In America at least slaves often raised their own masters. It was an entire category of enslaved people: house slaves.

Much like the European aristocrasy and upper crust left their children to governesses and wet nurses to rub elbows with the rest of high society, so did the Big Whites of America and the Carribean.

That’d be deionized water, I think…

I appreciate your forthrightness, and on many points we quite agree, notably noone’s keen to leave and that the current charged atmosphere around the war does chill honest representation of one’s ideals.

That said, while this particular war was the result of Hamas and their October 7 attack, I believe that if not them, some other group would “lead the charge” maybe it would have been more of a single flashpoint or a series of smaller skirmishes, but conflict was (and continues to be) inevitable under the circumstances that Palestinians and Israelis live in.

I want to inquire further on your take that Israeli buffer zones are the land theft so demonized by the anti-Zionists. We see the expansion of the buffer zone in Syria as a landgrab because any security buffer sufficient for defense against the Assad regime should be more than enough, especially when paired with Israeli strikes on weapons caches and bases in Syria. The more puzzling point, though, is the establishment of new settlements and growth of existing settlements in the West Bank even as recently as this week.

Fair 'nuff. I usually reserve that one for people dragging out arguments with little or no substance, but a whooooole lotta bluster and passion.

Beyond the usual descriptors of troll, zionist, obnoxious twat, etc. I like to place people to general regions and countries if they share them.

It helps me remember that the Internet is not the US and gives me some vague sense of what they may be dealing with outside our cozy Lemmy bubble.

Just say zoombastic like a normal person.

What strikes me is the use of canaries into the 1950’s. Surely we could have had some other means of detecting toxic gasses besides small animals.

Is this to be our Swan Lake?

Magazines should only be for 7.62 mm and smaller!

While I don’t particularly enjoy shooting through 30-round magazines (preferring 15 & 20 rds), I’m not certain that this really hinders anything in the age of 3d printing. I don’t know the number of mass shootings that are premeditated, but I imagine it’s most.

The policy on preservation of natural areas was not terrible. It was probably executed poorly and wasn’t intended to be anything but a bludgeon of the state to displace people, but nature preservation as a concept is a necessity.

I reject this implicit categorization of robots as “not pretty”. They can be pretty and cool.

Wild to me that the fox thought a street was a good napsite. Maybe it was raised in captivity, and has no concept of “prolly not a good place to crash”

Damn. We gotta close the missile gap eith the six-year-olds.

Kinda. There’s distinct cultural patterns and variations with manga being Japanese, manhwa being Korean (South, maybe North too, IDK), and manhua being Chinese.

Read enough and you can get a feel for what’s what without it being spelled out.

Yuck. Good thing I don’t eat any breakfast cereals.

Have you seen the state of the IT industry? Furries and trans girls all of them. Your acronym is entirely appropriate.

So, a such a situation would require Special Weapons? And maybe Tactics?

SWAT teams exist ostensibly for this reason, but arming everyone works too.

They’re teenagers, taste doesn’t factor in much after cost and availability.

<3 thanks! I try to keep up with Lemmy drama in a passive sorta way, but this was pretty outside my radar.

Right? As another Blahaj denizen, I’d like to know the reason. Several are pretty self explanatory, but still…