J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years

That’s the most 2025 sentence I’ve read so far! 😬

You’re both right.

Well that would be thousands, if not tens of thousands.

The IOF’s second favorite thing to do after killing Palestinians is “arresting” (read: abducting) them on spurious or nonexistent charges.

They should DEFINITELY release them all.

What exactly are Palestinians going to “continue” to do? Be slaughtered, starved, and otherwise eradicated by the colonialists?

Whether you intended it or not, saying “Israel and Palestine will continue” implies that there’s anything resembling an equivalence between the actions of the genocidal apartheid regime and those of Palestinians.

Yeah, in hindsight, I guess !orphancrushing@lemmy.world might have been a more fitting community to crosspost this to…

Gotta get some more green on that map! I’m thinking fascist-occupied Italy would be a great place to start, given what happened there almost exactly a century ago…

And the US and Russia, of course, but those are both almost too obvious to be worth mentioning and too entrenched to happen anywhere near as soon as we’d like…

Where Is My Mind by The Pixies starts playing

I’m not talking about Captain Ancap using the money. I’m talking about it and the peso purchases becoming worthless due to the dollar crashing.

So… What are these two idiots going to do in a few months to a year when the dollar finally crashes under the weight of all the tariffs and other monetary malpractice committed by the fascists?

In a fair system, sure

They’ll probably wait until the hostages are exchanged and return to annihilation

Probably won’t even wait that long.

While the broader population seem to genuinely consider the hostages extremely important, the decision makers in the government don’t care about them except as a convenient excuse for doing what they’ve always wanted to do.

the chronically unsarcastic

I was in a band of that name. Most of our songs were about how much we liked tennis and cycling

I’m with Kathy here

Don’t forget about the child slavery

I was about to say that they have the causality backwards but then I thought about it and realized that it’s both ways:

Racist demagogues complain about immigrants, which makes people more racist, which makes people more anti immigrant, which makes people more racist etc until everything is so fucked that fascists take over.

The only way to stop the process is to have highly influential politicians and journalists who are both ethically principled and at least as skilled at effective rhetoric as the fascist demagogues and their astroturfed echo chamber.

Which means that the US, Germany, the UK, India, Russia, Israel, and several other influential countries are COMPLETELY fucked right now.

Thank you! 🫶

Expected but appreciated wrt Ireland, pleasantly surprised about Spain ✊

Windows has gotten even WORSE lately. Even though I have Windows 10 set to not install or even download updates without asking, I sometimes get a pop-up saying “we are adding new features, please wait” out of nowhere 🤬

In related news, I’ve installed Zorin OS on my laptop and hope to one day use it on my desktop that I play pirated games on…

Speaking of, is there any way to change settings so that the login password can be just a short pin i stead of the strong-ish password demanded by default?

Since I never leave it unattended (and rarely even use it) in public I don’t really need the security against in-person unauthorized use and since I mostly use my laptop for streaming, typing a password every time I start up is a hassle I’d rather avoid…

The world should if they aren’t.