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Soldiers kill for governments, prostitution is hired sex
I doubt it, if I understand that correctly that's not the regular prostitute due to her harsh life, but some different kind of patriotic prostitute
Always wondered how one chooses the profession of literal prostitution for a government
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:40PM (#50277648)
Should have gone with Chromium
It had an aura precisely because journalists were the arbitrators of truth, so denial of real information elevated it
If you want to at least appreciate the irony, the above mentioned state of the media is largely due to Google
Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:36AM (#50021146)
Actually happened when internet went down in Iran
Jews, you can search for her statements regarding Jews, they are many and span at least a decade back
https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/overview

There are more than 300k civilian deaths attributed to the period.

The Gaza figures include military deaths, civilian deaths including killed by Hamas, and even natural deaths, it is more comparable to the 1 million number and due to its use of natural deaths it is even overcounted compared to the 9/11 number, (I am deliberately ignoring the 4+ million indirect deaths number quoted on brown)

I actually think this is going to get progressively better.

It's easier than ever today with LLMs to find bugs in the firmware and get complete trace of what's they are sending and shame these companies.

The next phase for the technically inclined is to patch these appliances and remove the collection, also possible today

Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:50AM (#49888775)
I don't know, an example, Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese spreading nazi era conspiracy theories about Jews controlling political systems.

And that's from a human rights body, and from its representative to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:37AM (#49888706)
the UNHR is comically biased against Israel though and controlled by totalitarian countries with less than stellar human rights records
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:12AM (#49888552)
That ended in a million dead over bi-partisan 20 years of war. Without 9/11 including massive hostage taking, rape or mass murder with torture in people homes.

The other main difference is that 9/11 ended within a few days, the hostage part of 7/10 made it an ongoing disaster for years in Israel.

Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:07AM (#49888519)
That's a very flat take. That ignores the fact that the doctor that saw the prisoner reported it for investigation or that the military had chose to prosecute it, also you don't mention this was one case, not "systematic"

Even ignoring the fact that protests do not imply popular support, there is no comparison as 9/11 did not include widespread sexual violence and ongoing hostage rape was still going on at the time this happened.

So even if this seemed terrible to most Israelis, it was hard to find someone who will publicly defend a rapist from rape in jail

Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:09AM (#49487944)
yes, that's exactly my point
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:02PM (#49485265)
> (If you're opposed to antifascists what does that make you?)

Communist parties around the world killed 80+ million civilians, and were also vehemently anti-fascist, will opposing that make you fascist?

Re:Stop Making TUIs on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:36AM (#49400219)
TUI and Rust surged back in popularity when programmers through frameworks became detached from the actual work and needing to differentiate from all others in the even playing field. It's like turntables to Hipsters. Now with LLMs it is only going to get worse.
Re:The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:59PM (#49365754)
It's just a rehash of the good Google+ days. This time instead of get your money for stamping social on everything, it's AI
You probably should have taken the kid to small claims, that was extortion
Not sure what's the historical validity for that one source saying it was fraudulent, but this sure reads like anachronism. As someone that tries to defend him being part of selling ballistic missiles to Iran a very short time before it turning into a theocracy.

I am not completely inclined to believe Bergman because of me personally knowing one case where he published something completely wrong, and also this doesn't align with the cooperation Israel had with pre-revolution Iran.

In any case, it's theoretically possible, I guess

Where's the part about deceiving in the link? Aren't you conflating Iran-Contra that happened after the revolution?
Re:Pixel Watch 5 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:36PM (#49289313)
Not tracking every minute of REM sleep isn't going to change either, the unimportance of the data is not what they are selling though
Re:Pixel Watch 5 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:01PM (#49278495)
> I don't get the people that need to wear it 24/7 for days at a time.

I think that's kinda expected when the device itself is supposed to give you the illusion it is always there tracking your health (even when sleeping)

I have to say that just like the poster you are replying to, I am inclined to believe what you are saying because of Russia's past actions, and this modus operandi you described being successful elsewhere

However, he is right that I would want a bit more information about the multiple assassinations in NATO part, because I want to believe we are not there yet, and that this would have implications, even in today's Europe

I'm not sure how is that related to the original topic.

The events I am describing are a decade to two before the ones you are describing. Back in the early 2000s Qatar was already financing Hamas as well as Al Qaeda (including involvement in 9/11 financing) and Hezbollah in some extent.

Saying Qatar needed Israel's request to start financing ideologically close Islamist terror organizations is certainly the Qatar government line for their involvement, but it's a very shallow analysis of what happened

> Now this sounds like a joke.

OP alluded to the Euromaiden protests being an orchestrated Obama-led coup. I still don't see how this is the case. There's some difference between diplomatic reactions to proactive overthrow

> Hamas has the influence it has because the US wants it to have it

I doubt this is backed by US intentions and actions historically

> Similarly, Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood because he did

That seems like a tautology to me, care to expand? I vividly remember Obama throwing his autocrat ally under the bus

> in Ukraine for instance the same admin supported a coup

The protests in Ukraine hardly seem like a US coup and were organic according to my understanding, but maybe you can point exactly to the US involvement

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