Chariotwheel

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I like to mention it often, but in Germany state run water companies run self-sufficient and even make money to invest in keeping the infrastructure alive. In my city we have a water loss of less than 2% due to well maintained pipes. Thames Water is losing like 25%!

I still can't believe how this company got to grift the British people in broad daylight and is now asking for more to grift and government in charge still wants more of this.

So Israel did the same thing as Iran, an attack that signals strength but isn't really a serious attack, but Iran actually ended the current issue here. I wonder if that's a level of finger too, that Israel couldn't stop without having the last word, but Iran actually could.

Both countries don't really want direct war with each other at this point, and Israel specifically has its hands full with Gaza and Hisbollah right now, its allies urging it to tone down the carnage and they have to snarl at an Iran that isn't even willing to fight against the US wishes. I can only take from this that Netanyahu that war will end and he has to take his hat.

Good question. Some say boycott the whole show or just Israel's song, I suppose you can boo if you're on location or be loud in the chat on the official livestream, generally use the buzz on social media. Generally, they will be aware that people will want to register their disgust and will probably prepare themselves for that.

I'd say generally, participate normally in Eurovision discussion and then make noise or boycott when it's Israel's turn. The media that love to report on the event, as it has a reach bigger than the Superbowl, will pick it up when it's enough noise.

Also watch out if some of the artists will say or do something. Iceland is always very itchy and gives no fucks.

Doch, das auch. Und es hat bisher ja auch gut geklappt, sonst würden sich Leute jetzt nicht so wundern. Mit denen sind wir fast an 200 toten Helfern gelandet, Journalisten und Besucher nicht reingezählt.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-03/israels-offensive-in-gaza-leaves-200-aid-workers-dead-in-six-months.html

Israel war es bisher egal, weil sie immer mit ihren Ausreden durchgekommen sind. Hat man auch hier gemerkt. Erst haben sie was von Hamas IDE gesagt, dann von einem vielleicht Hamas Verdächtigen der vielleicht im Konvoy war (aber halt nicht) und nicht mal jetzt fühlen sie sich als müssten sie sich für irgendwas entschuldigen.

I mean, yeah. Most people don't even come close to that when adding up everything they earn in a lifetime. So to get a billion before 30, where more than half of your life was in school and growing up. Not much to generate wealth for investments. Building companies takes time and money too and you're not going to be a billionaire from working enough regular jobs.

Yeah, it's nothing like John Wick, unless John Wick just stands for someone shoots guns, which is hardly specific.

I'd say a more proper comparison would be a brighter Gunslinger Girls.

I mean, genocide is not a single event. Even a massacre is not necessarily genocide by itself. It's a systemic, large scale process. If we're going to the scale of genocide, it won't be about one or two events, but a multitude of events at which point it's getting hard to put the blame on a rogue person or on accidents.

That aside, it's of course something that the IDF went from "we are a modern, precise army, the best of the crop" to "no, we can't be at fault, we have no control over ourselves, everyone just does what they want".

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I also liked that it doesn't say that all followers of an ideology are good or bad people. A lot of media that tries to tackle ideologies just make everyone in the general direction of an opposing ideology horrible people. In Disco Elysium is not as black and white. There are good and bad people in every broad ideology. Are you a bad person, just because you believe in capitalism? No. Are you a good person, just because you believe in communism? Also no. Disco Elysium is very nuanced while making it's cases.