I was ambivalent about pronouns, but the number of transphobes who immediately outed themselves, it was absolutely the right call.

Yes, but the US's analysts know they can't win this type of war with Iran; a number required of troops often thrown around for occupation is 2%, though it's often much higher.

The US can bomb civilians all they want, but any strategic objective like stopping Iran from sending masses of balsa wood drones to overwhelm Isreal's defenses can't be done with airstrikes.

Iran has 92 million people, that's almost 2 million troops. Drafting a million Americans to enable an occupation would be political suicide.

Here's a whitepaper written by some brookings institute ghouls in 2009.

Note that when it was written, Iraq's counterinsurgency was considered a success, drones weren't a thing, and it assumed Iran wouldn't close down the strait of Hormuz.

without subsidies they’re is no profit incentive for developers to build the necessary housing stock

So cap rent. If a developer wants to build, they need to build what people actually need. You don't need to hand them boatloads of money to make affordable housing more profitable than non-affordable housing, just ban the unaffordable housing nobody needs.

People interpret it the way that suits their agenda

Then you understand it's not the belief system causing these people's behavior, their agenda determines the belief system.

America doesn't support Israel because the bible says so, even though some people might come up with some wacky interpretation, we support it because it helps facilitate imperialism throughout the middle east.

There's plenty of jews who don't interpret their religion that way, but their interpretations aren't convenient for the ruling class so they're not promoted. You can observe the same with philosophy, I'd hardly call philosophy bad just because those in power are able to amplify ideologies that serve their material interests.

You're putting the cart before the horse, when a belief system is incompatible with what the ruling class requires, they change it the way its expressed accordingly.

You understand Israel's actions have nothing to do with Judaism, right?

Religion is a justification used after the fact, in the same way the US used Christianity to justify genociding the native americans. There's nothing in the bible that says "Destroy the native American's food sources and take their land", the Americans were going to do that anyway.

Any 2 state solution was dead on arrival for the last 30 years, as such a Palestine would be effectively dependent on, and always at the mercy of Israel by virtue of Israel having already stolen the best arable land, water sources, and strategic locations.

If Yassir Arafat had gone back to the Palestinian people with "We're gonna live forever at their mercy, and none of you will ever return to the homes Israel stole", the Palestinians would have assassinated him.

If Ehud Barak had gone back to the Israeli people with "You have to give them back their houses and stop encircling/blockading their settlements", he'd have been assassinated by the Israelis.

I don't like how the news is trying to lay this entirely at Netanyahu's feet. This is like trying to blame South Africa's apartheid on the last president during apartheid, instead of the actual system.

Israel is a settler colonial project, its national project requires apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

Any alternative to Netanyahu would be doing the same thing, and if they failed to do so, they would be replaced by someone who would be more competent at it.

The protests in Israel aren't against the genocide, they're at the failure to rescue the hostages. Non-arab Israelis overwhelmingly support the amount of firepower used by the IDF in Gaza and the use of starvation as a weapon.

This is why there are Israeli "civilians", sometimes wearing IDF uniforms, who burn aid trucks, and why there was a successful riot to protect Israeli prison guards from being prosecuted for the rape of prisoners.

Because Crysis looked good, Chris Roberts mandated that Star Citizen would use Cryengine 3.

To make astronomically large spaces fit in the game engine from 2009, they made everything infinitesimally small.

So now due to the inaccuracy inherent in floating point calculations, instead of invisibly nudging things a few millimeters in the wrong direction, teleports people hundreds of feet out of their ships into space if they bump into a physics object, ladder, elevator, etc.

This is what happens when an ideas guy with no technical knowledge is making technical decisions.

Sometimes you need to add oil

Huh, I thought Chinese was odd for using <#>day and <#>month instead of naming each one. Guess it's just english and Italian/spanish/french that's weird.

It's gonna be a full time job keeping so many bottoms out of the pit.

That's generally true because it ignores the material reasons for those differences between generations.

That doesn't really count here where we know the reason zoomers don't know how a filesystem works; all they know is charge they phone, be bisexual, eat hot chip, and lie.

Lemmy just can’t handle someone who’s anti-genocide

They can't when that stance conflicts with their party. Hence why "The dems need to stop the genocide, people are not going to vote for genocide" gets you downvoted.

“fuck Biden for arming Israel” meme that has 1,500 upvotes

Those exist on .world? I see too many "You have to vote for genocide because trump would do genocide and also other bad things" type posts, it'd be weird if they coexisted.

can do some version, though, if you’re interested

Sure if it's trivial I'd be interested, but don't put too much work into it.

Someone's gonna have to maintain order in the horny jail and administer punishments.

Maybe, but conservatism is considered much more acceptable among Americans than anything left of liberalism. Particularly now when the dems are trying to reach out to conservatives with policies such as closing the border, "tough on crime" rhetoric, unlimited support for Israel, etc. You can check by whether you've been banned from PleasentPolitics

legally” and “Illegal

Adding "this should be done according to the law" doesn't divorce an action from its morality.

Rounding up millions of immigrants, some whom have been here for decades, and nearly all of whom are here because they're fleeing the effects of the US constantly couping their governments and training/funding terrorists is an immoral action, whether they're legal or illegal.

At one point I tried to illustrate with data just how big a jerk you have to be before it starts banning you. If you’re interested, I can start doing that again.

Would you?

My understanding is that downvotes reflect whether or not someone agrees with a post or comment much more than whether the user is making a constructive comment or not so they can only be used to infer how agreeable the comment is.

I’ve also offered to delve, for any user who feels that this has happened to them, into the breakdown of why they’re being ranked down, which almost always is because they’re being a jerk about their “dissenting” opinion, and not the opinion itself.

Use me as an example, I regularly get dozens of downvotes for such hot takes as "facilitating genocide hurts the dems chances of getting elected, we need them to stop that if we want them to win.".

So it would delete people's posts if they get downvoted a lot or if the poster tends to upvote heavily downvoted posts?

You've automated the suppression of dissenting voices.

There's peoplealiens who would add 9+7 instead of 10+6 or 8+8 in their heads?

Cooking. 5 people working together can cook for 100 people easier, cheaper, and less wastefully than 100 people can cook for themselves/their families.

Unfortunately the current restaurant system in the US is incredibly wasteful, expensive, and pays fuckall.