So… this is for Gazans who “do not want to live under Hamas”, but they wouldn’t be allowed to leave.

It seems to me like Israel is creating a concentration camp and will declare that anyone outside of it is Hamas and they can kill them all with impunity.

This community seems to think that bad things happening to bad people is uplifting, or that justice is uplifting. It doesn’t feel that way to me though.

Space opera, specifically.

Why does the absolute number matter? Why does the rate matter?

The claim is that cars and guns are equally deadly in Chicago, with the observation that gun deaths are reported more.

If this is 3 people or 30 thousand people, the critique is the same.

If this is 1 in 10 million people or 1 in 10 people, the critique is the same.

In practice range seems to be a few kilometers, in places with lots of nodes.

Very sunny places, like Los Vegas.

Yes, the actual English flag, not the British flag.

One argument against democracy in China is that it is incompatible with Chinese culture.

Looking at Taiwan having a very successful democracy with Chinese culture is problematic for the Chinese Communist Party for that reason.

I have seen at least one site where they used the English flag. Luckily I have watched the European Cup a few times and could recognize it.

While I’m sure that some are just cosplaying as Christians, i have no doubt that there are true believers there. I mean, RFK doesn’t believe in germ fucking theory, so we know that being crazy is no hindrance from getting power. Is it really so hard to believe that Americans elected Congressmen who believe the earth is 6000 years old?

Probably you mean 85% of infrared, not 85 parts per thousand (or 8.5%) of ultraviolet?

Reading glasses. They’re like €5.

I stopped shopping at Best Buy in the 1990s when one store asked me to leave. I was writing down some prices so I could do some comparison shopping.

By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?

All of these were taken by the state, not the workers, which was the question.

In the Netherlands we literally cannot spend the money we have allocated for our military since there aren’t enough Dutch weapons to buy. 😬

I know it’s asking a lot, but you could give an example instead of insulting me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“swarm” here is a verb, not a noun. As in, “to swarm”.

“The sappers exploded their charges under the city walls, and the invader’s troops swarmed in through the gap.”

I can’t think of any examples. Taking over the company requires capital, which is the one thing that capitalists constantly extract from workers so they don’t have any.

The workers of xs4all tried when their new corporate owners, KPN, decided to dissolve them. But a combination of lack of funding and unfriendly courts prevented that. They did end up starting a new company though…

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.