Is it? I know it goes further than this, but the idea of serving ads based off what users are subscribed to feels like one of the least awful ways this could be implemented. The same way your feed is generated, your pool of ads is drawn. It feels wrong to say this, but this doesn’t really bother me.

The disconnect is you seem to think it’s a black and white thing. That one must love Hamas if they disapprove of recklessly bombing civilian encampments. Surely if these allegations were fake, Israel would be more than happy to disprove them? To not, I don’t know, protest violently for their right to horrifically mistreat Palestinians when reined in even slightly?

It is senseless to damn every living person in gaza for the actions of one group.

Also, it feels real questionable to talk so much about the Palestinian president without addressing Bibi - I highly recommend the behind the bastards episodes for anyone unsure what his deal is.

I would like to preface my comment with the statement that this is a sad subject and a very unfortunate situation.

But has anyone considered the possibility that the cats of Istanbul may have seized control of the government?

I’m not sure gunpowder is the thing you wanna try and argue is a western invention

Sorry that the developers don’t cater to making life easier for people that haven’t bought their game lmao what an entitled take

Ah yes, how greedy of a company, to checks notes stop you from telling their online distribution service that you own something you don’t.

Pirate all you want, live how you want. But valve is a company, they do sorta have to follow those pesky laws and regulations.

“Socialism will transition to communism” is just a communism thing. Social democracy is different. It doesn’t involve communism. Because communism is cringe.

Because exclusively that’s the communist viewpoint. There are different socialist ideologies than communism. It’s a rectangle vs square situation.

That’s neither exclusive to communism nor has it been achieved in most purportedly communist states (I hear Vietnam’s actually been having a good run of things but I can’t speak to specifics).

Socialism != communism.

They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.

Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.

“America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”

“Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”

“Communism could’ve worked if-“

Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.

Why would they design it to be any better if you’re still willing to pay for it?

If you can’t tell the difference, does it matter?

Of course this gets more into Russel’s teapot than occam’s razor territory.

If you assume the only way to simulate an infinite number is storing it in bits, sure. Also, have we ever really done anything to require representing a truly infinite number?

Some, not most. Propaganda and advertising are one sided conversations - you either see through the bullshit, or you find yourself agreeing with it.

Effective and rational persuasion involves a back and forth conversation, which is far too time consuming for practically anyone to bother with these days. Since everyone has to have an opinion on everything, they’ll usually find someone saying what sounds right to them and recite the same talking points. When you’re engaging in that sort of persuasion, you don’t really need to worry about giant holes in your arguments.

Certain departments specifically have IQ tests, in order to ensure you aren’t smart enough to easily get a better job elsewhere.

In a similar vein, this concept is useful to try and figure out where certain technologies were invented independently and where they spread through trade.

We have plenty of those domestically already. People are people, and y’all qaeda down there isn’t exactly the shining example of civilization you think it is.