Assault against 'feminist' for short hair recognized as first misogyny-based crime
A 24-year-old man who assaulted a female convenience store clerk in the southeastern city of Jinju last year, calling her a "feminist" due to her short hair, has been sentenced to three years in prison in his appeal trial.
The court recognized the attack as a "misogynistic crime," marking the first time in South Korea that misogyny was acknowledged as a motive in a criminal ruling. The victim, who lost her hearing due to the attack, expressed relief at the "meaningful ruling."
The Changwon District Court's criminal division upheld Wednesday the original three-year sentence for the attacker, 24, citing "groundless hatred toward women" as the motive behind the crime.
The incident occurred in April last year, when the 24-year-old assaulted a female part-time worker at a convenience store in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, because of her short hairstyle, calling her a "feminist."
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Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software ¡ Issue #11611 ¡ bitwarden/clients ¡ GitHub
Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software ¡ Issue #11611 ¡ bitwarden/clients
Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...GitHub
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Answer of Bitwarden founder:
Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
- the SDK and the client are two separate programs
- code for each program is in separate repositories
- the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
The fact that they would even think about attempting to subvert the GPL (much less actually pulling through with it) makes me think they have stopped being an open source company a while ago.
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Not saying what they are doing is right, but Github issues are not a forum.
There's a dozen people in there adding absolutely nothing to the issue, I would have locked it as well.
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After this and the few hiccups Iâve had with Bitwarden on Linux (official snap in part still relies on Ubuntu 18.04 libraries and still defaults to X11, not great for security focused app), Iâve decided to give Proton a shot. Went for 2 year unlimited plan, so I hope they donât do anything stupid in that time.
That being said, Iâm not hating on Bitwarden. Based on what one of the developers said, this seems to be an oversight from their side that they should hopefully address. This is just my excuse to try out the Proton suite based on their strong focus on privacy and security, albeit with a hefty cost (and somewhat scummy strategy of listing prices as monthly but are actually paid annually, and choosing the actually monthly options are much more expensive).
Me, a long time KeyPass enjoyer:
"Y'know people keep talking about BitWarden, maybe it's more accessible and I should give it a tr...(sees this) PFFFFFTTTT! DODGED THAT BULLET."
Many voters are willing to accept misinformation from political leaders â even when they know itâs factually inaccurate, if they believe the statements evoke a deeper, more important âtruth.â
Because even if it winds up being a bad study, it still evokes a deeper, more important âtruth.â
I'm being sarcastic but that's actually what's going on here.
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AKA, I have a pre-existing worldview that provides me with some sense of identity, and that is more important than reality or truth.
This is 'cognitive bias' leading to 'cognitive dissonance' when you unconsciously or unintentionally believe in things that sound right but are later revealed to you to be false...
... And its called 'motivated reasoning' when you just actually consciously know that you're rejecting things that clash against your worldview.
Anyway all of this has been known by psychologists for what, 50+ years?
They just rarely explicitly state that this applies to political beliefs, even though there is no real scope limitation on what topic one can pick and choose acceptance or rejection on.
I suppose the only interesting part here is that people are now just en masse admitting they are fact-shunning hypocrites?
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Which itself is something notable imho, in showing how far it has come along, i.e. as a barometer reading on how far gone his supporters are.
They used to hide it, feeling more shame that their views might not be as acceptable by the general public as they now know that they are.
Don't forget that some sitting members of Congress are currently calling for an active, not-joking civil war.
We ignore all of this at our peril.
In summary: You and me, weâre in the same tribe, and we hold the superior worldview. Those people over there in the out-group are wrong. They also do things the wrong way, because they arenât in our tribe.
Hearing this sort of talk pulls some strings in the human mind. Thereâs this interesting default setting that says tribalism = TRUE.
This sort of thinking only serves to allow people to delude themselves into thinking that they are not victim to the same things as everyone else.
No one is immune to these cognitive biases. There are aspects of it effectively hardcoded into the human brain structure.
Studies have shown that being aware you're watching an advertisement does not negatively impact its effect on the viewer.
Put short:
You can blame the gullible listener to only wanting to hear what they want to hear ....
... or ...
You can blame the well trained, educated and directed media for promoting, highlighting and normalizing the idea of spreading semitruth and fabrication in order to push an overall agenda.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, I don't subscribe to dumb delusions of aliens or illluminati cults running the world ... but I do believe that there is a culture of highly trained individuals working in media these days who just knowingly spread extreme views and pass them off as legitimate enough to be debated. A politician like Turnip shouldn't be normal ... but a national media has made it completely normal to have someone as unwell, politically unstable and sociopathic as Turnip to be acceptable enough to talk about endlessly as if there is nothing wrong with him.
In this case .... I blame the messenger
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I could agree .... but the gullible masses have no idea they are being manipulated ... while the trained and educated media managers and owners (and to a lesser extent the actual journalists) know exactly what they are doing and why
I can blame the listeners for being stupid ... but I still blame the messenger for intentionally misleading the public.
Things are different now as the educational system is being intentionally damaged, but every single child who grew up in America between the ages of 10 and 80 was raised in an educational environment that taught them in no uncertain terms ALL of the warning signs of fascism and manipulation - these haven't changed in hundreds of years. They are either willfully ignoring them or spent their years in school eating paint instead of internalizing anything.
It's totally reasonable to recognize they're victims. It's also reasonable to recognize that in most cases, they made themselves that way.
Moreover, the founding fathers warned us of this happening, in advance. They knew that it would, they told us that it was all but inevitable, we have had multiple centuries of time in which to shore up democracy... like to implement ranked-choice voting, while instead... we chose not to.
I do not hold out hope for democracy to last much longer, not against such repeated assaults as this. The game of Russian Roulette never ends in happiness, but it does always end.
It might be reasonable to blame people but it's entirely useless and even counterproductive. There's no solution that can come out of that. Even if you rebuild the education system, a significant portion would still be vulnerable. You can see that in countries with better education systems. And then of course there's the blowback that results from blaming people, which the very same actors you're trying to protect from co-opt and use against you.
Blaming corporate media on the other hand can produce solutions and quickly. The political system has unfortunately been captured to such an extent by capital that this isn't even considered. Still that the easier and more productive avenue to pursue if anyone would try.
Unfortunately, we're at a point where any attempt to fix media directly will be met with push-back by those very same people - we see this happening RIGHT now. They are weaponized and can be turned on any outlet that DARES try to speak the truth.
These people are now an army and bad actors will NOT willfully give them up. You have to assume the worst... that any attempt to fix the system will necessarily involve confrontation with them, and more we can reduce their numbers or limit their reach the easier that will become.
Treating them lightly with kid gloves will only encourage more people to join their ideologies, and it's not a matter of hovering around 50%, there's a tipping point. The moment there are visibly more people on the side of lies and fascism, a huge chunk of people who simply want to fit in or be on the winning side will simply change sides. Fascism and populism are diseases, and like any disease, it's tragic that they're sick, but you first and foremost have to contain it and stop it from spreading. THEN you can start worrying about their well-being once they are no longer a threat.
Let me frame this like so:
It's just another example of capitalist for-profit corporations that maximize profits while offloading their negative externalities onto the rest of us.
They know they're making money when they tell lies and they don't care about the downstream effects. For some the downstream effects might even be desirable.
Another way to frame it is: corporate media makes money, with informing (or disinforming) the public as a byproduct.
You seem to be missing the point. There are very few fascists who wake up. Look in the mirror, smile to themselves and think damn. I'm going to make some fantastically fascist choices today. They are billions of people who wake up every morning. Look at themselves in the mirror and think I'm going to choose what's right for me because I deserve it.
Billions more will wake up look in the mirror and decide that they want to do what's best for the world because the world deserves that. The other third keeps sleeping because they're tired of listening to the first and second third argue.
That's the deeper meaning greed, compassion, apathy. Choose your flavor.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
They're called Republicans.
As a society, for instance, we tend to think that telling kids that Santa Claus exists is unproblematic, because doing so protects certain values â such as childrenâs innocence and imagination.
Santa Clause may be a fun myth, especially if kids receive presents from Santa for Christmas. But it does not protect children's innocence and imagination.
Though this raises a question if kids received mischief-enabling presents from Jesus (A Red Ryder BB Gun comes to mind) that might improve their take on their personal Jesus.
I hate myths, even ones with good intentions. Things like "Santa" are just teaching kids to be disappointed and that their parents are full of shit.
As a side comment, what in the actual fuck is the tooth fairy?
None of this stuff makes any sense to me, whatsoever.
It may be related to all the trolling we do to each other, such as deckpeckers, left-handed smoke shifters, snipe hunting and soft-punching contests.
It may not make reasonable sense at all, but humans are silly muppets.
It's why I hypothesize that teapots in space (between the Earth and Mars, orbiting the sun) would be almost certain evidence that time travel to the past becomes possible and cheap, and if we ever attain the capacity to detect distant teapots and don't find any, that may be evidence that time travel is not possible, or at least cannot be made cheap enough to be used for practical jokes.
A hypothesis is absolutely fair game. I am not going to spend the time to prove it right or wrong in this case, but it's still 100% legit in my book.
(Just don't go telling your child spawn that space pot... err.. space teapots are definitely the reason that time travel could be possible.)
The logic is that if we should be able to detect orbital teapots but can't find any that it may indicate time travel is not possible, or at least never readily available for MIT students to engage in practical jokes. Because they totally would.
Like Roko's Baskilisk it relies on a lot of presumptions that we cannot immediately make. We still struggle to detect teapot-sized satellites in the inner solar system. Time travel may exist but may never be freely accessible. There may even have been a task force to intercept all the teapot-placement missions before they launched, or a good reason not to frivolously drop objects into the past such as teapots. We might even have evolved to where we just don't consider trolling each other as appropriate behavior.
As with many of my hypotheses, it's more of a thought experiment than an actual conjecture of the real world.
"Alternative facts"
It's how religions work. The positive bullshitting is not much different than a sermon full of made up anecdotes - stories with the purpose of "evoking a deeper truth".
This is literally the "WOLOLO!" meme in action...
Isn't that just tribalism or clubism in general?
For example, if one looks at footbal (soccer for Americans) fans, their "judgement" on the validity of faults and sanctions (or lack thereof) is entirelly dependent of whose team they support and almost invariably they side with whatever the important people of "their" team (like the coach, important players and even the club's manager) say with zero logical analysis and if you actually bring logic into it and it goes against "their" team, the biggest fans just get angry and dismiss it all.
People with a strong emotinal bond to a "team" judge messages in that domain based on the messager and which team it favours, rather than on the contents of and supporting evidence for the message itself.
It's kind of like this: I just want it to be possible to smoke weed and be still gainfully employed. Even if Harris gets up on stage and starts spouting bullshit about Jewish space lasers, I'm still voting for her. Even if a bunch of people get hella pissed off that jewish space lasers aren't a smart use of tax dollars I'M STILL VOTING FOR HER because political issues that effect me are, to me, the more important ones.
In reality it wouldn't matter even if that's the plan. Building space lasers is still a less destructive thing to do to our society than all the utterly corrupt shit Trump and his goonlings want. I just need the bad guys to lose. We all do. Even if it's just this once.
Chery unveils autonomous flying car, completes 50-mile test flight
Chery unveils autonomous flying car, completes 50-mile test flight
Chery has unveiled its new flying car, featuring full autonomous driving capabilities and powered by an all-solid-state battery.Bojan Stojkovski (Interesting Engineering)
Flying cars are dumb.
Pushing a car with your body is easy
Lifting a car with your body is hard.
This is all you need to know.
It looks like shit though, so probably won't sell.
Also how about we try to enlarge it few dozen times, maybe link few of them together and put it on rails? It wouldn't even have to fly?
Yeah i seen it too though that flying taxi looked pretty good in comparison, like big drone basically. Also it was just a flying vehicle and this here is also a car.
Finally, it's still wasteful and aimed at rich people, it would also require early centralised flight control service to avoid accidents (though i admit it would be feasible unlike the self driving cars), and in such case again, why not just use train, especially that it would also allow to reduce traffic, negating even the need for flying car.
Israel plans to use Sinwarâs body as âanother bargaining chipâ in hostage-ceasefire negotiations, official tells ToI
The fuck?
So, does hamas give the hostages back in exploded pieces then?
Nothing new. Zios have been stealing bodies (and organs) for a looooong time.
"At the end of the Ukraine war, the Russian military will be stronger than today"
Nato-Oberbefehlshaber Cavoli und Generalinspekteur Breuer: Am Ende des Ukrainekriegs wird das russische Militär stärker sein als heute
Als Nato-Befehlshaber plant US-General Cavoli die grĂśĂte AufrĂźstung der Allianz seit dem Kalten Krieg. Im Interview sprechen er und Generalinspekteur Breuer Ăźber die russische Bedrohung und sagen, wie schnell sich die Nato wappnen muss.Matthias Gebauer (DER SPIEGEL)
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Humanityâs Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters
Humanityâs Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters
Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like NeandertalsScientific American
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Instead of a multitude of differing moderation teams, you're subject to a single one, BlueSky itself, I guess?
Anyone worried about moderation on a social media platform probably needs to think a little more introspectively though...
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In case anyone was scrolling by and is interested the quote is a bit misleading out of context, Marx isnât saying we should do this, he is more saying that capitalism requires âusâ to do this, while telling us if we just stop eating avocado toast we too could become part of the billionaire class. While of course they themselves would never live without these supposed needless things.
Read it in context here Need, Production and Division of Labor, this link is directly to the section the quote is from but in my opinion the formatting isn't as good.
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Old time comic W. C. Fields was once asked how to become successful.
He said a man should castrate himself, burn out his taste buds, make himself as blind and deaf as possible, and then the only thing he could enjoy was money.
I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses!
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1768620âŚ
It's a very long post, but a lot of it is a detailed discussion of terminology in the appendix -- no need to read that unless you're into definitional struggles.
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I skimmed through the article. Isn't Bluesky one billionaire purchase away from becoming the new X (and in this case, I don't mean Twitter)?
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Yep. And that's far from the only way it could work out badly. I talk about this a bit in the section on "Bluesky is a useful counterweight to Threads"
Bluesky is far from perfect. They're venture-funded, so likely to end with an exploitative business model. They've got a surveillance-capitalism friendly all-public architecture. It's great that Jack Dorsey's no longer on the board but he was.
bluesky is run by a single org, and you have to beg them to let their router include your 'independent' instance. it is a closed garden.
it is like federating with facebook (not threads) by begging facebook to include your server and content into their garden.
thats not open federation. even after they let you in, they could take their ball home and lock it down at any moment.
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allow lists run by individual instances..not a gatekeeping board of a single entity.
my points stand. if you want to join a true federating twitter clone youre not using the atprotocol.
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In what way is mastodon a bad twitter alternative?
I love Mastodon, but I never actually used twitter much so I don't have much of a sense for why Mastodon might not be comparable
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I hope they start supporting people who want to run an indexer. Right now they just point to their source code and say, "if you can get this largely undocumented complex service running on your own, you can run a indexer, but don't ask us for any help".
I'm not entirely confident that it will happen before their only funding source decides to cut off the cash flow.
To bridge your fediverse account into Bluesky and interact with people there, search for and follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. That account will then follow you back. Accept its follow to make sure your fediverse posts get sent the bridge and make it into Bluesky.
fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-getâŚ
I mean, I guess, but that's pretty convoluted and opt-in, not so much a direct compatible connection from Bluesky to the Fediverse. And you'd have to trust them regarding privacy.
Agreed that Bridgy Fed is opt-in ... I see consent as a good thing, but not everybody agrees.
And yeah, Bluesky's just ike any other instance, you have to trust them with privacy. I think the argument that Bluesky, Flipboard, Threads, and Wordress.com-hosted blogs shouldn't be considered part of the Fediverse is intellectually consistent, I just don't see a lot of people making that argument. But, "the Fedivese" means different things to different people, the followup post Is Bluesky part of today's Fediverse? goes into a huge amount of detail on that ...
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I think, possibly like many others, since BlueSky came from the creator of Twitter, I do not trust it. At the moment, I don't even think there's anything anybody can say about it that would make me want to even test it. It just feels tainted.
Also, what is BlueSky promising? A new Twitter? The fediverse is making so much more possible: new Twitter(s), new Youtube, new Instagram, new Reddit, and it's even being put into Wordpress, maybe even Tumblr, and who knows what else. How does BlueSky fit into that puzzle?
Dorsey's not involved in Bluesky any more but I agree that there are lots of reasons not to trust them (including Dorsey's original involvement).
Bluesky's currently a much better Twitter alternative than Mastodon but I totally agree, there's a lot more to social networking than that. I talk about ways I see Bulesky as complementary to the ActivityPub section in the last section, "It's the end of the Fediverse as we know it â and I feel fine"
You didn't miss it, I didn't go into detail on it in the article ... one big reason is that because of how ActivityPub works you only see a fragment of the overall conversation (instead of everything). If you're on a big well-connected instance like mastodon.social you see more of it but still not all; if you're on a smaller not-so-well-connected instance you miss most of it. This comes in conversations (the "missing replies" problem), with search, and with hashtags.
Another reason is that Twitter's got a lot of journalists, activists and organizers, politicians, government agencies, athletes, etc ... and Mastodon for the most part doesn't. That's not a technical issue, but for most people, following one or more of those groups is something they're used to from Twitter, so Mastodon doesn't fill the same role.
Again, there's plenty of stuff Mastodon is good at! And Twitter clones replicate Twitter's problems as well as what people like about it. But for people who are sick of Twitter and want a similar experience elsewhere (as opposed to trying something different), they're more likely to get what they want on Bluesky (and in many cases even Threads, especially if they already have an Instagram account and don't want to see political stuff) than Mastodon.
I don't trust it because there's no believable plan to make it commercially viable, so it's just going to end up defunct or enshittified. Mastodon is up front, it's a volunteer service that you can either pay for or roll the dice on the instance staying up. And there's a built-in way to move on when one goes down.
BlueSky is a B-corp, which theoretically means they can say their mission takes priority if sued by an investor in court, but doesn't in any way require them to make it the primary goal, and the reality of funding and money and investors means that's almost certainly not going to happen.
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Nope. I wish this were the case, but PeerTube will never replace YouTube. Ever.
I long for the day where I am proven wrong. Not holding my breath.
Personally I think that the connectivity via Bridgy Fed and Friendica are strong enough that it makes sense to consider Bluesky an instance on the ActivityPub Fediverse. Threads currently has less connectivity, and people in general consider it part of the Fediverse. For what it's worth, in a discussion on Social Hub, Evan Prodromou also said he saw Bluesky as an instance in the ActivityPub Fediverse.
I also think that the ATmosphere is fediverse (descentralized social network) in its own right. So is Bluesky, as well as being part of the AcivityPub Fediverse and the ATmosphere.
But others define the Fediverse differently, privacy.thenexus.today/is-blue⌠goes into a lot of detail on the different views.
You're not the only one who sees it that way. Historically the Fediverse was always multi-protocol but some people don't think it shojld be today. I talked about this view some in privacy.thenexus.today/is-blueâŚ
"Anyhow, if Evan and Eugen and SWF and fediverse.party want to choose a definition of Fediverse where history stopped with Mastodon's 2017 adoption of ActivityPub, erases earlier Fediverse history, and ties the Fediverse's success to a protocol that has major issues ... they can do that. "The Fediverse" means different things to different people. It's still worth asking why they choose that definition."
You seem to be incorrectly stating what is on Wikipedia, which leads:
The fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)[1][2][3] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.
That last bit is absolutely key: a collection of services using a common protocol. Imagine if two different email servers didn't both speak SMTP. Imagine if two different web services didn't both speak HTTP. The Internet as a singular entity is only made possible because of protocol interop between all of its constituent parts.
To say "the fediverse" is comprised of multiple incompatible protocols goes against that grain, and to go back to pre-ActivityPub-as-W3C-specification days as an argument that it's fine to label multiple incompatible protocols as all being components of "the fediverse" is a stretch.
To me, this isn't a let's-agree-to-disagree-issue, honestly. While the term "fediverse" is arguably colloquial and doesn't necessarily imply any specific technical attributes, it ceases to be useful as a term if Fediverse Platform A cannot in any way communicate with Fediverse Platform B because the two platforms happen to be using 100% incompatible protocols. Aside from a third-party bridge, the AT protocol used by Bluesky is 100% incompatible with ActivityPub used by Mastodon, Threads, and others. Therefore, they cannot both be simultaneously services in the fediverse.
For what it's worth, the guy who mostly maintains the Wikipedia page agrees with you. And yet even so, at least for now, the Wikipedia page states "The majority of fediverse platforms ... create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol" -- which pretty clearly implies that not all fediverse platforms use the ActivityPub protocol.
Anyhow whether or not you agree to disagree ... we disagree. Time will tell how broad usage of the term evolves. In the original article I pointed to examples of TechCrunch and Mike Masnick using the term in the broader sense, but maybe those will turn out to be points off the curve. We shall see!
So, I find people talking about blue sky confusing; if I search for a bluesky user to follow via Mastodon, I don't see them come up. Does that just mean my server isn't federated with them? I'm on mastodon.online, which I think is one of the biggest instances.
It'd be cool if I could actually interact with blue sky but it's really not clear to me how it works if I don't have a blue sky account and am interacting externally
Gotcha. I understand why they chose to do it that way, but I do kinda wish it was possible to just follow someone
Thank you very much for the link/explanation!
Just think about what you said. How does that make any sense? The reason we exist is because our ancestors chose violence. Name any place in the world that didnât have to protect themselves with violence.
The reason the recent generations in developed countries have been protected from violence is because of past violence, the threat of future violence, and current proxy violence.
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Iâm sorry, what? Living in reality is happiness. Pretending the world is what it is not is depressing because one day youâll have to come to terms with reality and itâll shatter you.
Explain to me how your country has come into existence and remains peaceful (assuming itâs peaceful) without violence.
Iâm not saying peace doesnât exist, but itâs yin and yang. The world isnât flowers and rainbows and cannot possibly be that as our species currently exists today. If you believe that, then you are living in a bubble and willfully ignorant of human nature when peace or survival is threatened. Everything is violent when it has to be.
You have the privilege of being peaceful because of the threat of violence. Weâre still just animals when it really comes down to it.
Better to put them on show than put them to use, but also yes there's something vulgar in celebrating weapons.
Fine weapons of war augur evil. \
Even things seem to hate them. \
Therefore, a man of Tao does not set his heart upon them.
What another has taught let me repeat: \
"A man of violence will come to a violent end." \
Whoever said this can be my teacher and my father.
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You have no power here Santa, Thanksgiving has come and gone!
In fact, their sales are probably dropping BECAUSE they're firing all of the people doing the selling and other work that facilitates selling.
Corporations reacting to a subpar quarter with mass layoffs is like a marathon runner reacting to a bad third mile by intentionally spraining their ankle.
In my area, kids receive money instead of candy when going to people and singing on Saint Nicolas, between Saint Nicolas and Christmas, before Christmas, on Christmas, after Christmas and on New Year day
I also know that different parts of my country do the same
The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter.
Only true in some places. It's not a universal fact. Lots of places don't even have winter. Yet, Christmas is still celebrated. You're making arguments about Christmas everywhere based on your own location's individual climate.
wtf are you on about? The Winter Solstice is very much a verifiable fact (itâs actually the 21st so I was a day off) and marks the start of Winter in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is usually (I say usually so you canât be pedantic about the minority outliers) celebrated on December 25th. Thatâs still only a few days after the solstice like I was saying.
This comic is talking about the Christmas season, creeping into Halloween and fall festivities, which is very much true in the northern hemisphere. I see your on an NZ instance which, yes the seasons are flipped there, but donât go getting butt hurt if you canât read context clues from the comic just because it doesnât line up with you.
It sounds like you and drag agree that the winter solstice is only in December in the Northern hemisphere. You've taken on drag's correction and understood drag's point. Thank you for being so reasonable and open minded.
Drag would also like to clarify that the winter solstice does not mark the start of winter in climates that don't have winter. For example, in places that have a six season calendar.
I just want to point out that "the solstice marks the start of the season" is not a universal fact. Here in Aus, we mark the start of summer as 1 December, and so if I were to take my perspective and apply it to the northern hemisphere, I would say that for you, Christmas is about a third of the way through winter.
The difference here is technically referred to as "meteorological" vs "astronomical" seasons. I've always thought meteorological seasons make far more sense because they much better reflect reality. Winter is defined by cold weather and short days. The winter solstice is already very cold and it has the shortest day. It is absurd to put the shortest day at the very beginning of winter. If you wanted to have an astronomically-based calendar, the solstice should mark the very midpoint of winter, with the season starting precisely halfway between then and the autumnal equinox.
But also, as the other user mentioned, some places have entirely different season systems. Seasons are, fundamentally, a human creation. The notion that weather patterns change throughout the year is a universal fact, but what we call those changes and how many categories we separate it into is human. Many cultures have their own systems with more or different seasons. Many tropical areas have traditionally only observed "wet" (or monsoon) and "dry" seasons. In ancient Egypt, the flooding of the Nile marked an important seasonal change. And South Asia uses a variety of different 6-season systems, such as the Hindu, Bengali, and Tamil calendars.
What is it with people trying to make the entirety of October into Halloween?
It's one single night, it's not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.
What's next, turning Easter into a month long extravaganza?
What is it with people trying to turn the entirety of October, November, and December into Christmas?
It's one single night, it's not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.
What's next, celebrating other holidays in the actual month that they fall in?
Isnât this practically the plot of The Nightmare Before Christmas?
P.S. I know itâs not, but it could be the plot of a gritty reboot. A bunch of Halloween mascots are fed up with how Christmas is overtaking all of fall so they declare âWar on Christmasâ
Iâd watch it. Unfortunately I imagine this would be like a Seth Rogan and James Franco movie a la Sausage Party but hey Iâd still watch it
Russia, Ukraine each bring home 95 prisoners of war in UAE-mediated swap
Russiaâs Ministry of Defence stated that returning Russian service members were undergoing medical checks in Belarus, one of Russiaâs closest allies throughout the two-and-half-year conflict. A Russian military video showed smiling soldiers boarding buses.
A video posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyâs Telegram account, meanwhile, showed men, some wrapped in the Ukrainian flag, getting off a bus and hugging loved ones.
âEvery time Ukraine rescues its people from Russian captivity, we get closer to the day when freedom will be returned to all who are in Russian captivity,â the president said.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the exchange as âa reflection of the cooperative and friendly relations between the UAE and both countriesâ. It was its ninth time mediating such an exchange between Moscow and Kyiv.
Russia, Ukraine each bring home 95 prisoners of war in UAE-mediated swap
The exchange was the 58th to take place since the beginning of the war, Ukraine says.Al Jazeera
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One of âIsraelâsâ most senior commanders killed by IED in Gaza
The commander of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) 401st Armored Brigade was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Jabalia, north Gaza today.
According to the IOFâs statement, Colonel Ehsan Daqsa was killed when his tank and another were hit by explosive devices during the ongoing operations in Jabalia.
One of âIsraelâsâ most senior commanders killed by IED in Gaza
Colonel Ehsan Daqsa, one the most senior "Israeli" officers to be killed in the Gaza war.Roya News
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Recognition is a state of mind. Recognizing the occupational force is in a way a victory for them.
The flip side is as you mentioned, it makes discussion more difficult with people who are less knowledgeable about a conflict. This is why the word Israel is often used in quotes.
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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America's News
Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America's News
Media personalities like Barak Ravid, an ex-Israeli spy turned Washington journalist, play a key role in shaping media coverage that protects Israeli military actions and influences unwitting American audiences.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
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Barak Ravid, an ex-Israeli spy turned Washington journalist, play a key role in shaping media coverage...
Does he?
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"MEDIA PERSONALITIES LIKE" is a pretty important part of that sentence that you shortened to sound conspiratorial. It would do everyone well to read the entire article rather than look at the shortest quote for a gotcha.
In April, he won the prestigious White House Press Correspondentsâ Award âfor overall excellence in White House coverageâ
That's like the fourth paragraph. So, yes, even if you don't know him, that's very influential. The article also goes over plenty of examples across Meta, CNN, NYT, Google and many others.
an attempt to reach âde-escalation through escalation.'
A....what?
Hezbollah drone hits Netanyahu's home as rocket barrage pummels Haifa
Hezbollah drone hits Netanyahu's home as rocket barrage pummels Haifa
The Lebanese resistance movement launched a barrage of 55 rockets at targets in Israel this morningthecradle.co
Police Escalate Britainâs War on Independent Journalism
Winstanley has repeatedly embarrassed the British establishment by exposing its covert and deep ties to Israel and its collusion with the Israeli lobby.In his book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn, Winstanley exposed in shocking detail how anti-Semitism was weaponised against the former Labour leader.
The book would have made uncomfortable reading for his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, now Britainâs prime minister, because it documents his role in the smear campaign.
Police Escalate Britainâs War on Independent Journalism
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isnât about terrorism, writes Jonathan Cook â except that of the U.K. government. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britainâs collusiâŚscheerpost.com
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in reply to Stopthatgirl7 • • •3 years actually seems pretty soft for permanently disabling someone. Imagine reliving this violent moment every time you hear something. I hope she can also sue the shit out of him.
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in reply to LadyAutumn • • •This sounds unbelievable, like the turning of a ship to avoid an iceberg. It's an unbelievably light sentencing, showcasing the country's lack of interest in protecting women's rights while declaring the intent to do so in the ruling.
If my partner was attacked, lost her hearing and had to attend court multiple times to defend her rights to safety, and the perpetrator got 3 years? I'd be furious.
I know she'd be devastated. The times she felt unsafe already leave such a big impact, let alone a realised attack.
Anyway. I do hope it's just a positive sign, that all it will take is a bit more time. I want to believe it's positive. But it's wild to compare what I'd like to believe as obvious human rights; to not be attacked to the point of disability from an unprovoked human, then believe in the justice system in arrears to punish and (theoretically) prevent.
Anyway, long rant. Processing it because I probably believed Korea was better than that. Not all the humans, just at least the culture and law.
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in reply to biscuitswalrus • • •Googling about sentencing for assault I found this "A person who uses violence against another shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years, a fine not exceeding 5 million won, detention, or a minor fine."
So in that context 3 years being a 50% increase over the otherwise 2 year maximum seems fair enough to me.
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