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There are a lot of culprits in this scenario...
  • "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr is a good book on the topic, it goes into how the rivalry between Britain and France wound up with them attempting to carvr up the middle east between them after the fall of the ottoman empire.

    War and destabilisation of the Arabian population was the outcome, but I think it is highly reductive to say it was the intent, for one that would imply some level of cooperation beteen the colonial powers against the native populations when they regarded each other as bitter enemies and didn't really regard the people of the middle east at all.

    Every step taken by Britain and France was with the aim increase or secure their territory while undermining the other. A lot of these steps were training arming and funding of local military/gorillas/terrorists opposed to the other country, but usually these were inflaming and exploiting existing religious/ethnic/tribal tensions rather than manufacturing them from nothing or drafting into an officially military force, which has the unpleasant property that even after the colonial powers have departed, the trainings traditions and blood feuds continue.

  • Look out, Britain! I am officially ready to colonize you back!
  • Bristol is supposed to be very nice, Brighton is probably the most LGBT friendly city in the UK from what LGBT friends have told me, London is generally accepting of everyone but can be expensive.

    Obviously do some more research, but I figure it's worth putting those two cities on your radar.

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  • I think this is why the OP mentioned buy less stuff and travel less, these two directly reduce the demand for environmentally harmful goods and services, reducing the ecological impact of the companies which issue the shares that make the billionaires in question billionaires.

    It's kinda disappointing to see a post about good actionable advice to do the best you can to reduce climate change and the first reply on Lemmy is non actionable (and more controversially; to my mind irrelevant) advice to assassinate billionaires.

  • I don't make the (rule)s
  • So as far as I can tell the rule for deciding if a french word is feminine is "does it end with an e".

    There are exceptions and French people claim that's not how it works, but it is an incredibly useful heuristic

  • [FRESH VIDEO] Frost Children - Shake It Like A (ft. Danny Brown)
  • Ha, this is actually pretty far from what I usually listen to so it's even more appreciated. 🙂

    100 gecs are pretty good, although I have only heard a few tracks of theirs so far. (hand crushed by a mallet, money machine) I will give them a proper listen tomorrow

    What kind of genre would you frost children or 100gecs in?

  • respect the scientific method
  • Of course; the post is calling out people like Eskimofry for lazy unfounded pessimism so they are going to reach for the same lazy unfounded dismissal in an attempt to deflect that criticism

  • Telegram has blocked Hamas channels on Android because Google forced it to
  • The threat of international condemnation and the less hawkish members of the Israeli government and electorate.

    Predictably the rate at which civilians in Gaza are bombed by Israel went up not down after Hamas' acts of terrorism the other week.

    Even if you believe that the Israeli government is ontologically evil; serving them up causus belli to bomb and potentially invade Palestinian lands does not constitute "preventing Palestinians from being exterminated", rather it actively helps them hastens the process