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Periodical reminder that we love and appreciate Jewish people on this blog. This includes Zionist Jews and Israelis. This includes all denominations.
I don't want to be weird about this but I want to say that I see, like, I see the rising antisemitism and I am sincerely worried about you. I love and appreciate you, you are welcome here, and I hope and wish for your safety and wellbeing.
FUCK it was in parallel australia
not to be a debbie downer but if you buy cosmetic surgery for your dog you are going to super-hell
yeah some people dock their tails (means cutting them off) or get their vocal chords severed so they can't bark. i've also heard that there's something about ears being propped up, but i had a neighbor who did it nonsurgically with medical tape and some braces, so i don't know if that's the same thing they're talking about.
there are also some surgeries that are cosmetic that improve the health and quality of life of your dog, like enlarging their nostrils so they can breathe better, or tweaking their eyelids because of a malformation in the eyelid that irritates their eyeball and can lead to blindness. i've also seen surgeries for male animals that had a too-small urethra, so they enlarge the penis opening so the dog doesn't pee all over themselves. i mean i guess it's "cosmetic" but i don't think the dog enjoys being covered in piss 24/7 and suffering the scalding of it over time.
seriously genuinely fuck you if you expect jews to engage in discussion with people who support the mass rape and torture of our people
in clearer terms:
you cannot expect someone to have a real genuine conversation or debate with you when you approach the conversation with a baseline level of disrespect for them.
you cannot expect jewish people to have an actual conversation with you when you’re approaching us already holding certain beliefs about us. you cannot redefine our words and language and then try to discuss them with us. you cannot accuse us of being liars and then expect us to want to converse with you
so yeah stop fucking expecting us to be kind and respectful to you if you’re spreading rhetoric that gets us killed.
and stop fucking expecting us to even WANT to talk to people who lie about us, call us all sorts of things, threaten our lives or prop up people who kill us, or people who refuse to humanize us.
Important reminder: every religion-, politics-, lifestyle-, medium-, diet-, sex-, or subculture-based group that you don't belong to will almost certainly appear to you as much more pushy, arrogant, loud, self-righteous, and intolerant than the average member actually is. That is because you are much more likely to interact with the loudest and most arrogant members of the group than with the quiet and humble ones.
"How do you tell someone is X? Don't worry, they will tell you first!" <- funny as a joke, idiotic as a serious observation; you think all X will tell you loudly about Xism because you never hear about the X that don't
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#raise your shields #because you’re about to get wrecked
#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)
This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.
I don’t watch Star Trek, but I can’t stress enough how important this message is
My favorite thing about this episode is that, while the rest of the characters are taking a more Star Trek philosophical approach to this situation, calmly debating the good and bad points of this colony built upon eugenics, Geordi is just seething. Troi is having a romance with their flippin’ president, but Geordi never hesitates on his morals. He’s always aware that this world’s supposed perfection is built upon the despicable philosophy of killing people like him. He barely even bothers to hide his anger as he has to work alongside their scientists. He’s snappish and short-tempered and bitter, clearly only working with these people because lives are at stake. When he discovers the solution is based on his VISOR, he is viciously triumphant, his joy at saving the people boosted by a bitter sense of righteousness that these people were only saved because someone like him was allowed to survive.
And even though this anger and bitterness are very un-Star-Trek-like approaches to diplomacy–it works. The scientist who works alongside him is the first person who decides to jump ship and leave the colony behind. She sees the stagnation of their bland “’‘‘‘‘utopia’‘‘‘‘‘ and realizes that diversity and adaptation create a much better society. And while the other Enterprise crew members have some wishy-washy lament over how this will destroy this planet’s ‘‘‘culture’‘‘, Geordi never waffles. He has far too personal a stake in this to lose sight of the fact that peoples’ lives are more important than any high-falutin’ philosophical justifications. The episode might waffle over the Prime Directive points of this society’s decline, but Geordi’s perspective is the one showing clearly why it needs to die.
A Jewish perspective on reproductive justice and birth control access from twitter user @lechatsavant.
IDK about other Jews, but I want all goyim who see this - especially American goyim from Christian backgrounds - feel free to keep this in your pocket the “freedom of religion” birth control argument comes up. In fact, I encourage you to use it.
This goes even deeper than people realize, because Judaism does not merely allow abortion based on a woman’s choice – in the subset of situations where an abortion is necessary in order to prevent a grave risk to the mother’s life, it requires abortion, and the mother has no say in the matter.
Now, this is problematic from a bodily autonomy perspective, and trust me, Jewish feminists have been grappling with it for ages. But from a legal perspective, it is incredibly important.
Many humanist and secular religions are flexible on the subject of abortion, because starting from scratch, it seems like a pretty good idea to bake bodily autonomy into the question. But this isn’t nearly the cudgel against the Christian far-right that people think it is. If one side of the argument (say, an atheist woman) is somewhat flexible on the issue (as in, she morally feels she can choose to either get and abortion or not) and the other side of the argument (say, a Christian-run company that woman gets her healthcare from) is very inflexible on the issue (as in, they feel they morally cannot facilitate abortions under any circumstance), then there’s a tendency to draw the compromise in a deeply unreasonable place. “You think women should be able to either have or not have abortions, and he thinks women should not be able to have abortions – If we go along with your suggestion, he’s unsatisfied in every situation, whereas if we go along with his, you’re getting like half of what you want, so that’s clearly the more fair option!”
This, of course, is a logical fallacy, and a rather silly one at that, but it holds real emotional sway for people, and ought to be taken seriously. Wanting a single thing is a much stronger place to argue from in our society than wanting the ability to choose between things. It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think anyone has the slightest idea of how to to fix it yet – that’s just the way that people seem to think.
HOWEVER –
This all falls apart when you meet another immovable object, such as Judaism. Judaism’s position on abortion is very clear, it leaves essentially no room for choice in situations where the mother’s life could be at risk, and it comes to conclusions which are startlingly different from Christianity’s. To put things into perspective here, the Mishna (one of the earliest codifications of halacha, or Jewish law) explicitly states that not only is third-trimester abortion required to save a mother’s life, but that even the dismemberment of a fetus midway through a breach birth is required when failure to do so would imperil the mother. Let me say that again – Judaism says that if the baby gets stuck literally halfway out of the birth canal during a birth and endangers the mother’s life, you are required to cut the partially birthed infant out of the womb, killing it if necessary, in order to preserve the mother’s life.
This is way the fuck out there in crazy-land, as far as US abortion law is concerned. Even pro-choice advocates that are maximally permissive on the subject of third-trimester abortions usually stop short of saying “you have the right to cut up a partially-birthed and completely viable infant while the mother is in labor.” That’s not a position that anyone has been advocating, literally anywhere that I have ever seen.
AND YET, not only does Judaism permit this, but it explicitly requires it. There’s no room to be mealy mouthed about compromises here – the Christian fundamentalist who claims to have a deep religious opposition to allowing a woman to receive an abortion in the above situation is on no stronger ground than the Jew who claims to have a deep religious opposition to permitting the woman to avoid having the abortion.
And lest you think this is theoretical, please know that this is already a religious liberty issue for many Jews. Every year, there are Jewish women who fly to other countries, by the explicit order of their rabbis, to receive third-trimester abortions which are required by their religion, but banned by law. Every year, Jews facing what is perhaps the most difficult time in their lives are callously reminded that when people talk about religious freedom in America, they do not and never have meant religious freedom for anyone other than Christians.
Please share this the next time you’re in an abortion argument and religious freedom comes up. The only option which can accommodate the requirements of both Judaism and Christianity on this point is a maximally pro-choice argument. Anything short of that in either direction is not religious freedom – it is the religious tyranny of one group over another.
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this is gonna sound really bitchy but some people really need to learn to realize when someone isn't talking to them. if you don't like beans then the lady posting a bean soup recipe isn't fucking talking to you. if you dont like reading then the people who post about the books they're reading aren't fucking talking to you.
I wanna start saying "not you, rabbit ears" bc that's what my dad always said growing up but idk if the tone will come across.
My mom is deceased now. But if she was alive, she'd be 66.
She remembered race riots and segregated water fountains.
She also had an email, listened to podcasts, and until she went blind, deeply enjoyed Sudoku.
It was literally within-a-lifetime ago. It's not long ago.
"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t
Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB
Procedures for disabling it
A video for disabling on Windows which made it very easy:
Standing against Iran and Russia would be the easiest fucking slam dunk if you want to say you’re someone who cares about human rights and supporting oppressed peoples. AND YET!
Something I think that a lot of leftists and progressives fail to understand, is that the push against normalization with Israel and for the complete dissolution of the state, actively makes the situation worse for Palestinians. It actively makes the conflict worse, and I would argue is one of the direct causes for the war getting as bad as it did.
You are directly harming your own cause.
Refusing to acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel doesn’t materially change the reality that Israel is a sovereign nation with over ten million citizens. When leftists in the west chant “from the river to the sea” and “we don’t want no two states”, regardless of the intention, what do you think Israelis hear? What do you think a people that has faced genocide in living memory, from which our population still has not recovered, gets from that? We don’t hear it and consider your points, we hear it and remember all of the times Israel has been attacked with genocidal intent, and only survived through our own defense.
And what does this ultimately result it? It results in Israelis who no longer believe in the peace process. It results in Israelis who feel a visceral sense of fear which leads to doubling down on national security. It leads to diaspora Jews feeling unsafe in their communities and immigrating to Israel.
It leads to the total dissolution of the peace process, and what happens if there is no chance for peace? If there’s no hope for any type of solution then the only answer is endless war, and this war doesn’t just hurt Israelis, you know that.
I think I've said it before - as a proud two state solution guy, if BDS actually wanted peace - if their mission was total boycott of anything economically involved with the west bank settlements, I would be 100% enthusiastically in favor.
If their goal was boycott of Israel as a whole until it took actually took a two-state goal seriously instead of making it more distant as is typical for the likes of Bibi, I would be (very) uncomfortable, but probably eventually accept it as a grim necessity and switch to only Californian kosher wines for a while.
If they coordinated actively with Israeli peace groups like Standing Together to harmonize pressures in and out of Israel, I would actively volunteer with them.
Instead they condemn Standing Together, insist on what they [implausibly] claim totally isn't a "Levantine Jews should be second class citizens at best" solution, and fill their marches with Nazi imagery and slogans straight out of prerevolutionary Imperial Russian propaganda, and so I stay away from them, their causes, and their candidates out of fear for both my distant kin and myself.
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You know it’s a great puppet when you don’t even notice the two entire people under and behind its body moving its limbs until it’s halfway across the stage.
All I can think of is what must be going on with the puppeteers. Look at their faces. All three of them are LOCKED on this new body they are all sharing.
“Isnotreal” dude if I intentionally butchered the name of a different country because I didn’t like the people who lived there, you’d rightfully call me a racist and a xenophobe. “But they—“ they are human beings. Being a bigoted asshole can’t be justified.
I don't really care. Unlimited xenophobia on Israelis. Most of y'all only got there a generation ago and are otherwise literally European
nice made-up facts!
At an absolute minimum, around 60% of the Israeli population is of non-European* origin. Y'all are literally science deniers and I'll be honest, it's pretty fucking funny that every word out of your mouths only serves to further delegitimise your movement.
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*editing one final time to add that even "european" jews aren't considered white, and haven't been considered white since the time 'jewish' became a socially and culturally distinct identity. no country, government, or culture has ever viewed any jewish community as "white", regardless of where the jews were living or how long they had been there. this is an extremely new trend based on fundamentally incorrect ideas.
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