buzziebee @ buzziebee @lemmy.world

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It's hard to trust any of these numbers. 1 innocent death is 1 too many, but the numbers seem to come from Hamas and they have every incentive to inflate them.

Are Hamas fighters or legitimate targets being included in these figures for instance? The 500 dead at the "hospital" seen very dubious too given the scale of the actual destruction, it's unclear whether that number is included also.

How is this a meme?

All three, plus 13 years of underinvestment in the country and mismanagement of the economy leaving us all poorer and more exposed to financial shocks.

Well this thread sure is depressing. It's full of either tankies or people from Russian troll farms. Only one person actually trying to discuss the article, everyone else seems to be "whatabout America"-ing?

It absolutely wouldn't be. What are you on about? A big part of why Labour are polling well because they look like a safe pair of hands. Starting an interparty factional war over who the new leader should be will completely damage that and possibly lose there election.

Half of the Tory base are either indifferent to a Labour victory or would actively vote for them. If you throw another Corbyn in the mix that will change and the base will come out again. It's simple electoral math. Please stop advocating for more Tory rule.

Oh that's a shame. Would be nice to have more clarity on that. I'd avoid posting claims that Israel are definitely responsible for that whilst also asking for people to verify things before spreading possible misinformation.

As you say there's enough bad to go around as it is.

Seeing promising things about a 2 state solution being discussed at the Cairo peace summit. Let's hope after the violence cooler heads prevail and we can see a lasting peace in the region.

Has it been confirmed that Israel were behind the explosion at the convoy? It hasn't had as much news analysing it as the hospital strike.

I've been thinking of something similar too, not direct control of the units though. Would be two factories producing units and warring it out along different lanes.

Too easy to buy a blue tick and cause rampant misinformation to start flying. Twitter used to be pretty good for breaking news, now it's impossible to trust any accounts without a lot of research.

It's also a screenshot of a tweet. Incredibly easy to fake that.

Unlucky :( I've had it on my wishlist but it was too much for me. Glad I'm going to get to play it. I never finished 3 so a full series playthrough might be in order. If you haven't logged many hours on it you might be able to swing a refund? Though a week is a long time.

The expansion was absolutely incredible. I thoroughly enjoyed the game on my second play through after a few years to forget as much as possible, then the expansion gave me so much more to explore. It's a lot more tragic, and I had to turn on no frights mode lol, but the ending is beautiful and fits into the main story so so well.

!Oh man the DLC ending was incredible. The tragic story that unfolded as you played was incredibly sad, but then inviting the prisoner to join you at the fire and add their song to your music was beautiful and moving.!<

Those devs really caught lightning in a bottle. I can't wait to play whatever they make next, whenever it's ready.

Btw. You can use and !lt; blocks to create proper spoiler tags.

You basically haven't played any of the game then lol. It's a long slow burn but it's absolutely beautiful. Make your way through that tutorial section and get your ship, from there it really opens up.

Oh give over. Nice flavors are one of the things that get people off of cigarettes. If it stank of tobacco one of the big benefits for switching (not stinking all the time) would be gone. Adults like fruits too.

I agree the advertising needs to be cut back to a similar level as cigarettes. Plain white boxes with brand and flavors for example. But to outright ban flavors is a knee jerk reaction that sounds good but would cause more harm than good. I don't think it needs to be licensed dispensaries either. Vaping is way less harmful than alcohol yet we sell that in corner shops.

Cutting down on selling to kids needs to be done for sure. How exactly that can be done effectively is tricky. It was very illegal to buy cigarettes when I was at school yet hundreds of kids managed to pull it off anyway. Short of requiring ID at point of sale and unique barcodes to identify which products were sold to whom by whom I reckon kids will find a way to get alcohol, drugs, vapes, and all the other shit we wish they didn't have.

Putting in measures that mean fewer adults switch is guaranteed to lead to more deaths from smoking related illnesses. Harm reduction should be at the core of any policies around smoking and vaping. We don't want to lose the gains we've made in cutting down on tobacco use because of some moral panic about strawberry flavours.

Israel removed all the settlers from the strip, why would they put them back in? Can we wait until they actually do things before throwing out wild accusations? There's enough stuff to criticise already without making stuff up and getting upset about it.

Yeah we need to find a way to get current smokers onto vapes if they can't quit, but prevent any new people from gaining nicotine addictions.

In terms of harm reduction they are wonderful! But they are more harmful than not inhaling any smoke or vapour.

Gaza was controlled by Egypt for quite a while. Israel occupied it and the Sinai after the 1967 six day day war. When they returned the Sinai to Egypt they also offered Gaza back as well so it could go back under their control, but Egypt refused as they didn't want to take on all the Palestinian people who could potentially destabilize Egypt.

Jordan also wouldn't want the west bank back (not that they really have a claim to it either) because Palestinians in Jordan tried to overthrow the monarchy there.

Now that there's a Palestinian identity (instead of just a general Arab identity like it used to be) the Palestinians need to have their own self governance and independence. Absorbing the territories and population into other countries isn't going to be a solution.

Both sides need to cut out the bullshit and negotiate in good faith to find a long term solution. Unfortunately with how entrenched the hate is it's sadly unlikely to happen. The cycle will continue until both sides want it to stop.

Yeah glad to see those fucks go. There's been an awful lot of bad takes filling up content sections on certain topics, every time I checked who had posted it it was almost always a lemmygrad user.