It’s hard to find trustworthy information about Israeli support for the actions of their country in Gaza and the west-bank from 2026, but the numbers that did show up earlier make me sadder everytime. These two article reference the same data, from one year ago. I have no reason to believe Israeli support for the people in Palestine. The small group of people who stand up against war seem to do that mostly because the life of Israeli soldiers (who are conscripted teenagers really). It’s unclear to me how well informed the public is about the scale of the war crimes, but it is obvious to everyone the army purposefully targets non-combatants (children, doctors, journalists, civilians) and in general it seems the public supports that.

A new poll published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reveals that genocidal rhetoric, once confined to Israel’s extremist settler fringe, has now moved into the mainstream, with overwhelming public support for ethnic cleansing, mass killings, and biblical revenge.

Conducted by the Geocartography Knowledge Group for Penn State University in March 2025, the survey of 1,005 Israeli Jews paints a chilling picture of a society increasingly radicalised by religious nationalism and emboldened by war.

https://www.trtworld.com/article/8802bc2d5043

The survey, conducted in March and published by Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, 47 percent of Israeli Jews answered yes to the question: “Do you support the claim that the [Israeli army] in conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites did when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, ie to kill all its inhabitants?” The reference is to the biblical account of the conquest of Jericho.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

Let that headline sink in: Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza.

RIP vine, still mourning

This describes a daily urge of mine

Thanks. I first put the words there, and while doing that I thought a visual would be nice - so didn’t copy paste the size from truesize. Edited the comment, not sure which number is more correct but I don’t really care honestly.

China: 9,389,687 square kilometers
Canada: 9,984,670 square kilometers

via https://truesize.net/

You only did 1 China population, but there are 2 China.

Neat, i came here for an alarm clocks but left with a timer. I use the Google clock app because i am still to find something better, but my timers are an infinite lists of random timers because i tend to set a custom one each time i want to use this. Looks like this will fix a very small problem. But also, fuck Google.

Shouldn’t there be a place in a desert with +40 and -40? Or is there noone taking measurements there?

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Mildly infuriating.

I was in Colombia for 4 weeks, had a local sim. Think i got a promotional message like this 2 or 3 times a week. It wasn’t MOVISTAR but their competitor Claro. Luckily they were regular SMS and i could just silence the notifications.

1.9 x 3.8 (litre to gallon) x 1,35 (gbp to usd) = $9,75. Still a lot more, but not as high as $31.

Trump made a few hundred million with insider trading so not literally everyone.

My country is too small for domestic flights, might explain the difference in our experience. Here your carry-ons are paying a serious part of their costs, no way they’d let someone take up double or triple the space without asking for money.

Guess that’s beat a “OK, WHY DON’T YOU PLAY SOMETHING FOR US THEN?”

I have seen instruments on board but I dont think you can just “take a whole overhead bin” without having permission to take something larger then a normal carry-on with you. I bet they charge you more than double what a normal carry-on would set you back.

In my experience the employees do sometimes value customers. Especially when the place is empty they seem to be happy someone is ordering something and they can do something for 30 sec.

Deutsche Welle (https://www.dw.com/) is an excellent English language news source Germany. It’s publicly funded but I have not have caught them being severely biased towards something. Plenty of articles on AfD’s to be published in the near future no doubt, 5 in the last few hours and there is a liveblog going too (which is why i’m just sharing their home page and not a specific article).

They’re fucked either way, nothing new there.

The countries in power didn’t change much in size, but the countries they controlled did.

Sorry, but this is just a strange thing to say. The size of any place on a map can only be measured relative to other places on the map. “The countries in power didn’t change much in size” just doesn’t make any sense.

What I meant with that is that the Mercator projection didn’t blow up a country like Spain as much as a country like Norway. I was responding to you, dismissing your claim the change in size is irrelevant because the countries in power weren’t close to the poles.

The major powers at the time were countries like Britain, Spain, France, and Italy. Not Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and Canada, which are inflated far more than the former.

Again, The countries in power didn’t change much in size, but the countries they controlled did. As you point out, the size of a country is only relevant in relation to that of others.

People were sailing open waters long before the Mercator projection. What you’re saying just isn’t true. We’re not going to agree, so i won’t waste my time continuing this conversation.