[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

Not quite the word. I'm often ignorant too. It's rather about ignorance coupled with arrogance and habit of underlining one's better socialization.

So calling someone a normie kinda implies that they are proud of being a normie, they just would use other words to say it.

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

Which worked very slowly and unreliably. It's about stretching extremes.

Today with Internet connectivity crimes are more likely to be seen, but so is propaganda from the perpetrators.

Now they've removed the former and preserved the latter.

Another extreme is that 100 years ago it was easier for witnesses to somehow get out, and today one can virtually track every inch of the perimeter and prevent attempts with precision munitions.

Which is why I don't think saying Israeli special services didn't somehow "miss" the attack or "fail" is promoting a conspiracy theory. They are led by people capable of thinking inside that logic and they are confident that they can contain the consequences as they already have.

This wouldn't be the first time of such a provocation in well-established history, and even in modern history. It's just that people usually easily forget the details of how wars start (Archduke Franz-Ferdinand's murder for most of the world or 22 June 1941 for ex-USSR etc would seem notorious exceptions, but they are really not, nobody except historians remembers the context of preceding and following days).

[-] vacuumflower 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s what terrorists do.

This particular sentence is not entirely correct, as it implies that freedom fighters can't use terror tactics and thus be terrorists.

Say, if some Armenian force (there are none that'd have the balls) would bomb the Mingechaur dam, the pipes and infrastructure going through Tovuz, other smaller hydroelectric objects etc in Azerbaijan, - these would be actions aimed at fighting for freedom, but very important part of their effect would be terror.

In some way any violent activity aimed at denying someone their feeling of safety is terrorism. Like, say, allied bombing campaign of Germany (its goals were even formulated like that).

I agree that Hamas are not freedom fighters, their ideology is pretty Nazi.

[-] vacuumflower 12 points 1 year ago

Recruiting Middle-Eastern Muslims to your cause, with your cause being Jihadist and genocidal, is something most consistent with this approach.

Have you seen these recent videos with crowds in Gaza cheering over all those bodies and yelling "Allahu akbar", "Khaybar" and such things?

I mean, the very fact that they are sharing these naturally and openly should inform you about that society (if you knew nothing about it before, that is, cause what I'm trying to communicate is obvious for anybody knowing anything about West Asia).

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say there's a correlation in knowing the actual history. Those guys are just modest about the Nazi part, but well aware of it. They just want to reduce the attack surface.

So calling them Nazis and treating as such is fair.

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

Well, if I'd have paralysis, with some probability I'd want to try even knowing all about Musk.

There's that problem though with Musk apparently being too excited about putting a cord in one's skull. Instead of, I don't know, scanning for brain waves and analyzing patterns? I know literally nothing of the domain area, it's just that maybe subtlety is a good thing.

[-] vacuumflower 11 points 1 year ago

Nice haircut actually.

I personally just wore a messy Hagrid-like heap of hair being 14-15, some teachers didn't like it, but I didn't care. They did take offense, though.

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, dogfooding is a good thing, right?

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

They also willingly participated in mass murders of civilian population (Jewish and Polish). By "free and independent" the narrative also stuffs this.

So no, whoever put that there knew very well whom they are celebrating. They are just fine with ethnic cleansing for some perceived benefit of their nation.

Which can be shortened to "a memorial to Nazi collaborators", which is the title.

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, if I know what a quadratic function and a gradient descent are, does this mean I have knowledge of AI? Then most people can be taught that in an hour (if they are sufficiently dense).

[-] vacuumflower 11 points 1 year ago

Associating phone numbers with IM identities is awfully stupid. The good old "register with just login\password, confirm with any email" was fine, and I remember people complaining about sites which required email confirmation, it felt disrespectful and spam-inducing.

Now, mobile phone numbers - that's literally the way to inform everybody offended by your opinions or just interested about your everything, at least of the "necessary for a successful murder" kind.

[-] vacuumflower 10 points 1 year ago

Well, to rule out the "misanthropic" part one doesn't really need to have a fulfilling sex life, just meet a few people (suppose, women) who'd make them like humanity again.

About disengaged and disinterested - it's more about engagement and interest being hard.

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