Psst. You forgot the megameters.

Yes, it is. But it still seems you haven’t even read or acknowledged what I said.

I’m not American, but to me, out of all the late night talk show hosts I’ve ever seen - European or American - Jon is definitely the funniest and most entertaining. Also, the quality of the material is top notch. This is very good news.

Is it gibberish, though?

Yes, to us these dolls are insane and the notion of pedo dolls is disgusting, and so is the notion of AI generated pedo material. Outlawing these seems to be what most people want, and who can blame them. Everything about pedophilia is repulsive.

But what if these actually reduced the chance for pedos to go after real kids? Isn’t that question worth to be asked, and depending on the answer, wouldn’t choosing the lesser evil be the sensible thing to do?

I have no idea what the answer is, I have no background in psychology whatsoever, but simple logic dictates that everything that helps protect kids should be considered, even if it’s disgusting in and of itself.

It was missing an important thing.

As a general rule, I overthink everywhere. But the only time I actually have helpful ideas is when taking a dump.

At this point I’m just like, yeah, that may just as well happen.

Yeah. In a nutshell, refuse to participate in capitalism as much as you can.

But avoiding billionaire companies and their products is a good start.

All you can do is stop giving your dollars to the ultra-rich. Don’t buy Teslas. Don’t shop at Amazon. Don’t shop at Walmart. Don’t use Microsoft products. And for all that is good and holy, do not use Facebook.

Yup. Or CachyOS. Or EndeavourOS.

I’m currently happily replaying Skyrim on my EndeavourOS installation.

It’s a call to examine your assumptions.

Nope, it translated to me to “you don’t come from a background of resistance in your country, your opinions automatically don’t matter as much.”

What absolute position? I wrote a whole paragraph after the bit that you quote exactly on why it is not an absolute position.

Okay, I admit I didn’t pay enough attention to what you wrote. Probably because I don’t like being lectured about history.

But in that case, even better! They tried working on a two-state solution. It was shot down, but you gotta try again. And again. And again.

Everything Israel and the Palestinians are doing at the moment is the exact opposite. They create more violence, hatred, death, destruction and desire for vengeance, which in turn will be the fuel for more decades of war.

But that’s the point: if it is not just, it will not be enduring. I don’t understand what is confusing about “no justice no peace”.

Nothing about it is confusing, it is very clear. And it is an absolute position that will make this conflict go on forever. Why? Because in an asymmetric conflict like this, there will always be injustice.

You have to find a way to end this injustice with peaceful means. I refuse to accept that only violence can solve this. That’s all I am saying.

Partially incorrect, since the vast majority of Israelis clearly support the actions of their current government and army.

I actually agree with this and nothing I said is in contradiction with this fact. There are still some Israelis, albeit far too few, who want peace.

No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

And here’s another thought on this: It seems as if quite a lot of arab people (not only the Palestinians) view the mere existence of Israel as an injustice.

Logical conclusion? Obvious…

I know nothing about you but I wouldn’t be surprised if you come from a cultural background that doesn’t have a history of resistance and struggle for freedom.

Is this some kind of attempt to dispute my right to an opinion? Or an attempt to devalue it? I know nothing about you, but come on. I’m sure you can find better arguments for your positions than thinly veiled ad hominems.

Hamas is not Palestine and Palestine is not Hamas.

I acknowledged that when I said “If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.”.

The victims of genocide, apartheid, occupation do not have the same level of culpability as the perpetrators.

No, they don’t. There are many blameless Palestinians. And there are Israelis who voted for the current government, they surely carry more guilt in this war than Palestinian victims.

that they should just grow up and accept the fait accompli of the occupation and the defeat, well sorry but that says more about you

Firstly, I never said they have to accept it. If you think war is the only means of not accepting and trying to change it, it says a lot about you. Secondly, someone else in this comment section said: “what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just.”

No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

This is why this will never end.

So here’s a comment which will probably be downvoted to hell, but I can deal with that.

I’m almost 50 years old. Israel and Palestine (plus other surrounding countries) have never been at peace as long as I can think.

There’s always some asshole who thinks fighting a war is the better option. If an Israeli prime minister wants to make peace, they fucking shoot him. If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.

In the meantime, there are at least some people on both sides who wish for nothing more than peace. Yes, we can debate on which side has more of them and it’s damn certain there aren’t enough of them by far.

But can we maybe just stop taking a side? This conflict is not about Israel or Palestine having to be deradicalized, OP, it’s about the all the warmongers and religious fundamentalists and radicals on both sides who need to be deradicalized.

There will never be an end to this as long as I live if we continue to blame either Israel or the Palestinians. Both is wrong, both of them haven’t done nearly enough to stop this insanity.

(But yeah, I totally agree, the current right wing Israeli government is a hopeless case if you want peace.)

Samesies.

I used to be a programming monkey. It was absolutely fine, I enjoyed it and other people got the flak if things weren’t done on time or there were other problems. My code was never the problem - each day, I spent at least four hours working for the company and up to four hours on my own projects, on the company dime.

Seems like I got too… confident in meetings. Made suggestions. People took too much notice.

Now I’m some kind of lead architect which pays really well, but there’s no more time for myself, there’s much more pressure, I can’t code nearly as much as I want to and the fun is gone.