johnnyworker

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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> But we live in a concrete society, [and] with concrete social and historical circumstances and political realities in this society, it is perfectly obvious that when something like a computer is invented, then it is going to be adopte
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> And in a few months, those combatants and military infrastructure will be destroyed and not much of a threat. Along with everything else, constituting a bigger crime than this is claimed to be an attempt to prevent. https://
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
For you it seems to be all about having a nice site. For me it's about having a nice world in which people can enjoy intellectual curiosity without being monstrously guilty for it. > Between 8 December 2023 and 7 February 2024, the
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Excuse what? I have no idea what you're even asking here.
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> Why does it need a practical reason? To at least give us something as a consolation for all the havoc all sorts of deep fakes will wreak on societies. It's like asking what a knife can be used for other than murder. It's a va
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South Africa's application to the ICJ regarding Israel [pdf](icj-cij.org)
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We learned a bit about LLM, a lot about humans and their desire to move their already outsourced thinking from mediocre humans to mediocre software -- and exactly nothing about AI, because AI doesn't exist.
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In other words, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intifada Also, if you don't sit on someone's neck, you don't have to worry about being shaken off. If you don't benefit from or justify oppression,
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> However, targeted bombing (which is what israel claims to be doing) That claim does not hold water. https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/17317722618482647... And in the same thread here, an Israeli tell
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Replace "dying" by "murdered". Einstein called killing under the cloak of war murder anyway, and that wasn't even talking about bombing one of the most densely populated areas with over 1M minors in it. If you need
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I'm sorry, but that's like looking for direct orders by Hitler before you can be really sure there's a problem.
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Yes, and? People die naturally, they always eventually do. Does that make murder a nop?
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How is displaying a national group elsewhere not destroying it as a national group ? That's why I say genocide. And at best you could say they don't care if the Palestinians live or die as long as they go away, by bombs, starvati
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1741347524693127398 > "If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigration and we will live in the Gaza Strip. We will not allow a situation where 2 million peo
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> If Mexico had invaded the US and killed a thousand citizens, it would be completely legitimate to ask how the US would make sure this didn't happen again. > I wouldn't call them Nazis, that's going too far - but some
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide > acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group When they all live in refugees in other countries, they are destro
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> Israel has the means to kill far more people, if it wanted to - it just doesn't. That you say this and still come on to me with that "I share your values" stuff is just gold.
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> They have a border with Egypt. Why won't Egypt let them leave? "Leave" as in "ethnically cleanse themselves, never to return"? So what's all this song and dance about pretending to not be on board with gen
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
That's showing one instance of Hamas stealing food. And you just go "so obviously, the whole situation is their fault case closed who cares". You're not even trying to hide it.
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> I don't want to go into the "who's to blame because" arguments since to do this you need to pick a cut-off date No, why would you have to? As I said: > Everyone is responsible for what they do There is no giant b
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
No, why would it be. But a hypothetical citizen of a nation supporting Israel in their current undertaking not caring that a terrorist attack was committed with the stated intent of creating pressure to stop an on-going genocide, as if it h
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
As many as needed? What ??? https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue... > Between 8 December 2023 and 7 February 2024, the entire population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.2 million people) is
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Looking the other way is looking the other way. Everybody does that with what they're entrusted with, or doesn't. And when a software build fails because of some very minor thing everything depends on, and someone quips "for
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> I can’t really blame them for trying. You can be sure that the other side of the conflict is also not impartial. Oh, I can for the both of us, and I do. Everyone is responsible for what they do, or tacitly consent to. War is not someth
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Wars aren't a means to achieve resources, but to destroy them and waste them. In the long term, that is. > War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Countries aren't monoliths though. I know there are great people in the UK, why should I hold the Brexit stupidity against them? We have our own share of shameful stuff. Brexit made me terribly sad the second I heard of even the sugges

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