Anyone knows how and why it took so long to reach this conclusion? No doubt the fear of anyone being accused of being antisemitic played a role, as did whatever historic relations with Israel. But it's hard to blame it all on that. How did so many believe Israel to be some perpetual victim?
A neutral flag would only make sense without a one act per country limit and if anyone could join in. As it is, they'd still very much represent Israel, flag or no flag. This isn't even a compromise, it's just a playing with semantics. And it's not like Israel even belongs in *Euro*vision.
And no one has the guts to block Google crawler? In any normal scenario blocking such a service would signal to the company (via its users) that something needs to be changed. But there's this little thing called monopoly that Google is enjoying...
If Hitler was still politically relevant and had just died a few days ago, should he also get such tributes and minutes of silence? Monsters aren't monsters only in retrospect after they've been dead long enough than few will be offended by that label. And far right *are* monsters.
If he could only have this much patience for other matters...
So what if he doesn't win? He can do plenty of damage just sitting on the toilet tweeting. EU can't realistically fight both US and Russia, even if one of those battles would be primarily a diplomatic one. The world is too broken right now, far too much populism and hate-oriented politics.
Full suspension of trade and kicking out all of their diplomats would still be just a start of how one should respond to this kind of a regime.
In theory... But with Trump in charge of the US, it's anyone's guess who US will attack if NATO members are called in to respond to Russian aggression.
PS: Any chance of all AI features being listed on a single page in options to easily enable/disable/customize as needed? Some are worth the extra Copilot subscription, but some just make it much harder to get anything done.
Any expected issues with the preview of .NET 10? With previous versions I recall advices to fully uninstall any previously installed previews before updating.
With the number of wars and conflicts for control over that city (a situation not likely to ever and), how is it possibly worth not leveling the entire place?
That's what PlayStation did (I don't remember which). It still needed the CD/DVD to run, but only for validation, the actual game wod then load from the internal drive.
Probably something he should se a doctor about.
Some of us cycle through subscriptions. One at a time, but switch to a different platform when we've seen what we wanted. Far cheaper than all at once, and there's no need to see every show the moment it drops.
Even if these forces were by some chance to witness a crime being committed, just what can they legally do about it? It's a show and always has been.
Re 2, What if...?
Israel really is doing everything it can to encourage antisemitism, isn't it?
As long as so much of the world doesn't feel the smallest flicker of guilt as every horror these memorials are commemorating is being repeated, then those very same Holocaust memorials are clearly meant just for show, not respect. Engrave away!
How much software is a window supposed to have? And what kind of an intern can introduce a bug into those few lines that'd pass code review?
Can we declare US a terrorist country yet? If not, which prerequisite exactly are they supposedly not meeting?
The images stink of GenAI. So, pretty much, yes.
Just GPS, or also Galileo and others? Or was the plane using GLONASS?
I'm sure there are rationalizations of this. But considering the general pattern of the past six months, is there *any* pretense left of US not being led by petty children? Any at all? PS: Any way to move the UN General Assembly elsewhere?
Gosh. It almost looks as if it was fake or something. Who could have thought such a thing?
US has a sanctions fraud network? English isn't a good language for clear and meaningful headlines.
It's not wrong, but it is worth asking why. And also whether this energy could be redirected into something more constructive both to self and the one being "celebrated". Say, a day trip to the beach and let the dog enjoy swimming for a bit, rather than just a (weird) show for one human.
As a rule, fanatics aren't good at reasoning.
Just when you think US has hit rock bottom sanity-wise, they bring in another excavator.
That's why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
Who cares about Israelis opinion?
Just as anti-Israel sentiments aren't inherently antisemitic, so can antisemitic acts have nothing to do with Israel.
The fruit who would be king.
What's to say about the subject? Trump doesn't want to be contradicted, making brown-nosers perfect subordinates for him.
Of course. Any kind of acknowledgement of victims whatsoever is a discrimination of bullies' rights to abuse others. PS: Should I include some 'sarcasm' tag in this comment? It's hard to tell these days...
No, they just expect the spammers to pay for the privilege.
You sure that's the reason? Not something psychological, like with the Roman empire? I'm not buying it.
Why all this fascination with knives? I don't recall ever seeing a single article on best forks or spoons. Just knives. And on occasion a pan or two. But mostly knives.
Will they start including terms from *all* specialized jargons in general dictionaries? Or do social media jargons have some special privileges?
I'm guessing "that's just jour opinion and you don't count", "you're missing the point", or some similar countercomplaints to dismiss any arguments. I heard plenty of those when I worked with marketing people. Too many big egos to acknowledge a potential issue. Or even just different views existing.
I would like to reach the top shelves in stores, but I won't get my legs broken for it.
I thought they weren't doing pronouns?
😆 Delegating work to a coding agent would mean a working weekend to fix all the damage done, not an early one.
Don't magicians usually employ pretty women in skimpy clothing to distract the audience from the slight of hand they're about to do? True, the silly charts probably do qualify as skimpy, but that's about all.
Well, that's something at least. Not much, but something.
Which countries are "rushing"?
Anything less isn't worth incrementing the major version, and hasn't been for a long time. And I most certainly won't believe any claims of even the most rudimentary "reasoning" capabilities without it.
Does this latest and greatest and bestest model have yet the ability to respond with "I do not know"? I'm tired of wasting hours chasing bugs because the chatterbots would much rather make something up than admit that a solution isn't possible.
I imagine I know what you meant. But I just don't see the value in trying to persuade the wilfully ignorant any longer. Anything you manage to teach them won't survive their next trip to the misinformation channel of choice. Best we can do is try to keep them away from children.
I wouldn't. I'd much rather see scientists spend what little time and resources they have on something constructive. Besides, the influencers would just make some claims about "mainstream propaganda machine", and the bleach-drinkers would nod along eagerly, same as they always do.
I suspect it's less to do with support of Israel as such and far more with fear of (by now very well weaponised) accusations of antisemitism. Israel's identity is one of a perennial victim, and it's been perfected to an art form.
What backwater countries still use Fahrenheit?
Seriously though, it might be worth encouraging both news organizations and general population to learn more about EV certificates. Or at least browser extensions like NewsGuard. Not that it'd make a difference in the places most people get their news (social media, YouTube, TikTok, ...)
So, stick to official channels of reputable media (and not just something bearing their logo), and distrust anything posted or reposted by others until you can verify it. Anything else new? Water turned wet yet?
That last bit, where he argues that Israelis shouldn't be labelled as genocidal because of Holocaust, is really just comical at this point.
True, but back then an average idiot would only have seen the media collectively pretending Israel was nothing but a victim of Holocaust.
I mean that if they complain about Palestine, they should about Israel as well.
How did Israel get recognised then? It fails many of those same conditions.
And if Israel does allow a few more boxes of aid through, and doesn't annex anything for a week or so? What then? Eff Palestine? Is that UK's announcement? Well, eff UK too!
😡 True, sanctions wouldn't stop Israel repeating all the horrors of WW2, but at least it would have shown that *some* people in the world have a backbone. And without the foreign resources they might be forced to make peace with at least some of their neighbours.
Stop considering and start doing.
Wait, they're visiting the firebenders next? I thought earth followed water, *then* fire.
Whether to continue with the "Riviera" proposal, and pay the Trump family handsomely for dropping the suggestion. What else might be of interest to Trump? Wellbeing of the Palestinians? Peace? Don't be silly.
While Hamas has certainly done its share to exacerbate the issue, the fact that UNRWA is dedicated to assisting Palestinian refugees and has existed since 1949 should tell you something about who is the real cause of starvation.
I don't see this getting approved by EU. Sounds more like a temporary announcement to placate the stock speculators.
I'll believe EU's announcement of a deal, not Tantrump's.
Civilization is just knowing which drunk poet composed whatever embarrassing limerick was popular in high society at that one time. It doesn't mean being civil. I mean, it's supposed to, but only as far as "how the civilized people behave". Which usually isn't very civil.
Will that change anything? Or is it just a way of appearing to say "no, no, I am not with the person standing next to me, never met them before".
Of course, there will be arguments about "best for task X", but I suspect those are just excuses for not getting good in any. The syntaxes are quite interchangeable, but the baggage that comes with a language (libraries, frameworks, performance tricks, etc.) is not, and takes a lot of time to learn.
Regardless of the language, the "because" is always "... I am very familiar with it, and can write the code while asleep".
So, shelves are the new wallpaper? Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper just to push the fashion cycle forward a bit and resurrect tapestries? They take up less space, less to dust, and will likely be much cheaper, especially after every Etsy seller gets on the trend.
This chart puts it barely 10 points ahead of Russia, both very much on the lower end of the scale. Look, I definitely root for Ukraine in this conflict, but before the war the country was nothing to look up to.
What Russian propaganda? Ever since Russia invaded, Ukraine has been portrayed as the plucky and brave victim, when in reality it had always been only marginally better than Russia. Corruption was always rampant there.
Now imagine if the crowdfunding were to happen on the other side of the border, but for exactly the same reasons...
But the sequels have neither that context, nor its sci-fi fairy tale charm. Legacy was just convoluted noise, and unable to trigger the suspension of disbelief of Tron's fundamental premise. Flashy, but hollow. I don't expect Ares to even meet Legacy's level.
I still don't understand how Tron can have sequels. The original was great. It was also in the time when computers were to many still just an unknown black box, and the whimsical interpretation worked. And because it was simple, it still works.
There are many thing police should be impartial about. Human rights aren't among them.
That trailer looked tiresome even before "real world" was mentioned. Just do a nice little story for once, not everything has to be over the top.
I somehow doubt Arnold will be that wizened even on his deathbed.
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Tragic, but not surprising. The culturally enforced state of affairs is that changing one's opinion or nuance of any kind are a political suicide. Anyone remember the responses when Guterres suggested that Hamas' horrific attack didn't happen "in a vacuum"? Safer to mumble than to take a stand.
Looks very good for a store-bought carnival costume. Expected something more lifelike from such a production company.
A few years ago everything was "RPG", even puzzle games. Sure, these terms are vague at the best of times, but spammy is spammy just the same.
Because many "roguelike" games have nothing to do with roguelike games. It's just a currently trendy word to push up a title in search rankings. That's the red flag, not the genre itself.
Bother. This all sounds great and I'd love to use it as soon as possible, but most of my code is in libraries which unfortunately still have to target. NET 6.0 for legacy projects. And Oracle databases. 😣
It could very well be a great game, but by now the word "roguelike" just represents a red flag.
You mean Trump will pay himself $1 billion to continue trolling on social media? I mean, that's about as offensive as it gets, and the damage it does on markets certainly qualifies it as hacking.
No, it's vomit. As literally as it ever gets.
Remind us when any of this sticks or goes into effect, not just vague suggestions and threats, which he'll back from within days.
What an attention addict...
DM should have a copy of Cicero's On the Ends of Good and Evil for such occasions.
People have learned to have radiators at a moderate setting, but many still repeatedly flip their ACs between max power and off. Then they complain about having a cold. And the comprehension of what role humidity plays and how it's connected to temperature is entirely non-existent.
I never count AI slop as art of any sort. It doesn't qualify.
Humans learn the theories (even if subconsciously) and build upon them. Plenty of copycat artists, but they tend to be ignored. Machine learning at best just replicates patterns, cannot invent. The concept of 'learning' is the same, but there's no overlap what that learning leads to.
I suspect that modern music has no more crap than there was in any other time. It's just that music is repeatedly filtered (playlists, DJs, 'best of' collections, ...), so most of bad songs eventually fall out of public conscience.
That still had actual artists involved. Imagine Spotify creating a bunch of AI bands and adjusting the algorithms to favour them instead of real artists. They're already hardly paying them, own AI bands would redirect even more money back to shareholders.
You're not wrong. But if Trump, for example, conditions weapons delivery to Ukraine on EU not retaliating on tariffs, then scrambling will be a pretty accurate description of EU trying to manage demands of individual countries. There are already disagreements about how to respond.
How long till he changes his mind again? It's not like he'll stay mad if Putin says a few nice things about him.
Here's a question. How many of Trump's Friday threats of tariffs have survived the next Monday? There'll probably be "talks" and "deals" and stuff, and the tariffs will be postponed or lowered. Again.
You can, though not by barking. That's just dogs imitating humans, not a means of communication.
You are evil.