Pink washing? Where?

Yes, I am applying the same standards everywhere. Please don’t assume I support Israel’s government because I don’t support Hezbollah, I hate the nefarious ideology and the crimes of both of them.

Have you considered who are the Hezbollah beyond their activity against Israel’s crimes? Having one shared cause does not make them worthy of support, unless you do share more than that with them maybe. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/01/anti-lgbt-rhetoric-undermines-rights-lebanon

Yes I would consider the Resistance illegitimate if they conducted attacks for an ideology that doesn’t respect democracy and human rights. Just like I do not support Ukrainian neo-nazis who fought against the Russian invasion even if this one specific fight aligns with what I think is right.

Was the guy actually supporting Hezbollah? Because that goes quite further than just supporting free Palestine.

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That’s… impressive.

It’s not training though, you get thrown into the real thing immediately that decides the rest of your social time at school.

Aren’t you exaggerating a little? Kids get to know each other better with time too.

Agreed with doing it with guidance and feedback.

Maybe you are missing some nice encounters then.

Single hand submissions are welcome, like mine.

Simple yet elegant

It’s hard to understand why UK would follow again after the debacle in Irak. I guess it’s some realpolitik bullshit? At least Spain learned its lesson. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/world/middleeast/spain-denies-us-air-base.html

Edward something-hands?

What do you think is different compared to when you join some new company, training or club and you are asked to present yourself to the group?

Don’t you think it’s good to train children to be able to talk to strangers, in public and introduce themselves? I know it’s stressful but I think it is useful.

You don’t have hands or you don’t have a shadow?

Cute!

Impressive

For some reason it makes me think about some bright idea a protagonist would have to escape a hord of zombies in post apocalyptic tv show. Sadly it’s real.

You have been a user for 3 years at least, surely you have heard about the tankie situation on Lemmy? If you don’t share these views it’s better to ignore/block those three or four instances. It will make your Lemmy experience much more relaxing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

I liked the writing and agree with the general reasons, but this is going a tad bit too far:

Instead it [the fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access.

There’s no reason to think things are more trustworthy or less biased here than on commercial social media. The fact that people here are not trying to build a brand because there’s no money to make in this small network is not enough to make it more trustworthy.
It may make conversations more genuine, but that’s not a guarantee for correctness either.

My experience of working in a tech company in Japan is that most engineers are not Japanese, they are mostly Chinese, Indian, other Asian countries, a few Westerners and then Japanese. Those recommendations are still relevant in this context. I would add, use short sentences. When you are learning a language, long sentences are really hard. It saturates your “guess-understanding” memory buffer.