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Struggling to reconcile the beauty and the horribleness (is that a word?) of the world

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@Rainmaker1973 Katamari

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@CrazyVibes_1 Cool
I think it's called the familiar stranger phenomenon

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@PeterCronau What's the difference? Send the parts directly to Israel or through a third party? Same result.
Weasel words

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Interface 101 fail

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@SardineTruther Ok, fair point, my apologies!
My hackles go up at the use of the word intuitive in the context of interface design, the way we all make our way through the world is one of trial and error, there is no such thing as an initiative interface, just one that is retrospectively obvious

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Its taken 18 months & it should have happened long ago, but finally @BBCNews has plucked up the courage to write clearly about Israeli War Crimes. RT now before they bow to pressure & retract it.

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
https://t.co/3cgD0ZjzeZ

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@TheAusInstitute @MattGrudnoff Interesting point. I have kids that can't afford to buy where they rent near their own kids schools. so they gave up buying to live and have been investing in property in cheaper places. they had no choice, they had to play the game or get left behind. how would they be affected?

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@AlanKohler @abcnews Remember when the power companies we're 'gold plating' their systems? Spending big on poles and wires because they could pass that cost on to the customer
Why didn't that help our current transmission problem?

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@criprights Where is this possible?

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@danilic Are you feeling illlll?

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@Exkate20 @TasProspecting @DarcyAmaroo I don't think it was a mistake, Abbott appointed him expressly to devalue and undermine the office

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@TasProspecting @DarcyAmaroo Who appointed him?

[John Cusack @johncusack]

HOW MANY DEAD IS ENOUGH FOR YOU?

You watching?
You scrolling past?
You sipping coffee while Gaza burns?

How many bodies does it take? Ten thousand?
Twenty? Thirty thousand children buried in pieces under concrete—
Are you’re still calling this “complex”?

This is a genocide.
This isn’t defense.
It’s not a conflict.
It’s slaughter.
It’s targeted, sustained, deliberate annihilation.
The starvation of a people behind a cage built with American steel.

And when we name it—
Are you still calling us extremists?
Antisemites?
Criticizing a settler colony is not antisemitism.
Demanding an end to mass murder is not hate.
Starving human beings ?
Sending bunker busters into refugee camps?
Thats hate .

Fuck your excuses
There are not two sides to genocide.

If your identity depends on the obliteration of another people— Then it’s time to tear your identity down.

If you stay silent—
You’re not neutral
Or innocent - or confused.
You’re part of the machine.

The missiles don’t drop themselves.
They are carried by language. By lies . By policy.
By every coward afraid to say: This. Is. Evil.

Gaza screams.
And if you don’t hear it—
You’ve chosen to be deaf.

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@VJ0429R @agent_of_change @jasonhickel I think the caste system helps India ignore their poor

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

"Australians benefit little from gas exports & Japanese companies benefit a lot. Thank you, Australia, for all the free gas," – Yuki Tanabe.

https://t.co/Us2UvXy93L

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@curious_banker @MDMcDuff @EconguyRosie This is true, but what proportion of the population voted?
In the 2020 elections "Roughly 81 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot"
https://t.co/Tqgwyxtw4N

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@squirrelpalooza @TheArchivistLC @PaulinusOfTrier He eradicated a lot more Russians than Nazis

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@GrisStephan @TomCBallard Did he do a Canavan?

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@Louisecdtv @ChaponaBike123 And it was wearing headphones