It is nice to have the smoke detector communicate out its status. I sure like to know when my house is on fire, even if I’m not home. And a notification about a battery being low is much nicer than incessant beeping.

None of this replaces the primary local, physical functionality. You don’t depend on technology for the thing to work; it’s just an addition.

P.S. it’s not a coincidence they killed Anas Al-Shareef at the same time.

Believe it or not, this is a net positive PR move from Israel.

It’s expressed incredibly poorly. The title is true, one absolutely should be aware of what information is public.

You’re a fool to trust Reddit with it more than particular instance admins.

It’s important to stay on top of anti-Semitism because we don’t want a genocide to happen like it did in the Holocaust.

Wait a minute…

Lemmy does make some attempts to hide your IP address, but everyone should know that any time you visit a website, that website gets your IP.

So of course your instance has your IP (whoever’s running it). And if you ever explicitly visit another domain, they’ll get your IP as well.

about:config
in your address bar

Be slightly vague. If your target audience doesn’t get it, then I don’t think they were going to do much anyway.

The issue is less that you’re being objectionable. The issue is that you’re trying to shove other people in front of you (admins) for them to be objectionable.

And it’s not that hard to follow the rules while still making your point.

I hope the military guys getting deployed to US soil are talking about what they’re gonna do when they get illegal orders.

I hope officers are taking the risk to talk to their troops.

And we should all be aware that one of the upcoming steps will be to make the troops afraid and angry. Most likely there will be a false flag attack on the military while they’re standing around doing nothing. Because the best way to provoke the military into actually being violent on US soil (which they’re currently against), is to attack them.

Talk about it without brushing up against laws. Talk about it like you have a brain.

The guy with the huge post talked about it and it’s not objectionable at all.

Lemmy is a free service and admins are just trying to stay clear of trouble. Surely you can understand that.

Any Republicans in particular? Which are the most worthless ones?

I wrote him and asked him to run against Trump in 2024. The man has his flaws, but I don’t think there’s anyone better to win that particular race.

He literally did a song and dance saying “fuck you”.

You support the Trump administration?

Because when this shit comes up and you do your best to shift the focus, that’s one of two conclusions I can come to.

Apparently you haven’t seen Colbert, or Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.

Hey, if you want some anti-Putin paranoia, I can give you that.

Maybe you’re a Russian state paid propagandist, and your goal here is to water down accusations against Putin by blaming him for crazy shit that he has nothing to do with.

The point in posting bullshit isn’t just to get people to believe things that are false. It’s also to get people to ignore things that are true, like Putin largely being responsible for both of Trump’s elections through the use of propaganda. The first time was largely manipulating online social media. The second time added US podcasters and personalities that spouted narratives beneficial to Putin.

What if there was a bot that could just tell you exactly what you want to hear at all times?

Personally, I’d rather read a novel. But some people aren’t familiar with books and have to be drawn in with the promise of two lines at a time, max.

Not that I think it’s a big difference. It might be impossible to stop the genocide regardless of our approach here.

Public sentiment here doesn’t compare to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment, and I don’t think changing the messaging slightly is going to change either that or the overall outcome.

I’m proud of the people who have put themselves at risk to speak out, the ones who face real world consequences like Mahmoud Khalil.

see all Palestinians as Hamas

Despite opinion and anger here, there’s a lot of truth to that. Imagine seeing your friends and family brutally murdered, or your friend shot in the kneecap as sport for some IDF fuck, and then saying you don’t support any kind of resistance.

And that sentiment, punctuated by Oct 7th, makes Israelis afraid, somewhat reasonably. The people they’ve oppressed will always be inclined to strike back. The people they’re genociding would be even happier to genocide Israelis.

The point is that there is no protagonist in this fight. There’s nuance and no easy answers.

None of that justifies the very clear and deliberate genocide Israel is carrying out. It was extremely clear this was their plan when they killed the World Central Kitchen people. They’ve planned this genocide, knowing exactly what they’re doing and the consequences.

It’s the nation-state equivalent of a schoolyard fight where one student pulls a knife and slashes the other’s throat. It doesn’t matter how the fight started, or what their motivations were at the beginning, we don’t stand for that kind of brutality. You have a right to defend yourself, but that is very clearly beyond justifiable.

I feel like the people speaking out for Palestine are often making the same mistake DARE did with drugs in the 1990s. You can’t make everything black & white, even with kids. The program would have been more effective had it acknowledged nuance and been more truthful.