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Post by bol on Mar 17, 2024 23:55:35 GMT 1
Just a point about the argument that nobody condemned here the Hamas attack. That's generally a popular points, loved on platforms like twitter as gotcha. In many cases it's however unjustified and leads at best to a unfree situation, where the person has to repeat everytime all the matters of course before finally making their point when nobody reads/listens anymore.
There are tons of individual, group, corporation and state-crimes in human history most people not extra condemned (and that includes also the sides in this conflict). In many cases cause they, like me, consider it obvious that massacres are terrible, vile and also obviously not a justifiable from of "resistance".
If the governments in the countries we live in, would support the Hamas actions, that would of course be a reason to extra condemn the massacres for them, to make sure the gov understands what position they should take. Luckily they are already clearly against the Hamas. Unfortunately they do however support the actions of the Netanjahu gov that have lead to likely over 30.000 deaths and a destroyed infrastructure, so people can't come back. Actions that aren't just a fight against Hamas, and might on top even instead strengthen religious fundamentalism. Therefore that's currently what we worry more about.
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Post by bol on Mar 13, 2024 21:12:02 GMT 1
Good to see you back with us, misc
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Post by bol on Feb 14, 2024 0:11:47 GMT 1
I think complacency is a factor why the Biden government still supports Israel in their actions, despite criticising their demolition of Gaza a bit for the public. The weapons industry (and other defence services) likes the relationship with Israel, the Israel-lobby around AIPAC can be aggressive and some higher ups probably also view Israel as a traditional geopolitical ally.
Maybe Biden and his people thought, they just better won't open the can of worms to not support the actions of the Netanjahu government. Also the Hamas terror gave them at start some reason to support (though it became quickly clear the Netanjahu government is using that attack for a larger campaign). They probably don't care for the Palestinians much and possibly also thought this would be a quick bombardment. A longer military campaign is obviously more in the interest of Netanjahu (who could this way also stabilise his government) than of Biden, who doesn't has the courage to change course (yet) though.
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Post by bol on Dec 28, 2023 23:34:36 GMT 1
Thank you K1, Happy Holidays and soon new year everybody
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Post by bol on Nov 13, 2023 23:22:13 GMT 1
Yes, looks like it
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Post by bol on Mar 4, 2023 16:46:44 GMT 1
The (also social) media in Germany loves the word "cringe", it's a widespread word nowadays. I would say we had already a pretty similar word in German though, it is "fremdschämen" (=feeling embarrassment but for somebody else). "Schaudern" is somewhat similar, but a bit darker.
Why the word cringe got still so popular idk, I can only guess the same reason, that it's an easy to say, compact word.
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Post by bol on Mar 3, 2023 2:59:58 GMT 1
After all this time, I now "finally" catched Covid too . So far feeling bad and tired, but it's bearable at home.
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Post by bol on Feb 20, 2023 17:11:22 GMT 1
Interesting article, thank you. Chiang has some good analogies too www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web. I think the AI Bots have the potential to do some tedious work for you (formalities like summary of your text, proper format for some table or so). But I'm part of the sceptics too. In the hype&scam economy, it might well mainly end as the new unreliable big oracle we have to gullible seek for the ultimate answers. Microsoft and Google proclaim these chatbots as the future of internet search pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked. But the oracle doesn't know any more than we do, it just has through it's method (post a statistical typical answer, pretend to be really sure and avoid any transparency of your sources) the profound skill to make nonsense believable.
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Post by bol on Dec 23, 2022 22:15:18 GMT 1
Thank you, a bit in Christmas spirit now with that collage already too , I wish you guys Happy Holidays too .
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Post by bol on Oct 7, 2022 0:41:58 GMT 1
You maybe took the Random Rant title a bit too literally . Whenever I travel with Deutsche Bahn, part of the planing process is "hm, if I take this train and it arrives too late.., what are my options..". Would be nice if you could just step in and that's it, but who knows if that will still happen in our lifetime .
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Post by bol on Sept 15, 2022 0:02:38 GMT 1
This is just NOT how the shit works. There is a big fucking war going on in Ukraine, you know. This is effectively disinformation to deceive people. That background report from the ZDF (and the person presenting it, Theo Koll, is of course also the chief of the capital studio of the broadcaster) went around yesterday in Germany too and it's one of the most embarrassing pieces of journalism I've ever seen.
It's even physical nonsense. Unbelievable (well, unfortunately not) that somebody seriously sat somewhere and had to make such a graphic. And in the end nobody from the staff dared to ask if this is maybe nonsense.
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Post by bol on Aug 25, 2022 2:24:44 GMT 1
How many of you have NOT gotten Covid yet? I mean, as far as you know. I haven't as far as I know. If you want further infos to study If I'm indoor, outside family, for a longer time I usually wear a mask. However I did for example several times travel for a longer time with a train (many people, not that seldom without mask), so I'm a bit surprised if I never got it.
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Post by bol on Jul 21, 2022 22:20:11 GMT 1
One of my beefs when I was in Germany was that trains didn't run on time. I found it absolutely ridiculous. What I'm saying is that everyone has a different perspective, and that your feeling is highly dependent on your expectations. I wouldn't have been as annoyed as I was had Germany not had the global reputation for transportation punctuality, and if I weren't from a country whose social punctuality is simply on another level, where two-minute delay is considered a major accident. Our public transport is in a miserable state nowadays. Maybe not as bad as in the UK, but it's way worse than for example in Switzerland. They tried to prepare the "Deutsche Bahn" for privatisation since the 90s, accompanied with reductions for services, rails etc. and they spent money to become a global player (they now own bus companies in other countries, because why not).
But the privatisation was in the end too unpopular, despite the management of the Deutsche Bahn throwing their money at think tanks, that would produce fake-grassroot websites, letters etc., suspicious polls and coordinate media campaigns (which got leaked in 2009).
So now the Deutsche Bahn just stays this way as a pre-privatised company that has no idea what it's mission is, they currently won't be privatised but neither really turn around their course to provide good public transport as their main objective. They probably still secretly hope to one day privatise.
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Post by bol on May 11, 2022 4:08:06 GMT 1
There was in the media the glory story that the company John Deere remotely disabled tractors that Russian looters took from Ukraine. Which should've raised the "wait a moment, they can do what?"-question if it's not maybe a bad idea that one of the biggest agricultural machinery companies of the world (or hackers getting access) could switch off much of our agriculture if they like. This post covers the very dystopian business model of John Deere and others, for which they need that kill-switch in their machinery doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8
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Post by bol on May 3, 2022 12:02:08 GMT 1
I just read an interview with the main speaker (Steffen Hebestreit) of the German chancellor Scholz about his work. Well, I rather jumped through it to see if there's something interesting. Anyway, he randomly started talking about the series West Wing, with his favourite figure there being President Bartlet and so on, and I had to think about this thread .
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