Iceblade02

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to news in Israel declares siege of Gaza as Hamas threatens to start killing hostages

Israel doesn’t claim Gaza though

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to news in Israel declares siege of Gaza as Hamas threatens to start killing hostages

Is the intent to starve civilians or to deprive hamas combatants of any and all supplies?

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to news in Ex-Americans are suing America to get back some of the money they paid to renounce their citizenship

…or I don’t have a 5yr record of reporting taxes to the IRS. There’s also the 2’500USD “Administration fee”

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to news in Ex-Americans are suing America to get back some of the money they paid to renounce their citizenship

I pay no tax to the US, but I bitch about it. I’ve lived abroad since I was 3y.o and realized when I turned 18 that I have to declare to the IRS every year. Let me tell you, it is an absolute pain in the ass when you have to do it yourself, without a US bank account or phone number. Takes me a full working day to declare 0 tax to the IRS when they already know that I owe zero tax because they force any bank I have accounts at to report to them. Half the banks in Sweden simply refuse to have me as a customer because of this, in addition to certain types of income technically being subject to double taxation because of US law.

I can’t even get rid of my US citizenship without paying an absurd exit tax

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to memes in survival optional.

In Sweden passing on the right is only permitted in two main scenarios.

Rate of speed lower than 70kph, or the lanes go to different destinations.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to linux in Linux holds a market share of approximately 14% in India.

Ah, makes sense then why they’re pushing so hard to have a presence at our universities. Hopefully I’ll be able to avoid such employers in the future. Thanks for the heads up!

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to linux in Linux holds a market share of approximately 14% in India.

As a MoS&E student in northern Europe I’d love to hear why these companies have such a bad rep over in India. They’re doing massive recruitment drives at my uni (along with BCG) and sponsor a lot of student events, so I don’t hear many bad things about them.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to world in Hamas says it has taken ‘dozens’ of Israelis hostage

Indeed. Maybe the West Bank Palestinians can avoid getting dragged in this time.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to world in Israel halts electricity supply to Gaza Strip: Energy minister

There is not a single Israeli settlement in Gaza. Their GDPPC is some 5000USD, which, for comparison, is almost twice that of Haiti. Insane amounts of international funding goes into Gaza every year. In fact, they receive the highest amount of international aid per capita on earth (more than 500USD/Capita!). In addition to that Israel usually provides both electricity and water at discounted rates, meaning almost everyone has access to both.

The Gazan leadership has been given numerous chances and opportunities for peace, yet over and over they chose to slaughter the innocent. The aid money, instead of buying food, funding education and healthcare goes to buying weapons, rockets and indoctrinating the next generation of genocidal terrorist.

This was an act of war, not a riot.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to world in Israel halts electricity supply to Gaza Strip: Energy minister

Israel disengaged from Gaza almost twenty years ago now, ending the occupation and effectively giving the Palestinians the chance to have their own state.

Since then, Gaza has attacked Israel, targeting its civilians over, and over, and over, clearly showing that the desire for genocide is no less today amongst the Palestinian leadership than it was in 1948.

I highly doubt that Israel will ever repeat such concessions in the future. Simply put, it was a grave error with a cost that Israel is still paying in blood to this day. This current invasion by Hamas only reinforces the fact that Israel fundamentally cannot trust Palestinian leaders and must keep any autonomy with a very short leash.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to world in Hundreds dead in Israel and Gaza, thousands injured after Hamas launches rockets, Israel declares war

telegraph.co.uk/…/naked-israeli-woman-paraded-jee…

2 minutes on duckduckgo. Plenty of other horrible stories as well.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?

No, “most people” do not consider that to be what socialism is. Particularly those of us who live in countries with the aforementioned policies. Here we’ve had real socialists who wanted to take away our fundamental individual rights, amongst them the right to ownership, which frankly is a scary idea.

A lot of our regulations and limits on the free market don’t have a socialist bent at all, but are intended to defend our individual liberties against large corporations, which if left unchecked can become corporate institutions, something the US has fallen victim to.

I’d consider these policies as important, if not moreso than our social welfare systems. The social mobility and safety provided by these are meaningless if an arbitrary decision by google, amazon or some bank can singlehandedly ruin your life.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?

Scotland is only a borderline social democratic welfare state.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in How do you exit a dream?

If I’m dreaming, there’s always a rope hanging by my right shoulder. Just reach up and pull it to wake up.

Iceblade02 , 8 months ago to technology in Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

That doesn’t seem like a job fair for women, but rather a job fair for everybody except men…