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mindlight,

Hezbollah attacked Israel on the 8th of October and supported Hamas attacking and kidnapping civilians on the 7th October.

Iran is actively supporting conflicts in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. So either we start talking about the religious fanatics or we just accept the USA as the world police and we should just do as they tell us to do.

I’d personally prefer the former…

mindlight,

I could write my comment since I live in a democracy with freedom of speech… something I would not be able to do if I lived in Gaza because of Hamas.

mindlight,

I’m m ok with you rewriting it as long as you agree that Israel was attacked by Hezbollah on the 8th and that Hezbollah supports, not condemning, the war crimes of Hamas on the 7th.

mindlight,

Please elaborate and feel free to edit Wikipedia:

On 8 October 2023, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, taking advantage of the Israel–Hamas war, fired guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the occupied Shebaa Farms. Israel retaliated by launching drone strikes and artillery shells at Hezbollah positions near Lebanon’s boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The outbreak of the conflict had followed Hezbollah’s declaration of support and praise for the Hamas attack on Israel, which took place on 7 October.

mindlight,

I know you think you prices something there but if you were right there wouldn’t have been any mass protests with thousands of people demonstrating against how Israel is currently acting.

I’m pretty sure 150000 people wouldn’t be able to demonstrate and publicly say things like “All of the rats in Hamas”, “Crime Minister” and “Stop the War” and get away with it unharmed.

When did you see anything like that against Hamas in Gaza?

Either Hamas, which were elected to govern in Gaza, represents the Palestinian people or Hamas rules with an iron fist, effectively oppressing the Palestinians right to express their opinions.

You can’t have it both ways.

mindlight,

“The only religious fanatics are the Zionist…”

Yeah, I’m pretty sure millions of women in Iran beg to differ.

mindlight,

Leonid Slutsky, a senior lawmaker, claimed that the attacks had “the aim of sowing panic and dividing the people of Russia” and that “the blood of the victims” was also on the hands of the United States.

Of course it’s United States that is to blame.

Holy crap, not even ChatGPT would be able to make this shit up.

Russia says U.S. is responsible for deadly Ukrainian attack on Crimea (www.reuters.com)

MOSCOW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied missiles that killed at least five people including three children and injured 124 more....

mindlight,

Then we’re two crazies now.

The ties between Hamas and Iran are well documented. The ties between Russia and Iran are well documented.

In my opinion the likelihood of this happening on that exact date by accident is next to none.

mindlight,

Yeah, South Africa will submit the paperwork to ICC any day now…

mindlight,

Well, if he continues on the current path long enough he might be the only male within Russia…

mindlight,

No. That’s not what I wrote. To try to get it to that you’d have to perform quite some acrobatics to be able to leave out “South Africa” from the picture.

South Africa requested not to have to arrest Putin last year. War crimes in Ukraine not the top priority for South Africa then but it seems like they changed their mind about war crimes since last October. Well, not regarding war crimes in Ukraine it seems though…

mindlight,

It’s impossible! Because that would mean that Hamas is hiding among civilians, effectively using them civilians as shields…

mindlight,

None? I mean… Otherwise it would mean that Hamas are hiding among civilians… And they would never…

mindlight, (edited )

Yet another sign of the Russian economy booming and being totally unaffected by the sanctions…eh…

Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing's price demands, Financial Times reports (www.reuters.com)

Russia’s attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing’s unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....

mindlight,

Russia will surely say no to China because only desperate states without a booming economy would agree on such terms.

mindlight, (edited )

Not even if Windows and Linux were on different partitions on the same disk would Windows be able to access the files on the Linux partition without the key.

Just pointing out that s separate disks doesn’t change anything. The data, in its encrypted form, will be inaccessible without the decryption key.

mindlight,

“Russia said…”

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

mindlight,

For anyone interested, Wikipedia has a page on the current hostage situation and some history.

According to Wikipedia, one of the “deals” Hamas has offered Israel was that Isreal release all Palestinian prisoners. That would be thousands of prisoners in exchange for hostages Hamas took on the 7th of October.

mindlight,

From the Wikipedia page I linked to:

Hamas has offered to release all hostages in exchange for Israel releasing all Palestinian prisoners.

mindlight,

Is Khalil al-Hayya, senior Hamas official also tainted by western bias?

From Al Jazeera (also western bias?):

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the group’s political bureau, said that Hamas “is serious about releasing Israeli captives within the framework of an agreement” that also ensures the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

So to summarize: The Palestinian prisoners are referred to as prisoners by Hamas. The non combatants taken hostage by Hamas are not referred to as prisoners by Hamas.

Whether you think the terrorist organisation Hamas are tainted by western bias or not is a different discussion that I’m not interested in taking part in.

Have a nice evening. I will.

mindlight,

Is it ok to quote Khalil al-Hayya, senior Hamas official ?

From Al Jazeera:

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the group’s political bureau, said that Hamas “is serious about releasing Israeli captives within the framework of an agreement” that also ensures the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

So to summarize: The Palestinian prisoners are referred to as prisoners by Hamas. The non combatants taken hostage by Hamas are not referred to as prisoners by Hamas.

Whether you think the terrorist organisation Hamas are paid off by Isreal or not is a different discussion that I’m not interested in taking part in.

mindlight,

It sounds like you’re an American citizen. As such you’re really not very relevant in the European election…

mindlight,

A review commissioned by the UN said Israel had not provided evidence to back up the claim, but it found that Unrwa should improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency.

The only way you can improve your neutrality is if you weren’t fully neutral in the first place.

Anyone able to provide a link to the original review. Curious about on what level the UN Commission concluded UNRWA not being fully neutral, had flaws in staff vetting and not being fully transparent.

mindlight,

Today is a slightly better day for the people of Iran. Especially for the women of Iran.

mindlight,

South Africa is going to speak out about war crimes any day now…

mindlight,

They know that the helicopter landed hard but doesn’t know anything about the status of the president hours after the incident?

Sounds like they saw the decent on the radar and still haven’t been able to get in touch with the crew… which indicates that it might have been more than just a hard landing.

On the other hand… Crashing is a very hard landing…

mindlight,

Or they crashed and everyone died.

mindlight,

Wikipedia first lines summarizes the 7th of October quite well:

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.

Hamas still haven’t released the civilian hostages. Hamas hides among civilians. The list goes on and on.

The only sad part is that the Palestinian people once voted for a terrorist organisation to represent them.

People can call Hamas for “Freedom Fighters” all they want but it doesn’t erase the fact:

Hamas is a terrorist organisation.

mindlight,

Why Hamas should be called a terrorist organisation?

Because they have been committing acts of terrorism.

Whether other organisations has committed or has not commited terrorist acts is irrelevant in this context and does in no way cancel out the horrible things Hamas has been doing.

mindlight,

No. Not “in that case”.

Fact: Hamas commits and have committed acts of terrorism and therefore Hamas is a terrorist organisation. It doesn’t matter what other countries have committed terrorist acts now or 100 years ago. There is no connection or dependencies.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation because of them committing acts of terrorism. End of story.

When BBC is asked to call Belgium a terrorist start you’re free to discuss that there. In that thread I will happily claim that Hamas is innocent to whatever Leo did in Africa.

mindlight,

It’s important to remember that the same guy who concluded that Russia did not commit any war crimes also concluded that the Russian economy is booming.

mindlight,

This is no problem at all for Russia since the Russian economy is booming and all Russians are millionaires!

mindlight,

Pfffft… Yet another sign of the Russian economy booming!

mindlight,

For not having taken civilians as hostages on the 7th of October, Hamas sure releases a lot of videos on civilian hostages…

mindlight,

Anything you’d get him to answer would be as good as “it’s because the Russian economy is booming!”

mindlight,

Kidnapping of Hersh Goldberg-Polin

Goldberg-Polin was reportedly working with an initiative that was using soccer to bring Israeli and Palestinian children together.

mindlight,

As a European I say: Let’s go bitch!

We’ve been way too dependant on Russia. It’s time we acknowledge the actual cost for cheap gas and oil from Russia.

mindlight,

If you want to promote your position - and it may not please someone and that is normal in a democratic society - take responsibility. What are you afraid to say who you are?

While I understand the problems the propaganda machines of Russia and China (among other) causes, this here is some stupid shit

Try to criticize Putin openly while living in Russia, speak up for the freedom to love and have sex with whoever you want in Uganda or publish pictures of Muhammad as a dog and sign all of it with your name and see what will happen.

Anonymity is a double edged sword. While being “nice to have” in a democracy it’s a “must have” in a dictatorship.

mindlight,

That thing about sausage isn’t just Germany.

No one wants to know what’s in the sausages…

mindlight,

That was what I meant with compare price. Sorry for being unclear. Compare price should be weight per price. That way you would see the price increase since the product (that looks the same but isn’t because of less amount in the package) suddenly got a higher compare price since last week while the purchase price is the same.

mindlight,

I love the friendly tone you have in a discussion.

It’s not the producers that’s going to pay for putting up and taking down the signs. It’s the stores and in the end the consumers.

Add to this the cost of having someone going around checking that the rules are followed.

Keeping track of whether there is a compare price or not on all items is much easier and cheaper.

So yeah, it’s a populist solution putting up signs for price increase only for goods that has shrunk and it seems extremely easy to circumvent if you want to.

Here’s how you circumvent it: Introduce a 750g, 900g and 1000g package of the product. 900g is more expensive per gram than the 1000g. Then you have a “shortage” on the 1000g package and some stores run out of it. There’s no shrinkflation here since the 900g package has been there all the time.

There’s a lot of money to make here so hiring a lawyer that finds every single loophole will be a good investment.

But yeah, you call the take braindead and watch the politicians, lawyers and producers laugh over a change that cost you, not them, money.

mindlight,

The whole point with shrinkflation is to trick the consumer to think that they’re buying the same amount when they don’t.

If you make it easy for the consumer to see what the cost is per kilogram, they will immediately see that the price for the same size package of cereal they always buy has gone up.

It’s okay if you want to pay extra for your groceries, but I don’t. I’m perfectly fine with compare prices since the compare prices are unaffected by the change of package sizes.

mindlight,

If you buy the same package size cereal every week you will notice if the price went up. Compare prices neutralizes shrinkflation.

My guess ( <- guess!) is that most people who don’t care about compare prices won’t care much about the signs.

mindlight,

Where I live (Sweden) it’s not mandatory by law and it just happens to be that most often compare prices are printed in a much smaller text size as compared to the price.

Crazy, huh?

mindlight,

Good luck with someone doing your work for you.

Producers make millions on shrinkflation. That means they have millions to spend on finding a way around this and you as a consumer will still end up paying for it. I hope I’m wrong, I really do but I’m sure they will find a way around this.

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