Whenever a movie starts with a Part One in it’s title, I get a hesitation. And Dune’s only covering one half of the FIRST book. This was going to be slow, this was going to have a lot of filler, this was going to have information and scenes that are not at any point integral to the main story and it won’t be very pretty because they would save most of the budget for the second film.

The thing about that is that there was a very good chance Dune part 2 never got made if the first didn’t do well enough, so there was a lot of motivation to make it as good as it could be. Dune was kind of a redemption attempt after Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (unfairly, imo) flopped.

Wait until you look up the definition of transubstantiation.

Hamas isn’t a territory. Gaza is. Israel is invading Gaza.

Canada is 65.

Do you think this person was referring to actual Hamas members when they said “HAMAS BABIES?”

At nine hours and 32 minutes a day, Brazilians rank second globally in average daily internet use, just after South Africans,

Jesus Christ, Brazil. Posting like it’s a full time job.

But that person only commented once.

Macho Man also released a diss track about Hulk Hogan.

A little tangential but how often do you get a chance to reference this?

AKA Gender affirming truck.

You don’t have to take Russia’s word on it. USA and Russia inspected each other’s nuclear arsenal as part of the New START treaty until the beginning of covid.

This is less a reason to use Lemmy or MBin over the other specifically: One of the great features of the fediverse is that the content is not siloed off behind one interface. Usage and development can happen on both and any number of other interfaces and all of them will have access to the same content (barring federation issues, but that should become less of an issue as ActivityPub and various interfaces mature).

As for there being enough people to populate interface specific communities/magazines/whatever, you can’t take a snapshot of today and project that into the future statically. The fediverse population is still relatively low compared to commercial social networking sites, but there is enough of a core userbase for new people to accrete onto over the course of time. There is a potential future where the user base flips, or doesn’t but both Lemmy and MBin have large userbases, or another interface that doesn’t even exist yet takes off and becomes larger than both. But it doesn’t really matter because all that’s happening in those cases is people are being offered different ways of accessing the same content that better match their preference.

Bringing it back to the original point, that the content is not siloed means development on various interfaces can happen concurrently to make things not necessarily better than each other, but more suited to different tastes. You aren’t locked into whatever Reddit, or Twitter, or whatever decides the interface should look like.

The world population has nearly doubled in my lifetime. That’s not sustainable. We need to build systems that promote and function within a state of equilibrium.

Yes, there is absolutely a moral distinction between arming an invader and arming a defender. The US is doing good in arming Ukraine and bad in arming Israel. Pretty simple.

As for illegal, lol. Israel going to call the cops?

They should petition the US government to stop arming Russia like they do Israel to end the conflict.

Oh, right…

No way that wasn’t intentional. They could have off centred it even just a bit to ruin the effect if they wanted.

You’ve had it too easy thus far, frankly, blaming this son of your city on an entirely different country. It’s not slander if it’s the truth.

Steven Crowder was born in Detroit! Stop the slander!

You are putting the responsibility for those murders entirely on Hamas rather than the government currently perpetrating them, thus justifying that government’s actions. You could have just as easily made your opening comment, “Man, if only Israel cared about international law.” Please stop insulting my intelligence.

You are literally justifying their actions. Justifying the murder of well over 30 thousand.

“Mr. President, the terrorists have taken hostages. What should we do?” “Bomb the building.” -A psychopath