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Bezos might expect Trump to win and wants to avoid retaliatory actions from Trump if he does.

He knows Harris won’t hate him for the lack of an endorsement, or at least won’t vindictively come after him. Trump is… less mature.

Sometimes it can be used for comedic effect though. Like with “Fr*nce”.

Many military experts have commented that Israel has done a very effective job at minimizing civilian casualties. If if were truly indiscriminate, the death toll would be much, much higher.

The IDF has killed more women and children in the past year than any other conflict in the past two decades: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict

According to research in The Lancet, the number of total deaths is at ~186000. That’s everyone including those who died of preventable causes, e.g. hunger or prevetable disease, e.g. direct and indirect deaths.

According to professor Michael Spagat, the estimated percentage of civilians is around 80% (https://aoav.org.uk/2024/netanyahu-got-it-wrong-before-the-us-congress-idfs-clean-performance-in-gaza-is-a-lie/). Even conservative estimates put it at at least 61%, which is the worst for any modern conflict since WW2.

Based on calculations of the demographic of the dead and the living (e.g. how much does the general population differ from the dead? Are there more dead men of fighting age than in the genral population, etc…), it appears that whilst Israel may target Hamas fighters, it takes next to no effort to avoid civilian casualties in the process. For example, the IDF often targets homes of suspected Hamas fighters, taking out entire families.

So I don’t know which “military experts” think Israel is doing a good job on this, because the ones I’m seeing seem to agree on the opposite.

I don’t know, but the critics won’t be the ones to have to do so. They can point towards comments like yours suggesting that non-Jewish people should become members to begin claiming it’s a “fake” Jewish org. This sows distrust in the organisation.

At least, that is what I think the other commenter meant. I don’t care who becomes a member myself.

If a lot of non-Jewish people become members, critics could argue that the organisation isn’t really “Jewish” voices for peace.

In general, you should pay for content that you’re going to use commercially

Sure, but merely linking to a page isn’t reusing the content. If said content was being embedded, rehashed or otherwise shown then a compensation would be fair. But merely linking to a page should absolutely be free. That’s a massively important cornerstone of the internet that shouldn’t be compromised on.

Linking directs traffic which can be monetized by the website itself, it shouldn’t require additional fees on top.

Yes, but at least there they still use “Earth time”, just slowed down. For the moon it gets a little bit more complicated I guess.

Time moves at a different speed due to the moon’s reduced gravity. It’s not just the length of a day.

And according to new research, Columbus wasn’t Italian after all but a Spanish Jew. Though it hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet so it remains to be seen if it holds up to scrutiny.

Isn’t Umbraco the one that struggled loading a page that didn’t exist, taking several seconds to load the PageNotFound page and causing very high CPU load in the meantime? Like, an issue they had for years?

Somehow I don’t have great faith in that solution, but perhaps it’s improved in recent years.

RFCs aren’t really law you know. They can deviate, it just means less compatibility.

OceanGategate

This article was amended on 14 September 2023 to add an update to the subheading. As the Guardian reported on 12 September 2023, following the publication of this article, Walter Isaacson retracted the claim in his biography of Elon Musk that the SpaceX CEO had secretly told engineers to switch off Starlink coverage of the Crimean coast.

IIRC Musk didn’t switch it off, it wasn’t turned on in the first place and Musk refused to turn it on when the Ukrainian military reqeusted it.

Musk is a shithead but not for this reason.

I mean, unless you believe life is like a fairytale where one side must necessarily be good and the other must necessarily be evil one can oppose and condemn two opposing parties in a conflict at the same time.

Ever considered neither Hezbollah nor Israel seem to care about civilian lives? Are they, perhaps, both fucking terrible?

https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#easy-way

It’s fairly literally just a download-and-run kind of deal it seems. Does seem pretty trivial.

Sending a simple transaction like this costs a couple cents though, which they could in theory bill to the developer as well. Setting the threshold at 100 is probably more to accrue additional interest on Steams bank accounts.

Mostly the whole exploitation part, which often goes too far and can be very humiliating or outright dangerous for participants. Some scrapped videos supposedly amounted to torture. Then there’s the rigged giveaways and the fact that the dude just unnerves a lot of people because he, as this post demonstrates, doesn’t smile with his eyes.

There were also allegations that one of his colleagues was a sex offender but as far as I know everyone including the purported victim ended up denying it, so I don’t know how much people care about that still.

The building you just linked was built by a cooperative association as well, many of whom now live in that building.

Yes, but “aggressively removed from their homeland in 1948” also means “was voted on and approved by the UN as a direct result of what happened to the Jewish people in the world wars, and the collapse of the Ottoman empire for supporting the axis in WW1.”

You’re pretending that Israels independence followed the book as outlined by the UN, but that’s not entirely the case. They declared their independence earlier than was planned, and they tried to take control over more areas that the UN agreed upon. And then there’s the matter where it’s perhaps ethically dubious to let the UN divide the land with little regard to the people already living there, and them perhaps being wary (to put it lightly) of now being under the governance by a group of people who are supported by people who were part of zionist terrorist cells (the history of the Likud party is quite… colourful. I urge you to look it up in order to better understand why the Arab nations weren’t so keen on Israel).

Their country tried to win a war, and failed. Why shouldn’t there be consequences for that, like getting broken up and given in pieces to various more friendly groups.

Because the consequence is that Israel has treated these people as lesser than their own civilian population, leading to a lot of hardship and strife, even for those who didn’t actively participate in the war. And revanchism is a powerful and dangerous force as well. It rarely ends well. And after the war Israel took more land in violation of the UN plans. Even today Israel builds settlements in areas that don’t belong to them and which have been declared illegal by the UN.

Germany lost territory after the world wars too, but you don’t see them shooting rockets at their neighbors to get it back.

After Germany lost land in WW1 they famously invented rockets that they then shot at their neighbours, whilst being led by a man with a funny moustache. Revanchism from WW1 drove a lot of Germans into the grubby hands of the Nazi party.

And after WW2 the Allies were not particularly keen on taking more land, specifically to avoid another war, instead opting for temporary occupational zones led mostly by Germans, and an effort was taken to sway the German population to the Allied side. There was land in the east that was swapped over to Poland, but this was also in part because the Soviets intended to keep former eastern Poland and wanted to move people to eastern Prussia, now owned by Poland. They also moved a lot of Germans away from that region.