Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "DW News"
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it would have been nice to even briefly mention the main animal welfare concerns with horse racing, which are not that "horses die", but rather that their lives are horrible off the race tracks, that they spend their entire lives either standing in boxes alone, or being ridden and tortured for training and racing, never even socialising properly with other horses. they get ridden from far too young an age, their bodies are destroyed in a few years (racing and especially jumping overstress their bodies), and the lucky ones that don't end up put down at the end of their racing careers, like a quarter of the way through a normal horse's lifespan, and instead get sold to horse hobbyists, all have psychiatric issues from the abuse and isolation, and are ill-prepared to adjust to a normal horse's life.
in short, the problem is that absolutely no attention is paid to the horses' welfare beyond what is necessary for race performance. they don't live like horses, they live like cars!
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starlink has been the most convenient way for ukraine to make long range remote-controlled drones, for example the explosive boats use starlink (direct radio connections have very limited range, a satellite relais gives practically infinite range). however, drone connections are a small percentage of ukraine's military use of starlink, and not even the main arguably offensive one. a more important matter is whether ukraine can keep running its artillery coordination program via starlink, which connects surveillance drones, artillery crews, and army command with one another and enable ukraine to conduct precision artillery strikes much faster than russia.
with the long range drones, starlink receivers are physically built into weapons, but in terms of function, ukraine's use of starlink for artillery is no less a weaponisation of the technology.
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opium also has the advantage over other crops that it doesn't need to be delivered fresh, which is much more logistically challenging and leads to crops failing to sell when there is an overabundance, and prices probably generally being less reliable because with fresh produce, the money farmers can make depends on the market value immediately at the time of harvest, whereas opium can be stored by farmers or traders to sell at opportune times, which should stabilize the price and make farmers' incomes more reliable. there are other crops with his benefit that are sold dried, but certainly pomegranates and apples are a bit trickier.
one crop that I think could be viable in parts of afghanistan is saffron. pakistan profuces the world's most expensive saffron, and it's also grown in dry, rather infertile mountain areas. I think it's pretty much the same environment that afghans are growing opium in. saffron is dried and can be stored by farmers and thus is easy to distribute, and it could please the taliban because it's a highly prestigious exportable halal product, being the world's most expensive spice.
of course a more immediate benefit for afghanistan would be to manage to grow more essential food products to stop the famine!
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another truly der°nged headline from DW, as usual.
imagine this was russia, raiding the same hospital for the fifth time, each time ki°°ing, disappearing, and torturing civilians at random, including many healthcare workers, rampaging through the hospital destroying all of the equipment, blowing up or bulldozing random hospital buildings, making staff abandon infants on life support to be found d°°d in their beds weeks later (you know, like kuwait's incubators, but actually happening and video-documented, though this was a different hospital) and now to°°uring and disappearing the gathered journalists and destr°°ing their satellite transmission vans. would DW's headline highlight that russia "warned" people to evacuate while already attacking... even though russia also simultaneously said that evacuations were not necessary, and then s°°t at anyone actually attempting to leave? what do you think, is that what they would write into a headline about russia doing this, for the fifth time to the one hospital, and also raiding in similar fashion all other hospitals on average more than once within a two million people closed gh°°to six months into its liquidation operation? or would the headline perhaps highlight that the leading russian troops stormed the hospital disguised as hospital staff and civilians, thereby adding the w°r cr°me of perfidy to the criminality inherent to att°cking hospitals?
oh wait, russia doesn't have any giant gh°°tos and neither does anyone else. I guess that must explain it somehow.
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that non-air-defence explanation is ridiculous, that's an invitation to do it again, again. poland must shoot down missiles in its own airspace because ukraine is not allowed to. despite ukraine's habitually dishonest denials, we know that a misfired ukrainian S-300 air defence missile already ki°°ed two people in poland I think around a year and a half ago. if poland does not defend its own airspace, it becomes a back door for russia's cruise missiles to be more difficult for ukraine to intercept. having more missiles passing over isn't going to make poland safer either, is it? if ukraine is not supposed to launch interceptors towards poland, and it is not, then poland MUST defend its own airspace! if poland does not, ukraine will, and that will combine the threat of falling cruise missiles with the proven threat of soviet-produced old stock interceptor missiles misfiring, and will be the least safe option for poland.
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it really sounds to me like this year's heat records are once more an unexpectedly clear piece of evidence of the global climate changing faster than the high end of the common predictions from the UN climate change panel, which already are extremely alarming if you expect the medium prediction, or even the most optimistic version presupposing mitigation efforts that are guaranteed to not happen. this has been the case with most updated iterations of these predictions basically ever since they began. to me, this indicates that there likely is at least one major not yet identified exacerbating factor, which is missing from the predictive models. that would mean that while we currently already recognise that the insufficiency of our efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions (still emitting MORE every year than the last) is creating the worst catastrophe ever, we are still underestimating the severity.
at this point, we're in a full-on "don't look up" situation. we know for a fact that climate change is about to become the greatest catastrophe (by total amount of individual suffering) to ever happen to our species - the only unclear thing about that is whether this threshold will be crossed in closer to 10 or closer to 30 years. the current news of the highest ever global surface temperature, highest ever global sea surface temperature, and highest ever local sea temperature, are the most obvious alarm signals possible for this, and while it is difficult to say for a single occurence, I do think that they once again are worse than we feared. I don't think that the importance of this news is getting through to people. this is not a mere weather report, it is and likely will remain the most important news story of the year. we are incredibly screwed!
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the correspondent's claim that russia is thought to be running low on precision strike weapons like iskander is out of date. the current common assessment is that for about the last half year, as the numbers of ballistic and cruise missiles russia deploys have been much smaller (russia mostly uses them in the dozens at once, combined with dozens of more expendable kamikaze drones, but those attacks have gotten less frequent and use fewer missiles for each now), the usage rate has likely been lower than the production rate, and russia has been rebuilding stockpiles. besides the general value in having the ability of using a lot of them to respond to a particular situation or to accompany an offensive operation without running out, one possibility is that russia is planning to again strike ukraine's energy infrastructure in the coming winter.
there also was drone footage distributed by russia recently of an iskander missile hitting a ukrainian train during loading with military vehicles 50km or so behind the front line (like this village), which indicated that russia is now organisationally prepared to use iskander for quick tactical strikes against freshly spotted targets, as opposed to the coordinated strikes on stationary targets that we have mostly seen and that are planned days or weeks ahead of time. this makes the use of an iskander against a funeral now much more plausible. russia does have a clearly documented history of specifically targeting crowds of people, like the 1999 grozny market atttack, various market and hospital bombings in syria, or last year's cluster missile attack on the evacuees at kramtorsk train station, which targeted possibly the largest dense crowd of people (outside of bunkers) in ukraine at that moment, since kramatorsk was the big rail hub at the center of a large pocket that was about 270° surrounded by and widely expected to be captured by the russian advances, so A LOT of people were trying to leave.
with this particular strike now, I suspect that a russian spotter drone identified the gathering specifically as a soldier's funeral due to a display of ukrainian flags (and perhaps a large picture in uniform, I have seen a lot of those in videos of ukrainian soldiers' funerals). as far as ukrainian civilian crowds go, a soldier's funeral is an ideal target for russia.
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armenia does have some big things going for it in terms of who's the good guy in this conflict today, including that armenia is a new democracy while azerbaijan is a moderately fascistic dictatorship, that azerbaijan and its active ally turkey are rather fond of the historic armenian genocide committed by the turks, and that the power differential hugely favouring azerbaijan makes it abundantly clear that only one side can plausibly by the current aggressor.
it is however worth noting that in the 90s, when armenia, with real support from russia, was more powerful than azerbaijan (which had not yet gotten as rich from fossil fuels) committed many more war crimes than azerbaijan, and ethnically cleansed nagorno-karabakh of its azeri minority and territory surrounding nagorno-karabakh larger than nagorno-karabakh of its azeri majority (which was occupied until armenia lost the war few years ago). besides the general horribleness of those crimes against humanity, it is clear in hindsight that armenia laid the groundwork of today's azerbaijani aggression by ruthlessly overexploiting its temporary power advantage in the 90s, when they likely could have instead used the leveragethey held to create a compromise acceptable to azerbaijan. while the history of the conflixt between armenians and azeris goes back longer, practically all of the hatred of armenians held by azerbaijani people alive today stems from the real acts of savagery of armenia in the 90s. azerbaijan committed much of the same atrocities, but on a somewhat smaller scale for lack of ability, and the responsibility to deescalate and lead in establishing conditions for a just peace always lies with the more powerful side of a war (and today it lies with azerbaijan).
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selecting and training stray dogs for search and rescue sounds like a great idea, and in turkey, there is substantial risk of more earthquakes that would create an unsatiably large need for those dogs, so having more, even if they're not the best, is quite likely to save lives.
what I don't get is what this has to do with those dog owners - search and rescue is hardly a little hobby for random pet dogs and their owners, is it? 3:00 certainly the dog owner featured there is a really bad example, her attending that course is clearly an attempt to run before she can walk. she hasn't even trained her dog to sit properly, or not pull, or be calm and attentive. she needs a basic dog training course, not a search and rescue course.
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how do hair mats and plastic felt maps compare in what you can do with them when they're full with oil though? I assume that burning in a trash-fired powerplant is a good use for either, and probably the most economical. but given that the plastic mat is itself made from oil, and long hydrocarbons can in principle be split back up into shorter hydrocarbons, perhaps oil-soaked plastic mats could be used to make new petroleum products, whereas hair mats can't (because the protein is basically a really strong contamination for the hydrocarbons that will burn when heated).
furthermore, if the hair wasn't soaked with oil, it could instead be composted (keratin is a good nitrogen fertiliser), and plastic mats can almost certainly be made quite well from recycled plastic (being a less mechanically and aesthetically demanding application), while a lot of principally recyclable plastic today is just being burned or even buried because it's not economical to recycle. and if they are burned, which is likely either way, the plastic mats will probably burn more cleanly and require less complex exhaust filtration (keratin burns real nasty).
I have seen this covered by news media a bunch oftimes, but never an actual accounting of the benefits and potential drawbacks!
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what exactly are you complaining about? from hamburg to amsterdam main station, you can get train connections with one train change, between either two high speed trains or one high speed and one medium speed train, with transfer times around 20 minutes, which is pretty much ideal as a compromise between insuring that you don't miss the connection, and not waiting very long. the diration of the journey, around 6 hours, is of course longenough to make flying more appealing, but what would you expect to be done about that? would you approve of a gigantic unvestment in a eedicated true high-speed raip network with ultra-wide rail gauge, to be built between only europe's biggest cities? doesn't sound like you would. getting to amsterdam schiphol airport takes longer with more train changes, but obviously that's for the dutch to fix, not the germans.
and I don't think that I have ever heard the suggestion that the sort of journey where people should switch from air to rail is one where you have a regional flight to connect to an intercontinental flight, and you have the option of swapping the regional flight for a 6 hour train ride. >_>
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the US had a ban on semiautomatic rifles from the 90s until 2010 or so. after it ended, mass shootings spiked, with much higher death counts, always with semiautomatic rifles. mass shootings are not the typical way people are shot and killed in the US, handguns cause more deaths and well over 50% of US gun deaths are suicides, but semiautomatic rifles, particularly with high capacity magazines, are especially potent weapons for mass shootings and really have hardly any other particular uses than killing many people quickly. you don't need a semiautomatic rifle for hunting, you don't need it for personal defense, and while they are fun to shoot, so are other guns. semiautomatic rifles are primarily good for mass shootings and should be banned again.
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why would there be a special bond? the two countries are historically and culturally very separate. hungary used to form an imperial state with austria, and they once or twice occupied poland or parts of it for a little while, but who hasn't?
in the 20th century, poland went into WW2 as territory divided between germany, austria-hungary and russia, and got I think its second go of independence afterwards. in WW2, hungary was allied with germany. both poland and hungary were eastern bloc members, but hungary functioned more independently and more open to the west in trade and travel than most eastern bloc countries, whereas poland was almost as much of a puppet state as east germany.
hungary has more historic ties to austria and to the balkans than to poland.
in language, hungary is extremely distinct, as hungarian together with finnish and estonian form the finno-ugric languages, which originate in the ural mountain region of today's russia and are not part of and are highly distinct from the indo-european languages spoken by basically everyone else in europe. not only is polish more similar to other slavic languages like czech or russian than it is to hungarian, but it's also more similar to german, portuguese, swedish, farsi, or hindi.
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@Erik_The_Viking I'd say that feinstein passed a point in her cognitive decline some years ago past which it is unreasonable to blame her for being selfish. I see it as her trying to cling to the life she has lived for so many decades because it brings her comfort. which is indeed selfish, but I don't see her as still possessing sufficient cognitive capacity to justify expecting better from her. certainly at some point between ages 65 and 85, she was fully to blame for not retiring, which already would have been the right thing to do. but today, I only blame the mentally competent people enabling her, both her staffers and her party colleagues, who mostly still try to pretend that there is no problem. and I'd say that there is a real problem of the principle of representative democracy not being implemented when an elected legislator is entirely incapable of functioning as anything more than a rubber stamp to authorise the work her staff does - feinstein was elected to represent californians, not whoever her staffers are, and feinstein is no longer capable of doing any part of her job herself. it's certainly common for the other ancient politicians to rely heavily on staffers, but at least in principle, one can claim that most or all of them are still capable of leading their staff's work in one direction or another. feinstein obviously can't do that, she doesn't have a sufficiently reliable sense of reality to lead anybody.
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they have internally displaced 90% of gazans and rendered the strip almost entirely non-habitable. the operation will continue, with american, german and other foreign support, to push the entire population across the southern border into egypt. it's just a matter of pushing hard enough, then the fence can't hold them.
the only outcome the government can sell as making israel safer after massacreing gazans like this, making the rest naturally angrier than they have ever been, is the depopulation of gaza. and that has always been the only plausibly achievable military goal.
but sure, go ahead, keep gaslighting in support of genocide. it's not like germany has some historical responsibility to oppose genocides or at least not support them, no, that's not the one.
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Theeraphat Sunthornwit hydrogen does have current uses and theorized expanded uses for energy storage particulqrly for the intermittent types of renewable energy (wind and solar, it's pretty weird to use hydro for it because hydro is always available on demand), but there are serious drawbacks. like I said, it's very inefficient, I think the losses in converting electricity to hydrogen and back are something in the range 10 times more than with lithium ion batteries (with direct electricity transmission being generally even more efficient). it also has two particularly tricky aspects in handling, the one being that because H2 is such a tiny molecule, it is much better at permeating various materials and leaking through the tiniest gaps than other gases we store pressurized. the other issue with hydrogen is that because it's so eager to react with oxygen, there is an exceptionally large range of hydrogen-air mixtures that can explode, meaning that both air with very little hydrogen and hydrogen with very little air can explode given an ignition source (natural gas for example has a much narrower explosive mixture range). both of these problems can combine to cause pressurized hydrogen tanks to leak, and to form an explosive atmosphere when the tanks are kept in some sort of an enclosed space like a building, container, or vehicle.
one serious upside of hydrogen, which is mostly seen as an alternative to lithium ion batteries, is that hydrogen stores many times as much useable energy in an equal weight than such batteries (or any battery). it does however take up significant volume, because there are practical limitations to how hard it can be compressed. if the volume issue and the safety problems are solved, hydrogen could be an attractive aviation fuel due to its very high energy density, with the amazing upside that it releases no CO2 or nitrous oxide when burned (only water vapour), which have a particularly strong climate impact when they're released at high altitude rather than at ground level, making flying regular kerosene one of the most effectively climate-damaging things one can do.
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climate change will raise that number to a billion within the next 50 years. there is no doubt about it, we'll be looking back at today and seeing it as a good time before things got bad (though of course 2019 in particular was the last good year for a long time). the biggest problem with climate change really is how easily a very large portion of humanity will be forced to move by it, due to the facts that humans live highly concentrated in coastal and river estuary cities, and particularly large numbers of poor people without very effective governance capable of mitigating natural disasters live near the equator in places where heat, water access, and storm/flooding exposure already are at barely tolerable levels to begin with. food production, both agriculture and fishing (though the latter perhaps primarily due to overfishing and pollution, not climate change) can also easily be disrupted, and humanity struggles to efficiently shift production methods and locations to match the new environment. but the shifting habitable zones will probably be a bigger problem, with a lotof resistance to migration. canada andrussia will become more habitable and more farmable, but how happy would russians be about the prospect of being outnumbered 3:1, and canadians 10:1, by people from the tropics and subtropics?
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@guruxara7994 the usual buyers. ukrainian grain is some of the cheapest in the world, it normally makes up a huge portion of the grain imports of turkey, most arab and north african countries, and several other african countries. the world food program normally bought all its wheat from ukraine. that's why there was, and to some degree still is, such concern about missing ukrainian grain exports - because that specific grain normally feeds hundreds of millions of people who can't afford price increases. russia also exports huge amounts of cheap grain into partially the same regions, and russia originally banned grain exports when the war started (don't know if they kept the policy, probably not).
I think that the world market for grain and oil seeds has adjusted a good bit by now, increased production elsewhere (canada, US, EU). but the cheapest grain probably still is a lot more expensive than it used to be, since between good growing conditions, local production of fertilisers, high industrialisation and excellent transport infrastructure, and low national wages, ukraine used to be the perfect place to grow and ship cheap grain. now, to say the least, transport costs have risen a lot, since sea transport capacity is limited and impeded, and rail and road are always more expensive.
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it is quite interesting, and it sounds like they are indeed testing the toxicity. it should have been a better choice to clarify, instead of saying that the one guy is "more worried about heavy metals in the ground than about air pollution", the issue there actually is very specifically still the leftover lead accumulated from past decades of leaded gasoline being used, so the lead once was air pollution. the rooftop garden is certain to use no local soil, that's why it doesn't have that issue. ground level gardens could also grow in containers with the same added expense, or could have some depth of topsoil either replaced or layered on top, in which case the gradual contamination of the new soil would be an issueworth monitoring, but would certainly be more likely to yield positive results than just waiting for the old contamination to be diluted by seepage into the ground water. and one could take a middle path in terms of expense, and add a layer of not artificially created, but just naturally more fertile soil.
I reckon if air pollution did prove to be a problem, one could even grow some produce in some cities inside rooftop greenhouses that use filtered air intake pumps. though the limitation of the air exchange volume would mean that the selection of location and plant type needs to allow for much higher temperatures than the surrounding environment (probably not feasible in france during summer).
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there weren't millions of israelis displaced, it's at most barely over 100,000. and they have government support, community support, international support, military protection, a US military defense guarantee, free travel, no deprivation of goods whatsoever through blockade, have normal access to utilities and healthcare, and live free of the risk and the fear of being bombed and the unimaginably intense trauma inflicted on all gazans.
you know, I wish you could credibly tell me whether you truly believed you were presenting a functional rebuttal or argument there. but sadly your hasbara reality is so saturated in habitual lying and denial of the value of truthfulness in favour of furthering the cause that you'd likely not even be able to explain to me what you truly mean when you claim to hold a belief about the conflict.
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I'm pretty sure that most farmers could tell you that you can't switch fields and plantations in use from conventional fertilizers and pesticides over to organic from one day to the next even if sufficient supplies were available, which I'm guessing was not the case in sti lanka (they probably had immediate shortages and absurd prices of the legal alternatives). synthetic/mineral fertilizers supply plants' nutrient needs directly, whereas organic fertilizers feed microorganisms in the soil that then excrete plant-absorbable nutrients. conventional farming practices often harm the soil's capacity to support those microorganisms, so even if you suddenly do supply them with organic fertilizers, they won't be active enough to support strong plant growth. organic fertilization also needs to be applied completely differently, with the main difference being that farmers generally have to apply it long before problems arise (months or years) for the fertilizer to then slowly break down, whereas with synthetic fertilizer it's usually possible to attentively watch plants for signs of deficiencies and then immediately solve them by applying the necessary feetilizers, which work instantly because they don't need to be processed by microorganisms first. organic pest control is perhaps even harder, since synthetic herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are extremely effective and there's a solution for everyhing, whereas organic farming conventions only allow very few mostly plant-based pesticides that are far less effective and may require a bigger number of different methods as opposed to using one or teo kinds of highly capable synthetic poisons to do everything. organic farming also heavily relies on more manual labor instead of pesticides, such as by manually removing weeds instead of using herbicides, since there are no organic herbicides.
organic farming has big upsides. one for example in sri lanka would be that with the current conventional farming techniques, tea plantation workers are suffering massive rates of illness from the pesticides they use (though this could also be improved by banning particular pesticides and regulating better work safety practices like protective equipment). but switching to organic farming takes a lot of retraining, not to mention that it requires the production or import of supplies that are more expensive and harder to get (the reason why humanity invented synthetic fertilizers and pesticided in the first place), and the sales side of the business also requires big changes to market products at the higher prices that the higher production costs dictate. I would imagine that even if the farming works, this would likely be a huge problem for poor people relying on domestically produced food, who suddenly have to pay extra for organic produce.
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I wonder if they're actually doing more harm than good by constantly asking "is it climate change?" of people who can't say anything other than "you never know". I think the question should be reserved for obvious cases that deserve an affirmative answer, which actually are getting common. heat records are the most obvious examples, and while each one alone technically can't be guaranteed to have been impossible without global climate change, one could easily reference the clear increase in frequency of heat records, and their obvious relation to the measured overall rise in temperatures, and thus construct a strong argument that yes, each individual heat record within the pattern of temperature rise is in fact caused by climate change. the weight of evidence and the correlation make for very easily a high enough likelihood to justify actually making the claim of causality in a non-academic setting. it has a better basis in reality than the vast majority of other claims people encounter in everyday life.
if you wanted to be a nerd about it, the correct way to answer the question would be to ascertain the increase in number of such incidents due to climate change, and make a claim that the event was made x% more likely to occur this year due to climate change, and thus has a y% likelihood of having occurred due to climate change. of course this requires a good amount of data, but again, when that's not available, just don't ask the therefor unanswerable question!
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@inyobill france does have,relative to other countries, rather a lot of risk of major problems with nuclear energy. the reason is that their existing nuclear plants supplying 70% of french electricity are all ancient and largely imperfectly maintained. france first built all those reactors as a huge project, and then paused investment for a couple of decades, neglecting maintenance and upgrades, and not building any new reactors to rejuvenate the nuclear energy production, or to keep a sizeable workforce specialised in nuclear plant construction and maintenance. they just pretended that what they had was going to run forever for 20 years or so, before discovering that all their nuclear plants were quite deteriorated and they had not properly maintained their ability to build new ones. I think they eventually built one more insanely over budget, and then gave up for a while again. they also have some nuclear plants in locations of substantial earthquake risk, and now with summer droughts becoming common, they find themselves needing to shut down powerplants to avoid cooking the rivers that their coolant water flows back into.
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@Sam_Guevenne I know. like I said, they are counted among the civilians. counted as non-civilians are active duty military, intelligence service members, and police. standard practice for police in w°r is to count them as civilians unless they engage in the fighting, in which case they are lawful combatants (whereas other civilians picking up arms are unlawful combatants, not protected by the geneva conventions, because those were written by states that all agreed on their disdain for non-state armed groups aka rebels). in this case they're counted as the latter since they of course did fight, there wasn't any question of them potentially staying out of it - and I'm pretty sure they weren't in on the ins°de j°b, that must have been limited to high ranking military officers and some intelligence agency and politician involvement (the only obvious people in my opinion are g°za division commander avi rosenfeld, defence minister yoav gallant, and bibi).
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what DW won't publish:
from the committee to protect journalists:
October 13, 2023
Issam Abdallah
Abdallah, a Beirut-based videographer for the Reuters news agency, was killed near the Lebanon border by shelling coming from the direction of Israel. Abdallah and several other journalists were covering the back-and-forth shelling near Alma Al-Shaab in southern Lebanon between Israeli forces and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.
November 21, 2023
Farah Omar
Omar, a Lebanese reporter for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen TV channel, was killed by an Israeli strike in the Tayr Harfa area in southern Lebanon, close to the border with Israel, according to Al-Mayadeen, Al-Jazeera, and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes. She was reporting on escalating hostilities across the Lebanese-Israeli border and gave a live update an hour before her death.
Rabih Al Maamari
Al Maamari, a Lebanese cameraperson for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen TV channel, was killed by an Israeli strike in the Tayr Harfa area in southern Lebanon, close to the border with Israel, along with his colleague Farah Omar, according to Al-Mayadeen, Al-Jazeera, and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes.
reuters report:
"PARIS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah was killed on Oct. 13 in southern Lebanon by a "targeted" strike from the direction of the Israeli border, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Sunday, based on preliminary findings of its investigation.
"According to the ballistic analysis carried out by RSF, the shots came from the east of where the journalists were standing; from the direction of the Israeli border," RSF said.
"Two strikes in the same place in such a short space of time (just over 30 seconds), from the same direction, clearly indicate precise targeting."
[...]
Abdallah was killed on Oct. 13 while working with six other journalists near the village of Alma al-Shaab, close to the Israeli border, where the Israeli military and Lebanese militia Hezbollah have been trading fire.
RSF said its preliminary findings were based on what it described as a "thorough analysis of eyewitness accounts, video footage and ballistics expertise". Its investigation continues, the report added.
"It is unlikely that the journalists were mistaken for combatants, especially as they were not hiding: in order to have a clear field of vision, they had been in the open for more than an hour, on the top of a hill," the report said. "They were wearing helmets and bullet-proof waistcoats marked 'press'."
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using olive oil price increase as the example of agricultural goods costing more due to climate change is either ignorant or dishonest. olives have become probably europe's most threatened agricultural produce since the mid-2010s due to a plant disease epidemic, by now spread through all european olive regions, which is a bacterium called xylella fastidiosa that is spread by sap-sucking insects. it infects many dozens of plant species, but in olives in particular, it weakens almost all trees incurably to such a high degree that they seize to produce any marketable olives. not only are all affected olive trees cut down because there's nothing to save economically except for the very expensive wood (of which there now is a time-limited glut like there was around the 70s with elm wood due to dutch elm disease, before it became very rare), but in many places, whole groves or entire towns' olive trees have been cut down. producing olive trees typically are in the high tens of years in age, while many olive trees in less modern production (not using machine harvesters that require relatively uniform tree shapes and neat rows) are in the mid hundredsnof years in age (olive trees can get much older than lmost any other . some mediterranean regions have lost over 80% of their olive trees, and thus the same if not a larger (due to partial weakening of remaining trees) portion of their olive production, which will take at least something like 30 years to regrow. a small minority of trees are proving resistant, so there are pretty good hopes for replanting. but for now and the next few decades to come, europe's olive industry is ruined.
droughts do weaken plants and make all sorts of infections worse, but the situation with europe's olives is that the primary threat is x. fastidiosa. drought rather is a lesser contributing factor.
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the dutch and the scandinavians speak the best second language english in europe. besides the dutch being geographically and linguistically close to britain, one relevant difference I know of is that everybody watches american movies and TV, but here in germany, it's all dubbed german, whereas in scandinavia, and presumably the netherlands too, the common way is original english audio with subtitles. I reckon it's largely because the german language movie and TV market is much bigger, which makes spending money to dub a film in german more financially viable. the french and spanish both have even bigger language markets due to their former colonies, even the portugese do. and of course the former eastern bloc countries have largely been very late to adopt english as the main second language in schools, whereas the netherlands and scandinavia were very west-alignedduringthe cold war (well, the swedes less so, but they hardly had a reason to go for russian instead).
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pumping up groundwater for livestock and crops in remoteplaces like that would be a great application for solar power. using ponds or tanks for water storage would make batteries unnecessary, as the pump could just run whenever the sun is shining until the tank or pump is full. thewater storage could also be equipped with a float switch to only connect the pump and solar panels when the water level is lower than desired, but that qould probably find little use except apecifically for herders, who unlike farmers would have more use for a watering pond farther away from home. but they'd probably only do that in particularly secure regions, as the aolar panels and pumps would be very attractive to thieves. plus having the setup in the village has thepractical benefit of mounting the solar panels on roofs awy from animals. and if you do give such villagers at least a wmall battery setup, that can be highly beneficial in enabling amall electronics use. some villages with no utilities connection do actually have some level of cellphone connectivity, and combining that with solar charge can provide the only option for (slow) internet access. in those cases, preferably combined with a laptop, getting any level of internet connectivity can also be very helpful for children's education. and yes, many of these people an afford to buy some cheaper options of electronic devices such as smartphones. particularly the herders, as each head of cattle even in such poor countries is worth something in the ballpark of the high hundreds to low thousands of dollars.
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@dein3086 I don't believe that there are vegan pet food options at this point for cats and dogs, but especially cats, that are nutritionally adequate. if you own a pet, you are responsible for its proper nutrition. what the other commenter said about feeding cats with offal already has a lot of potential to not contribute in any noteworthy way to the proliferation of meat production, because if you buy the right parts, they are so cheap that you contribute almost no money to the slaughter of that animal, you're more likely to just be the difference between your pet eating that offal, and it being thrown away - you're mostly paying the butcher to cut off those bits and get them to you. and if you choose well, you can get even better nutrition for your pet than you would get from buying expensive meat cuts, or probably most pet food (most wild carnivores prefer to eat a lot of organ meat due to its higher content of some nutrients, and that organ meat is super cheap in many countries due to low human demand). commercial pet food is also made from cheaply sourced meat including offal, but due to the scale and efficiency of production, it does contribute a bit to the profitability of animal agriculture. or, if you buy pet food containing fish, it contributes to particularly irresponsible fishing practices, since pet food is how fishing operations monetise bycatch.
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no, livestock guardian dogs are among the least "sweet-tempered", and kangals are the biggest ones. they are calm like otherhuge dogs, but their breeding to fulfil an autonomous herd protection role (with no shepherd around mcu of the time) has made them independently-minded and difficult to train, and very highly territorial and protective of the people and animals they are bonded with, for which they heavily employ threat displays and violence. large livestock guardian dogsare the qorst category of sogs to choose as pets, and kangals are the worst ones among them. they're lovely animals like most dogs, but almost all potential behavioural problems and injury risks with dogs in general are superaized in livestock guardian dogs. besides wolf-hybrids, kangals are the least pet-suitable dogs.
most of those street dogs have nothing to do with kangals though. besides pet breeds common around the globe, they're mostly related to regional herding dogs, not livestock guardian dogs, which are rarer and don't make for a good genetic starting point for a successful feral dog population, as environmental factors for stray dogs quite strongly favour small to medium dogs.
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sugar is not a drug, but it's true that it's more commonly more harmful than cannabis (by being very commonly heavily overconsumed).
as far as I'm aware, the only noteworthy negative effect of cannabis that's holding up well to scientific scrutiny is the strong correlation and common temporal relation indicative of causation between cannabis use and psychoses in people under ~25 years of age. I believe the evidence for that has only gotten stronger in recent years. statistically irrelevant, but I've seen it myself too - the guy I shared my first joint with later got a drug induced psychosis diagnosis, another guy I knew well probably also had that or would have been diagnosable as such (similarly bizarre behaviour and had antipsychotic medication so he musthave had a related diagnosis). I don't think it got that badfor me,but thereason for me to quit also was that over the years, the effect shifted more towards very uncomfortable neuroticism.
I haven't checked recently, but as far as I'm aware, there even is a remarkable lack of evidence for lung diseases including cancer stemming from smoking cannabis, starkly contrasting with tobacco. it's been theorized that the negative effects one would expect from inhaling much of any plant's smoke (the carcinogens in tar aren't exclusive to tobacco) are cancelled out by the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects that cannabinoids show in in vitro experiments. I'm probably too lazy now to look it up, but I wonder if there's been a sufficient effort to investigate if this apparent lung cancer protection of smoked cannabis is also evident in the many people who always smoke it with tobacco (standard in europe), or even in those who also smoke cigarettes. in my experience, even stoners here in europe who don't smoke cigarettes mostly smoke more tobacco than cannabis. I always stuck out a bit by limiting tobacco to 25-50% and often using none, and many cheap b***ards here smoke 15-25% weed joints. there also are places like france where most cannabis use is a light sprinkling of hash on tobacco... though I suppose taking the greenery of the cannabis out of the equation would not change much if it's the cannabinoids themselves doing the cancer prevention, as those are mostly in the trichomes that go into the hashish.
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no need for quotation marks, it actually is because of low humidity. when air is hot but dry, it allows for efficient evaporation cooling through sweating. in 100% humidity on the other hand, sweat doesn't evaporate at all, so the body can only be cooled convectively, and only if the air is still cooler than body temperature. the air in coastal regions is almost always humid, and far inland it's almost always wet, as in general, wind blows from the oceans to the land driven by the evaporation of the oceans, arriving at land very moist and then losing the moisture over land through precipitation. there are exceptional places like the andes though, where the inland side of the mountain range has the very wet amazon, and squeezed between the mountains and the sea is the driest desert on earth, because the wind always blows from the atlantic over the continent and out to the pacific, and the air loses all its moisture as it rises over the andes. all high mountain ranges with one prevailing wind direction have a wet side in front and a dry side in the back. the US also has it with the rocky mountains, but less extreme since they're not that high, and there already is a lot of land between them and the atlantic ocean where the wind comes from.
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banning the harvesting of trees including all plantation timber country-wide was obviously an absurd overreaction.
I suppose it's unsurprising from kenya, which also invented the stable genius market strategy of making bonfires out of seized ivory. one in a series of those events was had in 2016, when kenya burned 105 tons of ivory (7000 elephants worth) and 1.5 of rhino horn. the CITES convention in principle allows states to source-certify ivory as seized (thus not financing poaching), and freely sell it internationally, where it would be legal to trade in most countries with ongoing documentation. ivory with such CITES documents (long-registered old stock from before the bans) is extremely highly valued on the global market. by selling certified legal ivory, kenya and other african states could make poaching far less profitable by satiating much of the demand with a far superior product. by burning those 7000 elephants worth of ivory instead of selling it, kenya created the profit motive for the poaching of another 7000 elephants. selling that ivory also would have generated huge profits, which could have been invested in conservation (or education,healthcare, infrastructure, whatever). the rationale of this policy is the market forces equivalent of catholic africa's myth of condoms being the cause of aids (bonus points for also believing that the cure for aids is intercourse with a virgin).
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can somebody tell me if there is another equivalently democratic country besides the US that has an average age among its highest officials as old as the US? it seems to me that such severe gerontocracy is normally reserved for autocratic countries, where the leaders cling to power and keep their trusted cronies in power in order to continue to corruptly generate personal wealth, and to prevent a new leadership from forming that may then come after them.
the american discourse around gerontocracy is bizarre. everybody knows that most jobs, including non-physical ones, have commonly practiced or even mandated retirement ages in the 60s for good reason. but when it comes to politicians, americans love to pretend to have never heard of such a thing, and they make it out to be a terribly offensive suggestion. no, what's offensive is the suggestion that people in their mid to late 80s should work the world's most impactful jobs. nevermind biden, look how absurdly democrats and supporting US media have been dragging out the denials that diane feinstein has been too old to be a senator for years! the woman is about to turn 90 this month, couldn't attend the senate and thus could not do her job for the last 3 or 4 months, almost died of shingles, ramsay hunt syndrome, and encephalitis, immediately upon returning to senate and public attention she displayed her confusion by denying that ahe had been sick and that she had not attended her job. if you put her in a nursing home now, she would be one of the worse-off 90 year olds there. and this still appears to be insufficient to make even half of the democratic politicians quit their denials!
P.S.: lifetime appointments to the supreme court are a supremely idiotic idea!
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if recovering the host°ges had been a priority, as opposed to what has happened, which is that the government wants the host°ges to not be freed because they're important as an excuse for the gen°°ide, then the very first thing to sort out obviously would have been to free all those with urgent medical needs due to illnesses and injuries, probably in under a week.
instead, it's taken over 100 days to even make a deal to ensure medication access for any remaining hostages who weren't too sick to die from three months of little to no medication. and I also got the rather strong impression during the truce that h°°°s was even keeping the wounded off the release lists, with the aim of giving a positive impression of the capture and captivity to the public. they probably figured that a sizeable portion of the hostages would not be exchanged for a long time, if ever, so they moved the ones whose health condition they don't want seen to the back of the line. to prevent that, a deal specifically for the wounded would have needed to be made, and is°°°l didn't do that.
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@CassieAngelica oh wow, you read books? couldn't be me. I'm just a news and educational video junkie - my entry into caring about politics at all was watching the amazing AJE live coverage of the egyptian revolution. that's why egypt's current government is, as I have been known to say, my personal least favourite dictatorship.
sure, any of those other commentators provide more informed commentary on a more relevant selection of topics... and without the hatefulness. fausch has talent for making engaging streaming content (for example destiny is incredibly boring by comparison), but besides him being a total a-hole, the core problem of his content is that he has very little interest in politics and important world news, so he covers that by skimming news pages or wikipedia articles live and interjecting super ignorant commentary (ignorant because he doesn't and never has paid attention off stream due to his lack of interest) to give even more ignorant viewers the impression that he knows things. his political interest is almost entirely limited to american electoral political drama and twitter drama. he used to have a little more interest in politics years ago when he was even more deranged, but he very obviously got bored with it a few years ago already. he's just continuing to superficially engage with news and politics because that functions as a content niche by way of frequently creating strong reactions to his content that he can then milk. plus he enjoys how associating himself with politics makes him feel important or heroic. things he's actually interested in are video games and anime, but if he dropped politics and only made content about entertainment media, likely much of the direct engagement with his content would be lost, and certainly all of the drama engagement would be. he could try to stir s*** up with bad media takes, but I think he would be much more easily ignored in that, and get only a small fraction of the engagement he used to.
some of fausch's biggest hits of ignorance that come to mind are his upload about the 2021 popular uprising in kazakhstan, and the smaller but more hilarious time 5 months ago when he misinterpreted a badly worded tory plan to end the non-deportation policy for undocumented victims of human trafficking in britain to instead be an open government plan to legalise the enslavement of undocumented immigrants, explicitly using the term "slavery". and on that video, I was the only one in the comment section who understood the real issue, or even that fausch made a mistake. xD
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@juelasejdo1706 they're not anybody's shields, they are humans living in their own homes. israel claims that every single civilian they kill in gaza was a human shield simply because gaza is densely populated and nobody can disprove tha thamas was nearby (israel literally NEVER provides proof of its claims of target legitimacy, they avoid setting any precedent for evidence to be expected). does that somehow seem right to you, that all gazans can bebombed anywhere at any time and it's fine because they must have been shielding hamas, especially considering that gazans can not leave gaza, and there is nowhere for them to go inside gaza where israel is not bombing them? israel has put out maps vaguely designating evacution destinations, and has since bombed most of those places that people crammed into.
what kind of precision bombardment is that when you destroy or damage half of the homes in the gaza strip in 3.5 weeks, with over a thousand aviation bombsa day plus artillery and missiles, combining to roughly the explosive force of one little boy, but spread throughout gaza directly into buildings (mostly residential) and their foundations so that it does more damage than said little boy? you think israel has been continuously locating actual military targets at a rate of a thousand a day?,
and how about the starvation siege? if we assume that 95% of gazans are civilians, the siege targets 95% civilians. that is straight up as clearly a war crime as the hamassacre, and a quantitatively worse one.
speaking of worse, how come israel insists (as decades-old official policy) on retaliating against every attack with a more severe attack, it's 100% on the enemy to deescalate every single time... and then somehow the ones deescalating every time are the terrorists, and the ones abusing their extreme power advantage and completely officially doing more harm are the good guys? if all other countries fighting remotely equal opponents instead of doing the euivalent of beating a cat because it scratched you, we would have a global nuclear exchange before the end of the year! israel's retaliation policy is an even worse version of thebarbaric practice of blood feuds!
normal people: "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"
israel: "an eye for an eye leaves us unsatisfied, how about 10-100 eyes for an eye?"
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@ZackTheGreat I know that suicide bombings can be a particularly effective type of attack against military targets (especially car bombs), but the taliban also committed plenty against civilian targets that they culturally disapproved of in the name of god's perfect warlord 🤡pbuh.
as america's most illustrious war criminal put it: the conventional army loses if it does not win. the gurilla qins if he does not lose.
the taliban won the war by defeating the american public's morale. the american public got bored and annoyed with the ambiguity and lack of glory of that occupation many years ago, and did not give a damn about afghans (american leftists in particular turned out to truly be as lacking in international solidarity as one would expect from a country that believes labour day to be in autumn). so eventually, two successive US presidential administrations unilaterally, without input from the allied afghan government or other involved NATO countries, decided to break all of america's promises to the afghan people, claim that there never were any promises made, and betray all afghans who had embraced a lifestyle contrary to taliban ideology. they also damned all afghans to live in a sanctioned pariah state, because despite agreeing to hand over afghanistan to the taliban, they then sanctioned the country because the taliban are in charge. and then to add mass murder to negligent homicide, the world's richest country stole almost all foreign currency reserves of one of the world's poorest countries.
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@michael-muller I don't buy your numbers, but yeah, the comparison I heard, because part of the nordstream leak was in danish waters, was that the leak's climate impact was equivalent to a year's worth of danish emissions (though I don't recall if this claim was CO2-based only, which could make a big difference given denmark's large pork industry).
what really annoyed, but I suppose did not surprise me with that incident, was how that gas took like a week to bubble away, and despite the climate impact being publically discussed, no official of the surrounding countries with any direct or indirect command authority over the navies and coast guards that were observing the release (or any politician that I heard of) showed enough concern and initiative for the climate to order those bubble spots to be ignited. with missiles or incendiary or explosive naval gun fire, drones, or simply towing a floating fire or flare between two boats, towing a drogue from a plane or dropping flares or incendiary bombs from a plane, that could absolutely have been done from a safe distance, it would have had no chance whatsoever to burn below the water surface due to oxygen exclusion (so it would have posed no threat at all of damaging evidence at the blast sites), it would have decreased, not increased, any hypothetical risk to shipping (sailing into invisible methane clouds would be very dangerous, lighting a big fire makes for a very visible and easily avoided danger), and it could even have been slightly beneficial to regional ecology to get rid of the potentially toxic methane pollution. the climate impact of methane vs methane combustion products is such that unburnt methane has a 10 times greater climate impact than its combustion products viewed over a 100 year period, and even more over a shorter period (because methane gets broken down into less bad stuff extremely slowly in the atmosphere). thus they could have prevented 90% of the climate impact going forward from the time of ignition. I think practically, they could have prevented 50+% of the total climate impact by getting to it 2-3 days after the sabotage event, that would no doubt have been doable. the amount of effort and personal initiative required to make this choice and have it urgently evaluated for feasibility and done would have been miniscule in relation to the benefit. it's really upsetting that everyone sat on their hands there.
that's an interestingsuggwstion about this year's extreme weather that I had not thought of, but like I said, there is a previous pattern of the climate change prediction ranges being surpassed quite consistently. perhaps natural gas leaks are a good candidate to explain that too - at least I have seen the claim that it is highly unclear how much gas is leaking unburnt in our natural gas production and distribution, which is commonly pointed out in opposition to claims about gas electricity generation being climate-friendly if they replace coal, based on the incomplete calculation that gas (due to its atomic hydrogen content that burns to water vapour) produces less of a climate impact per unit of heat than coal (supposedly half).
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ok clown. though I do personally blame many civilians who are still in donbass. I can somewhat understand the adults, but those who are still there with children have almost all made very bad choices. the time to start packing and planning in all of donbass was the night when putin declared the recognition of the DPR and LPR within the borders of luhansk and donetsk oblasts, and the deployment of russian troops into those territories. that was a declaration of war in the borders of donbass. now besides just any point during the fighting since, there was a particular point in time when everybody responsible for children should have gotten them out of ukrainian-controlled donbass, and that was the period of decreased fighting when russia was retreating from kyiv, at which point the ukrainian government told ALL civilians in donbass, not just those with children, to evacuate. very few people may have really not had a chance to evacuate, but at this point, almost everybody who has children south-east of kharkiv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia is being actively irresponsible. there are good enough accommodations for children in western ukraine and the EU to make it very clear that evacuating is the right choice.
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@ricardosmythe2548 eastern EU member citizens can much more easily acquire citizenship in any other EU country than non-EU citizens. EU citizens are the ones for whom there is an open border, why would they complain about the special treatment they receive? but it's not easy for either category of people to gain a new citizenship, both need to live and integrate with very substantial success in their new country, and among both groups, many never do change citizenship, even for decades. among those who stay for many years, a larger percentage of non-eu citizens may take up the citizenship of their new country of residence, but that's not because it's easier for them, but rather because it makes a much bigger difference when they don't already have EU citizenship, but rather a citizenship that both makes their lives here much less convenient and secure, and also in most cases does not get them as many travel privileges. EU citizens are already entitled to living and working in any EU country, with very few legal disadvantages to local citizens.
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nah, DW is only just starting to partially produce reasonable stuff like this here, which is still nowhere near acknowledging the fundamental reality of israel as a colonial apartheid state founded on ethnic cleansing.
try channel 4, novara media, and al jazeera english. the latter deserves to be taken with a bit more of a grain of salt, but it also provides more detailed current news coverage, and they present plenty of evidence and credible testimony to prove that their presentation of the situation is far more honest than what western news present. often it's as simple as citing official israeli regulations and laws, or the various calls for genocide, ethnic cleansing, and total destruction of gaza and palestinian west bank communities that israeli politicians issue from the other side of their mouths, safe in the knowledge that western media won't report on it. for example, look up the dahiya doctrine and hannibal directive, and see if that squares with the portrayal of the world's most humane military in western media and political discourse.
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@think7299 condemning hamas' massacre does not preclude a context. nobody in this comment section has justified the massacre. nor has the UN secretary general, very explicitly so. condemning and explaining context is not justifying, it's condemning. just like when I condemn israel's current campaign of genocide against the people of gaza, I can still acknowledge that hamas' actions on the 7th are fundamentally unjustifiable because what they did would not be right to do in any context. neither would what israel is currently doing, in any context, and what israel is doing is objectively far worse than what hamas did. not only has israel killed far more people already, including at least as many civilians in attacks deliberately targeting civilians, but they are starving, traumatising, dehousing and depriving of their possessions the entire 2 million population of the gaza strip with the netanyahu-declared aim of depopulating the gaza strip.
each party of the conflict is responsible for their actions. hamas can't justify their massacre of civilians by evoking the occupation, blockade and apartheid (but a hamas attack on only the israeli military would indeed have been justified by those, as is the throwing of stones at soldiers and colonizers by palestinian kids in the west bank, whom israel sees fit to murder or indefinitely detain for that). and israel can't justify its genocide of gazans, or indeed its occupation, apartheid, annexations and ethnic cleansings, by evoking hamas' massacre. there isn't one good guy and one bad guy in every war, and everything the good guy does is then justified.
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russia's population is 3.6 times as large as ukraine's. ukraine has been running out of its best people faster than russia. russia is unlikely to be able to call up a similarly high percentage of its population, and the big european cities are somewhat off limits, but there is no indication that russia is running out of any kind of recruit, as there is with ukraine. russian prisoners dying in ukraine is something the russian government wants, what they don't want and can't allow in large numbers is for the convicts to actually make it back to russia as free men but now with particularly horrible war experience. it's been a long time since russia had its last conscription drive big enough for people to take issue, and apparently they still get good numbers of volunteers from russia's poorest regions where fighting in ukraine now pays more than working as a doctor (at least officially, before the superiors steal from you).
meanwhile ukraine has essentially run out of volunteers and is now heavily relying on conscription, which impacts both public and military morale badly. animosity has grown towards draft dodgers as many soldiers already wounded, even amputated, return to the front and their families can't convince them that it's someone else's turn because there aren't enough of those.
ukraine also is certainly demoralised substantially now due to the failure of the prematurely celebrated spring summer counteroffensive. to us, it's looked mostly like nothing happening, but to ukrainians, it's been soldiers dying like mayflies for no gain. and now they're about to face russia's second winter of destroying energy infrastructure, for which russia has been saving up lots of missiles.
speaking of, it's worth noting that arms production is very difficult for ukraine to do and not get it blown up, and the west has damn near refused to increase production volumes (with some exceptions in weapon systems, they remain closer to peacetime levels than to the expanded production potential that many facilities are contracted to plan and prepare for in case a war makes demand skyrocket). but russia is running a proper war economy and seemingly outproducing the west in some respects, which is farcical considering that russia's peacetime GDP was a third of the size of california's, and ukraine is supposed to have the US, EU, britain, canada and more fully backing it. but that backing is a f°°king trickle, while ukrainian troops die at an unsustainable rate.
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@Iris-hx6ox there actually are some rainforests in north america today, such as on the canadian pacific archipelago of haida gwaii. people tend to think that it's either a purely tropical category, or, as OP seems to think, just a term for very foresty forest. but it really is what the name suggests: a term applied to forests that receive a defined minimum of yearly rainfall. it's much more common in the tropics because the heat can transport a lot of water vapour, but a few rather cold coastal regions also get enough rainfall if they have the combination of a prevailing inland wind and a mountain range behind them making the moisture precipitate. contiguous mountain ranges that are generally hit by wind from one side always are wet on the side that the wind is coming from, and dry on the other. the andes are a great example, they have the amazon rainforest on one side and the atacama desert on the other because of this, with the desert extending right out to the pacific because unlike most coastlines, the wind almost never blows inward from the ocean (in most places it does because oceans produce more water vapour than landmasses, and evaporation of water is what causes most of the airflow). since both the andes and the prevailing winds have been largely unchanged for a very long time, the atacama is the planet's oldest dry desert, despite having been squeezed up against the ocean the whole time.
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@Caernarfon what plane? the 2001 incident had practically nothing to do with the tal°b°n.
if you read it as things most openly appear, it was a saudi intelligence or rogue saudi intelligence operation with quite a bit of US "te°°orist" training. if you consider the bulk of suspicious circumstances, it had covert US operational support that was protected by major complicit elements of the national security state and possibly top level political leaders (though most support for a coverup likely would have been acquired after the fact). and if you choose to put much weight on a relatively small handful of suspicious bizarre events, and you assert that whoever had much to win and fits the profile of sufficiently derang°d behaviour is relatively likely to have in fact played an active role, then a prime suspect if america's west asian c°l°ny, aiming to incite american and broader western hostility towards m°°lims and ar°bs in order to tolerate more ab°sive behaviour of this state against mus°°ms and ar°bs, and to move towards the american w°rs against this state's enemies that would in fact follow - successfully in iraq and libya, and unsuccessfully in syria.
what's very clear is that iraq had NOTHING to do with it, whereas the tal°b°n can at most be accused of allowing al q°°da to operate training bases in the country. but that's pretty rich when those bases were typically operating as either direct US projects, or one or two degrees removed from the US through the US collaboration with saudi and pakistan to create militant f°°cistoid international sunni isl°°ist movements (against the soviets, iran, and iraq/panar°bists).
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@Lubu-xy2ig it's the title. it is in no way a question of ability, biden could stop the war and increase the aid tenfold with a phone call by declaring a withholding of support. the issue is that biden does not want to do that in the slightest. the ONLY thing america has done to signal marginal disapproval of is°°°l's aggression, or rather exclusively for its expansion of the "war" into leb°°on, has been the recent withdrawal of one of the two aircraft carrier fleets that were sent in from outside the mediterranean to threaten ir°n and hezb°ll°h into not retaliating against is°°°li at°°cks. everything else have been meaningless general statements to the media, not a single demand made of i°°°el, explicitly NO conditions set, which directly means permission to conduct war cr°mes and to expand the "w°r", and not a single acknowledgement and condemnation of an is°°eli action (plenty of statements misreported as such, but they all were "if x has occurred, that would be a bad thing", followed by a clarification that x is assessed to not have occurred whenever media cared enough to press the issue).
is°°el does nothing that the biden admin says to the press that it supposedly wants, constantly even expresses open disrespect for those expectations and for all its allies, and then it still gets the most special of special treatments that america has on offer in terms of huge arms shipments by presidential decree that are not only not clarified to the public and not approved by congress as normal (in the name of US national security, which is clearly not served but rather severely endangered by this), but congress is not even informed of the contents of the shipments.
biden is objectively ab°sing his authority to provide 110% support and has not actually expressed any disapproval of is°°°l's actions, merely feigned displeasure at the non-attributed resulting situation. the biden admin claims to be concerned with the famine (or "the continuing food situation", as blinken just put it), but they have literally not a single time attributed it to the isr°°°i decision to restrict the shipment of goods, or their b°°bing and bulldozing of various food production facilities.
they have not condemned A N Y T H I N G. not a single action of the state, absolutely nothing.
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@helios7212 the real time count of individually identified d°°ths is probably unprecedented, but that's because g°za due to its small size, close centralized organization of the health system that counts the dead, and lots of very unwelcome experience of counting "war" casualties, is extremely good at counting. what is comparable are g^za "wars" between one another, but you can't validly compare confirmed d°°ths in g°za with confirmed d°°ths in other w°rs, where they are counted through totally different methodologies. it's been quite disappointing to see so many otherwise relatively high quality news outlets publish these invalid and patently absurd comparisons.
some aspects of the numbers that have been badly compared that particularly stuck out to me: the current g°za d°°th count of minors (all the statistics use the legalese "children" in reference to anyone under 18) surpassed that of the yemen w°r within 6 to 8 weeks or so. absolute hogwash to anyone who has taken any note of how children have fared in yemen.
in ukraine meanwhile, which probably shouldn't even be particularly bad at counting, neither w°r party releases credible official military casualty figures, but outside estimates both from NGOs and foreign governments are in the ballpark of 200,000-300,000+ combined dead soldiers. and yet the individually confirmed civilian death toll according to ukraine and UN counts is only around 10,000-11,000. a civilian to soldier death ratio of one to 20 or 30 would probably make it the most humane war in human history! and basically everyone agrees that in the ballpark of 2-10 times that many civilians died in the mariupol pocket alone. the normal range of ratios between civilian and military d°°ths in w°rs seems to be between three to one one way and three to one the other way, or thereabout. because many got caught up in rapid russian advances and widespread bombardment, civilian deaths were much higher early on than later. my impression is that the first three months probably had a ratio between one to one and three civilians per soldier, but this later inverted and by now the total muat be bwtween one and three dead soldiers per civilian. but certainly nothing like 20 or 30 to 1.
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@Guy-Lewis yeah I don't like it either. for some reason, they decided to deliberately make an extreme version of this hostile interview thing (it's clearly intentional since they named the show "conflict zone" for its hostility). but they generally don't manage to really substantively interrogate the people they interview with well thought out questions of importance. they just ask normal questions and posture antagonistically, and maybe repeat questions and point out when someone isn't answering. quite often, the substance of the challenge is so crude that it's easy for the interviewees to avoid accountability, and then the antagonistic aesthetic of the show ends up making the interviewee look better than they would have in a more sober interview, because it gives the false impression that the interviewee was seriously challenged and proved exceptionally capable of holding their ground. really, any performative antagonism from and interviewer can only help the interviewee.
I suppose the upside to that format is that it's so appealing to politicians who recognise this as an exploitable platform that it probably draws higher profile politicians who otherwise would not have agreed to do an interview, and who draw relatively high view counts. and the hostility could perhaps make it less boring for some viewers, or in particular it may provoke more viewer engagement such as posting youtube comments, or replies and shares on social media, since content that makes people angry is well known for propagating very effectively this way (which breeds overall hostility in online political discourse). of course this has very little to do with good journalism...😒
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no, he's just dumb. by having the authority and choosing to provide starlink to ukraine, including specifically for strike coordination, which makes starlink an offensive weapon system, and for free at that, musk is BY FAR ukraine'sb iggest private aupporter in this war, probably more important than a third of ukraine's supporting countries are individually.
it doesn't fit his views, it seems as if starlink is being provided to ukraine as a US military asset, but as far as I know, it isupto him to make the call. so it doesn't matter what idiocy he tweets, he is literally ukraine's mumber one best friend.
people claiming that musk is somehow on russia's side are as ignorant as people claiming that turkey is.
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no, germany only ever abstained on UN aid votes, and only in the general assembly as they are not part of the security council at the moment. and the only ones that have a veto at the UN are france, britain, russia, china, and the US exclusively in the security council, where they as permanent members really are the only members of any relevance, while others rotate through as non-permanent members but are practically always to a high enough degree influenced by the very powerful permanent members that anything the permanent members agree on will never fail by way of the non-permanent members assembling a majority to vote against them, which hypothetically would overrule them. on matters that don't find agreement among permanent members, a permanent member will veto, so the non-permanent members really are entirely irrelevant regardless of whether there is agreement among permanent members or not.
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@05350 on october 7th, an isl°mist militia originally created and until last year supported by successive likud governments broke out of the besieged g°za ghetto with the intent to kill and kidnap (for the purpose of prisoner exchange) mostly civilians (they likely would have targeted only military if they had expected to face next to no resistance like they did, as this would have been more politically advantageous), and they were empowered to succeed by a conspiracy including at least parts of the leadership of the military and intelligence services, specifically including the defense minister and the commander of the g°za division, who had known the plan in much detail for a year, known that it was in motion for weeks, and known that it was currently happening since the day before, and who deliberately removed a large portion of the troops from the border, disarmed the kibbutzim, and delayed the response for an otherwise completely inexplicable time (4.5h until two attack helicopters without any targeting information arrived, 6h before any counterattack on the ground was even initiated). they did this as a pretext for completing the ethnic cl°°nsing of p°°°°tine on which their state was founded under the guise of self-defence.
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