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pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Israel declares siege of Gaza as Hamas threatens to start killing hostagesEnglish151·2 years agoWhat the actual fuck are you talking about. The Japanese literally used suicide attacks and were so brainwashed they believed suicide was preferable to enemy capture. The Germans literally committed the multiple genocides. They were rehabilitated over time but it took time and effort. Both committed horrific atrocities, yet through international effort, are largely reformed.
pips@lemmy.filmto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel-Palestine escalation live: Strikes hit Gaza after Hamas offensiveEnglish2·2 years agoIsrael has labeled BDS, the actual peaceful option, terrorism.
pips@lemmy.filmto World News@beehaw.org•An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in IsraelEnglish3·2 years agoYou really need to read up on American history.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McDonald’s and Wendy’s win false advertising lawsuitEnglish93·2 years agoNot really, that’s a minor part of the opinion. The more important part is they tell you how much food you’re going to get of what kind and then they give you that food. I don’t think anyone would be able to win a case on “my burger didn’t look like the burger in the ad” because every burger looks a little different. Lots of things that are the same don’t look the same and let’s not suddenly pretend we get McDonalds for the appearance. They’d win false advertising if, say, a quarter pounder was only 2 oz.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McDonald’s and Wendy’s win false advertising lawsuitEnglish6·2 years agoI dunno, seems like the judge is explicitly acknowledging it.
pips@lemmy.filmto World News@lemmy.ml•Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi SunakEnglish21·2 years agoThere is a legal, regulated, mostly safe method to buy cigarettes. It is inaccessible if you are under a certain age, but only the seller/provider is punished for violating regulations. It’s okay to have restrictions on what children can consume.
While current laws on illegal drugs do not work, arguing against any regulation whatsoever is similarly silly, the laws obviously work. Smoking rates have dramatically declined since those laws and public education campaigns began.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religionEnglish10·2 years agoAll Eastern religions have their own problems and crimes committed in the name of their beliefs. Christianity might have some of the more global harms, but it’s hardly alone in being harmful.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certainEnglish1·2 years agoBuilding up a new economy is not a crash. A crash is when the current system gets wrecked and it’s possible something better emerges from the ashes. The problem is that an economic crash primarily hurts the poor, even if they don’t own the stocks/property/means of production. They’re the ones whose jobs and homes are lost.
Consider, for example, the Bengal famine. Entirely economic, there was literally enough food but it became prohibitively expensive due to market forces driven by the British. The rich British aristocrats didn’t suffer, Indians did. In Venezuela when the market crashed, rich people got out or are able to weather it. Poor people are either stuck having to attempt to make the best of a terrible situation, or flee and seek aid as migrants.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certainEnglish1·2 years agoPeople thought that was the case with finance until 2008, instead we had people left homeless and jobless for years. Wealthy people have a safety net when the system fails. Poor people do not. If the U.S. crashed, people would die from the fallout. People died in the last recessions and they weren’t mostly the rich.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish11·2 years agoYour response to someone noting that working for this office has inherent risks due to gun nuts existing and someone responding with “it’s just a job” is to compare gun regulations to the Holocaust. You just followed up a sentence where you said this isn’t about guns with two questions about guns. I think you either don’t understand what the Nazis did or you’re arguing in bad faith. My guess is both.
Also, I don’t have to have a solution to gun violence to point out you’re making a stupid and dangerous argument. Calling people who work on gun safety Nazis in response to someone noting that gun nuts make their job dangerous proves the point.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents doEnglish31·2 years agoI think you’re wrong about the car example. The reason people don’t know how their car works now is because so much of it involves proprietary software that you cannot fix it with physical labor. You have to understand and debug the code as well. Additionally, the manufacturers and dealerships have made accessing the parts (both on the car and replacements) so difficult that there isn’t really a universal approach to fixing the modern passenger vehicle anymore. Millenials didn’t stop fixing cars themselves out of laziness, it was because the knowledge needed to do so was greater than the cost of having a professional do it and have the repair guaranteed.
Meanwhile, though I understand that touch screen and app-based OSes are pretty difficult to program for the average consumer, it’s not the only option for computing, just a popular one. This also has nothing to do with whether what you’re downloading is safe.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish1·2 years agoBut that’s not really a good reason to not have regulations. “People are going to steal your shit if they want to badly enough” does not mean theft shouldn’t be a crime.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish2·2 years agoThere’s probably a few other things that can be done but that’s generally correct. Frankly, the solution to gun violence is to remove all guns. Make the situation impossible. That won’t happen and neither will appropriate legal restrictions to ownership with the country the way it is, so training and other preventive measures are the next best thing.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish11·2 years agoWanting to prevent civilian gun violence makes you a Nazi?
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence preventionEnglish3·2 years agoYou’d be surprised by how much oil companies hate the DOT.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claimsEnglish4·2 years agoIt literally says on the package that Starburst has artificial flavoring. Show me the same on the Starbucks cup.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claimsEnglish3·2 years agoFalling Down is basically what happens when you mix cocaine with the specific type of male fragility that can afford cocaine.
pips@lemmy.filmto Videos@lemmy.world•What they don’t teach you about Native American history in class (PBS)English1·2 years agoHistory class would he the appropriate place, what other subject were you thinking would teach you about him/those events? Not trying to be hostile, genuinely curious.
pips@lemmy.filmto News@lemmy.world•2 Gay Dads Helped Uncover $767,000 Embezzlement Scheme in Texas Town Where 'Officials Called Them Homophobic Slurs'English15·2 years agoYou see the problem was she tried that in a small town…Fort Worth suburb.
Probably a rosé then.