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The slight problem here is that the war was started by Netenyahu, whom US voters are unable to remove. But yes, I doubt Harris would have gone for the decapitation strike that destabilized everything.
Is Netanyahu now an official representative of the american government?
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I was recently massively downvoted on Reddit because I mentioned I didn’t really care about candidates stances either way on Israel/Palestine as it regards to a city-level election. I certainly have opinions and understand why folks have principles either way, but we can’t make every issue the issue we spend our energy on, and this doesn’t meet the bar for me for a city official. Sometimes online and election media d…
theres some reason to care - non-federal entities still make and enforce anti-bds laws, and put support for israel into contracts for working with them. if you want to be able to have say, cheaper government, you need to be elect local officials on the palestine side, so that folks other than just the pro-israel ones can bid
But a company boycotting others for political/religious agendas is not going to be able to provide the cheapest/best service, it’s therefore not optimal to go with companies that practice BDS.
> Long before smartphones or even the printing press, our cognitive architecture was shaped by a single problem: stay alive long enough to reproduce. Our ancestors whose attention drifted past the rustle in the grass left fewer descendants than those who froze, looked and listened. We're having too much of these look back to hunter-gatherer state of affairs to explain modern phenomenons. It feels like they didn't rea…
Negativity drives online news consumption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197587 - March 2023 (355 comments)
You can just ignore it. Nothing changes as a result of being "informed."
The current high gas prices are the direct results of people not being informed two years ago.
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Your first paragraph sounds like a religion.
As an autistic person this has never made sense, the things people are willing to do in order to fit into a group, like at it's extreme murdering others. After becoming aware of my diagnosis I've started studying "normal" people and it's insane what you are willing to withstand just to belong to a group or in society. Now I think that some things "normal" people participate in they think is actually fun, like hanging…
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Buying electric cars, installing solar, and switching to heat pumps are one of the few things you can materially do to screw the powers that be. The the other one is limiting your family size.
Limiting your family size is a lazy, short term solution. Having a bigger family and teaching them the right values is a much stronger and long term approach.
In my opinion it's a way to justify your own (perfectly fine) selfish desire to have a child.
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No, it doesn't. Your contribution is statistically insignificant. It was purely a symbolic gesture.
Even so, an electric car is not particularly good for the environment. Bicycles and public transportation.