jarfil

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

It’s propaganda, but maybe not for the reason you think.

Zionism actually wants Jews from all over the world to flee to Israel (and populate the land, and get more “settlers”, and more army reservists “in training”, and so on).

jarfil, 1 year ago

Not sure if it’s still holding true, but from my travels around France a couple decades ago, I got the distinct impression that there were like “two Frances”: Paris, and the rest.

From all the news about civil unrest and stuff, it would seem like Paris has got even more of a separate vibe in that time.

jarfil, 1 year ago

what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Run.

If the owner finds you… like if they have a camera recording and the GPS location… you might get some free bullets on top of it.

Spain has some relatively strict gun control. That doesn’t mean someone controlling the smuggling of millions of € in drugs, can’t pay a few grand for some of his “acquaintances” to fly all the way over, get his property back “by whatever means”, and fly back the next day.

jarfil, 1 year ago

I think the worry is less about growth, and more about dying out. Too much external input can drown out the local conversation, but also too little external input can put too much pressure on the members to generate content, leading to burnout and also killing conversations.

It’s a precarious balance between “so much that it gets out of control” and “so little that there is nothing left out”.

jarfil, 1 year ago

“You not believe Moscow Times? You free to go check, they have room for you…” /s

But seriously, I don’t even fully believe that Prigozhin is dead. The last trustworthy news I’ve heard from Russia, is from that one guy in Moscow complaining about how “rude” it is for Ukraine to launch drone attacks at night.

jarfil, 1 year ago

This is horrible and should be documented… but let’s be realistic: nobody will be held accountable as long as Iran has Oil and Nukes… and by the time it runs out of those, the people responsible will likely be long dead.

All we can do is hope for Cold Fusion to become a reality, so all the Oil based dictatorships would collapse.

jarfil, 1 year ago

“I didn’t want to win just one fight, but also all future fights” - Ender the Genocide

(great books, decent movie, too bad some are using it as a manual)

jarfil, 1 year ago

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

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

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

jarfil, 1 year ago

Well, “Peas, frozen 3 eggs, scrambled Cheddar” would be weird… I hope OP meant “Peas, frozen; 3 eggs, scrambled; Cheddar”

Pasta with scrambled eggs, cheese, and sugar… is how I gained a lot of weight back in the day. Pasta has eggs and carbohydrates in it already, so it’s kind of like “Pasta+ with cheese”.

jarfil, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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 🤔

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Yearly inflation for December 2023 has been 160% (stuff that used to cost 100, now costs 260)

A 50% devaluation, is the same as a 100% inflation: stuff that used to cost 100, now costs 200.

Milei has promised a reduction in inflation for the next year, from the 160% to just 60% (stuff that used to cost 100, plus through the 50% devaluation now costs 200, will end up costing just another 60% more, or 320 “160”).

Meaning: instead of having to anounce a 220% inflation for 2024, he’s split it into “50% devaluation, plus 60% inflation”.

…see? He promised to reduce inflation, and he did! 🎉🤡 /s

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

You mean “TikTok inc”, with headquarters in Los Angeles, USA?

YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, also have plenty of stuff from Gaza, TikTok is just the more popular short video network of the moment.

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

TikTok’s algorithms […]

I’m afraid you have been heavily misled by TikTok, and/or are a new user.

I suggest you check either or both of these to better understand what’s going on:

• www.wired.com/…/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
• youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0

TikTok is a master example of enshittification, which consists in:

1. Offer users a good experience to hook them up
2. Introduce advertisements to hook up advertisers
3. Have hooked up advertisers bid against each other for a place in a users feed
4. Increase user engagement by showing them both what they like and the opposite
5. Tease users with a chance to earn money (taking just a 50% cut), so they get to compete against the advertisers, and each other, for a place in other users feeds

The discoverability on TikTok is abysmally bad, all you will ever find is either paid content, or content made by users trying to outdo each other in a race to attract/outrage (aka: increase your engagement).

Only thing you can easily discover on TikTok, is the most polarizing content possible, there is about exactly zero chance to get a realistic view into anything through TikTok; not even by averaging the extremes, which are custom tailored to your personal love/hate triggers.

jarfil, 1 year ago

You may not want to “check for weapons” a suicide bomber who’s just waiting for you to come close to turn you both into tiny chunks of meat.

What you want, is to threaten them with a weapon from a distance, have them take off any clothes that could contain explosives (that includes socks and briefs), and throw them far away from you. They could still hide some C4 up their ass, but that’s a risk you might have to take.

The correct thing would be to subsequently provide them with pre-checked clothes, like an orange jumpsuit… so if they didn’t, that’s where we may agree it starts being abusive (although unfortunately in line with what many countries routinely do to their prisoners).

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

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, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

That scrap of land has not seen peace since the paleolithic, it’s through where most of the first Homo apes came from Africa and spread over the world, and everyone writing down their particular beliefs about whose land it is for future generations to read, has pretty much cemented it as a cursed land for as long as there are people left on the planet.

What “could” be done, would be to evacuate everyone, then nuke the whole area and make it unlivable for a while… maybe re-nuke it every 10 years for good measure, turn it into something like the Olympics, only for all countries in the world to show off their WMDs… but I still wouldn’t be surprised to see the same factions in hazmat suits getting back to killing each other in the interim.

PS: maybe call it “The Armageddon Games”, that could gain some support 😒

jarfil, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

I navigate my “whiteness” by covering it in clothes… then getting treated dismissively by doctors because I “have plenty of resources”, “have your family help you”, “just change your whole life or you’ll be dead in 5 years”, and “have you already stopped with those silly ideas?”.

Thanks for the privilege, by the way.

jarfil, 1 year ago

Bringing up ways that white people may not be so privileged doesn’t actually address whiteness as privilege.

What about ways in which “being privileged”, turns out to actually be a hindrance?

I used to be a healthy, fit, educated, not poor, not homeless, white, tall, man, blonde, with blue eyes… oh, and high IQ.

Wait, did I just describe the Aryan ideal? Ultra-privileged, right?

What pisses me off, is that after being aware of those privileges from relatively early, and being really careful to never abuse any of them, when it turns out that I need help, instead I get my privileges thrown in my face.

It’s not a privilege to get mocked and laughed off by doctors, to get failed by teachers, to get your work destroyed, to not get believed about family problems, all because “you’re privileged”.

Heck, I once almost got run over by a car, because I nodded at a black girl to let her pass first, and she went off her way to hit me with the stroller with her baby inside, pushing me off the curb into traffic. Like, seriously?

So what, did I live my life wrong? Should have joined some neo-Nazi group? Should have used my privileges to abuse and scam everyone left and right? Should have kicked the baby…? The fuck.

jarfil, 1 year ago

That seems to say you should use all your privileges all you can, “but for the good”… while trying not to use them, striving for actual meritocracy, is the wrong way?

Yeah, in retrospect those might be wise words, in a “when among wolves, bite first then be good later” sense, but I find it kind of shitty as a goal for society. Oh well.

jarfil, 1 year ago

Updated title: “China and EU leaders agree on need of ‘balanced’ trade ties”

jarfil, 1 year ago

terrorists who target civilians with vague claims

That’s what I said; when they get hired by an internationally feared recognized country, you call it “the military”.

Otherwise, Israel has officially left Gaza in 2005, mostly use the IDF in non-settled areas of the West Bank, with the Israeli Police elsewhere… and no, doing like the US Police does, is not a good example of “policing”.

Don’t lower the bar. Police are the people in charge of solving neighborly disputes as peacefully as possible, anything else is a lie.

jarfil, 1 year ago

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.