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  • Game Companies List ‘FitGirl-Repacks’ as a Key Piracy Threat

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  • ESA is the European Space Agency. It's a pretty prominent acronym. They really couldn't bother researching it before registering their little butthurt group? Imagine making a corporate group and calling it NASA.

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    Israel bans at least six medical aid missions from entering Gaza

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  • They'll be hit with that "trying to negotiate a ceasefire" and "investigations of allegations" that lead nowhere, sometimes, for sure. Maybe they'll even have to watch a pier that does nothing being built. I can imagine things like that can be a little annoying and hamper the workflow when you're trying to carry out a genocide, as opposed to full steam ahead genocide.

    I bet they're really shaking in their boots at the inconvenience a president Harris would be.

  • Syncthing for Android discontinued

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  • This app was incredibly important to me. I don't really understand what the developer was saying about Google Play either. What does Google want from him?

    I'll be saving this post for all the suggestions in the comments. Hopefully, a viable alternative presents itself. I've been making a lot of tech illiterate friends reliant on this app, and they're going to be asking me for an alternative.

  • Goodbye [System32 Comics]

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  • My less tech savy younger family members have learned to completely ignore ads, wait for the skip button and effectively avoid all the false skip buttons on account of playing mobile games with ads since they were babies. Advertisers have perfected the human brain of people who rawdog the internet to be incapable of retaining any information from any ad they see and finding skip buttons wherever they may be.

    From my personal observational account, i think I've only seen boomers and some older millennials ever interacting with ads. A gen alpha's brain wouldn't even remember an ad they just saw. They have perfected filtering them.

  • ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

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  • The math depends on where you're living, but what would you mathematically compare here, available required roof area and roof load limits?

    Because the SWH, if put in a place like Cyprus, consumes next to no electricity. Pumps and electronics, but even that is pretty nil if the tank is on the upper floors. So let's assume a mild sunny climate where the electrical heaters of both the heat pump and the solar heater are off. The heat pump requires power and the water heater doesn't. As for cloudy days, with proper insulation, a SWH can keep the tank piping hot for a few days.

    Personally i don't see how a heat pump could beat a SWH in costs and benefits over time. Off the gate it already starts at a disadvantage on environmental impact and upfront costs. When it's sunny, it loses to solar heating, as it's free vs very efficient. It probably regains some ground during inclement weather and very cold winter days. There's also the degradation of the solar panel, which happens at a faster rate than the degradation of the solar heater. So i guess in the end it boils down to how bad the weather gets where you live and yeah, do the math. There's probably a graph of bad weather days with a point where the SWH becomes less attractive than solar powered heat pumps. But for Mediterranean climates, no contest I'd say. You require less area on the roof for a SWH.

    And this is only considering available roof area/weight limits, because being honest they're both free sun energy. But you could use the solar power/money/environmental impact elsewhere.

  • Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse

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  • I was thinking of Russia (as I'm European they're the most immediate threat), but being honest, while China keeps mostly to themselves, i would not like to be subjected to their level of censorship and dissent suppression. Plus there's allegations that they're committing a genocide of their own.

  • Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse

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  • But there are bills currently in congress going for approval that will target the EU specifically, such as the one mentioned on my previous comment, where US companies would face fines for joining boycott movements promoted at a EU level. Whether they will succeed or not is still not determined, but there are actors inside the US trying to push this agenda towards the rest of Europe. I do hope the EU does as you say and not fold on the US pressure, because i really don't want to see our union bundled together with US foreign policy as it has been since the 2000s.

  • Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse

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  • It's hard for the whole world to do anything when the largest economy on Earth will undo any small step, political statement or protest with large amounts of cash, weapons and strong arming allied countries to agree with them via trade and sanctions, such as via the Anti Israel Boycott act H.R. 6940 which even affects the European Union. The whole world isn't just standing aside. It's just hard to stand on the path of the freight train that is the USA.

    Nevertheless the ICC is proceeding, protest are occurring in many cities worldwide to embargo Israel and the UN is trying to prevent the US from sweeping this under the rug with constant world affirmations of rights of a Palestinian state and condemnations of Israeli actions, despite the US voting against.

    Nobel prize winners are using their time in the spotlight to speak about it, presidents and prime ministers are urging more countries to stop trading with Israel, universities are refusing collaboration with Israel universities and exchange programs, investment capital is refusing to invest in Israeli companies and even Israeli tourists are being shunned abroad in several countries, including mine where they were booed on the streets. All this in the face of potential retaliatory action from the US.

    Of course, it's not what we hoped it would be or as effective as we need it to be for our dying Palestinian and Lebanese brothers and sisters, but it is a far cry from standing aside doing nothing. People are doing things and it would be a hell of a lot easier if the US either stopped helping the enemy or at the very least did nothing. I don't wanna be writing "America bad" posts, I've been trying to make an effort to avoid making sweeping hot take statements about the US in general, but hot damn, in this case, i can't help it. America very bad on Israel support and this will tarnish US international image for ages to come, even worse than the war on terror did.

    The international community sees the US right now as the americans see Harris. It's better than the alternative, sure, but we'd sure enjoy a whole lot less of genocide right about now.

  • ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

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  • From the point of view of efficiency, solar heaters beat pv. With pv you need to convert the sun's energy into electrical energy, with losses, then convert electrical energy into heat by extracting it from the outside with the heat pump. If you store it in batteries to heat up water later, there's even more losses. Depending on the outside temperature, there's a limit to what the heat pump can do, which an internal electric heater inside the water tank takes over to reach usable shower temperature.

    With solar heating the sun heats water, that's it. Not only you can yield energy from the sun more efficiently, this doesn't need complex electronics or semiconductors, so it's also better from an environmental impact point of view.

    And it doesn't have to be either/or. In my country, solar heating usually comes as a package deal with pv heating. Some companies are making hybrid pvs. Solar panels become less efficient as they heat up, so a hybrid pv would use coolant to keep them within their most efficient working temperature and extract that heat to be used for space heating, using radiators or floor heating or forced air systems, and/or water heating. Having both just makes sense, since it makes your pv needs (and your upfront investment) smaller and the maintenance on solar heaters is much simpler.

  • Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

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  • Middle East live: UN says its peacekeepers refused Israeli request to leave positions in Lebanon

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  • How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

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  • It goes both ways. Like Guterres said, Hamas doesn't exist in a vacuum. This is not to say that terrorism is justified, or that i agree with Hamas' actions, but Hamas in itself only has the power it has because of the antagonizing of so many peoples ever since Israel was founded. I believe there is a place for Israel in the world, but probably never as a Jewish nation. Simply put, the region was never just Jewish or just Muslim, it was always multi cultural and multi religious along different parts of history. As such the future of Israel lies as a multi cultural and multi religious nation.

    I understand other Muslim states are also organized towards mainly Muslims as Israel wants to be organized mainly towards Jews, but the way Israel was founded, by taking a land that had a strong Muslim presence, there is no possible way to create a state like Israel wants without a tremendous amount of bloodshed and cruelty that will tarnish the entire history of Judaism and Israel itself, as well as the US by association, ever worse than it already has. And even if Israel and the US accept the shame of the absolute bloodshed and genocide of an entire peoples, i doubt the nation of Israel will ever know peace and the US taxpayers will ever stop having to constantly pay to keep Israel from being destroyed.

  • Israeli troops fire on Unifil positions in south Lebanon region where Irish troops based

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  • Israeli forces shoot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding two

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  • New York seeks 14,000 hotel rooms for immigrants as bill to house them hits $2.3bn

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  • If that peeves you, what until you find out how much of your tax dollars are funding a rogue country hellbent on the genocide of people from 2 countries, while bombing them and 2 other and dragging the US into another long term regional war, which has been overwhelmingly criticized by nearly every other country on Earth. This pales in comparison.

  • 'Jabalia Is Being Wiped Out': Gaza Pleads for Help as Israel Intensifies Assault

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  • This specic post October attack Israeli incursion, genocide and massive land grab will be Joe Biden's legacy. Nothing he did or will do will shine a candle light on this.

  • Israel: Settler group advertises new properties in southern Lebanon

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  • I guess you could consider Israel strong if you remember that this strength comes from the US taxpayers being swindled out of their healthcare, social support and education money, which is funneled into donations to Israel and a massive armed forces that keeps its genocide regime propped up, while US tuition prices skyrocket and schools barely have teachers and facilities in many places, certainly not to the same level as it used to be.

    Meanwhile hordes of people live in tents, work 60 hours a week living paycheck to paycheck and have no medical, paternity leave or sometimes even the same number of paid time off days as the rest of the world. Even the president takes a huge crap all over protesting rail workers, who wanted some sick leave and some safety in their workplace, which sees American railways eroding in quality and safety in favor of bigger trains and less personnel operating them.

    I guess genocide has a price that someone has to pay. Honestly, i wouldn't see that necessarily as strength. More like outright exploitation of the American people, the Palestinians and now the Lebanese for an old fairly tale that some magic being told a long time ago.

  • US President Joe Biden: “No administration has helped Israel more than I have.”

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  • Guy is forced to abdicate from a second term when his opponent is Donald Trump, a guy who can't go two weeks without saying something so ridiculous, it's not even funny to laugh at anymore. Kind of like a joke you've repeated so many times, you don't even exhale through your nose anymore. And he struts around like he's a big shot.

    I can only aspire to be either this delusional or confident. Either way, not a worry in the world.

  • US boosts air support and hikes troop readiness to deploy for Middle East

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