Evilsandwichman [none/use name] @ Evilsandwichman @hexbear.net

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Wait you mean you guys can't hear that?

I thought a Sonic boom was when Sonic drops the mic

Mollusk probably (edit: snails and worms are mollusks)

Drop a knife next to it and run like heck

That's nothing; Tigers and Pandas are still around in the same time period as the electronic device you used to post this!

When people are using mental interface devices to gravitate to their Mars colony it'll be such a mindbender to realize ye olde memes were being made at the same time all those mammalian fossils from extinct species like elephants and rhinos were carbon dated to!

To be fair it's still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they're from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.

English

Uh, the planet isn't named after some old Roman guy sweaty, it's named after Goofy's dog.

if flat earthers would just write books

Yup, if Pratchett had been born thirty or forty years later we would have gotten unhinged twitter rants instead of discworld

Got to like third level once

I've no idea how I had so much tolerance back then for difficult games; I recall when I got a megadrive and only ever completed like 2-3 games because everything else was so monstrously difficult. I enjoyed a lot of the games I played back then but I'm much happier today for being able to have easy mode so I can actually the enjoy the game just like no-lifers.

Some kind of (Atari?) console that I think only had pong, or if it had other games I can't remember them.

The first good games I played? Prince of Persia and Karateka on DOS, also mines of Titan but I had zero idea how to play that. Also word muncher; loved that game but I was a dumb kid and didn't know the solutions many times. I also got an MSX keyboard and the little tape machine addon that somehow played video games off audio cassettes. I still have zero idea how you put video games on audio cassettes.

They won't even let Israel go a day without bombs so the Palestinians can have a day of relief

This was definitely a good read, but to quote something from a leftist friend of the author:

It is not just Hamas, it’s all Gazans who agree that it’s OK to kill Jewish children, that this is a worthy cause … With Germany there was reconciliation, but they apologised and paid reparations, and what [will happen] here? We too did terrible things, but nothing that comes close to what happened here on 7 October. It will be necessary to reconcile but we need some distance.

I'm sorry, are you comparing the Gazans who lived in an open air prison under horrific oppression to the Nazis? Gazans who were themselves refugees from violent expulsion? And how sure are you that so many Gazans agree that it's okay to kill Jewish children? I've seen this insane sentiment so often from Isn'traelis it's crazy; actually it's either crazy or just projection, seeing as so many pissraelis have been vocalizing their desire to either kill Gazan children or for them to 'die' (the Western media way of telling you 'murdered by the IDF').

Also, 'We too did terrible things, but nothing that comes close to what happened here on 7 October', ARE YOU DAMN SERIOUS?! IT ONLY DOESN'T COME CLOSE BECAUSE IT GOES THE OTHER WAY INTO FAR, FAR WORSE! PEOPLE HAD TO BE MURDERED FOR YOU TO HAVE THE LAND YOU'RE LIVING ON! THE SURVIVORS OF WHICH MAY ACTUALLY BE INCARCERATED IN THE PRISON OF GAZA! EVEN GAZA ALONE EVERY YEAR HAD HIGHER NUMBERS THAN 7 OCTOBER!

THIS is what accounts for the Israeli left?!

'It will be necessary to reconcile but we need some distance.' translated as "Yes, we know things are difficult in Gaza right now, but we need time to get over this" he says while expecting Gazans to wait while bombs rain down on them and snipers shoot their children in the head and heart, double tapping to make sure they're dead.

Honestly even the author doesn't seem to acknowledge the horrors of being on the receiving end of settler colonialism.

This was a good read and I'm glad the author can see the horrors of how Israeli society is developing, and I certainly didn't know so many people in the early 80's actually wanted a country that made citizens of both Palestinians and Israelis (THIS is genuinely the best solution!), nor did I know that Yitzak Rabin, lauded as the guy who wanted a peaceful coexistence with Palestinians (though let's not be mistaken here: the peace accords offered terrible conditions to the Palestinians) was the guy who gave the order during the first intifada (the peaceful one) to break the arms and legs of Palestinian youth. Nor did I realize that pirate captain Moshe Dayan was not blind in his one good eye to the injustice that had been done to the Palestinians with the occupation, having lived in Palestine before the Nakba, although clearly aware enough of the importance of propaganda to remove text from his speech that pointed out that Palestinians were victims and were rightfully angry.

All I can think is that reactionaries could have had a field day with this and used this as evidence that women shouldn't be boxing, but racism > misogyny

She got to legally punch some of those losers in the face (in the ring); I would imagine that was also satisfying.

Hey Rowling, go a few rounds with her.

Interestingly though it does make for compelling heroes like Drizzt and Wulfgar.

Meanwhile in the real world, people be like "what's a linux?"

Please don't compare a state of the art computer with some lousy toy they fired into outer space

Hey look, he's doing the meme

There is like zero chance you or anyone else is going to apply any pressure or even this energy to Biden and Kamala to get them to change course, is there?