livus

livus, 9 days ago

Ikr, it's wild. I don't think I could cope with something like that.

livus, 9 days ago

For the longest time I assumed it was just a literary device, not an actual thing anyone really does.

livus, 9 days ago

Bit of a weird take. The ship had faulty equipment and the crew did what it could to try to avert the disaster.

The ship's owners are who you should blame.

livus, 9 days ago

Seems to me @gregorum is talking about Demoiselles d'Avignon's impact on art a a whole. It was a very influential painting.

Bush on the other hand is only notable because of who painted it. It's a common naive realism style.

livus, 10 days ago

Ben-Gvir also spoke at the march, saying that what the protesters are calling for was the "true solution."

livus, 10 days ago

The ADL are about as credible as Gwynneth Paltrow at this point but you're right, we don't need to play into his strategy and go there, because genocidal settler colonialism is a much closer analogy.

There's an interesting book by Sven Lindqvist that convincingly argues that the blueprint for the Holocaust was basically there in previous colonial practices, eg the death camps for the Herero and Namaqua people in the Namibian Genocide.

livus, 10 days ago

Might be the same person. It's an obvious troll account that was only created yesterday.

This is probably copying the latest JK Rowling trolling story which is about the same subject.

livus, 10 days ago

The JK Rowling "race change" comments were in my feed yesterday, as were you, and you pretty obviously saw them.

Look you've made at least three accounts to troll with. I don't know if you're bored or if you're hurting, but here are some ideas (all free) for a better use of your time:

• Get a duolingo account and learn a new language

• Download Insight Timer and try guided meditation

• Sign up to EdX and enrol in a course

• Join Lichess and follow some of the tutorials

• Make an account at Neopets and play some casual games

I'm serious about this. Trolling can feel satisfying at first because you get attention but it's empty attention, a bit like empty calories. To get the kind of attention that actually soothes your soul you will need to offer something of positive value to an online community instead.

livus, 10 days ago

Mmhm. Not gonna work on me.

I've realised it's all very well for me to tell you to create more positive online experiences, but it might be harder for you to do in an open online forum like the fediverse. It might be better to get involved in something a bit more structured.

I found this page of online volunteeting opportunities. Some of them look really cool!

livus, 10 days ago

The two articles you posted appear next to each other in my feed and because of the thumbnails, at first glance it looks like they are from each side of the portal.

livus, 10 days ago

Tipping isn't a thing in my country, to the extent that if you left money lying around your room it would most probably still be there when you got back.

Unless maybe you were staying somewhere that gets a lot of tipping tourists.

livus, 9 days ago

New Zealand.

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

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

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, 9 days ago

The guiding idea behind "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" is that it's better to let a guilty person go free than it is to unjustly punish an innocent person.

It's depressing how quickly some of you have abandoned that basic principle.

Instead you are happy to punish the innocent civilians of Gaza, half of whom are children, even to the point of literally starving them to death.

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

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

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

Thanks! That does look interesting.

livus, 10 days ago

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

@FfaerieOxide found the scene!