[-] xor 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Sure, but you'll notice I explicitly referenced that when I said hamas is incentivised to minimise risk of them being hit by Israeli strikes, especially by keeping them separately in members' homes and in tunnels. The same goes for starvation, in that, if at all possible, hamas actively wants to keep them fed enough to survive, where that isn't at the cost of starving to death themselves.

You're right that some/many (maybe even most, I have no data wrt specific numbers) of the hostages have, and will continue to die due to Israel's actions, but that's significantly different from your initial claim of "every single hostage is dead"

[-] xor 6 points 4 hours ago

Yes indeed, sadly the US is not a signatory

[-] xor 1 points 4 hours ago
[-] xor 5 points 4 hours ago

I'm a big fan of starting the command with a #, then removing it once I'm happy with the command to defend against accidentally hitting enter

Putting ~ next to the enter key on keyboards (at least UK ones) was an evil villain level decision

[-] xor 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Specifically, it's when it's sanctioned through the legal system (as opposed to murders, including state-sanctioned but extra-judicial killings)

So I think executions are not murder by definition

[-] xor 7 points 5 hours ago

I mean I'm inclined to believe so, given both hamas and Israel claim it's the case

Hamas are incentivised to not kill them arbitrarily (or put them at risk of being killed in Israeli strikes) because it's their primary bargaining chip, and Israel are incentivised to avoid targeting them for political reasons

[-] xor 34 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I mean it's done quite a lot to diplomatically isolate them, right? Putin couldn't go to South Africa for BRICS, he couldn't attend the G20 summit this week, and presumably lots of other trips he hasn't done that he would have otherwise intended to

In Israel's case, I expect this will be a pain for Netanyahu more than it has been for Putin, since the set of countries that are neither ICC signatories nor actively hostile to Israel is a pretty short list

[-] xor 7 points 1 day ago

It turned me into a newt!

[-] xor 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And a series of words that sounds kinda like a complex sentence when you listen to it, but actually means nothing whatsoever

And he says to me... a very smart guy, Mark, he's really doing... he's really got to show... when he does things he really does them, you know, like he really does, very impressive, very modern

[-] xor 14 points 2 days ago

What? The fact it's owned & developed by Google is the whole point

This is how the DOJ is planning to approach dismantling Google's illegal monopoly, by breaking chrome - the world's most used browser - away from them

[-] xor 6 points 6 days ago

It's also worth adding, though, that the convention of only running for at most two terms had existed pretty much since the establishment of the republic (until FDR broke it), when Washington and Jefferson each chose not to run for third terms

[-] xor 43 points 6 days ago

It's nice that this exists these days, but my god is it horrendously unreadable at a glance

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