As a southern Californian, I measure inflation by the cost of tacos.

Inflation is out of control, despite whatever metrics the government uses. Tacos don’t lie.

Man. You guys really can’t read the bold subtext or what?

This is literally the very next reply by the same user from the 2nd link:

Instead of voting for war criminals, how about not?

You don’t fill in a hole by taking a lesser amount of dirt out. Likewise you don’t fix the system by voting for the lesser evil.

They are not being subtle. They do this all the time here. They intentionally avoid specifically saying “don’t vote, both sides are bad”, but their intent is abundantly obvious.

I’m honestly amazed at how many people here are falling for this crap. They are all over lemmy making the same kind of tongue in cheek “both sides” layups. How the hell aren’t you catching on?

It was a low effort reply to a low effort false claim.

But sure, keep whining about how I’m attacking you somehow, or whining about me playing victim or something.

Hope you find something to break you out of your funk so you can enjoy your weekend.

That’s the point of linking comment threads, so you can see the context and read between the lines. One of those threads, their own replies remove any ambiguity of their meanings.

And the reason those linked to the parent is simply how lemmy (vanilla, at least) works when copying a comment link. At least without fuss. And I’m on mobile.

But whatever, there’s plenty of context just from the original links I sent. I really don’t give a shit if it’s not wrapped up nicely enough for you. I quickly provided counter examples from comments older than his without even trying to find them.

My coworker and I literally tried wrapping an access point in aluminum foil to replicate poor connectivity. It didn’t do shit. Even completely lined a cardboard box and put it inside with zero change.

Apparently people here aren’t smart enough to scroll down to see the comments, so I’ll quote.

Going into survival mode forever, where either party can do whatever the frick they want, because they others mustn’t win! Nice system you got there, where it’s like 50\50 every time!

They present you a Trump and therefore they can even kill your kids, as long as Trump doesn’t win. It’s a scam… both parties are in it. But they divided you all so perfectly fine, you stopped thinking a long time ago.

Looking forward to your comments, telling me about NO BOth SIdeS!

And Biden enables genocide, among a lifetime history of right wing views such as fighting for segregation.

Trump and Biden are not good options.

People should be furious the Dems allowed him to be in this position today, not sucking it up and pushing harder for it.

https://lemmy.world/comment/11126661

https://lemmy.world/comment/11124666

I take Magnesium Citrate because I get frequent foot cramps, and it helps reduce them a little. Foot cramps aren’t life threatening besides i guess the small increase in risk when it occasionally happens while driving.

But they’re certainly annoying.

Ohh look. It’s the guy that turns every news/politics article into a “both sides” argument to try to specifically disenfranchise left voters, and is mysteriously silent in all those articles quoting Trump saying he’ll enable both Russia and Isreal in their genocides.

Don’t fall for his crap. He’s only here to point fingers at Dems, never Republicans.

He’s here to help Trump get elected.

He is either part of the Russian / Isreali propaganda he’s trying to frame as bad here, or a useful idiot that has bought into said propaganda.

Yeah. That’s their intent. But they really don’t know for sure that their stunt won’t have some completely unexpected effect. Some slow reaction with that specific kind of stone that only matters if the powder gets deep into some cracks for 200 years or whatever. Or attracts stone eating bacteria of some sort.

The point is that they dont know what they dont know. Every time they pull one of these stunts, they are introducing the risk of irrevocable damage to historically significant objects that should be left to future generations.

Stop fucking around with human history. Stone Henge is a world wonder.

Superman has always been a bit of a boring character, which IMO is hard to write for to make interesting beyond the origin / coming of age story.

I think screwing up Batman is a lot more offensive. So much good lore and villians to work with.

IMO, Affleck played a terrible Fatman. He wasn’t dark and brooding, he was wooden and boring. It wasn’t just the story, but Afflecks portrayal of the character.

Over-under for how long it will take Musk to threaten to sue this owner under some early adopter clause like the one preventing resales?

I don’t see any problem with modders charging for their mods. They are doing work, and deserve to be compensated.

If they’re creating additional deep content, I can see that being worth paying. If it’s just some skins or configuration edits like wonky gravity, that would not be worth money to me. But I think it’s a good thing to be able to add micro transactions for.

Take the original DOTA for example. A warcraft 3 custom map. It eventually dominated the custom game lobby, at least 3:1. I would have no problem with the creator(s) making money off their creation that contributed a ton of replayability the game.

When it comes down to it, it should be the modder’s choice on if they want to charge for their work, and the consumers choice if they want to pay for it.

Also why I didn’t have problems with microtransactions for skins, particularly when it was community driven like DOTA 2. Artists can make money creating non-game altering content, and fans get to personalize their characters.

Yes, except these women were denied the responsibility because they are women in an Islamic controlled society. But the community was convinced to allow it.

The tendency to make Perfect the enemy of Good.

It’s a tired theme here on Lemmy, particularly WRT Gaza, and particularly in criticism of Biden’s policy towards Isreal.

And your proof that using that leverage will achieve the desired result in a 2 month time frame is…?

There was a branch in this thread where someone else made the accusation. But fine, I retract the statement. It wasn’t your words, so no point bringing it up.

I find the request for impossible evidence to be absurd. Since the US did not take the measures you proposed 2 months ago, there is no evidence to present for either of our sides.

I point to Netanyahu’s recent and past decisions and complete unwillingness to make concessions, as well as how this conflict has been beneficial to his standing.

But obviously, we can’t know for sure what would have happened. But Isreal has never been known to be easily forced, or even compromise to anything not vastly in their favor.

Why “most likely?” Based on what evidence?

See: the entire history of Isreal, and the middle east as a whole.

And if you feel that you need to aid another nation to continue slaughtering children to save your own, maybe you don’t have much worth saving.

Geo-politics are complicated, and more complicated when your own country is currently fighting a fascist movement.

You dismiss the very notion that all but declaring war on Isreal could possibly have negative effects on the Dems political standing. And let’s not mince words. Declaring no fly zones, DMZs and enacting sanctions, as you literally explicitly suggested, is one step away from declaring war.

And yet I’ve been accused of arguing in bad faith. Right.

They could have spent that two months pressuring Israel to open aid corridors for trucking.

And most likely have nothing to show for it. At least the dock has already achieved getting millions of pounds of aid into Gaza, and hopefully many more millions before it breaks again.

And I’m sorry, “we have to aid Israel in its genocide to stop the Republicans from winning” is a bullshit excuse.

Maybe to you, but it’s a real risk. Not everyone lives in this progressive bubble of yours. I have zero confidence in the voting public, and I have far less confidence that the Republicans won’t actively encourage genocide in Gaza and beyond given the president and a majority in the other branches.

I would rather do both, because I find it incredibly unlikely that stopping arms shipments today would do anything at all to dampen Israel’s ability to blockaid the land routes for a very long time. I also don’t think Isreal is incapable of finding weapons suppliers outside of the US if push comes to shove.