The rockets were a distraction. They killed 12 people, most of them Bedouins.

The real attacks (including the rave massacre) were done by operatives, boots on the ground, using small arms fire.

Wealth inequality is worse in the US than in China.

Could be, that data for wealth isn’t easily available for both countries.

Income inequality is about the same in USA and China though, Gini coefficient around 0.41 in both countries. Most figures put China slightly more inequal than USA for income.

Dealing with surplus humans has never been a problem for communist countries. Just stop allocating them food for 2 months.

Not sure if China is that sort of a communist country these days though, but it sure retained the authoritarian parts.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but a year ago I thought that I’d never buy a chinese laptop due to political reasons and here we are one year later and I have a Lenovo. I think most people will eventually make their decisions based on something else than politics, or that politics are in issue only when choosing between things that are identical enough in every other way.

Given the amount of publicity they’ve received from all this, I’m inclined to be a bit conspiracy theoretic about this… Did they plan it to unfold exactly like it did? Are you all helping them?

Controversy and infamy lasts for a few months, but after that’s over, the name Framework is still etched into everyone’s minds even though they don’t anymore exactly remember why.

Back when Russia/Soviet Union still had actual power it was a much better deal for Europe.

I kinda feared that they actually might do that.

Alundra for PS1 perfected the Zelda genre and I haven’t quite ever played anything like it.

Trump seems chaotic and libertarian enough to me that he might actually stop the Israel military aid if he is snubbed.

For their sake, I hope the palestinians are able to think more clearly than that.

“support for the overthrow of the United States Government,” is also one pre-crime per that report. That’s reflection right there.

So Marx and Trotsky seemed to be against individual murdering of factory owners et alia. Does that imply that they would’ve been against the atrocities of Communist states that were perpetrated in their name, or would that have been fine because it was done by the masses in some sense?

Neither saw it happen in great numbers: Marx died before any of his ideas manifested properly, and Trotsky of course was murdered by Stalin in 1940. Holodomor and Soviet Union purges had happened already at that point, but perhaps Trotsky might’ve thought that those were just the evil of Stalin instead of being a more general mistake of his whole ideology. People tend to think that their political philosophy cannot do bad things.

Why would anyone think that FSF is capable of releasing a unique and good device? It’s gonna be a bog-standard Android device with some software modified/removed.

Might be ok for some people still though. Also I’ll be happy to be wrong about my cynicism.

It’s not bad if you don’t need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust

Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you’re not a rust-freak like me.

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Religion is fucking stupid anyway, so a theocratic country is extra stupid.

Yep, which is why granting Palestine statehood would be also extra stupid.

Yeah, it makes me a pretty horrible person to be just like every other person in that regard.

Is this better or worse than being a public company?

Sure. I just think that at some point after Israel left Gaza the last time in 2005, there was a long window of opportunity for gazans and palestinians to make everything better, but they totally failed to do so. Instead, they specifically voted in to power a terrorist organization who for the next almost 20 years did pretty much nothing except prepare to attack Israel.

There are reasons why prisons are made.

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It’s definitely not “the genocide”. I don’t think it’s even “a genocide”. As clarification, this is an example of what I think qualifies as a genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide and I am aware that UN has far far less stringent definitions. I don’t think we should be watering down serious concepts like UN is doing there.

But yes, that’s how I view Israel’s justification for the Gaza War. Obviously Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine is even more ludicrous than Hamas’s justification for terrorizing and invading Israel regurarily, but it’s not exactly sane either.

Hamas is obviously the greater evil in about the same way as Nazis were obviously the greater evil in Europe in WW2. Beating them was also extremely harsh for german civilians sometimes. Dresden firebombings killed 25 000 people in a single bombing raid, in a population of about 600 000 people. Relatively speaking about as many deaths in that one day than total in Gaza since October 7 2023.

Was it necessary? I cannot tell definitely, but probably not all of it was and probably most of it was.