Jesus low pH high pH I swear every health product/trend is just “here’s a thing no one’s selling yet but it’s actually the secret to perfect health”

inhumane to breed? how about we stop breeding pugs then

God the number of “installing mods eh?” messages I got on steam from steam friends I haven’t talked to in literal decades

This should be the hexbearian headline the shock is nothing new

Best case, what are we hoping for here? No matter how good Mamdanis ideas and soundbytes are he’s still running in the democratic ticket and he’s still a part of the current system. “Changing the system from the inside” is not a real thing and is not something worth putting hope into.

That said, if Mamdani successfully enacts a fraction of what he’s proposed I still see that as a win for supporting the vulnerable and chipping away at the ruling class’ grip.

Will that happen? Who knows, but first he needs to win the election and even if he wins and turns out to be AOC 2: electric boogaloo, I would hope that potential future revolutionaries will see it as a sign that the people want revolution even if the vocabulary has been vilified.

TL;DR: antizionist Jews must continue to fight back and speak up or I don’t believe the arguments of well intentioned non-jews will be enough to curb this wave of antisemitism.

The truth of the matter is that outside of places like nyc or LA the average person has a very low chance of ever interacting with a Jewish person and an even lower chance that they realize the person they just talked to is Jewish. A lot of us come from very secular backgrounds and don’t wear the garb outside of synagogue.

I volunteered with an organization in higschool that went to schools around the area and presented Judaism to students who have never met a Jew. There are a lot of such schools in my area (an area with a relatively big Jewish population) and not just the christian ones. IIRC Israel was not part of our normal lesson plan but it was something that often came up when students asked questions. Of course the 2010/2011 rhetoric/narrative resulted in many of my co-volunteers proliferating the conflation between Israel and Judaism.

Growing up in the Jewish community it’s what we were taught. That Israel was our greatest victory, our birthright and true homeland. But I remember the first time I went there in 2011 I saw shit that never sat right with me. I didn’t know how to describe it at the time but I certainty know now: apartheid. When I returned 3 years later on a “birthright” program I noticed it again. The way the former IDF “guards” on our trip referred to Palestinians was downright sickening. I could see that they were hurt by friends lost to military conflict but their rhetoric left no room for empathy, not for the children and not for civilians. It was simply “they support Hamas and therefore they made their bed.”

Anyway all that rambling to say: Jews will need to advocate for themselves just like I did in high school but this time for antizionism. That’s not to say we should be alone in this. I’m fairly confident anyone who knows me well enough would speak up against the conflation between Judaism and zionism. They know where I stand and so does my family. But many people in the world will only ever see the ghouls on TV and twitter and think that’s all there is to it.

It’s been ramping up the last few months but we must continue to not be silent and complicit in this genocide. I saw a great interview on the daily show recently where John Stewart interviewed an anti-zionist Jew. There it was, two Jews explaining their denouncement of israel, how israel’s actions spit in the face of Judaism and the victims of the holocaust. That’s what we need, more conversation and explanation so people understand that we were sold propaganda but regardless many of us are not blind to the atrocities.

This Saturday we’re going to my partners friends house for a BBQ and I’m planning to take the hosts aside to talk on this very subject. None in that friend group (including my partner) had ever met a Jew before I came into the picture, but (I hope) getting to know me has expanded their perspective of my people and allowed them to feel more confident in their antizionism.

So this is a good post which means it’s a bad post which means it’s appropriate for this comm but today this comm is for good posts so your post is bad… which means it’s good?

Luckily my car is too old to be kia-boyed but that’s why they had the “security” “installed”

I volunteer to be minister of light industry. I’ve been changing all the light bulbs since I was 12 and my father weaponized his incompetence by refusing to flip switches before putting in the new bulb and popping several in the process.

Thinking cops makes anyone safer is like thinking that putting double sided scotch tape on the bottom of your feet will help keep you from falling over. There’s some sort of logic to it but anyone who’s lived in this reality for more than 10 years should be able to see why that doesn’t work without even trying it.

you’ve bested me in physical combat

This tracks for me. Can’t have two sympathetic ceo pops in less than a year.

They put copilot in the fucking notepad app.

What’s next? Paint? Is nothing sacred??? (tho tbh I’ve only used paint.net since the paint update that came with win10)

my partner recently got an older laptop from his job they were getting rid of and I helped him wipe it and re-set up windows 11. With a bit of determination I was able to set up windows by making a new microsoft account without providing any other email address or phone number.

So that’s what I’ll be doing for every windows install for the foreseeable future

Damn I just did the same thing except I had a cup of that office folgers. Maybe someday I’ll be as strong as you big bro o7

this is giving my flashbacks to the time I went to a local repair shop to fix the breaks on my car but shortly after, my car started making weird noises whenever I braked. I thought “ok maybe they messed up something in the repair. I’ll take it to a manufacturer dealership and they should be able to see what’s up.”

So after a few days of having no car, I got a ride back to the dealership only for them to tell me verbatim “that’s what you get for using aftermarket parts.” But don’t worry, at least they were able to install a security system, and by “security system” I mean they put fake alarm stickers on my windows and gave me a steering wheel lock.

Thanks hyundai, big fan of how you put a little plastic piece in the middle of the steering column that slowly degrades and is neigh-impossible to fix at home.

In this instance, the cutoff was sought by the European Union (EU), in an attempt to pressure Russia to back off its assaults on Ukraine. But what if the requester was a government that just didn’t like what an enterprise said or did?

First of all, wtf is the difference. Second can someone explain this? What does an Indian power company have to do with Russia?

oh the big bill? the bill they passed already? thanks guys very helpful

So if I’m understanding this right, they don’t want to try to fix the linux version anymore so they’re just completely breaking its ability to run on linux at all? What kinda sense does that make?? What a baby. They couldda just said they weren’t gonna update it anymore

the reading comprehension devil also loves america