sorted by: new top controversial old
[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

But they didn't because materials that explode like that simply aren't used as batteries.

Further, software is not magic. In consumer electronics basic power management is done entirely by hardware. A hack cannot short out the battery, because the circuit to do that simply doesn't exist. Maybe the hack could cause enough of a sustained power draw to overheat the battery and trigger a failure eventually, but that would still look quite different from what we saw.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I can't guarantee that none of those drivers were actually part of Hamas

We need to get passed the idea that the mere presence of a Hamas member justifies all military action. Assuming it is true, what were those Hamas members doing?

Throwing away the vaccines to use the marked car for transporting weapons and fighters? Valid military target (and a war crime)

Assisting in distributing polio vaccines? Not a valid target.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The President’s role is largely ceremonial. The President consults party leaders to determine who they would support, then nominates that person. The nominee must then form a coalition that can get support from a majority of the Knesset.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

How do you think intelligence agencies work? There is a reason why background investigations for security clearences focus so much on "is there anything you can be blackmailed with"

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

It was not compulsory for Ben Gvir, who was excused from compulsory service because the IDF at the tine thought he was too extreme. He has since been convicted of terrorism, and currently serves as Israel's minister of defense.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The problem with Israel is that its leader was a bit too vile. About half of the elected knesset refused to form a coalition government with Netenyahu, resulting in years of failing to form a governing coalition.

Eventually, the path out of the stalemate ended up being forming a coalition with far right members of the knesset that had previously been political pariahs; including appointing a convicted terrorist to the role of minister of national security.

Prior to October 7, this was an extremely tenous political position. The coalition was hanging on by a thread. The attempted judicial ~~coup~~ reform was stopped by massive public backlash. And the politian whose divisiveness was central to the political crises that enabled the far right to join the coalition was in the middle of defending himself in a criminal trial. However, when a crisis like October 7 happens, you are stuck with the leaders you have. And Israeli leadership at the time was possibly the worst in the history of the country for handling it (unless you agree with their manifest destiny version of Zionism, in which case I think they are doing quite well).

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

When you are looking at someone down the scope of a gun, you do not see a kidnapper, or a mudered. You see a person. That is not a moral judgment. It is a deep instinctual inpulse we have, enhanced by a lifetime of socialization, against killing people. Half of the point of military training is getting people to overcome tharmt base instinct.

As the commanders say, these soldiers have not had adequate training.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

We are talking about US politics here, so I'm assuming the focus is what the US has been doing.

Stop funding and supplying arms to Israel.

Like the $20 billion we approved earlier this month (in direct violation of the foreign assistance act)

recognize Palestine as a state

We simply do not do this. Then again we don't recognize Taiwan either.

Back ICJ arrest ruling for Netenyahu

The US has been opposed to this warrent, and there is talk of sanctioning the ICJ over it.

Should anyone ever arrest any Israeli official pursuant to an ICJ ruling, there is standing US law (American Service-Members' Protection Act, otherwise known as the invade the Hague act) authorizing the President to use full military force to secure their release [0]

Urge the UN to sanction Israel

The US is routinely the sole veto on every major UN vote on Israel.

[0] This isn't Israel specific. It us authorized for bassically any ally that is not an ICJ member.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Neutral and Israel alligned countries have been calling for a humanatarian pause on purely humanitarian grounds. Even if you don't care about the hostages, that Hamas was willing to offer them means that they had an interest in such a pause as well; making Israel the only obstacle to it happening. That is to say, the severity of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is squarly on Israel's shoulders. The most charitable reading of the situation is that they have determined that the tactical advantage of blocking a humanitarian pause outways the civilian lives they put at risk by doing so.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No. The alternative is to not use a float. Testing if a float is even simply does not make sense.

Even testing two floats for equality rarely makes sense.

What is the correct output of isEven((.2 + .4) ×10)

Hint: (.2 + .4) x 10 != 6

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If you are using floats, you really do not want to have an isEven function ...

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Admit that the project of establishing a democratic Jewish state has failed, and try to salvage a democratic state out of the rubble.

view more: next ›

homura1650

joined 1 year ago