I think lemmy.ml mods/admins often wipe entire comment histories in the community/instance when they remove specific comments. Say something about Taiwan and boom, your comments talking about toilet paper patents are gone

Don’t quote me on that though

You’re just flat out lying at this point lol. 21-23% of the entire Israeli Jewish population is first-generation immigrants; 30-35% is second-generation, direct offspring of immigrants; 30-35% is third-generation; 10-15% is fourth-generation; under 5% is fifth-generation or beyond (which would include Jews who lived there since before Aliyah). These are numbers are from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. There’s also statistics that rather say 40-45% are third-generation with much less being fourth-generation or beyond, but with around the same amount or slightly less being first and second generation – I find the former estimates far more reasonable though. It’s estimated around 90-97% of Israeli Jews are descended from immigrants since 1900.

A majority of Israeli Jews are descended from immigrants of several Aliyah (immigration to “Zion” from outside of the lands of Palestine/Israel, practically starting from 1882 but mostly ramping up around the start of the British/Israeli oppression of Palestinians in the region in the early and mid 1900s). Even the most conservative estimates say that around 50-70% of Israel’s Jewish population growth since 1900 came from immigration, with most of the rest of the population growth coming from recent immigrants having children. And those are really conservative estimates, the actual amount is likely much higher than that.

A significant portion of Israeli Jews came from immigration in the 90s, especially from the Soviet Union after its collapse – 1.4-1.6 million Jews (compared to Israel’s total current Jewish population of around 7.4 million) immigrated to Israel following the collapse of the USSR. Over a fifth of the entire Israeli Jewish population in just the span of one generation. Yet second- and third-generation Israeli Jews make up like 3-3.5x as much still.

It’s crazy for you to try to state that modern Israelis aren’t primarily (nearly exclusively) descended from relatively recent immigrants who displaced (and outright genocided) the native population. You straight up just made that up without consulting any history/statistics, not even Israel’s own statistics lol. Palestine faced a colonization and replacement by Jewish immigrants – according to the Jewish Virtual Library, 8% of people in the region were Jewish in 1882; then 11-13% after the end of WW1, after the adoption of a Zionist policy for Palestine and occupation by the UK (see the Balfour Declaration); then 32% in 1947 after several Aliyah; then in 1948 – the year the Israel was formally established and immigrants were shipped in from all over the globe, and the year European immigrants to Israel started all-out total war and genocide against Palestinians – that number jumped to 82%. It is not Jews’ “indigenous land”, 93%+ of people in the region were Arab Muslims at the time of the first Aliyah, hundreds of thousands compared to the 9,000 Jews and even less Christians. Jews hadn’t been the majority in the region since the 4th century, Arabs & Muslims have been the majority since before the Magna Carta, the Crusades, European Feudalism, they were most of the population when France just started to exist.

Considering the actual facts of the situation, your justification basically becomes “colonization and apartheid in the modern day is okay because some other people they identified with lived there 1,500-3,000 years ago”, in which case I have some bad news for like, 95% of Europeans, Middle Easterners, and Asians, who all exist on lands which were someone elses in that same time period. Ethnonationalism with feeling you have a “right” to certain land you have no actual connection to based on some ancient “predecessor” civilization that had those lands stolen from them before Hindu-Arabic numerals existed is a strong hint that you’re in the wrong (see: Nazism). Modern Jews are about as indigenous to Israel as the modern Japanese are to Korea, or modern Turkish are to Mongolia.

Zionism is modern-day ethnonationalism and colonialism by predominantly non-Levantine peoples (more than half of those being primarily European in ancestry). Its purpose is creating and justifying an ethnostate where Jews are superior and have rights that other groups don’t have – and such things are cemented in the Israeli constitution and law. To exist, Israel requires relegating non-Jews to second-class personhood and requires (or required at some recent point in time) commiting acts of genocide towards certain non-Jews; abolishing that would be abolishing the concept of Israel and Zionism as a whole. There is no real moral defense of the state of Israel.

Even worse, because the Kingdom of Israel stopped existing 3000 years ago. Modern Israelis have zero connection to ancient Israel

It is a nuanced topic that requires explanation of certain history. There is no TL;DR

pretty sure i remember just pressing ctrl-c/ctrl-v on the android studio emulator

i remember watching this guy every day for like 6 years straight. i was pretty sad when he died, i remember being at work seeing the notification “so long nerds” with a black screen and i was immediately like oh it’s so over

Yeah I think it’s especially construction by analogy with similar words (phonologically or semantically), people tend to say words in a way similar to other words when their mind sees a possible pattern, e.g. if you know it’s mug->mugs, hug->hugs, rug->rugs, pug->pugs, tug->tugs, nug->nugs, you think “obviously it’s wug->wugs” for -/ʌɡ/ words, especially monosyllabic ones, but also maybe polysyllabic words or words that sound similar in some way but not the same, like -/ɔɡ/, -/ʌk/, -/gʌ/, etc. This also goes for words with somewhat different phonologies but similar semantics, e.g. if you know child(er)->children and broth(er)-> brethren, you’ll probably think it would look something like sister->sistren (which is a less common dialectal variant actually). If you know goose->geese, foot->feet, tooth->teeth, you’ll probably think it’s moose->meese and noose->neece and shoop<-sheep and hoof->heef unless you have a reason to expect irregularity. Or mouse->mice and louse->lice, you’ll probably think house->hice and spouse<-spice and blouse->blice.

But if you haven’t processed enough words that pluralize in a way other than just appending /s/~/(ə)z/ to the end, you’ll of course just think “gooses” and “tooths” and “fishes” and “foots” and stuff. Like what children do. Also common for children to say is “fishies” and “goosies” and anything else with /iz/ added at the end, since singular /i/ and plural /iz/ are common for adults to use as a diminuative/cutesy way of saying them, and the kids pick it up of course.

All these sound cursed, so I’d rather not think about it too much.

Is this the r/linguistics logo bird

Usually people like that are one reality check away from unmasking and going full-on “it’s just unnatural, it’s not normal and it’s disgusting”.

Arguing with conservatives is basically just peeling an onion full of concern baiting, sealioning, plausible deniability, and euphemisms; when you shatter their initial disenginuous line of reasoning (which may seem innocent or reasonable at first to the naked eye), they start digging into arguments that get more and more misdirected and irrational…

When you exhaust their load of fake arguments/“reasoning” that they bend at will, the ones that only exist to defend their already pre-determined position, they start to show their true colors and get into their real irrational and hateful motives for propogating their beliefs.

“Well I’m just concerned about LGBT people grooming children”… “I’m fine with the gays as long as they keep it to themselves, this cancel culture is just excessive”… “It’s allowing trans people [[trans women]] in bathrooms and sports that I worry about, think of the real women who are scared and have a biological disadvantage against men”… “Biden is encouraging 8 year olds to transition, this ‘transgender’ thing is just a trend, pride is a ploy for corporations to make more money and you’re just a tool for participating in it”… “Same-sex relations and transgenderism are a sin, I don’t think their freedoms should be restricted, but I disagree with them personally, also gays have a higher rate of abusive relationships”… “Straight people [[men]] are persecuted, there’s nothing made for normal people anymore and it’s all catered towards the gays, it’s dangerous to be straight now, I’m scared of telling someone I’m straight in case they blow up on me and call me homophobic like a blue-haired feminist”… “You shouldn’t be queer in public, what if children watch it and transform into gays themselves, it’s all inordinately fetishistic”… “Being queer is fucking unnatural and seeing men kissing in public is disgusting, your kind are child groomers and rapists, keep your hands off of children, you’re going to Hell, stop spreading your Wokeism ideology and ruining my video games and anime, also traps aren’t gay I’m straight for liking them and MHA and Konosuba and K-On and Dragon Maid are the best animes”

is about how it goes – minus the anime part, unless you’re on an online anime community, lol (fascists love prepubescent anime girls a lot). They’re very supportive of queer representation as long as it’s exclusively in their pornography and kawaii anime, but only if you objectify and tokenize the queer characters and refuse to acknowledge their queerness, hmmm curious… what amount of Astolfo (Fate) and queer porn addicts do you think aren’t raving homophobes that call feminine male, non-binary, and androgynous anime characters & actors objectifying terms and slurs while simultaneously convincing themselves that what they’re doing is completely straight and that they’re not sinning to the lord? It’d be a faster count than those who are I bet.

It’s a meme community… mostly about girlcock, abstract art, sexed up abusive emo lesbians, and shark plushies

You went to 196 and you didn’t expect balls?

me: takes ur king

you: “u can’t do that that’s not how chess works!!!”

me: fucking shoots you uwu

Something people living in almost entirely racially homogenous countries don’t often get is that you can’t help the problem of racism by trying to ignore it. The only way to correctly address racism is to realize that it exists, that people do have biases based on race & ethnicity, that there are groups that are underrepresented, and to actively work to provide more ways for people to represent themselves and their identity. The fact of the matter is that more representation, even in seemingly minor ways like more emojis which they can identify with more, helps normally underrepresented people feel more comfortable with themselves and their identity and helps alleviate societal pressures for them to mask their identity/culture. Even small changes play a part.

Acting “colorblind” just makes the problem of racism worse, as it means you’d be acting blind to obvious biases based on race/ethnicity… including people who are part of a certain in-group (or multiple in-groups) being overrepresented and people of an out-group being underrepresented or represented poorly/highly stereotypically. There is no morally just approach to discrimination which attempts to pay no attention to the traits being discriminated against.

It’s pride month, this is like one of the most relevant times of year to this… It may be easier to see from that point of view instead – what purpose does queer pride exist even in places where queer people are “legal”? Why are there pride flags and events and characters and such to represent LGBT people? A similar answer may be applicable to racial minorities.

I was raised in the part of the United States with likely the most racist/racially tense history in the nation, possibly one of the most in modern history (it was the heart of the Confederacy after all, one of the most significant historical events of our nation was burning down half the state and presenting my city to the president as a Christmas gift, I’m sure it’d make a top 10 list of the big racism or something), a place that still has extremely bad problems with racial discrimination, and I used to think the “colorblind” approach and avoiding race as much as possible was the solution to racism, but I’ve realized over time that this approach is a tool that racism uses to thrive – it makes people refuse to acknowledge the racism in the first place, and it causes people to be unable to find out what racism really means and how many minor things can have major affects on minority groups. It’s a very common approach by (often conservative/“libertarian”) people here who haven’t subscribed to the whole calling people racial slurs and committing hate crimes, but still can’t face the fact that racism is alive, everywhere around us, and that they’re likely participating in it or propogating it regularly despite not actively trying to be racist.

Basically… let them have their variously skin-colored emojis

No idea what kind of wish.com etymology book you have, but “to each his own” and variations have been a common saying in English (and “Jedem das Seine” in German) since the 1500s, it’s a calque of the Latin phrase “suum cuique”. And it is still a common saying in English that is not associated with Nazis by normal people. It being plastered on the gates of Buchenwald has absolutely nothing to do with common usage of the phrase.

Even after the German variation was used in Buchenwald, it didn’t become very controversial until a neonazi published a book of the same title in the 90s – still, most people speaking German won’t think of Nazism if you use the phrase, and it’s the motto of several German government organizations (including the Feldjäger/military police, who also have the Latin version on their insignia). Either way, it doesn’t affect the English language at all, it is not a “Nazi slogan”.

(shame I can’t remember what exactly the question was. Please still me? 🥺)

I think about half the threads on stackoverflow fit this criteria

This likely isn’t far from the truth, “straightness” is very much associated with culture being oppressive/biased against queerness, and most modern theory on the matter concludes that in a vacuum pansexuality, to varying degrees, is the “norm”, and that near-complete heterosexuality and homosexuality are the outliers. Similar thing with monogamy, humans are likely to exhibit non-monogamous behaviours if there’s no cultural influence involved – in fact, humans are the only great apes and one of the very few (in the single digits) simians to be observed participating in monogamy. Pretty much every species that is similar to us is primarily or almost entirely non-monogamous.

Outside of cultural pressures for or against certain sexual behaviours, you generally see pansexual and polygamous tendencies in most of the population – although pansexuality isn’t as common as non-monogamy, in both humans and other primates (but it is still common in apes in general – especially bonobos, who are extremely similar to humans behaviourally and in the most related genus to us, are extremely social even for primates, and who have demonstrated many archaic human behaviours & advancements, even making/utilizing hunting tools like spears and stone tools devoid of any human influence).

Basically, heterosexuality being the norm is likely mostly the product of cultural pressures rather than “nature”. And if we were to somehow magically erase cultural pressures or even the construct of sexuality, most people would exhibit at least somewhat pansexual behaviours, even if they had a strong preference for one sex/gender/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.

I’m from rural Georgia. Not as blatantly bad here, but still pretty bad. It’s unbelievable that I can intentionally surround myself with the most left-leaning queer people in the area, those who are constantly harassed/degraded by the average conservatives, and somehow they still buy into a lot of the conservative propaganda and anti-queer/anti-trans culture war nonsense… I’m fully moving out of this awful corner of the country soon, I will NOT miss it.

Glad to hear that your lobotomy was successful!

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I like polymorphism. Having to have a hundred differently named functions or structs or something that do the same thing but slightly differently in Rust is annoying as hell. Especially with all the underscores you have to type… If Rust were more functional though it’d make that problem go away pretty quickly.