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also spam from Dover Street Market jewellery department... idk where they get my info from.

People actually buy these, and they are good bikes.

But be clear, the people who are buying these are not you... when I was there a few years ago I saw a couple pick up theirs (2 matching ones), and the scenario was "we're so excited as we couldn't have bicycles on our yacht but these are small enough to stow and transport back and forth to the land, and yet they offer us the ability to have a full size bike experience when we go cycling"... so yeah, these are not for you.

Sheesh, already getting spam for the Silverstone F1 2024 private boxes... it's ages away! Who buys these things?

I dread to think how Trump would be doing things right now...

Trump was considered by the majority of Israel media and govt to be a "friend of Israel", I can only begin to imagine how that would've manifested in reality... and it's not good.

Biden and the Democrats never earned the "friend of Israel" status, and to be fairly clear you either have that status (assumption of you fully backing whatever the hell Israel does) or you don't... it's very binary this whole "friend of" thing.

but I'm trying to give Israel's left wingers a bit of credit for their humanitarian, progressive thinking

that's fair.

most of my info comes from colleagues I speak with most days who are fairly left wing and Jewish, but not resident in Israel... feels like everything I hear is third hand at best, and hard to find evidence of in the Western press.

the consensus amongst my colleagues friends and family (so this is a small sample size) is that their relatives and friends really do not want what is happening, and do not want to be doing this, and some are doing military service and do not want to be where they are. yet at some level they do believe that what they're doing is necessary to some degree... so even my chats with my colleagues are strained, as it's hard for them to separate right and wrong from the mess of everything.

certainly for me, I have no idea what's happening there. I've never visited, I'm not resident, I'm in this comfy terrace house in London, and have no direct experience and rely (like virtually everyone here) on whatever reaches us via the bias of the multitude of intermediaries.

my take is fairly simple on it, all lives are valued equal and there is a huge amount of suffering going on, and that suffering won't begin to reduce whilst weapons are being used and support can't get in and help people.

I mean, no.

Palestine is a region that has existed for thousand of years, but was largely occupied by different empires and leaders, of which the recent period goes Ottoman Empire > British Mandate > UN Partition. The UN partition being post WW2, and is what created the State of Palestine at the same time as creating the State of Israel... but Palestine as a "country"... well we typically mean country in a legal, sovereign, state way... rather than a geographic region. The UK being a country, the British Isles being a region... sure this is confused by the word Palestine being used for both, and further confused by Palestinian people being the historical term for people of all religions who occupied the region of Palestine regardless of who ruled at the time (Palestinian people being a valid term at the same time that referring to them as Ottomans is valid as these are not mutually exclusive).

There's a very long wikipedia page on this stuff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine ) , but it was covered in secondary school too (at least the state one I went to).

So you think Israel = Netanyahu

no, I think the actions of the government are owned by the government, and governments are known by their leadership. It's right to hold leadership in any country to account, and to call out their bad actions and bad motives. it's not an apples to applies comparison, but the UK isn't without our own examples of a govt acting in a way that the people disagree with to a horrific humanitarian outcome, i.e. Blair govt going to war in Iraq despite the largest protests the UK has ever had.

one can definitely call out the leaders for their shit.

I'm thinking about the huge blue LFGSS site logo which is an SVG.

My opinion here is that yes, Israel is going for the long-term here... they'll force the population South and thin them out, and fear is a powerful weapon to get people moving so whether or not they targeted the hospital or not is irrelevant as it creates more fear on the ground.

Israel will shrink the size of Gaza by first declaring an increased no go area inside Gaza as "to protect our people against being taken hostage we need to create a buffer zone", and then once the land is empty Israel will increase building on that land, the expansion of settlements.

They have done this repeatedly for decades, it is nothing new. But areas like Gaza are so densely populated that they've never been able to succeed with this strategy there. Netanyahu's funding of Hamas to force this situation has created an opportunity for a massive land-grab (relative to their past progress on Gaza), and so they will take as much of that land as possible whilst the window of opportunity is open for them.

The Israeli government and right wing do not care about the human suffering, they do not value non-Jewish lives, so long as progress towards a one-state Israel and the end of Palestine is achieved.

This is all but a single step towards that, it doesn't need to achieve everything this time around, as the past created many opportunities, and the future will create more. So long as every opportunity is taken, and they always take as much land as they can and never give it back, it's progressing the right direction and is worth it in their opinion.

They certainly do not care what the international community think, so long as evangelical Christians in the USA who believe in end time prophecy keep supporting this madness.

Wait... your app can render the LFGSS logo though?

I wonder what's different about the SVG?

Done

Old image for reference: https://lfgss.microcosm.app/api/v1/files/cc5222fbde5aecb4bb56b933a230e967b2517134.svg

also, I had clean forgotten that the UI is doing a crazy orchestration of "create DM", "add participants", "add comment"... and I don't even know how that works TBH as it shouldn't, because the notification is send early and yet includes the comment.

i have forgotten how the code works.

you were spot on, that was the error. thank you

could well be... I've reverted for now, but will look after dinner

The DMs are created, but the page is showing an error message... so it's in the redirect that something goes wrong.

Happy to amend the thread title if I only knew how!!!

Top right hand corner, Edit Conversation.

changed to that

Well I see the problem.

But there are no logs and metrics for this, so I do not see the cause. I'm still in meetings for the next 90 minutes so will look at it when I'm out of the meetings and may roll back if I can't fix it and roll forward quickly.

Confirmed, because I couldn't send you one either.

Ah, interesting... I did an update on Sunday to fix static checking issues, I wonder if I broke something.

https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm/commit/88fe486fb566b95cf887b4357a9da6595266d2d8

almost certainly the boat shoe knot https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/boatshoeknot.htm

BTW... this is why the US carrier fleet are there, etc... if the pressure is such that it forces the surrounding Islamic countries to also respond militarily to try and prevent Israel from doing this, then Israel needs the help of the US to subdue the urge of other countries and reasonable parties to get involved in a way that isn't aligned to the goals of Israel's leadership.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm

Oh I like that, that's my style.

A solution to Israel's problems (in the opinion of some of their leaders) is not a two state solution, but instead to eradicate Palestine. Palestine are it's people, if you can reduce the number of people then you reduce Palestine... this can be done by taking their land and forcing them to not be in Israel.

But also... if you are Israel and can close every border to Israel, and force Egypt to open their border, and apply an enormous military push from the North you can turn the entirety of the population of Gaza in a moving refugee mass of 2 million people who will be forced by geography and the guns to move into Egypt.

Israel does not have to solve for a 2 state solution if they can force Palestinian people, all Palestinian people, to get off their land and become another (Muslim) countries problem.

This, this is the goal of this entire operation.

They are not seeking to find and capture 20k Hamas terrorists, they are seeking to move 2 million people into Egypt... but as this goal is super long-term, they'll accept moving 1 million people further South and increasing the pressure on all 2 million even more.

This is why I'm so appalled, on top of decades of apartheid we now have blatant ethnic cleansing.

It's also why I'm sickened by our govt, because we're busy sending more military, and we're also urging Egypt to open their border... we are fully complicit in ethnic cleansing in this day and age. We can't hide behind "our great-grandfathers did that stuff and it was not us and we care more" when we're actively participating in ethnic cleansing.