Genocide is the intentional killing of non-combatant civilians in an attempt to reduce or eliminate the numbers of a particular race, nation, or ideology.
Hamas is genocidal, their charter demands the destruction of Israel. (They watered it down recently, but their intent is still clear)
October 7th was an act of Genocide since it was motivated by Hamas' chartered intention and was indiscriminate in the brutality and targeting of the killings. Hamas must be stopped.
Iran supplied weapons and training and financial support for Hamas, a clearly genocidal organization. Iran also regularly proclaims "Death to Israel. Death to America". Iran has genocidal intent. Iran, and its proxies, must be stopped.
Israel concluded that they must stop Hamas. Hamas hides behind civilians. This makes Hamas doubly genocidal since the more civilians that are killed the happier they seem to be.
Israel send leaflets, texts, phone calls to warn the population. They sent tons of food and supplies to support the population. They set aside refuges for the population. Genocidal nations don't do that.
Yes, a lot of Palestinians were killed in the fighting. Terrible. 20,000+ Germans were killed in the Dresden fire bombing. Awful. 100,000+ Japanese were killed in the Tokyo firebombing. ~210,000 Japanese will killed by the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
None of those actions were genocidal. The attackers had no genocidal intent. Their goal was to stop their enemies from further attacks.
There are "experts" for everything. The UN is full of "experts". But any "expert" that claims that Israel is committing a genocide is either horrifyingly ignorant or selling something evil.
Working, good professional software engineers will continue writing code by hand.
No matter how much AI they use.
AI coding agents are great tools, but they’re not the right tool for every job.
Being a good software engineer means knowing when they’re the right tool and when they’re not. Knowing when it’s more efficient to write the code by hand and when it’s not.
Hat tip to Petar Dambovaliev who summed this up well:
“The more precise you need to be the more natural language text you need to write to describe the same programming concept.
So at some point it is actually faster to write the code than to try to explain to an LLM what the code should do.
It is a spectrum and you should be at any moment be able to go from one to the other.”
Messi is a victim of his own greatness. Any other player with his numbers and influence in this world cup would have gotten the golden ball without question. And I think this decision was mostly influenced by the consistent negative comments made against Messi and Argentina.
@AlbicelesteTalk He even tried to downplay the criticism to his son by reminding him that there were still people who wanted to take pictures and get autographs whenever they visited Argentina so the boy doesn't end up hating his country. What a guy, intelligent and graceful in all areas
@UgoOsinobi Cubarsi, a bum?? I don't think anyone ever called him that. Same Cubarsi getting shouts as a phenomenal player just like Yamal but in defense
@NealGardner_ At some point I was wondering if livescore app was malfunctioning cos I could clearly see he hasn't been subbed off yet on the app but struggled to locate him on the field
A lot of things people put out as jokes or banter especially on the Internet are actually not. They actually believe and mean these things. It's crazy...
At this point I don't think Ronaldo fanboys are doing banter with us ohh, the kind of statements and arguments I've heard even from "reputable" people is quite shocking. It's well sha, all man will be alright alas
@pst_iren I don't know where you're getting your debate from. The debate came to a full stop since Dexember 2022 even though it ended for me a much longer time ago.