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  • During an active military conflict, killing isn't applying the death penalty just for disagreeing with someone, it's typically the only remotely viable way to stop them committing whatever act they're in the middle of. When that act is genocide, killing them is almost universally the only moral action as anything else, even if it still stopped them, would take longer and in doing so let more genocide happen.

    If they've been stopped by other means, e.g. economic sanctions make genocide too expensive to continue, then many genocidal acts carry the death penalty under international law. That's ethically dubious, but it's far from the biggest problem with anti-genocide law given that it's blatently not actually preventing genocide. If the username were just apply international law to zionists, then it'd still be promoting killing people.

    It's also misleading to reduce zionists to certain type of people, as it conjoures up ideas based on inherent identity that are obviously bad to persecute before more directly comparable types of people like murder enthusiasts actively committing murders and refusing to stop despite pressure to. No reasonable person would say armed police were unjustified in shooting someone who was stabbing someone else after they'd been already told to drop their weapon. Not all zionists are actively killing people, but they are all calling for it to be allowed to continue, otherwise they inherently wouldn't be zionists.

  • Ah, but the Palantir man on the radio said that the NHS remains the legal data controller, so everything is fine and we can ignore the fact that all this means is that if Palantir do anything illegal with the data it'll be the NHS that's liable for letting them see it, so they can do what they want and if there's any backlash, it'll be the taxpayer who pays compensation.

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  • That's a proprietary software problem rather than a being connected to the internet problem. One of the send-a-notification-when-it's-done devices I set up took about as much effort as setting the right time on a phone alarm about ten times because the device's firmware was open source with no companies' bullshit involved, so all I had to do was navigate to the right page in Home Assistant and pick the right phone from a dropdown and the right even for the notification to trigger on from a dropdown. That's not wildly different from picking the right time from a dropdown on a phone.

  • In the UK it's considered defamatory to say someone did a crime until they've been convicted of it, and it's Isreal, so fat chance of that happening. This isn't just used to protect genocidal ethnostates, but also wrongly-accused innocent people. Sky are using the harshest language they legally can until the Hague successfully prosecutes someone for this.

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  • Again, that's specific to it being proprietary software. I've got some devices in my home that are connected to the local network (but not the internet), and have configured Home Assistant (which I've got running on an old desktop PC) to send a notification to my phone when it detects that those devices report that they're finished with what they do. That'll keep working until I turn off the Home Assistant server or replace the devices.

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  • That's more effort per wash instead of being something that only needs setting up one and then will work forever. Also, it's common for post-90s appliances to include sensors and vary the cycle time based on how dirty the water gets. Except for the data privacy and security concerns, which are mainly because it's proprietary software rather than inherent in Internet-connected devices, there's no advantage to using your phone timer over getting a notification.

  • I've yet to see anyone say anything about the trailer other than no, I'll wait for the Jimmy Saville movie, so it's safe to say that it's widely considered absurd that anyone would make or want to watch the movie.

  • Artemis also has the premise that stripping away all the safety regulation that a rich country would add to its space program would make a poorer country able to rapidly develop a superior space program and become a rich country with nothing at all going wrong except the one time

    the protagonist accidentally chloroforms everyone

    when it all works out fine in the end anyway because of ignoring the few rules that they did have. It's not a stretch to say that it promotes elements of Objectivism, although it's a lot more pro-state than Ayn Rand was.

  • And it gets worse when combined with Rowling's later comments that she'd always imagined Hermione was black.

  • And don't worry, if some of your readers are so strongly anti-slavery that they think the book is ridiculing the characters ridiculing the anti-slavery character, you can host a guest post on your blog explaining that it's supposed to be pro-slavery and anyone getting any other message is wrong.

  • From what I saw, the 'call to murder' was someone having kill all zionists in their username, and that only makes sense as a real call to violence if we're supposed to take everyone's username seriously and literally. That would be a very weird world to be in, as then we'd have to accept that we're reading posts written by Star Trek characters come to life, inanimate objects, and various bodily fluids. Without evidence of something worth taking more seriously, at best this looks like the admin team doing something silly, and obviously certain groups of Lemmy users will interpret it less charitably and as the LW admin team being pro-genocide. Neither is a good look.

  • COVID was more infectious than things like flu, and people who avoided the vaccine typically also were more likely to break lockdown and social distancing rules, so the r value managed to be close to/above one just from unvaccinated people (or people whose vaccines were for earlier strains) passing the virus on to other unvaccinated people. Breakthough cases obviously make things worse, but when one unvaccinated person typically passes it on to at least one other unvaccinated person, even if vaccinated people never got COVID again, it would still have stuck around, and that's not the vaccine's fault. A virus won't go away until the r value is below one in all subpopulations.

    The figures for effectiveness that were around 90% weren't for getting the virus and passing it on, they were for getting enough of the virus to show symptoms, which for COVID, is more (hence why people kept spreading the virus and thinking they were fine). For a standard vaccine like an annual flu jab, that figure would only be around 70%. The figures that were around 99.99-100% were for effectiveness against serious infection needing breathing assistance. E.g. of the first 100,000 people in the AstraZeneca study, none of them needed breathing assistance from a COVID infection from the early strains that the initial version of that vaccine protected against. There's never been a flu jab that effective.

  • It's expected that parents drive their children to primary school, or at least to a nearby carpark within walking distance. If you don't live within easy walking distance of a primary school, you just have to have a car or no children.

  • You don't hire the writers because they're lazy, you hire them because they're cheap and you want to minimise production costs because there are women in the film so you're not expecting to sell any tickets except to people who've fallen for the social media marketing campaign you ran that said anyone who doesn't watch the film is a misogynist. It's just classic race-to-the-bottom profit seeking.

  • Your if it fully worked, the virus would have died out idea would only work if everyone in a population got vaccinated and that population didn't have any contact with anywhere else where some people weren't vaccinated. There weren't any regions where everyone got vaccinated, so it's not applicable to the real world.

  • Primary schools tend not to be fed by busses, and lots of children need to go to primary school rather than high school.

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  • Depending on the country, it's pretty common for most milk production to be cows kept in extremely cramped conditions indoors with little to no space to move and fed processed grain instead of grass. It does make the milk taste worse, but it can be so much cheaper that customers don't splurge on the more expensive milk, so don't know what they're missing. Even if you only ever see cows outdoors, you might also see low-welfare dairies and just assume they're warehouses or factories and aren't full of livestock, as a factory farm can look just like any other large industrial building.

  • Lots of people new to Linux get recommended Debian-derived distros, and so end up with distro packages that are a long way from bleeding edge. If they've just come from Windows, they'd have been using the latest release of everything they use, as most software projects don't even announce a release until their Windows binaries are ready, and many auto-update. That means that a lot of people have being presented with versions of things they stopped using two to four years ago as their first Linux experience, and obviously they don't see that as good enough. Most people don't want to run versions of things that old, especially now there's so much stuff to package that downstream packagers can't feasibly backport every bug fix to older versions of every piece of software, so running an old version gets you old bugs rather than a balance of avoiding new bugs at the expense of new features.

  • Anything that's not a true x isn't x at all, it just resembles it. That's why the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy is a fallacy. For example, 'bugs' that aren't 'true bugs' aren't bugs at all, they just look enough like bugs that laypeople would call them bugs despite being a different kind of insect (or if the layperson is being especially flexible with what they're calling a bug, potentially not even an insect). Saying glass isn't a 'true solid' is literally the same as saying it's not a solid, but with the added implication that lots of people get it wrong. There's also a common myth that glass is really a slow-moving liquid. You said something that is literally the exact opposite of the truth in a thread about scientific facts that sound up but are 100% real, and landed on something that gets commonly repeated as a surprising fact, so of course people are going to correct you.

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