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Western headlines after Israel violates the ceasefire in Lebanon in one day
  • No. My argument is that Western media is not biased in support of Israel. When challenged on this point, your argument is to accuse me of craving the death of Palestinians.

    You are an immature child. Honestly sick of this crap. Past time I blocked this community.

  • Western headlines after Israel violates the ceasefire in Lebanon in one day
  • I'm sorry? Were we talking about whether Western media was biased towards Israel? Are we now discussing the etymology of the word 'bias'?

    Frankly, I'm not interested in playing your game. We are taking about headlines? The headlines by and large are in opposition to Israel, which contradicts the ludicrous claim of the OP.

    I refuse to play sneaky games to switch the dialogue elsewhere. The articles I provided were legitimately as unbiased as I could think of (Duckduckgo, search term 'Israel Lebanon Conflict', in a private tab, English language, consecutive order). They were definitively NOT in support of Israel, which contradicts the silly claim of the OP.

    I accept that most people will refuse to see the nonsensical silliness of the OP's argument. I'm not interested in discussing blame and where it should be directed.

  • Western headlines after Israel violates the ceasefire in Lebanon in one day
  • Bullshit.

    It's easy to cherry pick articles to generate a false narrative by navigating to the most conservative outlets.

    Why don't you try and search any popular search engine for 'Israel Lebanon News' in a private browser (to remove yourself from a browser bubble) and then try to claim that the wording in Western headlines favours Israel. All I see, in consecutive order of search results is: 'Israel launches first airstrike...', 'Israel forces open fire in Lebanon...', 'UN troops patrol Israel-Lebanon border...', 'Lebanon deploys army on 2nd day...', 'Israel fires on Southern Lebanon...', 'Israel conducts first strike on Lebanon'.

    Note that 4 of these portray Israel as the antagonist, 1 is neutral, and 1 portrays Lebanon as the antagonist.

  • Western headlines after Israel violates the ceasefire in Lebanon in one day
  • What?

    I only see articles constantly, incessantly, calling out Israel for being the incarnation of evil in the most biased one-sided hypocritical manner possible. I honestly couldn't say the last time I read an article that was even slightly biased in favour of Israel.

    One of these days, I wouldn't mind reading one of these alleged 'Western headlines' (naturally, that is, not in a cherry-picked screenshot), if for nothing else than for a change in perspective. Personally, I don't really have strong opinions either way in the Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah conflict, though I sympathise for all the innocent victims. I truly wish for a return to the Journalistic Creed though; journalists should deliver factual information in as non-biased manner as possible, they shouldn't be acting as politicians trying to manipulate people by twisting words to build their narrative.

    Absolutely sick of reading nonsensical trash like this. Only a fucking blind idiot would believe that 'Western media' as a matter of course favours Israel. I guarantee, for every 1 'Western' headline supporting Israel, there'll be a dozen others decrying them.

  • Nostradamus
  • Yeah, it's a pretty straight-forward solution. OP should have just used intergenerational wealth to buy politicians and make their preferred substance of entertainment (or coping mechanism) legal. It boggles my mind how so many people ignore obvious solutions like this.

  • Asking the real questions
  • Yeah, I've considered a name change myself. Decided not to bother as it would mean every time I need to prove my identity to a government organisation I'd need to provide additional change of name documentation.

    Government is hard enough to deal with as it is without adding an extra thing that needs to be assessed.

  • Asking the real questions
  • It boggles my mind how so many websites and platforms incorrectly say my e-mail address is 'invalid' because it has an apostrophe in it.

    No. It is NOT invalid. I have been receiving e-mails for years. You just have a shitty developer.

  • Asking the real questions
  • Probably some bureaucrat decades ago making an incorrect assumption that passed down through generations. Happened to my family. No Irish roots whatsoever, yet somehow we ended up with the annoying form-breaking apostrophe in our 'legal' name just because it begins with the letter 'o'.

    "Oscar??? Surely, you're mistaken. I hereby decree your name to be O'Scar!" ~Arsehole circa 1937

  • What's with the cross?

    Hi.

    Does anyone know why is there a red cross on the icon here?

    This device is a Corsair USB flash drive. I initially thought it may be because the data was corrupted as there were a couple of years where it remained unconnected and I know SSD does not like that. But I formatted the drive (ExFAT) and it still shows up with a red cross in Nemo file manager.

    Any idea what this actually means?

    Thanks for any insight.

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    When should kids start using social media? Australia's government proposes age limit of 16
  • I used to read Australian news every day. Now I just don't bother. This government just wastes their time on complete and utter nonsense like this while we're in the middle of a housing crisis that they're doing their absolute best to exacerbate.

    I feel like I became dumber just reading this article.

  • Do you use "mould" or "mold"?
  • In honesty (my last comment was clearly not legit), you likely do pronounce the 'L'; most accents will include this in my experience.

    Does the tip of your tongue touch the roof of your mouth just on or behind the ridge before your front teeth? If you release your tongue before pronouncing the 'D' is there a release of air? If you do position your tongue here and there is no release of air before pronouncing the 'D' (which does release air), then you are pronouncing the 'L'.

  • I hate that that happens
  • Don't feel intimidated if you have any curiosity about learning the language. From an outside perspective, all languages are immensely complicated. In fairness, even native Chinese speakers wouldn't be able to comprehend the poem above when spoken aloud. It's designed specifically to mess with people and make them think about language. I love poems like this but there's an argument that they are disingenuous and exaggerate the difficulty of learning a language.

    You clearly know English, so as a counterexample to show what you are capable of, take a minute to check out The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité.