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pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Israel declares siege of Gaza as Hamas threatens to start killing hostagesEnglish151·2 years agoWhat the actual fuck are you talking about. The Japanese literally used suicide attacks and were so brainwashed they believed suicide was preferable to enemy capture. The Germans literally committed the multiple genocides. They were rehabilitated over time but it took time and effort. Both committed horrific atrocities, yet through international effort, are largely reformed.
pips@lemmy.filmto World News@beehaw.org•An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in IsraelEnglish3·2 years agoYou really need to read up on American history.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McDonald’s and Wendy’s win false advertising lawsuitEnglish93·2 years agoNot really, that’s a minor part of the opinion. The more important part is they tell you how much food you’re going to get of what kind and then they give you that food. I don’t think anyone would be able to win a case on “my burger didn’t look like the burger in the ad” because every burger looks a little different. Lots of things that are the same don’t look the same and let’s not suddenly pretend we get McDonalds for the appearance. They’d win false advertising if, say, a quarter pounder was only 2 oz.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McDonald’s and Wendy’s win false advertising lawsuitEnglish5·2 years agoI dunno, seems like the judge is explicitly acknowledging it.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religionEnglish10·2 years agoAll Eastern religions have their own problems and crimes committed in the name of their beliefs. Christianity might have some of the more global harms, but it’s hardly alone in being harmful.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certainEnglish1·2 years agoBuilding up a new economy is not a crash. A crash is when the current system gets wrecked and it’s possible something better emerges from the ashes. The problem is that an economic crash primarily hurts the poor, even if they don’t own the stocks/property/means of production. They’re the ones whose jobs and homes are lost.
Consider, for example, the Bengal famine. Entirely economic, there was literally enough food but it became prohibitively expensive due to market forces driven by the British. The rich British aristocrats didn’t suffer, Indians did. In Venezuela when the market crashed, rich people got out or are able to weather it. Poor people are either stuck having to attempt to make the best of a terrible situation, or flee and seek aid as migrants.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certainEnglish1·2 years agoPeople thought that was the case with finance until 2008, instead we had people left homeless and jobless for years. Wealthy people have a safety net when the system fails. Poor people do not. If the U.S. crashed, people would die from the fallout. People died in the last recessions and they weren’t mostly the rich.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish11·2 years agoYour response to someone noting that working for this office has inherent risks due to gun nuts existing and someone responding with “it’s just a job” is to compare gun regulations to the Holocaust. You just followed up a sentence where you said this isn’t about guns with two questions about guns. I think you either don’t understand what the Nazis did or you’re arguing in bad faith. My guess is both.
Also, I don’t have to have a solution to gun violence to point out you’re making a stupid and dangerous argument. Calling people who work on gun safety Nazis in response to someone noting that gun nuts make their job dangerous proves the point.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents doEnglish21·2 years agoI think you’re wrong about the car example. The reason people don’t know how their car works now is because so much of it involves proprietary software that you cannot fix it with physical labor. You have to understand and debug the code as well. Additionally, the manufacturers and dealerships have made accessing the parts (both on the car and replacements) so difficult that there isn’t really a universal approach to fixing the modern passenger vehicle anymore. Millenials didn’t stop fixing cars themselves out of laziness, it was because the knowledge needed to do so was greater than the cost of having a professional do it and have the repair guaranteed.
Meanwhile, though I understand that touch screen and app-based OSes are pretty difficult to program for the average consumer, it’s not the only option for computing, just a popular one. This also has nothing to do with whether what you’re downloading is safe.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish1·2 years agoBut that’s not really a good reason to not have regulations. “People are going to steal your shit if they want to badly enough” does not mean theft shouldn’t be a crime.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish2·2 years agoThere’s probably a few other things that can be done but that’s generally correct. Frankly, the solution to gun violence is to remove all guns. Make the situation impossible. That won’t happen and neither will appropriate legal restrictions to ownership with the country the way it is, so training and other preventive measures are the next best thing.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish11·2 years agoWanting to prevent civilian gun violence makes you a Nazi?
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claimsEnglish4·2 years agoIt literally says on the package that Starburst has artificial flavoring. Show me the same on the Starbucks cup.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claimsEnglish3·2 years agoFalling Down is basically what happens when you mix cocaine with the specific type of male fragility that can afford cocaine.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•2 Gay Dads Helped Uncover $767,000 Embezzlement Scheme in Texas Town Where 'Officials Called Them Homophobic Slurs'English15·2 years agoYou see the problem was she tried that in a small town…Fort Worth suburb.
pips@lemmy.filmto Patient Gamers@lemmy.ml•Games with absolute banger OSTs (and perhaps good stories / gameplay)English9·2 years agoHopefully not too many repeats from what others said.
Homeworld
Halo 2, 3, and ODST
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2
Age of Empires II
Midnight Club II and 3: Dub Edition
Katamari Damacy
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask
Kingdom Hearts
Doom
Grim Fandango: Remastered
Shadow of the Colossus
Chrono Trigger
Star Fox 64
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•London Cop Who Shot Dead Unarmed Black Man Charged With MurderEnglish7·2 years agoYes and no, technically without “dead” and leaving the rest of the sentence unchanged, it could imply the cop has a separate murder charge. A better headline is “London Cop Charged With Murder After Shooting And Killing Unarmed Black Man.”
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legendsEnglish2·2 years agoAlmost definitely the FAA.
pips@lemmy.filmto Privacy@lemmy.ml•ASstechnica : shittiest cookie consent popup champion everEnglish39·2 years agoWe can’t all be not American.
Probably a rosé then.