A process where people were meaningfully enfranchised wouldn’t need to rely on something so abstract as votes.

how is this one supposed to work? Just curious, since voting seems to be the only real method of direct representation, unless you’re suggesting a global at will military force, which, would be a thing.

june of 1832, i wonder what kind of goofy shit happened that month.

brother AI is a solution to “solve all of your business problems with your business and elevate your business to a level above all other businesses” are you unironically reading marketing speak this straight?

wait ok, i’m confused why do we hate the US government? Is it because it’s doing global geopolitics shit? Like what’s the motive for caring about this, as opposed to like, stopping world hunger.

Like the motive for the latter is obvious, but i don’t really see the motive for the former. It just seems like yelling at a vast brick wall for no reason.

My partner and I have never been on Twitter, which I think is a good thing in retrospect hahahaha

i was on twitter pre elon, it was still bad, but now the only thing that shows up in my timeline is religious posting, i don’t know if furries even use twitter anymore lmao.

It’s so much worse now, but i had to make an account to see a stupid tweet just to verify that it was real. I love the internet.

We also mostly stay within our immediate friend group, so I definitely am with you there. If we were more extroverted, we would have maybe met more people. But there was a single, very themed furry that we noticed

it tends to be like doesn’t it. I imagine that neurotic people have a sort of “neurosis radar” i have a weirdly eerie ability to pick out the weird people in a room full of people. It’s good fun though, i like talking to weird people, they have a lot more interesting things to say than normies do lol.

And was an incredibly cool person. And demolished my partner at beer pong like four times.

he was just gaming you the entire time lol.

ugly people aren’t allowed to make music anymore?

well fuck me then.

50 bucks is cheap compared to destroying the bed of your truck, and spending thousands on material

it turns out it’s a lot harder if you don’t care from the get go. Asexual representation goes hard.

We made one single friend lawl

that’s nice, im sure i would also, but i just don’t really enjoy socializing much outside of an immediate group of people that know me.

Everyone was sooooo friendly though.

that’s the furry community when they weren’t busy yelling at people over twitter for something probably pretty stupid lol.

I will go again despite being insanely introverted.

hopefully you have a good time next time, best of luck!

not much, more emojis, more stickers, more file upload, more text characters in your messages, funny reactions, nothing exciting really.

Nitro sucks with how aggressive it’s advertising is, but aside from that, it’s mostly benign.

the alternative: reasonable offerings and decent service

“no it couldn’t be this, it must be ads”

this post is 100% right, anyway stop buying phones, you don’t need them.

I wish to go even further.

bro who the fuck is google paying to do cloud compute for them? Google cloud??

that’s definitely one of the solutions

To receive messages through an underdeveloped telecommunications infrastructure.

obviously. It seems more akin to hamas than like, the green party in the US for example though. I wouldn’t be surprised if the primary purpose of the pagers was for military communications. I would expect any sort of political meetings to be done through a scheduled period, i could see notifications going out for these things. But that’s about it.

also, from what i’ve heard, they had phones previously, and recently got rid of them for the usage of these pagers, since the phones were probably bugged, with israeli intelligence anyway.

Well, if you feel that way, I guess the mass murder was fine.

also i’m not sure this semantically counts as a “mass murder” usually those are done directly by an individual, on a group of people immediately in front of them. Maybe it could apply to this, but that seems like a stretch, especially considering this killed like 50 people total, which is a lot, but considering the amount of injuries and spicy pagers, that’s not very effective.

Would the US pullout of afghan that killed like 13 members of the military also count as mass murder? That’s more than a few, and probably more collective than this event.

Not that weird, in the history of espionage. As another example, the CIA used a vaccine drive in Pakistan to target Osama bin Laden’s hideout.

“The program was ultimately unsuccessful. It led to the arrest of a participating physician, Shakil Afridi, and was widely ridiculed as undermining public health.”

hmm. Also it seems this was to check DNA from blood samples. So not really a good comparison here.

When your government believes neighboring ethnicities are “bug people” who need to be exterminated, collateral damage is viewed as a perk.

i mean that’s a potential reason, but these are also pagers meant for military communications purposes right? Why wouldn’t you want to target military personnel if you’re already gunning for one person. Besides these are probably more dangerous left unexploded than what currently happened. Imagine what would happen in 20 years when these make their way onto the second hand markets. You could very well accidentally kill innocent people then. You can still do it now, but since they’ve presumably all been deactivated, it’s probably not a huge concern.

There are definitely concerns over war crimes and shit, but unfortunately i’m not the ICC or ICJ so i can’t comment on that with authority.

so then why did they have pagers? I thought the pagers were specifically for millitant orders, or is the whole political party communicating in private via one way pagers?

i feel like if this were public service, this would be in confidence, in a building for example, rather than like this.

They were a shipment for general consumption that went to a dealer near the Iranian embassy.

yeah, that’s generally how products work. Even in the US military the government just walks up to a company and goes "can you make this? And if they say yes they pay them money, or times of war just go “hey i need you to make this”

the only difference here is that it’s not quite a formally established military, so it’s using off the shelf components and products, which is pretty common for these smaller groups.

although depending on the dealer, that dealer may have been the source of intrusion, so there’s that.

The target was the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, and virtually everyone else was just collateral damage.

targeting one specific guy through the most broad means possible seems, weird. I doubt this was a highly specific attack. It would be a very, very odd way to do it, but then again this conflict has been nothing but odd, so i can’t really put it past them lol.

Regardless, i doubt they solely intended to target that one guy. While everyone else is technically collateral, it’s probably considered to be beneficial to the cause. At least by israel.

yeah, pretty sure that’s how human life works.

you stare at a wall.

Try it next time.