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Pay two people you meet on the street to hold a sign, I still don't call it employment. That question is a red herring.

What do you think his punishment for that should be? A fine? Because that is something we could agree on.

I just follow the news sometimes. I see the genocide in progress pretty frequently. Speaking of which, just saw this on my feed.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/22/08-22-26-israel-rabbi-palestinians-clip

And looks like it's not a joke by some teenager this time.

I only watched like three videos of him. Hardly enough for me to claim to know somebody.

Never heard of this penny guy and all I know about Stallman, if we're talking about Richard Stallman, what i know is that he launched the GNU project and he's a free software activist.

What should I know about Stallman?

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By employing people, if you mean paid $5 on Fiverr for two people to hold a sign that said something controversial as a joke for one time, yeah let's call that employing people.

I see people say worse on the regular, not as a joke, and these people get no where close to the shit piewdiepie gets.

Also, he did apologize that the joke went too far. He didn't think they'd actually do it. No, making a joke doesn't mean he's antisemitic.

And no I didn't memoryhole anything. I only found out piewdiepie after his Linux journey. Not everyone can be chronically online and/or are from a western country.

I didn't do my research, so I'd rather you explain yours to me. I'm willing to hear you out.

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Just some random guy who is not particularly educated about the subject here.

I think that's how the Arabs of today depict Arabic numerals. Both are Arabic numerals and there are many other scripts, for instance many variations of brahmic scripts that depict the Arabic numerals using various notations.

So both are Arabic numerals using different notations and adapted to be used alongside their own writing system.

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Also, just to add, while it is known as Arabic numerals, it originated from India, so it's often also known as the Hindu-Arabic numerals. It's mostly known as Arabic numerals to the west because they came to know the numerology of the system via the Arabs. What makes the numerals is not the symbols, but other characteristics of the system such as the positional notation and the decimal base