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    1. Rare_Station_8440 on

      Netanyahu has extracted virtually all the political and military support he could from the United States and the broader West.

      How this ultimately plays out remains uncertain, and he may not be in office, or even alive, when the long-term consequences come due.

      Still, under his leadership, Israel has achieved substantial political and military gains.

      If Trump gets rid of the Iranian regime and the “Gaza Board of Peace” renders Hamas impotent, then I’d imagine Netanyahu’s legacy will be viewed much more favorably within Israel if the country still exists for the rest of this century (definitely not in the world, he’ll be remembered as a genocidal war criminal lol).

    4. Currymvp2 on

      >President Donald Trump alleged on Friday night that the criticisms lobbed against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are sexist in nature.

      I could be wrong but I really don’t think this is why

    12. Nihas0 on

      Release of the Epstein Files is the ultimate victory of conspirationalism over critical thinking and scepticism. The government was forced into releasing case files because of a conspiracy theory that deepstate murdered Epstein, and now people from all sides of the political spectrum are treating every rumour, gossip, accusation, anonymous tip and joke found in the files as “confirmed by the government”.

      It’s politically bad for Trump, though, so at least there’s that.

    15. Czech_Thy_Privilege on

      Some of the most horrific shit I’ve seen on the internet was from 4Chan and some of the funniest shit I’ve seen on the internet was from 4Chan lmao

    21. badusername35 on

      Whether it be Republicans raping children or Democrats not raping children, both parties are having serious problems connecting with the youth

    23. shillingbut4me on

      Netenyahu has to some extent bet his countries future on the idea that this exact type of populist right wing politician will rule the US for decades. Maybe he’s right, but it’s not a bet I would make

    27. randommathaccount on

      Also I really can’t bully people for being on 4chan when I was on lesswrong around the same time

    30. assasstits on

      https://preview.redd.it/3alvhpw2wmgg1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=1bdd880e7ab4f962116af61ac02f00c8b9437672

      Holy shit. Imagine 80% of your (very high) property taxes going straight into pensions and only 20% of the remaining into schools and roads.

      It’s genuinely shocking how bad some Democratic states are at running basic budgets.

      Illinois also has a constitutionally guaranteed 3% “cost of living” adjustment of 3% on pensions every year (UK’s triple lock is 2.5% for reference). I can’t imagine how the entire state isn’t headed for fiscal disaster in the next decade.

    33. Individual-Camera698 on

      The last dt got all the uncs posting nostalgia-slop. Hopefully this one turns out better.

    36. CucumberGullible1281 on

      They used to put Rollercoaster Tycoon in cereal boxes, for fuck’s sakes

      I’m genuinely angry right now, we have lost our way as a species

    38. AlicesReflexion on

      Just played Adam Cadre’s *Photopia*

      I feel like as far as video game genres go, interactive fiction has always been a blind spot of mine. My understanding was that this was quite short, linear, and didn’t do any complex stuff with puzzles, making it a good introduction to the genre rather than something like *Zork*.

      Apparently it’s inspired by *The Sweet Hereafter*, which surprisingly, I’d already seen before this. You can, uh……… tell.

      I’ll be honest, I found it neither super emotionally moving, nor were the themes super deep and compelling.

      It’s presented as a series of short vignettes, and at first it’s kind of unclear how exactly they’re related. >!At first, you realize there’s the IRL perspectives. Super grounded, and each centered around a middle school girl named Alley. A conversation she has with her father. A boy who has a crush on her. A couple asking her to babysit. But there’s also ones that don’t seem to have any relation. An epic space-faring adventure about a winged protagonist, tasked with recovering some wreckage from an abandoned spacecraft. And also a story about some drunk idiots driving around.!<

      >!As you reach the conclusion to the space story, it pulls the grand reveal: This was a bedtime story Alley was recalling for the kid she was babysitting. You realize also, that story in the back of your mind, the drunk driving thing, is also probably related. She’s going to die.!<

      >!You’re kind of left to dwell on the implication of this character’s death. It’s not a big dramatic tragedy. It’s an unceremonious pointless snuffing out. You don’t get to see any characters grieving, you just know that from here on out their lives will be emptier.!<

      >!The final scene is some pretty hamfisted imagery where you see a bunch of separate colored lights, red, green, blue, merging together to form yellows and cyans and finally pure white bc, ykno, one person isn’t just that one person, they’re the impact they have on all the people around them.!< Bleh.

      I do think there’s interesting parts to it. There’s an interplay between the very strict linearity of the IRL segments and the more open-ended nature of the fantastical parts. >!It makes sense, the IRL stuff happened exactly one specific way and there’s a specific outcome. Whereas playing make-believe with a little kid, of course they’d be like “wait no that’s not what I would do!!!” and then you make up stuff on the spot to accommodate that. You also see at the end of like every other sentence, a definition of one of the words in the sentence (a “definition” is what a word means) and it makes you go “huh? What’s that about?” It’s a solid bit of foreshadowing.!< But those little bits of playfulness with the form, I don’t think they’re enough to carry an otherwise bland story.

      !ping GAMING

    45. MyrinVonBryhana on

      I got real lucky this EU4 game, I started as Naples and like 30 years in got a free PU over Castile, which meant I got half the new world colonized for free by the time I finally annexed them in the early 1600s. The Ottomans have now gotten all their disasters and are collapsing and with all of Iberia secured, Italy united, Illyria and Greece under control and really only France and the Mamluks left to oppose me it should be fairly easy to form Rome and get Mare Nostrum. Avanti Italia!

    46. sicstephen on

      Well, that was fun. Anyways, nostalgia is a pernicious cancer that will slowly devour humanity.

    48. No1PaulKeatingfan on

      > You lose followers after posting an instagram story? That’s fucked

      Thank you. Someone understands my struggles now

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