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by yibg 1y ago
Thankfully the bar for inciting violence isn’t (at least wasn’t) just someone thought so.
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by yibg 1y ago
The bar isn’t someone can interpret it as a threat. Anyone can claim to interpret anything as a threat.
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by yibg 1y ago
Funny thing is, I’m not 100% sure which “side” you are referring to…
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by yibg 1y ago
Amazingly even this post is a reflection of the discourse around Kirk. There are replies equating any criticism of Kirk to celebrating his death and glossing over his past nasty behavior. All seems to detached from reality.
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by yibg 1y ago
If I say it’s ok he was killed for this, should I be arrested?
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by yibg 1y ago
I think it's pretty smart actually. Altman has sort of linked the fate of OpenAI to that of Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, Microsft etc with these huge deals / partnerships. We've seen the impact of these deals on stock prices before e
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by yibg 1y ago
I blame companies (including discord) for collecting as much information as they can instead of as little as possible. More data collected -> more data that will eventually get sold / leaked / hacked.
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by yibg 1y ago
Never heard of a winning streak at casinos?
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by yibg 1y ago
Agreed. Both my parents are getting older but live in different cities quite far apart from each other and me. Being able to virtually spend time together would be good if it’s realistic enough. During Covid I got into the habit of playing
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by yibg 1y ago
That’s silly. I can spot a crashing plane (engines on fire, wings torn half off) without being able to predict where and exactly when it’ll crash. We can spot a bubble without being able to predict when it’ll pop.
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by yibg 1y ago
Isn’t that pretty much the case for the Chinese system too? There were a bunch of speculation around what goes into the score, but from current reporting it’s all financial related too.
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by yibg 1y ago
How's the Chinese system different from the American credit score?
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by yibg 1y ago
What's the cause and what's the effect? Less protests because ICE under Obama wasn't taking such a heavy handed and legally gray approach perhaps?
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by yibg 1y ago
I'm not trying to be combative here; genuinely would like to see things from "the other side" here and have a rational discussion. Using some specifics, I see the following as wrong: 1. Doing mass detentions and checking pape
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by yibg 1y ago
Might help if you specify which views you don't share? The fact that slavery etc was legal or that they were wrong or that citizens should oppose them?
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by yibg 1y ago
What's moral vs what's legal aren't always the same thing. Especially in times like this, they get very quickly divergent. To the parent poster's point, the obligation of the citizen in a democracy (at least in theory) i
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by yibg 1y ago
> based on your madeup accusations What do you think is made up? That Israel is holding minors for throwing rocks or that there is rape of Palestinian prisoners? > What do you suggest How about providing some evidence of violent acts
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by yibg 1y ago
Without some strong general protection isn't that just 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner? Seems at least some basic guaranteed rights and freedoms is needed.
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by yibg 1y ago
> Are you stupid, blind or just evil? Nothing like a good ad hominem to prove how right you are. > Militants and terrorists being captured for specific acts of terrorism or from the battlefield Yes, thats why they are kept without a t
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by yibg 1y ago
Enlighten me, what’s the difference in this case? Why are Palestinian minors prisoners but Israelis hostages?
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by yibg 1y ago
To be honest, I don't think things would be much different. If Hamas took only military personnel hostage, the IDF would still be bombing Gaza and demanding they be returned. When Gilad Shalit was taken hostage Operation Summer Rains f
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by yibg 1y ago
If Hamas attacked a military target on Oct 7th, killed 1000+ IDF personnel and took a few hundred more hostage, you don't think Israel will be bombing Gaza today? There isn't a way to prove either way, but I'm highly doubtful
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by yibg 1y ago
> better ideas around resistance to rise. What might those be? What other types of resistance hasn't already been tried and failed there?
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by yibg 1y ago
History there has shown that other types of resistance don't work very well. Just need to look at the west bank. No Hamas, no rockets being lobbed into Israel and yes peace as long as the people there put up with their land being taken
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by yibg 1y ago
Perhaps not, but it doesn't help when Israel demonstrates with pretty high frequency the ability to precisely target things, but then goes and drops a couple of 2000 pound bombs on a refugee camp. Or claim they know precisely how many
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by yibg 1y ago
A lot of problems with this. 1) As long as Israel treats Palestinians the way they current do, there will always be another Hamas. That or completely remove Palestinians from the area, which seems to be the current goal. So no, completely d
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by yibg 1y ago
This is just a variant of "it's war, bad things happen", with the addition of "they started it". Putting the debate of who started what aside, does someone starting a war justify war crimes against them? - who start
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by yibg 1y ago
And that justifies things for you some how? If someone was beating by someone else before, then it's ok to beat them now?
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by yibg 1y ago
Or maybe for doctors to you know, wash before surgery, or to clean wounds.
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by yibg 1y ago
It's wild to me how many people here use the "it's war, bad things happen" to justify the situation. Weird that it needs to be said, but this is why war crimes are a thing. Just because it's an armed conflict, doesn

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