To what end?

Apologies, I was busy not being chronically online. Made some noise for you so that you can pass judgement upon me at your leisure.

My opinion is that they are a people, caged. The conditions that they live in are far below what they deserve for being human.

That’s my opinion really: they’re humans, just like all others and they deserve to be treated with dignity and to be loved and to be able to sleep knowing that they are safe. They have been deprived of these things for far, far too long and I believe that is deeply wrong.

What’s your opinion on Palestinians?

Why not? Hell I’m Jewish and I think the Israeli govt is regularly in the wrong and I feel for the people of Israel that could have better lives and those the govt harms. I also think Hamas is evidently wretched and those perpetrating these abhorrent acts deserve everything coming to them.

Unfortunately, while I’m sure Hamas will suffer, the civilians of both Israel and Palestine will once again bear the true cost of this conflict.

Luckily the moon is a quick day-trip away in case we return to sticks and stones.

a god that we worshipped

Would they be wrong? What’s the line between idolization and worship?

attention-grabbing messaging

This is what the GOP would call a senator wearing a rainbow shirt, for instance. Should that be a reason to restrict self-expression?

400,000 people is a large town or small city

That’s basically the population of my whole state… always interesting what people think of as “large towns” or “small cities” lol

The big thing that’s holding Apple back regarding Siri is that they aim to have all their AI-driven functions processed on the user’s hardware, for security/privacy. So they not only need the software component, they want to have the hardware capable of running it inside the individual phones.

“Some governments.” Government is corruption. How much varies, but if given leeway they all go the same direction.

That’s you, by the way—the hand of corruption. Respectfully.

iOS allows you to change the default browser, a key aspect that this change to Teams circumvents.

D&D is by no means “hard” fantasy.

Oh, he’s wanted. Both Fox and the RNC have been trying to convince him to go for at least the last month.

Turning on a fan usually works for me

“Action-RPG” or ARPG is a moniker more closely associated with games like Diablo and Path of Exile, really.

Well they did announce a remake of the original Splinter Cell, so there’s that.

As a teacher I’ll say that political ideologies very much do belong in the classroom. How else can you expect a child to learn how to be a part of society and to care for people beyond their own self-interest?

Teaching “political ideology” isn’t telling a class of kids, “you should all be socialists,” it’s giving them a foundation upon which they can build their individual morality.

What is school if not a place to learn from the successes and failures of peoples past?

Release date is August 16, 2023, for those unable to watch the video.