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my humble offering
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Help I think there's a joke to be made feat Gandalf Big Naturals and "you shall not pass" but I can't make it work bc the concept of Passing is so complex OTL
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Russia, 1881: We鈥檙e gonna kill any Jew that doesn鈥檛 flee Russia. We鈥檙e restricting Jewish emigration to Europe, but permitting emigration to the Middle East.
Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia, France, and others, 1933-1945: We鈥檙e gonna kill every Jew in Europe. Flee to the US or Palestine, or die trying.
The US, 1927-1952: Yeah sorry we鈥檙e restricting Jewish immigrants to like. 300 people per country. So good luck getting in. We recommend that Jews go to Palestine instead. Btw we are looking to take in Nazi scientists if you know any
Egypt, 1947-1950: We鈥檙e rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel
Iraq, 1951-1952: We鈥檙e rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel
Algeria, 1962-1965: We鈥檙e pressuring and intimidating Jews in the hopes that they鈥檒l all leave the country and go to Israel
Egypt, 1956: We鈥檙e rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel (again)
Egypt and Libya, 1967: We鈥檙e rounding up, torturing, and killing all our Jews. The ones that survive can flee to Israel
Poland, 1968: The Jews in our country are already loyal to Israel. They will face dire consequences if they don鈥檛 leave our country and go to Israel
Ethiopia, 1974-1985: We鈥檙e going to marginalize and eventually try to kill all our Jews, and the only way they can escape is by being airlifted out of the country by Israeli helicopters
The US, 2023: Why can鈥檛 the Israeli Jews just go back to where they came from? Don鈥檛 they all have dual citizenship or whatever?
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People on here spreading propaganda that the Iranian government is good...stop.
You are hurting Iranians, Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and more.
The Iranian government does not give a fuck about Palestine. All they are interested in is spreading their power and influence across the Middle East. They even hurled missiles at Al-Aqsa Mosque, which potentially could have destroyed or damaged it if the Iron Dome didn't exist. The only seriously injured victim in Israel was a 7 year old Muslim Bedouin girl. Many Arab countries understand how dangerous the Iranian government is and intercepted some of their missiles.
Iranians have been screaming at the top of their lungs that they don't want war and they are tortured and murdered by their government, but your desire to view the Middle East as a sports match makes you want to root for anyone who is against Israel. The Iranian government literally hosted a Holocaust denial convention in 2006 which included David Duke, one of the former leaders of the KKK. They are not against the Israeli government for the right reasons, but for antisemitic ones. The growing antisemitism in Iran due to their rule drove out thousands of Iranian Jews, many whose only option was to move to Israel.
Please do research before spewing ignorant bullshit that harms everyone. There is no shame in admitting you were misinformed. Peoples' lives are worth more than your bruised ego.
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for the love of HaShem, stop saying Zionism is "jewish self-determination"
state. building. is. not. self. determination.
the longing for eretz yisrael is not wanting to build a fucking state.
in fact, consistently in jewish history, both mythologized (tanach) and not, we see that state building bites us in the fucking ass
the monarchy? lead to the downfall of our ancient people (according to the tanach)
our brief state lead by the hasmoneans? easily conquered by rome, which lead to second exile
I'm not saying other states have been good for us - fucking hell, no they have not
I'm saying we have a unique position to realize that the problem is actually states themselves. Structures of power that aim to take away autonomy from people and thus can weaponize that power against them, by forcing them to remain, or stay, or fight, or be killed.
no rulers but HaShem. no governments but nature. no more entities preventing us from acting ethically and according to Torah values
(for remember: we are to love the stranger as ourselves. Even our enemy, we are to return their property to them and treat them with dignity. That is what we learn from our parshiot.)
"self determination" my ass
all states are poison.
bring them all down.
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the implication laios successfully hid his interest in monsters and weird eating habits from the group for multiple years pre-series is insane. however falin did fully eat a grasshopper off the ground when marcille first hung out with her and marcille was more alarmed by her eating raspberries its possible their bar for weird eating is different. marcille encounters one tallman other than the touden siblings and is like hm ive noticed you aren鈥檛 putting half the bugs we see in your mouth. i thought that was a tallman thing
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its so funny when usamericans of all people are like omg usa is 50 countries in a trench coat when you're from a country like india where the first language of people changes atleast 20 times across state lines.
lets be clear though, the establishment of the united states involved a genocide of diverse cultures which is precisely what has made it so uncannily uniform today. from thousands of indigenous languages you now demand everyone speak one. sometimes you'll accommodate spanish at best.
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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.
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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method
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I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh
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3 images which were thee edited by humans to match the actual needs of the film.
3 pictures in an entire movie, which were LITERALLY MADE BY HUMANS JUST USING AN AI GEN BASE. Humans who were hired and paid for their work, even!
I swear to fucking fuck, the anti AI crowd are fucking absurd.
I get that you've all convinced yourselves that AI has a corrupting, nigh sinful influence on anything it touches, but if you could please for one minute fraction of a second ACTUALLY concern yourself with protecting the livelihoods of artists? That would be great?
Instead of determining that the work of many hundreds of human artists should be shunned and exiled for including 3 still images made by humans in a way you find vaguely uncomfortable.
Fucking hell.
You people make me ashamed to be conservative about AI, you really do.
Filmmakers confirmed to be using A/I generated images.
Very sad, they could afford expensive actors and pay for a set but they couldn't afford an Artist.
Will this movie is off my list of too watch.
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Some people have been popping up saying "But they didn't start production until 2022 and no one knew how bad these things were until 2023".
To that I say "do you remember when all the artist on Deviantart and artstation where protesting agents A/I generated images being allowed on these sites? That was in Dec 2022 and remember that guy who won an art contest at a state fair with an A/I generated image. Artist where upset and even asked that he be disqualified. This was during Sep 2022.
Proof of events below:
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So yes, during 2022 people did start to notice the issues with A/I generated images.
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Oh my god lol, has it actually been updated since they made asks a separate rebloggable post type?? That's such a weirdly 2012 'eh these posts can't leave the OP anyway' look
ok, @staff @engineering, can we do something to fix tumblr rss feed? It's in a bad shape. Very bad. Let me give you an example. @echo has reblogged an ask from another person. All good, typical tumblr behaviour, 10/10, would follow xer again:
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Now, let's go to Echo's rss feed to see how this shows up, shall we?
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There's not only no way to tell this is the reply to an ask, but also no way to see this is a reblog and Echo is not the original author here. There's no way to actually understand the content that RSS entry is supposed to depict. And this happens with every ask in the feed, and every reblog of an answer.
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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