the only difference is the lack of a german language.
And the lack of anti-semitism
And the boundedness of their expansionism
And many other differences.
Expand your fucking vocabulary, rather than reaching for the only genocidal analogue you can think of. There has been more than one genocide in history, and you do dishonour to the victims of any one by using its name to describe something different.
Did I understand right that VPPs are just a way of grouping some generation and storage together in such a way that you can pretend it will act as a CCGT plant?
If so, surely this is papering over the challenge. A real solution will present all the information used to operate a “VPP” to the entire grid, and allow all the available resources to be managed by the grid.
They clearly aren’t Nazis, because Nazis were not and are not some generic evil, but a specific one. So never.
People only want to call them Nazis as a lazy shorthand for the ultimate evil, and because of the painful irony. Neither of these are good reasons.
As a long-time Linux user I can’t say I’ve noticed big changes in the last 10 years… Maybe I’m forgetting, but when I first used Linux on a desktop I had to compile drivers from source to have working graphics acceleration and WiFi. Things have come a long way since then, but by 2015 I feel like those big things were all sorted. There are still many small things but I think most of those are unchanged, too.
widespread adoption means you can get things like contributors who will then work on optimising battery life and other fundamentals.
I’m a bit suspicious of the 40% figure. Sure, that’s a high proportion, but what proportion of the far right protesters were sufficiently violent to get arrested? A small proportion, presumably, and those are automatically those more inclined to violence. So it doesn’t seem to say that much, though if I were on the far right I wouldn’t be very happy to be associated with them, for sure.
The IAEA criticised the strike at the time, though were hampered due to not actually knowing whether it even was a nuclear reactor, because Syria never declared it. 18 years later it doesn’t make any sense to issue a new condemnation, does it?
Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.
The big data-farmers like Google aren’t selling it to third parties. It’s worth far more if kept to themselves and used to build an ad platform.
whiteknighting
was a weak-ass criticism when it was on 4chan being leveled at anyone who said anything not derogatory about a woman, and it’s weak-ass now. Oh no, someone on the internet has an at-least-partially positive opinion of a company, how awful, we’d better stereotype and body-shame them for it.
If you had your way, the only comments about YouTube - or any other product from a large company - that would be allowed would be negative ones. How the fuck does that make sense?
You’re just trying to piggyback on a vaguely-related concept that your audience already likely hates. Call things what they are, not what would be convenient to you if they were.
Feel free to put forward an alternative view
“Publicity stunt” is just a pejorative description of activism, in this case.
The objective is to draw attention to the famine that Israel is causing by publicising how Israel blocks the entry of aid with a very tangible example.
I see it having 77 comments.
I don’t really care if asylum seekers are able to work; the point of granting asylum is humanitarian, not self-interest. Regular migration is self-interested (from the point of view of the new country) though.
I think most complaints about asylum seekers are about crime, about being “swamped” or about how they arrive, none of which really makes sense, except that it is true that there has been a large rise in refugees arriving in the UK over the last decade. It still doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny though.
Fascism is inherently nativist, but people who complain about immigrants being housed in hotels might be concerned about the cost. For those (many - I’m not downplaying this) that are simply anti-immigrant, fascism also is inherently opposed to democracy and in favour of the creation of a militarised police state. Where do you get that from “whining about immigrants having shelter”? I don’t think you can.
I think you’re identifying that fascists are anti-immigrant and that fascism has some currency as a negative term and so want to bash anti-immigrant people with the label even though it doesn’t apply.
I believe RedHat uses Fedora as a kind of guinea pig to test new stuff out they want to put in RHEL. That results in stuff being put in before it’s actually ready even for a fairly bleeding-edge distro.
I think you (we, people in general) need to do better than that.
It’d be like if you said that immigrants contribute positively to society compared to the native population, and someone saying you “hate British people.” Obviously you don’t hate British people; you’re merely talking about a way in which (you believe) the immigrant population is “better” on average than British people (and no doubt you could explain the boring demographic reasons for this). This doesn’t actually change if, in fact, the statistics you’d read about immigrants and the economy were wrong! So put yourself in the shoes of someone protesting asylum seekers; you have this belief which, in your opinion, warrants protesting their presence. These beliefs are amplified by sources that are respected in your circles like the papers. Then someone calls you racist. Do you use this as an opportunity re-examine yourself, or do you reject what they’re saying because they never engaged with your actual beliefs?
Or from another angle: it’s not racist to think that different populations have different, specific likelihoods of, for example, being in work, doing well in education, or committing crimes. If a press captured by racists and the right wing amplifies stories about a certain population committing crimes, people are likely to believe that that population does so disproportionately, without ever harbouring an actual hatred of that population.
If your main message to them is that this is racist, that message will fall on deaf ears, because it’s not attacking the source of their beliefs.
It’s not about offence, it’s about whether it’s something that anyone even believes.
I am defending the truth, and you’re too committed to your untruth (whether mistake or lie) to accept that someone can do that while otherwise sharing your beliefs.
“Semitic people” is not a category that is used any more; it could refer to “speakers of Semitic languages” but is completely obsolete for referring to ethnicity. And besides, Zionism, or the current Israeli government’s version of it, is not murdering Palestinians because they belong to the group of people once referred to as “Semitic” because that would include all Arabs and all Jews as well as several other people. Genociding people who belong to a certain category doesn’t mean you’re anti- that category. For a trivial example, they are genociding human beings - does that mean they are anti-human? Obviously not.
So, if anti-semitism does not refer to hatred for the entire group of “Semitic people”, what does it refer to? Well, it has some history being used more or less in the way you apparently believe it still is used, but in 1879 a chap called Wilhelm Marr wrote a pamphlet in which he used Semitismus interchangeably with Judentum, and Antisemitismus as a synonym for Judenhaß - Jew-hatred. That is what it has meant since.
There is only one reason I can think of beyond blinkered stubbornness that you could possibly want to associate the Nazis and antisemitism with the Israeli government, and that is out of some pathetic sense of irony, that it is somehow poetic that the Jews have become what befell them in the early 20th century. That is poetic, but poetry isn’t truth, and disregarding the suffering of Jews at the hands of the real Nazis by calling what Israel now commits “Nazism” belies a disregard for Jews as a whole which is at best distasteful and at worst abhorrent.
You are letting yourself speak in a prejudiced way because of your opposition to the genocide that Israel is carrying out. How can you say “grow up” when you let that happen? No population deserves to be murdered the way Israel is murdering Palestinians - but no population deserves to have its past suffering mocked in the way you mock the suffering of Jews by calling Israel Nazis.