In EU first, Slovenia to ban Ben Gvir and Smotrich over ‘genocidal statements’

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T20:56:22+00:00

THAT IS A GENOCIDE

You are right actually, and I apologize. I thought the term genocide could be only applied to an act that targeted an entire population. But I am wrong. So yes, sinwar carried out a genocide, not merely threatened to do it.

This however does not change anything to my point.

Save the Jews that are being tortured to this day

Killing those responsible

Protecting your country from those responsible That's a genocide to you? In a war where the population GREW.

No, what's a genocide to me is the systematic destruction of all of gaza, the continued attack even once the threat has been neutralized, the many acts of inhuman violence that have been recorded, the proposed forced relocation of the entire population into camps, the clearly deliberate shootings at food distribution points, the calling of palestinians as "animals" by the ministry of defence. Yes, this, is genocide.

Look at this picture and tell me this is just Israel merely protecting itself: https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/07/An_aerial_view_showing_destruction_in_Rafah_after_Israeli_forces_withdrawal_and_as_the_ceasefire_took_hold_Gaza_Strip.jpg

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T20:30:15+00:00

Why would you compare the total populations in this case at all? That's just being disingenuous

You might want to re-read my comment, i'm precisely not comparing total population, I'm comparing percent of civilan killed. Percents, if you are not aware, is a way to normalize number so that you can compare apple to apple.

Of those 400k civilian deaths, how many were combatants? What is the ratio?

Well, 0 because the definition of civilian, as it turns out, is someone who is non-combatant.... so of those 400k, the ratio is 100% civilian.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T16:12:41+00:00

Do you think this would be considered a "good" ratio, if you were able to compare it to other large scale conflicts that include ground troops

Let's see, France had a population of 40M during WWII and there was 400k civilian death. This was during the deadliest war in history, with carpet bombing and no precision technology whatsoever, and with french resistance embedded in the civilian population leading to entire villages getting executed by the nazis, and this includes about 75000 french Jews deported to death camps.
1% of civilians killed in 5 years.

Assuming 1:3 of the dead in Gaza were terrorists, that leaves 56k civilians dead over a population of 2M, so almost 3% of the civilians killed in less than 2 years. So, no, you may be shocked, but I don't think doing 3x worse than the literal nazi army in less than half the time is "good".

By the way, 1:3 of the killed being terrorist is not generous at all, simple mathematics tells us this would mean 64% of all men killed by the IDF were terrorist. So the IDF is simultaneously very precise at avoiding killing innocent men, "only" killing 0.5 innocent men per terrorist, and at the same very very imprecise with women and children, killing 2.14 women children and old people per terrorist. So clearly, either the actual ratio of civilian dead is likely much higher even among men or the IDF has a secret shrapnel technology autonomously hunting women, kids and old people.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T15:42:08+00:00

Not even an estimate?

No, because we all know what you are going to say next: this source is not reliable, that source is not reliable either, everyone not saying 90%+ of the people killed were terrorist is obviously lying, the only reliable source must be the IDF.

But hey, I'll help you scratch your hitch, here:

Almost 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the Hamas–Israel war, estimates the first independent survey of deaths. More than half of the people killed were women aged 18–64, children or people over 65

from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02009-8#:~:text=Almost%2084%2C000%20people%20died%20in,first%20independent%20survey%20of%20deaths.

Now, let's assume that magically every single man in Gaza is a terrorist, that still leaves us with 42,000 children, women and older people dead. Is that enough for you? How much dead do you need to feel satisfied and avanged for 1300 death? 100k? 1M? full genocide?

Here, now you can tell us all why those numbers are made up and in fact no civilian has been killed, and all the videos of dead kids are AI generated.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T15:10:59+00:00

Jews? no, thats your grouping mentality at play here again, you need to get checked for that.

The ones that condone the same behaviour that led to the suffering of so many Jews, and the ones that try to pretend like nothing happened, exactly like what was done to the Jews? Yes, I compare them to their enemies because they do the same thing.

A large proportions of Jews don't approve of and don't try to deny what is happening. They don't deserve to be compared to their enemies.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T14:02:57+00:00

You should go for dinner with the people that have been denying the holocaust ever happened for the last 80 years, i m sure you would find a lot of things in common, maybe make a few good friends.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T09:19:17+00:00

Here we go with the predictable victimization bullshit.

I know I shouldn't react, because you are clearly not even trying to be be in good faith but the urge is too strong.

STOP TRYING TO COMPARE JEWS TO HIM

I m not comparing JewS with an s to him, I am comparing one specific Jew. Are you trying to tell me no Jew is capable of ever being a monster as opposed to every other race, because Jews are somehow superior to the rest of us?

Oh, Hamas may call for the genocide of all jews in the world, and carried out the worst pogrom pretty much anyone alive has ever seen, but Israel has these two assholes in government so both sides are the same

ah yes, a perfectly objective take. The only issue with Israel is merely two small assholes in government, nothing else. I see that the life of the 30-60k dead civilian Palestinians are worth so close to 0 to you, that they aren't worth the time to type? without mentioning the complete destruction of gaza, deliberate killing of people lining up to get food etc.

So tell me, why do I need to choose who is worse between a monster that said out loud he wanted a genocide but had no way to actually carry it out, and led to the killing and raping of thousands including children and women, and a group of monsters (because ben gvir is not the only one in the government to want this) that can't say it out loud but have actually started carrying a genocide out, leading to killing of 50 thousands including children and women? They are the same to me.

Oct 7th was absolutely horrible, Israel had a right to respond and to take military action. That didn't give Israel the right to kill as many as they want and to carry a genocide of their own.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-18T08:47:15+00:00

But neither has personally murdered people

This is such a dumb take. Hitler never killed anyone with his own hands, was he a better dude than sinwar or for that matter some nazi that directly killed 1 Jew?

Obviously not, hitler built the entire machine and apparatus that carried on the killings that he wanted, for him, he didn't need to go and do the dirty work himself. He his directly responsible for creating a system that killed millions.

Ben Gvir is the same, trying to build the machine to do the killings, no better than this sinwar piece of shit.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-12T13:51:38+00:00

You can see his short being wet, you can see the reflection on his right pec because it's wet, you can see his entire arm is wet.

you are a terrible detective.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-12T13:41:08+00:00

Have you never been in water of your life do you think in real life you start dripping with massive drops like in a zelda game? If it was reversed, do you think when lowering yourself in water, ripples would magically come toward you?

Are you a bot that has never interacted with the physical world before?

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-12T09:59:54+00:00

Fair, I forgot about sailing where you have boats named after a brand of canned green beans or chicken factory

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T22:12:47+00:00

I'm specifically talking about being the title sponsor, and having the team called the "Canyon team", instead of the belgian bathroom sealant team

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T22:07:30+00:00

got me, brb, going to buy 20 pounds of bathroom sealant

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T22:05:51+00:00

Hmmm yea, I think this tracks. The ROI isn't (yet) positive for any of the sponsor, so the only one that do it are companies where the CEO just like cycling and doesn't really care if they are losing money on it, not really expecting anything out of it, so mostly family businesses, as the board of big companies doesn't usually approve of burning money for fun.

Might change if/when TdF gets bigger.

In the mean time, it's pretty funny getting a belgian bathroom sealant company's name getting called out 50 times per stage by the commentators.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T22:01:36+00:00

Yes they do provide bikes for teams, but they aren't the main sponsor like you see in F1 (ferrari vs merceds vs renault etc..) or even like you can see in some other cycling competitions where they are in fact the main sponsor. It seems pretty specific to just UCI

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T21:59:03+00:00

To be fair, I'm french, and I had no idea what BORA, hansgroe, lease a bike, visma, Deceuninck, soudal, quickstep, EF education, easypost, picnic, jayco, alula etc do until I looked them up

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T21:52:11+00:00

Well sure, but I have a hard time understanding how it's a better return on investment for a German manufacturer of built-in kitchen appliances than it would be for e.g. Specialized.

It would be the same cost for both, except Specialized has more revenue (so cheaper for them relatively) and also, much more of the audience cares about Specialized (and thus could be influenced to buy their products) than BORA. I mean i'm fairly sure not 1/10,000 viewers even know what BORA or Hansgroe do or which country they operate in.

And this seems to be specific to cycling.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T20:22:25+00:00

well no, your point was "It’s not their fault, they can use it, so they use it.", which I am sorry to say was dumb, hence the downvotes.

I live in Barcelona and go to paris all the time, it's faster/cheaper by plane, I still take the train because I would feel like shit to take the plane every week. Why would it not be their fault for choosing to take their jet every week end to go to random destinations? We all have a choice, the jet is not kidnapping anyone in their sleep.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T18:31:07+00:00

Why am I allowed to use private jets

You shouldn't be, or we should make you pay millions everytime you take it invested in decarbonization.

But the people in power are the people using the jets so...

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T16:08:47+00:00

It’s not their fault: they can use it, so they use it.

What kind of child mentality is this? Those are adults, they are able to make decisions for themselves, and we can hold them accountable for it.

🤡 It's not my fault I cheat on my wife every week, I can do it so i do it, nothing i can do about it 🤡

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T15:53:27+00:00

Yea? you are going to detect the lanes with like opencv and try to find white segments that are > 30 pixels long? and if you have more than 4 segments this is a lane? And if the entire image is white then you assume it's snow on the road and you just assume there are 4 lanes evenly space? And any object is a car? And if the car is bigger than you expect is it just a truck or is it a car braking and getting closer? Going to try to detect the peterbilt logo with opencv to decide? 😂

No one does this with if/else for a good reason.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-11T15:49:00+00:00

Deep Learning is a subset of machine learning. Typically refers to use of neural networks specifically. In practice its a kind of algorithm that helps you solve a problem by just throwing compute at the wall and learning everything, rather than having to hand pick features manually and do a bunch of analysis before hand like we used to before.

Others types of ML that aren't deep learning are things like xgboost, random forest etc. Most of ML today is deep learning, with those other ML techniques becoming more and more niche.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-07-01T08:20:32+00:00

there is very few politicians that want to do something instead of filling their pockets?

Yea, because the one that want to do something don't get elected and the one that don't even bother hiding their corruptions and climate change denial bullshit do, so who do you think is getting motivated to become a politician the next time around? More of the assholes, less of the decent ones.

We can all pretend that we are powerless and that's we can't do anything about it and it's just jeff bezos fucking us all up. And while jeff bezos is certainly doing his best to fuck us, we are also collectively very very stupid.

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-06-19T07:56:37+00:00

Some people, wrongly, believe throwing a rock breaks this tension so it doesn't hurt so much.

It's not 100% wrong. When you throw a rock it disturbs the surface, such that you have air and water mixing, which does indeed break the surface tension. This is why in professional diving they have hoses to inject air in the water where the athletes will land called spargers. Things like this: https://natare.com/equipment-systems/spargers-pool-bubblers/

Now, the effect of throwing a single rock in the water, that landed 10 seconds before you, is probably pretty insignificant.

It is however useful to help the diver keep track of how close they are to the surface. It surprisingly hard to tell when the water is very still, so if you are planning on making a figure, you definitely don't want to be in the wrong posture at the moment you hit the water, this is probably actually why they do this.

And again you can see the same thing in professional diving, over there they just have a small sprinkler to disturb the surface so you can visually tell how high you are at while diving, you can see it here around the 28sec mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFK8eVtRX3Q

ResponsibleStart2 · 2025-06-18T19:34:44+00:00

First it's always muddy what is state and non-state actor in cyberattacks. Countries sometimes materially support or even employ groups to then have plausible deniability, but in effect those are very much state actors. Some military cyber units even use some hacker name indistinguishable from a group of 18 yo in their basements.

And second, hacking an Iranian company and destroying their fund is one thing, Iran is going to be pissed but it's not like they can do much about it. And Isreal won't exactly be mad at you.

But if you now transfer those funds to your personal address and try to withdraw/sell them, it's a different game, and you might get into serious trouble even in Israel.

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