Notices by Erik Johnson (distractal@mastodon.social)

@inthehands I don't have any pretenses that stopping weapons shipments will immediately stop the genocide, but it could certainly influence things in that direction. I'm not sure I agree with your second point, as many folks said the same thing about Biden stepping down.

I do know that Gen Z and many Millenials in particular are STRONGLY initiated into the Israeli/Palestine situation and the Biden administration seems to think they don't matter, which could be as catastrophic as you mention.

@inthehands Ultimately you're right, and it is heartening to see.

I hope the sentiment shown in Israeli polls and surveys I saw a few months after 10/7 changes.

WRT to your 2nd toot, one of the levers of power we are able to pull is to apply pressure to Biden and his administration to do obvious things like stop weapons shipments.

We have no lever in Israel.

That's why many of us are focused here.

I have no way to influence things in Israel.

I hope you won't see this as hate.

@juliewebgirl @tillshadeisgone Don't have to tell me twice.

If you're going to be dismissive, condescending, arrogant and willfully ignorant of good people's plights, you can fuck off forever.

Now why would Samsung Magician, an app to monitor and update my SSDs, be asking this?

@inthehands While I have no problem with either feature, some of the critics are right - the people that like to mansplain will continue to do so even with a warning. Useful to people brand new to social media etiquette, I guess?

I miss Twitter’s reply controls here.

I do like the old post reminder.

https://www.techspot.com/news/100642-ice-used-ai-powered-tool-scan-social-media.html

Isn't this like, every cautionary sci-fi tale about government overreach ever?

Isn't this nearly exactly what people criticize China's government for?