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HappyPanacea··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
Finland?
HappyPanacea··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
No idea why you single out nation states, all states are similar.
HappyPanacea··on What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?
Serre is known for being active in old age as well
HappyPanacea··on ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell
Yes the obvious play is to move human labor to cheaper countries like France (including CEO of course).
HappyPanacea··on ArXiv declares independence from Cornell
arXiv's CEO doesn't need to be a tenured professor equivalent it is a preprint repository ffs.
HappyPanacea··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
> There are literally 100k deaths in Europe that can be prevented if they lifted restrictions on AC so that they can feel good about making a negligible effect on carbon emissions.

What restrictions are there on AC?

HappyPanacea··on AI and the Ship of Theseus
> b/c whatever special sauce is hidden in the black box can be inferred from its outward behavior.

This is not always true, for an extreme example see Indistinguishability obfuscation.

HappyPanacea··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Yes, I don't want to live under Islamic rule.
HappyPanacea··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
> Iran could have been contained and Obama was right on his approach.

So you don't care about people forced to live under IRGC rule and their desire to export their Islamic ideals elsewhere?

HappyPanacea··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
> Does Iran not have the same rights of self-defense and sovereignty as the US and Israel?

Iran signed Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

HappyPanacea··on U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran
I don't think such over-simplistic takes are capable of providing value to this forum. Japan send their regards and so does Armenia Greece and many others.
HappyPanacea··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
If nukes are so good why Israel isn't safe? Or in other words you overestimate how useful nukes are. On contrary for Iran them having nukes mean Israel have to guess if coming missiles contain nukes or not and whatever to strike back with their own nukes where as now they can freely sand missiles without escalation concerns.
HappyPanacea··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
I give up. We started this with "Do you understand the difference between being not in uniform in order to infiltrate enemy territory and being not in uniform in your own territory?" and I clarified again in the comment you responded to: "What I want is Israeli citizens mistaken for an enemy combatant in Israel in a non-active-combat environment or Palestinians citizens mistaken for an IDF soldier in Palestine in a non-active-combat environment."

I will explain one last time I'm not looking for examples of people being harmed from "general" perfidy but those analogous for what happened - a stealth raid infiltrating among an enemy's population, "people start shooting civilians thinking they're infiltrators" as you said. The hostages weren't infiltrators, the context was that they were in enemy territory against their will and active combat. This is quite different from an hypothetical west bank combatant shooting his fellow men in non-active combat because he thought they were IDF.

P.S I'm still confused about the German Jews in the 1930s/1940s comment.

HappyPanacea··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
> Now it's suddenly not a problem? I can't imagine Hamas signed the Geneva Conventions.

As I already alluded to earlier, the principles and spirit are more important to me than the literal conventions and if somebody signed it. I will note that you brought up the Geneva Conventions not me.

> German Jews in the 1930s/1940s would probably disagree.

I'm confused to what you refer to and why you brought it up?

> I mean, the IDF killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while with their hands up and holding a white flag, because they thought they were infiltrators.

This is not an example to what I asked for, this wouldn't have happened if Hamas wore uniform, IDF wore uniforms, the held hostages civilians didn't but because they were in combat they mistook them for Hamas. What I want is Israeli citizens mistaken for an enemy combatant in Israel in a non-active-combat environment or Palestinians citizens mistaken for an IDF soldier in Palestine in a non-active-combat environment.

HappyPanacea··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
> Could you clarify where in the Geneva Conventions this very important exemption is stated?

The spirit of the law is more important then its letter. Also I think Israel never signed that part of the Geneva Conventions.

> Because people start shooting civilians thinking they're infiltrators, and even enemy civilians are protected persons.

When did that happened in the Israel-Arab conflict? (When did that happened elsewhere? It sounds like it should be very rare, people don't kill their own so easily?)

HappyPanacea··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Why was it decided that feigning of civilian, non-combatant status is bad? because it led to death of civilians who had no part in the fight; pretending to be your enemy's civilians bring no such issue. Although assassinating a patient is also not kosher it less relevant to the discussion about use of uniforms.
HappyPanacea··on Sizing chaos
Did you learn about them from this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWEGzWFcCc this the only thing that seems to match oil rig units + cursed.
HappyPanacea··on Sizing chaos
So invent new names
HappyPanacea··on So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
So you just need to be stubborn until they stick or cleverer in how you go about it?
HappyPanacea··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
> Holocaust (NSP): 6 million

Most dead Jews were not German citizens and neither were the Poles who died.

HappyPanacea··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
It isn't whataboutism to point out a wrong claim. Which statement is "a statement by one guy that may or may not have been said 70 years ago"? I gave four. I have made no claims about the current situation (and there was also plenty of action in 1948).
HappyPanacea··on Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies
> I'm posting me reply here, as the original comment just stating "Holy cow, and 80% of them are Israeli companies" was for no obvious reason within minutes downvoted and now even flagged (at the bottom of the page).

Because they were wrong? I checked myself and after sampling 20 randomly I got 3 Israeli ones not even close to 80% percent. So either he got much more, or I got much less than average.

HappyPanacea··on Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies
I clicked on 10 and found 1 from Israel.
HappyPanacea··on Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies
Who is behind this website? And How do we know they did a good job researching? Edit: I found in donation link that it goes to DAIR Institute
HappyPanacea··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
> from their prior genocidal campaign

Not only there is not a good argument for considering 1948 war a genocide on Palestinians but there is a much stronger argument Arabs have tried to genocide Jews (especially to those who think who think there was a genocide in Gaza because of starvation as a weapon of war + intent):

1. In 1948 Arab forces besieged Jerusalem and they were starting to run out of food.

2. Azzam Pasha, General Secretary of the Arab League, famously threatened "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre", Fawzi al-Qawuqji, commander of the Arab Liberation Army said that "we will have to initiate total war. We will murder, wreck and ruin everything standing in our way, be it English, American or Jewish.". Hell, several have even extended the threats to not just the Jews of Mandatory Palestine, but to Jews of the Arab world as a whole, such as Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Said("if a satisfactory solution of the Palestine case was not reached, severe measures should be taken against all Jews in Arab countries.") or the head of the Egyptian delegation to the General Assembly, Muhammad Hussein Heykal("the lives of 1,000,000 Jews in Muslim countries would be jeopardized by the establishment of a Jewish state." ). As Matiel Mughannam, head of the Arab Women's Organization in Palestine put it in an interview with Nadia Lourie in January 1948, "The UN decision has united all Arabs, as they have never been united before, not even against the Crusaders.... [A Jewish state] has no chance to survive now that the `holy war' has been declared. All the Jews will eventually be massacred. " (See Benny Morris' 1948 for sources on all of these)

HappyPanacea··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
> And as we all know by now, densification is the leading cause of unaffordability.

This is the first time I see this bold claim, what evidence do you have to prove it?

HappyPanacea··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Do you think you can extend it to distance from a point to an ellipsoid?
HappyPanacea··on The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network
Does someone know if the port must be 5555 for this botnet?
HappyPanacea··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
> Jewish flight/migration to Palestine, neglecting the reality to one extent or another that Palestinian Arabs were there and had aspirations to form a state

I don't think there was any aspirations to form a state in 1880-1900 or at least I haven't seen it.

HappyPanacea··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
ICC also failed to charge Palestinian authority officials for the money they give war criminals who are in prison because of their actions. Palestinian authority joined the ICC in 2015, 10 years ago plenty of time to act.
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