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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldPromised Land
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    7 days ago

    I’d hope its to convince the government of Israel to get rid of corrupt leader Netanyahu, and to work towards an equitable two state peace agreement with an independent Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza.

    Or failing that, to convince people that unconditional support of the current Israeli government is bad, actually. Something many Israeli themselves believe (not to mention non-Israeli Jews).



  • I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.

    I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.

    10 mins from a corner shop.

    5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.

    10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.

    20 minute walk from a dentist’s.

    20 minute walk from an opticians.

    5 minute walk from a park.

    15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.

    But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.


  • In the UK we have smaller “urban supermarkets” that sell everything you might need at home but there’s not much choice in it, and there’s a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.

    And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.








  • I’ll give you the story as I can recall it…

    The trip was reliving the person’s life from top to bottom, and at various points hearing huge applause or boos or an emotional rection of some kind, and turning round and seeing that they were on the set of “This Was Your Life” with a huge studio audience. The presenter would give a prize, joke or something and ask some questions which led back to reliving their life and soon forget about the “show” until the next time the crowd went wild. It is said it felt like a lifetime, I don’t know how long the trip lasted in measured time.