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Yikes.
I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.
Guy in the front with a cane is a snappy dresser.
At Corsight, board member and retired Israeli major general Giora Eiland has advocated for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza in Israeli newspaper articles.
In October, he wrote that Israel “has no choice but to turn Gaza into a place that is temporarily or permanently impossible to live in,” and that “creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieving the goal.”
Later, he wrote that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”
At first I thought the notorious kbin thumbnail mismatch bug struck again but no.
You’re right and I have since read the article properly.
I’m not a coder, just a casual, but it’s interesting, though I still disagree that it’s a good way to go.
@Spotlight7573 thanks for the heads up. I’m an idiot.
Yeah I was being a bit of an oblivious dick in my comment.
I still disagree with him though.
I suppose I can grant papal indulgence
Heh love your wording there. I actually started that train of thought with various “relics” like the vial of Christ’s blood, statues weeping tears etc some of which were eventually debunked iirc.
Ponzi schemes are quite possibly as old as granaries (or the pyramids), but I think a better contender for scope is something like the Mississipi Bubble which was absolute madness…
Kbin really is a work in progress. I’m sticking with it, but I have backup accounts for the times when it’s too buggy.
If it’s a scam then at this point it’s one of history’s biggest and longest-running.
Kind of an overstatement. It hasn’t even been 20 years. If it were a scam it’d be nowhere near the scale and timeframe of, say, Papal Indulgences.
This isn’t anything to do with your wider argument btw, just me nitpicking. Didn’t know you’d relocated to fedia.io, was that during the downtime?
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Eh, in New Zealand it’s been one click digital for a very long time too.
I was told they don’t have modern tax forms accross the US because of lobbying from companies like Turbo Tax.
Since 1 in 4 Canadians is a first generation immigrant themselves, I’m wondering if this 50% figure represents 2/3 of all Canadian-born Canadians.
Or maybe some leopards eating faces is going on?
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I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.
This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.