I’m an anti-Zionist because I don’t think Britain had the right to carve up Mandatory Palestine. I don’t think Israel should have been created, but I also think nobody has the right to get rid of them now. There might come a point when the Israeli government is as unsalvageable as the third reich, but just as there’s now Germany where that had been, I don’t think the solution is to just remove the people who are citizens of Israel. I do wish the world were better at enforcing consequences on countries/leaders for bad actions though.

They’re receptive to other viewpoints, so I’ve had pretty successful conversations with them, they just start off with terrible takes. Plus they posted a couple of good memes and spurred some good conversation in the comments sections of those memes because of their perspectives.

When I noticed someone had a few downvotes, I took it as a red flag, but I don’t like to block people who aren’t trolls or awful people.

I had that enabled, but then I felt bad because I had one user at like -50. They don’t seem to be a troll, they just have consistently terrible takes (imo) and try to make jokes at the wrong time. I’m not a big down voter, and I started to wonder if I was seeing the negative number and becoming prejudiced against them, so I got rid of it.

I don’t know what the record is now, but I at least don’t have a reminder of previous bad takes next to their name, meaning I stay unbiased as long as I ignore usernames, which I do.

No, no, the newfound land is a scooch southwest

It’s roughly 722, which isn’t far off enough of 961 to make a difference in the plausibility of this claim, but I wanted to throw that out there.

Fuck, now I feel like the dumbass. I thought it was loiterers, but looters now seems obvious.

I’m an American living in Germany. When Russia first attacked and Ukrainians described Russians as their “brothers,” I figured it didn’t really translate (not literally, but culturally. Europeans have a much longer memory and sense of national culture than Americans do).

I think I get it now. Canadians are my brothers. I’m from New England and when I was still there, got really involved with a folk dance that’s common along both sides of the eastern part of the Canada-US border. I have more in common with someone from Quebec (my first language was French because my mother’s side was part of the Acadian diaspora, just very far north) than I do with someone from Arizona. It doesn’t feel right that we treat them as anything other than a sibling.

My siblings are both very different from and very similar to me, I’m not saying that Canada is the same as us or should be annexed. We should support them doing their own thing as much as possible. One of my siblings has two master’s degrees and became a born again Christian, the other is an effortlessly cool restaurant manager. I’m neither cool nor Christian and I’m struggling with a master’s program, but I dance better than either of them. We’re different, but we perceive the world from the same place (even living as far apart as we do)

To be fair, it’s also not secure for the average consumer, if they accidentally add a journalist to their gc

Somewhat off topic, but once upon a time I worked as an insurance adjuster for litigated liability claims. A commercial customer of mine tendered about 12k lawsuits in which they were named as a defendant (it was a novel type of lawsuit and they were a big player, imagine what the roundup lawsuits are like for Monsanto) all at once.

For background, insurance companies are required to make a reasoned determination of coverage within 30 days of receiving notice of a claim. If that’s impossible, they can file an extension within 7 days of receipt, but there would have to be one extension tailored to each claim. Additionally, once coverage has been established, it’s more difficult for an insurance company to change their mind and rescind it (insurance companies make the contracts, meaning they make the rules, so courts are not especially forgiving when they get confused about how the rules they made apply).

Basically, by sending us over 10k new kinds of lawsuits all at once, they were trying to force us to extend coverage for as long as it took for us to find very good reasons to deny each individual claim. Unluckily for them, basically everyone except about four of us with poorly managed ADHD was remote. We all transferred everything to the remote people and we spent about three weeks just hyperfocusing and reading through the lawsuits. In the end, we were able to respond in time to about 80% of the lawsuits and we filed extensions on the rest in time (though tbh, their insurance department probably felt similarly overwhelmed by ~2.5k extensions).

I don’t have much pride about my work there, but that felt very good. Especially because I honestly have less sympathy for this company than Monsanto

Not sexy vibes, but friendship vibes. They each do favors for the other and then get bashful about having positive feelings for each other. Fanfiction writers can pretty easily use that as a jumping off point for modeling how the characters would act if they did have romantic feelings for each other.

Yes on bashir and Garak though. I resisted it at first, but I’ve fully given in and have read exclusively that for the last week.

I’m sorry that this is only tangentially related, but I’m 30 years late to a fandom and I’m itching to bitch.

I’ve been trying to look up fanfiction for DS9, and it’s fucking astounding how much quark/Odo porn there is. I get that they’ve got vibes, but it’s just too big a leap for me. Quark’s getting some serious character development lately (I’m in the 7th season) though, so maybe something changes soon.

Make it seem like the void just… doesn’t notice him.

Well that makes sense, soybeans are grown in… wait a second

It’s normally spelled heirloom, but I honestly like your spelling better

God, can you imagine killing JFK by accident and having to sit on that secret forever because the FBI doesn’t want to get a bad reputation?

I’m on season 6 of DS9. I remember thinking about how fucked up it was that Sisko

My IQ test done through school came back with super high results. I’m 33 and work part time at a bakery while on my fourth year of a two year program. It doesn’t fucking matter.

Lead paint is not going to enter my body, but that’s because I very rarely put unknown things in my mouth. Toddlers operate differently

I can deep clean someone else’s house all day, but mine’s gonna stay as it is for a while yet

Yeah, it is an easy mistake to make. Generally abbreviations/diminutives for nationalities are insulting (Brit excluded)