pasquinelli

no, you do see along the fourth dimension when you're pointing that way. i think you have a deep confusion here actually, but i can't really help because i don't actually understand your confusion. but, for whatever help it will be:

- all the dimensions are treated the same

- you only actually see two dimensions.

(it goes without saying that it's actually me who's confused.)

it's a fourth spatial dimension. if you imagine a cube, it has width, height, and depth. a 4d cube would have width, height, depth, and zhlerp, which is its size along a fourth spatial dimension. in three dimensions you can go forward and backward, left and right, up and down. in four dimensions you can go forward and backward, left and right, up and down, and zlep and wizz, moving along the fourth spatial dimension.

> Finding a qualified teacher becomes very difficult if you are actually interested in Buddhism.

you can find that same complaint 1000 years ago.

just because you assume that trump and hegseth aren't cartoonishly evil, doesn't mean they aren't. looking at america's actions for a long time, the occam's razor explanation is that america is cartoonishly evil. the reason you struggle with that is about emotions, not logic. and i get it.

> Whether it was overconfidence in their tools or a complete disregard for the lives of civilians that caused this lapse snip

it could be both, but we know no. 2, the complete disregard for the lives of civilians, is in play because, whatever else was going on, america was initiating war for the purpose of destabilizing a country, afaict at least, the reasoning has been unclear. destablize means to try to make things fuck up, and that tends to kill people. what people? how? who knows? things fucking up means out of control. at that point it's up to physics, not people.

it's like, if i set a house on fire, then later defended that action by claiming to have not known where i started the fire was a nursery.

back in the war on terror days america had a habit of blowing up weddings, and then claiming it was an accident. and i would think, accident how? did the missile fire itself?

look up revolutionary defeatism.

consider that the same people that tell you what's going on in the DPRK also said iran was two weeks away from nuking the middle east, that something called the cartel of the sun was responsible for the drug trade in the united states, and that epstein killed himself.

wouldn't a woman with a y chromosome be disqualified then?

how many actual cases does that amount to, i wonder.

maybe. that's a fair point. public opinion has moved away from israel so even the mass media in america might be a little less generous to israel, which would turn even more people away from israel.

> False, Israel has used the whole war to take over Lebanon almost silently from mass media attention.

i wonder why you think mass media attention would matter.

i personally never found that a compelling analogy, just because we do understand computers but we don't understand the brain.

but i guess that's the rhetorical move being used, substitute something the audience doesn't understand with something they do understand.

> We are in fact very disposable and replaceable.

we are, but that doesn't mean we're not valuable. everything is disposable, everything is replacable.

the idea that an individual human life isn't very valuable and that it's only first-worlders that have trouble understanding that is projection. that is the modern, first world (read capitalist) view of human life. you think you're thinking but you're actually regurgitating the ideology you've received.

i thought he was more anti-war

it's weird to see the term "doxx" be abused until it doesn't mean anything.

maybe they aren't as worried about that as they should be. maybe america isn't as worried about that as it should be.

but, what are you saying? it would be weird for iran to act in a way that might provoke escalation? you mean in the totally unprovoked war israel/america launched against them?

sorry, i really didn't mean to offend you. i really didn't convey the tone i was going for well.

what i've learned in the period of time between the last couple elections is how astroturfed online discourse is, and when that astroturfing fails to manage opinion effectively--i'm thinking here about the israeli genocide against the palestinians--cruder forms of supression are used. and then if public opinion continues to be "wrong", well, just nothing happens, the button of public opinion isn't wired to anything.

online discourse has been shown to be powerless.

i think they're saying the situation then would be such that americans won't be able to eat so much. that might shock your sensibilities, but remember that thousands of iranian civilians have been indiscriminately murdered these last couple weeks, by america.

is israel a US proxy? that's feeling a little backward right now.

no, that isn't starting something.

i think everyone understands what the word "terrorist" means now.

i think exactly the opposite and your comment literally made me laugh out loud, but there's a wide range of views out there.

> You dont need counterfactuals to ask if it was worth it or compare 9 years to the age of the universe.

yes you do.

to say something was bad to do is to say it would've been better to have not, and that is a counterfactual.

> Some folks want to hasten "a revolution"

well some folks are doing that all the time, but only sometimes does it take. what's the difference between one time and another?

no one knows.

it doesn't really matter in the end because the human species will one day be extinct.

would the chechens be in their position now had they never fought? impossible to say, counter-factual conditionals are all unconditionally true. though i'm not sure why you'd assume so...

nobody needs to read a comment, tbh, any comment.

revolutions are like earthquakes or pandemics: created by forces beyond our control and a matter of when, not if. people romanticizing or anti-romanticizing armed conflict online doesn't even enter the frame <zizekian sniff>.

their demo is vegans who want a burger, which is not a rare thing at all.

odd that i've never noticed

i've been on hn a long time, and if there's a prohibition against anything vaguely political if it can't be connected to technology, i've never known it.