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That's one of the real problems I see so often, moderators feel strongly their side is right therefore anyone on the other side MUST be a bad actor and therefore it's good to get rid of them using any means necessary - I've seen the same happen with people arguing against just stop oil and various other similar things - in the mods minds they're just getting rid of bad faith posters and evil agents but in reality they're silencing anyone who disagrees.

No but he's got many millions in assets so take all those

I can agree with some of that but I really don't think it's akin to MySpace, I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't use YouTube for something, sure there are a million Iphone unboxing videos but there's also how to reach the awkward nut on my exact model car, literally everything I need to get started in my new hobby, and a million funny videos and interesting projects to relax to.

We might see something replace YouTube it it's better at video sharing, there's a way for creators to get paid and it can attract an audience but that's a big ask.

The best idea I've heard is to grow fast growing plants then burn them to make power while you capture the carbon using a portion of the power generated - the carbon is either mineralised into building materials or dumped in the old coal mines where the carbon originally came from.

It's a great way of dealing with excess biomas from managed spaces like coppiced city trees, the same can work with algee either cleared from waterways or grown purposeful in polluted water where it'll help extract various toxic elements.

We really have made so many amazing advanced in tech the can help balance the atmosphere but there's so much negativity from both sides they don't get anywhere near the attention they should.

Yeah I literally watch it all day for free, endless amazing content on every subject - I barely notice having to skip next every now and then

It's an amazing video sharing site that's made the world better in so many ways, especially for small businesses and individuals. Just the access to video guides on how to repair things was a game changer on its own, breaking content creators out of the traditional media monopoly has been absolutely huge.

All this and the only cost is they occasionally show adverts, it's such a tiny tiny price

This is one of those things that is so set in people's minds, I'd love to know what you actually imagine happening when you say it - like what you're picturing.

I've been giving friends pop quizes about Xinjiang when they bring it up, so far not found a single person who knows anything about any single part of it.

It's interesting because so many people claim to be deeply concerned about it but no one ever seems to have any real desire to learn about it, I've seen a million infographics this week about Palestines population and the history and everything but no one ever posts facts about the situation in China even though it's mentioned endlessly in glib comments.

Good I hope all those boring old actors finally stop producing cliche riddled junk that's only popular because it's got someone that was in a good film twenty or forty years ago.

So they should just provide you a totally free service the costs them money because...? Are they still going to pay creators or do you want everyone to work for free to entertain you?

Petition the government to make a nationally owned and run video sharing site if that's what you want, don't be surprised when a capitalist company doesn't give you everything you want for free

The whole amazing service is totally free to use, you just need an occasional advert break it's hardly nestle or Nike level greed now is it.

But you agree if Israel couldn't defend themselves they'd have all been killed long ago?

What are they supposed to do just sit idle and accept that powerful nations are going to continue to train, supply and support terrorists attacking them? That they'll never feel safe and will regularly have to accept the deaths of loved ones in terror attacks?

I don't think Israel is acting well but also I have experienced the reaction of people when terrorists attack the city they live in and simply can't believe any nation would respond much better - and again I want to say that im only talking about the Israelie perspective and likewise were any other nation in the position of Palestine they would react pretty much how Palestine is reacting - and of course you can go back and say well this happened because of this and that happened because of that... At a certain point it's of course England's fault but they had literal boats full of emaciated victims of histories most brutal oppression with no where to put them that wouldn't cause decades of chaos and violence.

The raw truth is history is ugly and messy, the Jewish people have been victims for centuries so it's really not hard to see why a portion of them are going to be very obsessive about self defence. Why a portion of them aren't going to have patience for the 763rd group of people to say they should be pushed into the sea and eradicated entirely.

If we could draw a line under history and say the past doesn't matter that would be great but of course it's not that simple, it's never simple.

Yeah, especially considering the initial attack was likely somewhat related to trying to stop Israel and Saudi Arabia's growing friendship, but can anyone name a country that wouldn't demand vengeance after the atrocities at the music festivals and overrun communities?

The attack was designed to be brutal to force a brutal response, probably designed to be like that by Iranian religious fanatics who couldn't care less about the Palestinian population as long as they're a good weapon to use against Israel.

None of that justifies Israel doing awful things but it does make it harder to think about.

It's so hard though, people really want to pick a side and I get that because it makes it much easier to think about and emotionally deal with but the reality is it's a painfully complex situation.

The same question exists for Israelis, the only reason they aren't being massacred is because of their hugely expensivel security systems and the fact every citizen does three years of military service - if their whole existence wasn't focused on protecting themselves there would be a very different political climate and far better people in power.

And yes it's easy to say 'they shouldn't be there in the first place' but that's also very reductive, a lot of things in history shouldn't have had to happen but it's too late now - what are they supposed to do just stop existing? Of course that is what a lot of people want to happen, the countries funding Hamas and Hezbollah for example...

The hard truth is Israel would never be in the position Palestine is, they're either strong enough to defend themselves or they all get killed - I wouldn't want to be in either sides shoes.

Use it to charge a powerbank if you want to transfer it to your phone later

This is the sort of thing that reminds me never to trust the accepted wisdom of internet groups.

Gandhi after being educated in England was only a little less racist then everyone else when he first went to South Africa and made the famous comment you're referring to... He then had his awakening against oppression and began to fight for an end to racism, one of the main popular scandals against Gandhi in South Africa was that the medical corp he set up would give aid to whoever needed it first regardless of rank, colour or ethnicity. The rest of his life he wrote and fought for the rights of all.

But of course 'popular person was actually bad' is a fun hot take so of course it's going to be banded around without any nuance.

Yeah absolutely, be thought that it was easy because he didn't pause to consider any of the confounding factors - the same mistake he always makes, self drive to Mars bases he gets fixated on the fact it's possible and doesn't really consider the many things making it difficult.

I think he thought that he'd go in and don'ta big lever that turns it from biasing the left and amplifying people hating billionaires then when he turned it off everyone would cheer and clap. He's the typical idiot that has shitty political options and thinks everyone else secretly agrees bit only he's breve enough to say it.

It's more understandable when you listen to the Jewish arguments about needing to protect themselves against people who want to kill them, they see themselves as being inside the walls and defending themselves so they see their actions as justifiable because the alternative is another genocide.

It's hard because neither side is entirely right or wrong, Hamas is a terrorist organisation that gets help from other terrorist organisations - the thousands of missiles they fired over the last few days didn't come from nowhere, we can't deny that Iran is a repressive and brutal regime that would love to see all Jewish people dead for religious reasons, just like they hate gay people, women, and so many other groups.

That of course isn't to say there aren't awfull racist Jewish people who hate Muslims, but Israel as a nation is starting to work well with many Arab nations such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The country has a lot of problems but is doing a lot of good things in the region also, and it's doing them working with many Arabs and Arab nations. They see themselves as trying to be good people and they know if they tore down their walls then they'd be massacred, it is understandable how they justify looking the other way when the IDF are brutal or their government makes questionable choices.

So you want to keep drilling for oil forever? Oil wells, pipe lines, refineries, more pipes, trucks carrying liquid fuel... when you could just get rid of all that and have renewable powered cars?

There's a brief window where if you look at it from a very careful angle ICE is briefly better in some ways than electric, long term electric is the only option.

I'm guessing a weird and impossible one if you don't accept the obvious benefits of electric cars

It's a process that is absolutely underway and making great progress, even the USA now generatea more from solar than from coal, many countries like Scotland are already producing over 90% of their electrical use from renewables with only 2% from fossil fuels.

It's worth noting too that these numbers are only grid based usage and a lot of solar is direct use, often being stored in an electric car rather than sold to the grid - with rooftop solar at home and at work it would be possible to use a car without requiring any of the oil extraction, transport and refining faculties. I don't know how many people it would take using solar cars before a single oil well goes untapped but I do know if we get to a point where no one is using gas stations then that'll be an awfull lot of horrible polluting infrastructure we don't need, just carrying the fuel through wires instead of in tanker lorries is a huge saving alone.