Because both sides are fighting are major assholes. Hamas does hide arms and fighters in and around hospitals. Israel doesn’t hold back attacking the hospitals to get at that gear, because they care more about killing Hamas than saving Palestinians. The civilians in Gaza are surrounded by assholes.

Genocide Joe? 🙄

And who should voters replace him with, Mr Answers?

Musk is an absolute sociopath, but there’s actually a logic to this.

Apparently the US has extremely tight export controls for telecomm tech used for war, and Starlink was concerned that by Ukraine using it in an offensive way it would result in the US or other countries classifying Starlink as military tech, thereby limiting where they can export it. That would be really bad for Starlink, of course, which is why they specified at the beginning that Ukraine should only use it for civilian goals (hospitals, schools, government, etc).

I assume the contract between Starlink and the Pentagon covers that, but I haven’t researched that far.

He’s a poor man’s vision of a rich man, an ignorant man’s vision of a smart man, and a weak man’s vision of a strong man.

“Relatively few people were familiar with the goals of the project, and rarely did their enthusiasm for the bonuses translate to an enthusiasm for the Worldcoin project or cryptocurrency more broadly”

Yeah, I don’t really see this project going anywhere. I’m guessing the vast majority of these people who got $50 in worldcoin will never figure out how to convert it to fiat currency or another crypto.

I mean, I understand the original rationale: building out infrastructure is super expensive, so the monopoly gives the company an assurance they can recoup investment. But then there’s no follow-up! There’s nothing requiring the ISP to evolve, so we end up with the same tech as when the contract was signed 20 years ago. At least wireless (LTE, 5G, etc) is promising for competiton, but buying spectrum from the FCC is also f’ing expensive.

Quick! Give the ISPs a bunch of federal dollars to build out their networks so they can quietly pocket it and do stock buybacks!

And votes in the UN. Every country gets one vote, so Solomon Islands have the same impact as NZ. Every tiny country China can buy off helps their positions.

I guess they haven’t discovered the button to block communities?

My feed is quite nice after blocking the stuff that doesn’t appeal to me.

It’s got to be hard to maintain the momentum once the government decides they’re fine with murdering the protesters. The Iranian government also let women go without headscarves for this long, I imagine as a way to let the temperature cool. They never intended to repeal the law, only let the protests disperse letting the protesters think they’d won that small concession.

This is true. No realistic pay raise can compensate for a toxic work environment. At some point, most people will value their mental health over high pay.

Connect has the same issue for me. The app UI shows I’m logged in, Lemmy disagrees, so I just log in again.

Johnson and Johnson? Damn, I knew they were assholes but they should stick to being FBI guys.

Progress happens one funeral at a time…

Just a heads up, most home solar installations are designed to pay for themselves in 7 to 9 years. But it does depend on net metering in your area, and whether you install a battery pack.