I agree.

That’s kind of what I meant, I’m really glad that this administration took the initiative to allow him liberty again since I don’t think he deserved the charges in the first place.

Nice, congrats!

Whooooa yusss, all clover lawns are welcome. That’s awesome.

That’s good to know that your dad was able to put it in so simply too.

Wow! It looks so lush for 3 weeks since, that’s amazing.

I heard about alternative lines a while ago and decided I didn’t want grass, but I had never considered clover and that seems pretty great

I mentioned it that there are a bunch of methods but I just mentioned the two that helped me the most.

Wanted to keep things simple.

I didn’t like the alarm one. That in particular, seems like it would mess with my head more since it’s disrupting sleep.

And I didn’t notice any difference when I used it.

There were a bunch of methods I tried, but most ranged from impractical to irritating, I didn’t want it to disrupt my life too much.

The dream journaling and reality testing was simple and resulted in fairly rapid awareness of my dreams.

That does sound tough, not being able to distinguish dreams from reality.

I had a really cool one where I was like ninja flipping around a mall sliding down jumping off escalator handrails fighting these zombie dogs.

That was pretty rad.

I mentioned it that there are a bunch of methods but I we’re just list the two that helped me the most.

I didn’t like the alarm one. That in particular, seems like it would mess with your head more since it’s disrupting her sleep.

And I didn’t notice any difference when I used it.

There were a bunch of methods I tried, but they ranged from impractical to irritating, and the dream journaling and reality testing was simple and resulted in fairly rapid awareness of my dreams.

That does sound tough, not being able to distinguish dreams from reality.

I had a really cool one where I was like ninja flipping around a mall sliding down jumping off escalator handrails fighting these zombie dogs.

That was pretty rad.

Oh, that’s nice.

Alford plea?

Wow. he shouldn’t have been charged at all, but at least he’s being released finally.

Wow What a hell of a saga for him.

That does seem really dangerous, in terms of people who aren’t expecting a he cars they’re to stop. Or then our expecting their cars to stop and their cars don’t stop. And how bad we know Teslas are at stopping.

On the other hand, if it is implemented, people will be driving super carefully.

adding this kind of a feature seems like it’ll make cars more difficult to drive, and people are already so bad at driving.

That’s cool. Bats are cool.

Thanks

Probably a good idea and a necessity at this point.

Thanks.

Oh wowwwww.

Was it grass before and you had to tear that up first?

Did the Clovers propagate by themselves after you put in a few patches?

Tell me as much of the story as possible if you have the time and inclination.

Also, do you take naps on the clovers and does it stain your clothes?

It’s difficult for me to imagine having a clover lawn and not sleeping on it.

You just go outside and grab some clovers to cook sometimes and stuff haha.

Do pests live in there?

I want to live under the clover roof.

Oh it looks so nice.

Aw man that sucks. Don’t vandalize books.

Wow, what a miss you took.

I hope that didn’t take you a long time.

Then again, it’s much funnier if you did.

Your argument against the Israeli colonization of Palestine is that the Palestinian settlements are even smaller than they appear to be on the map.

Yes, that is the a problem. That is the point of the maps, to show how little land Palestinians have left.

Your argument is that people only own the land of the country they’re standing directly upon. Amazing.

You should go argue that to literally any country in the world where that is not correct.

Go look up the term “national boundaries”

However,

Your incorrect understanding of borders is exactly what the Israeli government is arguing as the reason it’s okay for them to continue to illegally colonize Palestine and execute the civilians there.

It’s also not true, but you don’t seem very concerned with the truth.

As for pretending to read the article incorrectly so that you can argue against it, that’s just you arguing against yourself.

Not super relevant.

Your arguments:

1. Irrelevant to the amount of land that Israel has illegally annexed from Palestine.

2. You complain that colors are propaganda! Doubtful, since so many of these maps use different colors, and it is not relevant to the amount of land that Israel has illegally annexed from Palestine for the past 70 years

3. Nope, the first map details the settlement area of the Palestinian people. Again, you can look at border maps for many countries, but steal yourself! You’ll be shocked that people are not standing on every square inch of their country. Your argument here also is not relevant to the amount of land that Israel has illegally annexed from Palestine for the past 70 years.

4. Colors(you already did this) are not relevant to the amount of land that Israel has illegally annex from Palestine for the past 70 years.

5. “It’s not stealing land because fewer countries recognized Palestine as a country then.”

I mean…Taiwan…

Actually I’ll explain this because it doesn’t seem like you understand much about national politics. Or geography. Or colonization.

145 countries recognize Palestine as a country.

A dozen (12, for you) countries recognize Taiwan as a country

If Taiwan gets annexed by China, it’s still going to be a country being annexed(land being stolen) by China, even if not everybody is willing to recognize Taiwan as a country yet.

Also, pretty irrelevant to the amount of land that Israel has illegally annexed from Palestine for the past 70 years.

6. Is this “argument” also a basic misunderstanding by you of politics and geography? No! It’s a tacit statement of approval by you for Israel annexing a bunch of land.

Greeeeat.

All you’re doing here is arguing that Russia annexing Crimea and trying to annex Ukraine is cool because… Russia wants land that belongs to others.

7. Your complaint here is that Palestinians didn’t lose as much land in some decades as they did in other decades, so none of the annexation counts!

Not a great argument.

Kind of missing the point of how Violet is to steal land from people after you kill the civilians on it.

And 8. Your most bizarre criticism. There’s no source for this map?

Like, how do you get such s basic thing incorrect? Do you even know how search engines work?

Here’s a bunch of sources for that map, even with different colors for your weird color fetish.

You’ll have to come up with all new reasons why these different colors scare you.

https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/http-visualizingpalestine-org-visuals-shrinking-palestine-static/

https://www.palestineportal.org/learn-teach/israelpalestine-the-basics/maps/maps-loss-of-land/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figure-1-Showing-the-Loss-of-the-Palestinian-Land-and-the-Segregation-of-Palestinians_fig1_378482435

Here’s one on your side, they used different colors and swear that the map is wrong;

https://aijac.org.au/fresh-air/disappearing-palestine-the-maps-that-lie/

Unfortunately, their “correct” maps begin and end in the exact same place and still highlight disappearing Palestinian territory, and they don’t even include the illegal settlements by Israeli civilians.

My answer completely and credibly answers your question:

Israel made that disingenuous 2005 statement because they knew they didn’t have to give any land back to Palestine, because they knew that Israeli civilian settlers would continue to annex Palestine, and because it would make people like you believe that they stopped colonizing Palestine, contrary to all of the evidence of continued Israeli settlement of Palestinian land in the ensuing years.

Including right now.

Where they are colonizing Palestine and putting up residential neighborhoods.

That’s in the sources from my previous comment that you seem a bit wary to mention.

Here’s the BBC reporting on the continued illegal Israeli settlement of Palestine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68490034

Here’s the times of Israel, proudly declaring their intent to illegally settle Palestinian land, sanctioned by the defense ministry.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-panel-greenlights-nearly-3500-new-west-bank-homes/

Here’s PBS, describing Israel planning to illegally annex and colonize Palestine:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-plans-to-build-3300-new-settlement-homes-in-occupied-west-bank-in-response-to-a-fatal-shooting

Here’s Reuters describing The ongoing illegal annexation and settlement of Palestine by Israel:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-advances-peak-number-west-bank-settlement-plans-2023-watchdog-2023-07-13/

Go ahead, please try to explain how all of these sources, including Israel and their ministry of defense stating that they are going to annex Palestine, are just kidding about the illegal annexation of Palestine.

Your argument that the colors are wrong has nothing to do with the number of times Israel has invaded, razed, annexed and colonized Palestine, nor with the amount of civilians it’s executed or with schools, hospitals it’s bombed.

That was a pretty fun victory lap for me.

Keep swinging though, I like dancing on laurels

Yea, good idea.

Sorry, I was referring to this other thing I mentioned in a different thread.

I’ll take a movie dodgeball, any movie where the actors speak clearly is fine, and I watch that once a day for 4 to 6 weeks.

It boosts my comprehension like crazy, because I’m not just learning new words but my brain’s getting used to recognizing the rhythm and syntax instinctually, but obviously you have to be pretty disciplined to go through with it because it gets to be boring!

Effective, and pretty rapid learning, but it’s a real jog through molasses for a while there.

A few things seem pretty stark.

1. Definitely crappy mods banning people across communities for bizarre or literally no reason, like not even having posted there. Those bans happen constantly and randomly.

The mods also remove posts constantly and arbitrarily.

ml mods also span literally dozens of communities, using different usernames so that they control huge parts of ml.

So if they don’t like your brownie recipe in the cooking ml community, they ban you for months across all two dozen communities that they moderate.

There are crappy mods everywhere, but ml mods aren’t even pretending to develop or maintain communities, they’re a very small group of assholes controlling the largest communities pushing their weight around for fun

This results in stagnant, circle jerk communities that feel very stale.

2. There’s no content moderation, so you have to constantly point out that headlines they’re copying and pasting are factually incorrect before a conversation can begin.

This also results in stale, unproductive threads.

On the off chance you do stumble across a good conversation, it’s surrounded by a much higher rate of boring fundamental geography where you have to prove that South Korea is actually a country before the person you’re talking to will even accept the news article written about South Korea is real.

3. And then the communities are extremely toxic.

Since the mods communities don’t have to follow any rules except being nice or listening to the mods that you are personal friends with, you can explicitly personally insult people who disagree with you and the mods will do nothing about it even though that’s explicitly against the rules and it diminishes productive conversation.

Especially if that user is friends with one of the shitty mods, they’ll just point you out and you’ll be automatically banned because their cousin doesn’t like your username or something.

Those are three big ones off the top of my head that I personally don’t like about ml

4. Since I blocked all of the ml news sites, the quality of the news articles and the discussions about the articles is like night and day.

The ml “news” is often ridiculous biased nonsense that you can’t even address other than “That’s an objectively false statement” or " The article says nothing of relevance at all and the headline is irrelevant to the content of the article".

After blocking ml, the news on lemmy went from like 30% legitimate to 70% legitimate in a flash.

I didn’t do the math, but I do feel like I’m coming across twice as many relevant news articles as I was before and people are making intelligent, considered comments in those communities.

Not so in ml

Thanks, it’s fine.

I have a lot of free time and it’s fun to respond to mindless bad faith with diametric sincerity.

They always get boggled.

Oh, nice. I have done the song thing before, but never a recipe. Good idea.

I don’t play sports ball much though so a lot of the advantages of your second suggestion might go over my head.

Watching a Kung Fu movie on repeat is a lot more my style haha

Yea. I did have fun there for a while, because they’re all looking to spend time arguing about literally anything, but like you said, it’s extremely frustrating when the mod invades a thread about EV auto repair and bans you for a month because “[bigotry]this user hates commuting to work” or something equally absurd, baseless and unrelated.

Paraphrased: “After decades of colonization, why would Israel publicly state that they were ending all illegal ongoing colonization?”

1. Because Israel already took most of the land(see picture) and didn’t have to give any back.

2. Because there was a lot of complaints about them colonizing Palestine, especially as the internet became more popular and people became more aware of the illegal Israeli colonization of Palestinian land.

3. By publicly stating that Israel would no longer annex Palestinian land, they didn’t have to give up any of the land they already colonized over the past half century, civilians could continue to colonize Palestinian land because it wasn’t official government or military colonization, and people would be mollified.

And it worked.

You apparently aren’t aware that Israelis are still colonizing Palestine because 19 years ago they put out a press release that said “no backsies, but some of us will stop officially colonizing this country after 60 years”.

The civilians are still settling Palestinian land(they never stopped) that has been now evacuated because, you know, they’re killing all the Palestinians.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/3/8/israeli-settlement-expansion-in-palestinian-areas-amounts-to-war-crime-un

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/3/19/how-israeli-settlers-are-expanding-illegal-outposts-amid-gaza-war

Is that for a different species of bats?

The pregnancy can’t be that variable within a single species right?

They are the tastiest life form.

They are also the ultimate in that field.