For thoose who don’t understand I’m a chronic emotional abuser, like I don’t outright threaten to kill myself but everyone around me knows I’m always on the verge to sucide. I’m legitimately a toxic horrible person that holds my friends hostage.

I know this is gonna sound crazy, but have you considered that you should stop doing that? If you’re deliberately acting suicidal to manipulate people, that’s fucked up, but it does tend to work to some degree. The reason everyone is so fake to you is because you’re fake to them. If you’re going to act like you’re always on the brink of suicide, so will others.

Why manipulate people to treat you in a way that you don’t want to be treated? That can’t be worth the time and effort.

You’re the psyop. You created the conditions for the way people act around you. You effectively manipulated the people around you to pity and infantalize you because you act like a wounded animal.

the real toll is far higher.

This will remain true until this conflict is over. How it ends is largely up to how the U.S. President feels about providing Israel with weapons.

Since Trump has already said he wants Israel to “finish the job”, and has said hateful things about Arabs and Muslims for decades, it’s pretty clear that Israel will be given all the weapons and permission they need to meet that end.

If Trump did this Genocide you would never be this dismissive of the destruction.

I’m not dismissive of the destruction that Israel has brought to Gaza, I’m telling you that Trump will give Israel the greenlight to make this far worse. Whatever hypothetical universe where Trump is PM of Israel and is personally leading this atrocity notwithstanding.

You are in denial of what is on the horizon. Things are going to be so much fucking worse because of the results of this election.

Trying to play word games on a Genocide is disgusting.

You’re the one playing word games with “Genocide” by refusing to acknowledge that the current death toll, and the actual death toll after 4 years of an explicitly pro-Israel Christian Nationalist president, are going to tell a tragic story.

“Genocide” is just a word to describe organized ethnonationalist violence. It is the correct term for what Israel is doing to Palestine, but not all Genocides are equal. So far 2.2% of Gaza’s population has been killed. How many percentage points are you willing to add to that over a false equivalency?

It’s like saying that dropping 40 kiloton nuclear bomb a city is just as bad as a 2 megaton nuclear bomb, because all nuclear bombs are equally bad.

She could have, if enough people voted for her.

There’s nothing left of Gaza

There are 2 million people living in Gaza, many in tent cities or just living in shattered buildings. the current death toll is 43,400.

This person apparently thinks that the buildings, not the people, are what matters here. What an absolutely disgusting take.

You just watch how the death toll grows over the next year or so and come back and tell me with a straight face that there was nothing of value in Gaza left to destroy when Trump won.

Just so I understand, you are taking credit for Trump winning by saying that Harris would have won if people like you didn’t sit back and do nothing while fascism took over?

I’m not sure if, as a leftist, taking credit for the upcoming downfall of America and its people is a great survival strategy. Things are about to get really bad in this country, and people are going to choose sides like their lives depend on it. Are you absolutely certain you want to be self-identifying as a person who put Trump back in the White House?

And here you are gleeful that the greater fascist won…

I wonder if they have a word for people like you? Oh yeah, “fascist”.

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Tearing down the walls and erasing the borders between Israel and Palestine (It’s gonna all be Israel now).

Half the OC memes here use GenAI art. It’s already happening.

Eh, I’m kinda with him on the “whole new category of content” thing. Put it in its own category so it’s not mixed in with everything else.

Well, the good news is since this kind of hypersonic flight is not efficient or affordable, while there are 150k daily commercial flights, these aircraft will probably fly more like 2-6 times daily for their specific wealthy passengers that would pay obscene amounts of cash to save a few hours.

The Concord only flew 4 times daily at its peak.

To put this in perspective, you could have breakfast in London and make it to New York in time for a mid-morning coffee, with the journey taking just 1.5 hours.

Uh, let me do the math on that one…

If I eat breakfast in London at 8am, and then immediately board a Hypersonic jet to New York at 8:30am, I’ll arrive in NYC at 3pm, having missed mid-morning coffee by about 4 hours before I ate breakfast…

3-5 mg of “mammalian feces” per dry pound.

KDE. It’s customizable without adding lots of weirdness. It’s got a solid set of included tools like Dolphin and Konsole. It’s generally very stable and visually attractive.

No shade to other DEs. I’ve tried lots of them, I even have a couple of alternative DEs I’ll log into when they are useful (i3 is great if I am doing something repetitive). But KDE is just the most comfortable for me for daily use.

The non-Gnome COSMIC DE that System76 has been developing is looking really promising though. I have the alpha on a spare laptop and find it very functional.

This is a very Lemmy-specific observation that isn’t strictly true of other ActivityPub federated services.

You should also get off of ML if you don’t like being affected by terrible admin decisions.

Once had a lucid dream about a big dream convention full of people collectively dreaming. Hung out with some cool people who told me that the “convention” is always going on, but it’s hard to get to unless you know how to dream about it.

This group of “dreamers” told me to look closely around the building we were in, and to think about the interior of the building when I’m falling asleep to bring myself back. They also warned me that it was impossible to share personal details with each other because we’ll never remember those parts when we wake up.

After a while I was warned that if I didn’t wake up soon, I might not remember this dream and I might not be able to try to come back. They gave me a drink that I was told would wake me up immediately, which it did.

I remember everything vividly, except for anything identifiable about anyone I met.

I have never been back, not for lack of trying. It was a pretty standard hotel convention center environment. I think about it before bed now and then and hope I find myself back there. Maybe I go all the time and dream-me never thinks to get that super-helpful drink that woke me up last time…

I’d rather watch him flail about after losing again than watch him execute his mass deportation genocide plans.

Fine, but he’s getting close to the end. We should keep him out of the White House until then.

Imagine being privileged enough to know that another Trump term won’t affect you.

Imagine not giving a shit about all the women and queer people that will lose their basic human rights, because you know you are safely insulated behind your wealth, sexuality, gender identity, and/or sex.

Imagine pretending that Trump, who has urged Netanyahu to “Finish the job quickly”, is the less genocidal option in two weeks.

Peak tankie nonsense.

No violence

No dishonesty

No malice