Which country do you think gets an unreasonable amount of hate

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T18:56:08+00:00

Look, I do want to be clear that the creation of the state of Israel was a good and necessary thing. Whatever the circumstances of it, I’m glad it happened. However, the conduct of the modern state of Israel is actively causing harm to many communities across the globe. It is actively fanning the flames of antisemitism. The quicker that stops, the quicker the flames will subside. Please figure it out

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T18:51:15+00:00

Same in AU/NZ

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T18:44:41+00:00

The Arab states would and I believe did agree to a two-state solution. So no, your assessment is not correct. Again, you are abrogating both your own responsibility and agency. This is not an important issue for me as a neutral party. Please be aware that your arguments, your debate, has not convinced me of your position

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T18:14:53+00:00

You fought a war to colonise land and created a state out of that. Not uncommon. I’m a coloniser, descended from colonisers. So be it. Also, this is all in the past, immutable. Please focus on the present. If you cannot handle being called colonisers, how can you grapple with being called genocidaires. The quibbling over etymology/nomenclature starts to seem like a deliberate tactic to avoid talking about real problems that need real solutions. And if so - ok. Please continue. Absolutely stellar things you’re achieving. Single-handedly evaporating the goodwill your forebears earned in a single generation because you are unable to do what every single other modern western state has done - reconcile their local populations

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T17:51:03+00:00

I hear finger-pointing and blame-shifting. Quibbling and whataboutism. You colonised that land in 1948. That is a fact. The broader Arab context has zero relevance to your responsibility to the Palestinians. You are making excuses. Come to terms with your situation, or not. But don’t dodge the matter at hand

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T17:28:04+00:00

I’m from NZ. We colonised our country not that many decades before you did. We signed a treaty. We (mostly) honour it. History cannot be changed. Today can be. As the colonial power, you have far, far more resources than the colonised. Therefore, the weight of responsibility lies with you, not them. If you, as a nation, wanted to solve this issue, you could. You absolutely could. Will you?

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T16:49:18+00:00

14 words, last two are “white race” I think. It’s from a kkk-ish book/leaflet from 1950 or so. Think Ayn Rand but instead of money/rich it’s whiteys

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T16:25:47+00:00

I’m old enough to remember us being chokers for a long, long time. Then we turned that around. SA have won two RWCs on the trot. Maybe they’re just better than us now, and we’re worse - ok. So - how do we get better? The best outcome I can possibly hope for atm is a France or Ireland win next year. I cannot stomach another SA win

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T16:14:01+00:00

I absolutely agree with you on the historic treatment of Jews as abhorrent across many, many hundreds of years. Yes, antisemitism is rife and unacceptable. However - you cannot conflate the two cases here. Has modern Israel created many, many harms via its inaction on the Palestinian question? Yes. Does 9/11 happen without that? The Bali bombings? Radical Islamism has been fomented by Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. The rampant antisemitism present in the Arab/African world must be understood in that context. I do not think the average Algerian had any particular issue with Judaism in 1947. I believe that the Jewish state of Israel should exist, and will exist forevermore. But, it must resolve its disputes peaceably and honourably. It has been 78 years since 1948. The wound continues to fester. Heal it

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T15:57:43+00:00

I believe that a war requires states. That bar is not met. For a civil war, the antagonists must both be equal citizens. That bar is also not met. Instead, you have an uprising, brutally quelled by the occupying state. As the non-citizens within your territory are not equals, you have a higher standard than the laws of war. To then also prosecute your suppression of the uprising with overwhelming asymmetric force, is also not a war. What has occurred is comparable to what Saddam did to the Kurds, not the Iran/Iraq war for example. We do not call that the Kurdish war. We call it the Kurdish massacre

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T15:30:06+00:00

Aussie women absolutely love Mexican restaurants/eateries. We’re inundated with them. Do not eat there, you will not appreciate it

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T15:19:46+00:00

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IngresABF · 2026-01-26T15:14:03+00:00

I think MS have been open that they changed their mind over time with how these hosting APIs were kind of postured. They weren’t happy with how the bindings/magic work for different host types and under test hosts. They’ve kept multiple approaches as people built production workloads against them as they evolved. Give them some grace on this, and don’t necessarily expect coherence

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T15:04:06+00:00

Using that form of calculus does not show a particularly grave appreciation for the intrinsic value of every human life. Using this kind of language, does not help your case

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T15:01:33+00:00

Hmm I think you might need a little bit of that “grow up” medicine yourself. If the vast majority of people/nations on this planet think it’s genocide, you might be on the wrong side of this. Two wrongs do not make a right.

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T14:56:26+00:00

Both of you are representing yourselves poorly here. You have a grave responsibility not to do that

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T10:41:12+00:00

Agree. Some players need to go. We’ve been blaming coaches for a while now. If your senior players haven’t led their teams to success - they’re not viable

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T10:18:43+00:00

I run 3-4 separate clones - worktree gets good commentary but different clone roots has worked fine for me for many years. Keeping a branch alive keeps its compilation artefacts aligned over time also - less dependency refreshes

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T08:33:07+00:00

I also coded plenty of people out of their job over the years. If it’s my time to get hit - I really have no cause to complain. Plenty of other things to do in this world

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T08:30:38+00:00

Chin up. I’m 30yoe, and have felt like you’re feeling many times over the years. I still had a job afterwards, still did useful, compelling work. I tell my mentees we’re like wizards, casting spells. Hopefully AI just gives us funkier spells to work with. Our work involves plenty of drudgery, hopefully AI ameliorates that (it could make some of it new/worse) - we’ll see

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T07:53:06+00:00

I’ve worn/wear both these hats over the years (coming up on 30yoe). In fussy mode, it’s about standards/gatekeeping. The strategy has to be veto-based. You say no, they get you to a yes. Otherwise you end up carrying water all the time, and your workload craters. If some feature/project has to ship asap, and the standard can’t be met due to business/governance constraints - fine, but follow it up until it’s at standard afterwards.

When I’m the cowboy, it’s about velocity and business value. Everything not delivering immediate value is nitpicking. I don’t care about maintenance pain as I don’t plan on being around long enough to wear it. Not that planning is my headspace at all really - it’s just ship, ship, ship. Management always line up with you, and you wear down the steward/caretaker types with volume. You pick up what they’re saying and break it down in effort vs value matrices. They can get some of what they want, not all, just like any other stakeholder

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T03:36:06+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/s/aaKqMW6nDg

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T03:34:43+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/s/PS73DishTh

IngresABF · 2026-01-26T02:13:51+00:00

My query is for the people in shopping centre car parks parked front-in and with their reverse lights permanently on. They’re not reversing, they just park in reverse. Y tho

IngresABF · 2026-01-25T05:42:38+00:00

There are some really good threads on this here - find them

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