When people overwhelmingly feel that their justice system has consistently failed to hold people accountable, vigilante "justice" will become more common. This isn't the result of some sort of moral degeneration in the general population, it's the result of increasing corruption and civil unrest. Trust in institutions has declined and continues to decline across the globe, and both of the incidents you mentioned are related to specific issues that people feel that their justice system is either incapable of or unwilling to adjudicate (fascism and genocide).

Woke sharia putting in the work.

This sort of randomness seems more like the text produced by a markov chain than a modern LLM.

Hell my most played steam game, rimworld, I initially pirated and dropped before trying again later on and buying.

Back in the day you could buy Rimworld directly from the developer's website and that shit was portable. I played it off a flash drive on my high school computers. Did the same thing with FTL as well. Most of my hours in those games are not logged, lol.

You can be completely factual and still biased by the language you use and what you choose to focus on. Publicly-funded media is great and all, but that's because its bias is obvious and upfront, not because it is unbiased. Attempting to be purely objective leads either to a status quo bias or a "centrist" bias where multiple extremes are presented as being equally valid.

Doesn't anyone find the recent uptick in articles about Islamic fundamentalist crimes odd? There are billions of people in the world and these sorts of things happen frequently, yet they rarely receive non-local news coverage. It seems to me like the media is capitalizing on rising Islamophobia (due to the escalating conflicts in the Middle East) by releasing sensational articles about Islamic extremism, which has the effect of drumming up more Islamophobic hate. When crimes like this are committed in the US by Christians the media tends to blame mental illness.

Yes, as well as parts of the settings menu. What's not to love about constantly loading and unloading javascript just by clicking around in native apps? CPU spikes are good for your health.

I used to be a React dev. The only thing I hated more than React was my boss.

Personally, I think that's the wrong approach. We're very individualistic in the states and that leads to thinking that each child is the responsibility of their parent(s) and no one else, but if we had a more communal approach to raising children and acknowledged their wellbeing is a collective responsibility perhaps this could have been prevented. There's a lot of personal dysfunction in this story, but that's exactly the kind of thing that community can make up for.

We should have well funded and robust childcare services so that people who aren't responsible enough to take care of children have something to lean on. In a sane society one person dropping the ball shouldn't result in a child's death. Does having a communal place where children are well cared for without the need for payment really defy the imagination? In a nation where we can't even provide basic healthcare perhaps it defies expectation, but we will never achieve what we can't imagine.

For the record, I don't really support these strikes, but neither am I terribly passionate in opposing them for reasons I've stated.

You should be more passionate in opposing them because this shit is the closest we've ever been to WW3 and Israel only seems interested in further escalation.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the US and Israel were doing a little of such, though the contributions would hardly be significant.

wp:International Railroad for Queer Refugees doesn't seem to be getting much support from Israel.

Gee, I wonder why that is. It couldn't be that Israel doesn't give a shit about equal rights, being a fascist ethnostate themselves, surely. This isn't a "both sides" situation, Israel is clearly the aggressor, and no good can possibly come from this.

Such places might have stuff and people of interest, but yeah, they've been saying that a lot about their targets in Gaza.

It's interesting that your instinct is to assume some level of good faith on Israel's part. Perhaps you should examine that?

and if Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et al narrowed their attacks to just soldiers, cops, many of the politicians, and settlers, I wouldn't have much of a problem with it.

The standard of violence is set by the oppressor. It's a clear double standard that you speak charitably about Israel's attacks on civilians immediately before dismissing others for theirs. Not to mention the massive difference in scale.

If Iran's mode of government were really the casus belli of Israel's attacks, they would be providing support for revolutionary movements within Iran, not bombing their capital city including civilian apartment buildings and claiming that they're only targeting nuclear sites. If having a government that denies equal rights to certain groups is justification enough for attacks on civilian populations in the capital, think about what that means for Tel Aviv.

VPN companies and data brokers have a financial incentive to lobby for intrusive age-verification and restrictions, and prudish politicians are conveniently present in every political system. The porn lobby is powerful, but it seems they've been losing this battle recently. Or maybe they're cutting deals with the data brokers, who knows.