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  • The Nuclear Trolley Problem: How One Man Holds Eight Billion Hostage

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  • What makes the Samson option different is that Israeli leaders have expressed the intent to take out the entire world if Israel was ever facing total annihilation.

    I think that's true, functionally speaking, of basically any thermonuclear-armed state.

    I don't believe the OP is at all claiming that if anyone tried to enact sanctions, arms embargoes, ICC warrants against Israel, or otherwise interfere with the genocide, Israel would immediately *nuke the world. It specifically claims Israel would respond in this way "if cornered". In this context, I interpret "cornered" as in backed into a corner with no way out, by an aggressive party who seeks Israels destruction.

    Read the second paragraph again. OP is claiming that Western leaders are not sanctioning Israel in the fairly mild ways described because they're afraid of nuclear war.

    I do think that without Western military assistance (and more to the point deterrence), Israel with its current course of conduct might be destroyed by its neighbors. But that and "stay the course" aren't the only two options. I actually think that it would be way safer, in terms of global nuclear security, if Western countries forcibly stopped the genocide Israel is conducting. As it is, that scenario where Israel is getting overrun by regional enemies and throwing nukes (at them or at other targets) sounds not too unlikely as years go by and things change, with everyone remembering what they did. And so I interpreted OP as saying that if someone tried for the enforced peace agreement, or the war crimes trials, nukes.

    I do think that fear of Israel getting overrun is the source of some of that unwavering military and deterrence assistance that keeps them alive and safe to do whatever they want. I don't think it is what is stopping Western leaders from punishing Israel for their current genocide. I think they just don't want to (or don't have the political will embedded in their systems that it would take to get it done), honestly.

  • What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes?

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  • So the bottle doesn't break, it just pops open? This still sounds like a packaging issue. Maybe unstopper / squeeze / stopper the bottle, so it's got negative pressure. Maybe replace the cap with some other more permanent type of cap (one that doesn't have a little flip-top, if the ones they're including do, just a solid cap and then ship the flip-top one alongside it)? IDK. How is it coming apart in transit? It's not literally the plastic bottle breaking, is it?

  • What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes?

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  • This has got to be the packing, not the bottle. I have never heard of a bottle being shipped that suddenly broke on its own, without impact with its environment being the issue.

  • "Innovation is dangerous, especially against fascist invaders!"

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  • Coming soon to a United States near you

  • For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts

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  • Fucking Jesus Christ, if someone is buying government email addresses on the dark web and then using a VPN to protect themselves against getting busted, they deserve what they get. Either use Tor or relay it through some compromised machine somewhere, or both. Or something. I don't really know how it works but definitely don't use a consumer VPN.

    I mean it might be fine in the modern day, since anything in US law enforcement that might be subpeonaing the VPN company might no longer be functioning. But I still wouldn't really take the chance.

  • The Nuclear Trolley Problem: How One Man Holds Eight Billion Hostage

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  • I think most nuclear-armed states would use their nuclear weapons if someone was trying to destroy them completely. That's very different from claiming that if anyone tried to enact sanctions, arms embargoes, ICC warrants against Israel, or otherwise interfere with the genocide, Israel will nuke the world.

  • NZ woman Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration

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  • Because it matters quite a bit for what sort of damage a person will do, what their overall character and their motivations are. Stalin is different from Hitler is different from Tito is different from Andrew Jackson is different from the kid from "It's a Good Life." Trump's a little bit unprecedented in terms of how incapable he is on a personal level as contrasted with the almost unimaginable power he wields. It's relevant for talking about what sort of damage he will do and what options people have in terms of resisting it.

    It seems like this is one of those internet arguments where I'm agreeing with you, and then trying to add something else the scope of which is a little different from the thing you're saying, and then you're saying "NO YOU DON'T GET IT repeating the original point I agreed with" for multiple messages. Like the only template you can understand is if someone's response is "Oh yes you are correct and I have nothing to add."

    Good luck with future conversations, I feel like you must be fun at parties.

  • DC sandwich slinger ID’d as DOJ employee, fired from position after hurling sub at fed agent

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  • Well... that sure shows this whole event in a different light.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Immigration Detention Has Become a Booming Business for Private Prison Giants
    truthout.org /articles/immigration-detention-has-become-a-booming-business-for-private-prison-giants/
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Women with AI ‘boyfriends’ mourn lost love after ‘cold’ ChatGPT upgrade
    www.aljazeera.com /economy/2025/8/14/women-with-ai-boyfriends-mourn-lost-love-after-cold-chatgpt-upgrade

  • NZ woman Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration

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  • Yeah. I'm just talking about his character on a personal level, not about the danger he represents on a factual level. Other people who have much stronger character set up solid systems which are terrifyingly effective, and now this brain damaged child is in charge of a lot of them. It's not a good situation.

  • Destroy a Microphone

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  • Here's the pinout for the webcam component: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tree/main/Webcam

    Unfortunately it isn't really clear whether the switch positions are in the pinout because it's the mainboard's job to implement shutting off the camera when it's off, or just as information with the webcam module responsible for shutting it off in hardware. I have no idea which it is, but it wouldn't be super-hard for someone capable with EE to take off the bezel and fool around with it and see which it is (or just pay $19 for the magic of buying two of them, if you didn't want to take apart your own laptop for it.)

    They say they provide full schematics on demand to repair shops (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/availability-of-schematics-and-boardviews-BJMZ6EAu). I'm not sure why they don't want to just post them publicly, so in that sense you might be right, but they also don't seem like they are trying to keep them or the interface details of the webcam module fully top secret either.

    They do seem like they publish enough information that someone could figure out the answer if they wanted to. (People in the forums have fooled around with them and seem to be convinced that they are actually hardware switches: https://community.frame.work/t/how-do-the-camera-and-microphone-switches-work/4271 IDK whether that's accurate, but that's what the forum people think.)

    No idea why you're trying to lecture me from this position of authority about taking apart PCBs and whatnot. Anyway, that's how it works, hope this is helpful for you.

  • Destroy a Microphone

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  • I sort of suspect that the wiring is in a diagram somewhere. I could be wrong, but that would be my guess. It's not in a PCB, that's up in the bezel where it's just wires and stuff.

  • Trump, 79, Sparks Dementia Concerns With Weird Cold War Comment

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  • Also! Inflation and whether or not it was the president's fault, and all the Palestine protests and how Democrats (only Democrats) were facing a lot of heat for their support of Israel. Almost as if our media is corrupted by partisan influences that are trying to mislead and influence people, and it works shockingly well.

  • US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

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  • Yeah. It's a fucking disgrace.

    Read "Sky Over Kharkiv" for some generally excellent picture of the war from the Ukraine perspective, with some occasional bitterness about the cowardice and apathy of all the Western allies about helping Ukraine to any pivotal extent.

    Dan Ellsberg also had some great writing about how this all functions from the POV inside the Western military machine. He called it "the stalemate machine": We're motivated enough to help you not lose, but not motivated enough to let you win. And so, you just keep dying, month after month and year after year.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Hispanic Democratic Officials in Texas Plead Not Guilty to Voter Fraud
    www.nytimes.com /2025/08/13/us/politics/voter-fraud-texas.html
  • U.S. News @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Tropical Storm Erin expected to become major hurricane by Sunday
    www.eenews.net /articles/tropical-storm-erin-expected-to-become-major-hurricane-by-sunday/

  • Destroy a Microphone

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  • Framework laptops have a little physical switch to turn off the camera / mic when you don't want them.

    The original SGI webcams, some of the first that ever existed, actually had a physical plastic cover that you could slide over them when you didn't want the camera on. "No, I don't trust your hardware any more than your software. I shouldn't need to. Stop looking at me when I don't want you to, and prove to me that you are not, or else I will be suspicious." Back in those days that was sort of a universal point of view among internet people, I think...

  • US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

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  • Yeah, I'm just coming in this thread and saying totally weird counterfactual nonsense, just kind of anything that serves the narrative I am trying to portray. It doesn't even have to make sense.

  • US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

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  • Ukrainians are mostly killing foreign mercenaries, prison conscripts, and the elderly surplus population?

    Yeah! That's in "The Art of War," right? You're supposed to send your "elderly" and other random dregs you can dig up first to fight a critical war. And then, once you've depended on all those "surplus" people for several years, you move on to your trained troops, the actual military. Obviously. It's just part of the Russian mastery of military strategy that meant they took over the country in three days slowly pushed forward and got the mission accomplished and went home in a few months fought a Pyrrhic victory over the space of a year and a half and then negotiated a partition and then started rebuilding and preparing for next random invasion of some neighbor country got stuck at the border for years, ruined their economy and any respect their military or kit might have had on the world stage, and are now scrounging around for any possible military-age males they can lay hands on to keep feeding into the grinder, hoping that if they keep it up long enough, it'll work.

    I have more to say about the rest of your ridiculous message, but I don't think it's really necessary.

  • US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

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  • Unfortunately, they're outnumbered by more than an order of magnitude. They're getting ground down as time goes on, and for all its stupidity the Russian military is not small or fragile. Basically, the Russians only have to win once to win, Ukraine has to survive every month that goes by, time after time.

    The good guys don't always win. Just ask the Palestinians.

  • US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

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  • Unlike in Vietnam, I'd say "they're trying to kill us all and take our home, but we're killing them instead" is a pretty good model of success for the Ukrainians.

    It would be great if they had other options. Hanging Putin and demobilizing everyone, and rebuilding both countries, would be a great start.

  • US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

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  • Yeah, Reddit is super weird. There are a bunch of rabidly pro-Israel people who have infiltrated its world news communities in exactly the way that some Lemmy people love to imagine that they have done on Lemmy.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Lammy admits licence error on JD Vance fishing trip
    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cg7jdkmvvv1o
  • U.S. News @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Tennessee town approves plans to turn former prison into Ice detention center
    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/aug/13/tennessee-ice-detention-center-mason
  • Ukraine @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Drone carrier capable of flying 200 km being developed for Ukraine
    www.pravda.com.ua /eng/news/2025/08/12/7525838/
  • Politics @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    'You Cut Our Healthcare!' GOP Lawmaker Drowned in Boos at Combative Town Hall
    www.commondreams.org /news/gop-town-hall-2673877639
  • Politics @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
    jacobin.com /2025/08/san-francisco-zohran-democratic-socialism/
  • Fediverse vs Disinformation @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    "Ghislaine Maxwell in Her Own Words"
    jessicareedkraus.substack.com /p/ghislaine-maxwell-in-her-own-words
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Wikipedia host loses challenge to Online Safety Act regs
    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/wikimedia_foundation_loses_online_safety/
  • Mental Health @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Plunge in Conscientiousness Among Young, a Critical Quality for Personal and Societal Success
    www.nakedcapitalism.com /2025/08/plunge-in-conscientiousness-among-young-a-critical-quality-for-personal-and-societal-success.html