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Amazon hoped the unit would one day generate a profit by users spending more money somehow

anybody that’s used an alexa for more than about 5 minutes should have noticed that pretty much everything it can do that’s more complicated than setting a timer to tell you when your chicken nuggets are done is designed to push you into the amazon services ecosystem

i’m sorry but if you were enough of a rube to sign up for a $2/mo subscription for that then this might be darwinistic capitalism

with the amount of money they apparently had available to spend on this little jolly, it’s absolutely incredible how much they fumbled things by trying to force their way in instead of asking nicely

if they just hadn’t done exclusives, and had instead relied on their decreased split to offer lower prices, while chucking in the odd free game, they’d probably be a lot closer to the 50% of revenue they were hoping for when they started

valve is actively abusing their monopoly by preventing epic from offering the same product(s) at lower prices in their storefront, and their customer base are happy about it because of thoroughly epic pissed everybody off with their opening move

what chumps

There has been no genocide. […] About 700,000 Arabs either fled or were expelled during the 1947 civil war and 1948 independence war of Israel following the United Nations-backed decision to recognise a State of Israel.

kind of pointless arguing with somebody reality-challenged enough that they can describe a genocide and then go “see no genocide”

it’s pretty obvious to anybody paying attention what’s going on in gaza, you just evidently just don’t want to pay attention

As of May 2024, only 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are functional; 84% of health centers in the region have been destroyed or suffered damage. […] Israel has also destroyed numerous culturally significant buildings, including 13 libraries housing thousands of books,[37][38] all of Gaza’s 12 universities and 80% of its schools,[39][40] dozens of mosques, three churches, and two museums.[41][42][43]

so take your pick: is israel’s bombing so wildly indiscriminate that they’re just razing 80% of gaza, or are they deliberately targeting the infrastructure people need to live in a place?

Also, it wouldn’t actually silence his critics on this, precisely because it won’t change anything. The war will continue, so people would just start demanding that [Starmer] demand issuing arrest warrants for Israeli government ministers who come to the UK, or trade embargoes, or whatever.

i guess defending starmer’s “earlier, weak position on gaza” is more or less equivalent to criticism of it

pointing out that when you say “iran and israel should face international justice”, you only mean “iran should face international justice” is relevant, yes

i’m not insulting you when i call you a hypocrite, i’m just accurately labeling the thing you’re doing, and if you take the word for the thing you’re doing as an insult, that’s maybe a sign you should stop doing that thing

if you want to take referencing a year’s worth of posts establishing your position on israel as a purity test then i could play my own fun little line drawing game

yes because people never say things that aren’t true or that they don’t really believe

it’s not really anybody’s problem that you’re a hypocrite, but it is relevant to point out that it’s likely the case

whether or not you actually care about israel’s war crimes is very obviously materially relevant to the conversation

i’m not asking for the sum total of your opinions

i’m asking for any evidence an opinion which you’ve previously been happy to provide on several past occasions isn’t in piss-baby centrist territory

oh we’re playing the “draw the precise, exact line” game, are we?

whatever that line is, a year and multiple times talking specifically about israel seems like enough time to get across a sentiment more negative than “i guess israel is kind of bad, but we can’t be too hasty about these things”

my account is 3 days old and your account is over 300 days old

you’ve been plenty active in feddit.uk over the past few months, which has had plenty of news stories to pick from where it would’ve been a relevant remark, and it’s not like you haven’t spoken about israel during that time, and the harshest thing you’ve had to say about the situation is now, but only in the context of iran also deserving international justice

any given thing

literally the thing we’re talking about

the precise context I think is important

literally any context other than this specific one

if you only ever bring up how israel needs to face international justice in the context of iran facing international justice, it kind of sounds like you don’t really care about israel facing international justice

out of interest could you link to a time you’ve called for israel to face international justice outside the context of “iran should also face international justice”?

The only state you listed committing genocide is Israel

russia

china

Any alleged wrongdoings on Israel’s part

“alleged wrongdoings” when there’s video evidence

no equivalence between [potential Israeli human rights abuses] and the denial of paid work, Jew-baiting, herding into ghettos, incarceration, disease and starvation

“potential human rights abuses”

incarceration, disease and starvation is literally ongoing because of israel’s actions

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is a territorial and political one

attempted genocide is just a territorial and political issue?

the best case scenario here is that this was just a really clumsy appeal to authority on your behalf