[-] osarusan@kbin.social 44 points 11 months ago

Those were the really fun days of the internet.

When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you'd actually discover things.

Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 38 points 11 months ago

'Most of us don't have wealth'

God damn it, he's so close.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

Liberal use of the block feature has made the Fediverse so much more pleasant. I can't recommend it enough!

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

illegally

The problem is that they're doing it legally.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately you're right, it doesn't say a whole lot.

While Hamas may appear to have fulfilled its declared short-term goals of deterring Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque and taking hostages to bargain for the release of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails, it does not appear to have a long-term end game.

and later

Three days into Hamas’s surprising and overwhelming attack, it is not clear what its end game is and what it can do to reap long-term benefits. Its priority has seemed to be to take both military and civilian hostages to help deter aggressive Israeli retaliation and later exchange them for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Which contradicts the idea in the OP article stating about Hamas' "demands."

The closet thing I could find was this:

The Hamas leadership has said that the objectives of the attacks are ending “Israeli violations”, securing the release of Palestinian prisoners, and “returning to the project of establishing a state”.

Which are certainly objectives, but not specific enough to be demands.

Searching for "hamas' list of demands" online, there are several articles similar to the one above that reference it, but no list of demands that I can see. The closest things I can find are the 1988 and 2017 Hamas charters, which aren't particularly specific other than the original one calls for the eradication of Israel and the Jews, and the revised one just calls for the eradication of Israel... which isn't exactly a demand as much as an aspiration, and is kind of a moot point because it doesn't seem like something that would be accepted by Israel.

So I'm still looking for an actual list of demands...

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

Is there an actual published list of demands somewhere that is cite-able?

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

So... you want the job to get done, but you don't want anyone to be happy that the job got done?

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

I suffered through the awkward feeling of telling Gale off

This happens in real life too, though.

And the dialog gives you the options to turn him down, just like in real like you'd have a "dialog option" to turn down a gay person who hits on you. And in real life, it's awkward just like it is in game.

All sorts of uncomfortable things happen in the game. Friends die. Children get murdered. Girls get kidnapped and used as baby incubators. Gnomes are forced into slavery. A hobgoblin fucks a ogre in a barn. As much as people don't want to experience those things in real life, you don't see mods deleting them. Yet people can't seem to figure out that making a special case for the gayness is quite actually gay erasure. They're fine with countless uncomfortable things, buy a bisexual character giving them eyes is too icky to handle??

People need to grow up and stop making excuses for homophobia that they wouldn't make for anything else.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

"And I'm the one to deliver it!"

Why is it that everyone who thinks their god wants to punish someone takes it upon themselves to do the punishing? Is god so fucking weak that he wants to punish us, but can't do it himself? If god wants to punish us, let him do it and Mike Johnson can stay the fuck out of it.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Real Putin energy here.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

One party says it was spontaneous consent and the other party said it was not, so how do we as the internet observer what it truly was?

You are a clown.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. Cause it would have been perfectly OK if he carved his name into, say, something at Disney World, or a stranger's house, since those are newer structures...

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