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901.
by dralley 2y ago
The local population are under no such impression.
902.
by dralley 2y ago
Her father wasn't a civilian. Had this been some other kind of strike, like a 500lb bomb, it still would have been considered legal collateral damage.
903.
by dralley 2y ago
You're assuming that. There has been no reporting on the details. For all we know she could have been sitting next to her father when the pager went off.
904.
by dralley 2y ago
What military action do you propose that has zero chance of collateral damage whatsoever? This is vastly better than the alternative of dropping even relatively small (250lb) bombs. This is vastly better than pretty much every alternative.
905.
by dralley 2y ago
In the same way that Los Zetas (and other cartels) are the unofficial government of parts of Mexico.
906.
by dralley 2y ago
Hezbollah is not the Lebanese military. They are a paramilitary gang, comparable to the cartels in Mexico, that gained too much strength for the actual Lebanese military to deal with. Mostly because Iran trained fighters and sent weapons.
907.
by dralley 2y ago
What alternative do you suggest? It's not as though a 250, 500lb bomb is less prone to collateral damage. Hezbollah willingly joined with Hamas into a war. As far as war goes, this is just about the most precise form of targeting poss
908.
by dralley 2y ago
>Thousands of civilians You have absolutely nothing on which to base the claim that these were civilians and not Hezbollah members.
909.
by dralley 2y ago
>Some entities (like the EU) only considers the paramilitary arm of Hezbollah as a terrorist group, while the rest is a proper political organization. And that decision is much more political than it is legal or rational. Imagine arguing
910.
by dralley 2y ago
Nobody is going to be able to answer that question immediately. With the pagers and radios, it's pretty clear that it was limited to Hezbollah according to Hezbollah's own statements.
911.
by dralley 2y ago
It's not a terrorist attack unless the primary goal is causing terror. The primary goal here was clearly causing damage to Hamas' command structure by putting a few thousand militants in the hospital, and also literally blowing
912.
by dralley 2y ago
In this case let's just say that I doubt post office workers are first in line to get brand new, secure, one-way pagers from Hezbollah.
913.
by dralley 2y ago
>That is, they were not uniformed soldiers engaged in combat. Hence, they were not legitimate targets. They may not even have touched a gun if they served in Hizbollah's civil administration. Had precision strikes existed in 1944, n
914.
by dralley 2y ago
One of the most specifically targeted, discriminatory large-scale attacks of all time, and still people complain.
915.
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916.
by dralley 2y ago
>the rust bros are extreme drama lovers "Rust bros" have been involved in approximately 0% of the Linux kernel drama that has surfaced to the level of being covered elsewhere, historically speaking. Linus Torvalds is not averse
917.
by dralley 2y ago
Management's constant attempts to undermine the union by firing people, outsourcing, moving entire factories and so forth have been more harmful than anything the union has done.
918.
by dralley 2y ago
Rust already has orders of magnitude more adoption in the real world than Haskell
919.
by dralley 2y ago
It matters if you have limited space.
920.
by dralley 2y ago
Because at the same time as they're invading Ukraine and conducting clandestine attacks across Europe, they're also cultivating a relationship with North Korea and Iran, and encouraging them to pick fights while the US and NATO ar
921.
by dralley 2y ago
Having listened to the audio clip mentioned in their resignation, I can't blame him for getting fed up, certainly if that's a representative sample of how the effort has been treated. Having another maintainer completely shut down
922.
by dralley 2y ago
That's not the problem of the nation they participate in invading.
923.
by dralley 2y ago
It's not speculation if that's literally what the charges are, as per the court documents.
924.
by dralley 2y ago
Police working 24/7 while the judicial system works on more typical hours is not news to anyone.
925.
by dralley 2y ago
It's been less than 24 hours, over a weekend.
926.
by dralley 2y ago
Every single thread that's tangentially related to Russia has several new accounts, created minutes ago, posting for the first time using narratives that incidentally always line up with Russian interests, for some reason. I almost nev
927.
by dralley 2y ago
Russians are absolutely losing their shit about this, because Telegram is the unofficial-but-predominant communication system of the entire Russian military. So yes, a lot of noise is being spewed to try to turn everyone against this before
928.
by dralley 2y ago
> The margins are too low: they're organized and staffed to a higher margin business. Intel has a massive fab capacity problem right now, in that their fabs aren't being utilized. Doing manufacturing of a high-volume product is
929.
by dralley 2y ago
Stereotypes isn't the right word. Archetypes perhaps.
930.
by dralley 2y ago
They also want to be the Saudi Arabia of solar power (the panels)

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