[-] johker216@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Say what you want but that movie delivered.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago

Biden did not "strike it down", he halted all EOs not in effect so their administration can review them (see: the first paragraph of the linked article). Instead of re-issuing an EO, something that can be withdrawn on a whim (see: your post), Biden did the actual hard work of working with Congress to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act. The $35 cap is now backed by law rather than by diktat. Trump took the lazy path and issued the EO in the last days of his Presidency - a Presidency he spent quite a long time using to try and repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Try understanding the issue instead of spamming MAGA talking points.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

And what Hamas is trying to accomplish is also genocide - but this is all besides the point. The larger question is this: what would it take for you to believe even a fraction of what the Israeli military claims?

Can it be true that the IDF is indiscriminately killing Palestinian civilians as well as telling the truth?

Would you claim that Hamas is justified in their killing of civilians if the Israeli military also kills civilians?

Even further: what happens if all foreign governments stop sending aid to Israel and Lebanon/Hamas/etc. attack Israeli citizens with the intent of purging them? Would you suddenly support the IDF in it's struggle to protect Israeli citizens from these groups who have already made it clear that their primary purpose is the genocide of the Jews in the Levant?

Regardless of anyone's feelings on the IDF, it is incumbent on all of us to take the claims of Hamas and Israel with a massive grain of salt - you may not believe in the credibility of the IDF but you certainly cannot dismiss the engrained antisemitism of Hamas and others in the region and believe them at face value.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Which is more likely for underground tunnels that don't hold many people and are kitted for permanent subterranean living:

  1. a safe place for a terrorist organization's leadership and inner circle to plan attacks with the easy ability to traverse the city unknown
  2. temporary bomb shelters for the population of Gaza

At what point will people, who bend over backwards to defend a designated terrorist organization who exclusively target civilians, admit that the conflict is more complicated than "Israel bad" - when Hamas revives indiscriminate bus bombings of Israelis (or do they pine for the 90s/2000s again)? Netanhanyu needs to go, but Hamas doesn't even try to distinguish between military targets and civilians - all Israelis are military targets (genocide). The victims in this conflict are Palestinian and Israeli civilians and this needs to not be forgotten in their haze of Israeli bloodlust.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The Wikipedia quote is misleading - some European countries used zero/null but it was agreed that the prevailing usage should be the letter O.

Wiki source 12

Apparently, it was originally C and changed later, too.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago

Outspoken libertarians aren't going to be bullied in college - outspoken anything in college generally leads to people ignoring you. College students that think they're being bullied most likely attribute normal behavior to bullying - just like incels treat normal human interactions as impediments to getting laid.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

In Hebrew, there are many names for God - some of which are plural (a remnant from when Judaism was polytheistic).

It's also vav, not waw. The sound is a v.

Hard to forget a decade of Hebrew school.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I enjoyed Star Trek 25th Anniversary and the first Starfleet Command with the latter being my favorite.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

He also knows Bubbles? Small world!

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The privacy policy at startup links to a very comprehensive version. I think someone may have posted it above.

[-] johker216@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

^ this right here

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