Actually, a piece that only moves or moves differently in the presence of another sounds like it could be interesting.

Some of those queens have awfully provocative curves. /s

They’re all part of a conspiracy community where they think everyone nation or group the West doesn’t like is good and, less plausibly, working together. They take issue with anything that goes against that narrative.

Honestly it seems goofy but harmless to me. But, many people take personal offence. And they did make Lemmy.

Sure, why not. And they can do the same over to their side. And stealing certian content from Reddit would also be good.

I assume crossposts are handled properly by Lemmy’s feeds? I don’t think I’ve noticed duplicates much. My answer would change if not, because there’s going to be no way to predict people’s replication preferences.

It’s true. Who’s Jenny, for the zoomers in the chat?

Is there not a “falsehoods programmers think about phone numbers” yet?

Edit: And once again, I’m still confused about some of these. Do we need to expand unicode for names? It’s supposed to be universal. WTF is up with 40?

Tor Browser. Using the internet raw feels dirty at this point.

Yes, I theoretically could use something else and a standard proxy, but it works worse for the same thing. I can always donate or contribute bandwidth if fairness is a concern, and just having a bunch of normal traffic flowing through is part of the design.

You’ll notice their utter silence about the core of greenwashing, which is how much they were spending on the ad campaigns versus on the actual programs. It seems like they’re just mad they can’t cheat anymore.

There is broad support in Israeli society for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. There are polls showing as much (I think one of them showed a rate of 82%).

I did say “for now”.

I’m guessing “genocide” wasn’t in the wording of the poll question, but a two-state solution is just as fringe as a one state solution at this point. The vibe of the average Israeli is that they want Palestinians gone and don’t want to talk or even think about how.

Plus I’m not convinced that an assassination of Netanyahu would lead to a different party taking charge. I can’t imagine their system of governance is set up this way.

How much do you know about the system?

It’s a party list parliament with a pretty high degree of political fragmentation, comparable to the Netherlands. Netanyahu started with a slim majority propped up by the far-right parties, and his party has polled poorly since they let Oct 7 happen, since security was his main thing. He’s globally famous for his skill holding together coalitions, which he couldn’t do while dead, and it’s pretty typical to hold snap elections after something like that anyway. His successor also wouldn’t need to worry about being thrown in jail for corruption the moment they’re out of office.

But this is entirely beside the point. The point is that one man’s death doesn’t change history. The allies didn’t win WWII because Hitler killed himself, Hitler killed himself because the allies won WWII.

Great man theory is indeed dumb, but “leaders don’t change anything even in the short term” is too far in the other direction.

Iran or Iran’s splinter states. They have several bombs worth of uranium that’s almost ready.

I doubt the US would get involved, and nobody else is going to for sure.

I’ll admit my knowledge of Sudan is fuzzy. It’s a huge catastrophe, but it just seems unlikely to spread the way the other crises can. Doesn’t the UAE have a big hand in it too?

I’m skeptical inspiring middle-of-the-road voters is really that important anymore in the US. Most likely, future elections will not be fully free and fair.

All remotely from within their own country, right?

Probably double for the people who work for him. They just swallow it in the usually-vain hope of an eventual payoff.

Yeah, it seems fairly impossible he’ll get fully into the war, and even lending a few bunker busters would be surprising when that’s risking a blowback on American forces.

I would guess that Trump is expecting Khamenei to cave, because that’s what he’d do. Most likely, he won’t, Trump will be confused, and this will drag on and on until a regional nuclear exchange is on the table.

I mean, there is that too, lol. I just have better things to do than start a totally subjective art argument.

Also to that point, they’ve already fixed it. Which might be why they didn’t worry about protecting it that much in the first place.

Morally superior, probably not. Causing less geopolitical problems and starting less unprovoked wars, definitely. At least right now.

I mean, Putin is a pretty big sponsor of mayhem, corruption and autocracy in nations of all average skin tone.

Cool whataboutisms. Yes, Iran is shitty. No, Israel didn’t have to do this. Yes, it’s a great strategy to regain support for the Likud coalition government and not go to prison for corruption.

And you really think that firing drones and ballistic missiles at civilian populations is a measured response?

Pardon, which county are we talking about here?

Iran at least has the excuse that their missiles can’t aim that well.

If Israel has a right to defend itself, what does (still awful government of) Iran have?

I guess blaming Netanyahu and Trump only would have lead to too much blowback. The Guardian really doesn’t seem like it’s the same anymore.

Do you really think Trump’s supporters would suddenly support Democrats, and, do you really think a power vacuum in Iran would make the Middle East more peaceful?

Similarly, don’t skip over the part where the Oslo process ended when Netanyahu’s current cabinet had Rabin assassinated. Natanyahu is a linchpin, but the right exists independent of him, and the left is still pretty anti-Palestinian.