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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • IMO a major reason that Israel is levelling Gaza is that it’s a one-sided conflict where Israelis are not getting killed. There are apparently 53 Israeli hostages right now, but more than 20,000 Gazans have been killed. There is some pressure to end the conflict, but not enough. If it were a war where Israelis were being killed too, it would end a lot quicker.

    I know the Iran / Israel conflict is a different one, but if enough Israelis stop supporting Netanyahu, both conflicts might end. Israeli civilians dying might be the only thing that will stop Netanyahu.







  • You search for “blah”, Google gives you a bunch of bad results, and serves up 5 ads. Nothing matches what you want, so you search again “blah but not foo” and you get another 5 ads. If search were good you’d only see 5 ads, but because it sucks you get 10 ads.

    If Google had real competitors, bad search results might mean people would give up and use a competitor’s search, but because they have a search monopoly, they can enshittify their results and show even more ads without losing users.










  • I can’t help but feel that sane countries have an officer’s badge number visible at all times and that it’s a fireable offence to hide it in any way.

    This isn’t something that someone should have to ask for, because there’s always a chance the officer might not comply. The officers you most need to get a badge number for are the ones who are going to try to hide it.

    I can understand in 2025 that telling someone your name is dangerous. That’s as true for cops as it would be for a barista, a bouncer or a librarian. People are psychos and doxxing is too easy. But, there’s no reason that the public shouldn’t know a permanent ID for a cop that could be used in lawsuits or criminal proceedings.