"WELL ACTUALLY, the indiscriminate murder of civilians, including literal infants and children is OK because of the history of the area" is quite the take. ๐ฌ #palestine#israel#hillaryclinton
@zdl@The_Tim But it's generally the case that any take on territory is always based on some point in history which "people" declare as the starting point, ignoring everything preceding it.
In this case, it seems to be the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate for the area in 1920, sometime after which Israel was established.
Again, not disputing that Israelis deserve their own state.
But also observing that this is literally a colonial project.
@The_Tim CEOs get huge pay because they are so very much smarter than the rest of us. So if he couldn't see it coming it must have been 1000% unforseeable. I'm glad we have the smart people in charge. /s
@notjustbikes I met a lovely lady from the Netherlands the other day. My small talk was "there's a YouTube channel I watch that's made by a guy who moved there." She immediately replied: "Oh, Not Just Bikes? Yeah, I love that channel."
Five months into #unemployment I still have no job despite having applied to over 500 roles, often with internal referrals from my network. If anyone on here has any connections that are hiring data roles I'd love an intro. Here's my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetim/#jobsearch
@notjustbikes I was inspired by the latest episode of The Urbanist Agenda to pull out my small collection of vintage Wired magazines from 1993/1994 and no joke, this comic was in the back of the very first issue. ๐คฆ๐ป
[it was a single page, but I split it into two here so the full alt text would fit.]
We have had this farm animals baby toy set since our now-12-year-old daughter was a baby and it's only just now, getting it back out for our 8-month-old son to play with, that I realized that all of these farm animalsโฆ
โข are about the same height as the farmer
โข are standing upright
โข are holding their front legs up like arms
Those aren't animals. They're people in animal costumes. My kids have been playing with a toy set full of farm-themed furries.
In case anyone else wants to know how to disable the dumb #AI#Copilot that #Microsoft enabled by default to live down in your taskbar in the latest #Windows11 update, here's how.
Right-click an empty space on the taskbar and click "Taskbar settings."
In the "Personalization > Taskbar" window that comes up, toggle the "Copilot (preview) switch from "on" to "off."