Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)P

PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

Posts
127
Comments
432
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump
    1. I don't think the competitive Scrabble scene (of which there is a very intense one) really needs to be in charge of the game for everybody. But I get why that contingent is incredibly upset. The set of allowed words is locked in stone, such that people practice and optimize particular memorizations around the particular set of words, and they are barely words at that point, just random collections of letters that form the stepping-stones in their grand strategic endeavor. There are Scrabble experts who do not speak the language, just have memorized the words and are good at the strategy. I get why they're upset.
    2. They're not releasing the exact list, which is automatically a red flag of some fuckery to me.
    3. Nonetheless it has been confirmed that “Paki,” “fenian,” and “shiksha” are all on the banned list. Bro what?
    4. "Bitch," "faggot," and "slut" are all still in the game. 👍

    Deciding the list of officially banned words was always going to be a hopeless task, but even within that it looks like they've been doing a bad job.

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/uproar-over-scrabble-words-that-can-no-longer-be-used/news-story/bb72350938e787cf5566c01109c98dd0

    Edit: Uncapitalized

  • Unobtrusive

    Jump

  • "Listen, Jessica: If you decide to put a damn balloon collar on me, you're going to hear about it."

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • Ha, fair enough. I won't say you are wrong about someone doing that. My observation has been:

    1. Lemmy has vanishingly few people who are actually racist/transphobic/in favor of genocide/whatever
    2. Lemmy has a ton of people who are convinced that those people are all over the place, and devote a really substantial amount of mental energy into trying to find something they can misinterpret as being one of those things and then go on the attack (also periodically assuring one another that there are definitely a ton of those people all over the place, and attacking them to each other)

    My advice would be to avoid the places where group 2 likes to congregate, because they tend to be silly places that will give people a distorted view of what's real after a while.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • Your quote marks and your original question sound like you're really trying hard to find something offensive about the way I am saying it. Good luck! I hope you find some enemies you can be performatively anti-racist against, if that is in fact your goal. If that's not your goal, then I would modify your language, because you're making it sound like that's your goal, and there are better things to be upset about in the modern day than being hyper-vigilant about anything that sounds offensive and then then proudly pointing out to everyone that it's offensive.

    (Well, I mean yes, the nature of the system is offensive, and I'm aiming to be direct about how it behaves, so in that sense maybe my language is offensive. I think it is extremely clear that the system is meant for Khalil, though, and he's not Hispanic. He is brown. I said what I said, the way I said it, for a reason.)

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • These white people:

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/04/world/german-detained-ice-intl-latam/index.html

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo

    The point that I'm making, pointing out that they're white, is that the news is all of a sudden concerned about them, because they're white, because the news is racist. Brown people have been going through that same horrifying system for years and years now, and because they "belonged there" or something, unlike those pretty white girls who do not, no one gave a shit.

    (I mean, no one in a position to free them cares about the white girls either, but the news is at least acknowledging that it's something bad that this is happening to them. They talk to family members, emphasize that they didn't really do anything wrong, that kind of thing. It's like some kind of confusing terrible mistake that the system is suddenly being weaponized on these innocent people. When brown people are reported to be suffering those same abuses, or much much worse, they're reported on in a much more abstract way. Like animals that are having trouble surviving in some particular environment, but not like a problem.)

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • "He" being who?

    So what I'm saying is that "my opponents always say thing X but that is wrong, they are freaks, they are idiots" is usually a pretty unproductive way to approach it. I wasn't even getting into the conversation about whether those particular things you say everyone always says (unrelated to this article, and which as far as I can tell no one in these comments is saying) had any merit.

    I'm pointing you at the comments under those articles, not the articles themselves, or the issue about either Trump or Biden.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • I don't know why I didn't anticipate anyone coming in here to say "And that's why Biden was terrible", but I should have.

    I am reminded just overall in the comments section here, why I do not come to !politics@lemmy.world. It's about 50% just the stupidest possible takes you could imagine on whatever's going on.

    !politics@sh.itjust.works

    !politics@beehaw.org

    Come to a better place! I won't say it's all sunshine and roses, but look over the comments here. It can't just be this, man. It can't. We're better than this, or we should be.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • Seriously. It is disgusting to me the number of people in these comments saying that it's not "disappeared" unless it comes from the Baidibek region of South Kazakhstan, otherwise it's just sparkly intermittent periods of people not knowing where he is before he's found again in some heinously abusive private prison without having been charged with anything.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • They didn’t go to a grand jury or get an indictment.

    They didn’t have a warrant.

    They attempted to say they were cancelling his visa, which they actually would be able to do, although actually deporting him is supposed to require a hearing in front of a judge. They appeared surprised that he was now a permanent resident, and appeared to say that without any type of court proceeding being involved, they were “cancelling” that too, which isn’t even remotely how it works.

    The fact that there are still courts operating somewhere else in the country, applying to other people who are being subject to some other types of proceeding, does not mean that in this case they somehow magically apply to this guy. It seems extremely clear that they do not, and no one intends to have them start.

    That doesn’t have to be the end of the story, of course. But they still might completely get away with it. There are, as far as I know, still some people in Guantanamo who have been there for decades without any kind of chance to challenge the accusations against them, and no one seems to mind all that much.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • Due process?

    There is no pretense that he has committed a crime, or isn’t in the country legally. He has a green card.

    What the fuck do you mean, due process?

    The holocaust was legal. In that sense, the sense of “they are ICE and so by definition, whatever fucked-up thing they do is ‘legal’,” they are following due process. If there is any other one, I’m not aware of it. Can you help me understand?

    Fuckin’ due process. What on earth do you mean by that? What process are they following?

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • As I understand it, the worst places are usually run by private companies contracted by ICE, and operated day-to-day by some of the worst people you could imagine.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • There is not even a vague pretense that they had the bureaucratic authority to snatch him, or that it's for any reason other than him being opposed to their policies politically and speaking up about it.

    He has a green card. He is not accused of a crime. They've simply decided that they can snatch people they don't like and do whatever they want with them. And you know what? So far, they're right.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

    Jump

  • There was a significant length of time when they didn't.

    Both of the white people who were recently accidentally thrown by ICE into detention centers designed for brown people reported (a) that they were horrifying, with nonstop screaming, solitary confinement, shortages of fundamental human things like clothing and towels, that kind of thing (b) there were people who had been there for a long, long time (the more recent one said "years"). Reportedly, even for white people who clearly don't "belong there," there is a shortage of judges who might ever give them a hearing which would lead quickly to them being able to get out, and so in they stay.

    Khalil has been disappeared. The fact that people temporarily know where he is after not knowing for a few days (!), and that they found someone who was an "immigrant" and so ICE had some kind of fig-leaf of justification to randomly snatch because Trump told them to, in no way detracts from the horrifying nature of what's going on. I think "disappeared" is a pretty accurate description even if it's been temporarily announced where he is.

    I don't know what to do. This article is one of the first I've read in the press that is as alarmed as people should be about what is going on.

  • Ukrainian advance, low on grenades, resorts to Beehives - RFU News

    Jump

  • "They threw two whole hives into the basement, and the results were immediate."

    Lol

  • Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.

    Jump

  • He didn't make himself president. He had some natural talents that helped the process along, but being an angry idiot which means he could connect emotionally with a lot of American voters who are also angry idiots was one of them. It's in no way a counter argument for him being an idiot.

    If you fire a sedated turkey buzzard into an airplane engine, that doesn't make it a skilled mechanic, even if it then makes unprecedented changes to the characteristics of the airplane.

  • Are there any self hosted news aggregators?

    Jump

  • I’m not trying to be overly self-promotional, but rss.ponder.cat + piefed.social’s “feeds” could probably do this very well. I actually really like the combination of having aggregated RSS feeds I can control, along with other people voting on them so particularly interesting stuff from them get surfaced more than other stuff.

  • Mods and bans on Lemmy

    Jump

  • It's called the social contract.

    If you're still in the teenager mindset, where you get to do whatever you want and it's an atrocity if someone does anything to you, then of course you will feel upset about coming in, picking a fight with everyone in the thread, and them having a little chuckle and heaving you out the door and then getting back to what they were doing before you came in.

    I actually have a lot of sympathy for someone who wants to talk in a community where they feel like they are not able to. What you did is not that.

  • Mods and bans on Lemmy

    Jump

  • It's funny how all of y'all are rooting for this war to continue. You know it's going to continue to be shit for Europe, right? I hope the war mongers get to actively participate since they love it so much.

    Hard for anyone to see that any other way than hostile and as deliberately misunderstanding the situation.

    Generally speaking, whenever you are telling somebody what they think, instead of reading what they think and then responding to it with your own response, you're in the wrong. No one here wants the war to continue.