[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, I condemn all attacks against civilians. Hard to imagine, I'm sure, for someone who sees only one belligerent's citizens as human.

But I am pointing out the ludicrous misrepresentation of history that Hezbollah "started" any aspect of this conflict. Hezbollah was created in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon. Israel invaded Lebanon because the PLO was launching attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon. The PLO was in Lebanon and before that in Jordan because they were driven out of their native homeland and made refugees due to the colonization of Palestine.

There is no aspect of this conflict that does not tie directly back to the violent disappropriation and explusion of the Palestinian people from their land. The conflict is and has always been about theft of land and homes, which continues unabated through the present day.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

The "fight" started with the colonization of Palestine, the theft of indigenous land, and the expulsion of half the native populace. Naming a random date or event in the past couple of years as the "start" of this conflict is brazenly dishonest.

Every year, Israel expands its land seizures in occupied Palestine, but for some reason you don't count that as sustaining hostilities. Sounds an awful lot like you're willing to excuse Israeli terrorism while holding others to a different standard.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Now known as "And Then There Were None."

10 Little Indians was actually the second title for the book. The first one was worse.

Great mystery though.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I'd be faster without autocorrect than with. I feel like it chooses the wrong word more often than not.

Honestly, I miss the real keyboard from my 2009 Blackberry. No substitute for haptic feedback.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

There are a wide range of computer skills. Being able to interact with a word processor extremely efficiently is a highly valuable tech skill. Someone who knows about processor architecture but can't touch type is arguably more tech-savvy but also less useful in most office jobs. So I'd say that the secretaries were indeed tech-savvy in a way that was useful for their positions.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I knew the whole "sea people" thing was bunk. No one could ever even tell me where they came from.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

But have you tried mounting it on a drone?

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

That's the sad truth of it. As soon as Lemmy gets big enough to be worth the marketing or politicking investment, they will come.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Let's all laugh at an industry / that never learns anything, tee-hee-hee."

--Yahtzee Croshaw

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

In my opinion, the game runs out of steam about halfway through, so the issue may not be on your end.

It started really strong but it felt like a lot of the initial promise didn't pay off.

Still a decent game, maybe a 7/10. Just not as great as I hoped it would be after the first couple of hours.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Major thinker" is a stretch. He's more like the Malcolm Gladwell mom says we have at home.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm primarily a Civ 5 player and my issue is not with quick movement or quick combat (both on, of course) but the actual time to process enemy turns. It's a 14 year old game running on my absolute monster of a gaming PC, but it's still sluggish, especially with larger maps with more opponents. I can't imagine the Civ AI is that computationally intensive so I've never understood why it takes so long. I'd also like more customization options in cities so they auto-govern better in the late game, which is also a huge time suck especially when going dom.

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