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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:14 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Yes, I’m aware that the point was a burqa ban. (In Australia we argued about the idea a while back, but it never went through.) And apparently it bans huge crosses too. But I’d say that Jews are the most affected, because there’s not really any alternative to a kippah, whereas Muslims can at least ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Less dramatically, France declares it illegal to wear a yarmulke and generally makes it illegal to be any kind of observant Jew (even more likely). What happens then? Hasn’t it already banned yarmulkes in some contexts? Yes, at school, and if you're a civil servant. I honestly don't know how mandat...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 15028374
Re: Venting thread
I'd like to play tabletop role-playing games with some friends, and went to a RPG convention last weekend to meet some, but my experience there just confirmed what I have been feeling for long: most people who claim to play role-playing games really just play skirmish wargames, either abusing role-...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716490
Re: Happy things thread!
I have written a guide to zeptoscript over the last few days or so and also implemented classes for non-"object" types to enable the implementation of words such as show ( value -- string ), for converting any value into a human-readable string; hash ( value -- hash ), for turning any val...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
C'mon, we'r all linguists here, we all know it's never this simple. This is like saying "'capitalism is an economic system based on capital, nothing more, nothing less". Zionism is as Zionism does. You can say that support for settlements in the occupied territories isn't definitionally p...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I don't get it... so we should not speak of colonialism in britain because most british people were (say, at the time of queen victoria) colonialists? it doesn't make sense to speak of nazism in 38 germany cause most germans were nazis? the dominant ideology of the dominant actor in a process matte...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 393870
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Same here.
The trouble is, conlanging and conworlding are last on the list, right after everything else I have to do , and that list is incredibly long these days.
I hope things calm down somehow at some point in the future.
The trouble is, conlanging and conworlding are last on the list, right after everything else I have to do , and that list is incredibly long these days.
I hope things calm down somehow at some point in the future.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
There are plenty of Jews here in the United States, and while of course there is anti-Semitism here as there is everywhere, it is generally on a much smaller scale here than in very many places. And while the US itself is a product of settler colonialism, Jews immigrating to the US in practice woul...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
All these things were horrible, but the key thing is that did they justify ethnically cleansing the land that they had just immigrated to so as to turn it into an ethnostate? And yes, one can argue that "they were there first", but that no more justifies that than that Native Americans be...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1125
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
Also couldn't we be the small percent of difference that was left over from a much larger amount of matter and antimatter? I don't think anyone has ruled that out and if they have it would be interesting to know how so. I think the current understanding is that what you describe is exactly what hap...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:39 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Like, the nazis also believed that the german people was oppressed and that in order to liberate it from the oppression of the evil jew it *had* to do the whole lebensraum thing, invade poland, expell the jew blabla.... but no one would -hopefully- take seriously a diplomat for the fourth reich say...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716490
Re: Happy things thread!
Band practice today went fantastic . My collaborator paid me a huge compliment: One of our WIPs ends with a vamped passage for the outro (for the recording it’s supposed to fade out) and I decided to go a little nuts with the ride cymbal, snare, and toms. When we ended it, he had a grin and told me...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451648
Re: Random Thread
It's now been about ten years since I bought the first handful of DVDs that eventually grew into a fairly large de facto DVD collection. I say "de facto" because I never set out to collect DVDs, the way people set out to collect sports cards or action figures. I just thought it would be n...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 15028374
Re: Venting thread
Turns out the husband of the couple had a stroke a day or two after his wife did. He's in the hospital, too. When it rains... I'm sorry to hear that. Just yesterday my brother and my other brother's girlfriend got into a pretty serious car crash. My brother sustained a concussion and a minor injury...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:45 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
That sounds like a false dichotomy, when there are obvious options that are neither a Jewish supremacist ethnostate nor Israeli Jews being driven into the sea, which we have discussed in length on the Zeeb, but which I will reiterate here -- i.e. the one state solution (whether in its binational or...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:56 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
this feels dishonest to me, tbh. "what terms would satisfy hamas"? as if the state of israel was faced with an impossible-to-satisfy, greedy opponent that insisted on demanding and demanding. but let's look at the reality on the ground: we have like 70 years of apartheid, we have settlers...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716490
Re: Happy things thread!
Hey, congrats!
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:11 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445398
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
There's a reason why most left-libertarians today who use the term "libertarian" today in the first place combine it with socialist as libertarian socialist , as while the term "libertarian" originally referred to left-libertarians (IIRC French "libertaire" still refer...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 15028374
Re: Venting thread
targeting chocolate ads to people a day after they register their spouse's passing seems profitable. With this API, I can yield an automated daily report of recent widowers to our advertising agency, so promote me. Interesting idea, but I think I'll pass, sorry :) If that's the alternative, I'd rat...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:50 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74985
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I don’t see much ‘well-thought-out’-ness in that plan at all. To me it looks like a bunch of buzzwords and nice thoughts, which very carefully avoid mentioning the main issue: how is this plan going to stop Jews and Arabs from killing each other ? A ‘well-thought-out’ plan is one which actually att...