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20 minutes ago, MrMojoRisin said:
“Higher standard”?
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You’re accepting of Israeli crimes because “worse crimes are being committed by others”What a perfectly moral and logical stance to take.
That's not at all what I said.
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47 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:
While I do think it’s a false equivalence, many Israelis and Jews outside of Israel do support the idea that Irael has a unique historical position to speak up for human rights and the rights of others to nationhood and self determination.
Israel is not a homogeneous political entity there is a broad political spectrum ranging from the extremist nationalists through to liberals supporting peace and engagement.Sadly Abbas has just handed the extremists political ammunition that they will use in their arguments agains Palestine and peace with Palestine.
While the Israeli state was born in great trauma, and while the Jewish people have been persecuted more than most others over the millennia, and while this may put the Israeli state in a “unique historical position” to advocate for human rights, at the same time I feel that Israelis/Jewish people are no more and no less responsible than any other group of people, or the citizens of any other state, for the maintenance of global civility. In most respects, Israel is just another country, one among a few hundred. Giving Israel a “unique historical position” encourages some people to hold Israel to a higher standard, and thus obsessively criticize Israel for behaving badly when in fact far worse crimes are being committed (at any given moment) in other parts of the world.
That said, Israel is domestically in a bad place right now, and as you point out Abbas just gave extremists there more ammunition.
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1 hour ago, billd766 said:Hypocrisy from the Israelis who are doing to the Palestinians what the Germans did to the Jews before and during WW2.
Absolutely not. As badly as the Israeli state has treated the Palestinians, they have not rounded up six million of them and murdered them in cold blood. False equivalence.
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I have no idea what you mean by “genius girl,” and the whole notion of intelligence testing, IQ scores, and offshoots like Mensa is becoming failed science, like phrenology or humorism. How can one “measure” “intelligence”? The notion is absurd. Why not just find a woman who’s immediately appealing to you, ask her out for dinner, engage her in topics you like to talk about, and see if there’s mutual interest? I think that’s how it usually works ... Good luck ...
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1 hour ago, ozimoron said:I'm thinking more sinister. Like a Batman movie bad guy.
Like a friend of mine in another forum said, that mug shot is perhaps the best work Trump has ever done. Even better than his Mussolini impressions.
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1 hour ago, Scouse123 said:
What a weird announcement to make from a senior police officer.
It is indeed a weird thing to announce, but perhaps Prachuap is simply indicating his awareness of history. Benigno Aquino was assassinated on the tarmac as he was returning to the Philippines in 1983 after three years of exile, leading to the People Power revolution, the end of the Marcos dictatorship, and the election of Aquino’s widow Corazon as president three years later. The circumstances of course are totally different, but this kind of drama has happened before.
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5 hours ago, 2baht said:
Warning!.......................Don't go to Delaware!
Aw ... We're a nice little state, really -- plus, no sales tax, and really low property taxes!
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5 hours ago, BritManToo said:
illogical Thai apologist post.
State discounts are not equal to foreigner fleecing.
I don't think you understood a word of what I wrote. I wasn't being an "apologist" for anyone.
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18 hours ago, AAArdvark said:
I used to live in Orlando FL near Disney World.
I got drastically reduced rates for season tickets because I lived in the area.
Was that fair or racist?
In Delaware, state residents pay a reduced rate to get into state parks. The idea is that residents pay Delaware state tax, which goes toward park upkeep, whereas out-of-staters don’t. That seems reasonable to me, although the difference between the rates isn’t nearly the tenfold gap that occurs here, which seems excessive. Also, a (government-owned) state park is one thing and a (corporate-owned) theme park is another. Disney would be exclusively focused on the bottom line, so perhaps they’re providing incentives for local residents, who are within easy driving distance all year long, to visit the park more frequently.
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26 minutes ago, Jacques Clouseau said:
As long as global capitalism isn't reformed, it is pointless to try and convince people to change. When you're struggling to make ends meet, you usually don't have your mind set on abstract long-term goals - it is true in the West but even more so in developing countries.
I think that pretty much gets at the crux of it. People with money will do what it takes to keep that money, and people without are too concerned about putting food on the table to be able to think about much else. And the current mode of neoliberal capitalism just exacerbates this, by increasing the wealth gap, which is happening worldwide.
As for whether fear is more a motivating factor or a paralyzing one, I’m sure there are arguments on both sides!
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11 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:
Was your neighbour's brother, in your original tale.
Hope you won't die grief stricken too...
Yes, it was a neighbor’s brother, and thanks for asking. It was heat stroke, and apparently he was perfectly healthy, so it was quite a shock -- six hundred people at the funeral! It’s been really hot here (Chiang Mai), but I don’t have to work outside like a lot of my neighbors do, so can’t really say how it feels doing manual labor or how it differs from a couple of years ago.
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20 minutes ago, Jacques Clouseau said:Yes and no. People tend to make no difference between climate science and climate research. Climate research is an ongoing speculative process. When idiots use climate research to make a scientific point, it amounts to manipulation imo.
I see three categories of people in this debate about the future of our world: climate change deniers, climate change alarmists and those who think the future is going to be different but not catastrophic (name them as you please). Who is right and who is wrong? It's pretty clear that deniers are wrong but scientists are divided about what the future is really gonna look like. Nobody really knows. We know it's gonna be challenging, costly, etc... but worse case scenarios aren't for sure.
The article is pretty honest about this by the way: it honestly states that it's mainly about fear, that climate and weather shouldn't be mixed up, etc... But still I think it's a way of nudging people using their natural negativity bias. Journalists should talk about science not scientific research. I'm all for telling people what global warming is and how it works, I'm against telling them that the future is doomed. Unfortunately most of the time this is the kind of information that is being spread.
About the future being “doomed,” one factor is that global warming seems to be happening more rapidly, at least as measured over the past two years or so, than expected. I’m not a scientist but think there’s solid evidence to back that up. And while you might argue that the news is filled with hysterical accounts of tourists fleeing Rhodes, and 120-degree temperatures in Phoenix, and half of Pakistan being under water, and that such stories help sell newspapers, that doesn’t mean that the events aren’t actually happening, with greater volume, frequency, and intensity than before, and killing lots of people.
So I’m willing to buy into a little “gloom and doom” talk if it frightens people into voting for public servants who will regulate the fossil fuel industries, help fund alternative energy sources (which can also be profitable), press for global cooperation, etc. I’m sorry if that sounds naïve, but I see these as common sense initiatives, and a little optimism helps me sleep at night!
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45 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:
I was responding to someone that falsely claimed: "The richest people are related to the fossil fuel industry and they get richer by bribing right wing politicians to do nothing."
One would have to be super, ultra daft to think your post supports the claim.
I have no idea who the “richest people” are but would trust whatever Forbes says, whose lists some people have cited here. I do know that fossil fuels remains an immensely profitable industry. And the fossil fuel industry getting richer by bribing right-wing politicians (via campaign contributions) to do nothing to regulate their industry, is simply how it works. In like manner, other industries bribe other politicians to do their bidding. This is not privileged information.
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16 minutes ago, Jacques Clouseau said:
I'm not optimistic at all. News has become a constant stream of non-hierarchical information. Too much data kills data. People don't have enough time to process what they've been exposed to. Already the next wave of nudging hit them. I can feel it with myself sometimes. Information overload / burnout. And I don't even have a social media account. Anyway... ????
I don’t disagree … Social media has a way of shortening one’s attention span, and over the long term that will be devolutionary. AI is likely to just speed up this process. However, it’s encouraging to see some people here relying on actual science and citing actual climate scientists; it’s possible, with an educated effort, to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak …
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12 minutes ago, dhupverg said:
Nobel prize winning physicist says there isn't a climate crisis and the IMF cancels his speaking engagement.
"After Nobel Prize Scientist Declares ‘There Is No Real Climate Crisis’ – He is Abruptly Canceled for IMF Climate Talk: Claim"
The nobel prize winner says it's “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/nobel-prize-scientist-declares-no-real-climate-crisis/
John Clauser, the scientist you’re referring to, is a researcher in quantum mechanics, not climate science. Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize in 2016, but I wouldn’t necessarily trust what he might have to say about climate change either. And while Clauser’s invitation to speak was indeed withdrawn as you state, I would steer clear of the Gateway Pundit, which is your source, as it’s primarily known for spreading disinformation.
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30 minutes ago, Jacques Clouseau said:
It's funny how easy it is to manipulate people by altering their perception of reality.
Saturate the news with climate change and people will see climate change everywhere.
Saturate the news with racism and people will see racism everywhere.
Saturate the news with terrorism and people will see terrorism everywhere.
Saturate the news with toxic masculinity and people will see toxic masculinity everywhere.
Saturate the news with civilization collapse and people will see civilization collapse everywhere.
Saturate the news with toxic immigration and people will see toxic immigration everywhere.
Saturate the news with whatever and people will see that whatever everywhere.
Let's be clear here. I'm not saying global warming isn't real or dangerous.
My comment is merely about how information is being weaponized to influence people's minds on every single topic imaginable (whether it's for good or bad reasons).
I find it terribly boring and excruciating after a while.
Well, yeah, assuming that consumers of news are empty vessels incapable of rational thought, or of distinguishing between what’s real and what’s not. Given the number of people worldwide who say they get most or all of their news from social media (or from bloggers living with their mothers and selling herbal remedies on the side), there’s certainly reason for concern.
Your list of examples includes everything from very real existential threats to festering problems to nonissues. I’d like to be optimistic and believe that there are still enough people who can tell the difference.
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3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:
Do you have anything that supports your nonsense?
Don’t be daft; politics in the United States (and elsewhere) runs on corporate money. Somebody mentioned Scott Pruitt earlier; when he was attorney general of Oklahoma, fossil fuel industries fed him $215,000, and he sued the EPA at least fourteen times. When Trump won the presidency, he made Pruitt head of the EPA. Such information is available everywhere.
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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:
I consider twitter, instagram, and especially tiktok, to be highly corrosive and part of the reason for the decline of culture and modern civilization.
At least partly because of how they reduce the human attention span. Even forums like this one are at fault in that way. Serious topics are raised that warrant serious discussion in public forums, but it’s hard to make a valid point in two sentences or less, which seems the norm in social media, constrained either by the software or by convention (nobody’s going to read past the first couple of sentences). Pretty soon, the best you can do is start hurling insults at the party you’re “respectfully disagreeing” with. <sigh> It’s addictive though!
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On 7/22/2023 at 7:22 PM, sirineou said:
So all of a sudden I get replies on funny things I posted on FB , Some young lady loves my sense of humor and would like to be my friend. So I look at the profile picture and OHHH Baby. It has happened twice , and of course I ignored it.
I am funny , but I am not funny between the ears ????.
These are not simple friend requests from people I don't know, these are replies from with in conversations I have in the FB groups I belong .
Anyway I posted this as a warning ,Be careful out there.
I am sure I am not the only one this is happening too.
I got two in the past week, women of Asian origin claiming to live in Canada, and right, both said that something I’d posted on my own timeline was funny. One said that I was “among the recommended friends,” whatever that means. I had a brief chat (via FB Messenger) with one of them; it was pretty innocuous and didn’t lead anywhere. I have no idea if they are women who are bored or phishing, or if they’re trolls, or not who they look like, or what, but I go by the general rule that anything I post on Facebook is immediately in the public domain, so I don’t post much. Not too concerned about it …
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55 minutes ago, pomchop said:Why do so many people seem to want to go out of their way to dig up obscure reports or deep web conspiracy theories to try and "prove" that very well educated scientists world wide who have spent decades studying weather and climate patterns, measuring air particulates, etc apparently are involved in some massive conspiracy to convince people that climate change is some kind of hoax and that humans have little if anything to do with the changes in the ozone layers and atmosphere?
Common sense would tell you that the ones who have a giant financial stake in promoting such claims are the PR firms executives and stock holders that are paid by massive profits by big oil, big coal, industries that of course do not want people to stop burning dead plants?
It seems that lots of people, illogically, equate concern for the environment with “liberalism,” “woke-ism,” and other bogeymen they have been propagandized into hating and/or fearing. I.e., being open-eyed about climate science and what it actually tells us means that you’re “woke,” which means you favor a “liberal” agenda, which means you’re not a patriot, which means you hate your country, and so on.
Of course, as you say, all you have to do is follow the money. As far back as the 1970s, the oil companies knew all about the long-term effects of burning fossil fuels (they undoubtedly had the budget to hire the brainiest scientists) and decided to just bury the results of the research, as profits were more important.
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14 hours ago, digger70 said:Global warming ,The big Greenhouse gas debate .
Its a natural Phenomena. No one can prove it's not they all have theories but no evidence that can say it's 100% the Humans Fault
They can give you Statistics & Graphs but No 100% Proof .
I am Not going to Argue about this or Reply to any replies as I Fully well know that there will be many that believe the scare mongering BS that's going on. AMEN.
This week, Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, who had said that human activity was not the primary contributor to global warming, acknowledged that it plays a role—but stressed the need to figure out exactly how much of one.
It doesn’t take much internet sleuthing to learn exactly how much money Pruitt rakes in from the fossil fuel industry. Fortunately, for every person of influence like Pruitt who has been purchased by that industry, there are tens of thousands of climate scientists who are neither corrupt nor compromised and who actually know what they’re talking about.
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27 minutes ago, ozimoron said:There will be a climate change denier along in a minute to tell us this is just part of a natural cycle.
I think their numbers are diminishing. My neighbor’s brother died last week of heat stroke -- 59 years old, a rice farmer. Working in his field on a particularly hot day, he felt woozy and sat down, then just collapsed and died. I’ll find out more from my neighbor once she’s gotten over the shock -- whether he had preexisting conditions, what the death certificate said, etc. -- but it gets pretty real when neighbors who make their living working outside start to drop dead …
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5 minutes ago, placeholder said:
That's a shocker:
Eric Clapton's Covid vaccine conspiracies mark a sad final act
Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, have a way of catching up with you. And Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored.When he was photographed a few years ago with Texas governor Greg Abbott, all smiles, backstage at a concert in Austin, that did it for me. I didn’t burn my Clapton records, but I’ll never listen to them again.
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23 minutes ago, Zapitapi said:
if you want to believe that..be my guest.. facts are facts dough
hey u looked on wikipedia.. must be true then..ahahahaahahahaha there is NO debate that semites are a language group ..none
p.s. debunked? really? so how come jews living in america or poland etc looking caucasian? and not middle eastern? anyhow there is nothing one can do to make the blind see..
good luck
You are quite correct: in linguistics, the Semitic languages are one branch comprising Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, and many others. No argument on that.
In plain English, though, the word “anti-Semitism” means hostility to or hatred of Jews as a group. No amount of semantic trickery on your part can dilute the actual meaning of the word.
As for the origins of Ashkenazi Jews, there was a theory floating around that they descended from the Khazars, a proto-Turkic people whose leaders adopted Judaism and whose Asian khanate was absorbed by the expanding Russian state. As one poster here commented, though, that theory has been debunked by genetic testing.
Outrage over Abbas's antisemitic speech on Jews and Holocaust
in World News
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Go back and read it again; I'm not going to hold your hand. Nowhere did I say that I was accepting of Israeli crimes, as you allege.