I joke about having so many retro games to play when I retire / when the water wars come, the classic text-based games are among those. Interesting project

This one is uniquely vicious and targeted, and also happened in our borders, not in a place they have carte blanche to tick off crimes one by one. This was the big news story here for the past 48 hours.

Typically when the attack is this targeted it’s on a paramilitary leader and not a regular civilian woman. This is very deliberate terrorism to also discourage journalists from going to the South and feeling safe with the typical press protection status.

They really don’t think we’re people. I wish I had anything more to say.

Right now, we don’t give a fuck about their interceptors. They are murdering normal people from the sky and are clearly preparing to finally annex the south again, permanently this time. If they run out of bombs they’ll drop barrels of oil, if they run out of oil they’ll drop barrels of concrete, if they run out of jet fuel they’ll tear their toys apart and catapult the metal into our homes. There is nothing more viscerally horrifying than feeling like your days are being counted down by something that only exists to kill you. Maybe it’s their propaganda making me feel hopeless. Maybe it’s the fact that there’s less people fighting back. Maybe it’s the way I was able to volunteer my time and money in the 2024 war to help the displaced, compared to not having the financial means to do that this time, when the war is much worse.

I wake up to obituaries of EMTs and names of towns every day and I just want it to fucking end. I haven’t lost any friends this time yet but many of my friends are grieving for someone. I swear they could have gotten a docile comprador society out of us if they weren’t hellbent on being so abjectly evil.

There’s something depressing about all the world news being about some shrapnel falling in Dubai instead of over a million people displaced, many for the second time in two years. There’s a stupid pun about Lebensraum/Lebanon and they’re precisely that right now and the best thing the tactical geniuses online (I only use Lemmy and this place is guilty too) can say is “Beard man terror scary! This is inevitable!”.

…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.