Reminds me of an article I scrolled past about Amazon generously “slashing away the margins” to sell their latest spyware “at cost” this cyber Monday.

Tracking links, mainly. Here’s how to stop sharing them. Consider this a PSA, spread it far and wide. Sanitize your damn links!!

Google drive/photos downloads also fail when I’m on vpn.

I want to switch to self hosting but I’m only just getting to the point where I can think about doing projects like that and I have several priorities ahead of it. So don’t come at me for using google lmao.

People are shaped by the conditions which they are subjected to. Currently, those conditions promote endless greed and exploitation as a way and means of life, and give out huge advantages to anyone willing and able to perpetrate them at scale.

Looks like a truewagner bit, in which case it’s probably just nonsense

edit: yep, posted Jan 30 2024

So did you just miss all the material conditions for that famine you’re so concerned about, and the recovery from those conditions creating hope for NK’s future in contrast to SK, or are you just ignoring those parts so you can feel justified in your browbeating and characterization of the DPRK as a failed authoritarian state that is actually deserving of the previously mentioned conditions that caused the famine.

I don’t see how 34K people “defecting” in only one direction proves anything beyond the fact that economic conditions were pretty tough, which isn’t in dispute. Honestly that 0.13% is a pretty low figure if we’re supposed to believe that, on top of the economic hardship, their “authoritarian state” is so brutal as to be “worse than the disease” that has more and more resulted in south koreans having so little hope for the future that they’re ceasing to bring children into the world.

It’s still legible though. I think it’s leas for the sake of modesty than just maximizing reach in the algorithm of whatever social media it was reposted to. An image-to-text algo would probably not register the marked word(s) to then mark the post as vulgar or 18+, and then show it to fewer people because of that. I see it all the time in posts mentioning Palestine, which started when it became apparent that those kinds of posts were being suppressed.

Along the same lines, sometimes something silly like a hair is edited into the image. I’ve always assumed this is to prevent it from getting caught by content-recognition algorithms, which would mark it as a repost and either remove or de-rank the content.

Seems the hate is better directed at the algorithms that make this worthwhile than the reposters frustrating those efforts to sanitize everything by putting a non-destructive mark on the content.

I don’t know about you, but to me; kidnapping civilians that were put in the line of fire, and then being framed for their deaths (which, as the article points out, happened mostly outside of the site of the rave); is far better than “attacking a music festival and killing everyone in sight”. That, I’ll remind you, is where we started out at.

I also tend to believe that a civilian taken hostage with intent to negotiate for their release is far better than a dead civilian. I’d even venture to say it’s better than one kidnapped and held indefinitely, like the over 9,000 Palestinians held by Israel to this day.

In fact, if you’re so worried about kidnapping, you should ask Israel about the aforementioned Palestinian “prisoners” that are being held without charge or trial, routinely assaulted, and deprived of basic necessities. You know, the ones that might be freed in exchange for an Israeli captured from, say, a “music festival” that armed forces stumbled upon in the middle of a military offensive.

You must be pretty experienced with life as an armed resistance fighter inside a concentration camp, though, to so comfortably impose your own decision making on them. I suppose I can’t say what would have happened if they just went around the festival (which I can safely assume you know for a fact that both the option to do so, and the necessity to choose that option, was clear to the fighters on the ground before they ever engaged with the armed forces there) and asked nicely for their friends and family back. Maybe the ravers would have just stayed in a nice protective bubble, and Israel wouldn’t have just found another excuse to ramp up the genocide and apartheid they were already subjecting Palestinians to. Of course, the correct and moral decision is so plainly obvious! Maybe the key to peace was never to resist at all, at least for as long as the side that is happy to indiscriminately kill even their own civilians is able to put those civilians in the way of otherwise legitimate military offensives. Hm, what was that about human shields?

So anyways; sarcasm and vast exaggerations of what the article is outlining aside. If it doesn’t change things for you that hundreds of deaths (very likely the majority of those on 10/7, based on the evidence shared in the article) have been both misrepresented and wrongly attributed to the armed wing of Hamas; the only force willing and able to defend Gaza and win back what is legally their own territory; by the force that is responsible for those civilians being there in the first place, and for the order to kill any civilians in the region that might be taken hostage; in order for Israel to make those false claims, delegitimize the government in Gaza as a whole, and build a false premise for their ongoing extermination of Palestinians; then we simply aren’t going to agree here and I doubt any amount of facts or evidence would convince you of Palestine’s legitimacy.

music festival (advertised for on the web, not very secret)

Often referred to as the “Nova music festival” by Western media, the event on its official webpage actually named itself the “Supernova Sukkot Gathering.” A recent film about the event showed that it was more akin to the illegal raves often organized in secret locations in many Western countries.

Supernova was not illegal and was coordinated with the local Israeli police force (which was armed and present in advance to guard the event). But for reasons that are not entirely clear, the rave’s location was not announced until 6 October.

Participants in the high profile Israeli film We Will Dance Again confirmed that the Supernova location was kept secret from ticket holders until the last minute.

This (rather than any confusion about the days of the event or extension of the time, as is sometimes erroneously said online) explains why Hamas had no clue about the presence of the rave in the fields between Gaza and the biggest military base in the area – the regional headquarters at Re’im.

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Israeli intelligence has concluded that the Palestinians had no prior knowledge of the rave.

decided to abandon their mission

“Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” as Hamas called it, was, by any objective military measure, a stunning success.

It was said at Israel’s military headquarters that day that “the Gaza Division was overpowered,” a high-level source present later recalled to Israeli journalists. “These words still give me the chills.”

Covered from the air by armed drones and a barrage of rockets – which opened the offensive at 6:26 am exactly – Palestinian fighters launched a lightning raid over the Gaza boundary line.

The army bases were conquered for hours. Some of the settlements still had an armed Palestinian presence two days later.

The military communications infrastructure was instantly smashed. Simultaneous attacks took place by land, air and sea.

Palestinian drones took out tanks, guard posts and watchtowers.

Caught completely unprepared, most of the soldiers manning the bases were either killed or captured and taken back to Gaza as prisoners of war. A reported 255 Israelis were captured, including soldiers and civilians. Since then, 154 of them have been released, mostly by Hamas in November’s prisoner exchange.

murder and kidnap anyone they could see there instead

The rave is often reported to be the largest single site of deaths that took place on 7 October. The UN report said that 364 out of the 3,000 total ravers were “killed either at the site, near Kibbutz Re’im or in adjacent locations.”

But a detailed breakdown of the deaths recently published by The Times of Israel (based on an Israeli TV channel’s investigation) shows that more than 60 percent of this figure actually died outside of the designated grounds of the rave.

This is important for two reasons.

Firstly, despite the fact that the film We Will Dance Again tries to paint a picture of villainous Palestinian terrorists deliberately attacking civilians, it is clear from all available evidence that the rave was not a planned target of the Hamas offensive that day.

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Secondly, the breakdown published by The Times of Israel places the deaths of ravers outside the rave grounds as far away as Sderot (11 miles north of the Supernova site) and the Re’im military base (only 2.3 miles south)

Plotting these sites of death onto Google Earth and cross referencing them with the sites of ambushes set up by Hamas’ elite commando force – as detailed by the 7 Days investigation – shows the two often coincide.

It is therefore likely that the deaths of some of these fleeing ravers were the unintended consequences of Palestinian ambushes set up to intercept Israeli army reinforcements headed to the region.

“While many reinforcements were flowing south,” Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun wrote in the 7 Days investigation, Hamas’ commando force “had foreseen these reinforcements and took over the strategic junctions … where they awaited the forces … a lot of blood was shed at those junctions, both of soldiers and of civilians.”

The 7 Days piece also relates instances of Israeli soldiers rushing south to join the fight on their own initiative – including in their own civilian vehicles.

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What is still unclear about the Supernova rave is how many of the dead were killed by Palestinians, and whether any were killed in “Hannibal” attacks by Israel.

Unlike in the more built-up areas such as the military bases and the kibbutzim – where there is clear visual evidence of bombed buildings and conclusive eyewitness accounts – the visual situation in and around the Supernova site was more chaotic.

There were few built-up structures for Israeli aircraft or tanks to explode, as they did in the settlements.

Video and other photographic evidence does show that the fields around the exit of the site next to the armed Israeli checkpoint were intensively burned and blackened.

It is unclear whether this was the result of the helicopter or tank attacks, or the result of fires which may have caught alight after Palestinian rocket-propelled grenade strikes.

What is known is that Israeli armed forces on site set up a roadblock at the main exit, causing a massive backlog of cars waiting to leave the site. Many ravers ended up fleeing on foot, east across the fields as the firefight broke out.

While the We Will Dance Again film conspicuously fails to mention the roadblock set up by Israeli forces, an early CNN report does show the roadblock on its map of the scene, and The Times of Israel report states that it was probably set up as early as 7:00 am.

Journalist William Van Wagenen has detailed in a report for The Cradle that the roadblock likely led to Israeli forces unintentionally trapping some escaping ravers in a firefight between them and Palestinian fighters advancing on the Re’im military base from the north.

I really recommend you read the article.

More than half those killed on October 7 were IDF and police, a large number of civilians killed at the concert were killed by Israeli tanks and Apache helicopter.

That’s literally what I’m saying; that first statement was purely written so that I could correct the other person’s implied rhetoric. I’ll edit it to say hundreds because you’re right that “thousands” in reference to the number of civilians that were killed on October 7 is an error on my part.

Yes.

“Hamas targeted a music festival and killed hundreds of civilians, which became reasonable justification for Israel’s extermination campaign in Gaza.”

is indeed a very different situation from:

"When Hamas targeted the largest military base in the area surrounding Gaza, civilians that shouldn’t have been there were caught in the crossfire of both Hamas fighters (ordered to take hostages) and the Israeli military (ordered to kill civilians per the Hannibal directive).

This event was used; by the very same Israel that was responsible for those civilians being there in the first place, and for the military directive to kill those civilians before they could be taken hostage; to fabricate an entirely different reality, in order to manufacture consent for an extermination campaign that was already being planned, as part of the genocide that they have been effectively been waging since the Nakba began in the 70’s."

You should just read the article I linked. It’s a great piece of journalism.

I wonder… do we have any kind of cablegore or tech gore community around here?

It was no “music festival”. It was a secret rave in between a military base and an open air prison. Israeli intelligence confirmed themselves that Hamas likely had no prior knowledge of it.

Source

Woah, woah, last time I checked, for $500 you could get pretty decent specs. Though, the last time I checked was in 2019 when I was shopping for a 2 in 1 for school. Since then I’ve bought used and haven’t looked back.

Still, I think you’re thinking in the $150 and under range. Anything more than that for a device with 4gb of memory would be straight up robbery.

And yet it denigrates the resistance to Israel’s crimes as terrorists, any outlet that reports on that resistance in a supportive light as untrustworthy, and neglects to hold Israel themselves to the same standard that all of that clearly demonstrates.

…and they’re right to do so? The land didn’t stop being Palestine just because a bunch of Western-backed Zionists decided to occupy it and commit genocide against the natives.

I could very easily say that Wikipedia has a long history of pro-western propaganda…

I’m going to need to see more than a shitpost from Reddit before I’ll pick up a torch and fall in line with a mob of pro-genocide hypocrites against a legitimate progressive.

Yo where do you think you are? The folks in this comm range from generally progressive to straight up ML… why are you shadowboxing liberals rn??

Idk I was 16 when that came out so actually high school level. Feel free to read the study yourself and correct me? Not sure what you’re skeptical about tbh but the belittling is really uncalled for. You asked for a source and I gave one.

The point of sources is so you can see where the person got their information and personally verify what was said, not to unequivocally prove things true or false based on there being a credible source at all.

They’re referring to this one back in 2016, where the caveat was that it had the same side effects as women’s birth control. Since the patient being prescribed isn’t the one who will experience negative health outcomes without the medications, the harm of those side effects was deemed by researchers (not the patients themselves) to be greater than the risk of impregnating someone else.

Other hornonal options have come out since then, though not on the consumer market afaik, like this hormonal gel and this pill.

More recently (like earlier this year) its been done without hormones by blocking a vitamin A metabolite that signals the production of sperm.