Except in serious screenplays, of course.

Mostly Norway, Sweden, and (to a lesser extent) Denmark.

Also from a profound sense of alienation combined with a tendency towards macabre flamboyancy and just subjective stylistic preferences of expression, I guess 🤷

Bielefeld? The football club from Armenia? 😉

I once won the Rory Award for The Most Gratuitous Use of that word in a Serious Screenplay, you know… Then someone stole it, of course…

Shouldn’t there be some sort of baseline of sanity for community moderators?

There should, but isn’t. I recently got into a mutually uncivil argument on the .ml world news community. A tankie kept abusively pestering me long after I told them to leave me alone and I made the mistake of voicing my irritation in stead of ignoring them.

While the tankie received no mod action, I was banned not only from that community, but also from the USA news community, the technology community and the fucking MEME community, in spite of none of them being relevant to the topic at hand (Chinese government ethnically cleansing Tibetans).

And it was Dessalines (creator of Lemmy and ml admin) taking time out of his no doubt busy schedule to make sure that some guy who commented on a post about China’s atrocities couldn’t upvote memes for a month. Seemingly too busy to respond to my appeal, though, because of COURSE 🤦

So nah, when probably the closest thing to a “leader” Lemmy has is himself an unhinged tankie, there’s really no sanity required…

But solar power is increasingly being used to charge the batteries of alternatives to fossil fueled machines.

Either way, OP probably meant fossil fuel interests in general rather than just oil companies, given the context.

that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”

Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.

If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.

Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.

My all time favorite “Stig Fact” from Top Gear is

“They say that he knows only two things about ducks…and both of them are wrong”

Which would arguably qualify as knowing less than nothing about ducks 😁

Speaking of not reading, I STARTED my reply by refuting your disinformation about the killing slowing down. It hasn’t. Accurate counting and reporting being made much more difficult if not downright impossible ≠ fewer people killed.

The number of deaths has been fairly low past the initial 4 months

The number of RECORDED and DISCLOSED deaths. Because the IDF deliberately target the health care workers charged with preventing and documenting deaths AND the journalists who report the death tolls and otherwise expose the atrocities of the fascist apartheid regime.

If they actually wanted to kill them, why should that be the case?

They do and they are. See above.

Genocide also includes things other than actual killing

For it to be genocide, ONE of the following has to be the case:

• (a) Killing members of the group;

• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

• © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

  — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[9]

I count one, maybe two, that Israel is NOT deliberately doing. To claim that it’s not genocide is willfully obtuse to the same degree as Holocaust denial at this point.

specifically the killing seems questionable when looking at the numbers.

Apart from what I already explained in my first paragraph, the Gaza ministry of health has a policy of only counting the deaths of those they can positively identity as dying from direct military action, leading to inevitable under-counting as hundreds of thousands are either dead and not identified or dead via social murder.

TL;DR: your genocide-denying apologia doesn’t pass the smell test and you should stop repeating disproved Hasbara talking points.

It’s heavily affected by the fact that I used to listen to After the Revolution to fall asleep (in a good way! It’s a great book and Robert Evans’ voice is soothing IMO), but here’s mine:

I’m not sure there are any humans there.

That’s because it’s a capybara community, not a human community.

Same! secret dbzer0 newcomer handshake