Unironically, a lot of cultural sociologists I follow on bluesky/mastadon are saying that being offline and meeting people through niche hobby spaces and your existing extended social circles is starting to see an uptick, with a lot of younger people seeing posting on major social media or dating apps as “cringe”. You’re at the forefront of what’s cool, nutsack.

That’s what I was thinking too. I browse r/all once in a while just to see what’s going on, and both the posts and comment sections are AI cesspools

I use youtube in safari and adguard works, and I can listen to audio in the background/have PIP. Maybe it’s my plebe eyes but since I watch mostly video essays, I don’t even notice the 720p limit on a screen that small.

That’s just it, I don’t know. And the government is being deliberately vague instead of just saying what they are shipping to Israel, or sending auxiliary weapons that are still being used in direct combat.

I pulled that quote because I want to emphasize that it is not as transparent as your original comment is making it seem.

The exact nature of the goods remains unclear. The ministry’s response lists eight categories, including rockets, torpedoes, warships and naval equipment. But as the exports are not classified as weapons of war and the total value is relatively small, the shipments likely involve accessories or equipment.

I wouldn’t call sending rockets and warships as “no weapons” just because the government says they’re not.

91 impactful years. I hope to leave quarter of a legacy that she does. Rest in power.

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I’m hoping that all the “stateless” Palestinian refugees in these countries are finally able to obtain some sort of recognition and have an easier time regarding residency.

We’ll see, though. The British started this whole fucking show after WWII, this is the least they can do.

I mean, true. I guess the dichotomy is jarring to me personally lol.

It’s kind of insane, because I have been going around Amsterdam museums this week to see what the hype is all about, and all of them do SUCH a good job addressing the colonialism of the Dutch. How tf are these guys not getting it

You’re not wrong, but considering how full throated Trudeau was in his support for Israel, and all of the Islamophobic+anti-Semetic rhetoric in Toronto and Montreal while those cities are hosting meetings for land developers wanting to invest in the Gaza strip, I will take what I can get.

Oh no, I 100% agree with everything you’ve said here.

My point was 1) the flotillas have been happening for a few months now and has gotten more people sympathetic to the situation (Greta for example live-streamed being boarded and captured by the IDF in…June I think?) and 2) The IDF don’t WANT the easy PR win. They want Gaza empty.

Lmao posting this from the Canada instance is hilarous considering the PM has put out a statement denouncing the Knesset and it’s intention to recognize a Palestinian State. Guess Carney’s a terrorist.

I give it a 30% chance that Israel military kills them and blames Hamas, a 60% chance that Hamas kills them and blames it on Israel… And a 10% chance of surviving…

They’ve been doing this May and I don’t think anyone has died/gone “missing” in the Flotillas yet. Israel doesn’t want the PR win, they usually use the opportunity of the news media’s attention being turned to the Flotillas to launch some extra drone strikes in Gaza. Murdering Palestinians is much more important to them.

However, when speaking in Hebrew in the Israeli press, Israeli politicians, generals, religious leaders, and political commentators regularly make genocidal statements,expressing their desire to “destroy Amalek,” starve Palestinians into submission, flatten Gaza, and ethnically cleanse it of its roughly 2 million inhabitants.”

A bit tangential, but it super funny when I mention this fact to staunch Israel supporters in my social periphery, they ask me how I know Hebrew. I say I don’t, I use a combo of Google/Firefox translate and GPT to read these articles in English, and this is suddenly when they start having issues with AI being misused and inaccurate. Not when it’s being used to indiscriminately bomb a place. I wish I were making this up.

I genuinely don’t know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don’t help if the food isn’t getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.

Cannot believe I’m living in an era where Alberta is more separatist than Quebec.

No one who has any political awareness would give the liberals credit for that. That was the NDP’s contribution.

A lot of voters aren’t aware. If it’s not being blasted on repeat by a news channel, then at least 50% of the electorate has no idea what’s happening. We’re also so inundated with American politics that Canadian news gets drowned out as well.

Yeah, I was 95% sure it was an NDP mandate, but I also have an awful memory so I was open to being corrected.

Bro I need gaslighting lessons from PP; how is he losing his riding, losing an election he has polled 20+ points in the lead in for almost two years, and yet gives a speech where he not only says he will stay on as leader, but makes it seem like losing the election was his desired outcome??

Really sad about Jagmeet and the NDP wipeout tbh. I know why it happened, but if I’m not mistaken the universal pharma and dentalcare we have now were initiatives pushed by the NDP that the Liberals get credit for because they were the ones holding the PM seat.