DarkGamer
@DarkGamer@kbin.social
A man of leisure living in the present, waiting for the future.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
The quality and variety of what produce you can eat will be much higher, though. There's a lot of cultivars that don't make financial sense at scale but are wonderful to eat.
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 4 days ago:
it’s still the act of measurement, not the act of a conscious person looking at that measurement, that causes the collapse of the wave function.
That's not the case here; when particles are measured but the information erased/nonrecoverable it remains a wave:
what makes this experiment possibly astonishing is that, unlike in the classic double-slit experiment, the choice of whether to preserve or erase the which-path information of the idler was not made until 8 ns after the position of the signal photon had already been measured by D0.
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 5 days ago:
I thought the delayed choice quantum erasure
experiment showed it wasn't the act of measurement that collapses the wave, but rather whether the information was retrievable or not. - Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, and we liked it that way…
You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don't understand
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 2 weeks ago:
Even if you don't want to hear it, nothing I wrote was inaccurate.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 2 weeks ago:
Hamas is known for torturing Palestinians, especially suspected collaborators, this was what made the green prince defect.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 2 weeks ago:
According to this article, the dead were buried there by Palestinians, the mass grave was checked by IDF for hostages' remains, then re-buried, it claims that IDF does not tend to Palestinian remains in Gaza:
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday rejected Hamas’s allegation as “baseless.”
It said forces searching for Israeli hostages had examined bodies previously buried by Palestinians near Nasser Hospital and had returned the bodies to where they were buried after they were examined.
It has been documented that Palestinians buried their dead at the hospital grounds both before and while Israeli troops operated in the area.
The location of that burial site was geo-located by experts to the same location where Hamas officials claimed to have discovered the new mass grave.
Generally, the IDF does not tend to the bodies of slain Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ...
The United Nations rights office claimed that some of the bodies were “found with their hands tied and stripped of their clothes.”
The IDF, in its response, said that during its operation in the area of Nasser Hospital in recent months, troops examined corpses that had been buried by Palestinians on the medical center’s grounds, “as part of an effort to locate hostages.”
The military said it operated in a “targeted manner,” only where it had intelligence that Israeli hostages may have been buried.
Curious if there is anything to this or if it is just another false allegation.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 3 weeks ago:
Video games normalize drinking? Well that's a new one. Final Fight & Tekken normalized eating whole chickens out of trashcans… how long until an article blames them for homelessness?
- Comment on Burning man dangerous 2 months ago:
No idea. I'm not a historian of self-immolation.
- Comment on Burning man dangerous 2 months ago:
Is a person on fire not a danger? What if they decided to immolate more than just themselves?
- Comment on how to watch all TV-shows and movies for free? 2 months ago:
Use a VPN that doesn't keep logs, make sure you have a good adblocker, then go to these sites.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 2 months ago:
Punching a punching bag, or a pillow.
- Comment on What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about? 3 months ago:
the Skyrim total conversion mod, Enderal: Forgotten Stories, blew me away, and it's free if you own Skyrim. Even has its own installer and game page on Steam.
- Comment on Electric buses are sitting unused in cities across the US; here's why 3 months ago:
Cannibalize parts from other buses?
- Comment on Well... civilization's had a good run. 3 months ago:
Five below fursuit: a bundle of hair swept off a barber's floor and some elmer's glue.
- Comment on California Law Now Covers Free Sex Changes For Illegal Immigrants 3 months ago:
Why transpeople specifically
There is a major push on the right to deny trans people rights and medical care. This article was intended to create outrage among them, as it relates to two groups who are popular to vilify: trans people and illegal immigrants, with an implication of wasteful spending as well. Rather than focusing on the benefits of public health care for most people, it singles out minority groups who the author portrays as unworthy of receiving it.
isn’t ‘infirmed’ an old time slur for disabled people?
My understanding was that infirmed just means people who are ill, however looking it up just now it evidently has implications of being feeble/weak/elderly that I did not intend.
- Comment on California Law Now Covers Free Sex Changes For Illegal Immigrants 4 months ago:
Republicanism is about hurting the, "right people." In this case, trans people and the infirmed. Who cares if it costs us more for worse outcomes for everyone?
- Comment on California Law Now Covers Free Sex Changes For Illegal Immigrants 4 months ago:
Citizens also qualify for Medi-Cal, I'm not sure where you got the idea they don't.
- Comment on California Law Now Covers Free Sex Changes For Illegal Immigrants 4 months ago:
Do you mean elective cosmetic surgery or cosmetic surgery in general? I certainly want my public health care to cover people disfigured in accidents, for example.
- Comment on California Law Now Covers Free Sex Changes For Illegal Immigrants 4 months ago:
Public health care covers all kinds of public health care, this shouldn't be news but trans people being treated like anyone else seems to rile up the right.
- Comment on The lamest countries 4 months ago:
Jews started out buying the land legally until Arab nationalists started murdering them, making a one state solution impossible, then declared war on Israel when they used the UN's two state borders.
Arabs who remained peaceful and stayed behind the 48 borders were not "ethnically cleansed," and today are 20% of the citizens of Israel. Perhaps that oppression is due to constant violent attacks and a refusal to lay down arms and has nothing to do with ethnicity.
- Comment on The only thing keeping us Millennials going at this point 4 months ago:
Oops, all slime!
- Comment on Biblically 5 months ago:
I thought the biblically accurate angels have 12 eyes on wheels in wheels.
- Comment on Sega of America accused of trying to axe 40 percent of unionized staff 5 months ago:
If they do this, I will be avoiding buying any SEGA games for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely" 5 months ago:
They did it to themselves. No one will trust them not to change the pricing model again.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
A lot of that 700,000 voluntarily left. Arab Palestinians who stayed behind the Israeli 1948 borders and remained peaceful currently have full citizenship rights in Israel. This makes it not an ethnostate as there are multiple ethnicities living in Israel with full rights and many people were not driven from their land. (Citation above)
Not liking your government doesn't nullify every legal action it takes.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
legality doesnt mean much when youre talking about unwanted colonialist rule
Are you suggesting that no real estate sales were valid while the British were in charge? What about when it was the Ottoman Turks that were colonizing it, should we ignore all property rights from that period, too? How many local people need to object to immigrants owning property before you support violence against the immigrants and denial of their property rights?
And 100% all of this stems from zionism. They had to live in the holy land, people were there already, so they killed or exiled hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
The 1948 UN borders had Jerusalem in neither state's territory. Palestine went to war over it. If they lose the holy land to Israel, this is why.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
most of the land purchased was not from Palestinians, the area was under British mandate.
Does that make the purchases any less legal? One need not be Palestinian to own land there.
From the beginning Palestinians resisted Jewish immigration, they did not consent to any of this, and all of their fears have proven true with time.
Is Jewish immigration really the cause of all this, or is it the intolerance and inability for some to peacefully coexist? The 20% of Israeli Palestinians descended from those who stayed and remained peaceful in 1948 are doing relatively well and have full citizenship rights there. These fears were only realized for those who refused to put down the sword, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy for them. I find it ironic that they themselves are now the refugees that their neighbors will not take in.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
It's hard to make that analogy work given the relative sizes, distances, geographies, and geopolitical conditions in North America, but let's try to make it fit:
Alaska would have to be mounting raids against Canadian citizens and regularly firing rockets blindly at their cities, after having staged a bloody coup against the rest of the US government, so the president in D.C. supports the Alaskan blockade.
Actually I think this analogy might work better with Native American reservations broken up and separated geographically within the US. They too are sovereign territories but not generally recognized as nations. They too had their lands occupied and were forcibly moved. Is the US still occupying these territories? After all, all goods that flow to reservations must go through US territory and are generally subject to US laws.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
It was palestinian territory and israel were the invaders, that was the beginning of the killing and exiling of palestinians from their own land.
Diaspora Jews would be better classified as refugees than invaders before hostilities began. They started out legally purchasing land in Palestine, not killing and exiling people for it.
As for the source of those initial hostilities:
among the first recorded violent incidents between Arabs and the newly immigrated Jews in Palestine was the accidental shooting death of an Arab man in Safed, during a wedding in December 1882, by a Jewish guard of the newly formed Rosh Pinna. In response, about 200 Arabs descended on the Jewish settlement throwing stones and vandalizing property. Another incident happened in Petah Tikva, where in early 1886 the Jewish settlers demanded that their tenants vacate the disputed land and started encroaching on it. On March 28, a Jewish settler crossing this land was attacked and robbed of his horse by Yahudiya Arabs, while the settlers confiscated nine mules found grazing in their fields, though it is not clear which incident came first and which was the retaliation. The Jewish settlers refused to return the mules, a decision viewed as a provocation. The following day, when most of the settlement's men folk were away, fifty or sixty Arab villagers attacked Petach Tikva, vandalizing houses and fields and carrying off much of the livestock. Four Jews were injured and a fifth, an elderly woman with a heart condition, died four days later.
By 1908, thirteen Jews had been killed by Arabs, with four of them killed in what Benny Morris calls "nationalist circumstances", the others in the course of robberies and other crimes. In the next five years twelve Jewish settlement guards were killed by Arabs. Settlers began to speak more and more of Arab "hatred" and "nationalism" lurking behind the increasing depredations, rather than mere "banditry".An accidental death that could have been resolved legally instead resulted in mob violence by Arab Palestinians against Jews.
In fact, most of the early conflicts between Jews and Arabs in mandatory Palestine were instigated by Arabs.
Then there's the Jaffa riots of 1936, started by the robbery and murder of Jews at a roadblock. This violence spilled out into a general revolt against the British occupation of Mandatory Palestine which convinced the Peel commission and the diaspora Jews in Palestine that a two-state solution was needed, and eventually led to Britain's withdrawal from the area.
They could have lived together in peace but Arab Palestinians started civilian violence, refused to make concessions, and outright rejected this two-state solution. (Look at the map and see how much more land they would have today had they accepted this plan instead of going to war.)
So, in summary, Arab Palestinian Nationalists took a hardline position early on, blamed Jewish immigrants for their problems, instigated violence against them, refused a two-state solution, then went to war over with the Zionists, losing spectacularly. While they have successfully portrayed themselves as victims to many on the internet who have more sympathy for the underdog, the realpolitik situation of the conflict they started does not seem winnable. There were many points in this conflict where diplomacy, restraint, and concession would have led to a different outcome.
Once the conflict was started atrocities happened on both sides, (most notably by Irgun on the Zionist side,) but let's not forget how it started, or for that matter who can end it today without more lives lost.
From the modern day fraction of territory palestinians now have, and the massive death toll of palestinians, you can see how that has proceeded over time.
Not well, at this rate their constant belligerence and hostility seems to be leading to them losing everything.
Any resistance to this extermination just gets used as justification to continue it.
Again, if modern Israel wanted extermination, they have had the means to do so for some time. I believe you are misrepresenting their position and their goals.