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Yep. The sad fact is that if there was no eclipse, she would have rationalized it differently and blamed something else.

Perhaps a storm, the full moon, the spoiled milk in her fridge, etc.

As a mobile user, I’m just stuck with the stock YouTube app.

I do miss Vanced :-(

Yubikey also has usb-c versions with compliant plugs.

Honestly, I think for many countries it might require very far reaching constitutional changes to actually tax the ultra wealthy.

For the USA, an amendment was needed to introduce the income tax.

Another amendment might be needed to introduce a wealth tax.

And a legal distinction would need to be made between the property of the common man vs. the ultra wealthy.

That 14th house, yacht and the hundreds of billions of the billionaire currently enjoy the same legal protections as the owner-occupied single family home and that family’s meagre savings account and the car they need to get to work.

I don’t think you understand the difference between sustenance and worship.

If we are going to shed tears for the loss of culture, then the loss of Roman era bath houses and early Christian churches in Gaza is quite a bit more concerning to me than this painting.

They are probably eating everything they can find, considering they are living under famine. If there is a bag of popcorn in Gaza, they will eat it.

But I agree, this doesn’t look like popcorn to me.

RIP Navalny.

I remember him flying back from Germany to Russia after the poisoning. Watching Ricky & Morty with his wife.

Very brave, but incomprehensibly stupid.

If ever there was a person who had a justified claim to political asylum, it was him.

I presume Blinken means Netanyahu with “he”? Or does he mean himself, Blinken?

Because Netanyahu is a genocidal psychopath who doesn’t feel any remorse for any of the victims of Oct 7th, the hostages or the civilians in Gaza. He just wants ethnically cleansed land.

Blinken, I do believe, will feel guilty for supporting these atrocities.

Heck, one of our longest serving Christian democratic prime Ministers was an ardent supporter of Israel during his time in power, but really felt guilty afterwards.

I, too, feel guilty for having ever been supportive of Israel. It’s just not right.

This is true, but not everything that gets promoted gets popular. A lot also flunks.

Taylor Swift just happens to hit a sweet spot that appeals to a lot of people.

And music has a self-reinforcing spiral. People listen to music from artists that they like, and which their peers like.

So a popular artist could theoretically release an album without any promotion and it would still become popular, just because people will be curious to listen to the new songs from an artist that they already like (of course, record labels will always heavily promote work from their popular artists to make them even more popular).

Let’s not forget, this is exactly how we ended segregation in the US and Apartheid in South Africa.

Activism works. Let your voice be heard.

This is also why bad actors fill sites like reddit with bots, to try and control the public narrative.

But bots can’t vote. Bots can’t demonstrate. Bots can’t boycott.

And also kudos to Lemmy and Lemmy mods for keeping this place relatively free from bots.

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The Democrats outsmart Republicans yet again.

Next up: border secured just in time to win the November elections.

Because it’s collective punishment and they want to maximize suffering.

But that will never be officially said. They are well trained to know what is legal and what is not.

So the official reason will always be that they thought she was a terrorist. Some combination of not being able to see properly in the dust, being under fire from her general direction and terrorists dressing like civilians.

PSA: The old Opera guys have a new browser, Vivaldi.

It’s quite nice and I use it daily.

I was expecting this news.

I think someone is doing some arm twisting in NATO, and I think that someone might be Joe Biden.

I am no fan of Hamas, but even I can see this is a bad deal.

So they want Hamas to give up all their leverage and then after two months they will happily continue starving and bombing Gaza?

Why would Hamas agree to such a deal?

It really seems like Netanyahu doesn’t care about the hostages and they’re just pushing bad deals to placate the Israeli public to make it seem like they are doing something.