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Is there some reason you can't start up a decentralized content hosting platform. Just let anyone with a spare hd and a spare pc at home join up?

Like I guess I don't really want anything illegal on my PC.... Maybe this plan is awful.

Israel is really in the drivers seat of this conflict though. You can imagine a reality where they had opened borders with Gaza and given them voices in the government. Where they're all these foreign funds for to build schools and libraries and pumping in tvs and video games and internet and helping keep the streets safe, and where it's much harder for a kid to say "I'm going to join a millitant groups" and where, even if Palestine is fighting it, we're moving towards peace. There's still violence from time to time, but it's declining.

You cant imagine the same story with Palestine. They have no power in the current relationship to give anything to Israel afaik. They can't build schools there even if they wanted to. So (to some extent, and acknowledging that it's horrible horrible horrible for the people involved) the lashing out isn't surprising there. It's not good, but also not surprising. The two atrocities are very very different (imo).

This is not true. There are hundreds of cultures around today who were conquered and just left to live until their conquerors eventually moved out. The Jews themselves have literally been conquered a dozen times.

But it won't kill hamas. It'll just breed more of them living in all the countries surrounding Israel.

LoL. Western governments still aren't even saying "please stop" let alone pulling the billions in funding that's being used to do this.

I expect Israel just out and out kill everyone is Gaza this time and take the land thinking it will end this problem forever. I expect in 10 years they'll figure out they failed when another attack happens.

They won't. They'll just sell their private data.

As someone who tried to make a living caring about people's privacy, people don't care. The only time they pretend to is when they need to explain why they buy the new iphone pro model yearly (but they'd turn on a dime if apple said "we're building an ad platform! Look how pretty our ads are!")

You just compared them. One can easily provide services for its citizens and also can fuck you over horribly. The other can't provide services for its citizens and also can really fuck you over if it wants.

I see this in Thailand too. Lived in the bay for a decade. There's posters in every bart showing the future and expansion of it. Afaik, none ever happened.

In Bangkok I see a few new stations open every year basically.

This is basically what all those reddit clients did on phones, now coming for us to enjoy on desktop.

You can download windows (direct from Ms) for free now. Does that make it better?

I would guess that most republicans politicians are actually pretty highly educated. Trump even went to ivy league schools. They value it, just not for their voters.