Hamas is getting exactly what they wanted.

they provoked Israel into massively overreacting, responding to a terrorist attack with a genocide. Israel burned though all its international goodwill and now most of the West has recognized Palestinian statehood.

Netenyahu’s arrogance amazes me. this was easy to foresee.

I’ve been talking with Russians on Reddit. maybe it’s all bots, but most of them really think NATO started the War in Ukraine, that every country in the West has always hated Russia and wants to destroy them, that all the invasions are in self-defense, that attacking the Baltics and Poland would be justified… it was terrifying.

they’re so cynical too - Western news is propaganda, Western democracies are shams, NATO wants to destroy Russia, everyone is Russophobic, that our citizens deserve to suffer for arming Ukraine, that we’d kill them all if we could, so they don’t care if they kill us.

they think they can break NATO, that we will fall apart if Poland is invaded, that Russia will emerge victorious and the Western order will lie in shambles. don’t they see they’re playing with nuclear holocaust? do they care? are they so fatalistic they’d play (apologies) Russian roulette with the extinction of humanity?

I ask you because you seem sane. is this just propaganda from kremlbots, or are most Russians really like this?

idk, honestly. usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there’s a global empathy shortage… too much hate and too little love.

They also normalize risk: forcing constant intercepts drains resources and tests cohesion among allies.

it also keeps defensive forces sharp, by giving them practice, and strengthens cohesion by highlighting the shared threat NATO protects its members from.

the Soviets did this for decades. it’s still part of their military doctrine, I guess. though it seems counterproductive to me.

I’m fine shooting down hostile fighter jets the second they cross into sovereign airspace, and not a moment sooner.

the Soviets used to fly fighters close to Western airspace to probe our defenses. we’d intercept, and if they crossed over we’d take them down. this is nothing new.

Matthew J. Nykiel, a board-certified surgeon, stated the appearance is modeled after Ivanka Trump’s appearance.[9] Melinda Anna Farina, an aesthetic consultant, identified the Mar-a-Lago face as attempting to emulate the appearance of Eastern European women.[2]

but there’s totally no cult of personality /s

augh but it’s the only pain reliever I’m allowed to take!

I can’t find the pro-LGBTQ+ ones are they on backorder?

is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?

and make MAGA Place pay for it?

if anyone has one of these phones, please contact CitizenLab. they can reverse-engineer it.

it’s weird that he uses those juvenile nicknames even in private(?) conversation.

I don’t know the details, so I could be out of line, but you sometimes do have to force severe anorexia patients to eat. you can straight up die from it. and once you’re anorexic for long enough, your body stops feeling hungry at appropriate times, so you have to make yourself eat X number of calories on a schedule for a few months during refeeding.

t. recovered anorexic who narrowly avoided inpatient.

I have no scientific basis for this, but my suspicion is that what you do with your brain is more important to cognition than whatever raw intelligence you start with. the more languages you study, the more music you play, the more subjects you study and skills you develop and hobbies you tinker with and deep conversations you have… you learn to learn, you learn to think, it all gets wired up and cross-connected and you become more than the sum of your parts.

how much decline is truly biological vs. being stuck in a rut?

also there’s nootropics that could be helpful for concussion recovery/etc. but they haven’t been too well-studied, there’s many different ones with different sketchiness and sources aren’t always trustworthy… but piracetam (iirc) is actually prescribed in the EU for recovery from brain injury, and it’s fairly safe and well-studied. I’m not recommending it either way though.

I call it trans-inclusive radical misogyny, as it’s basically the inverse of being a terf.

I love trans-inclusive radical misogyny. it’s so blursed. imagine if we had this instead of terfs.

oh they’re totally a tankie, I just don’t think they were employed by the Russian government.

you know what, that’s fair. I admit I’ve heard so frequently (e.g. from the GOS community) that FF is less secure due to low maintenance, so I read the CVE statistics with that bias. I apologize.

in your view, how ought we to assess the attack surface of things like browsers? I’d love to move back to FF if it’s roughly as secure.

and will you be paying with NAND or disk today?

there’s always the high seas 🏴‍☠️