We are talking about a theocratic dicatorship displacing 1,5 million people and sending them into the hands of an even worse theocratic dictatorship. And all you have to say is “yeah, they are probably spies for the jews and this is hedetary”? We are talking about an ethnic cleansing here of an proportion you are not seeing in Gaza. 1.5 million people, who searched refuge from evil people are driven back to them. Please have some compassion, dude.

Forget it. There are UN forces in southern Lebanon, quite a lot actually, with the mandate to disarm hezbollah. You saw how that went - Lebanon is still kind of a failed state were hezbollah was a major armed faction with thousands of rockets until the recent war with Israel. There is a reason why the UN is not really trusted by many Israelis and I really doubt that UN peacekeepers are able to disarm Hamas in Gaza, normalize the situation and stop militant palestinians from attacking Israel. It does sound like a good solution, but TBH there is no military force in the world that is able to win such an urban guerilla war. Russia maybe by destroying everything and murdering everybody. UN forces won’t help.

Yeah, but VW is not the norm, but a really special case

It’s not “Germany”. It’s german factory owners, who are chasing profits. That is a big difference and we should use the correct language here.

Yeah, that’s really crazy. Russia is really great at finding fault lines in societies and, well, they are pushing a lot of East - West propaganda. You can, of course, discuss stuff that went wrong during reunification, but you shouldn’t do this on the basis of the narrative Putin is pushing.

TBH, I’m sceptical about fairness to content creators. Spotify for example is paying exactly nothing to your favourite artists. They get around 2-3€ per 1000 streams, which means that you can listen to them quite a lot without them getting rich. Go to some concerts, they will get more money than from spotify

I’ve returned to piracy as well. Setup a plex server, filled it with MP3s and videos and it’s great. No fucking subscription. No ads. Nobody except me can delist anything. If I want something to be there, it will be there and not on some competing streaming service. And when you take into account that Spotify will pay Rednex 0,00286€ when you stream Cotton Eye Joe, you’re also not really hurting the artists.

Lemmy is the first reddit alternative that wasn’t setup by neonazis after they were banned on reddit and therefore Lemmy had the chance to get a userbase that is not made of neonazis. And that gives Lemmy the ability to grow, as most people really don’t want to use a forum full of neonazis

We know that it is run by the same assholes. Bluesky is VC backed and Twitter was also. There is no way that Bluesky won’t go the same route as every other VC backed social network. Sometime in the future they will start to meddle with your feed to push ads and sell your data to everyone.

Why should I get another damn subscription? Why not just block teamviewer.com on the router?

Yeah, that’s stupid and also how fascists like Melonis party in Italy operate. Take one minor issue, which really is not important at all, and blow it up and use it to spark tensions. Point to historical injustices. Whip up the people. Refer to ancient injustices from the Napoleonic wars. Don’t bother dealing with real problems.