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Well, I guess that means that as far as Valve knows I’ll still be happily slaughtering zombies in L4D2 at the ripe old age of 130

I wonder if the servers will still be up

At this point a dismissal of anything by Israel makes it more credible, not less

Blessed be the fruit

It’s obvious when you say it like that. I don’t like the idea of some prompt hacker looking at memes I sent to my coworker

I use Slack at work everyday. I suppose this does feel off in some way but I’m not sure I’m the right amount of upset about this? I don’t really mind if they use my data if it improves my user experience, as long as the platform doesn’t reveal anything sensitive or personal in a way that can be traced back to me.

Slack already does allow your admin to view all of your conversations, which is more alarming to me

What are the consequences of this

Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games

If anything Hamas is the product of the systematic marginalization and humiliation of the Palestinians

Thank you for your elaborate response. Hamas is the inevitable result of what happens when you drive people off their land and lock generations of them up in a radicalization farm. Now they can’t be reasoned with anymore. It’s a monster that Israel created and later fed and exploited in some kind of divide-and-conquer strategy. Now they’re dealing with the mess this got them into. This is why I assign Israel most of the responsibility, although the rest of the West is also to blame for supporting them.

I don’t think Hamas would exist much longer if Israel were to commit to lasting peace in good faith. Or maybe they would transition towards a peaceful political movement, kinda like what happened with the IRA. The Palestinians would need help to get organized tho. Fatah taking over in Gaza seems like a reasonable first step.

I suppose you deserve some elaboration on the sign you were referring to in your initial comment. ‘Palestine’ could mean the West Bank and Gaza or that + all the territories that are currently considered legitimately Israeli. It’s impossible to tell what she means and I don’t really care.

I wouldn’t walk away from attending a demonstration if I saw this sign. People are understandably upset and gravitate towards powerful short statements. I’m sure this girl doesn’t wish harm on anyone innocent. Neither do I, but I do feel like Israel should be forced into one of the two solutions I listed in my previous comment if they don’t work something out with the Palestinians on their own initiative. If that means the end of Israel as we know it so be it. They’d still be allowed to live in the area peacefully if it were up to me and I don’t care if that country would be called Israel or Palestine

They’re fucking monsters. It seems like radicalizing the Palestinians is the point, so they don’t have to talk to them

There is only so much space on a protest sign, I’m not even sure what they actually mean. I’ll just explain what it means to me.

I just want civil rights for the Palestinians. Everyone deserves to be represented by a sovereign government. The Palestinians are denied this right by Israel. Israel has not made a good faith attempt in decades to resolve this, because it’s incompatible with their goal of taking all the land for themselves. Driving the Palestinians off of their land is not a solution, that’s ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians should be allowed to live on their ancestral land.

A solution could take the shape of two independent states, a single unitary state or some kind of federal construction as a middle ground. I don’t even care which solution they agree to, they’d have to figure that out among themselves. But if they opt for a two state solution those 700.000 colonists need to fuck off out of the West Bank. The Oslo accords dictate which areas belong to whom in a two state solution.

If the Israelis don’t want this they need to accept a solution where the Palestinians are represented in the government of all of Israel. I suppose in a way you could say that would be the end of Israel as we know it, but that doesn’t mean they’d have to leave. They would just need to accept that they live in a multi-ethnic country. UN peacekeepers would likely have to hang around for decades.

I don’t see any fair solution that isn’t somewhat disadvantageous to Israel, but they kinda brought this on themselves.

I think only prions can spread through meat

Edit: I’m obviously wrong, salmonella exists. Also a quick Google search says viruses can also be transferred through meat

A slice of pear might work. Or even apple but you’d have to fry it first

Well I mean he’s interesting as a case study, his decisions have real world implications and it seems like he’s on a path to a meltdown that many people would love to witness in real time

And are a menace to society

They look like they fight a lot, are addicted to something and have had a broken car in their front yard for the past 3 years

2 tier justice system. Although I can imagine a judge rationalizing being so endlessly patient with Trump out of fear of what might happen if they aren’t.

Not that I would agree with the judge coming to such a decision in that way, but if Trump actually got arrested there’s no telling what his base will do. Could be anything from local unrest to full blown civil war

Similar stories about whooping cough and measles made the news in the Netherlands as well. Although in addition to blaming Covid here it was also pointed out that some people fail to see the importance of traditional vaccines because they’ve been so successful, nobody knows anymore how dangerous and debilitating such diseases can be

Add it to the list of atrocities committed committed by a government my country still backs

And a full retreat from the West Bank as well

The entire World is in a dire position with climate change and all that. The USA turning inwards to settle it’s culture war will have global ramifications. It’s already happening