"shit, how do I tell her?"

There are no friends in Mario Kart, only those I have yet to betray.

The people making the big decisions aren't the ones working. They're the ones put in charge to make money for investors, who want monthly returns. Not "here's what will get us 1XX% growth in 6-8 years," but now.

And you'd think this would only be the case with public companies, but private equity is gobbling up quality companies and milking them dry by cutting costs and abusing their brand's good name. People want returns on their investments QUICK these days.

This isn't a one-hour-summary topic, and you're not going to find "unbiased" reporting on it. Not trying to be a dick, it's just the facts. Anyone telling you they have the "unbiased truth" about it is lying or delusional.

With that said, start with some Wikipedia browsing from the end of WW2, where the Allies started looking around for places around the world as Jewish refuges, and the struggles/ decisions made to plop Israel in the Middle East.

From there, there's a bunch of back-and forth action between the new state of Israel and the people who were already living there (Palestinians), which has a lot of video summaries on YouTube. You'll hear "Nakba" (Catastrophe in Arabic) used a lot, if that's any indication of how it went.

All of that puts the Oct 7 attacks in more context, as well as the ongoing bombing in Gaza.

Good luck in your search. If people are being rude with you, it's because the tone of your post is basically "I actively tried not to look at this conflict that's been going on for 4 months that's killed 30,000 people, and now care because of a single guy (Aaron Bushnell) immolating himself." I'm VERY glad that his message got to you, as I agree that it's an important issue, but it also feels frustrating that it took this long (respectfully).

I'd respectfully disagree. The X people Twitter communities are for people who grew up within the context of their race to talk about things that are relevant to that race.

A lot of blackpeopletwitter posts wouldn't "do well" (receive upvotes) if they are presented to a general (mixed race) audience, simply because the majority of people may not relate to it. Therefore, there is a demand for black voices to speak to black voices. This extends to all races--my wife is Mexican, so I'll hop into latinopeopletwitter on occasion.

So why stop whitepeopletwitter? Unless there's something exclusionary/ problematic/ Nazi-adjacent happening, it seems like a good way for stereotypical white peeps to make dumb jokes about meatloaf. Micro blog memes has a similar-ish vibe, but that's mostly because the site is mostly white lol.

"But there's no such thing as "white culture" in the same way that black culture in America developed from having their cultural identity taken away, and being forced to create new traditions to navigate slavery, civil rights, and modern America! They already have cultural traditions tied to their country of origin, like Germans or Irish celebrations!"

Yup! But the concept of "whiteness" is becoming a thing, and it's fun to make memes about. That's all.

Feel that. The hivemind on Lemmy can be brutal (coming from Reddit), since it's a smaller community.

I think they were commenting on how people seem to be zealots for Firefox on Lemmy, despite having some (reasonable) flaws. Despite this news, I'd bet a lot of them will continue. Not a pro-Chrome stance by any means.

(I had to block the Firefox and Linux subs day 1 because of how much anti-Chrome/ anti-Windows I saw).

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I'd argue that ignoring that any forced, unpaid labor under threat of violence is slavery is worse than "minimizing chattel slavery," full stop.

This is unintentionally drinking the corporate prison Kool Aid at best, and actively sanitizing our prison's cruel labor system at worst.

Accurately calling prison labor slavery isn't a knock on chattel slavery, it's an acknowledgement that it's changed. Say it's not as bad all you want, but it's still the same forces at work.

Just had to open a link in Teams and it ignored that Chrome was my default to launch Edge, then tried to set itself as the default for anything clicked in Teams.

I can easily see Microsoft doing something comparably shitty for people opening links in Word or PowerPoint. If not for Apple's even more egregious ecosystem practices (among other things) I'd be very tempted to switch.

It's environmental geopolitics 🤷 seeing widespread adoption of a policy that the US (Reagan) ignored get traction in Ireland helps highlight how shortsighted that view was. Considering the US has had a small hand in building the world's energy supply, it seems at least tangential to remind people why such policies have existed.