Great news to be honest. I hope disney sees a similar spike in profits so they can make more great shows for me to pirate.
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Look, no hate, but I always find these kinds of comments funny because I've been reading them for over twenty years.
It's not going to happen, certainly not in any significant numbers.
Hell, look at the fediverse. The vast majority of internet users find signing up to mastodon hard, let alone lemmy. How the hell are these people supposed to install linux, for example when they follow many an 'easy' linux installation guide, but then find Rufus isn't able to create a bootable USB stick in fat32? How are they supposed to verify their data, or hell change the bios settings when the guide they read gives them the wrong key to press to enter the bios? And then if by some miracle they do manage to install linux, you expect them to move away from all the apps they've grown used to? They'll try to install MS office on linux and blame this not working on linux.
TLDR: Gretchen! Stop trying to make mass linux adoption happen! It's not going to happen!
Have you ever considered that if people were less naive about the true nature of war, and didn't lie to themselves about the reality for civilians, and that war inevitably devolves into rape, torture, and infanticide, the world would be a better place?
You be better.
I am not being disingenious. I am being realistic.
Any bomb dropped on Gaza is a bomb dropped on a high populous area.
Some estimate that as many as ten million people died in the Congo Free State. Historians generally agree that what happened doesn't meet the 1948 UN definition of genocide, because it requires intent and intent is hard to prove.
Another example: the Dasht-i-Leili Massacre. A US allied war lord stuffed thousands Taliban prisoners into metal containers, up to 250 per container. American troops were present when it happened. Oopsie doodle. It got a bit hot in the metal containers. It is likely that up to 2000 of them died from heat exhaustion and/or suffocation (and the occasional bullet). No one was ever convicted.
Remember former defense secretary Colin Powell? His meteoric rise started after he helped white wash the My Lai massacre.
Remember that time US soldiers gunned down Reuters journalists and laughed about it? Good news: they convicted someone for that. Bad news: they convicted the person who leaked the footage, Chelsea Manning.
This is how the world works. This is the standard of behaviour you can expect from militaries.
Which is probably why the Israelis will eventually get away with their crimes, just as other countries have before them. They can simply claim they were attempting to bomb Hamas, and that all those who have died are collateral damage. Don't get your hopes up about the ICJ case. The fact that they didn't push for an immediate cease fire should be enough to convince you of that. The world isn't fair.
On a related note: the police are less nice than their portrayal in Brooklyn 99 would lead you to believe.
Sorry. But you're naive.
War has always been like this. It's just been masked by newspeak. Collateral damage, precision or surgical strikes, insurgent, non-combatants, etc.
IRC the initial bombings of Iraq in 2003, labeled 'Shock and Awe' and portrayed as surgical and precise by plenty of media, likely cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians. The US bombed hospitals, they killed journalists, there were literal concentration camps, systematic torture, summary executions, etc. etc. People have simply watched too many American war movies (not a good war movie like Come and See, link to the full movie with subs on an official channel), don't know much about international law, and seem to think a bomb blast stops at the window of a building. The sad reality is that you can bomb a building with one terrorist in it, and if it happens to be next to a children's hospital, that's invariably not considered a war crime.
IRC the UK Department of Defense even has absurdly low civilian casualty figures, because anyone in a combat zone is no longer considered a civilian. Here's a relevant article:
And let's not get started on countries like Russia where officers pimped out their own soldiers. If that's how they treat their own, you don't want to know how they treat the enemy. I mean, they decided to pardon child rapists and murders after setting them loose on the Ukrainian front. And don't get me started on wars with child soldiers and rape camps. Hell, IRC in Syria the red cross/crescent gave Assad the location of hospitals, so they could avoid bombing them. They stopped doing that when they realised the regime was almost certainly using the locations they provided as targeting data and hit multiple hospitals in a day.
Want to know the sad reality? Israel will likely get away with all this, because what they're doing isn't that especially out of the ordinary when it comes to war. It's no coincidence that the ICJ stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Heat pumps are perfect for the UK. Unfortunately due to a lack of expertise or training, high demand, outdated heat installations, old housing stock, poor insulation, and cowboy builders, people often end up with a badly installed and overpriced install which may even be more expensive than a traditional gas heater.
That's why they're also still quite unpopular, despite being a no brainer on paper.
Something that the tories could have done something about, obviously. But on the bright side they'll be gone soon, so fuck 'em.
Housing which is shit and often unsuitable for habitation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dregproject
And to be clear, they've built a lot of infrastructure, but it's often underbuilt. Eg. they'll build huge projects or even residential districts, but save money by not ensuring there's sufficient drainage. Result: fancy stadium, looks better than many a western stadium, cost less to build, fancier, looks higher quality, what you see may even be better quality, built in record time, but when it rains everyone's walking in poo water.
Oh, it's you again.
am I imagining things here?
Oh, no. I assume you're just being ignorant (again) and think some of them just have a bit of a tan. If you actually google them, you'll find plenty are also of middle-eastern or North African origin. Here's a few of them, I've included a few ministers who were active till 2023:
Uriel Menachem Buso is an Israeli politician who serves as Minister of Health .... His mother Heftziba is the daughter of the Moroccan-born Mayor
Amichai Chikli ... serves as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and the Minister for Social Equality. ... Chikli was born in Jerusalem in 1981 to a Tunisian Jewish family.
May Golan ... is an Israeli politician and activist ... In 2023, a group of former Israeli ambassadors said they were “shocked” by the appointment of Golan as Israel's new women's advancement minister, saying that “Golan’s appointment is outrageous as she is a racist and divisive figure .... She is the child of a single Orthodox Jewish mother ... from Iraq
Shlomo Karhi ... is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government ... Karhi was born .... to mother Mazal and father Rabbi David Karhi, an Israeli-born Sabra of Tunisian Jewish heritage from Djerba
Makhlouf "Miki" Zohar ... currently serves as the Minister of Culture and Sports in the thirty-seventh government. ... His father Eli was an immigrant from Morocco and his mother Dina was from Tunisia.
David "Dudi" Amsalem ... previously held the posts of Minister of Communications ... His parents, Avraham and Sultana Amsalem, were immigrants from Morocco
Ofir Sofer ... is currently the Minister of Aliyah and Integration ... He is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.
Galit Distel-Atbaryan ... was formerly the Minister of Information. ... Distel-Atbaryan was born in Jerusalem to Iranian Jewish immigrants
Ya'akov Margi ... currently serves as the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services. ... Margi was born in Rabat in Morocco and brought to Israel during Operation Yachin
Itamar Ben-Gvir ... is an Israeli lawyer and far-right extremist... who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022 ... His father was born in Jerusalem to Iraqi Jewish immigrants. He worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing. His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant
Yifat Shasha-Biton ... was appointed Minister of Education in June 2021 ... Yifat Shasha-Biton was born ... to Rachel, a nurse born in Morocco and Moshe David ... born in Iraq.
Don't bother responding.
You've embarassed yourself enough.
I admire your confidence.
Nitpick, but a storage tank isn't the best target.
IRC it's the distillation tower. Those can take months to get running again, especially now that Russia is under sanctions and can't easily source some specialised parts.
A storage tank is relatively easy to manufacture and replace.
these people are white and European
More than half of Israelis have Middle Eastern or North African heritage.
If you're transposing relatively binary American notions of race (invariably based on skin colour) on a conflict half way around the world, you're entirely out of your depth when it comes to Israeli politics and the current conflict.
Eg. Netenyahu may be 'white' but Likud and right wing voters are overwhelmingly of middle-eastern or north african heritage. IRC Ben-Gvir, the far right minister of National security, is of Iraqi and Kurdish origin.
Given your comment was upvoted significantly, that's a damning indictment on how uneducated people are here too and how outdated their views on Israel are. Seriously people, go read about Israeli politics. Tiktok videos aren't enough. Hell, here's a website which has been previously accused of being pro-Hamas/Muslim brotherhood:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-why-right-wing-mizrahi-vote-misunderstood
I've provided further sources here:
https://kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/809321/-/comment/4963666
And another user has provided sources here:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/6965014
Please note that Biden not liking Netenyahu or his government, is different to Biden being supportive of the current war cabinet or Israel itself.
There are legitimate reasons to be critical of the US stance on that.
Have you ever considered that you don't know that much, which is why you think what the democrats are doing is easy to understand and simple, and seem to think Israel, Netenyahu and his government are all the same thing?
Here's an article from before the Hamas attacks:
And another one:
And here's another relevant article:
Biden understands that Netanyahu’s position is a precarious one. His governing coalition received just 48.4 percent of the vote, and took power only because of a quirk of the Israeli electoral system. The coalition relies on an alliance of unpopular far-right parties to stay afloat, whom Netanyahu must appease to remain in office. Biden has exploited this weakness and repeatedly poked at it. Rather than directly confronting Netanyahu, he has called out his extremist partners and in this way heightened the contradictions within Netanyahu’s coalition, undermining its stability and gradually eroding its support in the polls. In July, Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Netanyahu’s government has “the most extremist members of cabinets that I’ve seen” in Israel ... This was Biden’s approach in action: criticizing Israel during wartime in front of a pro-Israel crowd, and doing so in a way that nonetheless denied Netanyahu any opening. As long as it’s Biden versus Ben-Gvir, rather than Biden versus Bibi, the president holds the upper hand. ... Biden has brought the same strategy to bear on the issue of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, which has accelerated under the cover of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. Netanyahu’s coalition is unable to clamp down on these extremists and their terrorism because it is beholden to these extremists. But most Israelis have no desire to mortgage the security of Israel and its indispensable relationship to the United States in favor of some far-flung hilltop settlers in West Bank regions that few Israelis could locate on a map. Knowing this, Biden has begun unrolling a series of unilateral measures intended to raise the price of settler violence and pit Netanyahu and his allies against the Israeli public.
Proper nasty politics, keep your enemies closer, and backstabbing basically.
People think Biden's this old incompetent coot, but there's a reason he's been around for decades. He's a piece of work, for better or for worse, and knows how the game is played.
Obviously plenty of people on social media have been shitting on Biden for a while now, perhaps understandably.
But this is why he has to play a delicate and balanced role. He obviously hates Netenyahu and dislikes Israel's government, but he can't push too hard, because it would only help Netenyahu cling on to power a while longer. For example:
So although he initially publicly backed Israel 100%, the reason he's now being relatively muted in his criticism of their government, is almost certainly because he wants Netenyahu gone or wants Netenyahu to be forced to create a new coalition with more moderate parties. You know, get rid of those smug thunder cunts Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
Meanwhile, the US is clearly pushing the two state solution hard behind the scenes. Don't think it's an accident that little America's David Cameron said the UK might recognise Palestine and apparently the US is considering it too, all while doing an intensive tour of the middle-east and negotiating with Israel's neighbours for normalisation.
This isn't an open war.
It's a limited amount of retaliatory and proportional strikes, meant to dissuade further attacks on US forces and international shipping. They've also chosen not to attack Iran, exactly because they want to avoid escalation. They also warned Iran ahead of time, so they could move out anyone important.
If the US hadn't responded, it would only have made things worse. You can't just ignore groups murdering your soldiers. That'll only invite more of this crap. Terrorists shooting at civilian container ships is also not good for anyone.
The same thing happened with Iran and Pakistan recently. Iran struck Pakistan. Pakistan struck back. They both came to the conclusion they didn't want a war, and made a statement to that effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsedilemma
Per capita the US spends up to four times as much as comparable developed countries on healthcare, countries which often have something approaching universal healthcare which is affordable for almost everyone.
In other words, the US could spends less on healthcare, more on defense, and still have universal and better healthcare.
His poop is bigger than my house.