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- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 5 months ago:
I mean, it was more like over the course of a millennium, starting with the Roman destruction of the 2nd temple. I’m sure it picked up with the Muslim conquest, but that wasn’t the start of the diaspora.
- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 5 months ago:
What’s funny?
- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 5 months ago:
Seems to break along subreddit lines.
- Comment on The American mind cannot comprehend this 5 months ago:
“Lots” of American cities seems like an exaggeration.
Some American cities have certain areas which are car-free.
- Comment on Take me back 7 months ago:
Is it? Okay.
- Comment on Take me back 7 months ago:
It’s not historical consensus. It’s a claim made by some historians that went viral online.
- Comment on Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist? 7 months ago:
I shave my head. Where’s my option?!?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’m getting there. One by one, I’m leaving the news communities, because they’re so deranged.
It’s frustrating, though, cuz Reddit (for better & worse) was a pretty good source of news, and a good place to discuss it. Yes there was a lot of noise, but most of the time the top few comments were worth reading. Sometimes it was legit deep analysis, sometimes insider knowledge about the politics/business/culture in question. Then below that, there was the bog-standard predictable takes and the shit-slinging.
On Lemmy, you only seem to get the latter. I guess it’s just not big enough, or skews young and inexperienced.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Counterpoint: if you think the world is so terrible right now (relative to…?) that anyone pointing out anything positive must be shut down, you’re probably just a toxic asshole.
- Comment on Born on the wrong side of the fence. 7 months ago:
I think the joke is supposed to be “the IDF is so dumb, they think this is what a Hamas HQ looks like!”
The real joke is, that is what Hamas HQ looks like.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass Wave 6 - Course Overview 7 months ago:
Nope, you’re not corrected. The expansion tracks are $25, the game itself is still $60.
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 7 months ago:
There’s like 3 regular-looking Swedes who make just about all popular music, isn’t there?
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 8 months ago:
I think this might be giving the attackers too much credit for strategy. Don’t discount the simple religious aspect: don’t make the mistake of refusing to believe that devout religious people don’t actually believe their own religion.
Take ISIS. A whole lot of their actions made almost no sense, from a strategic point of view: picking fights with everybody, massacring civilians instead of letting them flee, destroying ancient artifacts (instead of either preserving or selling them) if you omit the simple explanation of religion. They wanted to trigger the final, apocalyptic battle that would usher in the end of the world. They said exactly that in their social media videos, but we secular atheists (or non-devout believers) just kinda skipped over that detail.
Things aren’t as clearly religious in the case of the Palestinians, but probably plays some role. Same with the Israeli Right, and the American Right with their unconditional support for Israel. We shouldn’t ignore the impact of religious belief.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 8 months ago:
The initial plan wasn’t to give the entire area to the Jews, it was to give some share of it (20% of the land, is the figure I heard). That area is the only place the Jews could really conceivably lay claim to. And the Arabs (specifically the Sharif of Mecca, not the people of Palestine) got huge swaths of land in exchange for their revolt against the Ottomans: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, etc. The British made a specific exception for coastal areas, and there’s debate about whether Palestine was part of that or not.
So…not that simple.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 8 months ago:
Still seems like the default in much of Europe and Asia
- Comment on Old pinball machines are amazingly complex 8 months ago:
Yep, me too! Liquid detergent, made a noticeable difference!
Also in the process of changing all my bulbs from basic LED to filament LED, haha.
- Comment on Old pinball machines are amazingly complex 8 months ago:
Seriously, this guy makes great videos. I’ve enjoyed his videos on heat exchangers, VHS vs Beta, liquid dish detergent vs pods, or humidifiers way more than is reasonable.
- Comment on Yes they're real, and they're spectacular. 8 months ago:
Lol, I got the Astro Boy theme stuck in my head just looking at these.
- Comment on When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint 8 months ago:
I mean it seems outrageously greedy, but stop and think about it: if they’d paid for a pizza party, the banner would’ve had to read “Thanks for driving sales and beating plan by $5,999,727!!” And that’s just ugly.
- Comment on Guys ruins someone concert experience while sexting chatbot 9 months ago:
Dude I was at this concert, but there was another guy there who was on his phone doing something weird…the whole concert was ruined!
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 10 months ago:
That’s not reparations for slavery, then. That’s just redistribution.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
I, uh…I think they’ve been building the case against Trump by getting convictions, confessions, and plea deals from his underlings. Which is what I said in response to the initial question: why isn’t Trump in prison, even though a lot of his underlings are? Because that was a necessary prerequisite to making the case against him, since he probably wasn’t involved in the day-to-day activities.
I never said anything like “these are things they aren’t doing”. I’m just explaining the timing.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
You can go to jail for being head of a criminal organization or conspiracy. This requires that 1) prosecutors prove that the conspiracy was in fact illegal, and engaged in illegal activity, and 2) that you were in fact the head of that conspiracy. That all requires cooperation from other defendants. So it takes time to build a case like that.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
Oh, they’re not going to stick with him! He’s finished, IMHO. But the question was why it took so long. It’s because the other conspirators had to go first to build the case.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
Right. So to start out you prove there was a conspiracy, and you convict some of the members, and then finally you have enough evidence to go after the leader.
Trump wasn’t directly involved in illegal stuff (in most cases), he was doing it through underlings. So you need to start with the underlings, and roll him up last.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
Yeah. But RICO charges require that you’ve got cooperation and guilty pleas from lower-ranking members of the organization, and they’re willing to point the finger at the leader and say “he’s the one who told me to do it”. So, yeah, that’s part of the reason why he’s the last one in the group to see the inside of a courtroom.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
Yes! He stepped right into that one.
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 10 months ago:
Well, aside from what others are saying…
Try to picture Trump on the phone with the Proud Boys, giving them explicit instructions or discussing strategy. Even if he did talk to them (which I doubt), surely it’d be his usual “We’re going to do great things, great things, we’re all great people, we’re gonna turn this thing around, it’s going to be beautiful!”
When Russia collaborated to help Trump get elected, do you figure they talked on the phone in person? Or emailed back and forth? Motherfucker couldn’t make it through a one-page intelligence briefing, I’m not even sure he can write. Surely it was Trump’s people working with Putin’s people (several levels down in both cases).
You need to prove that Trump personally and intentionally violated the law. It’s not enough to show that shady shit was going on around him. And that’s hard to prove, since he generally was working at a remove. And this is a guy who’s been in and out of courtrooms his entire adult life; surely he has some instinct for what kinds of things to avoid.
- Comment on Does anyone *not* love using their bidet? 10 months ago:
Definitely TP before shower.
And I dunno. occasionally the timing doesn’t line up, but the vast majority of the time…I can just wait.
- Comment on Does anyone *not* love using their bidet? 10 months ago:
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