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Context and nuance are very important. Are the allied forces of WWII all mass murderers?

Or to put it more broadly what distinguishes a soldier who has killed dozens of enemy soldiers from a school shooter who killed dozens of his peers?

According to your statement they are morally equivalent, society at large would vehemently disagree with you.

Is that what was wrong with his later books? They assumed a level of rationality and immoral clarity that doesn’t exist in real life?

I don’t know that you want to bring South Africa as an example of success. Even the majority is fed up with their government.

Then I guess the question is: what constitutes combat. There were many people who streamed over the fence with Hamas, is invasion engaging in active combat? There were many people who spit on, hit, or otherwise assaulted the kidnapped civilians, is that actively engaging in combat? The ones who were freed said they were kept in civilian homes, does jailing civilians against their will count as actively engaging in combat? IDF soldiers report many children and women acting as spotters for Hamas, is that active combat?

I think the answer to all these questions entirely depends on which side of the conflict you support, those who see Palestinians as hapless victims who have been abused by the evil Jews will say of course none of this is combat and attacking those innocent people is the highest war crime; on the other hand those who see Jews just trying to live in peace in their homeland being attacked by bedeviled Palestinians will argue that assisting soldiers in war makes you an active combatant, and thus a legitimate (though possibly regrettable) military target.

At an individual level I appreciate when an app or service I use maintains all records from the start of our relationship, I’ve infrequently found myself going back and looking for something, and it’s always a breath of fresh air to see that nothing was deleted.

Very impressive, when TBC said they were implementing their app in swift for Windows I wrote it off as vaporware that would never ship, as the goal seemed too audacious and unnecessary, but they did it and continued to push forward!

As long as we’re talking about epic: is it an exclusively self hosted product? I don’t understand how it’s so susceptible to ransomeware compared to nearly every other cloud platform. You never hear about someone’s salesforce being ransomwared or their servicenow being held hostage, but it feels like we can’t go a month without another hospital going offline.

Thank you for the very detailed explanation!

There’s something very weird about macOS multitasking in general, onedrive and other apps that you’d expect to stay alive always in the background constantly need to be refreshed.

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Can anyone explain how Wayland and X(?) relate to Linux?

Like what’s the windows equivalent?

I’ve used Ubuntu desktop a few times, I keep liveUSB versions of mint, Suse, and Ubuntu on my ventoy, but I just don’t understand what the deal is with the constant discussion of Wayland and X…

Could you just wear a contact that obfuscates your iris?

Again and again we’re seeing people with lots of book knowledge and zero “street smarts” you’d think basic hygiene would dictate that you don’t save your browser history when it includes queries about how to commit crimes. Maybe use a browser that doesn’t back everything up to the cloud…

Isn’t spoofed SSID an old attack? I couldn’t figure what’s new here.

This appears to sacrifice more horizontal space, I don’t see this coming to desktops in its current incarnation as motherboards are already super cramped and replacing 4 ram slots for one doesn’t seem like a trade off most users are willing to make.

You continue to hurl nonsensical insults instead of meaningfully engaging in the topic at hand.

I’m sorry you’re feeling so hurt and upset, hopefully you’ll heed my well intentioned advice and take a sabbatical from your culture war, just to recharge and gain perspective.

As long as we’re giving each other extra curricular activities I suggest you read this book: https://www.amazon.com/High-Conflict-Why-Get-Trapped/dp/1982...

I promise you it’ll make you a happier less brooding person.

As there doesn’t seem to be anything productive happening here, this my au revoir. I hope you find the internal peace you’re so sorely missing.

Something they don’t really touch on is the massive layoffs from big tech, I’m sure many of those people were happy to take a paycheck but once that dried up they went back to building their own company based on whatever idea they had that was too small for Google/facebook/etc.

Again, nothing you've said in the above comment has made any sense, I highly recommend you take a deep breath and step back and consider taking a day away from electronics, I promise you, you'll feel much better, maybe like that child camping in Gaza with her parents.

Are you ok? You're coming off as more and more unhinged each time you comment. I'd highly recommend you step away from the computer and step outside, enjoy the fresh air, take your mind off of your troubles. I can say honestly I have no idea what the above comment means, but, sincerely, I didn't mean to break you.

> only a dead Palestinian is a good dehumanized Palestinian, they are all the same.

Is that what you believe?

That's a pretty grotesque thing to say, even if it's not really clear what it means.

Instead of failed attempts to cast insults and innuendos why don't you actually address the discussion.

Admit that you made a grotesque comparison in an attempt to prove your moral superiority but instead got caught in your own hubris. Admit that you're making up quotes left and right so you can try to salvage some part of your argument, admit that you're putting words in other peoples mouths so you can build up strawmen to attack. Admit that every time you're shown you're wrong you refuse to even acknowledge it and instead start hurling insults as if that will make people forget the preposterous arguments you attempted. Admit that not once in this entire discussion did you approach it with even an ounce of curiosity, and instead assumed malice at every step. Then we can continue to have some sort of civil discussion, otherwise you're tilting at windmills and it makes you look foolish.

You've broken nearly every hn guideline for good discussion and continue to fume, it might be time to step back and step away for a bit.

"Insults are the last refuge of insecure men with crumbling arguments."

By showing your inability to have a civil discussion you've proven you don't have a leg to stand on.

> And I quoted an ICJ ruling that said "at least some of the acts alleged by South Africa appear to fall under the provisions of the Genocide Convention"

As I re-read this, I struggle to understand what this means; everything done during war time falls under the provisions of the Genocide Convention, that doesn't mean that genocide is happening, but rather again, that it's a war and people are being killed. Its kinda like calling an airstrike against a military target "premediated murder in the first degree" or calling all soldiers who have killed the enemy serial killers.

If you squint and remove all context the labels apply but they're meaningless under our current understanding of those words.

> I also never claimed that risk of losing your right to be protected from genocide is like getting your Nintendo Switch stolen, it was just a pointer for you to think about what it actually would mean.

"I never made the comparison, I just made the comparison because I was conducting a social experiment" Ok, I'll let you continue trying to figure out what you mean by that.

If we go back to your original comment, you also made a number of false statements in there:

> Israel is actively blocking delivery of food to the civilian population and has already in one case caused a massacre of people trying to get their hands on basic supplies.

This is totally false. Israel is not actively blocking delivery of food and the case of a massacre can be clearly seen in video to be caused by people trampling each other after attempting to rush at a platoon of soldiers.

> At the same time, a minister in the government is publicly calling for occupying Gaza and "motivating" civilians to "voluntarily" leave.

Would you care to explain what specifically is problematic about saying that terrorists should be encouraged to move their terror activities away from Israel? Or what is problematic about Israel governing an area that they've shown they can govern in a much more democratic and fair way than the currently elected suicidal death cult? Were you upset when the US occupied Germany for 11 years? and continued to have a large presence for the next 30 years?

> But speaking of holes, I guess I discounted the large void between your ears.

Insults are always used by those who know they've lost. Thank you for admitting defeat.

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They literally charge a LOT for their services

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tbf, I don't think he has another job, so if he's only creating 3 comics a week and writing his books, there is def enough time as a side project to put out a fun annual comic that requires a bit of work, obviously it would need to be planned well in advance, which it appears this was not.