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Was gonna say, the recoil from this position just makes this whole thing a murder/suicide.

I mean, kinda? They’re also heavily descended from 7th Century AD Arabic conquerors, but yes, many other natives may have adopted Arabic culture, language and religion at that time.

But Jewish culture is also derived from the Canaanite culture, with arguably more overlap. Jewish culture in the region can be traced back to at least the 9th Century BC, with the literal Kingdom of Israel. So the argument of “Well who was there first?” does not necessarily favor the Palestinians over the Israelis.

This has always been happening though. It’s not like the Ottomans took over the region peacefully. It’s been conquered and re-conquered by Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans…

That’s been happening for the last 5,000 years in that region though, since the Canaanites.

It’s not like the Palestinians were the first there.

No, why would we?

It’s possible to think both the Israeli government and Hamas are trash.

I mean, they have electricity.

Amish aren’t anti-technology across the board. They pick and choose, trying to prohibit what they feel weakens the community.

It’s common for Amish to operate phones or computers for their businesses, they’re just not allowed at home.

Since when is it liberal to be opposed to Russia? It’s been a conservative Western policy since the Cold War.

You said “directly responsible,” which means all or most of the blame in a given situation. No one uses American English to claim something is directly responsible but not also majority responsible.

Also, I never even actually said that you claimed the US was solely responsible. I just said Russia was solely responsible, because they chose to invade. If you’re conceding you meant the US is solely responsible though and are walking back that inane argument, understood, but maybe just stop licking Putin’s boot and go read a history book for fucks sake.

Yeah I wonder why, maybe it’s because they are directly responsible for the current war.

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is responsible for the current war. Stop drinking the commie kool-aid.

You can whine about NATO and geopolitics all you want, at the end of the day Russia could simply have chosen not to invade Ukraine and NATO would not be dumping the entire alliance’s 40 year stockpile into the conflict.

Why do you guys keep talking about Minke whales?

Read the fucking article. They’re hunting fin whales, which are considered Vulnerable.

Which would be great if they were hunting Minke whales, but they’re hunting fin whales, which are endangered.

Whales have been used for a number of resources in the past.

Oil from blubber was a big one, and used in everything from lamps to soap.

Ambergris was a perfume base.

Spermaceti, the substance in the head of sperm whales, was used for candles and also lamps, as it was a higher quality.

Honestly it doesn’t feel too far to me, and I generally detest doxxing as a tactic.

We trust and depend on journalists to expose and spread the truth and tell the stories people should see, but it’s never supposed to be at the expense or exploitation of vulnerable people. It’s one thing to expose the personal details of say, a hypocritical politician, but putting an individual’s life at risk just to spice up a story seems to violate most journalistic ethics I’m familiar with.

• i know it is wrong but i dont know how to fix it

Get off Lemmy and go back to your elementary school English class?

I can stop drinking coffee at any time.

… but why would I, when it’s legal and easily available?

Just like pot in my state, in the back.

It’s not. It’s a common mathematical fallacy stumbled upon by crackpots who think they’re geniuses and have found a fundamental problem with math.

There’s a math professor at Harvard who gets sent this “proof” like once a month.

They planned on implementing a change, and we protested that change, but users and mods gave in and that change happened anyway. The protest failed.

You can reframe that all you want, but we did not accomplish the actual objective of the protest, which was changes to API pricing. We lost.

I was a mod too. A very active user too. I left. And I’m happy I left, but that’s just being happy that defeat doesn’t taste nearly so bitter because there are viable alternatives.

Most mods who actually cared were purged and replaced with lackeys which I’d bet money on were checked to see if they use the official app.

The new and current mods won’t be a problem. They’ll happily eat this bullshit straight from the trough.

Right? Like someone actually wrote that.

After what Spez did. A few weeks ago. Fuck, maybe Spez himself wrote it.

I know we lost and the protests failed, but still, to write something like that… Doesn’t actually surprise me, but also I’d think even a total moron would have enough self awareness not to say that.

Okay, but I’m not paying either and all I see every ~20 posts is a black box that literally just says “Sponsored Content”?

Is mine bugged or do the ads on the app kick in later, lol? Because right now it’s awesome.

He’s a piece of shit, but worth noting he was a mod of /r/jailbait at a time that mod requests sent to users were auto-accepted. He did not need to actively do anything. All he needed to do was ignore his Moderator privileges and inbox for a while.

Since the text has been copied at this point from another source, mind deleting the image?