They do have a lot of rules in supplying aid to Hamas if you actually look into it, most the criticism of them proping up Hamas come from ultra right wing criticism of providing aid and medical support to Palestine.
If you believe all Palestine is Hamas it makes sense and you'd have to say allowing aid in is bad but I don't think you want that.
Wow you've brought back unhappy memories 'a for achievement, d for effort' and 'you got everything right but poor presentation, c'
Worst was when I'd to a test and get all the answers right and they'd question how I did so well, bitch because you can't take marks away for no reason on a multiple choice. Actual worst was that this was 1990 and they wouldn't let me do my homework typed 'when you get a job your boss is going to need things hand written' fucking what lol
This is kinda racist, as much as you might not want to admit it the people in this world with darker skin are actually real whole people - they have emotions and feel pain and yes sometimes they have a bloodthirsty hunger for power no matter the human expense. They're people and sometimes people are like that.
Your knowledge of history might only involve things from the European perspective so yes nothing happened before we got there and everything that does happen there we're at the center of - that's not actual reality though, read history from their perspective and often we're just not that important.
The middle East conflicts are painfully complicated, different factions of Islam with different factions in those factions all with their own power struggles and conspiracies and political needs... Just like everywhere else,
It's clever really, people who don't like ai are very lonelye to also not understand the technology, if you're going to grift then it's a perfect set of rubes - tell them your magic code will defeat the evil magic code of the ai and that's all they need to know, fudge some numbers and they'll throw their money at you
I feel like a significant amount of my friends would be caught by that too
Building up happens brick at a time, pulling down happens at freefall speeds
Just want to comment to say bars were shitty and only being able to interact in your very localized community was shitty, all the twenty somethings I talk to now are involved in interesting things, we'd sit drinking beer and debating which pop stars from the 70s are dead based on vague memories of news stories.
And 95% of the people you knew weren't friends they were just people you'd had so many boring conversations with that you both felt obligated to have another one if you're in the bar together.
The old days sucked every bit as much as now, probably less because kids don't seem to need to drink and take as many drugs as we did, they've got actual things that interest them and ambitions and stuff.
This is the wrong place for that brand of myopic nonsense, if ai is good enough to replace girlfriends then every calculation and comparison in your sky falling theory about reproduction rates is turned to junk.
That same automation is already removing the need for people from loads of jobs, especially service industry ones - you don't need ever more people when we don't need so many humans to look after elderly people.
The other stuff about society collapsing is just typical tech fear we've seen from certain portions of society every single time anything gets invented - most of it is just the classic issue of awareness, of course it seemed people were happier and better connected when you didn't know anything about their lives, of course more people are open about their mental health struggles now they're a recognised thing.
Sure some people will be weird about ai and fall in love, people have been marrying horses and obsessing over ladies shoes or whatever else for centuries - society is going to be just fine.
I think you're confused what is happening, do you think when the Nazis banned books they still sold them in shops and carried them in public libraries? Do you think banning books was the sole extent of the bad things they did? I don't know why you'd assume I'd think they did nothing wrong when I'm simply arguing that there's a very clear reality not all books are suitable for children or a school environment.
Do you not think that there should be rules for schools? You think that the process by which books are banned is wrong but i bet if you suggested a system it'd involve public accountability and etc which would lead to you coming up with something very similar to the actual system in place.
What you mean is you think the people democratically elected to control school boards and educational departments are the wrong people for the job, and of course in many cases I very much agree.
That doesn't mean I think every 'banned book' should be taught to children as a matter of principle.
I know what it's trying to say but it's not saying that - this is defund the police all over again, why is it so hard to say fund better alternatives rather than relying on police in situations they're not suitable...
Like this is a very simple logic on the comic, banned book list becomes reading list - a commonly held foolish notion it seems. This isn't what anyone wants to happen, everyone here minus a few wingnuts is saying that it should be a process based on merit - one person even said it should be tasked to people with masters degrees in determining suitability of literature for children.
What's the next one 'kick puppies' where we say everyone should kick puppies,' by which we mean of course stroke them gently and cuddle with them.
I don't understand why supporting sensible thungs that might actually convince people is anathema to the left. You don't need to just say the dumbest thing and hope people assume you mean something totally different and sensible.
I think the comic is the one that is pushing sillyness about lesson planning, it's saying not to do to that and instead just assume the banned books have value simply because they're banned.
Why don't we just agree that there are plenty of books on the list that genuinely don't belong in schools and that if we have a problem with the legislatory system we should propose sensible ways of screening books rather than pretending every banned book is Ray Bradbury and acting like every time a book isn't passed for inclusion in the curriculum it's literally nazi 1984.
The great thing about that is from those quotes all I really know is that I can't even imagine the type of crazy things went. Going to have to read those, thank you!