Sure, but it wouldn’t be the first thing. When humans became seafaring the same diffusion of mates happened. It was then exacerbated by the invention of the train. And then even further with airplanes. And in the digital age people meet each other online despite living thousands of miles away.
Becoming space faring would also exacerbate the issue, but it wouldn’t be the start.
Presumably they would have solved this issue before becoming space fairing/having Orions available. If so, I’d imagine they’d be most likely to stick with their original solution out of tradition and simplicity.
So it’s just a coincidence that they ended up killing their competitors? Yeah right.
Then why did they once support XMPP?
First, you’re going to need some sort of evidence to back up this claim.
It’s in their interest to exaggerate, and they are under the control of a terrorist organization.
Second, Hamas isn’t who is publishing these numbers.
My understanding is that the only people tracking & publishing the numbers is the Palestinian health ministry, which is under the control of Hamas. Everyone else is just saying “Gaza’s health ministry said X” and such.
Yeah. Definitely place sole blame on hamas instead of the people intentionally bombing civilians.
Dude, I am this 🤏 close to being banned in another community for daring to say that the current event is a genocide of palestinians.
I’m not denying anything, let alone for the sake of convenience. I’m not apathetic. All I’m saying is, is that the current numbers are probably not completely accurate.
I also explicitly said that the current estimate is probably not far off.
I never said defeating them or out competing them should be the goal. The goal should be the survival of services. And corporations will kill these services.
Keeping users siloed in Facebook’s garden shouldn’t be seen as a win for us.
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. If people hadn’t federated with google’s XMPP back in the day, google wouldn’t have had the same level of control it had to kill XMPP as a competitor.
We need to learn from the lessons of the past, and the past has resulted in the deaths of services when federating with corporations.
And for those that don’t:
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I haven’t heard anything from a third party, and no doubt hamas is exagerating to some degree, but whatever the actual numbers are, I wouldn’t think the current estimate of ~20,000 is far off. Israel is intentionally bombing civilians, so the estimated number sounds fairly reasonable to me.
Easier to confirm, is the proportion of women & children. About half the population of Palestine is children, and about half are women. So ~75% being women or children also fits.
Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the DS
I was absolutely trash at it, but I loved it. And to be honest, I thought it was just a very hard game to begin with. There is only so much you can do to manage your shields, weapons, and position before the ship becomes overwhelmed.
The graphics and animations were solid too.
“Embrace extend and extinguish” has happened before, and it can happen again if corp run instances are allowed to gain traction.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I think it is a completely valid worry that corporations will come in, capture an audience, and then force the original lemmy instances into ruin. There is also the fact that corporations will want to make money off of it, and financial motivations are antithetical to the fediverse ecosystem.
Civilians are pretty much everywhere alongside Hamas members who are usually between them.
Yeah, so maybe they should stop dropping bombs.
Israeli actions wouldn’t be similar to any of them.
Not only is this not true, but even if it were, as I’ve already pointed out it doesn’t need to be similar. A genocide can be totally unique yet still fall under the definition of genocide.
It’s impossible not to kill civilians in such a conflict when the area you are fighting in is a densely populated city
But it is possible to not drop bombs on areas you KNOW civilians are at.
Of course genocide is not defined by numbers. However, all genocides should have some traits in common.
This is also not a part of the definition of genocide.
How should Israel respond?
I get that there are unused ways of minimizing civilian deaths
Seems like you already know the answer to that question. Yet for some reason you’re giving Israel a free pass for killing civilians. So effectively you’re just arguing for terrorism. State terrorism, but terrorism nonetheless.
Good people don’t kill civilians.
I agree that genocides have different flavors but the results of all is a completely or partially removed ethnicity. By saying partially, I mean roughly 40% killed or moved to a detention facility.
The definition of genocide contains no percentage threshold. You’re making definitions up out of thin air.
Most of those deaths happen due to the lack shelters and lack of places where people can hide.
…and the bombs landing on their heads.
If Israel wanted to genocide Palestinians, they would have done it in a week.
Not all genocides are done with equal fervor.
Also, they would not have to be dead if Hamas didn’t start this.
This was started in 1948 when Palestinians were forced from their homes. Playing a game of “who started it” doesn’t justify anything.
it’s more of an approach where they no longer try as much to limit civilian causalities as much as possible.
Yeah… almost like they are totally OK with killing civilians (genocide).
it’s probably more than 20k. What does it prove though?
See above definition on genocide. If thousands of dead Palestinian civilians (~50% of whom are children) isn’t enough to be labeled as genocide then the definition you are using is a bad one.
Judging which bomb is purposefully thrown on civilians is impossible.
Are you saying that when Israel bombed the Jabalia refugee camp, they were not intentionally killing civilians?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/18/israeli-airstrikes-kill-80-in-palestinian-refugee-camp
The democrats will just pick another stinker. How do you think we got Biden in the first place?
The two party system needs to be fixed before we will see any actually good candidates.