Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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To be a little more precise, it's not that Lemmy "defends Nazis", it's that some of the mods on lemmy.world (and possibly the admins of lemmy.world) take a ridiculously extreme view of the rules on not condoning violence. According to some of these mods, even saying "[blank] should be punched" is against the rules, no matter what the [blank] is.

It's one of the reasons a lot of people recommend avoiding lemmy.world when possible, and sticking to more niche instances like sh.itjust.works, Blahaj, and the various national instances.

Place your granary, sire.

The only one I played as a kid was Stronghold Legends, the one based in Arthurian mythology. That game's beefy 3D engine could just barely run on my computer at the time. It would take so long to start up that the loading screen music is burned into my brain even today, and in bigger games it would stutter quite badly.

Plenty of mods here on Lemmy who'll do the same...

Mainly on your home instance, too.

So, I just finished writing a rather lengthy comment about why you're so obviously wrong to say it's not about Gaza.

But I did also add that there are other equally valid possible interpretations because it's about applicability and metaphor, not direct allegory. Even so, I find your attempts here to compare it to China to be rather tenuous. The fact that the country produces "silk" and did a massacre is pretty much the only parallel. To me, the silk thing is more about adding to the obvious aesthetics of WWII French Resistance, with the silk thing tying in to France's famous connection to high fashion. I'd say the fact that Tiananmen Square was crushing an internal resistance, while on Ghorman, as well as in both WWII France and in Gaza it's outsiders seeking to invade and kill the locals, makes the Chinese connection especially weak.

They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It’s not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean

Who? Israel's dominant sociopolitical group are Ashkenazi. They're white. Pretending it's Mediterraneans vs Mediterraneans is playing into the Israeli lie that Jewish people are the true native people in Canaan and everyone else is an outside invader. When in reality some Jews are native to the area, just as the Palestinians are. But certainly not the 20th century neocolonial supremacist state of Israel.

You're misunderstanding the post. Yes, the reality of maths is that the integral is an operator. But the post talks about how "dx can be treated as an [operand]". And this is true, in many (but not all) circumstances.

∫(dy/dx)dx = ∫dy = y

Or the chain rule:

(dz/dy)(dy/dx) = dz/dx

In both of these cases, dx or dy behave like operands, since we can "cancel" them through division. This isn't rigorous maths, but it's a frequently-useful shorthand.

what about make up

Well, if clothing is also invisible, I think makeup seems pretty likely to be the same.

vampire stories don’t have lawyers in them

Umm...

Might I invite you to join this Community's readthrough of Dracula? For someone interested in talking about vampires, it's very helpful to be familiar with the most famous work of the genre.

Judas was the first vampire

Vampire: The Masquerade lore has Caine (as in the biblical Caine and Abel) as the first vampire, and my search for the idea that in some versions Judas is the first vampire mostly turned up results of people saying they were only familiar with it being Caine and expressing confusion about where the idea of Judas came from.

the vampire feeds on said humans, but have to feed its blood to turn them

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that's not especially weird. In fact it's very, very standard, and has been since Dracula did it that way in 1897.

Hey @BillSchofield@lemmy.world, just curious, since you never seem to have interacted with this Community otherwise, what your reason for downvoting here was?

The operand is the target of an operator

Correct. Thus, dx is an operand. It's a thing by which you multiply the rest of the equation (or, in the case of dy/dx, by which you divide the dy).

The Ghorman Massacre was even in the new continuity as of (at least) the 2017 Rebels episode Secret Cargo.

And in Andor, the aesthetics were obviously drawing on the French Resistance in WWII.

But this doesn't mean the parallels to Israel and Gaza were not there. The "history repeats" aspect might be part of it, but because this was the first time the Ghorman Massacre was portrayed on screen in current canon, they had considerable leeway in how they told the story, what events framed it, and what parallels they were trying to draw.

There's a reason they chose to rewrite Mon Mothma's speech in the Senate from the one shown in Rebels, and that is that they wanted it to tell their message. They chose to frame it as a genocide that the overall population is wilfully ignoring. They chose to have disinformation campaigns coming from those in power which present the Ghormans not as the oppressed group of freedom fighters that they truly are, but as terrorists receiving aid from outside. They chose to show the Empire as willing to deliberately kill their own and have it blamed on the "terrorists". Heck, they chose to place it in a place specifically called, as @Objection@lemmy.ml notes, the Ghorman Plaza.

Still, even if it is directly informed by the Gaza genocide itself, it's obviously not meant to be a perfect allegory. It's meant to be broadly applicable to all sorts of freedom fighting against oppressive authoritarian states.

To quote the grandfather of the very genre in which Star Wars as a franchise sits:

I much prefer history – true or feigned – with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

La mort de l'auteur. The best literature can be applied to a wide variety of real-world situations, depending on what the audience's personal history is and which elements of the art they choose to concentrate on. So the Zionists look at the WWII French aesthetics and cling to that desperate to ignore the parallels to the crimes they themselves are complicit in. The most literate audience brings their own perspective, but also opens themselves up to hear other perspectives, and thus sees that there are multiple possible readings. The narrow-minded audience picks their interpretation and uses it as a reason to reject others.

I would argue that Andor as a show is really a political thriller and science-fiction. But the core movies and most of the animated shows are fantasy.

"operative" instead of, uh, something else

I think they meant "operand". As in, in the way dy/dx can sometimes be treated as a fraction and dx treated as a value.

Fake and gay.

No way the engineer corrects the mathematician for using j instead of i.

a school teacher is more likely to come from a wealthier, more conservative background

I couldn't find stats for Australia, but in America teachers are statistically more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, so I don't think this is supported.

It is also worth noting that, though I couldn't find anything on Australian educators' political leanings, teachers are one of the most highly unionised workforces in the country, and our centrist party (the one the media and many in the general public would call "centre-left", like your Democrats) has explicit ties to the union movement.

a school teacher is paid poverty wages

In Australia they're paid quite well. It doesn't scale as highly for the average teacher as it does in many other highly educated jobs, but the base salary is pretty good. There's the important caveat that teachers are largely expected to spend their own money on classroom supplies, though.

teachers are hired by administrators who are usually men, men who can have unaudited privilege

Teachers in Australia are hired by the department based largely on very impersonal factors like qualifications. There's not a huge amount of room, at the level of classroom teachers, for that kind of bias to have as much of an effect. What more personal decisionmaking does happen is done largely by principals, who are former teachers themselves. Because hiring is done at the department level, principles can get involved in decisions like who gets a job at which school, but the fact that they have a job at all is much more impersonal. The promotion and hiring of principles and other non-classroom positions may be a different question.

That said, I'm not disagreeing with your main point. It is a systemic failure. At a scale far larger than merely within schools.

Do they? Most cyclists I know do at least a bit of running.

Swimming though...even triathletes think swimmers are nuts.

More supply is part of what's needed, absolutely.

But there's more to it than just that. The amount of incentives to invest in housing means more people bidding on a house, which raises the price of the house, which makes housing an even better investment, so more people bid on the next house, which raises housing prices even further. We need to cut that off by strongly disincentivising the use of housing as people's primary investment.

There are other things that could be done, like a levy on unoccupied homes (including "holiday homes" which might be occupied only a few weeks or months per year) and on unregulated hotels (Airbnb). And better protections for renters. And preventing developers from land-banking or drip-feeding homes onto the market rather than building as much as they can.

Realistically, the housing market is so fucked, we need a mix of all of these.