It was always only meant to be a shallow excuse to provide cover for the various Nazi-loving leaders in Western nations to cut humanitarian aid to Gazans so as to expedite Israel’s Final Solution, death by starvation.
It’s not by chance that most nations that used this excuse to immediatelly cut UNRWA funds are traditionally racist, such as as Britain, Germany, the US and Australia.
I’m going to buck the trend and say I do believe that some (Israel say 190) of UNRWA staff are also members of Hamas. I’m also going to say that doesn’t justify the actions of Israel and withdrawal of international funding.
UNRWA have 13,000 staff members and volunteers in the Gaza strip. We’re talking everything from toilet cleaners to people who volunteer to hand out bags of rice and water. You can’t possibly vet that number of people when you’ve have a desperate situation at hand. You take all the help you can get.
If you dig right down into the lower echelons of any large organisation you will find people with extremist views. It’s just statistics.
Religious Zionists, who believe the Jewish people have divine authority to rule from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, make up only around 14% of Israel’s population. But in recent years they have greatly expanded their influence in the military, the government and society at large,
“In recent years…” What? Israel itself is a Zionist project since the beginning, from Hovevei Zion to Herzl to Haganah to Ben-Gurion to Sharon and Netanyahu.
I kinda have a feeling a lot of folks were like me, bought it and then never use it. Seemed like a must-have gadget but it really is a phone with a dualsense. No “secret sauce” (digital foundry) to streaming from ps5, just the same experience as every other device capable of streaming ps5 game play.
That’s what I had heard. I would have gotten one for a reasonable price. Or if it had PSP/Vita capabilities baked in. I ended up just getting a backbone for my phone and using remote play instead.
I came in here to note that most skepticism seems to miss what a niche and fixed-function gizmo this is. It has low aspirations and makes them pretty clear just from looking at the thing. Sony wedged a screen amid a controller. Its R&D budget was not deep. They didn’t need to care if most people did not buy one.
I would ask, “what did you buy it for?,” except it’s only for one thing. If you don’t match that single use-case where this thing functions - why would you even consider it?
I bought a deck instead, and it turns out 80% of my game time is on Chiaki4Deck, streaming my PS5. I don’t regret the purchase, but I do miss those haptic dualsense features.
However, Deck has OLED and HDR streaming. Plus 720p resolution is more stable than 1080p.
Chiaki4Deck is amazing and added a lot for me. Don’t have to stop playing FF7:Rebirth when someone else wants the TV 😄 Just pause, switch over, and keep playing. PS Portal seems like a good idea until you realise your phone can do the same thing with your existing controller and a £10 attachment.
I did (pre steam deck) get Chiaki working on my homebrew switch. It was okay, but nowhere near as good as the deck is performance wise.
It won’t somehow become a separate platform, just because the price is higher than you’d like, for a single-purpose object. Its sales prove nothing about a completely different theoretical gizmo.
Nobody saw the Wavebird and went “well, the DS is fucked.”
I use mine almost every day. I’m a business owner, husband, and father of 3 boys, so I can’t always retreat to a game room for hours to game. The portal is perfect for when I have a little bit of time. It’s quick and dead simple to pick up whatever game where I left off, and put it down when something needs my attention.
This is why I use my Steam Deck to remote play my PS5.
Just FYI for anyone who has a Steam Deck, you don’t need this product. Look up Chiaki (or Chiaki4Deck for a Steam Deck-specific fork). Works very well.
I dunno, maybe this is crazy, and there are reasons to consolidate critical manufacturing all in one geographic place, but maybe, just maybe if we spread these things out a bit, it might reduce risk? I'm just spitballin' here. Remember when the ONE factory making spray blown N-95 masks turned out to be in Wuhan?
In their defense, Taiwan has been very strategic in making themselves extremely critical in one of the most important industries in the modern world. Keeps China from fucking with them too much cause it keeps everyone having a vested interest in protecting them
So what is good for Taiwan may not be good for the rest of the world? That's sad. Though I can better understand their motivation, with this tidbit of knowledge. TY!
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