Honestly the most surprising thing to me was that this sorta action doesnt happen more often. Like, this is easy for people to do when angry, and definitely sends a message to someone. Now, it’ll be the insurance company that foots the bill at the end of the day, so the specific company owning it won’t quite receive the full message of it, but y’know.

Also constructive criticism. Maaayybeee risking the lives of possible hundreds to thousands isn’t quite the best idea? Like I know some people would argue it was funny some rich guy’s eating his shit, but if you do wanna ‘send a message’, this guy put his workers outta a job, risked their wellbeing, and that fire coulda spread. Compare that to Luigi Magione, who’s only collateral damage was my health insurance costs going down for a few months.

I mean, that’s where Silicon Valley is, so yeah.

In the US, that tracks with a higher-end salary. Call it an impulse thought, but I have a slight feeling that Silicon Valley has something to do with that.

I feel its more a quirk of the internet, in how things naturally get divided. When browsing the web, you’ve likely found websites you never heard prior that are really big in other countries. Things just happen to be separated by regions, languages, etc. for purposes of relevance and accessibility.

In our space, things are largely dominated by European and North American influences. Once you cutout the whole USA from that, it’s effectively Canada and Europe in this grouping too. I remember back when I was on Reddit, I saw ‘Buy Canadian’ quite a lot, just seems ‘Buy European’ is slightly more dominant on Lemmy.

I’ll translate the other guy’s comment;

Israel and the US attacked because they were basically handed a golden opportunity in a world where they search for opportunity. The top governmental officials were present within the same room, confirmed by their intelligence officials, and during a vote for the next supreme leader. By attacking then, both the current government would be inept for days to weeks, and a new government would have a shoddy transition of power.

Tl;Dr: the goal is a long, drawn-out war. I realized after writing this whole thing out, It’s totally a tangent you didn’t mention, but fugget I’m not gonna let it go to waste.

Now, here’s the opportunity in that opportunity: A “short victory” is not the goal, this is a resource war. Venezuela was effectively captured by the US, Hegseth has stated intents to revitalize the Americas as the ‘American sphere of influence’ (paraphrased), Iran is unable to export significant oil, and with that goes most of the middle east’s production through the closed strait. This disproportionately favors the US, Russia, and Canada for oil production. Trump previously pushed his “51st state” agenda on Canada, and Russia is cutoff from trade with much of the world due to sanctions. This has the US in a position where it disproportionately benefits from having the Strait of Hormuz closed, and the longer it goes, the more reliant countries get on the US for energy.

As to why it happens now, Trump is in power, and the current admin understands the developed world is slowly becoming more energy independent without the need for oil (alternative energy). This explains why the narrative is maintained that “green energy doesnt work,” while Europe actively sees progress and positive outcome with it. It’s not about what’s best for the American people he speaks to, it’s more oriented around what he wants to leverage in the current state of global affairs.

Likely that the sub is called ‘Buy European’.

This was my intro to TCEs, learnt about 'em just a handful of days prior. Honestly, it’s interesting seeing what subtle ways soldiers express themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFEOFTZtm1o

Honestly, the Artemis II mission has me feeling somewhat hopeful, for once. Its finally a breath of fresh air from all the doomerism I’ve been seeing in online spaces. Within 16 hours of saying this, we’re gonna be looping around the moon to start the return trajectory.

I mean, it’d definitely have some baggage when it comes to the vacuum of space.

For y’all with tig ol’ bitties, I definitely recommend shoving a stuffed animal around/between them if you have a tendency to lay on the belly. The designated products seem to work somewhat well, but “good brands” are clearly not afraid to take advantage of women’s problems with their pricing.

So to clarify, her main viewpoint is essentially “I voted against reducing these munitions deals with Israel, because these munitions are intended for defensive purpose?”

Edit: Thank the both of you, and anyone else who feels willing to contribute, for providing the explaination.

He’s absolutely gonna push congress to legislate a National Voter ID system within a month of elections, isn’t he?

The font is called “XBAND Rough,” if you’d wanna download it and create your own sticker/print.

“With enough queers in the same room, you will surely create an orgy.”

- Freddie Mercury (probably)

So, a common metric people bring up in discussions of trans people that make their way into politics is ‘trans suicide rates’. Right-wingers tend to mention it in reference to “We shouldn’t let anyone be trans, because trans people commit suicide often,” and left-wingers tend to argue “Trans suicide is so high because they get degraded by society, and aren’t allowed to express themselves.”

Edit: As for why it gets mentioned, transgenders overall commit suicide far more often than the average population.

I suppose for now, recent products refer to things Valve has completed, but won’t release until “good shit gets cheaper.” Case in point, RAM, and GPUs, and SSD storage, and (kinda) OLED screens.

As for products themselves: Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Deck 2.0

They are allowing you to install any application, it seems. It runs SteamOS with Proton and Waydroid, so x86-64 Windows software is compatible, as well as Android .APKs. Steam generally has a “It’s a computer, do what you want” mentality about their recent products, and doesn’t waste resources on trying to lock down consumers. It makes it a real good gift for the gamer teen that you think will turn into a computer science nerd.

Ahh, reminds me of the gym membership I’d started just a few weeks ago. Small town thing, I knew the owner by name, yet they used an online service that required every little detail of your personal life to sign up, like why use such a thing? I asked him that, and its just because it’s convenient for his small-scale company to use.

Turns out, it didn’t actually care if your info was right, save for a card to charge. Put in some random driver’s license number and guerilla mail email, just sucks I didn’t have a knockoff phone number.

It really makes you wonder, why need all that? I know the answer, I just wish I could see it with my own two eyes, what all data brokers do dealings for that info.

The narrative that’s pervasive in America, albeit it seems to be slipping, is that Israel has historically been painted as a positive ally to America. I experienced this myself not a week ago with a friend of mine who’s just now starting to think critically of the world around them. He was shocked and didn’t believe me at first when I mentioned the atrocities of Israel, and it took quite a lot of scrolling for him to eventually see they weren’t the golden boys that news has so far painted them as.

Whether you believe it’s AIPAC’s doing, or the defense contractors, or whatever source it may be, televised news outlets even now still seem hesitant to portray Israel in an overtly negative light.

To sum it up more directly: If you go from “these are our friends” to “those friends are genocidal,” the population may have a hard time believing it, as it goes against that which they’ve heard all their life.

That’s good to know! As burdensome as the current climate change debate is, it’s somewhat reassuring to know we’ve made more steps than I’d thought.