Lots of subcultures I care about exist only on Reddit. Queer ones, crafting ones, comics, art, science, etc. So when I got banned, it was a bit of a kick in the gut. Lemmy does not have the breadth of content yet, but it does have the queer, and importantly, the ability to talk politics again that I did not have any more on Reddit.
Can confirm, Bazzite is ridiculously easy. If you don’t want to dual-boot it’s easier to install than Windows. I have it on my laptop and all my games run better now.
Except Tropico 6. For some reason that made my entire system go crazy. 😄
I don’t want to lose weight for vanity. I want to live beyond my 50s.
Learn to troll, grandpa.
AI is different from LLM, you disingenuous fuck.
Hot sand stores a huge amount of heat, and the bigger the storage, the less heat it loses. With modern insulation, even the cheap options, it lasts months. Circulate water or some other fluid through pipes embedded in the sand, and you can introduce or extract the heat.
A current we don’t like. Or alternatively, whales. Harnessed to the blades.
Quite possible. It’s double figures at least, according to polls.
You are discounting the idea that a lot of voters think Bibi is not killing enough.
Buddhism. Gnostic Christianity. Hinduism. Probably a whole bunch more, I’m no theologian.
The hideousflaw in the post you’re replying to isn’t that, though. It’s the idea that Israel invented Judaism, that Judaism is a monolith, that Israel is run on Jewish lines, and that Jews everywhere look to Israel for leadership.
That’s some fucked-up thinking there. That thinking sucks.
Why not use a smaller bomb, when the option exists? Or targeted assassination? Or drones? Using a megaton nuke seems unwarranted. Palestinians in the West Bank live within a rifle-shot of the evil settlers shooting them with rifles. Seems like you’re willing to accept the deaths of the people you claim to want to protect as collateral damage.
Israeli citizens require a lot of deprogramming, and they are mostly saveable.
However, the bad news is that it may not be possible to do that without invading the country, since a majority of them are too far gone to accept deprogramming without serious coercion.
I look at the example of deprogramming efforts in West Germany after WW2. Denazifying efforts did exist there, despite modern western communist revisionism (not all wrong, btw, but not all correct either, check ALL sources my ML and tankie friends). It was quite difficult in many cases; even though a majority of the German population was just relieved that the war was over, they would have kept resisting if their country had survived. And there was a sizeable minority that only stopped being Nazis openly to avoid persecution.
Edit: and to be clear, I share your view that writing victims of propaganda off as enemies not deserving of leniency is monstrous. It is akin to what the fascists do. We must recognise the humanity in our enemies, while accepting that sometimes it is still necessary to kill them.
We must only kill the poor bastards if it is necessary to stop them murdering others, not just because they are “monsters” and it feels good.
Mate, you got no fucking clue. This will create entire new organised crime markets.
OK good, let’s do that immediately.
Hmmm. Haven’t had the chance eh mate?
Ah, Roquefort… So salty and good…
I wonder if the Palestinians will be doing their own genocide in the future, continuing the cycle. Happens throughout history. The Kurds used to do the fucking, now they’re getting fucked. Hutus and Tutsis. Serbs and Croats.
It’s hard to stop the cycle, but it can be done. Colonial projects are not the way to do it.
Sure, buddy.