The police are the public and the public are the police

How much of that was accessible before social media though? Unless you went looking, Israel generally was a pretty sanitized package on the media landscape, or was framed within the “well we were attacked first” narrative that contextually requires ignoring the prior grievances and violence

Automatic translation of Knesset member’s and regular Israeli’s tweets has been radically eye opening for me. Kinda hard to hold the view of ‘well, Bibi is a monster but he’s the main one pushing this bloodshed’ when you can factcheck genocidal statements in real time, and see the actions try to meet their rhetoric

I swear, smokers in Europe have atrocious social graces with no concept of personal space. Even at the busiest and most cramped cafes, they will light up at the table with you or standing next to a doorway, and then act like you’re the problem if you’re annoyed or upset about second hand smoke. Beer gardens and outdoor seating almost universally include a carcinogenic haze, it just ruins the meal/drink imo to be tasting the air between bites

At least in America the social stigma is strong enough where they scurry off to their opium den smoking area and get their nicotine hit with their brethren. Go in peace friend, you do you over there to y’all’s lungs

As you’ve said, they’ve had a track record of power competition and want their sphere of influence in the region, but repeatedly have shown refrain towards other nations during times of escalation.

Iran had (/has?) a chemical weapons program after the Iran-Iraq war, and guess what? There never was a VX nerve gas attack on Tel Aviv. I’m not remotely concerned with them using a nuke offensively, because they’ve exercised restraint repeatedly when they did have other weapons of mass destruction. And they’ve proven they have the capability to get past Israel and allied missile defense, so it’s not a capability gap either

All this hand wringing over “they cannot have a bomb under any circumstances” is unspoken MAD calculus - because then Israel would be on a level playing field as far as ultimate escalation and regime security, and that’d be intolerable for Bibi/the US’s/Gulf State plans for the region.

While I’d like to see the Iranian people not be subject to Israeli ‘acceptable civilian deaths’ calculus and have their country cucked like Syria/Lybia, I’m also not hype on their government leaders getting that same MAD protection as well, because they absolutely don’t deserve it

Agreed, though it’s surprising it hasn’t already happened given their longstanding stance on investments in arms or other controversial industries

Me researching a topic that piques my curiosity;

Okay so I after all the open source info lead nowhere, I made a throwaway account on a 2000s era hobbyist PHP forum and THAT’S where I found the research paper that unlocked everything after translating from Russian and pre-standardization local units

Also me trying to replace a three-way light switch

Man idk, this seems like a really hard to figure out this wiring diagram

Until you cross into advanced manipulation or outright image creation, Paint.Net can do almost everything you want from it. Tbh the only feature I miss is the plethora of user guides and tutorials that are Photoshop specific, or said another way; I don’t miss their software, I miss the community

Just buy a seam ripper, and sanitize your branded sweater/blanket/jacket/etc from their embroidered trademark.

Isopropyl alcohol or xylene can take off most printed/transfer logos on plastic or metal objects.

Worst case scenario you give it to someone else/homeless so it doesn’t end up in a landfill or wastefully recycling an otherwise usable product.

Not gonna lie, his return to music and most recent two albums are pretty good if you like the Fred Again style of production.

Dubstep is a hard genre to get into, aside from very few album releases (there are A LOT of singles/splits) there’s some big sonic variation. Some of the faster, more frantic tracks sound closer to Jungle, while other artists like Burial bring a lot more of the UK Bass sound, and then you’ll get a very downtempo track, or a flute as the main instrument.

It’s kind of a “I know it when I hear it” vibe lol

The old heads remember what dubstep actually is, before Skrillex took the name and ruined everyone’s understanding of the newest genre from the UK garage/drum and bass scene. All my homies hate Skrillex.

Any woman who receives something good, did it by trading sexual favors

Aisha Bowe is an actual aerospace engineer, Amanda Nguyen an activist for sexual assault victims, and the rest are either rich, powerful, celebrity, or combination. Except Sanchez.

A PR stunt to deflect from Bezos’ permanent duck-faced fiancée getting a free ride does not mean the rest are strumpets who blew their way to the top. Exceptionally poor judgement yes, and they deserve derision for that.

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

I will bulk purchase grey-market bootleg toner from shady overseas websites before I go back to a inkjet…

If you can’t make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don’t have an actual point.

I made my point, twice even. That final example is what’s know as hyperbole, trying to make the point get across to you by over exaggerating. You ignored two examples (stalkers and burglars), to focus that. Moving the goalposts is an entire different thing.

hyperbole

1. Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

People passing by and getting a temporary snapshot with their eyes? No problem

A tech monopoly putting photos online, for anyone anywhere at any time to see, and constantly updating the photos? Thats a problem.

Without even thinking hard I can imagine several malicious uses like stalkers finding their victims home, or burglars casing neighborhoods for gates or cameras.

You naïveté does not define the norm for everyone else. Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.

Same. Because if the unions can kill poisonous work demands like ‘crunch time’ and thus cause delays for polish and bug fixes by devs who aren’t sleeping at their desk from exhaustion, we all win

Where the fuck are you getting your propaganda? Noah Argamani? The woman posting pictures with Donald Trump on her socials?

Here’s her socials from earlier. And then speaking at the UN:

“I need to make sure that the world knows that: the deal must go on in full … completely, in all the stages,” she told the Security Council before then describing how a house she was held hostage in was blown up, trapping her in the rubble.

All the stages, ie to end the war and have a lasting peace, not “bring them home now, no matter what”. Nobody is a perfect advocate, but speaking out against the official narrative and continued advocacy for a negotiated exchange is a huge start imo.

Right up front, I voted for the ‘lesser evil’ in a swing state, so stow those comments about me enabling fascism.

The sad truth is that turning on Israel would have done more damage to the democrats electorally than it would’ve helped

I mean, you can keep saying that. But it’s not even true among Jewish voters, let alone the larger electorate.

I’m really starting to suspect these kind of comments are morality laundering after spending months backing an immoral stance held by a feckless executive who refused to see past his moral blind spot.

• The populace didn’t want the death and destruction.
• Career bureaucrats at the state department didn’t want it.
• Online commentators refused to seriously entertain criticism of Joe as anything but bad faith - so the message became “we’re okay with it” never “I don’t want this or Trump, do better Joe”

I felt the Fight Club line was pretty clearly tongue i n cheek, but to be clear - I have nothing wrong with self improvement for yourself, with organic rationale.

The grindset lifestyle is super toxic though, and the wellness influencers are just yogis reskinned imo.