Since knowledge is woefully inadequate, this would necessarily boil down to “treat others as you assume they treat others,” which is exactly the moral standard already followed by trigger-happy cops, ICE agents, MAGAs and bigots in general.

Is that really the best you can do?

As far as the Golden Rule goes, it’s immensely improved by framing it negatively - do not do unto others as you would not have done unto you.

The game that Stardew Valley blatantly copied - Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.

It was made for the GBA, so has straightforward and precise controls, with none of the irritating camera or targeting complications that come with making the game 3D.

There are other later games in the Harvest Moon franchise with better graphics, but like Stardew Valley with a gamepad, they tend to have irritatingly imprecise controls. Friends of Mineral Town, with its isometric 2D, doesn’t have that problem.

That’s my reaction broadly to hate.

Even beyond the fact that it’s destructive and ugly, it just seems like a pointless waste of time and energy. I don’t get why anyone invests that much time and energy into being miserable, and especially over something that can’t possibly really matter in their lives.

We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

It’s not intended as a pejorative, so its perceived weakness is irrelevant.

It’s a precise term with a very specific definition in international law, and that’s the point.

Israeli terrorists have just taken 1500 Palestinian hostages.

If so, then to which specific instance(s) (or more precisely, local mirrors of instances) would replies be sent?

No - actually, Israel’s best tactic to combat it is to just stop committing genocide and instituting apartheid.

See - this is a fine example of why I say, completely sincerely, that Israel is a nation of psychopaths. Fundamentally, what this report says is, “An increasing number of people worldwide are condemning us for doing the notoriously reprehensible things we are in fact doing, so our course of action should be… to lie harder.”

That’s not a rational position - it’s a psychopathic one.

Props to anyone who’d name a cat Ryo-Ohki.

If only it was a cabbit. Or better yet, a spaceship.

I just think it’s funny that “AI” (which is “artificial intelligence” not in the sense of “human-made” but in the sense of “fake”) is contemperaneous with Trump.

This is going to go down in history (if humanity survives long enough) as the Idiot and Lunatic Age.

From what I’ve gleaned of the ravings of the angry stupid right blogosphere, a lot of people actually do think that only tree huggers want green energy.

And I have little doubt that that’s an opinion that Trump shares, but that’s not his main motivation in all of this. His main motivation is big fat bribes from the fossil fuel industry.

And thanks to Trump, the US is perfectly placed to be entirely left behind.

Do they think nobody remembers when they had politicians standing up in public and protesters trying to force their way onto a military base not only acknowledging tte sexual sbuse of Palestinian prisoners, but declaring that the soldiers somehow had the right to sexually abuse them?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-palestinian-prisoner-alleged-rape-sde-teinman-abuse-protest/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2q07kd3ld6o

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bordering-on-anarchy-idf-chief-sounds-alarm-after-right-wing-mob-overruns-2nd-base/

How is this even a question?

They’re actively murdering Palestinians - of course they don’t give a shit about anyone else’s minorities.

Their one and only goal is conquest. Regarding Syria specifically, their first goal was to cement their illegal occupation of the Golan Heights, and that morphed into their second goal - to expand further into Syria. Since the fall of Assad (literally beginning less than 48 hours after his government fell), Israel has moved an additional 12 km into Syrian territory and built military bases and roads and laid minefields to protect their newly acquired territory.

This stuff about the Druze, just like everything else that comes out of the Israeli propaganda machine, is just there to provide their apologists with something to spin - something with which to divert attention, just a bit longer, from the simple truth that Israel is a profoundly destructive rogue state.

We already know but the average pea-brained morons don’t. To the degree that they might hear about it, they just write it off as woke propaganda from Trump haters (or whatever fits their particular combination of ignorance, bigotry and wishful thinking). And they aren’t going to believe it until it’s streamed directly into their eyes, over and over.

Like that’ll happen…

The Israelis don’t just try to keep reporters out of Gaza - they murder them.

2024 was the deadliest year for journalists since records started being kept, and the vast majority were killed by Israel.

They know full well that even with their legions of amoral defenders, they couldn’t weather ongoing reporting of real conditions in Gaza. They’d be exposed for the liars and murderous paychopaths they are. Their overt evil would be so obvious that even the most determined bought-and-paid-for American politicians couldn’t pretend they were anything else.

Imagine that all of the instances existed first - before federation even existed.

So imagine dozens of little, independent message boards - this person created one at this address, and this other person created this other one at this other address and so on.

Okay - then imagine that federation came along, so then all of those individual bosrds started sharing content with all the other boards.

So you were on this one board called lemmy.world. You never moved - you still have the same account at the same board. But now you also see, for instance, content from some other board called lemmy.ml.

Now here’s the important bit - you aren’t actually looking at lemmy.ml. You’re looking at a mirror of it - literally, you’re looking at lemmy.ml@lemmy.world. So like this community we’re on right now - neither one of us is actually on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml. You’re on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml@lemmy.world and I’m on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml@sopuli.xyz. But every few seconds, all three of those actually separate communities sync up with each other, so it acts as if it’s just one community.

Does that help?

He does!

Holy hell.

He looks like he’s imagining raping the photographer.

I think it’s safe to presume that Hamas wasn’t willing to budge from its demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza, and since annexing Gaza is more important to the Israeli government than recovering the hostages, Israel is walking away instead.