I recognise there’s obviously gonna be bias from VoA but this article really just made me recognise that what I was feeling about home was grief…

The sycophants that help the CCP still are Hong Kongers, like it or not. And it was passed in Hong Kong by Hong Kong legislators. Just that it’s not been done so democratically.

a pretty good video, one or two tiny mistakes but… yeah.

cat tax!!

I read “brutish” as “british” on first glance

Using the website on my mac, on chrome. Weird.

Did tagging people break with the update? When I type @ nothing shows up.

WOOOO

Both sides have said the same thing and offered peace deals that the other side is unwilling to accept, doesn’t really matter if neither side wants to negotiate. Sucks that the civilians just have to suffer while two assholes fight it out.

Unbroken ampersands? hallelujah

I’d given up hope about Pokémon Z ever being a thing, ngl, much less expecting a Legends game for it. By the time this comes out I’ll have been waiting for this game for a literal decade. I am SO fucking hyped.

as an aside, I probably will never end up actually calling it its real name cuz Pokémon Z lol

FINALLLYYYYYYY

Yeah, I assume in general that nothing on the internet ever goes away. At least makes it somewhat more annoying though.

i did the thing that means it’s probably less archived (by editing all the replies before deleting), but i assume some of it probably remains out there. Nothing I can do about that.

One thing i miss about Lemmy is shittymorph tbf

Glad I deleted everything on there. fucking hell.

I mean, if you are to judge the country by the worst amongst them, there is basically not a single country with an ounce of morality — but Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc. would never manage to get that to happen because the West Bank means more to them and Bibi knows it, and it’s also more strategically wise for them to leave Gaza alone and quietly continue settling the West Bank. Even during this war Bibi has claimed that they won’t try to settle Gaza, and again, why would they? Most Israelis don’t want it, the US doesn’t want it, not even the fairly right-wing Netanyahu wants it, and it’d cost massive political capital for very little gain.

I do agree that it is bad; but you do need both sides to negotiate to actually get peace. Israel unilaterally offered a de-escalatory move, and what ended up happening was Hamas taking over from the PA. Nothing happens in a vacuum — just like how Israel’s action there wasn’t without cause either, but designed to put the issue on the backburner. But it was still a move towards what could have been a peaceful (though likely uneasy) coexistence which Hamas made impossible

no they’re not, they specifically were fine with giving it back to Egypt cuz they didn’t care about Sinai. It’s historically never been a Jewish place, they have no reason to want it, and Egypt is somewhat an ally of theirs.

Read this as Biden being 14th worst, not the best headline :p Kinda impossible to rank them especially when either one could have another term still…