NoneOfUrBusiness

It’s a half-pun about actual piracy. Not sure if illegal fishing is actually considered piracy, but that’s the idea.

Why did they even do that?

I mean yes but at least in the US the latter two are overwhelmingly more common.

They are exasperated that we use computer mice.

What?

Honestly no. Bad representation is worse than no representation. This is an extreme example, but just look at Muslim representation in Western media. I mean just take the extremist terrorist Muslim, or the idea that Muslim women are oppressed and need to be “liberated” from their hijab.

Again this is an extreme example but this is what bad representation is; it reduces a group of people into a few stereotypical character traits. As a Muslim I’d rather Islam not be represented at all if this is what that representation will be.

Just gonna say that alcohol is, by all means, a legal hard drug.

It also coincided with the 50th anniversary of October 7th, basically the Arab victory over Israel. Also Idk if the Jewish observances were intentional or not, but attacking your enemy while they have their guard down is common sense.

Ask the UN what they think of Gaza’s status. Hint: They won’t say “independent state”.

So I wrote about this before so I’ll just copy and paste:

The serious argument that October 7th was legitimate resistance relies on the fact that it was against military targets, with no evidence the leadership ordered anything close to slaughter of civilians. Add in that even after the IDF shelled and shot their own citizens the civilian casualty rate was 66% and the idea that Hamas just passed the border and randomly murdered civilians falls apart pretty quickly. Of course not denying the atrocities that actually happened, but October 7th as a whole was legitimate resistance with an army that’s prone to committing war crimes, not a terror attack with the goal of murdering civilians. This distinction is important because “atrocities were committed on October 7th” and “October 7th was a terror attack” aren’t equivalent statements.

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Therefore there’s no reason to condemn the attack. The lack of condemnation of atrocities committed during the attack is pretty bad and the result of rampant anti-Semitism in the Arab world, but there’s no reason to condemn October 7th itself.

Maybe ask Israel to stop occupying Gaza (and the rest of Palestine) before demanding that. This isn’t a war between countries; this is an occupied territory fighting for freedom.

What essentially everyone does care about, however, is repeatedly having rockets lobbed at them. When people feel under threat, reason starts to fall away, people begin dehumanizing the “other”, and you get the massive mess we have today. The fact of the matter is that Israel will never accept any situation where its people are under threat.

I get what you mean, but the current situation has continued since even before the rocket attacks. Gaza was blockaded before rocket attacks even became a thing (setting aside the second Intifada because that’s its own thing). What I mean is: Israeli’s feeling under threat is probably a factor, but it’s not the main issue.

and also, a legitimate Palestinian leadership in the first place

True enough, but let’s remember that it’s Israel that engineered a situation where they can claim Palestine has no legitimate leadership. You’re not wrong about the fact, but I just wanted to make the cause clear.

Realistically? Unless the international community (or the Muslim world) have a change of heart, the Hamas way of "get Israel to broadcast their atrocities to the world as loudly as possible) seems to be the best bet currently. A direct war of liberation is impossible because of the blockade, but at this rate the international community might actually give Israel the Apartheid treatment in two or three decades.

Last thing we need is more superpowers meddling in global affairs. The Middle East is the only place that would benefit from more superpowers meddling in it, because at least it’d be harder for Israel to genocide the Palestinians.

That’s what the PA is doing, and the result is the West Bank.

The Olmert proposal where Israel wanted to keep 10% of the West Bank (not that we know much about the proposal or why it failed, but from that point it’s a no-go)? And what opportunity in 2005 they fucking blockaded the place as soon as they left.

Bruuuh Shaoki being 少奇 is brilliant. That aside don’t, it ain’t worth it.

While plain direct translation might be automated (though not necessarily because some things just don’t translate), localization is a whole different deal. Can’t speak much for Cantonese because I can’t speak it, but as an Arabic speaker I can’t see an AI being able to translate from Arabic to English as well as a human can anytime soon.

So my philosophy is: If I couldn’t pirate this, would I ignore it or buy it? If it’s the latter I buy it, if it’s the former I pirate it. Basically if the creator (or distributor or whatever) isn’t gonna benefit either way might as well enjoy it. I also exclusively pirate anime because the way streaming currently works is a mess.

My case isn’t as serious as some of the comments around here, but mostly it’s deciding that I don’t care how I feel about the task at hand. This only works for things that don’t require a lot of concentration, but for example you go “I’ll do this and now” and just do it no matter how much you feel like using Lemmy or yt. It helps to think of how whatever it is you wanna do to waste your time, it feels better to do it when you’re free than when you’re busy.

When you run a server you are free to allow all the illegal content you want – see how that plays out when the cops come and confiscate all your hardware.

Again, that’s only when you actually host illegal content. Just hosting discussion about piracy isn’t enough for legal action. See: r/piracy.