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MrBobDobalina

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  • Israelis assault Australian journalist while chanting "death to the Arabs" and “Gaza is a cemetery” in Jerusalem

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  • Not arguing, just want to be able to quote this confidently - can you link a source for this?

    I can find some info about Australian-made aviation parts going to other countries as per existing agreements, who use them in aircraft that are then supplied to Israel. Which is absolutely still shit, but I can't find anything about direct weapon sales to / from Israel

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  • Counterpoint - almost all jobs will have elements of this type of stressful fuckery. Use it as a learning experience, and do your best to navigate the constraints while maintaining professionalism and value to your employer.

    It's a balance; if it's truly soul destroying then your health and happiness is more important, get out. However, the more you learn how to deal with this, the less likely you are to burn out in other jobs when they get shit like this. Not so that you can just suck it up and grind away for awful bosses, but so that you can give yourself the maximum options for you, and stress less while going through it.

    You already seem to have the right mindset about trying to do this right, so the one thing I'll say is this: everything in writing, straight away. It's easy to get too relaxed about this when it's all going smoothly, but then something catches you out and it's too late (eg already been told not to bring it up again).

    This part will feel awkward, but to protect yourself, you need to send your boss an email summarising your conversation and your understanding of the outcome (not updating). Frame it as a "I hear you, and I apologise for my previous insistence" if it helps smooth things over, but just make sure it outlines your previous queries and suggestions and their response to you. It's the only way to cover your own butt in these situations, and it's a great habit to get into after every conversation that has decisions or changes etc. Put it in writing as a summary: you can refer back to it later and it let's the other person know you understood their position / instruction

  • Christian lifeguard doesn't have to raise the Pride flag. But he objects to making subordinates do it

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  • He makes $210,000 per year..?? I'm not saying important and dangerous jobs like this shouldn't be well compensated, I'm just very surprised that it IS this well compensated

  • A hail stone the size of a pineapple was found in Texas. It likely sets a state record

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  • A chunk of solid ice that big at terminal velocity? I'm betting yes, very much yes, very messily yes

  • What are your favourite moments in videogames?

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  • Yeah, definitely more about the tone and narrative for me, so I'd go with that plan and see it through!

  • What are your favourite moments in videogames?

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  • Ahhh I wanted to love it, it's one of my favourite scifi concepts explored really well, but I wish the big plot points at the end were told in the opposite order. Feel like it would have hit way harder, for me anyway

  • Black scholars criticize white writer's 'dehumanizing' use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations

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  • It gets worse the more I read the article... This guy spent a few weeks in blackface, thinks that he 'became a black man'. Then goes on to conclude that while it might be harder to thumb a ride as a person of colour, systemic racism is completely over?? We did it folks!

  • ‘Israeli soldier’ arrested for anti-Muslim abuse in UK

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  • This fucking guy is only claiming that he's an IDF soldier in an attempt to intimidate a woman who is calling him out for being aggressive towards another young woman too. Pathetic

  • Jerry Seinfeld is interrupted onstage by pro-Palestinian protesters — again

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  • Right?? Their very first point is such inflammatory bs, it's insane that they would try to prove it with that source. The most basic reading comprehension will tell you that they are making stuff up.

    Most Gazans agreeing that the actions of Hamas on Oct 7 were 'correct' does not equate to those same Gazans agreeing with every single Hamas stance. Such a dumb leap to go from that to "Most Gazans want to kill every Israeli"... Pathetic, evil, pro-genocide bullshit

  • Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester

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  • No no no, I think you misunderstood me. I'm saying that your link was much much better at telling the full story, and it was the other articles I read (posted elsewhere) that failed to tell the whole story. It was those other articles that were disgusting reporting.

    Edit to put the link back up, because I think it's important: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-04-07/might-have-to-kill-a-few-people/

  • Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester

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  • Thank you for this link. The first article I read on this only gave Perry's side of the story, so my first impressions were that he was an uber driver who turned a corner not expecting to see a protest, the protestors were worried about the car, and that one of them aimed a rifle at him.

    Nothing about his messages about wanting to kill some protestors, nothing about the witnesses all saying that the victim did NOT raise his weapon, nothing about the rifle being recovered with no round chambered and safety still on.

    Disgusting act, disgusting reporting, disgusting pardon. Thank you for your comment and link, truly.

  • Biden bans China crypto-miner from land near nuclear missile base

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  • Ehh, I give it about a 3.6. Not great, not terrible

  • NYPD officer fired gun while clearing protesters at Columbia: Live

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  • Holy shit guys, take a breath and figure out what you're arguing about.

    ME5SENGER_24's comment was technically unclear (yes I think it reads the way they intended it to, but I can see how it could be read the other way), and (des)mosthenes thought that "Most useless bunch of assholes on planet earth'" referred to the protestors, therefore thought the comment seems like it is wishing that the cops had killed 50% of them.

    ME5SENGER_24 didn't realise that their comment could be misconstrued, so lashes out at (des)mosthenes and calls them "fucking stupid"

    Now they're both all worked up, mad at each other, and not realising they are on the same fucking side. Just.... Take a moment, relax, try to see why someone might be confused, and talk it through. For fucks sake...

  • A colleague sent a video of a murder at work today and I'm still seething. What rights do I have? (UK)

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  • TW: suicide

    Similar happened to me about 15 years ago, and it still bothers me. Mine was out of the blue though, nobody had shared anything remotely violent or gory in the team. One guy decides to share a 'funny' video with a subject line of 'always search your detainees' or something. A guy gets seated in a room by a cop, asks for some water, cop leaves, guy sits for a moment, then pulls out a handgun and shoots himself in the head. I had headphones on and still remember the sound of his last 'exhale' after dying. Fucked me up for a while.

    In short, don't stand for this shit. It's no joke how much it can affect you if you aren't desensitised already, especially if you aren't expecting it.

  • My country/city has a new COVID wave. I got infected for the third time.

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  • If every sneeze was a brain damage dice roll, I bet we'd see this kind of post about sneezing indeed

  • Dead Space 1 (original)

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  • I also haven't played the remake, but from what I remember hearing about it, they did redesign the ship layout and traversal, turning it from individual chunks to an actually interconnected large space. Not sure if it fully fixes your issues with it but it's a huge effort to make a change that big