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  • Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | The Guardian

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  • That's not what I said. Israel has to fight back and since they are small, much smaller than their enemies, they need to be smart about it. This is an example of that, not only ingenious in concept and execution, but also significantly more humane than any alternative. Again, an attack this targeted against military or terrorist personnel is the very opposite of terrorism.

    If you think you can negotiate anything even remotely resembling peace with an organization that has vowed to not just eradicate Israel, but every Jew in the world, then you're hopelessly misguided.

  • Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | The Guardian

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  • Because Reuters usually doesn't publish misleading opinion pieces.

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  • This batch of pagers was exclusively ordered and used by Hezbollah after their leader demanded they stop using Smartphones for security reasons. This isn't is sigint, it was a supply-chain attack. It wasn't random pagers that exploded, but only those that were distributed by the terrorist org to its officers.

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  • That is a silly take if I've ever seen one. How more targeted can you get than to make pagers that are exclusively used by a terrorist organization explode with such little force that even bystanders who are one meter away are unharmed, that even fruit at a vegetable stand right next to the targeted terrorist remains unspoiled? This is the very opposite of terrorism, literally the most precise strike on a terrorist organization or military as a whole in history, infinitely superior to a land invasion or air strikes. In the real world, it doesn't get any more perfect than this. It would be preposterous for a strike on thousands of targets to result in zero collateral damage, but I would bet good money that once (or if) the actual numbers ever come out, it'll be the most favorable combatant to civilian casualty rate for an operation of this size in recorded history.

    How naive does one have to be to trust official accounts on the number and age of the victims from a failed state that is effectively under full control of a terrorist organization? I can assure you that the estimated five grams of explosive have resulted in far more terrorist deaths than just 10, even during just the first strike - but Hezbollah won't be willing to admit as much and instead present, through their intermediaries in the Lebanese government, a convenient fake figure and two maybe real, maybe invented civilian casualties that you'll happily regurgitate just as much as you happily regurgitate figures from the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza.

    I get the feeling that what many of Israel's critics are asking of the country is to just roll over and die, that no matter to how absolutely extreme lengths they go to minimize civilian casualties compared to literally everyone else on this planet, it's all categorically wrong, because those dastardly Jews had the audacity to not present their other cheek, even as hundreds of thousands of them had to flee their bombs due to near constant Hezbollah bombardments of civilian areas in the North of Israel. Were you even aware of this? Do you really think that this situation could go on indefinitely?

  • Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | The Guardian

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  • What you would call "a bunch of propaganda" here: How is any of this even remotely similar to the Holocaust?

  • We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?

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  • The thing is, this pornography and cats will tell future historians a ton about what people were like in our times. Not all of it will be accurate, but that's an issue with any primary source. Hell, watch some grainy smut from the '70s or '80s and pay attention to things other than the "action", like the choice of music, the way the actors are talking, how they are dressed, what the sets look like, what kind of excuses for plots are being used, all of which are clearly products of their time. Amateur stuff is even more illuminating. Before anyone thinks I'm overthinking this: We learned a lot about Ancient Rome from the smut Romans carved into buildings in Pompeii.

    It's the same with old cat pictures. You can reasonably date many of them by what the background looks like, e.g. what kind of electronics and furniture are present, how people who are also in the photos are dressed, image quality (provided it hasn't been compressed to hell and back since), etc. These kinds of seemingly inconsequential artifacts of our time will be highly illuminating to future historians (provided they are being preserved), just like the complaint letters ol' Ea Nasir received thousands of years ago.

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  • Probably wrote at least parts of the article.

  • China establishes propaganda center to intensify global propaganda efforts on Tibet, rights groups warn reports of repression within Tibet may increasingly go unheard

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  • Sorry for the late answer, but about 20 years ago I read an absolutely vile piece of Tankie propaganda (surprisingly in the shape of a book that my local library had) that portrayed Tibetans as basically barbarians who should call themselves lucky to be civilized by China. I don't recall the title, but the author was German. I convinced the library to remove this book from their inventory.

  • U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs

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  • But what about...

  • [Gamers Nexus] HW News - AMD Leaves High-End GPUs, EK Aftermath, Consumer Protection for Electronics

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  • The 1060 is an eight year old mid-range card, lacking almost all of the features that are setting nvidia apart from AMD these days. It has CUDA, but on its own, that's mostly useful only for non-gaming applications. AMD is lagging behind, but they are not lagging that far behind. AMD has trouble keeping up with 20xx cards and newer, especially when it comes to ray-tracing and upscaling. FSR, while supporting older cards and being manufacturer-agnostic (that's why even your old Nvidia card is supported), is a crutch that comes with serious visual downgrades, whereas DLSS improves both performance and visuals. This matters in all market segments. Ray-tracing meanwhile is mostly a mid-range and up thing - and while newer AMD cards support it, their performance relative to otherwise equivalent Nvidia cards is lagging far behind.

  • The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline

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  • I hope you are merely trolling.

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    X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws

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  • On one hand yes, but on the other hand, he also likes to cozy up to dictators to an alarming degree.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • My mistake, I meant Al-Qassam. Thanks for the correction.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • No. There are far, far more aid workers in Gaza than anywhere else relative to the size of the population. I thought I was pretty clear on that this is the reason. Aid agencies are by far the biggest employers for Palestinians. Now add in just how many aid workers in Gaza in particular moonlight at the Al-Aqsa brigades and you see why when Israel kills a few fighters, it's not unlikely that they get someone who has a day job as an aid worker. It's just like with "journalists" who are not just on Hamas payroll, but even imprison hostages in their household.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • The percentage of aid workers killed corresponds roughly to the death toll among the total population of Gaza. The reason why in absolute numbers so many aid workers have been killed is that there is no other place in the world where there are so many aid workers relative to the general population, in part due to the fact that Palestinians are the only people in the world that have their own refugee agency, which runs many services that would usually be run by the local government, like school and healthcare.

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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