She literally spent a good portion of her eulogy talking about how wives are not supposed to be slaves. You can’t make this shit up.

The Animus is real, but the way they have pulled an uncomfortable form of anti-zionism into otherwise legitimate concerns about apartheid in the Levant is hard to look past. There are serious academic conversations to be had about how Israel is the original sin of the modern nation-state, but that cat is out of the bag at this point. Russia has unambiguously worked to amplify the voices of violent extremists and racists, at the expense of measured and educated voices on this issue, and they have used youthful naivety towards some very concerning rhetoric as a conduit for this information warfare.

The shame here is that this has become a distraction over real criticism and has impeded geopolitical consensus on the way Israel has approached this conflict. Most people who are paying attention believe Israel is way over the line, but are not willing to support a form of anti-zionist messaging which openly calls for throwing ten million Israeli Jews to the wolves.

People are naive if they think the .ml admins and devs don’t intend to keep their thumb on the Lemmy scale. More instances need to take this threat seriously and defederate from .ml, and possibly even fork the Lemmy repos for when the devs inevitably decide they want to start building quiet exploits into the code. There are serious cyber security implications here that people are sleeping on

People in the US eat raw eggs all the time. Salmonella outbreaks from eggs are almost unheard of.

Also, washed or unwashed, eggs will keep longer in the fridge. And it makes for a less cluttered pantry. There’s really zero reason for Europeans to be smug about this.