DarthBueller @ DarthBueller @lemmy.world

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I hadn't heard that Hamas was blocking civilians from leaving Gaza, but they do like using their people as meat shields. Though it wouldn't make any difference if they allowed such an exodus, because both Egypt and Israel aren't letting anyone out.

Very similar to the existence of Nietzsche nihilists that were in my high school class back in the day. "God is dead" only gets one so far. To go beyond being an edgelord ideologue, one needs to take the next step and create one's own meaning. And having some life experience does wonders for that.

From that perspective, I’d rather get rolled coal than doored.

Is this sarcasm? Half of the shit I get on aliexpress isn’t available anywhere else. Or if it is, it costs an order of magnitude more when buying from US reseller, who is just marking up inventory they bought from aliexpress.

I'd say it's come a long way since Windows 3.1 and the days before PnP, to the point that I can actually clear my print que, where not that long ago clearing your print que seemed to be an option MS offered to allow us to experience the rage that arises from unadulterated powerlessness. Hell, half the time it even switches default printers based on whether I'm at home or the office. Now, if Adobe could make it easier to distinguish from settings that will only work in the printer's driver settings, vs. the Adobe application's print settings, we'd be halfway out of perdition.

To be clear, Palestinian national identity is a thing - a thing that developed in response to Zionism and the transition of Arab intellectual thought from Pan-Arabism to regional nationalism. I have a nuanced view of the history of the conflict, but there are folks that make the inference from comments like yours about territorial sovereignty and conclude "there is no such thing as Palestine" when Palestine is a very real thing in the minds of Palestinians. That said, Palestinian leadership has fucked over the Palestinians time and again, and in the grand scheme has been as damaging to their people as any Israeli reprisals for terror attacks (and I'm not talking about body count).

Nobody posting here seems to care about the truth. They'd rather believe Israel is bad and Palestine is good, rather than take any time at all to learn the actual history and nuance of the situation. I doubt anyone here understands that the reason 20% of the Israeli citizenry are Arab is because their ancestors ignored Arab League propaganda, didn't flee, and didn't have their land stolen. Israel certainly needs to have a constitutional government that protects Arab Israelis from the vagaries of the volatile political process, and be as firm about seeking peace as they are about responding to terror attacks, but the ahistorical Palestinian propaganda successes amongst so-called liberals is disheartening. Neither side has clean hands, but the Palestinians are as much victims of their own leadership as any actions of Israel. EDIT: I recently heard a BBC World Service reporter talk about "Israeli Palestinians" and I was very surprised, as most of the Israeli Arabs I know absolutely DO NOT identify as Palestinians unless they're also Muslim. Ethnically Christian Arab Israelis tend to have a much more complex view of the Palestinian situation, and absolutely zero interest in being part of a Palestinian state because they know they'd be a often-persecuted minority.

Yes, of the evangelical contingents, they can roughly be split into three groups: (1) those who support Israel because of their view of the end times and like Jews but want them to become Christian, (2) those who really don't like jews but support Israel because of their view that the end times require a massive war in the middle east, and (3) those who wish they were Jews and pretend to be Jews while actually being proselytic cosplaying Christians that like to eat latkes.

Ilhan Omar's treatment of a woman asking for her political support in opposition to female genital mutilation was pretty close to being a liberal asshole politician (or it revealed her to be trying to have her cake and eat it; namely, that she takes positions designed to get liberal support, and simultaneously strategically acts like a regressive when it comes to FGM to get support from African hijabis and other Islamists).

Are we kowtowing to a miniscule minority? The only kowtowing I personally observe are academic institutions within states with GOP-dominated legislatures and courts. K-12 schools in progressive areas within such states have to tread carefully to keep the man off their back, and public universities have to carefully craft their language relating to research and programs. But largely it's a semantic game, where the substance doesn't change but the language used is toned down to avoid attention of asshats. Similar to any research related to human sexuality when there's a Republican president in the White House and the NIS/NIH leadership is dominated by GOP appointees - they don't change the research, but they absolutely rework the language used to describe the project.

I am fixing up a pile of dead DSi XL’s and let me tell you, those things are a joy to play on for my aging eyes and massive hands. They’re hell to get parts for (the battery cover, and the OEM type stylus with a softer nib rather than the cheap solid one piece plastic replacements, are basically unobtainium). But my preferred format for anything NDS/DSiware.

I have everything except the amp mod. What does it do? I’ve heard it quiets noise (which the screen and battery mod apparently contribute to) but I haven’t seen a good comparison of original audio vs the upgraded amp.

The lack of headphones? I had to look it up. The GBA SP didn’t have a port, but the original and the micro GBAs did have it.

Yes, having to figure out how to send a video is super annoying. The easiest default is FB messenger because everyone has it, but fuck I don't like giving my private messages to meta.

Sorry, this whole mess has me upset, and I haven't been able to reach an Israeli friend of mine. And I'm sick of one-sided hate, usually coming from ill-informed "liberals" that act like the Palestinians are justified in their violence like it's a US race riot instead of absolute bloody mayhem, who have never met a member of Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood in real life and seen the murderous hate in their eyes, who never got the soles of their shoes sticky from blood in the streets from a suicide bombing in the Dolphinairum that wiped out over 150 lives in less than a second, who never contemplated the only reason that they are alive right now is because they stopped for a cup of coffee and missed their bus which then exploded killing everyone aboard. Israel is absolutely wrong in a lot of its policies, needs a fair constitution that treats its citizens equally, and like every other country has made bloody terrible decisions from time to time. But the ahistorical propaganda successes that Palestinians have had with bleeding hearts that are supposedly educated absolutely pisses me off. "Israel oppresses us", yes, because you let your house be used by snipers, yes, because you officially sanctioned bombers to come murder people, etc. It doesn't justify flattening the Gaza Strip, but to think that Israel is just going to want to talk about it is patently absurd.

I'm usually the last person to suggest ANY kind of religious organization for support, but if you are living in a liberal city, you might want to get connected with a United Church of Christ congregation (after doing your due diligence to make sure you see rainbows everywhere). I am not religious, but for reasons I went to one in Durham, and there was definitely a culture of helping out LGBTQ+ folks, everything from providing housing and social support for homeless queer youth rejected by their families and folks in situations quite similar to your own. The one I went to had a lesbian pastor and a transman pastor in training. Again, I am atheist as fuck but these were good people that were doing excellent work with no Jesus strings attached, a lot of whom weren't even religious but just liked the community. It sounds like you don't just need money, you also need some compassion and care. They could help with all three. Just know that there are people like me who hear you and want to help get you back on your feet, okay?

Yes - everyone has been bitten by the politeness bug. As a Yankee stuck down here for the foreseeable future, I am sick and tired of the slowness. Slow to get to the point, slow to respond, and a response that is so genteel that I have to parse what they said to understand what they really mean -- for fuck's sake, just speak your mind instead of blessing people's heart.

Not to mention the fire ants, aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus mosquitoes that stray far from water and will bite you in the high noon summer sun, Lone Star ticks that bite you and make you deathly allergic to consuming mammal and increase your risk of stroke dramatically if you continue to even eat dairy, and slow drivers in the passing lane that perversely makes the rightmost lane better suited for actually passing folks. Where high humidity makes 74 degrees feel like a sauna so I'm sweating just trying to get my kid in the car.

And Android users send me postage-stamp sized videos I can't see at all. Not gunning, just saying it's a problem in both directions (and apple's fault). Also, Android doesn't have the same easter eggs, like automatic confetti filling my screen when someone writes the word "congratulations!" in iMessage. Oh, right - iMessage gives me in-line replies and the ability to give a thumbs up/down/heart etc. response to a single message. Don't know if android has this feature, but android users just get a blank text if I "thumbs up" a comment, for example.