Evilsandwichman [none/use name]

That’s nothing; Tigers and Pandas are still around in the same time period as the electronic device you used to post this!

When people are using mental interface devices to gravitate to their Mars colony it’ll be such a mindbender to realize ye olde memes were being made at the same time all those mammalian fossils from extinct species like elephants and rhinos were carbon dated to!

To be fair it’s still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they’re from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.

Shireen Abu Akleh (spelling?) was actually both in this picture; she was the murdered reporter and the one whose funeral they attacked, including attacking pallbearers.

English

Uh, the planet isn’t named after some old Roman guy sweaty, it’s named after Goofy’s dog.

I mean…yeah, Ukraine was alleging this stuff early on in the war and unsurprisingly they’re enacting on Kursk what they wanted to do to civilians in Donbas.

I’m reminded of something I recall reading a (US) general saying a few months back, that they wanted terror attacks in Russia to scare people into opposing the war; I’m beginning to think if I ever read something from a general of them saying something hideous they’d like to see happen then I should expect it to happen.

if flat earthers would just write books

Yup, if Pratchett had been born thirty or forty years later we would have gotten unhinged twitter rants instead of discworld

Got to like third level once

I’ve no idea how I had so much tolerance back then for difficult games; I recall when I got a megadrive and only ever completed like 2-3 games because everything else was so monstrously difficult. I enjoyed a lot of the games I played back then but I’m much happier today for being able to have easy mode so I can actually the enjoy the game just like no-lifers.

Some kind of (Atari?) console that I think only had pong, or if it had other games I can’t remember them.

The first good games I played? Prince of Persia and Karateka on DOS, also mines of Titan but I had zero idea how to play that. Also word muncher; loved that game but I was a dumb kid and didn’t know the solutions many times. I also got an MSX keyboard and the little tape machine addon that somehow played video games off audio cassettes. I still have zero idea how you put video games on audio cassettes.

They won’t even let Israel go a day without bombs so the Palestinians can have a day of relief

That’s very anti-Ukrainian of you; it’s Elensky now

This was definitely a good read, but to quote something from a leftist friend of the author:

It is not just Hamas, it’s all Gazans who agree that it’s OK to kill Jewish children, that this is a worthy cause … With Germany there was reconciliation, but they apologised and paid reparations, and what [will happen] here? We too did terrible things, but nothing that comes close to what happened here on 7 October. It will be necessary to reconcile but we need some distance.

I’m sorry, are you comparing the Gazans who lived in an open air prison under horrific oppression to the Nazis? Gazans who were themselves refugees from violent expulsion? And how sure are you that so many Gazans agree that it’s okay to kill Jewish children? I’ve seen this insane sentiment so often from Isn’traelis it’s crazy; actually it’s either crazy or just projection, seeing as so many pissraelis have been vocalizing their desire to either kill Gazan children or for them to ‘die’ (the Western media way of telling you ‘murdered by the IDF’).

Also, ‘We too did terrible things, but nothing that comes close to what happened here on 7 October’, ARE YOU DAMN SERIOUS?! IT ONLY DOESN’T COME CLOSE BECAUSE IT GOES THE OTHER WAY INTO FAR, FAR WORSE! PEOPLE HAD TO BE MURDERED FOR YOU TO HAVE THE LAND YOU’RE LIVING ON! THE SURVIVORS OF WHICH MAY ACTUALLY BE INCARCERATED IN THE PRISON OF GAZA! EVEN GAZA ALONE EVERY YEAR HAD HIGHER NUMBERS THAN 7 OCTOBER!

THIS is what accounts for the Israeli left?!

‘It will be necessary to reconcile but we need some distance.’ translated as “Yes, we know things are difficult in Gaza right now, but we need time to get over this” he says while expecting Gazans to wait while bombs rain down on them and snipers shoot their children in the head and heart, double tapping to make sure they’re dead.

Honestly even the author doesn’t seem to acknowledge the horrors of being on the receiving end of settler colonialism.

This was a good read and I’m glad the author can see the horrors of how Israeli society is developing, and I certainly didn’t know so many people in the early 80’s actually wanted a country that made citizens of both Palestinians and Israelis (THIS is genuinely the best solution!), nor did I know that Yitzak Rabin, lauded as the guy who wanted a peaceful coexistence with Palestinians (though let’s not be mistaken here: the peace accords offered terrible conditions to the Palestinians) was the guy who gave the order during the first intifada (the peaceful one) to break the arms and legs of Palestinian youth. Nor did I realize that pirate captain Moshe Dayan was not blind in his one good eye to the injustice that had been done to the Palestinians with the occupation, having lived in Palestine before the Nakba, although clearly aware enough of the importance of propaganda to remove text from his speech that pointed out that Palestinians were victims and were rightfully angry.

All I can think is that reactionaries could have had a field day with this and used this as evidence that women shouldn’t be boxing, but racism > misogyny

She got to legally punch some of those losers in the face (in the ring); I would imagine that was also satisfying.

Hey Rowling, go a few rounds with her.

Hey, remember when everyone said Russia was going to nuke Ukraine? Anyone remember that? Anyone remember when everyone said Russia was going to nuke Ukraine? Anyone remember how everyone said Iran definitely has nukes? Anyone remember how everyone was so sure Russia or North Korea were going to be the next countries to fire a nuke? Anyone remember that?

I’ve mentioned this before but I can definitely confirm; here in Qatar Starbucks has gone almost completely empty as people now frequent local cafes, some of which opened in the same vicinities as Starbucks and got their customers.

Interestingly though it does make for compelling heroes like Drizzt and Wulfgar.

Meanwhile in the real world, people be like “what’s a linux?”

Huh…didn’t know that that memorial was a thing or that we were invited; why on earth would you invite the criminals who conducted it?