Two sticks you can rub together.

Yes.

Like Russia does?

Israel and Russia remain close geopolitical allies.

Basically what the French did to Haiti, several centuries ago. Kill off all the native peoples and bring in a slave population to handle the manual labor.

insert dubiously sourced anecdote by anonymous IDF officer

handing my friend a screwdriver

“You can use this for simple crafts and home repairs”

Me, backing away from the screwdriver in terror

“Nice try, but I know what that is. They use that thing to build the Space Shuttle.”

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning

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If Israel didn’t exist they’d have to create one to serve US interests in the region.

Real Biden heads know this

They’ll threaten anything they can to placate a genocidal apartheid state.

Hey now, not just any genocidal apartheid state. They’re not doing this shit for China or Iran or Russia.

Israel isn’t just a bunch of evil fucks. They’re the gun pointed at the head of the Egyptian government, for the purpose of controlling the Suez Canal. They’re the knife at the neck of Jordan and Lebanon and Kuwait, guaranteeing cheap oil continues to flow into the American economy. They’re a field testing ground for the next generation of brutal police and paramilitary tactics and weapons. The crowd disbursement weapons and surveillance tracking tools and social media misinformation campaigns used to break up knots of Palestinian resistance, hunt down dissidents for capture and killing, and to turn Arabs against one another today will be the same ones unleashed at the next OWS or Ferguson protest or Trucker Rally tomorrow.

And then there’s the sheer volume of money laundering. Now that Switzerland and the Bahamas and Panama have all been staked out, Israel is such a great place to move your money whether you’re an international arms dealer or you’re just looking to hide cash from the IRS.

Israel serves so many different geopolitical interests for wealthy western plutocrats. What’s a little ethnic cleansing in exchange for all of that?

It’s a very “dumb” implementation of a generally useful feature. Browsers don’t keep track of how many times you’re redirected to the same site or try to consolidate the back-button list accordingly, but they certainly could. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a plugin to this effect.

I can’t go in get a cup and fill it with water to have a drink while I shop anymore.

You can if you’re ballsy enough.

There was an abstract conceptual theory of system agnostic game add-ons. It isn’t… completely inconceivable.

You could work with a relatively prolific engine, like Unreal, and set up a standard character model dummy with designated hard points for attaching accessories and certain default movements. Then any accessory could simply scale to the environment - Master Chef could swing a keyblade while the Elden Ring guy gets to wear Iron Man armor, because these are all “human” models with well-defined structures that could map to the associated equipment. The blockchain becomes a universal registry for these assets that a platform can read from to render the art.

The problem is that nobody ever actually implemented this universal protocol. They all just ran off making jpegs of weird animals and running fake auctions to create the illusion of a secondary market. You had zetabytes of data being processed so some Baked Alaskahole could claim his Kumming Koala was worth $40M.

I don’t even strictly begrudge “the blockchain” as an idea for licensing and data storage (just please don’t ask me to think about who is generating the licenses or storing the data). But it was all vaporware. None of it was anywhere close to being created, much less delivered. People were throwing billions with a b of dollars at entirely empty promises.

Why, Linux?! It is said that you would destroy the Blockchain, not join it!

The media will eat this up. They love their John McCain warmongering and Mitt Romney deficit scalding. And they adore bipartisanship, particularly when it becomes an excuse to have Democrats in the White House signing Republican legislation.

The liberals will fawn all over Harris for bringing in more Republicans to Beat Trump. Winning the election is all that really matters. Policy is a distant secondary concern.

Was this the cargo plane that tacked through the edge of the perimeter?

Or are you talking about some unreported plane that buzzed the Shinjuko tower?

China when someone does a thing it does for years

Wait, when was the last time a Chinese naval frigate circled Okanawa?

This is basically what Subreddit Simulator did for years.

I find it very funny to think of how aggressively Reddit was banning people, particularly back in 2016. And how algorithmic they got in censoring and shadowbanning certain comments and accounts.

But now that real human interactions are more valuable than gold, they’re trying to reverse it all again.

Wonder which western business he’ll end up as a highly paid consultant for.

It is a fact that USB-C is superior.

The floating tang in the center of the USB-C receiver is a classic “planned obsolescence” design feature. Its built to fail and force you to buy a new device.