GlassHalfHopeful

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 65 points 6 months ago (11 children)

I hope this translates to the voting polls.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd hate to know how they'd feel if they knew how humans would respond to this...

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had to go back and read your post because my brain automatically assumed you were using the word "aggregator." Sometimes my brain is pretty awesome with its autocorrect ability. Most of the time, the neuro diverse sack of mush just makes things worse. 😁

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

If this is the case, then I'm so very glad.

I'm absolutely lost at how things can get so bad that a person's response is such senseless violence.

It breaks my heart and anyone, especially a youth, can get this lost in the Darkness without someone interceding. Perhaps some have tried. Either way... I hope the youth receives the help they need. If justice needs to be found for something in their past, I hope the authorities can find it and help them. I hope the youth may experience freedom of mind, healing, and goodness.

I'm so so grateful that no one was hurt.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's interesting. First time seeing it. I only clicked into the link long enough to highlight a snippet and search for other articles. Never realized it was an aggregator. 😁

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 months ago (7 children)

“The policy that has never been far from my mind for the past six months is the nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel, which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians,” Major Mann wrote in the post, which noted that he had emailed his comments to co-workers on April 16. “This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war.”

It's no small thing for him to make this statement publicly. I hope that him doing so does more good than the negative repercussions this will inevitably have for him.

Also, I've not heard of the source so I thought I would share a couple more:

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"They" meant whoever the vague authority is when people often use they. I guess the NYPD in this case, but it's often hard to cheer for cops to do the right thing when I read the news these days. You can believe I meant something more, like vigilantes (I'm guessing?), but that isn't okay either. It's against my principles.

(Although I have to admit that I root for Batman in spite of my belief that vigilantism isn't the way. Too many ways for it to go wrong. The State often can't get it right itself and it's them we entrust.)

"Prune" wasn't a great choice of word I suppose. The intent to express a desire for this kind of behavior to be removed from the rest of us. There are a lot of ways to achieve that and I presume you think I meant violently, which is quite the opposite of what I would want. Again, strong principle of nonviolence.

English, and language in general, is a funny thing. I'm still getting the hang of it. I've edited my original comment to reflect my intent with different words.

What happened to Steve was not okay. It can't be tolerated. And I hope the authorities can somehow catch them and get them the help they need while protecting everyone else from this kind of violence. I've heard of these random attacks more often and it's not okay, it's not funny, and it needs to stop.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Genuinely interesting. Perhaps they'd have something to teach us. We humans could use the help. 😏

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Makes unfortunate sense. I was also hoping somebody figured out how to liberate it, but I imagined it might be highly tied to the Google app.

  • ChatGPT 3.5 isn't bad.
  • Copilot is... undecided.
  • Gemini I think I like the best in the realm of free AI, but I need to use it in a separate browser (Firefox nightly) and would prefer an app or even a PWA.

Anyway, I felt confident this was the case but people surprise me with how they can manage freeing apps and/or providing separate frontends altogether.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What an effed up story. Absolutely horrific. How can anyone have any sense of patriotism for a government so gross. Veterans should never be treated this way. Hell, look at the plight of so many veterans that are citizens. So many broken lives, tossed to the side and ignored.

This is not an American-only problem either. You can learn a lot about a country when you pay attention to how it treats its soldiers.

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