You said:

Considering that nearly everyone in Israel’s elections (even the “left of center”) advocate for genocide

I linked an article about a coalition formed in 2024 that is against the genocide...

And said:

There’s options…

It's obvious what kind of argument you keep trying to have, but just because no one is saying what you want, doesn't mean you can just start insisting someone did.

No one is defending Israel here, you're gonna have to go to Facebook, twitter, or reddit to find that

No, it's a list of podcasts...

Do you really think that's the same as your title?

When one youth is a nasty piece of shit, then we can safely the say his siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins are the same

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Is there a typo or are you just blatantly saying that?

Benefit of the doubt and all.

Being outside and socializing is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here...

He found that expert brains were wired differently in regions important for functions like attention, visual perception and visual recognition.

It doesn't elaborate, but my favorite example of brain plasticity well into later life is London Taxi drivers.

It may have changed, but they need to memorize every fucking street in London and know how to get from any two places to get their taxi license or whatever they call it.

So they did brain scans on people before and after and saw huge increases in the "navigation" region of the brain even for drivers in their 60s.

Nothing specific about birdwatching is "rewiring" it's just compared to not using your brain, using it improves it.

It's good to get out in nature and get the physical exercise, but there's a limit to how much of even that an 80 year old can do. Plop em in front of Forza tho and they can game 4-6 hours a day easy, getting expontial gains compared to a few hours a week birdwatching.

But you want as much variation as possible, a smorgasbord of activities is better than any single one.

There's more options than the classic "get hyper specific identifying variations of one thing". But that doesn't mean people shouldn't do that if they're into it either.

Birdwatching does nothing in itself.

You've completely missed the point...

It does something, just like ever mentally engaging hobby does

A survey by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth shows more than 16 percent of new voters plan to cast their ballot for far-right parties.

"More than 16 percent" is almost always "less than 17 percent" as well, because if not they'd have said "more than 17 percent" to begin with...

Which is a good thing, because the entire rest of the article is making it seem like the prevailing political stance

Israeli elections are in three days...

This (should be obvious) is about their election, not America's.

It remains a symbol of the Nazi regime and is among only a few monuments of the Hitler era that survived the World War II bombing unscathed. Today,

Somebody decided to do something about that..

Lowest common denominator...

Are you legitimately unfamiliar with that phrase in relation to what's most popular?

On Palestinian statehood, Golan has declared that “My vision is two states for two peoples.” In Judea and Samaria, the Democrats oppose annexation, seek expanded security coordination with the Palestinian Authority and pledge to dismantle illegal or newly approved outposts. Golan said in an interview in August that his long-term vision for separation from the Palestinians would require the eviction of as many as 100,000 Israelis from their homes.

The party’s domestic agenda is similarly far-reaching. It proposes reversing the government’s judicial-reform legislation, including changes to judicial appointments, and amending the Nation-State Basic Law. It would enshrine additional civil and social rights, limit prime ministers to eight years in office and bar indicted ministers from serving.

The Democrats’ approach to freedom of speech has provoked particular controversy. Golan has personally threatened the pro-Netanyahu broadcaster Channel 14 with closure. “Channel 14 will have to return to journalistic ethics—or close,” he said in September. The Israel Press Council condemned his earlier closure threat as antidemocratic and harmful to freedom of expression. Golan has also advocated closing the Bnei David pre-military academy in Eli, accusing the institution of promoting extremist nationalist views. This statement led to further condemnations from coalition and opposition parties alike in the face of Bnei David’s training of thousands of IDF combat soldiers and officers, with dozens of its graduates killed in action since Oct. 7, 2023.

On religion and state, the Democrats seek civil marriage and divorce, recognition of non-Orthodox conversions, an end to the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over kosher certification, and public transportation on Shabbat, with local discretion over services. They also advocate equal marriage, adoption and surrogacy rights for same-sex couples.

The party further proposes universal military or civilian service, with the IDF receiving first priority in selecting recruits, withdrawal of benefits from draft evaders and ending special funding arrangements for Haredi school networks that fail to teach core subjects.

https://www.jns.org/feature/israels-political-parties-explained-the-democrats

There's options...

It's not PR to make conservatives feel like they need to vote...

It's propaganda to make minorities feel like there's a risk to voting, so people who are eligible stay home out of fear.

Disappointing the author missed that, it's clearly the point

For generations, buying a first new car has been a rite of passage in the US, the clearest sign of a young person responsibly striking out on their own.

Fucking no it hasn't...

Idiots buying brand new cars did it because they thought it impressed people, and some idiots were impressed

But a bunch of people never cared.

Like, the article talks about people buying a decade old car like it's some huge statement and not a practical decision large parts of society has always made.

New cars have been poverty traps for generations, nothings changed.

We can fix that, we can do whatever the fuck we want.

People just need to:

1. Realize it's possible

2. Vote for people willing to do it.

trumps broken the bullshit excuse that modern president can't do anything. We don't have to settle for some old fuck who just "looks into" fixing shit.

We can elect someone who just fixes shit and makes the courts react to it. Stop thinking that the max we can do is what gets pre-emptively cleared by the courts, and just fix shit and see if the courts are really going to try and take it from people.

If there's not the political capital to refresh the entire SC, nationalize some healthcare companies and see what people say when the SC tries to undo it.

If people get that mentality, it won't even be a fight against us.

All 22 seasons of Taskmaster just got added to US Hulu.

First watch is horrible for background show, but once you've already seen it, it's perfect.

It's like a UK quiz show, and they film the "tasks" over like 6 months then do the studio weekly bit in under 2 months. So they crank out 2-3 seasons a year, it really hasn't been on that long.

Also a great way to get introduced to UK stand-ups

I remember one guy telling me he decided to be a lawyer instead of account, because when you drive be a lawyers office it was all brand new luxury cars, and the big accounting office was all 20+ year old hoopties...

Like, yeah bro...

Accountants usually aren't known for frivolous spending while lawyers frequently go bankrupt while still owning multiple sports cars and properties.

Some people have always just cared about optics, and they always freak out when they realize other people don't care. Because then they have to try to rationalize why they care so much about stranger's opinions.

There's just no logical reason to ever buy a brand new car.

Legitimately one of the best yet consistently under rated shows, not just animation.

The only way they'll stop is if the land gets seized to be converted into a park and they have to pay for it to be reforested.

If they just pay a fine and get to keep going, it's a cost of business

Make them have to start over, and they'll stop doing it.

Sounds like the only real problem is all those jackass "deletionists"...

If an article is so niche no one ever looks at it, then it eats up zero bandwidth. Just the data storage for a small text file.

Nothing should ever be deleted, there's no fucking benefit to that

If they weren't acting up, then activity dying down wouldn't matter

It's the biggest repository of human knowledge ever, it existing and being freely accessible to the planet is massive.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reacted to Blanche’s comments, saying Senate Democrats “have been preparing for this for months and will be ready for whatever” the Trump administration tries.

"As Trump and his cronies attempt to steal this election, we are fighting them at every turn,” Schumer posted on X. “Our elections must always belong to the voters — not Donald Trump.”

Schumer (and Jeffries) haven't done shit. They haven't even tried, and if they had no one would listen to them

But billionaire owned media is always going to pretend they're the reason things happen

Under the deal, Zuckerberg will receive new shares that could be sold to potentially foot a multibillion-dollar tax bill in the event that California passes a one-off billionaire tax. In return, he is committed to remain a resident of the state, or wherever Meta maintains its base, for eight years

Cool...

So we can do another "one time" wealth tax again the next 7 years and lil zuck the duck is locked in?

Billionaires wealth and their companies assets have been interchangeable for a long time, just keep fucking take it back from either of them, it accomplishes the same thing.

We just can't stop with the one off.