Semjeza
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- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 5 days ago:
Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?
Why do you think you need a romantic partner?
… A better question would be: “what do you define as a friend?”
- Comment on Starmer vows to act on social media after meeting bereaved parents 5 days ago:
Requiring ID makes people happier with ID docs overall, so that they can still swipe through TikTok or whatever they do these days.
Asking change and responsibility of the companies might lower shareholder value.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 1 week ago:
Nah, privateers kept the heriarchies of home, only attacked and stole from permitted targets, and those who captained ships came from the elite of society - such as Sir Walter.
Pirates were much more socially accepting, allowing women and people of colour in to crews, and even to positions of authority. They didn’t pay homage to a nation or work for empire. They saw a chance to get rich quick by not playing by nascant capitalisms rule.
Of course many pirates did start out as low levels on privateers’ ships, but unlike their landed gentry captains didn’t see a point in staying loyal to a crown and we’re happy to mutiny for their own benefit when the chance came along.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 1 week ago:
Eh, I don’t count privateers as pirates.
That’s just a form of international economic warfare, and has homage to a nation/crown rather than full on piracy.
Maybe I’m too romantic about it all.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 1 week ago:
But he wasn’t a pirate?
At most a privateer, but has none of the pirate stuff. A more nationally aligned mercenary. The page seems pretty poor and sensationalist if I’m honest. =(
I was hoping for more free from all law, not just that of their geopolitical rivals pirates, rather than privateers who aren’t much different from an informal navy.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 1 week ago:
Sadly unsurprising.
After Israel worked with the US to screw Britain and France over with the Suez Crisis our government has done everything it can to kowtow to both Israel and the US.
We’re happier with their scraps than working for a better world.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 1 week ago:
Love pirates and history!
Tell me more!
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 2 weeks ago:
Sulphuric Acid acts on trousers and carpets. Wooden desks seem remarkably immune.
Found out after getting an actual chemical and chemistry set from a deceased relative. Parents didn’t check what was in it, just “chemistry is educational, good he’s learning”.
I was either dropping magnesium or potassium into a beaker of sulphuric acid as both of them were in the set too. And I was either a butterfingered lummox, or the act of dropping the metal into unbalanced the beaker knocked it over and the sulphuric acid cascaded onto my jeans eating through them and making my leg itchy, and bubbling the carpet into a stinky white then grey foam. I can still picture-ish that sight; and I’m normally not very visually minded, a testament to the deep impression the experience left on me.
Was much more sensible after that: just burning magnesium and chucking potassium into tub of water in the garden like you do in Chemistry class from time to time.
- Comment on The SOAS Liberated Zone – Two Years Of Resistance 2 weeks ago:
SOAS is an amazing community of students, often organising amazing speakers and events - even when university administration is rallied, as is almost universally the case, againt them.
- Comment on X gon give it to ya 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate the choice made over X-ray fish, Xantops, and Xerus.
Going hard, and I wonder what other letters have.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
No, the age of America is over.
The Trump preaidencies aren’t a radical break from the past, he’s just an unveiling of it’s darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.
Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.
The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
Suicide only stopped being a crime in many parts of the world recently… Euthanasia is much larger step beyond that.
Let’s give things time.
- Comment on Systems theory 1 month ago:
Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I’ll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:
The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.
Learning and making use of novel materials.
- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 1 month ago:
Good, we should have an ideology and let that influence the governments we choose (while we are forced to have any) and the actions that they undertake on our behalf.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.
But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 2 months ago:
The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.
Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.
Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 months ago:
I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.
But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 months ago:
You could try Invidious, or another alternative front end.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 2 months ago:
I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget).
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 2 months ago:
I didn’t say don’t take him back to be processed.
I just don’t see the need for him to be cuffed once the police know it’s a skipping rope and he’s no threat.
As for “no big deal”, it’s also about optics and respect. A lot of law enforcement techniques are about imposing lack of personhood on someone and by limiting those impositions it shows that the individual isn’t a threat and is being treated as something other than a criminal.
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 2 months ago:
But processed with the guy in cuffs?!
This is the sort of stuff that shows our bobbies are becoming ever more like Americans’ pigs.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 months ago:
One could certainly make the case that the two missiles into the sea near Cyprus were unintentional misses, which shows an attempt to preemptively attack. But even that was earlier the same day it all happened,
The strikes into other Middle Eastern countries, seem, especially early on, to be primarily targeting fossil fuel facilities, US military locations, and airfields.
So, at least to me - any assistance we provide to the US is aiding their war of aggression and belligerence, which is a repetition of Iraq. The British people deserve better than to be the back up attack dog of the US bully.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 months ago:
“The explosions came shortly after Prime Minister Keir Starmer authorized the United States to conduct what Britain described as defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites from British bases on the island.”
In https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk4nq00fkbg, which was one of the top results when I searched for the event to find out more.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 months ago:
Would you care to elaborate?
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 months ago:
And which territory was that?
Was it a base being used militarily against them?