if they attack you first.

Luckily we now have the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 which everyone is ignoring. Oh well, we tried.

jarfil,

tried just as hard as we did to move up the economic ladder

Topple the ladder.

The ladder is bad, no matter where you are on it, or how hard you try to move up.

jarfil, (edited )

IDF are the military. It’s more like “imagine the FSB calling you and telling you to turn yourself in, mocking them publicly, then getting surprised at finding Polonium in the soup”.

They’re not there to be the nice guys.

jarfil,

Not all the people, just the “wrong” people. And let’s not forget Palestinians have been trying to “produce” more people as quickly as possible, to the point they’re “about to win” the demographic competition, against even the orthodox jews who are at the same time trying to reach 25% of Israel’s population in order to become the “spiritual leaders” for others to fight their wars.

jarfil,

Why not a controlled tire fire:

youtu.be/XvkD4QgMtWg?si=2R0l3B6_xn7Oc_DD

jarfil, (edited )

took me literally 3 minutes to find images of tanks in Tiananmen running over student barricades, and blood streaks left on the ground afterwards

I’m not as fast browsing through the 2141 images you’ve linked, most of them of protesters, some burned down tanks, and someone on a bike dressed as a tank. Could you point to the exact images you’re referring to?

jarfil,

Does it really change with context?

Palestine and Israel have been in a “demographic war” for quite some time:

https://sesricdiag.blob.core.windows.net/sesric-site-blob/imgs/news/1969-imgxhl.jpg

https://www.progressispossible.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pals.jpg

jarfil,

Obligatory: “Train stations are where trains stop, bus stations are where busses stop, I have a work station
 and police stations are really frightening.”

jarfil,

What’s the term for a narcissistic country?

Country. Otherwise the land gets claimed by a different narcissistic country.

jarfil,

On the other hand, why should a “toothless measure” become part of the constitution?

(PS: just checked US Constitution amendments, love how the 27th only took 200 years to get approved 😄)

Israel-Palestine megathread for the remainder of the weekend

the front page is now like half articles on this currently, so it’s probably time for a megathread because none of us want to keep track of 12 threads on this subject and all the resulting comments. only major subsequent developments (for example, boots on the ground; pronunciations by governments; that sort of stuff) will get...

jarfil, (edited )

Source: Spanish TV.

There has been some uproar this week because there are over 10,000 Spanish citizens in Israel and Gaza, but the government only decided to fleet 2 military planes to evacuate 500 of them. Turns out, they were only evacuating the “tourists and people on business trips”
 meaning the rest are not; they’re people who decided to immigrate there. Following that, different reporters got hold of people “left behind”, both in Israel and Gaza.

One of those people, was a lady who immigrated to Gaza 40 years ago, “to settle right next to the Israeli border”, and now kept repeating how the Spanish consulate is ignoring her request for evacuating her 19-people family, with many children among them.

It’s estimated that 50% of the population of Gaza are underage, meaning they’re people born in the last 18 years, into a conflict that’s been going for 70 years, from way before this lady decided to immigrate there 40 years ago and contribute to the population growth.

Source: Internet (various)

Some statistics about this:

Both sides are engaged in a long term (100+ years) strategy of trying to out-number each other, with sympathizers of each side migrating there to increase the numbers for the conflict. Since immigration into Gaza and Palestine is more restricted than into Israel, the former have been trying to churn out as many “new residents” (aka kids) as quickly as possible
 who are now being used by Hamas as a humanitarian crisis bargaining chip.

Notice how even with a steady emigration of about half the population of Palestine every year, the total population keeps growing, along with a steady immigration rate of around 200K/year:

jarfil,

This seems to be missing the meaning of the word “terrorist”, as in anyone espousing the ideology of instilling fear as a weapon.

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