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Four people killed after starving Palestinians burst into UN food warehouse in Gaza

Hmm… who was killed? Oh… it was four Palestinians.

Why did they have to “burst” into a warehouse? Oh… the doors were closed and people with guns where trying to keep the Palestinians from being able to get something to eat as they are being intentionally starved by the Israeli government.

“Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP’s al-Ghafari warehouse…"

Hordes of Palestininans being intentionally starved

“Humanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into Gaza,” the statement said. “Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve.”

Incorrect, more food aid being sent isn’t going to be able to get through the Israeli state’s ability to restrict the flow for the purpses of genociding the Palestinians.

So… what you’re saying is, during an actual ongoing war, any civilian causalities should be used as a pretext to continue the war that is resulting in civilian causalities?

Makes perfect sense.

All the more reason to move forward with peace talks, right?

The longer shit goes on, the most desperate things get, the more accidental and intention targeting of civilians becomes for both countries.

Weird way to allow the Russian courts to make new legal precedents.

There different reasons for wanting privacy or advocating for for personal data privacy and implimenting strategies to support that.

If ever you are in trouble with the state or make the wrong person on the internet angry, the more you’ve publically shared the easier it will be for them to find something to use against you. So… you can try not to get on anybody’s bad side to limit that possibility or you can do your best to compartmentalize your online activities.

It should be possible to ask for help or show vuneralbility online without telling anybody (or thing) absolutely everything about you every time.

The Israeli military should stop using Israeli citizens as human shields then.

Second paragraph…

A former top U.S. commander and a senior [defense] analyst with deep ties to Ukraine both say no one should be quick to draw hasty conclusions from the events of the past two weeks.

heh.

In his nightly address on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s daring military incursion aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further attacks by Moscow across the border.

If you can’t keep your own territory, you’re not actually creating a buffer zone.

The first assumption demolished by this operation was that Ukraine wouldn’t be able to regain the initiative until next year.

Huh? Ukraine is currently in a holding position within its own country, throwing a bunch of troops at a bunch of small towns in Russia and claiming it as a strategic victory is right up there with the US military in Afghanistan parking a platoon of grunts in an empty house every 20 miles and coloring in the map of Afghanistan with the “secured” color on their PowerPoint presentations.

Some observers have speculated that Ukraine was trying to draw Russian troops away from the Donbas to relieve pressure on its forces there.

This is a reasonable assessment of the Ukraine gamble…

If that was the case, Karber said, the gamble “really hasn’t paid off” and he fears the Ukrainians will soon face a determined counterattack on one or both of the shoulders of the salient.

… and Ukraine seems to have lost their bet.

“I think that it’s been clear for some time that Russia does not have the ability to knock Ukraine out of the war as long as the West continues to provide even the modest amounts that we are providing now.”

Or we can phrase it slightly differently as, “to the last Ukranian.”

“It seems like they’re just trying to do more and more of the same, and certainly they will have lost thousands of experienced troops and leaders that are now being replaced by those who are not as well trained or experienced. Where is the bottom of that barrel for Russia?”

Where is the bottom of the barrel for Ukraine? So long as open warfare is happening, untrained troops are going to have “opportunities” to get experience. Until there aren’t any more bodies to throw into the meat grinder, nobody is going to see the bottom of the barrel.

Misread the post title, thought everybody jumped and left you all alone.

Hamas: Shit, one of our guys got upset and killed an Israeli prisoner. This isn’t good.

Israel: We have a moral right to r*pe any Palestinian prisoners we want to.

Self defense is self defense, would we expect some different behavior from a country being attacked from outside interests with publicly accessible end to end encryption services?

blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries.

Or… you know… at least for Venezuela, the USA constantly fucking around with their elections and politics and local assets using Signal or something. Maybe, I dunno?

Depositing checks is about the only useful thing I’ve seen on my local bank’s app, but that only matters if you do business stuff with people who pay with checks.

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I actually had that in the first draft of this comment but removed it for the less salacious “Track and Field”.

All they know is Foxy Boxing, Powderpuff Football, Women’s Track and Field, eat hot chip, and lie about gender.

The Jaws prequels are pretty intense.

Well that sounds about right… sighs

So you’re telling me that what I understand from reading the article is incorrect? Because my comment was based completely on what I read from the article.

Maybe my comment was poorly constructed. From reading the article, should my takeaway have been that the current use of the reference to the Yihetuan by the online trolls seems to be purely reactionary and not historical?

There has been a wave of online Chinese ultranationalism directed at Japan in recent years amid rising tensions between the two countries, especially over Tokyo’s support for Taiwan and territorial disputes in the East China Sea.

Some posts urged Chinese to “go against the Japanese and eliminate traitors” while calling to establish a “modern-day Yihetuan”, it said in a statement on Saturday night.

Yihetuan, also known as the “Boxers” from the martial arts they practised, were a Chinese nationalist secret society during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) that supported imperial power and resisted Westernisation. Their slogan was “Support the Qing, destroy the foreigners”. The movement later led to the failed 1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion against Western and Japanese powers in northern China.

A right wing nationalist movement of the past that supported a monarchy being referenced by a small number of online trolls doing asshole things. Definitely not to be confused with general opinions of the greater Chinese population.

The measures were in line with the response from Beijing. In a commentary on Friday evening, Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily said that “Chinese people have the same standards on right and wrong”.

Probably an unnecessary use of the word “mouthpiece.” At least for this situation, there’s no need to give the negative connotation to the target audience of English native readers.

The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

Makes sense, a 6 year old won’t have boobs to mastectomy and any adult trying to get a 6 year old a breast enhancement needs to be [redacted], pretty much all of medical science advocates against surgeries of this nature before a body is fully grown unless there something really REALLY serious to modify the risk assessment so having some legislative ban is just fucking ridiculous, facial surgeries are given to literal babies with cleft pallets, and puberty blockers aren’t the same thing as E or T.

A two-page explainer on gender-affirming care that is frequently cited by federal officials stated that gender-affirming surgeries were “typically used in adulthood or case-by-case in adolescence,” leaving the door open to surgery for minors in some instances.

No shit, its all going to be case by fucking case. Transgender people aren’t a fucking monolith, there won’t be a one size fits all treatment that works for every transgender person. That’s the whole fucking point of a person going to seek medical professionals in the first place, to figure their shit out with the professionals whose whole job is to have a good idea what can/needs to be done.

That’s the whole problem of any type of legislation making a barrier between a patient and the whole of a nations medical system. You either make the rule because you’re a bigot politican, or you make the rule because you’re an ignorant politician. There is no third option

I remember the good ol’ days when the Ukraine/Russia war was absolutely not a proxy war between the USA and Russia.