[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Well, notably, most of the Jewish population are not Israeli. There isn't a large diaspora of Israeli people in NY. As you said, it isn't a Jewish celebration. It has next to nothing to do with these people.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

I hope you can look back in the future and see how stupid you are currently too.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 hours ago

First, si vis pacem, para bellum. If you're defencless, you get invaded. If you want peace, you need to be ready to fight, to some extent. The current budget? Way too large, and he agrees. Shipbuilding though? We are shit at it now. We need to do better if we don't want to rely on China, which makes us a target. This includes commercial as well as military.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Let's be honest. They're a troll spreading apathy. They aren't promoting any alternative, just doing nothing. Either they're a troll, trying to help the opponents, or they have been mislead by one of these trolls that has convinced them being the equivalent of empty air is the best thing they can do.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago

Eh, I had a libertarian stint in my past. I hate the villany of changing your opinions. "Flip flopping" is one of the biggest failures you can supposedly have as a modern politician (or even person). We should praise people when they change thier views, not condemn them for it.

At minimum, he must be better than Collins. That's the alternative. Even if he doesn't actually believe this stuff, it's still a significant improvement.

I do think he believes it though. I think he has a bad past, and that lead him down some dark roads. However, I think this has taught him some lessons that he's learned from. He sees how shitty he was in the past and has improved. I hope this is true for everyone. If you still hold the same beliefs you did in the past, you're a failure of a human. If you don't see how stupid and ignorant the younger you was, you aren't living a life worth living.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

This type of thing is not for specifics. Ideally, it's to get people who care to look into the specifics. Realistically, it's just a message that sounds good to people you need to vote for you.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

You claim someone is biased against China, because they said one true thing, then you bring up all kinds of unrelated things to attack another nation, which wasn't being discussed. I wonder if you might possess the bias your against, But for China and against the US? Both nations do good and bad things. If you're so angry about bias, maybe you should check your own. Or maybe bias isn't the issue, and you just support the Chinese leadership?

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago

Honestly, capital sounds better. Resources are something you comsume. Capital is something you invest with/in. People are just used to being called resources.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

The chicken-egg thing is easy though, the egg came first. All chickens came out of eggs, including the first one. Two non-chickens combined their DNA to make a chicken, which came out of an egg.

I don't know if you're trolling or not. There is no sudden point where chicken evolution became a chicken. They just get more and more chicken like traits. It's a spectrum of evolution, which is still ongoing.

Where did the hormones that control DNA expression come from? DNA.

No? It was in the environment first. Then evolution selected DNA that responded to the environment in ways that helped it reproduce. This then evolved into cells that produce their own hormones that act on DNA in existing pathways. Without DNA already being effected by hormones in the environment there likely wouldn't have been evolutionary pressure to manufacture them.

Not true. Add human estrogen to sex-undetermined plant DNA...

You're obviously trolling. Clearly I'm talking about humans. Wtf. Cut out your bad faith shit. You're wasting both of our time.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Even thousands of years ago, you can find native copper in some places. If you're lucky this isn't that hard. Also, I'm not certain on the properties required, but I think you just need a decent conductor, not copper specifically. Copper is just conductive, pretty available, and easy to work with. Also, there are naturally forming magnets. You don't need to make one.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Secondly, don't sell yourself too short. Just knowing that washing your hands prevents the spread of disease could be a big benefit.

Or, more than likely, it'll get you killed. The earliest proponents of germ theory weren't really treated the best.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I haven't used raw Arch, but I have been using Garuda for a while. I'd recommend this or CachyOS rather than pure Arch for someone not used to Linux, and especially a child.

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I hope this isn't the case, but the timing of the movies is really good to get people into Dune. They'll need the books to fully understand the parallels though.

Hopefully Trump doesn't do the things we suspect he'll do based on what he's said, but, if he does, hopefully it's a moment humanity can learn from (again). Hopefully we come out of this and people stop trusting charismatic leaders. Dune may be more relevant than ever.

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