I was reading about new antisemitism the other day and I thought it was interesting.

Most canny antisemites have turned to the old (and formerly totally fine) canard “criticizing Israel is not antisemitic” to shield their actual antisemitic criticism. Not wanting to call Hamas a terrorist organization is a perfect example. They’re only terrorizing Israel, which isn’t inherently antisemitic! /s

But yeah it’s really everywhere now. Sometimes it’s mask off as in this incident. But frequently it’s mask on.

It’s not perfect and especially a huge amount of rockets can overwhelm it. Also it’s much more effective on slower homemade rockets, not the faster kind Iran typically sells Hamas.

Because the people in charge had the equivalent of many degrees in socialism, communism, and Marxism – they had written multiple books on the subject, participated in numerous conferences and lectures, and had spent most of their adult lives practicing and honing these philosophies. Lenin and Stalin believed wholeheartedly they were implementing communism throughout their entire lives and stated so multiple times. So why not call it communism?

They 100% thought they were. Who are you to say otherwise?

That’s not fair! North Korea says it too and they’re at least as trustworthy, unbiased, and honest as Russia!

Hong Kong said it too. Is Hong Kong the CIA?

We’re talking about the tens of millions of peasants who starved to death because Mao didn’t understand agriculture or mechanization.

One of the first books I can remember reading was a Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle. The concept of tesseracts totally blew my young mind.

Your problem is that only tens of millions of people died? Wtf?

I’m only going to answer the first part of your question, not the AI/generated part.

No one really chooses what or who they’re attracted to; it kind of just happens to you. For example, you might be watching a TV show and someone gets lightly, comically spanked… and suddenly a light bulb goes off above your head and you think, “whoa, that might actually be kinda fun.” People are wired in ways we don’t understand to want things we don’t even know we want.

To that extent, pedophiles are themselves victims of their own desires; there’s no “logic” behind it. It’s simply an urge they experience.

Of course that doesn’t make succumbing to this urge excusable, and any children who are impacted are of course victims and the pedophiles, predators. But no one is training pedophiles in pedophile camp. It’s just humans being human, unfortunately.

It was tulips all along, but stupider.

Your day is coming soon, cryptocurrency.

Why did you join 9 hours ago only to post extremely right wing and racist content to World News and Memes?

Wow where in the world did this come from

Such a great series! I just finished a reread of it; totally worth it.

The only misstep in the series, in my opinion, is the novel-length Network Effect. I think the perfect format for Murderbot is novellas. Wells’ longer form felt like a couple Murderbot stories mashed together and didn’t work as well for me.

It’s never explicitly stated what Murderbot’s gender presentation is. I do visualize it as feminine presenting personally, but I just finished a reread and it is never stated anywhere. A character calls it “third mom” at one point but it’s unclear if this is because it looks feminine or because it was smothering her as her extant mothers do.

What

Out of the top collections, the most common price for an NFT is now $5-$10.

Still overpriced!

A famous unpolitical moment!

There are only two genders: man and political!

Make your own instance with the politics you want.

There is no such thing as non-political spaces, only spaces where everyone has pre-agreed on what politics are acceptable.