Not_mikey @ Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The difference between a hostage and a prisoner is why you are detaining them. If you are detaining them for some crime or to prevent them from doing some crime or harm to "society"(the powerful) then they are a prisoner. If you are detaining them to try and trade or gain concessions from another party then they are a hostage.

The difference between lawful and illegal escape attempts isn't between hostages and prisoners, false imprisonment is a crime and if you escape or help someone escape that's legal. Taking hostages can also be legal, Putin will often make some trumped up charge for an American so he can use them as a pawn in a prisoner exchange, nominally the intent is to lock them up for committing a crime, but in reality they are hostages in putins game. The difference is whether the state is detaining the person or a non state actor.

So when Ukraine bombs oil infrastructure, it's "risking WWIII, and the global economy," but when Israel does it, they're "exercising their right to defend themselves"

The vast majority of coding isn't making something new, it's using existing patterns and tools and arranging them to fit a specific use case.

Llms may not be able to create a new framework or design pattern, but neither will most coders in there day to day.

There's also a video going around now of him in 2011 claiming Obama was going to start a war with Iran, due to his incompetence at negotiating, right before the election to boost his popularity.

He's projecting more then an imax movie theater.

He is definitely able to do it. Over the past months he's shown that he can act unilaterally on pretty much anything, especially on foreign policy, and no one stops him. He could stop weapons shipments to Israel tonight and if that happened Israel wouldn't be able to support it's 4 front war on the region and have to come to the negotiating table. He just doesn't because he's a coward and afraid of the Israel lobby.

He's already stopped aid to ukraine, no reason he can't do the same for Israel.

From what I've heard, their strategy has been to stall at being 6 months away from a bomb. They could've finished their program a while ago if they wanted to, North Korea did it with far less resources. They don't do it because:

1. It puts them in the dangerous MAD nuclear game theory with Israel
2. It would make them into a pariah state like North Korea and close off any possibility of sanctions relief.

They still want to be somewhat ready though for situations like this where full scale war with Israel is inevitable so if they can survive the war for 6 months they can do a test, establish nuclear sovereignty and get Israel to back off.

Yeah, cause governments tend to implode when the countries arch enemy attacks them...

Hamas hasn't even imploded, and the people have way more reason to blame them for their current situation than the Iranians can blame their government for pursuing a nuclear program that most of the country agreed with.

No matter how unpopular a government is there, they're still going to be more popular than Israel, and people will rally around any flag to fight their flagrant aggression.

Yeah, since it's "peace time" and less risk there's probably a decent chunk of the armed forces who are just in it for the perks ( free college, Healthcare) and don't believe in it and are trying to serve there time and get out and not make a career of it.

They aren't cops who almost always want to be cops and make it a core part of their identity and belief system. They aren't allowed on lemmy.

This isn't Russia, just nationalism. The right in Poland doesn't want Ukrainian immigrants coming in and "taking polish jobs," especially since a lot of Ukrainians will want to leave their country that Russia destroyed.

Not everything has to be some 3d chess move by putin the puppet master. You're giving Russian diplomacy and spy craft far more credit than it deserves.

It's like Caesar and pompey if there was 10x more lead in the water supply

i guess every deficit reduction implicitly comes out of taxpayers wallets

Yeah, but it doesn't have to be yours and my wallet, ideally it would come out of the wallets of all these billionaires but instead we give them tax cuts in the big beautiful bill.

That's the problem with tarriffs and sales taxes in general, there regressive. They hit people who spend a majority of there income buying stuff instead of those putting it in a bank and making more money that isn't taxed as much as money earned working.

That's the whitest thing I've heard of in a while.

Probably also killed a lot of elderly or immunocompromised adults since he lobbied against a covid vaccine becoming open source.

The only one I'd give you shit for is andre 3000 on the right since he's been around forever and the outfit matches him perfectly.

The rest are unknowns to anyone not deep into the met galaxy and pop culture

It is horribly under covered by mainstream press and does have atrocities equivalent to the war on gaza. The Sudanese military has kicked the rapid support forces (rsf) out of most of the east and capital region, but the rsf holds a lot of the west / darfur region except for the city of al fasher which is currently under siege and probably has conditions comparable to Gaza in terms of lack of food and water coming in.

The reason no one is out protesting or trying to raise awareness is because we (the west) can't do anything about it. We aren't supporting either side and shouldn't be, the RSF is worse but the Sudanese military has no shortage of war crimes. So we have no leverage to try and get a ceasefire, whereas in Israel we continue to send them billions in military aid to continue a genocidal war. We could tell them to take peace talks seriously or we cut off aid any day now but refuse to because trump wants a new beach resort.

It's cutting both ways, Israel is using Sudan for whataboutism. Saw this bill board on the 101 the other day

Depends on what your judging life by. For health and economic security living in Cuba is better then being poor in the u.s. life expectancy for Cuba and the u.s. are even, and life expectancy in the US is heavily dependent on income, so your average Cuban is living maybe 10 years more than someone in the US living under poverty.

If your judging life by political freedom and economic mobility , then yeah living in poverty in the US is better.

Yeah by economic statistics you're "richer" if your in the bottom fifth of the US compared to cuba but you aren't paying half your income to rent in cuba and you won't be ruined by medical debt if you get sick.

another of these clearly illegal things

They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it's illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn't argue it's immoral or would make them a rogue state.

There's plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn't put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they're sanctioned by nearly every country.

Interesting that it is a very clear downward trend. Hopefully this is a sign that more and more people realize the two parties are failing them and are ready for a shake up.

In general the president has been gaining power over the past 50 years as congress has become more gridlocked and inept.

Now we're at the point where a president can bomb a foreign country backed only by the approval of his buddies in a signal chat.