[-] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

I think the primary issue is that "destroying Hamas" and "killing a hell of a lot of Palestinians" currently has a large overlap and the Israeli mindset of large amounts of collateral damage/death being acceptable is not shared by most of the rest of the world, even though they're experiencing the same on a smaller mindset.

The pendulum swings the other way and there are absolutely bad faith actors out there (and on here) who have no problem with Israel continuing to take a barrage of rockets on a regular basis, because they either have no skin in the game or genuinely want Israel as an entity to collapse. They aren't helpful here either.

Historically speaking, land claim issues involved one side stomping out the other. But that's pretty much frowned upon today (not that has stopped Russia but, yeah, that's another topic). This is still the most likely outcome here and will ultimately favor the larger, better funded Israel - it doesn't make it right in any sense, though, but that's frankly just what is going to happen eventually. None of the countries complaining are interested in actually helping the people on the ground in Palestine, on either side, because they are more useful as a political tool if left in the wastes to perish as a symbol

[-] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

No, they are a proxy war by Iran to push back from normalized relationships between the Saudis and Israel in a time when Iran is starting to feel internal pressure to "catch up" to the rest of the world. I feel for the people there, but this is messier and more disgusting than a simple retaliation.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Gonna guess Spirit just lands you in the middle of the Gaza Strip and hands you a pistol and says "Good Luck". Also they billed you for the pistol.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Not sure what everyone else is doing, I use Android Auto constantly for work on a lot of rental cars without issue. The bugginess is probably crap cables or old phones, check those.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

There is this belief by so many that somehow, if you create the perfect system, it will somehow overcome human nature or that humans will somehow starting acting collectively altruistic with the right political model.

In most cases, they also imagine themselves in a position of power in this new government, either up in an upper "leadership" class or somehow silently leading "but I'm not a leader", as if somehow the idea itself is so potent that people will just, you know, execute it flawlessly without intervention.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

I would say now that I'm in my thirties that my favorite part has been watching this mad scramble over the past decade of absolutely everything new and innovative becoming these out of control behemoths because investors somewhere decided that an app that rates farts has a market cap of $10 billion.

Now we've come into an era where fart app employs 20k people and they somehow need to make all of the money back that they burned building a global fartforce

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

"We need to replace this with something better!"

"What do you suggest?"

"..."

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty certain they wanted to migrate everyone over to Tasks for a bit there, I got a few reminders to import my Keep lists to it, but for some reason they were struggling with basic feature parity with Keep and it overall didn't really make a whole lot of sense, as it just seemed to be a more complicated tool that struggled to be integrated with voice reminders.

It's impressive to me that the same company that makes Google Maps seems to struggle so much with a basic note taking app

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

And then submitting that resume as a 10pt Arial Word doc

[-] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

It really was incredible. I blocked and unblocked the instance three times, each time thinking I was overreacting, but finally just left it. There were some interesting discussions but it was absolutely drowned out each time by attention-seeking edge lords.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Every great project always seems to have that one dude who is like, "But what if crypto?". Really hoping we are moving past that phase.

view more: next ›

czarrie

joined 11 months ago