Follow this simple rule for clarity, replace the names and ethnic background of the parties in question with A and B, acknowledge that A and B have historical conflict and are distinct ethnic groups but set aside their cultural characteristics and specifics. Now take the actions of A towards B and compare them to historical examples. Under jurisprudence there can be no a priori exoneration of any group due to historical factors, actors must be judged solely on their actions.

The ICC follows “The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. It does not include political groups or so called “cultural genocide”.” And Israel is walking a fine line at the moment by claiming that they are exterminating a political group “Hamas” but their actions towards the civilian population will determine their guilt or innocence in the eyes of history and the international community. The ICC’s job is to collect all the facts that we civilians can not, and make a determination based on those facts. If you believe Israel is innocent, you should not worry as the facts will clearly exonerate them and so will history be written.

Reagan cut taxes while increasing spending, despite talking like his goal was to reduce government excess. As a result, the national debt increase for the first time since WWII and has not stopped in that trend since then.

Nows your chance to upgrade to a hardwood board with no maintenance requirements. Eliminate strife on both ends.

"Meanwhile, Screen Effects’ “vibrant animations that will transform your words into dazzling visual displays” "

Please don’t.

I played the heck out of TankPot back in the day. One of the best early games to have a high number of simultaneous multi-player, I think 64, split poverty 4 teams of tanks. Played through the browser, it moved around to different sites a few times over the years and now has its own dedicated site: https://tankpit.com/

Woah, that embed opens their entire Twitter feed within kbin. Also pretty interesting art style.

A movie called Sir Henry at Rawlinson’s End, extremely surreal British Arthouse. Like an opium dream from the brain of a fox hunting aristo, part comedy part stream of consciousness spoken word poetry. The gags, puns, and quips are truely monumental. It’s a gem, though not PC, you’ve been warned: https://youtu.be/N6W5RB50fXk?si=eYUlKqkTyyMvHz-Z

They can already do this by hosting a small instance and going unnoticed.

You mention kbin/mbin, but you do not understand its power!

Heck yes!

Constantine. Keanu Reeves has said he would like to do it, and there is a ton of story material to draw from between the Constantine series and all of the Hellblazers, not to mention cameos in other series.

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Tell her the neighborhood is holding a competition of lushest carpet, and you need to take some pictures.

Forge a letter from the HOA issuing a citation for an improperly kept “private front lawn”.

Tell her you have developed a new kink, waxing Dom.

Buy her a thong bikini and tell her you have entered her into the Ms. Rec Center competition in two days time.

There are a lot of rooms in VR Chat that let you do this, and you can actually meet and interact with people this way pretty readily. The libraries on there are extremely impressive, must be pulling from a torrent repository like a Stremio extension or something. Anyhow, I recommend giving it a try if you don’t mind the VR headset resolution. You can of course also run this on a Desktop, which for this purpose has some advantages.

If you are talking about a service/app to match you with people to watch a movie together with in person, you could try MeetUp, or one of the dating apps. Nothing ideal that I know of, honestly would make a decent app idea

Going off the top of my head, Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Beauty in simplicity. https://youtu.be/-LgYzva-xq8?si=6jOewR0MWhthFZVT

I actually hope that some dev work goes into providing “premium features” for paying subscribers. Things like profile cosmetics, awards, “superlikes”, gif embeds, maybe sub only communities/threads. I view all of these as perfectly acceptable premium features that folks pay for on platforms like Discord that don’t deter free users. If it helps make instances sustainable and keeps high quality admin & moderation in place, I would argue it would be a big community benefit.

Another possibility is instance - as - affiliate where the admin sets up affiliate accounts with services like VPN, Amazon, a web host, etc. To enable users to buy things they would already and give a kickback to the instance.

A lot of the devs left Kbin due to the on-man-leadership problem and started their own fork Mbin which has been progressing more quickly. A lot of instances have moved to Mbin, including kbin.run which I am on. Either way, it is performing very well overall and does enable interaction with both Lemmy and Mastodon instances. I check Lemmy instances directly periodically and don’t see any advantage to returning when Mbin lets me interact with more content.

@mote Pretty cool. Out of curiosity do M.Bin or Lemmy have access to Plume posts?

It’s unfortunate that Plume is on pause from active development.
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@Rentlar This, this is it. I nominate this list for the official Fediquette !

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Kill 6 Billion Demons is an absolute classic. Good enought to have made it into print trade paperbacks, but still free online. The visual style and wild world building are truly a joy to behold. You also get a bit of the sparky web comic flavor while still holding together an excellent long term story arc with serious plot.

https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-1/