LostWon

I've been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.

Carlin was good at what he did but he absolutely did punch down, just not at a specific person. The overarching message for a lot of his comedy was "You know you're all being screwed over and maybe you have a hard time doing anything about it, but you deserve it because you're stupid." It's just such a popular sentiment to call everyone else in society stupid, while excluding oneself, that I guess few people notice those undertones and their implications.

It helps to grow up cleaning your own schools and having being taught personal responsibility from a very young age. I have no doubt there are still elementary kids commuting to other towns alone by train to go to school, as there were when I was living there.

I'm sure this has been solved already but I'm just wondering how you ensure people are voting based on the helpfulness and/or merit of the response. That's the ideal on Lemmy but it's obviously not always the case here. Presumably, you'd have to be logged in on the other platform to vote but you can just see the discussion from Lemmy, I guess?

Useful constraints would focus discussion to keep questions/replies brief, relevant, and hopefully helpful, wouldn't they? I just wonder how up and downvoting would work since that would go very differently from Lemmy.

Horrific and sickening, to see an aid organization treated like this, especially knowing the situation in Gaza. Depraved actions like these will not be forgotten by decent people of the world.

Somebody set up us the bomb!

And ask their opinion what to do?

Usually, but I'm conscious of that and limit what they can get where I can for now. (And at least on my phone I use Newpipe only.)

I was already blocking ads since long ago, so what really bugs me now is the heavily degraded and incredibly off-putting search results these days. (Fixed that godawful UI change right away too, and I'm just not over having to use an outside search engine for accurate results.)

Yes, because a stern talking to will make all the difference, when they're already attacking people there either way.

Never even mind how at first I somehow thought the headline stopped before "until," and continued at Biden. 🙄

Or that (if I'm not mixing events in my head), only 4 of the 22 killed in that attack were even adults.