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(1) Freedom isn't free

Who said blackmailed? They were friends, it was just a guy giving another guy insider information about a business opportunity.

Definitely not a Ryanair trained pilot with that smooth touchdown.

Do not underestimate the impact of transitioning from incandescent to LED lighting. An average home could be consuming 1Kw for lighting alone at busy times.

The problem is they'll legislate for the providers to insert back doors, negating cryptographic hardness.

Linus is no Luddite. Trying out new technology on a pet project is a great way to understand what it's all about.

Apple won't take the risk of being blamed for AI answers being incorrect. They will attribute Google/Gemini so users know how to be mad at if it doesn't work as expected.

A tort

The concentrate is produced by Ballina Beverages, then regional bottlers add the bulk ingredients like sugar and water. Hence every version being a little different.

Lego created a specific series of bricks in the 1960's for this exact purpose, called Modulex.

Originally designed for architects etc, it's still going. https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_OUxVuoxjk

TLDR;

- The Honey browser extension inserted their own affiliate link at checkout, depriving others of affiliate revenue.

- Honey collected discount codes entered by users while shopping online, then shook down website owners to have the discount codes removed.

- Honey should have "stood down" if an affiliate link was detected, but their algorithm would decide to skip the stand down based on if the user could be the an affiliate representative testing for compliance.

Allegedly.

Tire wear on EVs has more to do with the weight of your right foot than the curb weight of the vehicle.

The high torque of EVs results in frequent wheel slippage for those eager to pull away from traffic lights quickly. Just like with high BHP ICE vehincles, smooth and gentle acceleration/deceleration will result in long tire life.

> guilty until proven innocent

Like how Israel treats Palestinians?

You mean Mohammad Al-Motawaq, the boy with muscular dystrophy? MD wasn't the cause of this weight loss, a lack of food was.

Unless you'd prefer to trust the word of an Israeli blogger over the childs doctors (because of their ethnicity).

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-s1-5488798/gaza-baby-starv...

Where is your evidence to back any of your opinions?

Where is your evidence?

Apologies, that was for the week ending September 30, only 695 had been killed at that stage in the West Bank. The week ending October 10 has the 719 figure for the full 365 days: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-updat...

What authority, other than the local government, would you be more comfortable with providing those numbers?

Since 1948, on average, the IDF has killed 10x as many Palestinians that Israelis killed.

Since October 7th, that is at least 60x.

> no violence whatsoever

The UN reported that, in the West Bank, Palestinians killed 6 Israeli settlers and 16 soldiers, while Israelis killed 719 Palestinians, from October 7, 2023, to October 7, 2024" https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-updat...

International journalists can't access Gaza, but they have witnessed first hand settler violence. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pHcC0HMiQ

The UN secretary general condemned it the day it happened.

https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21981.doc.htm

Gaza is dependent on Israel's permission. Food aid is provided by the UN and other humanitarian organisations, they require Israel's permission to bring that aid into Gaza and not attack it (n.b. attempts since 2010 to deliver aid by boat, such as the MV Rachel Corrie, have been attacked in international waters and the aid never reached Gaza). Israel destroyed the power and water desalination plants, making Gaza dependent on their supply, which has since been used as a weapon.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/thirst-weapo... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w0l3q4zd0o

This is a genocide.

They have repeatedly hampered the entry of baby formula, a clear pattern of actions to stunt childhood development, increase childhood mortality and dissuade the population from having more children.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-hampering-entry-of...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/01/i...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/gaza-i...

By "it" do you mean the genocide, let them finish it? Let them forcibly displace the population to the "humanitarian city" camp, or push them beyond the border, then we can ask questions.

Ignoring the growing list of humanitarian/aid organisations and genocide scholars that have asserted that a genocide is taking place, how would you categorize Israel's actions against the civilian population of Gaza? The forced displacement of virtually the entire population, the restrictions on food and supplies entering the area, the siege by land, sea and air. Open up Google Earth and compare September 2023 to December 2024, to witness the destruction, in whole or in part, of a people.

Do you mean the claim that there was a command center under al-Shifa hospital? That was debunked over 18 months ago by multiple sources. None of the attacks on hospitals have been justifiable under the Geneva Conventions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67453105 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-s...

No killing one person is not genocide, it's a murder.

Killing 10,000's of women and children from a specific ethnic group, razing a significant percentage of buildings to the ground and forcibly displacing almost 2 million people while using starvation as a weapon of war, that's genocide.

By that logic where is the Christian homeland? Jesus was born in Bethlehem, does that give all Christians a right to displace the people who live there?

Similarly the Irish are famous for being ethnically a Celtic people. The Celts originated in Hallstatt, Austria, so does that entitle any Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scot or Welsh person to turn up and settle on the shores of the Hallstätter See?

All humans trace their origins back to Mesopotamia, can we all claim some land in Iraq too?

Sorry, what?! Everywhere? If you're referring to October 7th, the Irish do not condone what happened and were appalled. And to be clear, the Irish have only ever blamed the British for what the British did in Ireland.

The Irish were actually supportive of the founding of the State of Israel as there was a common bond as persecuted people. The Irish state did caution against the partition of Palestine due to the lived effect of the relatively recent partition of Ireland. It was only when the persecution of those that identified as Palestinian began, that Irish opinion swung against the actions of the State of Israel. https://www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/23/a-long-and-oddly-in...

What conflation of Israel with antisemitic stereotypes? Is murdering 10's of thousands of women and children an antisemitic stereotype? Does expressing that Palestinian people are entitled to civil/human rights and self-determination some how deny Israel's right to exist?