Hmm, good point. Odd.
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In case my point was unclear, this is no longer "them doing the right thing". What, precisely, do you believe is the benefit of this action to the Palestinian people? This is a great way of drumming up public support without actually having to do anything. Is there actually any commitment here to action? Is there actually any real cost to doing this? Have these countries ceased funding Israel? Have they stepped up aid? Are they even acknowledging that it is a genocide?
Perhaps I am wrong, but I don't think I am. This is nothing but a publicity stunt, and until it's backed up by real action, I refuse to perceive this as "doing the right thing". This is nothing but a bunch of bullies who've been kicking some kid, and now that one of the bullies has clearly done permanent damage, they're all saying "hey bro, it's just a joke, bro, are you okay, bro?" Not even stopping the other two bullies who are still actively curb-stomping the kid. No. I don't see this as "the right thing".
Comparing the height of an ant to the width of a hair becomes rather meaningless when you're trying to get through the second-storey window of a burning building. What you have given is the lowest possible bar, as the person they're supposedly better than is actively suborning genocide.
You're so right, because the "positive reinforcement" of "let's make up for doing nothing about the Holocaust by letting Zionists do a bit of colonialist mass murder as a treat and recognising their state" has gone just so well these last eighty years.
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If recognising a government in exile is the best you can do in the face of an active genocide that YOU HELPED FUND, then NO, better to do nothing and JUST. STOP. DOING. THE. GENOCIDE.
"Out, damned spot! ... What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"
It is RATHER FUCKING LATE. Sure, let's put together anti-poaching laws for the White Rhino after it's already extinct in the wild! Now, let's find other ways to do precisely nothing of any meaningful value while being able to claim moral superiority and that "at least we eventually did something". Now that the complete obliteration of any meaningful civilisation in the vast majority of occupied Palestine has been completed, and after god-knows-how-many thousands have died of starvation or just being shot like rabid dogs while trying to take the mangled bodies of their children to a hospital, or daring to try to pick up food. Recognising a state which is in exile is precisely as useful to actual Palestinian people as just watching and shrugging your shoulders. It's just an attempt at performative retroactive unfucking.
Don't forget the kickbacks that judges definitely aren't getting on the back end to send more people to prison, not to mention the outright bribery these prisons are using to "lobby" politicians to expand and maintain mandatory minimums to keep the beds full. Also, they don't just rent out the labour. The government literally pays them per-bed-filled.
I'm so glad we can always rely on Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart for honest and reasonable assessments of situations.
I'd agree with your comment, if it were posted ten years ago. We are already there. I cannot get any of the materials I need as a science teacher without going through fucking Amazon. There isn't a single laboratory supply store I can find in the metro area I live in with a population of 5-million+. I can't purchase anything without going online. Every utility is run by a corporation actively grifting the citizens, because it has complete control over whether they live or die. Every single thing I do requires either completely cutting myself off from another aspect of society or capitulating to a corpofascist monopoly or cabal of pedophilic oligarchs.
Also, even if it does nucleate, it only freezes if enough heat is removed from it to allow for the phase change to occur.
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Well, you have to include other possibilities, such as the likelihood that you are hallucinating, dreaming, or that your entire subjective experience is the result of a Brain-In-A-Vat scenario
I disagree with the claim that they are, as a rule, universally applicable, though I certainly do not disagree that this is highly US-normative. There is a significant subset of comics specifically about US issues, stretching back all the way to the very beginning. I can, upon request, provide examples.
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[Citation Needed]. You clearly are not a regular reader if you haven't seen his near-constant references to US politics, electoral systems and why the US' sucks, or literally one of the first and most oft-quoted XKCD comics of all time, which only makes sense from the perspective of a country where, even in the 2000's, literalist interpretations of religious texts and anti-science narratives are not just ever-present, but were already one of the primary voting issues for the entire country
2: You are not entitled to an "excuse" for Randall Munroe daring, nay, displaying the absolute temerity to make a comic about pizza. For someone supposedly calling out US-Normativity, you certainly seem awfully clueless about the implicit assumptions you make.
3: I'm sorry that you feel entitled to an apology for an american comic artist drawing a comic about something quintessentially american. I am more sorry, however, for whoever failed to teach you that expecting other people to conform to your normative beliefs when they do something for themselves is a bad thing. He never once said that he would make it non-"US centric". The only promise he has ever made about it is that it is "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." This comic is both sarcastic and related to the semantics of language. That you feel it is too "US-Centric" is your own concern. As a resident of Ameristan, I can say with confidence that you making that normative expectation is the most american thing you could do. Unless, of course, you were eating a weird slice of "pizza" while doing it.
To be fair, the comic artist is from Boston. This comic strip has been around for almost 20 years, and this community is solely focused on the comic. This is like saying to ich_iel "God, this community is so German!"
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Here, you want a mind fuck? I'll let you have it for free:
Bell's Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed). Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive "Location" as a property things have because of probability and the fact that all of the other potential locations have probability functions that average out to zero (not a quantum physicist, so probably not using quite the right terms there). "Everything" literally is "Everywhere, All At Once". The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, the force of gravity doesn't exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.
That's the best I can do for ya. First hit's free.
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Thanks for the fascinating read! It seems like the specific taxonomy is still far from certain and needs validation, by the study authors' own admission, but you're absolutely correct that it wasn't the bones of multiple species! I could swear there was another one of those from Germany that was a mishmash. Do you remember what that one was? I'm just a geochemist, not a palaeontologist. But anyway, I look forward to seeing validation studies by others of the 2015 findings! It would be great to see all of that hard work pay off! Do you know of any? I wasn't able to find any from a cursory glance around the internet.
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No, much like how brontosaurus was later discovered to be a mix of bones from various individuals, "Distanceraptor" is actually a conflation of multiple Displacemosaurids.
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Nah, you're thinking of the much more dangerous "acceleraptors". Velociraptors were very different from how they are commonly portrayed.
Upvoting for the deep cut back to the future reference. Excellent.
As someone who is under the godforsaken Nazi regime of MAGA, I have rapidly come to terms with the fact that "illegal" things are only illegal if there is a force willing to enforce the law being broken. Is there such a force? I have heard nothing of it. Please suggest who, exactly, you think is going to actually enforce sanction and punishments for this "illegality". If these declarations do, indeed, have the force of international law behind them, and represent a commitment by these countries to enforce these wondrous and miraculous laws they've been actively ignoring up until this point, then I shall immediately cede the point.
As far as "argument from ignorance" is concerned, I would appreciate some elaboration. Saying "Talk is cheap" is not an argument from ignorance.