They blew up the pagers without knowing where they would be, who they would be next to, or who would be holding them. That's how the children died. It was really cool how cyberpunk it was, but it wasn't precisely targeted at all. It's like blowing up a city bus because you're pretty sure a Hezbollah member is in it but don't care about collateral damage at all.
Nice! I'll have to look into this. I love physical books but I'm running out of space 😭
In this analogy it's just a city bus. They killed civilians with this attack, I'm not sure if you realize. Unless you think the 10 year old girl was a hardened Hezbollah soldier.
And yes, it's better, but not good. Especially since they're not even at war with Lebanon right now. They're just trying to expand the conflict to keep the US in a forever war to justify their genocide and so Netanyahu never has to account for his crimes.
Do e-readers work with pdfs? I have various DnD books I've bought online and I'd love to be able to store them on one easily carry able device.
Dropping smaller bombs that kill innocents is still terrorism. It's not like it's okay if I blow up a bus just because I blew up a building last week.
It's how I feel about Shang Chi. If they could've pulled off a better ending, it would be one of my top Marvel movies, but the let down of another big magic slinging CGI filled fight pushed it below my to 5 when I watched it (though it's probably still in my too 10).
Dude they injured thousands of people and killed children and health care workers. This is 100% terrorism. I guess it's a better than the active genocide they're doing though, so it's a low bar.
There's no been proof that Tik Tok sends all the data to China or that China manipulates the algorithm. In fact, to appease the US before, they agreed to let Oracle and a purely US subsidiary look at all their code and data and content moderation. Oracle would spot check the data flows and where it goes. Tik Tok would report to Committee on Foreign Investment in the US on everything, even hiring practices. And a 2021 study found Tik Tok didn't really collect data beyond the norm of other players in the industry, or beyond what it said it did in it's policy.
All this scaring is literally just because politicians are scared that people in Gaza can use it to report what's happening to themselves during the genocide, without the blatant censorship of American companies on the issue. Even Romney admitted that's the reason. I don't actually use Tik Tok and I think it's algorithms are bad for our ADHD addled brains, but I would also apply that to YouTube shorts and Instagram stories. They should all be regulated, not banned. Hell, we actually could use more foreign companies that aren't vulnerable to US censorship, not the opposite. This is especially important since reporters aren't being let in Gaza and the ones who are are killed. And we'll probably lose it once they finish their restructuring in Project Texas, although sounds like they'll be banned before they do.
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