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This article would therefore define ANY war as genocide. (in whole or in part, killing members of the group), and it may even be a “peaceful situation”!

People always focus on the wrong part of the definition.

The important one is the intent.

Wars are waged for various reasons - you need “lebensraum”, you need oil, you intervene on behalf of the UN, you counterattack after being attacked yourself, etc.

The goals in these cases are: expansion of borders, hoarding of wealth, arguably humanitarian intervention, or military defence.

If your goal is to eliminate a people, that’s genocide.

And yes, that’s also the reason why it’s so difficult to actually define a military action as “genocide” - because it’s often almost impossible to unequivocally determine what was the intent behind an attack.

And with that, let’s look at your examples:

This would mean the Nazis were genocided by the Allies.

No, because the goal was the stopping of the genocide of Jews, and defeating an aggressor that terrorised Europe and North Africa for four years.

This would mean Japan’s treatment of Aum Shinrikyo was also a genocide

No, because the death sentences were carried out not because of their religious beliefs, but because they committed acts of terror.

This is why no one takes them seriously

No. No one takes them seriously because most people, like you, don’t understand the definition.

I’m not going to engage in this discourse, just as much as I won’t engage in the discourse about whether or not the Earth is flat.

Yeah, I think I made a pretty strong refute of his points in this comment.

So in other words, the moment you read anyone that disagrees with you, you stop thinking immediately and reflexively shut off any and all engagement?

No. The moment someone makes a claim that is utterly ridiculous in its disregard for facts, I disregard their reasoning.

If you said “the Earth isn’t round to begin with”, you’d earn an identical reaction.

Sounds like you’ve holed yourself up in an echo chamber of your own making

Sounds like you’re projecting.

From your first link:

Among many other potential reasons, cultural genocide may be committed for religious motives (e.g., iconoclasm which is based on aniconism); as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing

This is covered by “intent to destroy (…) ethnical (…) group”.

From your second link:

The final prohibited act is the only prohibited act that does not lead to physical or biological destruction, but rather to the destruction of the group as a cultural and social unit

There will always be political legalese in play, when imperialist powers want to commit genocide, and so they’ll cling to the fact that “cultural genocide” is not specifically mentioned. But, in the case of Uyghurs, it’s a very clear-cut case of both ethnic cleansing and physical genocide (through forced sterilisation and displacement of children).

The moment you say that “China isn’t imperialist to begin with” you lose all credibility and reading the rest is a waste of time.

Read about the Belt and Road initiative, the militarisation of the South China Sea, the treatment of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, or Taiwan, THEN come back and say with a straight face that “China isn’t imperialist to begin with”. :D

If you don’t trust Wiki, you can check any of the ~400 sources linked in the article

Cultural genocide is not recognized by the UN

This is false.

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Elements of the crime

The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. (…) The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.

Bold by me.

Unless the media wants to check up on the Uyghurs.

China isn’t imperialist to begin with.

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Excellent shitpost, milord!

You might want to try Heroic Games Launcher (for GOG and Epic) and native Steam in that case.

I’ve had a lot of trouble with Lutris, whereas installing and launching stuff from HGL and Steam works flawlessly every time.

An excellent specimen!

Enjoy the ride! :)

Oh! You might find this useful. It’s a list of various setting changes/fixes I made after switching and encountering various issues, or annoyances. Some of these were under Kubuntu, most are under Garuda, but I don’t think anything in there is distro-specific, so it should work on both Debian-based and Arch-based.

Hmm… Fair enough, I wouldn’t know because I have history turned off so I don’t get a Home feed, I only use the Subscriptions view. That being said - wasn’t the Home feed always supposed to be mostly for discovery?

Unless you’re a literal basement dweller, you’re processing this much social protocol every single day of your conscious life.

If you’ve never installed Linux before, I would start with something user-friendly, like Kubuntu or Bazzite. Both come with KDE as their main Desktop Environment (“DE”), so you could do what OP did looks-wise.

If you’re a technical user, and don’t hate having to sometimes do things manually, try Garuda Linux - it’s Arch-based, but catered very towards Linux newbies and does a lot of hand-holding. I use it and I enjoy it very much.

To specifically do what OP did with his DE - KDE comes with the concept of Panels and Widgets. The top bar you see in the screenshot is a Panel. On it, there are (from right to left) the System Tray widget, a Spacer widget, a Digital Clock widget with customised display format (something you can do in the settings of the widget), another Spacer, an Icons-Only Task Manager widget (displays active applications and lets you pin applications - like the Taskbar in Windows or Dock in macOS), and finally the Application Launcher widget (the Start menu equivalent). Everything is pretty heavily customised (presumably with Panel Colorizer? Not sure), so that - out of the box - even with this exact setup copied, yours would look slightly different.

YouTube hides your subscriptions from you

How do you mean?

The only reason they decided to obfuscate the use of Claude was due to the community starting wars and sending them death threats over it. Nobody is downplaying anything, they literally stated that they did that because managing shit-tier Issues that were all basically “why use AI” was becoming too damaging to the project.