Eh… I’m just… Not sure a one-state solution would end well, even if you could get past the US. It’s not that I like Israel, I hate everything that Israel is doing right now. I’m absolutely disgusted by the way they’ve been treating the Palestinians. However, I also don’t want to see more violence and bloodshed. I’ve been sickened by the never ending march of dead bodies that our horrid, god-forsaken species seems to crave.

I want a solution that will result in the least amount of violence and death, and I think something like a two-state solution is more likely to achieve that than telling Israelis that they’re now under Palestinian control.

I guess you also believe there’s a “White Genocide” going on in South Africa, right?

Plkease stop looking at the world like a white supremacist. For your own sake.

Jesus fuck if that’s really what you got from my comment then you need to get off the Internet and get some serious help, dude.

Are you okay? I’m actually kinda concerned.

Yep. That’s why I personally think it’s dumb to try and argue for the dissolution of Israel at this point. It’s too late. All you can do at this point is damage control and to try and find an equitable solution to the Israel-Palestine problem that gives both groups the ability to self-govern.

It’d be like kicking all the Russians out of former USSR countries, or Chinese out of Tibet, or white people out of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Israel should be held accountable for what they’ve done to the Palestinians, but I also don’t think you can reasonably expect for everyone in Israel to pack up and leave at this point.

Because the Christian apocalypse requires the foundation of Israel. The Christian side is basically participating in an apocalypse cult, whether they realize it or not.

I speculate that the reason the GOP is so supportive of Trump is because they believe he’s the literal Antichrist and they think that getting him reelected will bring about the end of days. I don’t have the link on me (though someone else might), but I remember reading an article by a Christian scholar or something about how Trump nailed every possible prophecy about the Antichrist that he could, either in a literal or metaphorical sense, during his presidency. Now, I personally thought some of them were stretching it, but it was still a bit freaky and made me consider the possibility that the GOP actually believes something like that.

The funny/sad part is that if they truly are correct (I highly doubt it, but ehhh…), then that means they’ll be fucked alongside Trump due to their support of him. As far as I can remember, the Bible doesn’t give amnesty to the Antichrist’s supporters just because they believed they were “helping god”; if anything I think I remember the Bible saying the opposite (don’t try and force God’s hand or you’ll eventually face his wrath).

(No, I’m not a Christian, but I still find it fascinating and mildly concerning)

I couldn’t find the original UN article which is why I was referencing the FEE one. Also, while I quoted the bit about “empowered intellectuals” I assumed that was pro-capitalist cynicism towards education and community due to the heavily pro-capitalist slant in the rest of the FEE article. I kinda figured everyone else picked up on that too.

Thanks for the link! I’ll have to read the original in a bit.

It sounds like he just doesn’t find it funny, which is why he doesn’t want to call it satire.

Y’all should actually read the article because it seems like it’s saying something completely different from what OP is trying to make it sound like. Basically, if I understood correctly, Kent was being critical of the idea that market-led solutions (i.e. capitalism fixes hunger) are better than community-driven solutions. He was also saying that hunger is part of capitalism, and you’ll never get rid of hunger while capitalism exists, because capitalism needs to withhold resources to force people to work.

This paragraph seems to sum up the article pretty well:

In Kent’s view, one gathers, global hunger is not a complex problem that is being addressed by free market capitalism; it’s a moral one that requires empowering intellectuals like Kent to solve it.

I was talking more generally about the “younger generation” heh. I was happy to hear that she actually listens to them!

Like, I try not to judge people for their tastes in music; I’m kinda at the point where I’ll listen to anything I find enjoyable. There are genres, themes, etc that’ll increase the chances of me enjoying it, but I just kinda listen to whatever sounds good.

Hell, I unironically think that Super Ghostbusters, a shitty parody album made by a swedish twitch streamer that contains something like 25 variations (plus 10ish remixes that were recently added) of the same terrible Ghostbusters midi with Joel (aka Vargskelethor) babbling about a bunch of different reasons to call the Ghostbusters, is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. The joke isn’t even that funny, except he drives it into the ground until it comes out the other side and becomes funny again. It’s garbage music, but if you have the same shitty sense of humor as Joel, then it’s hilarious; especially considering it’s backstory (Joel’s internet went out for a week, and being a musician and twitch streamer who relies on the Internet for both, slowly went insane from boredom and made the album to try and keep himself busy).

(I do like good music too though, imo Devin Townsend’s Ziltoid the Omniscient is one of the best albums of all time).

I just feel kinda strongly about not wearing band shirts if you don’t know who the band is heh.

Maybe all modern pop music, but there’s still a lot of good stuff out there. King Gizzard and Shpongle immediately jump to mind as being pretty unique.

I’m looking forward to the day when pop music becomes so heavily manufactured that the music industry ends up killing itself by boring it’s consumers to tears. I’d be willing to bet that if the music industry collapsed then we’d have a year or two without any major releases, and then we’d suddenly have a tidal wave of some of the most unique music anyone’s heard in a long time.

As long as they aren’t doing the thing a lot of millennials did, aka wear popular band shirts without any clue who the band was.

Before someone gets mad, I am a millennial. I saw this happen a lot growing up, and it was especially common with Nirvana shirts for some reason (I’m guessing hot topic stocked a lot of Nirvana shirts or something). It absolutely drove me up the wall.

Hell, in general, don’t wear a shirt, badge, wristband or whatever if you don’t know what it’s saying; for all you know it could be secretly heiling Hitler and now you’re an unwitting Nazi magnet.

The real question is, is there anything outside your brain that is affecting your decisions. Otherwise, congratulations! You have free will!

Well, yes. We are a collection of inputs and outputs. We cease to be in a vacuum. I can’t find the study, but I’m almost certain I remember reading about an experiment where scientists removed a rat brain and studied what happened when they gave it everything it needed except external stimuli. They found the brain atrophied and eventually just stopped. That doesn’t mean the same would happen to humans, but it suggests that external stimuli are necessary for consciousness.

Our lives appear to be a chain of cause and effect impacted by our surroundings. Any prediction or anticipation we do is in response to external stimuli priming us to expect some form of action or inaction to occur.

To try and put it another way, your response was predetermined, as is mine. The text on the screen released photons in a pattern my brain could recognize, which were then focused by my cornea and projected onto my retina. Those photons were translated into a mix of chemical and electrical impulses that traveled up my optic nerves and into my brain. From there, they were filtered through a highly complex series of algorithms that used things like prior experience and personality to decide whether or not I should respond, and if so, how I should do it. At no point in this did I actually get to choose, everything was cause and effect with my choice being an illusion.

This isn’t some grand conspiracy theory about lizard men hijacking your brainwaves; it’s just simple cause and effect. You responded the way you did because deep inside your brain, you decided that what you wrote was the best way to respond based on prior experience, and so you did. The same is true for me.

I mean, it’s pretty obvious free will is an illusion if you stop and think about how the universe functions. If everything is governed by physics, then why would we be special? In order for “true” free will to exist, it is necessary to exist outside the realm of physics in order to make decisions without said decisions being affected by the chemical and electrical signals in your brain. You have to be able to make choices that won’t be influenced by the physical world, which, afaik, there is no evidence for.

However, even from a philosophical standpoint: if we rewound time to the last major choice you made, so that you could make it all over again, would you do anything different?

Keep in mind that we rewound time and you don’t have any new knowledge that you acquired after originally making the choice.

Personally, I can’t see a reason why I’d make any other choice. As such, that seems like a much larger existential crisis in the same vein that you should be concerned with.

Do it at night when people are going to bed. Send out a message to get people to check their pagers, then detonate them. There’s still a chance of collateral, but it’d be significantly lower than detonating them when people will be out in public at the cost of what I imagine would be a slightly lower chance of hitting targets.

Hezbollah uses pagers for communication. Israel intercepted shipments of pagers and rigged them with bombs. Then, an unspecified amount of time later, Israel detonated them during the day, yanno, when people would be out and about in public places. Thousands of bombs went off across Lebanon and killed and injured children, elderly people, and adults.

Of course, mainstream media is trying to pretend that Israel didn’t potentially commit what should be considered a warcrime while assholes on social media are spinning this as a masterfully precise and accurate strike that didn’t have a considerable amount of collateral (I’ve literally seen someone say “only people with something to hide would be around a pager in this day and age” verbatim), and that anyone injured or killed was a member of Hezbollah.

Like, what if one of those had been on a plane when it went off?

When ISIS plants bombs on people and detonates them in public places then it’s a bad thing. Israel does it and everyone stands, claps and tips everyone with $100% bills.

Edit: I honestly wonder if it’s only a matter of time before some IDF or Mossad shithead hijacks a plane and flies it into the Burj Khalifa.

There are still companies that make physical copies, but typically it’s in limited quantities and sadly I’ve found that most of them (especially one of the big ones, LRG) can be pretty scummy. I think the only two I’ve found that are worth buying stuff from are iam8bit and fangamer.

Meh, give it another 10yrs and Wii games will be selling at the original prices. Rip game/vintage computer collecting. You were a fun and inexpensive hobby until the rich assholes got to it.

I think it’s a boomer, wife/husband bad kinda comic.

Why are her cheek bones partially blocking her eyes? Do they have a heads-up display on them or something?

The binding of Isaac has shit ton of them.

Do old build-engine shooters like Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, etc count?

Sapienza, Italy in Hitman has outfits for red and green plumbers.

Sam and Max has references to all kinds of things.

Hypnospace Outlaw has a ton of references to pre-y2k pop culture.

Power Wash simulator has a number of official crossovers with IPs like SpongeBob, Warhammer, Laura Croft, Final Fantasy VII, etc. (oh shit I just checked and there’s a Shrek one coming out soon).

No, no let them cook. Let’s see where they’re going with this.

Edit: aside from into the world trade center