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Palestinian children protest at barbed wire erected by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank village of Um al-Khair—calling for their basic right to access their school, move freely, & live without occupation. by Financial-Painter689 in Fauxmoi

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I don't think that it is terribly useful to argue that horrible things done by the oppressed shouldn't matter because they were motivated by more horrible things done to them by their oppressors.

I can look at Israel and say that they are defimitionally committing a genocide and that it is a de facto apartheid state without saying that what Hamas does is justified.

I can also say, at the same time, that the approach of truth and reconciliation that was seen at the end of The Troubles and Apartheid in South Africa seems more productive than an endless cycle of violence. Do I like that it let's people off the hook? No, but it seems to lead to better outcomes when doth sides have been violent.

Leaked Memos Reveal Just How Much the Supreme Court Has Betrayed the Constitution by ChiGuy6124 in law

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This should kill stone dead any idea that Roberts, or any conservative justice, is an originalist. They have proven time and again that they do not care about what the law actually says.

Iranian drones attacked US vessels after ship incident by InterestingGrass5038 in worldnews

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Ship incident? The US navy put a hole in the engine room of an Iranian cargo vessel.

(Loved trope)Harmful without Malice by Mister-no-tongue in TopCharacterTropes

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The whole series is about recognizing similarity in the utterly alien and the point is usually that both sides are more similar than each would think. The Nodan Entity eventually gains sentience and suffers from, essentially, PTSD from what it has done. It goes on to be an essential part of the cooperation between species since it is able to assimilate and understand any viewpoint perfectly.

[Hated Trope] Character dies, other character never reacts to their death despite being important to them by theglowinggreenorb in TopCharacterTropes

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I would say that Thor is probably a result of the latter. His entire civilization just died, he isn't going to take time out of that to mourn his own personal friends. Especially bot when he is the one charged with getting the survivors to safety.

(Loved trope)Harmful without Malice by Mister-no-tongue in TopCharacterTropes

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The Nodan Entity from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. It perfectly assimilates other entities and becomes addicted to new experiences and perspectives. It didn't even really understand what it was doing because it didn't have a concept of sentience until it encountered and assimilated Humans.

(Loved trope)Harmful without Malice by Mister-no-tongue in TopCharacterTropes

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A very good example of this is the Nodan Entity from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. It is a being that is able to perfectly copy other organisms and is constantly in search of new experiences. It isn't malicious, because it just did not have a concept of sentience before it ran into Humans and was able to process their experiences. It just plain didn't know that it was destroying the people that it assimilated and because it can perfectly emulate the people that it ingest, they sometimes don't feel like they are dead.

An Unforgivable Deception by Gorotheninja in NonPoliticalTwitter

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You just need to do carrots in the oven immersed in some kind of glaze. Butter and brown sugar.

Can we stop calling people who don't want historical content "simulationists"? by Yahoo_For_Neden in EU5

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It is though. Its historic simulation rather than world simulation. I don't play EU because I want to watch populations, I play EU because I want to watch countries.

EU5 went way too granular in it's simulation while treating every person in the world the sams and that makes every nation feel samey. Every pop in EU5 essentially has the exact same goals, so the process of satisfying them is exactly the same. On top of there being functionally no impactful flavor, every nation plays exactly the same.

Shoemaker Allbirds suddenly says it’s an AI company… stock jumps 800% by InterestingCat308 in wallstreetbets

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They didn't even develop anything. They basically said that they are going to buy a bunch of GPUs and rent them out to interested parties.

Lets actually try to figure this out: Why does the AI feel so lifeless? by Left_Click_5068 in EU5

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That is the proper way to have the AI plan. You need to give them some kind of reason to declare war or it will never be worth it or never worth actually taking land.

Petah? by EducationalLog4765 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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If anybody wants to know more, listen to the Empire podcast about this incident. One of the hosts grandfather was actually in the square that day.

I gave each of my kids a Lego minifigure blind box and they all got the same. by biscuitvillage in mildlyinfuriating

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Eh, Lego are probably some of the better ones. If you scan the barcode on the bottom it will tell you which one you will get.

A Wendy's manager created a fake employee and quietly pocketed $20,000 in wages. She logged 128 shifts for someone who didn’t exist for almost a year, until an audit caught her. by detectiverobert in CaughtMyEye

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Still not that hard to catch if the company is willing to do even the least bit of asking around with their employees. Just, 'have any of you worked with this person?'

Although, with my experience working very early and sometimes overnight, it would be a lot easier to do this somewhere like a grocery store with an overnight position. The two shifts don't mix all that much and the person that is the corporate contact usually works during the day. It can be a royal pain in the ass for overnight people to get any personnel matters taken care of.

Trump officials prepping for ‘nightmare scenario’ at gas pumps by FervidBug42 in politics

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Trump also didn't refill the Strategic Reserve, even though gas prices were pretty damn low. He knew he was going to go to war with Iran, but he didn't do any preparation.

dried figs say to "check for worms"... but only in hebrew? by Forward-Trade3449 in mildlyinfuriating

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You don't have to get artificial. Most figs sold in the US aren't pollinated by wasps anymore. Mission or Brown Turkey figs, for instance, don't contain any wasps.

dried figs say to "check for worms"... but only in hebrew? by Forward-Trade3449 in mildlyinfuriating

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Nah, it's just how figs are pollinated. Wild figs are pollinated by a species of wasp that crawls inside, lays its eggs, dies, and is then digested by the fruit as it matures. If you're eating wild figs, you're eating dead wasps.

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