"No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel"
A *state as it exists* is not the same as *the people that the state is supposed to represent*.
The Israeli people have a right to exist, but they lose the right to maintain their state when it is used to oppress.
Then it becomes an illegitimate state like apartheid South Africa. It must be reconstituted in ways that regain its legitimacy.
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-10-12/state-right-exist-apartheid-israel/
@Remittancegirl @karmic_resonance ...on our furries fixing problems in (and caused by) their terrible code...
(This is probably an overoptimistic view, but I like to imagine it.)
@Asuyuia What I need is more like "explain as if to a retired college professor who thinks that his expertise in one field means he is qualified to reject the scientific consensus in any other field without really understanding the details"... >.<
As a white man I approve this message for our culture! 😂
@philosophy @stoicism @psychology
@humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#Thinking #Meme
#Philosophy #Psyhology #Humor #Humour #Funny
"Procrastination is bad for your health."
"Why?"
"Let me get back to you on that."
For this, I conducted a peer-reviewed scientific investigation taking into account the following criteria:
- Percieved penis size of owner
- Increase to general sex appeal
- Number of couples who can have sex in the back privately.⬇
Again, the numbers speak for themselves
@yusef I'll let you know if I find anything! I suspect I'll ultimately want to write something (probably in PHP, just because it's what I know best) -- which will also let me add features like keeping a timestamp for each new sequence, and of course the ring-buffer so nothing gets lost.
Thinking about it, I wonder if sox can be configured to do this...
DG posted this on Facebook (Can someone please drag him over to fedi?):
I recommend rewatching the amazing TV series of I, Claudius starring so many great British actors that it's a landmark.
It's also a warning.
Before the series starts, Julius Caesar marches army across the river Tiber. Oops, a conquering hero is not supposed to do that -- but Caesar declares himself emperor, and in that action, he destroys the power of the senate.
Later on, Caesar is assassinated by the Roman senate, and while much has been made of Caesar's death as a tragedy, I always root for the senate. Caesar was a dictator.
After some unpleasantness with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian becomes the emperor. He does not restore the senate's authority, he becomes Augustus, the emperor.
That's where I, Claudius begins and we see Augustus (Brian Blessed) trying to be a good emperor, but he is succeeded by Tiberius who is a terrible emperor who is succeeded by Caligula who is an even worse emperor. The Praetorian Guard assassinated Caligula and by all accounts they did a good thing.
Caligula was succeeded by Claudius, who ruled for over two decades. Rome settled down for a whle. Despite the portrayal of Claudius as a very good emperor, that's a fiction created by the author Robert Graves. More likely, Claudius was somewhat deficient, and the empire ran itself.
Unfortunately, Claudius was succeeded by Nero, about whom nothing flattering has been written.
We have enough fragments of the Satyricon by Petronius to get some sense of the time, but Petronius apparently pissed off Nero and committed suicide before the Roman guards could arrive to kill him. (The Satyricon, both the original story and the Fellini movie developed from it, suggest that homosexual relationships were commonplace and easily accepted in ancient Rome.)
The real tragedy here is that we really do not have enough information about the history of Rome, literacy was not common.
Future generations will find much more exhaustive records of the collapse of the American empire. Trump's name will probably rank with Nero or maybe Caligula -- and future generations will have mountains of evidence to demonstrate just how our particular empire collapsed -- and will argue at length whether or not we deserved it.
Or ... we can turn this thing around before it goes over the cliff, and future generations will read a much more admirable history of this time.
I like em all but the Victorian English option will absolutely have their head spinning. 😁
#tRumpanzees
...and then if I don't make a point of going through it to edit out stuff not worth bothering with, it could periodically upload the whole thing to fedi or whatever, thereby embarrassing me into actually checking it.
(Well, yeah, ok, I'd probably have to write a special utility for that -- but it's within my realm of interest, so... It Could Happen.)
...or possibly into playing less, but this seems worth some Science™.
Is there a Linux app which will just sit listening to an audio channel and record any input on that channel that goes above a certain level?
That way I could automatically record all my keyboard noodling without having to consciously think "am I going to be playing anything worth recording this time"...
@Asuyuia I think it's important to note that humanity is really really divided -- or at least that's been my observation -- as far as how much they care about building a better future.
(I have a whole rant-lecture on ideas for overcoming this problem, but I'll spare you for now.)
...if only that would punish the ISPs who don't offer it, instead of the users who have no choice... :blobcatupsidedown:
(co-operatively owned ISPs when)
