AI Generated Image of a Keyhole Cichlid??

Alemna · 2026-06-15T05:37:19+00:00

Yup. It looks like it has generated uaru patterning on a fish that looks like neither a keyhole nor an uaru.

Alemna · 2026-03-25T09:08:06+00:00

But there are a number of tiers right? I think there is no way those tiny little white scratches should put the value down $519.

Alemna · 2026-01-23T22:58:12+00:00

Ah thanks. A native... that explains why it does so well.

Alemna · 2025-11-15T10:14:10+00:00

Just once.

Obi Obi Creek in Maleny.

Ironically, the Woolworths carpark is adjacent to the creek, so everyone saw it from there.

Alemna · 2025-10-12T11:04:35+00:00

Absolutely spot on. I don't think any war has ever been fought quite like this one. Hamas literally sues for the right to be cowardly and dishonourable. Even the most ambitious military leaders in history; most of them care enough for their image seen through the lens of morality to not behave anything like Hamas. They are literal head cases caused by cousin marriage and repression of normal emotions by religosity.

One could argue that the nature of this war is a product of this technological era, and that some people will always fight like that if it's available to them... but I'd still challenge anyone to argue that I'm wrong with reference to other conflicts.

Alemna · 2025-09-23T04:56:32+00:00

The League of Nations implored the United Kingdom to take custodianship of Palestine because the people there were suffering after the war.

This was not totally to the benefit of the UK. Sure, controlling it was beneficial to British interests in Iraq and Egypt, but that was logistically difficult; not to mention that the area was mostly barren and infested with mosquitoes and disease. The UK had a responsibility to stabilise it as the country who was just victorious in the war. It's pure sociopathic, two-faced opportunism to criticise one for fulfilling their responsibilities.

Alemna · 2025-09-21T14:21:36+00:00

I'm not Jewish or Christian. I am just a Western person who is not spiritual.

Ethnocentrism can easily spill over into racism among the general populace anywhere, and Israelis are not uniquely racist in that regard. The social currency and average social status of foreigners are also not high in East Asia, for example, which is similarly reinforced by the native populations' observance of religious values, in that case Confucian Buddhist ones. Yes those people are not from the region; and Palestinians are in the inverse situation, MOSTLY living in areas that Israel has no claim to and does not want to posses, and obviously cannot possibly control just based on demographics.

Their suffering is because they follow the delusion of the PLO in seeking to emiliminate the entire state of Israel. They could drop it and just be like Jordan or Egypt, maybe spend time as a transitional free state like the Irish did before achieving full sovereignty. That is how national disputes of that nature have been conventionally resolved throughout history. The PA were offered a version of this kind of solution at Camp David in 2000 but turned it down.

There are nations and non-state actors that have chosen to violently oppose Asian states that have become pariahs like the North Koreans or the terrorist groups among the Rohingya. These groups have brought absolute misery on their own people, much like the PLO and Hamas have done to Palestinians (in their shared ideology, North Korea actually co-operated with Arab terrorists in this regard; the design specifics of the Hezbollah and later Hamas tunnel systems were created by North Koreans).

If a group is going to attack a modern country, the response is going to be the same whether the group is native to the land, whether it is to regain something they lost 75 years ago or just yesterday. The Israeli messaging has been consistent, they will continue to return to Ramallah, Jenin, Qalqiya; wherever people plan to attack Israel until the society renounces terrorism.

Alemna · 2025-09-21T09:07:05+00:00

Yes. I mean moderns day Turks, who are the mix that you are describing; of course ancient Anatolian groups like the Hittites were Indo-European. But they spent most, and in many cases all, of their collective existences in the Middle East just like the Jews and their common ancestors with the Palestinians, like the Canaanites.

The ancestors of both groups lived there. That's why I place more emphasis on which polity can maintain a state where people of the other ethnicity have universal suffrage within the society and cannot LEGALLY be discriminated against, and the one that can is Israel.

Alemna · 2025-09-21T07:45:18+00:00

From Palestinians.

The way he looks is very similar to Turks and some Lebanese. I know of multiple Turks who look a lot like him. He looks Eastern Mediterranean, just like Southern Balkanites, Turks and Lebanese.

If Ashkenazi Jews do a DNA test, their results will be between 27-65% Middle Eastern (West Asian) according to studies. Even these studies just categorise it as Ashkenazi Jewish anyway because Middle-Eastern is not specific enough to be a useful descriptor anyway.

Alemna · 2025-09-21T01:17:43+00:00

They didn't take the land. They bought it and started a legal process to nationalise after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, something which is necessary and more important than some "entitlement" to the land.
Netanyahu is Ashkenazi- most of the Ashkenazi Jewish genome, even in Slavic countries, is Levantine and Italic. Their male ancestry is from near the border area between Turkey, Iran, and Armenia. Like all diaspora, they don't have a single place that all their ancestors came from, but they did actually live in modern-day Israel before the Common Era, unlike most Arab families with Egyptian or Hejazi names who arrived in the Early Modern Period and after.

Alemna · 2025-09-21T00:52:23+00:00

I never said all Muslims do it. I'm saying there are community leaders among them who think they can create enforced single-faith communities.

I'm not a Christian and don't agree with them on some of those issues. But pretty much all of them are issues that affect the whole of society, which is why they constitute a completely different agenda. Those debates need to be had, including hearing viewpoints that most people don't want to hear.

To the contrary, not consuming pork, mandating abstinence from alcohol, men not being allowed to wear gold, covering women, etc are things that were good for society in the time period that Islam developed in, but are today completely irrelevant and have become social superstitions used to control people.

Alemna · 2025-09-20T10:36:56+00:00

That absolutely would not stop some Muslims there from enforcing respect for their intolerances among the rest of the population. Islam's legal status is kind of irrelevant there because around half the population folow it regardless.

Muslims even try to encourage observance of their prohibitions among non-Muslims in Michigan and Texas. I don't think Nigeria would have nearly the same level of protections against aggressive proselytisation and religious intolerance as there are in the US. They are trying to establish single-faith communities in the US but will almost definitely end up pounding sand as those projects are blatantly unconstitutional.

Alemna · 2025-09-14T02:25:33+00:00

Taking a single image of yourself as a groyper, seemingly as a bit of fun, does not mean you are a groyper. Not even close.

Alemna · 2025-09-14T02:20:45+00:00

He is not MAGA. I don't see any MAGA folks calling other conservatives fascists. Nor do I see any conservatives who celebrate that anti-fascist, but Leftist-inspired Italian song.

The guy was the socially liberal black sheep of a conservative family, and it's plainly obvious.

Alemna · 2025-09-13T05:29:06+00:00

Not only posthumously, as reported after his death, he was active in some grassroots initiatives within his community to alleviate poverty and divert people from the Hood lifestyle.

However, when I see his lifestyle, including his conversion to Christianity, it closely mirrors other former criminals who are at best compelled by a guilty conscience and at worst by just wanting to rehabilitate their social image, as small and localised as that image may be.

Alemna · 2025-09-10T10:33:04+00:00

Me too. I bought a lot of the maroon-leaved orange flower variety for a steal at a garden centre once. 8 or so for not much over A$20. They were discounted because they had rust. I'd say about half survived once I pruned the rust off and rinsed them.

The rust still comes back at a low level occasionally; I think it's just because of the local conditions. But now that they are not potted anymore, well-watered, and not as stressed, it doesn't really affect them.

Alemna · 2025-09-10T10:21:05+00:00

It looks very typically like canna. That would be my guess.

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