I really think celebrity changes the nature of this. I suspect the media's urge to cover celebrity news is even greater than their urge not to talk about Israel's crimes.
Indeed - I think one of the big takeaways from this for the international community will be just how incompatible apartheid is with democracy, or how blending the two creates an incredibly toxic mix. It has been obvious to (honest) observers and to supporters of Palestine for a long time, but recent experiences in Israel shows how democracy is not worth the paper of the ballots if democracy does not extend to everyone.
Seeing how Netanyahu deals with criticism from the Israeli opposition will be extremely interesting. I think it's safe to say liberal Israelis have bigger things to worry about than Hamas.
I don't know many israelis, but the ones I do know are on the streets protesting all the time now. Accounts differ, but there are many signs that Netanyahu is not particularly popular even at home these days.
What is pretty unique about Israel's genocide is that it is strangely democratic in nature. Sure, Israeli democracy is hardly a democracy at all, but it plays by democratic rules for the part of the population who are considered full citizen. And within this democratic system Netanyahu and his crooks have painted themselves into a corner, where they need to appease the most extremist extreme right terrorists they have chosen as coalition partners. Because the second they stop the government will fall and they will almost certainly be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
So the combination of the existence of these crimes and the democracy-like institutions in Israel are actually forcing Netanyahu to double down on genocide. It's pretty crazy.
In the third Reich, the first thing the NSDAP did was to abolish democratic institutions. Israel's genocide is very different - dynamics of democratic government are actively fueling the fire of their holocaust. It's the first ever democratic genocide. When the dust settles, I think this is going to give us a lot to think about.
I'm writing this from Interstellar, it's pretty sweet.
It's not tailored perfectly to PieFed yet - for example it's more oriented towards communities than feeds - but it's working really well and feels snappy.
I wonder how many civilians in Gaza Israel would have to murder in order to gain the same amount of press as they would receive for killing two famous white people.
I suspect there were never enough people there to solve this equation.
And yeah, it really does not take much research online to learn about gsconnect.
I don't understand the hardware support part, but I also don't understand "peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice". If I had to install software to use my keyboard I would riot. Maybe I'm just too primitive.
I'm pretty sure I change my pitch depending on which language I'm speaking. Scandinavian languages go pretty low, English and German is somewhere in the middle, and in French and Italian I go pretty high out of some desperate hope that it will make me easier to understand. I'm not sure it helps much.
Intonation of course changes, though probably not enough. And I'm pretty sure someone from a village close to home could recognize traces of my accent no matter which language I'm trying to speak.
Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.
A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.
If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.
Yeah, this is fair. It could be that bikes are the upper limit to complexity. :)
Some friends of mine have experiences with very bad Italian bikes, but I think it's a matter of getting what you pay for. My own bad experiences has mostly been with French bikes...
I go Italian with a lot of kitchen appliances. My Italian stainless steel frying pan is amazing. Pasta machine obviously. They also make some great shoes and leather products.
I would never trust them with anything of equal or greater complexity to a bicycle.
My vacuum cleaner is made in Germany. Super happy with it after one year. I also have a pretty sturdy German kitchen knife.
Pretty sure some of my power tools are also German, but that's bought more on the basis of what I could find in flea markets than where it was produced.
The American companies obsessed with cutting costs generally don't manufacture in the US any more. Potential exception for the automobile industry, but these cars aren't really exported much to the rest of the world any more.
Also worth noting that this is based on data from 2017. I would be happy to buy a pair of jeans made in America back then. Now, not so much.
I really think celebrity changes the nature of this. I suspect the media's urge to cover celebrity news is even greater than their urge not to talk about Israel's crimes.