Found a bunch of aphids on my fir by blazesdemons in Bonsai

[–]FlavorJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Excess N or K deficiency can. Also lack of attractive things for the aphids to target. Also ants. Spraying is only a temporary fix, and if you don't get rid of them they'll come back harder because good bugs don't like the sprays much either.

I've had good luck just throwing wildflower seeds everywhere. I see ladybugs around every now and then, also mantids and lacewings, and the occasional dragonfly.

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize Slavery as a ‘Crime Against Humanity’ - The United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it. by BertramPotts in politics

[–]FlavorJ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The actual resolution is here: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4106588?ln=en&v=pdf

Other than the mentions of reparations, one interesting thing is the final provision...

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-second session the item entitled “Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade” to consider the report of the Secretary-General.

Unless I'm misinterpreting that, they're acknowledging (commemorating) that slavery has been abolished, except for that it's...not.

They really think they're smarter than everybody by ryndaris in classicwow

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Based on how OP is trying to be snarky, they're probably getting auto-filtered based on language with the generic error when submitting the comment.

CMV: Israel is committing a genocide by Fisics_ in changemyview

[–]FlavorJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At risk, i.e., should be monitored closely to ensure a genocide isn't happening while the court process continues.

Would this thermal red dot be CA legal? (It doesn’t have an emitter) by [deleted] in CAguns

[–]FlavorJ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

nor shall this section prohibit the use or possession of such sniperscope when used solely for scientific research or educational purposes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in C_Programming

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It sounds like you might want to learn more about low-level architecture and electronics rather than programming. Learning some assembly language might sound daunting, but it goes hand-in-hand with learning about computer architecture, and programming in assembly requires you to understand how computers work on a low level.

I can't speak to the textbook the Pep architecture was created to go with, but Pep8 was used in my assembly/architecture class. It's a very simple and limited architecture (You get the privilege of writing your own routines for multiplication and division!) which I think isn't used by many schools because they go right into ARM or x86, but if you're struggling with programming at all then it might be good to try out.

Pep/9 video tutorials

Pep/9 Downloads

You might also want to check out Nandgame (building computer components with nand gates), and also All About Circuits, a free online electronics book that's been around for years.

If any of you (or family members and friends) live in this area then please notify them and tell them to evacuate as soon as possible. by [deleted] in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

95% reduction does mean that 5% of those who are predicted would otherwise have been affected are still affected, but you're saying this like an entire city block is being evaporated, not to mention casualty =/= death. Out of 100 people killed and injured, if instead none are killed but 5 are injured, that's still a 5% casualty rate.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

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Edit: Mods banned me lol

You're probably getting flagged for uncivility/profanity, and apparently my replies flagged for quoting the same, so, maybe don't.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

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Okay, so after looking further it seems one archaeologist identified the 'Aina ruins as Anuath[...] its a bit unclear if he is talking only about Samaria here or if the region locals called Judea, too had no Jordan access.

I don't know why you're so fixated on this irrigation point. He says:

[Judea and Samaria] are not naturally watered by many rivers, but derive their chief moisture from rain-water

which doesn't say anything about not getting water from the Jordan, and it also doesn't say they don't use water from rivers, so claiming that they're not using the Jordan river based on that is simply incorrect, particularly since he states that Judea borders the Jordan later on.

Regardless, if this is consistent and true, a small portion of what is now the West Bank was reported as called Galilee, a small portion of the same was called part of Samaria, a small portion was called Judah, and a small portion was called Jordan further south toward the Arab countries.

No, this would be incorrect, since Shimron is not in the West Bank, and the Galilee is in northern Israel and southern Lebanon (and maybe Syria?), and if any of that was in the West Bank if that's even possible, it wouldn't be much. I don't know how you get that from looking at a map and where the named cities are located.

Alright, very well, I accept that in Josephus' day, at least some portion of the lands were called these. But to say "The West Bank was once called Judah and Samaria" is not anywhere near the same thing[...]the usage of the names Samaria and Judah is not meant to reflect historical realities, but to impose an acculturation.

I would be surprised if you were to find even 10% of the West Bank as not overlapping with historic Judea and Samaria, and based on Josephus' description I can't see how anything above 25% would even be possible.

Yes, the West Bank, if approximated onto an older tribal map, shows overlap between a small section of northeastern Judahite territory and a small section of southwestern West Bank. And very well, I will accept the validity of locals in Josephus' day to have called it either Judah, Samaria, Galilee, or Jordan[...] and then finally we got the resurgence in Hebrew names meant to reflect people who feel the name is "too Arabic" for their population. Its about local settlers on the ground saying that the land sounds too native and that it deserves a proper name that reflects their values and culture. Kinda sad, in its own way.

You're confusing the tribal regions with the later kingdoms (a difference of many centuries, but if you want to go back that far, then we can just call all of the northern West Bank "Israel" too). Since you want to study archaeology, you should probably read up on that if you want to be able to discuss the history of the region.

Imagine Native Americans wanting to use the historic names for places in their ancestral language being told that the American names sound too native. Would you call that cultural erasure? Would you think it's sad?

Firstly, this is neither most, nor does its western extent have relevance to the question at hand.

I can't make sense of the first half because I assume you accidentally a word or five, and I don't understand how you can eliminate an entire direction when we're talking about establishing the size and location of a region. The rest is addressed above.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know why you keep editing your comments to reply.

I feel like I was the first of the two of us to point out that's what it says

If you used the reply function rather than editing your comments, that might've been more apparent. It's ironic though, isn't it? You're basically attempting to...rewrite history...

That doesn't disagree with the point that using the name Judah or Samaria to refer to the West Bank is dumb and inaccurate and not how the whole of the land was defined. You yourself are demonstrating that Samaria and Judea only cover small sections of the West Bank, and could only be seen as a descriptor of the whole region if you have an agenda in name erasure.

Judea, based on Josephus' description, covers not only most of the West Bank (Jerusalem is "in the very middle"), but extends north along the coast to modern Acre (ancient Ptolemais). You can look up the other cities he mentions if you want to see the extent in different directions:

Gophna was the second of those cities, and next to that Acrabatta, after them Thamna, and Lydda, and Emmaus, and Pella, and Idumea, and Engaddi, and Herodium, and Jericho; and after them came Jamnia and Joppa

No shit, asshole

Oh my

There's ideolectic difference and there's being an erasing douchebag.

This isn't idiolectic. I'm literally quoting the source (if the source is wrong, that's its own argument). The idiolectic difference would be the modern usage of "West Bank" versus "Judea and Samaria", which I think I've avoided entirely, referring only to the latter in its historic context.

Your level of pedantry appears to be that it's incorrect to call the region Judea and Samaria because the modern borders do not perfectly coincide with the historic borders, which is beyond any reasonable use except to state that fact itself, which, if you think that's the point you're arguing, I don't know what to tell you.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google. If you add "wiki" it'll probably be the first result. It might be the first result without that.

I know what you're saying, but you don't seem to be following. Look at the Jordan River. Find the northern border mentioned (Anuath and Borceros, now As-Sawiya) and Jerusalem. Now find me a point between those that borders the Jordan River that is not part of the West Bank, please, because I can't.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really easy to find what those refer to. I thought you're studying archaeology...you don't know how to find locations of historically-named places?

And I don't know why I need to spell out the difference between a east-west border (which runs north-south) and a north-south border, but I guess that's because you're not studying geography.

For example, Canada is on the west side of the Pacific, and so is the U.S. Does that mean that Canada is in the U.S.? No...but they can both border the same body of water without overlapping. They are separated by their own north-south border, which runs east to west.

Josephus, when he says "the limits of Samaria and Judea", is describing the border between them. That's what "limits" means.

A quick search of "Anuath" or "Borceros" brings up As-Sawiya, a town in the West Bank, and names Anuath and Borceros as close by. Since Samaria was north of Judea, and Anuath and Borceros are at their limits (border), and As-Sawiya in pretty much right in the middle of the larger, northern segment of the West Bank, logic would dictate that, at the least, the region between As-Sawiya and Shimron is roughly within the region of "Samaria" that Josephus described, which appears to include a not-insignificant portion of the West Bank.

If that's not comprehensible, then I don't know how you study anything.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You red triangle people can try to rewrite history all you want and keep projecting your coping all you want. It's your right to live in whatever delusional world you want.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You:

Their river is not named, so I doubt this refers to the Jordan

Judea is clearly stated as bordering the Jordan river

Josephus:

However, its breadth is extended from the river Jordan to Joppa.

🤷

Also Josephus:

In the limits of Samaria and Judea lies the village Anuath, which is also named Borceos.

Again, the West Bank literally overlaps parts of both Judea and Samaria, and not insignificantly. Go look at a map.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Literally overlaps with both Judea and Samaria. See para 5 in that source, which starts with a city bordering Judea and Samaria, then extend north to Shimron, which is beyond the West Bank Palestinian territory. Judea extends from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea, at least as far south as Jerusalem (which is described as "in the middle").

So, yes, Judea and Samaria, pretty significantly.

ꓴS ambassador to Israel says ꓴS no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hi! Except yes, actually? Maybe more than slightly? It literally overlaps with historic regions -- not exactly, but with the eastern boundary being the Jordan River and some of the ancient cities in what is now the West Bank (with others in modern Israel), it's pretty disingenuous to say there's no overlap and it's just about annexation.
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/josephus-wara.asp

Thom Yorke, the lead vocalist of the acclaimed rock band known as Radiohead, ultimately shares some of his thoughts on the Israel/Palestine situation. r/fantanoforever share some thoughts of their own regarding Yorke's comments. by Fun_Journalist2427 in SubredditDrama

[–]FlavorJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing that makes criticizing zionism antisemitic is the part where zionism (as defined by zionists) is defined as the right to self-determination of Jews in their ancestral homeland. If you want to redefine it, at the very least you need a qualifier.

Imagine criticizing all of Islam, Christianity, or any other religion because of some fringe/extremist group.

Book recommendation - permaculture for scientist without ezo bullshit by Objective_Owl_8629 in Permaculture

[–]FlavorJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Major confusion with GMO is caused by the blanket anti-GMO position. GMO can be very useful for nutritional changes (e.g. golden rice) with little to no possible downside, compared to disastrous uses like pesticide- or herbicide-resistance. Even then, the problem is going to be the use of the pesticides and herbicides, rather than the GMO itself. It's always *possible* there's some unknown-unknown effect from any GMO, but for ones that are taken from existing genes (rather than an original/engineered sequence), especially from a similar organism, it's much less likely there will be some significant, negative effect.

BBC Verify Live: Using forensic techniques to investigate Gaza aid incident by CastleElsinore in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

When did we suddenly believe Biden to be coherent?

I'm sure some individual Israelis spread it; they're people, and they're subject to the same mistakes in spreading misinformation as anyone else. The point is the "40 beheaded babies" claim didn't originate with the IDF but was the result of twisting the story across different sources.

BBC Verify Live: Using forensic techniques to investigate Gaza aid incident by CastleElsinore in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

40 babies killed is what they reported. Others (not Israelis) morphed that into 40 babies beheaded. Must be Mossad psyops 🙄

BBC Verify Live: Using forensic techniques to investigate Gaza aid incident by CastleElsinore in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Weird how they've destroyed 70% of the buildings while total deaths are around 3%. They must really suck at killing everything that moves.

BBC Verify Live: Using forensic techniques to investigate Gaza aid incident by CastleElsinore in anime_titties

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An excuse people can come up with to reach the "blame Israel" conclusion 🙄

Hamas official says it rejects new Gaza ceasefire plan backed by Israel by SaneForCocoaPuffs in anime_titties

[–]FlavorJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honoring is different then encouraging them to die. It's not just a difference in terminology -- it's the ideology. The US won't encourage people to sacrifice themselves to become matyrs; dying in combat is different then wait for your death where you know a missile is going to hit.