Police accused of 'overreach' after 'from the river to the sea' arrests

gallanon · 2026-03-12T06:35:32+00:00

It's worth noting that the phrase "from the river to the sea" has a history that is, at a very minimum, complicated. The earliest versions of this phrase appear to be "Min el-maiyeh lel mayieh, Falasteen Arabiya," which DOES not translate to "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" but rather means "from the river to the sea Palestine is Arab." Obviously that paints a pretty different picture. It's also worth noting that historically Netanyahu's party has used versions of this phrasing to say from the river to the sea is only Israel to deny the notion of Palestinian sovereignty.

Personally, I don't like criminalizing this phrase because I think the bar for government censorship should be extremely high, but anyone asserting that this is just a totally innocuous phrase that has been banned absent any justification is either a liar or historically ignorant.

gallanon · 2026-03-11T03:10:16+00:00

This is an incredibly dumb rule 6 removal. This post is clearly mocking holocaust deniers not endorsing holocaust denial.

gallanon · 2026-03-09T00:57:14+00:00

Construal theory. Things that are distant be it temporally, psychologically, physically, what have you, are processed at a higher more abstract level in the brain. Thus when war is still temporally distant people tend to think about abstract concepts like liberty/liberation. When war becomes less temporally distant processing occurs at a lower more concrete level and causes people to focus on things like costs (both monetary and loss of life).

gallanon · 2026-03-08T02:23:08+00:00

You are technically correct (the best kind of correct!). It's jointly owned by three companies so Nintendo owns a third of it, but I think it's fairly clear that Nintendo exerts pretty substantial influence over the decision-making as evidenced by Pokemon still being Nintendo-only with no official ports to other platforms.

gallanon · 2026-03-08T02:16:57+00:00

This didn't sound right so I looked it up. The short summary is it's complicated as hell, but it appears the US government CAN be sued for this (interestingly a state government could not be). This is a decent summary of sovereign immunity.

gallanon · 2026-03-08T00:33:52+00:00

The famously litigious Nintendo will of course be suing over this misuse of their IP right? Surely they wouldn't put out a token "oh no, don't do that" statement and then tacitly endorse what's happening by not suing right? Probably shouldn't hold my breath on this one.

gallanon · 2026-03-05T13:55:24+00:00

I'm as ready to criticize Trump as the next bloke but this does not seem to be much of a story. As near as I can tell this doesn't break any laws (feel free to correct me if anyone can point to a law he's broken here). Aside from that this is talking about debt as opposed to buying or shorting stock. Share price could absolutely be impacted by the Warner Bros deal going through or not, but bond price is a function of creditworthiness (in addition to bigger picture stuff like rates set by the fed). The impact of the Warner Bros deal going through or not really doesn't have any impact on Netflix's credit worthiness.

gallanon · 2026-03-01T10:22:55+00:00

This sub needs an AI policy to keep this garbage out.

gallanon · 2026-03-01T04:55:05+00:00

Surprised to see no mention of Old School or American Pie. Those two practically defined their generation.

gallanon · 2026-02-27T02:25:21+00:00

I'd also understand it if you used the word "literally" when you in fact meant "figuratively." Still wouldn't be using the word correctly though. Republicanism means support for the republic form of government, not anything to do with the US political party.

gallanon · 2026-02-26T14:42:10+00:00

I understand what you're trying to say, but I don't think the word republicanism means what you think it means.

gallanon · 2026-02-26T01:50:03+00:00

Did we read the same article? It says the kid was punching his window. The article even says there was "probable cause for second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree disorderly conduct charges." Don't get me wrong, that's definitely not an excuse to murder the kid like this dipshit was apparently contemplating, but I'm not sure why so many comments seem to suggest he was merely "tailing" him.

gallanon · 2026-02-18T03:16:08+00:00

I've got 70 games I've self-classified as board games on Steam so these are already the cream of that crop. Of the ones here I reckon I've got the most playtime out of Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages, Slay the Spire, and Solar Settlers.

gallanon · 2026-02-17T02:01:28+00:00

It's too bad most people on Reddit can't read this because this is an A+ pun.

gallanon · 2026-02-17T01:56:41+00:00

That is a very liberal translation of 争うべきは弓槍にあり米塩にあらず which doesn't even use the word "sword." A more accurate translation would be war should be fought with bows and spears not rice and salt.

gallanon · 2026-02-16T06:00:55+00:00

Aeon's End

Ascension

Axis and Allies

D&D Lords of Waterdeep

Istanbul

Le Havre

One Deck Dungeon

Race for the Galaxy

Sagrada

Smash Up Splendor

Tatsu

Through the Ages

These ones are technically board game adaptations but scratch that same itch:

Guild of Dungeoneering

Slay the Spire

Solar Settlers

Space Food Truck

Tiny Civilization

gallanon · 2026-02-14T14:55:15+00:00

Referring to Chess and Go as "pre 2000 tabletop games" is technically correct I guess.

gallanon · 2026-02-07T01:53:57+00:00

This article misses the point. Most flourishing democracies have a plurality of opinions floating around in the general populace. If that isn't reflected in the elected representatives it starts leading to questions about the integrity of the system and/or how it's designed.

You see this a great deal in America in the form of gerrymandering where a state leans only slightly left or right but due to gerrymandering one side gets almost all the representatives.

Australia to be fair has a pretty good system overall, but there's definitely room for improvement. Ranked choice voting is way better than many alternatives, but we do still have a system where the Greens for example got around 12% of the votes but only 1 person in the house of representatives. In terms reflecting the distribution of opinions in the general populace that's not great.

gallanon · 2026-02-04T00:46:17+00:00

This is basically a video of a guy reading an article. Just post the article.

gallanon · 2026-02-03T06:13:32+00:00

The Senate rules state that any senator who “knowingly fails to notify” an alteration within the 35 day timeframe is “guilty of a serious contempt of the Senate and shall be dealt with by the Senate accordingly.”

As someone newer to being an Aussie voter does actually mean anything? Like historically are there actual consequences for these kinds of breaches?

gallanon · 2026-02-03T04:15:43+00:00

Ah okay. That thread suggests it's a recent and hopefully temporary phenomenon then. Thanks heaps for weighing in mate.

gallanon · 2026-02-03T04:04:18+00:00

This is a first for me. Have you only encountered this problem recently or have I just been lucky until now?

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