@IrelandTorin One difference is that your Gaza chart stops at 2020. An oversight, I'm sure.
If you want to show that the IDF hasn't killed all that many Gazans, really, update your graph to show a <2% drop over 12 months: 42,000 people, 60% of them women, children, and elderly.
If you want to argue that <2% isn't much, as genocides go, spare me. Some comparisons are not just odious but obscene.
You might instead show how careful the IDF is to avoid civilian casualties. That'll take more work.

@Tattoomonkey29 I don't think there's anything profound, just find out where @QueenOfEverything gets her Shingrix shots and get your next one there.

@DavidSalo It's well to remember that what can happen to anyone can happen to you too -- but if that's what it takes to convince you that people should be treated kindly and justly, you have the heart of reptile, not a human being.

@estherschindler
D H Lawrence
You look upon his bright loins of darkness as they gleam in the Midlands sun. ‘Before we have sex,’ he says, ‘here are several of my opinions.’

@NorthernInvader @mcfate Ain't nothing wrong with double negatives!
But if we're going to fix prefix problems in English, I suggest we start with "flammable" and "inflammable." They should be antonyms, not synonyms.

@mcfate It reminded me of the old story about the politician who tells voters his opponent "matriculated" at college and "engaged in celibacy" with his wife before they were married.
He must really think his fans are stupid.
(Yeah, I know.)

@QueenOfEverything Lucky you! Maybe they've adjusted the formula -- I was warned, and made sure my calendar was clear for the next 12 hours, half of which I spent in bed.

@Tattoomonkey29

@BreakingNews At last!

Dang, I thought our county government was a kindergarten -- they've been fighting for months over one of the commissioners having a "dating relationship" with a county staffer that apparently ended badly. But it looks like Yakima County puts us to shame (CW: drug use, corpses, ick):

https://www.chronline.com/stories/yakima-county-commissioners-call-for-coroner-to-resign-over-accusations-he-snorted-drugs-obtained,363665

@ToolPackinMama Can we blame them? It's the only way they can do it.

#politics

@Tattoomonkey29 They didn't warn you about Shingrix? Most people tolerate the current COVID and flu shots with nothing more than local soreness, but Shingrix is practically guaranteed to kick your butt. Far better than shingles, but no picnic.

@sfleetucker There were plenty of able-bodied people in their 40s and 50s who couldn't keep up. When the economy's good, wages rise but CA property values skyrocket.
Our economy reduces everything to $, even a home, so it's perfectly rational for it tell people to just find a cheaper home if they can't pay taxes that have gone up by an order of magnitude while their incomes have increased little if at all.
The only real solution I can see is to factor in income: pay as you can.

@sfleetucker Prop 13 is probably the worst to survive judicial review. There was one in the 1960s that restored home sellers' "right" to discriminate on basis of race, and 2008's Prop 8. I think they could go toe-to-toe with Prop 13 if the courts hadn't struck them down.
Prop 13 addressed a real problem: soaring property values meant soaring property taxes for folks who couldn't pay them and couldn't move. The legislature didn't fix it, so the Pee-Pull took a meat ax to the tax code.

@sfleetucker Early-20th-century populism did a number on California's constitution. Not only can you put an initiative on the ballot with a smidgen of signatures, that initiative can, with a simple majority, *amend the state constitution.*
I believe this is known in the constitution trade as "leaving the cordless Sawzall charged up in the kids' room."

@BreakingNews I'll take four more years of the same but hold the inflation. Oh, and get Putin out Ukraine.