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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Very cool context, thx!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Printing money is just one way that inflation can appear. The latest trends in that respect are in fact not caused by money-printing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, to be fair there are indeed enough houses... We kinda just assumed they would, by the grace of the market, end up distributed among virtually all people and at a fair price. The reason they never did and increasingly don't is one of the largest unsolved problems in economics /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The article gives me bad vibes... On the one hand, it (and linked articles) seems to present the implicit assumption that Israel = Zionism = Judaism, which is very clearly false but could be easily used to used to "prove" other statements, like this: "Israel = Judaism -> Criticism of Israel = Criticism of Judaism = antisemitism". Same logic can be used for "anti-Zionism = antisemitism".

Additionally, the article does not mention any criticism of Israel that would not be considered disinformation, leaving that question open. This, of course, is dangerous, as it leaves open the possibility that people who "only care about truth" (but do not unconditionally support Israel) support restrictive measures on X as suggested by the article while those measures are then effectively meant to silence criticism of Israel.

Finally, one linked article seems to support the idea that all footage from the warzone should be fact-checked before being published. While this would curb some (minority) false footage, it would dramatically reduce the exposure that the conflict can get, as well as potentially exposing its spread to censorship from many sources.

So, overall, I think this article is using a reasonable-sounding rhetoric to push forward centralized control of social media narratives. It's not a problem that some information on the platform is false, but if the overall narrative is biased, that would really become a problem, and X already implemented community notes (which use a really innovative de-biasing algorithm) to fight that. I can only conclude that we should resist the call to introduce potential sources of systematic bias to counter ultimately "inoffensive" random bias, which would be a step towards true authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Palestine has attacked territory that was assigned to Palestine by the UN in 1947. The UN also makes it very clear that a country may lawfully recover occupied territory "by any means, including armed force". UN laws are thus very clear: Ukraine and Palestine can recover territories by force. Now, that doesn't mean you should support them in their struggle to do so, but if you don't, it must be for some other reason (e.g., Israel taking over would constitute a huge strategic gain for the US, while Russia taking over would destabilize the world and thus benefit small or weakly aligned players).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha yeah, it did take 2-3 days for me to get up to speed with it, it does not work like a typical keyboard at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use Thumb-Key, which is available both in the Play Store and F-Droid. The layout is pretty unusual but I really like it, and the main developer (one of Lemmy's creators) really cares about privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why would you tell that to them? Schadenfreude? It's just asshole behavior, and probably false even under your own definition (you should read up on medically defined biological sex, chromosomic vs genetic, gonadal vs apparent, also sex hormones and embryological development of primary sex characters), not to mention current definitions that are much more useful in practice. And even if you want to keep believing that trans people are just delusional and their ideas are completely false, think whether it would be fine for an atheist to laugh at someone whose only reason to keep going is God.

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