Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

The difference is important -- the world recognized immediately that was a massively disproportionate war, and it was. This time we're talking about an apartheid system that allows Israel to simply turn off the food, water, and electricity for nearly three million innocent people, ordering the entirety of their colonized victim populations to vacate their home cities or be considered combatants. Israel has always made an open policy of "taking ten for every one". They promise abject horror.

In fact, the parallels are striking -- generalizing problematic factions (for him, "Nazis", for them, "Hamas") that their pressure created and empowered to sell a breach of treaty/sovereignty, using the fluctuation of general bilateral tension as a legitimacy ratchet, vaguely horrifying and completely unverifiable accusations of crime against humanity, taking advantage of the obscurity of their opponent, middle-period national claims to someone else's land reborn in ascendant fascism…

The state of Israel is now advertising on YouTube to propagate blood libels upon Palestinians in the hope of softening US response to the genocide they intend to now complete. In it, this man stops just short of accusing Gaza of mass gang rape. There is notably no method provided to "report" the ad as is typically available. The slogan below their official seal demonstrates just how incredibly normal this state-market interaction really is! Notably, Putin failed to land the same narrative.

what's my position on voting? being able to choose your enemy represents an advantage. take it.

@matoakit Of course -- I certainly didn't call it a *good* reason; none exist. But we should acknowledge the material conditions that add up to new events, and real-world thresholds of national & diplomatic hegemony. Hitler needed a fire in the capitol building; the US needed three hijacked planes. Russia eschewed rationalia and it hasn't gone so well. This acceleration is opportunistic.

If you have a problem with this statement, you are not paying attention. State officials are holding nothing back now, calling Palestinians "animals" and undertaking a "complete siege" to starve millions of innocent people. Don't let all the rampant fascism here at home soften you up to that.

It sounds like the state of Israel is perfectly satisfied in finding reason to complete their ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

If you like city builders, check out Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. I'm looking forward to comparing it to Cities: Skylines 2 on release next week (via Game Pass) because WRSR completely eclipsed the original for me. It's on sale this week and well worth it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/

LB: truly absurd that Discord was allowing hotlinks all this time tbh; hard to blame them for not trying to also be a free data hosting company. However, it's clear that human society needs to get our communication and archival tools straight so this stuff stops happening -- and that's only possible with the ejection, rejection, and replacement of corporate power and all its compromised "benefits".

To anyone who's been waiting for me to produce something -- whether it's updates for Hellsite or progress on the next major component -- well, my personal life has been a relentless, horrifying, tenaciously prohibitive mess for years now, but things are finally coming around over the next few weeks. And the next developments on the way are -very- exciting. I hope you'll stick around to see what's coming.

@PatrickWirth And because Steam now interoperates with so many different additional (and more unscrupulous) loaders from other publishers, every one of those providers extends the legally accessible network, and so on. This is the outcome of usurping the function of Steam Spy, a metrics platform they banned years ago. Experience, and Facebook engineers, tell us that the farther your data goes, (given adequate "anonymization") the less accountable the collector becomes to its exposure.

@PatrickWirth This is an inference from multiple inadequate distinctions in their Privacy Policy, including that of "chat areas" (all deemed "public") from direct messages. The statement that they "don't sell" Personal Data is meaningless when their network of (very money-involving) contracts is so ridiculously large. I would point to the RedShell controversy to remind everyone that every major developer is also an advertiser

By the way you did know that Steam literally sells your unredacted chat DMs to advertisers? Cool huh?

Really disgusted that I can't play a game on any personal / work computer any more. Loader platforms like Steam, Epic, etc. have turned PC gaming into console gaming because I'm not running any of this spyware garbage on a computer I actually use for anything else. Imagine if Gamerz had a collective spine enough to say, "Buck DRM/adtech or perish" but they want their brand-name drugs *yesterday*. Literally the weakest consumer subgroup of humanity in existence.