This is a pretty meh article but a different one I was reading also mentioned what sounds like a new government (security plan?) will be put in place. Which will inevitably be pro-israel.
So… the remnant of Gaza will likely be purely on paper.
Just because the OP’s blurb really ignores almost the entire story in favor of some weird dog whistling:
Information about the engagements was still being processed, Ryder said. "We cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea potentially to targets in Israel.
So (allegedly?) Iranian backed terrorists in Yemen likely fired missiles toward Israel. US destroyer intercepted.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The answer is pretty obvious, but I have seen a lot of folk on lemmy (and elsewhere) who think this is a good solution. Might be worth coming down on it:
Copy full text of article into an LLM and ask it to rewrite that article “to be more understandable”. There is the bot that automatically does that for every article (and mostly just increases the misinformation and what not…), but I have seen more than a few people suggest doing that for the text portion of a post.
Looked at that. Seems like it would have worked back back when ?single=1 didn’t break all images. But since the guides are broken up into multiple pages, the automated scraping tends to lose its mind because it will try to get the entire site. Rather than a subset of pages.
Thanks though
It isn’t good, but it also isn’t necessarily “bad”,
The entire region is getting destabilized. So if anyone can leave, they should. It is when we start evacuating the embassies that things are REALLY bad.
Like, to put it in context: I used to work a job where I was required to inform the US government when I went on international travel. I still remember having to explain to one of my interns that the downright terrifying message about being on high alert when going to the UK was the “official” way of saying “Trump is going to be in country and people will probably politely protest. Don’t join them”
A few years back, CBS sold CNET (CNET, Gamespot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, and probably one or two others) to Red Ventures who then sold basically everything but CNET proper to Fandom. If people aren’t aware of what Fandom is, just go to basically any video game wiki and see how many pop ups you need to close just to see some misinformation.
Anywho, Fandom have a decent record of killing every property they buy in the interest of monetization. And they can do that because they buy EVERYTHING. And as of a few days ago, one of the long standing admins at GameFAQs announced they were stepping down. Which… suggests Fandom realized they own GameFAQs and are likely about to start gutting it to add as many ads and autoplay twitch pages as possible.
Then what did you mean to say? Because you apparently think it is “reasonable” to arrest protesters if they get in someone’s way.
So protests should only be allowed if they don’t inconvenience anyone?
And by saying that you have already made it clear that you just view the dead as a tool. In your moral high ground, you make it clear that their death only had meaning if it means you can blame the IDF for it. Which was the “shallow” argument being made.
Believe it or not: you don’t have to have a take or choose a side on every single thing that happens in the world. And you can also wait a day or two until more information is known.
Or you can just shit on the memory of dead civilians unless they support your narrative. Works pretty well for the IDF and Hamas.
Weirdly enough, the excessive bombing and war crimes without hitting a hospital make me suspicious. I don’t think this is beyond the IDF, but I also would not be shocked to find out the excuse is true.
Very much a wait for evidence situation
There are definitely journalists investigating. But this is also breaking news.
“News” tends to consist of three main legs. Reporting is what is happening. Journalism is what is really happening. And editorial is how people feel about it.
I mean, this would not be the first time the IDF has targeted humanitarian efforts.
But it is one band of terrorists versus another band of terrorists and both have accused the other. I’ll wait for the third party (probably OSINT) breakdown.
Again, are you paying every single creator you watch?
I keep referencing the helpful home improvement videos but… those are the kind of people who get the most screwed over. Because maybe you rotate between your primary channels. I do too. But maybe I am watching a climbing video and get confused by how that weird bar thing the caver is using actually works. So I search and find a genuinely useful video by some firefighter who was bored. I will probably never watch another video by that person, but I got a lot of value from that. Similarly, maybe I am fixing my dishwasher and can’t for the life of me figure out how to seat the sprayer and need to catch a similar one off video on that.
Ad revenue (or youtube premium money) is how those creators get paid and what encourages people to just do the one off videos. Otherwise, every appliance repair video is 90% an ad for the site that sells replacement parts and so forth.
And that also ignores the other elephant in the room that always comes up when these models are discussed. I have no problem sending William Osman a few bucks every couple months because he usually puts out one or two good videos a month. But what about Not an Engineer? New(-ish) channel. I’ve liked his videos a lot so far but he doesn’t really have a defined upload schedule and is only three videos in. So does he get to be part of the patreon rotation? And should he be less frequent than someone like Michael Reeves who posts one video a year but they are all bangers? Also, I don’t think Not an Engineer HAS a patreon yet so I guess he is just up shit creek for not doing sponsored segments or begging for money in the video about building a mill?
Again, I am not saying you need to throw money at them. I am just saying it is a real asshole move to pretend this is all about supporting creators while actively finding ways not to. Like, I don’t say that me downloading a movie that is only on netflix is about supporting the film industry. It is about me saying that I am not willing to pay 20 bucks a month on the off chance I want to watch The Night Comes For Us again.
If you already have the VPN then yeah, it is like anything else: What are the risks if you “get caught”
But I will just say: The “I pay for patreons” is largely bullshit. Don’t get me wrong, the big creators get paid. But the smaller creators, like the lady who ACTUALLY made a useful video that prevented your kitchen from flooding, get screwed over. Because I have no real problems throwing a few bucks a month at the Remap crew. I watch most of their streams and listen to most of their podcasts and it is awesome. But someone like Allen Pan who MIGHT have one video a month… it is REALLY hard to justify throwing enough to overcome the credit card fee at him. Even if I love his videos. And I have known quite a few people over the years who aren’t even “A Failed Mythbuster” and do it all for the couple bucks a month they get to “justify” the hundred hours or so it takes to make a funny video or to set up a camera to actually make a useful “how to” video.
I dunno. This is just one of those things where: If you wanna steal/“steal”, just do it. You do you. But when people talk about how they want to support creators… and then actively screw over creators? It is downright insulting.
Supporting Israel probably IS the “best” thing for the world at this point, sad as it is.
The Hamas attack was allegedly bankrolled by Iran as a way to destabilize Israel and to disrupt potential alliance talks with the Saudis. There is the constant fear that things will escalate and… they kind of already are due to the various (alleged?) strikes at or near borders.
Right now, the threat of the US and other “Western” nations getting involved is keeping that somewhat in check. Without that, we are looking at another Six Day War situation… involving multiple nuclear powers.
I REALLY hope there are a lot of back channel condemnations and threats occurring. And I do hope this leads to, bare minimum, economic sanctions. But we more or less can’t say “Fuck it, you monsters are on your own”.
As for “a right to self-defense is not a blank check to commit war crimes”: Uhm… probably check out most (all?) of the wars of the 20th century. Sorry, “conflicts” because the w word is bad. Civilians suffer for the dick measuring of their leaders.
The Israeli people are victims of terrorist attacks. Just like the Palestinian people.
The IDF/Mosad/Israeli Government and Hamas have a long history of ever increasing war crimes against each other.
It won’t be
MAYBE the IDF holds off for a few hours. Hamas moves troops and equipment while stalling. No hostages are released. Then the IDF starts back up and Hamas wins
More likely? IDF just don’t acknowledge blatant bullshit, continue bombing, and nothing changes.
Not really, actually.
At an intentionally vague high level: The main components of a firearm are:
1 and 2 are 100% able to be made with plastic. And that is increasingly becoming a selling point for a lot of firearms because of “weight”
4 is trivial to pick up at any hardware store and isn’t even conspicuous.
Which leaves 3 and 5. Plastic/polymer barrels are not an issue for small caliber ammunition (e.g. pistol rounds). You just don’t want to use dirt cheap PLA for that. And probably futz with the infill settings a bit.
The firing pin: Most engineering analyses I have seen say that is the one part that needs to be “real” (and, thus, is a traceable purchase). But I’ve seen a few resources tiptoe around how this could be easily improvised from stuff you buy at the local hardware store. And if I cared enough to check The Dark Web, I am certain I could find step by step instructions on how to do exactly that.
And there are youtubers like Emily the Engineer who have made it a point to show how ridiculously strong 3d printed stuff is. She doesn’t do firearms (mostly because it would get her demonetized…) but 3d printed machetes, lawnmower blades, jacks for pick up trucks, etc are pretty trivial. And I would be pretty shocked if someone who was had a particularly well configured printer and some of the good plastic couldn’t make a (mostly, if not entirely) polymer firing pin (I actually have no idea how modern ammunition works. I THINK it is just compression of the charge which means no metal needed. But if you still need a spark of some form, that is a metal tip instead of a metal pin).
Got it. Transphobia and racism are the same as memes about eating pineapple pizza. Might as well make a joke about how your pronouns are Real/Awesome and all the other stupid bullshit.
Well, at least this indicates that removing that text was not an accident or an oversight. And it is good to know where lemmy.world’s admins actually stand.
Fucking clown shoes…