Sometimes it’s easier to recognise than other times.

Fifty-fifty.

But my history has at least one.

Do you know what the word “average” means?

Apparently not.

The point is that disgusting pos like you who had been able to pretend that the slaughter they were complicit in wasn’t as bad.

Just like you’re pretending you have the right to slaughter Palestinians.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant

On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for  the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:

Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;

Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)©(i);

Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)©(i);

Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);

Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;

Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);

Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).

#My Office submits that the evidence we have collected, including interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, authenticated video, photo and audio material, satellite imagery and statements from the alleged perpetrator group, shows that Israel has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/number-children-missing-separated-families-gaza-high-21000/story?id=111365036

You keep stomping your foot and denying reality. Must be sharing the feelings of average Germans at the end of the war when they had to face up to what they had allowed to go on.

Israel will face consequences for these crimes on humanity.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant

On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:

Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute; Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)©(i); Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)©(i); Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i); Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity; Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h); Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k). My Office submits that the war crimes alleged in these applications were committed in the context of an international armed conflict between Israel and Palestine, and a non-international armed conflict between Israel and Hamas (together with other Palestinian Armed Groups) running in parallel. We submit that the crimes against humanity charged were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack against the Palestinian civilian population pursuant to State policy. These crimes, in our assessment, continue to this day.

My Office submits that the evidence we have collected, including interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, authenticated video, photo and audio material, satellite imagery and statements from the alleged perpetrator group, shows that Israel has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival.

This occurred through the imposition of a total siege over Gaza that involved completely closing the three border crossing points, Rafah, Kerem Shalom and Erez, from 8 October 2023 for extended periods and then by arbitrarily restricting the transfer of essential supplies – including food and medicine – through the border crossings after they were reopened. The siege also included cutting off cross-border water pipelines from Israel to Gaza – Gazans’ principal source of clean water – for a prolonged period beginning 9 October 2023, and cutting off and hindering electricity supplies from at least 8 October 2023 until today. This took place alongside other attacks on civilians, including those queuing for food; obstruction of aid delivery by humanitarian agencies; and attacks on and killing of aid workers, which forced many agencies to cease or limit their operations in Gaza.

My Office submits that these acts were committed as part of a common plan to use starvation as a method of war and other acts of violence against the Gazan civilian population as a means to (i) eliminate Hamas; (ii) secure the return of the hostages which Hamas has abducted, and (iii) collectively punish the civilian population of Gaza, whom they perceived as a threat to Israel.

The effects of the use of starvation as a method of warfare, together with other attacks and collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza are acute, visible and widely known, and have been confirmed by multiple witnesses interviewed by my Office, including local and international medical doctors. They include malnutrition, dehydration, profound suffering and an increasing number of deaths among the Palestinian population, including babies, other children, and women.

Famine is present in some areas of Gaza and is imminent in other areas. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned more than two months ago, “1.1 million people in Gaza are facing catastrophic hunger – the highest number of people ever recorded – anywhere, anytime” as a result of an “entirely manmade disaster”. Today, my Office seeks to charge two of those most responsible, NETANYAHU and GALLANT, both as co-perpetrators and as superiors pursuant to Articles 25 and 28 of the Rome Statute.

Israel, like all States, has a right to take action to defend its population. That right, however, does not absolve Israel or any State of its obligation to comply with international humanitarian law. Notwithstanding any military goals they may have, the means Israel chose to achieve them in Gaza – namely, intentionally causing death, starvation, great suffering, and serious injury to body or health of the civilian population – are criminal.

What the fuck are you smoking, my man? Propaganda straight from netanyahu’s asshole?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/icj-opinion-declaring-israels-occupation-of-palestinian-territories-unlawful-is-historic-vindication-of-palestinians-rights/#:~:text=“The International Court of Justice,on racial segregation and apartheid.

“The International Court of Justice has issued its opinion and the conclusion is loud and clear: Israel’s occupation and annexation of the Palestinian territories are unlawful, and its discriminatory laws and policies against Palestinians violate the prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/israel-must-comply-with-key-icj-ruling-ordering-it-do-all-in-its-power-to-prevent-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/

More than 26,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel’s unrelenting bombardment of Gaza with some 10,000 believed to be still missing under the rubble. At least 1.8 million Palestinians have been internally displaced and are deprived of access to adequate food, water, shelter, sanitation, and medical assistance

https://global.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse/news/explaining-international-court-justices-ruling-israel-and-gaza#:~:text=Specifically%2C Israel must conduct the,does not commit [genocide]%3B”

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic

Well shit, that could be better! Hopefully you can find the right person to help figure the things out.

Thanks. I recently found a great therapist. British, and we use English. Because he’s not Finnish, he’s not blinded by the culture and I can actually get someone to understand the issues I have.

Well, since the US had a lot of police abuse things, you now have pretty strict laws on procedure, warrants issued by a judge, Miranda rights, etc. I’m not saying those always get followed, but if they’re caught not following, people can sue for a lot. Here I the warrant just needs to be a oral permission from a high ranking police, but when I actually got the warrant in paper, it was backdated 2 months after the search. And I can’t find anyone who’d find a problem with that.

At least the US has the sort of defense lawyer that Better Call Saul parodies a bit.

Essentially Finnish people trust too much in their systems — and not without reason — but that trust for a long time has made it so that no-one sees if they work. And unchecked power does what unchecked powers does, no matter the nation.

That said, try some comedy. Standup, movies, records, whatever. Laughter is the best medicine.

Dude I think I’ve watched all the comedy. And drama. And fantasy. And scifi. Several thousands of hours, I’d say. ST: TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise. Tng at least 3x Voyager 2x. House MD like 5x. Fry and Laurie. All QI. All WILTY. All Taskmaster. All big fat quizes. All specials from a lot of standups. Family guy, American Dad, Taika Waititis shows; What We Do in the Shadows, Our Flag Means Death.

Laughter might be the best medicine, but things which make me laugh nowadays are pretty rare.

I think the easiest thing “plot-wise” is to endow the magical object itself with a sort of sentience. Like not as much as the Sorting Hat in HP, but to the tune of that.

I strongly feel Vision definitely is sentient, as anyone who’s seen TNG would know the arguments made for Data, and they very much apply here. If we assume the first, and there is something in the hammer that judges people, then yeah, it’s hard to explain how some can move the hammer a bit, but not gain the power, despite the wording of the spell. Cap almost moves the hammer, even making tor raise an eyebrow slightly. So perhaps there’s “degrees of worthiness”. And Vision is pretty high up there, but not “have all the power” high. Or perhaps the power just didn’t manifest at all because Vision didn’t even try to “tap into” it. Who knows, comics can explain it however they feel like.

But I would not agree that Vision is “an elevator”.

“Prove to the court I am sentient.” - Captain Picard (from “ST:TNG The Measure of a Man”)

These are fun to talk about but yeah, it does boil down to “take your pick.” Still, doesn’t mean we can’t have fun theorising.

Fair enough.

Although I’d call it the Picard tug or something, perhaps. Huehue

This is the sort of thing that I love reading on the internet.

Sorry to disappoint you, but most of that text is found offline — as it’s an excerpt from Douglas Adam’s “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” (sequel to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”). I probably should’ve attributed it.

If only doing things from the PoV of the speaker (you), that means 6~9 tenses for what most languages have 2 (past and non-past) or 3 (past, present, future).

And then you’d have to account who knows what, which version of a person you’re talking to. Say you’re having a conversation with someone before traveling in time to a time in which they’ve not timetraveled, so it’s either their subjective past or future, but then you continue the conversation, so you’d have to account for both the speakers perspective and the person being spoken to, who would then be subject to two different tense “totalities” since the conversation with them would have been taking place in two different times at the same time.

I seriously suggest reading Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett for that sort of thing. I used to use Pratchett books as a substitute for weed when I was a bit over twenty.

Exactly.

The Picard Maneuver was born out of desperation during the battle. The Stargazer, which was damaged, suddenly accelerated into high warp directly towards the Ferengi ship. By doing so the Stargazer appeared to ship’s sensors, for an instant, to be in two places at once.

Do you guys not know that that is exactly what a Picard maneuver is? Seemingly being in two positions at once?

The Picard Maneuver was born out of desperation during the battle. The Stargazer, which was damaged, suddenly accelerated into high warp directly towards the Ferengi ship. By doing so the Stargazer appeared to ship’s sensors, for an instant, to be in two places at once.

Since vision is clearly sentient, couldn’t one argue that his sort of absolute sense of morality just made him worthy?

Might not be a biological life form, but defining life is hard and he clearly is sentient.

Like imagine Commander Data. I think he could be worthy to lift the hammer, if it’s about the lifter being “good”. And TNG had a lot of arguing if he’s alive or no.

Yeah. I genuinely think it’s definitely not most people. And most people aren’t greedy.

But living in a society where the power is with the small insane minority who is greedy and blind to consequences will make a society in which even non-greedy people end up making “financially smart” decuisions (read:selfish gain at the possible cost to others, like cheap items despite knowing they come from countries with very badly exploited workers).

But yeah, I’m honestly of the opinion that we genuinely have only one massive problem on this planet, and it’s the psyche of these money/powerhungry fucks. And while it might be somewhat common — ambition is not be frowned upon, as long as you’re even vaguely moral — the truly pathological version comes when an ambitious psyche is twisted by our already somewhat twisted society.

Here’s a nice piece from a self-confessed money addict, former wall street trader. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html he’s also written an entire book about it.

So what could be done about this? Well, it’s genuinely an addiction and lack of empathy. Do we have any medication with anti-addictive and perhaps empathy-generating qualities?

We do, actually. They’ve been under lock and key for almost 100 years, because they’re potentially the antidote to the ills of our world, and the psyches of the powerful fear such things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/antiaddictive

Yeah no chance.

Finland really isn’t the utopia people think.

It’s markedly different from the US, sure. But for one I’d say racism is way more prevalent. Genuinely a huge majority of the people I went to school with as a teenager still, to this day, admit they’re casual racists, and even sort of defend it. It’s a very different type of racism than in the US, but the very hateful kind exists here as well. It’s just a very casual type is super common. No exaggeration.

Authoritarianism is also prominent. Finland has had mlrr complaints of police abuse to ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) than other Nordics combined (so our 5mil pop against some 40mil). And not nearly all the abuses go to ECHR. I wanted to complain, as I was abused by the police, kept in isolation for 3 days, shut off my water at one point, denied me my prescription meds for the whole time, despite me literally writing on the walls in my own blood.

I’ve tried complaining to every single institution, and all of them say the police did nothing wrong.

I know several people who buy into all sorts of shitty conspiracy theories like antivax, because their English is subpar and the idiotic rhetoric of those conspiracies is easier for them to follow. I know antivaxers, flat earthers, moonlanding deniers. Like too many.

So no, despite us having some decent regulations on paper, we’re no utopia. You know the “happiest country in the world” bs? It actually measure contentedness, and it’s in Finnish culture you’re “not supposed to complain”. So when asked how things are, even ppl in shitty situations would say “eh, it’s fine”, so overall we’d score high in that.

Such sadness depression and shittiness in the whole country I can’t wait to escape somehow. Looking rather bad though, as the healthcare is managing jack shit to help me because they all still have attitudes towards cannabis that were common in the US in the 60’s. And because I don’t get a proper diagnosis I keep suffering and not getting the support I actually should be getting. The fucked up healthcare has made it so the fucked up bureaucracy treats me even worse.

I’ve basically been floating in a hellish limbo for some years now. Completely alone and isolated. Well, my codependent grandma keeps calling to complain just how shit her life is while not ever asking a single question about mine. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her laugh, now that I think about it.

She was part of the richest family in the town in her youth, then her husband (my grandfather) died and my dad wasted everything and got in debt and now she’s poor and knows how much she’s getting fucked over by the right wing parties and acknowledges it, and still says she will alway vote for them.

Same with my late father. I once showed him a clip which was never aired, where his favourite politician straight up said “let’s do another take, as I’ll deny that anyway” referring to a straight up lie he said. Dad just literally blanked it and it’s as if he genuinely didn’t see it while watching it. And when I asked about it afterwards, like instantly afterwards, he just mumbled something and completely pretended said thing didn’t happen.

And that’s just a few examples. I’ve thousands more.

Yeah, I don’t much have to fear being homeless or starving for lack of food (I am starving for lack of being able to absorb nutrients tho on occasion, because doctors won’t acknowledge a problem, blaming everything on me having admitted cannabis use 15 years ago, despite objective evidence). So there are positives, sure. But a lot of negatives as well.

For one, I had my home searched by the police. Without a warrant. I asked them for one. They sayd “It’d take like 5min to get one”. I said “do that, please”. They grabbed my door and ripped it open, came in. I started filming, they ripped my phone from my hands, saying “you’re not allowed to film the police”.

And to prove that last bit, I actually have a news story from the largest paper in Finland, and there’s a supreme Court case, which I won. And for winning it, guess what I got? Literally nothing. In the US, I could’ve sued the fuck out of these police and would’ve settled for millions.

Here even my own family doesn’t recognise the police having abused me. Such a deep level the authoritarianism. My own mother doesn’t believe me, even with photographic evidence and a supreme court decision.

So that’s a bit fucked, don’t you think?

Edit shit forgot the link to the story here https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html

No, millennials with rich parents will inherit the Earth.

“Our kids are dying due to an issue of firearm regulation, but worry not, only a fraction of those preventable deaths are purposeful mass murders at educational institutions!”

Crazy that someone actually wrote something like that.

Well you’re not wrong in your point, we have that as well, but most of our Qanuts are watching American Fox News (and all the related crazies on YT) exactly because our media is such that Fox News wasn’t allowed to call itself Fox News, because of how shit it was. So Fox does broadcast here, but none of their news shows.

However, even if the propaganda is of a higher quality and not as intentional, it’s still there.

The core problem is the same. Greedy asshole doing whatever for more profits. We just have better regulations so it’s not yet as bad, but that’s the direction we’re headed.

Finland, btw.

Tbf it does not help the problem to pretend there aren’t smart people in America and dumb people elsewhere. I like to joke about 'Murica as much as the next dude, but late stage capitalism is a global issue, and every country has the brainwashed nigh media illiterate population as well.

Yeah, anecdotes aren’t science.

Especially when we’ve established how biased society’s view of cannabis is.

Caffeine can actually kill you of an overdose. It’s not even that rare, medically. Not compared to zero cannabis overdose deaths.

Caffeine can even cause auditory hallucinations on a fairly small dosage. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/caffeine-linked-to-hallucinations-51161154/

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2016/04/20/cannabis-vs-caffeine-which-is-safer-a-cup-of-coffee-or-a-puff-of-weed/

CONCLUSION

To conclude, caffeine is clearly more risky, more dangerous, more deadly, more harmful and more costly than cannabis in every category – overdose deaths, overuse deaths, withdrawal symptoms and acute toxicity.

Yes the site is “cannabisculture”, but they give sources to actual science outlets and specific publications

And this isn’t to say that caffeine is really that dangerous, as it isn’t. You can abuse it and get problems, but most don’t. It’s more addictive and more dangerous and more used, and less worried about. They hypocrisy around coffee is expecially high here in Finland.

It’s honestly crazy, I’ve had to strip down and take a piss in front of a guy who’s lips were packed with snus and who was on his 12th cup of strong coffee for the day. As in he had to visually confirm I didn’t have any gadgets or anything on my dick.

All this because I got a fine for smoking cannabis. And I had to do that every week, on random days, for six months. Beyond humiliating, especially done by people who were clearly sorely addicted themselves, which I wasn’t. (At the time I didn’t use caffeine or nicotine — even going so far as to not eat chocolate because of it’s caffeine content.)

I don’t think I’ve met anyone whose had a panic attack from drinking coffee

Yes you have. Go to literally any high school, and like a third of the kids are so high on energy drinks that they’d get a low score of mania on clinical tests. Just because you’ve not associated someone’s behaviour with caffeine doesn’t mean it didn’t cause it as much as cannabis the anxiety attacks of the people you talk of.

And caffeine is actually regulated, formally. Cannabis isn’t. So you’d get way stronger strains than what you might if it were legal, ans definitely strains with more CBD, which counteracts the psychotic effects of THC.

You literally couldn’t give the equivalent of that in caffeine, because it’d be like 8 large energy drinks and would literally kill a person, whereas with a cannabis overdose, you’ll get anxiety instead of a coronary and death. Also, the anxiety is very strongly connected to the legality of cannabis as well. In places whereby cannabis is legal, those sorts of anxiety attacks are far fewer.

Video games are habit forming. Do you think they should have labels on them? Literally anything can be addictive. What causes the “cannabis isn’t addictive” myth is that cannabis doesn’t cause dependence. As in you could smoke insane amounts for several years daily, then quit cold turkey, ans only suffer a few days of insomnia if that.

With alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, you’ll get actual physical withdrawal symptoms. With alcohol so bad that you can die.

Do you know how many generations Palestinians have been dying to this shit?

Humans have a finite capacity to endure things before shit starts getting irrational all around.

Revenge was never rational, really.

*tense marking is fun in time travel.

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.