BraveSirZaphod @ BraveSirZaphod @kbin.social

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What's the actual data on this?

I'm sure PE is buying some homes, but that's a different statement from the much stronger claim that they're buying so many that they're directly creating a shortage.

Michigan, which contains a lot of Arab Americans, is one of those places where votes very much do matter.

It's a non-trivial assumption that there would even be a genuine election after that.

Some context is that this is Spotify's first profitable quarter in quite a while. Also, there are 11 million artists on Spotify. I won't pretend to have any data on listening distribution, but even naively and stupidly going with a uniform split, that's of course $5 per artist if you eliminated Spotify's profit entirely. In reality, most of those will have next to no listeners, and the vast majority of streams are going to the top several thousand.

The deeper question to ask is where all the streaming revenue is actually going, and the answer to that isn't to line Spotify's pockets; it's to the labels.

It's pretty uncommon, but there are some use cases, namely women in relationships with HIV+ men.

That would make a Trump victory significantly more likely. Throwing away incumbent advantage is incredibly stupid if you want to win.

Equally possible it was mosad.

Cheers.

You said it was equally possible that it was an Israeli false flag as it being Hamas, which is completely divorced from any analysis of the facts or history at all.

Or you think that three possibilities implies a 33.3% chance of each one being true, but I assume you have a better understanding of statistics than a child.

Hell, he literally stole money from another Republican Congressman and his wife.

You almost have to respect it.

I don't think it's equally likely to have been a false flag, actually.

It is amusing though how openly you admit that, regardless of any facts at all, you're still going to blame Israel. You'll be more convincing if you at least pretend to not have a fixed position.

I do love it when tankies casually out themselves.

You're not wrong, and we should always push for more! But we also shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that literally nothing has been accomplished either, particularly when you look at what the other side has been blocking. Biden attempted to institute a $15 minimum wage for federal contractors, which was shot down by a conservative court. The student loan forgiveness was absolutely nuked by the SCOTUS. Just a tiny handful of Republican votes in the Senate could have saved the expanded child tax credit, which had directly observable effects on childhood hunger rates (which shot right back up when it expired).

For issues that hit a bit closer to home for me, the Respect for Marriage Act is a huge comfort allowing me to know that, if I ever have to move to a red state for some terrible reason, my marriage rights will still be upheld. In schools, some basic respect for trans rights has been tied to federal school funding. Trans people are allowed to serve in the military again.

None of these are super huge things, but they are real, and they have meaningful effects on real people's lives. There are trans teens in high schools, right now, that are able to use the bathroom they want because of Biden. Sure, it's not universal healthcare or a solved housing crisis, but to them, it is still very real progress, and it's worth fighting for.

I am shocked that the hardcore leftist also has no qualms about using misogynistic slurs.

By the way, that "conservative love letter to insurance companies" has saved well over 20,000 lives. I'd imagine those people who are not dead might disagree about it having been fuck-all nothing, but I suppose you'd have to ask them.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicaid-expansion-has-saved-at-least-19000-lives-new-research-finds

Probably that the IDF has no desire or interest in "wiping out Gaza".

They are quite interested in wiping out Hamas though. Of course, Hamas knows it will disastrously lose any real fight, so they make sure that taking them out will also necessarily require killing as many Gazans as possible.

Early Friday, shortly before the truce was set to end, Israel’s military said on the social media site X that it had intercepted a projectile fired from Gaza. Automated rocket alert systems reported that air-raid sirens had sounded in several areas of southern Israel, indicating rockets or shells had been fired from the territory.

Then, just after the 7 a.m. deadline passed, both the Israeli military and Gaza’s Interior Ministry reported that Israel was carrying out strikes across Gaza. Air-raid sirens sounded in several parts of southern Israel, indicating that Hamas or allied armed groups in Gaza had fired toward Israel.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/30/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news

This is a detail from the New York Times article that people might find relevant. Rockets were fired from Gaza before the ceasefire had expired, and Israel retaliated immediately after the 7am deadline. Make of that what you will.

There is a conversation to be had about antisemitism in the Black community (the Black Israelites come to mind), but holy shit is this not an effective way to have it.

The United States is also much more of a factor now and is not going to let Israel's existence be threatened by nation states. Toss in the US military and we'll get to add the One Day War to Israel's history.

Yeah, I was making a flat 50k a few years ago, and seeing some college classmates making three times as much complaining about how poor they were could only make me laugh.

I'm doing much better now, but it still drives me nuts when people don't know how to appreciate what they have.

This happened in 1967, when Israel went to war against a coalition of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt.

Israel won in six days. It wouldn't go any better a second time.

It was literally the capital of the Confederacy.