You’re going to need to be more specific. What movie are you looking for and on what platform?

That’s because of the need for an ally / military presence in the middle east. It has nothing to do with Gaza.

I’m of the opinion that an individual with the explicit intent to commit genocide is the main obstacle, regardless of who is supporting them.

This is of course entirely accurate. If you’ve lost your mind and forgotten who Netanyahu is.

But you haven’t because you say, “Biden refuses to use his leverage, even though he has admitted in an interview that it was “reasonable” to conclude that Netanyahu is prolonging the war for his own political benefit.”

Joe Biden is an enabler but the US is not “the main obstacle to peace in Palestine”.

You’re not helping to describe the use of “would” by adding extra words to negate the intent. “I would, but I won’t” is two statements. You’ve instead described the use of the word “but”.

Would: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/would
• a simple past tense and past participle of will
• used to express an intention or inclination
• used to express an uncertainty
• used in conditional sentences to express choice or possibility

Could: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/could
• a simple past tense of can
• used to express possibility
• used to express conditional possibility or ability
• used in asking for permission

Would / will is used when something is possible but you’re not sure.
Could / can is used when you’re not sure if something is possible. –

Relationships require the attention of your entire body and mind. If you don’t find a place or activity to refocus your attention, you’re left with a void it once occupied. Take time to appreciate what you had but set a limit for yourself to move on.

Personally, I’ve always come out of a relationship with a better understanding of myself and more motivation to be a better person. I take what I’ve learned and direct that towards self improvement, hobbies, new interests.

This is so huge. And I’ll be shocked if this makes it to the nightly / cable news outlets. We have more important things to worry about; like if someone lied about doing drugs in order to get a gun.

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There was an influx of “truckers” in the media of the 1970’s and '80s. Movies like Over The Top and Smokey and the Bandit and songs like Convoy come to mind. I don’t know why this was the case but in my mind it marks the beginning of a cultural milestone. I was also born in '76 so my perception is skewed.

I submit Exhibit A.

People could be asking things out of curiosity or sheer innocence.

I understand that and that’s how I responded. Again, ask yourself why men choose adopt this look. Why do you believe trans people are different?

That may be true in some places but I don’t think so across the board. Don’t let the news cycle or the vocal minorities twist reality. Gay marriage is legal, we have gay members in congress and the president’s cabinet, and trans political leaders. Overall, things are better than they were 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender_political_office-holders

Edit: Actually, re-reading your post, I’d shorten my entire response to: why not also ask men why they adopt the goatee trucker guy look?

The problem with all of this, in my opinion, is the societal stereotypes and expectations on men and women. Requiring people to fit into a classification for the convenience of others does not allow them to “just be who they want to be”. Who are you to tell someone they should look one way or another? If we could all just accept people dressing how they want or enjoying the pleasures of life however they want, most of this entire cultural conversation would be irrelevant. People struggling to conform to the stereotypes set by others is causing mental and emotional instability. Thankfully, things are getting better and, most of us, are accepting of people for however they want to present themselves. Personally, I don’t believe that means they need to “identify” as a male or female but that’s what they need to do in order to subvert expectations.

Why do you dress the way you do or like the things you do? Why do you believe someone who is unlike you needs to justify how they see themselves and what they like? I dress and act the way I do because it’s what feels like “me”. I’m a guy and look at the vast majority of “male models” (whatever that means) and find I have nothing in common with them at all. To be honest, I’m more comfortable dressing like an old lady than a “trucker guy look”. So, are you going to question why I dress the way I do as well?

Those are pretty good points. Still, you had to participate in Reddit in order to find that story.

The point is that news organizations, reporters, etc. need to start using fediverse platforms so we’re not stuck still using Xitter and Reddit. Moreover, a source from a reputable news outlet would be preferred over social media.

We used to make peanut butter sandwiches with potato chips. I haven’t had one since I was like 14 and need to try one again.

I’ve had similar pizzas in the US. “Sweet pizzas”, so to speak, were all the rage in the mid 2010s. More often, they were branded as flatbreads.

I’ve made pizza topped with a brandy peach sauce (peaches sautéed in brandy, nutmeg, butter), bourbon blueberry syrup, and taleggio. Even better is peaches, arugula, and brie.

I mean, you couldn’t source a link to a tweet yourself and had to share a reddit post on reddit’s competing platform?

https://x.com/nazirafzal/status/1797413922057711911

Mastodon seems like it could work relatively well.

The other side of the issue though is for social media to feel “social” now, people, consciously or not, want to feel connected to brands and advertising and popular culture. Social media, now more than television or magazines used to, generates our water-cooler moments. It generates the content we sit right here and discuss - it generates memes. These fringe alternatives aren’t popular because the they lack gravity. Gravity comes from investment. Investment comes from potential; typically, potential to make money.

But yeah, group ware, et al, could work for smaller groups. The friction there is getting people to install, and give a crap about, another app on their phone.

What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweigh the content of people that you choose to follow.

In the case of Facebook, the decline is either reflected in — or directly facilitated by — two specific features: People You May Know and the News Feed.

Yep. I was screaming to bring back the chronological timeline when they pushed out the “beta testing”. I actually stopped using social media regularly because I was missing events that were happening in my neighborhood. There was no point once they chose what to show me. But, I’m not the target demographic for their platform.

Someone who wants to interact with their community and keep in touch with their friends and family is not what social media is for. It’s for selling ads. It’s for maintaining your attention. It’s for engagement and making you feel a way they’ve determined will keep you scrolling.

And honestly, it’s tough to complain. The more successful a platform becomes, the more content is uploaded and viewed. This doesn’t cost them nothing. Without charging to use or upload to the platform, they have to sell ads. The more engaging the ads are, the more successful business are with posting those ads. So they double down and post more ads - they engage more with the audience the platform has directed towards them. It just keeps snowballing from there until the platform no longer represents what it did initially.

The actual problem is that no one is willing to pay for “social media”. They’ll pay out the butt for streaming services and two-day delivery but connecting with real people and getting unbiased investigative news, not so much.

Here’s an alternative source being that OPs isn’t working for me https://www.axios.com/2024/05/20/biden-reaction-netanyahu-arrest-warrants-gaza