VentraSqwal

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

VentraSqwal,

So is everybody just snapping at each other more? Like is the friend group more angry? I’m kind of confused at the nature of the toxicity. But it does feel like the pressure of society making people a lot more tired and stressed, quick to snap. I’ve notice the same thing with some of friends of mine, and it’s unfortunate =(

New Yorkers march on Wall St. to demand an end to US funding of Israel : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)

People in New York City once again took to the streets to demand a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza and an end US aid to Israel. Protesters marched from Foley Square to NYC City Hall, Wall Street, and Washington Square Park to raise their demands. The protest took place as the United Nations Security Council was...

VentraSqwal,

The Middle East in general has oil and Israel is our main base over there basically, being an ally in the region. They give us a zone of control. (Also Turkey but Israel is easier to control and it’s good to have backups.)

VentraSqwal,

50% of people keep voting for it, so some people must love it.

VentraSqwal,

I like this. It’s applicable basically everywhere nowadays.

VentraSqwal,

I loved Final Fantasy IX but sometimes I think I dreamed it because no one else ever talks about it, just VI, VII, and then over to X usually lol.

VentraSqwal,

Wasn’t there some companion game to EVE Online that was supposed to be like that?

VentraSqwal,

Damn that sucks. That guy should quit, or just do the job the slowest they can.

VentraSqwal,

I’d also recommend !trendingcommunities. They seem to find some pretty good communities.

VentraSqwal,

I agree and have noticed the same things. I don’t think Lemmy is big enough to attract the state sponsors yet like Reddit is but it will probably be susceptible to the same issues when it is.

VentraSqwal,

Reddit does get super echo chamber-y in some places, though. Check out any thread in /r/worldnews lately and all the comments. They’re all of the same opinion. At least on Lemmy I see disagreement. I see as many complaints about tankies on Lemmy as I do tankies themselves, for example. The only one I’ve seen in this thread has all their comments in the negative.

VentraSqwal,

So like the relays or whatever that Mastadon has but topic and community focused?

VentraSqwal,

Just use this to find communities.

VentraSqwal,

Right? I know Sam Altman sucks but I don’t know if he was fired for more profit or less, or what exactly is going on. I’m not sure how to react to these articles besides surprise and bemusement.

VentraSqwal,

The internet is really something, isn’t it?

VentraSqwal,

It’s hilarious for all the “democracy” the US loves to “export”, it actually has a pretty terrible democracy. Wildly popular policies have no way to make their way to the government unless a rich person or corporation also lobbies for it.

Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (apnews.com)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

VentraSqwal,

I’m reading through the Wikipedia article and don’t see anything about the Israelis using human shields. Part of it mentions Hamas using human shields, hiding under hospitals, keeping weapons in houses or mosques, etc.

Can you help narrow it down for me which part you’re talking about?

VentraSqwal,

Thanks!

VentraSqwal,

My gf and I also enjoyed it! You have to be on board with the silliness, and I guess we were. My only complaints were few, I thought the villian could’ve been a bit better (I didn’t really believe she could take on Captain Marvel by herself, let alone with 2 super hero friends) and the breezy pace made me have some questions (it took until after the movie for me to realize why destroying the Supreme Intelligence hurt their sun) but the situations were fun, action scenes creative, and it didn’t out stay it’s welcome. Overall, it’s not amazing, but it’s better than most Marvel stuff I’ve seen since probably Shang Chi, and better than the reviews and box office had me thinking it would be.

VentraSqwal, (edited )

Like others I mostly miss the discussions in my old niche hobby subs. Luckily a lot seem to have communities here, they just need more participation.

Meet Your Maker - a fun game where players build levels and others raid them.
!meetyourmaker

League of Legends -
!leagueoflegends
!league
!leagueoflegends

TTRPGs
!rpg
!rpgcreation
!dndnext
!dnd
!dnd
!dndhomebrew
!vamp_tm
!pf2general
!pf2homebrew

VentraSqwal,

How long has Gamurs owned The Escapists? I thought it was getting suspicious lately how many different things they were trying to get money so quickly.

They were putting more sponsor segments in ZP videos at different points and Nick would respond in the comments when people complained, trying to find a good place to put them. Then they started letting Yahtzee curse more and offering the uncensored version on their subscription service. And these changes were quickly one right after the other. I should’ve known something like this was coming, but I’m still sad about it. I hate capitalism so much. Why does these corporations have to ruin all my favorite things?

VentraSqwal,

Well that post didn’t age well lol. Poor Nick.

VentraSqwal,

Holy shit so no more Zero Punctuation? He was like half of that channel. Wow this came from nowhere.

VentraSqwal,

Woah. I wonder what happened 😬

VentraSqwal,

Sounds like they definitely fucked up. So they just bought the channel for no reason. There will be no content now.

VentraSqwal,

Considering everything else that has gone to shit recently for the same reason, you’re probably right.

VentraSqwal,

What is Israel supposed to do, though? Just let the Hamas attack go unpunished? I get that there’s something between doing nothing and what they’re doing, but I’m just curious what people think they should have done instead. (Realistically. Obviously leaving is no longer an option for them because all the people who live there.)

VentraSqwal,

They migrated from North Arabia and took Jewish land every time the Jews were forcefully removed by a long line of oppressors. Then, when every Arab country started kicking out Jews, thy had nowhere to go but their homeland. When they arrived in the early 40’s en masse, the Palestinian leader met with Hitler to see about exterminating them. You got the colonizer/colonized dynamic backwards. This is what happens when you get your info from Facebook.

I saw this YouTube comment where people were arguing whether the Palestinians or Jewish people were there first. Does anyone know how accurate this comment is?

VentraSqwal,

Thanks! You seemed very informed about the conflict so yours felt like a good comment to ask that question under, which had been on my mind since I saw it under an old Abby Martin video of her interviews with Israelis. That video looks like it will probably take some time to watch but it gives me a place to start.

VentraSqwal,

Still it would probably be good to have the graph go back 70 years to when it started.

‘Archer’s’ Final Mission: Sterling and His Frenemies Sign Off After 142 Episodes of Awful Behavior. We Will Miss Them. (variety.com)

I first heard about FX’s “Archer” in the ready room of VAQ-135, a navy squadron who were serving an interminable deployment aboard an aircraft carrier somewhere near Midway Island. (This sounds very much like a humblebrag that Sterling Archer would obnoxiously drop into conversation). It was 2010, and the pilots had lost...

VentraSqwal,

Same, didn’t even know it was still going. Guess I’ll have to re-watch at some point as well.

'Addictive' social media feeds that keep children online targeted by New York lawmakers (apnews.com)

New York would restrict the way online platforms like Instagram and YouTube can collect and share children’s personal information and let parents keep their kids from being bombarded by “addictive” feeds from accounts they don’t follow, under legislation proposed Wednesday....

VentraSqwal,

I will say that staying off FB and Instagram, while it didn’t cure me, it did help my mental health a notable amount. I also think going from Reddit to Lemmy has been helping my online addiction and attention span as well. I really do think Reddit and Tik Tok and other infinite short-form content algorithms have been hurting people’s attention span. I’ve been slowly resuming reading books, but for awhile there I stopped, and I used to read a ton of books when I was a kid.

VentraSqwal,

So the babies weren’t beheaded, but shot or burnt. Still horrible, as expected 😔

VentraSqwal,

I’ll take your word for it. I’m not looking at those. It doesn’t help my mental health and I’m already upset just reading about the heinous shit done at the music festival.

VentraSqwal,

And here’s a Kbin friendly one!

@letsnotmeet

VentraSqwal,

What a great cat name lol

VentraSqwal,

It’s so cute!

VentraSqwal, (edited )

I agree with most of what you’ve said, but just throwing in my 2 cents that I’ve never heard Zionist as an antisemitic buzz word, I’ve only ever understood it to as a way to differentiate Jews who support the Israeli and it’s settler colonialism project, and those who don’t. Maybe antisemitic use it, but I don’t think it’s a common dog whistle (like globalist is, for example).

VentraSqwal, (edited )

I only have the same issue with Mastadon that I do with Lemmy, I have no idea what instance to join. This one I’m apart of now for Lemmy I randomly joined when the admin said he’d accept reddit refugees who wanted to try out Lemmy.

If anyone has any suggestions for good instances to pick I’d give Mastadon a try. Otherwise, it’s a nightmare for people like me (who’s been compared to Chidi from The Good Place in terms of my overthinking and decision making).

VentraSqwal,

Tbh, while in this case I think it’s egregious because I don’t think using a VPN should actually be a crime, I’d love to see that punishment system used in the US.

Imagine if instead of paying fines for illegal stuff and then continuing to ignore the laws, Facebook, X, and other rich people and corporations had to pay back all the income made from doing their illegal activity.

VentraSqwal,

I’ve heard of it, but have only ever heard of that being used on people who are carrying straight cash, because only drug dealers do that I guess… /s

Like you said, for white collar crime or corporate , I’ve never heard of it being used.

VentraSqwal, (edited )

If you considered nothing that’s happened since the beginning, maybe, but a lot has happened since then, including a massacre the other day where peaceful musical festival attendees and civilians in their homes were murdered, raped, and kidnapped.

While I agree that Israel is not the good guy here, it’s a bit more nuanced than just that now. Hamas has done lots of atrocities and now it’s more of an Everyone Sucks Here situation. Murder and rape of civilians are not okay (and yes, even the murders Israel has done, although I do find the rape and the targets escalates this latest atrocity into something more viscerally horrible).

Not to mention Hamas is also pretty far-right, also desires genocide, they just don’t have the power to do it.

VentraSqwal,

Definitely saving this for later. Thanks!!!

Is it okay to support Israel?

Hello I just created this Account for this Question. Is it okay to support Israel in the middle east conflict? I’m from Europe and have no ties at all to any Side. Its just that I lean more to the Side of Israel then any other. Is this okay? Is it up to debate which Side is to support or is one of them clearly in the Wrong?...

VentraSqwal,

Don’t forget basically all the country lines in Africa, although that was Europe’s fault as a whole.

VentraSqwal,

On the other hand, that is within a human lifetime and they’re still expanding their settlements today. It’s not like the bad stuff just happened to people 75 years ago then stopped.

But I wish Israel didn’t help create Hamas. It would be much preferable for a more secular force to help Palestinians that I could put my support in. No one wants to support terrorists, but now Hamas is basically their only option, which sucks. I don’t even like reading about the stuff over there now, it’s all sad and there’s no good solution.

VentraSqwal,

The US does send something like billions in monetary and military aid over there which could be spent here so it does kind of affect us over here, but other than that, I agree.

VentraSqwal,

Especially when they’re in trouble for corruption charges and making sweeping changes to their country’s justice system to help themselves at the detriment of their democracy?

VentraSqwal,

I’m so jealous of cats lol

VentraSqwal,

I always love seeing more communities and I like that you added related ones!

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • KamenRider
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • KbinCafe
  • Socialism
  • oklahoma
  • SuperSentai
  • feritale
  • All magazines
    •