[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

Is CNBC blocking VPN access? I get an "access denied" error when trying to visit this link.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 9 months ago

I mean I have 64 GB but I'm not wasting it on browser tabs. I've got people at work who never close anything, they'll have 15 tabs, 28 PDFs and 7 Excel spreadsheets open 24/7 because it takes them an hour to remember where they saved them otherwise.

Literally me when I hear them complain about their slow computer:

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 9 months ago

0:28 is the deciding factor, clearly.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

Yes, Trump supporters honestly believe that the vast majority of undocumented migrants are criminals and terrorists. They honestly believe that the Democrats are trying to create a Soviet style dictatorship. They honestly believe we need a strongman to rid the country of people who are genuinely trying to destroy it. I know a bunch of them; they think they're helping.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

Drake, his brow furrowed, his palm exposed.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 11 months ago

Sources say the shark warned the woman, saying "American woman, stay away from me."

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

under the guise of war

There's no guise. This is the way war has been prosecuted for millennia. The Geneva Convention, UNHRC, etc. are blips. War is genocide and always has been. Only in the late modern to post-modern era has war been something other than the complete annihilation of your enemies and their culture, including all the infanticide and rape that implies. If you're, for instance, the US prosecuting a war for nebulous geopolitical reasons, then you can slap up a veneer of rules and conduct. If it's a war of territorial expansion, on the other hand, you'd better be prepared to do what it takes to stamp out any trace of the people who originally lived there, or at least leave those who remain so broken and disempowered that they'll never pose a threat.

Expect more like Ukraine & Palestine as the US's grip on hegemony slips, and as we continue to slowly forget the lessons of the World Wars.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

For real. This is so blatantly a play by Iran to drive a wedge between Israel and the Islamic nations it has recently been normalizing relations with - UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco... They were in talks with Saudi Arabia, and that would have been a bridge too far.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

from the one side, to have a State of Israel on land promised by the British to the Arabs

on the other, to have an Islamic State on land taken by the Zionists from the British

This is a little confused... The British promised a state to both. The land the Jews lived on was purchased from absentee landlords who didn't care who was living on it, first from the Ottoman Empire and later from Britain. The partition plan was proposed to make good on Britain's dual promises - it won a vote in the UN despite the entire Arab League voting against it. Jews celebrated, Arabs protested, there was a civil war that turned into the Israeli war for independence, and the British decided they weren't going to enforce the partition plan and fucked off to drink tea and reminisce about the good old days of starving Indians to death and getting the Chinese addicted to opium.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

If Israel want’s to stop the violence they can get their settlers out of the west bank.

Somewhat naive to think that will stop the violence. Israel was withdrawing through the 90s as part of the Oslo Process, which ended with the Second Initifada. There are substantial populations on both sides that want the other side gone from that land completely, and they will take any opportunity to further entrench themselves and stoke conflict.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Let's just agree that no matter your political leanings, being pro-Russia is fucking weird.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Fry: But we have to! The world needs Star Trek to give people hope for the future.

Leela: But it's set 800 years in the past!

Bender: Yeah, why is this so important to you?

Fry: 'Cause it-it taught me so much. Like how you should accept people, whether they be black, white, Klingon or even female. But most importantly, when I didn't have any friends, it made me feel like maybe I did.

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