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Comment Re:Support Palestinians! (Score 1) 507

There plenty of historic and current terrorism conducted by Israel, and the civilians in Gaza have no weapons to overthrow Hamas. Its disgusting you try to justify genocide with its going to be messy. In many ways Israel reaps what it has sowed.
Pull your head out of Israeli propaganda and think, all this will do is strengthen Hamas in Gaza in the long term, as the entire population is radicalised now.
Of course you dont care what Israel does, supporters of genocide never do.
Israel was founded by terrorism and never stopped killing and stealing land.

Comment Re:Sure, let someone else be the gatekeeper (Score 4, Informative) 160

I want to know what distros of Linux ACTUALLY are stable enough, and intuitive enough to have the non-technical-savvy (aka normal/average) person use it without being frustrated?/

Linux Mint. It's essentially a Windows configuration. Same right-click menu systems (better than Windows 11), same start menu system (which you can see). If the average person who futzes around with Windows can't run Linux Mint, they're being deliberately obtuse. Or they're stupid.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 2, Interesting) 259

Without profit driven, you end up with what LA has: 5 Billion dollars missing in various "help the homeless" scan non profits.

Or three bankrupt casinos ("The money I took out of there was incredible."), failing golf courses, a failed airline, a failed "university", and other businesses which never turned a profit. It's almost as if the point was not to generate a profit, but scam people out of their money.

Comment Re:How big is the ocean? (Score 3, Informative) 68

Let's say in the next 100 years the Pacific Ocean rises 1 inch. At the same time Shanghai, which is on the coast, sinks 1 foot. That is 13 inches of change. If the city is only a few feet above sea level, that one foot makes a huge difference when it comes to drain water runoff, sewage dispersion, tunnels, etc.

For reference, Shanghai has sunk 3 meters in the past 100 years.

China has a long history of dealing with subsiding land, with both Shanghai and Tianjin showing evidence of sinking back in the 1920s. Shanghai has sunk more than 3m over the past century.

Comment Re:how does an six- to nine-month school cost 30K? (Score 4, Informative) 38

Read that part again. It's not that the school costs that much, it's that the finance charges on these "loans" could pile up over time. Just like any loan which isn't paid off and interest continues to accrue.

Why do you think so many people owe more on their student/medical loan than the original value of the loan? They didn't pay enough of it off fast enough so the interest kept adding to their total loan cost.

Comment Re:It isn't a ban, it's a cash grab (Score 5, Insightful) 61

the border crisis,

You mean this border "crisis"?

crumbling infrastructure,

Republicans, almost to a one, voted against a wide-ranging infrastructure bill, then bragged about all the money their districts were getting for infrastructure.

and general loss of civil rights

Yes, Republicans have been working hard to take away people's civil rights. From taking away one's right to control their own body to bannning books so you can't read them, to trying to prevent entire groups from voting, they are working as hard as they can to impose an iron grip on people's lives and destroy our freedoms.

Comment Re:Hamas Fanboys (Score 1) 507

Yeah, I read that. Some of the worst statistical proofs I've seen have been written by economists who know something about statistics but don't understand epidemiology, and are advocates trying to win an argument. This guy, a biostatistician, can explain the problems with Wyner better than I can:

https://liorpachter.wordpress....
Bits of DNA
A note on âoeHow the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbersâ
March 8, 2024
by Lior Pachter

In a Tablet Magazine article titled âoeHow the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbersâ posted on March 6, 2024, Professor of Statistics and Data Science Abraham Wyner from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania argues that statistical analysis of the casualty numbers reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health is âoehighly suggestive that a process unconnected or loosely connected to reality was used to report the numbersâ....

Comment Re:Support Palestinians! (Score 1) 507

Idiotic bullshit, Gaza is tiny, with 2 million people, there is nowhere that does not have civilians. The IDF killed 3 of their own escaped hostages, naked from the waist down, carrying a white flag and calling out in Hebrew, and has thrown a total of bombs more than both the A bombs used in WW2 into Gaza. Hamas bottle rockets rarely kill anyone.

Comment Re:Nice try (Score 0) 35

Plus, even Twitter was used to censor opponents of Biden, it's in Twittergate.

No, they didn't. They did not censor "opponents" of President Biden in any way, shape, or form. The ONLY thing that was done was the government suggested, not demaded, Twitter/Facbook/et al take a look at all the harmful and outright falsehoods being pedaled which could potentially lead to people's deaths.

If you want to talk about real censorship, look at how many times "free speech" Musty has banned journalists accounts after they posted mean things about him, or the multitude of problems with his vehicles, or the guy who said Musk should pay more in taxes and his account banned for days, or the current broo ha ha over any account which mentions Hans Kristian Graebener being StoneToss being banned. That's real censorship, but because it's done by the failing company, that's fine, right?

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