I knew software companies were offloading QA testing onto their paying users, but who would have guessed that passengers would start playing that role too?
These are the quotes this article is based on according to another news outlet, and it is unsure if the translation (especially the wording for the proclaimed statement in the title) is up for debate since there are multiple translations.
(“from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation on the Israeli news channel i24NEWS.
According to other translations, Netanyahu said that Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River,”)
"Every area that we evacuate we receive terrible terror against us. It happened in South Lebanon, in Gaza, and also in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] which we did it.”
“And therefore I clarify that in any other arrangement, in the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea.”
"This truth I say to our American friends,” Netanyahu said Thursday. “And I also stopped the attempt to impose on us a reality that will jeopardize us. A prime minister in Israel has to be able to say no, even to the best of friends. To say no when you need to and to say yes when you can.”
Does anybody know what “proposal” the USA made that he’s referencing?
It’s all behind-closed-door conversations, but one can only assume some form of self-governance in Gaza given the US continues to push for a two-state solution despite supporting the Israelis as they, you know, wipe out one of those states.
What Bibi is saying, here, is that even that small modicum of Palestinian agency will be eliminated and Gaza will formally become the open air prison it’s unofficially been for decades.
I mean, they are occupying a section of the border of the entire country, and denying, through threat of violence, the federal government/military access to said border. At some point, this simply has to be read as insurrection, and put down. A country only gets to exist and enforce laws by virtue of the implied violence (physical or otherwise) that it can leverage to back it up.
Of course there are complications to this, like the thought that steamrolling these troopers would then spark a greater revolt. But when you have a state doing things like this, particularly a state that has made it abundantly clear they desire to secede and have prepared for secession, I think you need to play hardball. This could be either by forcibly bringing them back in line through state violence, or giving them what they want, in such a way that it ends up being a pyrrhic victory; imagine aggressive border protocols and removal of free travel along the Texas border, intense tariffs and duties on Texan goods, etc… honestly a Texit could be quite beneficial for the country, shifting congress balances somewhat. Add in some statehood’s for PR, Guam and DC and now you’re really cooking with gas.
Who knows though, I’m still finding it hard to believe that the Jan 6 insurrectionists weren’t mowed down in machine gun fire when they penetrated the capitol, so clearly my expectations of government reaction and what actually happens have some daylight between them.
Yeah I mean that’s fine, but you’d run the same risk there with bluff-calling and standoffs. Like clearly Texas is trying to bait the feds into either rolling over for a cheap win, or doing something that they might be able to use to spark something more significant. Not sure which is worse, but I know which one will look more weak/will incite further escalators acts on Texas’ part.
Basically exactly what I think also—it’s not an activity that just stops at some arbitrary point, it’s a power negotiation. They’ll push it as far as they can.
particularly a state that has made it abundantly clear they desire to secede and have prepared for secession
The state GOP rejected the petition to even add secession on their primary ballot, and the state Supreme Court declined to take up the pro-secession group’s request to intervene.
So it’s not really accurate to broadly paint the entire state as frothing at the mouth to secede. We have a sizeable number of idiots who do, but it’s objective not part of the Republican state party platform, much less the general population supporting it.
I mean I’m sure plenty of Texans have no desire to succeed. But there are multiple real actions that suggest the state has it in mind: separate border enforcement forces, isolated power grid, the Texas rangers/trooper or whatever they’re called. It may all just be maneuvering/bluster, but when you see the state power structures trying to create Amon Bundy-standoffs it does make one wonder.
There also nascent secession movements elsewhere, California has a visible one.
Nah, the politicians and the populace would gain nothing by seceding. The Republicans are trying to push extreme “state’s rights” on all fronts. The goal of this particular fiasco is likely to get a favorable outcome from SCOTUS and to prevent Texas from getting more blue/brown from immigrants’ children. The goal of extreme “state’s rights” is to ensure Republican control over the federal government (there are more red states than blue states, and if states have enough rights to do things like overriding election results, voter suppression, extreme gerrymandering, and other various ways of “rigging” elections, Republicans can ensure control over both state and federal government).
Look I agree—I doubt very much they have a real intention of seceding—it would be a shitshow—but they do do things to float the spectre of secession. But I agree it’s about extreme states rights, and leading by example, since among the red states, Texas has the largest GDP after California in country (or perhaps they’re more now, not sure depending on gas/oil stuff)
The gdp thing is the same reason that there is a marginal Californian secession movement.
Abbott does have a history of trotting out the national guard to keep the US military in place. If you don’t remember, look up the Jade Helm Scare. A Russian propaganda farm pushed the idea on social media that Obama was going to take TX citizens prisoner in abandoned Walmarts that were converted to holding centers and do something with them. Abbott was so convinced this could happen, that he ordered the national guard to watch the military training g exercise nicknamed Jade Helm.
I was pleasantly surprised that Trump didn’t remove the W Bush era or Obama era installed solar panels at the White House. My only explanation as to why he didn’t was because he didn’t know they were there.
I remember when Obama removed the W era solar panels, all the republicunts went bananas, screeching, “wHaT ABout tEh ENvirONMenT?!!1??” because they were too stupid to understand that Obama was upgrading them.
In 2003, the George W. Bush administration reinstalled solar thermal heaters. These units are used to heat water for landscape maintenance personnel and for the presidential pool and spa. One hundred sixty-seven solar photovoltaic grid-tied panels were installed at the same time on the roof of the maintenance facility. The changes were not publicized, as a White House spokeswoman said the changes were an internal matter. The story was picked up by industry trade journals.
In 2010, Steven Chu, the secretary of energy under the Barack Obama administration, announced that solar panels would be reinstalled on the roof saying that “As we move towards a clean energy economy, the White House will lead by example”. The panels were installed in 2013, making it the first time solar power would be used for the president’s living quarters.
I know personally this tragedy all to well. My father used to drink water. He passed away just a few years ago. Then I did my research and learned that over 80% of everyone who has ever died actually drank water at least the day before.
The sad thing is we’ll keep reading stories like this until we die. I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and I’m tired of being that guy talking about this issue.
Or they do. This level of wealth inequality is a new phenomenon, and it is already showing how great it goes, with fascism and other fringe ideologies on the rise.
The chance that Trump or a similar idiot being elected and turning dictator is a possibility in the US is a direct consequence of these fuckwits gutting society itself. It is very well possible that these guys will either become sock puppets of a Trump-like figure, and keep some of their wealth in exchange for losing all of their power, or commit grisly murder-suicides of their whole family in droves like in Russia.
They either don’t see or don’t care that they are cutting down the branch that they (and everyone else) are sitting on.
There’s very little we can do. Even the ‘eat the rich’ idea isn’t very viable since they can hide in their nuclear war protection bunkers surrounded by armed security.
Sure, after their security people slaughter everyone who sends them in there. Are you willing to face down a bunch of machine guns fired by well-trained mercenaries in heavy armor? Do you think Zuckerberg has any less in his Hawaii survival bunker?
Why do we need in their bunker? Seriously let’s just scare them in there watch them seal the doors and then push a boulder onto their vents and doorways.
Boom modern pharaohs buried with all their wealth and followers and then we can just garden up here. Why do we need anything in their bunker unless they end their world with themselves in which case ok it’s all over.
I see nothing wrong with the wealthy locking themselves in a box in the ground and leaving the whole world to the rest of us.
No need, we live in an era of drone warfare. Human soldiers aren’t even in the top 50% of most effective combat units anymore. Armed security is all good and well but a machinegun emplacement isn’t going to do a whole lot about 500 incoming quadcopters carrying thermite payloads. You don’t even need to destroy the whole bunker, just the entrance, then roll up a couple of Caterpillars and put them under a 12 foot dirt hill. And if the drones don’t cut it, say the compound has EM shielding of some sort that causes them to stop functioning (a feature that many modern actual militaries don’t even have), a private plane shoveling a couple hundred pounds of explosives out of its cargo storage from cruising altitude would probably be a suitable replacement.
No compound of any sort is infinitely defensible from superior numbers. Zuck/Musk/Bezos/Etc may be rich but their reach is not limitless. Just like how civilians aren’t going to want to rush down a mercenary emplacement, pretty soon all the available mercenary forces are going to be thinking twice about signing on to defend a compound where disposable drones like to drop random pipe bombs from the sky every other day.
In an end of the world scenario, where safety exists only inside the bunkers, the bunkers will fall, and swiftly. In a scenario where safety does exist outside the bunkers but everything generally sucks, and the Rich inside the bunkers are still able to be seen or have news posted about them, the bunkers will fall eventually. In a scenario where the Rich disappear into the bunkers and are never heard from again, fuck 'em, mission accomplished, we don’t even need to raid the tombs.
We have to stop voting for rich or wanna-be-rich business people. It’s the only way. Combined votes for the best of the worst to eliminate the tyrants, then vote out the wealth focused. Can’t believe that’s the situation we are in.
Voting alone will not get us out of this situation. Maybe implementing rank choice of voting might do it. I just don’t see good solutions because the politicians were all about sold anyway it doesn’t matter which one gets voted in, voters never get the final say.
I’m sure Biden and “his team” want to win, but not at any cost. Certainly not at the cost of taxing his donors and using the money to help the working class.
Of course congress wouldn’t pass anything like that. Ultimately they all play for the same team-- Capital. The “bully pulpit” and executive orders are largely reserved for things like supporting genocide, and antagonizing our geopolitical rivals.
Lemmy is largely populated by children who lack the intellectual maturity to appreciate that democracy is about compromise and that winning elections doesn’t mean that you get to do everything you want.
There’s this myth that somehow Biden can just wave a magic wand and get everything he wants, but he’s not doing it because in spite of being arguably the most powerful man on the planet, he’s secretly in the pocket of corporate America. It’s a very childish view of the world and is entirely disconnected from reality.
Both parties in the US are in the pocket of corporate America to some degree (Citizens United made it legal anyways), it’s just that one party actually cares about having a functioning country with a decent living standard for people and the other will happily burn it to the ground to hurt minorities and gain short-term power. What you see is the frustration in the general US population that sees the Republicans openly ruining things while the Dems have their hands tied by the underhanded tactics Republicans use and talk about “reaching across the aisle” and compromising with the fascists. Stuff gets done, but you often don’t hear about it or openly see the effects of Elizabeth Warren taking corporations to account for their actions compared to the 1.3 anti-trans laws per day that Republicans tried to pass in the first 6 months of last year.
This is an extremely common trope from establishment Democrats who like to pretend the left is just naive children. Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Yes, we get politics. Yes, we understand that Biden can’t get everything he wants. Yes, we get that Republican obstruction is a thing.
Now, here are some things for you to try and grasp. Most of the time, Biden and the Democratic establishment is leading the opposition against the left. The establishment also plays dirty to get their unpopular candidates past the primary, then blames the left when they lose in the general.
It’s not generally the politically active left that doesn’t vote blue. Most of us are well practiced at holding our noses at the ballot box. It’s normal non-political Americans who see no point in getting engaged when neither party even speaks to their problems.
Who knows what’s happening in their heads… but my guess is they think that once the ‘3rd party people’ fall back in line they will regain the lead so they don’t have to worry. And the rest is Biden being as establishment as you can get so obviously he’s not interested in any radical policy changes.
They almost exclusively bought Teslas and Polestars and are now complaining about maintenance costs? I remember a few years ago, the first time Tesla wasn’t on the very bottom of the JD Powers Initial Build Quality list the editors put up a special note that it wasn’t because Tesla had gotten better, only because Polestar was even worse.
Seems like Hertz’s main problem is common sense.
I’d really like to rent a Hyundai Ionic 5 for a road trip next summer but I can’t find anyone local that rents any electrics other than Teslas.
Ehhh, EVs, and modern cars in general, have a bit of a bad habit of adding a bunch of technology that makes what used to be pretty cheap repairs way more costly.
It used to be if you had a fender bender that tore apart your bumper, you were able to replace the bumper for pretty cheap, like maybe $100 just for the part, couple hundred for labor, because it’s just a big piece of molded plastic.
Now, the bumpers often house tons of sensors, often up to and including rear-view cameras. Now to replace your bumper and all the sensors, the bill is $5k.
Some of that’s not even that modern. I got in a small accident in my 2007 Prius and they had to replace the entire front of the body. The bumper, grill, and front quarter panels are all shipped as a single piece.
I think you might have gotten taken advantage of as I'm pretty sure the front quarter panel is not attached to the front bumper and can be replaced individually.
The grill I'm not sure about but I'm pretty sure I've disconnected the bumper from the front quarter panel on my 2007.
I could also be misremembering the details, it was 10+ years ago and insurance made me take it to the dealer for body work. I remember it was a lot of the front end though.
Edit: I suddenly remembered the details. When the bumper crumpled it broke the clips on the quarter panels that attached it to the frontend assembly. So they had to replace the quarter panels too.
Modern cars - even in 2007 - were designed to crumple in an accident. I'm not surprised that those panels also go enough damage that they need to be replaced.
Though of course I have no information on this incident. I'm just speculating based on general knowledge without knowing specific facts that are relevant.
I am kind of happy that I cheaped out on my car when I bought it. The only real issues I have had were that the speakers bugged out so that one side sounded like faulty wiring inside a tin can, and the Bluetooth connection made it impossible to make or take calls while driving as it blasted the caller or recipient with aggressive loud static. None of these really needed fixing, music is nice but not a must have and I could blame the car when I didn’t want to talk to people when I was driving or running errands. The new owner hasn’t seemed to notice or has no complaints…
Funnily enough, I thought I’d have to sell the POS at a loss, but I got money back that covered my car loan and afforded me an e-bike at least.
Tried with an EV car from a car pool for a while as well, but the e-bike was so much better.
They have a bunch of Chevy bolts in the fleet too. I loved renting them because they were cheap and fun to drive. I’d return them with almost no charge left for their$25 fee, because they were slow charging and I normally didn’t have a place to go up for long spells.
NGL the venue was not a bad rental. Just not something I would own. I literally was lost in a parking lot looking for my car and was basically standing next to it when I hit the panic button to find it. It looks like so many other things its hard to find it.
Even the Ioniq 5 is susceptible to this issue. A few people have hit road debris which dented the case around the cells and they were quoted $60,000 (CAD) to replace the entire battery so insurance totalled both cars out.
I’ve been eyeing this thing to buy since it was released but now I’m second guessing that after hearing this. I assume it’s due to Hyundai not having a large enough supply of battery packs in order to have a robust supply of replacement parts, so hopefully they can reduce that price by an order of magnitude once they do.
I’m close in age to you, and it’s gut-wrenching to come to this realization. A large part of his ‘guilt’ was likely due to his skin tone. Absolutely sickening
Which is why it’s so absolutely fucked up Biden went around Congress for it, especially since Congress would have approved it anyways.
The fact that Biden is fine doing this in the run up to 2024 and will do shit like this that risks trump winning…
Shows that Biden is the last fucking person we want running against trump.
I don’t even think Hillary is stupid enough to do this, and she has the absolute worst instincts regarding elections of any politician in the last 50 years
Perhaps Biden will step down before the next election, regardless of what he might be saying now. It does the Dems no good to telegraph that move to the GOP. All they need to do is find someone with a shred of karisma and an ounce of capability for debate and rhetoric, who is obviously not Biden, at least superficially.
Don’t worry, I’m sure there’s a mess of Nvidia H100s training new presidents as we speak!
I don’t really care which neoliberal slimebag your DNC picks, as long as your public doesn’t vote in the criminal orange orangutan again, because that has a big impact on the rest of us, too.
Biden has some serious baggage at this point. So someone please explain to brain-dead me why the him stepping down at the last feasible moment for someone more electable is so preposterous.
You’re reading way too much into early polls and whatever corporatized media is reaching you. Biden beat Trump by a wider popular vote margin than any president in history and can do so again.
I’m not reading into any polls, my good fellow. I haven’t seen them and I don’t really care to. I’m happy to pay your electoral process no mind at all, except to occasionally reply to a post with some idle speculation and, apparently, piss off a bunch of people.
Of course, I haven’t forgetten which country’s election I’m talking about, and passionate folks like yourself jumping down my throat is to be expected.
Except they’re going to vote for a Republican regardless. It’s a bullshit argument used to hand waive away a non-Republican’s complicity in furthering the genocide.
Oh yes, those magical Republicans that will start voting D if we make the democratic party just a little shittier…
Meanwhile 1/3 of eligible voters don’t vote, and their most common complaint is “both parties do too much fucked up shit for me to support and don’t help normal Americans enough”.
Yet for some reason, we won’t ever try doing less fucked up shit or helping normal Americans to get their vote…
Anyone ever notice when moderates want to compromise, it’s always towards the right?
Politicians don’t see non-voters as a safe bet. It’s a lot more likely they won’t show up regardless of what the politicians does. From their perspective it is safer to try and sway people who do vote and might be able to be persuaded. Democrats aren’t going to vote for Trump regardless. The easiest path to victory is to convince the 1/3 or so Republicans who don’t like Trump that another 4 years of Biden won’t be so bad. That’s enough to win.
Edit: not saying I agree with this, just that is the argument.
Doesn’t matter who the president is, Israel is still going to get US (western) support. The alternative is an unwinnable war between Iran and Israel would kill millions of people. The US president cannot change these facts. Israel is going to get a pass here.
Which is why it’s so absolutely fucked up Biden went around Congress for it, especially since Congress would have approved it anyways.
Which means now, none of the democrats who would have voted for it will have it on their record the next time an election comes around. Biden himself is fairly safe, but many of the Ds could have lost the next time around from that.
I went and seen WV Grant work his magic once. I wish I could remember the date so I could order the dvd haha.
His father did the same thing, and he passed the con on down the line.
He told several people that I know personally that they were healed of various problems. Of course, none of them were. I wish I had the balls of James Randi and I would’ve done my best to make a show of it. That’s difficult when you’re with your very religious family all expecting miracles though.
When I told my people of his various scams (fake orphanages in Haiti, tax evasion on his mansions they bought for him), I was accused of planting seeds of doubt that cost them their blessings. Apparently god can even work through a conman and believing is everything.
Great supernatural powers always seem to exist just around the corner. “I heard from a man I trust that magic filled the air and people who had been paralyzed 20 years got up and ran around.” Oh, ohhhhh, well hell, I didn’t know Bobby “Mack Daddy” Hicks was a witness. That changes everything.
I wish I didn’t have a conscience sometimes. It would be easier than ever to run that scam today. I’d make a Facebook account called “God Bible of the Living Jesus” and set up a tent revival. All I’d have to do is scan timelines for “pray for aint Betty. She have leg problem keep her wake all nite. A man.” and hit the stage, “Betty, Betty with the leg problems keeping her up all night! The lord said come see me Betty, get up here! Do you believe you’ll sleep tonight? Do you believe them leeeegggs gonna be healed? OH SHONDRA MAH HYBA MAH HEEP BABA MAKOYA! You’re healed if you believe it Betty! Who just felt the spirit flying all over this tent?!”
Poor Betty would think she just didn’t believe enough and I’d be standing at the bank the next morning with her disability check.
Unfortunately, I love poor Betty and I don’t even know her. Damn my conscience.
Me as well. Every day dealing with my mask at work hoping that I wouldn’t be the small fraction of the population that still gets messed even vaxxed, then sitting down and scrolling through the long timeline of a goatee hat and sun glasses or religious-karen going from tough to vent.
I call bullshit - Let’s see a few examples of liberals/democrats getting their faces eaten by policies they support.
“Oh noes, this free college is hurting me” “Oh noes, all this free healthcare, my wallet is too fat”
Just to be obvious here, show me what laws liberals have actually been able to pass just how they championed for, and show me the face eating. I’m waiting.
Inb4 something about an immigrantl/minority/female committing a crime (cause liberals are so pro crime)
So the fuck what. It’s almost as though humans shouldn’t be predisposed to shit lives by arbitrary borders in places that western nations like America fueled their instability in the first place.
Perhaps not, but it would be nice if the wealthy shared their privilege with the less-fortunate, right? Last I checked Norway IS a Christian nation, after all… Would be awfully Jesus-like if they broke bread with their less-fortunate neighbors, now, wouldn’t it? Of course I’m not saying the burden rests solely on Norway; rather it is a shared burden of the collective.
Try to burn a Bible in many small towns in America, or most of Europe. Turns out when you’re intentionally an asshole to a bunch of people about something they’re passionate about, bad things can happen to you.
And why would you burn it? Look at what it says about women, and gay people. Terrible stuff, so better burn the quran
They’re a racist. That’s the end of it. They’ve convinced themselves that such people are lesser people and not products of their environment that has largely been out of their control.
Out of all the fairy-tales of religion, it’s my sincere hope that Karma and Reincarnation happen so that such people can be birthed into such circumstances they naively criticize to see for themselves. The racist to fill the shoes of a Syrian refugee, for instance.
It’s weird that you think this would scare me. Like do you not get that? That’s the central conceit here - we fundamentally disagree on the idea “Muslims are scary”
Besides, the system worked perfectly fine for norwegians
Back in topic, in your own words, your system is a failure to what I see as basic human rights, so no, it didn’t work perfectly.
If your culture cannot survive immigrants, your culture has no value. That’s what a “war of ideas” is. That’s why Iran and North Korea don’t allow immigrants.
For clarity, I have said and will say again this exact same thing to every American who disagrees too. If some aspect of “being American” cannot survive immigration, then it doesn’t deserve to exist.
With respect you don’t have an understanding of the immigration rhetoric in America. If you did, you’d know that the conservatives are echo the exact same arguments you’re making here.
Yes, broken people subject to war, poverty, and lack of education do tend to as a group be less stable. We all know that. That’s the toll of regional instability and a price the world must pay to the piper.
The vast, vast majority assimilate quite effectively.
As long as everyone is doing their part. Once one person decides " we don’t want others here" and starts human trafficking people to smaller states that don’t have the money or infrastructure a available to support a massive influx, then it becomes problematic. Not because of the people, but because of the ass-jacket that is forcing people without access to winter clothing to a place that is -40f (during a religious holiday about an immigrant being born in a barn because the town had too many people, and no one kind enough to let them in…) and therefore people end up not having the services they need to thrive.
Generally speaking, European arrogance like this is based on looking at US conservatives – which is why this is so confusing, because you and OP are ideologically the same as US conservatives.
Hot take: If leopards are only eating faces on one side of the political spectrum, maybe you need to consider that only one side is consistently voting for leopards eating faces.
I only know one guy in the hundreds of millions of dollars club (CEO and near sole owner of the corp I work for) and he is fairly leftwing. So I am going to nominate him. However, to be fair, even under some insane situation where the DNC had full power for several election cycles it isn’t like there won’t be rich people, there will be, they will just pay higher taxes. He isn’t going to be on food stamps any time soon.
I mean the “citizen’s group”, and the members of GOP. The Judge might not be complicit as they might just be exercising due process or extreme caution, but they do deserve the side eye.
Who can forget when the garrison at Fort Sumpter aggressively followed their orders by not leaving when ordered to by a group of people with no authority. Those yank soldiers were standing there, MENACINGLY!
To keep slaves is the simple answer. More nuanced is that the southern states seceded because several “non-slaveholding” states refuse to follow federal law and return escaped slaves and the federal government refused to enforce those laws. (a good call)
There were a bunch of issues wrapped up in the road to civil war, but they were almost all related to slavery.
My honors US history professor taught us the Civil War was all about trade. Well, yeah, that was certainly an important part, Northern industry vs. agrarian South. It was a huge part of the war, both how it started and how it played out.
By FFS, did the man never read the various states letters of succession?! Here go a few.
And seriously people, read those letters. Don’t clap yourself on the back for regurgitating, “It was SLAVERY!” Come at it from a learned point of view or you’re no better than anyone else talking shit.
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