livus

livus, 6 days ago

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's technically incapable of enabling sufficient aid.

• the US plan is to start with 70 trucks worth of aid and ramp it up to 100 trucks

• even before the war Gaza needed about 400 trucks of aid, that was when people still had homes and hospitals

• there are IDF outposts on each side of the pier meaning it could become a choke point just like the crossings

• the IDF have reinvaded the North where the worst of the famine is

• the closing of the Rafah crossing means famine conditions are rapidly worsening in the South as well now.

• once people are actually starving, you need aid workers to distribute aid.

livus, 6 days ago

Empty optics only work if people are not paying attention to facts. I don't think that's going to happen here.

livus, 6 days ago

South Africa's a democracy with a history of opposing Israeli apartheid.

It's really not surprising that it's taking the lead on this.

livus, 6 days ago

@shubhamofficial thanks but this is not a movie, please post TV content over in @television or moviesandtv@lemm.ee instead?

livus, 7 days ago

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

livus, 7 days ago

I wonder how someone like this squares it away in their According to her beliefs she was keeping dead human bodies in her house.

livus, 7 days ago

Fantastic painting!

livus, 7 days ago

@LaunchesKayaks olives are a good example of an acquired taste.

Do an experiment on yourself: eat 1 or 2 olives every week for a year. Has to be the same kind of olive, I'd recommend spanish green as a mild starter olive but any will do as long as its consistent.

I have tried this on olive haters before and they come to like them. It's really fascinating.

livus, 7 days ago

Kalamata and also Alfonso.

livus, 7 days ago

I'm not going to watch it until it's finished and had good reviews.

#Neveragain.

livus, 7 days ago

Yeah I guess it would!

I really feel for Americans with this one. There's just no good option.

livus, 7 days ago

Thank you. That's one of those quotes that opens a huge vista, almost like seeing a movie. Albeit a sad movie omg.

I'm glad they were not too cowed to become turbulent. The possibility of finding one's mother when wounded in battle is heartbreaking but they at least sometimes had each other.

livus, 7 days ago

Definitely. What would be really good would be if they were both captured and retired from the army.

livus, 6 days ago

Thanks for telling me, those are good odds. Honestly, it's a pity Hollywood is so wedded to the star system that they won't make a historical drama about these elephants.

Do you write books, PugJesus? I feel like you could write damn good books...

livus, 6 days ago

Well, I hope that day comes!

livus, 7 days ago

I didn't express it very well - I meant basic proprioception, which most people have. We need it for things like walking or lifting a cup to our mouths.

livus, 7 days ago

I can see that could have that effect! I pretty much need it for typing, it's like an act of translation. I have to write a lot for work or I probably wouldn't have started doing it that way.

If someone is talking or the radio is on when I type I will accidentally include some of the words from those sources.

livus, 6 days ago

Exactly, it's like not being able to fast travel in a game.

I like tiktok for non talky stuff like those 10 second videos of a fox walking along or something.

livus, 6 days ago

It sort of sounds like yoi do it as a way of externalizing the questions, like it's a different part of your brain or your brain wants to make it clear to you that the question process is different from the answer process.

To me a question feels like knowing there's something behind my occipital bone and sensing it moving forward towards my eyes. So it's not verbalised but it's definitely a separate feeling.

livus, 6 days ago

Thanks, that makes sense! But I don't understand how that could fit in temporally? Like, wouldn't you have already got halfway through the possible investment overview while you were still talking? Or is it more that you're doing both at once?

livus, 7 days ago

I'm glad that you don't agree with the treatment of the crew by the American government.

livus, 7 days ago

None of the answers in here are about hobbies tho.

livus, 7 days ago

Sapere Aude, OP. You don't need to outsource your opinions.

livus, 6 days ago

Ah that's such an interesting part of the world! Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya? I would offer to do a temporary house swap but I don't own my own house yet.

livus, 7 days ago

No, the West are way more understanding of this genocide than most non-Western countries.

The two biggest legal challenges have come from South Africa and Nicaragua.

The African Union as a whole is pretty opposed to it and thus the African continent could be a source of peacekeepers if the US ever stops blocking the UN.

Meanwhile the US role has been such that there's talk of this eroding US soft power outside the West, particularly in ASEAN countries.