Yeah I’m gonna keep on posting Jacobin pieces, they have always published shitty pieces, but they are one of the only leftist English speaking publications in general, personally I have disliked the writing of the author of the piece you are referring too for years, Marketic has always been a huge Russia didn’t do anything wrong kind of guy in regards to Ukraine.

This is cool for most people, but if you’re doing anything even remotely not liked by the state, they will probably use you owning this as evidence you are a criminal. People in Europe were already getting profiled for having pixel phones by the police bc of Graphene OS.

I’m sure it has been used at times by uncool people, but dragon flag goes hard

Kiss your privacy goodbye when someone with these on looks at you if you’re not wearing a mask, you’ve just been geolocated.

Also as soon as Apple copies this you are going to see them everywhere in the West, the only thing holding it back now is no one cares about a Meta product.

I think you are completely off base

“reportedly” refers to

On Tuesday, Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that Netanyahu is expected to propose the plan to his cabinet soon.

emphasizing it is not from an Israeli government source, but from a newspaper (something that has been reported on, thus using the word reportedly)

“planning to annex” refers to the official act of annexation which is different than the status quo, even though status is genocide, a formal annexation is meaningfully different than what has been going on and this is explained in the article itself.

I don’t think anyone had any expectation they would given the past few years.

Some RT headlines are so melodramatic, I’m sure they do it for engagement reasons, but still.

The headline could easily be

Why did Albanese refuse to reassure that Australia would assist America militarily in war over Taiwan.

c/nottheonion

Arab-Israeli

*Palestinian

Arab-Israeli

*Palestinian

You could make that argument, but I think it’s important to note how these positions are chosen because it is a relatively unique and most countries don’t appoint government positions on a sect basis. Off the top of my head Singapore also does this and its convention to do this in Nigeria, but there are probably more examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact

For anyone not familiar with how positions in Lebanon are traditionally chosen

Key points of the agreement stipulate that:

Lebanese Christians do not seek Western intervention, and accept that Lebanon had Arab features.

Lebanese Muslims abandon their aspirations to unite with Syria and the Arab World.

The President of the Republic and the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces must be Maronite Catholic.

The Prime Minister of the Republic must be a Sunni Muslim.

The Speaker of the Parliament must be a Shia Muslim.

The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and the Deputy Prime Minister must be Greek Orthodox Christian.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces must be a Druze.

There must be a ratio of 6:5 in favour of Christians to Muslims (and Druze) in the Lebanese Parliament.

good

I think the democrats would almost certainly rather lose an election than sell out Bill Clinton.

Bless your heart

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Caveat I have not hosted a lemmy instance but check this out

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html

there is also other methods listed, but docker compose tends to be pretty simple for hosting, hope it helps.

I eat a plant based diet and it is definitely not more expensive, but in a utopian society that didn’t give massive subsidies to big meat and big dairy, it would be a lot cheaper. The fact that soy milk is more expensive than regular milk boggles the mind. The cows are eating the soybeans, but liquid made from the soybean directly is somehow more expensive than milk from a cow.