perestroika

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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Society is borked in many ways, and dating sites often reinforce this with their policies.

The Wikipedia article about online dating tells that typical (I assume: card stack, like / dislike) dating sites cause different genders to adopt different strategies:

Men liked a large proportion of the profiles they viewed, but received returning likes only 0.6% of the time; women were much more selective but received matches 10% of the time. Men received matches at a much slower rate than women. Once they received a match, women were far more likely than men to send a message, 21% compared to 7%, but they took more time before doing so.

By sending out questionnaires to frequent Tinder users, the researchers discovered that the reason why men tended to like a large proportion of the women they saw was to increase their chances of getting a match. This led to a feedback loop in which men liked more and more of the profiles they saw while women could afford to be even more selective in liking profiles because of a greater probability of a match.[15]

P.S.

My biggest peeve is that the monopolist Match Group (runs Tinder, bought and ruined OkCupid, etc) and its nearest competitor Bumble have both adopted a card stack system that makes searching impossible. They also won't display any statistics to a user about the number of people who saw their profile - keeping their customer in perfect darkness.

In most fields of life, a customer would not be satisfied with this kind of shit. A company advertising their product would demand instant feedback about the number and profile of people who viewed their ad, where they came from, how long they browsed, etc.

Basically, we are all getting scammed by a few monopolists, who are actively ruining people's ability to find partners. I would support a politician who promises to let the best university in the country to build a non-profit dating site.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Note for medical accuracy: often, renal failure can be compensated for with dialysis and life prolonged until a transplant is found.

After a trauma like a car crash, there might be other issues that prevent some treatment, however.

Basically, despite the headline, I will say that I hope she lives and finds a donor.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

P.S. A secondary and named source has now appeared, and claims to have photos:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/30/hamas-beat-protester-death-oday-al-rabbay-gaza-doorstep/

Mazen Shat, a senior police officer affiliated with Fatah – the Palestinian nationalist group that lost control of Gaza after a brief war with Hamas in 2007 – told The Telegraph: “Uday was martyred by the criminals of Hamas. And what’s his crime? He told the truth, because he refused to be silent on injustice, because he did not kneel to Hamas.”

Mr Shat said Hamas had tortured the young man for four hours. Images showed open wounds and bruising that left their victim’s body swollen and bloody.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just when one thinks IDF has reached rock bottom depravity, some war criminal finds a way to go deeper.

I hope the pepetrators (and if a command was given, their commanders, and if directions were given, the political leaders) are held responsible.

It will take a lot of time and maneuvering. Politically, Israel must lose status and become considerably weaker before justice can occur. Meanwhile, the ICC must gain status and become considerably more influential. Then...

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Obvious possibilities:

  • he was suspected of espionage and arrested (we don't know whether he did anything), for some reason it hasn't been disclosed (it should be disclosed)
  • he disappeared on his own, officials are trying to understand what he knew or accomplished

The university de-listing him seems particularly interesting. Clearly they were told something that the public wasn't told.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. Anyone who's barred from running for president, is also automatically barred from running for vice president.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, it involves assumptions.

On the background of Hamas having tortured and killed opponents before, and on the background of demonstrations having occured against them in Gaza at the end of Ramadan, as reported here...

Videos verified by The New York Times showed groups of Gazans in the half-ruined streets in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. Some carried more neutral signs that opposed the continuation of the war, while others chanted slogans calling for Hamas to get out.

...it is not a big assumption that Hamas leaders would ask their security service to find out who organized protests against them, and to kill those persons. They are not shy. It is not news that they kill civilians. It is not a big assumption.

However, time will clarify things. People will be asking Gaza residents if they know someone who knows someone named Oday Nasser Al Rabay, and soon enough we should have more information. If such a person isn't found, or turns up alive, it will be news too.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Checking one's sources implies that you read them, see what evidence they offer (e.g. relatives' posts, photos or videos from burial ceremonies), cross-check if the material is new or has been placed into a different context... and decide if you trust the material. The source can be direct or another publication. A journalist is better equipped to do that, since they can ask from quite many colleagues. They have the benefit of experience.

Material that gets re-published can usually be considered somewhat credible.

Material that does not get re-published, typically is not.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not really.

The only veteran with weight here is Petro Poroshenko, the president who took office after Yanukovich fled, and left office after losing elections to Zelensky.

Sadly, Poroshenko has been harassed quite considerably (charges are being considered, his properties have been sanctioned)... for things he did as a president, did openly, and at that moment, did for the benefit of Ukraine. One of those deeds was buying coal from Russian-occupied territories - until coal could be obtained from other places.

To me, the accusations against him have seemed more than a bit unfair - a man who did what he could in 2014 has been held against today's standards and found wanting. It is natural that Trumpists would seek out Poroshenko and try to talk him over to their side. Him being pissed off, he might not reject their advances.

Former President Petro Poroshenko, the de facto leader of Ukraine's opposition, said following the scuffle that he wouldn't criticize Zelensky "because this is not what the country needs now."

Following his team’s reported meetings with members of the Trump administration, the former president changed his tune and lashed out at his successor.

He criticized Zelensky for the sanctions imposed on him and said that Zelensky is the "unfortunate leader of the team who moves the nation to dictatorship."

However, on the background of today's Ukraine, the person with the biggest amount of support - ex-commander of the armed forces Zaluzhny - has probably not been approached, or has rejected them.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Frederica Matteoni (writing in German for Berliner Zeitung) probably has checked her sources.

Gaza: Hamas soll jungen Protestteilnehmer zu Tode gefoltert haben

Edit, a few days later: The Telegraph quotes a known person who's describing what they did.

Hamas tortures protester to death and leaves body on family’s doorstep

Also, this is not new behaviour from Hamas. Take of look at historical precedents, I'll give a selection extending back to 2015.

  1. Torturing people has been everyday business for Hamas. Recently, on retreat, Hamas had to abandon some security camera storage media.

Shackled and whipped with canes: Israel uncovers 'thousands of hours' of sickening footage showing Hamas interrogators torturing innocent Palestinians

  1. A few years ago, in 2022, they had an execution spree. France 24 reports:

Gaza's Hamas executes five Palestinians, including two for 'collaboration' with Israel

  1. Back in 2015 they had a big execution spree. The Guardian reports:

Hamas executed 23 Palestinians under cover of Gaza conflict, says Amnesty

Maybe it is time to stop and consider: maybe both Israel and Hamas are committing crimes of the most severe kind. History is not in short supply of one one tyranny fighting another.___

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I probably don't know the correct term in English. It's a product for starting a fire in a wood-fired stove or campfire. A rectanglular block of wood fiber soaked in oil.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wouldn't help. The thing that gives you lift is the mass of displaced air. Difference from the (lack of) mass of the lifting gas is minimal.

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