You're comparing playing video games, an explicitly recreational activity, to mind numbingly boring jobs?
Filling up the same form hundreds of times is rather different than fighting virtual monsters. I did a shift covering workers at a printing house. My job for the day consisted of sitting on a chair and waiting for a machine to spit out a stack of magazines. When it did, I'd place a small piece of paper on top of the stack before it got wrapped in plastic, due to the regulations of the country the stacks were went to.
The machines were stuck all the time, so in practice, I sat in a chair and slapped a small piece of paper on a stack like 3-12 times an hour. There were no smart phones back then, and you wouldn't have been allowed to use one anyway. Even music was strictly forbidden, because you need to be alert because the machines are dangerous.
And that was a stress free boring job. Most jobs are super stressful and bosses demand more than you can do.
This has been Israel's aim for its entire existence. It's no mere coincidence that any country that could potentially stand up to it has been invaded or otherwise regime changed (Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc) or paid off (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc, but likely only to hold them off because their turn will come later). Iran is a major item on the hit list.
Nestle is a notorious scumbag company, personally I have avoided anything Nestle all my life, since when I grew up, there were already news about illegally bad quality/harmful formula food. I have NEVER heard a good thing about that company.
Ugh their firm grip on the pet food market endlessly pisses me off. I paid for a fancy B Corp certified cat food brand for years before realising it had been bought out by Nestlé
Except this is totally wrong. Israel is doing it out of self interest, not some weird conspiracy to drag the west into something. They want to gain power for themselves, just as Iran, the US, and every other country wants to do. There is zero reason to think it's more than that. Bibi needs a distraction, and that's what all of this is.
It's not a weird conspiracy though. It's just that dragging the US into protecting Israel from Iran has the effect of halting US criticism of the Gaza genocide.
Or maybe Iran is making a play by saying something to enflame Americans? I don't know why anyone would listen to Iran suddenly. Sure, they're against Israel, which is the popular stance here right now (for good reason), but they don't care to be accurate. They say something because it's useful.
I wasn't on Lemmy then, but I'd be curious to see what Lemmy would have been like during the Iranian protests that I think we're last year. I'm sure they'd be saying Iran is lying about everything then and only saying what's useful. I don't know why anyone would trust a word they say now.
Anything with power is always lying. Consider what purpose saying it has. Even if it's true, they're saying it to manipulate. The actual implied intent is a lie.
I mean, yes. Iran is unironically very talented at manipulating regional politics to their favor. You don't have one of the best systems of proxies and catpaws in the region without knowing shit like that.
Iran's international competence isn't generally the problem - but whether to trust what they say. Usually, the answer is "No, you shouldn't trust anything out of their mouth", but in this case, it's a "The sky is blue" moment.
The DDay landing was the greatest war event for the Americans, British and Canadians but compared to what happened on the Eastern front, the Russians basically bled themselves and the Germans dry by the time the Allies started fighting again.
I have family that were part of the landings and war veterans that took part in the fighting later on and a couple that are buried in Belgium.
DDay is an amazing story but it shouldn't be overshadowed by what the Russians and Eastern Europeans endured in the east for almost three years.
The reason I mention this is that to the Russians DDay is not as important a WW2 event to them as it is to us. Putin and Russia won't be as disrespected as we would like to imagine because they have way more WW2 commemorative events that saw many more people die than they did on DDay.
If Hitler had mustered up just enough wisdom to realize that an invasion of the USSR would be disastrous and managed to contain his hatred of communism just enough to restrain himself from operation Barbarossa, he could likely have held most of Europe and a DDay type landing would have been unlikely to succeed. Nothing short of a nuclear bombardment of Europe would have dislodged them. One of the weirdest darkest historical hypotheticals. It's amazing how much of history hinges on the personal flaws of specific leaders.
He most probably would now. During the first stage of the invasion, Macron was amenable to Putin and agreed to meet in person. He's totally flipped 180 now though, knowing he got played like a damn fool for trusting him.
When the first stage of the invasion started, Macron was the president of Europe. So he had to play his role and present the view of the european leaders, even if it was not aligned with our internal views.
I don’t like him, didn’t vote for him the first time (2nd time i did vote for him to avoid marine le pen election, founded by russian banks btw...) but you can’t use his behavior (amenable), trying to avoid escalation, as "yeah i’m your buddy putin, go ahead" or "i totally trust you’.
Our head of intelligence was fired because HE didn’t present the invasion as realistic (based on normal logic it really silly)... but the whole intel community was fully aware of putin desires. President included. He knew Putin was playing with him. Everybody knew.
But he had to play his role, as EU leader at this time.
In practice, Putin wouldn't go to a state that wouldn't agree to extend diplomatic immunity to him.
And France isn't going to grant diplomatic immunity and violate it.
So there isn't really a scenario where he's going to go and then France is going to arrest him. Either France doesn't grant diplomatic immunity and he doesn't enter France, or France does grant diplomatic immunity and he passes through without issue.
And the internet made this practice so much easier than Orwell could‘ve imagined. You, the regime, can will things out of and even into existence with a few clicks. No need to rush into homes and search for old newspapers. You are already inside everyone‘s 4 walls at all times.
You, the regime, can will things out of and even into existence with a few clicks.
Sort of. It's not like this information doesn't make its way into China and it's also not like the millions of people who remember him existing all died. So it's more like you can prevent people talking about it in public.
Plenty of Chinese people still talk about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. They're just not allowed to do so. They do it anyway.
So they can hide it from public discussion, but they can't hide it.
I couldn't believe the businessmen like 3 months after the vote saying "see, we're still fine, no crash or anything". Fucking hell it's long term you fucking imbeciles.
It amazes me that the whole hoax campaign that was behind the vote was exposed but they said "well, the vote went through anyway, so we're going to do it even though it turns out it's not what people actually want."
Only in that case they just went with "no collusion". Yes it was well documented and proven and would have brought charges if there wasn't a made up pretend DoJ "policy" against charging a sitting president, but y'know. no collusion I guess? Because then we'd have to understand the entirety of the administration was illegitemate and those SCOTUS bastards the usurper, the drunk rapist, and the handmaiden all have to go. And y'know. We can barely keep the trains from derailing.
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