• Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11112·
    6 months ago

    They’re right, a beach house isn’t a dream. It’s a nightmare.

    Your house will constantly get sand inside. If there is a bit of wind your house gets sandblasted. You can’t eat outside or seagulls will steal your food. Walking on sand is more difficult than walking on pavement or grass. You would have to be a madman to go live on a beach.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      Sand is also hot as fuck especially during the summer. I’m from New Jersey and I’m used to the sand being really hot on the beach during the late summer, to the point that you can barely stand on it.

      I went down to South Florida during August and standing on the sand in bare feet was like standing on hot coals.

      Edit: rereading this reminded me that even standing on the concrete outside of the pool in early August was unbearable. I initially didn’t wear my sandals out because the entrance to the pool area from our hotel was like 100 feet and it was like 15-20 feet from the door to the water. BIG MISTAKE. It was probably the same temperature as the sand. I wouldn’t doubt that the sand was 130F.

      This article about South Beach said the said was 137F this August, around the time I was down there

      • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Same. Fam had a home on LBI in the Terrace oceanside and the damn sand was fire in July & August. God forbid you tried to walk down onto the asphalt streets for the 6 houses up to yours… it was hot and sticky as it would melt and you’d get tar on your feet (walking the curb was sanctuary).

        Building my retirement house now on an island and I’ll be happy with .6km to the beach. I can still see the water and smell the salt air, and that’s great.

        • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Nice! I currently live about a 20 minute drive from Miami Beach and that’s fine enough for me. I have an inground pool and sun deck area at my apartment building, so that’s good enough for me! I don’t need to drag shit long distances and it takes me a few minutes to get to, plus no cleanup (unless you count washing off sweat lol)!

          I just googled real quick to see how hot South Florida Beach sand can get and there was an article from this past August (around the time I was down there) that said the beach sand hit 137F!

          • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Wow. 137F? That’s crazy… my wife is Indonesian so we’re moving to Bali, but north on the island where the beaches aren’t great but there’s the sea air to keep you cool. Building a small villa with a pool as well (3m x 8m) for swimming but I still love the beachy vibe of the restaurants and shops along the coast area. Island life - got to love it!

            • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Yeah, insane right? Shocked me too! I guessed it was probably around 125F+ because it was unbearable. We always have a steady 10-30 mph breeze which is nice and it rains a lot, almost every day, but only for a short period of time though so it tends to cool it off a bit.

              What you’re describing definitely sounds great to me! Enjoy it!

      • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3010·
        6 months ago

        The fact that the company did this and the government didn’t do anything about it gives me nazi vibes.

        Add this to IDF and you get the big picture.

        Also, Hitler wasn’t a bad guy overnight btw.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        215·
        6 months ago

        It’s fake in that this isn’t actually happening or approved by the state.

        Yet. It isn’t happening yet. Them settlers will pay a premium for that beachfront. (Also, I’m reminded of that IDF instagram … uh… person… who posted something about “I need to come back in a bikini”

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
      503·
      6 months ago

      Source? Because the company who posted this didn’t deny and basically doubled back after saying it’s a “joke”

      • iquanyin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        6 months ago

        it’s possible to be against genocide while also being against terrorists. it’s possible for smart people, anyway.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    332·
    6 months ago

    Not the best moment to speak the quiet part (the robbery of land) out loud. Israeli society is falling into such a spiral of collective madness that many of them don’t even realize how psychotic all of this is to the rest of the world.

  • iquanyin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    293·
    6 months ago

    how do we know it’s real tho? who is the company running this ad and where is it running?

    • MrConfusion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      622·
      6 months ago

      The ad is from the Israeli real estate company Harey Zahav. They posted this on their Instagram account. After criticism and backlash they claimed it was posted as a joke.

      The Norwegian journalist collaborative fact checking service Faktisk.no has done a deep dive on this ad with a lot of detail if you want to check it out. You can read it using google translate (or similar tools) you are interested.

      https://www.faktisk.no/artikler/jdplr/kraftige-reaksjoner-etter-spok-om-boligprosjekt-i-gaza

      Some interesting facts from the article: the ad text says they are working to prepare for a return to Gush Katif, an earlier Israeli settlement in Gaza. The company is responsible for the development of settlements on the West Bank. The owner of the company lives in Moscow and seems to be an oligarch.

      So based on the info in the linked in the article the ad is very real. And while the company behind it claims it was all a joke, that does seem a lot like damage control.

      • doctorcrimson@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I predicted all of this back in 2016. Literally every detail about what is happening. Israeli leadership and land developers are an open fucking book.

    • yggdar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      635·
      6 months ago

      Sadly, yes. On the off chance you speak Dutch, here is a fact-checking article on that exact ad. I know it’s a weird thing to link articles in uncommon languages, but I came across that article recently and thought it really provided a lot of context, so I’m afraid it’s the best source I have. You can always run it through a translator too :-)

        • zazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          6 months ago

          The real estate company’s ads for ‘presale’ lots in Gaza and plans to ‘prepare the groundwork for a return’ to the enclave were meant to be ‘a joke’ for its followers

          Ha ha, what if we pretend to build houses on bombed people’s land. that would be funny i think.

  • NinePeedles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    246·
    6 months ago

    Wow. That’s bold. They said the quote part out loud. When the US invaded the Middle East it was only a poorly kept secret that it was for oil.

  • BloodSlut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    6 months ago

    the use of the word ‘dream’ makes this seem ambiguous. i still cant really tell if this is pro or anti-settler?

    i feel like it could either be interpreted as saying “a beach house is not positive” or as “a beach house could be a reality”

    i hope its the first, it would be really sick otherwise

    • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      In this thread there are multiple translations of the smaller text underneath, and it’s definitively “once we genocide them we’ll have space for new beach houses”

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
    131·
    6 months ago

    That’s gotta be bad advertising, surely? Like, even someone who hates the people who currently live there and so doesn’t feel horrible about contributing to forcing them out, is still not going to want to go build in the ruins of a warzone I’d imagine?

    • iquanyin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      6 months ago

      ads for land while they are bombing and starving the citizens of that land and claiming to be only hunting hamas. context: it tells you what things mean.