Notices by Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social), page 5

@beadsland That's a kind of optimism that I don't think realistically exists on the ground; I think they know they have four more years they can keep on doing this, without batting an eye, no matter who in America wins the election cycle.

And it's in Bibi's best interest to keep this thing going as long as he humanly can, only slowing it down if he can get another conflict going.

@evan @pokeythepenguin It is her day and you don't get to take it away from her.

@SrRochardBunson Correction: How our local law enforcement and companies will use facial recognition in 5 years.

I agree with the #whitehouse on this one.

Hamas would need to kill at least 25000 more innocent Israeli women and children for there to be equivalence between what it did and what Israel did; oh, and they would need to grow Tel Aviv by about 4 times its natural population, and then starve it and thirst it for six months also. Also while eliminating all its civilian infrastructure.

https://info.nicic.gov/ces/global/population-demographics/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-earth

117 billion? Apply that to the natural attrition rate of fertilized eggs and you have a God that acts like a whale eating fertilized children like krill.

This #Sunday reflect how much #God hates unborn children, and praise #Jesus

We've got Biblical texts.

1. Numbers 5:11-31 Wherein God gives you a way to abort children you don't think are yours.

2. Samuel 15:2-3 Wherein God is unafraid of murdering babies.

We've got the Natural Law?

I'll give you Natural Law wherein God spontaneously and hilariously abortions more than half of all fertilized eggs, and has done so since the dawn of man. What a blood bath.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I am living a very Canadian example of this right now too. Our right wing party is going to sweep the country because our centre right party has so slowly let things get worse for everyone, also some brain dead lies and some brain dead scandals, that the general mood is: Vote the bastards out.

Without paying attention to the slime about to take position.

It's the responsibility of government to not be so shit, corrupt, or liar that people flee to worse options out of pride.

So, Israel, a place that is currently already blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, is going to be also in charge of inspections at the pier. They could let aid in already. They don't. Why is giving them another place to not let in aid going to help?

@AnthonyJK No, my friend, I do; it's just that I very much doubt Netanyahu and Biden negotiated anything at all. Negotiation implies red lines existed at some point.

They do not.

@AnthonyJK I don't think Israel would go nuclear on anyone unless someone went nuclear on them first, that feels like a bridge too far.

@fu Nobody wants to work is way up there with children not respecting their parents.

You could not expect the kind of nation that would let Kissinger walk free to care much about ethnic cleansing when there's money to be made.

So America asked Canada to keep funding the UNWRA while not willing to do it itself, obviously for reasons that go beyond the lies that were told about the agency? America is so very broken it's almost exciting. Imagine being so corrupt that you encourage others to do the right thing, knowing that you yourself cannot. And this administration is supposed to be the good guys, eh?

A staggering self-declaration of weakness.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/national/united-states-implored-canada-behind-the-scenes-to-keep-supporting-unwra-hussen

@hannu_ikonen It's America.

It's interesting because for [redacted] I use souped up versions of these tools and they are really only useful for American clients; other countries, with much better laws, do not allow for these kinds of things and so they have no use.

America's business-based hatred of privacy of any kind is what makes my life a lot easier. Condolences though.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @AnthonyJK Bonus points, of course, for Bonesaw, or whomever else really, doing direct business with various companies and those companies then lobbying politicians on their behalf.

A friendly reminder that God kills fertilized embryos at an astounding rate. If abortion is run of the mill murder, let me tell you, friends, God's doing it on a Pol Pot scale.

60 to 70 percent of fertilized eggs do not make it to birth, and thankfully most women don't know they miscarry.

The cosmic joke is that if you wanted to stop the death of babies, #Alabama style, the only ethical way to do so would be to stop all sex, especially the kind that aims for reproduction.

We all know about the enshittification that brought advertisement to paid streaming services.

It is only a matter of time before they start offering "television channel" versions in which you don't pick to watch what you want when you want, but are stuck to a schedule set by the service.

It is the obsession of every major player to dial back your freedom to that of elderly boomers still subscribing to cable channels.

The double standard on this.

Imagine the screams of bloody murder if America were held accountable for its war crimes because "democracy"?

Do you have any idea how many people Kissinger killed? Remember 9/11. No, not the NYC one but the one America did to Chile? Is the world allowed to carpet bomb NYC?

Ditto imagine if every time the IDF killed the innocent, if that justified vengeance against Israeli citizens because democracy? Evil.

Madness.

Credit to @DrALJONES

https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/innocent-civilians-palestinians.html

This should not be a controversial take:

In a just world, George and Martha Washington would have been hacked to pieces, terrified, in their bed at night by their slaves.

#thusalwaystoslavers

Fetterman telling South African lawyers to stick to their own continent is:

1. Hilariously racist
2. Not advice that America follows