Yggstyle

That’s kind of my point - just based on the reception it’s clear that a number of people were perceiving that as one. Normally that’s the “pump the brakes” or the “hol up 🖐️🖐️” moment where you clarify.

I’ll be honest - you weren’t really presenting your case in that way. Understand my confusion: you seemed pretty adamant about your concern with no backing data on it. Most people pick their hills with something to back them.

Every 10,000 miles. Or after you hit 40. Before putting it on?

Shit. I know this one… uh…

You aren’t terribly familiar with how much traffic we generate nowadays… are you? If we were still on 2G and isdn / dsl sure. You’d likely see a slight latency jump. On anything from this last decade+ ? Not a chance.

For those unaware: this article is at best suggesting people should cast aside doubt and keep spending like good little drones… and at worst imply that home prices aren’t in a bubble (they are) and the job market is stable when the economy contracts (it isn’t.) If one were to fully extract what is being asked: you have home equity and a job? Leverage that to the tits.

What could go wrong? Surely history has never seen record debt leveraging the bubble pricing of homes (or other assets) for speculation purposes … never ever.

If the article was written by a human they should be beaten for suggesting such an asinine thing. If it was generated the editor should be beaten instead. That isn’t a fluff piece or financial advice: it’s worse. It’s a crafted half-lie to prey on human emotion. Why? To bilk just one more retail investor into carrying some bags a fund is offloading.

Fuck me. That article is infuriating.

So am I.

preface: next bit will be cold and kind of awful but probable… It doesn’t thrill me but again, reality likely won’t (shouldn’t) surprise anyone.

The event will be out of the public eye and forgotten for the next new hot tragedy that social media is pushing. Assuming schools allow any form of protests at all by then - a new wave of kids will be all grown up and looking to make their mark on society… Our current events will be, at best, a footnote reference.

For example: what ever did happen to those Uyghurs…? (~10 years ago)

For a change to happen it would need to be happening now. For it to be meaningful: it would require other countries to physically step in to do something about it. They aren’t. Yes the American government is providing basically satan with a blank check and infinite ammo (I’ve not checked to see if he said thank you.) But those shipments aren’t being teleported there. Other countries could absolutely act to stop this… but it would require becoming involved. (see my “just don’t want trouble” statement above)

In the end: it’s probable that Israel will succeed in effectively wiping out a large swath of the population and we will see yet another generation of children who will seek retribution through acts of terror … and feel justified in doing so. The cycle continues.

It is unthinkable what is going on there. It’s unthinkable what has occurred in past genocide’s. It’s uncomfortable and ugly and painful. So we tuck it away as something bad which we acknowledge… but only just enough to differentiate ourselves from ‘those monsters’ and let the moment pass. Do we deeply document our own wrongdoings and painful memories? Do we teach and discuss how to prevent such terrible things? Rarely. Because it’s uncomfortable. And so history repeats.

Also referred to formally as that bitch.

… th … the Palestinians man.

I can’t imagine someone finding out their government killed thousands of people just being okay with that.

Unfortunately, this is reality… and reality kinda sucks.

Pick a country. They probably participated in a genocide at some point. Here’s a question: if your country willingly participated in the elimination of a group of people … you going to be in a hurry to try to stop them?

Very few people do.

Reality is most will avoid the conflict as it doesn’t directly effect them … and “they don’t want any trouble.” You needn’t look far or very hard to find out how quickly being a dissenting voice can become collateral damage.

Now I need to be clear: I’m not saying fall in line and keep your head down… but I’m also not so foolish as to think that history will fondly remember the names of those who didn’t.

You seem confused. In 10 to 20 years those who might be questioned about such an event will have only, at best, a passing knowledge of Palestine or any other Middle Eastern historical events. It won’t be taught in schools. Those who seek out such historical knowledge will find a scarce few sources… with likely either deeply softened facts or “non credible” origins.

You’d be hard pressed to find an American student today that could detail much, if any, history involving the native Americans who happen to still exist and continue to live amongst them. History is written, in blood, by the victor… and unfortunately: genocide’s “feature” is that it typically eliminates the wronged party who would draw attention to its existence.

The one that was convinced that wrestling was real. There’s one of those right?

Anyone know how to turn the US off and on again to verify we can roll back? I wanna say we might have some corrupted sectors…

I can feel that picture - complete with bottle cap landmines from my roommate who was a treat to live with.

I have this questionable material for use in my honey traps.

Got em.

Calling player 2…

To be fair a certain security company was in global news for exactly that same send it behavior. Why waste precious resources on multiple instances? Investors hate waste. 😅

“Oh yeah, already did man! And not to toot my own horn (again) but I gotta say…”

missed opportunity to be Uber eatssssssss.