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2 days agoNever thought ‘South Africa’ was a great name for a country tbh
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Getting back the the top question, if everything is a result of something, what started it all?
5·2 days agoHexbear have a group that read Capital from January 1st every year.
122·3 days agoIf someone says, “First things first, I want to sit still all day. Given that, how do I…” then it’s worth calling out their mad constraints.
Counterpoint: you can’t live any sort of halfway decent life “without exercise”
Exrcise ya lazy bollix.
2·5 days ago3rd order simulation
There’s better criticisms of this guy
7·6 days agoIn Irish mythology, men with great destinies like Lugaid Riab nDerg (and by some tellings Cú Chulainn) are conceived of three fathers.
Lugaid’s mother seduced triplets Bres, Nár and Lothar to hedge her bets in case 1 or 2 died in battle. He was born with a horizontal red stripe across his hips and another across his chest showing he was ⅓ from each.
Is this real?
I’m so used to computer-things being files I edit sovereignly on my device that I find it hard to understand the serfware.
711·9 days ago‘It’s not close’ – Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate
Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.
The addition, which now appears as the first entry due to the list’s reverse chronological order, comes after months of extensive debate among the platform’s editors. On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”
The entry for “List of genocides,” Wikipedia states that “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.” The page goes on to list the death toll in Gaza while mentioning that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians killed are civilians.
The decision to include the Gaza genocide in the list followed Wikipedia’s formal Request for Comment process, which began in July. Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page’s criteria of events “classified by significant scholarship” as genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.
British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”
Marshall concluded his ruling with the straightforward statement: “We follow the scholars.”
According to Wikipedia, events qualify as a genocide if they have been classified as such by “significant scholarship.”
Wikipedia’s decision comes amid wider discussions about source reliability, particularly regarding Israel and Palestine. In a related move, the platform’s editors recently voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the subject, adding it to their list of banned and partially banned sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)
Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.
That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.
Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.
I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.
The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.
Are there data on this?
You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.
Misinformed.
The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.
In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=
“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”
Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?
36·14 days agoNo.
Book-learning is realllllly overrated in our world, especially in a forum like this.
Less than 1% of knowledge is expressible in words.
It’s meant in the Chinese sense here.