Yes, and I’d refute the expert in question on the merit of their points, or their qualifications, not solely based on who transcribed and reported on it. If your only argument against my entire post is that 1 website I used as a reference is Turkish, seriously, you need to work on your rhetorical skills.

By the UN definition, Hamas is a genocidal organisation

The UN does not define “genocidal organisation”, but instead defines genocide. Does an organization who intends to commit genocide meet the definition of a genocidal organization, or would it be an organization who has both the will and the means to, or would it be an organization who is committing genocide? That’s not defined by the UN and the nuance of that is very important to the claim.

Its founding charter, published in 1988, explicitly commits it to obliterating Israel. Article 7 states that “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them”. Article 13 rejects any compromise, or peace, until Israel is destroyed.

Here’s the charter. In the preamble it states “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”. The particular translation I’m using of this document has it written as “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees.” I don’t speak arabic and as such cannot comment if perhaps it’s simply that the term they use for “fight” is also one that explicitly means to kill as well, or what, but the second part does make clear that the intent is to eventually oppress the Jewish people and send them into hiding.

I’d recommend reading through the entire document if you have time.

Does this invalidate the subject upon which they’re reporting, i.e. does this invalidate Neve Gordon’s opinion that Israel’s painting Palestinians as animals to justify their warcrimes?

There is little evidence that Israel, like Hamas, “intends” to destroy an ethnic group—the Palestinians

This particular line I keep seeing parroted. Yes, Hamas has said they wish to eradicate an ethnic group. Yes, that is egregious. No, that does not mean their rebellion against the occupying, more powerful force, is a genocide.

Beyond that, Israel has said “we are fighting against animals”, painting Palestinians as inhuman to legitimize their warcrimes. While one may argue that they were just talking about Hamas, it’s obvious that Hamas is composed of Palestinians, and while not elected by the Palestinians of today, represent them.

But to my initial point, the occupying force, physically erasing a people and systemically erasing their culture and ability to congregate and form community is genocide. Regardless of Hamas. They have the means, and they are enacting that means.

What issues are you talking about? This would be important context so I can decide whether I care or not.

Once they’ve transferred governance to some other entity, sure. That’s gonna take years though, they said so themselves. Standardizing a protocol isn’t something that can be done overnight, and that’s fully their intention with ATProto.

I’m keenly interested in the protocol, but I also question its flexibility as to the content it can be used to post and distribute. That’s something we’ll have to wait for federation to come to see people start playing with. If it becomes a standard, governed by a non-partisan body, and is flexible to a variety of content types, I see no reason to stay with ActivityPub except that the software’s already here.

It’s spying to be an admin? Maybe you should just run your own instance so people aren’t spying on you then.

Yes, it’s completely okay for Ada to defend themselves in response to defamatory claims, and is not proof of harassment nor justification to claim they’re stalking for doing so.

It’s not “stalking” and “harassing,” as you claim in the thread, for someone to defend defamatory claims that were made in public. That’s dumb. Also the fact you keep remaking this thread shows you know you’re in the wrong lmao

It’s not “stalking” and “harassing,” as you claim in the thread, for someone to defend defamatory claims that were made in public. That’s dumb.

IDK where the lemmy admins are based out of, but many countries consider hentai depicting underage characters to be illegal; my country of Canada’s one such country.

Personally I prefer sticking with smaller instances of maybe a few hundred or a thousand users. The more evenly spread out we are across instances, the more democratized the federation is.

Now with outbound communications nearly completely cut off, how often will we get updates on what’s happening on the ground? On the crimes against humanity Israel’s committing?

I hope for the best, I really do, but I feel so helpless. I’ve already contacted my representatives and told them they need to do their part or I’ll be rescinding my support. I’m vocal within my community as well. But beyond that, there’s so little I can do but bear witness to what is happening.

First off, chill lmao. I don’t really want to take a defensive position on this because it’s not something I do or can believe, but moreso an interesting idea that I see no clear problems with. I believe in it no more than “the universe is a simulation” or “the universe was created by some exoversal trigger”

Secondly, Math makes it possible. Or maybe some exoversal form thereof off of which our universe builds and adds to.

Thirdly, going beyond the scope of existence within time and space necessarily will kick the can down the road to some extent. That’s an absolutely daft complaint given the subject.

Yeah, brining up such a being was merely an analogue. The actual idea I’m putting forward is there is no need for a means of “the universe” to begin. If it can, it does, and we’re simply within a figment of possibility and potential.

Information actually is quantifiable in physics, and broadly refers to the amount of order and structure present in a system. It’s generally quantified using concepts such as entropy, wherein lower entropy correlates with higher information content.

So, I was talking about my own thoughts on this, and it can’t be disproved, so it’s not really something I can believe in per se, but I think it’s an interesting idea nonetheless. I’m just gonna paste it here because I’d genuinely like to discuss it.

So like, we agree here that the universe could be a simulation, right? That this could be possible, regardless of whether or not that’s true of our particular universe?

I sorta had this idea on christmas last year but I was thinking…
If it’s possible for a universe like ours to exist; for it to be created and to live out its life, etc.

Maybe the idea that mathematics predicts a universe like ours, the stars, the planets, the division of anti-matter and matter, etc., maybe this entire thing is actually just that prediction. Not actually having “come true”, but moreso a figment amongst other figments that the mathematics of reality predict.

To draw an analogue, if an infinitely intelligent, thoughtful, and knowing being had infinite brainpower running at infinite speeds, any time they thought of a universe, a world, a person, they would think with such clarity and depth that the person within it could live an entire life, could have evolved, would have existed in every way that we can perceive. They would have consciousness in any way we can recognize, and themselves wonder about the nature of their universe, and where it came from. But the reality is that it’s just the thought of a being of infinites.

This would be deism, but if even I believe what I said above to be true, I don’t think I need to be a deist.

Because maybe simply the possibility of that happening – the plausible reality of everything existing – is what all it takes.

It’s something that’s churned in my head for a long time, and I really have no reason to believe it; it’s inherently unprovable, and thus isn’t really something I can believe in. But I think it’s an interesting concept.
idk maybe I’ve made some foolish error in the arrogant pursuit of conceptualising all that which I do and don’t understand to be real lol

Basically I postulate that the universe could be in a state of quasi-existence wherein it doesn’t actually need any sort of trigger or anything to exist, because it doesn’t even.

Lemmy uses a feature called “groups” to denote the community a post is in. Mastodon doesn’t support groups yet. Once it does, I would think those posts may federate with Lemmy.

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Any moderation or oversight is considered “abuse”, even if it’s a result of the instance admins completely failing in their due diligence. Really, how poorly did they moderate CSAM as to necessitate their registrar stepping in???