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loceng··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
Can't you place that exact same argument on the side of the Palestinians, and add more weight to their claim - where the international community so far has allowed this, due to reason (whether money involved in politicians toeing a line or not), and so the courts decisions and political bias are more likely to favour Netanyahu over the Palestinians?

There never seems to be much critical thinking on the quick one-liners that on the surface appear to often be one-liner propaganda talking points used for deflection, to give an easy memorable line for an otherwise ideological mob to learn-train them with to then parrot.

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loceng··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
And the only counterweight for a person accused of genocide who is claiming they haven't committed war crimes or genocide, while they call this action "antisemetic" - the only way to determine if they are being genuine in claim it is antisemitism or political-manipulation (demonization) tool is to go to court and see all of the evidence presented.

Either 40,000+ people dead or seemingly nearly all Palestinian's civilian infrastructure being destroyed, both warrant being witnessed and investigated by the international community with a fine tooth comb, no?

The ICC isn't some amateur city court in some backwaters country, it is the current epitome and evolutionary state from effort and passion of humanity towards holding the line for justice.

loceng··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
I first thought you were going to point out how the misuse of the word "antisemitic" is especially problematic here:

Do the vast majority of people not understand correlation vs. causation? Because Netanyahu is Jewish does not mean an action against him is because he's Jewish.

That they are willing to use such "cry wolf" tactics, abusing it, dilutes their credibility at minimum - and then should bring their integrity into question, just for this misrepresentation of calling this action antisemitic.

loceng··on Starship's Sixth Flight Test
And I'll steel man your argument for a moment, and echo what others in this thread have commented: what if it requires someone who's as much of an "egotistical megalomaniac" as Elon is but that understands the need for freedom of person, to give them the drive to fortify all of society against tyranny? What's that worth to humanity? Invaluable, no

And what if you could have compassion for Elon instead of imbalanaced judgement, to try to understand where do you think his drive may have come from? Could it have stemmed from immense stress and/or self-esteem issues that most, if not all of us have - whether we know we have them or not, whether they drove us to succeed to the same degree or not? Maybe you've been "fortunate" to not have to experience that or that that the way you coped with it led you on a different path than Elon's trajectory?

Also, with your ad hominem as the start of this message, does that make you any better than Elon for offhand calling someone a pedophile? I'd argue your judgement and emotional regulation ability is at minimum equal to his, but probably worse, but that you also have resentment and don't put much thought into things - you just have to impulsive write 3 short sentences to quell whatever amount of emotion that you couldn't instead just let pass you by - to "let go" of it, instead venting on HN in a drive-by comment.

P.S. In your profile you say you should stop being bothered by your karma score. I'd argue it's not a problem itself, however what you do need to - would benefit to work on - are emotional regulation practices, e.g. developing stress regulation skills for your body and mind, where there's a biofeedback loop: stressful thoughts cause stress in the body, stress-filled body causes stressful thoughts - so you have 2 avenues to address and learn to : your body and your mind. Note that as you begin to find practices that allow your body to calm that will allow space in your mind for old trauma-stresses to arise, old-unprocessed memories that you probably don't even realize are there and are still causing you stress and directing your behaviour will surface, and you will need to learn how to process those.

P.P.S. You can either cower by the mob, and coddle yourself, avoiding the possible flood of downvotes that can occur when you respond in threads about Elon Musk or other "hot topics" - attracting the gaze and often knee-jerk reaction of downvotes and replies by the ideological mob who despises Elon, to keep your "precious" karma score regulated and avoid it going down - a fear , or ideally you learn to regulate yourself and learn to discern if people actually replying to you with words have any valid logical counter-points to what you've written - or if you're willing to be so gracious and potentially willing to be embarrassed, you can spend time to explain yourself and counter what they've said - or perhaps learn something new; of which your reply just let us all know that your use of ad hominem tells us a lot about you, but really nothing serious to consider about Elon.

And no, I didn't write any of this for you, although I'd be grateful if any of it began to resonate with you - a blessing for you if your reactivity didn't cause you to recoil and avoid my words for long enough that you can maybe take a moment to focus on your breathe up to a 10 count or until you notice your body and notice that your stress has at least stabilized, if not begun to calm down, so then you can begin to read again, rinse and repeat - the practice and exercise first perhaps being noticing how just reading words are causing a physical reaction in your body; or perhaps your body is so locked up in stress that you aren't even able to notice the stress changes in your body, and so then I'd recommend a holistic health practice like 75-90 minute Bikram hot yoga classes to kick your ass and break through your hardened shell that's a disservice to you by blocking nuanced signals for you to discern with; the most subtle and nuanced of signals arguably being when you develop practices to the degree of having the ability to have such a still mind the the most subtle pieces of memory or strands of thought that haven't yet been processed are able to be felt, essentially the feeling of cognitive dissonance - perhaps only recognized as a queer or off feeling that you haven't yet even come to understand yet to label yet as cognitive dissonance, which then hopefully will then allow you to consciously direct your attention to discern to see if there is cognitive dissonance; this is what blocks most people's development, that off feeling instead of consciously examining it, they instead develop an avoidant coping mechanism.

And some evidence towards this idea, that even if Elon is a megalomaniac, it is far better for us - and he knows it is far better for him and society as a whole - that he isn't a no holes barred megalomaniac, that he won't make a deal with the devil - a far easier path to riches and maintaining so-called power - control - than if giving into the methods of honeypots and blackmail-extortion that catches a web of easily manipulable-weak individuals who must now toe the line of some invisible puppet masters, who often use providing children to be raped as their lure and temptation offered-provided: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854339192794251529 (of which we now know the Advertising Industrial Complex is a clear pathway for funding-rewarding those toeing the line as part of the censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus that the globalist cabal has required ; and if anyone's reaction to anything I've written above is to ask me how tight my tinfoil hat is fitting, or use conspiracy theorist as a defamatory slur, examine your conscience and your heart deeper - for otherwise you are currently more than less easily manipulable by bad actors you want to fortify against.

Thanks for the opportunity to keep my mind busy - the excruciating pain I have to try to cope with today especially is near killing me; if you care to know why I'll spend so much time understanding something, it's not because I'm obsessed or a "fanboy" of Elon as I could preemptively predict could be your next flyby comment.

I'd recommend you feel more-better, connect to your body, so then you can think more-better.

loceng··on Starship's Sixth Flight Test
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loceng··on Starship's Sixth Flight Test
He cares about freedom and the spark of consciousness, of which he requires a foundation of a strong and free country; maybe you're being perfectionistic, e.g. The Selfish Gene?
loceng··on ChatGPT now on chat.com
"Some" cash + mucho shares in overinflated company?
loceng··on Bluesky gains 1.2M in 2 days, 12M total after X disables blocking
You can't think of any differentiation, pros/cons, that may warrant supporting multiple different approaches?
loceng··on Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor
It appears the establishment and "big tech" - not all but those toeing the same line, are happy for him to be there, and protective of him.
loceng··on A teacher who made mistakes on purpose
I immediately thought of this substitute teacher who was mispronouncing all of the students names during row call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNLC1UALSI
loceng··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
Sure, if you're taking on risk then that seems like it could be a fair arrangement - and then perhaps there's a requirement of putting some of the potential debt you're promising to cover to be held in escrow.
loceng··on Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake
I've thought that there should people, your family and/or friends, who have to sign on to enable you to gamble - where they will be on the line for any debt or a certain % of the debt the person has, etc.

E.g. Dana White of UFC appears to have a gambling problem, but maybe with how much money he earns it actually isn't a problem - but what if it at some point it gets out of control, and that is hidden from friends or people that care about him - and where that loss of control could be hidden from sight, kept secret until it's perhaps too late - however that looks?

loceng··on OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5B. Largest VC raise in history
The financial industrial complex will make money on transaction fees selling the stock to their clients, institutional or otherwise. They don't need it to actually succeed in the long-term - as it is the clients, people's money, on the line, e.g. incentives aren't aligned properly.
loceng··on Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes
I have wondered for awhile what just injecting [fresh] placental/umbilical cord tissue into people with various autoimmune issues may result in, as apparently it has powerful immune system regulators in it; I've not looked for related research yet though.
loceng··on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
If they don't offer to just block the bots instead of you signing on, then I imagine it'd easily be seen as a racket.

How much effort then Cloudflare puts on tracking circumvention efforts of bot networks is then another question.

loceng··on Jony Ive confirms he's working on a new device with OpenAI
Was Jobs the counterweight to this, to keep it in check?
loceng··on They stole my voice with AI
We have ourselves. We have to create a culture of learning to quell reactive emotions - so we're less ideological and more critical thinker.
loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
You're simplifying the situation down to "had a legal ruling against Elon" eh?
loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
That are willing to take at least an initial stand against government's overreach/alleged censorship attempts?
loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
What about what the Twitter Files exposed?
loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
250,000 Starlink customers in Brazil.

Contrary I do believe Elon cares about ordinary Brazilians, and ordinary people globally; and what a neat mechanism that him creating highly competitive products and services, allows people to vote for him with their dollars, feeding him, his organizations, and arguably his missions.

Also, do you fully consciously notice your own bias when it comes to Musk? Did you notice using the word "caving" and some other options came to mind, or that is exactly and only what came to mind?

loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
Humour isn't allowed on HN.
loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
Ad hominem is ad hominem even if you think it's clever.
loceng··on X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court
Have you tried thinking of his actions through a more than black and white perspective, from a military strategic perspective? E.g. Is it better for all Brazilians if there's a platform they are all already organized/organizing on to still have access to it, or none of them have access to it?
loceng··on Long-Covid R&D is collapsing: investors won't fund, scientifically challenging
My reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601159

Edit to add: A downvote is about as much effort as I imagine someone will put in who blindly believes, without deeply investigating or critically thinking for themselves, ad hominem about others who are the dissidents of massive status quo systems that heavily control and influence, control the narratives presented, on most of the major mainstream media channels, e.g. big pharma which accounts for 75% of ad spend on the major news networks in the US.

loceng··on Long-Covid R&D is collapsing: investors won't fund, scientifically challenging
https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-recover-long-covi...

They also have a "Find a provider" page under "RESOURCES" section.

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Cool, let's go further back than that - but I'll start it off with putting a thought exercise forward to you, with this scenario:

Due to your compassion for the displaced Palestinians, most of which who's homes have been obliterated - if they weren't "killed" themselves,

What % of your assets/land/property that you own will you be willing to give the Palestinian citizens to support them after this atrocity?

Remember, in this scenario you're not being forced to give this - it's out of the goodness of your heart. What percentage would you give?

How about 54% of everything you own?

And so in conclusion, I'm most curious if you will avoid answering because you'll see my point and your answer will out you as a hypocrite?

I'll have followup questions if you're willing to engage and not fearful to engage in discussion.

loceng··on Is Tor still safe to use?
New tool idea: a si parameter tracking "mixer"?

Crowdsource making tracking useless?

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
It logically fits, you're just avoiding and trying to control the goal posts/scope of what's talked about.

You'd prefer we mostly only talk about Oct. 7th and afterward, right?

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
You've been victim of what's called manufactured consent.

Why hasn't Israel allowed any investigations in Gaza, not showing evidence they're using to obliterate practically all of Palestine now, not allowing foreign journalists in either to document things?

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