Critical_Insight @ Critical_Insight @feddit.uk

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I don't know, but I doubt it's an issue. Your recommendations are probably mostly based on your watch history and not location.

Agreed. I'll fuck around with the workarounds for as long as they work but once YouTube truly manages to make adblocking a complete headache I'll just switch to a Indian ip-address and buy a cheap premium. I've been watching tens of thousands of hours of ad-free content on that site for as long as it has existed. I can't, with a straight face, complain about the fact that they would like to make some money from it too.

to clean a condom*

I got this notification today for the first time. I cleared the catche on my filter lists and it seems to have solved the issue - for now.

No one is minimising the atrocities that Israel has been carrying out.

It's you who was questioning my statement, that it's a complex issue, and now your failure to come up with anything even remotely sounding like a solution seems to indicate that it indeed is.

I 100% agree with all of that. I was just questioning the implication that the Israeli - Palestine conflict is because of lack of American arms. That doesn't make any sense to me and I've never head that claim before.

Do we just load the Israeli population on a ship and anchor them on the mediterranean sea, or what's your plan here?

The Palestinians have been emprisoned in an open air concentration camp for 70 years, their children being regularly bombarded, their houses stolen, their women raped, their food and water taken away by the occupying military.

This is all true. What is also true is that Hamas has been firing rockets indiscriminately towards the Israeli civilian population and to my knowledge they would like to wipe out all jews off the face of the earth very much like the nazies would have. That's just few reasons as to why this is extremely complex issue and I can't take seriously anyone who claims otherwise.

I'd love to hear how you think this conflict is more straight forward than the one going between Ukraine and Russia. What could possibly justify what Russia is doing?

Because my understanding was that they were just trying to live their lives peacefully while their neighbours are lobbing rockets onto their side for apparently no reason.

I don't pretend to be any kind of an expert on the subject. This is one of those things, that the more you read, the less it feels like I know.

I used to default to the Israeli side, but then I heard Netanyahu on a podcast and that guy could not sound more like an aspiring dictator so I looked into it a bit more, and now I just choose to observe this fiasco from the sidelines and not form strong opinions about a subject I don't understand.

The kind of people who use/see profile pictures on reddit are probably happy to stay there

This is not Putins war on Ukraine. There's no clear victim and aggressor here, and any time someone talks about it as if it's not extremely complicated, they just make it sound like they have no idea what they're talking about in the first place.

Forcibly taking land from one group and giving it to another is not cool but neither is randomly lobbing rockets onto the civilians.

Who said it was?

Yeah I know, but unless you regularly go there to search for your name you might be shouting into the void for a month before you realize no one is hearing.

Not necessarily. On some vehicles the exterior panels are part of the frame and you may only have cosmetic damage but fixing it would costs tens of thousands.

Ironically, it's not obvious wether that means you're pro-israel or palestine.

A plow truck driver

I was actually just thinking about this few days ago. I remember someone in a podcast talking about how to find what you're truly passionate about, and they recommended going back all the way into your childhood, and think about what kind of stuff you enjoyed then. Well I already have a pickup truck, so maybe I should just put a plow on it.

I had over 10 different reddit accounts throught the years. Few of them were banned from certain subs but I just came back later with a different account and they never banned me again. I'm using a VPN though.

Not much different from Lemmy really. Atleast on reddit you get a message that you have been banned.

I didn't have anything invested into my reddit accounts so it was quite easy to just leave, especially when Lemmy pretty much scratches that same itch for me. On twitter I however have somewhat significant following, so my bar for leaving is quite a bit higher especially when these new changes aren't directly affecting me, except for the fact that the mobile app no longer works.

I do recognize the hypocrisy though, since I left reddit but didn't apply the same principles to twitter. I must say though, that of all the social media I use, my twitter feed is the most carefully curated and by far the least toxic/negative.