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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • as usual with this shit show of a conflict, it seems both sides are awful: hamas used the hospital as a command post which means israel has to be able to attack it, however attacking it with indiscriminate shelling is absolutely unacceptable

    both entities are completely unacceptable… debating which one is more so is outrageous, and if anyone “sides” with either one they’re morally corrupt, brainwashed, or too stupid to comprehend anything but binaries










  • that word doesn’t mean what you think it means

    actually, i think it’s you that doesn’t understand what the word means so here’s the definition:

    Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.

    partial targeting is still genocide




  • hmmm i’m not sure that’s true… if you’re, say, a member of trumps personal detail i’d wager you could defend him without supporting him… you can preserve, protect, and defend the person only because you whole heartedly support american democracy without supporting the individual that’s currently in power

    that said, this exists because there’s a higher ideal that trickles down: your support of the concept doesn’t translate to your support of every outcome from the concept…


  • well, i’m not about to go back now that i have an ad-free experience… it was apathy and laziness that kept me there, and now invidious is a much better way to consume the content

    i don’t use sponsorblock, so creators can monetise me (ie i can “pay” for the content) that way and google won’t see a cent or be able to farm my data (well, i’m sure they can but probably not as well)


  • i never really ad blocked on youtube (as annoying as they were), so nothing would have really changed for me… however, i do use umatrix to block all JS and other content by default and selectively allow only minimal parts of a site required for its operation

    since the introduction of the “ad block detection” bs, youtube has been complaining at me and not letting me watch videos

    i then searched for alternatives, found invidious, and now i dont see youtube ads

    fuck you google