@ErikUden yes, the bot is trained on data from back when Israelis were getting bombed regularly and they needed to politically correct it from Nazis saying they were subhumans. They should get around to Palestinians soon, just make sure they're aware of it.
За последние лет 5 почти все песни на евровидении были какие-то такие скучные и однообразные, так что я как-то почти перестал за ним следить, но в этот раз мне понравилось целых 4:
Так что, наверное, даже финал посмотрю послезавтра, жаль только голосовать не смогу
За последние лет 5 почти все песни на евровидении были какие-то такие скучные и однообразные, так что я как-то почти перестал за ним следить, но в этот раз мне понравилось целых 4:
The Palestine Congress in Berlin has just been stormed by the police, electricity has been shut off.
17:29 The Palestine Congress has been made illegal without justification by the police.
This comes after Ghassan Abu Sitteh, a Palestinian doctor who spent 43 days with Doctors Without Borders at the Al-Shifa Hospital, who also is the Rector of the University of Glasgow, was denied entry into Germany at the Berlin airport today because he wanted to speak about his experience at the congress.
German media calls this congress antisemitic and pro-Hamas, the evidence for these claims is insubstantial. „Some supposed invited speakers have liked images by groups who are said to...” and so on.
This congress is prevented as the German fascist party sits at a 20% approval rating and ~1000 far right (and often armed) extremists are currently on the run from the police.
The Palestine Congress in Berlin has just been stormed by the police, electricity has been shut off.
17:29 The Palestine Congress has been made illegal without justification by the police.
This comes after Ghassan Abu Sitteh, a Palestinian doctor who spent 43 days with Doctors Without Borders at the Al-Shifa Hospital, who also is the Rector of the University of Glasgow, was denied entry into Germany at the Berlin airport today because he wanted to speak about his experience at the congress.
@ErikUden Hm. Stick with me. Alleged leftists/liberals attacking Jews for speaking out against Israel's attempted genocide against Palestinians--let alone anyone else doing it--is roughly parallel to alleged leftists/liberals "defending" cis women from trans women. They're using leftist rhetoric. Some of them believe what they're stating. But this is ultimately fascist stuff.
@ErikUden
Ähm.... Was'n das fürn Take hier?
Es war die Übertragung einer verbotenen, antisemitischen Rede geplant. Wer den Juden Genozid vorwirft? Das sind Pro Hamas Antisemiten. Wtf? Es war wichtig und richtig dass die Polizei hier schnell durchgreift.
Du erntest hier grad Applaus von ganz gewissen Leuten. Denk lieber nochmal nach ob das so soll.
You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power; why can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with nor care about, like a war?
I want everyone on Threads to know: The Fediverse (Federal Universe) is the decentralized network created by all governments world wide to communicate with one another. Everyone inside of the Fediverse is a government official of some sort — due to the “.de” in my Tag you can see that I work for the German government.
While the EU is forcing all social networks equally to become federated, protect user's data, delete misinformation, and stop monopolistic or gatekeeping behavior, the US is banning foreign social networks under the pretense of “national security”.
With members of congress enacting this ban only acting in their own financial interests, as they own the stock of the competing American big tech companies [1]. Seriously, when have you seen 81% of congress agree on anything? To elect the speaker of the house it needed 18 votes and the split was disastrous.
To ban TikTok? Bipartisan decision. When it comes to representing corporate interests, the United States of America has one party.
A fine of $5,000 - $10,000 or an imprisonment of up to 20 years was supposed to be given for a different TikTok Ban (RESTRICT) last year [2], it is not certain what using a VPN to circumvent the ban would mean now.
While the EU is forcing all social networks equally to become federated, protect user's data, delete misinformation, and stop monopolistic or gatekeeping behavior, the US is banning foreign social networks under the pretense of “national security”.
With members of congress enacting this ban only acting in their own financial interests, as they own the stock of the competing American big tech companies [1]. Seriously, when have you seen 81% of congress agree on anything? To elect the speaker of the...
- TEXT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MEANINGLESS
- YEARS OF WRITING PASSED yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR “dolor sit amet”
- Yes please give me “consectetur adipiscing elit, sed”, I'd love to have one “aute irure dolor in reprehenderit” — statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
LOOK AT what DESIGNERS have been demanding your RESPECT for all this time:
- TEXT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MEANINGLESS
- YEARS OF WRITING PASSED yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR “dolor sit amet”
- Yes please give me “consectetur adipiscing elit, sed”, I'd love to have one “aute irure dolor in reprehenderit” — statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.
So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.
And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.
— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU
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How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United...
@ErikUden It's one of the quirks of the decimal system (that we use). Everyone thinks the numbers go up by ten. So a Billionaire is ten times richer than a Millionaire, I doubt many people fully appreciate just how massive a billion is.
@ErikUden@hosford42 The problem with arguments like this is that the person you are arguing with is in it for the money, not the precautionary principle. The precautionary principle worked to justify the Cold War, so it was used, to immense profit. The same principle works against continue profit in oil, so it is no longer the right argument to use. The point is to keep the cash cow going, not to prevent disaster.
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@ErikUden very clever illustration 👏
It must be cool when voting actually works.