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  • Fuck not brushing your teeth regularly and having unbrushed teeth from lunch till night time.

    I try to brush my teeth three times a day. Used to have regular issues, now I don't and my teeth are less yellow.

    No brainer.

  • In non-first past the post systems you often end up with coalition governments.

    The result is that you can screw the other guy over, but you're likely to be in government with them sooner rather than later, at which point they'll screw you right back.

    It breeds compromise, even if it happens after spending a full year negotiating before agreeing to enter a coalition government and exactly and to ten decimal places which laws you that government will be enacting during the coming parliament.

  • Look, no hate, but I always find these kinds of comments funny because I've been reading them for over twenty years.

    It's not going to happen, certainly not in any significant numbers.

    Hell, look at the fediverse. The vast majority of internet users find signing up to mastodon hard, let alone lemmy. How the hell are these people supposed to install linux, for example when they follow many an 'easy' linux installation guide, but then find Rufus isn't able to create a bootable USB stick in fat32? How are they supposed to verify their data, or hell change the bios settings when the guide they read gives them the wrong key to press to enter the bios? And then if by some miracle they do manage to install linux, you expect them to move away from all the apps they've grown used to? They'll try to install MS office on linux and blame this not working on linux.

    TLDR: Gretchen! Stop trying to make mass linux adoption happen! It's not going to happen!

  • Have you ever considered that if people were less naive about the true nature of war, and didn't lie to themselves about the reality for civilians, and that war inevitably devolves into rape, torture, and infanticide, the world would be a better place?

    You be better.

  • I am not being disingenious. I am being realistic.

    Any bomb dropped on Gaza is a bomb dropped on a high populous area.

    Some estimate that as many as ten million people died in the Congo Free State. Historians generally agree that what happened doesn't meet the 1948 UN definition of genocide, because it requires intent and intent is hard to prove.

    Another example: the Dasht-i-Leili Massacre. A US allied war lord stuffed thousands Taliban prisoners into metal containers, up to 250 per container. American troops were present when it happened. Oopsie doodle. It got a bit hot in the metal containers. It is likely that up to 2000 of them died from heat exhaustion and/or suffocation (and the occasional bullet). No one was ever convicted.

    Remember former defense secretary Colin Powell? His meteoric rise started after he helped white wash the My Lai massacre.

    Remember that time US soldiers gunned down Reuters journalists and laughed about it? Good news: they convicted someone for that. Bad news: they convicted the person who leaked the footage, Chelsea Manning.

    This is how the world works. This is the standard of behaviour you can expect from militaries.

    Which is probably why the Israelis will eventually get away with their crimes, just as other countries have before them. They can simply claim they were attempting to bomb Hamas, and that all those who have died are collateral damage. Don't get your hopes up about the ICJ case. The fact that they didn't push for an immediate cease fire should be enough to convince you of that. The world isn't fair.

    On a related note: the police are less nice than their portrayal in Brooklyn 99 would lead you to believe.

  • Sorry. But you're naive.

    War has always been like this. It's just been masked by newspeak. Collateral damage, precision or surgical strikes, insurgent, non-combatants, etc.

    IRC the initial bombings of Iraq in 2003, labeled 'Shock and Awe' and portrayed as surgical and precise by plenty of media, likely cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians. The US bombed hospitals, they killed journalists, there were literal concentration camps, systematic torture, summary executions, etc. etc. People have simply watched too many American war movies (not a good war movie like Come and See, link to the full movie with subs on an official channel), don't know much about international law, and seem to think a bomb blast stops at the window of a building. The sad reality is that you can bomb a building with one terrorist in it, and if it happens to be next to a children's hospital, that's invariably not considered a war crime.

    IRC the UK Department of Defense even has absurdly low civilian casualty figures, because anyone in a combat zone is no longer considered a civilian. Here's a relevant article:

    The UK has admitted causing only one civilian death in its nearly decade-long campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a position widely criticised as implausible by defence establishment insiders and the civil service.

    And let's not get started on countries like Russia where officers pimped out their own soldiers. If that's how they treat their own, you don't want to know how they treat the enemy. I mean, they decided to pardon child rapists and murders after setting them loose on the Ukrainian front. And don't get me started on wars with child soldiers and rape camps. Hell, IRC in Syria the red cross/crescent gave Assad the location of hospitals, so they could avoid bombing them. They stopped doing that when they realised the regime was almost certainly using the locations they provided as targeting data and hit multiple hospitals in a day.

    Want to know the sad reality? Israel will likely get away with all this, because what they're doing isn't that especially out of the ordinary when it comes to war. It's no coincidence that the ICJ stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.

  • Others have already given you an answer, but for future reference, whenever you need to find something out about star trek there's memory alpha. It's basically the Trek encylopedia and is very detailed. It's the trek equivalent of tv tropes, so can be a dangerous time suck. So in this case:

    The alternate reality was a new reality created on Friday, January 4, 2233 (stardate 2233.04) when a temporal incursion caused by time travel of the Narada, a Romulan mining vessel from the year 2387, disrupted the time continuum of the prime universe. Accidentally traveling back to that point in time, Nero, the Narada's captain, attacked the USS Kelvin resulting in the deaths of several crew members, including George Kirk and Richard Robau, and the destruction of the Kelvin itself. Spock arrived to the alternate reality in 2258 and was captured by Nero, who used red matter to destroy Vulcan. However, Nero's attacks united the crew of the USS Enterprise, who foiled his attempt to destroy Earth. ... Scans and telemetry of the 24th century Narada, taken by the Kelvin, were brought back to Starfleet by the survivors on the Kelvin's shuttles. Therefore, Starfleet's development and construction plans were slightly altered, making everything potentially more advanced, slightly ahead of schedule. ... co-writer Simon Pegg had a different view of how the alternate reality diverges from the prime timeline from Orci and Kurtzman, believing events before 2233 were different too ... "Spock's incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe."

    https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Alternatereality

    (https://memory-beta.fandom.com is also extensive, but is for non-canon works)