This may be anecdotal or a result of them being new and having less documentation/etc, but in my experience when they do have problems it's way more of a pain in the ass to deal with too.
I know Firefox is the popular option here, but do we have any serious non-google managed Chromium based browser options out there that don't have some weird gimmick?
I feel like for subs like those to pop up, the barrier to entry needs to drop really low. We lean even more technical than reddit did now, and to encourage subs like those, you kinda need a healthy population of non-technical people.
Warrior only made it to 54. He had a lot going on, admitted steroid use, so definitely some substances involved. Also, supposedly untreated serious mental illness. People who have worked with him say that's his real personality, not an act.
They did also kill hangouts... and pretty much every other messaging platform they've ever created, sometimes just for kicks. It might be incompetence as opposed to anything malicious there.
I feel like the primary aim is to create a minimalist art piece first and a functional device as an afterthought. If you stop thinking of it as a phone, and think of it purely as an attempt at creating a status symbol, it all kind of makes sense.
People tend to forget that one of the key justifications for Hamas splitting off as a distinct organization was that they felt their former parent organization was not supportive enough of open violence against Israel. Also important to note, the initial charter classifies diplomatic solutions as a waste of time and war as the only possible answer.
Per your genocide comment, I'm guessing you're talking about the hadith advocating that Judgement Day will not come until they have killed all Jewish people everywhere. It's very rough, but do want to note that there is a much later statement indicating the possibility of living in peace with other faiths as long as they are never ever challenged. But... this is also sandwiched between a call for everyone to join them in jihad and a callout to a document with questionable provenance detailing a plot for the jewish people to take over the world.
Anyone can read the whole charter online, obviously translation bias is a thing, but the translations I've seen out there are very harsh. There are items in there about 'Palestinian Lives and Rights', they've got notes codifying the status of women as lesser and taking jabs at anyone advocating for women as doing it just to make them look bad. There are a few random items in there that do look harmless at first glance, I'd encourage everyone to at least take a look through it, it's not very long.
I completely believe you, but pointing at Lemmygrad for anything like that is kind of a low bar. If there's any possibility that it could go against Western Interests, the community is automatically for it. They don't really care what's actually going on, they just work backwards from being 'Anti-Western' and figure out how to support it later.
I feel like your argument here gets slippery very quickly. You're basically advocating for 'win at all costs' if you're on a specific side and that's real hard to support.
You'll find a lot of comments along the lines of the Hamas government and Hamas terrorist organization being fundamentally separate entities. You'll also find a lot of people dismissing the claims in articles like this one or trying to paint anyone in Hamas inciting violence as 'not important'.
The idea is to foster a narrative to paint Israel as 'just as bad as hamas' and while Israel has done many bad things, the gap between the two is massive. I think it mostly comes from a desire to paint one side as 'good' and one side as 'evil' which isn't always easy.
Yeah, I saw the Guardian article too and I'm personally a fan of them as a news source. This one does have a lot more detail, and overall I feel it does a lot more to cover Lifshitz's more critical comments. I think the potential translation bias may still end up being our eventual sticking point though especially with the varying tones of the ones out there and I'm not sure how we resolve that.
I think the idea is that while likely factual, the quotes presented in the article might be a bit cherry-picked.
I personally can't find a version of her interview on video that doesn't have cuts and actually feels complete. Translation also seems to be a bit variable, for instance, some seem to translate her next line as something like having never thought humans would be capable of doing this to another and others along the lines of not knowing how they got into this situation. Some do have her daughter translating which I'm usually inclined to trust, but we're obviously not sure of her bias either.
Quick summary, there's a lot of uncomfortable variety in how this press conference is being presented.
Right there with you on the UI. This would overlap in functionality with a lot of other items in my network, but I'm trying to find a reason to use it just so I can play with the UI.
Hamas does occupy governmental positions, but they're also demonstrably linked to terrorist actions which they take full responsibility for, and I think that takes precedence for most people. With that, many of us are reticent to call them a government.
To your point though, if we can trust wikipedia and if I'm reading it correctly, the ministry of health in Gaza seems to also be under Hamas governance, so I'm not sure who else you'd deliver the foreign aid too.
From the way they talk about it... sometimes I'm not sure that there actually is a game at all.
If it came out tomorrow that it was all an elaborate hoax, I don't think I'd be super surprised.