In Irish mythology, men with great destinies like Lugaid Riab nDerg (and by some tellings Cú Chulainn) are conceived of three fathers.

Lugaid’s mother seduced triplets Bres, Nár and Lothar to hedge her bets in case 1 or 2 died in battle. He was born with a horizontal red stripe across his hips and another across his chest showing he was ⅓ from each.

oops, I typed in ‘linguistics’ and picked the comm from a drop-down menu

Is this real?

I’m so used to computer-things being files I edit sovereignly on my device that I find it hard to understand the serfware.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/

‘It’s not close’ – Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate

Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

The addition, which now appears as the first entry due to the list’s reverse chronological order, comes after months of extensive debate among the platform’s editors. On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”

The entry for “List of genocides,” Wikipedia states that “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.” The page goes on to list the death toll in Gaza while mentioning that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians killed are civilians.

The decision to include the Gaza genocide in the list followed Wikipedia’s formal Request for Comment process, which began in July. Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page’s criteria of events “classified by significant scholarship” as genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.

British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”

Marshall concluded his ruling with the straightforward statement: “We follow the scholars.”

According to Wikipedia, events qualify as a genocide if they have been classified as such by “significant scholarship.”

Wikipedia’s decision comes amid wider discussions about source reliability, particularly regarding Israel and Palestine. In a related move, the platform’s editors recently voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the subject, adding it to their list of banned and partially banned sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)

Damn

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

Are there data on this?

You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.

Misinformed.

The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.

In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=

“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”

“You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.”

Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?

‘Stenopterygius’ is an anagram of ‘I get stone syrup’ or ‘Gutsy Stone pier’

Cringe title

No.

Book-learning is realllllly overrated in our world, especially in a forum like this.

Less than 1% of knowledge is expressible in words.

That leaves four

Lemmings

Is there a film called Lemmings? Seems a safe bet there is one.

one (1) boatload

approximately this

This is how satyagraha activism is supposed to go: they’ve made the bad guys incriminate themselves and put themselves in a bad position legally and in public perception.

Do you think they should have chickened out because of the possibility of arrest?

Meme posted by Southern Hemisphere Gang

Honestly a pretty good outcome so far from their nonviolent action.

Well done.

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