ansiz

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[–] ansiz 26 points 1 year ago

You're fooling yourself if you think the Israeli military actually knows where Hamas is and is target bombing. If they knew where Hamas bomb factories and the like were, then they would have bombed them before the attack. Israel is just bombing random targets. Like apparently several thousand strikes, some serious WW2 level bombardment. Seems much more likely such factories would be underground.

You're falling into the trap of thinking Israel has some kind of legendary intelligence force when the attack showed they were only fooling themselves.

The intense bombing is just to drive away the population and empty out the area so the Israeli military can go in with ground forces without taking a lot of casualties. They won't go in on the ground unless a majority of people leave the area. Urban fighting with high rise buildings is a guarantee for mass casualties on the attacking force. The Israeli military is mostly reservists, so a lot of people with minimal combat experience and mostly did checkpoint duties in their active time in the IDF.

[–] ansiz 61 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I live in the southern USA, evangelical folks in my area are fully onboard with Israel support. Facebook links constantly, sign boards in front of churches, those annoying free newspapers they publish and leave in the driveway.

It's all anti Muslim and some really creepy genocide talk.

[–] ansiz 16 points 1 year ago

Work from home has made the staring at Excel thing much nicer than it was in the past. I'm in an IT role with no on call duties and I can wander around my house while on Zoom calls and no one notices. I can stream videos or podcasts on my home PC while doing my job. I consider myself pretty lucky.

[–] ansiz 5 points 1 year ago

That is great! I'd love a full set of mods to run through DD like that!

[–] ansiz 11 points 1 year ago

I take this as a good sign that the data tracking market is growing stale. Like what value can tracking my viewing habits provide anyone, other than Roku, that the streaming platforms aren't already doing on their own? It's straight double dipping.

[–] ansiz 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

More than anything I just hope this could get the US term limits. If an older person gets elected so be it, but let's get rid of people serving in Congress for 20+ years. Two terms Senate, two House gets you twenty years, that is long enough and follows the existing model with the Presidency.

[–] ansiz 19 points 1 year ago

Granted my company is much, much smaller but they have leaned into work from home. They didn't renew the office lease on our larger space and instead just moved to a small we work space for a few folks that like to work in the office. The CEO actually loves it because it saves the company a ton in rent/leasing.

But Meta is probably just trying to triage folks without having to pay severance or unemployment.

[–] ansiz 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's so annoying to hear certain folks acting like all the problems in America come from this Thunderdome type situation at the boarder with Mexico. And never do they have any recommendation that doesn't involve hurting people or invading Mexico out other ridiculous things. Just the other day I heard someone talking about all the Chinese people coming across the Mexico boarder and how they were actually spies for China. Fifteen years ago they were Muslims and terrorists.

[–] ansiz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't Thatcher say that Cameron was her priest achievement? I'm sure she had something to do with it.

[–] ansiz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least in the USA the bigger challenge seem to be the energy company's really fighting back against residential solar. California is facing some serious changes, I don't think net metering is even an option in just municipal areas even more. I've heard around San Francisco they are going to start hitting folks with big grid connection fees every month.

In my area of North Carolina it's the same thing, with the power company doing everything it can to make switching to solar less and less worth it. Just the cost of the panels are enough to do that for most people!

[–] ansiz 2 points 1 year ago

I just hope they release an actual playable demo, even if it's just a real short one. Just like a tidal island or twilight stand size area.

[–] ansiz 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I definitely agree. The hoarder house part of that show is the main thing that made it interesting, even if most of the flippers were annoying. Seeing the before and after state of a house after a long-term hoarder lived there was amazing.

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