gcheliotis

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[–] gcheliotis 31 points 1 year ago

Whoever is managing that account is really reaching here.

“On Thursday, the Israeli government’s official account on X, formerly known as Twitter, likened this to the antisemitic lie that Jews murdered Christian boys to use their blood for religious rituals.”

[–] gcheliotis 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, ok; it just read like that. Maybe I misunderstood.

[–] gcheliotis 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am not sure that I would share your attitude in “benefiting” a developing nation with your perspectives, but yeah, death threats not cool in any case. As I said in my original comment, there may be more to this than meets the eye. Maybe these guys are being jerks and intolerant of other viewpoints more often than not, can’t tell. As far as I’m concerned it is ok for people to argue passionately, angrily even, so long as they do not seek to undermine discussion or, worse, hurt others just because they disagree with them.

[–] gcheliotis 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good idea, if anyone can point me to it or to specific examples, I would appreciate it. Also do not care enough to start an investigation by myself.

Fwiw, I wouldn’t judge an entire instance by a handful individual posts. Users will be users. But still, some evidence would be a lot better than no evidence. Plenty of evidence would be even better.

[–] gcheliotis 0 points 1 year ago

It looks like with some updates it could become a very solid 8-8.5/10

[–] gcheliotis 113 points 1 year ago (72 children)

I understand that they are staunchly pro-communist and also take a pro-Palestine, including some of them (many of them?) a more clearly pro-Hamas stance. And that all of this could annoy many of the centrist liberals that seem to dominate here. But from perusing the lemmygrad link I do not see clear signs of hate speech, certainly not a clear hate speech agenda as you would see with some hate groups. And judging by the comments on here many seem to be happy to be “rid of them” because they are “annoying”, or “immature”, or “tankies”, or whatever. It really reads largely like “their opinions annoy me” so I’m glad they’re gone.

There may be more to it, I don’t know, but personally I wouldn’t like lemmy.world, an otherwise fine instance by all means, to become a centrist liberal silo where no other opinion outside (mostly US-centric) liberal orthodoxy is heard. So yeah, not convinced that this was the right decision, basically because of a lack of evidence.

[–] gcheliotis 1 points 1 year ago

Still after all this time? What platform?

[–] gcheliotis 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I liked this, but I feel like it is just one possible explanation for the common observation that people feel more conservative as they grow older. And it may seem confirmed when society is growing more liberal. But what if this changes? After all there is no objective reason that I know of why societies will have to grow ever more liberal. When conservatism is on the rise, this may become reversed. What then? Older people will appear ever more radically liberal I guess? Hmmm, it is late here and I am too tired to think this through.

Also why is this in technology and not politics? Although, come to think of it, I am glad it is, because politics is so filled to the brim with US politics that I unsubscribed.

[–] gcheliotis 5 points 1 year ago

Adrian (the PI) is such an unusual, mad genius kind of guy. Peer reviewed or not, it would be cool if he and others managed to help us understand animals better.

[–] gcheliotis 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sheer scale of this is mind-blowing to me. The very same storm passed over my head (I’m in Greece) and left a trail of heavy flooding that will take years to recover from, but what happened in Libya will affect an entire generation or even generations to come. This is the kind of impact we can expect from climate change,,‘especially coupled with neglect of public infrastructure.

[–] gcheliotis 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d like to know as well. A couple reviews I saw online said it performs quite well. And past experience with divinity series is pretty reassuring.

[–] gcheliotis 222 points 1 year ago (31 children)

A blessing, really, for cities experiencing housing shortage.

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