Part of the reason this particular issue is so contentious is because there is a great deal of nuance and history, and people can easily fall prey to confirmation bias by finding what they go looking for. What Hamas does and stands for is wrong. The disproportionate response from Israel, settlers in the West Bank, and lack of adherence to their own standards of engagement is wrong. But deeply rooted in this conflict is the belief that we must pick sides, and that one side must be right and the other wrong. I'm going to share a prior comment that gives of the nuance I mention.
The reality is both Israel and Palestinians are victims; victims of each other, their neighbors, and the world around them. You can make one side look better or worse depending on when you start the clock on the discussion.
When Israel was formed in 1948 there wasn't a Palestinian state, but rather a collection of towns with various ethnic populations including Jewish and Muslims peoples. The area was controlled by Britain in the time before WW2 under a mandate from the league of nations, the precursor to the UN.
In 1948 the UN set a border for Jewish and Palestinian states in the territory that is today known as Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. The Jewish peoples, some who could trace their ancestry in the area to biblical times, and others who settled the area as either a Zionist effort or fleeing the Holocaust, accepted the borders which were much smaller than today's Israel, because it meant they would finally have their own state and land.
The Arabs didn't accept the border for a variety of reasons, and the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia attacked the fledgling Jewish state.
Notably, the Palestinians didn't attack. Though there were tensions between the Jewish peoples and the Palestinians who felt the encroachment of Jewish settlers from Europe, the Palestinian cause was really created and coopted by their Muslim neighbors.
During the war Israel expanded their borders, 700,000 Palestinians were displaced while some were massacred. Some Palestinians fled the war, some were forced out, some left at the call of their Arab neighbors, and some left in fear of being massacred. The armistice that ended the war left Israel larger, Jordan in control of the West Bank, and Egypt in control of Gaza. Note, this was before the West began to provide military aid to Israel.
So the Israel narrative or myth is that they have the pure moral high ground where they win a war for the right to exist. The Palestinian narrative and myth is that they were all violently dispossessed by the Jews and are pure victims. To this day, children born in Palestinian refuge camps are taught about the village they are "from" which often doesn't exist and their family does 70 years ago. Though many were not forced out during the war, the narrative is they were all forced to leave by the Jewish army.
So you have these competing ideas passed down on both sides that are in conflict, and neither one quite right.
When you look at how Palestinians have been treated by their Arab neighbors you see how they have been abused further. For example, Jordan and Egypt could have made the West Bank and Gaza independent Palestinian states, but they didn't. They continued to occupy them, and ultimately lose control after going to war with Israel again in the six day war in 1967, which set the stage for many of the problems today.
Over the years these narratives in conflict have bred real world violence in a tit for tat escalation that spans decades. Israel continues its narrative that it is in a war for its right to exist, which is true, but also doesn't accept responsibility for worsening the situation at times over the years and human rights abuses such as the 24 documented displacements.
Palestinians continue to define themselves as a dispossessed people, teaching their children that they need to reclaim what they lost, while being used by their surrounding Arab religious state neighbors as a proxy battleground against Israel. Palestinians have refused offers to develop permanent housing for fear of would weaken their claim to being refugees, and really live in entrenched slums that they call refuge camps.
The recent events were caused by Hamas, fearing the normalization of Israel relationships and the fading of the Palestinians cause to retake lost land, attacking Israel. Then of course, you have Israels grossly disproportionate response and the horrors therein.
So really the situation is quite a mess, and made worse by people ignorant of the history rushing to support one side or the other. In reality, both sides are prisoners of their own history, and unlikely to set themselves free anytime soon.
If you want a short podcast that goes over this in more detail, I recommend "The Daily" podcast titled 1948, which was released this past November 3rd.
Basically Epic like every other publisher has created their own launcher/store.
They aren't trying to compete on features and instead using profits from their franchise to buy market share (e.g. buying store exclusives).
The tone and strategy often comes off as aggressive and hostile.
For example Valve was concerned Microsoft were going to leverage their store to kill Steam. Valve has invested alot in adding windows operability to Linux and ensuring Linux is a good gaming platform. To them this is the hedge against agressive Microsoft business practices.
The Epic CEO thinks Windows is the only operating system and actively prevents Linux support and revoked Linux support from properties they bought.
As a linux user, Valve will keep getting my money and I literally can't give it to Epic because they don't want it.
The campaign is set in the Moonshae Isles. I am playing the Sarifal outcast background as a Fairy. As part of the background, my character, Spark, is on a secret mission (rooting out traitors) for High Lady Ordlaf. Now, Spark isn’t allowed to tell the real reason that he is not at court. And he is known to be banished as part...
“I once led a small group of Rebels. Turns out being a rebel is some kinda ‘traitorous’ behavior or something. Pfft, can you believe that?”
“I was a smuggler back home. Let’s just say one of my ‘packages’ were a little bit too loud for their own good and my ‘package’ kinda…‘broke’ and now…well here I am.”
“Have you ever heard of the shattering of the north land? You know that big fissure that was caused by a giant explosio-…no? Oh, well in that case I’m just here on vacation.”
“Would you believe me if I said I was a runaway Prince? Because I’m a runaway Prince. Don’t bother asking me for money; had to leave it when I ran away.”
“Long story short, did you know that if you cheat on your wife and your wife turns out to be the daughter of a crime boss you can die?”
“Look, if anybody asks you if you know a guy that has the vial of liquid life you don’t know me. Capiche?”
“You know the good, innocent princess that lives Sarifal? Heh, well did you know that she has a mole in the shape of a heart on her butt? Don’t tell the King I told you though. Turns out the King doesn’t like me much anymore.”
“Funny enough, I was actually a magician back home. I was so good that I actually used to perform for the King and Queen frequently. So, with that being said, if a dog named Mitzy randomly appears in front of you, you’ll let me know so I can finally go home?”
It’s not a bad thing to ask for clarifying questions… How the flying fuck do you think people learn things from people who are scholars/teachers/experts!? Did you never ask a single question in school or your job(s)?? How the fuck do you learn without questions?
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
You are clearly a republican. The two parties are not the same in any way. Republicans at this point are just nazism, Democrats are not the best but not even remotely as evil. It's not even the same fucking sport.
The funniest fucking part about that commenter being so proud of their wine snobbery is that professional sommeliers can’t distinguish $15 wine from $1500 wine in double blind trials
Based on data from fedipact.veganism.social it seems that the majority of instances blocks threads.net. I’m sure there’s Lemmy instances with either approach that have slipped through the cracks as the list is a work in progress....
Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…
demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and
allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while
ducking meaningful oversight,
lying about what they do and know, and
treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…
…will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure.
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic...
There are electric cars that aren’t made by grifters and that don’t lose their wheels though.
Like none of these failures are inherent to electric cars, just to cheaply made cars with no quality control.
To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
Even our scientific method is a bit wanting in this area, since if we hear X, how can we prove X?
by looking at their lab notes and repeating their experiment and seeing if we can make the same observations. if they lied about their process (see the guy that claimed he made a room temp superconductor…) they get caught out.
I think you thoroughly misunderstand the process involved. yeah, there’s more emphasis on being first… but no… there’s definitely still verification. Oh. and. yes. we can image atoms.
I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
So the banks basically paid a .6% interest rate on a $426b loan? I'd say they got the better end of the deal.
I'd hardly call the safeguarding of an establishment that has, and continues to, provide predatory services to the American people a resounding success. At best its a minor victory of the shareholders of the banks.
Change is painful. But is quickly painful, like the setting of a broken bone. As it stands we have the aching pain of an improperly healed bone, as these institutions continue to break them unabated. Are we meant to thank them for the privilege?
I think not. I'd rather we fix the root cause of the problem and see a little short term pain than to maintain the status quo of slower more enduring suffering.
Every time someone brings up a controller vs mouse and keyboard, most of if not all comments will push towards the OP to “switch to mouse and keyboard” because “it’s better!”...
I’m both a controller and mouse and keyboard user but I find it easier to aim with a controller. It feels natural.
This is fine. You can have a preference. The rest of your post, however, is objectively incorrect, or at best misleading.
For example, in order for me, a keyboard and mouse user, to get used to a controller, I would need to:
Find a reasonable controller
Find out how I can best grip the controller for my use case
Make sure the game’s controller sensitivity is set correctly for my use case
See how that’s basically the same arguments you are making against using a K&M?
Also, there have been FPS competitions where people with controllers go absolutely demolished by K&M players. When it comes to competitive FPS gaming, K&M has large advantages over controllers. Even some single-player console FPS games have enabled auto-aim by default, and left the setting disabled by default on PC for K&M players, because using a controller is more difficult than a K&M for FPS.
Meet Tom the Dancing Bug's newest character: Mickey Mouse! (lemmus.org)
Tom The Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling, for January 1 2024.
Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else. (startrek.website)
This was apparently real, from a flyer at an event in 1996.
Reddit & Gaza situation
Is it me or is Reddit a pit-hole of people that advocate Palestinians being ethnic cleansed and genocide?...
Wow, my uncle has been trying to save Christmas all along! (slrpnk.net)
Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to remove Trump from California ballot (www.independent.co.uk)
Swamp water: Now only $4.99 (lemmy.world)
Aaaaand this is now how the spells look for me (lemmy.world)
What's up with Epic Games?
I can’t seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them…...
Cover story ideas for my character in a homebrew campaign.
The campaign is set in the Moonshae Isles. I am playing the Sarifal outcast background as a Fairy. As part of the background, my character, Spark, is on a secret mission (rooting out traitors) for High Lady Ordlaf. Now, Spark isn’t allowed to tell the real reason that he is not at court. And he is known to be banished as part...
The Jebus Said So. (startrek.website)
AMEN!
"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
Wine snobs are something else (lemmy.world)
60% of Lemmy-instances blocks Threads.net (lemmy.sambands.net)
Based on data from fedipact.veganism.social it seems that the majority of instances blocks threads.net. I’m sure there’s Lemmy instances with either approach that have slipped through the cracks as the list is a work in progress....
People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song?
I know the Mariah Carey song is hated because its overused, but its also objectively a well produced piece of pop music....
Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data (www.erininthemorning.com)
Best explanation for Bulma (lemmy.world)
Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)
Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective (www.reuters.com)
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic...
Beautiful like the moon (startrek.website)
Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
Anon drinks water (lemmy.world)
Are dilettantes always a bad thing?
I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to
I wish funky Kong was in smash rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Only 60% of student loan borrowers made payments when bills restarted in the US (www.cnbc.com)
Controllers are good for FPS games, especially on PC, and we have to stop pretending like they’re not
Every time someone brings up a controller vs mouse and keyboard, most of if not all comments will push towards the OP to “switch to mouse and keyboard” because “it’s better!”...