How to Play and Enjoy Slither io !
If you’ve ever found yourself with a few minutes to spare and a craving for something fun, fast, and slightly chaotic, you might want to check out Slither io. It’s a browser-based multiplayer game that combines the nostalgia of the classic Snake game with real-time online competition. Whether you’re just curious or hoping to grow the biggest snake on the board, this article will walk you through what the game is, how it works, and a few helpful tips to make your experience smoother.
Gameplay Overview
At its core, Slither io is simple: you control a snake, and your goal is to eat glowing pellets (orbs) to grow as long as possible while avoiding other players. All the snakes are controlled by other people playing at the same time, which means you’re not just trying to beat the game—you’re trying to outlast real players.
Controls
You can play on a computer or mobile device. On a computer, you use the mouse to steer your snake and the left-click to boost. On a touchscreen device, just drag your finger to control direction and double-tap to speed up. Boosting makes your snake move faster, but it costs some of your snake’s length.
The Objective
There is no “end” to the game. You keep going until your snake crashes into another player or the wall, at which point your snake explodes into glowing orbs, and it’s game over. Other players can then eat the orbs you leave behind. The goal is to grow as large as you can, earn a high score, and maybe even make it to the leaderboard.
How to Get Started
1. Visit the Website
To play, go to Slither io. No download or account is needed. Just choose a nickname, customize your snake’s appearance if you want, and click “Play.”
2. Customize Your Snake
You can choose different skins, colors, and designs. It’s a fun way to make your snake stand out in the crowd. Some players even use their national flags or team colors.
3. Start Small, Think Big
When your snake first spawns, it’s tiny. This can be frustrating at first, but the early game is about being cautious and collecting smaller orbs. It’s okay to hang around the edges of the map and avoid larger snakes until you’ve grown a bit.
Tips for Playing Better
While Slither io is easy to pick up, getting good at it takes a bit of practice and patience. Here are some beginner-friendly tips:
1. Play defensively at first
Don’t chase after other players too aggressively when you're small. Focus on collecting scattered orbs and staying away from danger zones, especially near the center of the map where action is constant.
2. Use boost wisely
Boosting is useful for escaping tricky situations or stealing orbs after a big snake dies, but overusing it will shorten your snake. Use it strategically.
3. Circle smaller snakes
Once you're long enough, you can trap smaller snakes by curling around them. Just be careful not to trap yourself in the process. It’s one of the most satisfying tactics in the game.
4. Follow the giants
Big snakes often cause chaos. When they die, they leave behind a feast of orbs. If you hang around safely near them, you might be able to swoop in and grab some of the leftovers.
5. Watch out for sudden movements
Other players can boost into your path and take you out instantly. Stay alert, especially when you're near a crowd.
6. Use the minimap
There's a small radar/map in the corner that shows your position. The center is usually the busiest area, while the edges are quieter and safer for beginners.
Why People Keep Coming Back
Part of the charm of Slither io is how fast and unpredictable each round can be. A game can last 10 seconds or 30 minutes—it all depends on how careful (or lucky) you are. And because you’re playing with real people, every session feels fresh.
There’s also something oddly relaxing about guiding your snake through glowing trails of orbs, even if you’re not aiming for a top score. It’s a nice balance of competition and casual fun.
Plus, the fact that you can jump in and out without logging in or saving progress makes it perfect for short breaks, study pauses, or moments when you just need to switch off and do something light.
Final Thoughts
Slither io isn’t about fancy graphics or deep storytelling. It’s about simple, instant fun that anyone can enjoy. Whether you're looking to kill a few minutes or test your reflexes against strangers across the world, it’s a game worth trying.
Just remember: everyone starts small, and part of the fun is figuring out your own play style. Some players go slow and steady, others dive straight into the action. There’s no single right way to play.
So, next time you find yourself bored or just in need of a mental break, head over to Slither io and give it a shot. Who knows? Maybe you’ll make it onto the leaderboard—or at least have a good laugh trying.
Have you played Slither io? Got any tricks or funny moments to share? Drop them in the comments—this game is even better when you learn from other players!
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Okay, scratch Operation Chill. Time to enter Dave’s tornado zone. Told him to pick the next meet-up, no restrictions.
Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly
Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly
Canada was not part of a mass walkout this morning during Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly.News Staff (CityNews Toronto)
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Rafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, a US citizen, was held for 12 hours after sustaining broken ribs and a traumatic brain injuryDani Anguiano (The Guardian)
Private alternative to life360 - Paralino
I just discovered this app. I know there are folks out there who think location tracking is the opposite of privacy but it's a nice security tool to keep track of your loved ones. I found this one thats fully end to end encrypted. I am currently in the works to migrate my family of 10 over. (This includes my grandparents who are less than tech savvy)
Just thought I would share in the event there was a father like me looking for a similar tool that doesn't sell your location data or breach your data.
This app would of been great help to me a couple of years ago!
I'll wait for this personally:
"In the future, we plan to release a version of Paralino for Android that is free of Google services and available as a direct download."
The dev also explains the current status of the app here in the comments:
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Paralino Location Sharing service
Hi all, I am the developer behind Paralino. It is a pretty new service, I just launched it few months ago so it is still somewhat in beta. I am working on it for quite some time already, but domain is with me since 2023.Privacy Guides Community
Is the server self-hostable with all features, or planned in the future?
Either way, really cool. I'd be interested in setting it up at some point.
Thanks and my apologies for not being clear enough but I've been running HomeAssistant for years now, so that part is covered, I mean specifically location tracking.
I imagine it's in companion.home-assistant.io/do… but checking. Unfortunately this feature specifically does not seem supported in the Web client, which is what I tend to prefer. For this specific situation I might reconsider. Are you using it and if so how?
Aah gotcha. I don’t remember exactly. I was using HA a year ago for about a month just to test around, but my home doesn’t have any smart devices so I got rid of it.
But as far as I remember, it was something in the HA settings itself (probably in the admin account or in the map). Just give location access to HA mobile app and it should work perfectly.
No worries thanks the clarification.
FWIW your house does not need smart devices, you can add them yourself as easily as adding a light bulb and a ZigBee dongle on your RPi or even desktop (but nicer if it's always on IMHO).
You screw the light bulb in and if you leave the house one day for another one, you just unscrew it. Sure you can do more, e.g. replacing light switches, etc but you can also add plugs the same way.
I'm not trying to say anybody "needs" that, only highlighting that it's not a heavy thing to setup and remove.
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I tried it a while back. Doesn't work without Google Play Services.
There is a good alternative called Zood location but its only for Android.
Well, there are also others, but I had mencioned only the FOSS alternatives. The others I found are proprietary, iOS only, paid or discontinued.
Mabe you can find those which you want to use in AlternativeTo
I've been using this app with one other person for shared tracking. we've been satisfied with the (lack of) battery drain, which was my main concern about the app (not for anything specifically about Paralino). so far, no issues or qualms. will be nice when it no longer relies on Google Services on Android.
I only have location services enabled under certain conditions when away from the house, but it seems to handle the off / on of this service just fine without having to restart the app or anything. unsurprisingly, it also let's me view the other's location even if my own location is disabled at the moment.
we have ours sharing location, battery percentage, and network type from each device.
paid features let you add more connections to share locations with, create additional groups, and other small QoL things like being able to attempt a forced refresh of the other person's location, etc.
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MDB II – 2025.62 – (Parte 2) O voto do careca #podifusão
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O voto do cabeça de ovo e do Dino.Curso Vida do Livro no www.seiva.com.brCastbox
Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)
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Nice.
Very much so looking forward to seeing rigorous benchmarks of GPUs on linux.
I ran Arch for about a year and a half. It's great, you get the freedom to do anything you want provided you have the time and will to learn. Bazzite is the exact opposite: you can't do everything you might want, but you don't need to learn anything, you can carelessly play around in the little playground they setup for you.
I use Bazzite on my 2 desktop PCs, Aurora on my work laptop booting from an external 1tb nvme ssd via an usb-C m2 caddy.
It's pure bliss. I freaking love it. If Ublue ever disappears I'm fucked.
This is interesting because theres not a ton of direct Windows vs. linux game benchmarking, and now there's about to be. GN churns though a lot of hardware and testing.
And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.
Arch (with KDE I presume?) + Bazzite is not bad either. There's a lot of handwaving over they should have chosen this or that distro, but they're both very popular in the gaming space, so I feel that's fairly representative of many distros.
And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.
This is the most important part of this whole thing to me. Imagine Nvidia watching Steve shitting on them for having horrible drivers on Linux and millions of people seeing that.
although i prefer the arch distros for bleeding edge and rolling updates. Bazzite makes sense for testing because of the immutable.
A lot of more experienced pc users might end up liking arch distros later in their life, but I would never recomnmend arch based distros to people who aren't comfortable with linux yet.
Experienced here, did my time in Arch, learned a lot, perhaps even more than necessary, now retired to Fedora, then Bazzite and Aurora-dev. It just gets out of my way nicely. Something, something, Bell curve meme, plateau of enlightenment meme.
And I would absolutely recommend Arch to a technically competent gamer newcomer as the fastest way to get up to speed.
Horses, Courses.
Bazzite was my first attempt at really daily driving Linux. I ended up on Aurora dev and I don't have any reasons to move to something different.
The U-Blue OSs really feel like the future to me.
Incredibly cool tech, but it just works.
I daily drive Aurora on my work laptop on an external usb c m2 nvme ssd via a caddy. I love it.
Are you using devpods? It's always been buggy for me.
No i meant like uploading files somewhere or attaching stuff to Mails, when i have the folder already open.
Couldn't yet find a really satisfying solution to that
They're both "immutable" in the sense that they're setting up either read-only Filesystem Hierarchies (as in bazzite, which uses ostree) or Symlinking their entire filesystem hierarchy to a read-only "store" (as in nixos).
Bazzite uses something called ostree to "diff" the filesystem hierarchy much like git does, while Nix basically makes giant read-only store of files and hashes them, then weaves them all together into a "view" of a filesystem that gets symlinked into the context of a running program.
You don't necessarily need to make your own NixOS flakes, you can use ones maintained by others
It's great for homeservers
Can we count the mainstream tech tubers in recent months that have done these Linux/Bazzite videos?
- As much as I hate ETA Prime, I think he was one of the first
- PewDiePie
- Toasty Bros
- J2C
- Dawid Does Tech
- Ctrl Alt Rees
- Digital Foundry
- Lon.TV
- Chris Titus
- LTT soon
Chris Titus
Having his name on one of the most popular windows debloater was just as based.
LTT soon? They made a few Linux videos and still love windows too much to recommend it.
- Way too many videos
- Many of them redundant
- Frequency shows in the quality of his work
- Never says anything about where to buy products or how much they cost
- Clickbait central
Honestly, it's about damn time.
These technical people should be ashamed it took them so long to adopt Linux.
Ah, the RTFM argument. So you didn't go to school, did you? You picked up a book and just started educating yourself?
Gamer's coming to Linux and messing up all the forums and chats with their pleas to make their Windows games work is NOT a good thing.
- It promotes non open source software.
- They complain about their games, when the problem is the software wasn't written for Linux. Complain to the makers and the makers of Wine and Proton. ANY issues are not Linux issues. Linux is perfect.
There are big issues with the modern video games industry. Like a lot of software they deny user's computing freedoms, and as such facilitate designs to repeatedly make money using psychology tricks. However, to reject video games as a waste of time goes to show how one can not know what they're missing.
Video games are a peak of higher-functioning life: play. A structured form of play which can go beyond physical games. Life is poorer without the immergent stories of a fantasy world (Dwarf Fortress) or competing in a consequence-free violence of street-fighting (Street Fighter).
I do not want to live in such a world. Helping others, especially when it is at little to no cost to you should be common sense to everyone.
I will strive towards making the world such a place, and I implore everyone, including you, to make the world a better place for everyone - including you.
Helping others learn when they are not willing to google, read, visit a library, etc, is called enabling, not helping. Helping those that try and get stuck is helping.
Learn the difference.
Sometimes you gotta be realistic that the majority of the population wouldn't have found Linux as friendly as many here are, even today, while Windows or is/was kinda the obvious mainstream choice for running any software... The balance seems to tip slowly, but honestly it took decades.
Even today you're still all debating which distro that didn't exist 10 years ago is the best, and which office suite can match Microsoft's... How am I going to convince my non-nerd friends to use Linux over Windows in that context.
About gaming, it's a matter of being able to run AAA games without issues, like, no bugs and anti-cheat problems. It's only since SteamOS that it is getting enough programmers and mainstream attention.
This is the way, but once again it required the power of a dominant company to move the lines.
This literally doubles (if not more) the workload to run these benchmarks, not to mention having to write new automation procedures and Steve just not being familiar with Linux at all, all for 2-3% (tops) of his audience.
Be glad that he is doing them in the future and don't be a demanding, entitled prick.
and Steve just not being familiar with Linux at all
Yeah, that's the problem. Just like with LinusTechTips, these youtubers aren't half as knowledgeable as they'd like their audiences to believe.
They should be ashamed, and you should stop being being a simp.
entitled prick.
Grow the fuck up.
You either don't watch Gamers Nexus videos or you watch them and genuinely don't understand enough to know how in-depth his tests go.
LTT is garbage "entertainment" though. I'll agree with that.
This is definitely something that has been coming for some time. Yes, I am a little surprised it has taken this long for a major channel know for hardware reviews for gamers to take this step... I would have thought that the popularity of the Steam Deck, and all of the handhelds that are now running Linux would have been a motivator.
But it seems that Steve is really seeing that there is more of a progression of people not wanting to go to Windows 11, and the issues surrounding Microsoft's insistence on adding creepy features that no one asked for (like Recall) as the push they needed.
And I agree, Bazzite is probably one of the best choices that they could make. The immutability of the system will allow them to have consistent images that won't change on them randomly. That is a definite requirement when dealing with this type of benchmarking.
Thid is great, from English speaking channels I only know AncientGameplays doing linux benchmark comparisons to Windows on gaming.
*Spoilers: If you use AMD you're not leaving performance on the table, if you're team green... it's a work in progress.
RT is currently still shit on Linux, but I don't use it anyway.
Since my main rig is still stuck on Nvidia GPUs for the time being I'm still stuck on Windows. 30% performance reduction will lead to less than 60 FPS experience on my end.
But on my Ally handheld, I've been hopping between Bazzite, SteamOS, and CachyOS.
I'm a little confused by some of the discussion. Surely the problems they're talking about with variations in the test system also apply to windows. You result can be affected by:
- Which windows updates have been applied
- Which version of the drivers have been installed
- What other software is on the system
Linux is the same, but they seem to be more concerned about it. Can someone explain?
I think a big part of why they talked about it in the video is to explain their base assumptions for the test. They've discussed it with Windows enough that they don't need to say those anymore, but the Linux tests are new.
In addition, they do need to change theur workflow simply because they can't use the same software and scripts for Linux.
They're also addressing the reputation that Linux has among Windows users, even if that reputation is outdated
i guess it's my new version of archbtw
i just find this distro to be genuinely worth everybody's try, as it's easy to set up, and it comes with custom-built packages (they mostly just add some comptime flags), that favor optimisation for the modern hardware over backward compatibility.
but in this case, actually, I proposed it bc i've seen synthetic tests that compared this distro to others, and it yielded interesting results, so i actually wonder about what the results would be in the gaming context, as the testing specific varies greatly.
in other words
I'M THE NERDEST NERD, AND THOSE NERDS AREN'T NERDING THEIR NERDY STUFF ENOUGH
or... something like that
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I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu and when it comes time to troubleshoot, youll get less support than the upstreams. Both searching existing posts and making new posts there will be less answers. Unless you make a search fo the upstream, and then there's a chance your distro tweaked something and it's different.
What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.
I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu
Mint is easier to setup than Ubuntu, and not only it's newer, it's based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu also is easier to setup than Debian even though it's newer and based on it. Being a new distro has nothing to do with being easy to setup.
Bazzite is special because it's an immutable distro, so it's highly unlikely you'll break stuff by poking around.
What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.
As opposed to Cannonical, which has been making slow pushes over the years to control Linux via Snaps?
They're aiming for "something the viewer can achieve themselves".
99% of ex-Windows users won't be going for Arch, Debian or Fedora. It's supposed to be easy to get in, difficult to screw up.
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Hegseth’s Self-Centered Reason for Calling in Generals Leaks
Hegseth’s Self-Centered Reason for Calling in Generals Leaks
The Fox News host-turned-defense secretary is all about the optics.Sarah Ewall-Wice (The Daily Beast)
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MDB II – 2025.61 – O voto do careca #podifusão
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“Mini-exu Alexandre de Moraes; Mini-churros Alexandre de Moraes.”Livro da Gabriela Biló com a gente e o Pedro Inoue: ...Castbox
Berlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe
Berlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe
Germany’s quiet diplomacy helped secure U.S. support for Ukraine. But its long-term security ties to Washington are entering uncertain territory.Chris Lunday (POLITICO)
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No, no, it's obviously because Trump is a Putin agent and is making it easier for the ~~mongols~~ bolsheviks to attack Europe!
I bet there are people who actually think this too.
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
: Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRsDan Robinson (The Register)
A funny thing happened back in the middle 1800s. A man ran a 7-ton electric locomotive a mile and a half.
The motor was powered by a storage device. In the late 1800s, people drove their cars around all day using a storage device.
These storage devices became better and better, until they could power trucks and buses for hundreds of miles.
They are still getting better and better. Of course they can be depleted, and it's good to havea backup methods to
cover these cases and to keep the storage devices charged when there's no sun or wind. Hydroelectric dams powered
by water-storage are widely-used, and some flat places still burn fossil fuels to do that as well.
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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1. Network is created that doesn't discriminate on speech.
2. The left wins debates and it becomes increasingly liberal over time.
3. Far right billionaires buy it to stop those process.
Because the person I replied was trying to say that the person they replied to was falling for propaganda and compared it to call millenials lazy. We know for a fact that millenials generally work harder, and for less, than the older generations that were/are doing the complaining. In this case, we the older generation is complaining about Gen Z not being nearly as progressive as one would expect, even to the point where we can say they actually have a problem with conservatism, and the statistics back that up as fact.
TL;DR: “millenials are lazy” is made up to try to pay us less despite the statistics showing it to be a huge lie and “GenZ has way too many conservatives” is an observable fact complete with actual numbers.
Young women are the most progressive group in American history. Young men are checked out
Gen Z is seeing a ‘historic reverse gender gap’, with women poised to outpace men across virtually every measure of political involvementCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
I wonder if gen Z has media literacy. I am expecting approximately 0% to discontinue TicTok as result of the acquisition.
Edit: Sorry for being lizardy.
After repetitive exposure to this propaganda (repetition priming), the people were beginning to believe and stand up for what each respective government had been flashing before their eyes, without them even knowing it.
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The fact of being exposed to propaganda and misinformation, repeatedly and continuously, has a psychological affect over time.
The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges.
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Anti-Vax Activists Staged a Rally Exactly Where an Anti-Vax Gunman Killed an Officer Last Month
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One sign read, "Anti-Science, Pro-Informed Consent.”Mother Jones
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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Hey on the plus side a bunch of stupid fucks that think COVID is a joke or hoax will die, so win for intelligence, I guess?
Hopefully humankind as a whole survives their stupidity also.
How One Word Could Make the Difference in the Revenge Case Against James Comey
How one word could make the difference in the troubling case against James Comey
The former FBI director didn't say what the indictment claims he did.Mother Jones
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Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.
Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 after a congressional recommendation in the 2022 defense bill — itself a reflection of efforts by some lawmakers to rescind the awards for those who participated in the bloody massacre on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek.
While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp.
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How Western Europe invented the ‘Russian threat’ – and clung to it for 500 years
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The myth of the bogeyman from Moscow was born of cowardice and kept alive by greedRT
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
"Pete #Hegseth’s big, urgent military summit will just be a “pep rally” for what he calls the “warrior ethos.” "
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
The defense secretary is putting the entire U.S. military at risk to hear himself speak.The New Republic
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Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott - The New York Times
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The company is one of two that has been pre-empting Mr. Kimmel’s show since he returned this week.Benjamin Mullin (The New York Times)
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a tranche of partial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which include flight logs, diary appointments and a financial ledger.
In the partially redacted documents, there are several emailed schedules over the years, which include:
- A 2019 breakfast with former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
- Lunch in 2017 with billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel.
- A potential visit from Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in 2014.
There is also a flight log from 2000, which lists Prince Andrew as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane.
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs – US politics live
Partially redacted documents mention Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Prince AndrewShrai Popat (The Guardian)
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Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a tranche of partial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which include flight logs, diary appointments and a financial ledger.
In the partially redacted documents, there are several emailed schedules over the years, which include:
- A 2019 breakfast with former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
- Lunch in 2017 with billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel.
- A potential visit from Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in 2014.
There is also a flight log from 2000, which lists Prince Andrew as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane.
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs – US politics live
Partially redacted documents mention Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Prince AndrewShrai Popat (The Guardian)
Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices
Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices
Years in the making, the proprietary Linux OS that replaces Android-based FireOS is expected to be announced at next week's event. Here's everything we know so far.Maria Diaz (ZDNET)
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tbh I was really only going off the down votes
but also, uno reverse! I was also being unserious!
He apparently has his own approved haircut style. N Koreans literally have a set number of haircuts/styles to choose from ... but this fucker gets to have his own and no other N Korean can have it.
Consider this and the fact that he picked that goofy ass cut.
Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child - Geopolitical Economy Report
Poll found 82% of full citizens of Israel want expel Palestinians from Gaza. 47% support killing every single man, woman, and child in Gaza.Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
You OK? Equating being anti-genocide and antifascist to being 'no better' than modern-day Hitler, who is currently doing a genocide of mostly children, makes zero sense.
It's already a one-state reality, an apartheid state. The solution is equal rights and right of return for all Palestinians within historic Palestine, and reparations.
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Hamas, alongside many other factions, are resistance groups born out of the apartheid with the goal of liberation from the apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
::: spoiler De-development via the Gaza Occupation
Between July 1971 and February 1972, Sharon enjoyed considerable success. During this time, the entire Strip (apart from the Rafah area) was sealed off by a ring of security fences 53 miles in length, with few entrypoints. Today, their effects live on: there are only three points of entry to Gaza—Erez, Nahal Oz, and Rafah.Perhaps the most dramatic and painful aspect of Sharon’s campaign was the widening of roads in the refugee camps to facilitate military access. Israel built nearly 200 miles of security roads and destroyed thousands of refugee dwellings as part of the widening process.' In August 1971, for example, the Israeli army destroyed 7,729 rooms (approximately 2,000 houses) in three vola- tile camps, displacing 15,855 refugees: 7,217 from Jabalya, 4,836 from Shati, and 3,802 from Rafah.
- Page 105Through 1993 Israel imposed a one-way system of tariffs and duties on the importation of goods through its borders; leaving Israel for Gaza, however, no tariffs or other regulations applied. Thus, for Israeli exports to Gaza, the Strip was treated as part of Israel; but for Gazan exports to Israel, the Strip was treated as a foreign entity subject to various “non-tariff barriers.” This placed Israel at a distinct advantage for trading and limited Gaza’s access to Israeli and foreign markets. Gazans had no recourse against such policies, being totally unable to protect themselves with tariffs or exchange rate controls. Thus, they had to pay more for highly protected Israeli products than they would if they had some control over their own economy. Such policies deprived the occupied territories of significant customs revenue, estimated at $118-$176 million in 1986.
- page 240In a report released in May 2015, the World Bank revealed that as a result of Israel’s blockade and OPE, Gaza’s manufacturing sector shrank by as much as 60% over eight years while real per capita income is 31 percent lower than it was 20 years ago. The report also stated that the blockade alone is responsible for a 50% decrease in Gaza’s GDP since 2007. Furthermore, OPE (combined with the tunnel closure) exacerbated an already grave situation by reducing Gaza’s economy by an additional $460 million.
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- The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development - Third Edition by Sara M. Roy
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Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid.
After the 'disengagement' in 2007, this turned into a full blockade; where Israel has had control over the airspace, borders, and sea. Under the guise of 'dual-use' Israel has restricted food, allocating a minimum supply leading to over half of Gaza being food insecure; construction materials, medical supplies, and other basic necessities have also been restricted.
The blockade and Israel’s repeated military offensives have had a heavy toll on Gaza’s essential infrastructure and further debilitated its health system and economy, leaving the area in a state of perpetual humanitarian crisis. Indeed, Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population, the majority of whom are children, has created conditions inimical to human life due to shortages of housing, potable water and electricity, and lack of access to essential medicines and medical care, food, educational equipment and building materials.
- Amnesty International Report pg 26-27
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::: spoiler Peace Process and Solution
Hamas proposed a full prisoner swap as early as Oct 8th, and agreed to the US proposed UN Permanent Ceasefire Resolution. Additionally, Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
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What were the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians?
Three decades after the first Oslo Accord was signed, the peace process it promised has not come about.Al Jazeera
So you think the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was not OK by that same standard
Way to 'both sides' a genocide. Disgusting.
Wow - that's quite the stretch there. I said no such thing, and you know it - that is unless you're a bot, which is the only way I can see someone making that leap.
Address my point directly, or I'll assume you're just another disingenuous troll and move on.
HAMAS would also kill the shit out of Israelis, let's not kid ourselves. They are just opportunistic religious psychopaths that are taking advantage of legitimate issues to seem like the good guys. Actually kind of funny that they were put in the same situation as the Gaza civilians, forced to struggle against a superior force for their survival.
They were finally put to good use.
The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It's impossible to understand their existence if you don't understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
Adi Callai has also done a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history, as well as an analysis of Franz Fanon and Identity Politics in the context of Colonialism and Anti-colonialism.
::: spoiler Historian Works on the History
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History - Nur Masalha
- The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 - Nur Masalha
- A History of Modern Palestine - Ilan Pappe
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
- The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences - Avi Shlaim
- The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories - Ilan Pappe
- The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development - Sara Roy
- 10 Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe (summery)
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Examining ‘Ten Myths about Israel’, by Ilan Pappe
Palestine was not empty. The Jewish people are not a nation with a homeland in the Middle East. Palestine was not ‘redeemed’, it was colonized.Allan C. Brownfeld (Mondoweiss)
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You don't stop a genocide by asking nicely. There is no way tomorrow that innocent people don't die to this shit. I personally am of the opinion that no number of Zionist lives is worth the life of a single one of their victims. Do you think they'll stop just because a gun's pointed at them? Do you remember how that worked in Germany?
No. Kill as many as you need to, and kill them quickly, so they don't have time to finish. Fewer innocents die that way.
You excuse netanyahu's bullshit. He's got the full Jim Henson on you.
Providing cover for it to continue on the explicit assumption that 'innocent zionist' lives do matter–but no Palestinian life matters, and a Palestinian cannot be innocent. That there is no number of bombs and bullets I paid for designed by people I might have met built by people I might've drunk at the same bar with falling on Palestinian hospitals and refugee camps and used for secondary strikes to catch medics or targeting the genitals of children for the lulz that could be stopped is worth the life of a single 'innocent Zionist'.
It's strong implicit Genocide denial and strong implicit dehumanization of Palestinians–used to say the genocide must be allowed to finish, or denying it and the ocean of innocent blood rapidly rising because of it. I am done discussing this issue with you–either you're in bad faith and I don't give a shit what you have to say, or I've given you something to think about for a couple days and you should process that before responding.
no Palestinian life matters, and a Palestinian cannot be innocent.
If you're going to "debate" by putting words in my mouth, we're done here. I never said, nor implied anything of the sort.
I am done discussing this issue with you–either you're in bad faith and I don't give a shit what you have to say,
Funny, I was about to say the same with you putting words in my mouth.
or I've given you something to think about for a couple days and you should process that before responding.
You're obviously not even thinking about what I've said, and you've therefore done no such thing. It's obvious you're too full of yourself to debate in good faith, so goodbye & good riddance.
This is the first legit response I've received thus far, so I want to thank you for that.
You make a good point - one I can kind of get behind. My initial comment, however, was in response to the idea of using nuclear weapons on them - that's far too indiscriminate a weapon to be using, and one that will have lasting effects that spread beyond Israel. Nuclear fallout won't stop at Palestinian borders, for example.
Yeah, I know. My first comment was a joke about two wrongs not making a right, just a right-wing - but then things went off the rail when someone asked what the second wrong was & I made the mistake of replying.
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The people who stand to lose the most in a situation will always act with the highest clarity and urgency. It's true in general that we must save ourselves and can't expect the ruling classes of other nations to step in to stop even the highest crime against humanity.
At the end of the day, the global ruling class is self-interested and only acts against that when there comes to be very few alternatives. That said, the discontent around the world is growing and it's only a matter of time until it reaches a tipping point.
As for the non-west, nobody wants to start a war or draw the ire of the west without having much capacity to change what is happening. That's my speculative opinion, at least. At this point I'd ask someone more knowledgeable on global politics to chime in.
Civilians are dying either way. Fuck it, launch the nukes!
For the same reason America bombed Japan: less casualties that way, and maybe we will get more femboys and anime out of them.
- liberationnews.org/u-s-dropped…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar_Alpe…
I've no idea how strong North Korean nukes are, but I'd be surprised if they weren't significantly more powerful than those used on Japan.
Besides, as repressed as the truly Orthodox Jews come off to me... there's probably plenty of what you're after already. Nuking them might make glow-in-the-dark femboys, tho, so there's that...
My friend. You are in the Memes sub and taking something too literally.
People are blowing off steam here. No one wants to literally nuke all of Israel. Palestinians would die as well.
Now if we could group up all the IDF into an area and do a mini nuke. Maybe.
^Another joke. See? Blowing off steam. See how it works?
Edit: nvm, read more of your comments. You seem to just be a liberal Zionist doing liberal Zionist things. Carry on.
Oh there was a protest. Well then, we shoukd let them keep going as long as they like, then. We can't stop the genocide in a way that might catch a couple Zionists who are concerned with the optics of it. The rivers of Palestinian blood must flow until they can be stopped without hurting any innocent Zionists.
Do you even understand how fucking racist that sounds? It's practically hate speech.
Nice straw man. I simply said the indiscriminate killing represented by using nukes was unacceptable. Or are you such a fool that you think the nuclear fallout would stop at the Palestinian border?
Get real.
Though the DPRK does support Palestine and there's evidence of the DPRK arming resistance groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, this is a fake announcement. There's nothing from state media about it, when you'd pretty clearly want it to be as official as possible if it were a threat.
Plus, this is extremely out of character for thr DPRK anyways.
Ah... Marshal Kim Jong Un, the beloved dictator of North Korea, where everyone bows down to him, though mostly because the government outlawed standing upright for more than three seconds in his presence, citing 'neck strain prevention.' Citizens report feeling 'deeply honored' in between bouts of spinal cramping. /satire
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Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Washington, D.C. — Today, Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released partial records from the third batch of documents produced by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate, which includes phone message logs, copies of flight logs and ma…The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
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