Semjeza
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- Comment on why don't pandas exist in Chinese history prior to 1869? the creature "Mo" that is referenced looks nothing like a Panda 3 days ago:
Pandas live only in the mountainy forests of the Sichuan area. They are mostly active around dawn and dusk, and have never been huge in number.
They do not live in the traditional Chinese heartland, Sichuan didn’t join China until about 200BC, and remained a hinterland up into the modern day.
Lack of accessibility, being on the periphery of China, and difficulty to encounter will all have contributed.
“Mo” (貘) is the modern Chinese word for tapir, and the South East Asian Tapir which traditionally had range into Southern China is also a black and white, small number, hard to encounter forest animal that lives on the periphery of China.
- Comment on Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says 4 days ago:
A win for capitalism and commercialisn is not good news for any of us.
Even if the BBC is used as a tool by state interests.
- Comment on What was the actual reason for the crusade against NSFW games? 2 weeks ago:
I mean… Whose funding the religious nut jobs?
Quel surprise, it’s the crypto-fash again. Getting real tired of their shit.
- Comment on Jason Arday drew 163 articles in a week. James Orr, a Cambridge academic filmed arranging foreign money for Reform UK, drew 13 from the same outlets 2 weeks ago:
Disgraceful, but not surprising.
For the cryptos, white man is corrupt (and near top of national politics) is normal. Black man (might have lied) is a cassus belli.
- Comment on Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers 2 weeks ago:
How many of these Afghani people you’re complaining about are the translators and soldiers who fought against the Taliban, which is why they’ve ended up here?
- Comment on Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers 2 weeks ago:
The constant news cycle of migrant crime has helped people like me make up my mind.
You’re nearly there.
Who decided to run the constant news cycle cherry picking?
Wonder what they get out of it? - Comment on The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday 5 weeks ago:
It is a total cluster fuck.
And siccing Carter-Fuck on TES isn’t a good look.
That it became a mainstream media circus focused on sensationalism made it all harder to dig to the truth.
Hopefully people (or at least the left and left adjacent folk) can approach it as a non-partisan issue.
- Comment on The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday 1 month ago:
He was investingated for plagiarism by Liverpool University, where the degree in question was from, and they found his work flawed in attributions and references, but not full on plagiarism.
The current media storm came from a self a owed race realist who says “in a meritocracy there’d be no black people at university” stirring it up repeating the claims he was found innocent of until he quit his job and killed himself.
- Comment on Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song 1 month ago:
Most people don’t pay a huge amount of attention to things that aren’t in the top few news items.
Sadly, Sudan, Somalia, Mali, Myanmar, and even Afghanistan and Syria and others are not. So most people do know or think much on them.
That said, the leftist folks I know who were “River to the Sea"ing back in 2016 are also the people who talk about those other countries.
They tend not to have social media channels, let alone newspapers or 24 hour news channels though. - Comment on Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song 1 month ago:
I think the floatilla activists take more umbrage with the deliberate killing of Palestinian children, doctors, reporters, and anyone who might be intelligensia. Plus the starvation and massive overwhelming firepower - it’s not that they forget, it’s that Hamas being Iran backed and talking about making Jews extinct isn’t as pressing an issue as Israel actually making Palestinians extinct.
- Comment on Exclusive: Festival supporting rescued animals forced to cancel after UK Lawyers for Israel complaint 1 month ago:
Israel complaining about Active Slaughter is quite ironic.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Uncertain, as no one knows about the causes or condition before it.
That’s the nice thing about science, it just says what the evidence shows and is happy to label the rest: TBC.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 1 month ago:
It’s not that it’s more volatile, but that the volatility is coming closer to home (and 24 hour news amplifies it).
South America is at its most peaceful in about 100 years, South East Asia currently only has 1 war ongoing, while slightly up from 0 in 2010, is still lower than most of the last 100 years.
Africa is more stable overall and developing better for most people, with some exceptions.
Although if you mean volatile as “the US is no longer sure it can curbstomp any likely military opposition”, then yes. That is now true due to other nations’ improvement, and changes to asymmetrical warfare capabilities.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 2 months ago:
“Shadow” means you had the role for the opposition.
So she was the Attorney General for the opposition party, rather than the incumbent.
Former means she is now no longer an attorney general of any sort.
Yes, it is a great title and apologies if explaining it lessens the magic.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 2 months ago:
Unironically yes, I think that’s their plan.
Micro fiefdoms for themselves and their immediate descendents and fuck the rest. A power structure and loyal caste to be their knights/enforcers.
There’s a good reason why many lefty thinking heads are calling this techno-feudalism, and comparing TESCREL ideas to medieval ideologies.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 2 months ago:
Or even essentials.
The capitalist class’ll charge for air as soon as they can.
- Comment on Why did/does Oman not raise a stink about Iran also closing their half of the strait? 2 months ago:
I think the reporters at House of Saud mentioned that Oman had been consulted by Iran near the start of the conflict, and Iran’s stated goal is Oman and Iran together control shipping through the strait.
Equally though, Oman has been pretty content to sit back and not draw the ire of either side which is sensible enough too. Besides, for a smaller Middle Eastern nation it’s not as if its government openly supporting either side would win it much favour.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 months ago:
LLMs tend to be synchophantic and can’t judge or give feedback effectively.
Plus they can fail at tasks as simple as telling me how many kids Queen Victoria had.
They never hold their own line, but cave and bow. Which in turn makes the one inputting to it weaker.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 months ago:
Abiut whatever they like.
It strengthens the psychic net of the world that will protect against the potential TREACL summoned apocalypse.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
And also bizzarely attached to Labour.
Even his chats with Polanski seem to get ended with a “come and talk to me Labour-daddy and I’ll play with you instead, he’s not my first choice” attitude.
- Comment on Copper 2 months ago:
Many folks in higher education in the UK have been bemoaning a generation of genii lost to business and the City who put their talents and creativity to the good of making profit rather than inventing and humanity.
Many more have their funding and direction tilted to capital, too.
- Comment on The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone. 2 months ago:
The huge difference in how Kanye and Brittany were/are treated needs to be a bigger deal.
- Comment on The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone. 2 months ago:
Failed to even read the post, let alone the linked article I see.
- Comment on If Sodom and Gomorrah were real. How bad were they that god had to come down and smite them? Are they any comparison to today's society? 2 months ago:
If they were real has no implication on the reality of any diety (or deities) let alone the Abrahamic God, Yahweh.
The act that saved Lot was letting two angels rape his daughters, so anywhere that opposes rape by those in power fails the test I guess.
- Comment on Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns 2 months ago:
Binface can only end up 2nd or 1st in this race unless a lot of new random randomers join.
- Comment on Are atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and cells (in a human body) in a constant state of flux? If so what is the measurement we have for them and do they at one point have a certain state of speed? 2 months ago:
To add for others, electrons orbiting is a convenient assumption - really they’re more a delocalised cloud of negative charge that exists in various bits of space known as “orbitals”.
Not orbiting in the way we’d understand it from planets.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Capitalists have capital, which they invest in legislative capture to create a more favourable environment for capital.
Its capitalism unrestricted, since there is no restriction on what capital can do once enough has been accumulated.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s true, but I think I heard that in terms of transitions in the last decade, FtM outnumbers MtF.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 2 months ago:
Absolutely should.
But the EU would like to continue to benefit from US military power and espionage while getting to pretend it is more moral. If the EU were to more overtly break with the US it would have to dramatically reformulate its neo-colonial economics.
