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Re:Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea by dotancohen on Thursday September 19, 2024 @07:33PM (#41597414)
I'm so sorry that this war has inconvenienced you.

I've had friends and coworkers murdered, kidnapped, and at least two that I know of had their children burned to death. My older daughter's friend was murdered along with both his brothers and both his parents - there was nobody left alive so this child didn't even have the traditional prayer said at his funeral. My younger son's camp counselor was kidnapped and later his body was retrieved. Shall I go on? Or would you believe me that this war has far worse inconvenienced us and we're doing what we can to end it as quickly as possible - including maiming 3000 enemy fighters in an attack so targeted that a single civilian child died among over a dozen dead militants and 3000 injured militants.

Re:Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea by 8note on Thursday September 19, 2024 @10:13PM (#41598182)
Sorry, are you a Palestinian or Israeli? Lebanese? I can imagine everyone having exactly the same story and wanting to kill as many possible of their enemies for the same reasons.

But it's unrelated to "nobody in the whole world can trust anything with a lithium battery anymore" and the cost of that over time will be much higher than your dead family and friends, in terms of say, people dying in hospitals over the next 30 years because pagers stop being used, or all kinds of anything where a battery powered device would save a life

Re:Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea by xethos on Thursday September 19, 2024 @10:15PM (#41598193)
The point was not "War is only awful if it affects me", but more "War must be kept to the battlefield, or society will break down further"