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livus, to wtf in This spider earring
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The legs would tickle like crazy.

livus, to wtf in This spider earring
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Really weirded out by how many people in here are talking about hitting it, like that's a normal or okay response to a big spider on someone.

  • If it's a non fatal blow that's the best way to get a spider to bite that person.

  • If it's a fatal blow then now the person has spider guts smeared all over them.

It's just.... there's nothing good about doing that. Either flick it off or use a piece of paper to remove it.

livus, to world in ‘We Have Shot Dead All the People’: Survivors Recount Horror of Myanmar Monastery Massacre
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I hate to break it to you but Buddhists killed those Buddhists.

Myanmar is 90% Buddhist and in the middle of a brutal civil war after over 60 years of military dictatorship by Buddhists, against a civilian population of mostly Buddhists.

Myanmar is also home to a sect of violent extremist Buddhists who supported genocide.

livus, to world in ‘We Have Shot Dead All the People’: Survivors Recount Horror of Myanmar Monastery Massacre
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Sorry if this sounds rude of me but that suggestion is absurd. Myanmar is 90% Buddhist. The monastery was attacked by the junta (government military). The junta also attacks Muslims. From your own link:

Soldiers and police sometimes stood by "while atrocities have been committed before their very eyes, including by well-organized ultra-nationalist Buddhist mobs," said the rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana. "This may indicate direct involvement by some sections of the state or implicit collusion and support for such actions."

Which of course was confirmed later when junta soldiers began giving testimony about their role in killing Muslims in the Rohingya Genocide

@saltesc

livus, to world in Gaza war: Israelis attack aid convoys sent for Palestinians
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@That edit was your attempt at some dark humour?

If Gazans stand in a big group anywhere without permission from the occupiers, they can get bombed and sniped and chased with drones.

The majority are internally displaced and homeless. A significant number are now starving to death. We know from doctors - before the IDF rounded them up and imprisoned them in Sde Teiman (Israel's version of Abu Ghraib torture detention) - the number of burn injuries, amputations, etc civilians are facing.

And you dare to sit there and compare these to the uninjured, well fed citizens of a richer nation that all have their own homes to sit in and organize their protests about how they want their hostages back?

Palestinians want their hostages back too. The thousands of children whose parents have been killed and vice versa want their loved ones back too.They are HUMAN BEINGS just like you. If Israel had treated them as humans and observed international law instead of turning into a rogue genocidal state the civilians of Palestine may have had the same chance for expression that you do yourself.

Try for some compassion.

livus, to world in Gaza war: Israelis attack aid convoys sent for Palestinians
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The white South Africans did not starve to death when we boycotted them over Apartheid. The Israeli people can stand a few sanctions over their democratic choice to allow openly genocidal actions.

Personally the first sanction I would like to see against Israel is a complete embargo on buying or selling any weapons, armaments, or other military equipment. This would not hurt the innocent but it would hurt arms dealers and genocidaires alike.

livus, to showerthoughts in Nothing is stopping a single individual from controlling 100 accounts on Lemmy to upvote and downvote whatever they want
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I've noticed a few people doing it but they only seem to use like 4 accounts each. Usually people spamming/promoting a blog.

livus, to showerthoughts in Nothing is stopping a single individual from controlling 100 accounts on Lemmy to upvote and downvote whatever they want
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Sure. But votes aren't private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it's easy to spot.

It's only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

livus, to news in Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails
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"They" as a neutral singular pronoun has been in the English language for hundreds of years.

Enbys also use it as a personal pronoun, sure - but no one gets to dictate that it can no longer be used as a neutral pronoun for everyone of any gender.

livus, to asklemmy in What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?
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That I've actually encountered irl? The Anti 1080 conspiracy in New Zealand.

Its members do things like go out and kill protected birds themselves and dump them because they think the Department of Conservation's pest control plan is on behalf of the Illuminati who want to terraform NZ etc.

livus, to asklemmy in What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?
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There's nothing unhinged about Time Cube. It's just so obviously true. 4 similtaneous rotations, 4 corner earth days. Circle times square.

Either you need to read it again, or else you're part of the conspiracy of suppression.

livus, to globalnews in Israel must comply with ICJ order to immediately halt military operations in Rafah
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Great, an equal opportunity genocidist.

/s

livus, to news in 'No one can act with impunity’: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice, academic says
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This is the crux of it:

The ICC has 124 state parties, while the United Nations has 193 member states. This disparity makes clear the gap between what the ICC seeks to achieve – namely, universal accountability for international crimes – and what it can practically achieve when it lacks the support of implicated or nonaligned countries.

livus, to globalnews in Israel to Punish West Bank After 3 More Countries Recognize Palestinian State
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This is like cartoon villain level evil at this point.

livus, to politicalmemes in New Dehumanization Tactic Dropped
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I don't have a dog in this fight but I do want to point out a flaw in your reasoning. The fediverse is way different than reddit when it comes to karma.

  • not all instances have karma

  • of those that have it, not all instances federate it

  • there isn't a cross-instance hivemind so if your downvotes come from, say, Hexbear it doesn't mean the same thing as say, Lemmy.world

  • therefore, where you spend your time affects your various scores

I'm on Kbin which does not federate downvotes. We can only see downvotes if they are from other Kbin accounts, and they're also public. Downvotes from us are often to indicate spam or trolling, but only we can see them.

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