livus

livus, 10 days ago

Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of "Indian blood" they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like "octaroon" are another example.

I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)

livus, 10 days ago

...implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC... she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

livus, 10 days ago

The material was used as the basis for an investigative series exposing war crimes committed by Australian defence personnel in Afghanistan.

If it's war crimes the good of humanity should come above the good of a regime committing war crimes.

livus, 10 days ago

Not going to downvote you, partly because I only downvote spam and partly because kbin doesn't federate downvotes so I can't even see downvotes from you and vice versa.

But I fundamentally disagree. One of the lessons of Nuremberg was that obeying orders isn't a good enough reason to commit war crimes.

One of the corollaries to that, for me, is that obeying rules isn't a good enough reason to be complicit in covering up war crimes either.

If a secret is a crime it's more treasonous to keep it a secret, because the people of our nations haven't voted to leave the Geneva Conventions and go out and commit war crimes.

livus, 10 days ago

Friendly reminder to everyone irritated by the above rhetoric:

If you are in a country that suspended its support of the UN organization UNRWA, you can still donate to them directly at https://donate.unrwa.org/

livus, 10 days ago

Yes! I did not want an air fryer. I now really like the air fryer.

livus, 10 days ago

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you're in kbin.social, which doesn't federate downvotes.

That said it's still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it's been reported already.

livus, 10 days ago

If it's the film I think it is then you won't like it, according to Doesthedogdie.com's entry.

livus, 10 days ago

Is it any good? The premise sounds cool.

livus, 10 days ago

Come to think of it, there's a very sweet psychedelic episode in the old children's film Bear...

livus, 10 days ago

@FfaerieOxide 1988 French. Sorry, I seem to have skipped the The in its title.

Stars the great bear actor Bart, quite a naturalistic story.

livus, 10 days ago

The way elephants traditionally landscape the savannah, using long-term planning, makes me think attempting to weed out rogue humans might also be a pretty rational decision for high cognition animals.

livus, 10 days ago

Or worse, glancing at boobs results in "horny women in your area" pop ups even if you were just bra shopping.

livus, 14 days ago

Smart contact lenses and also smart built-in lenses that work like cataract surgery lenses.

These are given away free and basically make traditional optometry have to change to a lower volume higher cost model. We also outlaw lasik on the grounds that it is more dangerous than smart lense implants.

The smart lenses track you and interact with personalised location specific advertiser content at each surveillance point, allowing them to show ads directly to your retina.

livus, 10 days ago

Yes, it's rogue state territory. It has been ignoring the Geneva Conventions for a long time now, but this conflict is a massive escalation of that.

Although this is a whole new level, I do think the erosion of respect for international law amongst its traditional allies is contributary. I noticed they're now using the same language US did in its invasion of Afghanistan around "unlawful combatants" in connection with Sde Teiman.

livus, 10 days ago

This is really scary. The normal rules around aid workers and medics are being completely ignored.

livus, 10 days ago

Definitely. Who was there, how they felt, what their allegiences are, vested interests, personal beliefs, physical strength or ability to carry out a punishment...

livus, 10 days ago

So, you're basically asking why we have a judicial system.

If you look at world history pretty much every human society comes up with a code of what is okay and what isn't, and once they get to a certain size they start standardizing punishments as well.

The reason for this is because it works a lot better than ad hoc justice which is too reliant on variables like who was there that day.

livus, 10 days ago

Thanks, this makes me feel way better about eating the onion here.

livus, 10 days ago

Snopes says it's real.

livus, 10 days ago

Fair enough. I think you're right. Best way to handle the "post truth" era.

livus, 10 days ago

@eyy sorry, have deleted comment,
had your reply in my inbox and forgot I was OP!