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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 06:45:23 JST Dan Morris
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 07:00:46 JST Dan Morris
@kingrat I think every man woman and child in Gaza would fell justified in making any violent attack on Israel, and I think Israel will do what they did this time, come back 10000x more ruthlessly.
I don't see any way for this to become anything but an increasingly violent cycle until every single Gazan is dead - and I am pretty sure that's the Israeli government's position. I literally think they've decided that a nice genocide will fix everything.
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 04:50:23 JST Dan Morris
@kingrat That's true enough. I think, however, I can't even imagine how much they will be hated by the Palestinian people that survive. If someone killed my family, I think I'd be so angry I'd be working the rest of my life to execute overwhelming vengeance.
What's really amazing is that this is a SMALL nation. This is like if we decided to fence off Daly City and then bomb it and send soldiers in to finish off anyone left. This isn't like Nazis shipping off jews and people just thinking they were being relocated, this is right in their face..... and the vast majority of Israelis are OK with it.
I just can't imagine being ok with it, and I can't imagine that they're not thinking, "these people will spend the rest of their lives exacting vengeance upon me and my own family. We will never, ever, ever be safe again. ever."
The ONLY possible thought they can be having: "We need to get ALL of them, so we can avoid thousands of people seeking vengeance"
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 12:00:06 JST Dan Morris
i wonder if Israelis care that their reputation as a country is permanently tarnished. I mean, I will never buy, sell or work with anyone or any service from that country. I'll never trust anything they have to say or vote for people that support them if there is literally any other acceptable option.
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 06:35:21 JST Dan Morris
@mike I think the "missing link" is actually getting those embedded posts made, like in a blog or news report or even on other social media, where you literally can drag a twitter widget into your wordpress page and you're done. There needs to be a way you can
1. Drag and drop a mastodon post
2. Somehow make a way to automatically link their instance user to the instance where the post was made. So you can just "reply" without any back and forth.
Once that's in place, I think you'll find more and more people will use it instead of Twitter, simply because a post on Mastodon from a news agency or a person is more likely to be legit and well thought out. Users here have some expectations that simply don't exist on Twitter. -
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 14:55:34 JST Dan Morris
@evan I've never had a single bad experience on mastodon. It's pretty amazing.
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 05:28:59 JST Dan Morris
This idea that giving someone support money or basic services is just enabling them is a falsehood that's been pushed heavily over the years, yet debunked just as effectively as trickle down economics.
I was living in an abandoned school bus and got the Catholic church to just give me free food. no questions asked.
When I got a job, I tithed 10% of my income for a decade.
For years, I lived in a house that is a family home and I didn't pay rent. I started a business and now have 2 offices, employ several people support a wife and 3 children, even taking on a foster child and supporting other family members in need.
Did that free food and rent cause me to be a layabout or did it enable me?
I don't think that everyone should get a free-ride, but I think people fall down and when they fall *all the way* down to drug addicted homelessness, that's easily avoidable if it's clear that there is a minimal level of food, housing and medical care easily accessible. -
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 09:07:24 JST Dan Morris
@freemo @scottsantens I used to believe this, but then the means-testing becomes a massive mess and subject to abuse. It's much much much cheaper to just give everyone a chunk and be done with it. "You a billionare? Here's your UBI. ". "You on the street? Here's your UBI"
It's not a free ride either. It's the difference between life and death for a lot of people.
And a LOT of families and friend groups have someone who's just beyond help. They just can't support them anymore due to drugs or mental issues or whatever, but feel horrible knowing they're on the street. To be able to have my idiot cousin come to me and say, "hey, I need some money to eat", and me being able to say, "Dude, you get $x.xx each month. That's enough and you need to stay the F away from me and my family".
It's either UBI (which I honestly don't think will work well enough) or public housing/food/medicine at some level where the biggest drug addicted idiot on the planet STILL won't be crapping on my front doorstep.
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Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 09:50:04 JST Dan Morris
@l82be @feditips @Iancylkowski @theatticdwellers
Anyone can scrape data from the fediverse if it's listed as public data, otherwise it wouldn't work. FB Twitter, Google, etc... are private and allow some access, but that's it.