Kudos for honourably backtracking and being reasonable. Mistakes are made, what matters is how they’re dealt with.

What a cool freaking flag.

Time to show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do!

Steps are being taken in the right direction. The US has also been making progress, which I’m sure will continue if America doesn’t give up on itself next month.

That said, it’s not nearly enough. As long as the focus is on innovation and growth rather than sustainability, and consumers don’t really give a fuck, it’s going to be difficult to see any change.

But I’m very happy with my Fairphone, and my next laptop will no doubt be a framework. Baby steps.

And you keep herr/frau, so technically it would be Frau Professorin Doctor Jones.

Generally when opening an email you condense it, and simply refer to the person as “Sehr geehrte Frau Professorin Jones” - Very honoured ms. professor Jones. They’re very humble.

I get that this is surprising to many, but it’s possible to have news stories covering women without instinctively turning it into a discussion about their appearances.

I find it weird that nobody mentioned this. If you don’t have back problems and you’re tired of shoe horns breaking, in addition to reconsidering your technique, get a short metal one.

Sounds like you’ve had too much internet.

Either that, or you have a fascination for human suffering. Which you might want to see a therapist about if you can afford it.

In either case, signing off and doing something you enjoy offline might be a good idea. I’d take to the mountains, but that’s just me.

I think SassyRamen was referring to bad karma specifically. You both hate Putin. And for good reasons, though none of those reasons are depicted in this post.

He’ll be dead soon enough, until then he can easily leave Florida whenever necessary. He doesn’t give a shit.

They did! Thank you so much - I tried to Google, but all the pictures were awful. Love yours!

Most that is released is mass produced trash, sequel or not. But for sure there’s a bunch of sleazy suits trying to make a buck off nostalgia and name recognition, there’s no disputing that.

Counterargument: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is fantastic.

I guess hieroglyphics were to the priesthood of the time what Latin is to the Catholic church today. A dead language that you artificially keep alive in order to situate yourself in some sort of historical legacy.

They created this militia by invading and mobilising resistance. Now they are doing the exact same thing. The only way I can see them exterminating Hezbolla this way is if they extend their genocide to Lebanon, and are successful at it. If not, all they achieve is to fill the next generations with hate just as they have done in the past.

If Israel backed off, recognized Palestine and Palestinian territory, ended illegal settlements and began complying with international law, sent Netanyahu to the Hague, apologized, recognized the equal human rights of Arabs, and promised to help rebuild infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank and to help Palestine gain safety of water and electricity independent of Israel, and then committed to this agenda, they would achieve peace in a heartbeat.

But that’s unreasonable, right? But what exactly about it is unreasonable? Complying with international law? Recognizing Arabs as humans?

This would be the only way Israel could, in fact, defend itself. In fact, simply stopping the genocide would probably go a long way. But that’s still unthinkable for Netanyahu.

This notion of defence by bombing everyone around you is not sustainable when you need to defend yourself because everyone around you hates you. This is not the wars of the 19th century. Netanyahu is doing absolutely nothing to make Israel safer.

And worse still, he knows that. He never wanted to make Israel safe. Removing people is the point, no matter the cost. His project is to clean the land of Arabs. No matter the cost.

That’s an interesting take. I think you should ideally be invited before your military march into a foreign country and start bombing in order to claim it’s not an invasion. It’s not one of those things you can assume you have permission to do until the country you’re invading starts fighting back.

Lebanon is not Hezbolla. But the bombs are falling in Lebanon, and it is Lebanese civilians that are being killed and displaced. They are invading Lebanon,.

That Lebanon hardly has a government to speak of and is doing awfully already does not mean you can just rightfully bomb it. What the fuck.

This is my favourite places. I used to live in Treptower for a few months and would go there pretty frequently.

It’s a war cemetery, marking the final resting place of more than 7000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin. More than 80 000 Soviet soldiers fell in the battle in total.

The monument is much bigger than this statue. in the middle of the park of the monument there are these gigantic stone flags, hanging to each side. Directly across from the soldier is a large, but significantly smaller, statue of a woman kneeling in respect for the soldier. Then there’s all these huge square stones depicting scenes from the war, with quotes by Stalin written in gold in Russian and German on the side.

What I love about it, in addition to the symmetry and the somewhat over the top nature of it all, is that it’s positioned exactly where two traumatic pasts meet. It is in part a sacred space; in part a painful memory. Some will criticize it for glorifying Stalin and the GDR; others have labelled it the “Tomb of the Unknown Rapist”, in reference to the not always excellent conduct of the Red Army. But despite everything­—and there is a lot—one can’t help but feel an immense gratitude to the 7 000 lying there. It’s a place where history and ideas collide, and one is struck by the complexity maybe more than the beauty.

Shoot, you’re right. I’ve seen so many stupid takes in this conflict it has made me dumb.

I’m sorry, but “limited ground operation” is the same type of shadowy bullshit language as calling the genocide in Gaza a “strategic operation”.

I don’t think anyone is making the point that it’s literally the exact same thing.

But what we’re witnessing is that Israel can bomb a civilian population to rubble for months and months, and all the intensional community can stutter out is that they “have a right to defend themselves”.

Now they are bombing a foreign capital and sending in ground troops to their neighbouring country to fight off a militia that they themselves are responsible for creating by invading in the past, and we know exactly what the chorus will be. Right to defend themselves.

We will see our Lebanese friends and their families murdered, all for Israel’s right to defend themselves.

In Germany, the line was that they would stop at Poland. People make up different excuses for different atrocities.

I think a lot of people are rightfully fucking tired of excuses, and that’s the point. Not that it’s literally the same thing.