Source?

And no tooling will certainly improve the coding abilities. Especially since I remember all the code, including the changes others made in the time since I last looked at it.

Thanks. So Israel handed out work permits and “allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas”.

That’s sounds a bit different from “Netanyahu didn’t just let the attacks happen, we also know he funded Hamas, and has wanted the attack to use as casus belli so he could do some fucked up war crimes of his own.”

I’m not denying that he’s employing a “divide and conquer” strategy, that a lot of his doing is making the conflict worse, that’s he’s using the opportunity to do a lot of damage etc. But it’s not that he funded Hamas because he wanted the attack to happen (at least the article doesn’t prove that).

Netanyahu didn’t just let the attacks happen, we also know he funded Hamas

Can we have a source for that?

unfit for western society. I don’t care if they rot in prison or on a psych ward for mentally ill people they just should never be allowed back into society

Because people never change, especially 14 year olds. /s

Huh, I didn’t know that Auschwitz was in a war zone and people were firing rockets and coordinating terror attacks from inside Auschwitz.

(and no, that does not mean the kids dying in Gaza “deserved it” or something - it just means that OP is posting bullshit comparisons)

Sam Altman isn’t coming back to OpenAI

I agree that there are a lot of revolutions ending up way more totalitarian than planned.

I’m not sure there are hundreds of them that had communism or a stateless society as a goal though. Many military dictatorships had a military dictatorship as a goal after all. But of course there were also many who had that goal, and failed on a huge scale.

There were more revolutions than just the Zapatistas that seemed to be promising though, like the Spanish Revolution and the the Makhnovshchina.

As I said, it depends on a lot of definitions of rather complex concepts.

The point I was trying to make, was that you don’t have to end up with a state, especially not a soviet style state, after a revolution. And in my opinion a violent uprising or an having an organized militant group does not mean you have a state. If I understand it correctly, the Zapatistas don’t have a principle of using violence to force others into their system - which is something central to states.

It all depends on your definition of communism and state etc., but the Zapatistas seem to be quite successful with a grassroots approach.

People will have to be vigilant. But they have to be now as well - having a state does not provide safety against the rise of fascism or global corporations trashing our planet, as we can see.

That is of course something people must (re-)learn through practice. We can’t just “abolish the state” and expect people to suddenly have all the skills needed for self-organizing.

There are different ideas how (and if) this could work. E.g. worker’s councils that form at a factory level (or similar - people who are working closely together), and then you might have higher levels of cooperation where e.g. all roadworking collectives in a region send delegates to coordinate who builds which road, what roads are even necessary etc. You’d probably want cooperation in another dimension as well: delegates of road working collectives coordinating with teamsters, urban planners, manufactureres of building materials, … But it would be networks of networks, not a top-down structure responsible for everything from kindergartens to space exploration and equipped with military and police power.

You might want to check out The Disposessed by Ursula K. LeGuin or bolo’bolo by P.M. for some more ideas.

Almost as if they were intentionally targeting terrorists…

Not saying they aren’t lying, but this proves exactly nothing.

It could be copyright infringement, although I suspect it would probably qualify for a fair use defence due to being parody.

To add: xkcd comics are CC BY-NC 2.5 licensed, adapting the source material is explicitly allowed. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

JavaScript.

The “missions” by GeoWizard where he attempts to cross countries in a straight line. I really like his narration, it’s very relaxing (even though his attempts to get away from farmers etc. of course deliver more suspense than the average Marvel movie).

For example The Mission across Wales

“Word templates led people to use the same formatting in communications, and eventually, this has become instantiated as a norm,” says Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where she studies human-computer interaction. If you work in finance, there’s a specific way reports are expected to be laid out. Letters follow a set pattern, memos are largely formatted in the same way. “Users know where to find information in these standardised documents; they don’t need to spend time trying to find what they need.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but at least Germany seems to have standards for this since 1949, so I doubt this can be contributed to Microsoft (alone).

Wikipedia states 4.5 million dead as a result of the “War on Terror”.

It’s Axel Springer. It’s a tabloid corporation that is constantly pushing racist, anti-left and anti-environment agendas. They have written in their core values that they will “support the Jewish people”, which seems like a good idea considering the role the German press played in the Holocaust. But they usually interpret this as “support everything the Israeli government does”.

No, they’re not. Antisemites hiding behind “we’re just criticizing Israel” does not mean everyone criticizing Israel is an antisemite.

I also doubt that a statement made by a jew can’t be antisemitic just because it was made by a jew. That’s like saying a statement can’t be misogynistic because it was made by a woman.