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I mod 4, but only the smallest one (worldwithoutus) is actually mine.

It has about 240 people now, so according to the 90:9:1 rule (out of every 100 people 1 posts and 9 interact) there should be 2 people posting but in reality it's not at that point yet! However, I like doing it.

The other 3 are bigger but not any more active.

very small user bases

If you're talking about the stats, you're probably only able to see how many accounts from your own instance are subscribers.

Kbin is kind of weird because the software is way less developed than Lemmy and it has regular outages, so a lot of people signed up and then left, a lot of communities got abandoned due to inactive mods and spam problems. So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.

There's a really cool one I used to love called The 13th Floor that used to be active and then one week the mod and his friends disappeared.

After the mod was gone for a month I took over moderation to protect it from spam or deletion, but I have other projects so can't really do it justice. I would love it if it got a new lease on life.

Link for Lemmy.

Link for kbin.

I'm usually the only poster in the one I created, but I'm happy knowing a few people read it.

White phosphorus is restricted under international law. If it is being used in Gaza that is a war crime.

The usage of white phosphorus is restricted under international humanitarian law. Although there can be lawful uses, it must never be fired at, or in close proximity to, a populated civilian area or civilian infrastructure, due to the high likelihood that the fires and smoke it causes spread. Such attacks, which fail to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects and fighters and military objectives, are indiscriminate and thus prohibited. - Amnesty International

We all agree London is cosmopolitan.

I think they were objecting to the phrase "few and far between".

You really can't use it to describe a situation of almost 2 in 5.

If 2 in every 5 cars you see are red you can't say red cars are few and far between.

Death from giving birth number seems awfully low

Seemed slightly on the high side to me, but within the bounds of normal. This is like a medical version of the overton window, I guess.

Here in NZ it's around 7 per 100,000. I get the impression the US is an outlier on this particular stat.

That's hilarious!

Reddit also reported a 37% increase in daily active users. I think we all know who those are.

I find this comment disturbing in so many ways. I think an example that really sums up what's wrong with it is

Israel unsurprisingly puts the safety of their soldiers above the concerns of local farmers.

"Concerns of local farmers" isn't the main issue with crop destruction. Famine and starvation are.

And the binary between being blown up by ieds and destroying fields is a false dichotomy. A better way of phrasing it would be:

Israel puts expediency above the lives of local civilians.

The UN doesn't declare famine until 30% of a population's children are displaying physical signs such as muscle wasting. This is really serious. We saw it two years ago with the deliberate famine in Ethiopia and now we're seeing it in Gaza.

Every single nation on Earth would have reacted to this with a full-on war

I find it a bit bizarre that people keep using this talking point when there's ample evidence that other countries do not react to terrorism by slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians.

Many countries have shown themselves able to respect international law. Britain for example managed not to massacre the children of Ireland en masse when it was dealing with the IRA.

"Think of the children" as a phrase is meant to satirize the fallacious appeals of "moral panic" arguments in support of conservative social values.

Your idea that it also covers arguments for literally not killing children is odd. There's nothing necessarily fallacious about singling out children as a subset that it's especially important to avoid killing.

In this case half the civilians are children and they are being killed, so it's a reasonable thing to want to stop.

The implication of your use of the phrase here is that no one should consider children's wellbeing even when real harm is being done to them. I find that idea dystopian and inhumane.

Bush pulled us out in 2002.

Her, uh, did a little bit more than that....

Well, put it this way, the US still has the American Servicemembers Protection Act in which it authorizes itself for a military invasion of The Hague if the ICC ever tries to indite an American for war crimes.

They may have bombed this exact "safe" zone before now

@lemmyuser838586 Reddit used to have a left wing political sub called ChapoTraphouse. After it got banned its users all moved to their own fediverse site, Hexbear. It has its own site culture, slang, name-calling, and memes.

It has been defederated from quite a lot of instances.

• It was not federated for a long period of time. Part of its - culture involves what it calls "dunking" on people its users disagree with politically, which as far as I can see is a compendium with snark at one end and bullying at the other.
• When Hexbear federated, its users were "excited to dunk" on people again. Their copious use of visual memes, including a picture of pig testicles covered in excrement, stretched threads. They are also a big community, which means when they pile into a thread it looks like brigading.
• The situation wasn't helped by large numbers of Hexbear users coming into threads where other instances tried to discuss what to do about issues around federating with Hexbear. As larger instances defederated them, they became disproportionately drawn to small instances that remained, which added to the brigading effect and led to more defederations.

Just look at population of Israel where almost 25% is Arabic and compare it to Palestine

That's a bit like comparing the proportion of immigrant citizens in the wealthy US with those in its low income neighbour Mexico.

Only, if the US was also occupying most of Mexico and controlled who could enter or leave.

Tl; dr it says a lot more about the situation than it does about the wishes of the population.

Ugh that will probably never leave you. I haven't seen CSAM since I stumbled on it in the 1990s but what I saw is still burnt into my brain. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

This is one of the reasons I stay on kbin, it doesn't autoload images.

HKET is HK's best selling financial newspaper. Might be an Overton window issue but to me the WSJ is also conservative.

That said yeah I'm not disagreeing with you that SCMP is HK's main paper. But I happen to avoid it.

Well, I don't often give the WSJ clicks either, but wouldn't its equivalent be the HKET?

SCMP has gone a bit weird since it was bought by Alibaba.

Well it's like the old joke says,

Q: how do you know someone's a vegan?

A: OH, THEY'LL TELL YOU.

Seriously tho I don't have a problem with them unless they start saying there's no difference betwern killing an animal and torturing it.