You think Palestinian lives weren’t being threatened and taken by Israeli violence before October 7?

Boo Radley weird vs Bob Ewell weird

Also, it’s not exactly clear where “there” even was

A video shared on social media shows protesters holding Palestinian flags and accusing theatregoers at a cafe next to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre of “Zionism”.

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A spokesperson for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre said: “The videos that emerged on social media were exchanges that did not take place at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Last night’s performance went ahead as planned.”

Was this demonstration actually in response to the play performance or did they just happen to be near each other?

The fact that the commissioner has this power in the first place and that they even have to ask is ridiculous to me, it’s like “Camp Crystal Lake residents suggest disarming Voorhees’ artillery”

“If we aren’t promoting the most skilled people in our society, how am I supposed to figure out where to invest all this money I inherited?”

I think I agree, but I’d phrase it a bit differently. The problem in our country isn’t division, it’s that there’s an energetic fascist movement that needs to be stopped. The problem with assassinating Trump is that it gives that movement a martyr and would very much energize them (disorganize them too, since they wouldn’t know for sure who to follow anymore, but they’ve never needed to be too organized to do damage and they could do plenty before succession fueled infighting really started to take a toll).

Killing Trump won’t kill his ideas, the only way to do that is to embarrass Trump and Trumpism badly, so I think the best series of events would be a) Trump loses the election, b) prosecutors explain Trump’s many crimes in meticulous detail to a series of juries who sentence Trump to years and years behind bars, c) Trump dies of a heart attack while taking a shit in prison.

The fact that the voters already did a) once in 2020 and the system’s let us down on b) is deeply frustrating and worth acknowledging for the sake of identifying the country’s underlying problems (it’s the politicians and lawyers more than it is the voters), but it doesn’t change the fact that assassinating Trump is the last thing we want to do at this point.

I don’t recall learning about the last time the Tops grocery shooter looked at porn

Oh yeah, the one that goes “cut my land into pieces, for oligarchs’ resorts”

I’m pretty sure the WJET/WFXP tag on the front of the article means it’s a reprint of an article originally written by the Fox TV affiliate for Erie, Pennsylvania, so yeah this is like a content mill husk that most for-profit local news in America has turned into being regurgitated by a source somehow even more soulless and predatory

Anyway, mirror link - https://web.archive.org/web/20240705144933/https://www.yourerie.com/technology/japan-sets-world-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever/

Good on him, who doesn’t?

Oh absolutely, no argument there.

Is it oniony because he’s a rapper and if so, what in all boomer hell kind of a take is that? Yikes

No, my intention there was more like " healthcare is such an unbelievably bad scam in this country We had to get a random celebrity that you haven’t thought about for several years on the problem." Like, I figured the service level seeming randomness of the headline would be a good hook to draw people into reading about a real problem (hospital prices being completely unpredictable ) and a good person trying to do something about it, but after reading your comment I can see how that might not have come through.

Looks like mądry Polak po szkodzie isn’t always the case

And the US government is going to hold a vote on a plan to make it harder for people to migrate today

Yeah, I’m skeptical of this story to begin with, but even if it is true it doesn’t make any real difference

Nobody places less value on Russian life than Russian leadership, from the Tsars onward

Some possible misinformation that’s going around related to this story, Bloomberg says Dubai’s cloud seeding program is to blame, Wired says Bloomberg is wrong about that. The Wired article sounds better informed and more persuasive imo.

now makes it hard for allies to rein in support

Which they were totally doing before now /s

I don’t know nearly enough about the different sides here, but a quick skim of the Wikipedia page for the Karen National Union and the National Unity Consultative Council that they’re members of makes it sound like they’re pro-democratic and anti-racist, so, yeah - keep kicking military dictatorship ass!

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240304195938/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/middleeast/un-israel-confessions-allegations-intl/index.html

Didn’t realize that could be an issue, but I should be able to do that

Thanks for the heads up

Thailand in the big business of housing draft dodgers

I’d heard the opposite, genuinely don’t know what the situation is since I’m nowhere near it

Which is good that the people are doing this

Agreed

but idk how this affects the Thai people and economy.

Seems like any plausible difficulties that could result are really unimportant given the context of what these people are fleeing.