Former Malaysian PM Says Ungrateful Jews Reenacting Nazi Crimes in Palestine

Tbf I've seen Israelis and diaporic Jews bringing up the same exact point--

Responding to questions from the Jewish Chronicle, Mahathir Mohamad questioned the number of Jews who died during the Holocaust and claimed that Jews control much of the Western world

---record scratch nvm carry on, did not pass the vibe check -- antisemite in the house

The first season is based entirely on the book that's cowritten with Terry Pratchett. How you feel about the second season that'll be entirely from him and despite early assurances there won't be more, depends on how you think he is as a writer. I think he's matured, but certainly the book was a favourite that counted him as a writer because he had Pratchett to humanize and bring down the stakes to what I consider to be his storytelling tics to be clever and a bit grand.

In general expenditure for space exploration (or big ticket stuff) is usually a red herring in conversations about poverty eradication. In part because there's the 1:1 fallacy in administration (tau tau a significant part is state authorities and their taxation revenue) but also in terms of dividends down the line. For sure you can critique the priorities on a matter of principle but it's not like USA was evenly and uniformly rich during their space race years (racial segregation pun was still ongoing apatah lagi how native Americans were actively experiencing cultural genocide).

What is interesting is the long-term impact to their ICT and technical R&D industries. Like it or not, one of their demographical time bomb was having a highly educated middle class and coming with no real pathway to a career outside the service sector and/or migration. Will this be enough of a pull factor? NASA is still operating in Florida because equatorial advantage despite the politics being so shit; many expats would still continue to work in China if they weren't being discouraged to do so. Speaking of China, having manufacturing hubs like Shenzen arguably contributed to improved economic conditions and India has an even younger and dynamic population who may take all the science and engineering they're learning formally and informally and do something. The fact that a lot of space-oriented tech has come back to earth such as it is, and entered civilian life in good ways can't be overstated (titanium and lighter metals = better designed tools and prosthesis for the old and the disabled; better water filtration; carbon dioxide filtration), so imagine what can happen if much of this can be done on a global south economic budget.

In any case, if I want to be genuinely concerned I would think about the fueling needs of such a sector and the fact that both India and Pakistan are nuclear-owning countries 😌 but I remain always hopeful whenever any genie is out of the bottle when it comes to common folk having the access to improve themselves and change the overall condition.

For me, the legal and modding burden is the main point of consideration - not only for the team here, but also let's face it, we live in a society with norms that's not at all pro-victim and laws that's not really practiced to protect spicy speech, without even thinking about the immorality of it.

I do agree if we proceed, to remove image embeds as a start.

That's all thinking of NSFW specifically in pornographic (and not at all the same but functionally in our society is, also non-heterosexual) material.

But what about NSFW in sharing typical slice of life consensual stuff (this will never include child pornography or bestiality)? I think this is where mod discretion guidance needs to be hashed out a bit more.

What about NSFW in terms of art? Typical edge case would be discussing a docu on a human trafficking ring vs starting a thread in the anime sub about a lolicon show. Once we can articulate the distinction, I think that's a good start.

I can't believe my favourite fountain pen shop (in SS2) is more on the ball than our journos and news portal. They now have a fedi account: @[email protected]

Hahahahahhaha imagine being in a job that's supposed to be on the pulse of society and you're slower than a shop selling a pretty old-fashioned tool.

BTW, come contribute to this regional SEA magazine that i set up on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/magASEAN

And just in case not aware, kbin has a microblog section because they basically slurp content from the fediverse microblogs. If you click on the kbin logo on the left, you can see this nav tab like in the screengrab. The mag tracks posts that put MakanApaToday and TootSEA up top so if you want to also add food and other Fedi posts pls do!

Maybe we can turn !Malaysia as a place for stickies on navigating the other subs, and also for gwailos who need travel-related questions. It's worth exploring ... It that's the first comm they see, so it becomes a lobby/landing area?

The rest I +1

+1 on seksan.

Can try to look at the ppl behind REXKL https://architizer.com/projects/rexkl/

Thinkcity isn't an architecture firm but they work in urban history and restoration so they might have good leads.

YTL is a big conglomerate but look for the people responsible for KLPAC and Sentul West (it's no doubt gentrification but it's worth looking at what they did with the Sentul train depot complex - that's now Sentul Depot).

Apparently Studio Bikin is involved with the APW Bangsar site (which part of it was the New Straits Times printer building) but the ppl behind this building nearby might be a good source of info: https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2016/09/11/bangsars-striking-new-landmark-is-an-architects-dream-come-true/1200553

There's a lot of small-time and medium-sized firms imo but I'm not surprised online search doesn't yield a lot, compared to the big players above. You guys may be surprised at the extent of the work already done tbh.

ETA: this entire channel is basically a video lookbook of firms doing what you guys are interested in, I suspect: https://youtube.com/@designseedstudio - I especially like the Denai Sepuloh house (apparently old-timer architect), but there's at least a dozen of projects on that channel that might yield leads for you.

thanks for your feedback, considering all the context cues that this was a piece of malaysian article written by malaysians for malaysians posted on a malaysia instance, maybe cool it with accusing their (heavily edited) submission as being written by AI. or maybe just don't say anything at all.

I only ever kept this one hahhahaha

Whoa: horrible not even funny twitter news. I'll put spoiler tags to the summary because it's about pedo content

::: spoiler CSAM mention ___ OK Melon Husk finally did something SO REPULSIVE that I think I genuinely can't any more.

I highly recommend you don't learn too much about it, but let's just say that an "influencer" posted some stills from one of the most disgusting child sex/murder videos ever made by our species. I'm not going to link to anything but Google "Peter Scully" if you need to know.

Twitter's barely-functional trust and safety team very rightly banned this "influencer". Melon Husk PERSONALLY reinstated the guy. :::

This thread (Nitter link) spells out the legal implications

Also, add more content, do more comments. Don't be lazy lurking dorks like Twitterjaya complaining about Mastodon. 😌

Anyway, yo, thanks so much, did you do all the writeup and research? This is so cool man!

ETA: gave a shout-out on my main fedi alt https://mefi.social/@cendawanita/110824477232528680

(that said, despite my issues with the series, for a lot of reasons, it's probably the best adaptation of a Pratchett story because on the other hand his characters don't seem to survive transition to visual media, e.g. the Discworld shows)

These days I just langgar tembok and terrorise the younger person into an introductory chat before leaving them alone. I figure it's a lot more effective from an introvert pov lol - 1. I broke the ice; 2. I don't get to terasa; 3. If they're cool they're gonna say hi at another time as membalas, if not they'll turn turtle and it's not my fault XD

Snap poll for the non-muslims:

Do/did you think raya is the Muslim new year? 😂 Asking because damn, after leaving school and the mandatory maal hijrah stuff, I don't think I've ever celebrated Awwal Muharram (today!!) in any big way. No wonder if ppl thought raya is new year.

I support how complicated your plan is 👌🏽

That's how u know ur both hot

Harlow - decided to make a monyet.cc account as backup, like today. This chat thread didn't federate 🙈

Hahahaha this is my first time lepak in a Malaysian subreddit and previously also never been on Reddit much. OTOH been on Fedi since Nov 22 daily hahahhahaha (it helps I'm not on actual mastodon and I've never been on a mega big instance)