Is this sarcasm? Or is the last sentence really something someone could think?

Sorry, your scenario is too stretched for me to comment on it.

I can only comment regarding their patent system and I 100% agree that the north american patent system is a cancer on the entire world. A massive problem that needs addressing. But as mentioned before, you can worry, and work on more than one problem without invalidating them. But that problem involves much more variables and powerful companies/ people/ countries to be resolved. I won’t comment if that is the solution for the problem you present since I think it’s more complicated than that. But, again, I think destroying the north american patent system would benefit the whole mankind. I just have no idea how that can be solved without the whole world going against them.

The rest, I guess I can only say that you can’t judge which battles people decide to fight, if you agree they are fighting something bad. You fight to demolish their patent system and others fight to end their imperialism. Both fights are valid and everyone except the abusers would benefit from them.

I’m not arab, but as he said, you can worry about more than one thing. But I think the biggest difference with your tuberculosis example is: One is a problem due to lack of action, the other a problem due to direct action. You have to be competent to do something about one, while the other, just by not doing anything (by not giving them loads of money and weapons) they would already solve the problem.

So one problem requires effort to be solved, the other, they are putting effort to create the problem and it would be as easy as just not doing it. In theory pressuring them in just not doing something should be easier than doing other work.

Put in a different view, what would be your worse behaviour?

-A person you know died of turberculosis and you didn’t take them to the hospital

-A person you know died because you shoot them, or you gave someone a gun and money and told them they could shoot them?

Which action would get more people against you?

zero_gravitas posted a very educational video showing younger biden saying “if there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one” and “the best 3 billion dollar investment we make”. So I don’t think he has a history of even pretending to stop them. It will be the same thing again, as it has been with almost every US president.

I remember having the luck of being in front of a tv when, before trump won for the first time, I saw him complaining about why american money goes to israel and if he wins he would stop that. At that time I knew his position would change completely once he was elected. But if anything, the crazy orange candidate has a much better history of being “against” israel than the other senile, though in the end it made no difference. Both supported them as much they could, and the girl would do the same.

But the fact that she showed them support just makes it worse. At least people who voted trump for the first time could be fooled into thinking he would do something about israel (if they ignore all his other insane promises).

So, you don’t have to worry. Israel wise I don’t think anything changed and the genocide would not be worse (as it can’t anyway) if trump lost.

Edit: I can’t find his post, but here’s the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZs-v0PR44 Lovely leaders they have there. Not that Australia fares much better with military issues, but at least we are not so powerful, therefore not so dangerous.

is going to erode their already shaky position with purported allies.

As if… their history is full of stuff worse than this and nothing ever happened to them. Whatever chain they have in the ones they command is unbreakable. I think anything sort of nuking Palestine wouldn’t affect them.

They can literally bomb their allies if they don’t do what they want with no consequences. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

Noooo! I don’t care about Google play. I only use it from fdroid. It’s the most important app on my phone! What will i do now?

Isn’t the UK right handed, like here? How do you do with that? How did you take the car to europe?

No idea how it is in the US, but I imagine it’s the most car centric country in the world. I know from reddit that there’s a lot of people living in cars there.

How was it on the bicycle? I want to do that… did you stay in cities or wild? How do you do with all the water that needs to be carried? I wouldn’t do it on a city though. Staying on a tent in a city is too exposed for me. But I love the idea of even more freedom, not having to worry about car registration, fuel and fines.

So you have toilet in the car? My basically just have waste water from brushing my teeth, so it just goes straight to the street. Isn’t it too much issue to handle that? Though it must be nice to not have to look for toilet…

And your power is not solar?

Ordering things online, or anything that needs an address is still a big challenge for me. I’m trying for the first time ordering something to a post office and I’ll go get it to see if it works. I don’t think there amazon dropboxes here, but even if there were I would never buy something from amazon…

Sydney is not the worst. The worst one is Byron bay by far. I’ve never seen a more hostile place. But I certainly hope never to come back to Sydney either. NSW in general is pretty bad, with Queensland much more open to people living in cars.

I don’t like doing stuff in the van. I do kind of well too, but the other person has to host. I don’t feel well with random people coming in my van. But I know a lot of people are very social and do that. As long as they are quite… Party people destroy van life for everyone and end up making the councils hunt us. I imagine it’s what happened in Byron bay.

Diet is an issue… I would still like to know how to fix that other than eating out, which is pretty expensive. I certainly eat better when I have a place to stay.

I use open street map which is very good. And I can add things when they are not there so other people can see it. But some times it’s closed in the morning, or I’m parked too far away.

I’m not sure if it’s influence of propaganda. I used to be very active against israel and US some 15 years ago. I was sacrificing my life for it and I realized nothing would change but I was hurting myself. 15 years later nothing changed. It didn’t change 15 years before I started either. So a long period of time will mean I won’t live to see it.

I stopped getting involved and tried to just not know about it. The result is the same but I don’t suffer. But living here it’s impossible to ignore and I’m part of the problem. It won’t change, but I’m helping to make it worse here

But yes, I’ll do what you and jaek suggested until I figure out what to do. To me it’s much more important to not help israel than it is to help those they destroy. And that’s the main thing I want to do, not help them.

I’m in a small town, so not much going on here. And while the protests should continue and I’m happy with their numbers, the media actually manage to turn it against the cause and increase the general population support for this kind of atrocity. When I see the news on the tv covering protest I’m afraid, because I know exactly what it will show and I’m always right. They usually don’t even mention what the protest is about and the few people they give voice and the morons they interview are always just talking about how dangerous the protesters are, how “against peace”, how pro terrorists, how they damage the economy and how they will eat your dog and rape your kids. Basically inciting the population to protest against the protesters.

I have never seen such biased and clearly controlled media as here, except for the US. It’s amazing how powerful they are. I know that in most countries they usually just show the israeli side and just “forget” to show the other one. But here it’s a clear propaganda and manipulation. So if anything the average person who doesn’t look for more info will just defend the war point of view more with the protests being shown on tv.

And it shows. Even here, where people are more “leftists” (whatever that means) I see many “fox news” points of view. On reddit it’s a lost cause. And talking to the average people it’s the same. Everyone just knows that “israel is fighting terrorists”.

It’s what I complained about on my other posts regarding the military monuments. It’s a fundamental part of australian culture and I see little hope of that changing. The countries that show some courage against israel have a whole history of not admiring the military and not being dogs of the US that often. Or being muslim based countries.

So I don’t see how that can change any time soon but that doesn’t change that I am being part of the problem being here, and that people are being murdered with my support.

Supporting help for palestinians is good and should happen, like the protests. But that won’t fix anything and will just have to be something that needs to be done forever. Or until there is no Palestine left.

And I am complicit with this, and all the support Australia gives to US and israel by paying my taxes. As some @#$!#$ from the government said when censoring the protests, “Australia is a peace loving country”.

Is there anything I can do other than just leave? I love living here, but this military fetish gives me constant guilt and anxiety of being here because I know I’m supporting that, and who knows how many people were killed using my work, to then later on get a monument erected praising the fact…

Ehehehe, you guessed well. All of the above, plus beach showers when it’s not too cold. Camping showers for when I’m in the outback. It’s not usually a problem, and certainly wouldn’t be in just 1 week, but it’s a defining part of it.

I say having to find toilet is a much bigger issue, but even then rarely really a problem.

There are many issues (with my social phobia, people being 90% of them), but I like it a lot for one thing only, freedom.

Only recently I traveled for some months, which was awesome, mostly because of the outback. Otherwise most of the time it was staying close to work, but I still loved it so much always be close to the beach which I would never be able to afford otherwise. And over time I learned the safe places to stay, so I didn’t have much issue with not being able to sleep because of noise.

But it’s certainly not for everyone. Most of the problems don’t bother me at all, when I can have so much freedom. But for most people it would be too high of a price to pay, or they don’t enjoy the benefits that much.

I do miss having a house though, specially one with lawn and trees. But the cost is more than the benefits, specially since it means I have to slave my life away to pay for it. If I was super rich and could buy something in a nice place I would though.

Edit: I wouldn’t mind if I could solve the issue of having to find a toilet every morning, which some times is quite urgent. But that’s a city problem. In the outback it’s… sort of a lot easier. If you ignore the cold and mosquitos when you do your business or having to find a place and dig and then bury it. But it’s better because you always know you will find the place and it won’t take too long.

Kind of… It’s kind of like being in a hotel for a week and considering that you lived in one. Though you did have the actual experience then of not always having a bathroom or shower around

How long ago was that? Was it out of choice? I struggle with the concept of being homeless. My van is my home, I have a roof to sleep under, so I don’t know if I’m homeless. If a home can only be a fixed place, then yeah.

Thanks for posting this. The bias is stupidly obvious to anyone, but it’s the first time I see inside coverage. I wish they could check the Australian news…

Without proper investigation it just sounds like conspiracy theory. Even as i watch Australian news I have trouble believing the bias control.

Thanks for the info. Though what I wanted to post was asking about the protests, which zero_gravitas answered.

The thing is, as someone who worked with photoshop most of my life, Krita is a much more capable image manipulation software than Gimp, really comparable to photoshop. While Gimp is, to me, really more like a toy. It’s entirely capable if you just need to do something basic but it will quickly show it’s limitations if you need to do professional work.

I guess that may be the issue, that Krita got the stigma of being only for drawing and art. Or, what I think, is just that Gimp is more famous. And since most people don’t need a professional tool, they only try that and recommend it, not even knowing that there is something better.

And finally, almost every professional uses photoshop so they don’t even know about either Krita or Gimp (and the ones who tried Gimp will give up on open source alternatives quickly). While 3D had a reasonable amount of options before Blender, so people were more willing to try something else.

Just my guess… I hope Krita gets the support Blender got, because they could change the industry in my opinion if they get more funding.