Can You IMAGINE 30k deaths? A genocide happened in gaza and it took months, i think a year to reach 30k target and you are saying iran judt straight up killed 30k civilians in 1-2 days?
The Gaza numbers are confirmed deaths, with bodies and identities and all, it's not counting people they can't identify or who are missing and presumed dead (buried under rubble and the like). The confirmed death tolls are considered to be a vast undercount of actual total deaths. This 30k number is much less rigorous and we have no way to know it's accuracy.
The Gaza numbers that most Western media uncritically report are nonsense spewed out by Hamas whose agenda is aided by making that number as high as possible.
That's not true. Many independent estimates have been made. Israel doesn't release any numbers at all, which they could easily do if they wanted to claim that casualty numbers were falsified.
I don't see what Israel could possibly provide which the people who mischaracterize war as "genocide" would find compelling. Are they going to produce examples of claimed casualties who actually turn out to be alive or imaginary? Well - surprise - they've done that.
If the war is indeed mischaracterized, then Israel sharing figures would provide an alternative source to the "Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry" for those who haven't already decided who's correct or don't trust those numbers. If Israel doesn't care to provide any information, then they are tacitly agreeing that the "Hamas" numbers are correct. That's just common sense politics.
This is a bit pointless since whatever number you're given, if more than ~1,200 Gazans have been killed, you'll continue to assert that this defensive and provoked war is a "genocide" due to your misunderstanding of how proportionality is defined.
Without any stated goals or definitions of a proportional response from Israel, how are outsiders supposed to know what their final goal is? If they give every indication of fighting a war of extermination (public statements calling for eradication of Gazans and emptying of the strip, support for illegal settler colonies, support for rape and torture) and don't give reasonable objectives for completion of the war, of course it will be labeled a genocide. Israel's refusal to communicate with the rest of the world is why they are being "misunderstood". They either don't want to be understood, or we have the correct interpretation of events and they don't care to hide it.
The official government policy, which they have communicated many times, is that the goal was return of the hostages and dismantling of Hamas. Since the return of all the hostages, there has been a drastic drop in fighting - the figures have not changed much in recent months (although the condemnations haven’t subsided). The stalemate at the moment is waiting for Hamas to disarm and hand over control to a civilian Palestinian government.
I actually built a tool called FlowPDF - https://www.flowpdf.app/ - specifically to solve this "logic" problem. I found that single-button tools were too limiting for things like "Merge -> Check Size -> Compress".
It uses a node-based graph so you can literally string those steps together (e.g., Merge files -> Split out page 35 -> Compress the rest) and save it as a repeatable workflow.
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Ah, cool idea. I’m currently integrating image processing features—crop, compress, and meme generation. Once that’s almost done, we can move on to integrating the workflow.
I think there's some process in the MBA education system where they physically remove the part of the brain that can construct plans and models more than one financial quarter into the future.
Back in 2014 when briar or something similar came up, we found the app.needed to signed in "online" first then it could be used offline.
There were apps used in 2019 but it wasnt enough.
The government "banned" 14 appps including element "because use by terrorists" meant anyone using element after the ban got a loud knock on the door by the stazi with 100-300 personnel, fully ready to engage in battle.
Have seen horror stories.
They used isp data to locate homes where element was used and then staked them out and made a big show of attacking at night.
Then the usual. Phones are confiscated and literal spyware installed.
That was Bridgefy that required initial online access to setup. Briar doesn't and never has.
Traceability of Briar users, if not the actual content, is certainly potentially worse than something like what Bitchat claims (don't use Bitchat it's provably not secure or private at all) with it's traffic obfuscation and multihop. However, the lack of multihop also makes it less promiscuous, so someone would have to be monitoring when you came in contact with the transfer source or destination, unlike multihop that just broadcasts to anyone so they can hopefully relay it.
that's why its difficult to trust these apps? i've been out of the game for years and i would rather be on the fence about the whole thing.
the problem i saw back in 2019 was adoption. it just happened suddenly and the scaremongering done by the government was top notch. literally any anti-government tweet or post was "deemed social media misuse", how dare you question the might of the great nation.
what i am saying is, in that heated environment, no one wanted to be the one holding the short straw so this tech did not play out, simply out of personal safety.
Why are people downvoting him? He's right (even though if his dream for "Azad" Kashmir came true, it would mean my family is Kishtwar would probably have to leave for Punjab or Himachal with only the clothes on their backs, but the current status quo means he might be detained indefinetly as well) - the DoT, Home Ministry, and State STFs have been rolling out fusions centers since the mid-2010s [0].
The rules are much more strict/draconian in JK [1]
uh... its fine. after 2 years i had to replace battery like i said and parts like the occasional burnt connector, cables, body is somewhat fragile but when my daily running cost is 0, these are small things.
i could use my car for my office runs but then it would cost me like inr 6-8k monthly in fuel+parking which is more than 0 what i currently pay so its fine.
its not a perfect machine, for inr 40k, i don't think it can be better. if i increase my budget to say 60-70, then there are more choices but this one is a good bet for now.
take ola for example. it is fine until it breaks. then its game over as their service is shit, same for others.
when a machine is more expensive, it is more complicated to repair and more expensive also. the simpler the machine, like mine, it has just body + lead acid battery + controller. nothing more. its easier to repair
i find it annoying that whenever there is a new browser extension on HN, i ask for a "firefox version" to which the response is almost always kneejerk "eww no" or something to that end.
So to see a firefox extension, that's refreshing. I hope you continue working on it and help improve the extension ecosystem
The same people bemoaning the war on general purpose computing or the surveillance state happily using Chrome has always been a truly bizarre disconnect I’ve never understood.
Maybe it’s age? I used Firefox since firebird, and Phoenix, and Netscape, but saying “try Firefox” might feel like talking about an archaeological relic to a 28 year old who has never even seen Firefox running.
They all rely on Google and Chromium's browser engine in the end, so make of that what you will. Firefox (plus its derivatives) and Safari are the only two other options if you want a different browser engine today.
I talked to brave supporters and they all say "Firefox is a pita to modify" but we have had waterfox and other derivatives, floorp and others for decades.
In the end, Brendan is the one who does not like Firefox for personal reasons and that's why brave isn't based on Firefox. Personal reasons but brave fanboys don't see it
Can You IMAGINE 30k deaths? A genocide happened in gaza and it took months, i think a year to reach 30k target and you are saying iran judt straight up killed 30k civilians in 1-2 days?
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