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by rendall 3y ago
Goodness gracious. HN is going for maximum contention these days, I see.
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by rendall 3y ago
I've had one or two really annoying merges that were complicated by these renames. TIL thanks to these responses that it's not actually a rename.
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by rendall 3y ago
Honest question: why are you convinced that Israel is making up the burned baby story? Not asking you to justify your stance and I won't attack you for what you do have, just, why?
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by rendall 3y ago
At the time i wrote that, I did not understand that was behind the "learn more" button. However, if their data retention policy is accurate, even clicking "disagree to all" means they will retain data that individually i
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by rendall 3y ago
I appreciate your sticking with me, here. I can sometimes be arrogant, especially when I think I'm being unfairly attacked (not that I was being). I had never heard of Ahmedi before. Is there any way through for Israelis and Palestinia
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by rendall 3y ago
Gah. Grim. Noam Chomsky said something once that has stuck with me over the years. That, in a situation like this, moderate voices get drowned out because the extremist perpetrators of violence exchange prestige . The violent extremists of
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by rendall 3y ago
From what I understand, GDPR applies only to retention of data, and not such technical requirements. It does not require operators to inform users unless the server will be retaining the IP address.
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by rendall 3y ago
Also, I threw that in there because, if the site operators were to see "I don't expect them to actually remove my data", I do not want them to interpret that as releasing them from the obligation. It does not. It's just
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by rendall 3y ago
I really appreciate your perspective. Got an idea of a way out for Israelis and Palestinians? Is there a path toward peace and no genocide?
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by rendall 3y ago
I understand that genocide and especially the death of children makes it difficult not to be emotional. Genocide happens when people are emotional and convinced of the rightness of their cause. There is a phenomena in genocides called &quot
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by rendall 3y ago
But to your point, if there were a serious movement to "Free Karelia" that meant ethnic cleansing of Russians from the area, I would vehemently oppose it. Finland's position wrt to Karelia is more like Jordan wrt the West Ban
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by rendall 3y ago
Not sure why this was flagged. Explain.
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by rendall 3y ago
I do not know much about those settlers, but I wonder if those guys will be dealt with when a more leftist government is elected.
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by rendall 3y ago
Yes.
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by rendall 3y ago
Thanks for the tip. The opt out is supposed to be as easy as the opt in, so I'd bet it crosses the line. Edit: furthermore, even after opting out, you nevertheless "agree" that (that is to say, you cannot opt out of): Cer
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by rendall 3y ago
As I understand it, the request to have data removed is what's legally binding, not the format in which the user makes the request. If the site owners see it or otherwise become aware of it, they are obligated to remove my data even th
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by rendall 3y ago
> Questioning the purity and peacefulness of thoughts and intentions of (a subgroup of) a people living under colonial occupation is satire at best. There is an answer to the question "What do Palestinians generally mean when they
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by rendall 3y ago
I assumed OP was the website owner. But while my request is serious and legally binding, it was somewhat rhetorical as I do not expect the owners of a site with such a data policy would really be conscientious about contacting me to sort ou
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by rendall 3y ago
> The man who woodcarved my father's nativity scene, one piece a year for 18 years, was expulsed from his own home in the 2000s, by colons. That sucks. What was the legal justification for it? I assume he tried to go to court and
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by rendall 3y ago
> "Privacy & Cookies: We and our 772 advertising partners store and/or access information on your device and also process personal data, like unique identifiers, browsing activity, and other standard information sent by yo
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by rendall 3y ago
Are you Palestinian, C6JEsQeQa5fCjE? We want to understand what Palestinians mean by "free". What Westerners such as Joe Biden, HRW, Amnesty and American college students think it (should) mean is important, but at the end of the
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by rendall 3y ago
But to answer your question about how to bring Palestinians where they could accept a 2 state. Hmm. It's going to be tough. Really tough. PSAs? Denazification campaigns? A real puppet government? How to mitigate outside influences like
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by rendall 3y ago
> the question is how do we get to a place where they can trust Palestinians to not murder them in their sleep? You'll know that I mean no snark when I say 'LOL'. After all of the emotionalism on this topic, it's so
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by rendall 3y ago
> There's certainly more than a little projection at work in this insistence that the only way to establish a free sovereign state is to commit genocide against one group or another. I agree that it's not necessary to commit
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by rendall 3y ago
I actually believe that Israelis would be quite delighted by a peaceful, prosperous neighbor. If they could trust Palestinians not to murder them in their sleep, they would even be fine with Palestinian citizens. That last is an asterisk, b
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by rendall 3y ago
> Different people using the slogan have different intentions Ok, so just to be clear, we want to investigate what Palestinians mean by the phrase, since they ultimately will determine what "free" means when Palestine is fr
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by rendall 3y ago
Or Tabs versus Spaces.
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by rendall 3y ago
I'm trying to engage with you honestly, here. Would you like to meet me half way? If my "blather" is "simplistic", then tell me where I'm wrong.
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by rendall 3y ago
My theory is that when Westerners, especially Americans, hear "Free Palestine" what resonates is "Free Tibet", or Martin Luther King Jr intoning "Free at last!", or "Free South Africa". They imagine F
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by rendall 3y ago
Is it really a misunderstanding? Let us investigate! Perhaps you are right! First, tell me, cempaka, when a Palestian says "Free Palestine", what do you think they mean by that? What does Free mean there? Let's also just agre

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