Honestly for a portion of the ones here online, I don’t think they actually care that much about Gaza except as a convenient tool to attack Americans. It’s academic to them. I don’t expect it’ll stop once Trump is in, they’ll just switch to criticizing Americans overall. They’re mostly leftist agitators, and I honestly think they hate moderate progressives the most, since we’re trying to improve capitalism which makes it harder to undermine and destroy.

For people that actually do care, it’s a personal, emotional argument about not being able to feel good about it, which I understand. It’s a sort of trolley problem. If they don’t vote, they kinda just walk away and the trolley runs over a bunch of people, but they don’t have to watch and bear a sense of personal responsibility at that emotional level for being a part of it. It doesn’t actually benefit Gaza, but there’s only so much they could really do anyway.

Try to make sure you’re not fighting with it. As thoughts enter your head, simply let them, then let them drift away as you very mildly try to reassert your attention on whatever focus you’ve chosen. I’ve heard it described as “observing your own thoughts”. Watch them come in, watch them go.

Yes, that’s called a general strike. Fairly common tactic for independence movements and workers rights movements, you still see them in South America sometimes. They’re not easy to organize, you need a lot of pissed off people.

Positive emotions (γ = 0.128, p < 0.05) boost participation, while negative emotions (γ = −0.144, p < 0.01), particularly when linked to user behaviors, reduce it.

Well, it’s nice to have hard data on trolling, I suppose.

I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.

The internet creates a bit of a whack-a-mole problem with this one. Reminds me of certain bracelets and other consumer products sold as emitting some sort of “negative ion energy” for health benefits. Testing found they had Thorium, and were significantly radioactive.

If I recall correctly the Dept of Energy got involved with that one. Since the products came from overseas, though, there’s only so much that can be done.

Yeah, here we go: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34769689/

Yeesh, that one is depressing.

I’ll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/R4KgSgnUVVM

Apparently this sort of thing actually happens a lot, too, just judging from a quick youtube search for “ducking rescue drain”.

“Hispanic people — they say you can’t generalize, but I think you can — they have wonderful entrepreneurship and they have — oh, do you have such energy. Just ease up a little bit, OK? Ease up,” Trump said. “You have great ambition, you have great energy, very smart, and you really do, like natural entrepreneurs.”

It’s always interesting to see his “throw it all at the wall and see what sticks” strategy in action. I imagine it allows his campaign to clip specific lines of his that’ll appeal to whoever they need to appeal to at that moment, then let it disseminate on social media. So a white nationalist might get “blood of our nation”, and an immigrant might get “smart and natural entrepreneurs”.

Convenient scapegoat. What is easier to admit, that we are causing our own problems by not addressing new challenges appropriately, or pointing a finger at an outside group and going “their fault!”.

Don’t eat fissile cucumbers.

I too have seen cats pant on hot days.

If I remember right though, they’re originally descended from desert animals, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a higher tolerance for temperature extremes than dogs do.

I was going to say gasoline, but actually no, not really.

It was just a matter of time, we’ve had automated vacuum cleaners for ages now.

Putting guns on them is a bit harder, you definitely want a well-tested system for that. But cameras is pretty easy.

Same technique as making and integrating a cornstarch slurry to thicken a soup.

Yeah, not particularly fun, either. Would be very convenient if you were looking for an excuse to never bother with anything though.

Yeah, not surprised. This embedded article was also pretty interesting.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-do-we-not-support-redistribution/

I agree, but I’m leery of any argument saying those are mostly progressives. Anecdotally, progressives are usually more activist than the rest of the population, not less.

How big is that mass, really? Here on lemmy, a few hundreds or maybe thousands, globally? In 2016, Bernie running against a weak candidate in the more progressive party got 43% of the vote.

It does no good to falsely believe we have some critical mass of progressives when the data shows we don’t. Instead we need to continue grassroots work to keep expanding the progressive base, so someday your fantasy actually becomes true. It is not yet true though.

We gain nothing from denying reality.

Even according to Netanyahu’s own statements, the Israeli war aims are the complete destruction of hamas. That’s more than leaders. Before this began, estimates put the al-Qassam Brigades at 30-40k strong. So if we take Netanyahu at his word (which I don’t recommend) then that would be the minimum for killed/captured before he could declare victory.

Container glass is usually fine. Sometimes dyed glass won’t be accepted or will need to be sorted though.