I myself don’t want to live in Montreal, but I do enjoy a visit once in a while.

Not useless, surgical masks reduce spread by more than 50% so far as I recall. Not perfect, but not useless.

Nope, because you fail to understand how Israel denying the movement of aid into Gaza would be a bad look for them.

And Netanyahu is still a piece of shit who needs to be removed form power, but not for allowing aid into Gaza.

Now before you continue your mental circlejerk

Pot, meet kettle.

Money is considered aid, always has been.

And now you have an even worse humanitarian crisis, and a pissed off international community because you’ve denied aid to Gaza. Congrats, you’re a terrible world leader.

But unlike sending food, it is non-perishable, and can allow a country to buy what it needs. Money is aid.

Money is aid. Money can buy food, and water, and whatever other supplies a state needs.

Given the thousands of rockets fired at Israel by Hamas from Gaza every year, the international community is understanding of a blockade being put in place.

Denying the passage of aid across that blockade however would be seen as far worse.

And the current air-strikes are a result of a large scale attack against Israel, so they are seen by many as justified. Though you can see most of the world now sees Israel as going too far. Thus proving that Israel can only get away with so much before their allies drop off.

Of course they lobbied not to sanction Qatar. Once again how would it look to the world if Israel worked to deny aid to Palestine?

And I never said Netanyahu was a swell guy, he needs to be removed from power as well as Hamas.

It wasn’t Israel funds being smuggled in, it was Qatari funds. And how would it have looked if Israel blocked official Qatari aid to Gaza?

No, hotdogs have traditionally been beef. And they taste great.

For someone like OPs mom it would be more than good enough is my point. She’s saying she wished something existed that does indeed exist.

Of course, and much of it is on the app store now (which I rarely use myself), but for someone like OPs mom who just wants an easy app store, well there is one.

Yes, I read that. A couple thousand people out of billions of users were affected, and the problem was resolved. It’s really not as big of an issue as you’re making it out to be.

But isn’t it the best distro?

What crap machine are you running? I can open the store on my Surface 3 I’ve had for nearly a decade.

I don’t think getting instagram, or photoshop off the microsoft store is giving anyone a virus. And I’ve never gotten a virus from it in the few times I’ve used it.

Sure, but pretty much every common application most people use is available, which is fine for the majority of people such as OPs mom.

But Windows does have an app store, and has for ages now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Attacks_fired_at_Israel_from_the_Gaza_Strip_by_year.png

Rockets started well before the blockade it seems.