🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@special-boy @freemo How Biden et al seem to think Israel's right to defend itself even though it of course causes collateral damage seems to end when the collateral damage is white people.

I totally disagree with @freemo on a lot of this: I think Hamas started this war, Israel needs to at least significantly degrade its ability to do that again, and collateral damage is unavoidable, and Israel seems to be doing as much as can reasonably be expected to prevent innocents' deaths (less confident on that last point).

So: these aid workers being killed is absolutely tragic, but certainly no more so than any other innocent Palestinian deaths. Those deaths are on Hamas' hands.

But I totally agree with @freemo that this is absolutely rank hypocrisy.

Wow, thanks to all of you Mohammad has raised nearly $900 in just the first day of fundraising! I just texted with him and he asked me to thank everyone for their #mutualaid support for his family. Individual family relief in #Palestine is every bit as important as donating to #UNRWA (which you absolutely should as well), as #Gaza has particularly collectivist culture and the more relief any one family has, the more they are able to help each other. Especially projects like this to rebuild their destroyed homes.

Thank you everyone so much for supporting Mohammad's family, I hope that by the end of the year we can reach his goal.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts If they should do.it by social pressure (which does exist), but don't, that is why I say they have some of the blame. I agree that government and society bear more of it.

Canadian friends: if you haven't yet, please sign petition e-4769, which asks our government to use open social networking protocols to connect with citizens.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

Israel’s Horrific Massacre at Gaza’s Largest Hospital https://jacobin.com/2024/04/al-shifa-hospital-siege-gaza-massacre

After the raid, the hospital resembled a slaughterhouse. Hundreds of bodies lay scattered in the dirt, mutilated beyond recognition. Bodies with heads and limbs severed were discovered both inside the hospital and in the surrounding area. Surgeons had been tied up and executed. Some bodies were buried under the rubble, with body parts protruding from the ground; others had been crushed and flattened by bulldozers, their hands and legs tied behind their backs.
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Kirby meanwhile continues to say there is no evidence of Israeli war crimes.

So what? did the soldiers tie them up after killing them in a firefight?

@freemo I got infected a few months ago. It’s already terminal.

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

Why woukd the order of strokes matter? Doesnt it look the same regardless of what order you execute the strokes in?

I can only answer as far as Japanese is concerned, but I expect Chinese has a similar reason for stroke order. In Japanese, it is considered to be a fundamental part of writing and uniquely defines each character. The main reason for the order though is fluidity. When written correctly, each stroke leaves you (mostly) where you need to be for the next; it aids in writing for both speed and legibility. A hand-written character done in the wrong order is more than not, easily identifiable as "incorrect". This difference is much easier to see when written with a brush or flat marker, but pen, pencil, chalk, rocks, burnt sticks ...they all leave a heavy and light side for each stroke made. The order in which strokes are made becomes even more important when writing similarly to the (not cursive) example @skyblond put above. Writing anything in this style would be impossible to read if strokes were not made in the correct order.

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

As I found here: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_country.jsp

The house price to income ratio in China is almost 30, while in US is less than 5. So...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

If you rewind back to 200 years ago, in Qing Dynasty, the government actually enforced a style of essay called eight-legged essay. It defined the structure of a essay and is very limited. It's a standardized essay at that time. Writing anything other than that will be considered as non-mainstream and will be rejected by officals.