tmnvix

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by tmnvix 2y ago
> Why such a high standard for this one particular attack? Because it was used as justification for a major escalation. > Hezbollah attacks against Israel - and there have been literally thousands of such rocket attacks recently. It d
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> What level of proof are you looking for? It seems pretty clear that independent verification of the debris would settle this conclusively. Hasn't happened. Why?
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Obviously, my use of the word 'abhorrent' is a subjective judgement, but ask yourself honestly, if Hezbollah had carried out exactly this type of attack on Israeli defence force personal and their associates, would this not be alm
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Again, it is still not established as a fact that whatever hit the football field and killed those children came from Hezbollah (Personally, I do believe this is possible. I do not believe that this could have been deliberate). However, I d
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Israel claims it was Hezbollah, while Hezbollah denies they were responsible. To date, there has been no independent verification of the weapon's remains. At this point it is very much a case of "he said, she said". On that b
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> Hezbollah just two months ago shot a rocket into a football field, killing 12 Israeli children. This is far from confirmed and is effectively just an opinion (not that children were killed, but that Hezbollah was responsible).
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We do have some success in regulating abhorrent uses of technology. See mustard gas and chemical weapons in general. Sure, some will persist, but it is preferable to not attempting to restrict such uses.
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Very debatable. The local population seem to be under the impression that it was an iron dome missile that fell on the sports ground. Partly because they claim it is a regular occurance (malfunctioning dome missiles and detritus falling in
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> Israel has been restraining itself. Not for much longer. If this is what a restrained Israel looks like, the god help us all.
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Aside from the death and injury, what concerns me about this is why now? There is little doubt in my mind that the Prime Minister of Israel is highly motivated to engage in a wider war and drag the US along. This mass bombing could well be
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A lot of comments here claiming we need antibiotics. I can't disagree. But what can be said about the antibiotics we use on livestock? From my understanding it is a heck of a lot. When we then eat the meat do we essentially ingest &#x2
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As a fellow citizen of a ute loving nation, I think the rapid inflation of these bloated moon rovers was really just softening us up for the introduction of the full sized Dodge, Ford, and Chevy abominations I'm starting to see regular
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> Co-operatives can go a lot further than manufacturing too. It can be a solution for housing. An interesting example of this in an article published yesterday (a housing/renovation co-op operating in Baltimore). https://
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> ...these coops being democratic governance of workers rather than ownership. So who are the owners if not the workers?
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> Synchronizing pong to music with constrained optimization Nothing new. Apparently there are references to people doing this in ancient and medieval times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist
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Thanks for this comment. I currently use direnv with great success for managing virtual environments (mostly various language versions, dependencies, and environment variables). I'll look into this approach of pulling in credentials fo
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How much of this is consumer choice and how much is actually driven by manufacturers shaping the market in response to bad emissions regulation (CAFE)? When I was younger and regularly getting around on a bike, I used to view people in larg
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A lot of us, maybe. But my impression is that a lot of us also choose to consume more stuff more frequently (larger vehicles and homes, less durable items replaced more frequently, etc). I would not be surprised to learn that our direct ene
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> Having said housing problem comes from lack of developments more than anything. I would argue it's more to do with the various incentives encouraging the financialisation of property. Low interest rates, discounted capital gains r
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Not mentioned in the article, but one common prediction was that we would all be working less thanks to increased productivity. Well, the increased productivity part was right. The working less part not so much. An explanation I've hea
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Yes, it's unlikely that a defence industry won't ever seem 'necessary'. However, if we are going to take an ethical perspective, it seems like a particularly inopportune time to be joining the industry given that the int
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My preferred option would be to have an optional billing cap that I can enable knowing full well that if it is exceeded the service would be terminated (obviously with notifications as that cap is approached). I could then apply this to sim
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There are a lot of Chinese EVs on the roads here in NZ. I can assure you they aren't bursting into flames. For cheap and high quality, check out the BYD Seagull. Hifi amps were the first high quality (and very reasonably priced) Chines
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I remember as a kid hearing people throw around the term "Jap crap". Not for a long time. China has been going the same way. They are now capable of making very high quality products. Taiwan went down the same route, South Korea t
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This was essentially brought to us by neoliberalism. It's covered well in the documentary series 'The Century of The Self' (freely available on YouTube). There are many different definitions of 'left' and 'righ
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This one? It seems pretty clear to me that Netanyahu is trying to stir up a wider war in the Middle East. If he's successful that will be terrible for the security of all the surrounding regions, Europe included.
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Worked for resolving the Cuban missile crisis (agreeing to remove missiles from Turkey).
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> Notably the shooter was a right-wing Republican wearing a shirt with a gun channel logo on it. Curious to know why you think the shooter was right-wing? My limited understanding is that he was a registered Republican who was wearing a
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When cycling or walking, I find roundabouts less safe and more inconvenient than traffic lights. Especially the multi-lane variety.
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Frankly, I think walled gardens built and controlled by the communities that use them would be an improvement.

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