Zompist Bboard Again

I get the impression that people implicitly seem to expect (due to the frankly rather racist view, to be honest) that as a Western (with a big W) country Israel ought to be better than, say, any random less-developed African or Asian country, so when it is not they are apt to criticize it ─ or care ...

In this case, Palestine matters right now because the IDF is bombing Gaza to smithereens and starving those it hasn't bombed in a very disproportionate fashion at the very present. And Sudan matters right now , and Myanmar also matters right now , and… you get the point, I hope. Do you really ? Lik...

Everybody else gets to have an apartheid state that's actively committing genocide and lying about it, but suddenly people object when the Jews do it? Nobody makes a peep when there's ethnic cleansing in Sudan or Myanmar (don't google it), or when the AfD tries to do the fourth reich (don't google ...

Everybody else gets to have an apartheid state that's actively committing genocide and lying about it, but suddenly people object when the Jews do it? Nobody makes a peep when there's ethnic cleansing in Sudan or Myanmar (don't google it), or when the AfD tries to do the fourth reich (don't google ...

do we remember what a state is? it is generally understood to be the monopoly of violence over a territory: how about the other part? jewish here means an ethnicity [...] So, an ethnostate, a policy of the monopoly of violence being held by a certain ethnic group, presumably in its own interest, an...

Okay, I have fixed my "type" classes functionality and it is now working well, such that I can compile src/common/special_oo.fs to flash so I do not need to reload it every time I reboot if I want to use show, hash, or equal?.

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:30 am Linguoboy: Wow, just wow. Sorry that you have to deal with such fucked-up shit.

doctor shark: Good luck, and I hope it all works out!

Seconded on both counts.

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...

I have realized I put a stupid bug in zeptoscript with regard to "type" classes (not to be confused with Haskell's type classes). Specifically, the issue is that I made specifying them initialize them in RAM, but if you tried to initialize them in flash they would disappear after rebooting...

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 valu...

I think you don't get it because Zionism does not mean what you think it means. Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish homeland at about the current location of Israel, nothing more, nothing less. You will find pretty much any kind of opinion on Gaza, or the West Bank settlements among...

There's probably more agreement than disagreement in this thread... however, insisting on viewing 150 years of Jewish/Palestinian history through the lens of Netanyahuism is not just unhelpful, but rather ugly. What people are pointing out is that the Jews of 1945-48 were refugees that no one wante...

But if you hold that "Israel has a right to exist" in that sense, surely Palestine has a right to exist too.

I would have said that back then it would have been more moral to try to convince the US to end its Jewish quotas than to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine and drive out the Palestinians who already lived here. You’re not wrong there. But what if the Americans turn around and say ‘no, we won’t take ...

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...

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 bei...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:32 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:37 am An elderly friend of the family is in the hospital after a stroke. I don't know her that well personally, but I know her husband fairly well.

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...

Sorry to hear!

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 to his spleen while my brother's girlfriend sustained two broken limbs, a shattered pelvis, marrow on her lungs and a more serious concussion. Both w...

Nice!

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