Semjeza
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- Comment on Why did/does Oman not raise a stink about Iran also closing their half of the strait? 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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' 5 days 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 5 days 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. 6 days 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. 6 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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] 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they should.
Trumo’s threat to impose new, higher, tariffs on EU for starting to legislate against US tech monopolies and support local startups show how it would go.
But better to put it forwards under the chicken taco and make headway, and then future US leaders (if any) would have to make open moves against environmental measures.
- Comment on Hbd 2 uu 3 weeks ago:
East Asian, China.
So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).
- Comment on Growth 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Growth 4 weeks ago:
The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.
- Comment on Direct Action Is Now Terrorism 4 weeks ago:
… But the suffragettes were terrorists.
When states murder and wage war to get their way, don’t let them convince you that terrorism is always wrong. Because they’ll never say the state’s violence is wrong.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Imperialism always comes home to roost.
The technologies and techniques used to oppress the other get justified and moralised, and then get deployed in the metropole against the working classes.
- Comment on UK minister defends changes to student loans as criticism mounts 4 weeks ago:
Could always just do away with loans and make higher education free for the users.
This paid method hasn’t really helped much, has it and now if they’re saying the loans are going to loose too much money… Why not cut out the middle steps and just fund universities?
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 4 weeks ago:
Really?
Cause I think we have a track record in the UK of not caring, regardless of evidence of foreign backing. The proof of the extent that Farage’s various poor excuses for a piss up party had Trumpist as well as Russian backing was huge, but never seemed to get in their way.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 5 weeks ago:
Post-modernism denies grand narratives and puts forward that people will deceive themselves for their own benefit.
And indeed that values and ideals are socially contracted, so what is “Good” will vary across space-time.Not that there is no Truth.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
About 20.
More if you include oral, manual, and the like.
- Comment on Two men convicted of wounding journalist in London ‘on orders of Iran’ 5 weeks ago:
But ours are done by private companies that merely get preferable treatment from the government, not the nation itself.
So when BP or Rio Tinto do it, get government spokesmen to defend them, make sure any investigations lag, get government legal and financial assistance, are well warned of any seizures of computers, and invariably declare corrupt lone operatives, it’s totally different.
Not the same at all. - Comment on In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear? 5 weeks ago:
If you’re living in one of those very conservative on women’s dress Islamic nations (i.e. Middle East or Central Asia) then there are cultural limits imposed beyond the baseline of the religion.
A Senegalese Muslim woman in colourful patterned headscarf and matching dress is following what Islam requires.
Some places have kept, or imposed, much stricter controls on women’s dress (amongst other things). And while they might choose to wear more colourful ones, many of these countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, through to Pakistan and Afghanistan) turn a blind eye to femicide and are plagued by honour killings. - Comment on In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear? 5 weeks ago:
Socially constructed idea varies by society.
Who’d’ve guessed?
You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 1 month ago:
The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 1 month ago:
We can’t be sure.
The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.
And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 1 month ago:
Cuba’s medical work is amazing.
The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.