I'd like to offer some corrections and clarifications.
First, you are absolutely 100% right that Zionism is much bigger than just "Let's go genocide". The usage of Zionism today seems very muddied and strange, especially by non-Jews.
Zionism is actually even more expansive than you describe here though: it's simply the belief in the right of the Jewish people to a state. A lot of 19th century Zionists actually wanted to buy land in Africa to start a Jewish state to sidestep the thorny mess that is politics in the holy land. They lost out to Herzl in the first Zionist Congress though.
Secondarily, I completely agree that anti-zionism based on Jewish dispersal is exactly identical to Palestinian genocide, just reversed. There are one-state proposals that could work if the crazy religious nutjobs weren't in power in Israel and Gaza, working hand in glove to maintain power by mutual terror.
I think when people that aren't fully aware of the ideologies are hating on Zionism, what they're actually against is Kahanism, they just don't know the terminology.
In the short term, there's also a lack of capacity. Fares function as a limiter on the number of people using it. Too many people for your capacity? Raise prices. Spare capacity? Lower prices.
This can be solved by increasing capacity, but it takes time to figure out what the capacity necessary actually is and then buying more trains/buses and hiring/training drivers.
I very much agree with Bricky's review of the new Darktide updates.
Basically, I think there was a fundamental disconnect between what most people wanted out of it and what I wanted out of it. As a massive fan of the original L4D and L4D2, the idea of a Warhammer version of L4D was incredibly appealing. As a game where you jump in, play a round or two, and then move on to whatever it is you need to do during the day it functioned incredibly well.
However, it seems the majority wanted a game with an expansive grindy end-game with lots more loot progression and maps. The maps part I can relate to, variety is good, but do we need yet another game that you need to play for 10,000 hours before you get the "good" stuff? Really?
The crafting system was and still is pretty broken, btw. I just really hope fixing it doesn't remove the possibility of easily getting high-tier weapons to try things out without gimping yourself for the higher difficulty missions.
I like the new maps, the new talent system is kinda interesting to fiddle with, the variant abilities for the 4 classes are awesome, but I had no issues with the way the game was before. The new boss fight is fun to play a few times, the 2 new maps are alright, and the new weapons are very hit and miss.
EDIT: Oh! For those that haven't figured out how to sidestep the entire janky crafting system, here's how you do it:
Go to Brunt's Armory and pick the weapon you'd like to have
Keep buying copies of it until you get one with good stats (for a level 30 character, stats have a rating cap of 380. Anything 370+ is basically perfect)
Sell all except the best one
Take your good weapon to Hadron and consecrate it up to max rarity
I was thinking about this some more, and now I think this entire conversation and vote is entirely irrelevant. Not just not worth having, but actually completely makes no difference.
A big company like Meta is gonna want to control what content is on it. Which means they're almost certainly not going to use a blacklist model, they're going to use a whitelist. This allows them to carefully control who they're federated with.
Their federation list will likely be a who's who of big influential mastodon servers, maybe some pixelfed servers. They probably don't even know that Lemmy exists, let alone the 8th largest instance. If/when they realize Lemmy is a thing in a few years, they might approach lemmy.world and/or lemm.ee.
All of this to say, I don't think this vote matters.
This instance is uniquely vulnerable to the threat Threads may pose.
Would you mind expanding on that? Why do you think that? If that refers to voting in the Agora, then I'd like to mention that users from other instances can't vote in the Agora. That is only for users of sh.itjust.works.
It's actually relatively trivial to scrape the public data of any instance. If Meta really cared (which I highly doubt), there's nothing stopping them spinning up a temporary instance with a bot that auto-subscribes to all communities it knows about.
Defederating from threads doesn't change the fact that all information on any instance is pseudonymous, but very public.
Completely agree that these kinds of threads end up being more a popularity poll than anything more actionable and usable. Everyone has their own opinions and preferences (which is great!), but that can end up being extremely overwhelming for a newbie.
I actually disagree on what the biggest difference is. For the average everyday user, the biggest difference is the desktop environment. Having a desktop environment that the user finds intuitive, easy, and is stable is by far the most important thing.
First of all, Jew refers to both a religion and ethnicity, but in this context (Israel) is almost exclusively ethnic.
Palestinians are Jews (the religion), Christians and Muslims, not exclusively Muslim. The PLO is an explicitly religiously tolerant group whose logo was a menorah, cross and crescent moon.
Hamas, the Muslim Palestinian extremist group, was primarily funded and supported by Israel to break PLO dominance of Palestinian politics, because fighting a religiously tolerant nationalist movement that had recently commited to non-violence was bad optics internationally.
The Palestinians were forced at gunpoint to abandon their homes and move to Gaza and the West Bank during the Nakba in 1948.
"Designer" cat breeds is an awfully vague term. Main Coons, for example, are a naturally occurring large cat from Maine. It was always a large cat, but some breeders push that to an unhealthy extreme to win cat shows. Others, like the Ragdoll, for example, is a perfectly healthy breed that started as a mix between 2 other pedigree breeds of cat with no extremes that challenge their health.
I believe that to make progress in reigning in the excesses of breeders we need to stop thinking in terms of specific breeds and start thinking in terms of genetic issues in specific lines.
I'd like to offer some corrections and clarifications.
First, you are absolutely 100% right that Zionism is much bigger than just "Let's go genocide". The usage of Zionism today seems very muddied and strange, especially by non-Jews.
Zionism is actually even more expansive than you describe here though: it's simply the belief in the right of the Jewish people to a state. A lot of 19th century Zionists actually wanted to buy land in Africa to start a Jewish state to sidestep the thorny mess that is politics in the holy land. They lost out to Herzl in the first Zionist Congress though.
Secondarily, I completely agree that anti-zionism based on Jewish dispersal is exactly identical to Palestinian genocide, just reversed. There are one-state proposals that could work if the crazy religious nutjobs weren't in power in Israel and Gaza, working hand in glove to maintain power by mutual terror.
I think when people that aren't fully aware of the ideologies are hating on Zionism, what they're actually against is Kahanism, they just don't know the terminology.