grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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It's not too late. I'm sure the NDP would be on board.

Apropos of nothing but I've seen Rep. Comer in a few interviews and he has the most pig-like visage of anyone I've ever seen. Like, if a witch were to curse a pig to become a man James Comer would be the result.

I didn't downvote you, for the record.

That article has mixed feelings about the reliability of the 20k estimate

True.

ARE THE PUBLISHED CASUALTY NUMBERS COMPREHENSIVE?

No, experts told Reuters.

"Our monitoring suggests that the numbers provided by the Ministry of Health may be under-reporting as they do not include fatalities who did not reach hospitals or may be lost under the rubble," the U.N. human rights office spokesperson said. "It is a logical assumption that the numbers being reported are underestimated, are low," said Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, who has worked on death counts in armed conflict and natural disasters for more than 20 years. The PA's Oct. 26 report said at least 1,000 bodies could not be recovered or brought to morgues, citing families interviewed by its Gaza staff - a clear and plausible example of the impact of war "on data capture and reporting", the Lancet article read. The number of bodies feared buried under the rubble now reaches into the thousands and much of the Gaza civil defence force's digging equipment has been destroyed in air strikes, the PA's health minister al-Kaila said on Tuesday.

The problem faced by the IDF is in fighting an insurgent force that deliberately embeds itself into the civilian population of a very densely-populated area with shoddy building quality. There’s basically no way to fight Hamas without innocent Palestinians getting caught in the crossfire.

In any other situation where a group was using civilians as hostages like this, we would call bombing the hostages as a first resort psychotic. This is just as true for Israel.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/

From a few days ago.

What are we trying to be helpful about, exactly? Nearly 20k dead over the course of a couple months is plenty indiscriminate.

I wouldn't call it a misrepresentation. That's the form of retaliation they've decided to take, so if you are of the opinion that preventing Israel from seeking that retaliation is bad, you have to be fine with indiscriminate bombing of civilians.

Are you fucking kidding me, English? You're the worst kind of European. You're the worst part of the British Isles ffs.

You mean west Asia? The Urals being a continental boundary is a joke.

Over 87 years of age is (part of) the initial group. It will be opened up to other age groups in the new year.

Like it or not a lot of people's knowledge about the system they exist in comes essentially via osmosis from the media they consume. And most of the media we consume is American. We laugh at Canadians who defend themselves referencing American laws but I suspect a poll of people who mistakenly believe that some American legal concept applies to them would be disturbingly high.

This is why CanCon laws and more recently the Online News Act are so important. We have the average person in school for 12-16 years and then a lifetime where you'd hope people would be somewhat self-driven in keeping informed about this stuff, but we've got the humanity we've got and not the one we'd wish we'd got so we'd better ensure the media Canadians are consuming informs us about our own system.

This is good news but I wonder how much it rests on carbon capture paying off more than it's likely to?

If you ever felt like your truck didn't look and drive enough like a prep counter, Elon Musk has got your back.

"We're"? Are we all Google shareholders now?

That's exactly it, though. All that infrastructure got built when the government would directly build infrastructure. The Interstate System, the Transcontinental Railroad, these got built because the government got them done. It's only since the birth of neoliberalism during Carter's presidency, and supercharged during Reagan's, where infrastructure only gets done through public private partnerships that things stopped being built.

That was definitely sarcastic. OP posted a very anti-private industry meme, I doubt they are like, "except roads, though, I love toll roads."

You wanna know something else? The majority of the world economy is already centrally planned. Not on the national level, on the corporate level. Business is dominated by a relatively few giant corporations with internal economies the size of some nations. None of them run free markets internally. Sears experimented with it, to their demise. Central planning is already the primary way that our economic lives are driven. It's just we let unaccountable billionaires do the planning instead of an elected body.

Look into the United Conservative Party's corporate donors if you don't believe this.

I wouldn't be surprised that they removed it based on not being a link to certain news sources that they seem to require. Permaban, though? That's not rules related.

The lemmit.online bot specifically mirrors a lot of reddit, block that one account and the bot content drops significantly.

The actual content is way better now than it was the first couple of months after the Reddit thing. Initially a lot of the comments were either Reddit related or people trying to force communities that didn't necessarily have the population to survive, yet. That's all fallen away now and the content feels much more organic. Someone opening a Lemmy instance for the first time is going to find today's front page much more engaging than what it looked like in June/July.

Lemmy is becoming its own thing rather than a reflection of Reddit.

In some ways a lot more responsive as well. The news that Kissinger died was all over Lemmy for hours before I noticed one post about it crack the front page of Reddit, for example.