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30% seems like a very high estimate of civilians honestly, since less than 30% of Israel’s population are civilians.

Over 90% of Israeli adults are current or former IDF. Finding a place where 30% of people are civilians would honestly be impressive.

Although following the news you’d think the IDF is somehow the world’s only all-civilian military. Like that Israeli-American “hostage” whose family the Democrats kept trotting out, who finished active duty in Gaza ~6 months before October 7th. Thats not a hostage, that’s a prisoner of war.

:this: The only innocent people who died on October 7th were Hamas fighters

I really want to stress part of this. The US and UK are bombing Yemen for upholding international law.

There are only 3 countries on earth that are actually in accordance with international law right now, and those countries are Yemen, Lebanon, and Iran. Those are the only 3 countries fulfilling the Responsibility to Protect. Every other country on this planet (I’m glaring at China while I say this) is failing that responsibility, and then a select few are dropping bombs to prevent those 3 from fulfilling that responsibility.

Every country selling a single cent of goods to Israel is violating this principle. There is a legal and moral responsibility to be dropping bombs on Tel Aviv, and not doing so is both a moral and legal failure. Xi, I’m sorry man, where the fuck are you?

My only “IoT” device is a Roomba, not whatever brand this was but it’s not like the Roomba brand is somehow immune to this kind of thing.

I love this machine, having 2 cats and a very furry dog it’s a life changer. A vacuum that runs every day on its own with me just having to empty the bin? Fucking amazing. Can’t recommend it enough.

I wish so badly that it wasn’t connected to the internet. Why do you need that? Can’t we just have some buttons to set a schedule? Did I really need an app?

Robot vacuums that have no internet connection do exist, but they’re worse. Like, they will literally just do a worse job of vacuuming your floor. The dumb ones just bump around randomly until it notices there’s no more dirt. The internet connected ones map the room and can put straight lines on the floor and make sure they don’t miss spots.

But they don’t actually need the internet for any of that aside from starting it. If the internet goes down it keeps the same schedule and map. Which means they could do all of it with no reason to connect to the internet.

They say things like “battery low” and “bin full” normally.

Why yes this is totally solvable with a colored indicator light or just beeping a certain number of times

Oh yes that’s what I was thinking of!

I had actually not heard of the second case, it was Nintendo’s roms I was thinking of

It is October 15th, 2024 and Stalin saved the world from fascism

This shit genuinely pisses me off more than the conservative/average American of “colonization good, go manifest destiny, USA USA”

Like, this means you know better. And so it feels like you’re bragging and rubbing it in our faces. “Europeans brought devastation, violence and disease. So now it’s our turn to do that around the globe! Isn’t that cool!?”

Breaking news: Guy with a special interest in murder tools likes torturing and murdering creatures.

Am I the only one in no way surprised by this? I assume by default that anyone into guns enough to become the leader of a group like the NRA would be a school shooter if they were younger today. The head of the NRA torturing and killing cat is the least surprising thing I’ve ever read.